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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

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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

See Athletic Tickets, A4

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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

See BC Ignites, A4

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

See Healthapalooza, A4

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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”

See Entrepreneur Week, A4

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

See Preparedness Week, A4

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5k Run for Pal Saturday Time: 8:30 a.m.

Location: O’Neill Plaza

Friends and family of the late Alexander “Pal” Grant will host the second annual 5k road race at Boston College in his memory. In addition to the run, there will be a barbeque and DJ. All proceeds benefit the underprivileged musicians of the Harmony Program of New York City. Tickets are $15 online and $20 at the event.

2012 Boston College Career Fair

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Today Time: 3-6 p.m.

Location: Conte Forum

Come meet representatives of over 120 companies at the 2012 Career Fair. Don’t miss a great chance to network and learn more about a variety of industries.

Women and Interreligious Dialogue

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Today Time: 5 p.m.

Location: Heights Room This lecture will focus on the contributions women have made to interreligious dialouge, and the future of women and interreligious dialogue.

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Controversies lead University of North Carolina chancellor to resign

On Campus BC Law student gives speech at Democratic National Convention Alejandra Salinas, national president of the College Democrats of America (CDA) and BC Law ’15, gave an address just hours before President Obama spoke at the Democratic National Convention two weeks ago. Salinas’ speech supported Obama’s views on the healthcare system, women’s rights, and education.

Salinas was unanimously elected as CDA President in 2010 and is the first Latina woman to serve as leader of the organization.

During the Convention, Salinas also addressed the DNC’s Hispanic Caucus and Women’s Caucus and gave interviews to media outlets including USA Today, PBS, CNN, MTV, Politico, The Huffington Post, Telemundo, Univision, and The Los Angeles Times.

Salinas graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012. She has held positions in the CDA at the chapter, state, and national levels, and was named one of the “Five Rising Stars Age 25 and Under” of politics by Politics Daily.

H. Holden Thorp, chancellor of the University of North Carolina, announced that he will step down at the end of the academic year on Monday. A number of controversies have surrounded Thorp during his time as chancellor, including highly-publicized allegations that a number of football players received payments to play and that athletes had grades changed. The most recent scandal occured last week, when the campus’s chief fundraiser resigned after being accused of taking university money for personal vacations. The president of the University has claimed that Thorp was not forced out of his position.

Local News 18th century Newton home to be turned into museum next spring A renovation of an 18th century home in Newton Centre, that will turn the home into a museum and educational center, is underway and set to finish in November. Historic Newton, an organization dedicated to maintaining the historic properties of the city, is using funds from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the city’s Community Preservation Fund, and other donors to preserve and restore the 1734 house, as well as add space that will become an educational center.

The museum will open next spring.

BC Community Garden continues to grow

By Kathleen Fahy For The Heights

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The Boston College Community Garden, located on Brighton Campus, is now offering its produce to local restaurants.

Pie, a vegan pizzeria in Allston, makes their pizza sauce using basil, sage, and other herbs from the BC Garden. Also taking advantage of herbs grown on the Brighton Campus is Bill’s Pizzeria in Newton Center.

The new crop-sharing program is only one example of efforts being made by new leadership at Real Food BC to bring more benefits of the garden to

the surrounding community. Another community program new to the BC Garden this year offers educational tours for elementary school children, informing young students about gardening and plant life.

All BC students can get involved with the campus garden by participating in garden work on Sundays from 3 to 5 p.m.

Students and local residents

come to the Brighton Campus on Sunday afternoons to help out by harvesting produce, weeding, and manicuring the 1,500 square foot garden. After harvesting, the volunteers set aside the proper quantities of fresh produce destined for local restaurants, and then have the opportunity to take the extra fruits, vegetables, and herbs home to their roommates or their families. This Sunday,

the work will culminate in an outdoor cooking class led by Real Food BC’s head chef, Katie Woodward, A&S ’14.

“We’re really trying to get people involved this year—we want people to be aware of this special resource available to our community,” said Kat Kavner, Real Food BC club president and CSOM ’14. “The garden is relatively small, but it’s full of a lot of really nice produce, and it’s gorgeous: the tomatoes growing, bright green herbs and beans … For me, it’s an escape—a sanctuary.”

Real Food BC will have its first general club meeting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 20, in Devlin 008. For an online source of information, head to bcgarden.weebly.com, where you can find a map to the garden and fun facts such as what fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers are being grown on the Brighton Campus right now. You can also go to Real Food BC’s Facebook page, “Real Food BC 2012-13.”

“I am not a gardening expert at all,” Kavner said. “You don’t need to know anything about gardening. You just have to want to spend some time outside, make new friends, and be willing to get your hands a little dirty.” n

Police Blotter

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“What is the best song from a Disney movie?”

Saturday, September 15 12:07 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding medical assistance provided to a student on Newton Campus who was transported to a medical facility by a police cruiser.

12:19 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding medical assistance provided to a student at Kostka Hall who was transported to a medical facility by an ambulance.

12:36 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding medical assistance provided to a student at Cheverus Hall who was transported to a medical facility by an ambulance.

12:38 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding medical assistance provided to a student at Stayer Hall who was transported to a medical facility by an ambulance.

12:44 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding medical assistance provided to a student at the Mods who was transported to a medical facility by ambulance.

1:23 An officer filed a report regarding an attempted larceny at Corcoran Commons 1:43 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding medical assistance provided to a student on Commonwealth Avenue

who was transported to a medical facility by a police cruiser.

3:05 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding medical assistance provided to a student at the Mods who was transported to a medical facility by police cruiser.

“A Whole New World.”

—Marine Joyaut de Couesnongle, Catholic University, Paris ’14

Sunday, September 16 12:03 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a loud party at an off-campus address.

1:54 a.m. - Officers filed a report regarding vandalism at Edmond’s Hall.

2:50 a.m. - A student was placed under arrest for warrants that were issued for incidents in Boston.

“Part of Your World.”

—Clara Simonny, Catholic University, Paris ’14

“Can You Feel the Love Tonight.”

—Valentin Hurtaud, Dauphine University, Paris ’14

3:10 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding an elevator entrapment at Vanderslice Hall.

4:43 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding an elevator entrapment at St. Mary’s Hall.

—Source: The Boston College Police Department

“A Whole New World.”

—Nicole Duggan,

A&S ’16

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The Boston College Community Garden, now in its fourth year, offers BC students an opportunity to work closely with nature and bring organic produce to the University and the areas that surround it. Located on the Brighton Campus, the BC Garden is a project of the student club Real Food BC, the BC chapter of a nationwide organization known as the Real Food Challenge.

The Real Food Challenge works to promote the utilization of local sources of sustainable, organic food in university dining across America. On the upper level of Corcoran Commons, the Loft at Addie’s is evidence of Real Food BC’s presence on campus and is the result of the club’s alliance with BC Dining Services. Addie’s, with their motto “local tastes better,” has a menu of organic options with fresh ingredients from local sources.

While the BC Community Garden does not supply Addie’s with its fresh produce, for the first time this fall, a crop-sharing program has been implemented that facilitates business with local restaurants. Peace o’

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CORRECTIONS In the Sept. 17 issue of The Heights, Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley was referred to as “Cardinal O’Malley, O.F.M.” His correct title is “Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley, O.F.M., Cap.”

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Not sorry Sociology professors recognized for party for careers of scholarship rocking

By David Cote News Editor

Matt Palazzolo A couple of days ago I first learned that the Fall Concert will start at 5 p.m. Since I was abroad last semester and was busy playing blackjack and completing a fraction of the typical Boston College academic workload, I was unaware that the Third Eye Blind concert took place at a similarly early hour. After the initial reaction of “Silly Jesuits trying to ruin a good time,” I began to examine the reasons behind this.

The relationship between BC students and faculty concerning parties is analogous to the predatorprey relationship. When a predator develops a new physical feature, such as quicker speed, it gains a distinct hunting advantage over the prey. Subsequently, the predator population devours a massive section of the prey population. Through natural selection, the prey survivors reproduce new features designed to protect them from predators, such as camouflage. This cyclical nature continues indefinitely, with either the predator or prey gaining the upper hand and the other side forced to adapt through natural selection.

This biological concept can be applied to the BC party scene. In the early ’90s, tailgates during football games were sloppy affairs, especially in the Mods. In response to these college students gone wild, the administration built fences around the Mods. Likewise, BC students adapt to restrictions on party activities.

Although beer isn’t sold at Alumni Stadium, students overcome this potentially troublesome sobriety at pregames before kickoff. Each side reacts to the other’s evolution in a permanent cycle of rowdy partying and stern University restrictions.

In this context, the early start time for fall concerts makes sense.

Two years ago, over three dozen students were removed for alcoholrelated treatment at the J. Cole Fall Concert. From the administration’s perspective, this chaos created both a danger to the student body and an embarrassment to the University’s reputation. Their solution was a 5 p.m. start time on Friday for concerts. The combination of Friday classes and reduced pregaming hours helped curb alcohol related incidents at the Spring Concert.

There are many students who despise this concert curfew. They view it as a draconian restriction on the party culture at BC. My message to them is simple. The BC administration is in a permanently difficult position. They must educate, house, and entertain a massive student body, as well as raise money for and promote a prestigious University.

Hordes of students vomiting in public places and passing out in Conte Forum bathrooms are unacceptable from a safety and public relations standpoint. The 5 p.m. concert start brings to mind the phrase “business, not personal,” used by Tom Hagen in The Godfather. The administration is not deliberately trying to eliminate partying or drinking at BC. They are instead attempting to keep a rambunctious student body in check during public events. Concerts will continue to start in the early evening for the foreseeable future. Get over it.

On the flip side is the conservative backlash to the party culture at BC. Some students, faculty, and off-campus neighbors who call the police multiple times on the Fourth of July to investigate 21-year-olds peacefully drinking in a backyard view parties as a stigma. To them, any drinking or loud music could lead to dire consequences and thus college parties and concerts should be discouraged. My message to them is as follows: We, the BC undergraduate community, are at a crossroads.

In a few years we will be thrown into the unforgiving real world. Before that, we will seize the day. We will drink heavily on weekends and at tailgates. We will be loud while less interesting people are trying to sleep.

We may even engage in the mortal sin of premarital sex. Sorry we’re not sorry for partying. Get over it.

Matt Palazzolo is a staff columnist for The Heights. He welcomes comments at news@ bcheights.com.

David Karp, a professor in the sociology department, received the George Herbert Mead Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of the Study of Symbolic Interaction. The society is an “organization of scholars interested in the study of a wide range of social issues with an emphasis on identity, everyday practice, and language,”

according to a release by the Office of News and Public Affairs.

Karp’s early work focused on cities, everyday life and aging, and how various people invest their daily lives. More recently, his research has centered on mental illnesses. He has been teaching in the sociology department at Boston College since 1971.

William Gamson, professor emeritus, received the 2012 W.E.B DuBois Career of Distinguished

Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association.

Gamson specializes in political sociology, specifically political discourse and social movements.

He joined BC’s sociology department in 1982, and retired from full time teaching in 2000. The award recognizes outstanding commitment to the profession of sociology and significant contribution to the advancement of the discipline. n

Bell named 2012 Monan Prof.

By David Cote News Editor

John Bell has been named Boston College’s Rev. J. Donald Monan, S.J. professor in theatre arts for the 2012-2013 academic year. Bell, a noted scholar, artist, curator, and social activist, is recognized as a leading international authority on puppet theater.

“I’m pleased and honored to be the Monan Professor of Theatre Arts this year at Boston College,” Bell said in a release by the Office of

News and Public Affairs. “Puppetry—a centuries-old global tradition with roots in every culture—has become a valuable component of theater education today and a conspicuous element in contemporary theater, film, television, as well as on the Internet and in community performance. This ancient form is an utterly viable 21st-century medium.”

Since 2007, Bell has been director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut, and

he is also the author of several books on the topic of puppetry in modernity.

Bell is also a founding member of the Brooklyn-based theater company Great Small Works, which uses folk and popular theater traditions to comment on modern social issues. Bell earned his Ph.D. in theatre history from Columbia University, and has taught at universities including Harvard, MIT, Emerson College, New York University, and the Rhode Island School of Design. n

Inaugural chair of BC’s music department passes away at 71

By David Cote News Editor

Anne Dhu McLucas, the inaugural chair of Boston College’s music department, was a victim in a double homicide near Eugene, Ore. on Sept. 7. McLucas, formerly Shapiro, was 71 at the time of her death.

McLucas was slain along with her domestic partner, James Gillette. Gillette’s son was arrested and was arraigned on two counts

of aggravated murder on Sept. 10.

McLucas had been serving as the dean of the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance for 10 years, and was to retire from teaching in December.

McLucas joined BC in 1987 as an adjunct associate professor, later becoming an associate professor and chair when the music program was elevated to full departmental status in 1988.

During her tenure at BC, the music department developed its

commitment, became a full major program, and sponsored an annual Irish music festival.

As dean at the University of Oregon, McLucas helped secure state funding for a $19.2 million building renovation. She served a term as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at the University of Edinburgh.

McLucas earned degrees from the University of Colorado and Harvard University. She is survived by her sister, Caye Dhu Geer, and her son, Jacob Shapiro. n

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Tips for a greener school year Let’s face it. As college students, we generate a lot of waste. Between going to class, studying for exams, visiting professors during office hours, and enjoying our extracurricular activities, life can get pretty hectic.

For a lot of us, being green is not exactly at the top of our priority lists. But it can be and it doesn’t take much. Believe it or not, there is more that you can do to be green than you think. Join The BC Office of Sustainability and follow these tips to make 20122013 your greenest school year yet!

Install LED light bulbs - The BC Office of Sustainability has teamed up with NSTAR and Philips Lighting to lower residence hall energy consumption by switching to LED lighting.

- All students should have been given an LED light bulb by their RA. If you didn’t get one and would like one, contact the Sustainability Office, Bob Pion x 20339.

- The LED bulbs will save 80-90 percent of the energy used by the replaced bulbs.

Use reusable dishware - College students eat a lot.

When eating at the dining halls, try your best to use the real plates rather than eat out of the “to go” containers.

Although they’re recyclable, it all adds up.

- Reusable water bottles are a good way to reduce the amount of plastic bottles that end up in landfills.

- If you’re opposed to drinking from the tap, consider buying large containers of water instead of water bottles to fill up your reusable one.

Unplug power cords when nobody is home - If you are going to class or meeting friends and will be out for a period of time, remember to unplug all power cords before leaving.

If you use a power strip, all you have to do is turn it off.

- It’s convenient to leave a phone charger or desk lamp plugged in 24/7, but even when your phone is not charging or your lamp is not turned on, a lot of energy is being used!

Buy reusable shopping bags - Only 1 to 2 percent of plastic shopping bags are recycled after use.

- Reusable bags are not too expensive and they last a long time.

- BC’s new “On the Fly” convenience stores offer reusable bags upon check out!

Don’t be a drip!

- In 1994, the government mandated that companies produce low-flow showerheads, faucets, and aerators.

- Remember to shut off the faucet when brushing your teeth and washing your hands.

- Take shorter showers.

- If you notice a leak, report it to Facilities and submit a work order immediately.

Go paperless - Chances are you have a student account or credit card. Instead of having your billing statement mailed to you every month, get it online! Besides, nobody likes getting those in the mail anyway. Go paperless and save yourself some paper and the heartache. n

Smaghi putting euro crisis in perspective

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Less than a decade after its creation, the euro is facing a crisis. Several European countries, such as Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Italy, face ever-increasing rates on their sovereign debt and more interest payments than their shrinking tax revenues can sustain. The European Central Bank (ECB) has exhausted their standard repertoire of policy measures and has taken experimental measures to prevent the eurozone from falling apart.

In the context of this, Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, spoke about “The European Crisis in Perspective” at Boston College on Monday. A graduate of the University of Chicago’s Ph.D. program, Bini Smaghi served on the Executive Board for the European Central Bank for six years , after working for the Italian Ministry of the Economy and Finance.

While focused on the current state of Europe, Bini Smaghi framed it in terms of the creation and development of the euro, looking all the way back to the 1980s. As Europe tried to b e co m e m o re a n d m o re integrated in the years after World War II, he stressed the impediments that the countries faced. One that he focused on was monetary policy and monetar y stability. He explained that the markets could not fully integrate until the countries shared a currency because of the lack of capital mobility and the problems caused by devaluation. While they tried to fix the problems with institutions such as European Monetary System, Bini Smaghi stressed that those

systems failed because there was not enough integration and thus the euro was needed.

Bini Smaghi then turne d to the problems facing European countries today. He talked about the “moral hazard” that results from bailing out undisciplined countries and the reluctance the ECB has in directly financing governments by buying their bonds on the open market.

He stressed that there were no feelings of unity between the well-performing countries and the under- p er forming ones and that the stronger countries wanted the struggling ones to reform their policy and struggle through.

In addition to explaining the ECB’s action during the crisis, Bini Smaghi also described the work that the EU Commission and Parliament did simultaneously. He claimed that the European Financial Stability Facility and the European Financial Stabilization Mechanism were well created for working with the IMF to help countries, but the failure of Greece to respect their decisions on needed reforms undermined their usefulness.

Addressing the f uture of th e e u ro , B i n i S m a g h i h a d confidence in the its continued existence. Although he admitted that there was nothing to prevent a democratic government from removing i t s el f , h e s t re s s e d th at th e problem of public confidence would pre vent any countr y f rom le av ing b e c au s e their government would be unable to find financing in the future.

However, he did stress that there would be difficulty and pain ahead for countries like Greece and Portugal as their economies needed deep structural reform. n

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Administration and student groups collaborate on race-focused event BC Ignites, from A1 partners.

“I feel like one of the main issues with racism on campus is that a lot of people have talks about the issue in their residence halls, in their rooms, in their culture clubs, but not in a place where they can listen to many other opinions on the issue. So, I feel that this forum will allow for the many opinions to come out, so different sides can understand what other people are saying,” Sullivan said.

He got the idea for the event last spring when he was campaigning for UGBC president.

Through dorm walks and discussions with many different student leaders, he came to realize a lack of a suitable public forum to discuss diversity issues.

“Even after I unfortunately lost the election, I wanted to see my goal for senior year happen,” he said.

At the end of last year, he began talks with administrators about making the event a reality.

Throughout the months since he

began working on this project, he has collaborated with several members of the BC community.

“I wanted to reach out to as many administrators and student groups as possible because the event focuses on racism on campus, and that has been a contentious issue in the past. I wanted to make sure that I understood what their feelings on the issues were, and what they thought would be the best approach to it. So I pitched my idea to as many people as possible,” he said. “This is what we came up with. We have a lot of people behind us, that’s why we’re excited.”

Among those involved are FACES, Dan Bunch from the Learning to Learn office, the Office of AHANA Student Programs, the Office of Institutional Diversity, and the Montserrat Coalition. Sullivan also worked with the Women’s Resource Center because Take Back the Night was part of his inspiration for BC Ignites.

“I was curious about how they put on their event, what their marketing strategy was, how it was received, and how they re-

cruited speakers, and that sort of thing … because they’ve had so much success with the Take Back the Night event,” he said.

