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KELSEY MCGEE / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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The days of trying to read a student’s scratch handwriting are over, according to Vincent Rocchio, a professor in the communication department. Rocchio has spent the last eight months working to introduce a computer software to the University that could replace the alltoo-familiar blue books that students currently use to take exams.

Rocchio introduced the software Oct. 14 to his Interpersonal Commu-

nications class. He noted that of the 72 students who took the first web-based exam, only two experienced technical glitches. The goal of implementing the new browser, according to Rocchio, is to cut down on environmental waste and reduce the cost of test-taking. Rocchio also notes that grading efficiency in the digital environment has increased by 50 percent since the implementation of the software.

The software integrates with student s’ C anv a s applic ation. When opened, the Respondus LockDown Browser permits access only to the testing system and disallows other Internet usage. The restrictions allow students to complete their exams without compromising their integrity.

The browser also allows the profes-

sor to incorporate multimedia into tests.

Rocchio has been working in conjunction with Boston College’s Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE). Cristina Mirshekari, the director of teaching and learning technology at CTE, said that the group pursued a site license this past year, which allows any faculty to utilize the software. Under the license, the cost comes to about 31 cents per student, Mirshekari said.

According to the Respondus website, its Lockdown software is used on over 2,000 college campuses around the globe. While there are currently only three BC professors implementing this technology into their classrooms, Roc-

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JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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The AHANA acronym was coined in 1979 by two Boston College students. In an effort to celebrate the cultural differences at BC, LewisMosley, BC ’79, and Alfred “Alfie” Feliciano, BC ’81 created the AHANA acronym. The acronym describes those of African, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American descent.

“The events were also planned in the hopes that non-AHANA students on campus would come out and listen to the experiences of their peers and gain perspective and insight into a way of life that may have been different or even surprisingly similar to their own,” said Kerrian Johnson, vice chair of ALC and, MCAS ’18,

AHANA Acronym Week began Monday with an event that featured a panel of students who talked about their experiences as immigrants or being the children of immigrants in the United States.

ALC hosted several other events, including a privilege walk, an interactive activity on Stokes Lawn titled “Eagles Around the World,” in which students put pins on a world map and discussed culture, and a community gathering held in the Thea Bowman AHANA Intercultural Center in which students had a forum where they could discuss their backgrounds.

On Wednesday at 6 p.m. there will be a viewing of Lou Montgomery: A Legacy Restored, a film about BC’s first black athlete.

From 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., there will be a night market held in O’Neill Plaza to emphasize the special aspects of each culture and for students to be open about what they love about each other.

On Monday, ALC will host its annual teddy bear initiative. The purpose of the event is to create an informal, comfortable atmosphere where students can talk about diversity while stuffing teddy bears. The event will take place at 6 p.m. in Eagle’s Nest. The final event of the week will be a closing ceremonial dinner on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Walsh Function Room. The dinner will feature performances by several groups, including BC Slam.

The purpose of ALC is to remind students

of color that they are celebrated and remain an integral part of BC, Joon Park, ALC chief of staff and MCAS ’18, said. AHANA was coined to dispel the term “minority” and the negative connotation that it holds, Park said. The acronym serves as a term with which students of color can be proud to identify.

“Students who do not identify as AHANA should care/want to be a part of it because we are at this institution to learn—not just about history, English, science, and math, but also about the world and how it works, about our peers: their emotions and lived experiences,” Johnson said.

By embracing this week, AHANA students can show pride in their cultures, he said, and show fellow students of color that they are not alone in their experiences and feelings.

Next week, ALC will host another event titled “Dress with Respect.” This event will educate BC students about how they can celebrate Halloween while still respecting different cultures. The ALC will be hosting Conscious Week in the spring, which will continue to encourage discussions about the AHANA community.

“I think the biggest thing is just showing respect, concern, and an element of care for fellow classmates, which heavily aligns with the Jesuit values that played a huge part in why most of us chose to attend BC and not other schools,” Johnson said.

A Muslim activist and digital strategist will come speak on campus on Nov. 12 as the keynote speaker for Boston College’s annual Women’s Summit, a day-long event that brings students together with women leaders. After the BC Women’s Summit: Own It hosted two successful events in the spring of 2015 and 2016, the committee of the summit has moved the event to the fall semester.

The change came after the Women’s Center and the Office of Student Involvement (OSI), which are both sponsors of the event, looked at the academic calendar and their respective schedules, said Adrienne Chiozzi, a member of the Own It committee and head of experiential learning in OSI. It also felt that hosting the summit in the fall would make the event more relevant to seniors

and would illustrate the importance of women’s leadership to first- year students, Chiozzi said.

There is more energy on campus in the fall, said Alexis Teixeira, co-chair of the Own It and CSOM ’17.

“People are just more excited and fresh than they are in the spring,” she said.

Moving the event to the fall did present challenges, said Lily Peng, the logistics coordinator of Own It and MCAS ’17. The committee planned the summit over the summer, which was difficult because not many people check their emails. And the committee had to begin planning the summit immediately following the spring summit.

The first summit, in 2015, was run completely by students. For the second summit last April, the event committee partnered with various on-campus groups, which gave it access to more resources, most notably funding. Own It this year will be sponsored by the Cadigan Alumni Association, the Career Center, BC Women in Business, the Division of Student Affairs, the Coun-

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The event on Wednesday night was a part of the Dean Series of BC, a series hosted by the BC Alumni Association that has run for the past five years.

Krause spoke about how to look at each candidate’s foreign policies, particularly when looking at the presidential debates. Krause talked about how the candidates’ ambiguity is intentional.

Ambiguity is key to gaining voters because it leaves issues up to interpreta-

tion. Voters who are already convinced feel assured, and voters who are unsure on policies can interpret the candidate’s ambiguity with optimism. “ Whichever candidate becomes president, he or she will become commander-in-chief of the United States, and that’s pretty important,” Krause said.

He began the talk by elaborating on each candidate’s grand strategy—a theory for how a nation causes security and prosperity for itself—and comparing the current candidates’ grand strategy to the last election.

“In a basic sense, there’s this major disagreement over ‘should we be deeply engaged in the world?’ or ‘should we be kind of more restrained from the world?,’ and there’s pluses and minuses in both senses,” he said.

Krause furthered the argument by dissecting some of the candidates’ sound bites and different debates and

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The Shea Center for Entrepreneurship will host a lunch with Ferit Sahenk, BC ’87, chairman of Dogus Group, and chairman of Garanti Bank, on Thursday afternoon from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. The lunch will take place in Cushing 208.

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The Corcoran Center for Real Estate and Urban Action will hold an event titled “Innovation, Urbanization and the Metropolitan Revolution” in the Yawkey Center today from 2 to 6 p.m. The reception will include networking with the speakers and a display of student projects.

The Ignatian Society will host an event as a part of its Finding God at BC speaker series. This week’s speakers will be Teddy Raddell, BC ’15, and Carolyn Grieser, BC ’15, who will discuss the spirituality of relationships.

The event will take place tonight in the Manresa House at 7 p.m.

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9ifne\ EXd\[ E\n ;`i\Zkfi Rory Browne, interim director of the Academic Advising Center, has been named the director of the Center and associate dean of the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences after working as the interim director since last fall and associate director of the Center for a decade.

Browne will oversee first-year students in the Morrissey College and will advise students during summer orientation and before they choose their majors. As director of the Advising Center, Browne will be a resource for students who need advice in the Morrissey College.

“I am honored to be given this opportunity,” Browne said to the Office of News and Public Affairs. “It is a challenge, but having been at Boston College for 10 years, I know that I can rely in all undertakings on the dedication of faculty and administrators to our students and the ideals of Jesuit education.”

As associate and interim director, Browne recruited and trained faculty pre-major advisers and summer registration freshman faculty advisers.

He oversaw the staff of advisers and advised students in each of the undergraduate schools.

Browne also planned the “Professors, Professions, & Pastries” events in conjunction with the Career Center.

These events, held weekly, help bring together students, professors, and advisers, Browne said. The informal events provide students with information about offerings, both curricular and extracurricular.

“I’ve worked closely with Rory since he arrived at BC,” Akua Sarr, vice provost for undergraduate academic affairs, said to the Office of News and Public Affairs. “He is a trusted colleague who is well respected by all of the faculty and administrators with whom he works, and most importantly he cares deeply about students and has played a critical role with many as they discern their long-term academic and personal goals.”

Jldd`k ?fefij Jb\_Xe The Weston Observatory hosted the inaugural James W. Skehan, S.J., Geological Colloquium this fall. The event honored Skehan, who formerly served as the Observatory’s director.

Skehan founded the University’s earth and environmental sciences department, formerly known as the geology department.

Skehan’s research focused on the history of the Avalon terrane, a microcontinent that stretches from Long Island to Belgium and includes Boston. During his time as director of the Observatory, from 1973 to 1993, he helped monitor seismic activity around Earth.

Kenneth Galli, a lab manager and lecturer for earth and environmental sciences, was the keynote speaker at the the Colloquium and gave a lecture titled “Glacial of Non Glacial? Formation of the Ediacaran Sedimentary Sequence of the Boston Basin” on Sept. 28.

Skehan sees no conflict between his scientific studies and his faith.

“If you look at a beautiful sunset, or how mountains are formed, or observe how continents move, you can view it either as science or as God speaking to you, or both,” Skehan said.

“I do both. What I do as a scientist is no different from what I do listening to the cosmic word of God. It’s nice to have both [science and faith]—in fact, it makes everything so exhilarating.

What could be more marvelous?”

It was a peaceful day when 18-year-old Rebecca Avera witnessed a terror attack in front of her house in northern Israel.

She watched as her childhood friend was killed in an explosion. Though she tried to help her friend, it was too late. This horrific experience was a pivotal moment in Avera’s life. “ This was the time that changed me as a person,” Avera said.

Avera is stationed in Las Vegas as an Israeli Emissary for the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas and the Israeli American Council of Las Vegas. She also serves as an Israel Fellow on the campus of the University of Nevada Las Vegas. This Monday, she spoke about the journey of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in an event hosted by Eagles for Israel.

She told the story of her family’s journey to Israel from Ethiopia.

She also spoke of their heritage and her experience growing up as an Ethiopian-Jewish woman turned activist.

Avera began by asking the audience a question.

“How many of you have met an Ethiopian Jew?” she asked.

Only two audience members raised their hands. Avera explained that the Ethiopian-Jewish community is a unique one that many are unaware of.

Avera’s father descended f rom the Ethiopian- Je w ish community known a s B eta Israel. Residents of his village in northern Ethiopia lived a simple life. They had no running water, television, or cars, and they slept on the ground.

Her dad immigrated to Israel via Cyprus in 1979. When he arrived to Israel, there were very few Ethiopian Jews there. Her

Fresh foods, ready-to-paint pumpkins, and a cohort of conscious consumers will fill Stokes Lawn this Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for the 10th annual Harvest Fest, an event hosted by EcoPledge and the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC).

This Friday’s Harvest Fest will showcase a variety of autumnal activities and samplings. Ecofriendly vendors like Dates and Olives, Equal Exchange, and Bfresh will offer environmentally conscious food products to students. With midterm season in full swing, EcoPledge members will also hand out homemade, organic spa products.

Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about easy, inexpensive, and efficient ways

POLICE BLOTTER Monday, Oct. 17 2:09 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at the Flynn Sport Complex.

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Rebecca Avera spoke about her mother’s immigration to Israel and her experience growing up as a minority. father settled down near Haifa, in northern Israel, and became a Hebrew teacher.

Avera’s mother’s path to Israel from Ethiopia was one of turbulence and violence. During the time, there was a war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, which fueled Ethiopian antiSemitism. Thirty-five hundred Jews were killed by the government, including Avera’s uncle, her mother’s youngest brother.

“The government brought his shirt covered with blood to my grandma,” Avera said. “That’s how they knew he died.”

After her uncle was killed, Avera’s mother decided to flee the violence and immigrate to Israel. Her mom left her home in the middle of the night to begin the walk to Israel in secret.

“What does it mean to walk to Jerusalem?” she said. “They didn’t know anything . They never saw an airplane, they never had TV, they didn’t know the way. I kept asking my mom, how

to help the environment.

Kate Weingartner, president of EcoPledge and CSOM ’18, said the purpose of Harvest Fest is to educate the student body on healthy and environmentally friendly food choices, especially during har vest and holiday seasons.

“The primary goal of Harvest Fest is to educate the student body,” Weingartner said. “If students are informed, they can make positive decisions regarding food purchases, especially during the harvest and holiday seasons.”

As the largest sustainability group on campus, EcoPledge has worked with BC Dining Services and various campus organizations to enact change and spread awareness about ecological issues on campus.

Each academic year, EcoPledge anchors events and cam-

did you walk to the unknown?”

Avera’s mother walked during the night and slept during the day. Most of the people walking through the desert didn’t have shoes. Avera’s mother continued to walk for two months, until she became ill. Because there were no doctors, she had to be carried the rest of the way. She was unconscious for a week. Special forces flew her to Israel from Sudan. As soon as Avera’s mother reached Israel, she kissed the ground. She had finally arrived at the Holy Land.

“Today we have a National Memorial Day for those people who died,” Avera said.

Avera described her upbringing as an Ethiopian Jew in Israel.

She was the only African kid in her class from first to 12th grade. She struggled with being different from the rest of the population.

“At one point I was embarrassed of my culture, because I tried to integrate,” she said. “But

then when I was older, I felt that I knew more Ethiopians, and realized my culture is very important to me.”

Avera served in the Military Police Corps in the Israel Defense Forces at the age of 18, where she was stationed in the West Bank and worked at checkpoints to prevent terror attacks. She later studied at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya as a student of government diplomacy and strategy.

