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UGBC senators unanimously approve $320K budget for 2014-15 After a decrease from last year’s $628,000 budget, UGBC approves its annual fiscal plan

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increase in allocated funds.

Including the reduction in programming funding due to the split, Fiore-Chettiar’s administration decreased recommended discretionary funding, executive level stipends, and did away with purchasing sweatshirts for UGBC members, a cost in past years that exceeded $6,000.

Across UGBC’s five executive level departments Diversity and Inclusion (DI), the only department within UGBC responsible for large-scale social programming, received the greatest portion of the budget—about one third. Their programming branch plans

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At the first weekly meeting of the Student Assembly last night, senators unanimously approved a $320,000 budget to fund UGBC for the 2014-15 academic year. The budget, sent to the Student Assembly by Nanci FioreChettiar, UGBC president and A&S ’15, is the first since programming split from the organization last spring.

In total, this year’s budget reflects a 50 percent decrease from last year’s $628,000, in large part due to the programming split, but otherwise represents a seven percent

four events throughout the year, including the popular Annual Boat Cruise and Annual Showdown, both of which bring in revenue for the organization. Although apportioned $100,000 of the budget, DI requested double that, and as it stands now their events are not fully funded. This same problem arose last year, when DI had to co-sponsor a number of its programs with other student organizations.

Fiore-Chettiar said this year’s allocation to DI programming reflects a comprise between her administration and the vice president. As soon as the financial affairs division determines how much money will rollover from last year DI will be the first to

Total: $319,351

DI Program.: $101,000 Exec. Office: $75,000 Student Initiatives: $40,625 Student Assembly: $30,470 GLC: $22,450 ALC: $16,200 Comm.: $16,006 ULA: $9,500 DI General: $4,100 Student Orgs.: $4,000

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James Burns named dean of Woods College

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Burns was named dean following the 44-year term of former WCAS dean Rev. James Woods, S.J. JOHN WILEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR

After 10 years of developing the exhibit, the McMullen now holds the largest existing collection of works by artist Wifredo Lam.

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BY CONNOR FARLEY News Editor Despite its relatively quiet presence in Devlin Hall, the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College has been home to dozens of internationally renowned art exhibits—this semester’s exhibit, however, showcases one of the museum’s most extensive and elusive collections in its history.

Now on display at the McMullen is Wifredo Lam: Imagining New Worlds— an unprecedented retrospective gallery of more than 40 paintings and over 80 total works of Cuban artist Wifredo Lam

(1902-82), whose style encompasses a wide range of multinational influences and cultural themes.

The exhibit marks only one of many in the museum’s history, and features works never before housed in the same location. While some were previously held in major museums, much of the artist’s works had been purchased by and dispersed among private collectors around the world, making the task of gathering them in one space a challenging task for the exhibit’s organizers.

“There are probably 47 paintings and there are lots of works on paper, so there’s probably close to 80 works in the

whole show,” said museum Director and arts professor Nancy Netzer.

“And some of the paintings are really big—there’s a lot of big, big stuff.

So the shipping and the crating was a nightmare,” Netzer said. “The [pieces] were coming from all over the world—I mean, not a real nightmare, but it was very hard to coordinate.”

The exhibit was largely the product of 10 years’ worth of research and outreach by Hispanic Studies professor and exhibit curator Elizabeth T. Goizueta, who spent the past decade working with

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BY JULIE ORENSTEIN Assoc. News Editor After being named interim dean of the Woods College of Advancing Studies (WCAS) in 2012, Rev. James P. Burns, IVD has been appointed dean of the Woods College on a permanent basis, assuming the role on Sept. 1.

The former director of faculty outreach and program assessment for the University’s Mission and Ministry division, Burns took over as interim dean following the retirement of the Woods College’s namesake, Rev. James Woods, S.J. who served as dean for 44 years.

“Fr. Burns has worked tirelessly to strengthen the Woods College undergraduate and graduate programs over the last two years,” University Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley told the Boston College Chronicle. “He has partnered successfully with faculty and colleagues from around the University and we are poised

to make great progress going forward.

The Woods College has long advanced our University’s distinctive mission and I am confident that Dean Burns will continue that tradition in creative and powerful ways.”

Before coming to Boston College in 2010, Burns was co-chairman and associate professor at the Graduate School of Psychology at his alma mater, the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. He has also served in academic roles within his field of psychology at both Boston University and Harvard Medical School.

Burns said that, when he was first appointed interim dean of the Woods College, his focus was on clarifying policies, connecting to the larger university community, and adjusting to the shifting higher education market, particularly the post-traditional learner environment. As

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Campus Voice calls for student suggestions

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Boston College students seeking more control over and interaction with their campus have the option of communicating directly with UGBC’s Campus Voice website—an online idea-submission platform launched last spring. Although the website has been active since March, the Policy Development Committee within UGBC is working to draw more awareness to the website among students.

Campus Voice uses a voting system to determine which issues are most relevant to students. A student can post

a suggestion for change on campus and other students can then vote for it up to three times. Once a suggestion reaches 50 votes, UGBC has pledged to make it a priority, said Matt Hugo, UGBC senator and A&S ’16.

“It’s a way for students to be able to have a say in the agenda setting process for UGBC,” he said. “After all, the government is there to represent their needs. It helps us figure out what their needs are, and based on the amount of votes that proposals get we can determine the amount of student support for different initiatives.”

The website began after the Policy Development Committee realized that

it was very difficult to set an agenda without any direct input from the student body. The site had initially slow start, though, due to lack of publicity, Hugo noted.

“We had a little bit slower of a start than we would have liked to last year, but that’s directly related to the fact that we didn’t put as much effort into publicizing it as we probably should have had,” he said.

This year, Hugo, who serves as the chair of the committee, has set up meetings to implement the new publicity plan, which will include meeting

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On Tuesday afternoon at 4 p.m. in Merkert 130, the chemistry department seminar series will feature Erin Carlson from the University of Minnesota. She will speak on the chemical probes to explore and inhibit bacterial pathways.

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From now through Dec. 14, the McMullen Museum will feature more than forty paintings and other works by Cuban-born artist Wifredo Lam. The exhibition, entitled “Imagining New Worlds,” includes works drawn from major collections throughout the world.

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Advice for Mental illness awareness non-profit spreads leaders suicide prevention conversation on BC campus

By Nathan McGuire Asst. News Editor

Chris Grimaldi In my 21 years of life, I’ve come to accept a certain saying as truth— when life gives you Al Pacino, listen closely for some quality advice.

Yes, I’m referring to the former Scarface, Michael Corleone playing Al Pacino. And no, I’m not endorsing Cuban drug peddlers and mafia bosses as role models.

Yet stumbling my way through channels full of bad television late Friday night, I came across one of my all-time favorite movie scenes: Pacino’s impassioned monologue in the Academy Award-winning Scent of a Woman. Playing the part of a blind, alcoholic, retired Army colonel disillusioned with the outcome of his own life, Pacino stands up to defend the honor of his young assistant—a prep school student who is about to take the fall for his peers’ misconduct.

Several minutes of Pacino’s defense of the student coalesce around these golden lines: “He won’t sell anybody out to buy his future. And that, my friends, is called integrity.

That’s called courage.

“Now that’s the stuff that leaders should be made of.”

While I’m sure our elected officials and the current administration in Washington are busy pandering to party lines and defending majorities in November, they ought to give Pacino’s monologue a listen.

Each day, we bear witness to growing atrocities in Iraq, as ISIS militants continue a twisted crusade against innocent civilians. The group’s barbaric terror tactics, apocalyptic rhetoric, and threats to the West are enough to make stomachs turn, as hard fought gains for freedom in Iraq erode with the passing of each day. Amidst this chaos, it is easy to overlook Vladimir Putin’s aggression toward Ukraine, which has brought a widespread tension to the European continent unseen since the late Cold War Era. And yet any sense of urgency in Washington is drowned out by the deafening silence of indecision.

Don’t get me wrong—there is never a good time for brash decision-making in foreign policy, but there seems to be a sentiment amongst American leadership that ignoring a problem long enough will chase it away. Seek bipartisan support of a clear strategy in Iraq?

Nah, let’s wait until midterm elections are over. Own up to one’s record (or lack thereof) of containing Putin’s international ambitions during your tenure as Secretary of State? Eh, submitting an op-ed to the Wall Street Journal is a lot more convenient. Why should I dirty my hands when 2016 is right around the corner?

Even the designers of American democracy weren’t naive enough to believe that their own system could depend on the selflessness and integrity of primarily “unenlightened” statesmen. Ambition has always been meant to counteract ambition—officials run to win, while checks and balances push them toward serving the public’s best interests.

Yet there are times when statesmen and stateswomen must push aside, or even “sell,” their own futures to confront the toughest of situations. These are times when they must remember that democratic politics is fundamentally a popularity contest, but leadership is not.

Chris Grimaldi is a senior staff columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at news@bcheights.com.

The Boston College chapter of a national non-profit dedicated to helping people who struggle with mental illness will join advocacy groups across the country this week to raise awareness about suicide prevention.

BC’s chapter of To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA) has put together a mix of panel discussions, activities, and visual demonstrations aimed at initiating a campus-wide discussion about mental illness during National Suicide Prevention Week, which begins today.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the third leading cause of death among those between the ages of 10 and 24. The international campaign to bring awareness to the causes of suicide is particularly important on college campuses, where young adults often first develop signs of mental illness, said Cassidy Gallegos, BC-TWLOHA president and LSOE ’16.

“It’s something that a lot of people are afraid to talk about,” said Hanaa Khan, TWLOHA co-coordinator of events and LSOE ’17, of mental illness. “We want people to feel like it’s okay for them not to be okay and for them to talk about that.”

Today’s event aims to illustrate how others’ struggles can affect those on campus. Students will be asked to decorate paper hearts and hang

them on poster boards in the Quad to honor someone they know who struggles with mental illness or who has died by suicide.

On Tuesday, the group will again use a visual demonstration to illustrate the far-reaching affects suicide has on society. Every hour between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. TWLOHA members will place flags in the Quad to represent the number of college students who take their own lives each day.

Gallegos, Khan, and Anthony Hernandez, co-event coordinator and A&S ’16, spoke of a certain stigma that surrounds mental illness in society in general, and particularly on elite college campuses where many students strive to achieve a perfection that doesn’t exist.

“People just aren’t generally comfortable talking about it because there hasn’t been a safe place for that conversation to take place,” Gallegos said. “Our whole goal of having this week of events is to kind of start saying, ‘Hey, we can talk about this.

This is something that every single person deals with in some way or another.’”

“Two-thirds of people who struggle with mental illness don’t seek help. And that is at the very core of what we’re doing,” Khan added.

“We’re trying to be that bridge between people that need help and the help that they need.”

On Wednesday—World Suicide Prevention Day—the group plans a mental health panel in Higgins 300

from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Dr. Christine Merkle, the assistant director of University Counseling Services; Joe Maimone, A&S ’16; Lauren Freise, A&S ’17; and Olivia Reardon will lead the discussion. The participants will be asked to discuss their perspectives on mental health, share their own

“This is something that every single person deals with in some way or another.”

- Cassidy Gallegos, President, BC chapter of To Write Love on Her Arms and LSOE ’16 personal stories, and will also answer audience questions.

BC-TWLOHA created a fundraising team as part of the non-profit’s campaign to support suicide prevention. As of Saturday afternoon, the nine members on BC’s team had raised a combined $2,188, the second most of the 40 participating chapters.

In total, the national organization has pulled in $31,304 in donations as of Saturday. The campaign ends on Sunday, Sept. 14 and all proceeds will go to local hospitals and mental illness

treatment centers.

The American Association of Suicidology reports that, worldwide, close to 1 million people take their own life each year, and over 60 percent of all people who die by suicide were suffering from clinical depression.

Hernandez stressed the interconnectedness between mental illness and suicide. He said for that reason the group will focus its efforts on raising general awareness about mental illness. On Friday TWLOHA will ask students in the Quad to write letters to those entering treatment centers, to offer messages of hope and to show that someone cares.

BC-TWLOHA, first recognized as an official student organization in January, has no plans of slowing down its awareness efforts after this week.

In conjunction with UGBC and its What I Be campaign—which aims to encourage communication about mental health issues—TWLOHA hopes to sustain a conversation that isn’t afraid to explore mental illness.

During this week’s events, TWLOHA will also advertise the resources available to students struggling with mental illness or contemplating suicide. University Counseling Services, located in the basement of Gasson, can be reached at 617-552-3310.

Students seeking mental health resources can also reach the following national helplines: the Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-TALK) and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) information helpline (1-800-950-NAMI). n

BC to host early screening of Bulger documentary

By Connor Farley News Editor In June of 2013, former Boston mob boss and convicted murderer James “Whitey” Bulger was sent to trial facing charges for 32 counts of racketeering and money laundering.

Two months later, a jury convicted Bulger on 31 of the 32 counts, and for the murder of 11 victims. Bulger, 85, was subsequently sentenced to more than two consecutive life terms in prison and is currently being held in a high-security federal penitentiary in central Florida.

Next week at Robsham Theater, Boston College Law School will partner with CNN as part of an exclusive University panel event and early screening of the documentary Whitey: United States of America V. James J. Bulger—a nonfiction feature film that chronicles the trial and criminal life of the widely notorious former fugitive and participant in 19 murders.

Following the screening next Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 4 p.m., a panel discussion will take place between the film’s director, Joe Berlinger; the prosecution and defense teams during Bulger’s trial; reporters that provided coverage of the case; and BC Law professor Robert Bloom, BC ’71. Chief National Correspondent for CNN

and award-winning journalist John King will moderate the discussion.

Among the featured panelists is J.W. Carney, BC Law ’78 and one of Bulger’s defense lawyers during the trial. One of Massachusetts’ most well-known criminal defense attorneys, Carney is slated to discuss his experiences regarding the trial of Bulger, who for 12 years was listed at No. 2 on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

“We’re very pleased to be able to bring this important event to Boston College,” said BC Law Dean Vincent Rougeau in a statement to the Office of News and Public Affairs. “This was a landmark case—important both

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BC Law School and CNN will collaborate to screen a documentary on former Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger.

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The event will be free and open to the public, and the U.S. premier of the documentary will air on CNN two days after the BC screening on Thursday, Sept. 18 at 9 p.m.

Eastern.

The screening will mark the second panel discussion moderated

by King since last spring’s Clough Colloquium event on the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, which featured former Mayor of Boston Thomas M. Menino, Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick, and former Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis. n

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to the state of Massachusetts and to the country. The screening and panel discussion will be an excellent opportunity for our law students to hear directly from both sides and gain a better understanding of how a case like this was handled.”

Described by CNN Films on its website as a “revelatory nonfiction feature film that follows the sensational 2013 trial of the notorious mob boss,” Whitey has a runtime of two hours and was produced by Caroline Suh. The film uses courtroom documentation and footage surrounding the case to analyze evidence that may support claims that Bulger was aided and abetted, and that his crimes may

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If you could have any song playing as you walked into a Mod, what would it be?

“No Woman, No Cry.” —Mohammed Moro, A&S ’18

“Star Wars theme song.”

—Jenny Kim, A&S ’18

“I’m the Man.” —Idrissa Bangura, A&S ’18

“Wild Boy by MGK.” —Alex Concepcion, CSOM ’18

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More than 40 paintings and upward of 80 total works by Lam are currently featured in the Devlin Hall museum.

McMullen hosts Wifredo exhibit McMullen, from A1 auction houses, museums, and individual collectors to showcase Lam’s uniquely international style.

“We’re really at the beginning,” Netzer said of the new exhibit, which opened Aug. 30. “We started something, and that’s very important for a university, and that’s what university museums should be doing.”

A former director within BC’s Office of International Programs, Goizueta’s initial aim for assembling a Lam exhibit developed while she was curating another McMullen exhibit on Chilean artist Roberto Matta in 2004 titled Matta: Making the Invisible Visible.

Since the Matta exhibit, Goizueta had been working with various collection managers through auction houses such as Sotheby’s and Christie’s to assemble one the largest collections of Lam’s pieces that, unlike previous Lam exhibits, span a wide geographic range surrounding the artist’s travels.

“The auction houses [Sotheby’s and Christie’s] very nicely … didn’t reveal the names of the people when they contacted them, they contacted them for us to see if they might be willing to lend,” Netzer said of the process of contacting private collectors. “And that was just such a

generous service. It takes a long time to track it all down. We couldn’t have done it without the help of the auction houses and the dealers.”