Also extremely involved in the process is FACES, an “an antiracist organization committed to educating the BC community on the issues of race, identity, and systems of power and privilege,” according to their mission statement. FACES will be hosting a separate event in the Rat on Wednesday, Sept. 26 as a follow up to BC Ignites.

“Because there’s going to be a lot of opinions shared about race at BC, FACES wanted to be involved so that if students wanted to talk about it afterwards, they’d have a place to go and talk,” Sullivan said.

The application process for the speakers at the event began this summer. Sullivan reached out to any student group that had an interest in culture or race, and sent nomination forms to the presidents of those clubs to send to all of their members. He also asked the president and vice president of ALC to nominate 20 speakers. He then set up a

selection committee to evaluate the final applications. The committee consisted of himself, the director and deputy director of Community Relations in UGBC Jen Wanandi and Liz Zappala, the president and vice president of ALC, Jorge Miranda and Devika Patel, co-director of FACES council TJ Manning, and member of the AHANA Office of Student Programs Liz Alexandra.

The speaker applications required a draft of what the applicant would like to say, which had to meet certain criteria: reflection on personal experience, what the applicant believed to be the primary issues with race at BC, possible solutions to these issues, and why the applicant wanted to speak at the event. All of the applications were evaluated blindly, and three were decided on. “[ We have] a ver y diverse group of speakers, in terms of what their thoughts are on this issue,” Sullivan said. “There are a lot of opinions I think that people will agree with and not agree with … but I think the power of this event is having the two groups discuss those solutions they came

up with.”

The speakers at the event will be Sandra Dixon, CSON ’13, Matt Alonsozana, A&S ’14, and Adriana Mariella, A&S ’14. Each will be given a maximum of seven minutes to speak.

Following the event, excerpts from the speeches will be published in The Heights, and the entire transcripts will be available at www.bcheights.com. Several professors plan to use the speeches to spark discussions in their classes, Sullivan remarked. “So the hope is that this’ll also be an academic, educational experience, as well,” he said.

Sullivan hopes that BC Ignites will be just the first installment of a continuing series of public forums on all types of diversity at BC. “The broad goal is that we do a different diversity issue every single semester, so while this semester may be on race, another semester might be on socioeconomic status. One semester might be on GLBTQ issues, one might be on gender issues … The idea is that this will continue. There will always be a public forum for

students to talk about diversity on campus in this setting,” Sullivan said.

He worked with the communication department for UGBC to market the event, and hopefully “build a brand” for the term “BC Ignites.”

“We really wanted to activate this around a ‘hashtag’ because that could help aggregate personal testimonies of the issues that they want to quote un-quote ignite around campus. So, a lot of our advertising, if you see the logo, is #igniteit … We’re trying to aggregate that through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, so finding a way on social [media] to have people voice their opinions and get that conversation going on different channels,” Allie Bowman, director of communications for UGBC and A&S ’13, said.

“The brand should really be about igniting these issues and realizing that they are important to talk about and not so much talking about it only with your group of friends, only inside your room, but it should be talked about in a greater public forum,” Sullivan concluded. n

E-Week hopes to encourage student entrepreneurship Entrepreneur Week, from A1 in the October 2011 Entrepreneur magazine, for his work with graduates who went on to create their own successful companies.

Lindsay remarked that the major shortcoming of his experience after graduation was a lack of contacts who offered reliable professional advice. Fortunately for students at BC, according to BCVC co-president and E-Week initiator Karn Khunger, CSOM ’14, BC’s network of “tremendous faculty, student body, and alumni base” has served as a fantastic “ecosystem,” actively working to fill just that gap. Khunger says E-Week speakers “have had interesting career trajectories, and are contrarian in nature.”

Students who attend Entrepreneurship Week events can listen to firsthand accounts of success-

ful entrepreneurs who are also enthusiastic alumni, and thereby learn about the mechanics and inspirations of starting a business.

From there, students can proceed to take part in opportunities such as BCVC, to potentially win substantial funds to turn their ideas into reality.

The flagship event of the week, “Silicon Valley Comes to The Heights,” will be held on Thursday, Sept. 20, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., in the Fulton Honors Library, featuring local leaders in technology as well as a panel of Silicon Valley alums.

Friday is BC Young Entrepreneurship Day. Many of the highly successful speakers who will be presenting are former students of Gallaugher, who says “there is nothing more rewarding” than their willingness to help the new generation of aspiring entrepreneurs at BC. n

Second Healthapalooza will be held on Friday Healthapalooza, from A1 vegetable burger samples, and BC Recreation will be offering yoga and exercise demonstrations. BCPD will showcase fatal vision goggles to teach students how to recognize the symptoms of intoxication. The OHP will also be educating on the support programs they offer for students, which include recovery support groups on campus through ADE, and Individual Health Plans, or iHPs, where students can discuss a wide range of health concerns with a health coach and work toward solutions.

Healthapalooza will also be launching the start of the OHP’s Sweet Dreamzzz campaign. Simi-

lar to their Be Chill campaign last year, which educated on stress relieving and relaxation through a series of talks and events, Sweet Dreamzzz is intended to promote healthy sleeping habits in students.

The goal of programs like Healthapalooza and Sweet Dreamzzz is to inspire and generate discussion among the student community on how to live healthier lives.

Cook said that the OHP seeks to be a presence on campus through these programs. “Our main goal is to make our health campaigns prominent on campus so that students have the knowledge and also are equipped with the skills to improve their health no matter where they are in their feelings of needing to change or improve.” n

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Student tickets to hockey and football games sold out more rapidly than normal this year due to the introduction of a ‘Legion’ package for all three main sports.

‘Legion’ package will give members exclusive access Athletic Tickets, from A1 Conte Forum, which sits just over 2,000 students in the student section, as well as the success of the team last year during its National Championship run. Football season tickets sold out soon after.

There have been complaints among upp ercl a ssmen who missed out on hockey tickets that a sellout in August was unexpected, but the Athletic Department maintains that they marketed the tickets to all students throughout the summer.

“There was communication before students left campus,” DiLoreto said. “There was a postcard sent to their house which was incentivized with gifts. There were multiple communications via email.”

DiLoreto also confirmed that incoming freshmen were not targeted with a specific marketing campaign, but instead received the same communication from the marketing department as the rest of the student body.

OEM promotes student preparedness Preparedness Week, from A1 in case of emergency feature lists of the supplies needed, including bottled water, manual can openers, radios, first aid kits, extra batteries, and other supplies that may be important for survival. Tommaney says that the kit is small, and should be used for the initial stages of a crisis situation.

“It can be relatively small, but help you through the initial stages,” Tommaney said. “It doesn’t have to be a doomsday package.” These emergency kits should be kept updated periodically with new supplies and recent emergency contact information. They should be easily accessible to a student in case evacuation is required. “If you need to evacuate in a crisis, it’s right there,” Tommaney said.

The Office of Emergency Management also places a lot of emphasis on staying calm and using common sense and planning to best handle emergency situations. “The most important part is the process

of making a plan and the discussion that goes along with it,” Tommaney said. “It doesn’t have to be a scary subject.”

Tommaney suggests several

“The goal behind [National Preparedness Month] is to try to get everybody to understand what they can do to be prepared for emergencies.”

-John Tommaney Director of the Office of Emergency Management things that students can do, including updating their cell phone numbers on Agora so that they can be quickly notified. “It only takes a minute to do, but makes a big difference in how quickly we can contact students,” Tommaney

said. In addition, he recommends informing parents in the case that an emergency should occur on campus to keep them calm and to let them know that their children are safe.

Complete lists of suggested supplies for the emergency kits are available on the Office of Emergency Management’s website, as well as opportunities for safety education and training open to the student body. BC On-Campus Emergency Reference Guides are also available, and feature detailed instructions about how to handle different kinds of emergencies in the best way, as well as contact information for emergency services.

Students who wish to learn more information can visit www.bc.edu/ emergency or join the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/bcemergency.

“If students have questions, they shouldn’t hesitate to contact us.

We’re more than happy to talk with them,” Tommaney said. “For every person who’s prepared, that’s one less person that we have to worry about.” n

Students still have options if they want to purchase hockey season tickets. The Athletic Department recently started a new Young Alumni season ticket section which is right next to the student sections. This year the number of Young Alumni football tickets jumped from 350 to 1,200, and there are still tickets available for hockey. The price of the Young Alumni season tickets are $162 for the 16 home games, compared to the $100 student tickets, and they are available to current students.

There used to be a lottery system in place to make high demand season tickets more than just a first-come first-served process, but instead of going back to that system the Athletic Department is looking at implementing a rewards program.

“We talked about [a rewards program] in May, and we’ve been working with UGBC on that,” DiLoreto said.

The rewards system would theoretically be tied in to the Legion club as well. The Athletic

Department is working on getting rid of the printed ticket and switching to some sort of electronic system as early as next year, which would be able to keep track of reward “points” for students.

The accumulation of points by attending games and other athletic events during the year would give students with the most points priority when season tickets go on sale for the following year.

The Athletic Department is also planning events such as watch parties, open practices, and extra access to members of the Legion program in order to connect them more with the teams.

The Legion will also be polled to see what kind of events the group is interested in.

“One goal is to connect our ticketed events with the student body wherever they have interest,” DiLoreto said.

One focus is making sure that a majority of those 1,200 members attend basketball games this winter.

“I think our goal is to connect them specifically with the basket-

ball program,” DiLoreto said. “So rather than marketing to all 9,200 undergraduates all the time and trying to get that range, I think we want to focus on the Legion and then an overall marketing plan for the whole student body. But knowing they have their tickets in hand, that’s half the battle for us. Now it’s a matter of how to get them exclusivity and access to get to know the players.”

Among all the changes to try to make athletics more appealing to students, DiLoreto also confirmed that Ice Jam is under review due to decreasing numbers last year.

The UGBC has been working closely with the Athletic Department to implement these changes to the ticketing program, and both organizations are open to suggestions from the student body.

“The whole process of selling tickets is for the students, so I want to understand students’ perspectives and also educate them on what we have to work with and our process,” DiLoreto said. n

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Each row, column and 3x3 box should contain the numbers 1 to 9. You must follow these rules: · Number can appear only once in each row · Number can appear only once in each column · Number can appear only once in each 3x3 box · The number should appear only once on row, column or area.

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Legion package a success for athletics

Thursday, September 20, 2012

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”

-C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), novelist, poet, and academic

With hockey tickets sold out, The Heights asks the Athletic department to seek accomodations for left out students Many Boston College students who looked to buy season tickets for men’s hockey over the past month have been disappointed to find out that there are none left. Those tickets were gone in August, as the Athletic Department sold out the section that holds just over 2,000 students at Conte Forum. The sellout was due in large part to the new Legion package, which combined season tickets for football, men’s hockey, and men’s basketball at a discounted price. Athletics was able to sell around 1,200 of those packages by August before they sold out. Another reason for the increased demand in hockey tickets was likely due to the success of the team on its run to capture the National Championship last year. The sellout is a testament to the strength of Jerry York’s hockey program, and a well-deserved recognition of the team’s accomplishments in recent years.

The Heights believes this is great news for BC athletics, and we would like to congratulate the Athletic Department on the success of its new Legion package. The deal gives incentives to students to attend many games, including men’s basketball, which has been sparsely attended over the past few seasons. Although many students feel like they were caught off-guard by the sellout, the Athletic Department did do its part in giving the student body fair warning of the tickets going fast.

There were multiple communications at the end of last semester, as well as throughout the summer, about making sure to buy your tickets.

Although it is unfortunate that there are many who have been left without hockey season tickets, we’d like to remind students that there are still ways to get to the games. One option is to buy season tickets in the young alumni section, located next to the student section. Still, The Heights would like to see the Athletic Department continue to look for ways to offer tickets to more students who did not get in on the season package deal.

The Athletic Department is constantly working to connect with students and determine the best way to sell season tickets. It seems that the latest change with the Legion package has been successful, and we hope that the department will continue to improve the ticketing program to involve the largest number of students in the best possible way.

With all of this being said, The Heights would like to urge students with the Legion package to attend as many of the games as possible. This is a great opportunity to be a part of BC athletics, and it should not be wasted. The Legion package is a great new avenue for both fans and BC athletics, but the tickets must be utilized for it to be a true success.

Examining Lupe Fiasco: message beyond the music UGBC should be commended for its choice of an intellectually challenging performer In recent years, UGBC has explained its concert headliner selection as one in which artists’ are reviewed for appropriate lyrical content, which has led to performances by generally clean acts, like J. Cole, Wale, and Third Eye Blind. With its selection of Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco, UGBC has finally found an act that suitably combines the appropriate and the intellectually stimulating.

Over the summer, Fiasco released the music video for his song “Bitch Bad” in which he attempts to spark a dialogue with the hip-hop community about the stilted gender norms it has enforced for too long. He takes to task both male rappers who use the derogatory term “bitch” lightly, and women who let it

happen by appropriating the title as something worthy of possessing.

“Disclaimer: this rhymer, Lupe, is not usin’ ‘bitch’ as a lesson / But as a psychological weapon / To set in your mind and really mess with your conceptions / Discretions, reflections, it’s clever misdirection”, Fiasco raps in the song, clearly struggling to relate to his listeners the importance of his message.

The Heights would like to commend UGBC for its selection of a rapper brave enough to take on a tricky subject that has long plagued the medium. His ideas aren’t meant to provoke. Rather, they foster an important and often overshadowed conversation among listeners.

BC Ignites stimulates needed discussion

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Letter to the Editor Alumnus reflects on financial aid on anniversary of Ocuppy movement With the one-year anniversary of the Occupy movement being celebrated this week, I am reminded of Rev. Joseph Flanagan, S.J., the late co-founder of the PULSE Program. As Occupy attempts to reignite questioning of the financial, political, and social culture in our country, Flanagan’s oft repeated words ring in my ears: “Culture”, he would frequently say, “is why we do what we do.” It should be a source of pride for all in the Boston College community that the effort of the Occupy movement to ask questions about America’s culture— seen by many as a watershed of progressive thought in American society— is simply the everyday work of students, faculty, and staff in the PULSE program and programs like it on the Heights.

In this spirit, I encourage all members of the BC community to take time this fall to think more deeply about the financial, political, and social culture on the Heights. As current students electronically sign to secure thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars in private and federal loans to pay for their fall semester, alumni dutifully write checks to their loan service companies five, 10, even 15 years after their graduation walk down Linden Lane. We as a community should ask the University why their “need-blind” financial-aid policies have made the University, ironically, blind to

the needs of their own community to be educated on the financial risks and career choice implications that a high volume of long term debt can bring. What culture is BC creating when it allows its own students to wade into a system of near-predatory lending practices that even President Obama has admitted is in need of reform? Why, at the same time, does BC take money from lenders like Sallie Mae who have successfully lobbied Congress to pass legislation that puts their claim on a person’s property and salary beyond the “clean-slate” offered by the last-ditch desperation of bankruptcy, to buy large swaths of property, construct new facilities, and rebuild old facilities in laser-etched stone from Italy – all in the name of a religious order that asks its members to take a vow of poverty? Surely, an education on a world-class campus like BC’s cannot be free for all. But why is the only option offered to students who must finance their journeys to become women and men for others, one that turns us into a loan? This type of question is one among many that, if we are to take our BC education to heart, we must ask of ourselves and our institutions.

Why, BC, do you do what you do?

Steve Staysniak BC ’06

The Heights welcomes Letters to the Editor not exceeding 200 words and column submissions that do not exceed 700 words for its op/ed pages.

The Heights reserves the right to edit for clarity, brevity, accuracy, and to prevent libel. The Heights also reserves the right to write headlines and choose illustrations to accompany pieces submitted

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Submissions must be signed and should include the author’s connection to Boston College, address, and phone number. Letters and columns can be submitted online at www.bcheights.com, by e-mail to editor@bcheights.com, in person, or by mail to Editor, The Heights, 113 McElroy Commons, Chestnut Hill, Mass. 02467.

The Heights encourages students to attend the forum on race to expand their horizons on campus issues The Heights commends Conor Sullivan, LSOE ’13, and all those involved in planning BC Ignites: Diversity for providing Boston College with a public forum to discuss the topic of diversity on campus. While many close social networks on campus may have conversations about diversity at BC, BC Ignites will offer all members of the BC community the opportunity to share their views and hopefully take some initial steps toward solving any issues surrounding diversity on the Heights.

The issue of diversity on campus is controversial, but it is necessary to discuss. The Heights applauds the courage that the students who planned this event have shown by creating a forum to discuss tough issues. Only positive change can come from open conversa-

tion about diversity on campus.

Now that there is a public forum that allows BC students to discuss this issue, attendance is crucial. The Heights strongly encourages all available students to attend this event. BC Ignites is an opportunity to move forward as a University, and poor attendance would squander this opportunity and the courageous efforts made by of the students who made it happen.

The Heights also encourages students who attend this event to continue to talk about diversity at BC after the event is over. BC Ignites is a good starting point off of which students can launch meaningful conversations, and these conversations can have a positive impact on the University if they continue long after next Monday night.

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Social media: Your annoying, clingy boyfriend Welcome Thumbs Week fail Up A mashup for the ages- The two most irresistible hits (and subjects of knock-off YouTube videos) of the year, Call Me Maybe and Gangnam Style have been mashed up to make “Call Me Gangnam.”

There are only two real lyrics: the refrain of both songs.

Although it’s way too much of a joke to ever make it onto an iPod, we secretly hope someone decides to break it out at a party. Speaking of which, we are starting the campaign now to get the Gangnam Style guy as our Spring Concert. Anyone interested in joining our crusade can email opinions@ bcheights.com.

Rage against the normNewsweek’s recent cover with a picture of Muslim men with the headline “Muslim Rage” has gained some backlash for being Islamophobic. So, when they tweeted asking for comments under the #muslimrage, we were expecting a bombardment of potentially destructive tweets from both sides. There was some of that, but many Muslims produced some of the wittiest tweets we have ever seen mocking the provoking nature of the hashtag. Some of our favorites? “I’m having such a good hair day. No one even knows. #muslimrage” and “Cannot say hi to Jack inside a plane. #muslimrage.”

The power of social media never ceases to amaze us.

Honey I’m home, and I brought fish and bread- We thought it was just something Dan Brown sensationalized in The DaVinci Code, but the Harvard Divinity School recently announced they found a centuries-old papyrus fragment that may suggest Jesus had a wife.

The parchment does not prove whether he was or was not married, but it is cool to remember religion is constantly evolving rather than remaining stagnant.

Creative low blows- We are not knowledgeable enough about the Chicago teachers strike to take a side, but we do have to thumbs up the protest sign that said “Rahm Emanuel likes Nickelback.”

There is really no greater insult.

Thumbs Down Jaguar in the Hamptons. No, not the car- East Hampton officials are reporting that a resident called to report “a grayish, cat-looking creature about five feet long and two feet high at the shoulder with a long, striped tail, eating some composted vegetables and meat scraps.” So basically, a tiger, cheetah, or jaguar is preparing to scare the crap out of some Hamptonians this fall. Too bad he wasn’t there during the high point of the season. We would have loved to see him snarl his teeth at the a-holes we saw taking a limo to the beach.

