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For The Heights With all the bright, ambitious students at Boston College, many could use an extra couple thousand dollars to fund their innovative projects and bring their ideas to fruition.

This was the aim of Drake Behrakis, BC ’86, when he donated $25,000 this year to fund student initiatives at BC. Last year, Behrakis, a University Trustee, challenged the Class of 2013 to reach its participation goal for the Senior Gift Campaign, promising to donate an extra $25,000 toward student initiatives if 1,300 seniors participated. The Class of 2013 exceeded this goal and set a new record for senior participation, with 1,458 members of the senior class donating, surpassing the previous record of 1,333.

Behrakis’ donation will be split between at least 10 student projects chosen to receive the Legacy Grants. These grants, which will be capped at a maximum of $2,500 per project, will be awarded three times this coming year in January, May, and December.

Applicants should decide which period is right for them to apply, based on when they can begin to pursue their project.

The application for the Legacy Grants, which can be found online, was released on Oct. 17, with a due date of Dec. 1 for all funding requests for the January grants. The application is straightforward, and mainly focuses on the nature of the project’s goals and its projected budget, detailing how the money will be spent.

The grant review board is comprised of Gus Burkett, director of the Student Programs Office, Michael Sacco, director of the Center for Student Formation, and Kaitlin Vigars, assistant director of annual giving and BC ’08, as well as four BC students nominated to the committee by faculty and administrators.

Student groups or individuals of all grades can participate, as long as a member of the University staff or faculty sponsors their funding request. Vigars said that 24 hours after the application period launched, the board had already received a number of applications.

“We didn’t want to put too many stipulations on what we were looking for,” Vigars said. The Review Board isn’t looking to fund strictly academic or service projects, but is interested in a variety of ideas.

“We want people to have been thoughtful about what they want to do, and see the project through to the end,” Vigars said.

“We want to know what the impact of their project will be, and that the money granted will be well spent.”

Implementing new initiatives such as the Legacy Grants has increased participation in the senior gift by over 200 percent.

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CALDERON REFLECTS ON PRESIDENCY

BY ELEANOR HILDEBRANDT News Editor

Felipe Calderon, former president of Mexico, came to BC on Wednesday as a speaker for the Clough Colloquium.

“As young Americans or Latin Americans, you may question whether it is possible to overcome the problems that concern your own nation,” said

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Felipe Calderon, the former president of Mexico. “In troubled times, you may ask yourself whether it is possible to change and to transform your country and do what is right to do for your people. And I’m convinced that the answer is yes.”

On Oct. 24, Calderon spoke about his presidency, and what citizens can do to improve their own countries, in Robsham Theater as a guest of the Clough Colloquium.

Calderon, a member of the National Action Party (PAN), assumed office in December 2006 after an extremely close election and served as president until Dec. 1, 2012. He is currently a visiting fellow at the

Harvard Kennedy School.

Richard Keeley, undergraduate dean of the Carroll School of Management and director of programs for the Winston Center, approached the podium first in order to thank Bob and Judy Winston, as well as Chuck and Gloria Clough, for making Clough Colloquia possible. Interim provost Joe Quinn then introduced Calderon, mentioning that he had a somewhat personal connection with the former president, as his younger brother moved to Mexico decades ago. “He’s married, with three children, and he’s a Mexican citizen,” Quinn said. “Since his surname is Quinn, like mine, they’re affectionately known as the Mexiquinns.”

Quinn continued to run through various achievements attained under Calderon’s presidency. He noted that Calderon is credited with boosting Mexico’s economic development and expanding welfare policies, judicial reform, construction of new universities, and reform in the country’s immigration policies. “[Calderon] prioritized access to health services—before his presidency, about 40 million people had access to public health,” he said.

“Currently more than 100 million peo-

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Awareness month prompts review of disability resources Dean of Students Office to host three workshops this month

BY NATHAN MCGUIRE Heights Staff About 1.3 million students in higher education have a disability, according to the World Health Organization. In 1988, Congress declared October “National Disability Employment Awareness Month.”

At Boston College, three distinct offices serve students with disabilities: Learning Resources for Student Athletes, which serves only Division I student athletes; the Connors Family Learning Center, which supports students with learning disabilities; and the Disability Services Office, which works with students with medical, physical, psychological, and temporary disabilities.

Paulette Durrett, assistant dean for students with disabilities, said that a range of resources and accommodations now support students who were traditionally unable to attend college because of a disability.

Her office deals specifically with students who have non-learning disabilities.

“Students who have anything from a concussion to diabetes come to our office,” Durrett said. “And our accommodations can be anywhere from exams to loaning equipment to coordinating contact with doctors.”

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits organizations receiving fed-

eral financial assistance, such as universities that receive federal loans for students, from discriminating against qualified individuals based on their disability.

The act defines qualified individuals with disabilities as persons who meet normal and essential eligibility requirements, but who have a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more life activity.

Durrett said that BC is required by the law to make accessible services and accommodations for students with disabilities.

“A student with a temporary physical disability would need transportation,” she said. “For students that have a [permanent] disability, the accommodations would depend on the disability.”

For instance, students who are blind can register their disability with the office and would be able to complete audio exams for their classes. Durrett would contact a student’s professor to inform him or her of the student’s need for an accommodation. The professor would then be obliged to send the exam to the office, where it would then be converted into an audio file using a scanning program in the library.

Durrett said for exams in math and science classes, where certain symbols or graphs may be incorrectly translated, students could opt to have someone read the exam to them. The reader, though, could only explain what they saw on the exam.

Other services made available to registered students include interpreters for students with

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Kenneth Hackett, BC ’68, took over this week as the new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See.

Alumnus appointed new ambassador to Holy See

BY DEVON SANFORD Assoc. News Editor Kenneth F. Hackett, BC ’68, officially took over as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See on Oct. 21, after presenting his credentials to Pope Francis. Hackett fills a role that had been vacant for nearly a year, according to the Catholic News Service.

“The United States and the Holy See have converging interests that span a broad range of issues” including “a desire to promote human rights and social justice,” Hackett wrote the same day, in the first post of his official ambassador blog.

“We both work to make a difference on

a range of important global issues such as trafficking in persons, interreligious dialogue, conflict resolution, food access and security, HIV/AIDS, and care for the environment. And I look forward to deepening, and expanding where possible, that collaboration during my time in Rome.”

Hackett is a former president of Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ overseas relief and development agency. He joined CRS in 1972, after a post-college stint with the Peace Corps in Ghana and retired from his position as president of CRS in December 2011.

Members of Boston College’s theology

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New course numbering system to be implemented next summer

BY JULIE ORENSTEIN Heights Editor Beginning with course registration for the Summer 2014 term and the 2014-15 academic year, Boston College will transition to a new system of course numbering and catalog management, having outgrown the current UIS numbering system.

A curriculum management advisory committee has recently worked to implement a new system that would more accurately reflect course levels and allow for increased standardization among numbers for language and common core courses.

Looking to institutions like Harvard as models, the committee determined that the Kuali catalog management system would fulfill these goals.

Presently, the UIS system includes a two-letter prefix that indicates the department in which a course is housed, followed by a three-digit number from 001-999. The Kuali system involves four-letter subject codes followed by a four-digit number from 1000-9999.

Many of the new subject codes are simply expansions of the current prefix, such as COMM for communication instead of CO. For other departments, the new lettering

allows for more specificity about a course.

Many classes in the romance languages department, for example, will now be more precisely labeled SPAN for Spanish, FREN for French, and ITAL for Italian. Journalism courses, rather than falling under the general university department (UN) will now be indicated with the prefix JOUR. With regard to the course number, classes will be more clearly sequenced, as each range of numbers will correspond with a level of difficulty. Courses with numbers from 1000-1999 will be core courses as well as lower-level undergraduate electives and elementary language courses, whereas

numbers ranging from 3000-4999 will indicate upper-level major courses, upper-level electives, third and fourth year language courses, and advanced seminars and independent research.

In some cases, the current UIS number reflects the course’s level of difficulty or preparedness required. With growing limitations on available numbers, though, many departments have been forced to give illogical numbers to new courses.

Numbers representing courses that have been retired for at least five years can be reused, however, the number from a retired course may not necessarily correspond to

the difficulty of the new course to which it is being assigned.

“Often we would have a new course come up, and had to use whatever number was available, even if it seemed too low or too high,” said Treseanne Ainsworth, assistant to the chair of the English department and director of undergraduate advising, in an email. “We just had to tell students not to go by the course numbers as an indication of ‘level.’”

Ainsworth added that, while the new system does provide more flexibility in assign-

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things to do on campus this week

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Journalism Symposium

Today Time: 7 p.m.

Location: Higgins 310

Ellen Wu, assistant professor of history at Indiana University, is coming to BC to speak about her book, The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority, and how Asians went from being the “yellow peril” to the “model minority.”

Rena Finder

Monday Time: 1 p.m.

Location: Burns Library

On Monday, the Clough Center is hosting a symposium featuring U.S. correspondents abroad and international correspondents in the U.S. and will conclude with a keynote address by Bill Keller, who served as executive editor for The New York Times.

Tuesday Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: Murray Function Room

Sponsored by ELP, BC Hillel, Sankofa Leadership Program, and the Shaw Leadership Program, Rena Finder, Schindler’s List Holocaust survivor, will be returning to BC to speak about her experience as a Polish Jew during the Nazi occupation of Poland.

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REACT crtiques misconceptions of trafficking

BY SULLIVAN MCCORMICK For The Heights Boston College’s R.E.A.C.T. (Rallying Efforts Against Contemporary Trafficking) took Liam Neeson’s blockbuster hit Taken to the small s c re en in Fulton 511 We dne s day night, highlighting its role in bringing human trafficking to the mainstream.

Caroline Kelly, A&S ’14, member of R.E.A.C.T., cautioned the audience at the beginning of the event that, “Taken: Human Trafficking in Hollywood vs. Reality,” explains the film’s tendency to “glamorize instances of human trafficking and perpetuate misconceptions surrounding human trafficking.” With this in mind, the audience was asked to watch the film, but through a lens of attempting to understand the particular ways in which Taken displays human trafficking.

The “question and answer” session following the film centered on how Taken might mislead its audience in understanding the sheer scope of human trafficking. For instance, as explained by Kelly, the film largely associates an Albanian gang residing in Paris as the central perpetrators of human trafficking, along with corrupt politicians simply pursuing a “business endeavor.” Although human trafficking definitely occurs overseas, the discussion focused on

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Kelly led a question and answer session on human trafficking after a showing of ‘Taken.’ how human trafficking occurs in other locations closer than most people think, such as in the U.S. For instance, Kelly noted that the highest rates of human trafficking in the U.S. exist in Detroit, Milwaukee, San Francisco, and Denver, thus debunking the notion that only large cities exhibit high sex trafficking rates. These larger cities tend to have fewer instances of human trafficking due to the amount of awareness and preventative measures developed over time. Drug addiction creates a cycle of dependency for trafficking victims, of-

ten causing them to return to the abusive perpetrators that turned the individuals into trafficking victims in the first place.

A specific example was given regarding a victim in Cambodia who, after being rescued from a criminal organization, returned because of her addiction to crystal meth.

Moreover, in the U.S. the fact that former prostitutes are often turned away from homeless shelters exacerbates the cycle of trafficking by eliminating potential alternatives and forcing them to return to the original criminal organiza-

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tion or abusive relationship.

The after-film discussion also shed light on how the movie might leave its audience forgetting another entire side of human trafficking: labor trafficking. Due to its inability to be easily detected, labor trafficking tends to fly under the radar, allowing a form of modern indentured servitude to often go unnoticed. As proven by the Hollywood storyline in the film, sex trafficking lends itself to being glamorized easier and traditionally evokes more sympathy than labor trafficking.

Far from detracting from the heroic efforts of Liam Neeson’s character in Taken, including his seasoned CIA hand-to-hand combat skills and precision accuracy with a hand-weapon, the movie showing and discussion forced the audience to place human trafficking in its proper context. Human trafficking is far from a static concept, for the location of its victims, multiplicity of sub-categories the word describes, and actual circumstances that facilitate this international and national crime require individuals to approach the subject with an open mind. BC’s R.E.A.C.T. event helped create the proper foundation of awareness toward human trafficking needed for any willing individual: an aversion to tunnel vision and desire to prioritize the entire scope of the issue at hand. 

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Friday, October 18

sion of marijuana in Corcoran Commons.

accident next to Conte Forum.

6:23 p.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance provided to an underage intoxicated BC student who was transported by ambulance to a medical facility from Duchesne West.

3:01 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a fire alarm activation in Edmond’s Hall.

1:55 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a larceny from Higgins Hall.

3:49 a.m. - A report was filed regarding vandalism in Ignacio Hall.

Tuesday, October 22

8:13 p.m. - A report was filed regarding an underage intoxicated BC student who was transported to a medical facility by cruiser from Conte Forum.

10:16 p.m. - A report was filed regarding an arson in Walsh Hall.

Saturday, October 19

Sunday, October 20 1:45 a.m. - A report was filed regarding an underage intoxicated person in Greycliff Hall.

3:06 a.m. - A report was filed regarding an underage intoxicated person in Kostka Hall.

12:01 a.m. - A report was filed regarding an underage intoxicated BC student who was transported to a medical facility by cruiser from the Middle Campus roadways.

7:41 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a vandalism in Stuart Hall.

2:41 a.m. - A report was filed regarding civil posse-

10:02 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a traffic

Monday, October 21

College Corner NEWS FROM UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY

BY ANDREW SKARAS Asst. News Editor Last Friday, George Washington University publicly acknowledged that they are not need-blind in admissions, as both the admissions office and the financial aid office have claimed until Saturday. According to The GW Hatchet, the student newspaper of George Washington University, university administrators now admit that financial need has played a part in making admissions decisions.

In the first round of application reading, the admissions councilors do not take financial need into account. Between the first round and the notification of the applicant, however, budgetary information is taken into account. Applicants who are not at the top of the pool can then be moved from the admitted pile to the waitlisted pile if they have a high need for financial aid from the university.

This information first became public during an interview that the assistant news editor conducted with Laurie Koehler, the recentlyhired associate provost for enrollment management. A former assistant direct of undergraduate admissions told the paper that he was unaware that the senior officials who read applications after he and his coworkers gave their preliminary opinions took financial need into account.

Koehler emphasized that GW’s policy only affects applicants that are not at the top of the pool. The university spokesperson claimed that GW’s policy was not “intentionally misleading.” The director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, however, said that the policy was “dishonest.”

G oing for ward, Ko ehler ha s admitted that the department and its representatives must improve how the policy is communicated to potential applicants. 

12:33 a.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance provided to a BC student who was transported to a medical facility by ambulance.

10:51 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious circumstance near Welch Hall.

—Source: The Boston College Police Department

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VOICES FROM THE DUSTBOWL “If you could attend a lecture by any one person, who would it be?”

“Oprah Winfrey.”

—Greta Quintini, A&S ’17

“John F. Kennedy.”

—Conor Morris, A&S ’14

“Ronald Reagan.”

—Hannah Foley, A&S ’17

“President Obama.”

—Zack Kozlak, A&S ’14

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Felipe Calderon, former president of Mexico and current fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, gave a lecture in Robsham yesterday.

Calderon emphasizes importance of equality Calderon, from A1 ple do, nearly the entire population. President Calderon, if you have time, perhaps you could stop by in Washington on your way home?”

Calderon took the stage next. “Being a student of one of the best universities, like Boston College, is a privilege because very few people have the chance to study at a great college, and for the same reason, it’s a huge responsibility,” he said. “Each one of you will be required to give back according to the talents and opportunities you have received.”

He spoke about his own childhood and how he got involved in politics. When Calderon was young, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was in power—it was ousted in 2000, after 71 years as the ruling party, when Vicente Fox was elected. Calderon described the political situation during his youth as an autocratic regime—almost all congressmen and mayors were part of the PRI, which also controlled media and education.

“In 1968, when college students just like you dared to protest and ask for democracy, they were massacred,” Calderon said. “Around the country, hope remained alive—there was a peaceful and determined struggle for democracy.” In Calderon’s hometown, he said, his father organized opposition to the ruling party. As democracy grew around the country, though, electoral fraud grew as well, and Calderon recounted feeling disheartened by the fact that people often seemed not to care about democratic progress. His father, though, told him that it was a moral duty to continue working for democracy.

Calderon then launched into a summary of his administration’s challenges and successes.

The global economic crisis hit Mexico hard, and was compounded by drought, flooding, and the emergence of the H1N1 virus.

While the bulk of his summary focused on economic concerns such as negotiations with unions, energy reform, free trade, and reducing the federal deficit, he also touched on his administration’s successes building public high schools and universities, as well as approaching universal health coverage.

“One very important number I want to share with you, finally, on the economic side: immigration,” Calderon said. “The net rate of immigration of Mexican workers to the United States, which is a huge problem—the net rate of immigration went to zero in 2010.

It was zero three years in a row. According to the Pew Institute, the net migration from Mexico to the United States has stopped, and may have reversed.”

His last major point had to do with organized crime in the country. Calderon emphasized that crime was not solely related to drugs, as is often implied in Western media—the drug trade exacerbates criminal activity, especially as the shift from simple exportation to internal consumption has led crime groups to seek control not just of small border sections but of cities and other, larger areas. Local law enforcement agencies and police corps must be reformed, Calderon said, for any meaningful change to be effected.

Calderon wrapped up his speech by appealing to the students in attendance to involve themselves in public policy in order to improve

their societies.

“You can change the status quo, you can change your own reality,” Calderon said. “I hope that a new generation of citizens—better informed, linked to social nets, more participative and more conscious of the problems—will take … the huge responsibility of change, in their countries and in the world.”

After concluding his speech, Calderon answered questions from the crowd. Many of the audience members who asked questions identified themselves as of Mexican or Latin American descent. One girl, who stated that she was from Mexico City, asked Calderon if he would have done anything differently during his term in order to protect journalists better.

“There are a lot of things that I would like to make different,” Calderon said. “One is to propose that crimes related to journalists be federal crimes.” As it stands now, he said, violence against journalists remains under the purview of local governments, which are often unduly influenced by members of organized crime.

Another audience member asked how the Mexican government could reconcile the technological potential of Mexico with the fact that millions of citizens still live in poverty.

Calderon responded that providing equal opportunities for all citizens was crucial.

“What are the factors that are splitting society in that way?” he asked, pointing to educational opportunities and healthcare as the main divides between those who do and do not have money. Public policy, he said, should be aimed at equalizing opportunities, especially in the healthcare and education systems. n

hearing impairments, modified deadlines for assignments, note-takers, and a campus mobility orientation.

A student can register with the office only if they provide written documentation of their disability from their doctor. Once the student meets with Durrett, a letter is then sent to each of the student’s professors. Durrett said that she encourages students to speak with their professors before she sends out a letter.

“A lot of the time I discuss with students how they are going to present their concerns to their professors,” she said. “I think that sometimes students with disabilities are more reluctant to go to their professors because they are registered in this office.”

She encourages the students to be proactive by going to their professors’ office hours.

Durrett’s office also helps students develop strategies to make sure they complete all their work. Although some students may be granted extensions on assignments, they are never exempt from any work. “All students in my office come to this school just like anyone else who is here,” she said. “The accommodations just level the playing field for them.”

Accommodations for medical reasons include helping transport students to physical therapy or doctor’s appointments. Registered students can request to take shuttle rides to St.

Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton. The shuttle departs from Health Services every 90 minutes between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., and afterhour requests are arranged through the Eagle Transport Service.

The Dean of Students Office (DSO) helped organize a Nov. 14 professional development session for residential life faculty and other administrators who work directly with students who have disabilities.

The program will focus on the University’s responsibilities to meet their needs and unique challenges. Kirsten Behling, who helped establish Suffolk’s Office of Disability Services, will facilitate the presentation.

“The presentation will end with an open discussion on how we as higher education professionals can make our campus more inclusive for students with disabilities,” the program’s flier reads.

In addition to this presentation, the DSO will also host three workshops for students registered with the office on Oct. 30, Nov. 7, and Nov. 21. The workshops will cover stress management, study techniques, and time management, respectively.

The DSO, located in Maloney Hall, Suite 212, also has walk-in hours on Tuesdays and Fridays between 3 and 4 p.m. for any students wishing to speak with Durrett.

“My office is here to work with students as long as they need us,” Durrett said. n

Alum named U.S.’s Vatican rep Hackett, from A1 department are pleased with Hackett’s recent appointment.

“The appointment of Ken Hackett is simply superb,” said James F. Keenan, S.J., Founders Professor in Theology and director of the Presidential Scholars Program, in an email.

“This is a person who has worked for social justice and healthcare throughout the world, a man who lives the vision that Pope Francis keeps evoking for us. As president of Catholic Relief Services, he brought intelligence, compassion, and leadership as he addressed many contemporary challenges.”