All of the works are loans that still belong to their original owners, and Netzer speculates that the pieces were gathered from about 26 different lenders. “[Goizueta] is the person who tracked down all of these loans a lot of them were in private collections, and we were helped a great deal by dealers, and, because they sell these pieces to other people, they helped us because sometimes the people are anonymous … but the dealers very nicely contacted people who they knew were collectors,” she said.

Netzer also noted that while some of the works were gathered by means of fortunate chance occurrences, most were discovered as a result of Goizueta’s persistent searching.

“Sometimes you meet people who know people who have things— so some of it’s serendipity too,” she said. “But it’s very hard to find things in private collections unless you have the help of dealers and auction houses.”

Following its holding at the McMullen, the showcase will next travel to the High Museum in Atlanta, Ga., where it will be on display from February to May 2015. Afterthe High

Museum installation, all of the pieces will be redistributed to their original owners around the world—likely to never be assembled in one place again.

Netzer noted that the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, and the Tate Modern in London are among several other museums actively seeking works by Lam currently held in the McMullen.

At the University Convocation last Wednesday, University Executive Vice President Patrick Keating publicly announced that the McMullen Museum will be relocated to Brighton Campus in 2016, with plans to begin its move as early as this October, pending the approval of the University’s Board of Trustees at its next meeting.

Netzer said she hopes the museum’s relocation will attract future students who will live in the 2150 Commonwealth Ave. dormitory, which has only recently begun construction.

“What we’re hoping is that students will be more involved and more vocal in helping us to determine the hours and role that they think the McMullen can play as it moves to a new location,” Netzer said. “What we really want is, we want our students to be proud of our university through this.” n

UGBC passes reduced budget UGBC Budget, from A1 receive the funds. Executive discretionary funds will also be used to fund DI programs.

“As long as we can fund [Diversity and Inclusion] for the boat cruise, then they can make enough money back for them to fund the next event,” said Fiore-Chettiar, reasoning that revenue from early events will be used to fund later ones.

The budget process began in early May, when vice presidents from UGBC’s five departments met with Fiore-Chettiar and Chris Marchese, executive vice president and A&S ’15. According to Fiore-Chettiar, the final recommended numbers reflect numerous conversations her administration had with SA committee chairs, members, and vice presidents on how to best use funds allocated to UGBC from the student activities fee, a $316 charge all students pay to the University at the beginning of the academic year.

This year, in a push for greater transparency, UGBC released a line-item description of the budget, in addition to an executive memo outlining how the money would be spent and describing specific programs and initiatives it would be spent on.

The Executive Office will receive a total of $75,000—$10,000 will be placed in a discretionary fund, a portion of which Fiore-Chettiar said will go toward DI programming. The office saved about $5,000 this year by opting to hold the annual UGBC retreat on campus, rather than at an off-campus location.

The UGBC Leadership Academy (ULA) received $9,500 in funding.

ULA is a program that each year trains and mentors 30 freshmen on leadership skills.

The communications division received $16,000 for expenses related to publicizing UGBC events throughout the year.

Student Organizations received $4,000 this year—half of which will go toward stocking a resource room with paint, banners, and other supplies for student organizations to use.

Student Initiatives received about $41,000 to fund events such as BC Ignites, CARE Week, and the Spring Women’s Summit.

The SA was apportioned approximately $30,000 of the budget.

Five thousand dollars will go into the Taking Green Initiatives Fund (TGIF), which will provide grants to fund student projects that promote sustainability; and $15,000 will go into the Innovation Fund, which will support student projects that improve campus life. Both were campaign promises of Fiore-Chettiar and Marchese. To apply for those grants, students would be required to submit a formal application and the money would be awarded based on specific guidelines, which will be released publicly. If those funds aren’t exhausted by the end of the year, the money will roll over to the next academic year.

Marchese said TGIF will be a central resource for student sustainability initiatives, something he said never previously existed.

At the end of each month, vice

presidents will be required to submit how they spent their allocated funds. Those reports will be made public via UGBC’s new website.

Last year, financial documents were not made public unless specifically requested.

Consistent with past years, Fiore-Chettiar, Marchese, and all five vice presidents will receive a stipend for their work. The president will receive $4,000 (a $500 pay cut from last year) and the executive vice president will also receive $500 less than last year, but the official number has yet to be determined due to vague reporting in last year’s budget.

Each vice president will receive a $2,000 stipend, which marks a $200 decrease from last year.

A new system this year will require all members receiving stipends to log their hours on a weekly basis, so that the current and future administrations can better examine how much time vice presidents devote to the organization and make changes to that compensation accordingly.

“We are representatives of the students and we have to be held accountable to that,” said FioreChettiar, who, along with Marchese, supported stipends throughout the spring campaign. “At the end of the day, we’re the ones accepting that responsibility and putting in the hours.”

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with administrators to discuss the most voted-for suggestions.

There will also be an upcoming video to explain the details of Campus Voice. The committee will also be speaking with club presidents and relying on social media and word-of-mouth.

Hugo said the committee plans to focus extensively on freshmen. In doing so, the committee will distribute shirts and pens, and organize bulletin boards for RAs to put in hallways.

“We’re going to focus mostly on freshmen because we do want it to be a long-lasting institution,” he said. “If we can appeal to the next generation of people, it will stick best.”

Campus Voice makes it easy for UGBC to prioritize initiatives because the voting system displays which suggestions students care most about. UGBC executive vice president Chris Marchese, A&S ’15, said Campus Voice is one of the best methods BC’s student government has as a means to gathering feedback from the student body.

“It’s easy to use and online,

which means it isn’t burdensome like surveys,” Marchese said.

“Moreover, it’s interactive and allows students to up-vote suggestions. This helps us prioritize initiatives. And lastly, we can comment and directly communicate with students about their ideas. Overall, I think Campus Voice will prove to be a great means for us to do work that is meaningful to students and affects their daily lives.”

Se veral of the initiatives suggested via Campus Voice have already been successfully completed, according to Hugo.

For example, there were 86 votes to allow chicken fingers to be placed in wraps in the dining hall.

In a more financially impactful effort, UGBC has implemented a textbook-swap program through which students can exchange and sell textbooks for no additional fees. UGBC is also currently working to reorder the shuttle system to get a shuttle to the Chestnut Hill Mall—a suggestion that received 82 Campus Voice votes.

Although these initiatives were successful, putting Hillside Cafe back on the meal plan was

not, despite the idea receiving 52 votes on Campus Voice.

“There are some things that are not feasible, unfortunately, but we will find out if it’s not feasible through meeting an administrator and putting actual effort in,” he said. “If it’s not possible I still want to try.

I want to hear ‘no’ from an [administrator] before I say ‘no’ to a student.”

Once the publicity campaign for the website begins, Hugo estimates there will be about 10 suggestions each month. Certain suggestions will naturally gain traction as students vote for what they most care about and the responsible poster lobbies for votes. Although UGBC can technically veto suggestions and not make them a priority, Hugo plans to take all suggestions seriously, he said.

“I want it to be really the most direct way for someone to get into contact with UGBC,” he said. “I want this to continue to be the easiest way for people to make change on campus. We’re here to represent students and Campus Voice is just giving us the opportunity to know how to do it best.” n

New dean of Woods College to expand graduate degree offerings Burns, from A1 permanent dean, he said those initiatives will move forward, with efforts ranging from finding new methods to reach adult learners, publicizing the college’s varied degree options, and advancing the Woods College brand in the Boston area and beyond.

In the realm of academics, Burns emphasized the ever-changing and flexible nature of the programs in the Woods College, which attracts students with varied needs and busy schedules.

“Being a dean in a non-traditional format means needing to be on the alert to the different and unique ways that we can adjust our offerings and delivery methods to complement rather than deter from the complex lives of our students, many of whom work full-time and have family obligations,” Burns said in an email. “Because of these obligations our students may be registering for two classes one semester, one class the next, and three or four the semester after that. This also means having a very hands-on approach to advising that is not solely focused on academics but includes taking into account the broader considerations of our students’ lives.

“We hope to take some of our current offerings and transform

them through technology into completely on-line courses while some other courses will become hybrids that will include elements of both on-line instruction and in class instruction,” Burns said.

Certain demographics of the Woods College student body are also of particular focus as the dean’s office seeks to broaden educational opportunities, Burns said, to people including immigrants, active members of the military, and veterans. He also noted that the Woods College is reaching out to local employers to determine what qualities and skills would make graduates the strongest applicants.

In addition to 14 undergraduate majors and eight certificate programs, Burns pointed out that the Woods College is expanding its graduate degree offerings, such as a new master’s degree in applied economics that will launch in 2015.

This program, Burns said, resulted from collaboration between the Woods College, the BC College of Arts and Sciences economics department, professors of economics at Boston area universities, and industry professionals.

Other graduate programs that are in development include master’s degrees in cyber-security, forensic science, and public relations.

Burns said that Boston Mayor

Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, who attended BC and completed his degree after entering the workforce as a laborer at a young age, has influenced current and prospective students.

“We have already seen a greater interest in the Woods College since Mayor Walsh has taken office,” Burns said. “He not only proudly and publicly comments that he received his education at Boston College through the Woods College but he also shares his story of returning to school later than traditional aged students. His story is similar to some of our other grads, be they police or fire chiefs, lawyers, judges, economists, businessmen and women, who have come through the Woods College.

And their stories are not unique in that many of our students are returning to college after having tried it right out of high school and finding it didn’t fit at that time while others had to delay college all together.”

Burns said that the Woods College is not only attracting students who are completing degrees later in life, but also students who are of traditional college age.

“They see us as the right fit and a possible alternative to other ways of being in college,” he said.

“Ultimately they see us as the best way they can be more.” n

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UGBC executive stipends and a balanced budget In a public meeting yesterday, the Student Assembly approved the UGBC budget for the 2014-15 academic year. This year, UGBC was allocated approximately $320,000 from the cumulative Student Activities Fee, which is a $316 charge that all undergraduate students pay. UGBC’s budget this year represents an approximately 50 percent decrease from last year’s $628,000, commensurate with the removal of programming from UGBC’s purview.

Like last year’s budget, this year’s was made public after its approval and included a line-item explanation of UGBC’s expected expenses. The administration of Nanci Fiore-Chettiar, UGBC president and A&S ’15, however, went above and beyond the previous administration in the transparency of its budgeting process. Although the administration of Matt Nacier, BC ’14, took great strides toward explaining where students’ money went, its budget still left much unknown. This administration has made the effort not only to document each expense, but also to show how and why the money will be spent. Additionally, FioreChettiar prepared a four-and-a-half-page document that gives further detail on each division’s allocated funds and offers background information on the allocation.

This work is a welcome act of transparency on the part of UGBC. As the source of UGBC’s funding, Boston College students are entitled to know how their money is being used. By building on the efforts of last year’s administration, this year’s administration has made a commendable first step toward keeping the students it serves informed about its actions.

With a smaller budget that reflects the removal of programming from UGBC’s responsibilities, UGBC made a number of prudent and appropriate cuts. This year, UGBC hosted its annual retreat on campus rather than renting out an outside location, saving approximately $5,000. Additionally, this administration decided not to purchase sweatshirts for all of its members, saving $6,100 and bringing it in line with the University’s policy for RSOs, which cannot receive funding for clothing. They will, however, still be funding sweatshirts for members with financial need.

The practice of paying stipends to the president and vice presidents is continuing this year. The budget allocates $17,500 for stipends, with Fiore-Chettiar receiving $4,000 and the five non-executive vice presidents each receiving $2,000. The stipend of Chris Marchese, UGBC executive vice president and A&S ’15, is still being determined, as there was a miscommunication between this administration and the last regarding the compensation of the former executive vice president. Fiore-Chettiar has said that his stipend will be determined such that it is $500 less than last year’s, as

hers is. The stipends, taken together, still represent approximately 5.5 percent of the UGBC budget, though—a proportionally greater amount than the $21,200 spent on stipends last year.

For an organization that has reduced responsibilities after the devolution of programming, this is disconcerting. The payment of UGBC executives—some of whom are appointed, rather than elected, to their positions—for their work in a student organization is something against which this newspaper has consistently advocated. Fundamentally, this objection is not about the amount of the stipends, but the fact that students are being paid for voluntary participation in a student organization. Leaders in other student organizations work comparable—or longer—hours without monetary compensation. Students receive valuable experiences, form networks of friends and acquaintances with fellow students and alumni, and have the opportunity to participate in activities about which they are passionate in all on-campus organizations; many also perform services to improve their fellow students’ BC experiences. Only in UGBC do students also receive stipends.

In defending the stipends, similar reasoning is used repeatedly: it is argued that executives in UGBC do not have the time to fulfill their responsibilities to UGBC and also work to offset the financial demands of a BC education. The fact is, though, that leaders in other student organizations do find a way to meet both the requirements of their leadership roles and their financial responsibilities. To say that executives of UGBC cannot balance their various commitments devalues the efforts of students who do find a way to make it work.

This year, however, the Fiore-Chettiar administration has taken steps to increase the accountability of the UGBC leadership to the student body it represents by requiring all paid executives to log their hours weekly. Fiore-Chettiar has planned for those logs to be posted online through the UGBC website. Although executives will not be paid based on the hours they log, this is a good method to track the time commitment of each UGBC executive.

Fiore-Chettiar should follow through with this plan and require that the logs be posted on a weekly basis, so that those receiving compensation can at least be held accountable for their use of students’ money.

Although the continuation of stipends is a major flaw in this year’s budget, it is one of the only pitfalls. With better documentation and explanations of the costs of running a student government, this administration has been a model of transparency and fiscal prudence thus far, putting it in a good position to have a successful term at the helm of UGBC.

Expanding cultural horizons in the McMullen The opening of Wifredo Lam: Imagining New Worlds in the McMullen Museum marks the emergence of Boston College’s art museum in the ranks of nationally recognized art institutions. The unprecedented exhibit features upward of 40 works of the late Cuban Surrealist—many coming from private collectors.

The rare collection of Lam’s painting and sculptures took a decade to curate, with Elizabeth Goizueta, a professor who teaches in the Hispanic Studies program, at the forefront. Goizueta travelled to multiple continents in her research of Lam’s extraordinary life and work. The completed exhibit reflects the extensive research behind it, as well as the strong push by Nancy Netzer, director of the McMullen Museum, to advance the institution’s reputation and offerings.

Considering the recent announcement of the McMullen’s future move to Brighton Campus, Imagining New Worlds is a strong indicator that the museum’s facilitators are moving in a positive direction.

Lam’s work fits well with the transnational identity of BC students and faculty, and speaks to the University’s intellectual commitment to cultural inclusion.

Undergraduates would be remiss to ignore the exhibit, which is located in Devlin Hall. The McMullen’s future relocation will allow for its expansion, but it is also worth noting that additional effort will be required by the museum to continue engaging undergraduates at the Brighton location. If the McMullen continues to bring impressive showings like Lam’s to BC, it would be a shame for students not to frequent future collections, as well.

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Letter to the Editor The following letter is in response to “Every man for himself and BC against all” and “The scary truth about Meatball Obsession,” columns by Nate Fisher, originally published on 4/28/14 and 9/4/14, respectively:

All hail the critic At the end of last year, Nate Fisher wrote a derisive column for the Opinions section of The Heights about the Arts Fest and BC administration titled “Every Man For Himself And BC Against All.” In his column, Nate chastised all students involved in UGBC, SPO, SOFC, NOTH, and Arts Fest for being mindless followers to the “Vice Whatever of Somethingorother.” Nate invited a response from the administration, saying, “I genuinely hope to be proven wrong, to be shown one solitary thing they do that helps organizations rather than hinders them,” yet when Sarah McDermott, the Arts Fest Director, published a response to his column in the comments section of The Heights’ website and sent him a direct email inviting him to “set up a meeting to discuss and actually make some change” she received no response.

I do not want this to be a personal attack on Nate, but want to put his diatribes on display as an example to every critic who is quick to disparage, condemn, satirize, or “expose” a system, but slow or unwilling to provide practical solutions.

The only “solution” Nate provides is for everyone in the aforementioned student groups to quit, consolidate their “meager power,” and “throw some serious bricks.” I believe everyone should be held responsible for what they say, especially when in a public forum and when part of a community that claims to be centered on shared learning and the pursuit of knowledge. It is not the criticism I want to call into question, but rather the way Nate goes about it.

It is unacceptable to equate Arts Fest—an event that hundreds of students spend months planning and organizing—to a “strip club.” It is unnecessarily harsh to disparage the dining employees that serve us every day as “emotionally numb from years as cogs in a self-purposive machine.” These are the types of shamefully inconsiderate statements for which critics ought to be held responsible. I want to be clear that I do not want columns censored in any way. I welcome columns and opinions that are just as sharp-tongued—even as harsh as Nate’s—if they are well-informed and direct their righteous fury towards a specific problem and not some

nameless, faceless tyrant that no one can identify.

