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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Vol. XCII, No. 30

C21 launches iPhone app for students

Students hold candlelight vigil for Africa

App allows users to connect and reflect

By Maurice Jackson For The Heights

Last night, Boston College students, faculty, and staff crowded O’Neill Plaza to show support for the millions of people dying in the Horn of Africa as a result of severe drought and famine.

The goal of the candle light vigil, hosted and organized by the African Student Organization (ASO), was to spread awareness of the issues that happen outside of the BC community, not to provoke pity.

Feven Alem, president of ASO and A&S ’12, expressed her feelings about the event.

“At this rate, it’s not about being African, it’s not about being African American, it’s not about being purple, yellow, black, or red,” she said. “It’s about standing up for humanity.”

Alem said that ASO has to be at the front line and needs to urge BC students

By Tanner Edwards Heights Staff

The Church in the 21st Century Center (C21) introduced an iPhone application earlier this month, becoming one of the first Boston College campus organizations to launch its own customized app.

“We realized that what we have to do is completely re-energize, remarket, and repackage our resources and deliver them to a younger generation,” said Karen Kiefer, associate director of the Church in the 21st Century Center. “The best way to do that is through technology.”

The app, downloadable for free, offers a bevy of tools to help connect to C21 and enhance its mission of catalyzing Catholic renewal in the 21st century. It features information on the Center’s mission, essays on Catholic issues, Agape Latte videos, and C21 magazine pieces.

The app also contains a prayer map for recommended reflection spots on the Boston College campus and a unique feature called “Pray for Me,” which allows users to post prayerful intentions online for the broader community to consider.

“We wanted to make sure we were being true to ourselves as a Center in the app,” Kiefer said.

In addition to portions specific to C21’s core mission, Kiefer lauded the section of the app titled “Engage!” This technology aggregates data on student formation organizations, allowing for users to research service trips, volunteer opportunities, retreats, and more in one convenient locale.

Computer science major Dario Baldoni, A&S ’12, played a key part in engineering the app’s “Engage!” module.

“I thought this had the potential to be a great tool for BC students to find out about the vast number of organizations on campus,” Baldoni said. “It is definitely something I wish was around when I first arrived on campus.”

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Students gathered in O’Neill Plaza for a candlelight vigil to show support for and spread awareness about the famine in East Africa.

Underage students busted in Copperfield’s sting operation

By Adriana Mariella Assoc. News Editor

Earlier this month, Boston’s Copperfield’s Bar, located on Brookline Avenue, held a Boston College student event which was broken up at the early hour of 11 p.m.

Students in attendance at the event might be surprised to learn that they were playing a part in the beginning of a large-scale initiative – the kick-off of the 2011 “Operation Safe Campus” program organized by the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (ABCC).

signal to bar owners who might be tempted to serve underage customers,” Grossman said, in a statement. “Knowing that our investigators are out there in force will reduce or prevent alcohol sales to minors, and it could very well save lives.”

The Sept. 8 event, of which the ABCC had not received tips from either the Boston Police Department (BPD) or the BCPD, appeared to have been organized

by BC students older than those in attendance and popularized by both Facebook and word-of-mouth, according to the statement.

Of the estimated 100 students in attendance, 12 were cited for underage consumption of alcohol and possession of a false identification, while the rest left from the area.

According to the Treasurer’s Office, those 12 students, identified with assistance from the BCPD, have had their names forwarded to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to determine whether they have driver’s licenses of their own, which can be revoked from any per-

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The interface for the new C21 app (above) allows students to navigate different features.

The program, according to a statement by the Office of Treasurer Steven Grossman, which oversees the ABCC, seeks to prevent “underage drinking and the associated of violence and injuries that often occur at the beginning of the college school year,” and will run until October.

As a part of the operation, undercover ABCC officials will be investigating liquor stores, bars, and clubs in the Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Fitchburg, and Amherst college areas, that they suspect may be serving underage individuals.

“Operation Safe Campus sends a clear

Hispanic Heritage Month kicks off this year’s events

By Elise Taylor

photo courtesy of the office of news & public affairs

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Last Thursday, Boston College kicked off its annual “Hispanic Heritage Month,” an informatory celebration of Latino culture both at BC and beyond. Hispanic Heritage Month will last from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 on campus and will feature a slew of speakers, events, and other activities.

This is the third year Hispanic Heritage Month has taken place at BC. The month is largely coordinated by the Hispanic Heritage Month Steering Committee, a group made up both of University students and faculty. This is a change from the past years’ Steering Committees, when students and faculty were separate. The 2011 Hispanic Heritage Month Steering Committee is overseen by Joana Maynard, assistant director of AHANA student programs. It also is lead by two student co-chairs, Stephanie Gonzalez, A&S ’12,

and Jorge Miranda, A&S ’13. Other groups that helped with the planning of Hispanic Heritage Month are the umbrella organization AHANA, the Organization of Latin American Affairs (O.L.A.A.), Casa Hispanica, and Bienvenidos.

The Hispanic Heritage Steering Committee has a large breadth of responsibilities. “We make every effort to bring to the Heights academic lectures, distinguished speakers and cultural events,” said Marcela Norton, committee member and employee relations officer for BC Dining Services.

Adding to that was Gonzalez, who specifically described her position as co-chair.

“I plan events, make sure everything is in motion, put together the pieces, attend the events, and make sure we have other people to join the committee as well,” she said.

Although the calendar for Hispanic

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Victor Rios (above) spoke of the government’s need to support at-risk youths as part of HHM.

Quality issues allayed, Chobani to return soon

By Daniel Tonkovich Heights Editor

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Chobani yogurt (above) was pulled from shelves after several complaints, but will soon return.

Chobani, the popular Greek yogurt that was pulled from shelves of dining facilities last week, will be returning to campus by mid-week next week at the latest, administrators in dining services said. The yogurt was removed from dining halls after multiple customers returned unexpired yogurts with mold growing in the containers.

“We got a number of complaints and food safety is our number one concern, so we pulled it all while we went back to Chobani for answers,” said Helen Wechsler,

director of dining services. “By next week, Chobani will be back.”

It is unclear whether the mold originated due to manufacturing errors or inadequate handling of the product during the distribution process. Dining services has made adjustments in the hopes of preventing similar incidents in the future.

“We will be using a different distribution channel when Chobani returns, so we are hoping it improves our success,” Wechsler said.

Chobani, a product of Agro Farma, is a highly popular national product that currently leads in sales in the booming Greek yogurt segment of the yogurt market.

Consumers perceive Greek yogurt to be healthier than regular yogurt due to its thicker and creamier texture, as well as being higher in protein. Chobani has the same popularity with the Boston College market. Dining services sells over 10,000 cases a year through its dining hall and catering operations.

“It’s a big seller for us, so we want it in the units as much as the students do,” Wechsler said.

The yogurt also plays a key role in balancing BC product offerings.

“We do not categorize food as good or

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Thursday, September 22, 2011

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Culture Identity Talk Today Time: 5 p.m.

Location: Heights Room

Peter Phan, a professor at Georgetown University, will present a lecture on the interaction and connections between cultures and religions. The talk will include a special focus on Vietnam as a case study and will take place at 5 p.m. today in the Heights Room in the Lower Dining Hall.

T-Shirt Decorating at O’Connell House

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Friday Time: 9 p.m.

Location: O’Connell House

Come with your friends to the O’Connell House and decorate a T-shirt. This event is sponsored by Nights on the Heights.

Boston College Football vs. UMass

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Saturday Time: 1 p.m.

Location: Alumni Stadium Bring your friends and cheer on the Eagles as they take on the University of Massachusetts Minutemen this Saturday at Alumni Stadium.

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Professor who exposed himself barred from working with students

On Campus Robsham Theater now offering online ticketing option Robsham Theater announced this month that online ticketing will now be available for any event for which the Robsham box office sells tickets.

This means that besides athletic events, tickets for most events that charge admission will be available through this program. Robsham, built in 1981, is the first permanent home for theater productions at Boston College. Until now, the only way to purchase tickets was through the physical box office by visiting the theater or by calling.

The new online ticketing program, similar to that of BC athletics’ ticketing process, allows for visitors to purchase either normal tickets or student tickets. In order to purchase student tickets, one must register and create an account on the Robsham ticketing website. Currently available on the website are tickets for upcoming dance performances, dramatic productions, and special Christmas performaces, as well as categories allotted for future tickets for musical performances and student programs.

The University of New Hampshire has barred Edward T. Larkin, a German language professor, from working with students for a three-year probationary period. According to a report by the Chronicle of Higher Education, Larkin exposed himself to a mother and daughter in the parking lot of a grocery store. An arbitrator ruled that the University could not fire Larkin, stating that his behavior did not warrant termination. This decision, the Chronicle said, was highly criticized by state officials. For the next three years, Larkin’s responsibilities and duties will be limited.

Local News Boston Blooms program seeks to plant 40,000 daffodils city-wide According to a report by the Allston-Brighton Tab, Thomas M. Manino, Boston mayor, has announced the start of Boston Blooms, a program that will distrubute a targeted 40,000 daffodil bulbs to volunteers to plant on public city ways. To help with the planting, the Boston Parks and Recreation Department is recruiting volunteers for the project, which will occur on the weekends of Oct. 22 and Oct. 29, city-wide. Any person can submit a location on which they wish to plant the flowers.

Preparedness demonstration enables students

By Caitlin Hegarty For The Heights

ALEX TRAUTWIG/HEIGHTS EDITOR

A student participates in a sobriety test as a part of the preparedness demonstrations in O’Neill Plaza (above). to learn hands-only CPR, the new recommended method for assisting a person undergoing cardiac arrest.

“Citizen CPR is the single biggest variable in determining whether somebody survives after going into cardiac arrest,” said Kevin Wickersham, vice president of Eagle EMS. According to the American Heart Association, only about

one-third of people who go into cardiac arrest receive the immediate CPR that they need.

Emphasis was placed on the most common types of emergencies on a college campus. These include extreme winter weather and common injuries. Fire safety was also stressed. Students walking through O’Neill Plaza had the opportunity to learn about proper fire extinguisher usage

and were able to try their hand at extinguishing a fire.

Another common safety concern on college campuses is excessive drinking and sometimes drinking and driving. The BCPD had an activity set up for students to see the extent of vision impairment caused by alcohol. There were two sets of beer goggles.

The first showed a BAC within the legal limit for drivers over the

age of 21. While sporting these lenses, even the most confident participants were humbled by how far they had strayed from the straight line of masking tape laid on the ground that they were supposed to be following. With the goggles of a higher BAC, over the legal limit for driving, the divergence from the straight line was even more profound, causing some very wobbly steps at a highly skewed angle. The BCPD hoped to impart the message that driving while buzzed is still very dangerous even when one’s BAC is within the legal constraints.

The emergency management personnel stressed that the steps you can take to prepare are simple but can have a big impact: devising a plan for communication in the case of an emergency, creating an emergency preparedness kit, and learning about proper emergency procedures.

They emphasize that knowing how to respond to an emergency will not only help oneself but will help other people as well.

“The goal of this afternoon was for students to stop by and learn a few basic skills that could help people you care about or even complete strangers in the case of emergency,” Tommaney said. n

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“What is your favorite Hillside sandwich?”

Friday, September 16

Saturday, September 17

7:55 a.m. - A report was filed regarding the victim of a hit and run accident with no injuries that occurred off campus.

The suspect vehicles license plate fell off during the accident. No Boston College affiliates were involved and the Newton Police were notified.

11:55 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a person scalping tickets near Alumni Stadium. The party was identified as a non-BC affiliate. He was advised of BC’s policy which prohibits the resale of tickets, and he left the area without further incident.

12:13 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a vehicle that had driven through the traffic control arm of the Commonwealth Garage causing it to break off. With the assistance of the parking and transportation office, a vehicle was identified and later located on level four. A BC student was identified as the operator. The gate was repaired and the matter will be referred to ODSD and Transportation and Parking.

1:28 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a BC student who was ejected from Alumni Stadium for intoxication/disorderly behavior. Their ticket was confiscated and they were escorted out of the stadium with a verbal trespass warning for the remainder of the game/day. The party was turned over to a sober adult party that was with his group.

8:36 p.m. - A report was filed regarding an emergency blue light activation at the sports complex for an injured party. The student was transported by BCPD Police cruiser to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital.

8:36 p.m. - A report was filed regarding the Newton Fire Department response to a fire alarm activation in Higgins Hall.

Officers arrived and detected a strong odor of smoke. Further investigation revealed a dry mop on fire. The mop had apparently been ignited by a lamp which had fallen from an experiment. The fire was extinguished and the area was ventilated by Newton Fire. The Fire Safety Office was advised of the incident.

“I like the burgers.”

—Mary Austin Williams, A&S ’13

“I’m a freshman and I’ve never been to Hillside.”

—Berent LaBrecque, A&S ’15

2:18 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious person who was observed placing flyer’s on vehicles without authorization. The party was uncooperative and was later identified. They were issued a written trespass warning and were escorted off campus.

7:20 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a tailgate party that was setting up a drinking “luge.” The party was advised of the policy regarding this activity, and he was advised to take it down as it was not permitted in the area. He complied and disassembled the item without incident.