Palooza-less- Healthapalooza, our favorite palooza, (sorry Plexapalooza) was postponed on Wednesday.

We walked out into O’Neill Plaza, all ready for stressballs, food, and massages only for there to be one lonely table. They better bring their A-Game on Friday to make up for this.

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Alexia LaFata “My name is Alexia LaFata, and I have been using for nine years” is something I imagine I’d say if I were to enroll in a rehabesque group for people addicted to social media. And when I say “using,” I mean I have been instant messaging and social networking since I was nine years old.

My first AIM screen name was d2bgirl1, my dad’s oh-so-clever way of “chatspeak”ing the phrase “Dare to be the number one girl!” (which, apparently at age nine, I was?), I soon graduated to more mature AIM screen names, including dancinghippo36, sunshinedaisy87, thewackyone, and my personal favorite/the one that I kept for way too many years into my adolescence: shoppingchick921. Once AIM became obsolete (a tragedy that I’m still mourning) and replaced by Facebook (I’m just going to skip over MySpace because MySpace was awful), I could no longer grace the Internet world with my amazing and creative screen names, much to the dismay of everyone. Following Facebook came the explosion of Twitter and Instagram, and now everyone seems to be on more social media bandwagons than they know what to do with.

Even though it’s exhausting, social media is an incredible way to keep in touch with friends and family. I have reconnected with so many people via social networking, from my distant relatives in upstate New York to the boy I had a crush on in kindergarten who moved to Virginia. I can easily share a great song with one of my friends by Tweeting it at her or posting it on her Facebook wall. I can quickly go to my favorite artist’s Facebook page and find concert tour dates. Social networking is our outlet to news, gossip, our favorite bands, comedians, and actors, and everyone we know. As much as some

of us will deny it, we really do need social networking.

There are also some obvious negatives to social media. Whenever my phone buzzes with a new Facebook notification, a new Instagram “like” or a retweet on Twitter, I will naturally always check it, even when I should be studying for a test or writing an essay. I’m always mindlessly scrolling through my various newsfeeds for something, anything, to spark my attention, so the possibility of ever truly doing nothing is out the window. Social media is addicting, distracting, engaging, damaging, and everything in between.

I clearly have a love/hate relationship with social media. I marvel in the positives and am aware of the negative effects it has on my life. And while being a social media freak might make me seem like I have a lively social life, being absent from social media can have the same effect. There is something really great about those times when my Twitter page doesn’t have lots of recent Tweets, or when my last Facebook post is from a week ago and the rest of my page remains dormant because for those past few days, I’ve been involved in real life. Yes, real life. That weird thing that was around before Facebook. I’m getting extremely tired of Facebook pressuring me to post exactly “What’s on my mind” when I’m just trying to be actively engaged in my life. Facebook is like an annoying, clingy boyfriend who blows up my phone and wants to know what I’m doing every second of the day. Just let me live, dammit! I’ll give you a summary later.

So, not only are we constantly supposed to be documenting our lives (I mean, pics or it didn’t happen, right?), but now we also must worry about portraying an online image of ourselves that may or may not reflect who we are in real life. Think about it—via your profile picture, the pictures you’re tagged in, and the statuses you post, you can be anyone you want to be. A girl on Facebook might have lots of smiling, skinnyarm photos of her with biddies with captions like “future bridesmaids over heeeere!” but in reality she may only be acquaintances with one of them and hate the rest. Another girl tweeting semi-cryptic, heartbroken lyrics

from “Somebody That I Used To Know” (just so the world knows that yes, ex-boyfriend, you treat her like a stranger and it feels so rough) will automatically have the image of being sad and dejected. We post pictures of the places we want others to know we’ve been to with the people we want others to know we’ve hung out with. We post quotes from the artists and the TV shows we want others to know we’ve listened to and watched (I know you don’t actually like that weird alternative indie band enough to “Like” it on Facebook and are just doing it in the hopes that your crush will stalk your page and think you’re eclectic and deep – two things you are totally not! I’m onto you!).

Even if we don’t realize it, each part of our Facebook is carefully handpicked to form the person we want to present ourselves as online.

Maybe I’m being too cynical here. Maybe I should just shut up and let people vent and document and do as they please. Or maybe what we all need to do (myself included, since I am just as guilty of all of this) is take a social media breather every once in a while and reflect on the kind of person we are displaying ourselves as on the Internet. Is this person really you? Is it false advertising?

Do you want to be seen the way in which you are presenting yourself? Better yet, maybe it’s time to stop worrying about our image online and just be more present in our noncyber lives. When we are fully present, we are freed from the stresses of social media updates. We are not worried about taking a million Facebook pictures to document every single party we go to since we are too busy actually enjoying the party. We are not worried about writing “hilarious” insidejoke-type statuses and tweets to our friends during events because, quite honestly, nobody else (save for the two people who they are directed at) really cares. Besides, when it all comes down to it, real life is just way more, well … real.

Alexia LaFata is a staff columnist for The Heights. She welcomes comments at opinions@bcheights.com.

Consider the tequila Benjamin Olcott San Miguel de Allende is a vacation spot utterly unlike its lurid, internationally-recognized as Dionysian Spring Break destination and compatriot city, Cancun. Whether or not this is a good thing is entirely up to you, the trip-goer, which is pretty much a euphemism for saying that if your tolerance for bullsh—tier tourist attractions and even bullsh—tier tourists is very high, then Cancun, and probably not San Miguel, is your place. If it is, I sincerely wish you well on your travels through a city my mother dubbed “hell,” a moniker that I, even as a puerile and hormonal boy of 15, begrudgingly had to agree with despite what I had been told about its bikini-to-not-bikini ratio.

Because, and maybe this is just an Olcott family “thing,” I’ve always seen vacations as a time to do something else, be somewhere else, generally just experience and explore what else is or could be. And that’s not what Cancun is. Cancun is a frat party, Las Vegas, and South Beach rolled up into something like a gigantic chuck beef patty thrown into a microwave (Cancun is hot and bombards you with potentially harmful electromagnetic wave-particles, too) because it’s Friday night and you’re feeling lazy after a strenuous week of exhaustingly boring work … all in Mexico.

That is to say, it’s a hyperbolized microcosm of all the vices of American culture placed in a lawfully laxer country because we probably couldn’t get away with what we do there if it was in the US of A. Cancun then—like nuking chuck beef, “Sin City,” “frat parties,” and “South Beach”—is a uniquely American and reductive solution to a time-honored American problem, the problem, for it and the latter three at least (nuking chuck has a decidedly different problem/solution set associated with it), being, “How do I manage my stress and unhappiness?” The solution is to “put it

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off until later.” Cancun, a concentrated and more risque version of America, embraces this fact, providing, like America, plenty of methods of self-destructive escape—the opportunity to obliterate unhappiness —from the raging beach bar to the pseudo-ownership of timeshares.

San Miguel de Allende is a bit different. It’s a nine-hour drive from the nearest beachfront, is set into the side of the rolling hills of the Bajio region of Central Mexico, and is, according to Weather.com and my own experience there, ridiculously temperate and comfortable all the time. There is exactly one stoplight in the entire city, and there are next to no car accidents, due as much to the temperance of the locals as it is to the charming cobblestone streets that almost guarantee a ruptured tire at speeds above 30 miles per hour. Donkeys, or burros, freely share the road in some parts of the city, the majority of restaurants and bars do not have wireless Internet access, there is only one Starbucks, and zero drunkenly staggering adults (youthful or senescent, fatuously yelling at nothing), no ostentatious advertisements, no impatient and/or malcontented waiters/waitresses, no fast-food: nada that is anything close to the chest-compressing mania of Cancun-ian and American life.

Each of those things contributed nicely to a serene and picturesque trip, but what was most important about the whole excursion was that I actually experienced an elsewhere, the culture of some other place, and not just some sleazy receptacle for the usual debauchery posing as elsewhere. What I never got out of Cancun, but got in bunches in San Miguel, was a glimpse, just a quick peek, at what being Mexican really means. As it turns out, Mexican culture, or, at least, San Miguel’s culture, is a down-to-earth and gregarious one: refreshingly unmaterialistic and just genuinely kind. Conversely, after “staycationing” in Cancun, all I learned was that Americans have some seriously suppressed resentment toward our drinking age, and Mexicans will happily take the money we throw out of our pockets like it’s confetti on New Year’s as we obliterate, obliterate, and obliterate away.

And that, obliteration, is the crux of the larger problem of which Cancun is a part.

We do it because the alternative, which is to frequently take stock of the potentially painful truths in our lives, to look them right in the face with a chin held high, requires both immense courage and the ability to stop the fast-spinning world for moment. Americans, working as hard as they do, don’t have time to stop, and being courageous is an exhausting endeavor—so the drudgery, on top of our exhaustion, builds up quickly, unchecked, until we escape the grind and the pace slows to a crawl, on a vacation to Cancun perhaps, and the floodgates open. Courage then lies spent in a corner, and we turn to outside means to obliterate the unseemly and rising tide of pain.

But what if we did have time to stop the turning? What if the pace of American life was slower?

San Miguel-ian culture, I think, holds the answer. Take, for example, how the locals drink tequila. They sip it slowly so the bitter, squirm-inducing taste actually stays on the palate for as long as it takes to finish. Doing this forces you to sit and consider the liquid in your hand (tequila is strong, as many of us know), to take an extra two minutes than you would normally have taken to think about what you’re putting in yourself and why you’re doing it. And once you start thinking like that, then the drink ceases to reasonably exist as a method of achieving some analgesic end, and you find yourself sipping because it’s actually a pretty tasty drink, that shudder is sort of fun, and you’re in no rush to forget what no longer bothers you. In this manner, the people of San Miguel lose the need for obliteration. By taking just a few minutes extra every day to consider what they do and why they do it, they create time to simply live for the sake of joy, for the sake of their families, friends, strangers, for the sake of laughter, play, giving, sharing, and general benevolence. And the concept really works. Every single person my family and I met on our travels was ecstatic about being alive. They were living for the sake of life, and, beyond a shadow of a doubt, happy.

Benjamin Olcott is a staff columnist for The Heights. He welcomes comments at opinions@bcheights.com.

Parisa Oviedo A lot of freshmen are struggling with the daily responsibilities of an independent, boarding life. It’s not uncommon to walk into a laundry room to find a fellow frosh quietly wondering to himself where he needs to insert the detergent his mom bought him. Nor is it unheard of to be told stories of Upper students who try to take a late bus to Comm. Ave. only to realize that they just got off on Newton … on the last bus. Or to hear stories of groups of freshmen boys who confidently wander into the Mods only to get kicked out and to realize that they are at the bottom of the college food chain. Any upperclassmen reading this may label freshmen as “noobs,” but I’m sure that they, too, can recall the time that they got lost in the depths of McElroy in a failed attempt to find the mailroom.

Freshmen start classes after a week at Boston College are already at a huge disadvantage simply because, in that first week, nobody gave them solid advice on how to navigate daily challenges on campus. Indeed, Freshmen Welcome Week was so focused on the social aspect of college that it failed to prepare the Class of 2016 for the more practical routines of boarding life.

That is not to say that Freshmen Welcome Week, a seven-day affair organized by the Office of the Vice Presidents for Student Affairs (VPSA) was not a success. In a poll of 50 members of the Class of 2016, 72 percent agreed that they thoroughly enjoyed Welcome Week. The boat cruise, for example, was cited as one popular highlight, as it is every year.

VPSA worked hard to organize other fun events to help rev up freshmen for college, such as the hypnotist event and the Target run. However, whether or not we actually learned anything we could implement a week later is still in question. Although we had lectures on technology and safety, the BC community should be more concerned with the fact that a large percentage of freshmen still don’t know how to do laundry, how to print papers, or that O’Neill has a “secret” passageway to Lower Campus.

Some freshmen even found the overwhelming amount of events completely unnecessary because, as Reba Hatcher, CSOM ’16, puts it, “we received the same messages and ice breakers at orientation.” If we were going to be given advice on social situations, we should have, as Hatcher says, been given “guidance on how to make real friendships and to avoid bad friendships.” Let’s face it, freshies, that drunk girl who was your best friend for a night at the Mods because your guy friends knew they needed to bring more estrogen to get in will not be your friend next week.

In terms of Welcome Week’s attempt to build friendships for us, I think I exchanged names with a solid 30 or so people while participating in Play Fair at the first Welcome Week BBQ, but I can honestly say that I only remember one or two names. Play Fair was a quick, rapid-fire flash of names and, unlike at orientation, left no room for conversation or connection. The only thing I got out of it was free Honest Tea. Most of the people I am friends with now, in fact, are those that I met after the day’s planned activities were over. Although Welcome Week was a promising idea, as Maggie Powers, A&S ’16, points out, “We were all sick of icebreakers, ready to start our college experience, and left without the practical tools we needed to navigate BC.” Instead, we should have done “something where we could have met people in smaller groups again,” thought Thomas Yorke, A&S ’16.

I still don’t know where the nearest grocery store is, and when a friend of mine tried asking his RA, he was told to “go Google it.” We wouldn’t have to go Google it if, as Alex Pear, CSOM ’16 suggests, “tutorials [were added] that walked students through the processes of doing laundry, getting a Charlie Card, using the shuttle, tracking your meal plan balance, and using library printers.” Alex’s suggestion of implementing tutorials is an excellent one, and perhaps VPSA can take it into consideration, and, if so, then the Class of 2017 may be less lost and confused.

Parisa Oviedo is a staff columnist for The Heights. She welcomes comments at opinions@bcheights.com.

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Nick Clancy put up huge numbers on Saturday at Northwestern with 24 tackles, but he’d rather have no tackles and a win for his team.

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Boston College’s defense took quite a beating this past week in its 22-13 loss at Northwestern, allowing 560 yards over 100 offensive snaps, despite 24 tackles from Nick Clancy.

“I was a little fired up being from Chicago, playing Northwestern at home, and I guess I just got into a zone. But when it’s all said and done, I’d rather have no tackles and a win,” Clancy said.

Clancy was a huge part of the Eagles’ defensive effort on Saturday. Yet, the defense was playing without one of its top defenders, Kaleb Ramsey, due to a calf injury.

“One-on-one, I think Kaleb Ramsey is unblockable. I think he’s an unbelievable defensive tackle. He’s just a man out there playing with boys. It’s truly unbelievable,” Clancy stated. Ramsey has had a tough start to the year, recording only two solo tackles in the win against Maine and two assisted tackles in the season opener loss against Miami.

The biggest weaknesses of the Eagles’ defense on Saturday was that it could not get off the field. They repeatedly allowed the Wildcats to advance on third and long, which was a key factor in the loss for BC. Throughout the game, the defense struggled with the Wildcats’ third down plays, as they converted 12 of 19 third downs. Overall, Northwestern recorded only one touchdown despite the amount of yards the Eagles allowed.

The play of Trevor Siemian, Northwestern’s backup quarterback, caught Clancy by surprise though.

“I was actually surprised that Siemian played as much as he did. We thought they were going to go racecar with [Kain] Colter the whole time and have him run around and make us miss and maybe try to get us tired, but we were surprised, yet ready for [both quarterbacks],” Clancy said. The Eagles’ defense managed to hold Colter to only 66 yards, but allowed the only Wildcat who found the end zone, Mike Trumpy, to rush for 106 yards.

On a positive note, the BC defense did recover two of the three fumbles

by Northwestern’s offense, which led to both a field goal and a touchdown for the Eagles. The defense also had two sacks, one of which was from Kevin Pierre-Louis for nine yards and the other from Kasim Edebali for six yards.

A week to recuperate Going into the bye week, the BC defense can take a sigh of relief and recuperate after enduring 100 snaps in last week’s game. In Clancy’s opinion, this bye week is much needed from a defensive point of view, insisting that many of the defenders felt fatigued after Saturday’s loss.

“It’s kind of one of those weeks where we are getting some of the starters off their feet, getting some of the younger guys some reps, and just individually getting better this week. That’s what a bye week is really for,” Clancy said.

Having this bye week, the team won’t focus on its next opponent, Clemson, quite yet. The players are trying to clear their heads from this past week and gain the confidence they need to take on No. 10 Clemson the following week at home.

On the other hand, Chase Rettig and

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Greg Brown (center) was promoted to associate head coach of the men’s hockey team.

A player’s coach, Brown’s promotion is well-deserved Column, from A10 of coaching with York and the Eagles, the program has become a powerhouse.

Since his arrival, the team has won three national championships in five appearances, six Hockey East tournament titles, and four Beanpot crowns.

This promotion is a testament to the work that Brown has done alongside York for nearly a decade. His understanding of what it takes to have success not only in the college ranks but also in the pursuit of a professional career has made Brown a consummate player’s coach.

The work that Brown and the rest of the staff have done over the last decade has taken strong work ethic, determination, and the ability to recruit the right players. York has maintained a program that expects the highest of not only his players but his staff as well. Brown has epitomized this effort, as made known by the players’ consistent praise of his men-

torship. They respect the fact that Brown has been there before them, skating on the same ice of Kelley Rink, rivaling Boston University, and playing for the esteemed Beanpot title.

Brown has inspired many collegiate and professional athletes to be the best they can be, and the results have been impressive. York has given a deserving coach the opportunity to earn recognition for his constant determination, knowledge of good hockey, and focus on the team. This promotion is one of the highest forms of praise an assistant coach can receive from a head coach. The title of associate head coach makes visible the esteem in which York holds Brown.

Congratulations to Greg Brown on this promotion. Your dedication to Eagle hockey has not gone unnoticed.

Chris Marino is the Assoc. Sports Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at sports@bcheights.com.

the Eagles’ offense are eager to get back on the field.

“I think it would be nice to have a game this week because when you lose you want to go out and get a victory.

However, at the same time, I think it will be beneficial for us to recuperate and get healthy again,” Rettig said.

This week could be very beneficial to Brian Miller, a tight end who recently has been sitting out due to a knee injury, but he may make an appearance next weekend against Clemson. In addition, this bye week allows Colin Larmond, Jr., a wide receiver out with a leg injury, and Jake Sinkovec, a fullback out with a foot injury, time to recover.

So far, it has been a bit difficult to completely forget about the loss this past weekend, especially with no game this weekend. Nevertheless, Clancy said that head coach Frank Spaziani has been getting his team into the right mindset to do so.

“Coach has been saying, ‘Walk on the field, then walk off the field, and win or lose, we put everything behind us,’” Clancy said.

Glued to the TV This coming weekend, the Clemson Tigers (3-0, 0-0 ACC) take on the No. 4 Florida State Seminoles (3-0, 1-0 ACC), both upcoming opponents for the Eagles.

Many BC players will be glued to the TV this weekend, watching each and every move made by both teams. The Eagles are anticipating a well-fought game by both Clemson and Florida State this weekend, and are eagerly awaiting to take on both teams in the near future. n

something we usually pride ourselves on.”

“The second thing is consistency. A lot of the misses we had were either a missed target—we were working on the wrong guy—or we had had four guys mauling people and one guy missed his block in the hole.”

When asked if the poor performance from the line was frustrating, given that the five starters have been together throughout the season, Cleary said it was.