Avera has been involved in civil rights protest efforts in Israel, recognizing that discrimination is a worldwide issue. She continues to support the Ethiopian Jewish community.

“I want to see an Ethiopian president, an Ethiopian prime minister,” she said. “Nobody thought America would have a black president years ago, it can happen. I don’t think it should be related to race or color. It should be about how good you are at what you do.”

paigns around a theme. This year, the organization’s theme is conscious consumerism—the act of purchasing products or services produced via ecologically friendly methods. Examples of eco-conscious products include notebooks produced with recycled paper, animal cruelty-free beauty products, and organic fruits and vegetables grown locally.

“We want to show students how their small choices can make a big impact, not only for their own health, but also for the health of the planet,” Weingartner said.

EcoPledge’s conscious consumer initiative comes in light of Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical “Laudato Si.” In the letter, the pope urges the global community to choose a life marked by caring for the environment, beyond economic and market constructs that promote mass production

and consumption.

“Where profits alone count, there can be no thinking about the rhythms of nature, its phases of decay and regeneration, or the complexity of ecosystems which may be gravely upset by human intervention,” Francis said in his encyclical.

In addition to organizing events like Harvest Fest and Green Week, EcoPledge’s eventplanning committe e br ing s speakers to campus, educating the student body about climate change and ecology. Last year, EcoPledge played an integral role in organizing the conference “Our Common Home,” which explored the impact of the pope’s encyclical.

“College is the perfect time to make sustainable changes in consumer habits,” Weingartner said.

“College-aged students are often willing to listen and act.”

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CORRECTIONS In the article ‘CJBC Protest,’ it stated that CJBC is hosting a talk with Laurie Zoloth, but the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life is sponsoring the event.

10/17/16 - 10/19/16 10:51 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a fire alarm at O’Neill Library.

12:45 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical ambulance on the Middle roadways.

6:08 p.m. - A report was filed regarding larceny over $250 by false pretense at an off-campus location.

6:51 p.m. - A report was filed regarding confiscated property at the Mods.

11:00 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at Walsh Hall.

5:59 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious person at O’Neill Library.

Tuesday, Oct. 18 12:31 a.m. - A report was filed regarding the arrest of a party. Justin Vukelic of Newton, Mass., was placed under arrest for open and gross lewdness.

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On Wednesday, Lindsay LoBue, BC ’96, discussed her previous work experience at J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs, as well as her current work in her new startup company, Greenback Labs in an event in Cushing 208 hosted by Women Innovators Network and the Shea Center. Her startup aims to simplify complicated financial issues.

LoBue graduated with a B.S. in marketing and psychology. As a student, she interned with an advertising agency and with Converse Shoes. She credits these experiences with allowing her to discover what she’s truly interested in—consulting. Testing the waters in other areas helped her narrow her career search.

After graduation, she worked at J.P. Morgan, starting with its rotational program. She discovered her passion for finance on the trading floor. It was the energy, noise, and chaos that drove her.

Years later, she started a job at Gold-

man Sachs and has worked there ever since. About three years ago, she left her position in sales, transitioning to a position as an advisory director.

She assumed a new position to spend more time with her children. She took a break from her 9-to-5 job in the corporate world, but always knew she was going to come back to it and do something different.

She stayed on as an adviser at Goldman Sachs, enjoying her job facilitating communication between employees and management. This allowed her to maintain a position in the company, but at the same time would allow her other ideas to further develop.

In 2014, LoBue founded Greenback Labs, a company that works to simplify financial concepts so that the public can better understand them. Greenback Labs primarily creates 90-second explanatory videos, but it also has a gaming app called Trading Days. Trading Days is essentially a game version of trading stocks, and when the user decides to “buy” or “sell,” it gives him or her tips and explanations on what the

ideal choice would be and why.

Many colleges and universities across the country don’t require students to take a finance class. The result is that adults have limited knowledge of finan-

“There are two things that are really important in business, and that is research and networking.”

—Lindsay LoBue, BC ’96 and founder of Greenback Labs

cial topics. Lobue’s goal is to reach these adults and give them the tools to better understand finance.

Unlike the majority of people on Wall Street, LoBue did not leave to create her own hedge fund or consulting firm.

In fact, she wanted to do something completely different and ventured into

technology. ”The power is in the decision,” she said. “Having options is where the power comes from.”

The options LoBue encountered while working, whether it was getting another offer from a different firm or receiving the invitation to work in a different position, led her to where she is today.

It allowed to her prioritize and see what she wanted in life and what she wanted from her career.

LoBue learned early on, especially from being a young mother, that balance is key and that it can always be found.

Juggling her job and family, she realized when she needed consistency and when she needed a change. Leaving her job to be around her children more was a change, and creating Greenback Labs was an even bigger change.

LoBue had dealt with the stigmas of being a working mother or not being at home enough, but she never let those get in her way. She continued her life the way she felt was right and knew people had their opinions, but that they didn’t

have to affect her.

“There are people that feel very strongly women should be home with the kids, and there are people who feel very strongly women should be at work,” she said.

She could not please both of these types of people, but realized there were more important things to focus on.

LoBue also stressed the importance of networking. Networking is what has connected her with so many people and provided her with endless opportunities.

Especially now, with the creation of Greenback Labs, her connections have never been more important, she said.

“There are two things that are really important in business, and that’s research and networking,” she said.

While she knows firsthand networking can be uncomfortable, she could not have stressed its importance enough.

LoBue understands it may be tough for people to get themselves out there, but it is something they must get used to.

“Be comfortable with the fact that you’re going to be uncomfortable,” she said.

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During Gail Dines’s interview with a prison inmate who was indicted for raping his step-daughter, she was told that it was the increasingly sexualized porn culture of this generation that sets young boys and girls up for unhealthy views of sexual norms. Our culture is grooming people to accept this sexual society, the anti-porn activist told a group of students on Monday evening in McGuinn Hall.

Dines’s lecture, which was titled “Navigating Sexual Identity and Body Image in a Digitized Porn Culture,” looked at the effects of pornography on society’s ideas of sex and relationships.

Dines currently works as a professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College and has been an active feminist against the porn industry for the majority of her life.

“No matter what I say, I cannot have more power than the image of her,” Dines said in reference to actresses in pornography. “This is the story of what it is like to live in a sexual image-based society.”

At the event, Dines expressed how, over time, porn has become more accessible to younger audiences. These audiences are mainly exposed to porn as their sole source of sex education. This, according to Dines, sets an unrealistic example of sex and of the roles of both men and women within it.

Culture makes women “porn-ready,” Dines said, by marketing sexualized digital pictures of women and enforcing the idea that girls should be seductive.

Alternatively, men are often subject to threats of their masculinity when porn sites ask “if they are man enough to handle it.” Dines talked about the prevalence of health issues and porn addiction in men because of the pressure and availability of porn.

“He thought he would see people having sex, maybe even people making love,” Dines said about boys looking up porn for the first time. “What he did not expect to see was people making hate. The pornography industry shows people making hate.”

Dines attributed the prominence of porn in society to the increasing prevalence of the internet. Dines referenced Mindgeek, a company that owns

several popular, free porn websites.

Studies have shown that porn controls about a third of the internet, attaining more visitors than Netflix, Amazon, and Twitter combined, Dines said.

Dines used an analogy to describe the industrial nature of pornography today. She said porn is to sex as McDonald’s is to food. It is a generic, industrial product. In becoming mass-produced, Dines said that sexual acts lose a sense of empathy, leaving a false portrayal of what consensual sex should look like.

The porn industry is also just like any other industry in that it has a business model, Dines said. A majority of the industry’s income stems from online distribution websites, similar to Mindgeek.

As an anti-porn activist, Gail has spent much of her life attempting to shed light on the truth behind the porn industry. Dines published a book titled Pornland, in which she explains the dangers of pornography on future generations.

In her speech, Dines accredited the AIDS Healthcare Foundation with passing Measure B, a regulation that requires the use of condoms while filming

Bounce Back, a year-long speaker series sponsored by Boston College’s Office of Health Promotion (OHP), aims to educate students on exercising resiliency when faced with adversity.

The first talk in a series of five was held on Monday. The event was titled “Need help bouncing back from adversity? We’ve got you covered” and primarily consisted of conversation that centered around the topic of resilience.

The series is a part of OHP’s Resiliency Project. The project began this fall with the goal of increasing resiliency in students before referring them to University Counseling Services (UCS), which has seen an increase in visits this year and recently added two staff members. Research findings suggest that a decrease in children’s resiliency has led to an increase in mental health issues.

Other elements of the project include a resilience video project, in which staff, faculty, and students will discuss their

Gail Dines spoke about the effects pornography can have on body-image and relationships pornography. This was one of the first steps in bringing pornography regulations to the United States, Dines said.

Dines ended her talk by discussing the need to break free from the restrictions that porn culture has put on men and women when it comes to body im-

age and relationships.

“We know from study after study that human happiness relies on community,” Dines said. “And what pornography is going to do is destroy any form of community and any relationships between women and men.”

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personal stories of resilience. The video will be posted on the UCS website.

There will also be a student panel on Nov. 9 in which the panelists will share their stories of resilience.

Makayla Davis, the assistant director of OHP, led the conversation by explaining the national phenomenon of college students’ lack of resiliency. She talked about how students may build unhealthy support systems and instead of focusing on their problem, add to it by ignoring it.

The three pillars of the program as a whole are improving self-care, making social connections, and managing stress. The events aim to fulfill these by exploring, planning, and reflecting.

The program supplies students with coping strategies for stress and issues that they may face and focuses on discussion-based learning that yields connections with other participants in the discussion group.

After discussing common issues like stress and anxiety, Davis steered the conversation toward personal struggles and victories. She allowed attendees to speak about their personal experi-

ences. Many of the students’ trials with adversity were similar to those of other students in the room.

Using the space as an open forum, the students continued to share their personal experiences and gave advice to one another on how to deal with their respective problems. The group environment brought an alternate perspective, letting those with who had dealt or are dealing with similar problems bring their strategies.

While investigating what it means to be resilient, the group concluded that resilience could take many shapes and forms.

“Resilience is not something that there is a fixed amount of, there is no set amount,” Davis said.

Each student had the opportunity to define resilience on their own and was encouraged to shape the definition off of their own experiences. In defining resilience, the group agreed that they found themselves more comfortable with facing their problems head on.

“Everyone can find their own type of resilience, it’s just sort of a matter of knowing where to look,” Davis said.

a mistake to say that we are,” she said.

In terms of strategies, and how to backed it up with research and prec- defeat ISIS, Krause explained the comedent, establishing Clinton as believ- plexity of the matter. He said that not all ing in deep engagement, by reassuring allies agree on how to defeat it. allies and securing oil, and Trump as a “They have to think about the day believer in a sort of marriage between after, as much as about the fighting on restraint and deep engagement. the ground,” Krause said about Sunni “The key disagreement [between fighting and liberation in the Middle Trump and Clinton] is on whether to East. reveal the specifics of your plan,” Krause After comparing the two candidates said. positions, Krause By dissecting certain delved further into discussions from previISIS—why it’s still “To defeat it as an ous debates , Krause around, how to determined that Trump distinguish it from ideology, it has to be is much more reticent scholars and experts in Islam, and how to to reveal plan specifthe Middle East who approach it. ics in order to avoid “ISIS thrives opponents using and reject it. ISIS has made on polarization,” a mistake. By latching Krause said. “The defeating those plans.

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This year’s keynote speaker is Riham Osman, a digital media and communications strategist at the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Washington, D.C. She will be speaking in St. Ignatius, as Robsham is unavailable at the time of the talk.

After experiencing employment discrimination for wearing her hijab in 2011, she became involved in activism.

Isabella Valentini, a member of BC Women’s Summit: Own It and MCAS ’17 said, “We want to make sure that there’s a speaker that every student at BC can relate to. It’s something that we’re looking to do better and better every year.”

This is a positive sentiment and marks a good development for the Own It summit.

Last year’s speaker was Sophia Amoruso, a successful businesswoman who founded Nasty Gal, a women’s clothing brand, and wrote a New York Times bestselling memoir, #GIRLBOSS. She was a good speaker and demonstrated the perspective of someone who started without a college degree and achieved success, and this year Osman presents a

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different perspective.

Instead of an entrepreneurial background, Osman brings an activist background with a history of pursuing social justice.

She worked with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commision to allow flight attendants to wear hijabs on Air France and has appeared on ABC7, NPR, and NBC and in The Washington Post and The Huffington Post.

This new perspective offers women at BC another view from that presented in

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“That’s what we’re looking for—somebody to set the tone for the day of inspiration,” Valenti said.

So far over 200 tickets, of 300 free tickets available to all BC students, have been taken.

This interest in pursuing a diverse speaker background should boost the event, and hopefully the change in time will not negatively affect turnout.

As attendance data will be taken, future Own It summits should be planned around this in order to determine the best possible date for the event so that attendance remains high and the growing streak of successful events continues.

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Another step has been taken in technology’s relentless march to domination.

The blue books college students have all come to love may be falling to the wayside at Boston College, as Vincent Rocchio, a professor in the communication department, used a computer software called Respondus Lockdown Browser to administer a test to his Interpersonal Communications class on Oct. 14.

You might ask: but how can this technological tomfoolery be? Wouldn’t students just be able to google the answers or check their notes on Word?

Nope.

Lockdown browser opens from Canvas and blocks access to all other windows. It can’t be run on parallel windows, and restricts other internet use.

The student can only access the testing system.

According to Rocchio, only two of his 72 students experienced glitches during the test and grading efficiency has increased by 50 percent with the implementation of the software.

He worked in conjunction with BC’s Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) and the directing of teaching and learning technology at CTE, Cristina Mirshekari.

Together, they pursued a site license, which costs about 31 cents per student and allows faculty to use the software.