—Source: The Boston College Police Department

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“The Baja Chicken.”

—Nicole Lulevitch,

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—Matt Mannella, A&S ’15

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The fires ignited and underage students stumbling from drunken vision on Monday afternoon in O’Neill Plaza were part of a demonstration in honor of Emergency Preparedness Month. In honor of the occasion, the BCPD and Eagle EMS joined with BC Emergency Management officials to put on the demonstration to educate the Boston College campus about the importance of making emergency preparations.

“It started as an outgrowth of the post-9/11 environment to get people involved in their own emergency-preparedness,” said John Tommaney, director of emergency management.

He emphasized that spreading knowledge and awareness of emergencies can allow regular people to assist in minor ways during emergencies, thus lessening the strain on emergency personnel. For example, if each student had an emergency preparedness kit, then there would be less pressure on emergency personnel in the case of disaster or injury.

At the event, Eagle EMS had set up stations where passers by could take a few minutes

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The Heights

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Sept. 11 panel discusses impact of attack BC and PUC-Rio professors share varying perspectives via video chat

By Jacob Bajada For The Heights

Boston College professors discussed the social and religious consequences of the Sept.

11 terrorist attacks with members of the Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) faculty last night in an event titled “September 11, Ten Years On.” The gathering, organized by the Jesuit Institute, a religiously based faculty group on campus, featured a video conference in McGuinn 121 between BC political science professors Peter Skerry and Jonathan Laurence and two international academics.

By fostering communication between universities from different realms of the world, Father T. Frank Kennedy, director of the Jesuit Institute and organizer of the event, intended for the video stream to allow those with varying perspectives on the events to converse.

“We are able to learn in dialogue with other cultures that we don’t think the same way,” said Kennedy, also a professor in the music department. “We wanted to find a way to remember 9/11 and take from various places what has happened in 10 years.”

To do this, Kennedy worked with a faith-based group affiliated with the PUC-Rio who originally presented him with the idea two years ago. “[PUC-Rio] is also a Jesuit university, so we share a natural connection,” Kennedy said.

“What we want [to demonstrate] in this event is: ‘Here is how we were affected,’ and then have Brazil address it from their own perspective.”

The event commenced with Kennedy presenting this basis for the assembly, followed by Skerry and Laurence voicing their respective opinions on the changing roles of Muslims in both American and European societies in light of the attacks.

Laurence argued that the attacks allowed for the Muslim population to gain exposure in Europe that they had never previously received. With this exposure, he emphasized that the attacks encouraged Europeans to study the Muslim people in a way that allowed for an understanding of their culture.

“I realized immediately that the attacks would have an impact on the communities that I had been studying,” Laurence said. “[With these attacks] came a free space that created new vulnerabilities, new space to create opportunities for the Muslim people to ... mix with local society, an opportunity for integration. Islam was no longer this black box.”

Skerry argued the opposite, with an emphasis on the current tendency of Muslims to minimize cultural practices to avoid attention on their religion.

“Catholics and Muslims in the scheme of things have a meager understanding of one another—their relations are not broadly explored,” he said.

“Muslims in current America are downplaying the conservative implications of their own faith [concerning stances on] premarital sex, homosexuality, etc. in order to not be brought up in a mixed society.”

In response, Brazilian professors Monica Herz and Paulo Fernando Carneiro presented their own opinions about the matter, focusing on the importance of human rights when dealing with terrorism.

“The question is how do we combine defensive policies with human rights?” Carneiro said.

The dialogue concluded with questions from the audience that initiated an exchange of ideas further exploring these diverse opinions.

“We find through terrible events that we belong to one another,” Kennedy said, “and in alex trautwig / heights editor understanding one another, we learn to respect one another.” n The Jesuit Institute organized a video conference about the Sept. 11 attacks.

Allston-Brighton Crime Reports 9/16/11 – 9/17/11

Intoxicated suspect causes scene in street About 12:02 a.m. on Sept. 17, officers were on patrol in areas known for loud house parties and underage drinking. The officers responded to 24 Ashford Street for a loud house party that could be heard from the street. Officers observed college students standing outside the residence in the yard. There were approximately 500 people in the house. Some that were stopped on the threshold stated that they had paid to gain entrance. On the first floor the officers observed a keg of beer and an ice loosh for taking shots of alcohol. While clearing out the party, one of the officers observed a male attempting to leave the premises with an open container of alcohol. The officer informed the suspect he could not leave with the alcohol, to which he replied, “Why not, I am 21.” The officer took the container and told him to leave. Approximately 30 minutes later, while officers were issuing citations to the residents, the officer heard the suspect standing at the intersection of Ashfort and Chester Streets dancing in the street and shouting, “F---ing pigs.” The officer observed one of his friends telling him to “chill out” to which he shouted, “I don’t give a f---, I’m 21.” People began to stop and watch the suspect’s antics in the middle of the street, and as the officer approached, they began to disperse. The suspect was subsequently arrested for disorderly conduct.

Apartment resident squabbles with officer Officers responded to a report of a wild party at 44 Linden Street around 11:36 p.m on Sept. 17. On arrival, officers observed a party that had gotten out of control and ordered partygoers from the premises. One officer was alone in the basement with two residents and took their information. Several party attendees came to the basement and stood around the officers. One of the residents walked up to the officers and said, “You can’t be in my house without a warrant.” He shoved the officer, who was also bumped from behind. The resident refused to be handcuffed, and resident and officer wrestled up the basement stairs while partygoers attempted to drag the officer down the stairs. When the two reached the first floor, another officer helped in the handcuffing of the resident. As they led him to the cruiser, the suspect yelled, “Video this brutality!” Several males tried to pull officers off the suspect, as passersby taunted, “F--- you, pig.” Once he was in the cruiser, his friends dispersed. The resident was booked for disturbing the peace and assault and battery on a police officer.

Suspect arrested for drinking in public An officer observed a group of one male and about four females walking on the sidewalk at 4 Linden Street around 12:48 a.m. on Sept. 16. The male was carrying an open bottle of Rolling Rock beer, so the officer stopped the suspect. The suspect produced a license during inquiry, which revealed he was not of age. The suspect became uncooperative during the inquiry and started yelling, “I’m an American citizen just like you and I pay taxes so I can have a beer.” Officers were not able to subdue the suspect, and after several failed attempts, he was placed under arrest for being a minor in possession of alcohol and drinking in public.

- Courtesy of the Boston Police Department, District 14 Gathered by Molly LaPoint, Assistant News Editor

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REASONS FAKES FAIL: In light of the recent Copperfield’s bar bust, it seems logical to ask how those underage troublemakers got caught in the first place. All were in possession of some form of false identification, whether it was an ID Chief-produced fake or the hand-me-down of an older family member, and all failed in the face of the undercover investigators and/or the bouncers.

According to Massachusetts state law, “any person who falsely makes, steals, alters, forges or counterfeits - or procures or assists another in procuring - a learner’s permit, a license to operate motor vehicles, Registry of Motor Vehicles identification card, or registration card or inspection sticker” can have their true license revoked for up to six months.

Additionally, the wrongdoer can face a fine of up to $200 or imprisonment for up to three months.

Still, these sanctions didn’t stop the dozens of students who gained access to Copperfield’s and the 12 who were cited for having false identifications.

One New York University blog, NYULocal, spoke to a 3rd Avenue bouncer who filled them in on the most common pitfalls of fake IDs (other than the obvious fact that possessing or using a fake identification is a felony). According to Zach, the bouncer, these are the top five reasons fakes don’t work:

-Holograms: On poorly made IDs, the holograms are often photocopies of keys.

-Poor resemblance: On hand-me-down licenses, the resemblance between the person attempting to gain entry into the bar and the actual person whose picture is on the license are generally too different to fool a bouncer. According to the NYULocal post, size seemed to be the most common disparity. Zach referenced examples of men who were barely over 5’9” attempting to pass themselves for 6 foot, or girls who claimed to have lost weight (read: excessive weight) since having their picture taken. Eyecolor, freckles, and other smaller details are also not overlooked by bouncers.

-State choice: The post stated that Delaware, Maryland, New Hampshire, and California are states whose licenses are forged so often that they quickly fall under the suspicion of the bouncer.

-Picture size: A hallmark of a fake ID is an incorrect picture size.

-Violence: Should one’s ID be rejected and/or confiscated, Zach said that the worst a person can do is fight with the bouncer. Instead, he suggested politely asking for the identification to be returned, giving the bouncer some time to cool off.

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Beacon St. crosswalk sting sends signal BC and Newton PD issue 23 citations for failure to yield to pedestrians

By Molly LaPoint Asst. News Editor

On Thursday, Sept. 15, BCPD teamed up with the Newton Police Department on crosswalk sting operations near Boston College and in Newton Highlands. Overall, they issued 23 citations.

Both BCPD and Newton officers were present on Beacon Street by the McGuinn gate and on Lincoln Street in Newton Highlands, said John King, chief of the BCPD. Sixteen citations were issued on Beacon to drivers who failed to yield to pedestrians, while seven were issued on Lincoln.

“People tend to come down the Beacon Street straightaway in excess of the speed limits,” said Fred Winslow, BCPD lieutenant, in a previous release. “Our students are trying to get from the academic buildings to the buildings along Hammond Street or to the Chestnut Hill T stop. Sometimes they don’t get seen until they are four or five feet into the crosswalk. We have had several students hit by vehicles and a lot of close calls.”

In addition to the citations, which

ranged from $20 to $200, one person was issued a criminal complaint for driving with an expired license, and one was arrested for driving with a suspended license, according to a Sept. 15 article in the Newton Tab. “The plan here is that we assist Newton and they assist us,” King said.

The purpose was to increase safety of pedestrians on crosswalks, and officers had no expected number of citations.

“I don’t think we had any particular number in mind,” King said.

Prior to the event, both BCPD and Newton advertised that such a sting was going to take place. The University’s Office of Public Affairs released a statement, and an article was written in The Newton TAB. Another sting will be taking place sometime in October, though no date has been set. These stings, King said, are designed to show drivers that they must behave responsibly when there are pedestrians present.

“When people are in a crosswalk, drivers are required to stop, both from a practical and a legal standpoint,” King said. n

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Students stand in support to those affected by famine in Horn of Africa Vigil, from A1 to help out. “Instead of buying a new pair of shoes, why don’t you donate to this crisis,” she said.

“People are dying because they don’t have food.”

Alem said she recalls when she first heard of the famine in East Africa. It was during the summer when she was having coffee with a friend. The suffering of people in countries like Somalia really struck a chord with her. “People knew there would be a drought and didn’t do anything about it,” she said.

ASO started brainstorming for

this event during early August, and Alem said she recalls how compelled she was to bring the issue to the BC community. “I remember saying, ‘Oh my goodness, ASO has to do something. We’re the African organization on campus. We have to do something,’” she said.

A contrast from its daytime commotion, O’Neill Plaza was transformed into a tranquil meeting ground for those who wanted to pay tribute and show support for ASO’s cause. The pillars of the library displayed the intricate flags of several of the countries in East Africa – those affected by the

current famine and drought.

Attendees were exposed to striking photographs of emaciated children – both on display and through a power point. In addition, guests heard poems and prayers all with the goal of expressing the need for a community approach to helping the citizens of East Africa.

The vigil was the first in a series of events that will be held throughout the year to combat the current famine in Africa. Students were not asked to make donations during the event. However, later events hosted by the group will be aimed at collecting donations that

will be given to aid relief efforts.

ASO was established in 1995.

Since its creation, it has been dedicated to spreading consciousness throughout the BC community with social events like the ASO fashion show, which exposes member of our community to clothing from several different regions of Africa, as well as visits from political figures, such as Kofi Annan.

The famine affecting East Africa was declared by the United Nations as one of the most severe droughts to affect the region in nearly 60 years. The lack of food and clean water in the affected

countries has forced some families to flee their homes. As a result, refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia receive upwards of 3,000 refugees each day.

Aid from organizations, such as Save The Children and Action Against Hunger, is quickly disappearing, causing some refugees to leave in search for food elsewhere.

More often than not, those who

leave do not make it. Government officials have said that nearly 800,000 children could die of malnutrition across the East African nations of Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Within the next three months, UNICEF will need an estimated $31.8 million to provide clean water, food, and vaccines for women and children who have been affected by the drought. n

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ASO’s candlelight vigil was the first in a series of events that will be held throughout the year to combat the current famine in Africa. Later events will be aimed at collecting donations that will be given to aid relief efforts.

BC Dining No. Hispanic Heritage Month to 7 in best college feature dance groups, speeches food survey Hispanic Heritage, from A1

By Daniel Tonkovich Heights Editor

Dining service’s diverse food offerings, including local and organic food items, as well as responsiveness to students’ demands, helped the department place seventh in The Daily Beast’s Best College Food survey.

Helen Wechsler, director of dining services, credited the staff as well as the department’s incorporation of student feedback into their operations for the ranking.

“We are obviously very excited,” she said. “Our staff works extremely hard, and our department values student feedback and makes our best attempt to respond to it.”