Thomas Groome, professor of theology and religious education and chair of the department of religious education and pastoral ministry at the School of Theology and Ministry, added to this, saying that Hackett is an excellent appointment as U.S. Ambassador.

“His many years of working at Catholic Relief Services, finally as president of CRS, have prepared him well for this important

position—he knows both church and state from the inside,” Groome said. “He will serve with distinction.”

The U.S. has not had an ambassador at the Vatican since November 2012, according to the Catholic News Service. Miguel H. Diaz resigned and left Rome to become a professor of faith and culture at the University of Dayton, Ohio.

University Spokesman Jack Dunn also commented on Hackett’s new appointment.

“As an alumnus of the Class of 1968 and an honorary degree holder from 2006, Ken Hackett has always brought honor to his alma mater,” Dunn said in an email. “From his work with the Peace Corps to his leadership of Catholic Relief Services, Ken has distinguished himself through his faith-inspired commitment to serving those in need. We are very proud of him for being named US Ambassador to the Holy See, and know that he will continue to represent Boston College and the nation with unwavering distinction in this important role.” n

New course numbering system intended to improve clarity of course codes Course Numbering, from A1 ing numbers to new classes, the department will not be starting completely from scratch.

“We kept many of our existing, familiar course numbers for convenience, such as Studies in Poetry, which was EN131, [and] will be ENGL1131,” she said. “We do hope this will make registration and planning easier

for students, though their best bet is still to discuss course selections with their advisors, and read the course descriptions.”

As far as what students should expect when registering for courses under the new system, the process itself, using the UIS registration system, will look the same.

Some improvements will be found, though, in sections of the Agora portal, according

to Louise Lonabocker, executive director of Student Services, and Linda McCarthy, technology director for student and academic application services for Information Technology Services.

“You’ll see a much improved course information and schedule when you go to search for courses,” Lonabocker said. Searching for courses will be more comparable to doing a

search on Amazon.com, she said, with students being able to narrow their searches with key terms and particular days and times.

McCarthy said that there will be a crosswalk available as a searchable PDF document online that will provide the old and new course numbers to ease the transition. She also explained that the UIS registration system, in its entirety, is not scheduled to be phased

out until 2018.

Students should be aware, Lonabocker said, that the University does not change academic history, therefore degree audits and transcripts will show the old course numbers for classes already taken under the UIS numbering system, and new course numbers for classes taken once the new system is implemented. n

Legacy Grant apps open until Dec. 1

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An October sunset backlit Gasson Hall on Tuesday as students walked through the O’Neill Library Plaza. Daylight savings ends on Nov. 3 this year, with night falling earlier.

While 2010 had little more than 700 donors, last year’s participation was more than double that amount.

Because Behrakis donated a fraction of the full $25,000 gift each time the senior class reached a certain participation percentage, students rejoiced more in each success and finally exceeded their goal, winning the full amount allotted for the grants.

“We wanted to get the entire student body involved, if not in the Senior Gift Campaign, then in the impact of it,” Vigars said. “We were looking for a way to teach students about the impact of philanthropy, but wanted to make it more tangible by showing seniors the impact of their donation.”

“These grants enable students to do things they might not have had the opportunity to do otherwise,” Vigars said. She recalled the inspiring story of a BC student who was ready to work in his dad’s business after graduation, but after receiving a University Mission and Ministry grant to do service work in Africa, found his passion and went on to medical school.

“To help thank the Class of ’13, we’ll share the stories that come out of the Legacy Grants, and show that their donation does have a significant impact more broadly,” Vigars said.

Behrakis has already challenged the class of 2014 to exceed the goal of 1,545 participants in this coming year’s Senior Gift Campaign, as a continuation of the Legacy Grants he established this year. n

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BC professor awarded 2013 Nurse of the Year

By Soo Jung Rhee For The Heights

Daniel Lee At Catholic University in Germany, my European friends and I had a chance to discuss our university educations in each country. We exchanged our thoughts on their values and systems, ranging widely from the tuition to the meaning of studying at a university. When it came to my turn, I had a moment to re-evaluate my education in Chestnut Hill at the cost of more than $60,000 per year, after listening to others whose free public university education is considered superior in their countries.

Although American tuition is extremely (ridiculously) expensive, I cannot deny that the tuition is 90 percent worth every penny—the other 10 percent goes to the fact that I can’t take all the other great classes that I want to.

First of all, Boston College, along with other American universities, provides overwhelming support for students’ academics and the quality of student life on campus. Consider Bapst and O’Neill libraries—while Bapst provides the most beautiful atmosphere for studying, O’Neill provides high-quality academic logistics, such as the printing systems. The compact, circular BC campus also offers close relationships among the campus community.

The Jesuit, Catholic traditions are the best part of studying and living at BC, however, much more so than the facilities. Since I wasn’t affiliated with any religion when I entered BC, I underappreciated the values this institution has. Until this semester, my academic focus had been on pure international relations and the realism of the international political system.

Thus, I considered human beings as mere actors and elements of politics, as I was learning about the fundamentals of politics and other factual knowledge.

This myopic view has changed this semester through a couple of philosophy classes, which expanded my world perspectives under the unique Jesuit, Catholic mission of the University. I would like to describe BC as a “cosmopolitan” university—I love this word, which I learned from my international studies class—embracing those differences of the world by understanding the differences. The aggregation of this particular liberal arts education, including English literature, physics, chemistry, history, music, theology, philosophy, and politics, has taught me anthropocentric values of the world—previously, I thought human beings were parasitic existences bringing overall harm to the Earth and the population.

Two thoughts hit both my head and heart the hardest: the realization of the deeper purpose of my study and the recognition of my functioning role in different communities.

These realizations and recognitions are so powerful that accepting changes in views sometimes becomes uncomfortable. Once I realized what I recognized, however, my unsettling feelings could not be un-thought or undone. These unsettling feelings, on the other hand, give me strong motivations for action, such as re-sketching my future after graduation.

After I realized that politics is a study of human beings, I now love human beings. The beauty of studying politics is the understanding of the complicated human intelligence and emotions. For me, this anthropocentric cosmopolitan realization is priceless— thus, I appreciate my parents for their support of my education in the U.S. This is what this University has done to me: change who I was. In fact, my experience at BC is ultimately even leading me into faith.

Now, I need to think about what I can do later with the knowledge and philosophical acknowledgment I have gained. One of the things I can do is repay my intellectual skills in any forms for the people. One thing BC can do, I think, is expand scholarship programs for more opportunities. If this institution has taught me something right, regardless of the method of finance, I believe that more opportunities should be available for potentially qualified students—as the university has taught me what the value of human beings and dignity should be.

Daniel Lee is a senior-staff columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at news@bcheights.com.

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Boston College’s Relay for Life committee began its annual “Kick-off Week” on Monday in O’Neill Plaza.

Relay For Life kicks off fundraising B y K ayla F amolare Heights Staff On Oct. 21, the Relay for Life committee began its annual “Kick-off Week” in hopes of exciting students for the upcoming Relay for Life event on March 28.

The 12-hour American Cancer Society event celebrating with cancer survivors and raising money for cancer research will feature an array of activities and performances from Boston College student performing groups while participants walk around the track in the Flynn Recreation Complex from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.

“Because cancer never sleeps, we don’t sleep,” said Emily Hoffman, special events co-chair and CSOM ’14. “[The] fight against cancer never stops, we’re going to keep fighting during these 12 hours.”

Cancer survivors and fighters affiliated with BC and the greater Newton community, including students , alumni, relatives, and staff members, are invited to participate in this “night of hope” to honor and remember those affected by cancer. Participants band together to partake in activities and listen to survivors tell their stories of courage and strength.

“The most meaningful part of the Relay is Luminaria,” said Shannon Capozzola, A&S ’14, who serves as the co-chair of the event along with Casey Osgood, LSOE ’14, and Mark Maleri, CSOM ’15. “Luminaria features blown-up white bags displaying names of people we are honoring, celebrating, or have lost to cancer.” Then, participants will crack glow sticks and light up the track. “It’s a very somber part of the relay,”

Hoffman said. “But from there we transition into more fun aspects of the night.”

In order to excite and inform the BC community of the upcoming Relay for Life event, the spirit subcommittee of Relay for Life began hosting their annual “Kick-off Week” this past Monday. The week began with the unveiling of this year’s relay theme, “Destination hope, passport to a cure,” which the committee promoted with a large map on O’Neill Plaza asking students to place push-pins on places they would hope to visit, according to Capozzola.

On Tuesday, the Relay for Life committee hosted tables in all three dining halls handing out information. “This is our biggest push to have people sign up,” Capozzola said, who also explained that computers were set up so that participants could register there.

Along with the American Cancer Society’s “Movement for more Birthdays,” the Relay co m m i tte e h el d a c u p c a ke sale in Mac dining hall on Wednesday. Each cupcake was complemented with a candle and small flag with information about the relay. The committee also set up a “mini Luminaria” outside of Corcoran Commons, displaying the white, lighted bags used in the relay event and spelling out “hope” in order to promote the upcoming event.

Today, the committee encourages everyone to wear pink in support of those affected by cancer. Friday, the committee will host a “purple out,” the color associated with Relay for Life. There will also be a “mock relay” on Stokes Lawn. “[Our spirit committee] will be hosting a variety of fun tail-gating games and trivia events to excite everyone about relay and

give out information,” Capozzola said. “Members of the spirit committee are the mouths of Relay. They are the ones who are always out on campus trying to spread the word and getting people excited about participating in Relay and have a large role in Kick-off Week.”

B C ’s R e l ay e v e nt i s t h e largest non-sporting event on campus and is considered the second largest fundraising relay in New England with a goal of raising $150,000. “We’re hoping that the later date in March will allow us to raise more money,” Capozzola said. “We also hope that Kick-off Week will help draw in more people to participate so that we can reach this goal.”

Both Capozzola and Hoffman are hoping for a large turnout from the BC community this year and are hoping that anyone who has personally experienced the effects of cancer will join them at this event. “Cancer unfortunately affects everyone, it’s nice that we have the opportunity to all come together around that,” Hoffman said.

“As awful as it is to be in a room and realize that [cancer] has affected so many other people, the thing that is so comforting is that everyone is together. It is reassuring to know that you are not the only one,” she said.

Capozolla commented on the outcomes of participating in the relay: “Every person that participates in Relay leaves Relay with a stronger connection and wants to help cancer patients and their families. I think that’s the point about it, it goes beyond 6 a.m.

Whether it’s more fundraising after or participating again and what you can do for cancer patients and their families after [Relay].” n

BC and BC Law jump in rankings

By Jennifer Suh Heights Editor Rising one spot from last year’s rankings, Boston College placed 23rd on Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine’s annual list of best values in private universities for 2014.

“We’re listed up as one of the top private value schools, and us moving up a point shows that we’re strongly nestled up there in the top schools in the country,” said Bernard Pekala, director of student financial strategies at the Office of Enrollment Management.

In addition to its own reporting, Kiplinger compiled the list of top 100 universities by using data on nearly 600 private institutions that was collected by Peterson’s, an education content provider.

Kiplinger’s also compiled a list of the top 100 liberal arts colleges, which focuses on undergraduate education, in contrast to the list of the top 100 universities, which includes both undergraduate and graduate levels of education.

The two main factors involved in the rankings were quality, accounting for 56.25 percent, and affordability, accounting for 43.75 percent. Within these two factors were smaller factors: competitiveness, accounting for 25 percent; graduation rates,

accounting for 18.75 percent; academic support, accounting for 12.5 percent; cost and financial aid, accounting for 31.25 percent; and student indebtedness, accounting for 12.5 percent.

“We have great students, great family, great faculty.,” Pekala said.

“The community at Boston College really cares deeply about their undergraduate and graduate students, and it shows a great commitment by the administration and the Board of Trustees and that what’s important is to provide policies such as our need-blind and meet-need policies to help students obtain a BC education that they normally wouldn’t be able to afford.”

Boston College Law School rose in the rankings as well, jumping up from 23rd last year to 19th this year in Business Insider’s annual list of “The 50 Best Law Schools in America.”

Business Insider collected data by surveying more than 400 legal professionals to choose what they thought were the 10 best law schools for a career in law.

The tiebreaker was tuition—the cheaper the tuition, the higher the ranking.

“We’re pleased to be at No. 19. [“The 50 Best Law Schools in America” by] Business Insider is solely based on a survey of their readership, which is comprised

of professionals from the law industry. To be ranked highly from professionals from law and busienss is very good thing for us,” said Nathaniel Kenyon, director of marketing and communications at BC Law. The list highlighted the fact that BC Law is one of 82 law schools in the countr y that have chapters of the Order of the Coif, “an elite society for law school grads in the top 10 percent of their class,” according to Business Insider. Among the graduates of BC Law are Secretary of State John Kerry, Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy, and Olympic gold medalist Shannon Miller. “ What make s u s unique is our combination of theory and practice and our attention towards practicing law with an eye towards the greater good,” Kenyon said. “We’re very focused on teaching the highest ethical standards. Lawyers have a responsibility to serve the profession and our community, and we feel we have a unique brand based on our Jesuit heritage and our commitment to service and to educating the whole person.

Based on the hiring of our graduates, we believe they feel that our graduates are highly professional and team players and very ethical, hard workers." n

“My mother said to me, ‘You know nursing school is just as hard as medical school,’ and I was like ‘It can’t be that hard,’” said Allyssa Harris, an associate professor in the Connell School of Nursing (CSON). “But it is. It’s just as hard. But I actually like it. I think I like it much better than if I had chosen to be a physician.”

When Harris, as a college student, chose nursing school over medical school, her only explanation was the expectation that the former would require a less rigorous workload, until she discovered that the nursing school route is not only as demanding as the medical school path but also more suitable for her specific interests in the field of healthcare and her passion toward health for women and children.

Harris was recently named a 2013 Nurse of the Year by Massachusetts Chapter of the March of Dimes. Founded in 1938 by thenpresident Franklin D. Roosevelt, March of Dimes is an organization that aims for healthcare of women, children, and infants by concentrating its resources on the study of maternal and infant morbidity

“In the hospital, I took care of moms and babies after they are delivered, and my practice now allows me to take care of them prenatally.”

- Allyssa Harris, associate professor in CSON and recipient of 2013 Nurse of the Year and mortality.

“In different parts of the world, women die from childbirth, illness, and their children don’t last the first year,” Harris said. “So really the organization is about the health of women and children, and trying to research ways to change those statistics.”

Harris researched adolescence sexual risk behaviors, specifically on environmental factors that lead to certain behaviors, and designed interventions that could educate teenagers about protected sex and impact their thought processes regarding sexual relationships. Due to higher risk of being infected with diseases such as HIV/AIDS and STDs and consistently high numbers of sexually active teenage girls, adolescents

attract more attention from the professionals who advise them about sexual health during their early reproductive years so that they are informed about potential harmful effects of early sexual activities on their children in the future. As a result, she was one of 17 Nurses of the Year who were honored in a ceremony in Natick two weeks ago.

Harris pointed out two aspects that illustrate the significance and relevance of her research to the current society. In addition to aspiring to reduce unsafe sexual behaviors, which teenagers are more prone to engage in, the adolescence sexual health issue entails offering an arena for an open conversation between young adults and their parents, guardians, or other caregivers.

“We know that if you can have an open dialogue with your mother, then that communication allows the parents to instill their values and beliefs into the adolescents,” Harris said. “And adolescents really do listen to their parents when they talk to them about sex … even though peers are influential.”

It also becomes essential for the parents to be provided with comprehensive knowledge and communication skills in order to be prepared when their children seek counsel. Readily accessible resources and information should be the basis of guidance for teens to help them make safe decisions if they choose to become sexually active.

At Boston College since 2007, Harris has been a women’s health nurse practitioner with her concentration on health of women across the life span, from adolescence and reproductive years through post-menopausal stage and death. Aside from teaching advance practice in women’s health nursing and the theoretical basis of women’s health and pediatric nursing and childbearing clinical, she currently provides women’s healthcare at Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center and has been a certified nurse practitioner at Symmes Hospital and Cambridge Hospital. During her service in hospitals, her interaction with pregnant women was limited because of a finite period of time they spent before and shortly after their delivery. On the other hand, as a nurse in the community center, she is now able to develop lasting relationships and bring longer-term impact on the women she regularly diagnoses and treats.

“It kind of gives me the best of both worlds,” Harris said. “In the hospital, I took care of moms and babies after they are delivered, and my practice now allows me to take care of them prenatally. The difference between taking care of them in the hospital versus in a community setting is that … for my care out in the communities, I get to build a long-term relationship with them.” n

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Harris was one of 17 nurses honored by the Mass Chapter of March of Dimes.

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Legacy Grants provide new opportunity for students

Thursday, October 24, 2013

QUOTE OF THE DAY I call architecture frozen music.

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German writer and politician

Students should take advantage of Behrakis’ $25,000 for students with innovative projects As a result of last year’s record-breaking senior gift, Drake Behrakis, trustee and BC ’86, has donated $25,000 to be distributed to BC students, intending for the funds to be put toward “innovative ideas and extraordinary student initiatives.” These Legacy Grants, valued up to $2,500 per project, are to be awarded in three installments in 2014.

A notable characteristic of the Legacy Grants is their availability to any individual BC student who has an idea, not just those who are working through a Registered Student Organization.

The guidelines set by Behrakis are broad, his only requirements being a promise of innovation and a valuable outcome from the proposed projects.

The donation was made by Behrakis after the successful completion of a challenge he made to last year’s senior class to break the previous record for total number of “senior gifts.” The Class of 2013 raised 1,458 gifts, breaking the record for class participation.

The deadline to apply for the first wave of Legacy Grants is Dec. 1, and the initial decision will be made within 10 days of this deadline. The application requires students to request an amount for the award they are looking to receive, and explain how a particular student-project or

campus group could create value on campus with that requested grant, putting it toward BC’s Jesuit mission of “men and women for others,” and prescribing to “the University’s commitment to excellence.”

A notable characteristic of the Legacy Grants is their availability to any individual BC student who has an idea, not just those who are working through a Registered Student Organization. The guidelines set by Behrakis are broad, his only requirements being a promise of innovation and a valuable outcome from the proposed projects. These financial awards are practical, and complement the efforts of other initiatives on campus that award money exclusively to business startups or research initiatives.

The Legacy Grants establish a precedent for students to receive money for ideas that do not necessarily fit into either of these traditional categories for funding, and also gives additional opportunities for traditional projects.

Behrakis’ deal with the class of 2013 clearly worked as an incentive for students to reach their fundraising goal. Although the number of gifts is not always indicative of total giving, using it to define a goal allows students of all economic backgrounds to work together toward a given benchmark quantity of donations. This type of bargain should be extended to future classes graduating from BC, as it enlivens the tradition of senior giving, infusing into it a competitive element that encourages participation across the board.

Students should take ownership of the opportunity to receive a Legacy Grant. The more applicants, the greater the quality of projects the committee for these grants can pick, and the more positive change that can result as a combination of a single alumni donation and an entire student body’s initiative and creativity.

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New course numbers add clarity, specificity The numbering system, coupled with the new Agora course search, will make course registration far easier Because of the limited availability of unused numbers in the UIS course numbering system, Boston College will move to the Kuali catalog management system for its course numbering and sequencing beginning with the summer 2014 and 2014-15 academic terms.

Instead of the current two-letter, three-number course codes, the new system will use codes that have four letters and four numbers, expanding the number of combinations available.

To determine which numbering system to implement in place of UIS, BC created a curriculum management advisor y committee to consult other universities’ s y stems and f ind element s of those systems that would work for BC. The committee’s goal was to develop a numbering system that would more accurately reflect course levels and standardize language and common courses.

In addition to looking at other institutions’ systems, BC also conducted focus groups with students to learn what they did and did not like about the old UIS system, and then repeated this evaluation with the new Kuali system.

The te chnolog y of the UI S course registration system will remain the same for the time being, though students will see some changes in the Agora portal, including improved course information and schedule sec-

tions . Searching for courses will now be more intuitive, with students having the ability to perform searches using keywords and specific days and class times.

For departments—especially those such as English or history in which course offerings change frequently—the transition to the Kuali system will allow for much more flexibility when naming new courses , as there will be more av a i l ab l e nu m b e r o p t i o n s fo r each discipline. As the number of free combinations has dwindled, departments have been forced to reassign numbers from retired courses to new courses, creating confusion when numbers do not ne cessarily corresp ond to the difficulty le vel of a particular course. A course that is considered introductory, with no prerequisites , for example, might be given a number in the 500s, despite the fact that the number clearly does not correspond to the course’s level of difficulty.

Students should welcome the change, as well, since the new course information and schedule will increase precision in class and syllabi searches. The University rightly sought students’ input in the focus groups, and the new system should result in improvements to the registration process by making course codes more accurate and specific.

