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Kristie Mewis is now the all-time points leader at Boston College, A10
The 22nd annual Hemp Fest aims to raise support for marijuana legalization, B10
The Scene picks the best contemporary Broadway shows, B1
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Vol. XCIII, No. 30
tickets sell out in record time
BC Ignites hopes to spark conversation Three students will speak on racial issues By Mary Rose Fissinger Heights Editor
By Austin Tedesco Heights Editor
Hockey season tickets for students, as well as the new three-sport “Legion” package, sold out during the third week of August, a record-setting date for the Boston College Athletic Department. “Last year, we changed the process to bill [ticket packages] to the student account, marketing all three sports,” said Jamie DiLoreto, associate athletic director of external operations. “This year, we took it a step farther to actually incentivize students even further by bringing a discount if you bought all three. We were fortunate enough that we sold out of the Legion package.” The Athletic Department offered a discounted three-sport package in previous years, but when the program was reinstated last spring under the “Legion” name, the goal was to create a club for the most diehard BC sports fans. Around 1,200 students purchased the Legion package before it sold out in August, with hockey the first sport to sell out because of the smaller capacity in
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The issue of diversity at Boston College will take center stage on Monday, Sept. 24 in O’Neill Plaza at the first BC Ignites, an event organized by UGBC in the fashion of the Women’s Resource Center’s annual Take Back the Night. Scheduled to begin at 6 p.m., BC Ignites will feature three student speakers sharing their experience with racism on campus. The speeches will be interspersed with performances by B.E.A.T.S. (Black Experience in America Through Song), BC’s R&B and Soul a cappella group, and Synergy Hip Hop Dance Company. The creator of the event and member of the Community Relations department of UGBC, Conor Sullivan, LSOE ’13, said he hopes that BC Ignites will open students’ eyes to the variety of experiences with and opinions about racial issues on campus, and inspire them to engage in conversations about these issues more often and with more varied conversation
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Healthapalooza postponed due to inclement weather Health fair will be held Friday on O’Neill Plaza By Brigid Wright Heights Staff
On Sept. 21, Healthapalooza will kick off the Office of Health Promotion’s (OHP) initiative to unite students on campus for living healthily and safely on Boston College’s campus. The event will feature booths with information from BC Dining Services and the BCPD, as well as University Health and Counseling Services, BC Recreation, Environmental Health and Safety, and more. The event was originally scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 19, but was postponed due to inclement weather. The OHP has several branches that work to preserve and enhance the different aspects of student health. Betsy Cook, administrative assistant in the OHP, explained the different programs and their goals. “[The Office of Health Promotion] was developed and first started last year and our focus is on the students’ health and wellbeing, so we focus on physical, mental and
emotional health, and we do this through the several departments under us,” Cook said. Under the Office of Health Promotion fall organizations such as the Alcohol and Drug Education (ADE) Program and the Women’s Resource Center, which are all collaborating on many events this year including the kick-off of Healthapalooza. The newest addition to this year’s event was the addition of safety awareness. “We believe that without safety, one can’t really have whole health and wellness,” Cook said. “Our motto this year is ‘Be Healthy, Be Safe, Be Together.’” The theme of Healthapalooza, as Cook explained, is a metaphorical journey toward a healthier lifestyle. “We’re going to be giving out road maps which students will use to navigate through the different stations, and the theme is that our offices will guide them on their health and safety journey,” Cook said. “Where they are in the journey is sort of independent for every student, but we have different resources available depending on what a student needs.” Healthapalooza will feature an interactive activity at each booth for students to become acquainted with the different offices and learn what they have to offer. BC Dining Services will be offering
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Sean Lindsay, the vice president of engineering at Tapjoy, spoke during BCVC’s first ever entrepreneur week last night in the Fulton Honors Library.
BCVC hosts first ever entrepreneurship week By Qian Deng For The Heights
Few would have expected the Sept. 17 kickoff event for Boston College’s first annual Entrepreneurship Week to involve the phrase “#unfollow your dream,” but that was, at one point during his presentation, exactly the proposal of Young Impact CEO Stephen Douglass, the keynote speaker invited by BC’s Entrepreneurial Society (BCES). Wednesday’s speaker, Sean Lindsay of Tapjoy, was invited by the BC Computer Science Society, and began his talk by declaring that inviting individuals to work for a startup did not mean “telling them what you need,” but rather required the ability to show “what you can offer them.” He described having to spend less time on
his beloved coding in order to be of more value on the business leadership side of his company’s operations. The more startling fact, however, is that these remarks and others in a similar vein were not incongruous in juxtaposition with the goals of Entrepreneurship Week. When asked what they were looking for in the speakers invited, the students and faculty member involved in organizing E-Week responded with “the ability to inspire.” It is undeniable that, from freshmen with a concentration in finance to upperclassmen majoring in biology, all emerged from both events inspired, enlightened, and never disheartened, though the tales they heard were as often of failure as of success. Though Lindsay’s talk highlighted the autonomy and the learning process that make startup companies attractive, he also
stressed the importance of “vision” in the company’s leader. Roger Larach, president of BCES, expressed his excitement on account of the Carroll School’s ongoing “transition from a traditional business school” to a more nourishing environment for entrepreneurship and innovation. His club aims at fostering potential and helping students realize their ideas through contests and venture capital. John Gallaugher, the faculty advisor of the BC Venture Competition, is one of the forces quietly shaping BC into a hub for innovation. He asserts that students need resources that would “extend beyond the classroom” and allow them to take risks. Gallaugher has been featured as a “guru”
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BC sponsors National Preparedness Month By Sara Doyle For The Heights
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At last year’s Healthapalooza, BCPD gave students the opportunity to use “fatal vision” goggles.
In 2004, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) sponsored the naming of September as National Preparedness Month. September was chosen in honor of the Sept. 11 tragedy, a point at which safety education became even more stressed for the public. This is the third year that Boston College has officially participated. BC’s Office of Emergency Management is spreading the word through emails, posters, and Facebook to educate the student population on ways to be prepared and what to do in the event of an emergency.
“The goal behind [National Preparedness Month] is to try to get everybody to understand what they can do to be prepared for emergencies,” said John Tommaney, director of the Office of Emergency Management. “There’s a mentality today that ‘someone else is going to take care of this for me.’ We need all members of the community to do their part.” The education available for BC students includes Campus Emergency Response Team (CERT) training for a disaster response team at BC, as well as CPR training and BC Safe Sessions. BC Emergency Management is also teaming up with the Office of Health Promotion at Healthapalooza,
which has been moved to Friday, Sept. 21 due to inclement weather. In addition, a BC Emergency Notification System test will be performed on Thursday, Sept. 27. BC Emergency Management is responsible for many of the posters around campus that give basic instructions for emergencies. A flier with what to do in different disasters is posted on the backs of all dorm room doors in order to educate students should the need arise. Another project of the Office of Emergency Management is the BC Emergency Supply kits. Bags that can be easily brought
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