To further interaction with students, dining services introduced Newton based “Survey on the Spot,” a user-friendly customer feedback tool that lets a customer instantly provide feedback with an ensured reply from a dining manager when something fails to meet expectations if an e-mail address is provided. n

BC students cited during ABCC raid Students, from A1 son found to be in possession of a false identification for up to six months.

According to the statement, the bar was also charged and will appear at a hearing in the future where its license may be revoked, modified, or suspended.

Earlier in the night, ABCC investigators had canvassed area liquor stores and cited several other students for underage possession of alcohol or for furnishing alcohol to underage students. n

Dining services to restock Chobani in days Chobani, from A1 bad, but there is a balance,” Wechsler said. “We want you to have choices in the dining hall that are balanced.

We provide an array of healthy choices from clean food to products with fewer additives to fair trade.

We provide options for students to balance their diets according to needs and wants. At the end of the day, the most important thing is that the students think we are responsive.” n

Heritage has not yet been published before this issue went to print, BC students can expect a wide variety of activities to take place this month. On Tuesday, Dr. Victor Rios from the University of California, Santa Barbara spoke at one of the month’s opening events.

A former gang member and incarcerated individual from a poor neighborhood in Oakland, Rios was able to refocus his life, graduate high school, and eventually get a doctorate in sociology. He has focused much of his career studying the lives of marginalized African American and Latino boys.

Rios has taken a strong stance against the criminal and governmental system in the United States, saying it unfairly targets minorities and is unsuccessful in helping at-risk youth.

“In our society, the right arm of the state, the punishing arm of the state, has increased, expanded, and become so powerful as the left arm of the state, the nurturing arm, has collapsed,” he said. “When the state is abusing our children, we have to step in. Right now our children are being abused by the state, by the school system. Why? Because they are ‘delinquents.’

They shouldn’t wear those clothes or cut their hair like that. Really?”

Other events include performances by Latino dance groups, speeches by BC Latino alumni, and a closing ceremony featuring multiple facets of Hispanic culture.

For those interviewed, the long-term event is exceedingly important for the BC community. “Just as we celebrate July 4, it is important to celebrate

Hispanic Heritage Month because the U.S. is made up of so many different people and cultures,” said Gonzalez. “It is supposed to make people come out, learn something new, learn about the culture, and become involved.”

Echoing similar sentiments was Norton. “I believe that this month of celebration is an exciting opportunity to create greater awareness of the heritage and contemporary achievements of Hispanic and Latino cultures,” she said.

In further review, it also takes on quite a personal spin. “For me personally, I am from Panama, and so being on this campus where there is an official celebration of a month is to me heartening,” said Maynard.

“Being Latino means different things to different people. Our hope is that during the celebration, or even after, that it is not just one definition, one idea, one stereotype.”

Adding to this was Director of AHANA Student Programs Ines Maturana Sandoya, who also helped plan Hispanic Heritage Month by coordinating with different offices and student groups. “I think that as a Latina, it is important for me to be able to share pieces of my culture with the greater BC community,” she said. “For students in general at BC, it is an important opportunity to be able to learn about the contributions and the culture of Latinas at BC and beyond.

For the Latino students here it is important for them to see themselves acknowledged and celebrated in this community.”

The Heights will publish further information about Hispanic Heritage Month when the official calendar is released. n

New C21 app targets students C21 App, from A1 Baldoni was a member of the larger, multidisciplinary team that began work on the app some eight months ago. C21, in conjunction with its student executive board and BC’s IT staff, collaborated to bring the project to fruition by the start of the fall semester.

Kiefer heralded the group’s exceptional teamwork, noting that similar iPhone apps are almost always outsourced. She credited students like Baldoni for making the C21 app especially appealing.

“If young people build, more young people will come,” Kiefer said. “We tried to put as much information as we could into this to give the students.”

While younger generations may be targeted in the Center’s development efforts, they aren’t the only demographics connecting to C21 with the app.

In fact, Kiefer cites one very prominent member of the BC community as an ardent supporter of the app’s offerings.

“Fr. Leahy championed this idea from the very beginning,” Kiefer said. “He really is so committed to the next generation of Catholics and the opportunity it holds for the Church.”

Plans are already in the works for the development of an app optimized for the iPad and, eventually, a counterpart Android Phone app. Kiefer anticipates a reach far wider than the BC campus, though, once the full vision of the app comes to fruition.

“Our center is for the world,” Kiefer said. “This is a way to use the gifts of our center to benefit a contemporary audience and inspire future generations.” n

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University should help to pave career paths Crossing the barrier between A&S and CSOM would afford students the tools to apply to a variety of jobs Today, hundreds of pantsuit-clad Boston College students will flood Conte Forum in the hopes of making a connection with the company that will define their precious post-grad years. The search for the first job is one that subtly starts in high school, when students begin to pursue colleges for particular academic programs, and then continue as they try to pull a common thread throughout the multitude of academic and extra curricular endeavors in which they are involved in college.

A students’ journey for the first job is a long one, marked by moments of uncertainty, change, and random enlightenment.

Our approach to selecting the company we keep—quite literally—should be much the same. We encourage students to enter the Career Fair open-minded, not hindered by what they feel their major limits them to.

As liberal arts students, BC undergraduates are trained in a manner that creates minds capable of handling the challenges of a host of jobs.

Still, it the fact remains that many A&S students feel as if their chances of ever landing positions at banks and financial firms are compromised by the fact that they chose to pursue the humanities in their undergraduate careers. To ensure that students with interest in the business field have the hard skills recruiters desire to market, in addition to their reasoning capabilities, we urge BC to consider providing addi-

Thursday, September 22, 2011

“A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.”

— Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), “The Mysteries of Udolpho”

tional guidance and encouragement to A&S students to dabble in introductory courses in fields such as accounting, finance, or marketing. A&S students should realize (and perhaps be reminded by their advisors) that they can take up to six courses in CSOM, and that these courses can assist in not only one’s professional, but personal development.

For example, financial accounting, managerial accounting, and basic finance classes, taken by all CSOM students, provide students with the toolkit necessary to pursue internships and full-time positions with employers in the financial sector.

These courses would allow students to continue pursuing the other fields of academia that BC has to offer without being cut off from positions in finance or professional business services.

It is often said by career advice givers that one’s undergraduate major doesn’t have to correlate with their eventual career.

For many current BC students, this will be the case. The tuition invested in students here is invested not to make them into a certain job title, but to make them into people with the ability to take and define any position. Though BC students are fully capable of bringing a unique, multi-faceted mindset into the workplace, the University must respond to demand and provide them with all the tools necessary to realize their non-traditional goals.

Meeting the needs of the modern Catholic The C21 app offers interested community members a new avenue by which to explore their faith The Boston College Church in the 21st Century Center (C21) recently unveiled an application for iPhone, iTouch, and iPad devices, which reportedly provides “a distinctly

For those who are not comfortable with religious expression, the C21 app is a way to be spiritual at a pace tailored to their own needs and comfort level. modern way for students to connect, pray, and deepen their Catholic faith.” The new C21 app gives students access to the group’s

mission, lists locations to pray on campus and in the surrounding community, and provides tools which inform students of the many offerings at BC in the areas of service, retreats, student formation, and leadership.

We think the app presents a new and different option for students to practice their faith. For those people who are not comfortable with religious expression, the C21 app is a way to be spiritual at a pace tailored to their own needs and comfort level. At the same time, if students don’t want to exercise their faith in a technological way, there’s no pressure to do so. C21 has simply provided students with something innovative, and The Heights encourages the BC community to check it out.

In the future, while developing this app further, we also ask C21 to keep their mission in mind, and try to find ways to spread its ecumenical messages through this app.

Establishing common ground The re-envisioning of common spaces comes as a welcome change for cramped campus groups As Boston College continues to enact it’s 10-year Institutional Master Plan, students have become increasingly concerned about a lack of space on campus for events and group meetings. As buildings on campus begin to close, and construction begins in areas once used for green space and events, congregation becomes difficult for those who once occupied those spaces.

This semester, however, the University has taken strong measures to ensure that student organizations and campus-wide events still have homes on campus. Evidenced by the renovation of the Vanderslice Cabaret Room and the holding of the Student Involvement Fair on Linden Lane, students’ needs are being met thanks to the careful attention of

the University. Though accommodating the many students on campus presents difficult challenges during certain periods, such as while student groups are holding information sessions, the University’s willingness to field student concerns has helped simplify the space reservation process.

While a lack of space on campus will certainly remain an issue while construction and renovation projects takes place, it is important that the University maintain these efforts to meet the needs of students.

By rethinking what areas of campus can be opened to those looking for space, the University can ensure that students attending BC during this transitional period will not feel overlooked.

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On the future of BC football and fandom In response to “Hypocrites Should Be Excellent Fans If They Want To See Excellent Football,” by Matt Belnap: The fan should not be responsible for the team’s performance. Want us to get fired up? The team needs to instill that passion and drive in the fans. In years past the fans were rowdier because the team was more exciting and competitive (even in the post-Matt Ryan years).

These players get full scholarships to come to this school to play football. The common fan is a student paying full tuition and $130+ to go to these games ... we don’t owe the team anything, they have to create the hunger in the fan if they want a reaction.

Anonymous BC ’10 In response to “Hypocrites Should Be Excellent Fans If They Want To See Excellent Football,” by Matt Belnap: Excellent football breeds an excellent fanbase, not the other way around. We only became a decent student section in the Ryan/Jags years when we were putting out something worth watching on the field. You cannot just fake excitement about a team that was just pummeled 30-3 by a C-USA team that will eventually lose to FIU the next week.

In response to “Hypocrites Should Be Excellent Fans If They Want To See Excellent Football,” by Matt Belnap: Right on! The students at Boston College need to step up. We’re in the ACC! You’re all too soft. Get with the program.

Frank McArdle In response to “Coaching Errors Need To Have Real Repercussions,” by Paul Sulzer: Wow. This takes guts to publish in our own paper. Kudos to you guys for standing up for BC football and calling out the truth!

Anonymous In response to “BC Maintains its Rank with US News & World Report,” by Daniel Tonkovich: “ACC rival Duke”? When did Duke become BC’s rival?

Ask anyone in Durham who Duke’s rival is and they’ll answer UNC.

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Food: It’s a lot to digest

Thumbs Up Cabaright Room – If you haven’t visited the recently renovated Vandy Cabaret Room, then you’re ignorant of one of the best allocations of capital funds the University has made in recent year. With a plethora of tables, booths, easy chairs, and plasma screen TVs, the space is flexible to accommodate the study space tastes of nearly any learner, or club leader looking for meeting space, or person looking to escape their roommate. The Vandy Cabaret Room: because the first floor of O’Neill is so last semester.

Making Room for Two More – A move of Syracuse and Pittsburgh into the ACC is currently under review, which means great things for the future of the Boston College fan base. Having these schools in our conference offers the opportunity for real rivalries that we didn’t have before. Unless you count Notre Dame, which, if we’re honest with ourselves, is just an excuse to scratch riding in an RV and visiting the Midwest off our bucket lists.

Leahy’s Office – The view from the top is … available! Although it isn’t easy to gain access to Fr. Leahy himself, a full tour of his office is available for anyone and everyone interested. The BC homepage now has a link to the virtual tour, which takes viewers through Leahy’s personal chambers in the Boltoph House and offers information on even the littlest of details, like the fact that he keeps his iPhone charger next to his St. Louis Cardinals memorabilia. If BC really is Hogwarts, then this means the Chamber of Secrets has been opened.

Feeding the Habit – Had it with Dean’s Beans? First of all, know you’re not alone. Secondly, know you have choices.

Cafenation, the shop of an area coffee wholesaler, is a wonderful alternative if you’re looking for coffee that actually does the trick of invigorating the mind and satiating the palate. Also, their selection of crepes is sure to delight, since they offer a selection of rarely thought of but often loved savory crepes at all hours of the day.

Thumbs Down Leaving Us Hanging – Sunday’s Emmys were a fantastic opportunity to celebrate television’s finest programming, but it left us wanting more. Two of our favorite shows, 30 Rock and Mad Men, are still holding out on viewers until next year to release new seasons. We understand there’s legitimate reasons for this—e.g. Tina Fey expanding her family (seriously, the audacity)—but we’re needy. We’ve become dependent on the magic of television and can’t handle the harsh truth that, in reality, Liz Lemon is actually cool and that there’s no chance we’ll ever run into Don Draper wearing that debonair, mysterious gaze on Madison Avenue.

Irene Plays Dirty – Our interaction with Hurricane Irene may not have left BC in dire straits, but like any crazed lady looking to wreck havoc, she’s not leaving without putting up a final fight. The current culprit? Fun. Our favorite fall activity, Halloween, may look a little different in the Northeast this season as Irene is responsible for destroying a multitude of pumpkin patches.

While we grin and bear it and live without a Jack-o-Latern or two this season, the thought of a pumpkin pie shortage stops us cold.

John Blakeslee “I am telling you John, it’s a phase out,” said my friend Lui while sitting in Lower Dining Hall with me. Lui was upset because his favorite Vitamin Water zero flavor, Mega C, which used to occupy two of the refrigerators at Lower had been reduced to just one.