“So frustrating,” Cleary said. “All through spring, all through summer camp, we were able to run the ball on our defense, which is very stout. We’re disappointed, and take it as a personal challenge that we weren’t able to do that.”

Though the run game isn’t producing up to expectations, the passing offense has powered through and found ways to produce. Amidon’s 366 receiving yards are second among Division 1-A players, and his 25 catches rank fifth.

On Tuesday, Amidon was named to the Biletnikoff Award watch list, which is an annual award given out to the nation’s top college football wide receiver.

“I was pretty surprised,” Amidon said.

“It’s a little bittersweet. It’d be a lot nicer with more success from the team. It’s hard to enjoy personal achievements when the team’s struggling a little bit. But I am honored to be on the list, definitely.”

The junior from Greenfield, Mass. entered the season having caught 36 balls for 558 yards his first two years at BC. He noted a couple reasons those numbers have spiked these first few games.

“My route running has improved a lot,” Amidon said. “The top of my routes, I’m

putting a lot more definition on them.

Also, the way the offense is set up, it’s a lot of concepts that are hard to pick up for the defense. A lot of that has to do with getting open because of the plays we have.”

When facing Clemson’s defense next week, the passing offense will get a different look than they’ve seen their first three games of the season.

“We haven’t faced a lot of man pressure or man coverage like we will [next] week,” Rettig said. “Now we’ll test the receivers a lot because Clemson’s going to play a lot of man coverage against us.”

Rettig explained the difference between the two schemes.

“Number one, I’m not back there deciphering what coverage they’re playing,” Rettig said of man coverage. “When you’re in the zone scheme, you can be playing one type of zone on one side and one on the other side. You could be blitzing and still playing zone.

“Man coverage, there’s going to be a guy in your face, there’s going to be bump and run coverage. The benefit is knowing the coverage you get, and you have to find your matchups. It’s not easier, but if you know your routes, then you know which ones are best against man coverage. If you have a mismatch, that helps too.”

With the bye week this week, the Eagles know it will help them both recuperate and prepare more extensively. Yet it’s still tough for them not to have a game this week to atone for the loss.

“I don’t personally like having this taste in my mouth for two weeks,” Cleary said.

“That said, though, we need the work.”

“I think guys have the right mentality right now,” Rettig added. “We just have to move forward—that’s all you can really do.” n

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Chase Rettig has performed well through three games, but the offense as a whole needs work.

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The men’s soccer team looks to get back on track after getting blown out by Maryland and then ending in a draw with Virginia Tech in its last two contests. The Eagles have dropped out of the top 25 but still have a lot of time left in their season as conference play is just beginning. Before getting into the heart of its ACC schedule, Boston College will face unranked San Francisco Saturday afternoon and then Rhode Island on Tuesday. Both matches present good opportunities for the Eagles to find their footing.

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Mewis now at the top of program history Mewis, from A10

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Mewis is on track to graduate in December, after which she hopes to play soccer in Europe.

But the one thing that is abundantly clear when speaking to the top scorer in program history is that she has two feet firmly on the ground. It is obvious that Mewis’ immediate focus is not on recognition, but rather on the Eagles’ two ACC opponents for the coming weekend, Wake Forest and Virginia Tech.

“These are two huge games this weekend,” Mewis said. “They’re great competition, but then again, every team in the ACC is great competition. I think it’s really important for us to come home with two wins this weekend, just so that we know that we can compete in the ACC.” The Eagles (7-0-2, 1-0-0 ACC) will travel down south to take on No. 14 Wake Forest (7-2-1, 1-1-0 ACC) on Thursday evening, before heading to Blacksburg, Va., to face No. 8 Virginia Tech (9-0-0, 1-0-0 ACC) on Sunday.

These two opponents are understandably hard to overlook. The Demon Deacons will present BC’s first stiff challenge in conference play. Perhaps most impressive is the fact that Wake has been able to compile this record without its best player, Katie Stengel.

Stengel has missed all but two games this season due to being a part of the under-20 United States national team’s World Cup campaign, in which they emerged victorious. Stengel will be back to face the Eagles, and Foley has BC ready to face her.

“Wake is a good, methodical team,” Foley said. “They’re good with or without the ball, but without question, Stengel is the go-to player and has always scored their big-time goals. The key to stopping Wake is bottling up Stengel, for sure.”

Virginia Tech will present a whole different challenge for Foley’s squad, as the Hokies have allowed only two goals all year (in a 3-2 win to Nebraska). The four shutouts each posted by Tech goalkeepers Caroline Kelly and Dayle Colpitts speak not only to great goalkeeping, but also an exceptional defense.

The six goals posted by junior Shan-

non Mayrose demonstrate potency on offense that the Eagles must contain if they are to emerge with a win. But Foley believes her young backline will be ready for the challenge of Stengel and whatever Virginia Tech may throw at them.

“We have a young defense but Zoe [Lombard] and Casey [Morrison] have both played against Stengel,” Foley said.

“They’ve kept her at bay and done a good job on her in the past. We’re young, but our biggest step forward game-by-game is in our battle-tested back line. We’ve seen top forwards, and I think that [our defense] gets better and better with each game and each lesson.”

However focused Foley, Mewis, and the rest of the Eagles may be on their upcoming ACC schedule, the attention around the Heights is still squarely centered on Mewis’s achievement.

Rahko’s record, which stood for 10 years (she broke the previous record in 2002), was bested by Mewis’ seventh, eighth, and ninth goals of the season.

Nine games in, the captain is perfectly on par with the standard set by herself and Foley, as she has averaged a goal per game (to go along with six assists).

The three-goal game was also Mewis’s first career hat trick in an Eagle uniform, and it extended her consecutive points streak to nine games. Speaking of records, that streak is second in program history, only behind the streak that Mewis compiled as a sophomore with 11 games in a row on the scoresheet.

“Kristen is without question one of the most talented girls in her age group, if not the most talented,” Foley raved about her captain. “She’s so technical. She has the ability to beat people off the dribble, serve balls into the area, and she’s got a deadly shot. The psychology part of her game has advanced, so she’s reading [each] game a lot better. She’s always been talented and now has matured psychologically and physically to the point where the sky really is the limit for her.”

Anyone who has been out to the Newton Sports Complex in the past four years has witnessed all of these various attri-

butes firsthand, and now the preseason All-American finally has the attention of those who have not. The Massachusetts native noted the amount of congratulatory text messages, emails, and even high fives that she has been receiving around campus, but also seemed a bit surprised at the deluge of support.

Mewis is also quick to point to Foley’s motherly influence as a crucial factor in her and the rest of the squad being where they are today. She called Foley her “mom away from home,” as well as “the most influential coach I’ve ever had.”

The glowing remarks speak to an extremely close player-coach relationship between the two, which will be important as Mewis looks to her post-graduation plans in the sport.

“I’m on track to graduate in December, so that I can try to play professionally somewhere,” Mewis revealed. “I would love to play over in Europe, maybe in France, Sweden, Germany, or someplace like that. I haven’t really gotten into it yet, because I’m just trying to focus on the season. But Coach and I are just initially starting to talk about it, so we’ll see how that goes.”

One other storyline to watch is the BC captain’s bid to join the United States national squad. Mewis earned call-ups to the team’s training camps in June and December of 2011, and as recently as this past May. With the national team coming off its Olympic triumph and undergoing a coaching change, uncertainty surrounds the program. It seems Mewis is perfectly on track to join her good friend Sydney Leroux, however, and feature for the squad in the near future.

For now though, that greater goal is on hold in favor of what must be done in the interim. BC is once again a favorite to reach the College Cup, and hearing Mewis speak, it seems as if a national championship may not be too far away.

“I just want this to be the best year that BC has ever had,” she said. “That’s my ultimate goal, so I will always keep striving towards that.” n

Field hockey ready to push through ‘mideason grind’ vs. UVA, PC Field Hockey, from A10 athletes, Lamb recognizes that the Cavaliers have demonstrated a strong offense so far this season. The Cavaliers score an average of about four goals a game, making them a considerably high-scoring team. They scored 14 goals against Towson, and in their lowest scoring games scored two goals. Lamb believes the Eagles’ offense can keep up with any goals scored by the Cavaliers.

“We match quite well,” Lamb said.

Lamb feels that while Virginia may have several standout players, the Eagles have a strong team up and down the roster.

“Our team has a solid core,” Lamb said, adding that the team’s level of strength as a whole has been “overall higher than it has been in the past.”

Looking further ahead to Sunday, the Eagles will compete in a non-league game against the Friars in Providence at 3:00 p.m. Although the outcome of the game does not affect BC’s standing within the ACC, it will affect the national ranking of the team. Additionally, Providence is considered a regional opponent, making the game of “equal value” to Lamb and the Eagles.

“They are a much improved team

from last year,” Lamb said of the Friars.

“They have an emotional energy and a will to win.”

Providence has already improved its record from last year, when it ended the 2011 season with a record of 4-14. With a current record of 5-2, Providence has so far performed similarly to the Eagles against several mutual opponents. Both the Eagles and the Friars lost to Boston University by a margin of one goal. Both teams also defeated Harvard 3-0.

Lamb considers BC’s midfield to be the team’s greatest weapon in Sunday’s game. Although the midfield is young, with no seniors, Lamb says this year’s midfield is “more developed.”

Both of this week’s games fall at the Eagles’ halfway point through the regular season. Lamb believes these games will reflect the ways in which the Eagles have improved throughout the season.

“We learned something from each past game—both tactical and technical,” she said.

Lamb also added that despite the outcome of some of the games, the Eagles have had the ability to defeat all of the teams they have played against so far.

With both games in mind, Lamb predicts that several players will have

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The field hockey team is hoping to be doing its fair share of celebrating this weekend, with two important games on the schedule. their chance to give outstanding performances this weekend. Captains Jaqui Moorfield and Kara Mackintire, according to Lamb, will be essential to these games both on and off the field. Their “drive to be successful” will help their teammates play through what Lamb called “the midseason grind.”

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Midfielders Emma Plasteras and Paige Norris will also be key to combating both the Friars and the Cavaliers.

Lamb said that goalkeeper Leah Settipane will continue to help “motivate the defense to play hard around her,” in addition to keeping up her performance in goal.

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Lamb is confident in her team’s ability to compete this weekend, believing the team’s skill and experience has set them “in the upswing” after last weekend’s losses against James Madison and Maryland.

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

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Brown’s promotion is well-deserved

A STEP ABOVE THE REST

Chris Marino Yesterday, Boston College men’s hockey coach Jerry York announced the promotion of Greg Brown to associate head coach. The former Eagles defenseman has been with the team for eight years, including three national championship seasons.

“I am happy to elevate Greg to this new title. It is well deserved,” York said in a statement. “He has played a key role in our success over the past eight seasons. I look forward to his continued contributions as our program moves forward.”

Brown, a Southborough, Mass. native, joined the Eagles as a player in 1986, after a prep school career with St. Mark’s School. That same year, he was drafted No. 26 overall by the Buffalo Sabres.

During his sophomore campaign, Brown joined the U.S. National Team, including the 1988 Olympic games in Calgary, Alberta, and therefore did not attend BC. During his three years on the Heights, Brown became a household name in regard to college hockey. He was named an All-American first-team player in the 1989 and 1990 seasons, and is one of only two players to earn Hockey East Player of the Year twice. Brown was also up for national recognition in those years, as a Hobey Baker Award finalist. In 1990, USA Hockey named the Eagles’ captain its Athlete of the Year.

After his graduation in 1990, Brown split time between Buffalo and its AHL affiliate in Rochester. In that first season, the defenseman scored 26 points between both teams in 80 games. Then, in 1992, Brown left the Sabres organization to represent his country once more in the Albertville, France Olympics. The former Eagle continued his NHL career with the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Winnipeg Jets, before finishing his last six seasons playing in Europe.

In 2004, after his 12-year playing career, Brown returned to his alma mater as an assistant coach. In his eight years

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Kristie Mewis is now the all-time points leader at BC, and she has plans along with the rest of her team to lead BC back to a College Cup at the end of the season.

Now at the top of the all-time points list, Mewis leading BC

By Andrew Klokiw Heights Staff

It’s halftime. The No. 4 Boston College women’s soccer team is trouncing its Boston rivals, Harvard, 5-1. Senior captain Kristie Mewis returns to the sidelines, safe in the knowledge that her team is well on its way to another vital win on the march toward the

ultimate goal: an NCAA championship.

But there would be no rest for the star midfielder in the second half, as head coach Alison Foley would inform her that there was one more affair to tend to against the Crimson. Unbeknownst to her, Mewis’s two first half-goals had elevated her to 94 points for her BC career, tying her with Sarah Rahko (’03) atop the Eagles all-time record list.

“I honestly had no idea that I was close to [the record],” Mewis said. “Coach hinted to me at halftime [of the Harvard game] after I scored my second goal.

She told me that I was at the record right now, and

After struggling at Northwestern, the BC offense, including the running game, gets a week to reset

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Eagles set to take on Virginia, PC

By Emily Malcynsky For The Heights

Coming off a disappointing doubleovertime loss against James Madison this past Sunday, the No. 22 Boston College field hockey team will take on the No. 7 University of Virginia Cavaliers at home this Friday at the Newton Sports Complex. With just a day to recuperate and regroup, they will then take on Providence College in Rhode Island on Sunday.

The Eagles face off against nationally ranked Virginia at 7:00 p.m., and head coach Ainslee Lamb predicts an exciting game. She acknowledges that Virginia may give BC some trouble from their two Olympic athletes, Michelle Vittese and Paige Selenski. Lamb believes that the experience of the two Olympic athletes poses as an “exciting challenge for our players. They’re excited to go head to head against them.”

Virginia will go into Friday’s game with a record of 7-3, which compares to the Eagles’ 4-4 record. According to Lamb, the Eagles don’t need to significantly alter their playing strategy. While the team has made some adjustments to its press, Lamb is confident that the Eagles “just need to prepare BC,” meaning they do not plan to compromise their strategy or style in the face of the Cavaliers.

In addition to Virginia’s two Olympic

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that she wanted me to go out there and get the hat trick to break the record. I was kind of scared, because sometimes people tie a record and have a hard time beating it. I was saying to myself, ‘What if I never score again for the rest of the season?’”

Those fears would be put permanently to rest only two official minutes after Foley’s words of encouragement, as Mewis notched the record-breaking goal off a beautiful feed from sophomore Stephanie McCaffrey for her 96th career point.

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Chase Rettig and the offense will take the bye week to figure out ways to open up the run game.

After starting the season by scoring 62 points in its first two games, the Boston College football team could only manage 13 against Northwestern last week.

Though the passing offense continued to deliver—Chase Rettig threw for 294 yards—the rushing attack was non-existent. The Eagles gained 25 yards on 17 carries, and suffered a critical fumble by running back Deuce Finch on a first and goal.

For BC to be competitive in the ACC this year, it’ll need to improve its run game. Senior left tackle Emmett Cleary knows that begins with the offensive line.

“The responsibility for running the football lays on the five guys up front,”

Cleary said. “We’re not getting overpowered or are technically deficient—it’s just that we have to have all five guys on their jobs.”

Offensive leaders such as Cleary, Rettig, and wideout Alex Amidon all believe that the run game will improve, despite what’s happened over the past few games.

“I think it’s a couple of problems,” Amidon said. “One thing we need to do is simplify the running game. I’m sure Coach Martin is going to be able to fix it.

He’s definitely the right guy for that.”

Cleary was more specific.

“It’s really two things,” he said. “[Northwestern] disguised their blitzes fairly well, but we [the offensive line] took too long to catch on to what they were doing. It’s

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Diouf scores twice as Connecticut blanks BC at home Eagles are unable to put one in the back of the net, lose to Huskies For The Heights

Connecticut forward Mamadou Diouf sunk the Boston College men’s soccer team with two goals at No. 2 UConn’s Joseph J. Mor2 Connecticut rone Stadium Boston College 0 last night. The Eagles, who were coming off of a 1-1 tie on the road with Virginia Tech, lost 2-0 to the Huskies.

The game was originally scheduled to take place on Tuesday night, but was forced back a day due to rainstorms around the Storrs area.

This adds one more loss to the men’s soccer record (2-3-1, 0-1-1 ACC) and it is the second consecutive loss at the hands of the Huskies’ men’s soccer program.

It also continues UConn’s undefeated record.

Diouf, UConn’s junior striker from Senegal, slotted home his first goal of the game in the 11th minute, assisted by fellow countryman Stephane Diop and Carlos Alvarez. He finished off the night with a penalty kick in the 74th minute, capitalizing on a handball in the penalty box by BC.

Charlie Rugg and the Boston College offense were held scoreless last night in Storrs, Conn., as the Huskies collected a 2-0 win at home.

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a total of nine shots, with three of those on target, while UConn had seven, as the Eagles’ goalkeeper Justin Luthy racked up three saves on the night. Additionally, each team took three corner kicks, though none of them directly resulted in a score.

The goal-scoring leader for the Eagles

continues to be forward Kevin Mejia, with two goals and four points overall, but he did not see any game action last night.

The Eagles will now have three home games in a row after a string of away games. For its next matchup, BC takes on San Francisco at home on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Newton Sports Complex. n

Senior midfielder Kyle Bekker led the offensive stat sheet for the Eagles with five total shots, while forcing two saves out of UConn’s 6-foot-4 goalkeeper Andre Blake. The only other shot on goal for BC came from freshman Derrick Boateng.

As for the overall stats, BC collected

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scene and heard

Blake Lively’s ring

The ‘Gossip Girl’ star shows off her new bling, page B2 album review

kreayshawn’s debut the oakland rapper fails to make an impact, page B5

album review

‘cruel summer’

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Jean sheds new light on ‘The Score’

Thursday, September 20, 2012

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BY: carolina del busto

Brennan Carley In the case of 13-year-old Zion, son of Lauryn Hill whose paternity has been publically questioned since his birth— Wyclef Jean: you are NOT the father.

Yes, it’s in turn both funny and desperately disappointing that Hill’s spotlight since the ’90s has become muddied with personal problems, ranging from financial issues (the odds are that she’s going to jail in November) to mental health concerns. The singer, once one of the country’s most promising voices, has now been reduced to a joke.

I began by talking about Zion because of allegations flung Hill’s way by Jean in his new book—released yesterday—titled Purpose: An Immigrant’s Story. In it, the wild-voiced former Fugees member claims, “I was married and Lauryn and I were having an affair, but she led me to believe that the baby was mine, and I couldn’t forgive that.”

Affairs of the heart have led to some of the most tumultuous relationships in music history, but almost equally as often, passionate musicians who find themselves embroiled in affairs with each other churn out incredibly deep and introspective albums. There’s something to be said about lust as a musical motivator.

Over the summer, my mom—to whom I credit my musical obsession through and through—pulled up a YouTube video of Fleetwood Mac performing on some late-night talk show in the months following the release of its most fiery record, Rumours. She told me to direct all of my attention to Stevie Nicks’ eyes as the band performed its plucky hit “Go Your Own Way.” I have never seen anyone’s eyes more full of hatred in my entire life, and I once saw someone pull out a gun on the second floor of a New York City McDonald’s. Nicks’ eyes burn with unrivalled intensity as she glares throughout the entire song—and I kid you not, not once does she break eye contact for over three painfully uncomfortable minutes—at Mick Fleetwood, her former lover, whose public break-up inspired many of the songs on the exemplary album.