The goal of this new system is to reduce environmental waste and reduce the cost of test-taking.

This is a good program that makes the test-taking process more efficient and cuts down on waste, but going forward, professors who choose to use this program should be sure to address possible issues.

Students who do not have access to a laptop must be provided with the necessary

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accommodations so that they can take the test alongside the other students. Work should also be done to prevent cheating, as students are presumably able to see other students’ laptops.

Rearranging questions would be one relatively easy way to address this.

As this is a new way of administering tests, professors and administrators working on it should ensure that they continue to address the new problems and issues that might stem from it.

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It also helps prepare students for postgraduate exams such as the Graduate Record Examination and the Medical College Admission Test, which are both administered on computers.

In the future, BC should continue to explore the use of this new software and determine which classes and test-taking situations are best-suited for it, which should hopefully reduce waste and improve efficiency.

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“But thankfully I’m full of self-hatred and feel the need to mortify my flesh through the consumption of bitter and unseasoned goods.” Wait, what?

The vision is fading. You wake up face down in the middle of the Chocolate Bar. As you push yourself up, you see that literally no one cares that you just fainted. Stretching your back, you look over to the counter and notice a woman yelling at you. “Do you still want your nonfat cinnamon swirl mochachino latte?” she says. “Did you add the pumpkin spice flavor shot?” you ask. She nods and you take your drink. “Have a nice day,” she says. “I hate myself,” you respond, flashing your trademark awkward grimace.

FRENCH TOAST - What food isn’t improved by adding the word French to it? Fries? Dips? Dressing? Onion Soup? I was eating raw onions in tomato broth for years until I realized the French had figured out a better way. But above all of these is the breakfast dish we here at The Heights like to call “Shloobert.” That’s our word for French toast. Get it?

No? Well I suppose you just don’t understand the sophisticated linguistic humor that went into making funny noises for a couple of minutes and then writing down the one that sounded the most phonetically writable. Anyway, we love French toast.

It’s the best of the toasts.

EGGS - So versatile! If there’s one quality we want in our food, it’s versatility.

Boil ’em, mash ’em, stick ’em in a stew.

Or do one of the regular things with them, such as fry them or create a delightful little omelette. No better way to start the day than with a couple of eggs. And some bacon. Couple of sausages. Apple fritter. Muffin. Muffins.

Many muffins. Bagel. Bagel sandwich.

English muffin. English muffin sandwich. Hash browns. Home fries. I’m out of eggs, bring me more.

EATING WAY TOO MUCH BREAKFAST - After shoveling that last forkful of cinnamon bun into your face, it usually takes about two seconds to realize that you just ate an absurd amount of breakfast food in one sitting. When you stand up, you can feel your stomach bulging outward with the pressure of all those beautiful, beautiful breakfast foods. As you stagger off toward class, one hand clutching your heart, the other your gut, you know that it was all worth it.

It’s that time of year when I find myself searching “College Halloween Costumes” on Pinterest in an effort to find the perfect disguise.

Cringing, I scroll past an endless array of sexy cop, sexy school girl, and sexy lifeguard costumes. I am uncomfortable, but at the same time amazed, that costume designers make every possible outfit, even a gumball machine, sexy. Most of what we wear on Halloween would never make an appearance in our daily lives. I have yet to see a guy in a zombie costume walking past Gasson on his way to class.

But there is a reason why we go out of our comfort zones on Halloween— something that explains our decision to twist our hair into little buns and channel our inner Miley Cyrus for one night. Halloween is more than candy, costumes, and parties. It’s our time to express who we want to be, and, perhaps more importantly, who we don’t want to be.

Halloween, and the idea of wearing costumes, dates back 2,000 years to the Celtic festival Samhain, which took place on November 1.

The Celts saw the night before Samhain as the transition from the summer to the winter, bridging our world to the world of the dead. They believed that the ghosts of the dead roamed around, and they protected themselves from the ghosts with masks. According to the National Retail Federation, nearly 75 percent of young adults ages 18-24, plan to dress up for Halloween. In Psychology Today, one psychologist explains that the majority of this age group is not pleased with all aspects of their personality, and Halloween costumes allow them to take on different personas.

Further research suggests that Halloween costumes say a lot about who we are or who we want to be.

People dress up as political figures to show off their knowledge of current events. They don superhero outfits to feel powerful and to hide their feelings of inadequacy or weakness. Others may wear princess costumes because they are feeling sentimental or romantic. The inclination that many young women have to bare their skin on Halloween may be attributable to their desire to be noticed. Sometimes, women who are more conservative in their daily lives go all-out for Halloween to experience an alternate self.

Halloween costumes are an even bigger deal on college campuses, where many schools have annual traditions.

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Of course, along with these traditions come the typical college parties. At college campuses around the country, a holiday that lasts one evening when we’re young turns into a weekendlong celebration. College parties can be fun, but at times you feel like you’re navigating a social obstacle course. The sheer amount of thought and planning that goes into attending a party can rival prepping for a midterm. We focus on where to go, who’s going to be there, what to wear, how many people we

should bring with us, and whether the atmosphere will be exciting enough.

All these factors can lead to high levels of anxiety—maybe this is why college students drink so much. Countless times I have heard friends say they couldn’t dance at a party or talk to the boy they liked without having had anything to drink. Halloween costumes have a similar effect. They give us a false sense of confidence, and for a couple hours allow us to be someone other than ourselves. Dressed as Miley Cyrus, we can hide behind a mask and bravely enter that Walsh pregame or Mod party.

Without fear, we can break out that dance move we’ve been practicing in our crowded dorm room, or talk to that boy in our biology class.

Similar to the Celts, we all have ghosts we want to ward off. They may be the ghosts of our shyness, or our insecurities surrounding our ability in school, our performance on the athletic field, or even what course our lives will take after we graduate from Boston College. Halloween lets us ward off those ghosts, if not for the whole weekend, at least for one night. We can escape from ourselves and be whoever we want to be.

But what if we could feel like this the other 364 days of the year? What if we didn’t need the gorilla mask or that extra shot to have fun? Keep these questions at the back of your mind as you navigate through the numerous Halloween costume websites or as you scour the aisles of Party City for the perfect disguise. Start living your life like you’re wearing your Halloween costume every day instead of for just one night. Shake off your ghosts and worry less about how others perceive you. You’ll find that your newfound confidence will be admired and well received. So now I leave it up to you—who will you be this Halloween?

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B8IC J8CQD8EE Well, everyone, any news since my last column? Seriously, our politics have fallen into chaos so quickly, and there will be readers who will ask me if I take back any of what I wrote in “A Defense of Donald Trump.” I do not. I stand by my points in that piece and remain unapologetic.

It would be very easy for me to restate the case for Donald Trump even in light of the leaked audio, nasty language, and current accusations. Very easy. In fact, I made that case in a previous draft of this column. But where would that get us? The people who already hate Trump, who think all of us Trump-voters “deplorables” as a matter of course, will certainly not change their minds because of another column arguing the same thing as my last one. But I have already argued the case for the Defense, and there’s no need for me to reopen it. Rather, let us examine some of the major issues of this election that mean something to the future of the Republic—to wit, we’ve got bigger fish to fry.

Let me state first of all: Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the presidency are looking exceptionally good. If you wanted that admission, you’ve got it. The people, Democrats and Republicans, who are declaring this election over, however, are going a bit too fast, in my opinion. It ain’t over till it’s over, and the result of this election may depend on the power of coalitions. Now, if I were gambling here, I would certainly place my bets on Clinton’s victory on Nov. 8.

As overrated as I find their significance or relevance, one cannot deny that Trump’s recent scandals and comments have overshadowed a fine debate performance and sent him far behind in the polls, scrambling for support. Even more troubling, the Republican Party’s mass exodus away from Trump has left the candidate looking more like an independent than a partisan. Admittedly, Trump

has never really been a partisan, but the point is that his campaign has become far more identifiably akin to an independent run—one thinks of Ross Perot or, before him, John Anderson—than to that of a Republican outsider like Barry Goldwater or Pat Buchanan. Still, to return to the gambling metaphor, we must remember that, as they say, crazier things do happen. I, for one, could have never predicted the British vote in favor of Brexit—unpredicted by any pollster or gambler—which was, as I’ve argued before, the greatest conservative victory since the fall of the Soviet Union. Let us not forget Taleb’s “black swan” theory: that wildly unexpected events, considered extreme outliers with no possibility of occurring, do happen, more often than we expect, that we can rarely predict them scientifically or statistically (e.g., with polls), and that we always tend to rationalize it after the fact but never before it (of course). None of this is to indicate that I think a Trump victory will, in fact, take place. As of this moment, I don’t—but let’s not have any foolish notions about this race’s already being over. The only poll that matters, remember, is Election Day. Clinton’s wonderful luck in this election continued with the first “Wikileaks” release of campaign emails on the same day that The Washington Post broke that first audiotape with Trump and Billy Bush. Really, it is remarkably fortuitous for her, isn’t it?

What astounds me is that the leaked material is receiving such limited news coverage. Clinton’s dealings with Wall Street and major corporations, the secret connections between her campaign and the news media, and nasty remarks by a top aide about Catholics. Yet people are fascinated by Trump and his peccadillos, and so the corruption of the Clinton campaign goes flying by. It’s not all that surprising—we cannot help being interested in the wild and the outlandish (and Trump is, more than anything, wild and outlandish)—but it shows how far we’ve fallen. Clinton’s strategy of parading the other candidate’s sins and thereby masking her own is marvelously effective, especially when Trump’s

sins are ultimately less relevant to but more colorful in the election at hand.

Who except the political guru is hearing about the leaked emails? Certainly not John Q. Voter, whose ears are inundated with, and probably sick of, breaking news about Trump’s past solecisms. Yet the former are probably more relevant to policy and action in the White House than the latter.

We are now being told, especially in light of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and many other prominent Republicans’ move away from Trump because of the comments and the accusations, that the Republican Party is in shambles, ruined, will never win again, has no hope, will have to change or die, ad infinitum, ad nauseam. Now, I know it was before I was born, but I remember hearing in my studies similar claims about a political party’s future. Ah, yes, the 1972 presidential election, in which George McGovern’s landslide loss indicated to commentators that the Democratic Party was in shambles, ruined, would never win again, had no hope, would have to change or die—et cetera, et cetera. The Democrats, of course, won the presidency four years later. Sure, it’s possible that the Republican Party could split up, but I don’t think it’s going to happen—I don’t think so at all. Our two-party system, remember, is amazingly resilient, and whether Trump wins or not, I do not think either option will destroy that two-party system.

Rather, the Republican Party will exist as long as the conservative impulse exists in even a few of us—the impulse of love of family, neighbor, and country, of enterprise and ingenuity, of hard work and great achievement, of traditional virtue and respect for western civilization. For such do we hope. There are no lost causes, T.S. Eliot tells us, because there are no gained causes—we fight the same battles from age to age. I make no claims for clairvoyance, but I can say one thing: whatever happens on Nov. 8, boys and girls, the Republic will endure.

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9I@KK8EP JD@K? In higher education, there is an aggressive push to enroll students of underrepresented identities. A range of support is offered to attract students from these communities, such as discounted tuition costs for families of a certain income level and the creation of student groups that are available from the time of enrollment through graduation. This type of attention that higher-ed institutions are giving to the unique concerns of students from traditionally underrepresented groups reveals an awareness among esteemed institutions that their doors have been closed to first-generation students due mostly to affordability and access. This level of sensitivity and effort in attempting to attract a diverse student population is so positive that I would like to see further attempts made here at Boston College.

Within the first seven weeks of being here, I am learning what it means to be at a Jesuit institution. What it has meant, so far, is supportive faculty who “teach them to death, work them to death, and love them to death.”

As a law student, it has meant that I am learning in an environment that is collegial and not competitive or overly intensive. But unfortunately, as a first-generation student, I also struggle to be here. This feeling leaves me wondering what my undergraduate comrades with similar identities are feeling.

When I look around the faculty website and the hallways of the law school, I am struck by the lack of diversity, and it is obvious after looking on the site of the various departments throughout BC that the same struggle is had at the undergraduate level.

One tangible example of this struggle comes up in housing. With the high cost of housing in Boston, I wonder how graduate students and those without the option of living on campus can find housing that is affordable. I am especially concerned about how this cost factor impacts housing choices for students of color, especially considering that finding housing as a person of color can be difficult due to housing discrimination.

As a black incoming law student looking for housing, I felt the impact of this history firsthand.

The housing issue is extremely important, particularly for a university like ours that depends on the city to fill the housing needs gap for students when on-campus housing is not available. I worry that our university does not understand fully that because of the limited housing options, some students cannot afford to live near the campus or even in the Cleveland Circle area, where the campus shuttle is available. Some students are forced to live farther away and depend on public transportation that is not always reliable. Without acknowledging these practicality issues, I fear that BC may continue to isolate itself from the opportunity of receiving socioeconomically diverse students in its student body and benefiting from that influence. Diversity works in tandem with, not in isolation from, having a diverse set of faculty, while also working to meet housing, transportation, and financial aid needs. And if the University is not going to institutionalize housing options for students, and especially for graduate and professional students, much like other fine institutions that are of a similar caliber to BC, incoming students should have the option to receive a Bridge Loan from the Office of Financial Aid immediately prior to matriculation to help with the transition to the University. The commitment to diverse students should not just stop in the admissions process by admitting students of diverse backgrounds. It has to continue after students are admitted to make the commitment to diverse students more real.

The transition to BC should not just be hassle-free for students who can afford to be here. It should also be a welcoming transition to students for whom the cost of attendance is steep, and that support should be reflected in its fundraising campaign values, how the University engages alumni for fundraising support, and by supporting and retaining diverse faculty.