“It’s classic phase-out behavior,” Lui explained, “First it’s taken out of one of the refrigerators, next thing you know you’re driving across state lines in search of it.” Over the years, I have developed an acute sense of crisis and knew this was no time to cast my friend’s anxieties aside. His brow was furrowed, his demeanor deflated, his palms on the cusp of perspiration. In a swift act of diplomacy I reached onto my plate and grabbed a slice of bacon, “Here, bacon will cheer you up.”

Sadly, Lui is still shaken from the loss of his favorite Vitamin Water zero flavor and no amount of bacon is likely to heal those wounds. It is easy to poke fun at Lui or to laugh at his plight. But Lui’s frustration taps into something to which most of us can relate: a love of food. Loving food seems rather sensible.

After all, we all have to eat to survive.

It is one of the most basic pleasures humans enjoy and as a species we have done a wonderful job of making eating a delightful experience. Whether it is a fancy Italian dinner in the North End or the comfort of an Eagle’s Deli burger, the amount of delicious food that surrounds us is substantial.

So much so, that it is easy to become preoccupied with food. I have fallen victim to this preoccupation quite regularly. Last Sunday I went down from my dorm to grab a late breakfast. I wanted a bagel with cream cheese and sausage.

Before falling asleep the night before, I planned this meal. When I woke up I strategized which bagel would be most conducive to the sausage and mused

as to what the right amount of cream cheese on the bagel would be. When the time came, I paraded through Lower ready to make my cravings a reality. I marched right up to the bagel shelf only to discover that, tragically, the bagels had run out.

The panic that subsequently consumed me was debilitating. I must have stared at the bagel shelf for at least two minutes, intermittently looking back towards the kitchen hoping that some sort of “bagel man” would heroically emerge carrying a fresh tray of bagels. No such tray surfaced and I soon began to doubt the very existence of the “bagel man.” I then spent the next 25 minutes meandering around Lower.

I moved from food station to food station solemnly staring at the food being offered. Finally, I had a realization. I can get a bagel at Dunkin’ Donuts! Quickly,

I left the cafeteria and began walking toward Dunkin’. However, when I finally reached Dunkin’, I stopped. Do I really want a Dunkin’ Donuts bagel? Is it worth the extra money not included in my meal plan? No, it wasn’t. So I turned around and bought a chicken sandwich at Lower.

I am not the only person who spends far too much time deciding what I want for a meal. This ritual of dining indecision is performed on a nightly basis and can be observed any night in lower dining hall. You will see students saunter around for minutes on end, sadly looking at the food before they grudgingly enter one of the food lines. Why do we put so much emphasis on one meal?

Why do so many of us view our meals

as the three highlights of our day?

I grew up with an Italian mother who was raised in Brooklyn. So, to me, focusing on meals is not particularly strange. When I am home, my mother often asks whether or not I want second helpings of whatever delicious meal she prepared. Before I can even finish saying, “No, thank you,” she already is transferring food onto my plate. For her, and for many people, food is a physical expression of her love. Last week my roommate and his friends made homemade pizzas in our kitchen. Undoubtedly, just making the pizzas was fun for them. But more importantly, making food for another person is an expression of friendship. Putting time and labor into something solely so a friend might enjoy it is one of the most beautiful parts of cooking and it is what makes dining a special experience, setting it apart from the other basic pleasures.

It is not just about the food, but the people with whom you eat.

Of course, there is a dark side to eating. Especially on college campuses eating disorders disrupt the lives of many young people. Similarly, the amount of citizens considered obese in our country is shameful. So it seems that our attitudes towards food are somewhat confusing. Sometimes food can be comical, sometimes it can be an expression of something greater, and other times it can be unhealthy.

This ambivalence underscores the psychological importance of food. It is as important to our daily lives, both physically and psychologically, as anything else is. It is therefore important for us all to ask what our relationship with food is and whether or not that relationship is healthy. I urge you to sit down and reflect upon the topic, if only to clarify for yourself the role food and eating plays in your life. Food can be either delightful or dangerous.

Determining how food impacts your life is therefore crucial. Perhaps you can discuss it with a friend over lunch. That is, if you can decide what to order first.

Kicking off the season

Dylan Hewkin Between the release of Mitt Romney’s 59-point, 160-page grand economic strategy and President Obama’s new plan to tax away the deficit, I thought for sure that this article would end up being a ranting, angry, tirade about politics, the economy, and other things I wish I could ignore. Over the past two weekends, however, the object of my frustration has been something much more alarming than our failing economy: the new NFL kickoff rule!

You know what the only exciting thing about watching a Cleveland Browns game is? Watching Josh Cribbs break seven tackles to take the opening kickoff all the way. There just isn’t a more frustrating sight in football than seeing someone like Cribbs or Desean Jackson taking a knee in the back of the end zone.

The change, however, affects more than just collision craving fans. Every NFL roster has return specialists and special teams players who in some cases do nothing but block on kickoffs. In addition, teams used to value kickers who had a high percentage of their kicks result in touchbacks, but now every kicker in the league can at least reach the goal line. Besides, who wants to watch a guy like Devin Hester

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

Preparing for the real world?

Marye Moran The summer before freshman year, as we all learned how to do laundry, memorized an address different than our parents’, and prepared for a life away from everyone we knew, we all had the same thought: we were entering the real world.

After a few weeks at school, once we learned to stop carrying trays and that “eagles on the warpath” isn’t a real cheer, we thought we had it down. The real world isn’t that hard. However, when you really look at it, our “real” world at Boston College resembles actual adult life about as much as the MTV show does.

For all of our time as undergraduates, taking classes is our job. While the workforce needs to be in their office from nine to five and faces actual consequences for showing up late (or hungover), this isn’t the case with our courses. We need to be there for exams, and it’s certainly advantageous to attend otherwise, but it would be entirely possible to be a BC student and only go to class about half of the time.

We think this is our glimpse at freedom after high school’s rigid structure, but really, after graduation, that structure will be back. If you just skip the equivalent of your occupation, outside of our collegiate bubble, this would be totally unacceptable. But at BC, it’s the status quo in an 8 a.m. lecture.

Then, after a week of questionable classroom time, the weekend arrives.

Try to picture a normal, socially accepted adult getting all dressed up without any concrete party invites for the night, then wandering outside until they hear music and see people gathered outside a random house.

They then enter that stranger’s house and start dancing with their friends in the middle of the living room. The idea is ridiculous, yet every Friday and Saturday, groups of BC students do that exact thing in the Mods. But since we’re on campus, it’s totally normal.

And since I mentioned the aspect of getting dressed up, let’s talk about wardrobe. In the real world, it’s true that people put more effort into getting ready before a party or on the weekend, but they don’t seem to think that their acquaintances are blind the rest of the week. At BC, apparently, we do.

I’m guilty of it too – Monday through Thursday, I’ll go to my classes already dressed for the Plex. Depending on my schedule and level of laziness, I might go to some discussion sections and meetings immediately after my workout, complete with red face and sweat marks. And at night, when I’m doing laundry, I’ll wear a pair of old boxers and an XXL sweatshirt to walk down four stories to the laundry room.

Once Friday night hits, though, I’ll refuse to go down the hall without at least a half hour spent on hair, makeup, and trying on various outfits. I see the same people, but since it’s a weekend, I suddenly care what I look like. This completely illogical shift is clear with everyone on campus.

At the end of the night, when we make our way to Lower to bask in the glory of French fries and personal pizza, Eagle IDs are swiped without so much as a glace at the prices. It’s not real money, so why bother thinking

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economically? At home, I’ll compare my options, finding the price per ounce on different containers of yogurt to see which size is best bargain, and refilling my water bottle instead of grabbing a new Smartwater. With an abundant dining plan, though, they might as well not post the prices. They are completely irrelevant.

While I appreciate having one less aspect of fried food to feel guilty about, BC doesn’t seem to be doing us any favors in the long run. This is our first time being on our own, and the habits we form now will set the tone for the rest of our independent lives.

All in all, it would be far more beneficial if BC forced us to act like the rest of the world and to have real responsibilities aside from showing up for our exams.

However, as my friends moving off campus for junior year begin to meet with realtors and discuss with subletters and electricity bills, I’ll admit I’m not jealous in the least. Yes, their lives will begin fitting the standards of the outer world, at least to some extent, but there are certainly drawbacks and complications that BC’s alternate reality shields us from. And since last Saturday my friends and I ended up in a stranger’s living room, dressed up and pretending no one had seen us in sweats and without makeup, I guess I’ll stay in this fake world a little bit longer. It will make the post-graduation shift harder, but for now, I’m enjoying the illogical, unreasonable, and probably detrimental, lifestyle that goes on inside the BC bubble.

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

pretend he’s a wide receiver? While he might be the only Chicago Bear who can outrun Jay Cutler’s arm, he runs his routes sloppier than John Daly the night after he won the Open. Simply put, Devin Hester was bred to return punts and kickoffs, and as long as he runs a 4.2 forty, who are we to deny him?

As of this season, these kinds of players are significantly less valuable to their teams and will most certainly see this reflected in their contracts. As some would point out, however, there have still been two kickoffs returned for touchdowns. Both Ted Ginn of the 49ers and Percy Harvin of the Vikings found the end zone. I would argue though, that it is because teams are spending less time on kick coverage in practice. Moreover, if a player has watched four consecutive kicks go through the end zone, there’s a good chance that he won’t always be hustling downfield late in a game.

More importantly though, this rule change represents a dangerous shift away from the very character of Americans sports. While I personally am a huge fan of European soccer, there is a reason it will never be one of the major sports here in the States. American sports fans love their physical contact.

They don’t want to watch Christiano Ronaldo roll around on the ground in pain, only to have a replay show them that he wasn’t even touched.

While I certainly understand the merits of player safety, I doubt that this change will do much to help the cause.

Most of the bad injuries we saw last year were concussions and more often than not, the results of bad tackling.

Players like James Harrison, Brandon Merriweather, and Dunta Robinson literally go out and try to injure their opposition. Thus, if Roger Goodell really cares about player safety, he would be more concerned with deterring this Merriweather mentality than ruining one of the most exciting plays in all of sports.

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

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SPORTS The Heights

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Men’s Soccer

Mewis puts her best foot forward Junior playmaker builds program, gets national attention with creativity

Connecticut cracks BC back line

By Chris Marino Asst. Sports Editor

The No. 10 Boston College men’s soccer team was fresh off an overtime victory against ACC rival 2 Connecticut Virginia Tech. It Boston College 0 was looking to ride this momentum into Tuesday night’s match against No. 2 Connecticut (7-0-0).

But the Eagles (5-2-0) hit a wall in the second half, losing 2-0 at the Newton Soccer Field.

The game started out evenly matched, as the home squad was able to contain UConn’s forwards at midfield and create pressure on goalkeeper Andre Blake. A clear scoring chance came after the 20minute mark when midfielder Kyle Bekker launched a high shot on net. Blake flew toward the crossbar to knock the ball out of play. The junior midfielder took a similar shot minutes later, but Blake was unable to knock it away. Amit Aburmad and Steve Rose each tried to take advantage of the mistake but were unable to hit the back of the net.

While both sides finished the half with five shots, BC was able to produce better looks at the net, with four shots on goal.

Bekker, as well as Aburmad, finished the half with two shots on goal.

Heading into halftime, it looked as if the Eagles were in the driver’s seat. The team had been able to pressure the Huskie defenders and force bad shots against BC goalkeeper Justin Luthy.

UConn came onto the pitch with a new energy for the second half, however.

Within minutes, defender Nickardo Blake put a good shot on Luthy, who was forced to dive to his left to punch out the potential score.

With just under 40 minutes left to play, Huskies midfielder Carlos Alvarez broke through the middle of the field with several BC defenders surrounding him. Despite having no space, he pushed through the pressure and struck a low, slow grounder past the reach of Luthy from 25 yards out.

BC head coach Ed Kelly felt that the

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ith a soccer ball at her feet, Kristie Mewis can do anything. She’s relaxed as she traps an incoming pass. She reads the defense and weighs her options. Shoot it. Cross it. Chip it. She likes the last one best.

Her first touch is into space. Another dribble cues the ball up perfectly. She swings her left foot upward and pops a lofted pass over the final defender, an unwitting pawn in her game of chess. The ball travels about 25 yards, slowly descending outside the 18-yard box. It bounces once, smoothly, as teammate Victoria DiMartino lines up a volley. DiMartino rips an attempt at goal, but it bends away from the net, missing the post by a yard.

Not every pass can lead to a goal, as evidenced by this sequence from Boston College’s 2-0 win over Virginia on Sunday. But the Eagles create plenty of similar opportunities, thanks largely to the imagination and skill of Mewis, their junior playmaker. Something’s afoot whenever she touches the ball.

“Kristie can run at people with deception,” head coach Alison Foley said. “She provides great left-footed service. She’s worked on her right foot, so she can get people off balance in so many different ways. She has a fantastic shot. She’s a great athlete.”