One gets the feeling that Rumours is the kind of album Taylor Swift is jonesing to make, a disc filled to the brim with “f— you” anthems. It exudes disdain from every fiber of its being, but brilliantly captures the intensity of a fizzled flame.

If Fleetwood had tried to include a track on the album called “Dear Stevie,” I think he would’ve been critically maligned and completely ridiculed by his peers.

I think the most comparable modernday counterpoint to Rumours is, especially in the light of Jean’s new remarks on his affair with Hill, The Fugees’ 1996 classic The Score.

“There was love in that music, too, the love between Lauryn and me,” Jean comments in the memoir. “We had become a real couple, even though I was with someone else at the time. It didn’t matter; she and I had our own musical and romantic language. That’s why [The Score] touched people; that’s why it’s so real.”

I can’t help but think that poor Pras— the often-unheralded third member of The Fugees—must’ve been so frazzled by the subsequent fallout after his band mates’ relationship collapsed. Nevertheless, the trio delivered one of the greatest albums of the decade, complete with hits like “How Many Mics,” “Ready or Not,” “Fu-Gee-La,” and probably most popularly, “Killing Me Softly.”

It’s an iconic group album that was fueled entirely by the passion of two of the most original voices in hip-hop at the time, and I think there’s something to be said about the fact that Jean’s revelations about The Score have surfaced on the same day as Kanye West’s new G.O.O.D. music release Cruel Summer.

Many critics find an inherent fault in Summer in that it seems to lack any sort of heart. Technically it’s a masterpiece, with warped beats and production up to par with the best rap albums of our days, but it’s difficult to find any relevant, relatable emotion in any of the songs. The Score has always been a sort of spiritually inspiring album for legions of fans, heralding the future of the medium as well as the deliverance of Lauryn Hill unto the people. All Summer has to offer is some quirky 2 Chainz raps and a surprisingly strong Big Sean showing.

It’s a shame, then, that The Fugees crumpled into nothingness following The Score’s release. Hill has recently seemed to get her act back together. In the face of a Cruel reign, let’s say our prayers for a Fugees family reunion.

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

1. ANISTON’S BABY BUMP

2. BITTER TWITTER

Celebrities are normal people, and when normal people break up, it’s likely they’ll vent on Facebook or Twitter. Actor Chris Zylka chose the latter. Inspired by a fan calling his girlfriend pretty, he decided to reply with, “Don’t have a girlfriend, she decided she was too good.” Zylka continued to tweet things related to the break up as well as sad song lyrics. Lucy Hale, on the other end, decided she was too good to sink to his level, and only retweeted some inspirational quotes.

Aniston has been the face for Smartwater for a few years now, and in a new commercial for the electrolyte-charged water, she pokes fun at herself and all those silly pregnancy rumors. The video was created to look like leaked security footage from the actress’ home. In it, she is depicted as driving recklessly, wearing an elastic belt to conceal her giant pregnant belly, apparently fills her pool with only Smartwater, Jimmy Kimmel is her son, and she also has an alien child. A true comedian laughs at herself, and Aniston is surely having the last laugh.

4. Redrum rerun Guess who’s back? No, it’s not Johnny, but instead Jack Torrance’s son Danny, who will be the protagonist in King’s newest novel. Announced earlier this week via King’s website, the book, titled Doctor Sleep, will be released Sept. 24, 2013. Still quite a long ways away, especially since King has been teasing the book since back in 2011. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Danny is a hospice worker who uses his powers to help ill patients pass away without pain. Unfortunately, he runs afoul with a gang of wandering psychic vampires who feed on people’s energy.” Yep, that sounds like a bestseller and a blockbuster to me!

3. lively’s LUMINOUS rock

The paparazzi and celebrity stalkers out there were very disappointed to hear when Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds tied the knot in secret—a grand accomplishment for a couple of that status. And now, details of the wedding are starting to leak. First and foremost, the most important part of any wedding is the ring. Pictures have surfaced of the actress wearing the stunner after the nuptials, and it is huge! A pink 12-carat diamond to be exact, mounted on rose gold, that reportedly cost Reynolds about $2 million. If that doesn’t say eternity, I don’t know what does.

5. Dina with the Doc

Dina Lohan was interviewed by Dr. Phil a few months ago, and on Friday a teaser clip for the interview aired and portrayed Lohan as a total train wreck—which, let’s face it, she is. In the clip, Lohan appears to be drunk out of her wits—she keeps asking if the camera is rolling and bursts out into random fits of laughter, telling Dr. Phil that he’s sitting there “with your little ties and your little shoes.” Lohan denies that she was drunk, claiming it was the editing that made her look bad. It’s always like a Lohan to own up to her mistakes—like mother, like daughter.

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“the smell of tomato plants in my garden reminds me of my grandmother. my grandmother was a bag of tomatoes.”

The modern age of the Internet has created several problems for aspiring musicians looking to pursue a career in the industry.

Music industry struggles with an ongoing piracy problem Matt Mazzari As everyone knows, the music industry has fallen upon troubled times.

Internet piracy and bootlegging is high, and despite a rampage of lawsuits, the financial problems for contemporary artists persist and accrue. If anything, the issue is becoming more complicated, as more music property conundrums surface every time Apple updates its iTunes user agreement form. Have any of you guys looked at those things? I know I haven’t.

But in all seriousness, piracy is easier than ever now, and sales are beginning to show noticeable impact. Several highprofile artists have spoken out on the matter. Many of them express frustration, but, surprisingly, some artists seem to take the grand-scale theft of their work in stride. David Grohl of Foo Fighters and Tom Yorke of Radiohead have both sympathized with pirates in light of what they consider a lack of stellar music playing in the mainstream. Neil Young recently addressed the subject by saying that piracy “is the new radio” since that seems to be how music currently “gets around.”

Others disagree. Johnny Hickman, leader guitarist of the alternative-rock group Cracker, took offense to Young’s nonchalance and responded with an expletive-riddled Facebook message, claiming that Young owns “50 gas-guzzling vintage cars,” is a “greedy a—hole,” and should leave the business of music marketing to “hundredaire [sic]” musicians of the present day. Of course, Young doesn’t

actually own that many vintage cars and is by all reports a pretty swell guy. That said, I suppose a few made-up accusations couldn’t really hurt if you’ve already committed to using made-up words.

I think the first lesson to be learned from this situation is that no one wishing to be taken seriously in any controversy should Facebook or tweet his or her thoughts. I seriously can’t stress this enough. The social networking process takes salient arguments and invariably reduces them to the frothy sputtering of an entitled prepubescent. Hickman’s band mate and front man David Lowley had to issue a brief apology on his friend’s behalf, to the chagrin of all involved.

That said, despite Hickman’s ill-advised profanity, he does sort of have a point. Neil Young made his fortune when bootlegging was still in its infancy.

By now it’s an angry tween, rebelling openly against authority and wrestling with hormonal angst while … okay, this metaphor has stopped working. Point is, music piracy seems fine with people if the artists already made a killing, but what about starting bands? This tween has the potential to do real damage to small-time guys.

So whose responsibility is it to fix this? I really don’t believe there’s a clearcut way in which the federal government should involve itself. Blanket parameters restricting Internet usability can only result in free-speech violations, wailing, and gnashing of teeth. As Lowly mentions, non-profit sharing among fans isn’t the issue, since people should be allowed to show their music to their friends and

family. Criminalizing all music sharing could cause all sorts of conflict. For instance, there isn’t anything wrong with a parent loaning their child the vinyl records they bought 40 years ago, and it’s a bit ludicrous that every successive generation has to repurchase the same music as player mediums change. Still, musicians are entitled to the profit of their work, so large-scale piracy forums that share none of their advertising revenue with artists simply aren’t fair. The best scenario, of course, would be if fans were conscientious enough to support music they enjoy, but that hasn’t been the case thus far.

The one glaring issue to me in all of this is lackluster radio. Every respectable artist by now has mentioned it: Modern radio is subpar at best. If music-enthusiasts felt they could tune in and find legitimately good music on hit stations, maybe the matter would be less dire.

As it is, though, the quality of free-advertisement, non-HD radio has taken a noticeable dive, and the public has clearly responded.

Overall, we can certainly rationalize ourselves by pointing to how bloated the music industry is, but it’s also important that talented musicians see the fruit of their hard work. My temporary solution is this: let’s be selective with the artists we listen to, and generous with how we give back.

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

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

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THE HEIGHTS ARTS EDITORS PRESENT:

THE MARVELS OF MODERN MUSICALS

To celebrate the start of the fall theatrical season, we sat down to hash out the complexities and wonders of theatrical works created in the past 50 years.

Taylor’s Pick:

The Phantom of the Opera

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera is widely considered by theatre critics and enthusiasts alike as the most successful musical of all time, and I would have to agree. First staged in 1986 in Her Majesty’s Theatre in London’s West End, it is the longest-running show in Broadway history. The haunting tale of an estranged “phantom” living in the shadows of an opera house and training the young, naive female protagonist Christine to be an opera star is a tale rich with intrigue, obsession, love, and, perhaps most prominently, tragedy.

It is an ironic show in one major way: it is a Broadway show about an opera house.

It is, on a very basic level, a look into the intricacies about the production of a show: the competition for roles and the “backstage” of what you eventually see on stage. The show does a fantastic job creating a strong sense of character development and evokes sympathy for the Phantom throughout.

Each production of the show has incredible set design and costumes. Since the show is set in Paris in 1881, the performers are clad in intricate costumes, especially during the Masquerade scene.

While the score for Phantom offers an incredible mix of sound, it is most notable for its soothing and strangely eerie love ballads accompanied by sounds of the haunting opera house organ. The most celebrated portrayal of the Phantom and Christine would have to be Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman, who were both members of the original West End and Broadway cast. It is their renditions of the show’s songs that have become staples of any Broadway lover’s repertoire.

The unmistakable, intense organ of the “Overture” gives listeners a preview into the world of the Phantom. The duets between the

By Taylor Cavallo, Assoc. Arts & REview Editor Phantom and Christine, such as “Angel of Music” and “The Phantom of the Opera,” are fantastic pieces that perfectly juxtapose the Phantom’s deep, emotive voice with Christine’s extreme soprano, opera-esque voice.

The most striking song of the score, however, is “The Music of the Night,” sung by the Phantom. The amazing lyricism of this song combines the imagery of a beautiful dream and the power of music while subtly connecting these ideas with the sensation of being in love. While it may vary from person to person, something about the story, the music and its eerie beauty resonate powerfully with the human soul—that is the simple reason for its success.

I’m not a theater connoisseur, but The Phantom of the Opera is an unbelievable show. Each time I’m not only blown away, but I’m also brought to tears. Do yourself a favor and see the show, don’t watch the movie. It is the only Broadway show whose score I will frequently listen to—I’m completely captivated by it.

SUNDAY IN THE PARK With George

Brennan’s Pick:

There is simply no denying that Stephen Sondheim is one of the most masterful commanders of modern theater. His works range from brilliantly esoteric (the aging Follies, one of the most important musicals of all time) to innovative and groundbreaking (Gypsy, West Side Story, and Assassins).

Then, of course, there’s Sunday in the Park With George, a pioneering adaptation of a painting to the theatrical stage. Based off of pointillist mastermind Georges Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, painted in 1884, the musical traces the story of the artist as he struggles to find inspiration in a seemingly stilted moment of his life.

The musical’s crowning glory is, unquestionably, the moment in which all of its supporting players converge and the audience realizes with a hushed gasp of abject admiration that the actors are all dressed as characters from the iconic painting. Falling at the end of Act I, the scene is arranged by Seurat (a role originated by Mandy Patinkin in 1983) to the tune of “Sunday.” In its most recent (2008) incarnation, the backdrop was three white walls, upon which majestic sketching and eventually a fully fleshed-out La Grand Jatte itself appeared.

The moment proves magical upon every viewing: a technical, musical, and choreographed work of art in its brisk but impactful presentation—art, at its most meta and moving.

The second act presents a more fictionalized version of events in Seurat’s ancestry, tracing the life of his great-grandson in 1984, himself a struggling artist about to present the most fully realized work of his career (Chromolume No. 7). More a self-reflective actualization of Sondheim’s relationship to his critics, Act II is more divisive among theater geeks, as it fudges some details here and there and struggles to maintain fluid and believable continuity with its prior act. Ultimately, it stands as an endearing and heartbreaking gap between the past and the present, between a young Sondheim/Seurat at the brink of success, and how little that success can matter years down the line.

By Brennan Carley, Arts & REview Editor Even Sondheim devotees don’t know quite what to make of Sunday in the Park With George, but the show’s 2008 revival did some revisionist history in its staging of Act II, establishing fluidity and eliminating doubts to the show’s utterly jaw-dropping brilliance. Ben Brantley, The New York Times’ stingy theater critic, commented on the revival, noting, “this production goes further than any I’ve seen in justifying the second act’s existence.”

Although it is difficult to imagine the show returning to the stage anytime soon—as its technological difficulty and immaculate staging remain a challenge for even the most seasoned of directors—it lives on through its gorgeous soundtrack. “Order / Design / Tension / Balance / Light / Harmony,” Seurat’s character sings as each of the painting’s many inhabitants rhapsodize on the grass. Gorgeously realized, Sunday in the Park With George stands as brightly as Seurat’s original painting, as one of Broadway’s most lush and inventive modern musicals.

The Book of Dan’s Pick:

Mormon

Let’s take a minute to think about the stereotypes that surround a night at a Broadway musical—it’s a stuffy, snooty affair in which patrons slap on their finest suits and dresses to go enjoy a refined song and dance repertoire mixed with stints of sophisticated humor. The Book of Mormon does everything in its latter day power to violate these norms. Written by the stellar trio of Trey Parker, Matt Stone (the notorious masterminds behind South Park), and Robert Lopez (creator of the raunchy puppet Broadway hit Avenue Q), Mormon is the king of religious satire and, for the matter, the best thing to hit NYC’s diagonal street in some time.

The Book of Mormon tells the story of two young Mormon missionaries—Elder Price, the most pure and devout church member since Joseph Smith himself, and Elder Cunningham, the bumbling fool with a knack for compulsively lying and deviating from approved Mormon behavior. While Price has his eyes set on going to the pristine paradise of Orlando, the duo gets assigned to mission in a small town in Uganda. The two find the town in disarray, with famine, poverty, and ruthless war lords running rampant. The two seem helpless to convert any spiteful member of the community, until one day when Elder Cunningham begins to think up a few unique ways to connect with villagers.

The story, which seems innocent enough in the opening scene, quickly turns into a fury of bawdy, albeit genius comedic scenes that go well beyond insulting just Mormons. It is impossible for a viewer not to be slightly offended by the material, but it’s also impossible for a viewer not to burst out in laughter.

After nabbing endless critical praise and a slew of Tony Awards, Mormon has begun to spread its crass cleverness across the U.S., having previewed in Denver and Los Angeles this past month. Positive reactions out of L.A. have jump-started talks of a possible film adaptation. The musical will also make its way to Boston’s Opera House this April.

By dan Siering, Asst. Arts & REview Editor The Book of Mormon is the best thing on Broadway simply because of its widespread popularity. I found that simply watching the audience react to the action onstage is part of the fun. Seeing a group, elderly women and all, collectively cackle at jokes about sexual relations with frogs seems like something from bizarro world, but it really seems to speak to a higher fact of life. Satire is comedy’s crude way of keeping people’s lofty intentions in check, and a comedian’s means of voicing his contentions. So, really, Mormon is something that is rather intellectual at its core—it’s just wrapped in a silver lining of vulgar dialogue and raunchy antics.

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Keeping with the current

Star value by elias e. rodriguez

‘Man of Steel’ Cavill is a force to be reckoned with Bringing independence to the people Henry Cavill made his debut as an actor with a minor role in the 2002 film The Count of Monte Cristo. Half a decade of supporting roles and small screen appearances followed, along with a string of bad luck. Cavill was considered for the roles of Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Edward Cullen in Twilight – both of which went to fellow Brit Robert Pattinson. Yet in 2007, things began looking up for the actor in the form of a four-season run as the Duke of Suffolk on Showtime’s The Tudors. Cavill then went on to star in last year’s blockbuster Immortals as mythological hero Theseus, and much like his character, the Gods seem to finally favor him. The 29-year-old actor will portray Superman himself in next year’s long-awaited Man of Steel, produced by none other than Batman veteran Christopher Nolan. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? We’d say it’s a star in the making.

Dan Siering

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Fashion Forward

The darker side of being en vogue High fashion and beauty stereotypes present a delicate balance

Therese Tully Almost every single week I write about how fashion can empower us. Whether it be fashion with an ethical dimension that benefits the greater good (like my latest Alex and Ani purchase, which helps families coping with cystic fibrosis—and it’s cute, too!), or just how that Zara blazer instantly transforms my demeanor and my day. I love fashion— I am obsessed with it. I read about it, I participate in it, I work at a boutique back home, I shop, I window shop, I online shop, I read countless magazines, and I write this column every week.

It is a part of who I am. But in these columns, I tend to focus on the positive side of the industry, the beauty and the benefits of the craft.

However, there is a darker side, one I am not naive about.

Fashion often holds up this beauty ideal: a painfully thin, perfectly plucked, long-legged, clear-skinned, flawlessly coiffed, smudge-free, manicured doll decked in this season’s latest styles. And sometimes, the pressure is too much. And it is not just the consumers of fashion, but the major players, as well, who feel the ever-increasing pressure. My mind immediately flashes to Rachel Zoe. For anyone unfamiliar with Zoe, she is currently having a moment, and has been having one for years.

But the buzz isn’t always positive.

Zoe’s show, The Rachel Zoe Project, since cancelled, had a cult following, and let many people feel like they knew the super popular celeb stylist. Her catchphrases, “I die” and “bananas,” are fashion’s inside joke. Zoe does it all. She is a designer, stylist, an editor whose “picks” are featured on piperlime.com, she has come on board for the re-launch of the fashion website whowhatwear.com, and has her own daily email newsletter. This is only the tip of the iceberg for Zoe. She is a fixture in popular fashion today. Where she is, who she is seen with, and what she is wearing is an obsession for fashion lovers. Her name is splattered all over Women’s Wear Daily.

I personally have always loved Zoe. I love her penchant for fur vests and floppy hats. I loved when she was nine months pregnant

and tottering around in six-inch leopard print heels. I love how she calls her husband “Rodge”; I love that she is smart; I love that she has so much experience; and I love how much she loves her work. But as she teeters on her impossibly tall heels, it’s hard to avert your eyes from her painfully frail frame.

I know I am not the only one who sees this.

Countless news sources have hounded her and pointed out each of her protruding bones to the public for years. And even now, post-baby (son Skylar seems to have her fashion sense), it seems Zoe has shrunken back to inhabit her former emaciated frame. She isn’t the first thin woman in fashion by any stretch of the imagination—in fact, it seems that every model on the runway is on the verge of collapse these days. Twiggy was an icon whose status was drawn from her thin, boyish frame. Why do we accept this?