I truly believe BC wants to be diverse, but because of what I am seeing, or rather not seeing, I am left with more questions than answers. We have the answer to resolving the diversity question at BC. I think we just have to value this question as being important enough to resolve and give it the attention it deserves.

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Kenneth Himes, a theology professor at Boston College, utilized his expertise in both philosophy and politics to give a unique and nonpartisan perspective on this year’s election cycle.

“Last January, it struck me that it might be worth trying to read the signs of the times in the United States in a national election season,” Kenneth Himes told the audience Wednesday night. “And so, last spring … I suggested this as the topic [of this presentation]. I have lost count as to how many times I have kicked myself since then.”

At his lecture, titled “The Catholic Voter and the Signs of Our Times” and sponsored by the School of Theology and Ministry and the Church in the 21st Century Center, Himes identified six key factors in this election that he considers to be the distinguishing signs of our time. These six factors follow in the tradition of the Second Vatican Council that urged Christian communities to do the same.

The first factor discussed the rise of anger among the general electorate and the increased use of populist politics.

Himes defined populism as the moral opposition between the people, who are understood as the rightful source of political authority, to the corrupt elites, who are viewed as having abandoned the common good.

Whether voicing fears about student debt or immigration, populist rhetoric has been prevalent in this election cycle as a means for candidates to speak for the people. Himes asserted that this

phenomenon shows a growing discontent among the general population with the ineffectiveness of the government and an overarching reconsideration of the role of the government in the U.S. The lecture then shifted to a discussion of economic conditions in the country. Himes focused his discussion on the prevalence of trade policies in political rhetoric and the reformations the Republican Party attempted to make in the aftermath of the 2012 presidential election.

Himes explained that global trade creates both economic winners and losers, and those who do not benefit are the ones feeling more anger about the current economic climate in the U.S. Himes was clear to point out that more jobs are lost to automation than to trade policies.

Himes argued that any measure to slow the growth of technology was futile at best, leaving trade policies as the scapegoat.

“The corporate elites want cheap labor, and the political elites want more votes,” Himes said.

These economic frustrations are deeply felt by the white working class, Himes’s third area of focus. Conditions for blue-collar workers in America have declined in recent years, leading to increased social isolation and decreased economic stability.

Himes believes that the New Dealera idea of a social contract between workers and employers is all but gone, leaving a group of newly vulnerable individuals in our society. This led to another of Himes’s social markers—increased economic inequality.

One in five children live below the poverty line in the U.S., Himes said. In no state can a minimum-wage worker rent a one-bedroom apartment for 30 percent or less of his or her total income.

“When you put economic deprivation together with social isolation, you have dry tinder,” Himes said, citing author Robert Putner. “Trump just lit the spark … he did not create it.”

Himes also touched on the prevalence of race relations during this election. This generation has not seen social progress comparable to what their grandparents experienced during the Civil Rights Movement, he said.

Himes described the Black Lives Matter movement as a political awakening for young African-Americans.

This movement, though not caused by the election, is an integral aspect of it, he said. Himes believes that the topic of race relations is still an uncomfortable one for many Americans, but its importance is undeniable.

These factors culminate in a general sense of pessimism about the state of American politics felt by nearly every voter during this election cycle. Rather than dwell on this point, however, Himes closed his talk with the role Catholics can play on Election Day. “As Catholic believers we need to close the gap between our two identities as disciples and citizens,” Himes said. “Catholic Social Teaching encourages us to take seriously the claim that the quality of one’s life is measured, at least in part, by the quality of one’s participation in the democratic life of this nation.”

cil for Women of BC, I Am That Girl: BC, Lean In at BC, the Undergraduate Government of BC, the Women’s Center, and OSI. Now, the Own It Summit is under the University—it gets all of its funding from BC. As a result, the students on the committee have to concede to some of the requests of the faculty advisors and the University, including their wish to move the event to the fall, Peng said.

“But you know, it’s a challenge and every challenge is a learning opportunity,” she said.

After the summit in November, OSI plans on comparing the data from the spring and fall summit to determine which the students felt was a more effective time.

This year, the Own It committee is trying to be more intentional, Isabella Valentini, a member of BC Women’s Summit: Own It and MCAS ’17, said. It is looking more into the backgrounds of the speakers it invites to be a part of the day to make sure that there is variety in their backgrounds and professions.

“We want to make sure that there’s a speaker that every student at BC can relate to,” Valentini said. “It’s something that we’re looking to do better and better every year.”

Ti c k e t s w e nt o n s a l e M o n d ay through the Robsham Theater website.

So far, over two-thirds of the 300 tickets available to students have been taken.

The event is free and open to all BC students.

The keynote speaker will be Riham Osman, a digital media and communications strategist at the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Washington, D.C. In 2011, Osman experienced employment discrimination because of her hijab. This experience changed her outlook on the world and led her to get involved with activism.

“She’s extremely qualified, she’s brilliant, she’s eloquent,” Valentini said.

“And she set out on this campaign to advocate for women who face oppression in many different facets.”

Osman worked with U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to

change Air France’s dress code to allow flight attendants to wear hijabs. She has also appeared on ABC7, NPR, and NBC and in The Washington Post and The Huffington Post.

“She’s so young but she’s so driven to pursue justice, especially for women,” Valentini said.

Teixeira also believes that students will be able to relate to Osman.

“That’s what we’re looking for— somebody to set the tone for the day of inspiration,” she said.

Last year’s keynote speaker was Sophia Amoruso, founder and executive chairman of Nasty Gal, a women’s clothing brand. Amoruso also wrote a New York Times bestselling book, #GIRLBOSS, about her path to creating her company.

This year, the ke ynote speaker will address attendees in St. Ignatius Church. The keynote address was previously held in Robsham Theater, but because of the fall play, the venue was not available in November. The summit committee booked the next largest venue on campus, St. Ignatius.

Own It invites BC professors to speak at the summit, but it also taps into the Boston network. It looks for professors from other universities in Boston to come speak and work with students.

The faculty advisers of the summit also help find speakers for the event by looking at speakers who have come to campus in the past. And the summit uses the BC alumni network to find speakers.

“We’re really lucky to have such a deep pool to reach into,” Valentini said.

The first year, the goal of the planning committee was to establish the summit. Last year, they wanted to make themselves better known on campus.

This year, it’s about making minor tweaks so that the summit is more intentional and more accessible.

“It’s not about being bigger,” Teixeira said. “It’s about each person walking away from the summit feeling better about themselves and being inspired and also creating organic connections that will last longer than a day.”

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chio sees it spreading across the University in the coming years. His goal is to train critical and analytical students and believes this innovative browser will help in his work.

“The raw efficiency of this environment presents great potential,” Rocchio said.“I plan on using this for the rest of my teaching career at Boston College...I don’t think it’s going to be long before a lot of people are adopting this.”

The software currently runs only on Macintosh or Windows computers, which presents a challenge for students who own Chromebooks or other types of technology. Rocchio says that BC may be faced with confronting the question of a possible technology requirement for students in upcoming years.

With a shift in technology comes a few concerns. Rocchio thinks the the nature of the online browser encouraging speed during testing, and he prefers

that students use careful thought and evaluation before committing to a response. Student feedback has been over whelmingly positive, however, with some notes on areas for improvement. Caroline Heppner, a student in Rocchio’s class and LSOE ’17, did not like that she could not write down main ideas and points during the exam, as one could on scratch paper during a traditional exam.

Rocchio began teaching at BC in fall 2015, specializing in media studies. Rocchio found blue books to be an ineffective method for assessing a student’s knowledge of interpersonal communication, a study heavily focused on complex, nonverbal information.

At other universities, including the University of Houston, the Lockdown Browser is used for students who take online classes. When students take an exam for an online course, they are required to use the Lockdown software in order to cut down on academic dis-

honesty.

Rocchio believes that cheating is more difficult with the new software.

He spent time during the pilot exam looking behind students to see if it was easy to see others’ computer screens, but found that the digital display of the laptop and the font size make it more difficult to see answers than writing in an exam booklet.

Rocchio said that he can see how the online format would be an issue for truth and false or multiple choice exams. With short answer, however, he thinks that it would be difficult for students to read others’ answers. “[This form of assessment] is much more attuned to the kind of working environment that students are going to be using when they get out into the professional world,” Rocchio said. “[It] really fits in with the mission centered approach of giving students rigorous intellectual training that can serve a higher purpose.”

JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Sophia Amoruso, founder of Nasty Gal, was the keynote speaker at last April’s Own It event.

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I used to be much more of a gamer than I am now. I’d play and replay the Halo trilogy or the Fable games all day long when I was a kid. Things change, though. One gets bored of being corralled through video game campaigns, or tired of the same old first-person shooter style. It’s natural.

But there are games that continue to bring me back into the fold. New collections like the Bioshock trilogy or the first two Arkham games are constantly being released with updated graphics and a few extra bonuses to keep gamers hunting in all the old familiar niches of games we loved. Beyond some of these collections, though, there haven’t been many new games in the last year or so that have encouraged me to forget my more practical and academic responsibilities (besides Battlefront, of course).

Fans of the long-running Kingdom Hearts series like myself have the third main entry (and the 14th actual entry) in the saga to look forward to. Seeing as it has been over a decade since Kingdom Hearts II’s release and over three years since Kingdom Hearts III was announced, at this rate it sounds like I’ll be married and have kids by the time I get my hands on the Disney/Square Enix masterpiece. So, besides that glimmering gem in the dirt, there didn’t seem to be much at all in the way of gaming for me to look forward to—until this past Tuesday rolled around.

It seems especially fitting with HBO airing its sci-fi drama about a grandiose Western-style theme park that reputable game developer Rockstar announced the continuation of its Red Dead series with Red Dead Redemption 2, to be released in fall 2017. For those unfamiliar with Rockstar games, it is the game publisher behind the worldwide phenomenon that is the Grand Theft Auto series. Even if you haven’t played any of its entries or aren’t directly aware of GTA’s style, you’ve definitely seen or heard a parody of or reference to the famous games at some point in your life. GTA is often held up as the shining example of unnecessarily violent and lewd gaming and, to a certain extent, that’s what people who play the series love about it.

Red Dead games are practically GTA games with cowboys and horses. There have been two entries in the series so far: Red Dead Revolver and Red Dead Redemption. I personally never played Red Dead Revolver, since I was 9 when it came out and there’s no way in hell my mom would let me play it. But the game does currently sit at a 73 on the aggregate reviewer Metacritic, so it probably wasn’t a bad start for the series.

I did, on the other hand, get my hands on a copy of Red Dead Redemption the day it came out back in 2010, and it’s easy to say that Redemption is one of my favorite games of all time.

Red Dead Redemption had everything going for it: some of the best scenery and graphics in its day, a complicated gunslinger protagonist with a rich and dark past, and intricate, unique gameplay that felt extremely suited to a game set in the fictional Old West. Jumping into shootouts and one-on-one duels provided me with some of the most immersive moments in my gaming history. Looking at what Rockstar did with the online portion of GTA V, practically giving players an open-world, fictional version of Los Angeles and Palm Springs to do whatever crazy s—t came to mind, it’s hard to fathom what the developers could do with a few more years, upgraded technology, and, honestly, a more compelling setting.

Suffice to say, Rockstar is already guaranteed to have me playing Red Dead Redemption 2 the first second I possibly can.

Sometimes I ask myself when I think I’ll truly leave gaming behind. To a large extent, playing video games is just mindless fun—a waste of time. Sure, there are a boatload of great stories to be had from video games across the decades, but something about the stigma surrounding video games makes me feel that I’m more seriously wasting my time playing three hours of a video game than if I were watching a three-hour-long movie.

As long as games like Red Dead Redemption 2 lie in my future, however, I won’t care enough to stop. Game developers will always have me coming back for more.

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Fueled by camaraderie and passion, The Acoustics are here to stand out.

9P :8C<9 >@I<>F 8jjfZ% 8ikj I\m`\n <[`kfi Vivacious. Excitement. Exquisite. Family. Crazy. Apart from the last two, one might wonder what these words have to do with each other. But these words, as put forth by its own members, describe The Acoustics aptly and holistically. There’s something about The Acoustics that makes them different from the rest of the a cappella scene at Boston College. As a result, they have certainly carved out an impressive place on campus as a group of artists and friends, transmitting their infectious energy as it courses through the group’s members and, in turn, to the audience through song.

With so many a cappella groups on campus, co-ed and not, it may seem difficult to differentiate one from the other.

The Acoustics are, by far, one of the most active at BC. “Whenever we get an opportunity to perform on campus, we try our best to make our presence known because we also recognize how diverse the a cappella community is,” said Matthew Michienzie, The Acoustics’ musical director and MCAS ’17.

But the differences of such a group are best realized behind the scenes, rather than on the day of performance.

When I walked into one of The Acoustics’ rehearsals, it was clear that the group has a unique dynamic. In different ways, the members made visible the true nature of The Acoustics. Some brimming with wisecracks and energy spoke and sang wildly, while others were more reserved in word

and song, and still others stood out as leaders of this group of indiscernible character.

With these differences, The Acoustics find a compelling niche. Coming from different backgrounds, schools, musical tastes, and personalities, these singers make for an eclectic bunch. This diversity, akin to the range of sound waves that make up the group’s performances, may be its greatest strength, as it culminates in a varied collection of musical ability and personality.

These differences within the group manifest themselves in the songs that are performed. The musical evolution of The Acoustics comes about through, but is not constrained by, the passage of time.

“We do everything from rock, to hiphop, to country, to oldies, and everything in between,” Michienzie said. In democratic fashion, the group’s song selection process allows for such a range of songs to come into play and the repertoire of The Acoustics to remain unpredictable and fresh.

The result is a collection of songs that span from Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” to Foo Fighters’ “Best of You,” Misterwives’ “Our Own House,” and CHVRCHES’s “The Mother We Share,” to name a few. Such a varied collection brings a welcome sense of freshness to one of their shows.