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Understanding a big heart open to God When there are no words Patrick Angiolillo somewhere Over The Rainbow - The Boston College campus was witness to a beautiful double rainbow yesterday.

Missed it? That’s okay! Seventy percent of the student body documented it for you, and if you have not seen an image of it on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram yet, you are in serious need of friends. But even in that case, you’re okay—it’s the top story on the login page of Agora Portal—veritable evidence of the fact that you can’t really ever miss anything in this life anymore, because it was undoubtedly recorded faithfully for you by several hundred of your acquaintances.

Gossip Gram - In that same line of thought, a quick comment on the BC Instagram feed: for a while, we were confused as to how whoever ran that thing seemed to be everywhere at once. Then, we came to the rather obvious conclusion that they receive submissions or reach out to average members of the BC community, and garner their photos that way as well.

Which made us realize that the BC Instagram account is basically Gossip Girl, but Gossip Girl in the era of Instagram who uses her powers for good (or at least for effective marketing) rather than to cause extreme and sustained social humiliation, and that thought made us giggle, so we put it here.

Another Comment On Agora - Another comment on Agora: Soon, the course search for Agora will be entirely redone, letting students search classes like they would search anything on any other successful website that hopes to make life easier rather than far more difficult for its users. Seriously, the search as it exists almost makes us opt for that near-obsolete newspaper that contains all the same information and seems to be located nowhere except for just outside the doors of the Rat, where there are about five million.

And that’s saying something, seeing as most people these days don’t even read actual newspapers (except you, of course). So we welcome the new configuration of the course search, and can’t wait for the day when we can look up what time Rev. Michael Himes’ The Problem of Belief in Modernity is without first specifying that we are talking about The Problem of Belief in Modernity that is in the theology department of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Red Sox city - The World Series has begun, and whether or not you hail from the Boston area originally, you’ve got to be excited that the Red Sox are once again facing the St. Louis Cardinals. First of all, there’s no denying that Boston is a great sports town, and you are bound to know at least one hardcore Sox fan who will watch every game and yell at the screen as if it were someone trying to kidnap their first born child, and just generally provide you with endless entertainment.

Here Comes The (No More) Sun - The temperature is slowly but steadily creeping downwards to the ever-closer threshold that will bring the advent of outfits that feature tights under pants and multiple pairs of socks, will render hats and scarves a necessity rather than an optional accessory, and will in general require us to pile on far more clothes than is either convenient or becoming, leaving us greatly restricted in terms of mobility and peripheral vision. But we are getting ahead of ourselves—let us savor these remaining 50-something degree days while we can still feel our fingers and spend more than five minutes at a time outside.

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There has been a whimsical comic circulating recently of Pope Francis with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in which the former attempts to order a pizza-hold-the-anchovies and within a matter of days the information has passed through so many people that it ends up being broadcast on television as the Pope’s historic declaration against fish consumption because it is now considered a sin.

When I read this I chuckled—and I sighed, because it seems there has been considerable misunderstanding of many of the Pope’s recent quotes—whether in interviews, at appearances, or in his daily audiences.

The obvious, and perhaps most important, example of this misinterpretation of Francis has come with his August 2013 interview with Antonio Spadaro, S.J., editor-in-chief of La Civilta Cattolica. The interview was shared with several journals, including America, the Jesuit-sponsored, Catholic weekly in the U.S. As soon as the interview hit the English-speaking world, the pundits and populace alike started generating a number of implications.

The New York Times ran the headline: “Pope Says Church Is ‘Obsessed’ With Gays, Abortion and Birth Control.” BBC Europe expressed their take similarly: “Pope Francis: Church too focused on gays and abortion.”

Other groups, including NARAL Pro-Choice America and Human Rights Camapign (HRC), a civil rights organization devoted to the GLBTQ community, soon after the publication of the interview, posted on their Facebook pages or Twitter accounts images which read “Dear Pope Francis, Thank you.

Signed, Pro-Choice Women/LGBT People Everywhere.”

These reactions, while not unsurprising, do not necessarily grasp the whole of the situation. Some of the publications expressed the qualification that Francis has in fact not

altered Church doctrine or policy, but others offer the idea that what we have with the pope might signal Church transformation of some sort or another.

But His Holiness has more than once called himself “a son of the Church,” and stressed that what the Church teaches, he believes and practices.

That being said, I think Human Rights Campaign was correct when they said Francis was reflecting a “tone” required of the Church regarding the many hot-button issues today.

That is, the pope, while not changing Church teaching or Church law, is repeatedly stressing the fundamental nature of the faith. He refers to himself as a “sinner whom the Lord has looked upon” and he repeatedly stresses the need for mercy and compassion: “I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

The church’s ministers must be merciful…” He even created a word, the gerund misericordiando [“mercy-ing”], to describe the Lord’s loving sight of Matthew when He called him into service (see the Homilies of Bede the Venerable in Matthew 9:9). All of this is to say that Francis has created great appeal for the faith.

He is, in a very real way, a pastor. He seems almost grandfatherly in his speech and manner.

And when he preaches, he speaks from his love of the Lord, of his faith, and his Church.

Such radiant love generates the radiant joy precipitating about his papacy. Professor Boyd Coolman of the theology department offered an insightful investigation into the inspiration behind the pope’s many recent comments. He cited Francis’s many references to mercy and joy especially. In fact, His Holiness, in a recent September Angelus, said, “The joy of God is forgiving, the joy of God is forgiving! … Here is the entire Gospel! Here! The whole Gospel, all of Christianity, is here!” And this idea very well creates the foundation of the pope’s vocation, indeed, of his very Christian life!

Such a life is what Coolman thinks is Francis’s particular modality for Christian existence—a “winsome orthodoxy,” that is, a “pleasant” or “appealing orthodoxy.”

Unpacking this “tone,” as HRC calls it, or this “mode,” as Coolman describes it, is a project left for intelligent theologians and very holy people. After hearing Coolman share his

insights about Francis, I turned to a fellow and said, “Within our lifetime, there will be whole commentaries on the pope’s theology.” It was a joke, of course, but I was attempting to make a point. The pope has not spoken extensively about every important issue facing the church today, and many of his speeches, audiences, and interviews are offered in that grandfatherly, conversational way. That is to say, if already people are attempting to interpret the meaning of his words, what more will come when a “theology of Francis I” is desired for understanding his papacy and the Church under his pastoral care?

Rev. Robert Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York and a professor of theology at Boston College, wrote an enlightening response, “An Ongoing Conversation,” to the Holy Father’s interview which was published online on Sept. 24 by America. His questions for the pope highlight points in need of clarity and offer area for further discourse. But I very much appreciate his stress on the fact that the pope’s interview was a conversation (conversazione). He thinks “placing the pope’s remarks in the genre of conversation may serve as a better guide for their ongoing interpretation.” This, I think, is the tone, the mode of which we have spoken. Francis’s theology is orthodoxy, and his love is genuine love born of the love of Christ, but his tone, his mode of discourse, and interaction is conversational.

He is, I think, a grandfather who wants to share a story with you. And you are left among yourselves to figure out each facet of the story.

Thus, it is fine for politically motivated groups and various media outlets to read Francis’s interviews and other speeches with a grin, because he is conversing with them, just as he is conversing with me and with you. He is not creating new theology, nor is he founding a new Christian life of any sort. He is, though, keying us into the mercy, in particular, which the Lord has for all Creation and which Christians must show to our fellow brothers and sisters—a winsome, loving mercy, rooted in Christ and his Church.

Patrick Angiolillo is a staff columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

Why bartending is the best job ever Alexia LaFata I didn’t want to go home last summer.

I cried on the rooftop of O’Neill one night after a summer job I’d applied for in Boston turned out to be volunteer. I wasn’t ready to leave New England yet, and September—when I would be departing for Spain, away from my beloved Chestnut Hill for an entire semester—was too close around the corner. As a rising junior, two years from the scary job market, I knew something “professional” was expected of me from May until August. But I hadn’t quite gotten there yet. I needed one last adventure, one that did not include screaming 12-year-old campers and overpriced ice cream that had been my reality for the past five summers in New Jersey.

Soon began the soundtrack of the greatest summer of my life: pint glasses of Sam Adams Summer Ale clanging against wooden surfaces, Bruins hockey sticks scraping against the ice on flat screen TVs, guitar riffs of ’80s rock songs blasting from the jukebox, and the shake-shake-shaking and mix-mix-mixing of blueberry mojitos and a million rum-andcokes. The crack and sizzle of a newly opened bottle of Corona replaced my favorite summer beach song, and cigarettes and gin replaced the smell of my mother’s freshly made chocolate chip cookies. Familiar faces of Brighton would come in and say “hello” to old friends, to new friends, and to me. This was my summer, and I was home.

Last April, I began working as a bartender at Cityside, Boston College’s favorite neighborhood sports bar 1.9 miles down Comm.

Ave. I know precisely because I did that walk almost every day, twice a day, for months. I was a waitress there first, and throughout the summer I often switched between waitressing and bartending, sometimes doing both during the same shift. I love both jobs, but sometime throughout the summer, bartending morphed into a fascinating style of art. Drinks became

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masterpieces and Cityside became a museum, and soon, I too became an artist.

On my first day of bartender training, I moseyed around the downstairs bar with a stack of notecards in hand, memorizing my whiskeys and my scotches, my beers and my vodkas. I practiced my shot counts and learned the difference between “straight up” and “neat.”

My manager made me practice pouring drinks with two hands, one liquor bottle in each hand, and I was certain that I’d acquired some serious forearm muscles. All of the technical terms and special counts and hand movements I practiced were incredibly important in creating delicious, successful drinks, and I was surprised at how quickly I learned the essentials. Bartending is definitely an art, allowing incredible amounts of freedom with recipes and personal touches, but it is also meticulous in its own right. Even a single extra ounce of liquor not properly balanced by a non-liquor could ruin an entire drink and wastes about $3 worth of alcohol in a bottle. A person buying $7 worth of alcohol gets $7 worth of alcohol— no more, no less. Like in a mojito where too much mint matters, in a business, these little dollar amounts matter.

Sometimes there was more than one bartender behind the bar during a shift, and I had to learn how to work smoothly with other bartenders. Two adults and a width of no more than three feet make teamwork a necessity.

This, plus working at 100 miles per hour to cater to all of the reaching hands and waving dollar bills, requires lots of multi-tasking and multi-thinking: Did another bartender serve this customer, or are they waiting to be served?

Did I give this customer change? What’s in a Mai Tai again? Do we have any more amaretto? Bacardi Limon? Should I start up the frozen margarita machine first or should I pour these three beers? Bartending taught me how to manage multi-tasking, teamwork, and the rush of adrenaline that comes with a fully packed bar on game night, and nothing has felt more rewarding than a successful balance of these three things. It is what truly makes a seven-hour shift less about work and more about having insane amounts of fun.

I’ve learned a lot about people through bartending. I’ve learned the value of a hardearned dollar and that a tip from a customer

represents more than just a little extra spending money. Working in service has taught me what it feels like when you quite literally get what you give, what happens when you put in 100 percent, and what happens when you don’t. And, sometimes, what happens when people just don’t appreciate your 100 percent.

Every single person should know what this feels like. It makes you realize that kindness is not always rewarded, and sometimes in life you just have to be kind for the sake of being kind. It humbles you.

One of the more entertaining things I’ve learned while working at Cityside is how difficult it can be to get a bartender’s attention. If I spend more than a second making eye contact with a customer and they don’t put in any real effort to get my attention, I have to move on to the next person. At a crowded bar, there is no time to wait for an individual to think about the drink they want to order. Even the manliest of men and most self-assured bar-goers have difficulty understanding this, and it’s hilarious how quickly confidence drains from someone’s face when they can’t get their drink right away.

I try to be patient, but sometimes it’s just impossible. By far, my most prized entertainment of this summer was observing the social interactions of the inhabitants of a packed sports bar from a position of power. (Well, not a real position of power—just the power to give someone a drink or not, which, at times, can mean serious control over a situation.)

And so, while my friends were working on Wall Street and at Government Center, I was refilling ice buckets and learning what makes a dry martini so dry. Bartending may not seem like a professional, duteous job, but I’ve learned more from bartending than any other job I’ve ever had—without all of the tedious paperwork and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. desk sitting. I learned about precision, teamwork, efficiency, and the feeling of a job well done. I learned about the importance of kindness and making people feel welcomed. Oh, and some fantastic drink recipes, of course.

Let the countdown to my 21st birthday commence.

Alexia LaFata is a staff columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at opinions@ bcheights.com.

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Ben Miyamoto You are sitting in class, perhaps diligently taking notes, maybe absentmindedly drifting from thought to thought as the lecture’s test-worthy terms pop in and out of daydreams—suddenly—the professor is yelling, pacing the length of the classroom, and gesturing frantically! If daydreaming, you refocus, scan the board and projector, and realize, with some confusion, she is yelling about the impact of colonialism on the self-perception of the native peoples of Africa and its reflection in literature. I hope everyone has witnessed this—maybe not about post-colonial literature, maybe not yelling, but excitement—too much excitement for the seemingly inconsequential details of scholarship.

An overly excited professor works himself into a frenzy over the variant script forms used by Essenes in Qumran or (substitute the minutia from your scholarly field of choice here). Having been with this professor for the better part of the semester you can see the importance, understand his excitement, and feel the excitement yourself. The weight of an entire field of study, thousands of hours of research, hundreds of years of scholarship, rests on a bullet point of a slide. You are about to reach the summit, from which you will be able to survey the vast expanse of knowledge—like Simba surveying his future kingdom.

You then leave class, meet a friend for lunch, and try to describe to them your momentous trek up the mountain of knowledge.

You fail miserably. Your friend’s face displays a mixture of boredom and confusion and you smash into the disappointing limitations of your expressive abilities. Part of this may be attributed to the differences between passive and active skills, as one can understand the technical language of a field much sooner than one can speak it fluently. The real limitation lies, however, in the fact that descriptive, effective language shrinks one’s circle of discussion partners.

The further into any field you progress, the more technical vocabulary you acquire.

Examples of this can be found in any upper-level course that requires some previous knowledge of the subject matter. Classes like this assume some knowledge of the discussion at hand and largely skip descriptions of the most basic aspects of the field. This is extremely important, as this is where progress is made, where learning happens. If you had to retrace the entire history of your field for every class before you began with the topic of the course, you would never learn anything.

As a bonus, technical language is super fun.

Or, at least, the ability to communicate is fun. Whenever someone jokingly (or not so jokingly) refers to himself or herself as a nerd, or admits to nerding out over a reading for class, it is because of technical language. The linguistic ability to express the importance of the things you find most important is thrilling.

The problem is, the moment you are using the most descriptive language is the moment you have the smallest audience. The only people who will be able to understand your reference to “trophic cascades” or “imagined communities of romantic nationalism” are those who have also spent time with the subject.

The limitations of effective, descriptive, and exciting language are present at every level of communication. As experience and learning become increasingly more specific, it becomes increasingly important to foster the ability to relate our learning back to general knowledge. Working to “make relevant” the knowledge that is being refined within a field seems backward. The nuances and caveats of the technical language have to be glossed, in part, to make sense of the material for those not trained in the field. This makes it seem as though things are being dumbed down, but the process of distilling that mound of facts and arguments into the essentials is the process of learning. If you cannot place your specific, technical knowledge within the framework of your field and then within the broader context of general knowledge, you have not learned much.

Because of the above, two things become surprisingly important: metaphor and the core curriculum. It is vitally important to be able to draw examples from material outside your area of study that explain your findings and make sense to a wider audience. If you cannot do this, you will be stuck talking to those nerds in your major-restricted philosophy (biochemistry, math, poly-sci, etc.) courses. They are not all that bad, but you do not want them as your only company. To utilize effective analogies and metaphors you need a ground of common knowledge. The job of the core is to provide this, among other things. Real learning is a theology student describing the importance of biblical interpretation to a political science major using the constitution as an analogy, or a chemistry professor referencing a medieval historian to make sense of a complex reaction.

Learning is in the communicating. Go teach someone something you learned today.

Ben Miyamoto is a staff columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

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KEYS TO THE GAME BOSTON COLLEGE THE RUN GAME UNC has allowed over 200 yards per game this year on the ground, showing an opportunity for BC to use Andre Williams and company heavily.

MANAGE TWO QB SYSTEM UNC has two different signal callers that will keep the defense on its toes. BC must be ready to adapt to whatever comes its way.

NORTH CAROLINA SLOW DOWN BC’S RUN GAME Just as BC will be hoping to capitalize in this area, the Tar Heels will need to combat it if they hope to limit BC’s offensive production.

MAINTAIN POSESSION UNC needs to keep BC’s defense on the field, limiting the Eagles’ scoring opportunities and giving themselves plenty of time to create them.

PLAYERS TO WATCH BOSTON COLLEGE ANDRE WILLIAMS WEIGHT: 227 HEIGHT: 6’0” POSITION: RB YEAR: Senior

STEELE DIVITTO WEIGHT: 237 HEIGHT: 6’2” POSITION: LB YEAR: Senior

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KAREEM MARTIN WEIGHT: 265 HEIGHT: 6’6” POSITION: DE YEAR: Senior

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It can keep up steady production from the run game and utilize its top performers on offense, running and passing.

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Its offense can stay on the field, drawing out the clock and giving BC few chances on offense.

tough football games ourselves and played some tough teams but what we need to do is sharpen our execution on both ends of the ball and we need to get on the road and win a road game.”

Execution has been the biggest issue for BC, on both sides of the ball, in road losses during this drought. The Eagles have accumulated, on average, 56 fewer rushing yards per game on the road than at home in the last three years, while also giving up 106 more yards of total offense to opposing teams.

More importantly, while BC has had an average turnover margin of about .2 in these home games, besting opponents by a turnover every fives games or so, that number switches to nearly -.6 on the road.

“I think what it takes is great maturity, senior leadership,” Addazio said as other ways to earn away victories.

“You have to have that maturity. You got to play great defense so you don’t get yourself out of a game early. You have to stay in a game so you get a chance to fight throughout the game. Those are all pieces of it for me.”

The defense through the first three quarters will be key for BC, as the Eagles haven’t fared well in the fourth quarters of recent away games. Consistently trailing late in road games, BC has been forced to speed up its attack, throwing off the run-pass balance and knocking the offense out of sync. The Eagles have averaged fewer than four points per game in their last 14 fourth quarters on the road, while giving up 8.5 to their opponents. They have been outscored in the fourth quarter 10 times and have been held scoreless twice. For BC to leave Chapel Hill with a successful start

to kick off the second half of the season, the team will need to keep that fighting chance heading late into the game.

“This is a new start to the second half of the season now,” Addazio said. “It’s a new slate and we have to get to 1-0 right now. We have six games and we have to establish and pick up where we left off with a high energy, high emotion, high octane, physically rough football team and we have to take that to Chapel Hill this weekend. So that’s our edge and we have to live that and be that.”

An important aspect of that edge, for Addazio, is not allowing his team to focus on the close games with some of the conference’s top teams like Florida State and Clemson.

“I think a concern I have right now is that, and I just said this to the team today: we’re going into week seven and we’ve been in some battles,” Addazio said Monday. “People have told you ‘You played this team tough and you played that team tough.’ Don’t take any solace in that. Don’t think we’re okay. We’re 3-3. That’s why, to me, we gotta be 1-0.

We can ill-afford to stroll out like we strolled out to California and play kind of in a malaise. We have to play at the very top of our game. It’s hard to do that week in and week out. The margin for error for us is small.”

And the margin between home performance and away performance has been wide in recent years, especially late in games. BC gets a chance to change that on Saturday, and along with that comes a chance to continue to move forward.

“We’re looking at this as a new season,” said senior captain Ian White.

“We’ve got a six-game season.”

“We’ve got to do everything we can to get to 1-0,” said senior quarterback Chase Rettig.

After disappointing loss, Tar Heels shift focus to BC

BY MARLY MORGUS Asst. Sports Editor

While the Boston College football team was taking a bye week last weekend, the University of North Carolina was coming closer than any other team has so far to overcoming what is now the No. 7 team in the country.

North Carolina had a 17-13 lead heading into the second half and maintained it until the final seconds of play, falling only when Miami’s Dallas Crawford scored with 16 seconds remaining in the game.

UN C quarterback Br yn Renner passed for 297 yards and a touchdown and set a new school record for consecutive completions as 15 of his passes hit home in a row. In the end, a 90-second drive from the Hurricanes proved too much for the Tar Heels and the upset was denied.

Though they sustained a loss, last week’s close loss will provide a lot of motivation and jumping off points for the 1-5 team.

“They got their guts ripped out Thursday night … But I think our guys have already put it behind them … We’re going to take the things that we learned from the game and make the corrections, but we’re also going to build off the good things that happened in this game,” UNC head coach Larry Fedora said in the ACC weekly teleconference.