In what moment does fashion stop empowering, and start oppressing its followers?

Have we reached that place yet? At some point, Zoe’s health concerns will, if they haven’t already, overshadow her fashion celebrity status.

At some point, this is all she will become. The harmful potential of the fashion industry cannot be ignored, but it can be addressed in a way that sheds light on the issues with today’s industry, as well as spells out ways to change it.

All hope is not lost for fashion, or for Zoe. For the very reason fashion can hurt us, it can redeem us too. Fashion can make us not just feel badly about ourselves, but it can make us feel good too. Fashion’s power lies in transformation. If the industry stresses empowerment of the men and women involved, a powerful change can be made. Yes, things must change, and no, fashion is not always a perfect industry. But what is, really? There are extremes everywhere in life, and it is about finding balance.

The industry needs to embrace that magical feeling when fashion transforms your day.

Whether it’s the prettiest vegan shoes you have ever found, that dress that makes you feel feminine, religiously reading everything written about fashion week, when that coveted piece goes on sale (in your size too!), or when you are just lying in your dorm room watching Project Runway, seeing designers’ dreams come true. We cannot ignore the issues with the industry, but we can strive to make a change, and find a way for fashion to empower each of us.

Therese Tully is an editor for The Heights.

She can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

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Rachel Zoe is a modern day fashionista, but her thin fram sheds light on the negative side of the fashion world. Such uber-skinny body types can overshadow the fashion itself.

Like This? Try That! by luiza justus There are movies we watch once and never think of again. There are also many great films that stay in our minds for a couple of days. The best kind, though, is the movie that will not leave you alone ever again. Those films that you can’t quite figure out, where the plotline is openended and unresolved, are the ones that end up leaving the greatest impact. If you, like me, are a fan of “mind-tripping” movies such as Memento and Donnie Darko, you will definitely enjoy the psychological confusion that is Primer. Written and directed by Shane Carruth, this independent time travel movie was made with a budget of only $7,000, yet it quickly became a cult phenomenon due to its intricate plotline and scientific dialogues. Watch the story of two friends become more and more complicated as they go deeper into the wormholes of time travel and face their own duplicates. Warning: You may need to pause the movie a few times to wrap your mind around what is going on (maybe even draw a few diagrams). One reviewer said, “Anybody who claims he fully understands what is going on in Primer after seeing it just once is either a savant or a liar.”

Are you up to the challenge?

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No place is better for an independent director or writer to be recognized than a film festival.

Every year, it seems some new trailblazer rises from the back theaters of South By Southwest or Tribeca to emerge as a poster child for the future of filmmaking.

In the past few decades this trend of using festivals as career launching pads has really become apparent. Take, say, Darren Aronofsky, who landed on the map at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival when his feature debut Pi won him the Directing Award. Or indie giant Wes Anderson, who got his first film Bottle Rocket made into a feature after it gained critical buzz at the Dallas Film Festival in 1996. This ritual of mining talent from these gatherings is still alive today.

While these festivals have undoubtedly launched the careers of several prominent modern filmmakers and have been a great landscape for the leaders of the industry to access quality films, the whole process of having film attendees decide which films should be distributed to the public seems pretty limiting to the art. It’s not really the public that decides what independent features should fill the theaters or what promising director should gain exposure—it’s essentially a small group of individuals that are hired to choose for the people.

Let me give you an example of what I’m getting at. Take, for instance, Korean singer Psy’s insanely catchy single “Gangnam Style,” a song that exploded out of obscurity to become a YouTube craze (side note: if you’re not familiar with the tune, take a moment to set this paper down to sprint to the nearest computer). The single escalated in popularity almost exclusively though word-of-mouth and public social media outlets. It was only after this public uproar that the U.S. music industry saw Psy as a good investment and Justin Bieber’s talent manager hastily signed him to Schoolboy Records.

On the other hand, would we have ever seen The Artist, the independent silent hit and winner of last year’s Oscar for Best Picture, if the Weinstein Company had not decided to distribute it in the U.S.? Unless you’re a dedicated independent film patron, the answer is most likely not.

There are several reasons I can point to that account for this disconnect between independent filmmakers and the general public in the modern age. First, look at channels in which films are distributed. For the film industry, there is really no outlet like YouTube or Soundcloud—a place for normal folk to access and “freely” share their best finds with friends. Modern indie films go through a strict line of approval: they must be approved by a production studio (the company that makes the movie), then they must be approved by a distribution studio (the company that puts the movie in theaters), then it must be approved by film critics before word of mouth gets big enough to draw in us common folk.

Another glaring reason is simply the massive costs that go into making a film. Unlike a quality song, which can be made in a basement by a talented teenager with a computer and GarageBand, a quality feature film is a massive collaborative effort where many people must be paid and many things must be bought.

So, unless you’re making movies just for the sake of making movies and are not trying to turn it into a living, you cannot simply post your finished product on a website. The indie filmmaker is not like the indie musician, who in this day and age basically gives his product away for free with the hopes of listeners buying concert tickets in the future.

Undoubtedly there are film studios out there that look more toward the quality of a potential production rather than box office implications, so I am in no way discouraging future filmmakers of tomorrow to boycott the festival circuit. But, in the modern age of technology, I think there is a need for a re-evaluation of the process in which independent films are brought to the public.

After all, it would be a travesty if the “Gangnam Style” of indie movies slipped through the cracks of Hollywood.

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

The Heights

Thursday, September 20, 2012

B5

Save for the singles, Kanye’s ambitious collab falls flat

Chart Toppers

By Austin Tedesco

1 We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together Taylor Swift 2 Clique Kanye West 3 One More Night Maroon 5 4 Gangnam Style Psy 5 Some Nights fun.

6 Too Close Alex Clare 7 Ronan Taylor Swift 8 Blow Me (One Last Kiss) P!nk

Heights Editor

There’s a reason drivers are limited to one victory lap. Anything more would be excessive. Cruel Summer, released a little over a year after Watch the Throne, isn’t just a second cruise around the track for Kanye West –it’s a straight up effortless jog.

The problem is that Kanye doesn’t know anything about jogging. This is an artist who’s at his best as a maniacal perfectionist, somehow always at a constant sprint combining a dark, arrogant beauty with an entrancing, introspective energy. That artist rarely shows up on Cruel Summer.

The album is plagued with Kanye’s desperate attempts to be as effortless as Jay-Z, his Watch the Throne counterpart. The only way Throne worked was because Jay is far too likable for all of the lines about private jets and planking on millions to be found off-putting. Kanye, just like pretty much every other human being on the planet, can’t get away with this.

Jay wants to bring you on a ride with him, whereas Kanye forces you stand by and watch.

Their dichotomy was all too evident during their live performances over the past year. Kanye looked over and saw Jay naturally getting the crowd to do whatever he pleased, even with ridiculous ease compelling a Boston crowd to sing “Empire State of Mind” on the floor of the Garden.

Kanye’s response was to bring more energy, more effort, and try even harder to be liked. Since that didn’t work, he’s going in the opposite direction, and it’s obvious.

Outside of a few tracks, Kanye comes off lazy on most of his verses.

He wants it to sound like each line is just dirt off his shoulder, but instead it’s such a departure from the brilliance of his previous albums that it plays like he doesn’t care. He steals a great Jay-Z line on “The One” when he raps, “If you ever held a title belt you would know how Michael felt, Tyson, Jackson, Jordan–Michael Phelps.” Pretty dope line, right? It was dope too when Jay dropped it on Watch the Throne.

Kanye misses out on another sports reference during “I Don’t Like.” In the middle of a decent verse, he gives a shout-out to hometown NBA star Derrick Rose by saying he’s nice. That’s it. This is coming from the same guy who rhymed Heat star Dwayne Wade with A Different World character Dwayne Wayne.

If he wanted to think of something clever for Chicago’s most beloved athlete, he could’ve, but this is the easy way out.

Then there are the loose tracks that sound far from Kanye at his best.

“To the World” doesn’t seem to have any message outside of the world deserving one big middle finger, which Kanye and R. Kelly repeat as many times and in as many ways possible.

cruel summer various artists produced by good music released Sept. 14, 2012 Our rating b-

Singles

Source: Billboard.com

Top Albums courtesy of good music

Rising star 2 Chainz brings casual and entertaining verses to G.O.O.D. Music’s lackluster album ‘Cruel Summer.’

“The Morning” combines a bunch of short verses from the G.O.O.D. Music crew where they yet again say nothing interesting on an average beat.

Cruel Summer is supposed to be a label album, which proves just how bad of an idea this whole thing was. Big Sean, Pusha-T, and CyHi da Prynce are fine in small doses. They can bring it on a quick verse at the beginning of a hit like “Mercy” or “Clique,” but they can’t carry their own songs. Kanye doesn’t show off his crew. He exposes how weak

they are.

With all of that being said, Kanye does put together two gems in this compilation. “Mercy” works so well because Kanye allows it to build with Big Sean and Pusha T until he sends the track as high as it can go with his own verse and then brings things back down to earth with 2 Chainz, who more than anyone else, shines every time he appears on Cruel Summer.

While Kanye thrives on conflict and effort, 2 Chainz is the definition of fun and easy rapping. Cruel Summer

is set up perfectly for him to succeed, and he rhymes about cars and girls better than anybody else on “Mercy” and “The One”.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was near perfect because, as arrogant as Kanye appeared, he coupled it with so much introspection, goofiness, and fear that it played like a great dramatic masterpiece. Since then, Kanye has lost almost all of his introspection. He thinks he’s perfect now, and that may just be the worst thing for his craft. n

1 Away From The World Dave Matthews Band 2 Tornado Little Big Town 3 Tempest Bob Dylan 4 The Carpenter The Avett Brothers

Cali rapper Kreayshawn’s debut is one big album, full of bad verses

By John Wiley For The Heights

In 2011, Oakland rapper Kreayshawn first caught public attention with her boisterous, feminist single “Gucci Gucci.” Sixteen months and two mixtapes later, her debut album Somethin’ ‘Bout Kreay hit stores this

Tuesday, and in many ways, is the struggle of an overnight sensation to prove her long-term relevance.

The album opens with the bassheavy, swag-proficient “Blase Blase.”

Succinctly, if not eloquently, the track captures the central themes of the album: “Go crazy, get money / Candy or haters, blase, blase.” The

22-year-old Natassia Gail Zolot suffers the growing pains of a fledgling artist turned superstar: she knows how to rap, but not what to say. The next track, “Ch00k Ch00k Tare” takes on a sound best equated to The Black Eyed Peas in 2005—not surprisingly, as they share producer Jean Baptiste.

The revival of such music is far more

somethin’ ‘bout kreay kreayshawn produced by columbia released Sept. 17, 2012 Our rating b-

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Kreayshawn focuses on shallow and trite rap topics rather than personal experiences on her mediocre debut album.

of a surprise, though. As the album progresses, the listener can’t help but feel a bit like Ebenezer Scrooge, haunted by the ghosts of pop music past and drawing chilling conclusions about pop music’s future.

Kreayshawn, however, cannot be placed alongside the bubbly, white, female quasi-rappers characterizing the last decade, notably Ke$ha and Stacy “Fergie” Ferguson. These artists are far more gentrified, and considerably more likable. In “Left Ey3,” Kreay seems to more readily equate herself to Left Eye, Courtney Love, and Amy Winehouse. This indulgent revenge anthem marks a two-song high point in Kreayshawn’s 44-minute debacle, when she seems to finally find her voice as she makes threats of castration and homicide. “Like It or Love It,” arguably the most likable track on Somethin’ ‘Bout Kreay, benefits tremendously from Kid Cudi’s vocal and lyrical contributions.

“K234YS0NIXZ,” however, quickly refreshes the listener’s skepticism. As Zolot lazily raps, “Diamonds in my blunt, that’s how I be blowin’ money / Oops, I didn’t read your tweet, ‘cuz I was gettin’ money,” she seems much more a casualty of her generation than a voice for it.

The album explores the simplistic relationships of adolescence in “BFF (Bestfriend).” She opens the tongueand-cheek teenage love song with the question “Hey, you wanna be my best friend?” At this point, the answer is likely no. The Kreayshawn who was lovable enough a year ago is a distant memory by the eighth track.

“Twerkin!!!” is the blockbuster of Somethin’ ‘Bout Kreay, and of all the tracks on the album, it seems most likely to see the kind of success “Gucci Gucci” did. Kreayshawn’s belaboring flow receives musical dialysis from Diplo’s seasoned 808’s and synthesizer riffs. In the magical four-minute track, it becomes easy to overlook Kreayshawn’s questionable verses and remind yourself that music can in fact be fun.

“Breakfast (Syrup),” featuring Georgia rapper 2 Chainz, is more an exercise in patience than a song. Two regrettable minutes are spent waiting for Kreayshawn to finish rapping, to enjoy a mere 30 seconds of 2 Chainz’s infectious delivery.

The following three songs, “Go Hard (La.La.La),” “The Ruler,” and “Luv Haus,” are barely worth recognizing. They seem stuck to the album like bubblegum on the bottom of

a shoe. To understand the musical experience of these tracks, I advise a visit to a dentist. As the dental hygienist scrapes away the plaque on your teeth and you reach the height of your misery, imagine a similar scenario, except with your ear drums as the plaque.

Somethin’ ‘Bout Kreay isn’t without merit, and certainly does not remove Kreayshawn from the industry. Nicki Minaj, arguably the most prominent female rapper in the game, also released a disappointing debut studio album (Pink Friday), even after unprecedented career success beforehand. Somethin’ ‘Bout Kreay simply works too hard conveying who Kreayshawn thinks she should be as an artist, and almost entirely removes her human dimension. The 22-year-old rapper left home at age 15, was expelled from high school at 16, worked as an escort off Craigslist, attended film school, and then grew into a viral superstar in a matter of weeks. It strikes me that someone of such unique qualifications should have made a far more introspective or at least interesting album. Instead, Somethin’ ‘Bout Kreay ironically says very little about Kreay, and a lot more about the vacancies of pop music. n

Rae Jepsen looks to shed her one-hit wonder status with ‘Kiss’

By Brenna Cass For The Heights

This week marked the release of Carly Rae Jepsen’s second and undoubtedly most well-known album, Kiss. The 26-year-old singer/songwriter, having already made a name for herself in her home country due to her third-place Canadian Idol finish, hit it big in the United States with her early summer release of “Call Me Maybe,” which today boasts more than 260 million views on the artist’s YouTube page. She gained fame through endorsements by fellow Canadian Justin Bieber on Twitter.

Jepsen’s album is exactly what I expected from her—a collection of upbeat, catchy songs made for dancing and having fun.

“Tiny Little Bows,” the first song on Kiss, has a 1970s essence to it, with a soulful voice singing “Cupid, draw back your bow” throughout the song and a Madonna-esque vocal tone.

It started the album out on a unique note that doesn’t continue.

This album certainly lacks depth. It doesn’t build off of “Call

Me Maybe,” but falls uniformly into the same pattern. Most of the songs blend into one another, with similar beats, lyrics, and synthesizer melodies in the background.

The lyrics on Jepsen’s album imply that her life takes place on a dance floor. The album’s title track, “This Kiss,” talks about a meeting on the dance floor, and her two painfully similar breakup anthems prescribe dancing as a cure to any heartbreak. The first, “Turn Me Up,” proclaims, “I’ve given up / I’m going out tonight,” while “Tonight I’m Getting Over You” says, “I’ll keep dancing till the morning with somebody new / Tonight I’m getting over you.”

The repetition of ideas in “Tonight I’m Getting Over You” is redeemed by a deep dubstep beat in the chorus, which is sure to make some stellar dance remixes.

I was surprised to see that the album features two duets. The first is the radio hit “Good Time” featuring the techno pop group Owl City. The techno beats and catchy “Woah oh oh oh oh” are sure to be stuck in your head for hours on end. The lyrics, however, leave something to be desired,

with 21 total repetitions of the phrase “It’s always a good time.”

The second duet is “Beautiful,” a love song between Carly Rae and Bieber. I mistook the beginning of this song for “Hey There Delilah,” but the poppy back beat soon came in over the upbeat guitar strumming. The lyrics echoed One Direction in another overused sentiment, “What makes you so beautiful / Is you don’t know how beautiful you are / To me.” Halfway through the song, Bieber’s silky sweet vocals come in talking about perfection and other halves, adding to the song’s saccharine tone. The most touching part of the song comes when the back beat drops and the two sing over a faint guitar strum, their voices blending in perfect Canadian harmony.

The biggest hit on Kiss is undeniably “Call Me Maybe.” Though it’s something I groan to hear now, almost six months after it became popular in the U.S., even I can’t deny my addiction to it during its heyday. What makes it so catchy is somewhat of a mystery. The simplicity of the lyrics makes it easy to sing along to, it has a message that is popular at

any party, and the strings in the background add a unique and dynamic element to the song.

Although “Call Me Maybe” may be the most popular song thus far from the album, my favorite track was “Hurts So Good.” Its up-anddown vocal pattern reminded me

of something from the Spice Girls era, and I couldn’t stop humming it after hearing it once.

I must admit that Jepsen’s album had me tapping my toe throughout a gloomy afternoon of doing homework, and transported me from the Rat to the

dance floor, even if my head was spinning with poppy melodies afterwards.

The success or failure of Kiss will prove whether Jepsen will join the ranks of other female pop stars, or will fade into the oblivion of one-hit wonders. n

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Riding the fame of ‘Call Me Maybe,’ Jepsen’s ‘Kiss’ stays within the realm of poppy dance tunes and catchy choruses.

Radio singles by nathan rossi Christina Aguilera “Your Body”

Nicki Minaj & Cassie “The Boys”

Iration “Porcupine” “All I want to do is love your body,” sings Christina Aguilera on her first single in more than two years. Produced by Max Martin, the track previews her upcoming album, Lotus. Without a doubt the song is the best we’ve heard from Aguilera in a long time. As per usual, her vocals are the highlight of the track, especially on the chorus.

“Porcupine” precedes alternative reggae group Iration’s upcoming album due this fall. The single marks an ongoing evolution for the group that continuously takes risks with its music. This time Iration employs a strong bass line and catchy chorus that compares a girlfriend to “sticking like a porcupine.” One criticism: the song is too short.

Everything Nicki Minaj has done lately has been kind of a disappointment. “The Boys” is no exception. Neither catchy nor likable, it continues the trend of eclecticsounding Nicki tracks that are ultimately forgettable. Side note: Cassie hasn’t been relevant since 2006 and it’s doubtful that this single is going to help her career at all.

B6

The Heights

Thursday, September 20, 2012

The Heights

Thursday, September 20, 2012

B7

BY NATALIE

Going behind the bars of Beantown’s notorious Liberty Hotel What to do, what to do? Boston has endless amounts of streets to wander, and since so many have been mapped out, it’s hard to find something a little more unique, out of the way, and origi-

nal. So, let’s start your day off by taking the Green Line to Park Street. When you emerge from the underground station, resist the urge of H&M, DSW, and Macy’s, and head straight into the thick of the Boston Common! You’re not going to be popping a squat amongst the masses of people stretched across one of Boston’s most well-known locations today—you’ll be heading on a diagonal through the park and toward Charles Street.