Where other groups may choose songs based on specific performance qualities or thematic cohesion between songs, The Acoustics are motivated by a more personal reason.

“We choose songs based on the soloist, not based on the type of music we want to sing,” Daniel Pollos, CSOM ’19, said. As the years go by and members graduate, The

Acoustics feel the loss of soloists among their ranks and within their collection of songs. When they integrate new songs for new people, the challenge is as much about filling a void as about remaining true to a tried and true method.

The songs are integral to the unity of the group, Michienzie explained.

“We try to make sure that the songs we are performing resonate with us on a level that goes beyond the notes,” he said.

This democratic process of choosing songs allows for The Acoustics to coalesce behind a soloist in such a way that it is easy to make the song truly their own. Members make way for the soloist, lending their voice as support, until their time comes to take centerstage.

But much of The Acoustics’ success can be attributed to their relationships offstage. The group elevates its soloists, as their collective vigor gives support through the notes they sing and through, more importantly, the strength of the camaraderie they share. The group’s beautiful songs are audible, but its sincerity is palpable.

Through friendship, the group is able to succeed in harmonizing on musical and emotional levels.

“The better we relate together, the better we sound,” Julia Gill, CSON ’17, said.

When you watch The Acoustics, the intimate connection between its members is clearly visible. As they look into each other’s eyes, smiling while keeping themselves composed, the level of kinship seems high, closer than the semicircle they form on stage would suggest. As one member looks or sings with another, this vibe of love and

connectedness propagates throughout.

“We prioritize our personalities and how we interact with one another,” Enjay Brown, MCAS ’19, said.

Using personal relationships as a foundation makes the music better. The bonds between the members are essential to the cohesiveness of the group. Interplay between members serves an important purpose on and off the stage. There is no feigning of emotions or enjoyment in either environment. While it can be hard to discern the sincerity of full smiles on stage, one can rest assured that for The Acoustics, the sentiments expressed are real.

“We are having fun,” Margaret Douer, MCAS ’18, said. “We don’t just look like we are having fun.”

Performing with the utmost integrity, while shedding unnecessary stiffness stemming from meticulously formulated songs, The Acoustics exude passion and joy. Moving forward, keeping with tradition and the times, The Acoustics look to establish themselves as one of the most forwardthinking a cappella groups on campus.

“I hope to see the younger members of The Acoustics evolve as I graduate this spring,” Michienzie said. “I want to see them take on future challenges for the betterment of the group just as many of the upperclassmen have.”

On stage, as they perform, The Acoustics may appear as an amalgamation of talent lending their voices to a song for a small moment of time. Though this is true, it explains only half of the picture.

The other half is that The Acoustics are a family.

AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR

JULIA HOPKINS / HIEHGTS EDITOR

THIS WEEKEND in arts

BY: HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN | ASST. ARTS & REVIEW EDITOR

GEORGE WATSKY (SUN. AT 6 P.M.)

‘OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL’ (OPENS FRI.)

This Sunday, the hip-hop artist and slam poet will bring his x Infinity tour to the House of Blues. Hear the creative lyricist perform a high-energy set list of original hip-hop tracks off of his newest album.

When a widowed mother and her daughters attempt to expand the success of their seance scam business, the family finds itself in the throes of a sinister haunting. Just in time for Halloween, this horror sequel promises merciless demons and unforgiving spirits.

IMPROV ASYLUM (FRI. AT MIDNIGHT) As part of a recurring Friday night series, this improv comedy show is inspired by the popular game Cards Against Humanity. The comedy group promises hysterical jokes “as rottenly wild as your most deranged thoughts.”

‘JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK’ (OPENS FRI.) Tom Cruise plays Jack Reacher, who works tirelessly to prove the innocence of Army Maj. Susan Turner.

This case evolves into a quest for the truth behind a mysterious government conspiracy involving the death of U.S. soldiers.

UNIVERSAL PICTURES

‘KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES’ (OPENS FRI.) This action-comedy hybrid stars Zach Galifianakis and Isla Fisher as an ordinary couple with extraordinary neighbors. Hilarious and suspenseful, the movie affirms that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side—especially when covert operations are involved.

LUPE FIASCO (SUN. AT 8 P.M.) The American rapper and producer is set to perform some of his new songs and classic hits for a Boston crowd this Sunday. Head to the Wilbur Theatre to hear this Chicago native live.

PUMPKIN SPICE LAUGHTER (FRI. AT 8 P.M.) Hosted by the CCE, this free, fall-themed show promises imaginative improv comedy and hilarious hijinks. Laughter and jokes are sure to abound this Friday night in Stokes South 195.

YO-YO MA (THURS. AT 8 P.M.) Boston’s Symphony Hall welcomes world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma to be featured in this week’s highly anticipated classical concert. Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit conducts works by Walton, Elgar, and Holst featuring the prominent cellist.

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Thursday, October 20, 2016

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ting the Devlin lecture hall. But the night pressed on anyway as Christian Dupont, the organizer of the event and a Burns librarian, greeted the audience.

“Poems of Repossession - A Celebration of Contemporary Irish Poetry” was centered around Leabhar na hAthghabhála: Poems of Repossession, an anthology of Irish writings put together by Burns Library scholar Louis de Paor.

A poet himself, de Paor was the first to read. He opened with “My Sorrow, Doncha,” a lament for the death of a young child. The words were especially touching in the native tongue.

The English translation of the fourth stanza is similarly chilling: “The moon is dark and I cannot sleep. All ease has left me. / The candid Gaelic is harsh and gloomy—an evil omen. / I hate the time that I pass with friends, their wit torments me. / Since the day I saw you on the sands so lifeless no sun has shone.”

Three more readers, two of whom had not read together in over 20 years, took the stage as time passed on. Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Liam O Muirthile, and Deirdre Brennan (all poets in their own right), read from the same work, Leabhar na hAthghabhála.

Many poems dealt with the pain of loss, and others with the beauty of life, imbuing symbols of nature, youth, and death. As one of the presenters so eloquently suggested, perhaps the beauty of youth and childhood is very much connected to the beauty of loss and death—they seem to be tied together in a cyclical nature, one eventually leading back to the other.

Without question, “Poems of Repossession” represents a larger issue not only on BC’s campus, but within humanity as a whole. The event was certainly rather cerebral, dealing in subject matter that most undergraduate students have little to no background in. Many of the poems were read in the native Irish tongue, making

certain nuances of the writing more difficult to follow. Some experiences, on the other hand, run deeper than what words may present on the surface.

Take the first poem of the night, “My Sorrow, Donncha,” as an example. The words, in English, are beautiful—there is no doubt about it. But running even deeper, the poem read in its native tongue communicates sadness, anger, and weariness in such a way that a listener’s soul feels each and every emotion that the writer has suffered with so deeply. Certainly, grappling with the native tongue and the high levels of emotion it conveyed took work, but it was equally rewarding by the end of the event.

And herein lies the problem. At BC, students are constantly inundated with schoolwork, social pressures, relationships, work shifts, and the like. “Poems of Repossession” was a remarkably beautiful event, even if an emotionally and physi-

cally draining one as well. The value gained from listening to the experts on Irish writings speak from their hearts truly was immense, but most students have not and will not ever come into contact with such a challenging scenario. Is a it lack of an environment that fosters the energy for events such as this, or just a more personal lack of willingness to challenge oneself on such a high intellectual level? Or even just poor advertising? It remains difficult to say, but regardless, the low student attendance of “Poems of Repossession” is quite a shame.

Still, perhaps this is all just conjecture (and very pessimistic conjecture, at that).

The truths uncovered and explored at “Poems of Repossession - A Celebration of Contemporary Irish Poetry” were unquestionably human, and unquestionably important. And for those in attendance, there may never be another night quite like it.

comfortable onstage. Even more impressive, though, is the vintage-soul blend she boasts when singing. Her smooth-asbutter vocals carry prominent notes of nostalgia from a time long past—when well-trained, ’60s-era chanteuses stole the spotlight in popular culture and at clubs across the nation.

She’s got all the talent, charisma, and stage presence of the archetypal jazz vocalist that music lovers yearn for from the old days. Her bravada and passionate vocal riffs collide to create a vivid image of the music industry when blues-rock and big hair were all the rage.

Except she’s only 24, and the aforementioned beautiful song she sings is merely a re-imagined, vintage-tinged rendition of Outkast’s chaotic funk hit, “Hey Ya.” Go figure.

While Niemietz’s inventive cover might be a three-minute masterpiece, it’s also just one of the many tracks reimagined and fine-tuned by Scott Bradlee’s quirky parody band, Postmodern Jukebox.

Featuring an ever-rotating cast of lead vocalists, backup singers, and seasoned musicians, the band injects a healthy dose of vintage charm into contemporary pop hits released by some of today’s biggest stars. The brilliant irony of it all is how the new songs are given a fresh and exciting makeover simply by slowing the tempo, tossing in some old-time brassy beats, and avoiding autotune altogether. Most of the time, I’ve found, PMJ makes mediocre songs sound amazing and great songs even better than before.

Since the birth of this vintage-soul group in 2011, PMJ has tackled prominent songs from a host of different artists spanning virtually all genres.

Miley Cyrus’s in-your-face “We Can’t Stop” drips defiance and rebellion in its original version. In PMJ’s remake, these sounds are subdued, the song seemingly pulled straight out of a 1920s speakeasy.

The band’s bouncy version of “Thrift Shop” sounds more like a spunky, early ’20s tune and less like the iconic hit from

dynamic hip-hop duo Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. Even Ginuwine’s raunchy “Pony” boasts an appealing, old-timey aesthetic. And those aren’t even the best covers—see any PMJ song featuring Haley Reinhart for reference.

As far as song covers go, I’ve never really preferred them to the originals.

Something about the idea of unnecessarily messing with a good thing or fixing something that ain’t broke just rubbed me the wrong way. For instance, I’ve yet to find a Garth Brooks cover that triumphs in style and quality over the original. Show me a recent rendition of “Uptown Girl,” and I’ll bet you the guy has nothing on my old friend Billy. Don’t get me wrong, I would always be open to listening to covers—I just wouldn’t gravitate toward that kind of thing.

Now, PMJ’s quirky concept—propelling pop hits of today into the past, decades before the singers themselves were even born—has provided me with an entirely new outlook on the art of

creating song covers. The challenge of totally re-configuring a song, breaking down its instrumental backbone, and generating an entirely new set of instrumentals inspired by early music genres is truly something to be in awe of.

And while most cover artists may not go to these lengths to make someone else’s song their own, the magnitude of such a daunting undertaking remains.

The remaking and rebooting of an original art piece always has its risks— look at Grease 2 or Steve Martin and Beyonce’s Pink Panther, if you don’t believe me. This time around, though, Scott Bradlee and his band of merry musicians have done something virtually unthinkable. These copycats are better than the originals. And for that, this kooky cover band deserves a listen.

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Have you ever been struck by a gnawing curiosity about the characters who stand on the sidelines of your favorite sports? Have you found yourself contemplating the inner workings of their lives and the struggles they face on a daily basis? If you belong to the minority of humans who ask these questions, Mascots is the movie for you. Those in the majority who would rather simply watch a game, however, will find that Mascots offers a long-winded plot that the audience tolerates for the rare moments of

genuine novelty and hilarity within the film.

Directed by mockumentary enthusiast Christopher Guest, Mascots hit Netflix on Oct. 13. The film aims to document the previously unexplored niche of mascots and their journeys to a mascot competition in which the highest prize is the Golden Fluffy.

Mascots follows five acts in particular, with the first act starring Mike Murray (Zach Woods) and Mindy Murray (Sarah Baker). The Murrays fit the bill for the classic unhappy married couple that remains together for no reason apparent to anyone. They begin the film’s trend of awkward

silenc, that results in many instances of uncomfortable feelings for the audience. Their act involves a bright red and green duo that miserably pumps up the dismal fanbase of a minor league baseball team. The second mascot act involves a family dynasty of Golly men (Tom Bennett and Jim Piddock) from England who have played Sid, a soccer mascot. The third act encompasses the beauty pageant-esque “white trash” of the competitive mascot world, starring the sister combo of Cindi Babineaux (Parker Posey) and Laci Babineaux (Susan Yeagley). They tackle the issues of feminism through a contemporary dance routine of an

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armadillo, which actually does hold the hilarity expected that the others lack. The fourth act consists of a pervy, violent rogue named Tommy (Chris O’Dowd) who portrays The Fist, the official mascot of his town’s hockey team. The final act holds the position of most pathetic among the mascots, for it is composed of a lonely man named Phil (Christopher Moynihan) whose entire life revolves around his passion for playing a plumber at high school football games.

Mayhem erupts among these five acts when they come together for a mascot competition in Anaheim, Calif. The cast members venture to be judged by a panel of three, with the most notable judge being Gabby Monkhouse (Jane Lynch), a oncerenowned mascot who was forced to retire due to injury and subsequently wrote an autobiography chronicling the tale of her journey to God and a successful real estate career. Leading up to the big night, the acts unravel in the most predictable of ways. The resolution of all of these moving parts seems to occur as expected as well, and the film closes on a happy ending for the characters—if happy ending translates to a stark kind of contentment with their pitiful lives.

The main issue with Mascots is the wide gap between the comedic potential a movie of this subject could have and what Guest pres-

ents audiences with. The world of mascots is uncharted territory, and this advantage could result in some seriously novel characters and storylines. Instead, the film mostly recycles archetypes many comedic movies already possess and assigns them a bizarre mascot, including those of Guest’s other mockumentary films like Best in Show. The more stylistic issue with Mascots revolves around how the mockumentary genre was roughly developed. The fast camera cuts unique to mockumentaries were a bit too fast for an audience to really process jokes, resulting in some solid jokes that did not land properly. Some silences utilized in the film lasted too long and proceeded to make whatever could have been funny exceedingly awkward.