I believe there are things at BC that need to be discussed and changed. In fact, I know a number of people, who have found problems in “the system” and have then done their best to meet with administrators, rally student support, and advocate for the change they want to see implemented.

In last semester’s column “Every Man For Himself and BC Against All,” Nate rages against the red tape created by administration, which impeded him from taping his comedy club’s video. This semester, he claims the meatball stand epitomizes “the University’s caricaturesque out-of-touchness,” but if the biggest problems that he can find and confront are the administration’s poor choice of vendor for a food stand and the annoyingly strict enforcement of a poorly supported rule about filming on campus, perhaps it’s not the administration that’s out of touch.

The student body has been accused of being “directed and coerced toward a catatonic state where questions are a thing of the past.” This is an insult to BC faculty, staff, and administrators I respect, and an offense to every BC student who considers him or herself an independent thinker pursuing a worthwhile education at a prestigious university. I think that our community is at far greater risk of falling into a state of “narcissistic sustenance [on] total sameness and homogeneity” from allowing aimless, inconsiderate criticism to go unanswered than we are for bending to some minor bureaucratic inconveniences. I think that instead of taking Nate’s suggestion to “throw some serious bricks” we ought to take our complaints, our frustration, our anger, and use it to build something new.

I invite Nate or anyone else who sees BC as a cannibalistic machine that wants to “silence independent voices” to respond with serious, pointed concerns and a plausible course for resolving them.

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Breaking the cycle of poverty

DELPHINA GERBER-WILLIAMS MOD 6B - We don’t know you, but we were walking by your Mod on Friday as we went about our tailgating business and couldn’t help but notice the sign in your kitchen window. We have to Thumbs Up you on two levels for your sign that read, “One Mod to Rule Them All / One Mod Find Them / One Mod to Bring Them All / And in the Darkness Bind Them.” Firstly, we love The Lord of the Rings. It is absolutely one of our favorite pieces of literature, so it warms our heart to see it pop up in our lives from time to time. Secondly—and perhaps more importantly—we have to applaud you for your cleverness because, after all, hasn’t it always been the Mods at Boston College that bring us all together in the darkness and bind us?

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS - It is a rare game when the halogen lights illuminate Alumni Stadium in the waning hours of the day. It is a rare game when we can watch the sun set as the Eagles take to the field.

It is a rare game when we are, all at once, whisked back to fields of Texas, where the good ol’ boys would take to the gridiron every Friday, under the expectant beam of the Friday Night Lights.

SHARE A COKE - This was really cool.

Thanks, Coca-Cola, for coming to campus with your marketing team.

We got our name on a can of Coke.

Sweet.

This September marks the three-year anniversary of the start of the Memphis Family Rewards Program, an active experiment in poverty reduction. The program provides cash incentives, known as conditional cash transfers (CCTs), to poor parents and their high school-age children for completing tasks. The goal is to break the cycle of poverty, to increase self-sufficiency, to create healthy habits, and to promote savings.

Just as parents might bribe their children for good grades by offering $20 for each A, the Memphis program offers different cash incentives for varied tasks. For an acceptable school attendance record, students receive $40 per month. A dental or medical checkup nets a $100 check. For a grade of C, B, or A, students receive $10, $20, and $30, respectively. Even taking a college entrance exam, like the SAT, results in a $50 check.

Additionally, adults can receive up to $1,800 per year for working full-time.

Not surprisingly, this program has received everything from strong support to heavy criticism. Critics ask, “Why should we pay families for what they should be doing anyway?” Or, in other words, “Why pay adults for simply being responsible grown-ups?”

While it is not yet clear if the program will work in Memphis, similar CCT programs have an incredible track record in nearly 20 other countries. Brazil, Mexico, and Indonesia have programs credited with decreasing poverty and improving health and educational attainment for millions of citizens. The remarkable outcome of these and other countries’ programs make

KIMONOS AS LOUNGEWEAR - Some of our friends—and by that, we really just mean one friend (you know who you are)—think that it is appropriate to lounge around Ignacio Hall in a kimono. While we do not doubt his claims that it is incredibly comfortable, we would argue that it is comfortable only for him. The rest of us are left mildly discomforted by just how revealing it is. Did we really need to see so much of his thighs?

CAREER CENTER EMAIL - As seniors, we really do not appreciate receiving an email from the Career Center before classes even start reminding us that “graduation is just months away.” That is just cruel. We are already suffering from the fact that this is our last year at BC, we don’t really need the Career Center rubbing in not only the fact that it is ending, but also that we are currently without job prospects.

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that of the typical American household. In 2012, the average income of a commercial farmer was around $340,000, compared to the American average of $51,000. While the act helps balance the economy, why should taxpayers finance payments for a business sector that is capable of thriving on its own?

Compared to the $14 billion paid to American farmers in 2012, the $400,000 being rewarded to struggling Memphis families is pocket change. If it is generally accepted for the government to pay farmers not to farm in order to keep the economy on track, then it should be more than acceptable to direct capital to impoverished communities to break the cycle of poverty, especially when the program in question has such a strong record.

There are so many programs in the U.S. aimed at preventing problems before they occur. We don’t expect that the defective education young students receive in poor inner city schools will be erased by a college education. Instead, we fight the problem at the beginning with programs such as JumpStart. We can’t wait until the impoverished youth in our country are adults barely scraping by on food stamps, Medicare, and Medicaid. Just as we do with education, we must fight poverty at its roots.

Although the Memphis Family Rewards program may counter the up-from-thebootstraps culture of the U.S., maybe it is time we overhaul that attitude and recognize that not everyone has the opportunity to realize the American dream.

The program has a strong record, and we need innovative ideas to break the cycle of poverty. This isn’t just about teaching the poor to be responsible, it is an opportunity for us to be responsible and correct the never-ending cycle of poverty in the U.S.

Delphina Gerber-Williams is a staff columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

In defense of bad music OWEN LYONS

FRANK’S RED HOT - Oh, you sneaky sauce, you. We poured you expectantly upon our Late Nite pizza, hoping to add flavor to an otherwise bland menu item. We enjoyed the leaps of flavor you brought to our palate. But then you cruelly tricked us. In the middle of the night, you tortured our stomach, keeping us awake for hours. We should have never trusted you, you vixen. With your wily words, you tempted us, and we fell for your cunning designs. Now, like Adam and Eve were when evicted from the garden at the hands of an angry God, we regret it. We regret all of it.

a strong case for this dangling-carrot approach to remedying social ills.

Brazil’s Bolsa Familia program has had notable success. Similar to the Memphis Family Rewards Program, the Brazilian government provides financial aid to poor Brazilian families for child vaccination and school attendance, as well as providing monthly stipends. Covering around 22 million Brazilians, Bolsa Familia has decreased inequality by 15 percent since 2001 and improved the diet of over 19 million Brazilians.

For its impressive results, Bolsa Familia has received praise and been reproduced in countries around the world, including in the Memphis Family Rewards Program. The Economist deemed it an effective incentive program that teaches responsibility, and the World Bank referred to this model as “powerful proof that well-designed public programs can have significant effects on critical social indicators.”

Critics of the program argue that people, whether poor or not, should not be paid for simply being responsible. Monetary incentives, however, are nothing new to the American government. Every year, the American government actually pays farmers not to farm in order to keep prices up on agricultural products.

Starting with the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, the American government has directly paid farmers not to farm in order to manage the supply of agricultural commodities and influence the cost and supply of these products. The act requires farmers not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. By reducing crop surpluses, it raises their value and prevents wasted product.

Since 2000, stipends have averaged a staggering $17 billion per year.

Furthermore, the Agricultural Adjustment Act is directing money toward a small percentage of the American population that already earns a median income higher than

The first time I heard Jason DeRulo’s “Wiggle,” I think I laughed out loud. It had not really taken off yet, and I figured that there was no way it could ever reach the top of the charts. I had the same reaction to Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy,” except without the laughing. Yet, they were the No. 7 and No. 1 songs of the summer, respectively. How did this happen?

To understand, we have to look first at the nature of music, especially pop.

Originality and change are crucial. Between new songs that continue to push boundaries and stand out from hits of the past and samplings from older songs that highlight changes in Top-40, the pop genre consistently develops a new style with each generation. While one can only watch a movie or TV show so many times, songs have a much longer shelf life— it isn’t as necessary to write new ones, because we still like the old ones and can listen to them again and again.

Music has to target the younger generations. The older ones don’t need to be bombarded with the newest sound every week—they’ve got their favorite songs, usually from a time when they were much younger and more impressionable.

Often nostalgia can play a role as well.

Music, more so than television or cinema, is about unconscious emotion.

While a majestic, tragic symphony has much musical merit and displays an incredible amount of genius and talent, the emotions it evokes in listeners can be remarkably similar to those of Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me.” What the music industry now focuses on is a range of emotions unexplored by the bubble-gum doo-wop ’50s and ’60s.

Rather than make the business about the songs themselves, songwriters have instead recently focused on the singers and listeners, and not in a subtle way.

This is not to reiterate the overplayed complaint that music today is too simple, because it has been for the last 50 years. “I Want To Hold Your Hand” and “I Get Around” both cracked the top five in 1964, and they’re no more complex than, say, Jason DeRulo’s “Talk Dirty.” But Top-40 radio has gotten progressively sadder and more serious over the years, with songs getting slower and more than twice as many being written in minor keys instead of major keys. The result of this is a generation of songs designed to appeal to deeper emotions in the human psyche—compare John Legend’s “All of Me” to “The Locomotion.”

And no wonder. The way we listen to music has changed drastically. Rather than being blasted on a jukebox or on the radio as a group of teens sit around, music has adapted to the age of iPods and nightclubs. When we listen to music in the privacy of our own ear-buds or in the anonymity of a dark nightclub where sobriety is something of a rarity, these emotions that may not be acceptable at one’s job or with the family suddenly become the norm. It’s a release of emotional tension that allows people to express their most basic desires. We’re not thinking about the music anymore.

We’re thinking about ourselves.

So, how did this movement produce “Fancy” and “Wiggle?” When put into terms of emotion, they appeal to feelings not expressed in everyday life.

“Fancy” appeals directly to the ego as Iggy Azalea describes her glamorous life of power and importance—the song allows listeners to flaunt their own egos, temporarily brought to that state of mind by the music. “Wiggle” is simply an expression of outright sexual desire and pleasure with a hint of self-aware-

ness of its own goofiness thrown in.

Both emotions may bring a sense of shame in everyday life (one does not normally brag about dreaming of a life of material excess and lust), but when placed in a musical context, they become validated. The simpler, innocent emotions of decades past now seem silly and trivial, too unsophisticated for the young adult audience of today.

But, one might argue, this does not justify the lack of talent displayed in these songs. Between the low degree of difficulty in singing them and the use of Auto-Tune to improve the singer’s sound, recording a Top-40 hit does not require the amount of ability it has in the past. While the amount of musical talent may have fallen, however, it can be argued that the charisma and presence required to pull this off is a talent in its own (though this is not to say that today’s Top-40 artists are not musically talented—almost all are terrific singers).

There are fewer bands than individual artists today because of this—the additional instrumental sounds can be produced in the studio, so all an artist needs is his or her own star power to become famous.

So, yes, today’s music is fairly bad.

Virtually all of it consists of simple melodies over even simpler chord progressions, and it’s computerized enough that C-3PO could release a track and I probably wouldn’t notice a difference.

But it’s justifiable, because music is no longer about, well, the music. It’s about emotion, and a song that fails to appeal to feelings that lie dormant in our everyday lives is a song that will not be successful. After all, Iggy Azalea and Jason DeRulo are millionaires. Whether you like their music or not, it’s popular for a good reason.

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

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A value proposition ANDREW MILLETTE Although I am now old enough to receive frantic texts from friends that read, “Dude, I think I’m balding,” I still do remember the days of college touring. I remember being herded around with other sweet, innocent high school seniors to see new student centers filled with Nintendo Wiis and pool tables. I remember tour guides bragging about the quality of their universities’ gyms, the recently enlarged theaters, the world-class cuisine, and the flat screen TVs in every classroom. High school students likely didn’t visit these schools to scope out the amenities, but an applicant certainly could have changed his or her mind about where he or she wanted to enroll after seeing them.

Tuition has risen faster than inflation during my college career. Certainly, construction and maintenance costs for dorms, dining halls, theaters, gyms, sports arenas, and student centers have been partially responsible. If the purpose of going to college is to receive an education, then why do we pay ever-increasing tuition to support these seemingly needless amenities?

College students from other nations seem perfectly happy without all of these luxuries.

When I was abroad in France last semester, my school provided me with two things: an education and a roof over my head. My school was simply one large building on a city block—there wasn’t even a campus to speak of. Students lived somewhere in the city and commuted. There were no varsity sports teams to support, no theater to watch student productions in, and certainly no 2 a.m. mozz sticks. (There were some of the most fantastic espresso machines you could imagine, but espresso is considered an absolute necessity in France.) Without all of the fanfare that accompanies American collegiate life, these students were still perfectly happy, had normal friendships, and became deeply involved in academics and extracurriculars. The price tag on my semester abroad was so much lower than Boston College’s that my father begged me to transfer there permanently.

Is the French education system proof that we as Americans are misallocating resources in society? Are we creating a generation of indebted students for no real reason? It’s hard to argue against the claim that, on the surface, Americans are paying an unspeakably high multiple of what Europeans are paying for the same undergraduate college degree. Is free access to an old gym that lacks air conditioning really worth it?

In terms of return on investment, the answer is no, of course not. My experience abroad, however, has led me to think that this question cannot be analyzed strictly in terms of numbers.

In my travels across Europe, I distinctly remember encountering an adult wearing a BC baseball hat in Paris, seeing a Superfan shirt in a bar in Florence, and of course, coming across BC swag all over Dublin. Seeing all of this reminded me that alumni never forget their BC experience.

In contrast, although the aggregate number of students at my abroad university’s French and international locations was roughly comparable to the BC student population, I never saw any branded clothing from my abroad university anywhere outside of the school itself.

This could be a shallow estimator of the importance of the amenities that American universities provide, but I was also told by a number of non-American students that they would love to attend a college football game, or study on a picturesque campus green. I still have not gotten over the fact that student organizations at my French university created fake fraternity letterman jackets to wear at school.

How they picked their Greek letters is one of the many questions that keeps me up at night.

It is true that we always chase after what we don’t have, and maybe these students would not be enamored with tailgates and fraternities if they existed in their home culture and they had to pay for them, but their fascination with American university life did have some meaning for me. It reminded me that, every time I return to BC, it feels like home, and that this feeling only grows stronger every year. I can guarantee that this feeling would not exist without the closeness of friendships developed by living on campus with other students 24/7; without the excitement fellow students, alumni, and I feel about each new football season; and without being able to complain that Plex workouts would smell less like 40 years of entrenched sweat if someone would just install air conditioning.

I cannot give a precise answer as to whether American tuition prices are justified by the close connection students feel to their universities, though I’m sure my father could give you a resounding “no.” At least, if we are paying this much for a home, it is a damn good one.

Andrew Millette is a senior staff columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

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Richard Linklater creates emotional epic with latest film ‘Boyhood’

BY SEAN KEELEY Heights Senior Staff Richard Linklater’s Boyhood offers something of a paradox: a movie built on ordinary, everyday moments, which in its cumulative effect becomes an epic. The movie has garnered much praise for the sheer ambition of its making—filmed annually over the course of 12 years, BOYHOOD Boyhood Richard Linklater follows its protagonist as he ages from six to 18, growing up before our very eyes. The scope of the project is undeniably impressive, but the key to the film’s success lies in the way it remains constantly anchored in the moment, concerned with the everyday details of one boy’s life.

The place is Texas, and the boy is Mason Jr. (Ellar Coltrane), whom we first see as a wide-eyed 6-year-old, gazing at the sky to the tune of Coldplay’s “Yellow.” That is the first of many popular songs throughout Boyhood, songs that serve in part as fleeting pop culture anchors in a film where time moves inexorably forward. Coldplay gives way to Arcade Fire, just as Bush gives way to Obama and Mason’s adolescence gives way to adulthood.

Boyhood is enveloped in the pop culture milieu of the last decade in a way that will inevitably stir memories in its younger audience, who like Mason went to midnight releases of Harry Potter and enthused about The Dark Knight. But such references aren’t applied to the film extraneously, in a superficial attempt to capture a zeitgeist or provoke nostalgia.