This week, the Tar Heels are expecting a highly physical game on offense and a dynamic defense when they face the Eagles on Saturday at home in Chapel Hill.

So far this season, North Carolina’s defense is allowing 203.3 yards per game rushing, which will be a major concern as Andre Williams and the Eagles come

to town. With two 200 plus yard performances so far this season, Williams alone is averaging 139.7 yards per game, 5.3 per carry.

“The running back is pretty special, obviously. He’s, what, No. 5 or 6 in the country in rushing, and they are going to bring it downhill and try to beat you with a play action pass,” Fedora said. “What we’re going to have to do is we’re going to have to commit ourselves to stopping the run. That’s for sure.”

On the offensive end, North Carolina is more of a passing team. Renner

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Renner’s average of 5.2 yards lost per outing, but he sees significantly fewer passing yards per game with 78. Both, however, will use either strategy. That system presents unique challenges for the BC defense.

“They’re both very accomplished quarterbacks. Ver y capable to lead their football teams,” head coach Steve Addazio said. “You’ve got to prepare for a dual threat kind of situation. It just adds another component.”

Apart from their quarterbacks, the Tar Heels will rely on Eric Ebron, a junior tight end who, with 88.7 yards per game, leads the team in receiving yards and was just honored with the Mackey Award, which goes to the nation’s top receiver, last week. Quinshad Davis, a sophomore wide receiver who comes in second place in that category, will also need to perform on offense.

“I’m very impressed with their personnel,” Addazio said. “Obviously they played at a high level last week. You can see why people felt so strong about North Carolina this season. They have a lot of tremendous players.”

On Saturday, the Tar Heels will need to use their home field to their advantage and control Williams and the rest of the BC run game. If they fail in that department, it will be a huge challenge for the offense to get enough points on the board to come out with the win.

With last week’s disappointing loss still fresh in their minds, this will be the first step toward recovery. The Eagles, on the other hand, are looking for a rebound after two losses in three weeks to top teams.

“It will be a great challenge for us,” Addazio said. “We need to go on the road and win a road game. We’re looking forward to that opportunity.” 

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averages 282.8 yards per game with a 63.3 completion percentage. While the completion percentage is similar to that of Chase Rettig, who completes 63.8 percent of his passes, Renner puts just above 100 more yards on the books per game than Rettig.

Renner is not North Carolina’s only quarterback, as the team opts for a twoquarterback system with Renner and Marquise Williams. While Renner is more of a passer, Williams poses more of a threat when it comes to the run game.

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The Tar Heels’ defense will need to slow down Andre Williams and the rest of the BC run game.

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BC, led by quarterback Chase Rettig, faces its third road test of the season at UNC Saturday.

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BC has a challenging schedule to start the season, but they’re gaining valuable experience.

any other time, there’s no telling what the context for them would be. They could come in the middle of a slump, just after a crucial injury, or at a time when the team is feeling warn down from a long season.

This way, not only do you get fresh legs for some of the biggest games of the year, but you also immediately impart experience on the younger players. The reaction after the Michigan loss is an obvious portrayal of that. BC looked like a new team against Rensselaer and Wisconsin, and a lot of that can be owed to the fact that the sizable freshman class already had experience in a big time, high-pressure situation.

Not only that, but the way that those second and third games turned

out will have inspired a lot of confidence in the youthful team, as so many of them have already hit the benchmark of their collegiate points, against top-15 schools, no less.

This weekend, BC will face its fourth straight top-15 opponent in the No. 1 Minnesota Golden Gophers. I’m not going to go so far as to say that BC will ride this wave of newfound experience to a couple of big wins. It’s going to be tough—probably the biggest test that the Eagles have seen so far this year as they face the top team in the country on their own turf—but the first few games were a great way to prepare BC for this pressure-packed weekend.

Marly Morgus is the Asst. Sports Editor for The Heights. She can be reached at sports@bcheights.com.

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On Friday night, Clemson visits Power Gym for an ACC volleyball matchup. The Eagles enter the weekend with a 10-game losing streak encompassing the entirety of their ACC play along with the two games leading into it. With eight straight losses in conference play, the Eagles have only won a total of four sets against its ACC opponents. Clemson has seen more success in the ACC with a 4-4 record within the conference this season. BC will rely on performances from its steady contributors, Katty Workman and Kellie Barnum. as the team hopes to break out of its losing streak with its first ACC win.

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Though Harvard scored first, the Eagles fought back quickly last night with three straight goals to give them a solid advantage over the Crimson that they carried through the rest of play.

Eagles bounce back from road loss to overcome Harvard

BY CHRIS GRIMALDI Assoc. Sports Editor

After watching its offense stall in Saturday’s road loss to UNC, the Boston College field hockey team looked for redemption against a crosstown rival last night. Sophomore AshLeigh Sebia’s hat trick and BC’s defense coupled to snag a 5-2 road victory over Harvard.

Yet head coach Ainslee Lamb’s squad had to confront an early deficit, as the Crimson’s Marissa Balleza snuck a score past Eagle goalkeeper Leah Settipane less than three minutes into regulation. Balleza’s goal would

be the first and last time Harvard controlled the game’s momentum before Sebia took over.

The second-year forward corralled a pass from teammate Emma Plasteras in the circle and fired on Harvard’s net, beating Crimson keeper Jenn Hatfield to tie the game at one.

Sebia single-handedly doubled her team’s score seven minutes later on a tip-in.

BC’s 3-0 scoring run culminated with Katlyn Soucy’s first goal of the season—an unassisted attempt that found a home in the left corner of Harvard’s net. Just over five minutes remained in the first half, and the Eagles enjoyed a 3-1 lead.

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with a penalty-stroke goal over 13 minutes into the second frame, drawing the Crimson within one of BC’s advantage, but that score would be the final time Harvard would light up the scoreboard during the evening.

BC came storming back to tack on insurance, as Emily McCoy turned a rebound off of the opposing goalkeeper’s pads into an unassisted score—the ninth of her 2013 campaign.

Fifteen minutes later, Sebia put the finishing touches on one of the Eagles’ most dominant offensive displays of the year. The sophomore deflected a straight-shot attempt from McCoy into the corner, solidifying her hat trick and giving her team a 5-2 lead it never relin-

quished. With her three-goal performance, Sebia now has seven scores on the season.

Possession played a key role for the Eagles last night, as they outshot Harvard with a 13-5 advantage in the second frame en route to ownership of an overall 10-shot margin.

All but two of the shots Harvard was able to send BC’s way were smothered by Settipane.

Her mark of over six stops per contest is the highest overall mark among goalies in a highly competitive ACC. Last night’s mix of offensive execution and sound defense will be a pivotal formula for the Eagles as they enter the final stages of their conference schedule. 

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The junior started at right midfield for the Eagles, who were without Nick Corliss, Amit Shumowitz, Isaac Normesinu, and Ryan Dunn.

Kelly set his team up in a 4-4-1-1. Derrick Boateng and Giuliano Frano controlled the center of midfield. Diego Medina-Mendez and Hayes took the wings, while Cole DeNormandie started in his place as the target man, with Zeiko Lewis behind him.

Harvard’s main form of attack came through set pieces. Stemming from the left flank, several corners and throw-ins were launched into the box, giving the Eagles trouble inside the area.

But after a quarter of an hour, BC began to control the game. The Eagles played the ball out from the back and created an excellent move forward 20 minutes in. A seven-pass combination that started with Boateng and Lewis ended with Hayes and DeNormandie, though the latter’s cross was stopped by Harvard keeper Brett Conrad.

Medina-Mendez and Lewis had symmetrical opportunities on both sides of 29 minutes. The junior cut in from the right side, dribbling five defenders before putting a weak effort on target. Lewis did the same, but from the left flank.

With 32 minutes gone, Harvard’s Michael Klain had a throw-in from the right side.

His long-range toss found the head of Kevin Harrington. Challenged by the BC defense, the ball popped out to David Barna, whose cracker of a volley from the penalty spot gave the visitors a one-goal advantage.

The same occurred 34 minutes in, as a Klain throw was nodded on by Harrington and finished by substitute Tyler Evans.

“All they had was the long throw-in,” Kelly said. “We could’ve done better on the second goal.”

Lewis had the opportunity to cut the Crimson’s lead in two before halftime, but his effort from outside of the area fizzed over the crossbar.

Going into the half, the Eagles lacked communication. They collided with each other several times on 50-50 balls, after starting the game at a frantic pace.

Chris Ager went down near the end of the first half and required a substitute, but the center back was on the pitch for the entirety of the second period of play.

Kelly pushed Hayes into the hole behind Lewis, who was, “all over the place, just doing what the team needs,” Hayes said.

It was the positioning of the Northport, New York native that gave him the chance to score his first of the evening.

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net’s bottom right corner, giving Conrad no chance.

After the goal, Atobra Ampadu was introduced, pushing the goal scorer to left back. Hayes was exhausted though, and replaced by Dylan Pritchard, who had started the match at right back.

Hayes was summoned by Kelly again 68 minutes in, and would strike a mere three minutes later. Frano earned a controversial throw-in just inside his team’s half. He found Ampadu who took a brilliant touch, before slotting a well-weighted through-ball to Lewis whose diagonal run made the goal possible. The talented forward poked the ball past the keeper and stopped it on the bi-line. Lewis then threaded the ball across the face of the goal to Hayes, who drilled the ball into the back of the net to level the match at two goals apiece.

“Zeiko caused that goal,” Kelly said.

“He did fantastic when he slipped by the keeper.”

Then, a harmless ball to the top of the penalty area was headed by a Harvard defender into his own net. It was the game-winner and it complemented Hayes’ brace brilliantly.

“It was the first start of my career,” Hayes said. “It was great. Coach has confidence in me and it showed.”

“It’s a big win. Going down 2-0, we could’ve been demoralized. We showed a lot of character. 

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The Northeast Catholic Invitational (NECI) this past weekend was one for the record books, as members of Boston College men’s and women’s swim teams charged down the lanes of the Flynn Complex Aquatics center at NECI record-breaking pace.

The men dominated the field from the beginning, defeating second place Niagara University by the decisive score of 931 points to 581 points. Juniors Nick Henze and Andrew Stranick put up stellar performances for the Eagles, as Henze set a new NECI record in the 200 yard freestyle, posting a time of 1:43.24, and Stranick set a NECI record in the 100 yard breaststroke with a time of 58:65.

Stranick was also a member of BC’s record-setting 200 yard medley relay.

Meanwhile, sophomore Dan Kelly set a new record with a time of 20.92 seconds in the 50 yard freestyle.

The BC women’s swim team performed equally well over the weekend, scoring 938.5 points in total.

Sophomore Maureen Barron set a new NECI record in the 50 yard freestyle with a time of 24.47 while graduate student Ann Kearns blew away the competition in her event, winning by over 13 seconds and setting a new NECI record.

Moving forward, the men’s team will take on Georgetown and Yale this coming weekend, while the women’s team squares off against Georgetown in the nation’s capital.

The BC sailing team had a packed racing schedule this weekend but handled it well as the team picked up a pair of victories at the Captain Hurst Bowl and Providence Regatta. Sophomores Raul Rios and Doyle Calhoun both finished strong in Division A at the Hurst Bowl with 84 points.

At the Providence Regatta, the Eagles beat out the U.S. Coast Guard via strong performances from Ryan Morrison and Savanna Brown in the A Division and Jacob Martz and Hannah Lynn in the B Division.

The women’s team also raced well in both the Yale Bowl and the Norman Reid Trophy Regatta, but fell just short, coming in second place in each event.

At the Yale Regatta, Erika Reineke and Riley Calhoun each placed first in the A Division to guide the team to a strong second place finish behind Yale.

BC women’s golf took to the greens this weekend at the Hoosier Fall Invitational, placing a respectable seventh out of 15 teams at +43 through three rounds of golf at the par-71 Hickory Stick Golf Club. Cristina McQuiston was playing her best golf all weekend, finishing at plus-4 over three rounds, including a one-under 70 in round two, good for sixth best overall out of a 96 person field.

Katia Joo finished just two strokes behind her, 12th overall, while Christina Wang finished at plus-9. The team is back in action on Feb. 17 in New Braunfels, Texas for the Jim West Challenge. 

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The Eagles got a surprise push from Brendan Hayes in a 3-2 win over Harvard on Tuesday.

Around the world, people watch sports to see something they do not expect. They want to be shocked, surprised, and startled.

Coming off consecutive losses at the Newton Campus Field, Boston College men’s soccer was in desperate need of a win.

Few people witnessed the bizarre sequence of events that ensued in an insignificant match that would have, at the start of the season, been seen as a break from rigorous ACC play.

Two eerily similar throw-ins within a

minute and 20 seconds of each other would put non-conference underdog Harvard up 2-0 against BC. It was an upset in the making. But Brendan Hayes would not let that happen, and helped his team recover to beat its local rivals 3-2.

Hayes came into Tuesday night without a start under his collegiate belt, and had it not been for multiple injuries and a moment in practice, he would not have been given the chance to help his ailing side.

“I always knew that [Hayes] was a very good soccer player, but we always looked at him as being non-athletic, so to speak,” said BC head coach Ed Kelly, “But for some rea-

son, the other day in practice, [Kawuba] got the ball—he’s very athletic—and ran down, and [Hayes] actually caught him.

“So we’re talking, ‘Did you have any idea [Hayes] was fast?’ I was going, ‘No, no, no,’ And we said, ‘we’re gonna give him a shot then and put him at right midfield.’”

Hayes took his shot—in fact, he took three. He put two of those on target, and both efforts beat the keeper.

“I haven’t scored in a long time, so two goals is just big,” Hayes said.

“The guys really worked hard to set up

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ROAD WORK

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The BC position coaches haven’t been able to harp on every little detail as much or correct mistakes before After blaring “Tribute To Troy” they happen. Instead, with the crowd and “Tiger Rag” from Shea Field ear- noise seemingly coming from every lier in the year, the Boston College direction, each individual player is football team has resorted to playing almost stuck on an island during nothing but simple, loud, crowd noise practice, according to Addazio.

“You get a sense of who can get during practice this week in preparation for Saturday’s road matchup at it done,” Addazio said. “I kind of like North Carolina. Desperate times call that piece of it. Then, of course, I for desperate measures. Dating back think you have to prepare for that environment so when you to 2011, the Eagles have hit it on Saturday, it doesn’t lost 12 of their last 14 away faze you.” games.

Any edge could help “I think it’s all experithe Eagles, as away games ence,” said BC head coach haven’t been kind to BC Steve Addazio when asked OCT. 26, 2013 BC vs. North Carolina in the last three years . what it takes to win on the 3:30 ON RSN Opposing teams have outroad. “So we’re right back at it again. We’re utilizing that crowd scored BC by an average margin of noise at a very, very high decibel level more than 12 points, compared to right now. I think the other thing I the less than one point margin in like about it, you get in these team BC’s 16 home games during the same periods, the coaches can’t monopolize timeframe. “ We are a work in progress ,” them. The players have to create their own energy in the huddles. Everyone Addazio said. “We’ve been in some has to be accountable for knowing See Football, A8 what they’re doing.”

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Different worlds Although the Boston College football team has improved plenty in 2013, the Eagles are still haunted by poor road performances. Having lost 12 of its last 14 away games, BC has three key areas to focus on at North Carolina on Saturday.

Scoring Margin Home: -.0265 Away: -12.71 -12.7 Rushing Yards Home: 130 -14 Away: 116 Passing Yards Home: 233 -56 Away: 177 Yards Allowed Home: 375 +106 Away: 481

Team defense Opponents have gained 100 more yards when the BC defense is on the road rather than at home

Turnovers The Eagles’ turnover margin swings drastically in the wrong direction when BC plays away from Alumni

Turnover Margin Home: .19 -.76 Away: -.57 4th quarter BC has been outscored in 10 of the last 14 final quarters on the road, and shutout in 6 of them

Early season challenges give young players a taste of veteran experience

MARLY MORGUS A preseason look at the Boston College hockey team’s first few opponents showed the making of a formidable schedule. Opening against Michigan on the road. Rensselaer, while admittedly not as formidable a foe, was still a top-20 matchup for the home opener.

Then came Wisconsin, with six national titles, 12 Frozen Four appearances, and

three seniors and a junior in its starting five, along with a seasoned goalie. Then, the next week, they expected to put up a fight against Minnesota. Okay. Whose idea was this?

Sure, scheduling is tough and you want to get the best non-conference matchups that you can, but is this a good idea after graduating a class of six outstanding seniors? Where’s the early season warm-up game that will help all of these rookies get their feet under them? There are 10 freshmen on this team, a few of whom could be expected to see considerable amounts of ice time, and somehow they would be expected to produce results during their first few games as collegiate athletes.

It was absurd. Frightening, even.

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Bound to be embarrassing. After seeing those first few games, however, I think it’s working.

The Michigan game was a tough one.

Against what is now the No. 4 team in the country, BC couldn’t really do anything right. The team allowed two of the Wolverines’ three goals on the power play. The Eagles took six penalties, and failed to capitalize on the three opportunities when their opponents had a man in the box. BC scored only one goal, and left Yost Ice Arena with a 0-1 record.

But then there was Rensselaer. The game has been a little overlooked in my opinion. Sure, BC got a big first win at home, but since it wasn’t against a top-10 team, and the game happened to

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take place at 3 p.m. on the Sunday of a holiday weekend, the performance was underappreciated. RPI is no Michigan or Minnesota, but it’s also not a cupcake team.

Six Eagles scored seven goals—the first by three freshmen. BC capitalized on both of its power play opportunities, and while the team took seven penalties, each and every one of them was killed. It doesn’t really get better than that on special teams.

And finally, there was the Wisconsin game. Maybe Wisconsin was overrated.

They were dismantled once again by BU the next night. Maybe having Landon Peterson in the net to start the game instead of Joel Rumpel, the go-to from last season who was out with a lower

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body injury, hurt the Badgers. But you don’t score nine goals against any Wisconsin team without doing a lot of things right.

All of a sudden, it’s looking like that lack of an early warm-up game is a good thing. Look at it this way: early games like those against Michigan and Wisconsin carry all of the hype from the off-season. Those first few matchups contained teams that will be fired up and ready to show the nation a little bit about what to expect from them this season.

The schedule never really slows down for a Hockey East team, but if these non-conference matchups came at

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Stop being such a tease

Thursday, October 24, 2013

SCENE AND HEARD

BY: BRIDGET GALVIN

SEAN KEELEY While scouring entertainment websites for possible stories this week, my eyes happened on a strange little headline on MTV News: “One Direction Release Teaser Of Next Single! Listen Now!” I am not a frequent reader of One Direction articles, of course, but the word “teaser” stuck out to me. What, exactly, was the news value of a tiny song fragment, mere days before it will be released in its entirety? Clicking on to the article itself only made me more bemused. “Fans are calling the 16-second snippet of ‘Story of My Life’ ‘perfect’ and ‘beautiful,’” read the sub-headline, while the article was accompanied by the feverish, allcaps tweets of One Direction fangirls.

A reminder: we are talking about a 16-second snippet of a One Direction song here. I guess it’s a slow news week.

Looking further down the site for more substantial stories, I found one that was possibly even less so. This one promised a video from the first day of filming for Batman vs. Superman. Hoping to catch a glimpse of Ben Affleck in a Batsuit, I was instead greeted with a shaky cell phone video of a football game. Apparently—spoiler alert!—at some point in the 2015 blockbuster, Gotham City University will face off against Metropolis University in a football game. And apparently this is big enough news for major entertainment outlets to link some random extra’s cell phone footage.

Pondering these two utterly inconsequential stories side by side, it occurred to me that they are both symptoms of a larger trend. Call it the teaser effect. One Direction and that guy on the sidelines of the Batman movie are only pawns in its game, and we’re all subject to its whims.

The basic problem with the teaser effect is this: things aren’t allowed to simply be released anymore. Instead, they’re teased to death in a long and slow process—weeks, months, even years in advance. We live in a world where blockbusters build buzz for the release of their own trailers by offering a preview of the trailer a few days before the full thing premieres. It’s a world where the powers behind Gravity—a movie that’s 91 minutes long, with a plot that is effectively summarized in its poster—feels compelled to release a six-minute extended trailer. It’s a world where Justin Bieber sees the need to release a new song every single week, for 10 weeks, leading up to his second 3D concert film. (Yes, there are now two Justin Bieber concert films, but that’s an entirely different travesty.)

It sometimes seems to me that we’ve reached a point where our pop culture values the actual product less than its advertising. I like watching movie trailers as much as anyone, but excessive teasing often robs works of their full impact. More than once, I’ve walked out of a movie feeling that I had already seen the whole thing in the trailers.

What’s more, some movies are adopting a teaser mentality in their own construction. With The Avengers franchise, Marvel has perfected the art of making each film reinforce and drum up buzz for the next one. In many ways, the coming Thor and Captain America sequels are just movielength trailers for 2015’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron. And since such movies are so heavily spoiled pre-release, with set photos and videos leaking everywhere, it’s easy to get the sensation that there are no surprises left when they finally hit the big screen.