Regardless of these issues, there were some genuine moments of hilarity from standout stars Lynch and Bennett. Overall, however, the viewer seems to just trail along through the film without any building interest in what will occur next.

While Mascots provides some interspersed chuckles and somewhat interesting storyline, the ultimate impression left on the viewer is lackluster. If nothing else, Mascots will perhaps make you question who the person underneath the Baldwin head really is the next time you’re at a Boston College football game.

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If anything, it’s a loud diatribe that seems to stay fueled by lyrics meant to bemoan today’s society.

The album’s second track, “Bad Decisions,” calls attention to the implications of social media as it concerns human connection, as lead vocalist Alex Trimble sings, “Lately / Think I’ve had enough / Of generation information every station / And I can’t turn it off.” It’s an encore to the album’s first track, “Are We Ready (Wreck)” that illuminates our hypnosis at the hand of a consumer-laden culture. But in spite of its poetics, if you’re looking for an ode to one of Two Door Cinema Club’s previous albums, Gameshow is more akin to The 1975 mixed with a pinch of Twenty One Pilots-esque vocals, and not in a good way.

The only thing this album preserves is Two Door Cinema Club’s classic funky basslines. Nevertheless, the result is what sounds like lazy musicality—recycled disco beats meet the occasional ’80s rock guitar lick. Though one could argue that the album’s imaginative lyrics carry through and help listeners

largely ignore what the album lacks musically, with each continued listen, the lyrics fade away, and one simply stops listening to the lyrics altogether—the only thing that gets stuck in your head is a consistent and rather annoying techno beat.

Rather than standing as Two Door Cinema Club’s triumphant and energetic return to the music world, Gameshow feels half-baked, haphazard, and generally half-assed.

In an attempt to inject potent and forward-thinking lyrics into a pulsating techno beat, the lyrics come off as an afterthought rather than a vehicle to carry the album’s message. As a result, Gameshow is a difficult album to pick apart. Maybe it’s not meant to be, but to be fair, it is an album that deserves to be applauded for its efforts. In some ways, going the ’80s rock and disco route, though at the cost of taking a left-hand turn away from what made the band a name in the indie-pop world, is a move that makes some sense, though it’s a road already trod by other musicians to far more interesting results. What the album’s listeners and fans of the band get is a kind of dull sense of deja vu.

Trimble ascends into his falsetto range for most of the album’s songs, only to ultimately sound like an unimpressive imitation of Tyler Joseph mixed with ’70s metal. The vocals are not bad, but they’re just

not memorable or anything like the Trimble fans had come to love.

With a dramatic change to the band’s musical style both lyrically and instrumentally, one would think Gameshow would strike a chord with listeners both in and outside their already-large fanbase, but evidently Gameshow just feels like we’ve heard it from someone else before. Nothing that Two Door Cinema Club has ever produced before explains this album’s newfound niche in the vein of funk-pop, but what we have now is a disco album disguised as indie rock.

The title track “Gameshow” is arguably the most memorable on the album—something you actually might hear as the sound accompanying the ending credits of an ’80s film. Trimble ditches the falsetto on this track for something a little more in his range. “Gameshow” channels The Strokes with success. Trimble goes on about how, “I’m a Lynchian dream, made of plasticine,” and, “Somehow this strange love makes it easier /Just give me something, anything to live by / My blood is pumping so fast, I’ve forgotten why I try.”

“Gameshow” explains perhaps why

Two Door Cinema Club has come unhinged, and for the better.

There’s nothing wrong with changing and playing with a band’s established musical style, but to so abruptly abandon the sound that brought Two Door Cinema Club to the top of the charts makes for a generally confusing and unlikeable album—that is, if you are looking for an album that is anything like Beacon or Tourist History. If not, then Gameshow is a good amalgamation of pop, indie, rock, and electronic music all swirled into one thematically jam-packed album..

As the chorus of its titular song suggests, “When the walls come down,” we are left with the seventh album from Kings of Leon. The popular band breaks down any walls it had built for itself in its previous albums and alters the expectations of the public. Trying some different stylistic techniques dissimilar from its more conventional music, the band creates

a much more alternative sound on its newest album, WALLS. While Kings of Leon is still recognizable as the band that released the popular “Use Somebody,” this album feels less like a rock concert than the band’s previous works. Rather, the music has a provocativeness and thoughtfulness about it that comes through clearly and honestly. Although time has passed since the band began in Tennessee with a strong country sound, the band manages to bring in some

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Southern, folkish sounds to round off the album.

Every song on the album seems to be a standout and would thrive as individual singles. Each could be a featured track in a new movie, but could also serve as fun dance tracks at various events. Additionally, each song has especially strong instrumentation. While the lyrics are wonderful, they almost fall secondary to the remarkable guitar solos. It’s nice that the background music isn’t the

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computerized music that seems to be everywhere lately.

The first track on the album is a flexible piece that could be featured at the beginning of a favorite at the box office or as one opened the doors of a popular clothing store. It has a transformative, upbeat nature that leaves the audience wanting to “take the time to waste a moment.”

“Around the World” has a similarly effortless feel. The carefree tune brings in the idea of traveling around the world and losing oneself, finding a girl. Although it’s mainly about love, the hit will make sure you “keep dancing, like it’s ya last time.”

“Find Me” sounds more like the Kings of Leon we are all familiar with.

It could be part of the band’s Only

By The Night. It does manage, on the other hand, to stay relevant and serve as an important piece of this album. Although the band seems to be making a shift in its style choices, it isn’t totally discarding the way it has made music up until this point. This song should ease the nerves of fans that have been with the band since the beginning that liked its original sound.

There were a few tracks on the album like “Reverend,” “Muchacho,”

and “WALLS” that had a Southern sense to them. Diverging from the usual pop and rock, these tracks give a nod to the band’s background, while still maintaining its rocker energy.

“Wild” is effortlessly cool. The song looks back on “wild heartbreak and wonder” of the past with a positivity that is often missing in breakup songs.

“WALLS” is perfectly understated and provides a nice, reflective end to such a high-energy album. Using heartbreak and broken relationships of the past, the band highlights the process of falling in and out of love. It is the perfect song to pick to name the album after. WALLS, as an album, is something new and different. It breaks down the walls of the music that has been doing well on today’s charts and brings in a more rocker-alternative vibe. It also manages to talk about heartbreak in a unique way, adding a positive spin on a relationship that once was.

This music is a nice change from the Justin Bieber types and other artists that have been climbing to the top of the charts recently. As long as there are bands like Kings of Leon making music, there will be some excellent music topping the charts.

Watching pop-rock band DNCE’s recently released video for its single “Body Moves” feels like an invasion of privacy. The kaleidoscope of dimly lit, sexually charged scenes starring frontman Joe Jonas and bandmates Jack Lawless, Cole Whittle, and JinJoo Lee is intense and just scandalous enough to get away with.

Switching from home video settings, to black and white clips, to neon-filtered scenes, and back to the band performing in a dingy industrial landscape makes for a wildly dynamic video. Thematically, the artists sing about onenight stands and letting go of inhibitions. The video relays that message not only through presentation and inherent energy.

The hyperactive and aggressive mood of the video is only further proved through each band member’s experiences. As a shirtless Jonas films his midnight escapade with a leggy blonde on a home camera, Lee and Whittle each dance and grope those around them. The onslaught of suggestive content drives the song’s message home, but doesn’t fully connect with the track’s sound.

With all of the dark, sensual imagery, one would think the song would carry a more sultry tone.

Instead, the song’s upbeat, pop sound clashes with its aesthetic, causing the video to be a little off-putting. DNCE’s effort to look cool and sexy, although successful, does not translate what it is performing. This also isn’t the first time DNCE has played upon racy topics with a lighthearted tone. “Cake By the Ocean,” a euphemism for “sex on the beach” has the same risque undertone as “Body Moves.”

Although the song’s correlation with the video seems to fall flat, the video holds its own.

Daringly sensual, it blurs the lines between flirty and inappropriate, but does so with a cinematographic skill and originality like none other.

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In this haunting song, Macklemore speaks out against the country’s issues with substance abuse. From a poignant list of publicized deaths, to a disturbing description of drug addiction, the song uses Macklemore’s signature emotionally charged rapping to bring a startling issue to a large audience.

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K_i\\ ;\ZX[\j CXk\i# B\ccp B\\gj ?`j N`ee`e^ =fidlcX Ed Kelly, from B8 cheidt. The German coach treated soccer as an art, not a science, an approach that earned him the first “A” license awarded by the U.S. Soccer Federation. After stints in the American Soccer League (ASL) and NASL, Schellscheidt was chosen to lead the U.S. National Team in 1975. He brought Kelly with him.

Kelly, known by teammates as the “Silver Fox” (presumably because of his gray mane), made two appearances with the national team. Representing the U.S. a total of five times in international play, he once faced a Mexican national team that featured future Real Madrid star Hugo Sanchez, arguably the best player in the country’s history.

His transition to the coaching sphere was largely accidental. In his veteran years, Kelly played for a coach who also managed a group of younger college kids. The coach couldn’t attend one of the team’s indoor tournaments, so he turned to Kelly for a favor.

“I said, ‘Sure.’ So I took the kids in and they liked it and we won the tournament and whatever bulls—t,” Kelly said. “One kid goes to me, ‘You know, Eddie, I go to school at Fairleigh Dickinson and they’re looking for an assistant coach up there. Would you be interested?’

Kelly took the assistant post at FDU and immediately changed the culture surrounding the program.

The head coach of the team took a hands-off approach, leaving Kelly to recruit and run practices—responsibilities that he said were a blessing and a curse. With the Silver Fox at the helm, the Knights won the most games in the country (21) and reached the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament, one of three tournament berths Kelly would earn in his five years at the university.

“I was fortunate enough to be

left to do everything,” Kelly said.

“Which, at one stage, kinda pissed me off because I was doing all the work, but I was the assistant.”

There was another issue, too: supporting a family on a $2,400 part-time salary. Unless you had a full-time gig, coaching collegiate soccer was “financial suicide,” as he told The New York Times in 1986.

He pursued opportunities in construction and carpentry in his free time away from the field. Despite his success at FDU, his financial situation threatened his ability to do what he loved for the first time in his life.

Then he got a call from a sports information director in the area.

“You know Seton Hall just opened up?”

Kelly paused for a second.

“Where’s Seton Hall?”

“About 15 minutes from your house in South Orange, [N.J.],” the SID said. “And they’re getting a new AD.” By the end of the night, the job was his. The Pirates named Larry Keating their new director of athletics, and tasked Kelly with rebuilding their struggling soccer program. The year before Kelly took the reins, the Pirates didn’t have a full roster, forfeited a match against Rutgers because they didn’t have enough players, and lost 13 of 14 games. Expectations were so low that the team celebrated a 4-0 loss to Army like a victory.

But after only one season, Seton Hall was barely recognizable.

Kelly transformed the Big East cellar-dweller into one of the best teams in the nation and the Pirates won a program-best 18 games in 1986, earning Kelly Division I Coach of the Year honors. During his three-year tenure, Kelly led the Pirates to a 40-13-6 record, with two regular-season conference and tournament titles to show for it.

“I had a bit of a resume going,” Kelly said. “It made me look like I was a miracle worker. Really, to be quite honest, it was easy enough.

When there’s nothing there, it’s easy to build a house. If you have to tear the house down, that’s another thing.”

Men’s soccer wasn’t the only program on the rise at Seton Hall at the time, either. Kelly’s close friend, P.J. Carlesimo, coached the men’s basketball team to its first-ever NCAA Tournament in 1988 and, one year later, came one basket shy of winning a national championship against Michigan.

Oddly, Kelly left Seton Hall after the 1987 season to coach the New Jersey Eagles, with whom he had won an ASL title as a player 10 years prior. Kelly oversaw a talented lineup that included future coaches Ken Lolla (Louisville), George Gelnovatch (Virginia), Dan Donigan (Rutgers), Dave Masur (St. John’s), and Tab Ramos (United States U-20 team). Kelly’s coaching tree has many, many branches.

But his brief hiatus from college soccer would be cut short by another phone call.

“Eddie, the coach from Boston College got fired.”

“Oh really?” Kelly replied.

“That’s interesting.”

“You know P.J. [Carlesimo]’s godfather is the AD?” “No, I f—king didn’t,” Kelly quipped.

Carlesimo contacted Bill Flynn, the legendary former AD at BC (and namesake of the Plex), and the rest is history.

It took only two years for Kelly to claim a Big East Tournament title at BC, and since the turn of the century, he has been even better. Kelly raked in three Big East Coach of the Year honors along with an ACC Coach of the Year award in 2007 after the Eagles won the ACC regular season and tournament titles. BC remains the only school in the conference since 2000 to capture both crowns in the same year, and the characters on that team have supplied Kelly with enough fond memories to last a

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<X^c\j =Xck\i `e ('k_ JkiX`^_k 9 P K 8IPE 9 I8Q =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj Boston College volleyball was searching for two things this weekend: its first Atlantic Coast Conference win and an end to a losing streak that has now reached eight games. Unfortunately for the Eagles, they returned to Chestnut Hill with neither. BC’s weekend against one of the best teams in the ACC and one of the worst teams is certainly disappointing for the Eagles, who have not found a consistent groove in conference play.

On Sunday, the Eagles (513, 0-8 Atlantic Coast) tackled Clemson (5-14, 0-7) in the hopes of breaking their ninegame losing streak. Clemson was currently tied with the Eagles for last place in the ACC, and this game guaranteed that one of these teams would have its first conference win. BC jumped out to an early lead, and had Clemson scrambling around the court to defend against powerful hits and soft touch. The teams were tied at 16 before the Eagles went on a late 5-1 run. BC closed out the set after a diving dig set up an off-balance kill from Julia Topor.

