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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Vol. XCII, No. 38
Love Your Body Week talks healthy dining options with ‘Eat This, Not That’ By Adriana Mariella Assoc. News Editor
Did you know that a standard bowl of pasta with meatballs from McElroy is almost 1,000 calories? The Women’s Resource Center hosted a Boston College Dining version of the popular no-diet meal plan book, Eat This, Not That to teach students this type of information on Tuesday. The workshop, which featured Sheila Tucker, executive dietician at BC, focused on helping students to make healthy decisions and decipher which foods at BC are the best for them. “There is no such thing as a bad food,”
Horseplay threatens fire safety Students wrongly set off fire alarms with fire extinguisher By Marc Francis For The Heights
“Who wants to be that student?” asked Residential Director George Arey as he described the overarching consequences of the recent horseplay at Ignacio. Boston College continually ranks in the nation’s top five for fire safety consistency, yet recent events have posed a serious threat to not just that ranking, but hundreds of lives. The yearly average number of fire alarms wrongly triggered by students is two—at two months into the academic year, BC has already tied that number. Two weeks ago, a student in Ignacio detached a fire extinguisher and unleashed its contents throughout the residence hall, triggering the fire alarms. Arey recalled the sight—surrounded by firefighters and policemen, 300 sleep-deprived students standing outside at 2 a.m., some worried over the Graduate Readiness Exam that awaited them in just a few hours, others wondering why they were forced out of their beds. Donald Wood and Thomas Keough, retired fire chiefs, described the 18-man response that occurs upon receiving an alarm from BC. “We hear an alarm and off we go,” Keough said. When an alarm is set off under no circumstance of danger, hundreds of people waste their time. Some of the 18 firefighters that responded to the Ignacio alarm were pulled away from their assigned areas—potentially, they could have been needed in real dangerous situations.
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Fire alarms wrongly set off by students threaten fire safety procedures on campus.
Tucker said. Instead, she emphasized an 80/20 rule to follow when eating healthy—focus on making good food choices 80 percent of the time, and don’t monitor choices the other 20 percent of the time. Tucker spoke about the most common dishes at BC and presented the best ways to fit them into a balanced diet. “All food [at BC] can fit in [a student’s] diet. [No] one food served is a ‘bad’ choice,” she said. “Dining has many, many tasty and healthful choices.” Basing her talk off of the United States Department of Agriculture’s “Choose My Plate” initiative, which replaces the old food pyramid, she presented ways to
easily improve one’s diet. Those included switching to whole wheat bread, reducing intake of added sugars, and switching to one percent or fat free milk. Tucker said that the event fits the message of Love Your Body Week because it prevents students from feeling badly about themselves for eating foods they deem bad. “I think the message of my Tuesday program relative to Love Your Body goals was that there are no good and bad foods and that part of taking care of your body is to find that moderation rather get stuck in the rut of it’s all or nothing with nutrition,”
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Sheila Tucker, executive dietician at BC (above), gave students healthy dining tips.
Boston’s archbishop Speaks O’Malley addresses the importance of reviving the mass
Real Food marks first Food Day
By Andrew Millette
By Sara Doyle
Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston, addressed the “crisis of absenteeism at the Sunday Eucharist” in a lecture delivered Tuesday afternoon in the Murray Function Room at Yawkey Center. After celebrating mass and meeting with students, faculty, and administrators, including University President Rev. William Leahy, S.J., O’Malley gave a lecture titled “The Eucharist: The Center of Catholic Life,” in which he challenged Boston College as well as other Catholic colleges and universities to play a proactive role in bringing Catholics back to church on Sundays. According to O’Malley, much of the importance of bringing Catholics back to Mass lies in the Eucharist. During his lecture, O’Malley provided many examples to support his view that the Eucharist is at the center of Catholic life. “More than we have kept the Sunday Mass, the Sunday Mass obligation has kept us a people with a sense of mission,” he said. The C ardinal al s o employe d a personal anecdote to describe the importance of the Eucharist , that
Monday, Oct. 24 marked the First National Food Day. Real Food, a club which promotes sustainable, local, and healthy food, marked the day with two cooking classes and a presentation geared towards the promotion of wholesome food practices. Real Food, which is associated with the campus farmer’s market and Addie’s Loft in Corcoran Commons, went on a club apple-picking trip on Sunday and used the apples to hold two cooking classes on the Boston College campus. The classes focused on healthy, applebased recipes. The day ended with a presentation in Fulton Hall featuring representatives from Naked Pizza and Corporate Accountability International. Naked Pizza, which was started in the wake of Hurricane Katrina as a way to promote local business and healthy food in the area, is committed to offering a pizza that is healthier and supports the local communities. They use local ingredients and do not add preservatives or chemicals to their pizzas, priding themselves on the fact that they have managed to combine good taste with more wholesome food. Corporate Accountability International is an organization that supports responsible food production. At the Food
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Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley (above) discussed the crisis of absenteeism at Mass.
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Rena Finder shares her story of survival with students Holocaust survivor Rena Finder reminds students not to sit back and let life pass by By Maurice Jackson For The Heights
She stood scarcely taller than her podium, but the presence and power that Rena Finder exerted over those packed into the Gasson 100 on Tuesday through the retelling of her biography was, for many, overwhelming. Finder’s speech was sponsored by the Boston College Hillel, the Mentoring Leadership Program, the Emerging Leaders Program, and the Shaw Leadership Program. She encouraged the Boston College community to not be passive bystanders of history. “When I talk to the young people, I want them to understand that you can’t just sit back and do nothing,” Finder said. Finder said her childhood in Krakow, Poland, growing up as an only child by the Vistula River, was happy one. When she was 10-years-old, the Nazis occupied Poland, and the Jewish citizens were forced into a ghetto. “I remember looking around my room where I was born and I couldn’t believe I was going to leave it,” Finder said. “But my
father assured me that everything would be okay when the world found out what is happening to us.” Finder recalled her initial feelings of isolation during the beginning of the Holocaust. “I remember as we started to walk away from my beloved building, I saw all our neighbors peering at us from behind closed windows and drapes, nobody there, nobody wanting to say goodbye.” Finder said that she felt as if the Polish people did not notice what was happening to the Jewish population. “What about us? Doesn’t anybody see us? Doesn’t anybody hear us?” Finder said. “All around us the Polish people went about their normal ways. They were occupied, but they were not threatened.” While in the ghetto, she lost her grandparents, and by the end of the War, she had also lost aunts, uncles, cousins, and her father. She considers herself lucky, however, because she, her mother, her grandfather, and one of her uncles survived. “They took my grandparents away and we were crying,” she said. “The last memory I have of my grandparents was of them
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Holocaust survivor Rena Finder (above) shared her story with students for a second time. walking away holding hands.” Finder said that she owed her life to Oskar Schindler. “Oskar Schindler was a member of the Nazi Party, but he did not have the heart of a Nazi,” she said. She informed the audience of the good deeds of Schindler, and how she and her mother realized the importance of this work. His ammunitions factory employed primarily Jews, and as a result he was able
to save over 1,000 lives. “As long as we would be working we would be needed, and would not be killed,” she said. She also recalled her sad realization when the war was finally over. “My father, my aunts, uncles, my cousin, they were all killed.” Finder recalled the traumatizing expe-
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