Instead, they emerge organically, as real details of Mason’s suburban Texan life.

Indeed, nearly everything about Boyhood feels lived-in. The movie is keenly attentive to the passage of time,

and to the ways that life seems to move ahead without clear continuity. Friends from one year are gone the next, and Mason’s mother Olivia (a superb Patricia Arquette) cycles through several husbands, homes, and jobs in a quest for stability.

Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke) drops in and out of the story, eventually evolving from a deadbeat dad to a more responsible presence in his son’s life.

Linklater’s script doesn’t privilege obvious turning points or show-stopping dramatic moments, though. There is some compelling domestic drama in Boyhood—notably in the film’s harrowing middle section, when Olivia’s new husband reveals himself to be a violent drunk—but for the most part, the movie is content to traffic in the business of everyday life. Its sensitive attention to the minutia of ordinary lives makes its few lapses into contrived sentimentality—especially the coincidental return of a minor character toward the end of the film—seem all the more misplaced.

On a moment-to-moment basis, though, Boyhood is authentic to the core. Linklater has a gift for crafting lengthy dialogue scenes that feel naturalistic even though they are scripted and choreographed to the last word. He is more than matched by his cast, who are as comfortable expressing character through body language as through dialogue. Just look at the way that Hawke and Arquette play their first scene together, as Hawke tentatively tries to put on a show of familial unity for the kids, while Arquette keeps her distance and rebuffs him with a resentful glare. The parents’ relationship mellows believably over time, but the emotional scars of their divorce are written into their every movement and line reading.

The child actors are no less impressive. Coltrane has a subdued, thoughtful presence throughout. He doesn’t

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Filmed over 12 years, ‘Boyhood’ successfully conveys authenticity and sentimentality by focusing on the moments of everyday life. mug for the camera or demand to be liked—rather, he draws us in with his quiet, contemplative nature. Linklater likewise gets a believable performance out of his daughter Lorelei, who plays Mason’s sister, Sam. When these characters speak, they do so with the cadences and phrasing of real teenagers. They are sometimes eloquent, sometimes inane, and sometimes banal. But they are never less than real.

Boyhood feels so effortlessly natural that it risks overshadowing the work of its director. In a way, that is a fitting tribute to Linklater, who has clearly made Boyhood a movie to be felt first and analyzed second. Aside from some lengthy walk-and-talk tracking shots, the movie rarely draws attention to it-

self. But its style is not unsophisticated, and the intensity of feeling it conveys is a direct result of Linklater’s smart directorial choices. Many of these go unnoticed, like the fact that he shot the entire movie on 35mm film stock to maintain a consistent visual look, even as digital technology overtook the film industry over the course of the 12-year production.

Other choices are more evident, like the movie’s editing patterns, courtesy of longtime Linklater collaborator Sandra Adair. Rather than cuing the audience with date and title cards, the movie seamlessly elides easy distinctions between years. As the movie goes on, we know that the end must be approaching, but we never know quite how long we

will spend in one period of Mason’s life, or where a year’s passage of time will find him. A lot of the movie’s power comes from that tension between inevitability and unpredictability, a tension that is at the heart of how life is lived and remembered.

By the time the credits roll, we have spent two hours and 45 minutes with Mason—a tiny fraction of any human life, but a long time in movie terms.

Boyhood earns every minute of that runtime. At the end of the film, as Mason goes off to college, his mother sobs that she wishes there was more. You may find yourself feeling that way, too—wanting to see more of Mason, and more movies as intelligent, compelling, and humane as this one. 

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Like Chocolat (2000) and No Reservations (2007), The Hundred Foot Journey—directed by Lasse Hallstrom—is a melodramatic comedic film centered on food, THE HUNDRED FOOT love, and JOURNEY family.

Lasse Hallstrom The story follows the Kadam family and their recent exodus from the their Indian home and restaurant due to political turmoil that ended the life of the Kadam matriarch. Mother Kadam taught all she knew of cooking to her gastronomically gifted son Hassan Kadam, played by Manish Dayal. After the family’s short stint in London, the father (Om Puri) drives through southern France and serendipitously ends up in a town that has an abandoned restaurant ready for sale. The caveat?

A hundred feet away is a Michelin Star restaurant, owned by the seemingly cutthroat and pretentious Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren), and Hassan’s love interest (Charlotte Le Bon) is the rival sous chef.

Hallstrom has perfected his food filmmaking technique, which started in Chocolat. He can transform food from a necessity to one of the most revered aspects of human activity, whether it

is mixing spices in a sauce or kneading bread before baking—a sort of food pornography that seems more enticing than a leaked photo of Jennifer Lawrence.

Yet, Hallstrom still further proves that the art of cooking transcends the actual physical act and is also an extension of human emotion. The grill lit on fire is a manifestation of both attraction and rivalry.

There is dynamism in Hallstrom’s filmmaking, even when the subject is so static. When Hassan cooks in a tent outside in the rain near Heathrow, a plane flies by overhead. A hesitant director would focus on controlling the mis-en-scene as if it is his or her own little universe that will only work when a stimulus is applied. Hallstrom allows the environment and surroundings to direct the action. A plane flies overhead, which, in a delayed reaction, creates wind that pushes the collected water, causing water to collapse his tent and fall on a grill of fresh kebobs. This action-reaction-reaction sequence is the filming equivalent of a Rube Goldberg machine, and only very capable directors have the ability and foresight to create such energetic scenes.

Hallstrom’s directing style also shows original takes on classical Hollywood, which is a palate cleanser for the saturated amount of cliched “rock thrown on girl’s window scenes.” The Hundred Foot Journey falls short of any

iconic status, however. It is first and foremost a melodramatic romcom. The multiplicity of genres leaves the film in internal confusion-creating contradictory moods, which seem to climax in multiple instances throughout the film.

This does not help the plot, which is relatively simplistic.

The Hundred Foot Journey’s primary purpose is to be a feel-good movie. It does not fail in that category. The young lovers, played by Drayal and Le Bon, are more than believable, though the two main characters are not the strength in this film.

The vitality of the film stems from the most common denominator of human experience: food. Food is a part of the mundane and a part of the extravagant, a part of familiar experience and a part of strange new exploration. The film contrasts the rich and powerful Indian home cooking to the subtle and refined French cuisine.

There is no better analogy for life.

The home is full of spice and familiarity, while the public restaurant is a strange new environment that is filled with different faces and varying dishes. The experience of food is more than just three meals a day—food is one of the fundamental mediums of interaction, and denying it a permanent genre is not only a transgression against cinema but also a transgression against the human experience. 

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1. Bleachers: The New York alternative rock group’s Saturday set was one of the weekend’s breakthroughs. 2. Lorde: The 17-year-old New Zealander headlined Saturday’s show. 3. Crowd: Thousands waited out the 3-hour respite for Lorde and Childish Gambino.

A strong showing at Boston Calling, despite 3-hour storm delay From Boston Calling, A8 All three Friday acts, including Future Islands, Neutral Milk Hotel, and The National, made a noticeable effort to connect with their audiences, not through flashy, overdone stage setups or gimmicks, but by playing fan-favorites with as much as energy as possible.

Synth-pop rockers Future Islands opened, setting the bar high for the rest of the show. The band’s frontman, Samuel Herring, growled and snarled as he sang, reaching a strange range of notes and delivering them with an even more disturbing set of dance moves.

(If you saw the group on Letterman earlier this year, his odd but captivating body thrashing shouldn’t be hard to remember.) Playing upbeat songs including “Seasons (Waiting On You),” Future Islands pounded through its set—Herring even ripped his pants in the process. That hardly stopped him from running around and screaming through “Tin Man,” though. “Let’s rip

them some more!” he shouted, shamelessly confessing to a clapping sea of people that he’d split his pants on stage more than once.

Throngs of festival-goers filtered into the venue as the sun set, Future Islands finished off, and Neutral Milk Hotel came on. After more than a decade-long hiatus, Neutral Milk Hotel looked fairly grizzly on stage, with more than one member sporting a long beard. The band had a no photo policy, which prevented the festival from broadcasting the live stream of the show on the jumbotrons for the people in the back to see. Fans, however, didn’t seem bothered, as they rocked to cult classic “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea” and listened to the sounds of the guitar, a trumpet, and even a giant saw come together in beautifully chaotic harmony.

The National’s stage presence was markedly different than its down-toearth predecessors, with the band standing before a flashing LCD background and lead singer Matt Berniger wearing a

pristine grey suit. Berniger was dressed to impress—and it wasn’t long before he went to work wooing the crowd with songs like the transfixing ballad “I Need My Girl.” After headlining its inaugural run, the Ohio natives returned to Boston Calling as polished professionals, clearly able to engage an audience.

When Berniger leapt into the front row near the end of the evening, there was no doubt that The National had Boston sold—yet again.

Saturday Saturday’s lineup included Lorde, Childish Gambino, The Hold Steady, and Bleachers—performances from Girl Talk and Volcano Choir (which features Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon) were cancelled due to storm delays.

Lorde packed 10 songs into a shortened, 50-minute set. Much of the instrumental backing from the recorded versions of her songs was absent on Saturday night. Lorde’s sound crew saturated Government Center with crunchy synths and bass, serving as a

psychedelic backdrop for the set. The performance was largely a testament to the 17-year-old New Zealander’s theatrical zeal. The 2013 hit “Royals” was a highlight of the trippy, strobe-lit performance, with Lord quickly changing into a tasteful red cape and crown during an interlude to the song.

Childish Gambino relied heavily on material from 2013’s Because the Internet—closing out the night in a mesmerizing, albeit somewhat disjointed, barrage of sound. Because his performance was also shortened due to the respite, Gambino’s setlist had snippets and samples, but not many full-length songs. Saturday’s selections spanned Gambino’s career, condensing his work into a wild fit of fast verses and appeals to the crowd—with “Heartbeat” and “3005” drawing a visceral response from his enormous gathering of fans at Boston Calling.

Bleachers’ appearance Saturday afternoon was something of a breakthrough, showcasing lead singer Jack

Antonoff (also from Fun. and Steel Train) as a likable, dynamic frontman.

While the performance clearly was designed to build up to “I Wanna Get Better,” Bleachers’ only hit to date, the rest of the set hardly felt sluggish. The Hold Steady followed Bleachers, offering a deafeningly loud and predominately solid set that rattled the early evening attendees. The Brooklyn band had plenty of power to show off, but ultimately fell just short of Bleachers’ charm.

This season’s lineup was telling, marking a partial, if not complete, departure from the festival’s more local, alternative rock roots. Large, national acts like Childish Gambino and Lorde brought Boston Calling into the ranks of already well-established music festivals like Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza, which regularly pull in a mix of both big and local names. The scope of this fall’s lineup was unusually ambitious—and fortunately, Boston was there to listen. n

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The McMullen’s new retrospective exhibit explores the development of Wifredo Lam’s hybrid style, displaying his paintings and works on paper.

Lam brings surrealism to McMullen From Wifredo Lam, A8 the Spanish Civil War, his work began to shift—and we truly see how Lam took the modernist principles and even subverted them for his own expression. With the guidance of Picasso, Lam began to explore African imagery—similar to Picasso himself, he was struck by the masks, forms, and colors that he found in African art museums and incorporated them into his work.

What’s so unique about Lam’s interpretations is how he fused African iconography with European themes, while injecting his own personal history into the artwork. In 1931, Lam’s first wife and son died of tuberculosis, which many believe led to his numerous paintings of mother and child. Lam’s Mere et enfant, II (1939) exemplifies his fusion of these various modernist forms with his own personal twist—the piece shows a dark, faceless mother composed of simple geometric forms, with a faceless child lying horizontally at her waist. In effect, Lam takes a recognizable image and defamiliarizes it for his audience, resulting in a “non-

European, secularized interpretation” of the mother and child, as explained by the informational labels.

By 1941, Lam had returned to his native Cuba, and the exhibit describes his subsequent work as a “metamorphosis of images”—a synthesis of human, animal, and vegetal forms. Also described as a type of “magical realism” and a hybrid form of surrealism, Lam’s pieces begin to shift into a style that is somewhat familiar, but simultaneously new and experimental.

The way he uses body parts is perhaps the most intriguing—again, his beady eyes are not quite human, and the limbs extending outward from all directions are not quite animal either. His Le Sombre Malembo (1943) captures this sense of wonder and mystification, and combines various painting styles such as impressionistic brush strokes, pointillist techniques, and playing of light and color.

Lam’s body of work from this point forward consistently incorporates his preferred motifs—horns, eyes, vegetation, and allusions to Afro-Cuban deities—and gives a more clear vision of Lam’s own

imagined new world.

The downstairs area of the museum covers Lam’s work during his return back to Paris, where he remained for the rest of his life. Inspired by New York expressionists, Lam moved more toward abstraction in his later pieces, using techniques such as ink splotching and splattering in his larger compositions.

The exhibit also includes displays of African masks and Oceanic sculptures that inspired L am’s work—allowing viewers to see how Lam interpreted the facial features and elongated forms of the sculptures in a different medium.

All of Lam’s characters, motifs, and symbols culminate in a series of nine drawings called Etchings from Annonciation, the final component of the exhibit.

Frame after frame, we get to see how Lam’s mind works, as if we are moving through his subconscious and witnessing how his creatures would interact on the canvas.

After journeying through Lam’s career as an artist, the series of etchings provides a deeper and conclusive portrayal of Lam’s worlds coming together—both the real and the imagined. n

Boston College.

Education is changing. Most grade schools have a bundle of laptops and iPads ready to be dispersed at a moment’s notice. Mine didn’t, but they do now. Most high schools require their students to carry their laptops with them like the Power Rangers carry their morphers. Mine didn’t, but they will soon. Who knows, maybe in 10 years we won’t need teachers in class. Maybe some C-3PO character will be running 8-year-olds through their multiplication tables. This would hopefully make education cheaper, but then, probably not.

So we’re stuck in the middle here, with none of us, institutions included, really sure how to proceed. How do we maintain that level of human interaction needed to learn without getting left behind with Fred and Wilma? (That’s a Flintstones reference—Google it.)

New technology is inescapable. It’s what many artists are dealing with, as well. This is what Childish Gambino’s sophomore effort Because the Internet is about. This is one of the many things The Social Network is about. One is riddled in honest pretension. The other is the best film of the 21st century.

It’s a tough question—how do I break away from my gorgeously cracked phone? And the answer is simple, really.

Grantland’s Steven Hyden wrote in his review of Glover’s album: “In a recent interview, Glover talked about growing up in the pre-Internet world and how he can still ‘remember what humanity is like.’ We need to ‘bring that good shit with us,’ he said.

Actually, you can go back to that world whenever you want. It still surrounds us. Just look up from your damn phone.”

There are some summer days when I don’t miss a tweet on my timeline.

I follow 243 people. But then again, there are days my eyes glaze over every single tweet. Sometimes I’m eating on campus, scrolling through my timeline but not really reading—just scrolling interestingly so it looks like I’m waiting for someone. Anything that keeps me from twiddling my thumbs. Anything to not just sit, because to just sit is to be alone and to be alone is to experience what Louie C.K. calls “the forever empty”—total isolation, the knowledge that you’re truly alone and might even die alone. Happy Monday.

But to just sit is also to see and listen—whether it’s observing your professor talking about math stuff, two freshmen on a date, or an out-ofline Mac employee blasting country music through the PA. We’re stuck in the middle, between this avalanche of impassive technology and some vision of an ideal past where people actually interacted with each other. We’re stuck between feeling shielded by this bright screen and frightfully exposed through it.

Striking a balance is key, because I love Netflix just as much I love the sight of changing leaves. And maybe we can have both. Maybe you can spend an afternoon watching House of Cards and then spend the next apple picking—because the boy in me always thought that might be really fun.

So if you see me around and I’m hunched over my phone scrolling through some impassioned tweets about the fake How I Met Your Mother ending, give me a nod so I know we’re cool and kindly smack that damn phone out of my hands. And then go on to class. It’s too early in the year for skipping classes.

Ryan Dowd is a staff columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at arts@bcheights.com

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ARIANA IGNERI For this weekend’s Boston Calling, I pulled out my high-waisted shorts, aviators, and Vans, and spent Saturday rocking out with several thousand fellow Lorde lovers.

Five years ago, I did more or less the same thing—except it wasn’t Boston. It was East Rutherford, N.J., and the droves of people weren’t fans of the “Royals” singer.

They bought tickets for Fall Out Boy. Bamboozle was the first music festival I’d ever gone to, but obviously, music festivals were around long before I was a wannabe punk.

The closest thing resembling today’s music festivals actually dates back to the sixth century BC in Greece. At these Ancient Greek paloozas, audiences would gather to watch the Pythian Games and listen to live flute performances.