While the Eagles appeared to be rolling after taking the

first set, leading 6-1 early in the second set, the Tigers won four straight points to close the gap.

BC went on a run of its own to go up 12-7, but Clemson hung around and utilized BC errors.

Neither team could separate itself during the well-played second set—there were very few errors, and most of the points were won by well-placed kills and attacking shots. Clemson had its largest lead of the set at 23-21, and had two set points, but a kill from Camille Oemcke and a Clemson service error tied the set at 24. The marathon set went on until 27-27, when consecutive kills from McKenna Goss gave BC a set win.

Th e E a g l e s s t r u g g l e d to make a decisive run and put the Tigers away for good during the third set. Clemson went up 1310, but errors allowed BC to tie the set at 13, then 14, then 15, and at 16. Clemson jumped out 21-18, but after a long rally in which multiple balls hit the ceiling and bodies were sacrificed, Sophia West’s kill brought the Eagles to within two points.

This was as close as BC would get, and the Tigers closed out the set 25-19.

The fourth set started off tight again, with errors keeping the teams close. Clemson’s biggest lead came at 18-13, but BC came back and again got

to within two points. Clemson kept its lead, but the Eagles brought the set to within one point after a Tigers attack error, forcing Clemson to take a timeout. Fresh off of its timeout, BC still could not find its late-set push, and fell again to Clemson 25-23.

In the fifth and final set to 15 points, the Tigers went up 7-4 early, aided by three errors from the Eagles. Two consecutive BC errors then gave Clemson a 10-5 lead. BC called a timeout and then strung together four straight points, aided by two errors from Clemson and two kills from Top or and Anna Skold. The Eagles tied the set at 11 after a Sophia West hit found the court, and then took the lead for the first time after another Clemson error. Despite this, Clemson rallied back, and won the third set 15-13.

On Friday night, BC traveled to Atlanta to play Georgia Tech (14-5, 5-2), losing to the Yellow Jackets in four sets. The Yellow Jackets’ serves were not overpowering, with BC returning most of them, and the kills were powerful, but not overbearing.

Georgia Tech’s success came from its ability to successfully change the pace of the rallies, finding open court and throwing off the Eagles’ rhythm with short and soft floaters.

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Ed Kelly made regular visits to the hospital to see Charlie Davies after a car accident left Davies critically injured. lifetime. With 12 NCAA Tournament appearances, including six straight from 2007-2012, Kelly hasn’t just established himself as the most decorated coach in program history—he is making a case to be the greatest men’s coach in BC history not named Jerry York.

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here was a third phone call that Kelly distinctly recalled. Seven years ago to the date, he was sitting in his home when he heard a buzz.

It was his dear friend Bob Bradley, then head coach of the U.S. Men’s National Team.

Something was wrong. He could sense it in Bradley’s voice.

“It’s Charlie.”

Charlie Davies, a former BC standout who was then playing for Bradley’s USMNT, had gotten into a car with two women he didn’t know after a night out in Washington, D.C. At around 3:15 a.m., a collision with a guardrail on the George Washington Parkway split the vehicle in half. One woman died, the other was sentenced to two years in prison, and Davies underwent surgery that made his right leg one and a half inches shorter than his left.

It’s far from the only obstacle Davies has faced on his road to professional soccer: during his childhood, his dad struggled with drug addiction and his mom suffered from mental illness; his newborn twins needed two months in neonatal intensive care before heading home; and in July, he was diagnosed with liposarcoma, a rare form of cancer.

None of this has stopped Davies, who is back on the MLS scene with the Philadelphia Union. His cancer is in remission and he’s at peace with his past, living happily with his wife in a quiet Boston suburb.

“He’s such a wonderful human being,” Kelly said, rattling off story after story about Davies in his BC days. “He’s been through a lot with his family, which I witnessed and

was a part of, so I knew all the details about what was going on.

Charlie’s been tested a lot. He’s been challenged in life.”

It’s a story like Davies’s that makes coaching so worthwhile for Kelly. After more than three decades of coaching college soccer, he said the players, not the hardware, have had the lasting impacts on him. In particular, the acclaimed 2006 and 2007 teams stand out.

Kelly smirked as he remembered the faces that made those years so enjoyable. Alejandro Bedoya anchored the midfield, tallying 26 points and garnering ACC Offensive Player of the Year honors.

Since graduating, Bedoya has been a staple for the USMNT, seeing action in all four games of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and winning the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup, the first for the U.S. in six years. Now, he plays beside his old friend, Davies, on the Philadelphia Union.

Sherron Manswell showed serious pro potential in his senior season, enough to land him on the All-American list at the end of the year. When Kelly pressed him about a possible future in the MLS, Manswell replied, “No, I think I’ll stick with God,” and returned home to his native Trinidad.

Nor will the head coach forget Jamen Amato, a defensive stalwart who gave opposing attackers nightmares in the midfield. Only days after Kelly received news of Davies’s car accident, he was blindsided by another piece of tragic news. Amato had passed away after a long battle with cancer, just two years after he graduated from BC. Throughout the heartbreak and happiness, the head coach has kept one thing consistent: the connection with his players. If you play for Ed, you are family—it’s apparent in every postgame interview that gets interrupted by former players visiting from out of town and greeting him with a bear

hug. They know exactly where to find him.

“I easily fell in love with this school,” Kelly said. “My three kids went here. And, 29 years later, I’m sitting here talking to you.”

Lend Kelly your ear, and he’ll give you hours worth of entertaining stories packed with clever one-liners. Lend him your soccer talents, though, and he might just turn you into the next great player—or coach, for that matter.

His resume speaks volumes: while he may not be a magic miracle worker, he does work his ass off until his guys perform up to his standards.

“It feels like it’s been a journey I was supposed to be on,” he said.

“I don’t know how to explain it in any other way. It’s always felt like that to me—that this is what I’m supposed to be doing. Maybe it’s just because I love it, you know what I mean? I can’t imagine my life doing anything else.”

It’s difficult to picture BC men’s soccer without Ed Kelly at the helm, as well. There’s no rush to pick a successor, but he has an idea.

“Sooner or later, I can envision [Davies] becoming an assistant coach or taking over,” Kelly said.

“Something like that.”

As he gazed out at the banner commemorating the accomplishments of the 2007 squad, remembering Davies, Bedoya, and all the unforgettable moments from those years, he noticed his newest banner—one for last year’s team that made a surprise run to the Elite Eight. Now it’s a question of what he’ll add this year—another season, another family, another chance to be around the game he fell in love with as an 8-year-old.

Will it be another banner? Or another set of memories to tell a sports editor 10 years from now?

Oh, don’t worry about his age.

Trust me, by then, he’ll still be here. And there’ll be plenty more stories to tell.

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9:Ëj ,)$>Xd\ ?fZb\p <Xjk Jki\Xb 9ifb\e 9P J?8EEFE B<CCP ?\`^_kj <[`kfi The last time Boston College women’s hockey lost in Hockey East, the newest freshmen didn’t even have college on their radars. They were only 16, after all. In what is an eternity in college athletics, the Eagles had maintained a 52-game in-conference winning streak. Until Saturday, that is.

Showing its transition year after the loss of six seniors and a handful of new players, BC fell to Maine—a team with a 10-23-2 record last season—on the road after a win against the University of New Hampshire the day before.

After a back-and-forth during the first period, the Eagles (3-2-1, 3-1-1 Hockey East) got their opportunity in the second to put a point on the board.

Anna Wright was sent to the penalty box for checking, and BC made quick work of the power play. Freshman phenom Caitrin Lonergan nailed a shot past Carly Jackson to make the score 1-0 Eagles.

It took a few minutes, but the Black

Bears (6-0, 1-3-0) evened up the score.

Morgan Sakundiak streaked up the side of the ice and faked out Megan Keller in front of the goal, sending her diving to the floor. With Keller out of the way, Sakundiak had a clear shot to put one past Katie Burt. The goal was not a death knell by any means—just the week before, Maine had tied it up only for the Eagles to score again for the win.

Then came the third period.

With only a few minutes on the ice for the third, Maine came out ready to put this one away. Teresa Vasinova barrelled through a defenseman and got back up, charging the goal. Though it didn’t make it in, her shot distracted Burt, who tried to stretch herself to cover the entire goal. Brooke Stacey took hold of the puck and launched it at the net, handing the Black Bears the lead.

BC tied it up yet again with only six minutes remaining in the game. Keller and Toni Ann Miano collaborated for the goal, with Miano scoring her first of the season. But Maine had enough en-

ergy for a final goal with 37 seconds left.

A hard-hit shot from Brittany Colton made its way past the BC defensemen, and teammate Vendula Pribylova tipped it in for her. The crowd erupted, and the Eagles fell from their lofty position in Hockey East.

Times were easier on Friday, when the Eagles blew out New Hampshire 4-1 at Whittemore Arena—BC’s first time back after being defeated in the NCAA National Championship by the University of Minnesota. The Eagles looked strong on the penalty kill, as seven power plays for UNH (0-5-0, 0-20) yielded no goals. When BC received its first true power play nine minutes into the game, however, it capitalized on the opportunity. Keller took a hard shot from behind the faceoff circles that made its way through the Wildcats and Eagles crowding the net, sending BC on its way to a 1-0 lead.

UNH would take time to respond, waiting until the beginning seconds of the second period to make its attack.

With the Wildcats line making its way up the ice against BC’s defense, Taylor

Wenczkowski, the right wing, made the puck hit twine, leaving Burt to look back at the shot in the net.

The score remained tied for the rest of the second period, until the Eagles unleashed an offensive attack that overwhelmed the Wildcats. Keller tried to do two jobs at once yet again, charging goalie Kyra Smith for another goal.

When her shot was deflected, Kristyn Capizzano was there to bury it into the net for her second goal of the season.

Later, off of another rebound from the stick of Capizzano, Makenna Newkirk put one in by the left pipe, a sprawledout Smith unable to prevent it.

With only a minute left in the game, the win was almost guaranteed to go to the Eagles. To put the icing on the cake, Grace Bizal put an empty-netter from behind the blue line for her first goal of the season.

Though an obvious low to lose to the weakest opponent in Hockey East, BC showed promise in its penalty kill, and in-game experience will only enhance the offensive prowess seen from the freshmen and sophomores.

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<X^c\j I\Yfle[ N`k_ N`e mj% N`jZfej`e 9P :8D@CC< ?FD8 ?\`^_kj JkX]] Since the start of the season last weekend with the loss against Air Force and the win against the University of Denver, it has felt like one step forward and one step back for Boston College men’s hockey. Thankfully for BC, the game against the University of Wisconsin was a step forward for a team looking to get some traction early on in the season. BC’s win—an 8-5 victory—was largely helped by an awakened, rejuvenated offense led by a Christopher Brown hat trick.

This victory did not come without a struggle, however, as an energetic BC (2-2) offense was plagued by penalties and game-changing mistakes. This rollercoaster of a game displayed the talent and potential of a young team.

In response to Friday’s loss, head coach Jerry York made some slight changes to the lines, including making room for the return of captain Chris Calnan. It was clear from the start of the game that the Eagles were looking for puck possession and pursuing goals, something they struggled with in the first game against the Badgers on Friday. Off the first faceoff of the night, David Cotton took control of the puck with help from Brown and Casey Fitzgerald. As he skated past the Badgers’ blue line, he let a shot off toward the Wisconsin (2-2) net, which then trickled past the pads of Matt Jurusik. Cotton’s goal only 10 seconds into the game marked the beginning of 10 minutes dominated by the Eagles. On two separate power plays, the Eagles came out with speed and force, controlling the puck. No

puck connected with the Badgers’ net, but the Eagles kept the pressure on Jurusik, often getting to rebounds.

BC’s second goal of the night came from a hustling Brown around halfway through the period, when he skated towards the net and sent the puck just inside the post with a backhanded shot.

The frustrated Badgers tried to generate some rhythm in response to their two-goal deficit, drawing two penalties on the Eagles. Despite killing a 5-on-3 penalty, a five-minute major on Ron Greco for hitting from behind proved too difficult for BC to defend. During the Wisconsin power play, the Eagles had trouble clearing rebounds off the net, and the Badgers took advantage. Trent Frederic, a firstround draft pick of the Boston Bruins, deflected a backdoor shot on Joe Woll and brought the score to 2-1 in the last 30 seconds of the period.

The Eagles still had 2:12 to kill on the Greco penalty at the start of the second period, but skilled play

by Woll kept them afloat. A crucial mistake by Graham McPhee, however, gave the Badgers their second goal of the game. McPhee attempted a pass through his legs to no one in particular, leaving Luke McInnis out to dry on a 3-on-1. J.D. Greenway easily beat Woll on his left, evening the score at 2-2. Two minutes later, a penalty for too many men on the ice at 5:04 gave BC a man advantage. The energy from this power play led to a goal by Matty Gaudreau just after the penalty expired. Off a rebound from a one-timer from Connor Moore, Gaudreau got his stick on the puck, sending it past Jurusik. The play was

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In Saturday’s 8-5 victory, Christopher Brown notched his first hat trick. reviewed because Calnan came in the crease, but was confirmed.

About five minutes later, Brown scored his second goal of the game.

Off a turnover by the Badgers, Brown grabbed the puck and skated to the net. He then dangled the puck for a beautiful top-shelf goal, bringing the score to 4-2. That was not the end for the BC offense. Julius Mattila tallied his first goal of the season, and Brown rounded out his hat trick only 20 seconds later on a blast from between the circles. It was the first hat trick for the Eagles since Colin White had one last season against Providence.