Going into tonight’s match-up with Maryland, Mewis leads the 6-0-2 Eagles in goals (four) and assists (three) a third of the way through the season. She’s on pace to equal her sophomore-year production level (10 goals, 14 assists, first-team All-American) despite switching between left wing, her natural spot, and right wing. BC has begun playing her on the right so she can cut toward the middle of the field and unleash her

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Mewis makes magic happen with her pinpoint crosses and bending free kicks. The U.S. national team has taken notice, inviting her into their pre-World Cup camp and considering her for the Olympics.

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Trying to make sense of conference realignment

Greg Joyce And now it all makes sense. Is it really any surprise that players are being found guilty of taking gifts and partaking in illegal recruiting practices?

Colleges are doing the exact same thing— moving conferences is all about the money.

They won’t tell you that, but instead they’ll give you a nice answer about it being “what’s best for the school.” They want you to think it’s going to help their academics, admissions, and athletic programs. While those departments are surely helped by the move, it’s really all about the money and greed. Colleges are going to blitz to whatever conference will offer them the best TV deal, in hope that it leads to an influx of cash. (Don’t even get me started on Longhorn Network.)

First of all, how is this supposed to teach any loyalty in college sports? You go behind other people’s backs, ditch them, and do what’s best for you. Yes, it’s good to do what’s best for you sometimes, but you also have to think about how your actions are affecting others’ situations.

How is the NCAA supposed to penalize athletes who take illegal benefits, when so many colleges are doing similar things with the conference realignment?

Aside from the money aspect, a major concern is what’s going to happen to the Big East. The Big East tournament at Madison Square Garden was always one of the top events of the year, sometimes even with better games than the NCAA tournament.

Remember the Syracuse-UConn game in the Big East tournament that went to six overtimes in 2009? Unreal. And what about this past year, when Kemba Walker took over the Big East tournament, eventually leading to the Huskies’ national championship? Does anything like that happen in other conference tournaments? Sure, there will be games in the ACC tournament that go to overtime, or teams with great storylines, but nothing

will likely ever live up to what the Big East tournament was, even if they move the ACC tournament to MSG. Also, what’s going to happen to schools like Georgetown, St. John’s, Providence, and Villanova? These schools either have FCS football programs, or no team at all, so they are left out on their own with great basketball programs. They hold no leverage to join any major conference without a FBS program. St. John’s and Providence have two of the best recruiting classes in the coming years, but will anybody notice or care when the Big East collapses once Syracuse and Pitt leave?

Time will tell, but it’s not looking promising. Everyone thought the Big East would fall apart when BC, Miami, and Virginia Tech left. But last year, the Big East sent 11 teams to the NCAA tournament, and the Big East tournament continues to be one of the greatest events to watch each year. So what will happen now? The remaining football schools in the Big East met on Tuesday night, and all

members pledged to stay in the conference (except for UConn and Rutgers). I’ll believe it when I see it. Pledges and promises have been made in the past, just to be broken.

In the world of college sports these days, pledges and promises don’t seem to hold much ground. Those seven schools may have made the “commitment” to stay together for the long run in the Big East, but if one of those schools had the chance to jump ship to the ACC or SEC, I’d have to think they would go right away.

So how do I feel about the move by Syracuse and Pitt? I’m not really sure. Am I excited to see Syracuse come to Conte Forum once they finally are allowed out of the Big East? You bet I am. Am I excited that BC will have someone closer than Maryland in the ACC, possibly providing some northeast rivals for them within the conference?

Definitely.

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The Eagles offense has no excuses failing to score this week against an FCS team like UMass.

BC can’t overlook UMass in quest for first victory

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Tradition is lost in conference realignment, like Syracuse’s history in the Big East tournament.

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“Must-win” is a term that’s thrown around far too often these days, even in the topsy-turvy “every game is a playoff ” world of college football. In theory, the BC football team’s game against UMass on Saturday isn’t a must-win. In theory, the Eagles could still go on to win the ACC Atlantic even if they drop their first game to a FCS school in over thirty years. But for a team coming off its most demoralizing loss in years, facing a fork in the road between “hope” and utter devastation, well, the term must-win seems pretty applicable.

In such trying times, turning full attention to the game at hand is harder than it sounds, especially from college athletes who face scrutiny from their peers every time they step out of their dorms. But the players know how vital it is to turn their focus completely to beating the Minutemen.

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“If we start concentrating on Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, then we’re not going to be able to concentrate on what we need to do this week,” junior linebacker Luke Kuechly said Wednesday. “I think everyone really has the attitude that those games are in the past and we’re going to try and take a step forward and get a win this week.”

Taking that outlook is a lot easier said than done. It will be quite some time before any of the fans at last Saturday’s game forget the ending, let alone the players and coaches. Nevertheless, failure to do so could result in a letdown even more embarrassing than last week’s debacle.

Regardless of the circumstances, there is no excuse for a BCS-conference team to lose to a 1-AA squad. The resource gap is just too vast, not to mention the (supposed) talent differences.

That’s what’s been most trying about this start to the season for the BC players.

They know there is a good football team

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UMASS AT BOSTON COLLEGE

When BC runs the ball Andre Williams is averaging 76.3 yards per game. He’s an elusive runner, which could cause problems for UMass’ less-athletic linebackers. The Minutemen have only played FCS teams thus far and let up 75 and 56 rushing yards against Holy Cross and Rhode Island, respectively. Look for the strength of this defensive line to be tested when facing the Eagles’ offensive line.

Advantage:

When BC passes the ball BC’s pass protection has been weak this season, contributing to Chase Rettig’s three interceptions. Although the Eagles have completed 51 percent of passes, the Minutemen defense does not have the edge rushers to take advantage of the Eagles’ weakness. Also, when Rettig is given more time, he tends to be very accurate. Look for the Eagles to exploit the Minutemen defense through the air.

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When UMass runs the ball In their two games this season, the Minutemen have rushed 427 yards, scoring four touchdowns on the run. Jonathan Hernandez has gained 344 rushing yards and scored twice. Despite this success, UMass needs to be on the lookout for Eagles linebacker Luke Kuechly, who made 23 tackles in Saturday’s game.

Advantage:

When UMass passes the ball The UMass offense completes 64 percent of its passes and has gained 393 yards through the air this season. Kellen Pagel has thrown two interceptions, but the Minutemen do not utilize the air attack quite often.

This is a blessing for the Eagles, whose inexperienced secondary will not be exposed. Look for players like Donnie Fletcher and Jim Noel, who intercepted a Duke pass in the red zone, to make an impact.

Advantage:

Special teams After BC kicker Nick Freese missed the game-winning field goal against Duke this past weekend, BC’s converting 57 percent of field goals. The Minutemen have only made two-of-four total field goal attempts. The Eagles will need to step up with punt returns, as they currently average one per game.

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Luke Kuechly and Kevin Pierre-Louis (24) will face a different challenge in containing Jonathan Hernandez and UMass’ traditional rushing attack.

UMass is the next in series of must-wins

Advantage:

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Coaching and intangibles The BC staff made a series of poor choices against Duke that contributed to the defeat. Dave Brock is still settling into his increased role as offensive coordinator. On the opposing bench, head coach Kevin Morris looks to continue the Minutemen’s two-game hot streak in his second season at UMass. Following his strong first season, UMass had its highest NFL draft pick in over 40 years – tackle Vladimir Ducasse went in the second round.

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lurking within them. And working so hard to unearth that team only to fail in such spectacular fashion is especially disheartening.

“It’s definitely frustrating with all the work that we’ve put in since the end of last year through the winter and the spring and summer and then preseason camp,” Kuechly said.

“Starting 0-3 is incredibly frustrating and not how we would have wanted to start. We just have to keep the message each week of getting that first win – the first win is the most difficult win.”

Nobody is going to call this the most diffi-

cult game of BC’s season. On paper, the Eagles still have the clear advantage in the match-up.

They boast many more high-level recruits.

UMass quarterback Kellen Pagel is making his second career start in a D-1 road environment against a defense led by a returning All-American. Taking that approach is not one that will help the team break their winless slide.

“We know as a team that these guys are going to bring everything they have this week, and unfortunately we don’t have a win,” guard Nate Richman said. “We have to bring it every week until we get that first win, so we should be able to match their intensity from that regard.”

Talk like this about an FCS opponent in

years past would sound like lip service, but the choir is deathly serious this time around. It’s back to absolute basics for a team that thinks it can sink no lower. Even in the face of such sobering circumstances, there is still a reminder of a season that seemed lost at one point.

“It’s a low point in the season, but you just have to continue to have the right attitude,” Richman said. “You know that the win is coming and once it came last year we won five straight, so we’re hoping to have the same results this year.”

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Hernandez presents new challenge

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By Matt Ulrich For The Heights Over the past few years, one aspect of the Eagles’ football team that has remained constant is the exceptional ability to stop the run. Last year, Boston College led college football in rushing defense, conceding less than 85 yards per game. This season, despite a solid core of linebackers led by All-American Luke Kuechly, opponents have averaged 180 yards per game—more than double last year’s average.

This weekend, BC will face a different type of rushing attack. Although BC’s run defense has been struggling, the squad has been facing primarily non-traditional rushing attacks, focusing on speed and trickery to gain yardage.

The UMass Minutemen, on the other hand, have a traditional smash mouth running game, featuring star running back Jonathan Hernandez. Hernandez will be the focal point for the Eagles defense, as he has recorded more than 150 yards in each of UMass’ two games this season.

When asked about the UMass offense, Kuechly simply began by stating, “[Hernandez] is a good player,” and later added, “[Hernandez] moves well in the hole and he runs downhill.”

As opposed to other run offenses that spread the run game to the outside, Hernandez is likely to take it straight to Kuechly and the Eagles’ run defense.

BC will look to maintain its outstanding tradition of denying huge rushing days. The Eagles have allowed only eight 100-yard rushers since 2005, and none since October 2009. It would seem to be a challenge to keep Hernandez under 100 yards considering his recent performances, but the Eagles run defense can

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The BC defensive line has to occupy the UMass blockers so Luke Kuechly and Kevin Pierre-Louis can chase down running back Jonathan Hernandez. reestablish its reputation as one of the best in the ACC, if not the country, if it slows down one of the best FCS running backs.

Special teams star shows promise Since Frank Spaziani took over as head coach at the start of the 2009 season, there has been one statistic that the Eagles’ special teams have lacked: a blocked punt.

In the first quarter of last week’s game against the Duke Blue Devils, Spenser Rositano blocked the punt of Duke’s Alex King, setting up a drive that resulted in a BC touchdown and a 7-0 lead. Though this did not win the game for the Eagles, it gave them the strong start needed to go into halftime with the lead.

Rositano, a true freshman free safety, has already been thrust into many roles in his short career at BC. After being unsure of his status as a possible redshirt, injuries to the Eagles’ secondary left Rositano as the starting strong safety entering the first

scrimmage.

During the preseason, Rositano suffered a concussion and had to sit out for a week, an injury that can potentially have long term consequences. When asked about his recovery, Rositano responded, “I’ve been good. Quick recovery, and I’ve felt good ever since.”

While the return of older players has left Rositano without a starting role on the Eagle defense, he has thrived in both practice and in last week’s game in his new role. In the words of Luke Kuechly, “He’s going to be a good player. He works hard every day and I like having him out there.”

Battered offensive line continues to improve After early season injuries to returning offensive linemen Nate Richman and Mark Spinney combined with the change of offensive coordinators from Kevin Rogers to Dave Brock, there were many

questions on the Eagles’ offensive line.

Despite these questions, the BC offensive line has improved over the first three games, reactivating Richman from injury and learning from mistakes. Richman, one of four team captains, felt strongly of the offensive line’s progress and future outlook.

“When we watch the film, we see the mistakes we make,” he said. “Every week we’ve gotten better.”

For questions on the effects of the change in offensive coordinators, Richman stated with confidence, “It’s not a big difference at all. We’re running the same offense.” With the development of the offensive line and the confidence in his offensive coordinator, Richman said he would not guarantee a win but declared, “We’re going to win the game and everything is going to build off of that.”

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From an ACC perspective, the move

by Syracuse and Pittsburgh is great. It adds two quality teams to the ACC, puts the conference at a stable 14 teams when other conferences are scrambling to get to a certain number. Now, the ACC can sit back and watch while other schools try to tag on somewhere.

What about those other schools? I know as a BC fan, I’m supposed to be happy, because the Eagles are in a great conference with as much stability as you’re going to find. But as a sports fan, I’m not sure what to think. Maybe things will work themselves out and the Big East won’t collapse. With how it stands right now though, it’s hard to believe that the Big East will be okay.

One last random musing about conference expansion: The Big East and commissioner John Marinatto have come out and said they will hold Pitt and Syracuse hostage for the next 27 months since a bylaw says they can. This move is absurd. What good is going to come from this? Are Marinatto and Co. doing this so Pitt and Syracuse can make the rounds to Big East schools for two years just to get ridiculed? It seems childish to me. I understand that the Big East is angry at Pitt and Syracuse, but it’s time to move on. Twenty-seven months is going to do no good for their situation. They want to ditch, let them ditch. Move on with your new conference and go pick up schools from other conferences.