But there is another way! Two of the most effective marketing campaigns this summer were defined by what they withheld rather than revealed. One was Kanye West’s album Yeezus. West didn’t even make the album available for pre-order, building up an aura of mystery with its nonexistent cover art and lack of radio singles.

When it leaked a few days in advance of its release, the sheer enigma of the thing made it a huge event.

The second campaign was for the final season of Breaking Bad. After a yearlong hiatus, AMC released virtually no new footage prior to the final eight episodes.

The most they gave fans was an ominous promo showing the show’s familiar Albuquerque locations mysteriously empty and accompanied by a sinister voiceover, as Bryan Cranston read the Percy Shelley poem “Ozymandias.” The final, portentous shot of Heisenberg’s pork pie hat lying on the desert ground as “the lone and level sands stretch far away” was the perfect way to build up excitement without spoiling anything.

Such promotional strategies may not satisfy fans’ immediate cravings for spoilers, but maybe that’s a good thing.

In a world where 16-second snippets of boy band songs are deemed newsworthy, maybe we need to take a step back from the culture of teasers, and let the work speak for itself.

Sean Keeley is the Arts & Review Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

1. BOUND 2 FALL IN LOVE

2. HARRIS HALLOWEEN

Kanye shocked everyone, including Kim, with his over-the-top proposal. But what else would you expect from Kanye? He created an elaborate way to propose to girlfriend Kim Kardashian, renting out San Francisco’s AT&T Stadium for Kim and her nearest and dearest to gather. With an orchestra playing “Young And Beautiful” by Lana del Rey in the background, the Jumbotron spelled out “PLEEEASE MARRY MEEE!!!” Kim was left speechless and mascara was flying while Kanye gave her a 15-carat ring. Hopefully North will be a flower girl.

Neil Patrick Harris wins again for the most adorable family on Halloween. This year, he and his partner David Burtka dressed up their fraternal twins as characters from Alice in Wonderland. Neil and David dressed up as Tweedledee and Tweedledum, while Harper was Alice, and Gideon was the White Rabbit.

This is not the first time the family has dressed as a unit. They were characters from both Peter Pan and The Wizard of Oz for the past two Halloweens.

4. CLARKSON GETS HITCHED

Kelly Clarkson is finally married. This weekend, she and music manager Brandon Blackstock shared nuptials in Nashville at a quiet event. After canceling their wedding plans for this summer, Clarkson surprised everyone by tweeting Monday, “I’m officially Mrs. Blackstock :) We got married yesterday at Blackberry Farms in TN, the most beautiful place ever!” Kelley looked beautiful in a Temperly Bridal “Jessamine” white lace dress while the groom looked dashing with the fall foliage surrounding them. It was simple but sweet.

3. ROYAL RE-EMERGENCE

5. THE D IS FOR DADDY

After three months, the Royal Family is back. Prince William bestowed knighthood for the first time while Duchess Katherine showed us that she is fitter than ever despite her pregnancy 90 days ago. Most importantly, Prince George’s baptism will be held on Oct. 23 at St. James Place at 3 p.m. with all of the family in attendance. Unfortunately, Prince Harry’s girlfriend, Cressida Bonas, did not receive an invitation to this event.

Former Jersey Shore star Pauly D has been living the high life with his DJ gigs. However, Pauly just revealed his new career: being a father. This weekend Pauly told the media that he has a baby girl. The baby lives with her 26-year-old mother, who met Pauly in Vegas when he was performing there. “I’m proud I’m a father,” he said, “I am excited to embark on this new part of my life.” Hopefully Baby D and Snooki’s baby, Lorenzo, will have a play-date.

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Fountains of Wayne is often dismissed as a one-hit wonder band, but like many others in that category, they offer more than meets the eye.

Looking deeper into one-hit wonders PHOEBE FICO Halley’s comet is a meteor that can only be seen by the human eye every 75 to 76 years for a short period of time. Discovered by its namesake, Richard Halley, the comet has been immortalized in song and romantic comedies as a metaphor for a short-lived relationship. One-hit wonders are not unlike the comet. They burst onto the milky night sky of pop culture as a shining light destined for the stardom of, say, Michael Jackson, after his first hit at the tender age of 12 with “I’ll Be There.” But then they don’t. They fade into the cosmos never to be heard from again. Until about 10 years later, that is, when the band appears in a 45-second montage with comedians commenting on how much they used to love it on some show entitled, “I Love the [insert appropriate decade here]” on VH1.

While most of these bands arguably only have one good song—Panic! at the Disco, for example—and other artists have more hits than they deserve (Ke$ha, I’m looking at you), many of these artists are accomplished musicians, singers, and truly great songwriters, who in the public conscience, are written off as one-hit wonders.

One of these artists, Blind Melon, would certainly be featured on “I Love the ’90s,” as it took part in the rock revival that dominated the airwaves during that decade.

If Kurt Cobain and Nirvana were considered the sonic embodiment of teenage angst and alienation with their soft-loud,

verse-chorus song structure, which was borrowed from the seminal punk band, The Pixies, then Blind Melon was the visual and lyrical embodiment. In 1992, it put out its debut, self-titled album. It didn’t make a ripple in the alternative pond, however, until it released its second single. “No Rain” was a quirky song, whose video featured a tap dancing third grader in a bee costume, who is rejected by everyone until she meets the band in an open field (which included the lead singer, Shannon Hoon, high on LSD and naked). The song and many others on the album featured sincere lyrics about life’s hardships, as on “Change,” and trying to get your dream, as on “Tones of Home.” These lyrics were supported by Hoon’s singular voice that could make the most depressionsoaked lyrics—“And I don’t understand why I sleep all day / And I start to complain that there’s no rain”—sound at once sunny enough for pop radio and as heart-breaking as they were intended.

Similarly, the band’s music was different too. It drew inspiration from ’70s psychedelic bands like The Grateful Dead.

This helped the band soften its sometimes-heavy lyrics with light guitars and mandolins.

Arguably, the best trick in this group’s bag is the song “Mouth Full of Cavities” from its sophomore release, Soup. In the song, it kept its introspective lyrics, but added intricate guitars—rebelling against the bring-punk-to-the-people attitude of that time—and a supporting female vocalist that made it a haunting soul-searcher.

When my guitar teacher heard this song, he said, “Well, I guess they’re not a one-hit wonder after all.” Mission accomplished.

A more modern one-hit wonder is the band Fountains of Wayne, who hit it big in 2003 with its song “Stacy’s Mom.” The hit single and many of the band’s other songs bubble over with ripe images, like “Stacy, do you remember when I mowed your lawn? (mowed your lawn) / Your mom came out with just a towel on (towel on).”

“I could tell she liked me from the way she stared (the way she stared) /And the way she said, ‘You missed a spot over there’ (a spot over there).” While not the musicians that Blind Melon or fellow one-hit wonder and ’80s hair metal band, Winger are, they rely on power-pop that is undeniably catchy. Fountains of Wayne could have been the equivalent of a Taylor Swift—that’s music critic talk for really good songwriter and insanely famous—if only they had dated 10 starlets in 2003.

Often one-hit wonders seem to be weak flames that burn out with even the smallest burst of wind. In contradiction to this common misconception, some one-hit wonders are supernovas—stars that may not burn off long, but which can emit more light than the sun in its entire lifespan when they do burn. These bands are sublunary supernovas.

Phoebe Fico is a staff columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

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ver the past decade, leading movie studios across the country have tried to turn 3D from a niche technology to a staple of the moviegoing experience, as high-profile movies like Avatar, Hugo, and Gravity vie for audiences’ eyeballs and dollars. But we’ve seen this movie before: the history of 3D dates all the way back to 1915, when the technology was first tested, and it’s always been touted as the Next Big Thing. But will 3D ever be adopted as a cinematic standard? The future is uncertain, but the past suggests a rocky road ahead.

THE 1950S: DIAL 3 FOR 3D

Director: Andre de Toth Year: 1953 Starring: Vincent Price Why it matters: The first feature to be released in color, 3D, and with stereophonic sound, Andre de Toth’s 1953 horror classic House Of Wax is one of the most iconic films of the 1950s’ 3D craze.

DIAL M FOR MURDER

Director: Alfred Hitchcock Year: 1954 Starring: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly Why it matters: With a master director at the helm and a sense of spatial dynamics more sophisticated than typical 3D fare, Dial M for Murder hinted at the technology’s greater artistic possibilities just as 3D’s popularity was waning.

JAWS 3-D

Director: Joe Alves Year: 1983 Starring: Dennis Quaid, Bess Armstrong Why it matters: Jaws 3-D matters because it didn’t matter, and it should have as a sequel to Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece thriller. It demonstrates how 3D can become a schlocky, exhausted medium if it becomes the focus of film, and not just a means for telling a story.

3D, like many other cinematic innovations, did not grow out of an artistic need but a commercial one. In the early 1950s, with the rise of television threatening cinema’s hold on the masses, studios were willing to try anything to get people into theaters. 3D was the most high-profile example.

Hoping to dazzle viewers with an experience they couldn’t get at home, studios unveiled a 3D technology based around dual film strips and requiring an accompanying pair of cardboard glasses to be viewed properly.

Most of the 3D offerings of the 1950s weren’t exactly highbrow fare. The most famous is the 1953 horror film House of Wax, starring Vincent Price. The movie is more notable for its technical feats than its artistic quality—in addition to being one of the first 3D features, it also brought stereo sound to the movies. “It comes off the screen right at you!” the movie’s poster excitedly exclaimed, and indeed it did. House of Wax is a telling example of the format’s most frequent use, eliciting not-so-subtle jumps and scares from the audience. The movie was a huge hit, launching Price’s career in schlocky genre films and sending the studios scrambling for more 3D movies, like It Came from Outer Space and Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Such fantastical genre movies were the backbone of 3D, but the format also tried to ingratiate itself into genres like the musical and the western.

As 1953 wore on, 3D faded as quickly as it had arisen. The cumbersome projection process, which was often incorrectly carried out and brought with it complaints of eyestrain and headaches, suggested that the technology wasn’t ready for prime time. But that didn’t stop Warner Bros. from giving its biggest director a 3D assignment.

Adapting an obscure British play, Alfred Hitchcock was pressed into using 3D technology for his 1954 classic Dial M for Murder. It’s easy to imagine how in the hands of a lesser director, the movie could have descended into conventional use of 3D, with knives flying at the audience and lurching villains appearing to generate easy scares. But the Master of Suspense chose a different tack with his one foray into 3D. A story of adultery and murder set in a single apartment, Dial M used the technology to generate a sense of spacial dynamics akin to that of the stage. Using 3D in a restrained and subtle manner, Hitchcock showed how the technology harnessed real potential beyond being a simple gimmick.

But the experiment was short-lived, and 3D didn’t take off like the studios hoped. Hitchcock himself had predicted its failure. “It’s a nine-day wonder, and I came in on the ninth day,” he later said of his experiment with 3D. Stereo sound and widescreen, two other innovations designed to draw audiences away from TV, stuck around for the long haul, but by 1954 it seemed that 3D would be consigned to the dust bin of history.

Or would it? – S.K.

THE 1980S: BACK TO THE FUTURE

Prior to the 1980s, 3D film enjoyed very limited success.

Its returns were fleeting, because the technology behind such production was incredibly premature and crude. The medium was largely a gimmick, and was very rarely taken as an artistic choice so much as a special billing to get patrons into theaters.

Films like 1969’s soft-core sex film The Stewardess reigned supreme on the 3D market—the novelty of 3D was gone, and in its place was a market for what namely proved to be unimaginative B-movies. Furthermore, watching a 3D film was becoming an increasing headache, since the supposed three-dimensional images of this technology did little to account for the geometry of the eye.

Movies like Jaws 3-D (1983) demonstrated the clear problems with the 3D medium entering the ’80s. The technology acted merely as a disguise for an aging series, to bring audiences into a film that otherwise had little appeal to young people, or any people for that matter. When the 3D aspect of films started to serve not only as a prominent, appealing element to them, but rather as the exclusive source of a film’s marketability, the technology itself became a gimmick, and while interest in 3D kept the medium in theaters, it no longer could attract credible directors and artists to stand behind it.

The IMAX Corporation revitalized the technological aspect of 3D filmmaking by creating theaters with wider screens and higher resolution projectors. IMAX created documentary-style films that were distributed through its own venues that operated outside of traditional theater settings. Focusing on the visuals, and caring substantially less about the marketing, IMAX developed a wildly improved method of filming for 3D that accounted for the eye’s perception of depth and tempered the fa-

tigue of 3D on the eyes. This involved a relatively complex system of color filtration.

3D’s new, far more intuitive correspondence with human optics encourages large industry players to heighten their stakes in the budding technology. Director Francis Coppola (The Godfather) collaborated with pop star Michael Jackson to create the 17-minute film Captain EO in 1986, working with Disney to produce the film, and distribute it through venues at Disney theme parks. The introduction of 3D elements into the amusement park industry created demand for shorter, cheaper films, and since Captain EO, there has been a precedent for attractions involving 3D elements. The upshot of the development of this relatively silly 1986 film is today’s remarkably sophisticated use of 3D film on attractions like Universal Studio’s Amazing Adventures of Spiderman dark ride or Disney’s Toy Story Mania! interactive arcade-style attraction.

IMAX produced its first full color 3D film, Transitions, for Vancouver’s Expo 86, using a technology employed almost exclusively today on the 3D markets. Using two polarized projectors displaying mildly varied angles of a shot, Transitions was a small project that had huge implications regarding the scope and visual fluidity of what is possible today using 3D technology. – J.W.

THE 2000S: IS THIS IT?

It used to be the case that 3D was just a novelty—an exciting way to watch and engage with films. Those days, however, seem to be long gone. Filmmakers like James Cameron, whose 3D blockbuster Avatar (2009) is the highest-grossing movie of all time, have done their best to bring the technology into the mainstream. The red and blue-lensed paper glasses have been succeeded by the more advanced, black-framed, plastic ones, and the sometimes blurry, oddly colored visual effects of 3D are now vivid, full, and clear. Over the past decade, developments such as these have encouraged the mainstream resurgence of 3D, making it so common that it’s practically impossible to go to a theater now and not see a variety of films being screened in 3D. The popularity of the format increased starting in 2003, when the latest high definition video cameras were replaced by older film technologies. Several 3D movies were produced during that year, but it was 2004’s computer animated Christmas film, The Polar Express, that really bolstered 3D’s success. Released both in regular and IMAX theaters, the movie’s 3D version garnered 14 times more per screen than its 2D version did, leading to a trend in the production of animated 3D movies.

This interest in 3D encouraged the industry to explore other options—live action films, like concert movies, began to take to the 3D format too. For the past five years, these 3D concert movies have actually evolved into their own genre, in large part because of their easy marketability. With its exclusive footage, Michael Jackson’s This Is It, for example, is still the highest-grossing documentary worldwide, bringing in $261 million. Other artists like U2, Katy Perry, and Justin Bieber have all had their tours documented in 3D for the big screen as well, offering fans an alternative way to experience their music.

Despite its initial lucrativeness, however, 3D ticket sales eventually began to decline by 2011. The 3D versions of major box office releases that year, like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and Captain America: The First Avenger, only brought in about 40 percent of their opening weekend gross, when the year before, that figure for other 3D movies hovered somewhere around 60 percent. Whether this decrease is the result of relatively higher admission prices or whether it’s just because 3D has been overused and its newness has worn off isn’t certain, but it’s obvious that studios are under pressure to find ways to consistently make more profitable 3D films.

Relying on past commercial successes, studios such as Disney have come to rely on reissuing new versions of their older, 2D classics, hoping that sales from 3D screenings of movies like Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King would generate enough revenue to counterbalance shortcomings from movies such as Cars 2.

Not all of the more recent 3D movies have been failures, though. Avatar’s 3D ticket sales propelled it to the top of the box office chart, and films like Hugo and Gravity have explored the format’s artistic possibilities. 3D may seem like an unnecessary headache at times, but when it’s done right, there’s no denying that the special effects can be out of this world. –A.I.

AVATAR

Director: James Cameron Year: 2009 Starring: Sam Worthington, Stephen Lang Why it matters: Combining start-of-the-art motion capture technologies with digital 3D, Avatar now stands as the highest-grossing film of all time (domestically and worldwide), unadjusted for inflation. The film created a huge push for studios to release in 3D to sell tickets at a premium.

THIS IS IT

Director: Kenny Ortega Year: 2009 Starring: Michael Jackson Why it matters: With exclusive footage of Michael Jackson’s final tour rehearsals, This Is It lit up the box office and kicked off a series of 3D concert documentaries.

GRAVITY

Director: Alfonso Cuaron Year: 2013 Starring: George Clooney, Sandra Bullock Why it matters: Revitalizing a falling interest in 3D cinema, the recent space thriller Gravity uses innovative 3D technologies, computer graphics, and production techniques to enhance the maximum impact of each shot, creating an immersive experience.

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WILEY’S FOLLIES

MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK BY RYAN DOWD

The Killers take a ‘Shot at the Night’ with new video The Disney princess problem TITLE: “Shot at the Night” ARTIST: The Killers DIRECTED BY: Roboshobo WHY: “Shot at the Night” is a redundant song that is far from The Killers’ best, but the video improves on it with an elegantly told Cinderella story

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A song is often simply better than its video. Its message comes off cleaner without the flickering images that may distract from the words and melody, but The Killers’ “Shot at the Night” is one of the rare breeds in which its video is more artful than the original song.

“Shot at the Night” is a new song featured on The Killers’ upcoming greatest hits album Direct Hits, to be released on Nov. 11. But the song itself is rather stale—especially compared to the band’s actual hits, their crackling early work like “Mr. Brightside.” As the band has matured, it seems to have put more and more emphasis on Brandon Flower’s vocals that has continued to produce hits, but not the genre-defining hits of its first album, Hot Fuss.

“Shot at the Night,” produced by Anthony Gonzales of M83, features a reverberating and somewhat redundant chorus of “Give me a shot

at the night / Give me a moment, some kind of mysterious.” The first line of the chorus repeats 14 times, so it’s more than somewhat redundant.

Whereas the song itself seems rushed, the video directed by Roboshobo and staring Bella Heathcote (Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows) and Max Minghella (The Social Network) is a tasteful, measured piece of narration. The story is essentially Cinderella in Las Vegas (The Killers’ home base), but it’s a subtle illusion captured with careful camera work and fine acting, rare for a music video. The video elegantly captures both the bright lights of Las Vegas but the quiet moments between Heathcote and Minghella as well. The video provides more than a musical setting for “Shot at the Night.” The video not only makes the song bearable but makes the song enjoyable in at least one context. 

FASHION FORWARD

Did Rihanna cross the line?

The pop diva’s mosque fashion shoot stirs controversy

THERESE TULLY This past weekend, singer Rihanna was asked to leave the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi after posing for photos in front of the religious sanctuary. These photos appeared on @badgalriri’s Instagram page and show the songster wearing an all-black ensemble that stands in stark, striking contrast to the pure white of the Mosque and the clear blue sky. It is hard to argue that these photos aren’t beautiful—when they are removed from their religious context, at least.

Fashion, music, photography, and religion are not often found in conversation, and it seems this is for good reason, as the reactions in the media have been passionate to say the least.

In these photos, Riri has covered up her locks, arms, and legs in full, and has topped her all-black ensemble with a gold and black tasseled necklace. She looks chic, simple, and far more toned down than we are used to seeing her (or than you might expect). She tops off her look with red nails, and bold red lips.

A total of 10 photos from this day were posted before she left the premises. The Daily News reported that she left without entering the mosque itself. According to a representative from the mosque, “she left without entering the mosque, after being asked to do so, due to the fact that she had taken some pictures that do not conform with the conditions and regulations put in place by the Centre’s management to regulate visits in a way that takes the status and sanctity of the mosque into consideration.”

Some reports argue that Riri’s outfit was of an appropriate nature, while others state that her bright red lips were overly provocative, or that her poses were the real problem that the mosque had with her presence. The most-commented-on picture does not appear overly provocative at first glance—the mosque is not even present in the photo. The picture shows Rihanna at the forefront, and a group of women in the background, one with her face turned staring at Rihanna. It is captioned, “‘B— stole my look,’” and is accompanied by 8,956 comments as of Monday night.

Her Instagram account has been buzzing with activity regarding the nature of the photos, and

Rihanna’s intent in taking and posting these photos even after being asked to leave the mosque.

Ultimately, religion and fashion have been clashing in a violent, not always respectful way on the songstress’ account. Reactions from her followers naturally range from articulate to insane, but this single fashion statement has called her thousands of followers into a discussion about religion.