Since then, music festivals have grown and evolved—almost as fast as my love for “Sugar, We’re Going Down” and black eyeliner had back in high school. (Thank god that phase of my life is over.)

Thousands of years after togas and old wind instruments were cool, largescale events including the Newport Jazz Festival and the Newport Folk Festival were organized in the 1950s. Both are still highly successful annual shows in Rhode Island, attracting people with all kinds of musical tastes—not just old grandpas yearning for the days of Big Band and swing or bearded hipsters who like to quote Bob Dylan lyrics, as these events stereotypically do.

In August 1969, Woodstock became the most iconic festival to date—setting a precedent for contemporary culture and making two- or three-day-long outdoor concerts increasingly common as the decades progressed. It wasn’t until the ’90s, however, that they became less of a relic of the past and more of a profitable source of income for the music industry’s future.

The turn of the millennium saw festivals cropping up across the U.S. Bonnaroo, Coachella, and Sasquatch are just a few of the big-name shows that have been drawing artists and fans from all over the country for about 15 years now.

While concerts like these once attracted just niche audiences, festival planners have diversified their lineups to include performers across a range of genres. The approach not only more closely resembles today’s digital music consumption habits—allowing listeners to sample numerous songs and styles like they would on Pandora or Spotify—but, as it turns out, also brings in a ton of money.

This year, Coachella generated a recordbreaking $78 million with 579,000 people in attendance over the course of the two-weekend event. With numbers like those, it’s no wonder that sponsors are lining up to pay up, just for the chance to throw their company-stamped sunglasses and beer coozies at crowds who love free promo goodies.

Festivals’ generous promoters and high ticket prices—often nearing a hefty hundred bucks a day—enable their coordinators to pay even small and old acts up to four times what they’d get for a normal club gig. Neutral Milk Hotel, for example, didn’t make a whole lot when they were playing shows in the ’90s, but in 2014 alone, the “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea” group is cashing in big after a decade-long hiatus, making it onto the bills of festivals including Pitchfork, Bonanroo, and last Friday’s Boston Calling.

Larger audiences, longer set times, and more zeroes on the paycheck are just a few reasons artists are willing to work with organizers, planning tours around festival dates.

Given the recent explosion of music festivals, it would seem as if the bubble would have to burst sooner rather than later—last year, developers launched more new festivals than ever before, according to Billboard, with over 60 scheduled to take place in the U.S. in 2014.

It’s never clear whether the younger festivals will survive against the strong, wellestablished ones, but the success of and high demand for Boston Calling, which is only in its second year, suggests that even the newcomers are likely to stick.

As long as there are enough people who like live music, the outdoors, and very expensive opportunities to get free stuff, these festivals won’t be going anywhere. They’ll inevitably change, but as history—and my own taste in bands has shown—that’s probably not a bad thing.

Ariana Igneri is the Assoc. Arts & Review Editor for The Heights. She can be reached at arts@bcheights.com

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John Wiley | Arts & Review Editor Ariana Igneri | Assoc. Arts & Review Editor Saturday, 8:13 p.m.: Downtown Boston is a scene of hopeful speculation. Thousands of concertgoers wait just outside the gates to Boston Calling, many still wet from the storm. Most are looking down at smartphones.

Lorde, the evening’s headliner, tweets, “the festival is allowing me to play a 50 min set at 8pm if the festival is open by then—hang tight! excited to see you!”

A few odd cheers break out from the growing mass at the gate. Meanwhile, in Quincy Market, dispersed festival-goers begin to emerge from storefronts. They begin moving back to City Hall, with no official announcement on the concert’s status just yet. Lightning flashes sporadically in the background. It is distant—there is no sound

of thunder.

8:26 p.m.: Boston Calling’s official Twitter account confirms the festival is back on.

9:11 p.m.: Lorde walks onto Boston Calling’s red stage, opening her set with “Glory and Gore.”

It has been over three hours since the respite had first been announced, and a mass is burgeoning in Government Center. The crowd quickly out-sizes what it was earlier that day at first announcement of the storm delay.

Lorde’s Saturday evening performance became paramount to the success of this fall’s Boston Calling Music Festival—the moment signified a rallying of concertgoers and festival staff. She headlined the fourth installment of Boston Calling

this weekend, alongside The National, Nas x The Roots. Earlier Saturday, a thunderstorm—with significant gusts of wind—brought chaos to Government Center, forcing officials to vacate the plaza as the storm passed and event staff made necessary repairs to a wind-damaged set.

Friday At the end of The National’s 90-minute set Friday night at Boston Calling, the headliners decided to play an acoustic encore—even though it meant running several minutes past the city’s strict 11 p.m. noise curfew. The stripped-down performance was a culmination of what the entire evening was about—the music and the crowd.

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Wifredo Lam: Magic in the McMullen JOHN WILEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR

The latest exhibit at the McMullen Musuem showcases the imaginative, cross-cultural pieces of Cuban artist Wifredo Lam.

BY MICHELLE TOMASSI Asst. Arts & Review Editor When you walk into the McMullen Museum’s latest exhibition, Wifredo Lam: Imagining New Worlds, two words come to mind: not quite. The Cuban artist’s use of the imagination, with figures that blur the line between humanity and the dream world, is not quite surrealism.

Lam’s experimentation with geometric form—slightly disorienting and at times confusing—is not quite cubism.

For every artistic movement that influenced Lam’s career, it’s clear that he doesn’t quite fit into any category. Rather, he presents a hybrid of styles to showcase his own unique background, or, as the exhibition title suggests, imagine a new world.

Born in Cuba to parents of Chinese and African/ Spanish descent, Lam was surrounded by cross-cultural experiences that eventually manifested in his work—often described as an encounter between Western modernism and Afro-Cuban symbolism. Lam’s background is infused into his art, and the effect is commanding—for example,

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take the very first image in the exhibit, Untitled (1945).

Upon walking into the museum, the viewer is confronted with Lam’s name in bold white letters, with the word “exhibition” spelled out vertically, and arrows directing the eye to each subsequent letter. With a bold orange background and many of Lam’s recurring symbols—arrows, triangular facial forms, and small piercing eyeballs—we get the sense right away that Lam’s personality is unmistakable.

Lam left Cuba for Madrid at the age of 21, and the beginning of the exhibit showcases his academic work as well as his exposure to European modern art movements.

His Composicion, I (1930) shows echoes of the Surrealist movement—a dark, erotic piece that shows a brightly colored and curvilinear prostitute in the foreground, with buildings and stairs moving into the background in an abstract, geometric path. The piece evokes a dream world typical of Surrealist art, but also has stylistic components of cubism that Picasso led in the 20th century.

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If you went to class this past week—and hopefully you all did—you likely received a half-pound syllabus, some hesitant eye contact from that one kid in your orientation group (which is awkward whether it’s been a week since you’ve seen him or three years), and a new nugget from your professor. That nugget (buried within side tangents from yours truly) went something like this: I know that we’re all adults here, and I can’t really forbid you from doing anything, but I would really discourage you from using your phone, laptop, tablet, Google Glass, or Google Contact in this class. I think we’re losing touch with how to communicate with each other—and studies have shown that students learn better with handwritten notes than typed.

Odds are, at least one student in the class was shopping at virtual J. Crew precisely as this all went on.

I went to five different classes last week and received five thoughtful, well-articulated iterations of the above nugget: most technology is not meant for the classroom—at least not yet. A few years off, it well might be a robot standing at the front of the class reciting Shakespeare to us, but as for now, chalkboards rule the roost here at

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increase in allocated funds.

Including the reduction in programming funding due to the split, Fiore-Chettiar’s administration decreased recommended discretionary funding, executive level stipends, and did away with purchasing sweatshirts for UGBC members, a cost in past years that exceeded $6,000.

Across UGBC’s five executive level departments Diversity and Inclusion (DI), the only department within UGBC responsible for large-scale social programming, received the greatest portion of the budget—about one third. Their programming branch plans

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At the first weekly meeting of the Student Assembly last night, senators unanimously approved a $320,000 budget to fund UGBC for the 2014-15 academic year. The budget, sent to the Student Assembly by Nanci FioreChettiar, UGBC president and A&S ’15, is the first since programming split from the organization last spring.

In total, this year’s budget reflects a 50 percent decrease from last year’s $628,000, in large part due to the programming split, but otherwise represents a seven percent

four events throughout the year, including the popular Annual Boat Cruise and Annual Showdown, both of which bring in revenue for the organization. Although apportioned $100,000 of the budget, DI requested double that, and as it stands now their events are not fully funded. This same problem arose last year, when DI had to co-sponsor a number of its programs with other student organizations.

Fiore-Chettiar said this year’s allocation to DI programming reflects a comprise between her administration and the vice president. As soon as the financial affairs division determines how much money will rollover from last year DI will be the first to

Total: $319,351

DI Program.: $101,000 Exec. Office: $75,000 Student Initiatives: $40,625 Student Assembly: $30,470 GLC: $22,450 ALC: $16,200 Comm.: $16,006 ULA: $9,500 DI General: $4,100 Student Orgs.: $4,000

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James Burns named dean of Woods College

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Burns was named dean following the 44-year term of former WCAS dean Rev. James Woods, S.J. JOHN WILEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR

After 10 years of developing the exhibit, the McMullen now holds the largest existing collection of works by artist Wifredo Lam.

Wifredo lam arrives at mcmullen

BY CONNOR FARLEY News Editor Despite its relatively quiet presence in Devlin Hall, the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College has been home to dozens of internationally renowned art exhibits—this semester’s exhibit, however, showcases one of the museum’s most extensive and elusive collections in its history.

Now on display at the McMullen is Wifredo Lam: Imagining New Worlds— an unprecedented retrospective gallery of more than 40 paintings and over 80 total works of Cuban artist Wifredo Lam

(1902-82), whose style encompasses a wide range of multinational influences and cultural themes.

The exhibit marks only one of many in the museum’s history, and features works never before housed in the same location. While some were previously held in major museums, much of the artist’s works had been purchased by and dispersed among private collectors around the world, making the task of gathering them in one space a challenging task for the exhibit’s organizers.

“There are probably 47 paintings and there are lots of works on paper, so there’s probably close to 80 works in the

whole show,” said museum Director and arts professor Nancy Netzer.

“And some of the paintings are really big—there’s a lot of big, big stuff.

So the shipping and the crating was a nightmare,” Netzer said. “The [pieces] were coming from all over the world—I mean, not a real nightmare, but it was very hard to coordinate.”

The exhibit was largely the product of 10 years’ worth of research and outreach by Hispanic Studies professor and exhibit curator Elizabeth T. Goizueta, who spent the past decade working with

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BY JULIE ORENSTEIN Assoc. News Editor After being named interim dean of the Woods College of Advancing Studies (WCAS) in 2012, Rev. James P. Burns, IVD has been appointed dean of the Woods College on a permanent basis, assuming the role on Sept. 1.

The former director of faculty outreach and program assessment for the University’s Mission and Ministry division, Burns took over as interim dean following the retirement of the Woods College’s namesake, Rev. James Woods, S.J. who served as dean for 44 years.

“Fr. Burns has worked tirelessly to strengthen the Woods College undergraduate and graduate programs over the last two years,” University Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley told the Boston College Chronicle. “He has partnered successfully with faculty and colleagues from around the University and we are poised

to make great progress going forward.

The Woods College has long advanced our University’s distinctive mission and I am confident that Dean Burns will continue that tradition in creative and powerful ways.”

Before coming to Boston College in 2010, Burns was co-chairman and associate professor at the Graduate School of Psychology at his alma mater, the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. He has also served in academic roles within his field of psychology at both Boston University and Harvard Medical School.

Burns said that, when he was first appointed interim dean of the Woods College, his focus was on clarifying policies, connecting to the larger university community, and adjusting to the shifting higher education market, particularly the post-traditional learner environment. As

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Campus Voice calls for student suggestions

BY CAROLYN FREEMAN Heights Staff

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Boston College students seeking more control over and interaction with their campus have the option of communicating directly with UGBC’s Campus Voice website—an online idea-submission platform launched last spring. Although the website has been active since March, the Policy Development Committee within UGBC is working to draw more awareness to the website among students.

Campus Voice uses a voting system to determine which issues are most relevant to students. A student can post

a suggestion for change on campus and other students can then vote for it up to three times. Once a suggestion reaches 50 votes, UGBC has pledged to make it a priority, said Matt Hugo, UGBC senator and A&S ’16.

“It’s a way for students to be able to have a say in the agenda setting process for UGBC,” he said. “After all, the government is there to represent their needs. It helps us figure out what their needs are, and based on the amount of votes that proposals get we can determine the amount of student support for different initiatives.”

The website began after the Policy Development Committee realized that

it was very difficult to set an agenda without any direct input from the student body. The site had initially slow start, though, due to lack of publicity, Hugo noted.

“We had a little bit slower of a start than we would have liked to last year, but that’s directly related to the fact that we didn’t put as much effort into publicizing it as we probably should have had,” he said.

This year, Hugo, who serves as the chair of the committee, has set up meetings to implement the new publicity plan, which will include meeting

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UMass edged by field hockey

Eagles win fifth straight

BY CONOR HAWLEY For The Heights Let the good times roll for the Boston College women’s soccer team.

On Sunday, the Eagles won their fifth consecutive match 1 Illinois State by defeating the Boston College 4 Illinois State Redbirds, 4-1. They have now jumped out to a quick start on the young season by taking seven of their first eight matches while Illinois State picked up their third loss of the year.

Boston College dominated the first 10 minutes of the game, generating many quality opportunities and putting pressure on the Illinois State defense, which ultimately led to goals in the third and 10th minute by junior Jana Jeffrey and senior Stephanie McCaffrey.

Illinois State, however, quickly responded with a goal in the 12th minute.

In the second half, despite early pressure from Illinois State, the Eagles were able to cushion their lead with a goal early from sophomore Hayley Dowd, the team leader in points heading into the game. From there, Illinois State struggled to respond and McCaffrey was able to pad the stats in the waning moments to increase the lead to 4-1 en route to a two-goal and one-assist performance.

BY VICTORIA JOHNSON For The Heights For most college students, Sundays are for resting, homework, and laundry. For the Boston College field hockey team, Sunday was an opporMassachusetts 0 tunity to fight Boston College 2 its way toward becoming one of the top-10 field hockey teams in the country, and to redeem itself for last year’s 4-2 loss to UMass. The focus of coach Ainslee Lamb’s team was energy and work rate, and Lamb said its mantra on Sunday was was “refuse to lose.” The No. 13 ranked Eagles successfully completed that goal against the No. 10 Minutewomen as they pulled off their first home win of the season with a score of 2-0.

BC started out of the gate strong and put pressure on the UMass defense while maintaining possession for the majority of the first half. The Minutewomen successfully found small cracks in BC’s defense but were unable to capitalize on the breakaways. The Eagles continued to press their opponents and on their second corner attempt they were able to put a tally on the scoreboard.

Brittany Sheenan sent a smooth pass to Eryn McCoy, who set the ball to her sister Emily McCoy in order to go one up and send “Who Let the Dogs Out” erupting from the Newton Field Hockey Field.

UMass used the deficit as motivation and took charge on offense. They were able to break into the circle and cause a BC penalty in order to set up their first corner of the game with 17 minutes left in the half.

The Minutewomen were unable to take advantage of the penalty, but Brooke Sabia fought back and forced BC’s goalkeeper, Leah Settipane, to make an incredible save with stick.

The Eagles then took control and were able to carry the ball down into UMass territory. The 2-on-1 breakaway almost guaranteed a BC goal, but Leah Frome’s flick hit the crossbar. She was able to quickly take the

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Coming off a short Boston College corner, Lauren Bernard collected the ball at the 0 UW-Milwaukee to p r i g ht o f Boston College 2 the box. The junior turned and fired a left-footed shot to the top-left corner of the net, easily clearing the reach of Milwaukee’s keeper. Bernard’s strike, which came in the 47th minute of Friday night’s match against UW-Milwaukee, gave BC women’s soccer the lead and proved to be the deciding point in the game.

BC would add on another goal later in the half, giving the team its fourth consecutive victory on the road, and improving its overall record to 5-1 on the year. Over this recent four-game span, the Eagles have allowed just one goal, and shut out their opposition in each of the previous three games.

Senior goalkeeper Alex Johnson, who kept her third cleansheet on the bounce, has spearheaded this defensive effort. Johnson’s biggest stop in Friday’s clash came 27 minutes into the match, when a handball in the box led to a

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Field hockey rebounded from its loss to Lafayette by scoring a pair of goal against UMass. rebound and put it past the Minutewomen’s keeper, Sam Carlino, in the final minutes of the first half, though.