That was enough for Wisconsin head coach Tony Granato, who replaced Jurusik in goal with Jack Berry.

The Badgers finally struck back with an outstanding between the legs shot from Cameron Hughes with three minutes remaining in the period. The Eagles ended the period with a hooking call on Colin White and a 28-16 shot advantage.

While BC continued its strong offensive play with aggressive fore-

checking in the third period, Wisconsin evened up the score with some newfound energy. After his shot was rebounded, Ryan Wagner, while sliding past the goal on his knees, shot the puck past Woll. This goal and one from a shot by Grant Besse that was originally saved by Woll but slipped through his legs, brought the score to a one-goal difference. BC was not in a comfortable spot anymore.

With the game suddenly up for grabs, both teams jostled for the puck and peppered both goalies with shots. Woll came up with some big saves to keep BC in the lead, and the time trickled down on the clock. With Wisconsin under pressure, Berry was pulled to give the Badgers another player on the ice. When Berry was pulled, however, the Badgers were in their own zone. This gave Ryan Fitzgerald the opportunity to get an empty net goal after stealing the puck from behind the net. White further solidified the Eagles’ lead with another empty-netter a minute later and with 25 seconds left in the game.

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The rushing struggles are particularly prevalent on early downs, leaving the Orange with a high number of second or third and long scenarios.

This, coupled with the inconsistency of the passing game, makes sustained drives difficult. Syracuse ranks 110th in Football Outsiders’ First Down Rate, the percentage of drives that gains at least one first down or produces a touchdown.

Fortunately for Babers, he has a pair of extremely reliable wide receiv-

ers to take the pressure off of Dungey and help sustain drives. Senior Amba Etta-Tawo has broken out in his final collegiate season, ranking second nationally with 930 receiving yards, despite only tallying 90 over the last two weeks. Etta-Tawo gives the Orange a true number-one receiver, comfortable running any route and able to make plays one-on-one. Junior Ervin Phillips has tallied 53 receptions and nearly 500 yards, serving as more of an underneath receiver, twice tallying double-digit receptions in a game without topping 100 yards.

On Saturday, expect the Orange to give the Eagles’ defense a bit of trouble. It will likely abandon the run early in the contest, negating one of BC’s strengths. Having struggled mightily against Virginia Tech and Clemson, this game presents the Eagles with an opportunity to show they can overcome the spread offenses that have been their downfall over the last two seasons. They will need to limit the Orange attack to short drives and avoid giving up yards after the catch. Additionally, the Eagles must vigilantly guard against deep play action passes after being burned numerous times against the Tigers.

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march down the field, instead of utilizing explosive plays, its chances of success will rapidly decrease.

On the other side of the ball, Syracuse still hasn’t made many improvements. The Orange ranks 113rd nationally in total defense and allows 33.3 points per game. Despite the offense’s improvements, a defense that struggles to stop opponents has plagued Babers’ inaugural campaign.

Syracuse has been particularly susceptible to explosive plays, allowing an average of 14.98 yards on completed passes and ranking 115th in Football Outsiders’ ISOPPP metric, which measures a defense’s ability to limit chunk plays.

One of the main culprits has been a defense that struggles to make plays. The Orange ranks 113th in the country in adjusted sack rate, and its secondary ranks a dismal 127th in Football Outsiders’ Havoc rate, which accounts for how frequently a team’s defensive backs record sacks and force turnovers.

The Orange has found success in stopping opponents on standarddown rushing plays, defined as plays that are first downs, 2nd-and-7 or fewer, 3rd-and-4 or fewer or 4th-and4 or fewer. On these plays, the defense

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With their tendency to concede explosive plays and an ability to stifle early rushing attempts, expect the Eagles to target Syracuse’s secondary on Saturday afternoon. The running game may struggle yet again, but quarterback Patrick Towles and his receivers should find plenty of open lanes. While the Eagles should definitely favor the aerial attack, they should take care to avoid getting into an up-tempo shootout with the Orange. Controlling the clock will still greatly benefit Addazio’s team.

As fans file into Alumni Stadium full of trepidation, wondering how the Eagles will rebound from their latest setback, the team on the opposite sideline offers a reminder of how quickly momentum changes.

Two weeks ago, the Orange lost 28-9 on the road against Wake Forest in its worst performance of the season.

Just one week after that total offensive and defensive failure, Babers and his players were raucously celebrating a monumental upset win.

Coming off of a similar breakdown against Clemson, the Eagles can only hope their fortune swings as rapidly.

Led by Eric Dungey at quarterback , the Orange has the 12th-best aerial attack in the nation. That’s third in the ACC, with 2,423 yards total through the air. The Eagles have struggled mightily at pass protection. Don’t be deceived by the fact that they’re fifth in the nation in the category. Against Virginia Tech and Clemson, the two Syracuse comparables, BC allowed 523 of its 898 yards.

Prediction: Syracuse 34, BC 16 RILEY OVEREND

Assoc. Sports Editor When Syracuse stomps into Chestnut Hill on Saturday, the key matchup to keep an eye on is the Orange’s effective passing game against an inconsistent Eagle secondary. For BC, it seems like a recipe for disaster, right? Wrong.

The Eagles are due for an upset win—even though, somehow, they’re six-point favorites against a team fresh off a Top-25 victory. BC will get its first ACC win in over 600 days.

Please, God, don’t make me count again.

Prediction: BC 20, Syracuse 17 ANNABEL STEELE

Asst. Sports Editor You might be optimistic about BC’s chances against Syracuse. After all, the Eagles are well-re ste d af ter their bye we ek and are eager to come out with a big win after the blowout loss to Clemson. Sure, it would be nice to see B C hand the Orange a crushing defeat, but it just isn’t going to happen.

Unless BC’s offense can jump out from the very beginning and compete well, Syracuse is going to walk away with the victory. The defense will ke ep it close, but ultimately there won’t be enough offensive production.

Prediction: Syracuse 24, BC 21

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Syracuse QB Eric Dungey has thrown for 2,197 yards and 12 touchdowns in seven games.

Overcome with emotion, Syracuse (3-4, 1-2 Atlantic Coast) head coach Dino Babers threw his head back, howling a primal cry of victory across the packed locker room, “WHOSE HOUSE? WHOSE HOUSE?” Banging on lockers and walls, Babers’s players answered the call, “OUR HOUSE!” The frenzied scene that unfolded in the home locker room at the Carrier Dome after the Orange upended No. 17 Virginia Tech (4-2, 2-1) 31-17 last Saturday has been an unfamiliar sight around Chestnut Hill in recent weeks. Since returning home from Blacksburg in mid-September after absorbing a 49-0 drubbing, Boston College (3-3, 0-3) has spent the vast majority of the last month in a more anxious and rebuilding mindset.

Games against Wagner and Buffalo were labeled building blocks to future ACC success, contests in which the Eagles could reestablish their confidence for the rest of the season and banish the nervous atmo-

sphere. After being handed another blowout loss, 56-10 to No. 3 Clemson (7-0, 4-0) in a Friday primetime game, however, the team remained in an intense introspective mood, reminded of how much work was left to be done. The team’s bye week mercifully arrived, offering a final chance to regroup and prepare for the second half of the season.

Following a nearly two-week hiatus, the Eagles return to Alumni Stadium on Saturday, as they play Syracuse to close out a monthlong homestead. There is a growing sense that this week’s game is a must-win for Steve Addazio’s team, with two of the next three games on the road and the home game featuring Heisman frontrunner Lamar Jackson and No. 7 Louisville (5-1, 3-1). Certainly, a loss in this game, which the Eagles are currently favored to win by six points, would be disastrous for the team’s chances of returning to a bowl game.

While acknowledging the pressure to win in his weekly press conference, Addazio refused to place any additional weight on this particular game.

“You know, they’re all must-wins, they really are,” Addazio said. “Nowadays, every game has got so much importance.”

Though its record hasn’t improved greatly, the Orange has made strides away from last season’s 4-8 disappointment in its first season

under Babers, who took over the program after two seasons at Bowling Green.

Syracuse’s path to victory has often relied upon its explosive yet inconsistent offense.

Babers runs a rapid tempo spread offense, with the Orange ranking fourth nationally in Football Outsiders’ Adjusted Pace, a metric that measures the difference between the number of plays a team runs per game and the number of plays that it would be expected to run given its average time of possession.

Syracuse heavily favors the aerial attack, with sophomore quarterback Eric Dungey leading the nation with 308 pass attempts and ranking fourth with 2,197 passing yards.

Dungey, while possessing decent mobility and rushing for over 100 yards in the Virginia Tech upset victory, spends most of the game slinging quick passes to an army of receivers.

The Orange occasionally throws the ball deep, especially off of play action or after several consecutive quick throws, but the quick passing game dominates the offense. The strategy masks the fact that Dungey doesn’t have a very strong arm. While Syracuse’s passing game tallies an impressive volume, the efficiency leaves a lot to be desired, as its average just 7.1 yards per pass attempt.

Babers also uses the short throws to

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You want the whole story, right?”

We were only a minute into the interview, and Ed Kelly already thought he might be losing me. He described his childhood in Ireland as we walked over to the visitor’s bench at Newton Campus Soccer Field and took a seat. But I had time.

And the winningest soccer coach in Boston College history had a damn good story.

Kelly is a soccer guru—and always has been. Growing up in Dublin post-World War II, he was raised with six siblings in a crowded home on the edge of the congested Irish city. They were blue-collar, like all the other families in the community. With Kelly’s parents busy at work, he became fiercely independent. Eight-year-old Eddie would spend his Sunday mornings at church and the afternoons playing in the streets, where swarms of neighborhood kids would gather for 10-on-10 scrimmages. He thrived in the freedom that the low-income, bluecollar atmosphere provided.

“You could do things by yourself,” Kelly said. He glanced around at his current players running through light drills a day before the team’s Friday night matchup with No. 3 Clemson. “A lot of these guys are coached.

My father never saw me play on a regular team until I actually played pro.”

He didn’t have a coach, but he certainly had a passion. He spent most of his time

with a soccer ball, competing in local church leagues or just kicking it around outside with friends. It didn’t stop in the house, either. Marks from tennis balls peppered the walls and ceiling of his bedroom like giant freckles, a product of Kelly’s constant diving headers. He likened it to the kid shooting hoops outside by himself, envisioning a raucous crowd, and counting down 3… 2… 1…

Kelly’s path to professional soccer was tougher than most. Before the midfielder played his first full season in the North American Soccer League (NASL), Kelly had immigrated to New Jersey, moved back to Dublin after nine months, returned to the States again, and served four years in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War. His military service helped him adjust to, among many things, the lack of humor in American culture compared to Dublin at the time.

He was accustomed to hanging on the corner with his buddies, entertaining themselves with a steady stream of jokes.

“Rich people don’t have senses of humor,” Kelly said with a laugh.

So how did the wisecracking, brash, and occasionally foul-mouthed Irishman end up at BC?

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;pcXe >i\\eY\i^Ëj CXjk$J\Zfe[ >fXc C`]kj L:fee Fm\i 9: 9P 9I@8E D8CFE<P =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj If you were a newcomer to the sport, watching Boston College men’s soccer since the beginning of its game against No. 3 Clemson Friday evening, then for 210 minutes of gameplay you may have been wondering what exactly the objective of soccer even is. For 210 minutes, the Eagles had not found the back of the net. Conversely, they had also not allowed their opponents the same satisfaction.

The streak was broken with just seven seconds remaining in the first overtime period in their Tuesday night contest against the University of Connecticut.

UConn (11-4-0, 3-1-0 American Ath-

letic) scored the golden goal, after squandering many of its previous opportunities, to hand BC (6-5-2, 2-2-2 Atlantic Coast) a tough 1-0 loss in overtime.

The breakthrough goal came off the boot of redshirt sophomore Dylan Greenberg, who was set up from the top of the box by senior Kwame Awuah. The defender managed to sneak a shot to the right post past BC keeper Cedric Saladin for his first goal of the season and for his team’s 11th win.

It was far from the first time that the Huskies had produced a quality scoring opportunity. Saladin was in the hot seat all night as UConn ripped 14 shots to BC’s four. But like a blind man playing darts, the Huskies had a tough time hitting the

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target, managing to only direct five of its shots on goal. One of the near-misses came in the form of a 54th minute penalty kick that struck the crossbar, keeping Saladin’s clean sheet intact.

It seemed as though the Eagles’ biggest opponent was the time, which seemed to be creeping slowly along. BC seemed to be desperately trying to run out the clock by simply trying to keep UConn off the board. It was difficult to shake the feeling that it would only be a matter of time before the Huskies would take advantage of one of their chances and pull ahead.

The constant bombardment of its box kept BC on its heels for a majority of the match. In addition to out-shooting BC, UConn also won the corner kick battle by

a 9-2 margin. Breathing space was hard to come by for the Eagles, who managed only a few forays into Husky territory.

These fleeting moments of offensive attack resulted in only two shots on goal, which were deftly handled by UConn keeper Scott Levene for his 10th clean sheet of the season.

This loss is one that will be tough to swallow for BC, especially after battling two top-10 teams to draws in its previous four games. Historically BC has not fared well against its New England nemesis, with UConn holding a 32-9-3 all-time advantage over the Eagles.

With only 11 days and three games remaining in its regular season, including two conference games, BC will have

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a chance to find some consistency that has been missing. The last time BC won consecutive games was when it played its second and third games of the season on Aug. 28 and Sep. 2. Moments of brilliance have been interwoven with missed opportunities.

At their best, the Eagles have proven they can play with the best in the country, but losses like this one and against Harvard last week suggest that BC has been unable to sustain that elevated level of play that had gotten it ranked earlier in the season. If BC wants to make a run deep into the ACC tournament and beyond like it did last season, it will need to find a way to play to its full potential every game.

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