Many of the people voicing their opinions on Rihanna’s page were likely commenting from a part of the world where sartorial choices and religious devotion are not so intrinsically tied. From this position, it can be difficult to discuss whether Rihanna was in the wrong or not. Fashion’s place in the Middle East has long been a highly contested issue, and though it is not the intent of this column to extend an opinion, especially on female fashion regulations in other religions, it is a reminder that the way we present ourselves is of significant importance.

Sometimes I color a bit when I tell people I write a fashion column. While others are writing about things like religion and war, discussions about gingham and peplum can feel a little trivial.

But the significance of clothing cannot be over looked. It works as an identifier, a nod to privilege, a creator of jobs, the reason for sweatshops, a capitalist activity, a means of basic survival, and even a point of religious and cultural contention at times.

Sitting at a university in Chestnut Hill, Mass., it is interesting to take a moment to consider how fashion is involved in our culture right here on campus. What are the constraints on our choices, ethical, religious, cultural, or otherwise?

Do we even think before we purchase, wear, or pose? It is worth investigating our choices more clearly, and discerning the reasons for clothing ourselves the way that we do. It is worth taking a moment to think about where our clothes come from, what they represent, and how others can interpret them.

In the end, Rihanna’s sartorial choices and poses were deemed unfitting for the mosque’s standards. Though she was donning something far more conservative than her fans are used to, she still managed to cause a stir, and it is doubtful that she will stop pushing the envelope anytime soon as the rest of her Instagram photos assure her loyal fans. As a performer, some amount of drama is expected in her wardrobe and costumes, but the question is still up for debate—did Rihanna finally go too far?

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Therese Tully is a senior staff columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at arts@ bcheights.com.

Posing in front of a mosque in Abu Dhabi, Rihanna was kicked out for violating the sanctity of the site, igniting a controversy that serves as a powerful reminder of the cultural implications of fashion.

THIS WEEKEND in arts

BY: ARIANA IGNERI | ASSOCIATE ARTS & REVIEW EDITOR

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

1. IRON & WINE CONCERT (FRIDAY, 10/25 9:00PM)

4. R & J (ONGOING)

Singer-songwriter Sam Beam of the band Iron & Wine will be playing an intimate show in Robsham Theater this weekend. Organized

by Nights on the Heights, the concert is free, but tickets are now sold out.

The words of Shakespeare’s timeless romantic tragedy Romeo & Juliet are set to contemporary pop music in the Boston Theater Company’s R & J at the Club Cafe on Columbus Ave. The show is running through Nov. 2. Tickets are $15.

2. CCE FALL IMPROV SHOW (FRIDAY, 10/25 7:00PM) Boston College’s murder-mystery comedy group The Committee for Creative Enactments (CCE) is hosting its fall show in Stokes S195 on Friday night. All are welcome to come, and tickets for the group’s performance are free.

3. PHISH CONCERT (FRIDAY, 10/25 & SATURDAY, 10/26 7:30PM) Known for their improvised jams and explorative style, the American rock band Phish is performing at the DCU Center in Worcester, Mass. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. General admission tickets are $60.

5. LA BAYADERE (ONGOING) With Marius Petipa’s La Bayadere, the Boston Ballet welcomes its 50th season. The classic dance, set in India, tells the story of star-crossed lovers fighting against the vengeful whims of fate. Advanced student rush tickets are available at $30 for select performances.

JOHN WILEY No campaign against the American woman has proven so complex and so pervasive as the dominant commercial influence of the Disney princess on the American girl.

The Walt Disney Company doesn’t just make princess movies—it lives by them.

Nearly 76 years after the 1937 release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, the $134 billion corporation plans to roll America’s favorite circus back into town for what will almost surely prove another obscenely lucrative retelling of an outdated, misogynistic tale.

Frozen, the latest heir to Disney’s princess legacy, is too big to fail—even if its $185 million budget manages to betray it at the box office, Disney’s merchandizing empire will stand behind the film faithfully. So long as the Walt Disney Company continues to see its offensively extensive lineup of premium Disney princess backpacks, lunch boxes, clothing, dolls, linens, handbags, coloring books, costumes, and even Disney princess-specific paint colors (this stuff is too absurd to make up) flying off the shelves, it’s difficult imagining any change in the princess paradigm.

So what’s the problem with princesses? I mean, it feels almost un-American for me to challenge this sort of thing. Few things speak so comfortably to our democratic sensibilities as this treasured notion that every girl is just a tiara away from becoming a princess, and to me, this is what’s terrifying. We’re all just one tiara away from undoing centuries worth of progress.

Walt Disney didn’t create the Disney princess innocently. Historically, these characters were designed to reintroduce young girls to a more traditional sense of femininity. It was his way of securing the woman’s domestic role, particularly at a time in history when she might otherwise be inclined toward terrifying things like, I don’t know ... entering the workplace. We see in Disney’s first generation of princesses a strong sense of “household” virtues. They are chaste, sheltered, and show a great fondness for household duties. Happily ever after for these princess is no more than marriage—it’s the threshold at which women put girlhood fantasy behind them.

And still, in Disney we trust.

Surely the second generation of Disney princesses, started in 1989 with The Little Mermaid and followed in 1997 with Beauty and the Beast, would be influenced by a far more progressive worldview. The answer here is complicated, but in many ways, these princesses were even more offensive than the first batch, because they are depicted as smart, adventurous, outspoken, but still lack any true sense of purpose until the discovery of their princes, and ultimately, they fall into the same trap of happily ever after.

What does it even mean to be a princess?

Apparently, not much. Over the past 15 years, Disney has used the phrase as catchall, applying it to Chinese culture (Mulan), Native American culture (Pocahontas), even the American South (The Princess and the Frog). It’s disturbing, how the Walt Disney Company tries to convince their female audiences that throughout all of history, over the entirety of the world’s surface there has been a cultural precedent for the princess. It’s a bold marketing ploy that ignores the nuance of all these cultures, and would seem to suggest at no time, and in no place, have women even understood themselves as fulfilling anything other than a traditional matriarchal role.

See, “princess” is a world that has no functionality outside the setting of the patriarchy.

This is why the title “daddy’s little princess” makes sense to us, while “mommy’s little princess” sounds strange and wrong. Implicit in it is a sense of royal male lineage.

It would seem that maybe, for the sake of my argument, I’m ignoring the new generation of princesses, the free-spirited, confident Princess Rapunzel from Disney’s Tangled or the athletic, discerning Princess Merida from Pixar’s Brave. These two characters are what you might call princesses against patriarchy— they’re champions of women’s liberation, enlightened warriors who are decidedly more intelligent than their male counterparts. It seems anyone slightly skeptical of the princess legacy need only look to these two to find reason to forgive Disney all its trespasses.

But I don’t believe it. Disney has no incentive to elevate the role of women. Rather, these princesses need to reflect the values of modern American women to sell. If you look past the characters, and actually engage with the structure of these movies, it’s approximately the same—a young girl extends herself beyond a domestic setting, and through her naivete exposes herself to conflict. Even with their merits, these movies are ultimately looking to validate the outdated legacy of the princess for a new generation.

Why do these strong, independent female protagonists still need to be qualified as princesses? It’s as if to say it’s who women are by royal blood or marriage that makes them great, and not what they do.

The princess lives for her happily ever after, at the terrible expense of happily today.

John Wiley is the Asst. Arts & Review Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

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Katy Perry roars loud on surprisingly personal ‘Prism’

CHART TOPPERS

BY MATT MAZZARI

1 Royals Lorde 2 Roar Katy Perry 3 Wrecking Ball Miley Cyrus 4 Wake Me Up! Avicii 5 Hold On, We’re Going Home Drake 6 The Fox Ylvis 7 Rap God Eminem 8 Holy Grail Jay Z feat. Justin Timberlake

Heights Staff If there was one person who predicted in 2008 that Katy Perry—the bi-sexy songstress of “I Kissed a Girl” notoriety—would one day un-ironically release a song titled “By the Grace of God,” well, that one person was cheating because they clearly could see into the future. Buzz off, Merlin, no one is impressed anymore, and stop trying to ruin the series finale of Game of Thrones.

Seriously, though, the tone of Perry’s music has come a dramatically long way from the flashy inanity of “Hot N Cold.” There’s still flashiness and inanity, sure, but it’s … different. Her latest LP release, Prism, hits listeners with lyrics like, “say my name like a scripture” as early as the second track. By the time we get to “Spiritual,” we’re seeing verses like “lay me down on your altar, baby,” and the listener is feeling conflicted. I know, I said it too: “The day Katy Perry starts proselytizing to me is the day the terrorists win.” It’s definitely not at that point yet, but the “California Gurls” are a distant memory. (Get it? ‘Cuz the lyrics say “they’re unforgettable,” but I’m saying ... never mind.)

And that ’s not all that ’s changed. Though the bubbly, formulaic hit-generator is still

there beneath it all, most of the songs are more focused on showcasing Perry’s golden-pipes than the typical catchy, tri-tone synth.

Songs like “Double Rainbow” and “It Takes Two” are slower-tempo, breathier, and wider-ranged than any Katy Perry songs I can remember (side note: Matt does not remember many Katy Perry songs). Even the single releases, namely “Roar” and “Dark Horse,” are heavy on the vocal-chops. We saw a bit of this on her last album, Teenage Dream, with “Firework,” but now almost every track has that grand, roaring, anthem quality. That said, it’s worth noting that every song on the album is almost exactly three minutes and 44 seconds long, with exception of three “ballads” that are four minutes and 30 seconds apiece.

Old habits die hard: Katy Perry is a product of highly commercial sound-farming, and this album doesn’t escape that legacy. In fact, it doesn’t seem to be trying.

To understand the way this album sounds, try to imagine what it would be like if Rainbow Brite grew up and had a really intense spiritual epiphany. All of the optimism, girl power, splashiness, and color-pop is still there, but there’s this potent, all-religions sense laced through the music that hops from Hindu to Christian imagery, all while remaining

PRISM KATY PERRY PRODUCED BY CAPITAL RECORDS RELEASED OCT. 22, 2013 OUR RATING B-

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Katy Perry experiments with spiritual themes and self-reflection while staying true to her power-pop roots on ‘Prism.’ distinctly American Pop. Have you notice d how I haven’t said yet whether it’s good or bad?

There’s a part of this album that is so intensely personal, so surprisingly reflective and real, that I can’t help but admire Perry for doing it. She knows she’s not a scholar, or an activist, or a virtuoso, and she isn’t trying to be.

She doesn’t make uncomfortable Jesus comparisons, or experiment

with structure. It’s just about her regaining her balance after a divorce, a period of rediscovery that had a trying, powerful, and spiritual quality for her.

Am I saying this album is a triumph? Well, no. Maybe a little league baseball triumph, as in a tie where nobody actively used the bats as weapons. No, Perry’s new album probably won’t awe you with its poignancy or move you to cathartic release. Lines

like the intro to “Walking on Air” will quickly convince you of that: “You’re reading me like erotica / Boy you make me feel exotic-a.”

Still, it’s refreshing to see an artist with real emotions write his or her own music about them.

In several of the songs on Prism, you’ll see Perry offer large, private pieces of herself that you can take or leave.

And, in the end, isn’t that what music is all about? 

TOP ALBUMS

1 Lightning Bolt Pearl Jam 2 Bangerz Miley Cyrus 3 New Paul McCartney 4 Nothing Was the Same Drake 5 Magpie and the Dandelion The Avett Brothers Source: Billboard.com

Despite guest talent, DJ Khaled’s ‘Suffering from Success’ is a failure

BY JAMES HENNELLY For The Heights What does DJ Khaled do, exactly? As absurd a question as this is to ask about someone whose name has been plastered on some of the quintessential hip-hop anthems of

the past five years, many still don’t know the answer. He doesn’t rap or make the beats on which he so defiantly yells his trademark ad lib, “DJ KHALED! WE THE BEST!” So what is his role? On his latest album Suffering from Success, his seventh (!) studio release, Khaled’s job becomes

a bit more clear: he brings together talent from every corner of the genre in the hopes of striking gold. Gold for Khaled sounds like past hits such as 2010’s “All I Do is Win” or 2011’s “I’m On One.” Unfortunately for Khaled (and for us), Suffering from Success fails in many of the

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Despite past success in crafting anthemic rap hits, DJ Khaled seems out of practice on his seventh album.

respects in which his past projects excelled. Suffering’s repetitiveness and lamentations for the rich and the famous result in a stale record, one that lacks the vivacity we’ve become accustomed to with DJ Khaled.

“No New Friends,” the album’s lead single, which has peaked at No. 37 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, sets the tone for the rest of the record. A subdued Drake, perhaps a bit groggy from a night spent gallivanting with Khaled, Rick Ross, and Lil Wayne, the other features on the track, croons in the chorus, “No new friends / no new friends / no new friends, no, no, no.” Couple that with an unusually candid Ross verse (“All I want is love n—a, money bring that stress though”), and it’s clear that these multimillionaires want us to know the true perils of fame. The issue here is that Khaled et al. want it both ways: they’re going to tell us how hard life is as a rapper while simultaneously boasting about their extravagance (Monsieur Ross again: “Smoke good I live life / strip club like every night”). As a result, the message of the album falls on deaf ears. Khaled must repeat

himself again and again (and again), and several tracks sound like perfect duplicates of each other.

On “Blackball,” Future (a surprising bright spot on the album with his unorthodox flow), Ace Hood, and Plies hammer home the point of just how much money these gentlemen have. “They tryna blackball me, they say I got too much money / They say I’m A-Rod.” This track appears to pay homage to the album’s title track “Suffering from Success” (a mere two tracks prior) with an auto-tuned Future quite literally whining “I’m sufferingggggggg” (please give this track a listen for your own amusement). Khaled has forgotten that seven minutes earlier in the album, he already told us just how bad it is to be rich. And yet between “Suffering from Success” and “Blackball” he finds it necessary to add nothing new save for a culturally-relevant jab at Alex Rodriguez. These two tracks underscore just how disjointed Suffering is.

To his credit, Khaled continues to bring out the best in a number of the artists whom he enlists to spit. A revitalized Lil Wayne is at

his metaphor-spewing finest on the StreetRunner-produced “No Motive,” a track heavy on synths and sure to stave off rumors of Weezy’s demise for at least another month or two. Wayne’s label-mate Nicki Minaj submits some of her finest bars in years on the albums lone love song, “I Wanna Be With You,” which definitely deserves a listen.

The pure comedy of this album’s premise far outweighs these few instances of deft rapping. No one in their right mind should feel badly for DJ Khaled, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Ace Hood, Plies, Rick Ross, Future, Drake, or anyone else featured on this album who, by their own admission, spend lavishly, work sparingly, and drown in a sea of money.

With a revitalization in hip-hop of lyricism in its purest form with the ascendance of rappers like Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, A$AP, and others, Suffering from Success plays like a swan song for the “anthem rap” that Khaled used to build a career.

Perhaps DJ Khaled recognizes his time is almost up. If that’s the case, then he certainly does have a cause for suffering. 

AFI digs into darker musical territory on latest release, ‘Burials’

BY PHOEBE FICO Heights Staff The California quartet A Fire Inside, better known by their acronym AFI, has been excellent at shape shifting and changing their sound along with their image. They did this without ever worrying if they were going to piss off their fans, which they did a lot. From their first incarnation as a hardcore punk band, with comedic songs like “I Want a Mohawk (But Mom Won’t Let Me Get One),” they raged, as many punk bands do: hard and fast with screaming vocals that you can hardly understand. Their second materialization was that of Gothpunk alternative rock gods with long hair and smudged eyeliner that suited both their more introspective lyrics and sophisticated musicianship. This era produced some of the most critically lauded and commercially successful material of their career, with The New York Times deeming Sing the Sorrow a “mainstream rock masterpiece” and rating it their 10th-best album of 2003, and 2006’s megahit “Miss

Murder” winning the band an MTV music video award. With the exception of 2009’s relatively uninspired, Crash Love, AFI has continued their steady climb to punk rock immortality on a ladder that is paved with dark emo dreams.

Lead singer Davey Havok, told the media that this album was “very dark, embarrassingly so because it is what you would expect from them.”

The lyrical darkness might be what fans expect, but as far as the music goes, their fans have come to expect the unexpected.

On their new album, Burials, the band veers into uncharted territory musically—metal with touches of the spacious soundscapes of the psychedelic. The album leaves a metallic aftertaste, though not an unpleasant one, because of Adam Carson’s drums, which are the star of the album. They drive every song to rock harder than ever before. On the arresting opener, “The Sinking Night,” they charge forward as a military march, a battle cry. Accompanying the raging drums is a space that has never been present in AFI’s music before. They let the

music breathe, giving it space. This allows songs like the first single, “I Hope You Suffer” to have hooks and catchy choruses without being too pop-like. The space in the music is accompanied by eerie wind sounds, which echo the mysterious Led Zeppelin-like promotional videos that the band began to put out a year before the album’s release.

While the space and the nature sounds on the album resist a certain pop aesthetic that seems to permeate even the hardest rocking bands, AFI doesn’t totally reject the pop that they tried, all be it unsuccessfully, on Crash Love. The second single “17 Crimes” and “Deep Slow Panic,” Havok uses vocal melodies that echo the brilliant sing-along of 2003’s “Girl’s Not Grey.” What distances them from the standard pop-rock cut, however, is the fact that their base is punk instead of pop itself.

Not only are Havok’s vocal melodies improved, but so are his voice and lyrics. On this album, he abandons the screaming technique used on songs like “Kiss and Control” that made him one of rock’s most

flexible vocalists, but distracted from his brilliant melody. Instead, he opens up and lets it rip. This is particularly evident on the album’s crown jewel, “The Conductor,” where they merge every element that makes the album great: a pop hook, rushing rock, and spacious soundscapes. Havok’s lyrics truly

shine on the opener, where he says that “Blackness drips down from both of my hands / The gold in my palm was mistaken for sand.”

While Havok’s lyrics are improved, not as prominent on the album is Jade Puget’s guitar work, which in past albums had been the driving force. On this album, he

hangs back and crafts songs instead of guitar parts.

Burials, at its heart, is a breakup album. It is the 21 for people who rock too hard to admit they like Adele. While the album is dark musically and lyrically, the charging sense that rides beneath it never drowns you “beneath the waves.” 

BURIALS AFI PRODUCED BY REPUBLIC RECORDS RELEASED OCT. 22, 2013 OUR RATING B

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The California band AFI deftly blends rock, pop, and metal on ‘Burials’ to create a musically and lyrically intense album.

SINGLE REVIEWS BY JOHN WILEY Lady Gaga feat. R. Kelly “Do What U Want”

Childish Gambino “3005” Donald Glover, better known by his stage name Childish Gambino, shared the latest cut off of his upcoming album Because the Internet this week. “3005” is a predominantly up-tempo, bouncy hip-hop ballad, but features a dark undercurrent and shows off Glover’s versatility as both a vocalist and rapper.

Lupe Fiasco feat. Ed Sheeran “Old School Love” “You can’t have my heart / And you won’t use my mind but / Do what you want with my body,” sings Gaga on her new single off ARTPOP. Gaga is a brilliant performer, but her fascination with the extraordinarily limited structures of pop has again left her music wanting in creativity.

In a collaboration deeply influenced by the sounds of the early ’90s, Fiasco and Sheeran have proven dynamic partners on “Old School Love.” The track breaks no new ground, but offers itself as a tactful exercise—two highly influential modern artists exploring hip-hop’s simpler roots.

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THIS WEEK IN...

BY TRICIA TIEDT | METRO EDITOR

BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY L a s t Fr i d ay, a Worcester Superior Court judge brought the sale of The Boston Globe to a halt.

Due to a class action lawsuit filed against The Telegram Gazette in 2009, judge Shannon Frison placed a temporary restraining order on the sale. The Telegram Gazette is one of four components of The New England Media Group. Along with The Boston Globe, Boston. com, and telegram.com, The Gazette will be sold to Red Sox owner John Henr y by The New York Times Company for $70 million.

The sale was set to close Friday.

Lawyers representing independent carriers of The Gazette filed the lawsuit in an effort to collect settlements , which may be in jeopardy when the group changes hands. Frison was expected to make an announcement yesterday regarding the status of the order, yet no decision was reported.

On Tuesday, Apple revealed its fifthgeneration tablet, the iPad Air. Weighing in at 1-lb, the iPad Air is 20 percent thinner and 28 percent lighter than its parent model.

With the same A7 processing chip integrated into the iPhone 5, the iPad Air will be 72 times faster than the fourth-generation tablet currently on the market. The Air will hit Apple stores Nov. 1. In addition to the Air, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller, BC ‘82, announced a revamped iPad mini at the conference on Tuesday. The new mini contains the same A7 processing chip as the Air, as well as a high-retina display comparable to the full-sized iPad screen. This new model will not replace the original iPad mini, however—Apple will still sell all versions of the iPad. Finally, Apple announced their newest software system, free to all Mac users.