The second half proved to be less monumental as both teams showed their defensive strengths by shutting out the other team.

BC had a series of corners but the players were unable to find the back of the goal.

UMass found energy again and rushed the field and gave a scare to the BC defense. If it was not for a foot penalty, the Minutewomen would have had an open shot on

penalty kick opportunity for Milwaukee. Vienna Behnke aimed the PK on the ground to the left of Johnson, but the veteran keeper dove to her side to make the save.

“Any time your goalkeeper comes up with a big save, an extra spurt of energy comes up,” head coach Alison Foley said.

“You can’t celebrate at the time because you have to go on with the game, but it added to the intensity.”

Johnson had four saves on the day, a season-high. She has allowed just three goals in six games, and has made 16 saves. Even while the team has had to remain versatile while dealing with the loss of senior center back, Casey Morrison, who is out for the year with a torn ACL, BC has maintained a strong backfield.

“We started our preseason and the beginning of the season with a 3-5-2 formation, since we thought that would fit best with our players’ personalities,” Foley said. “We switched to a 4-3-3, and that system has worked. Since then, we haven’t allowed a goal.”

While Boston College held a commanding 9-2 advantage in shots over the course of the first half, Milwaukee

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Defensively, the Eagles have recorded shutouts in three games thus far while only surrendering one goal in each of the other five games. Overall, they’re averaging .625 goals against per game. Offensively, Dowd has shown impressive confidence and ability in just her second year with five goals and two assists while also leading the ACC in shots and ranking in the top 10 in total points along with McCaffrey.

After home matches against Harvard and South Florida in the next two weeks, ACC play begins with a showdown against the team that eliminated them from NCAA Tournament play last year, Florida State. This stretch does not get much easier with contests against powerhouses such as Pittsburgh, Clemson, and Virginia, a 2013 Final Four participant.

Each of those teams has had a solid start to the season and shows potential for a deep tournament run. Clemson is unbeated after seven games. Pittsburgh has lost by one in each of their three defeats. Like Clemson, Virginia has stayed undefeated and has scored no less than two goals in each of their matches while also holding opponents to two goals on the entire season and ranking third in the national rankings.

While the Eagles can celebrate their recent success, a tough road lies ahead. 

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goal midway through the second half. The remainder of the half went back and fourth as each team attempted to break through the other team’s defense and score. BC’s final attempt on goal came with 1:40 left from Emma Plasteras.

Lamb credits the team’s success to the coaching staff of Kelly Doton and Carolyn Cahill for preparing the defense. “Having the kids actually stepping up and implementing what they’re learning [from the staff ], it’s just such a kudos to that group that they did such a good job today,” Lamb said. 

Bernard, Dowd lift BC over Panthers

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Monday, September 8, 2014

Conference

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Louisville

1-0

2-0

Syracuse

0-0

1-0

NC State

0-0

2-0

Florida State

0-0

2-0

Clemson

0-0

1-1

Wake Forest

0-0

1-1

Boston College

0-1

1-1

keeper Paige Lincicum prevented the team from breaking onto the scoreboard, making five saves in the first 45 minutes. Lincicum couldn’t hold off her opponent’s attack indefinitely, and BC managed to net two of its six shots in the second half. Stephanie McCaffrey and Meg MacDonald assisted the first goal from Bernard, who would later go on to assist Hayley Dowd’s goal in the 78th minute.

This was the fourth goal in the past three games for Dowd, who has stepped up as a sophomore this season to lead the squad in goals (four) and points (nine) thus far.

“She has been great,” Foley said. “She had a great spring and a great postseason. She trained very hard in the offseason, and has matured very well. She improved her ability to turn, and has a lot more poise on the field.”

The Eagles will need Dowd to continue this effort as they begin to face off against ACC matchups later this month.

The team will also look to McCaffrey and Bernard, the two players who currently rank second and third for BC in points, to help fill the void created by McKenzie Meehan’s Achilles injury. 

Since 1863, soccer’s best minds have debated one question: is it better to lose pretty or win ugly? To nuance that question, soccer has become 0 URI a battle of the Boston College 3 extremes. In the modern game, the question can be whittled down to possessing the ball, which is defending by attacking and easy on the eye, or ceding possession to play defense, so that you can score on the break. Possession is the taste of the decade, but it can be pointless without a purpose.

BC men’s soccer’s coaching staff wants the ball to be circulated throughout its versatile attack, which has pace, finesse, and a lot of tricks in its the bag. The attack only needs three or four passes between it to leave a defense naked, as opposed to seven or eight passes in the build up to wear down a defense.

BC’s front three includes Zeiko Lewis, who has lots of skill and an eye for the killer ball, Isaac Normesinu, who has the pace to split a back line wide open, and Nana Boateng, who is unpredictable. Each player in the trio has a lot of technical ability, and they are starting to click up front, after struggling to get a vibe going in the team’s first three games. On Sunday afternoon, they thrived in BC’s 3-0 win over the University of Rhode Island.

“We’re starting to open up now, and we’re starting to really show our true colors in attack,” said associate head coach John Murphy.

“With any talented group, it’s about getting cohesion, so we’re in the process of getting cohesion and as you’re seeing that, you’re really seeing some nice stuff. I thought today we moved the ball very, very well. We created some great chances.”

Link up play in the first 15 minutes was swift. Normesinu checked for the ball and found space between the lines of URI’s midfield and back four. He found Lewis, who was playing in the hole, and the two combined with quick wall passes between a compact Rhode Island defense. The best move came on 14 minutes when Lewis and Normesinu shredded through the middle and found Cole DeNormandie on the left, though the senior pulled his shot wide of the near post.

After a few substitutions, the game settled down before Normesinu broke the deadlock on 37 minutes with a curled blast

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The Eagles looked to work the wide areas as the game went on and began to retain the ball more and more. Circulating the ball became the key, though it was not done at a direct pace. Instead, BC dictated the tempo of the match, which fell into a pattern in which BC possessed and the Rams sat back looking to use their danger-men on the break.

“All they have to do is hit you once and then the game changes,” Murphy said. That almost happened immediately after halftime, when URI broke down the left and the Eagles’ midfield failed to track the run of Carlo Davids. The URI freshman had Alex Kapp at his mercy, but the Eagles’ goalkeeper leaped to his right to tip the ball off the post, which kept the team’s 1-0 advantage in tact. A Davids goal could have changed the game’s momentum, but BC reestablished the norm.

“I think the fact that we worked and use the ball so well kind of demoralized them a little bit,” Murphy said. “That’s what set up the last two goals.”

One of the reasons why Kelly has changed to the diamond midfield this season is to make use of his versatile personnel, one of whom is Boateng. His work rate is extremely high, but the depth of the team has placed him out of the starting XI. There is no doubt that he has talent though, and he can find space in the box and link up well with his teammates. Talented attackers want to play with smart players, with just as much skill, who can find them for goals.

“Whenever you play with them you have to understand them,” Boateng said. “It’s like all the stuff you do in practice and all the stuff is helping out, because the coach is giving us new tactics and we’re working hard.”

The understanding between the three was lethal when Normesinu sprinted down the right and a ball from Lewis put the Rams’ back line at sixes and seven. Normesinu then looked for a cross, and drove the ball to Boateng for the easy finish to make it 2-0, three minutes from time. It was a deadly attack that broke Fordham’s spirit and opened the way for Lewis to strike from the top of box two minutes later.

When Boateng, Lewis, and Normesinu click together, they can be as dangerous as they as any trio in college soccer, though they will have to be lethal for the Eagles to have success, especially when they have so much possession. 

Quote of the Week

“We didn’t connect on two wide open passes … we didn’t get any points out of the drive … you gotta capitalize on those opportunities.” — BC football head coach Steve Addazio

The number of goals opponents have EMILY FAHEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR scored on men’s soccer in its Emily first Fahey four / Heights EditorCupicatuidet L. Fulessedo, querfecta, nihilicii ineri fic games.

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The number of yards Tyler Murphy has netted on the ground in his first two games as quarterback.

24 The number of saves women’s soccer goalkeeper Alexandra Johnson has made in seven appearances this season.

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Pitt slayed BC’s running back hydra and led a Herculean rush From Football, B1 “ We knew going into this game we had to stop the run—we didn’t do it, it didn’t happen,” Addazio said after the game.

“I knew he would be good,” he continued. “None of us had any delusions. He was gonna run inside, he’s a strong runner, he’s big—he’s a heck of a back. We had to tackle, and we had plenty of opportunities. I mean schematically, not all the time, but a lot of the time, we were in positions to make those plays. We didn’t make the tackles.”

Like an enraged, punch-drunk rhinoceros, Pitt’s 6-foot-2, 250pound brick wall of a running back ran north on BC all night, pounding his way through BC’s defensive line and bouncing off tackles for extra yards in the secondary. Coming off of a fourtouchdown performance against Delaware last week , Conner racked up 367 rushing yards in two games—46 percent of his season total as a freshman last year. Pulling off a damn good Andre Williams impression, Conner shed arm tackles all night and was nearly always tackled by a committee of Eagles.

“He’s a good back , played good,” said BC captain Dominique Williams. “But, tacklingwise, I really have no comment.”

For the most part, everything capable of going wrong for the Eagles went DEFCON 1.

With the exception of a few quality plays and Shakim Phillips’ 48-yard touchdown, BC’s passing game resembled a stagnated pond in August, sans the frogs, algae, and the peaceful sense of

nature that comes with being near a pond. Dropped passes and an Eli Manning-esque, off-thereceiver pick killed any momentum the Eagles were able to string together—other than Phillips, no BC receiver accumulated more than 25 yards. Murphy finished the night 10 for 28 with 134 yards and a touchdown.

Special teams proved a similar nightmare for the Eagles—Alex Howell went 0-1 on field goal attempts and Addazio elected to punt on Pitt’s 34-yard line rather than try Howell again from distance. Kicking was Addazio’s sure thing last season, but it’s quickly ballooned into one of his biggest headaches and liabilities of his 2014 team.

Compounding BC’s loss, Sean Duggan, a senior captain and linebacker, suffered a leg injury and limped off the field before collapsing on the sideline moments later. He was later seen on crutches, and his current status is unknown.

BC’s home opener was a thorough whipping , through and through—while the Eagles kept the final score within 10, they were outplayed for almost the entire game. Pitt figured out BC’s game in one quarter, and it’s not about to get any easier for Addazio & Co.—a ranked USC team comes to town for a primetime battle on Saturday.

To right the ship, BC desperately needs to get the running game going again. At the moment, though, it looks like BC’s biggest silver lining is that the Trojans won’t be bringing any Greek demigods with them to Chestnut Hill. 

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Snakes are plotting against us, stay wary From Hater’s Guide, B1 DON’T: Forget to eat food.

Nutrition is important (or so they say), and if you forget to eat for more than 45 days in a row you will almost definitely die, thus failing to survive this school year and damaging the credibility of this guide.

DO: Bet your life savings on the women’s hockey team winning the National Championship. Pawn your laptop and phone, and maybe even save money up by not eating for 44 days. If you have a car, sell it. Ask your grandma for money, and if she says no, steal some under the cover of darkness. Right now, Katie King Crowley’s team possesses enough attacking talent to conquer Constantinople 10 times over. Emily Field, Andie Anastos, and Haley Skarupa combined for 108 points last year, and Alexandra Carpenter is back to rejoin her teammates after winning an Olympic silver medal with Team USA in Sochi. This team is going places, so now would be a good time to hop on the bandwagon if you’re

interested in that sort of thing.

DON’T: Foolishly trust that your coffee will be at a safe drinking temperature right when you get it—unless you enjoy a mouth and throat scorched like a desert in Hell in August.

DO: Mentally prepare yourself for men’s basketball season. It might be another long one. Which is really saying a lot, because last year’s season seemed to stretch on in a twilight zone where BC lost the exact same game 24 times and Steve Donahue slipped steadily into a state of misery that could only be ameliorated by the promise of a about a million dollars to do nothing for a year.

Well, that’s about it. Go out and live life to its fullest. And watch out for the venomous Timber Rattlesnake if you happen to be in a forest with a thick understory. It will be mating this fall.

Connor Mellas is the Sports Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at sports@bcheights.

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Key moments killed BC against Pitt From Turning Points, B1 coverage,” Addazio said. “Not gonna give them another crack there.”

Pitt’s Passing Game Both teams wanted to run the ball Friday, and Pitt did it better than BC. But when the Panthers had to have a play through the air, QB Chad Voytik and receivers Tyler Boyd and Manasseh Garner delivered.

Daniels picked off Voytik because Voytik stared down his intended target from snap to throw. It was the only major mistake Pitt’s QB made all night, and BC’s passing game couldn’t take advantage, failing to bust the game open. On the ensuing drive after Howell’s missed field goal, Voytik had his own third and 10 deep in opponents’ territory.

Voytik saw that Boyd had single coverage on the right sideline and

dropped the ball just over Eagles’ defensive back Justin Simmons’ head and into the back of the end zone before safety Ty-Meer Brown could give Simmons help.

Boyd plucked Voytik’s pass off the top of Simmons’ helmet and the lead from BC for the rest of the game.

Then, on the Panthers’ moralekilling march against BC at the end of the half, Boyd rushed for 19 yards on first down and Pitt picked up 15 more when Eagles’ linebacker Sean Duggan got called for a horse-collar tackle. Voytik took it from there, scrambling out of a sack on first down and rushing for 10 yards on second down.

He completed a nine-yard pass to the BC 27 and then showed off his touch again when he threw a back shoulder fade along the left sideline to Garner, who adjusted to the ball at the five-yard line before stepping out of bounds.

Voytik hit Boyd in the middle of the end zone for a touchdown the next play.

Murphy hit Phillips for a 48yard touchdown in the third quarter, but the Eagles’ passing game didn’t do enough to offset their rushing attack’s struggle.

Murphy and Voytik each had 10 completions, but more of Voytik’s made a difference.

“When it came to the pass game, I didn’t do a good enough job of getting the ball [to my receivers],” Murphy said.

“We need to help him out,” Phillips said. “We need to catch the ball better, that’s it.”

Of Voytik, Addazio said he was “competitive,” but singled out the Pitt rushing attack as the reason for his team’s defeat. With that running game, “competitive” was all the Panthers needed, and Voytik and his wideouts provided it on Friday. 

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BC drops two of three in New Haven at Yale Invite

BY JOHN PUGH

The Boston College volleyball team turned over an initially bad start at the Yale Invitational in New Haven, Conn. to sweep Yale in the final game of the tournament, which consisted of three games.

The Eagles opened the invitational against the University at Albany, losing a one-set lead and eventually falling in five sets on Friday evening.

The Great Danes took a highly contested first set, negating Katty Workman’s two kills that gave BC a 24-23 lead toward the end of the first set. Albany managed two kills and took advantage of a BC attacking error to win the first set 26-24.

The Eagles fought back to win the next two sets, claiming the second set by a margin of 25-19 due to limited mistakes and clinical kills. The third set was close for most of the game, but the Eagles managed to come out on top after gaining a lead late in the set, giving the Eagles the lead in the match as well.

The fourth set saw BC start off somewhat shakily, committing three errors and setting the Eagles up with a 4-11 deficit at the beginning of the game.

The Eagles ended up leveling the game at 17, leading to a closely matched game, but Albany gained a slight edge at 26-24.

The match went into its fifth set, tied at two apiece. BC took the initial lead, but once more, the set turned into a back-and-forth game. Finally, the Great Danes edged out the Eagles 16-14 toward the end of the set.

After losing to the University at Albany on Friday, the Eagles played two games on Saturday—No. 18 University of Minnesota at 11 a.m. and then Yale University at 7 p.m. Against the Gophers, what initially looked like a strong start turned into an incredible momentum change as BC won the first

BY ALEX STANLEY Heights Staff

For The Heights The Boston College men’s soccer team hoped to add another win to its 1-0-1 regular 0 Quinnipiac season at the Boston College 2 expense of winless Quinnipiac on Thursday. The Eagles would see that goal accomplished as they traveled to Hamden, Conn. to meet the Bobcats.

The Eagles were slow to start in their first real away game of the season, finding themselves outshot three-to-one in the first 40 minutes before their first goal was scored. It was followed by a second in 84th minute to end the day 2-0 in the Eagles’ favor.

Junior Derrick Boateng was the first to find the back of the net at 41:27 to give his team the lead and record his first goal of the season. The first half would end three minutes later without much change in BC’s forward momentum.