At the end of the day, it comes back to one overarching theme that is constantly tainting college sports: greed. I’ll leave you with this tweet from the college basketball great Dick Vitale. Think about it, baby: “(@ DickieV) GREED GREED GREED- College sports is A MESS- What about the kids in baseball, tennis, etc- Does anyone CARE?”

Greg Joyce is the Associate Sports Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at sports@bcheights.com.

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Standings

This week, the football team will look to overcome its 0-3 start against the UMass Minutemen. The women’s soccer team continues ACC play against No. 8 Maryland and Virginia Tech. The men’s soccer team will try to rebound from its loss to UConn against URI.

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After dropping to 0-3 for the first time since 1991, the football team will look to rebound against the University of Massachusetts Minutemen. The Eagles will attempt to dominate defensively, as UMass primarily rushes the ball. The key will be stopping running back Jonathan Hernandez, who is averaging almost 190 all-purpose yards per game. Offensively, the Eagles will once again turn to quarterback Chase Rettig, who threw for 247 yards and one touchdown in the loss to Duke.

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Skillful Mewis carves out U.S. national team role with poise and grace Mewis, from B1

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Mewis uses her deft left foot to dribble out of trouble when the defense collapses around her.

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With four goals and three assists, Mewis is on pace to match her sophomore year numbers.

powerful left-footed shot more often.

“On the left side, she was getting a lot of shots off, but they were lower percentage and outside the box,” Foley said. “Moving to the right brings her closer to goal and makes her more dangerous.”

Mewis is always composed, whether she’s switching positions or dangling a defender. She received an e-mail in the spring, though, that caught her off guard.

One day in April, she turned on her MacBook Pro and logged into Agora to find a message from Pia Sundhage, the coach of the United States national team. Sundhage called Mewis into training camp in preparation for the World Cup. On the verge of a panic attack from the excitement, she picked up her phone and called her mother, Melissa.

“Mom, did this really just happen?” she gasped. “Is this really meant for me?”

“Kristie,” her mother answered, “it is.”

Two weeks later, Mewis was sharing the pitch in West Palm Beach, Fla., with the likes of Abby Wambach and Hope Solo.

“I was in awe,” she said. “I had no idea it was coming. It was really nerve-wracking to play with that group of girls at first.

But after a couple training sessions, it was the most fun time of my life. I loved every second of it.”

Although Mewis didn’t make the final squad that played in the World Cup over the summer, she did become close with several players, including forward Lauren Cheney. That bond with her teammates made watching the games especially meaningful for her. She couldn’t miss a match.

“Mom, I have to be home for this game,” she said when they were running late before one match. “I have to be home.”

Mewis wasn’t the only one who felt that way. For the first time since 1999, when Brandi Chastain famously converted the World Cup-winning penalty kick, Americans went crazy for women’s soccer. The final between Team USA and Japan, which the Americans lost in penalty kicks, drew the second-highest rating ever for a game in the sport, after the aforementioned 1999 final. Twitter’s servers were flooded with 7,196 tweets per minute – a new world record.

“I felt like I was a part of it a little bit,” Mewis said. “This is hopefully the team I’ll play for one day.”

That day is coming up soon. Mewis will train with the under-23 national team from Oct. 2-7 in a camp designed for Sundhage to scout young talent heading into Olympic

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Switching to right wing has given Mewis more chances to unleash her shot by cutting inside. qualifying in January and the Games in the summer. The national team needs help on defense after allowing Japan to come from behind twice to equalize in the World Cup final. Sundhage had trouble finding a starter at left back. Team USA has utilized Mewis at both left back and left midfielder, where having a naturally left-footed player is key.

Wearing red, white, and blue is nothing new for Mewis, who played in two youth national team World Cups (under-17 and under-20). At the under-17 World Cup in 2008, she started five games for Team USA, splitting time between left and central midfield. She scored twice and won the Bronze Ball as the third-best player in the tournament.

“Representing my country is one of the best feelings ever,” she said. “It didn’t hit me in the U-17 World Cup because I was still really young. But at the U-20 one, it was like, ‘Wow. These are the top 24 girls. I’m actually representing the USA right now.’

I understood it more as I got older. It’s so empowering and uplifting.”

In both youth World Cups, Mewis shared the field with her sister, Samantha, and DiMartino. Mewis and DiMartino have played together on developmental teams since they were 12. They were both interested in BC when they were recruited.

While Mewis said she didn’t base her college decision off what DiMartino wanted to do, the opportunity to continue playing with a close friend was a draw to BC. “We have a connection on the field,” Mewis said. “We both know what the other’s thinking and where she’s going to go.”

That chemistry has defined the BC attack for the past three years. Between the graceful and inventive Mewis and the instinctual and assertive DiMartino, the Eagles have two stars that have combined to make the program more successful than ever before. They have made back-to-back runs to the NCAA tournament Elite Eight, including their first-ever appearance in the College Cup last season. Mewis registered a goal and three assists in the tournament, which culminated in a 2-0 loss to Stanford in the semifinals.

As the Eagles attempt to win the first soccer national title in school history, expect Mewis to lead them with the same poise and delicate touch she exhibits when blowing by a defender and uncorking a cross. Her game is elegant. And with one foot in the door of the national team locker room, she’s on the verge of greatness.

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Boston College falls short in second half against No. 2 Connecticut Men’s Soccer, from B1 unassisted score was an avoidable play and that the team allowed through poor positioning.

“I thought we could have been up 2-0 in the first half,” he said. “I thought it was a bad goal. We backed up and backed up as the kid ran through to the goal, and I thought it really was a goal that shouldn’t have been a goal, let’s put it that way.”

Minutes later, BC nearly scored the equalizer when defender Ryan Dunn launched a placekick to an open Charlie Rugg in front of the net. The ball, however, soared just above the forward’s head and out of play.

The Huskies maintained the same efficient possession as the Eagles had in the previous half. They seemed to have a higher energy level and forced BC to make uncharacteristic turnovers.

“Again, that first goal was a bad goal to give up after working so hard and playing so well,” said Kelly of his team’s play after the go-ahead goal. “That’s six minutes into the second half. That’s not a good time to give up a goal so early. It makes you have to chase the whole rest of the game.”

The majority of play in the second half took place in Eagle territory, as UConn outshot its opponent 10 to six in the half.

This increased pressure proved effective, as Tony Cascio made the deficit two exactly 10 minutes after the initial score.

The play began when forward Stephane Diop sent the ball to a streaking Cascio just past midfield. The midfielder then beat a diving Luthy to the left, on the near post.

Down 2-0, BC tried to overcome its sloppy play, but missed several tough shots in desperation.

“You start playing catch up,” Kelly said.

“And then you start overworking and overplaying and overreaching and all that kind of stuff. They’re a very good team.

They have a lot of talent. But we did very well, and the outcome of the game could’ve easily been different. We had chances, and we didn’t take them. And then we gave a poor goal away and you get out of shape because you try to do a little bit extra and a little bit extra and then they caught us sleeping again.”

With the game’s closing minutes in sight, the Eagles’ hopes for a comeback were mitigated, as the Huskies rarely allowed any space for a shot.

The Huskies outshot their opponent 15 to 11 for the game, although BC took more shots on net. Blake was forced to make eight saves, while Luthy had four stops.

Despite this loss, Kelly sees this as a good game for his team, and hopes to take

the team’s first half effort as a positive moving through the season.

“We’re capable of playing with anybody in the country,” he said. “That should not have been a 2-0 game. They’re No. 2 in the country, one of the best in the country, and if you can play like that for 45 minutes, why can’t you play like that for 90 minutes? So we’ll just have to keep growing as a team.”

He also took the skill level of the Huskies into perspective while analyzing the loss.

“They’re not the No. 2 team in the country for nothing,” he said. “So, we’ve lost to the No. 1 and the No. 2 teams.

That’s nothing to be ashamed of. And we’re capable of doing it.”

Moving forward, the Eagles hope to learn from their mistakes and execute for the full 90 minutes.

“We just played. We’re a good team,” Kelly said. “We had a good group out there.

We knocked the ball around pretty well. It was good movement and good work rate and that kind of stuff. We played well.

We’re a good team, and we had a good game. We’ll just put it to rest and try not to be so critical, bounce back at it and work on it.”

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Volleyball comes up short against Maryland in ACC home opener

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Krystle Higgins (8) recorded eight kills on Tuesday, but it was not enough to get by Maryland.

The Boston College volleyball team showed resilience in its conference opener, but came 3 Maryland up short in a 3-0 Boston College 0 loss to Maryland on Tuesday in the Power Gym. BC went down in straight sets, 25-16, 27-25, and 25-22. Despite the outcome, the Eagles had opportunities to win the final two sets in the match, an encouraging sign for second-year coach Chris Campbell.

“We put ourselves in a position to win, and that’s kind of the first step,” Campbell said. “We had some very strong performances out there that I think we can really build on, but we’re just going to have to continue to improve our skills and just our ability to execute at the end of games.”

After dropping the first set, BC held a 22-17 lead in the second and appeared to be in control. However, Maryland responded with a run of its own that tied the game at 24. The Terps took advantage of the momentum shift and went on to take the set, crushing a huge opportunity for the Eagles.

“You learn to handle those situations by being in those situations,” Campbell said.

After after recording a 1-19 record in the ACC just a year ago, the Eagles will certainly be looking to learn from their experiences early on.

“The ACC is a horse race that keeps running faster,” Campbell said. “Everybody in the conference is better than they were last year. The entire conference has moved forward, and we have too.”

The first set began as BC quickly fell to a 2-0 deficit. A diving play by Lauren Fields energized the Eagles as the teams traded points until the score was tied at eight. BC went ahead 9-8 on a kill by Krystle Higgins, one of eight she recorded.

That was as close as it would get though, as Maryland went on a six-point run and never looked back.

Later in the set, a small run pulled BC within four points, but miscommunication and a few miscues prevented the Eagles from overcoming the large deficit.

Maryland came out strong again in the second set, taking an early 3-1 lead. Cagla Sen followed by serving effectively during a three-point BC rally in which the Eagles took the lead. The teams then stayed neck and neck until the score became knotted up at 17 when a timeout was called.

BC came out of the huddle with a new sense of urgency, which led to a five-point run. But Maryland was not knocked out

yet. A series of Terps blocks brought them within a single point of BC at 24-23. In the end, BC was unable to finish off the set and went down 2-0 heading into the break.

In the locker room, Campbell urged the team to keep its energy up going into the third set. He also stressed some technical adjustments, including the necessity to slow down Maryland’s outside hitters.

The team did not let down, coming out strong in the third set. An exciting first point gave the Eagles a lead. Outside hitter Courtney Castle played well, as she contributed both an important save and dig to keep the Eagles on pace with the Terps. The two conference competitors then found themselves locked in a 20-all tie. Once again, Maryland finished off the set by a score of 25-22 to secure the victory Castle and Tsvetelina Dureva led the team in kills, posting 10 each. Castle notched her third double-double in three games, racking up 10 kills and 11 digs.

Sen led both teams in assists with 29, while libero and senior captain, Brennan Clark, contributed a team-high 16 digs.

BC will be in search of its first ACC win in a face off with NC State on Friday.

“We’re just going to have to continue to work hard in practice, improve our skills, and just stay focused,” Campbell said. n

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Thursday, September 22, 2011

music

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retrospective

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nirvana’s classic album celebrates its 20th year page c7

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‘nevermind’

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Got to fly like an underdog

Thursday, September 22, 2011

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BY: Dan Siering

Darren Ranck As a young lad, I never quite took to sport. Perhaps it’s because I used phrases like, “Took to sport.”

No, I unfortunately have terrible hand eye coordination and a classic fear of the ball. I played mean defense, though, because I outsized the other children and could take them down with brute strength.

I also had a classic fear of other children, though, so I was pretty useless on the soccer field, baseball diamond, rugby pitch, you name it.

Whether my crappy skills dampered my athletic potential remains a mystery, but I could still relish in glory of sports films.

While no one would call me a sports fan, I must admit my taste for cinema athletique. Even if I root for not a single team or player in real life, I become so engrossed in fictional leagues and athletes that it doesn’t matter. I root for more than enough teams on screen, from the Ducks to the Jamaican bobsled team. Given my wealth of knowledge about sports of film, I see it fit to give the Boston College Eagles a little pep talk. Sure, the season may be off to a slow start, but here’s a little something I’ve picked up over the years – nothing’s better than an underdog story.

If pop culture proves to be an indication (which, considering it often serves as a direct reflection of our society, we can say it does), the football team teeters on the brink of greatness and success.

The current 0-3 record does not speak to the wealth of possible victories heading the Eagles’ way.

Sure, losing to Northwestern by seven points when, in all honesty, we maybe should have swiped them appears ominous. The recent slew of losses, however, does not make us losers. It makes us scrappy.

The beautiful duality of a word like ‘scrappy’ works so well here.

‘Scrappy’ can mean to be incomplete and disorganized, which applies to the team’s current state, but it can also mean to exude spunk and determination. For any team, that’s the prime position. A classic example of true scrappiness: the Ducks of The Mighty Ducks fame filled a space quite similar to our Eagles. As any member of Generation X knows, the Ducks started out as an unorganized group of smart-mouthed troublemakers. Even coach Gordon Bombay thought the effort to coach these kids would be fruitless at first.