THEFT

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GETTING BUSY

E a r l y S u n d ay morning, Boston police arrested Thomas Robbins, 23, after a Red Sox staff member found him inside the team’s clubhouse in Fenway Park.

Hours earlier, Bostonians took to the streets in Kenmore Square and the Fenway neighborhood to celebrate the Sox’s win over the Detroit Tigers, clinching a spot in the 2013 World Series. When discovered, Robbins attempted to leave, dropping Mike Napoli’s glove in the process. Robbins was later found in a parking lot reserved for MLB players with MLB press box place markers. Suffolk District Attorney Dan Conley said in a press conference, “it was valued at $450 for purposes of the case, but a perfectly-worn mitt is priceless. We’re glad Mike got it back and won’t have to worry about it tomorrow night.” Robbins is due in court Dec. 11.

Due to the government shutdown, tax refunds could be delayed by up to two weeks. The IRS announced it will not begin processing returns until at least Jan. 28, and could hold off as long as Feb. 4.

According to USA Today, the delay could be even further extended should the government shut down again in January over scheduled budget talks. The delay originates from a need to program and test taxprocessing systems, as 90 percent of the IRS was furloughed during the 16-day shutdown. Regular deadlines will, however, remain in place for taxpayers: all returns must be filed

by April 15, and companies must send W-2 and other forms by Jan. 31. The IRS will announce in late December when it will begin to process returns. The tax delay is just one of many products of the shutdown that has U.S. citizens disgruntled and disapproving of Congress.

The third bi-annual “Sex Week” kicked off at Harvard on Monday. Sponsored by SHEATH, Sexual Health Education and Advocacy Throughout Harvard College, Sex Week “intends to promote a week of programming that is interdisciplinary, thought-provoking, scholastic, innovative, and applicable to student experiences in order to promote a holistic understanding of sex and sexuality,” according to the event’s site. The majority of events throughout the week took place on campus, featuring discussions such as “Love, Sex, and Faith,” “Love Your Body Day,” which is taking place today, and “#FutureSex: How Technology Will Change Your Sex Life,” which will take place Saturday. According to Boston Innovation, Sex Week is widely supported by many faculty members and students alike at Harvard, who all encourage an open dialogue on the topic. All events are free and open to the general public.

Candidates debate, race still close Mayoral Update, from B10 that sometimes they [didn’t] want to hear.”

The former union official further showed his niche with labor issues when the debate turned to contract arbitration for public safety officials.

Connolly acknowledged that firefighters and police officers should be paid well, but qualified that the mayor must make balanced decisions that provide for the city’s overall fiscal health. Walsh responded to the topic with an answer geared more toward labor interests.

“I think there’s a clear difference here,” Walsh said. “I respect the public employees that work for the City of Boston. John just mentioned about drawing a line. That line is not how you negotiate.

You do it by transparency, respect, and you put the cards on the table so you can see exactly what’s out there and we can come up with a contract.”

The candidates clashed once more when Walsh questioned why Connolly continually refers to his three years as a teacher, rather than his 12 years as a lawyer, and further called for Connolly to release his list of law clients. Connolly said that he has nothing to hide, but still tried to redirect the question by pointing to labor unions as Walsh’s primary source of income, while noting that he himself only earned $3,500 last year from being an attorney and focused on his position as city councilor.

Connolly defended the emphasis he has placed his years as an educator with a response that reflects his campaign tactic of running as the “education mayor.”

“I talk so much about being a teacher because it was the most impactful experience of my life,” Connolly said. “When you go into the classroom every day with young people who are facing that achievement gap and you see the challenges that young people face, that stays with you.”

In recent days, the race has intensified with regard to campaign funding, endorsements, and public polls. In the first half of October, Connolly surged ahead in fundraising, adding $620,000 in donations to his campaign funds, according to Boston.com. Walsh continued to

fuel his campaign with a combination of fundraising efforts and contributions from outside groups, the latter component amounting to $1.3 million spent on ads on his behalf throughout the race thus far.

A poll released Tuesday by MassINC Polling Group for WBUR-FM and reported on Boston. com showed that Connolly still retains a lead in the race, though the gap between him and Walsh has narrowed.

Surveys conducted two weeks ago indicated that Connolly led Walsh by seven to eight percentage points, with that lead narrowing in a poll last week that showed Connolly ahead by only four points.

This week’s poll suggested an even closer race, with Walsh gaining more momentum.

“It’s very close,” Steve Koczela, president of the MassINC Polling Group, said in an interview on WBUR. “We have John Connolly with 41 percent and Marty Walsh with 39. That is about as close as you can get.”

As the Nov. 5 election approaches, a major question remains about who will gain the undecided vote. The MassINC poll indicated that 17 percent of likely voters are still undecided.

Contributing to Walsh’s momentum has been a string of endorsements from prominent public officials, including former mayoral candidates Felix Arroyo, John Barros, Charlotte Golar Richie, and, most recently, Michael Capuano. Several of these endorsements are particularly key to expanding Walsh’s support base as the officials represent districts that did not vote for Connolly or Walsh in September’s preliminary election.

Both candidates have been campaigning intensely to sway these precincts in their favor.

Within the last few days, influential City Councilor at-large Ayanna Pressley announced that she will not be endorsing a mayoral candidate, even though she partnered with Connolly in her bid for the council two years ago. Instead, she is choosing to focus on her own re-election campaign.

“I think we’ll be well served by either of them,” Pressley told Boston.com. “They’ve both been incredible public servants and good friends.” 

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Chinese food goes head to head

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BY ZACHARY COHEN For The Heights

It is after 2 a.m. on a weekend night and all you want is some food to satisfy those nighttime cravings. We’ve all been there. The convenient option of late night food at both Lower and Mac, however, is no longer available, so time for plan B: order Chinese food—but from where? With so many options one can have a hard time trying to decide. This week’s review is a head-to-head battle over which Chinese delivery to order from for these late-night ventures, comparing and contrasting China Garden, New Hong Kong, and Dragon Chef.

One major benefit when ordering from China Garden and New Hong Kong is that ordering is available online, which makes the whole process somewhat easier. Dragon Chef therefore begins with a disadvantage.

And to make the situation even worse for Dragon Chef, its delivery took the longest at 24 minutes.

The China Garden order was the fastest at a speedy 13 minutes and New Hong Kong took a reasonable 19 minutes. These times are all subject to change, however, depending on the time of the day.

For pricing, Dragon Chef yet again receives low marks for being about $2 to $4 more expensive than the competition for the usual entrees. The order specific cost $18. China Garden and New Hong Kong will run the average customer about $13 to $15 for one entree and a little over $20 for two, which includes tax, tip, and delivery charge.

While the delivery experience and price are key points, the most important consideration should be the food. The order from China Garden was lobster sauce over white rice served with a side of chicken teriyaki and crab rangoons.

The chicken was surprisingly tender and covered with a good amount of teriyaki sauce to make it tasty. The rangoons were stuffed with cream and cheese to the point that it was almost excessive. The lobster sauce was a thick, dark sauce filled with cubes of mystery meat that you hoped was lobster but ultimately didn’t turn anyone away. Served over a large quantity of white rice, this dish would satisfy anyone’s hunger.

But if you want an entree that will feed you and your swarming friends, New Hong Kong is the place to call. From there, sesame chicken over pork-fried rice was ordered with side dishes of boneless spare ribs and fried wontons. The boneless spare ribs were what you would expect—a little chewy and dry. The fried wontons were not anything special either, but the large amount of them would satisfy any starving patron.

The sesame chicken was smothered in a sweet sauce that made the dish enjoyable. The chicken was not very dry and actually tasted like chicken. The enormous amount of porkfried rice will please the masses but few may complain over its toughness, but that tends to be the way it is with most places. Overall, New Hong Kong’s food seemed to have tasted CHINA GARDEN: 103 Brighton Ave. (617) 782-6714

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better than China Garden, but with no doubt, Dragon Chef had the best-tasting food among the three.

Dragon Chef served up one of the best beef and broccoli platters, along with sides of crab rangoons and pork fried rice. The beef was so tender and the broccoli had a firm texture, but the sauce was ultimately the best component.

This dark sauce had a tangy taste that was well received. These rangoons were better than the competitor because their cream cheese stuffing had a thicker consistency and a taste more resembling crab. The pork-fried rice is what you’d expect.

College students would not complain about any of these choices. If you’re in the mood for a quick place that tastes kind of good and serves a ton of food, then New Hong Kong is for you.

If you have the time and are willing to throw down a few more bucks, however, Dragon Chef is a definite top choice. 

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Bookish Bostonian

Same today as you were months ago Ryan Towey When you awoke this morning, you were likely the same as you were last night.

By the time you fall asleep again tonight, you will likely be about the same as you were this morning, and so on.

For most people, the change in one’s life is so gradual, so imperceptible, that it is amazing one ever changes at all.

Like the sun that rises and falls slowly throughout a day at the park, we are usually not surprised to find ourselves standing in the darkness—as if it is all the day ever was.

Sometimes, however, it is different.

Take, for example, streetlights. Most often, one does not notice when they begin to illuminate the city streets—it just happens sometime. On rare occasions though, one has the privilege of witnessing that miracle—when one’s eyes are randomly fixated on the empty streetlight—and then the avenue is suddenly illuminated.

There are moments, then, where change is sudden.

It has been six months and nine days since the bombs went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. For most people—despite your fear, and your anxiety, and your grief, and your displays of support—this event was just another falling sun, leaving you only nominally affected.

But for the victims of the bombing, the change was different.

Those people mark their lives with before and after. The change was not gradual—explosions do not provide such luxuries. The victims of the marathon did not clamber into their comfortable beds after a harrowing Marathon Monday. They did not wake up the next day only a little more distrustful, only a little more disillusioned, only a little different.

No, they lost things—legs, dream jobs, the innocence of their children. And then, after lives formerly spent as members of the everyday, they became icons.

The media descended: Tell us your story.

I had the privilege of being present at a very special discussion panel at the Boston Book Festival this past Saturday called “The Boston Marathon: Telling Tragedy’s Story,” which featured journalists who covered the marathon bombing, as well as Carlos Arredondo—a widely hailed hero of the day—and Marc Fucarile, a man who lost a leg to the bombing and was the last victim to leave the hospital, 100 days after the bombing.

Before this past year, Fucarile had never attended the Boston Marathon.

When he was there, watching the runners pass, he was probably thinking about his fiancee, and his son, who was five years old at the time—or perhaps he was just wondering where he might get something good to eat after the race, as people often do.

Regardless of what he was thinking— whether it was profound or mundane— it would be only a matter of moments until his primary concern would be survival. Only a matter of time before his name—his very life—would become a part of the 24-hour news cycle. Only a matter of time before he would no longer be able to walk. Only a matter of time until his life would be in the after.

For Marc Fucarile, this change in his life was definitive, measurable, visible, and eternal.

But for you, the events at the Boston Marathon six months and nine days ago are only another layer to your complicated being. Even if you were to see Fucarile in a wheelchair, discussing the events that robbed him of so much, you can still only bear witness. You can fear and grieve and support and even cry—but tomorrow morning you will only have changed unremarkably. Because you can get up and have breakfast.

Because you can talk to your friends like you always do.

Because the next time you walk down Boylston St. and pass the yellow finish line of the Boston Marathon, you will pause in some silence before continuing on your way.

Later, when the streetlights turn on, you will not notice.

Ryan Towey is the Asst. Metro Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at metro@bcheights.com.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

BBF panel comemmorates marathon bombing Journalists and victims tell their stories from April 15

By Ryan Towey Asst. Metro Editor For Boston Globe reporter Jenna Russell, the explosions at the Boston Marathon were only the beginning.

“I have never in my life had an experience like that week in the Globe newsroom,” she said. “It was our duty to do absolutely right by that story.”

Russell was one of six panelists at the Boston Book Festival on Saturday for a session called “The Boston Marathon: Telling Tragedy’s Story.” Moderated by Kelley Tuthill of WCVB News and held in the Boston Common Hotel, the panel included an array of perspectives on the events and aftermath of April 15, when two bombs were detonated near the marathon’s finish line.

“It’s interesting to think back,” Russell said, “because in some way it feels like a long time ago.”

Russell recalled being in “awe” of the “tireless” work by Globe reporters. She herself received emails from reporters all over the world, and she often found it difficult to organize and assess the seemingly endless information—and misinformation—that surrounded the marathon bombing.

It was only when Russell found herself driving home in the early hours of the morning that she gave herself time to think about how her relationship with Boston had irrevocably changed. Only then was she aware of the “overwhelming strangeness” of the historic events surrounding her.

Russell is currently working on a book that strives to provide a definitive account of the events surrounding the marathon bombing, and it will be co-authored by Scott Helman, her fellow Globe reporter who was also a panelist at the session.

“We wanted to make it a full account of everything that happened,” Helman said, “but we also wanted to make it about people.”

The types of people about whom Helman were speaking, interestingly, were also present to give their points of view. These people, however, did not have the same air of professionalism that the reporters exuded. Before the events

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From left: Scott Helman, Jenna Russell, Kristen Daly, Carlos Arredondo, Charles Krupa, and Marc Fucarile partook in the panel discussion. of the marathon, they were not likely the kind of people that would sit on a panel.

When their faces became attached to the marathon bombings, however, they became icons.

Carlos Arredondo, dressed in a “Boston Strong” shirt and cowboy hat—a casual article of clothing that has become a signature of his personality—presented his perspective on the marathon bombing with a vivacious story-telling style and a thick Costa Rican accent.

Arredondo was already a significant community figure before the marathon bombing. Having lost both of his sons—one to the Iraq War and another to suicide—Arredondo is a peace activist and an advocate for suicide prevention.

At the Boston Marathon, however, he intended to be only a spectator, handing out American flags in front of the Boston Public Library to support veterans in the marathon.

“And then suddenly, the bomb went off right in front of me,” he said. He sprinted across Boylston St. to help pull the barrier away and spotted victim Jeff Bauman, who had lost both of his legs. He used his belt to help make a tourniquet for Bauman and then helped get him to an ambulance.

When Arredondo and two first responders rushed down Boylston St. with Bauman in a wheelchair, Charles Krupa,

a photographer for the Associated Press, saw the group from a distance.

“From the distance of about half a block, I see that cowboy hat,” Krupa said, looking at Arredondo, who sat beside him at the Boston Book Festival panel.

And then he had his chance for his iconic photograph of Arredondo rushing Bauman to medical assistance.

Despite Arredondo’s gregarious personality, a quieter man proved to be the most gripping member of the panel.

Marc Fucarile was not originally listed as a panelist for the event, but there he was, arriving in a wheelchair. A marathon victim who lost his right leg to the tragedy, he was the last survivor to leave the hospital after the bombing. He has a six-year-old son and a fiancee.

“That day, April 15, it was crazy to say the least,” he said.

But just as Russell would find herself trudging through onslaught of media information after the bombing, April 15 marked only the beginning for Fucarile.

Almost instantly, the media wanted a piece of him.

“They’ve been respectful,” he said of reporters. “Some a little pushy sometimes.”

With reporters in the room, he was critical.

“It does seem like when you speak, you get edited,” he said of his experience

with the media.

Kristen Daly, a public relations professional who managed Arredondo’s relationship with the media, was on the panel and addressed the meeting point between journalist and subject.

She said that she was “very much concerned with insulating [Arredondo] and his family from the wrong kind of media.”

Fucarile also pointedly asked Russell and Helmann about where the profits from their book would go, and they responded that The Globe is staying abreast of charity efforts for marathon victims.

Despite his criticism, Fucarile admitted that The Globe has done great reporting regarding the bombing, and said that he has been forthcoming with his story.

“I think people deserve to know,” he said, and expressed his gratitude for all those who reached out to him with letters and cards.

There were moments of laughter throughout the session, especially when Fucarile spoke, as he has maintained a good sense of humor.

When he spoke of the alleged perpetrators of the marathon bombing, however, his brief words silenced the crowded room.

“I have no respect for them. I have no time for them,” he said. “They’ll pay their price.” n

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg invested $4 million in Panorama Education last week.

Startup improves education Zuckerberg, from B10 out its business in the U.S. market. Its current clients include the Connecticut and Colorado state departments of education and most recently the Los Angeles Unified School District and its 550,000 students.

So far, it has yet to tackle private institutions or anything beyond the K12 range.

Panorama Education’s beginnings resemble Zuckerberg’s own Harvard start-up, Facebook. The idea began when founder, Aaron Feuer, was still a high school student. In 2008, during his senior year at North Hollywood High School, Feuer served as president of the California Association of Student Councils.

He traveled throughout the state asking students and teachers about how to improve schools, and nearly everyone said that feedback was paramount.

He then helped draft a California state bill that authorized schools to “establish a committee of pupils and teachers to develop a survey by which pupils may provide feedback to teachers.”

Feuer decided, however, to take his idea further when he started college at Yale University. He and three of his classmates were determined to develop a product that could put his idea directly into practice. They founded Panorama Education in April 2012. Within a year, Feuer said, 1,100 schools had signed up.

The company charges an annual fee based on district size and requested features . Currently, Feuer said the smallest contract is $200. The New Haven Independent reported its district is paying somewhere between $52,000

and $60,000.

“Our schools weren’t using feedback from teachers, parents, and students effectively,” Feuer said in a statement.

“There was a missed opportunity to understand ever yone’s experiences and learn what was and wasn’t working. That data is extremely important when addressing issues such as parent involvement, bullying prevention, school safety, and student engagement.

So when I was in high school in Los Angeles, we led a statewide campaign to use this feedback in education. We quickly realized that our school leaders wanted the feedback too, but they did not have an easy, affordable way to collect data, analyze the information, and take action. We decided to build that technology for public education. We are using technology to address some of the most difficult problems in education. We are tremendously excited to have Mark Zuckerberg involved because of his passion for technology and education.”

Panorama Education is the first edtech investment from Startup:Education, a non-profit started by Mark Zuckerberg. Startup:Education began with a $100 million grant Zuckerberg made to Newark public schools in 2010.

A Facebook representative said the investment money for Panorama is distinct from the Newark funds.

In a statement, Zuckerberg spoke for his wife and himself, and said, “Priscilla and I are excited to support Panorama Education and its mission.

Their company is an exciting example of the way technology can help teachers, parents, and students make their voices heard.”n

in just one year.

“Certainly, we hoped and prayed for it,” said the Red Sox chief executive and president, Larry Lucchino, according to The New York Times. “But we didn’t specifically plan for this.

We never thought we could come so far so fast. We just wanted to get going in the right direction.”

That positive direction came off the bat of Red Sox slugger Shane Victorino last Saturday night.

Going into game six, the Red Sox had a 3-2 lead over the Detroit Tigers in the ALCS. Last Saturday proved to be a dramatic 5-2 win over the formidable AL Central Champion Tigers.

With 21-game-winning ace Max Scherzer on the mound, Detroit took a 2-1 lead in the sixth inning. Just as they did in game two of the series, the Red Sox waited until Scherzer left the game in the sixth to punish the Tigers’ bullpen. The Tigers held the lead until Boston loaded the bases on a double, walk, and an error by Tigers shortstop Jose Iglesias. Then Red Sox outfielder Shane Victorino came up to the plate, and launched an 0-2 curveball from Jose Veras over the Green Monster for a grand slam.

Victorino’s second grand slam of his postseason career sealed the game for the Red Sox. “It’s real surreal,” Ryan Dempster told The Chicago Tribune. “We worked really hard all year and it’s been an incredible team of everyone taking a turn. Whether it’s starting pitcher, a reliever, a closer, a guy off the bench, someone stepped up every night.”

Detroit’s praised offense never got on track in the series. Slumping slugger Prince Fielder couldn’t get a hot bat, while triple-crown winner Miguel Cabrera battled with abdominal

and groin injuries. Fielder finished the series 4-22 (.182) with no runs batted in. Cabrera was a mere 6-22 (.273), yet he batted a league-leading .348 during the regular season.

“It breaks your heart as a manager,” said the Tigers’ skipper Jim Leyland. “It’s really a shame for the whole baseball world because they’re not getting a chance to see them at their best.”

In game two, Red Sox slugger David Ortiz hit a game-tying grand slam, but on Saturday it was Victorino’s turn in the spotlight.

“It was a special moment,” Victorino said.

“It’s been a special year. We all battled, and special moments like this, you cherish it.”

The Red Sox’s success this season is due to the addition of several new players like Victorino, and new manager John Farrell, who are key components to this American League Championship. Koji Uehara also became a reborn closer, earning his third save of the ALCS on Saturday, and was named its most valuable player.

“We’ve got so many MVPs on this team,” said Boston’s catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia.

For the fourth time in their history, and the second time in 10 seasons, the Red Sox will face off against the National League Champions, St. Louis Cardinals. The Cardinals won the NL pennant last Friday night by eliminating the LA Dodgers in six games.