The second half began with a barrage of shots on Bobcat goaltender Borja Angoitia by four separate BC players.

Angoitia blocked two and saved two, which led to a similar attack on BC goaltender Alex Kapp, who blocked one and watched two shots drift wide of the net. Both goaltenders finished the match with two saves.

The game continued with less offensive output from each team, with two additional shots from Quinnipiac and five from BC, including a late chip shot goal by sophomore Isaac Normesinu in the 84th minute, which was assisted by Boateng. The sophomore leads the team in both goals (two) and points overall (four), closely followed by Boateng (one goal, one assist). Normesinu has now scored goals in the last two games, the first of which came in BC’s 2-0 win over Fordham on Sunday.

The final shot tally would be nearly equivalent, with BC shooting 11 times

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Isaac Normesinu scored in the 84th minute to pad the Eagles’ margin over the Bobcats. while Quinnipiac made 10 attempts, which speaks toward the match as a whole. While the Eagles found more shots on goal and in the back of the net, Quinnipiac’s seven corners allowed for greater offensive pressure on set pieces, but none of their attempts were successful.

While the Eagles took their opportunities, they looked sloppy when it came to their nine fouls and six yellow cards, one of which was assigned to the team as a whole following a delay of game

penalty. Quinnipiac’s frustration would begin to show in the final minutes when a foul led to junior Erik Panzer being sent off for a second yellow card in the 87th minute.

The Eagles will return to Boston to play their third home game at Harvard against the University of Rhode Island, which in years past has been an easy game for the Eagles.

BC escaped what could have been a much closer game and is still looking for its form early in the season. 

two sets, but Minnesota clinched the last three.

The Eagles started strong, winning the first two games convincingly, 25-12 and 25-22, but then the Gophers took over events, winning the next sets 2518, 25-15, and 15-13.

Both teams played hard in the last set’s close contest. Senior Courtney Castle switched into the libero role in an attempt to atone for two straight set losses. The Eagles stayed within one point of the Gophers for much of the game, culminating in a 12-13 score.

Two Minnesota kills downed BC at the very end.

Pin hitters Julia Topor and Workman starred for the Eagles on the stat sheet, racking up 12 and 11 kills, respectively.

A lack of errors led middle Brittany Pavich to a .750 hitting percentage, with nine kills in 12 total attacks.

The Eagles did end the invitational on a win, sweeping the host team in three sets. The Eagles handily won the first set 25-13, claimed a closer second set at 25-21, then closed out the final game 25-19.

Pavich and Workman were both continually active throughout this match.

Workman had 12 kills and a .611 hitting percentage, while Pavich had 11 kills and a .714 hitting percentage.

The Eagles hit their way to a .442 percentage, as opposed to Yale’s which was just 182. In fact, in the first 25-13 set, Yale had a -.029 hitting percentage, committing nine errors with eight kills.

The 3-0 win was the Eagles’ third sweep of the season. In fact, BC has yet to win a game that was not a sweep. On top of that, the Eagles’ only losses have been in matches that have gone to a fifth and final set.

This upcoming weekend, the Eagles head to New York for the Long Island University Invitational. Their first game will be against Temple at 4:30 p.m.

Then, on Saturday, the Eagles will take on LIU Brooklyn followed by North Kentucky in a double header. 

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BY CORINNE DUFFY

MAGGIE POWERS Being abroad wasn’t going to change my life. My month in Santiago, Chile was going to be contained in a neat little bento box of experiences—exciting? Check. Required abroad lessons learned? Check. Expanded concept of the world? Check. But it would not change me. I refused to return as the stateside student with shining eyes and the words “life-changing” bubbling out of my mouth. And I didn’t ... for the most part.

What did change was this crazy, allencompassing awareness of myself at every moment of every day. Not in an annoying “‘Wow, Mags you are growing so much!’ way” — but the way that terrible insecurity made me feel every inch of my discomfort and myself.

This determination not to change and the anxieties that followed made questions run rapid-fire through my mind, always.

“Is this Instagram I’m posting appropriate or obnoxious for a study abroad student?” “Do I really look THAT white?”

(The answer is always yes.) “Why do they eat hot dogs with avocado?”

Worse still, these fears reverberated through my head at twice the volume because my basic Spanish was in no way sophisticated enough to communicate. The verbs I used most while I struggled to speak Spanish were “tener” and “querer,” “I have” and “I want.” The daily insecurities gave me this desire to pin myself on a map. In a literal sense, I always wanted to know where I was in that strange place, but there was also a figurative desire to orient myself. “I have” and “I want” were often the easiest ways to identify myself in that moment.

Witnessing the second largest wealth gap in the world, I felt split between two experiences—something I was painfully aware of—and my desire for indemnity was even stronger. My homestay was in a fairly middle class neighborhood, my university in one of the nicest parts of the city, and my service placement, a homeless men’s shelter, in one of the poorest areas of Santiago.

One night after service on my journey home through social classes on the metro man sat next to me and grabbed my hand.

My nerves were already frayed from working all afternoon.

Despite me shrinking away he began to stroke it and coo things like “lolita” and “chiqitita.” I pushed away from him to get off at my stop but he grabbed my hand and wouldn’t let go. My weak Spanish betrayed me once again—he either said “You should have fear” or “You shouldn’t have fear.”

In Spanish, tener—I have—is also used to express certain states of being. “I am cold/ afraid” literally translate to “I have cold” or “I have fear.” Being and having became one and the same in moments like this on the metro.

In that moment, I was the small, scared white girl who only had fear and a want to be somewhere far, far away from where she was at that moment.

Both of my poor translations were so comically not soothing, and I walked to my Chilean home in tears. I then had about 20 minutes get myself dolled up for a fancy birthday dinner at a wine bar. In that moment, I wanted one experience or the other.

The distance of an hour on the metro to bridge the bars and museums from the poverty was not enough to ease myself between the two worlds. Most days I had whiplash.

Studying abroad turned me inside out; it opened me to the world in a way that hurt so incredibly much that I couldn’t help but cry almost every night for the first two weeks.

But those days passed. The first time a Chilean man yelled “gringa!” (white girl!) at me from across the street and I did not turn red was huge victory. Things like one of my fellow classmates being able to finally get money out of ATMs that were previously not working were enough to make me throw my arms up and genuinely shout with joy. I fell in love with certain slices of the city and the funny Chilean colloquialisms.

Despite the fact that I was seeing things I had never seen before and I will, perhaps, never see again, my level of awareness did not decrease and I did not stop having and wanting.

Time passed, and living in Chile turned into loving Chile and then leaving Chile. I am now painfully aware that I clutch my bag a little too tight on BC’s campus and that every once and awhile a Spanish word will slip out of my mouth. I have become one of those students who was changed because of abroad. It’s not something I ever wanted, but it is something I will always have.

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

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WHO: Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace

Within the Boston College English department, Victorian scholarly specialization is quite prevalent—after all, an entire section of full-time faculty is devoted to British 19th Century Studies on the BC website. While she also researches and instructs British literature and culture, Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace, a professor within the department, instead focuses on and argues for the greater allure of the 18th century. “British writers during the 1700s are not nearly as uptight as the Victorians,” Kowaleski Wallace said.

Born and raised in Middletown, Conn.—home of both Wesleyan University and Middlesex Community College—Kowaleski Wallace could not escape the robust and engaging world of academia. Following high school, she attended Trinity College in Hartford for her undergraduate degree. Initially, however, she was reluctant to pursue English and even dabbled in drama and theater studies.

“I always thought I wouldn’t do English—it came too easily to me—but I kept getting pulled back into it … I enjoyed it too much,” Kowaleski Wallace said. Therefore, she double-majored in English and French—traveling to Paris for study abroad—and headed straight to Columbia University thereafter for her doctorate.

Kowaleski Wallace obtained her Ph.D. in 1981, having written her doctoral dissertation on the 19th century female writer. It was after authoring this paper, however, that she recognized her profound interest in the 1700s, rather than the 1800s. “I was figuring everything out, in terms of academic pursuits, and the 18th century—the Consumer Revolution—included such rich literature regarding gender, the body, and social space,” she said. Thus, Kowaleski Wal-

TEACHES: 18th-century British literature EXPERIENCE: Majored in English and French at Trinity College for her undergraduate degree and attended Columbia University for her doctorate.

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lace became increasingly fascinated with and switched her focus to literature and culture of the 1700s, alongside feminist and cultural theory.

Kowaleski Wallace commented on how often, given the popularity of the Victorian era, people underestimate the significance of the century prior. “I have to persuade people about the 1700s,” she said. “Many consider it really dry, stoic, and unresponsive to women. But, I think that there is a very strong case to be made for the 18th century as the most important era for the literary canon.”

More specifically, she noted the accessible commentary that the 18th century contributes in terms of popular culture of the time. British It-Narratives of the mid- to late-1700s—a brand of prose fiction in which objects and animals assume the central role of narration—addressed issues of the age in the increasingly commercial society by storytelling through the circulation of day-to-day objects.

Further, literary works of this century provide insight surrounding the British slave trade and public recollection of it—previously, society largely dispelled the activity as one of other nations, neglecting the prominent role England had

FUN FACTS: Kowaleski Wallace’s latest research focuses on parallels in langauge used to describe women and things in the 18th century.

also played during this period of great economic expansion. Kowaleski Wallace analyzes the slave trade’s representation in popular imagination in her book, The British Slave Trade and Public Memory, published in 2006.

“I have a really strong passion for pop culture,” Kowaleski Wallace said, “and scholarly understanding is coming to understand the 18th century as a more dynamic, vibrant era full of it.” She then went on to explain that more and more, the 1700s are attracting collegial scholars in light of this descant on British society that its literature presents.

An indication of her interest in popular culture and its manifestation in the arts, most recently, Kowaleski Wallace wrote on the representation of race in Mad Men. Additionally, she has published works on female writers and consumer culture of the 18th century, and she served as the editor-in-chief for the Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory.

Currently, Kowaleski Wallace is working on a project surrounding women and things of the 18th century—an analysis of the objectification of females in the 18th century and the parallels between language used to describe women and

vocabulary commonly associated with “things.”

Before coming to BC in 1993, Kowaleski Wallace taught at Brandeis University, Tufts University, and Simmons College. Given that she was already living and teaching in the greater Boston area, and after James Wallace, her husband— whom she met in grad school—became a professor within the English department at BC, Kowaleski Wallace, too, began to teach on the Heights.

Here, she instructs Studies in Poetry and Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory, a graduate course on Post-structuralism, Marxism, narratology, New Historicism, and feminism. Additionally, she leads a dissertation workshop at MIT’s Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies. Next semester, she will be offering a class on Jane Austen.

“I genuinely like BC the best,” Kowaleski Wallace said of the places she has taught. “The commitment to social justice is always there, and students are always willing to talk about their experiences, which moves me so much. The extraordinary sense of openness and curiosity at BC is phenomenal, and I have fabulous colleagues in this department.” 

Mantel has seen U.S. history from East Room to BC From Fireplace, B8 in the East Room of the White House.

The story of that mantel tells much of the history of the White House during the first half of the 20th century. It was built in 1902 during the Roosevelt administration’s White House restoration by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White under the direction of Charles McKim. It was one of four mantels to occupy the 80-by-40 foot hall—the largest in the White House—that to this day serves as the executive mansion’s default room for large balls, signing ceremonies, dinners, and other functions of state. McKim did away with the Victorian trappings that had decorated the room (and much of the rest of the White House), and the new mantels were installed as a part of his vision to return the room to a late-18th century classical style.

During its time in the East Room, BC’s mantel saw many important moments—both national and intimate—in the years between the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. After moving back into the White House, Roosevelt held a Japanese jujitsu exhibition, as well as his daughter Alice’s wedding, in the room.

In the years that followed, the room played host to many skilled musical talents, including world-renowned pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff. In 1923, the casket of Warren G. Harding, 29th president of the U.S., laid in anticipation of burial in the East Room after his death, as many of his predecessors had before him.

The mantel’s transfer to BC was precipitated by the reconstruction of the White House during the administration of Harry S Truman, the 33rd president.

After years of neglect during the Franklin Roosevelt administration, the house was in imminent danger of falling down on the Truman family.

The ceilings were sagging, brought down by the weight of the chandeliers and the weakness of the crossbeams—many of which had been in place since before White House fire during the War of 1812 and were left in place by the rushed McKim during the Roosevelt reconstruction.

It took several near misses, however, before Truman would decide to reconstruct the White House. One of those incidents occurred in the East Room itself, during a state dinner in February 1947. While a pianist played Chopin for Truman and his guests, the Secret Service approached the president and informed him that the chain

that supported the 68-inch chandelier above his guests was in serious danger of breaking. Truman decided against alarming his guests, and, although the chandelier survived and was safely lowered the next day, it would take a few more incidents to convince the president that the building needed a complete overhaul.

When, in 1949, the renovation finally began, the Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion was faced with deciding what to do with everything within the confines of the White House walls, the only part of the building not scheduled for demolition. Lorenzo Winslow, the White House architect, decided in August of 1949 that his plan for the reconstruction would

of the material as possible. Some of it was divvied up to connected members of the Washington establishment, but Edgerton actively sought a home for a large portion of the material. When most of the art museums he contacted—a list that included the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston—declined the offer of a White House mantel, he turned to less renowned institutions.

It was not through an act of luck that BC came to own one of the discarded White House mantels. University President Rev. William L. Keleher, S.J., leaned on his political connections—as well as the Dean of the Law School, William J. Kenealy, S.J.—within

bring the building back to the styling of the period of its construction—approximately 1800 to 1820. To meet this aesthetic vision, much of what had collected in the White House during its occupants by the 28 presidents since the fire could not be reused.

Since Congress had prohibited the Commission—and anyone else—from profiting off the remains of the building, they were forced to devise another method for disposing of the items that were not scheduled for reuse and were of no interest to museums. The Commission devised a four-tiered schedule for all of the debris, and the mantels from the East Room were scheduled as Class I—meaning they had “‘intrinsic as well as historical value.’”

It was left to the Commission’s executive director—Glen Edgerton, a retired Army general—to find homes for as much

the Boston community, which included the representative from the now-defunct 12th district, John McCormack, as well as George Hines, special representative in Washington for the Massachusetts Development and Industrial Commission. At the time, McCormack, a Democrat, served as the Majority Leader in the House of Representatives, and thus he exerted significant influence in Washington.

Housed in the University Archives within the Burns Library is some of the correspondence between Keleher—and then his successor as president, Rev. Joseph. R.N. Maxwell, S.J.—and McCormack, Hines, and Edgerton. Although the early communication between them that secured the fireplace for BC is missing, the remaining letters in the President’s Office Records of Joseph R.N. Maxwell, S.J., record the recep-

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tion of the mantel in 1951. Hines wrote to Keleher on March 22 officially confirming that BC would receive what he considered to be “the most beautiful one of the nine fireplaces taken from the White House.”

He also later sent Keleher two photographs (the bottom left in the photo spread is one of them) of the mantel in the East Room, right before it was removed.

The fireplace was BC’s for the cost of crating, shipping, and insurance, which, in 1953, Hines estimated at $75. After Hines secured additional marble that had surrounded the fireplace, a shipment of 4,500 pounds, which included “the fireplace, the mirror frame, the red marble hearthstone, the iron bottom, side and decorated back plates and the pilasters that surround the fireplace and mirror frame from the East Room of the White House” left Washington in 12 to 15 boxes at the end of March. With the additional material, the final cost to BC was $200.

The East Room mantel was not, however, the first choice of Keleher. A letter between McCormack and Hines included in the file reveals that Keleher originally requested a mantel from the Lincoln Room, but that “the commission is under pressure from museums in Illinois for this fireplace and preferred to give BC another.” Hines then suggested to Keleher that BC accept the mantel from the East Room.

When the University took receipt of the mantel in 1951, Keleher did not yet have a place in mind on campus to locate the White House relic. It was only in 1953 that a suitable location was found the new Law School building being constructed on the Chestnut Hill campus, the recently demolished St. Thomas More Hall.

Upon the building’s completion, the mantel was installed in the Roberts Room (top right photo in the spread)—named after Vincent and Mary Roberts, who donated the money to purchase the land upon which the building was situated from the city—which served as a lounge for the law faculty.

It remained in that room until the Law School departed for the newly acquired Newton Campus in the fall of 1975. After the Law School departed over the summer, St. Thomas More Hall was repurposed into administrative offices and undergraduate student study space. The fireplace relocated with the law school, first to Stuart Hall and, after the new Law Library was built in 1996, to the Law Library, where it rests to this day. 