Bombay and his team, though, took the chips on their respective shoulders and smoothed them out into sleek birds of prey. The Ducks regrouped and beat the pants off those Cake Eaters from Edina (no offense to Adam Banks, of course).

While none of them could stack up to their more athletic rivals, the team took the term underdog and brought bite to every play.

I know, hockey is not football.

The circumstances of a comeback require more than just guts and gumption. I feel I learned from Friday Night Lights, one of football’s greatest comeback stories, though.

In season four, coach Eric Taylor, a molder of men and master of the inspirational speech, faced his biggest challenge yet – a coaching job with the new and underfunded East Dillon Lions. The Lions couldn’t win on inspiration speeches alone.

Taylor drilled them to death, and the hard work paid off in spades when they defeated the West Dillon Lions. They lost every game, but it didn’t matter! They won the rivalry!

To that end, maybe defeating Notre Dame would be enough? I’m merely throwing out bright sides and silver lining, Eagles. It could be so much worse. Remember the classic Rookie of the Year? Twelveyear old Henry Rowengarter lost his surgically enhanced pitching arm – in the last half of the world series! Now that’s the worst.

I digress. In conclusion, Eagles football, even though you’re under fire from many, remember that pop culture and The Heights Arts & Review section is on your side. To quote coach Taylor, “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose!”

Darren Ranck is the Arts & Review editor for The Heights. He can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

1. R.I.P. LADY GAGA

2. LEGACY OF PITT

Take a deep breath, Gaga nation! Everything is OK! This week a group of cyber hackers began spreading a rumor around Facebook that the glitzy pop queen was found dead in a hotel room. Attached to the headlines is a seemingly credible BBC link that posts the virus as your own status. Gaga is the latest on a long list of stars to be used as cyber bully bait, and it seems like the hackers are getting a bit smarter when choosing their celebrity.

While promoting his new movie Moneyball, the renowned actor was asked by co-star Jonah Hill which of his movies he would want to have as his lasting legacy. His answer? No, it wasn’t Benjamin Button, Fight Club, or The Tree of Life, or Troy. It was Mr. and Mrs. Smith of course! I think Pitt’s choice, which he gave without a moment’s hesitation, most likely has to due with the fact that he met his hubby Angelina during the production of the film. Or maybe it’s because he got to meet Seth Cohen!

3. APOLOGY TOUR

With the new Two and a Half Men season going on without him and the premiere of his own Comedy Central roast, Charlie Sheen is once again back in the headlines. He is also, once again, making a number of public appearances to keep the publicity buzz high. Yet, unlike last go around, the plummeting actor isn’t busting out outrageous rants.

Instead, Sheen is making a circuit around television and social networks in order to apologize to those he wronged.

Perhaps the recent $25 million settlement with CBS has put things into perspective for Charlie.

4. Off-key Bennett

5. Ketchup Revolution

On Tuesday, we found out that not everything that Tony Bennett croons is music to the ears. During his visit to the always controversial Howard Stern radio show (an interesting news tidbit in itself), the legendary singer claimed that while being honored by George W. Bush in 2005, the former president admitted that he had made a mistake about the Iraq War. Bennett then went on to offer some peculiar theories about the motivation of the Sept. 11 attacks. Old Tony might still have that smooth and silky voice, but it seems he is not exactly in tune with public opinion.

The prayers of the ketchup-eating drivers have finally been answered! On Tuesday, Heinz announced that their new, driver friendly ketchup container will replace the 43-year-old standard packet at several major fast food restaurants across the country. The new model contains three times as much ketchup as the original design and also possesses a peel off side that is perfect for drivers who want to dip on the go. Now when I’m driving I can finally send important texts while also saucing up my McDonald’s fries.

Serial Story

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This semester, five talented writers will collaborate on a serialized story, inspired by the famed works of Charles Dickens.

Installment One: In which Herman Sherbert awakens Michael Wolf Herman Sherbert woke with a gasp, breaching into morning from the deep seabed of dream. He was relieved to escape because, like so many recent nights, Herman had been dreaming of his wife. Each time she came in sturdy denim and a well-worn cardigan, her hair pulled back into a sensible bun. It was more than his heart could bear.

Herman rolled out of bed and fixed a small breakfast and a sugary coffee. A month and half dragged through his life since she’d flown to Berlin on a consulting trip scheduled to last two weeks. The phone stopped ringing, but Herman was still counting the seconds of silence. He’d received three postcards in total. The final one boasted the Berlin wall mid-crumble and with a thread of red spray paint proclaiming, “The Future is Now,” except the w fell largely on the crumbling stones. On the back of the card she’d written, Hello Bunny, I won’t be able to return home for a little while longer. The work just keeps piling on.

There’s really nothing I can do. Don’t worry and M. Herman read the darn thing like a suicide note, trying to pick apart some reason in the text. Part of him flew immediately to her, over the ocean, bowled down doors and thick-armed men and grabbed her around the waist, pulling her into his embrace and kissing his way back into her heart. But the rest of him (most of him) just sighed and wiped the crumbs from his plate into the trash.

He brought his dishes to the already full sink. With care he placed his plate, saucer, and mug on the peak of the pile of porcelain.

It would all be done tomorrow.

Ah, tomorrow, that wonderful world

within a word, full endless potential!

Herman built quite a home there, a fine and finished castle always on the horizon.

But he’d made the mistake of misplacing ‘Today,’ and ‘Today’ did not take kindly to be forgotten! Today would reintroduce itself with wrath and a firm handshake and tomorrow would vanish like the feathers of a dandelion.

Herman put on his favorite brown suit and blue polka-dotted tie. This was his dressto-impress outfit, and it framed his figure splendidly. As he left his house and walked down the street towards the bus stop, he decided to pick up a box of assorted pastries.

Every autumn the insurance company he worked for held annual employee “Use and Performance” reviews. Herman tried to stay comfortably unexceptionable. Not shoddy enough to warrant disciplinary action, but not eager or proficient enough to be promoted into a position requiring more nagging responsibilities.

This time of year provoked a biting anxiety in Herman. While his university grades were acceptable, he had never actually graduated. Herman felt that two or three unfinished courses were negligible compared to the dozens and dozens of finished courses.

And he proved his worth at his company over the past three years, so they couldn’t accuse him of being incapable. But each year his superiors plucked his resume, his paper soul, from the files. It would only warrant one phone call to one dean to unravel his work history.

A few complimentary cupcakes and crullers wouldn’t hurt anyone.

He skipped around the bakery, picking only the finest of confectionary treats. He requested that they all be boxed since presentation was half the game, and he’d hate to get jelly or powder on his favorite suit.

“I’m sorry, sir,” said the man behind the counter, “Would you mind your box

wrapped in black ribbon? We’re all out of our other colors.”

“That seems a little austere for pastries, but I suppose it’s fine.”

“Wonderful,” replied the baker, and he cut a length of thin black ribbon. He wrapped it twice around the middle of the box and tied a neat little bow. Herman thanked him and walked out of the shop to his bus stop bench around the corner. He sat down and placed the box on his lap.

After about five minutes, a long black car pulled up directly in front of the bus stop. Herman uncrossed his legs and leaned forward. The car door opened and two tall men with slicked back hair stepped out. One had a nose that hooked downward and the other sported five o’clock shadow, though it couldn’t have been later than eight-thirty.

Both were dressed in all white, three-piece suits with thin black ties cutting down their middle and pulled into neat little knots.

Herman watched as they exited the car, wondering if perhaps they were part of some progressive rock band. He was all the more shocked when they sat down on either side of him on the bench.

“Mr. S,” said the one with the pointy nose, “We’re here to take you to the office. The boss requires some pertinent information from you.”

“I see,” said Herman, starting to breath a little quickly and not really seeing at all. He started working on his defense in his head.

The arbitrary core requirements. The value of his study abroad. His willingness to attend adult education classes. “Let it be known that I’ve put a lot of time into this job, and I don’t expect to leave quietly.”

“No,” said the other man, with a chuckle, “No one expects that.”

Michael Wolf is a columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at arts@ bcheights.com.

“Help i’ve been kidnapped and/or runoff with the guitarist from foreigner”

@sn00ki (Snooki, ‘Jersey shore’)

“michael bolton is a male cougar. is there a term for that? mougar? (no, that sounds like a creature)”

@Donaldglover (donald glover, Actor, ‘community’)

“when I’m sick, and a mosquito bites me, i’m like, ‘have at it a-hole.’” @frankbruni (rfank bruni, writer, new york times)

“more fun with press releases! one today has this opener: ‘sometimes a burning sensation is a good thing.’ so reassuring.”

Submit your favorite tweets of the week for consideration at artseditors11@gmail.com.

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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Most Recognized From: Brice was the original Snooki, premiering her “Baby Snooks” act on The Ziegfield Follies of the Air radio show in 1936.

Best Moment: Being the inspiration for the movie Funny Girl.

Contribution to Comedy: Her pass-key to fame came when she met famed composer and musician Irving Berlin, who played her a song (“Sadie Salome, Go Home”), and insisted that she adopt a Yiddish accent for the tune. Berlin thrust her into the national theater scene, where she floated for a year before finding her niche as a “Jewish entertainer” in Florenz Ziefield’s Follies. Here, Brice (born Fania Borach) gained popularity with her Yiddish numbers. She would appear in seven different renditions of the show over the next two decades. Her parody of the “seductive veil dance” brought audiences to tears on a nightly basis.

conquered the radio industry where she limited herself to one character, a non-accented brat named Baby Snooks. Until her death in 1951, Brice wowed radio audiences with the enormously successful Snooks. A decade later, Brice’s story inspired the Barbara Streisand led musical-turnedm o v i e Funny Girl.

Pushing Her Boundaries: Brice was one of the few comediennes of the time daring enough to try blackface, and in 1923, tired of being a sight gag, had her nose surgically straightened. She was also one of Hollywood’s first comeback stories.

Having faded into obscurity in the early 1930s, Brice picked herself up and

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Most recognized from: Lucy Ricardo, the well intended, but mishap-ridden wife in I Love Lucy.

Best Moment: Lucy’s (and Lucille’s) frantic struggle to control the candy production line is one of the most iconic comedy moments.

Contribution to comedy: Ball stretched the rights of women in television. At the time when she was filming I Love Lucy, Ball was pregnant with her first child Lucie. However, CBS demanded that not only should the show never say the word ‘pregnant,’ they should also never film Ball’s stomach because a pregnant woman should not be on television. Fighting against this blatant sexism in the industry, Ball was allowed to have her baby bump filmed and even incorporated into the story line of the show in a novel feat of comedy (however, the word

‘pregnant’ was exchanged for the apparently less distracting phrase ‘expecting’).

Pushing The Boundaries: Not only was Ball a genius on the screen, but also she was incredibly business savvy that enabled her to have a career that spanned more than half a century. Ball had the intuition and ability to switch media at exactly the right moment, preventing her career – which started in a series of B-list movies, earning her the title “Queen of the Bs” – from ever stalling. Ball also tested new realms into which women could expand, being the first female to host the Emmys, and in fact the only female host for the next 23 years.

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Most recognized: One of the original cast members of SNL Best moment: Bringing the out of this world character Rosanne Rosannadanna to Weekend Update.

Most Recognized From: My Life on the D-List or Suddenly Susan Best Moment: Shouting, “Suck it, Jesus, this award is my God now!” when she won an Emmy in 2008.

Contribution to comedy: Before Amy Poehler, before Kristen Wiig, and before Kristin Schaal, Gilda Radner hit the comedy scene as one of the most recognizable funny ladies on television. As a member of the original cast on Saturday Night Live, Radner held her own in one of television’s biggest boys clubs.

She brought strong physical comedy to every sketch alongside the likes of Chevy Chase and John Belushi.

Whether it was jumping on the bed as a six-year-old talk show host, or contorting her face into unseemly expressions, Radner wasn’t afraid to make her comedy less dainty than other comediennes. Her all-ornothing attitude truly paved the way for today’s comedienne.

Contribution to Comedy: Kathy has never been afraid of anyone when it comes to her live acts, directly targeting people like Kate Gosselin, Sarah Palin, and more recently, Michele Bachmann in her televised specials. Unlike other comedians who riff on drinking and one-night stands, Griffin professes to have never had a drink in her life, instead focusing her razor-sharp tongue on pop-culture splatter like Toddlers and Tiaras and Paula Abdul. Her show on Bravo (D-List) was nominated for multiple Emmys over the course of its run, spawning a book (Offical Book Club Selection), a Snuggie-type fleece (the Maglet, named after her wonderful mother Maggie, complete with pockets for her boxed wine), and countless standup specials.

Pushing their boundaries: Radner had a rather turbulent personal life. She struggled with personal issues regarding her appearance, having a particular struggle with bulimia. She told reporters she vomited in every toilet of Rockefeller Center. Her battle with ovarian cancer led her to become an advocate for cancer research. She penned a book, It’s Always Something, which discussed her experiences with the illness and also shared more stories with the highly popular Life magazine. Radner passed away because of the illness in 1988 with husband Gene Wilder at her side, but her legacy lives on in Gilda’s Club, a center where victims of cancer, along with family and friends, can educate themselves and learn how to cope.