This World Series will be a rematch of 2004, when Boston swept the Cardinals in four games. The Cardinals and Red Sox also met in 1946 and 1967, both of which St. Louis won in seven games. Recently, the Red Sox swept Colorado in the 2007 series.

Game 2 of the World Series will take place tonight at Fenway Park, with the first pitch thrown at 8:07 p.m. n

DANIEL LEE / HEIGHTS SENIOR STAFF

The Boston Red Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers in the ALCS to propel them to the world series.

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Thursday, October 24, 2013

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MBTA prepares changes to red and orange lines Governor Deval Patrick announces plans to upgrade T cars over the next five years

BY LAUREN TOTINO Heights Staff This past Tuesday at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce meeting, Governor Deval Patrick announced plans to upgrade decades-old Orange and Red Line trains and equipment. Patrick specified that the upgrades will be funded from money dedicated to fixing Massachusetts’s transportation infrastructure, as outlined in a proposal passed last July that allocates $800 million a year to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT).

Based on the appearance (i.e., wood paneling inside the Orange Line trains) of some of the cars in the fleets of Red and Orange Line trains currently in use, it may not be surprising that some of the vehicles date back to the late 1960s. Some of the Red Line vehicles are 44 years old, while several Orange Line cars are 32 years old. These trains will be replaced by a new set of cars,

however—120 Orange Line cars and 74 Red Line cars—and will feature more seating and standing spaces for riders. These new cars will feature wider electrically operated doors, as well as updated passenger information and announcement systems.

At Tuesday’s meeting, Patrick introduced the plan and explained why it will be beneficial to the MBTA system and its riders, saying, “[We will] replace decades-old Orange and Red Line trains with new and modern equipment, equipment that will be built in Massachusetts,” while justifying, “Few things are more frustrating than being stuck on the Pike on your way to work, or waiting for an overcrowded Red Line train at the end of the day. Being constantly late because your commute is inconvenient and unreliable is both frustrating and compromising. It is critical for us to invest in the means to move people … more conveniently around the state.”

Coinciding with Patrick’s announce-

ment, the MBTA issued requests for proposals for the $1.3 billion procurement to replace the Red Line and Orange Line cars.

The MBTA expects to award a contract for the cars by the winter of 2014-15, which includes the condition that the final assembly of the cars will take place in Massachusetts.

Orange Line car delivery is scheduled to begin in the winter 2018-19 and Red Line car delivery in fall 2019. Delivery will follow extensive but required pilot train testing.

Frequent Red and Orange Line passengers reacted to news of the upgrades.

Orange Line passenger Brian Liberator told Boston Magazine that upgrading the trains “would be helpful,” while another regular Orange Line rider, Latoyha Brown, told the magazine that the improvements would be worth the wait. “That would be awesome,” Brown said. “If they put more trains on the track, that would be great,” she said. “These are some of the oldest trains.”

Rider Brittany Boisclaii, however, told Boston Magazine that she does not think the current Orange Line cars are that bad, but this is only in comparison to the Green Line, which she recently stopped using in favor of the Orange Line. “I used to take

the Green Line,” Boisclaii said, “It was the worst thing ever.” She does agree that the trains of all lines could “use some sprucing up,” noting that more space would be beneficial.

Patrick also announced at Tuesday’s meeting that the state has plans to implement a $250 million transition to open-road tolling, and to rebuild the route of the Massachusetts Turnpike in Allston. Open-road tolling facilities, and the elimination of toll booths, would allow cars to travel through tolls at normal highway speeds using EZPass transponders and license plate recognition cameras to bill drivers by mail.

Tolls on the Tobin Memorial Bridge are expected to be converted to this allelectronic tolling method by the coming spring, while construction of the open-road tolling facilities will begin next summer on the Massachusetts Turnpike. Patrick expects to face challenges with building the technology to identify the license plates and send out bills to vehicle owners. State officials have estimated that the switch will save the state millions over the years, and reduce congestion as well as harmful emissions from idling cars. 

Head of the Charles brought variety of races to city HOTC, from B10 minutes, 15 seconds. The following seven events all proved to be record breakers, as well as single racers and teams who pulled ahead of the records set by those who had raced those events in past years. Over the course of Saturday alone, 17 new records had been set by teams such as University of Virginia Alumni, Union Boat Club, Brown University, and Kennebecacis.

Of the 62 events that took place over the course of the weekend, there are five varieties: youth, club, collegiate, master, and championship races. The championship events are the most renowned, comprised of the world’s most talented rowers who compete for a medal. The Great Eight team, which competed in the eight-person women’s championship race, was ecstatic when they beat the United States National Team by only one second. The victory was especially sweet, explained Great Eight coxswain Jack Carlson, because the U.S. team had beaten them in last year’s race, and was ahead of them this year until about 750

meters to go. “It’s awesome,” Carlson said, “I mean, they are the best women’s eight in the world, you know in the World Championships, so to beat them means a lot, means a lot to everyone in the crew, for sure.”

Unfortunately, this year’s regatta saw the appearance of an important problem that faces those responsible for organizing the HOTC in future years: the inability to accommodate all of the youth teams who would like to participate.

While it is encouraging to see so many high school rowing organizations from all over the world with interest in travelling to Boston for this prestigious race, there simply is not enough room for all of them due to limited hours on the course.

The HOTC Committee has been forced to resort to a lottery system so exclusive that for every high school team that is allowed to participate, two are turned away. Fred Schoch, executive director of the HOTC, explained the problem, “It’s a problem because the sport is growing at that level very quickly. And of course there are many other regattas during the

GRAHAM BECK / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Over the course of two days, five different age groups competed in 62 different races. fall, but everyone wants to come to the mecca: the Head of the Charles.”

For one high school in particular, this river not only represents the site of the famous HOTC Regatta, but is also a home. Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School (CRLHS) may not get a guaranteed bid every year, but consistently earns

entry by exchanging volunteer hours for the Regatta, unwilling to leave their participation up to the lottery system. As senior coxswain for CRLHS, Benjamin Schooler, explained, “This is our home and we kind of have to defend it against everyone else.” 

COLLEGIATE ROUND-UP

BY BRENNA CASS | HEIGHTS STAFF

EMERSON COLLEGE

University vows to change handling of sexual assaults Emerson College has planned significant changes to their sexual assault policies in the wake of several complaints about the college’s handling of cases of sexual assault.

Students filed complaints against the college with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Their complaint was that the handling of sexual assault cases by the college was a violation of Title IX, a law for anti-discrimination. In an email to all students of the college, President M. Lee Pelton promised “We can and will do better” in regard to their handling of past sexual assault cases.

The most notable recent mishandled sexual assault case at Emerson was of sophomore Sarah Tedeso, who reported sexual assault by an MIT student and Emerson student during the fall of her freshman year. Emerson administrators reportedly took months to begin an investigation into her assault after she reported it, and a stay-away order was not issued until January. During

HARVARD Harvard University’s expansion into parts of Allston was approved on Thursday, Oct. 17 by the Boston Redevelopment Authority after many years of project proposals and debate between the city and the university. The proposed 10-year Institutional Master Plan will include 1.9 million square feet of construction and renovation in Allston. Allston already contains the Harvard Business School and athletic complex, which now occupy the land between Western Ave. and the Charles River.

The new plan would expand upon the existing athletic complex, add apartment buildings for Harvard students that would also include retail space, and open a hotel on Western Ave. for the public. It would also add a Harvard community hub on Western Ave. The university was forced to make many concessions and compromises with the city of Allston to ensure that both sides were satisfied. Though the BRA has approved the project, each potential section of the plan must be approved individually in the following years as they are more clearly defined.

the course of the investigation, she was sexually assaulted again by the Emerson student, and it was only then that the stay-away order began to be enforced by school officials. This was not the first case of sexual assault to be handled incorrectly by the college. In 2012, another student filed complaints against the school for the handling of her sexual assault case.

Alexa Jackson, the vice president for Emerson’s human resources, said that the college hosted a refresher course for sexual assault investigators within the college communities. RA’ were also trained on response techniques if a sexual assault was reported to them. The college currently is in the process of hiring a full-time sexual assault advocate to deal specifically with cases of sexual assault on campus. These changes are steps the college is making to prevent the future mishandling of sexual assault cases on campus.

MIT MIT fraternities, sororities, and independent living groups that have houses located in the city of Boston are not allowed to host events that would violate the limits of their posted residential occupancy until further notice, according to the assistant dean of independent living groups (FSILG’s), Marlena Martinex Love, in an email to student associations that represent the groups on Friday. This announcement comes in the wake of inspections of nine of the houses. Many of the houses were found to have problems with the exit doors of their buildings.

This policy affects 19 of MIT’s 27 fraternities, three of six sororities, and two of six independent living groups. The inspections were requested by Boston’s Inspectional Services Department (ISD) after an MIT freshman fell through a skylight at a fraternity party on Commonwealth Ave. It is unknown when the city of Boston will complete reviews of the buildings and issue new certificates of inspection that will allow the student organizations to host events without the occupancy restriction.

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BOSTON UNIV. The Boston University College of Engineering opened a new synthetic biology center this fall to support students who wish to study in this rapidly growing field. The Center of Synthetic Biology, located at 36 Cummington Mall on BU’s campus, will facilitate research by students, support larger-scale projects in synthetic biology, and hold symposiums to bring important researchers in the field to BU’s campus from all over the globe. The center will also help Boston University to compete with other top engineering schools around the world that have synthetic biology centers and make it a top destination for engineering students. Three core faculty members and other professors in the College of Engineering will work with the center’s associate director, Ahmad Khalil, in the coming years to create a synthetic biology curriculum that will function alongside the Center of Synthetic Biology to involve students in the field and bring about new research in the world of biology.

THE HEART OF THE CITY

Carry on, bandwagon fans, carry on

MAGGIE POWERS “Tom, this is crazy,” my mother whispered as my brothers and I piled into my parents’ bed.

“No,” my dad answered, “this is history.”

Around 11:30 p.m. on Oct. 27, 2004 my dad came into my room and shook me awake. He was determined that my brothers and I would see a Red Sox World Series victory for the first time in 86 years. By rousing me that cool fall evening, my dad ensured that I would forever own a little piece of one of Boston’s most historic sports moments.

With the promise of another Red Sox and Cardinals matchup in the World Series, the drama with the Patriots game against the Jets and the Bruins winning against the Lightning, this past weekend was filled with emotion for the Boston sports fan.

Disclaimer: I am not a true, diehard sports fan, nor do I claim to be.

All I can tell you about the Patriots is that Tom Brady is our quarterback and that victory parades are a lot of fun.

I have varying knowledge on our other three teams that comes strictly from osmosis of being around my dad, brothers, and friends.

That being said, I love Boston sports. Trust me, I see the contradiction in claiming Fenway to be one of my favorite spots in the city and not fully understanding the intricacies of baseball. I do not, however, think this means I cannot be a fan.

The spirit of Boston sports is what makes them so enticing. We are lucky enough to belong to a city with some of the most committed sports fans in the country. The fans of each respective team have their own unique personality but they are all united in the fact that they attract everyone from the polished Back Bay businessman to the bearded, Bud Light-drinking, body shop employee.

Every few autumns, when we are lucky enough to see the Red Sox make the playoffs, the energy that swells around Boston sports unifies the city’s competitive joy. It becomes the best kind of year, because we not only have the normal anticipation that comes with that beginning of the Patriots, Bruins, and Celtics seasons, but the added hope for one of those World Series titles we were denied for so long.

There is an added satisfaction of knowing our Red Sox have hung on long enough that Italian ice has been swapped for hot chocolate in Fenway.

Our pride for individual teams blends together and we relish in the fact that it is socially acceptable to wear a Red Sox shirt to a game in the Garden.

Of course, right around playoff time, bandwagon fans begin cropping up by the dozens, myself included.

People will begrudgingly comment that they’ve been following since the beginning and how they’re the ones who have suffered the heartbreak.

I understand the frustration of the diehards, however I also believe that at the end of the day sports are about entertainment and when a team is doing well people are naturally more inclined to watch. Part of why playoffs and championships are so fun is the extra buzz that arrives after the regular season ends.

Yesterday, I proudly donned my once-pink (now rather faded and worn) Sox hat. I think my hat embodies my attitude toward Boston sports teams in general.

Yes, it is pink, a mark of my lack of true commitment to the team in the eyes of a diehard fan.

Yet, it is stained and weathered just like all the best Red Sox hats are.

I wear it with just as much pride as any other fan, not only showing a love for my city’s teams but a love of my city itself.

Go ahead, call me a bandwagon fan. I don’t mind—the ride is still just as fun.

Maggie Powers is an editor for The Heights. She can be reached at metro@ bcheights.com.

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Breaking Boundaries

Dangling the bait Tricia Tiedt

Need to spice up your personal life?

Tired of the weekly, awkward Mod hookup?

Ever feel like you’re strutting your stuff, putting it all out there every Friday and Saturday night, to no avail?

Are you tired of people not realizing just how much you’re worth?

Ladies, it’s time to dangle the bait.

Carrot, the newest online dating app created by infamous MIT alum Brandon Wade, allows you to do just that. Wade coined the term “carrot dating:” a term that, to be honest, continues to baffle me—so I’ll let his own words explain.

According to the website, www.carrotdating.com, “Carrot Dating is the world’s first mobile app where singles can use bribery to get first dates. This unique approach teaches singles to always bring something to the table. Whether it is a special gift or a unique activity, the Carrot Dating app gives you the power to prove your worth and date the man or woman of your dreams.”

Welcome to yet another case of technology gone too far.

Here’s the backstory: Brandon Wade is an MIT grad, self-proclaimed geek, and unlucky in love. Well, he used to be, that is, until he gained the necessary “success and resources to be generous” to turn the dating game in his favor. Wade “found love” soon after he began working for a Fortune 500 company. He subsequently quit that job in an effort to create ways for men like him to find women.

Aka, Wade became a premature sugar daddy and wrote a code for other nerds to do the same. Wade is founder of SeekingArrangement.com, the leading sugar daddy dating website; SeekingMillionaire.com, a millionaire matchmaking website; WhatsYourPrice.com, where singles bid for first dates; and MissTravel.com, the first travel dating website.

And now, to the detriment of pretty much everyone, he’s founded Carrot.

The main advertisement features Wade in an MIT t-shirt dangling three large carrots (the kind one feeds to horses) in front of three suggestively dressed, overly-made-up young women. (Stripper heels included.)

Here’s how it works: In order to begin a conversation with another member of Carrot, the user must first submit a bribe to their prospect. Bribes are separated into five categories: Dining, Entertainment, Gifts, Activities, and Popular.

Once the proposed bribe is accepted, both members are transferred to a “conversation” page where they can schedule a first date.

Scariest of all? The application already has 30,000 users after launching just last month.

“Any beautiful girl can be convinced to give you a chance, all she needs is a little incentive,” said Wade in a phone interview with Boston Magazine. The idea that women are such simple-minded creatures who can be bribed into falling in love a la bright, shiny objects proves that Wade has not a single drop of knowledge about the female species.

Although he admits dating is “superficial anyways,” Wade really thinks this works.

Let me repeat that: he really thinks this works.

I’m not an expert on many things in life besides coffee and J.Crew—but I do know this: love comes to those who stop looking.

That statement inherently denounces all forms of online dating, because signing up for systematic, computerized matchmaking implies one is looking for love in the first place.

And it’s not just the guys at Match and eHarmony to blame—Tinder, Grouper, LuLu—they’re all just as bad as the next.

But Carrot very well may be the worst.

So, instead of playing with virtual vegetables, let’s all look up from our phone screens instead. Interactions IRL (that’s code for “in real life,” for you unplugged folks) still too intimidating?

Stick to the old-fashioned way: a midnight text will do.

Tricia Tiedt is the Metro Editor for The Heights. She can be reached at metro@bcheights.com.

WORLD SERIES UNDER WAY elise amendola / ap photo

The 109th World Series brings overwhelming support from a city already devoted to the Boston Red Sox

memorable moments

By Bennet Johnson For The Heights The Boston Red Sox earned themselves yet another week to continue their tradition of burly playoff beards and mustaches when they won the American League Championship Series and prepared to advance to their third World Series in 10 seasons.

An 8-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 1 of the World Series proved their place as one of the top two teams in Major League Baseball.

Sox pitcher John Lester kept the Cardinals scoreless through seven and two-thirds innings. With two home runs in Game 1 (four overall through the playoffs), David Ortiz came within one grand slam of the club record for a single postseason. Historically, the Sox have won the last nine World Series games they have played in.

With an atrocious 69-93 record last year and last place in the AL East division, the Red Sox went from worst to first

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Beard up

In the spirit of superstition, Red Sox players began growing beards as they entered the playoff season. Throughout the playoffs, the trend has spread from players to fans.

Horgan’s signature pose

After a grand slam by David Ortiz in Game 2 of the ALCS, Boston Police Officer Stephen Horgan raised both arms in triumph from the bullpen as Tigers outfielder Torii Hunter tumbled over the wall.

“World Series cup”

In making preparations for Boston to host the World Series, Mayor Thomas M. Menino said he hopes the Red Sox “bring back the World Series cup.”

Candidates butt heads in debate

Zuckerberg invests in new startup

By Julie Orenstein

By Shannon Inglesby

Heights Editor

Heights Staff

When Boston mayoral candidates John R. Connolly, BC Law ’01, and Martin J. Walsh, BC ’09, met Tuesday night for their second headto-head debate, the issues that have defined the race for City Hall were at the forefront once again—namely, education and labor relations.

Right out of the gate, Connolly locked in on criticizing Walsh for the negative ad campaign that has been directed toward Connolly and funded by outside labor groups in support of Walsh. Two groups, Working America and the Greater Boston Labor Council, have sent mailers to Boston voters attacking Connolly as a “son of privilege” who “doesn’t understand working-class people.”

The ads also wrongly characterized the school in which Connolly, a Boston city councilor, taught before attending law school and running for public office. The ad called the Nativity Mission School, a boys’ school for low-income immigrant families in New York City funded primarily by Jesuit donors, an “elite New York private school.”

Walsh, a former laborer and union official and current state representative, asked the labor groups to stop sending the mailers, yet more were released even after his request for them to stop. Connolly seized this fact as evidence that Walsh will not be able to transition easily from labor leader to mayor.

“They’re not listening to you now. How do we know they are going to listen to you when you are actually mayor?” Connolly asked.

Walsh, though, continued to try to use his union ties to his advantage, pointing to several occasions when he said he had sat down with labor interests and “[told] them the hard truths

a race against both others and the clock modeled after those in his native country of England.

In 1997, the HOTC grew from one to two days. Now, in 2013, the event—which begins at Boston University’s DeWolfe Boathouse in Boston and ends at the Artesani Playground in Brighton—attracted over 300,000 spectators to watch 9,000 competitors ages 14 to 85 hailing from 19 different countries. The 49th annual HOTC saw some of the lowest times in its history, beginning in the fourth event of the weekend with a 21-year record for the Grand Master Men’s Singles 50 plus plummeting by 39 seconds as Greg Bennett pulled into the finish line of the event at 18

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg invested $4 million last week in Panorama Education, a Cambridge firm that seeks to help K-12 schools improve through data analysis and feedback surveys of teachers, parents, and students. The investment is backed by Zuckerberg’s company, Startup:Education, and was complemented by investments from many others, including Jeff Clavier’s SoftTech VC, Google Ventures, and Ashton Kutcher’s A-Grade Investments.

Panorama Education is a firm that helps school districts, charter networks, and state governments conduct surveys of students, parents, teachers, and staff. Its classroom surveys collect feedback that teachers use to grow, and school surveys to help educators improve education as a whole. The current educational system presents major issues nationwide, including inadequate resources and teaching, disheartening drop out rates and bullying. According to Panorama Education co-founder Aaron Feuer, “there’s no way to understand what’s going on, because there’s not enough data analysis, not enough data being collected, and nobody there to analyze it. This would never be acceptable at a company.”

Panorama Education’s technology now serves more than 4,000 schools, covering more than 1 million students.

With this investment round, the Cambridge firm plans to continue building

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Athletes and spectators filled boat houses along the Charles for a prime view of the water.

Thousands of spectators gather for HOTC Regatta

By Maggie Maretz Heights Staff This past weekend, Bostonians happily tolerated an intensified level of traffic as locals and tourists alike swarmed for one of Boston’s most celebrated traditions: the Head of the Charles Regatta (HOTC).

The race, only two years shy of its 50th anniversary, was originally founded on Oct. 16, 1965, by Cambridge Boat Club members D’Arcy MacMahon, Howard MacIntyre, and Jack Vincent and has since grown to become the world’s largest rowing competition. Back in 1965, MacMahon, MacIntyre, and Vincent formed the three-mile race following the advice of their Harvard University sculling instructor, Ernest Arlett, who proposed

Collegiate Round-up

Highlights from other prestigious universities and colleges in the greater Boston area.........................................................................................B9

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