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Ice challenge raises funds From ALS Challenge, B8 ALS, and from then on ice buckets and ALS were linked. When the challenge reached Pete Frates, it also reached his extensive network of friends and supporters—the newest, of whom Frates’ daughter Lucy Fitzgerald Frates, was born on Aug. 31.

Fundraising The Ice Bucket Challenge, despite its good intentions, raised more than a few eyebrows over social media and in the press.

The most common complaint, pointed out by the likes of The Chicago Tribune and Slate, among others, is that many of the videos posted don’t actually explain anything about ALS. Rather than raise awareness, they seem to be more of a goofy stunt or symbol of popularity and fitting in.

Whatever one’s opinion on the challenge itself may be, the sheer amount of donations that the ALSA has received since the challenge gained momentum is astounding. On Aug. 27, the ALS Association announced that it had received $94.3 million in donations and 2.1 million new donors since July 29. In the same period last year, the association got $2.7 million in donations.

Two days later, donations were up to over $100 million, according to a second press release, with donations ranging from under $1 to $200,000. According to the association, donations help improve the quality of life for ALS patients and promote research for new treatments and a cure.

Spinoffs Although the main focus of the challenge was to raise awareness and money for ALS, many participants have used the challenge’s spotlight and focused on other issues as well.

Californians are dealing with one of the worst droughts in the state’s history, and residents are required to take conservation measures by lessening the frequency of watering their lawns, the use of drinking water in fountains, or that which is used to clear off sidewalks and streets. In order to highlight the issue, some have filmed themselves dumping a bucket of sand over their heads for a “California style” challenge.

In another water-focused take, actor Matt Damon chose to do his challenge with toilet water to underscore the fact that 780 million people don’t have access to clean drinking water. What started out as a joke quickly became another popular spinoff when journalist Andrea Grimes challenged fellow reproductive rights advocates to eat a taco or drink a beer and make a donation to an advocacy group of their choice.

Actor Orlando Jones also chose a hotbutton issue to highlight in his ALS challenge video: the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in Ferguson, Mo. earlier this summer. Jones dumped a bucket of bullets on his head, asking others to take up the challenge to “listen without prejudice, to love without limits, and to reverse the hate.” n

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people you volunteer with weekly—we really just want it to be as accessible as possible.”

The 15 sophomores in the program lead the reflections each week. Instead of just one leader at each reflection there are always two, exposing freshman participants to more points of view.

The junior leaders tried the two-person reflection leadership structure last year and enjoyed bouncing ideas off of one another to create more interesting reflections.

“We really hook you up with the sophomore mentors, and you get to meet some juniors, too,” Coffey said.

“It is nice to connect with upperclassmen as a freshman in an intimate way because there aren’t many opportunities to do that on campus.”

Another unique aspect to FYSP is that freshmen can join in their second semester when they are less overwhelmed with applications from most other clubs that only accept applications at the beginning of the semester.

“In the second semester, freshmen can also switch placements and/or reflections if schedules change or they just want to try something new,” Carroll said. “We have such flexible availability, too—we even have a placement on Saturdays.”

FYSP prides itself on its variety of

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Constant construction has brought two dorms, office building, library, and outdoor spaces to BC’s campus

By Caitlin Slotter Heights Staff The start of a new semester at Boston College often presents many changes for its students: new dorms, new classes, new clubs and activities. Another change that has greeted students after the long summer break away from BC, however, is the constant construction around campus.

In the past couple of weeks, students returning to campus have probably noticed that St. Mary’s is nearly complete, trees have been added to the Quad, and construction has begun on the new dorm across from St. Ignatius. While some students may complain about the construction that has been present at BC for as long as they’ve been here, a look at past changes to BC’s campus reveals the influence construction has had on life at BC. For example, in September 1993, sophomores and juniors, after a summer of uncertainty, were able to move into new buildings on Lower Campus. Students moved into what was first called “New Building A,” then named “70 St. Thomas More Drive,” and is now known as “Vanderslice,” but were, according to Mike Hofman, “taken aback by the Saharan-like dust storm that engulfed the Disney-inspired street scene.” Move-in to the other new dorm building, 90 St. Thomas More Drive (a.k.a.

“New Building B”) was a little more hectic, as “several first floor residents arrived on Thursday morning only to find painters and work crews in their domiciles.”

During the first few days, both new buildings experienced water problems, telephone service wasn’t installed yet (residents of the new dorms had to trek all the way over to Walsh Hall to place a call), and washers and dryers were not working properly. Despite these setbacks, however, students were excited for the “spaciousness” and “never-before-taintedness” of the new buildings.

Similarly, in September 1994, students returning to campus were met with a newly finished parking garage, but were hoping that construction on Alumni Stadium, Fulton Hall, and “a new BC Law School Library on Newton Campus” could soon be completed.

As student Diana Pisciotta described, Newton fresh-

men were “disturbed to find the once-green campus filled with construction equipment.” With regard to the revamped Fulton Hall, Karen Crincoli wrote, “student reaction to the new Fulton Hall has been positive.

Many students have been surprised at the appearance and the on-time opening.” Mirroring the thoughts many BC students had upon their arrival, a student who Crincoli interviewed added, “I remember the way it looked last year before we all left. I was surprised to see it nearly completed when I came back. It looks great.”.

September 2002 brought forth the new “Faculty and Administration Office Building” on Lower Campus (now known as “Maloney”). BCPD had recently moved into the first floor, and the Hillside Cafe and Hillside Bookstore were slated to open by the end of the month.

The plans for the upper floors were not yet complete, however, although the new tenants—including UGBC, the Office of Residential Life, and the departments for theology, history, and economics, among others—had been announced over the summer (and, 12 years later, are currently being replaced with new offices).

Further campus changes included a redesigned Campanella Way, featuring a center island of trees lining the roadway and more parking spaces. Plans were already in place for additional changes upon the construction of the new varsity athletic building to be added to the back of Alumni Stadium. The Higgins Green also replaced the pavement that had sat between Higgins, Fulton, and Cushing the previous semester.

More recently, in September 2013, students were welcomed back to campus with a green O’Neill Plaza and an upgraded O’Neill Library. As part of the University’s Master Plan, the added green space on O’Neill Plaza made up for the space lost from the former Dustbowl.

Students also came back to campus in 2012 to see an almost-finished Stokes Hall, with only exterior limestone work, interior furnishings, and minor landscaping left to be completed before the January-2013 opening of the newest academic building.

Despite the noise and disruptions BC construction projects cause for the students, a look at BC’s past construction history shows what an integral part of life it has become at BC. n

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placements throughout the Boston area. “Something that really appealed to me was FYSP’s diversity of placements,” Carroll said. “I know for me, in high school, my service was standard tutoring, so it was great to take a different avenue of volunteering through this program.”

“When I volunteered for the Carroll School for the Blind it really opened my eyes to a different group of people that I had never thought about before,” Coffey said. “When you think of service most people think of big issues like poverty or education and this helped me to focus on individuals in my service.”

This year, freshmen will have 13 different placements to choose from: City Connects (St. Mary’s school), Mason Rice After School Program, Commonwealth Tenants Association, Wednesday Night Supper Club, Jeanne Jugan Residence, Boston Scholar Athletes, Women’s Lunch Place, Irish Pastoral Center, Fenway High, Epiphany School, Cradles to Crayons, Carroll Center for the Blind, and College Success Academy. For the placements that are farther away, FYSP provides transportation by BC van.

“Kate Daly [assistant director of the VSLC] is the faculty member that helps us put together our list of placements,” Carroll said. “As junior leaders, the three of us reached out to the different placements this summer, and what we try to do is get them all set up for the

sophomore leaders, and then we assign them each a placement so they can be the liaison between the placement and FYSP.” “Some placements like the Irish Pastoral Center are kind of far away, so we try to provide transportation by BC van to students when we can,” Slotter said.

Although the program is centered around the freshman participants, the sophomore and junior leaders enjoy great benefits as well.

“The sophomore leadership position includes a lot of hands-on leadership skills,” Coffey said speaking from experience, as she, Carroll, and Slotter were all sophomore leaders last year.

“You are leading reflection, organizing its structure, coordinating with the sites, and we are giving them a lot of the responsibility, which I don’t think you get at a lot of sophomore positions in other clubs on campus,” she said.

As junior leaders, the girls play a lesser role in the everyday workings of the club and instead supervise its general operations. They mainly serve as a resource for the sophomore leaders, and hope to allow the sophomores to take the program in their own direction.

“It will be weird to leave the program next year because we do not have any senior positions, but that is not what the program is about—it is all about the freshmen and not about seniors having leadership positions,” Coffey said.

All three of the leaders were drawn to FYSP as freshmen for different reasons, deomostrating thediversity and flexibility of the program.

“I came in my second semester freshman year and volunteered at the Carroll School for the Blind, and the girl that I volunteered with remained my really close friend,” Carroll said. “You really stay connected with these people because the program takes you outside of the ‘BC Bubble’ and makes you realize the problems you face at school are miniscule compared to the clients you serve, and sharing something like that with another student creates a strong bond that lasts for years.”

“For me, I lived on Newton, and I really struggled with getting involved because I never wanted to take the bus back, to campus” Coffey said. “But I volunteered for the Carroll School for the Blind, which is within walking distance from Newton Campus, so it was something I could do because I lived on Newton—sort of like a special perk instead of the usual disadvantages of living there.”

The junior leaders strongly encourage anyone who is even slightly interested to come to one of the three information sessions: Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. in Eagle’s Nest; Wednesday, Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. in Eagle’s Nest; or Thursday, Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. in Stuart Dining Hall. n

Kendra Kumor Never have I had any type of social media. No Facebook, no Twitter, no Instagram, and not even a MySpace back in the day. My random roommate admits that when she attempted to look me up on Facebook before we arrived at Boston College freshman year, she was alarmed when she could not find a profile. In fact, she and her mother were taking bets on whether I spoke any English when I arrived at Cushing Hall in my very American-looking mini-van crammed with Target bags.

People constantly ask me why I’ve resisted the global phenomena of social media for so long, and I usually don’t know what exactly to tell them. I normally tell people that I don’t like being in pictures, or that I don’t feel the need to stay updated with many people’s day-to-day lives, nor do I feel the need to update others on mine. The truth is, for some reason, I’ve always had an instinctual aversion to social media—until this summer, and the emergence of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

I had only ever associated social media with negative things like cyber bullying, which contributes to dozens of teen suicides a year in the U.S.; students failing exams because of the allure of millions of Facebook photos yet to be seen; or students punished with suspensions because of beer cans in posted photos.

Still in its infancy, I heard about the ALS Ice Bucket challenge toward the end of July, and I considered it another BC trend, bound to blow up students’ newsfeeds for a few weeks and then fizz out when the next trend came along. My friends and I even joked about our favorite celebrities accepting the challenge.

For the next few days, I listened to the sounds of ice water hitting concrete outside my apartment window and my roommates laughing at their friends’ videos. It wasn’t until I went home to Ohio for the last week of summer that I realized the true scope of the Ice Bucket movement.

As a lay awake mindlessly watching the local news, which in Ohio consists of stories about farmers markets and county fair prizewinners, the final story caught my attention. It was the premiere of the newscasters’ own Ice Bucket Challenge video.

I was shocked, firstly because they were using valuable airtime to showcase their own video, but secondly because something that started at BC had gotten all the way to Toledo in a few short weeks. For a town that still doesn’t have a Cheesecake Factory, I was stunned that it had caught on to a national social media trend.

As I watched four suited professionals willingly dump ice water on their heads, I began to reflect on the sheer power of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Over $100 million dollars was raised in the peak weeks of the Ice Bucket Challenge. Last year in the same period of time, about two percent of that amount was raised. The money will significantly alter hundreds of thousands of peoples’ lives for years to come and none of it could have happened without social media.

I guess it took $100 million for me to realize that social media doesn’t always result in negative consequences. Although many have criticized the Ice Bucket Challenge as merely a stunt to gain popularity in personal friend circles, these critics cannot deny that even if some people weren’t doing it for purely charitable purposes, the awareness that it raised is going to positively affect thousands of lives.

Furthermore, millions of people, famous or not, have been able to create a tangible change for those suffering with ALS. The Ice Bucket Challenge has shown the world that you don’t have to be famous anymore to make a big difference.

This challenge, which became a global movement within a few weeks, illustrates just how important social media is in today’s world. It made me realize that for all of the bad things that can happen as a result of social media, there is something good that can happen as well.

I’m still not planning on creating a social media presence for myself any time soon, but I can now appreciate the power of its positive influence.

Kendra Kumor is the Features Editor for The Heights. She can be reached at features@bcheights.com.

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The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has raised millions for research during a single month

SAMANTHA COSTANZO ASST. FEATURES EDITOR Pete Frates, BC ’07, did not start the Ice Bucket Challenge. That might seem like blasphemy to say here on the Boston College campus, where Frates captained the baseball team and has now become a sort of legend among his fellow Eagles. While his strong involvement in the ALS and BC communities transformed the challenge into a craze that overtook the country, with everyone from Bill Gates to Homer Simpson participating, its origins are not so clear-cut.

As early as April of this year, people were jumping into cold lakes and rivers for the 24 Hour Charity Challenge, although no one is sure of how this began. It may be a spinoff of the polar plunge challenge that the Special Olympics uses to help raise money and awareness for the games.

According to KY3 TV in Springfield, Mo., participants in the cold water challenge had to jump in and donate $10 to the charity of their choice, or decline the challenge and donate $100 instead.

On July 15, golfer Chris Kennedy accepted the challenge from a friend and chose to donate to the ALS Association because a relative is suffering from the disease, according to Time magazine. ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a neurodegenerative disease that affects about 30,000 Americans, according to the ALS Association. It affects motor neurons in the brain and spine, eventually killing them and removing the possibility of voluntary muscle control.

Patients in the later stages of the disease are often completely paralyzed and unable to speak, while their minds remain completely intact.

Kennedy passed the challenge on to his wife’s cousin, whose husband also has ALS,

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First Year Service Program prepares for its fourth year FYSP boasts 13 service placements, flexible schedules

BY KENDRA KUMOR Features Editor

ANDREW SKARAS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

This fireplace, now located in Boston College’s Law Library, was transported from the East Room of the White House in 1953.

Historic fireplace rediscovered at BC Law

BY ANDREW SKARAS Heights Editor

In the penultimate year of Rev. Thomas I. Gasson, S.J.’s tenure as University president, Boston College relocated from its Harrison St. home in Boston’s South End to Chestnut Hill.

When the move transpired in 1913, it was into what was then known only as the “Tower Building,” but is now eponymous for the president whose unflagging vision and resolute will

was responsible for BC having a legitimate college campus. Most of the fixtures that now occupy the campus have been constructed in the 101 years since that move, but there are a few notable exceptions.

Certainly the most well known (and perhaps the oldest) is the statue of St. Michael the Archangel, towering over Satan, commissioned in 1865 for a wealthy Boston merchant only two years after the founding of the University. As the centerpiece of the

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Gasson rotunda, the statue has seen much of the University’s history.

There is another exception that, despite its relative youth, has undoubtedly seen more of history than any other fixture on the BC campus. Tucked away on the second floor of the Law Library on Newton campus, there is a marble mantel in the Daniel R. Coquillette Rare Book room that once adorned a fireplace

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With 24 service-related Registered Student Organizations (RSOs) on Boston College’s campus, students have plenty of options to choose from. The Volunteer and Service Learning Center (VSLC) is the home to several of BC’s most popular service programs including Relay for Life, BC Bigs, and the Welles Crowther Red Bandanna Run. In the fall of 2011, the VSLC added a new program to its list: the First Year Service Program (FYSP).

“The program consists of us three on the junior lead team, 15 sophomore leaders, and then all of the freshmen that sign upat the begining of each semester,” said Catherine Coffey, A&S ’16, in reference to her fellow junior leaders Caitlin Slotter, A&S ’16, and Emily Carroll CSOM ’16. “After the information

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sessions that will be held next week, students will sign up for a placement in the hallway outside of our office in Mac on a first come, first serve basis.”

Unlike other similar service programs at BC, FYSP does not require an interview or even an application to participate—any freshman can join simply by signing up.

“Some people like to call FYSP 4Boston without the application, which is not a bad thing because 4Boston does a lot of great things as well,” Coffey said.

“We just do them in a more accessible, convenient way with a focus on freshmen meeting other freshmen.”

The program can be as little or as large a time commitment as determined on a student-by-student basis, starting at just two to three hours of service per week along with a once-a-week, hourlong reflection.

“The reflections are not based on your placement, they are based on your availability time-wise,” Coffey said.

“You get to meet more people that way, too, because you have already met the

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