This isn’t the regular street-walking adventure. Charles Street is a mere means to an end. While here, you might as well take in the sights along the way.

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Charles Street is home to some of Boston’s most historic and unique shops and restaurants.

windows, as bakeries tempt and tantalize the senses with their delicious treats. The appeal of one-of-a-kind, handcrafted goods will try to beckon you and lure you with their promises of rare finds and bargain deals, but resist! There’s always the trek back to explore.

As you reach the end of the always-quaint Charles Street, a fairly large intersection will face you. Cross over in the direction of the massive glass-structure, which also houses the Red Line’s Charles/MGH T station. You’ll inevitably end up crossing underneath the overpass when you finally see it. What you’ve been walking toward this whole time: the historic Liberty Hotel.

It may seem like an odd outing—why would I even want to see a hotel? Well, before this building had been transformed into a four-star residence—architecturally gorgeous and aesthetically pleasing—it was actually a jail.

Housing some of Boston’s most notorious criminals (including former mayor James Curley), you’ll be able to see signs of its former state the moment you approach its barred windows. You’ll practically be able to imagine yourself, a prisoner, being looked down upon by the watchguards from the open floors above.

The bars of its former jail cells

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Formerly a prison, the Liberty Hotel is famed for its sophisticated architecture. awaken its storied past.

A wall of “fun facts” and stories from its heyday will excite any history buff and passerby alike, so I won’t spoil all the fun. Right outside the hotel is a beautiful transformed courtyard where prisoners used to exercise, and in the lobby is the pricey but tasty restaurant that’s cleverly named “Clink.”

Now, whether you choose to stay and mingle in the lobby, enjoy their Bloody Mary bar, give in to your curiosity, and explore the rest of their floors, or depart for the trip home is up to you. Whatever the case may be, you won’t soon forget stepping foot into the national landmark and former Charles Street Jail—the Liberty Hotel. n

Restaurant review

Bold perfection in the Middle East

Taxi cab driver assaulted in Allston At about 9:45 p.m., an officer took a walk-in report for an assault and battery. The victim stated that he picked up the suspect in his taxi at Copley Square and drove him to Brighton.

The suspect then requested to go to Harriet St. While the victim was driving the suspect up Cambridge St., he requested to go to a bar on Harvard Ave. The victim drove the suspect to that location, only to receive a request to go back to Harriet St. The victim stated that they got to Allston St./Brighton Ave. when the suspect refused to pay the taxi driver and jumped out of the cab. They both got out of the cab and the suspect struck the victim in the face and fled.

The victim refused medical treatment.

Police officers break up college party on Allston St. At about 12:17 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 9, officers responded to a radio call for a party at 47 Allston St., Brighton. Upon arrival, the officers observed a group of people gathered outside the entrance above the residence as well as behind the building. Officers were able to hear loud music playing from within the address. An officer spoke to the lease holder, who was present during the incident. He was asked to shut down the party and have everyone who was not on the lease vacate immediately, which they did cooperatively. Approximately 100 people were observed leaving the scene at this time. Numerous beer cans were seen all over the floor and on the tables. The lease holders were advised that future parties involving loud music could bring about charges and/or disciplinary action from the college.

Fraudulent activity at Next Generation Realty At about 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11, an officer was approached by someone who wanted to report a larceny from 1243 Comm. Ave. The person reporting informed the officer that the company she works for, Next Generation Realty, had employed an individual who was guilty of fraud. The suspect reportedly had clients write him checks while using the company name without approval. The suspect had been seeking realty listings that were not in the Next Generation Realty database and renting them to tenants while using the company’s letterhead, leading them to believe that he was working on the company’s behalf. According to the company’s representative, the suspect had been doing this since last September. The suspect has recently been confronted on this matter and has been terminated from the company. Next Generation Realty estimates that the total amount of money the suspect acquired fraudulently is approximately $23,000.

- Courtesy of the Boston Police Department, District 14 Gathered by Marc Francis, Assistant Metro Editor

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By Amy Hachigian Heights Editor

As someone who grew up on Middle Eastern food, I can’t help but at least try to find some good eats around Boston that remind me of home. While there is always the shack selling falafel on seemingly every corner you look (slash Google), I’ve had tough luck finding genuinely tasty and authentic Middle Eastern classics. Combining Google and Yelp, I’ve begun to eat my way around the city. I started at Oleana, an Arabic—mainly Turkish—restaurant in Boston which has incredibly inventive and delicious dishes (including tamarack tunis lamb with garlic and yogurt).

The warm colored dining room with classy adornments is the perfect backdrop for a fancy (and expensive) celebratory dinner.

While the trek to get there might be worth the food, it’s not exactly an ideal spot if you’re living on a college budget. The chefs of Oleana, however, have recently opened a new bakery and cafe, Sofra, in Cambridge. I’ve yet to try it out, but the prices aren’t as shocking, and it’s been getting rave reviews on Yelp.

I’ve finally found a place where I can truly feel like I am getting the burgers and fries of the Middle East. Garlic n’ Lemons is the hidden gem of Allston/Brighton and is conveniently located right off the B-line on Harvard Ave. Now, I don’t want to hype this place up too much: it is just a quick stop kind of place.

For an analogy, Chipotle is to Mexican as Garlic n’ Lemons is to Middle Eastern. The small hole in the wall can tightly squeeze about 15 people at a given time, but the food and prices are worth it. Let me go ahead and describe the complete experience.

Upon arrival, you might feel slightly out of place and a little confused, but don’t leave— the awkward moment when you just walk in will be outweighed by the hummus. I promise. Instead of going to the front counter, you have to walk about to the left side to see the menu and actually order your food. This is the best part. Oh the options you have. The first choice you have to make is whether you want a shawarma plate or wrap. If you tend to like big portions, I’d opt for the plate.

While it’s not something you can eat with

one hand, you will receive a much bigger serving of meat/falafel. If you go with the wrap, you can choose a saj, whole-wheat thin pita, or regular pita bread. I opted for the saj to save a few calories. Next, you’ll get to choose the fillings, including spicy chicken and lamb, or you can substitute the meat for falafel.

Then you can add hummus, garlic yogurt sauce, and vegetables. I personally enjoyed my

Location: 133 Harvard Avenue Cuisine: Middle Eastern Signature Dish: Tzatziki and hummus dip Atmosphere: 6/10 Average Entree: $7 Overall Experience: A-

basic shawarma: saj, chicken, hummus, and yogurt sauce. If you choose to get the combo (which I recommend), you automatically get a side and a can of soda for an extra $3.50. Between tabouli, yalanchi (stuffed grape leaves) and buttery rice, I am confident anyone can find the perfect side. The experience is entirely your own—from combo plates to wraps to Greek salads, anyone can enjoy a bit of the Middle East.

I should warn you, however, that if you prefer bold flavors, delicate meals, or heaps of yogurt atop your meal, this is not the place for you. It might be some tasty, fair-priced Middle Eastern food, but it’s not the most authentic and delicious I’ve experienced, though it’s definitely a place I’ll be returning to throughout the year—heck, you can even get it to go! Sadly, the joint has yet to put up its own website (coming soon!), but the 132 reviews on Yelp give this place a 4/5. As a last minute tip: Be sure to ask for a little extra yogurt sauce and hummus (especially the yogurt sauce) —it totally makes the dish. n

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Making a living off home videos

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ImprovBoston focuses on playing off diverse personalities to please every audience member.

Off-the-cuff jokes delight ImprovBoston, from B10 Marc Francis If this whole “graduate from CSOM and get a job” strategy does not play out, I may just take my talents to YouTube. Who would not want to watch me entertain viewers, answer their questions, and maybe even do a little dance? The three former PayPal employees who launched the video-sharing website in 2005 probably could not foresee the enormous success that awaited them. I am also sure that almost every user with a viral video could never have anticipated garnering over a million views. Currently, YouTube occupies 43 percent of its respective market, attracts 800 million unique visitors every month, and is a profit hub for those with either the simplest or most innovative ideas.

As unbelievable as it sounds, there are people, other than celebrities, earning six-figure profits from their videos. Now a subsidiary of Google, YouTube encourages people to enroll in its ad partnership program to take advantage of the advertisement space and generate profits. Hunter Walk, a director of product management for the site, stated in The New York Times that the company “wanted to turn these hobbies into businesses,” as they were “unintentional media companies.”

YouTube’s vision of becoming more like an actual television is apparent in the continuing upgrades of its “channel” project, which aims to attract new users and keep old ones. Its upgrades have proved enormously profitable in recent years, but the popularity it garners today was nowhere near as notable six years ago. The company is hoping to be just as revolutionary as cable television as they strive to master the much sought-after goal of “Internet television.” When Google purchased YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion, many deemed it a risky investment that cost the company billions.

But the profit of the site has soared each year since the purchase, and it is projected to make an astounding $2.4 billion in net revenue this year according to Mark Mahaney, Internet analyst at Citigroup.

But YouTube’s seemingly limitless possibilities have sparked constant controversy. Some people around the world cannot handle such an outlet for freedom of speech. For instance, just last week the White House requested that Google remove an anti-Islamic video because it sparked violent protests in the Islamic world. Google refused to remove the video on the grounds that it does not violate its criteria for hateful speech. Here, the video in question is hateful toward the Islamic religion, but not the Muslim people. Google Public Relations Executive Rachel Whetstone wrote on their 2007 policy, “At Google we have a bias in favor of people’s right to free expression in everything we do.”

Despite the rampant violence, I definitely agree with Google’s decision—it exemplifies maintaining freedom of speech, standing by your respective terms of agreement, and breeding innovation. If Google were to adhere to every request made to pull down a video, the process of information dissemination would be halted and YouTube’s purpose would be lost.

Personally, I use YouTube on a highly practical basis. It provides solutions for thousands of daily challenges. I still have yet to master the art of tying a tie, so I obviously turn to YouTube for assistance. And when I am not completely attentive in class, there will surely be a video lesson on the topic. I am also not keen on actually purchasing my music, so I have a personalized player filled with music videos that I can view at any time. According to a CNN article, 64 percent of teenagers cited YouTube as a place where they listen to music, while iTunes clocked in at 53 percent. YouTube is an unstoppable force not just because of its content’s worldwide appeal, but because of modern culture’s globalization. Information can spread faster than ever, and no governmental policy should limit YouTube’s potential.

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

Thursday, September 13, 2012

person must guess who the other members are portraying. After sending one cast member away, the remaining three asked the audience to help develop the characters they would portray. With careful prompting from the cast, the audience decided one man would act as Frank Sinatra, another Macbeth, and the woman would act as someone who broke into hives upon contact with others.

After welcoming the vanquished member back, the cast attended a fictional party on stage, acting how their adopted personas would if they were to attend the gathering.

Using the cast members’ behavior and dialogue as clues, as well as the audience’s reaction to his guesses (clapping signaled that the cast member was close to correctly identifying the persona, while “booing” signified the opposite), the one member correctly identified each of the personas.

Shorter games gave way to longer scenes based upon specific details from audience members’ lives, such as where they would someday like to visit or what they had for breakfast. Before the 10-minute intermission, one particularly boisterous ticketholder

was invited onto stage to recount her entire day, which served as the inspiration for a 15minute scene. Tidbits of information from the audience fabricated elaborate scenes that wove the diverse lives of the audience members into one humorous thread.

Although taste in humor varies widely, the cast members’ diverse personalities promise that everyone will find themselves in stitches at some point throughout the show. Both the audience and cast change nightly, ensuring that you’ll never hear the same joke twice.

As audience members head through the double doors back to the lobby, a grin will undoubtedly stretch across your face as you and your friends laugh about funny moments—or perhaps one friend who dared to participate on stage. Upon reentering the lobby, don’t be surprised when the cast is standing in a receiving line thanking you for coming to the show. In fact, feel free to hang around afterward and talk to the four.

Before heading back to campus, I spoke with one of the cast members and asked him why people should come see the show. With his hands in his pocket, he responded swiftly, “Honestly, we’re simply the best improv group around.” n

Innovation District is teeming with opportunity for the growth and development of new ideas, products, and (as the moniker suggests) innovation in general. Though technically the Innovation District lacks clear geographic boundaries, the common real estate mantra “location, location, location” still rings true since Boston Harbor, Logan International Airport, and two major interstate highways surround the area, providing several gateways in and out of the city.

So far, Menino’s approach to bringing business to the district has been through non-financial promotion tactics rather than with subsidies and incentives. The Boston Redevelopment Authority continues to spread the word to real estate developers and entrepreneurs about the blossoming community of innovation on the waterfront.

Without a designated staff to market the district, spreading the word is key.

In fact, most city dwellers are not yet familiar with the plans in store for this new community.

Several companies have already settled in the area, while others are in development, such as Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. and State Street Corp. According to commercial real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle, rents in the Seaport District have increased 14 percent since 2011. Real estate investors National Development and Angelo Gordon & Co., for example, are looking to cash in by selling 407,000 square feet of office space in buildings on Farnsworth, Congress, and Summer Streets. Prospective

tenants there will neighbor Bullhorn, a software company, and Isaacson Miller, an executive search firm, among other companies.

Residential development in the area is on the rise as well, as plans for the construction of more than 1,000 new apartments are in effect. When space for residences expands at the same time new restaurants and retail establishments are popping up, as is the case in the Innovation District, companies are further compelled to move to the area because these dynamics would facilitate the daily lives of their workers.

It has recently been released that Zipcar plans to move its headquarters from Cambridge to the Innovation District by 2013. The car-sharing company rents cars by the hour and is popular with businesses and universities.

Zipcar has signed a letter of intent to lease space in the district, though details concerning the exact location of the new headquarters or when the move will be finalized have yet to be released.

The company’s CEO, Scott Griffith, explained the relocation in a statement: “[The Innovation District] will provide Zipcar with exactly the atmosphere we are looking for to attract and retain a great pool of talent as we move closer to achieving our vision of more car sharers than car owners in major cities around the globe.” Griffith’s excitement for the upcoming move undoubtedly derives from his time spent assisting Mayor Menino and his staff creating the vision of the Innovation District.

Zipcar currently employs 200 people at the Cambridge offices, and hopes that further growth will result from the move. n

Jane Doe, Inc. spreads abuse awareness and incites change Jane Doe, from B10

mestic violence bombard us daily,” said Executive Director Mary R. Lauby. “The answer is found in the bravery and resilcampaigns and leadership on policy and ience of survivors and the compassion systems change. On the conceptual level, and dedication of advocates working in they incubate ideas and frameworks to this arena.” keep the movement alive.

One of JDI’s most successful camOn a daily basis, volunteers and em- paigns has been the Massachusetts ployees at JDI collect and analyze data, White Ribbon Day. This event invites identify trends, remain informed of new men and boys to speak on the first ThursCourtesy of Google images research and developments, and produce day in March and be part of the solution important recommendations for effec- in ending violence against women by re- Many marathon participants run in honor of Jane Doe and the ideals her work represents. tive changes in areas of sexual assault defining “manhood” and “masculinity.” and domestic violence.

“At the department of public health, said Massachusetts Department of Pub- holiday gifts and treats, computers, and “We’re often asked how we can imag- we measure the instances of domestic lic Health Commissioner John Auerbach. office furniture. They suggest taking ine liberty, dignity, and justice when violence and sexual assault, and disturb- “And we know that the services we have action by signing up for email alerts horrifying and heartbreaking, stories ingly, we’re still seeing significant num- in place are not sufficient to address the and becoming part of their statewide of sexual abuse, rape, stalking and do- ber of cases across the Commonwealth,” need. We need instead to do all we can to legislative response. Finally, they urge focus on prevention. Men need to speak people to volunteer at events such as out against violence against women and the White Ribbon Day or even create sexual assault against women and make their own event to help raise funds that the case that this is not acceptable.” support JDI. The event will take place this spring “Your support matters,” Lauby said. on Thursday, Mar. 7.

“It is critical to help us keep telling these Events like White Ribbon Day are part stories, working for justice and leading a of a larger international human rights movement that is making a difference.” effort. JDI members focus on preventing With JDI’s victim-focused approach human rights violations and promoting along with their extensive organizing, social and political solutions. training, analysis, networking and advoJDI stresses the important role that cacy, their members have promoted an everyone has to play to end this violence ambitious social justice agenda to supand offers many suggestions for ways port the independence, human rights, in which people can help the cause. and dignity of victims and survivors They urge people to help friends or everywhere. family members who are being abused “This is the change that is possible and help friends or family members when our work is advocate driven and who are the abusers. They also suggest informed by survivors,” Lauby said. “We making a contribution to the cause and are building safer communities, promotCourtesy of Google images donating needed items such as clothing, ing healthy relationships, and preventing Members of Jane Doe, Inc. meet regularly to discuss project strategies and promote events. household items, books, games, food, sexual and domestic violence.” n

Person to Watch In a growing age of technology, it can be hard to make sense of it all. One person who tries to do this is Kevin Allocca.

Allocca is a 2006 Boston College graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences. He is originally from South Florida, where he grew up with his grandmother. and currently lives in Queens, N.Y. Allocca was hired by Google Inc. in 2010 to be the YouTube “Trends Manager.” His first project was www.

Who: Kevin Allocca, BC ‘06 What: Allocca found success after BC as the Trends Manager at Youtube.

Where: He grew up in South Florida and now works across the country, building on YouTube’s massive success.

Why it matters: Allocca’s position at YouTube never even existed when he attended BC. We must be constantly aware of technology’s evolution.

youtube.com/trends, where he blogs about contemporary YouTube video hits. With the current popularity battle between Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” and Psy’s “Gangnam Style,” he shows the viewers a chart comparing the viewership over the past six months, with “Call Me Maybe” taking the top spot overall, but “Gangnam Style” having a recent jolt in views. Allocca researches which videos are the most popular at the moment and thereafter shares his findings. For example, a search for “fireworks” skyrockets up 5 million during the week of July 4. One of Allocca’s favorite things to do is to see which videos are most popular in countries around the world. In one post, he compares which videos are trending in Ghana, Malaysia, and Peru.

In addition to www.youtube.com/trends, Allocca has also worked at www.youtube.com/presents, which provides live music, performances, and interviews. In late 2011, Allocca sat down for an interview with country-pop singer Taylor Swift. In the lengthy 40-minute interview, he took viewers’ questions and asked the singer about her current status and upcoming album.

Allocca also runs a Twitter account (@shockallocca), where he tweets links to popular videos daily. His bio simply states, “I am the Trends Manager at YouTube and

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I like turtles.” With more than 4,000 followers, Allocca is able to reach a large audience and keep his viewers up-to-date on current trending videos.

Allocca was a double major in communication and film studies. He first worked for The Huffington Post where he got his first experience in the field of what would eventually become his position at YouTube. A few years ago, his trends manager position would not have even existed, which just goes to show how quickly the tech world is evolving. n

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The Hemp Fest attracts those from a variety of backgrounds with different ambitions.

Participants present their cases for pot legalization Hemp Fest, from B10 sey state police, Cole described his experience and portrayed the War on Drugs as destructive and a failure.

Keith Stroup, a lawyer and founder of NORML, took a broad perspective to the question of legalizing marijuana.

