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Robsham Theater kicked off its 2013-14 season with the comedic thriller The 39 Steps, A10
Johnny Gaudreau and the Eagles rattled Wisconsin’s defense with nine goals Friday night, B1
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Monday, October 21, 2013
Vol. XCIV, No. 37
High-demand Gold Pass system leads to record attendance BY AUSTIN TEDESCO Heights Editor The “sieve” chants were louder than usual in Conte Forum on Friday night, as a record number of students were in attendance to watch the Boston College men’s hockey team defeat No. 2 Wisconsin 9-2. “Great win for the boys,” senior men’s hockey captain Patrick Brown tweeted after the game. “Want to thank the best fans in
the nation for filling conte tonight it was a great feeling in there!” More than 2,400 students attended the game, leading to more than a 90 percent show rate, according to Jamie DiLoreto, associate athletic director of external operations. The 2,400 total combines the general student population along with student-athletes, who use a separate ticketing system from the newly implemented Gold Pass.
The Wisconsin game was deemed “highdemand” in advance by the athletic department because of the quality of the opponent, date, and time. Typically, games for football, basketball, and men’s hockey are made available to all students who have purchased Gold Passes, but a different system is used for big games since expected demand by the more than 5,500 Gold Pass holders sold exceeds the capacity in Conte Forum. BC plans to implement this high-de-
mand system again for next semester’s hockey game against BU and three men’s basketball games. Depending on demand, other games could be added. Students were emailed on Tuesday night if they had earned enough reward points to qualify for a ticket to the hockey game. Reward points were built up throughout the semester by attending games for BC sports and for arriving early. Students then had from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. to pick up a paper
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ticket from the Conte Forum ticket office. When not all of the tickets were claimed, the necessary point total was lowered to include more students, who had the same time window to pick up a ticket on Thursday. By 7 p.m. on Thursday, all of the tickets were claimed. To try to fill the entire arena, BC also gave out a limited number of tickets not purchased by the general public to Gold Pass holders when the gates opened.
OASP debuts racial identity student retreat BY MARY ROSE FISSINGER Heights Editor
Boston College community turns out to honor Welles Remy Crowther BY DEVON SANFORD Assoc. News Editor On Saturday morning, members of the Boston College community gathered by the golden eagle outside of Gasson Hall for the start of the Welles Remy Crowther Red Bandanna 5k. The ninth annual race celebrated the life of Welles Crowther, a ’99 BC grad and varsity lacrosse player who died on Sept. 11, 2001, saving the lives of others. Welles’ family and friends, along with BC alumni, students, and members of the local community joined to celebrate Welles’ memory.
The Red Bandanna run supports the Welles Remy Crowther Charitable Trust, a fund that recognizes and awards academic and athletic excellence in young people, through scholarships and support of non-profit organizations. Over 1,600 people turned out to this year’s race to honor Welles’ courageous actions and support the trust. “We had 1,198 people pre-register for the run, 837 of those were students,” said Kate Daly, assistant director of the Volunteer and Service Learning Center (VSLC). “We estimate between 250
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Over 1,600 people ran the Red Bandanna 5k on Saturday.
Around 35 students will leave the Boston College Campus on Friday, Nov. 15 for the first-ever retreat sponsored by the Office of AHANA Student Programs (OASP). The retreat, titled R.I.D.E. (Racial Identity Development Experience), is designed to help students reflect on the role that their race plays in their identity. In an email sent to all students on Wednesday, Oct. 9, OASP advertised the weekend as “an overnight retreat to explore who you are, the impact of race on your personal identity, and how it all relates to your time at BC and beyond.” The email specified Nov. 1 as the deadline for registration, and, at the time of print, 65 students have signed up. “It seems like there’s a buzz on campus around this,” said Yvonne McBarnett, program administrator of OASP. McBarnett, who is affectionately called “Ms. Smiley” by the students who work with her, expressed great excitement about the number and variety of students who have already shown interest in the weekend. “Not just AHANA students have signed up—that shows me it’s something everyone wants,” she said. “And the deadline’s not until Nov. 1.” McBarnett has been working with Tim Molvey, assistant director of collaborative initiatives for the Center for Student Formation, and Michael Sacco, director of the Center for Student Formation, as well as Dericka Canada, GLSOE ’17, and Luis Balcazar, GSSW ’15, since the beginning of the year to develop R.I.D.E. The retreat grew out of an internal review of OASP that was conducted last year. The internal review revealed that students were looking for more opportunities to engage in conversation about race and racial identity. McBarnett referred to an event held during Black History Month
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Foundation honors late LSOE grad
BC human rights project wins case, returns deportee
BY JENNIFER HEINE
The Post-Deportation Human Rights Project (PDHRP), based at the Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice, successfully returned a deportee to the United States earlier this year. According to an Oct. 7 press release, the PDHRP worked with the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School in order to overturn the deportation order for Victor Veloz-Risik, a permanent U.S. resident since 2006, who had been deported in 2011 on a drug conviction. His conviction, however, was based on a drug certification signed by crime lab chemist Annie Dookhan, who is currently on trial for tampering with evidence and falsifying results at a Massachusetts lab. Her trial has cast doubt upon the reliability of evidence
BY ELEANOR HILDEBRANDT News Editor
Heights Staff In spite of her passing to gastric cancer last February, Boston College graduate Carly Hughes continues to embody the Jesuit ideal of setting the world aflame through the foundation in her name, Carly’s Kids, which benefits the Holy Family School in Natchez, Miss. as well as the Carly Elizabeth Hughes Vascular Research Fund at Columbia University Medical Center. A 2011 graduate of the Lynch School of Education (LSOE) Hughes first became involved with the Holy Family School as a junior. Her interest in education, as well as her close relationship with LSOE professor John Cawthorne, who became her mentor, led her to participate in the Natchez Im-
PHOTO COURTESY OF IRENE VOUVALIDES
Hughes, BC ’11, was heavily involved with the Holy Family School in Natchez, Miss. mersion service trip that winter. “[Cawthorne] was the driving force,” said Hughes’ mother, Irene Vouvalides. “He fought for that school to raise funds and get everyone enthused and involved.” Cawthorne directed the Natchez program until his death from cancer in August 2012, and despite Hughes’ illness, she drove to Boston to visit him before his passing. “When he passed away, there was a concern to everyone attached to his program wheth-
er or not it would continue,” said Kayla Truppi, Hughes’ neighbor and childhood friend as well as a co-founder and current representative for Carly’s Kids. “They were really close,” said BC classmate and friend Alyssa Rosenfeld, LSOE ’11, who participated in the Natchez Immersion program with Hughes. “Holy Family was a big part of our lives at BC, especially Carly’s
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used in at least 34,000 criminal cases, including Veloz-Risik’s. BC Law professor Daniel Kanstroom and Lynch School of Education professor M. Brinton Lykes founded the PDHRP approximately seven years ago. “They very much saw this as an opportunity to create an interdisciplinary project,” said supervising attorney Jessica Chicco, who joined the project in 2010. “The idea was based on Professor Kanstroom’s interest and experience in what happens to people after deportation … particularly the idea that even individuals that have been physically deported from the country should have access to the justice system and the ability to challenge their deportation orders if there are some grounds to challenge them.” The PDHRP is the only project in the
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