He framed the issue in the context of the changes that have occurred in the public’s opinion of the issue since the organization was founded in 1970. He also stressed the importance of understanding the marijuana smoking experience.

“Marijuana improves the appreciation of food, music, and sex,” Stroup said.

“We [marijuana smokers] work hard and contribute to the community. This is an issue of personal freedom.”

The keynote speaker of the event was the 16-term U.S. congressman from Massachusetts’ 4th district, Barney Frank. An avid supporter of marijuana legalization, Frank spoke about his efforts to end the marijuana prohibition

in Massachusetts and the United States at large.

“I am fighting for a measure that will reduce crime and make money for the government,” Frank said. “At this festival, there is no fighting and no anger. If this were a beer festival, the cops would have been busy breaking up fights. There is no logical standard for prohibiting marijuana; it is a cultural bias. We could save money on prisons and the judicial system.”

While Frank stressed the work that still needed to be done, he also acknowledged the work that had already been accomplished. He recognized several of the organizations that were sponsoring the event for the work that they had done and urged them to continue their efforts.

Throughout the event, there were police and park rangers circling around the park. They ignored the people openly smoking in the park within their eyesight, however. n

An established and beloved community gathering place, Shake Shack will certainly flourish in the Boston area. percent green, recycled, and sustainable.

The company’s commitment to quality, in all regards, makes it a sure restaurant favorite in cities all over.

There’s a hefty handful of Shacks scat-

tered throughout New York, and there are a couple in Connecticut, Washington D.C., Florida, and Pennsylvania as well. Several locations have even opened internationally in the Middle East. Shake Shack’s imminent move to Beantown, though, is obviously the most exciting. It will be situated along U.S. Route 9 and 33 Boylston Street in Chestnut Hill among some of the region’s finest shopping destinations, which are actually being redesigned with plenty of luscious, green trees and quaint, village-like walkways that will suit the whimsical and enchanting ambiance of Shake Shack perfectly.

An established and beloved community gathering place, Shake Shack will certainly flourish in the Boston area.

“With its proximity to Boston College, Chestnut Hill is a thriving community to bring Shake Shack,” said Randy Garutti, Shake Shack CEO. “We’re thrilled to make Boston our new home, and we look forward to bringing Shake Shack to other compelling sites in great neighborhoods in the Boston area.” n

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Shake Shack specializes in all-American cuisines, including custards and hamburgers.

In light of recent events and the scandal surrounding the University, I’d like to point out one blatantly obvious—and somewhat painful—point.

These students accused of cheating?

They go to Harvard. Harvard University: the Ivy League of Ivy Leagues.

The cream of the crop. Harvard’s acceptance rate has steadily decreased in past years, and now falls under 6 percent. The school only takes the best and brightest, and makes sure everyone knows it.

To hear that the students of arguably the most prestigious university in the country are facing plagiarism accusations is utterly maddening.

According to The New York Times, students involved claim that group work was acceptable in this class, as well as others. My question to said students: What are you doing collaborating on tests in an Introduction to Congress class? You are the men and women of Harvard. Is an introductory level class not worth your time? Students in comparable universities around the country are working their hardest every day to simply have a chance of competing with you post-graduation. More so, Intro to Congress has a reputation for being one of the easiest courses at Harvard. If the rest of us can manage to get through our Level One classes, so

can you.

On a more logistical note: the claim that academic policies were unknown is not only weak but also a false statement. Harvard has elevated itself as an institution to be modeled.

Every school of higher education in the country knows academic policies.

In fact, schools throughout the nation have based their academic policies off those of your own University. If the rest of the world knows Harvard’s academic policies, the students actually enrolled inevitably do as well.

In the following months, Harvard students will be releasing statements filled with sweet nothings, “he said/she said,” and bold defense mechanisms to save face. The Harvard College Administration Board, commonly known in the Crimson community as the “Ad Board,” expects to release individual decisions as early as November and as late as a full academic year from now. As a student at a fellow greater Boston area university, I can only hope the measures taken toward punishing these students fit the crime. Harvard’s motto, Veritas [Latin for “truth”], is one of the most recognizable college slogans in the world. Let’s hope they stay committed to it during the troublesome academic trials ahead.

Tricia Tiedt is a staff writer for The Heights. She can be reached at metro@ bcheights.com.

On the morning of Sept. 12, every major news outlet was covering the story of four Americans’ deaths, including that of the United States ambassador to Libya, as a result of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. From coast to coast, flags were flown at half mast, but the news of this tragedy literally struck close to home as members of the Winchester, Mass. community grieved for the loss of Glen Doherty, one of the four Americans killed in the attack.

Working as a contractor with the U.S. State Department, Doherty had only been in Libya for two weeks at the time of the attack. Doherty’s sister, Kaitlin Quigley, told The Boston Globe reporters that her brother was “on security detail and he was protecting the ambassador and also helping the wounded when he was killed.” The Globe also went on to report that when her brother was a SEAL, he “was a sniper positioned on a rooftop when the U.S. military rescued Army

Perspective is important when reading or writing an obituary, for the actual content is of happiness—a celebration of life.

Clara Kim is a senior staff writer for The Heights. She can be reached at metro@ bcheights.com.

Harvard should own up Eric Kester, a 2008 graduate of Harvard, wrote in an article for The Huffington Post that he wasn’t surprised to hear of his alma mater’s recent scandal. According to him, that’s just how Harvard operates.

This doesn’t absolve anyone involved in the recent cheating scandal, but it does show quite clearly that Harvard’s administration needs to put the school back on track.

At Harvard, failure is not only not an option—it’s a huge embarrassment for many of its students. No one can change the huge amount of pressure students feel because of their decision to attend the top school in the country. Harvard’s administration, however, can help ease it somewhat.

“During my time as a student at Harvard, I don’t recall the school emphasizing integrity in a consistent, explicit manner,” Kester wrote in his article. If the administration thought that it didn’t have to emphasize integrity because its students were smart enough to know better, it was wrong. Anyone, no matter how smart, is liable to do something desperate under pressure. Harvard officials should have been making sure that their expectations—and the consequences of not meeting them—were clear to its students long before things got out of hand.

Kester also mentioned that punishments for cheating were inconsistent. This

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

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sends students the idea that they might be able to cheat and get away with it. They should know what the punishment is for various infractions on academic integrity, and if they don’t, there’s no one to blame but the administration.

Students told The New York Times that the structure and expectations of the class in question were unorganized and inconsistent. The instructions on the take-home exam were clear, stating that “students may not discuss the exam with others—this includes resident tutors, writing centers, etc.” It appears, however, that not even the teaching fellows understood this, as they gave students the answers to ambiguous essay questions. In light of the exam’s instructions, they have refused to answer questions and referred students to their instructor, Matthew Platt. Platt served as the ultimate authority not only on course material but also course policy.

He could have given students the proper amount of information to help them succeed without cheating—if he had held regular office hours that week instead of cancelling them.

Yes, the students do carry some of the blame here. But if Harvard is to prevent other students from making the same mistakes, it needs to reevaluate the way it communicates expectations.

Recently, a cheating scandal has taken the country by surprise as over 100 students at Harvard have been accused of cheating and dozens may lose their diplomas if the allegations stick. However, the administration and students are at odds over the definition of cheating because of the clarity of academic integrity standards, as well as the professor’s specific instructions.

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Private Jessica Lynch … in 2003 … and played a role in the breaching of palaces of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein during the Iraq War.” A couple of days ago, what I knew about Doherty was only this—only what the major news outlets had released, namely that he was a Navy SEAL who called Massachusetts “home.” But while browsing the Internet, I happened to come across an article on The Daily Beast and The Boston Herald that was the obituary his brother, Greg, had written, titled, “Remembering my brother—Glen A. Doherty.” At first I was hesitant to read it because I always relate obituaries directly to death and mourning—which isn’t my cup of tea.

In this moment of hesitation, I recalled that a friend once argued that the most interesting part of a newspaper was the obituary section. All I remember thinking was, “This kid is so morbid!” After all, the word “obituary” is enshrouded in an aura of gloominess— what could be remotely interesting about it? I came to the conclusion that perspective is important when reading or writing an obituary, for the actual content is of happiness—a celebration of life. Convincing myself that it was the least I could do for a fallen hero, I clicked the link and began to read it.

Anyone who knew Doherty or who read the obituary will tell you that he was more than just a Navy SEAL. Doherty’s brother writes, “His way of making everyone around him feel special and loved came from the fact that he genuinely looked up to all his friends, always seeing their greatness in a way they sometimes wished they could see themselves, and from the fact that he felt for them the purest and most loyal of love.” Doherty was one of a kind—extremely loyal to his friends, family, and country. He had that “desire to push himself and to use his talents to make genuine change in the world [which] led him to join the Navy SEALS in 1995.”

Reading this, I kind of sat in my seat just staring at the words on the screen in a moment of pride and gratitude. It was one of those moments that reminded me that we sometimes forget that everything else comes secondary to what is really important in life—and maybe that we don’t say “I love you” enough to those we love. Doherty was the ultimate representation of love. He showed America what it means to love something so much that you are willing to give your life up for it. Even after his death, he brought his native community together in love.

This is what makes America and her people so great. We mourn when it is time to mourn, but we also always find a way to celebrate life and freedom. We move on, but we remember.

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Sexual violence spurs nonprofit’s action Break out of Wicked Cultured

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Jane Doe, Inc. presents stark data on sexual harassment and sexual assults in Massachusetts

By Jacqueline Parisi Heights Staff

According to the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey data for Massachusetts, nearly one in two women and one in four men in the Commonwealth have experienced sexual violence victimization other than rape. Nearly

Charlotte Parish I’ll apologize in advance for taunting the freshmen and sophomores with this column. Honestly, I envy almost everything about you all: you are less than halfway done with Boston College, there is no looming semester abroad (a worthwhile experience, but daunting nonetheless), no friends graduating for the misnamed “real world.”

You are saddled with an ungodly expensive meal plan, however, and a selection of food that, especially on the weekends, becomes dangerously scant and unappealing.

For me, the balance on that plan hung over my head anytime (read: several times per weekend) I wanted to go off campus and eat at some of Boston’s amazing selections.

It is hard to justify shelling out real dollars when the mandatory meal plan feels like Monopoly money and has already been committed to be spent.

But now the stresses of junior year are made a little more manageable by the fact that I can calm myself from homework stress with home-baked cookies, or have friends over for a communal dinner at the end of the week. With a kitchen, I have been freed from the shackles of the meal plan, and Boston is (excuse the metaphor) my oyster, from which I don’t want a pearl, but rather actual oyster meat: fried, steamed, or prepared any which way. Boston is famous, after all, for its seafood.

Yet we have also become famous for the quality of our cuisine in general, a shift that is exciting to someone who has grown up regarding food as a meal, an experience, and an art form all in one. What I love about the burgeoning foodie realm of Boston, is that it isn’t reliant on a few hot names of chefs, or a handful of high profile restaurants that outshine the rest.

(Not to say that we are without those, Jean Georges, Tiffani Faison, Mary Dupont, No. 9 Park, Myers+Chang, and Island Creek Oyster Bar are only a few of the most notables of the city.) It’s actually the individual startups that garner the most respect, in my opinion. Dozens of restaurant owners are able to rise from obscurity to create unique, unmatched restaurant experiences.

First, there is the likes of Trident Cafe.

At the end of Newbury Street, this place does not rely on the foot traffic that the Boston Common end of the street attracts.

Instead, they lure you in by being an all-inclusive experience. There is outdoor or indoor seating, half of the space is a fully-functioning bookstore, and they even have Friday night trivia for those who are seeking an intelligentsia type of night. This place is a complicated economic venture, combining two very different products—books and food—and making them compatible not only in practical terms, but also aesthetics.

On the opposite end of the spectrum from this casual hangout is the (accurately named) Beehive. The jazz club atmosphere of this wonder of a restaurant is so distracting that the food becomes almost a second thought. There are too many sounds and sights to absorb efficiently by the time waiters come around to take orders. Of course, the smell and taste of what is set before you steal control of sensation away from the surroundings. This tug of war is ideal in a restaurant—again, it isn’t about taking in nourishment to get by, it’s about the process of enjoying the food, the company, and the night. That aspect of dining is something that Boston truly understands.

There really isn’t room in this column to digress into all of places I would like to go visit, or all the tastes I’d like to savor. But the planning out of future visits to these places brings up a question I have always pondered: When can you ever call yourself a native? As usual, I think it’s a question that could be answered by a plate.

Are you a native when you’re in a rut and have your favorite places, where the waiters know your name and the bartenders know your drink order? Or is it when you have had enough experiences that you never have to go somewhere that a tourist would wander into, you have found the “hidden gems,” and try a new place every weekend because your city sense will always steer you straight?

Charlotte Parish is the Metro Editor of The Heights. She can be reached at metro@bcheights.com.

one in three women and one in five men in Massachusetts have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner. These startling statistics are based on police reports that don’t account for immigrants, the GLBTQ community, and those who do not reach out to the police for help, meaning the numbers are even higher than those reported.

These devastating realities fuel the work of Jane Doe, Inc. (JDI), a statewide membership coalition and hopeful catalyst for change. As the only nonprofit advocacy organization dealing with sexual and domestic violence statewide, JDI advocates on behalf of victims and offers confidential, long-term support and services to tens of thousands of victims and survivors of sexual and domestic violence each year.

With 60 members and 56 other state and U.S. territorial sexual and domestic violence coalitions, JDI works to create

social change by addressing the causes of sexual and domestic violence and by promoting safety, justice, and healing.

Additionally, they advocate for responsive public policy and strive to make an impact on public opinion.

To achieve these goals, JDI operates through two main tracks to prevent and respond to violence. On the practical side, JDI provides trainings, networking opportunities, and materials. They also organize

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By Andrew Skaras For The Heights

A great cloud rose over the Boston Common Saturday, Sept. 15, as thousands of people from all over New England gathered for the 23rd Boston Freedom Rally. Bringing together speakers, musicians, and many different kinds of vendors, the rally serves as a yearly gathering point for marijuana legalization advocates to get together and protest the government’s drug policy.

Beginning at 12 p.m., people of all different sorts streamed into the Common. Although the college age cohort seemed to make up the majority of those in attendance, there were some Baby Boomers and Generation-Xers as well. Most people gathered in circles on the lawns near the two large stages to smoke.

The rally was organized by the Massachusetts chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition, or MassCann. Founded in 1970, NORML has vocally opposed the marijuana coalition as a non-profit public-interest advocacy group. According to the NORML website, the organization’s mission “is to move public opinion sufficiently to achieve the repeal of marijuana prohibition so that the responsible use of cannabis by adults is no longer subject to penalty.”

As the Massachusetts branch of NORML, MassCann has worked since 1989 to influence policymakers and voters to change marijuana laws in the state. The group was instrumental in the passage of the 2008 ballot measure that decriminalized the possession of under an ounce of marijuana in the state.

In addition to staging rallies, the group is currently campaigning across the state for the passage of Question 3 on the ballot in November. Question 3 is an initiative backed by the ACLU, the Massachusetts Advocacy Alliance, and the Committee for Compassionate Medicine that would eliminate criminal and civil penalties for the medical use of marijuana.

Furthermore, the act would establish state-regulated centers for the distribution of medical marijuana.

One of the main focal points of the afternoon was the series of speakers that MassCann lined up to advocate for the end of the prohibition on marijuana. Ranging from former law enforcers, to medical doctors, to a sitting congressman, the speakers represented a variety of different fields and interests.

John Decker, a representative of the national office of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) spoke about the work his organization does in mobilizing students on college campuses across the country. He highlighted the success of student led initiatives in changing state legislation and persuading voters.

Jack Cole, a founder of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), spoke about his experience in the War on Drugs. Retired after 26 years in the New Jer-

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ImprovBoston stirs citywide laughter

By Danielle Dalton For The Heights

Losing your BC ID, freshmen crashing your party, or missing the bus to Newton is not funny. What is funny, though, is Improv Boston’s This Improvised Life.

Based on Ira Glass’s wildly popular This American Life, a weekly radio segment on NPR that features extraordinary stories about ordinary citizens, the show builds its performance around bits and pieces of audience members’ lives.

Student tickets are available for only $14 with a college ID, and the ticket seller provided background for any audience members whose only exposure to improv comedy is occasionally watching late night reruns of Whose Line is it Anyway.

“Well, first things first. We are not

Improv Asylum [another Boston Improv Club]. They’re in the North End. We are in Cambridge,” he said chuckling, explaining how people somehow manage to get the two confused and arrive with the wrong tickets. “Aside from that,” he continued, “it truly is improv—we don’t write things beforehand. It is all on the spot.”

Approximately 10 minutes before the 8 p.m. show time, audience members were allowed to enter the open-seating theater, which seemed small and intimate, although almost all of the roughly 110 seats were filled. An upright piano stood next to the black platform stage. The lights dimmed almost exactly on time, as an actress’s booming voice welcomed everyone to the show before the cast of four bounded onto the stage and headed into the applaud-

By Lauren Totino ing audience to dole out high-fives and handshakes.

From there, the cast jumped right into the show with the classic improv game where one

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Shake Shack cooks up a new Boston location

By Ariana Igneri Heights Staff

It’s really no secret that some of the best food often comes from a tiny, street-corner cart, a hole-in the-wall restaurant, a rolling truck, or, in this case, an eco-friendly, burger-serving Shake Shack. Priding itself on its simple yet majestic take on burgers, hotdogs, custards, and, of course, shakes, Shake Shack actually began as an itty-bitty hotdog stand in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park 11 years ago, and in just a few months, this no longer hidden secret is

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coming to Boston, ready to serve up some of its delectable classics.

Originally, the Shack was founded by Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG) in order to support the Madison Square Park Conservancy’s first art installation, “I ‘heart’ Taxi.” The kiosk became an inevitable success: fans remained faithful, lines steadily formed, so Shake Shack opened in the park the next two summers as well. In 2004, they were finally approved by the New York City’s Department of Parks & Recreation and the Madison Square Park Conservancy to establish a

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permanent location there. Thus, Shake Shack formally opened its doors, and as their creatively designed website says, “The rest … is burger history.”

Shack Shack’s widespread appeal is the result of an array of many different things.

With fun menu options like the Shack Stack, the Shack Attack, and the Shack-ago Dog, it’s no wonder that this modern-day, “roadside” burger joint is so incredibly popular. The recipes are not only unique, but they are also made from all-natural,

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For The Heights

While it may still be a stretch to say that the South Boston waterfront is becoming the Silicon Valley of the E ast Coast , the area is beginning to attract the attention of technology-oriented companies. The trend of technology firms staking claim on the West Coast—or locally, in the suburbs of Massachusetts—seems to be changing in favor of urban real estate in the newly established Innovation District of Boston.

In 2010, Mayor Thomas M. Menino saw such potential in the expanse of urban landscape that includes the Seaport District, Fort Point, Boston Marine Industrial Park, and the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, that he deemed area the “Innovation District,” hoping to attract businesses that will jumpstart the industrial South Boston waterfront. Menino desires to grab the attention of startups and entrepreneurs, with a focus on technology and medical firms, in addition to building up new places of residence, restaurants, and shops.

Containing the largest tract of underde velope d land in B oston, the

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