Pushing Her Boundaries: Many comedians rely on the same act to get them through the year. Aziz Ansari spent 2010 touring with the same “dangerously delicious” material, for instance, but Griffin reinvents her act every time something noteworthy happens to catch her eye (she really must have eight TiVos going at the same time to catch everything that she does). On D-List, though, Griffin often displays a different, more vulnerable side often cast aside in the lives of comedians. Whether it was the death of her father or a trip to the Walter Reade Medical Center, Griffin was never afraid to cry on camera.

It never dampened her tart demeanor, but rather allowed viewers to capture a well-rounded picture of the truly humble and appreciative woman so many thought they knew.

k at hy griffin gilda radner MOST RECOGNIZED FROM: Saturday Night Live BEST MOMENT: Appearing on screen as Sarah Palin, with her “maverick” accent comedic gold and really funny “don’tcha know.”

Contribution to Comedy: Elizabeth Stamatina Fey is the triple threat of comedy: she is an incredible writer, an uproarious physical and verbal comedienne, and a brilliant producer. She dominates the comedy industry so much that it impossible to separate her from most any of the comedy projects. Honestly, instead of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game, there should be one created in honor of Fey. From movies to sketches to full episodes to live shows, Tina Fey moves seamlessly between all mediums of wit and makes it look easy.

Luckily, the world realizes the unmatched prowess of Fey and has rewarded her with spots on the lists from EW for Entertainers of the Year, from New York Post for the 50 Most Powerful Women, and from Barbara Walters for the 10 Most Fascinating People.

Pushing her Boundaries: Although Fey brings humor and levity to all aspects of her life, she also broke boundaries of comedy in her new book Bossypants, where she laid aside the jokes and shared an incredibly personal story about the subtle scar crossing her left cheek. When she was a child, Fey was cut by a stranger who was never caught or identified. Previously, she did not share this story because, as she said to Vanity Fair, “It’s impossible to talk about it without somehow seemingly exploiting it.” However, Fey recently broke her silence and took on this issue in such a way that no one could accuse her of wanting to profit from it. In opening up, Fey empowers other women – comedians, actresses, and all other females – to do the same, to expose their own tragedies in order to overcome them.

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Most recognized: The first working woman, Mary Richards, on a network sitcom.

Best moment: On The Mary Tyler Moore Show’s “Chuckles Bites the Dust,” Mary tries to fight a major giggle fit during a clown’s funeral.

Contribution to comedy: Along with Carol Burnett, Mary Tyler Moore became the comedic touchstone for the modern woman of the 1970s. Her eponymous sitcom about a cable news team in Minneapolis became a smash for Moore’s smart and funny portrayal of producer Mary Richards. Before this gig, though, Moore played the typical wife role on The Dick Van Dyke show. Her Laura Petrie was darling, but Mary Richards could stand on her own as a neurotic single female, arguably a spinster at the age of 30.

Moore found the humor in a new kind of woman, though, and made working gals accessible and humorous. Her work paved the way for the likes of Murphy Brown and Cybil Shepherd, proving that women don’t need to just need to be cute to be funny – they can be smart too.

with a striking cinematic turn in 1979’s Robert Redford-helmed film Ordinary People. The film depicted a family’s grief after the death of the eldest son. Moore played against type in the role of the grieving matriarch, Beth Jarrett. As a comedic actress, Moore exuded only the warmest of smiles, but Ordinary People required a cold, embittered performance, one that Moore delivered exquisitely. Her calculated and subtle work earned her an Oscar nomination, proving that she could harness both the comedic and tragic sides to acting.

Pushing their boundaries: When The Mary Tyler Moore Show went off the air in 1977, Moore still epitomized the beloved sitcom actress. She turned heads, though,

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Thursday, September 22, 2011

an independent frame of mind

Fashion Forward

Growing out of the school girl uniforms

Little Boots takes bigger steps in US

Navigating collegiate fashion with those new residence hall roommates

Therese Tully From Kindergarten until senior year in high school I wore a uniform. Unreal, I know. Every year was much the same: skirt, button down, knee socks, and some unfortunate pair of shoes. Though a uniform robs us, to some level, of self-expression, there is something to be said for uniforms. They are the great equalizer, and they sure make getting dressed in the morning a lot easier. In fact, coming to college has added a significant amount of time to my morning routine, as I, while half asleep, struggle to remember if I wore this particular sweater to a Tuesday/Thursday class last week, or to a Monday/Wednesday/Friday one. Stressful, I know.

But with college comes a whole new set of rules and problems. All of a sudden I am forced to dress myself, every single solitary day. Enter, the communal closet.

What would life be without it? Luckily, I grew up with four sisters, so I am familiar with the concept of “sharing.” It is not as simple as some may believe. Some people like to share their clothes, some do not; some don’t mind when you borrow something of theirs that is new and they haven’t worn, some do not; always return the borrowed item clean, unless in cleaning it, you fear the delicate fabric, or sequins, ect. will be ruined in the process; some people have an open closet policy, other’s want you to ask them for their permission first.

What is off limits at all times? What to do if your favorite top is all of sudden on your friend for the night?

If one can manage to navigate these pitfalls, great reward is to be had. For in college, everyone is in the same stage in life, and doing the same sorts of things.

Want to switch up your scarf for class today? Chances are your friends or roommates have just the thing.

Going to a sweet Mod party Friday night and have no new “going out tops” to wear? Thank goodness your friend just picked up a bunch of new ones! Job interview and no shoes that go with that new business professional skirt you purchased? What are friends for?!

But with this great communal closet comes a lot of pressure, and doubts arise within each of us. We wonder, am I contributing enough to the closet? If not, what to do about it? Is one person contributing the most? Do you hate one of your roommates’ style?

There are a lot of things to consider when getting dressed each day. And possibly the greatest difficulty, what if you get a stain on someone else’s clothing? Been there done that, it’s called pre-washing with cold water, and she never noticed!

But the beauty is, if we can learn to share our clothes, we can learn to share so much more: our time, our attention, our advice, and our true concern.

Friendships are built on the small things that happen inside a classroom or a dorm room each day. They are built on taking out the trash without being asked, cleaning your hair out of the shower drain, bringing home cookies from the Chocolate Bar when you know your roommate has had a bad day, and not returning someone’s favorite top with a huge ketchup stain on the front. To form a lasting bond, and to live in such small quarters, is to be considerate, or at least not to kill one another. Girls are naturally very competitive, so taking some of that competition out of our days concerning wardrobes can go a long way.

With our minds on a lot of things, it can be difficult to think about outfits constantly, but as a girl attending BC, I definitely do. I dream of the simple uniform days, where my outfit choices consisted of questions such as, maroon or grey knee socks today?

Should I wear my pearl earrings or not? Is this school shirt clean? But I think my friends and I have it pretty much down pat, the sharing that is. Maybe I can thank my sisters for the early childhood training. But at college, we are judged just as much by our clothing, as by the fabulous friends who lend it to you.

Brennan Carley

Therese Tully is a Heights Editor. She can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

Although some argue that the creativity of fashion is completely stiffled with school uniforms, there is something to be said for the simplicity and lack of stress that accompanies these mandatory outfits. Not only does one have to decide what to wear in college, but also learn how to share clothing with roomates and friends. There is an undeniable etiquette that accompanies this communal closet, and although it exponentially increases your own fashion opporunities, it also brings a new set of problems.

In Case You Missed it by Carolina Del Busto

‘63rd Primetime Emmy Awards’ Award show season is something that many people look forward to. It is that time of year where one gets to dress up, walk down the red carpet, and prepare a speech while the rest of us get to sit at home and watch the whole thing unravel for our entertainment. This year, it was FOX’s turn to broadcast the Emmy’s. The show took a sentimental turn when Charlie Sheen came out to introduce Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and took a second to say a few unscripted words, “From the bottom of my heart, I wish you [Two and a Half Men cast] nothing but the best for this upcoming season. We spent eight wonderful years together, and I know you will continue to make great television.” The program did not go over its allotted time, but instead ran quite smoothly. However, Jane Lynch did not do the best job at hosting. Her outfits were less than fabulous and her jokes lacked luster. Yet, despite how good or bad the show is, audiences keep coming back 63 years later.

‘Two and a half men’

‘2 Broke Girls’

Monday night television just got a whole lot hunkier.

With the season premiere of the newly revamped Two and a Half Men, CBS hopes to bring a new kind of audience to the couch. The first thing viewers find out is what happened to Charlie Sheen’s character. With that problem being quickly resolved, the show moves on to the reason everyone is watching: Ashton Kutcher. Kutcher joins the cast of the show and plays Walden Schmidt, a sweet, emotionally immature billionaire who has just been dumped.

Despite having lost their star, Sheen, producers were able to find a suitable replacement that has proven to bump up their ratings. According to Yahoo!, Monday night’s premiere pulled in an outstanding number of viewers – over 27 million – and set a new record for the show.

Adding a new, younger character looks like it will help the show reinvent itself after eight long years and appeal to a greater audience.

In 2 Broke Girls, movie star turned TV actress Kat Dennings stars in this comedy about two girls that are, well, broke. Working in a dilapidated diner in Brooklyn, New York, Max (Dennings) meets the riches to almost rags Caroline, played by Beth Behrs.

Max is a hard working, fast talking girl from Brooklyn just trying to get by. Caroline, on the other hand, is a spoiled rich girl from Manhattan who has been forced to get out of the Upper East Side after her family lost all their money. The two girls, who at first appear to be polar opposites, form an unlikely friendship by the end of the episode. They even decide to go into business together one day by opening up a cupcake shop.

Only problem is they need money to do that, and, as the title suggests, neither of them have any. The show delivered some good laughs and is well on its way to having a promising first season.

Taste debate: Paparazzi Ethics

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Charlotte Parish

Asst. Arts & Review Editor

While it is completely true that some paparazzi publications are truly rags (think the National Enquirer’s latest headlines for some real keepers), there is really no reason for the scathing levels of frustration that many stars have for these photo-popping, popularity pursuers.

The perfect example is Miley Cyrus. She is infamous for flipping off the paparazzi and verbally abusing them when they try to take photos of her on the street. But she actually has no right to be angry about it when she makes money dressing in Daisy Dukes to dance and sing (horribly) on stage. When one is a performer, you resign yourself to the paparazzi as one of the pitfalls of the job. They get paid exorbitant amounts of money for a job that every star is on record at interviews saying is like, “Living out my dreams!” In exchange, they lose the right to many aspects of privacy that the common people take for granted.

Stars absolutely know what they are signing up for – everyone upwards of age five knows how many tabloids stalk stars. And whether or not the public should have such an immense interest in celebrities, as long as they are of interest, stars must take their presence not as an annoyance, but a reality in life. Granted, the current trend of hacking cell phones for photos stretches the realm of acceptable behavior because that is a legal violation.

Taking photos still is not a crime, so paparazzi should be allowed to snap away.

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Christine Zhao

Heights Staff

When I was young, my mom’s tactic for getting me to stop acting up was to ignore me. That is exactly what the paparazzi should do. By continuously probing deeper and deeper into the lives of celebrities, they are feeding the unhealthy appetites of the famous for attention. Unfortunately, it simply isn’t feasible to eradicate celebrity stalkers entirely. Ours is a culture that worships celebrity and is often more interested in the latest celebrity affairs than the latest world affairs.

In order to combat this, the paparazzi should be kept on a shorter leash. Privacy is another thing that Americans value very much. The way things are now, the paparazzi are privy to too much. Americans have always been wary of communism, a system of government that leaves people with no privacy.

Here’s the thing, allowing paparazzi unwarranted access to the intimate lives of celebrities is just as bad. They shouldn’t be able to go through the stars’ trash or tail their cars.

The way most people blanch at Facebook’s constant modifications to privacy settings is the way we should react to the press delving into Jennifer Aniston’s latest breakup, or hacking into Scarlett Johansson’s phone.

In June of 2009, a pixie-like British girl released her debut album, Hands, which was a smash success across the pond. Eager to prove her worth, Victoria Hesketh took on the moniker “Little Boots” and made her way through the talk show circuit in England, stopping at Later … with Jools Holland and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross much earlier (and less notably so) than Lady Gaga did. The album peaked at No. 5 on the British charts and produced two smash singles, “New in Town” and “Remedy.”

About a year later, Little Boots released Hands in the United States, where it failed to make any impact at all. What was it about the dance-pop infused Boots that didn’t tickle America’s fancy?

Hands is a wonderful cross-generational experiment, blending the electronic-sounds of the early ’80s with the pop-overtones of the early 2000s.

Boots clearly draws inspiration from the Human League, Pink Floyd, and Kylie Minogue, an oddly diverse set of artists whose sounds somehow coalesce in perfect harmony on Hands.

Some of the songs brim with exquisite vulnerability, like the duet “Symmetry,” in which Little Boots sings, “So tell me what you want to see / ‘cause everything I want to be / is there in your reflection / shining out right back at me.” Paired with her breathy, airy voice, the tracks take on a giddy and unearthly nature.

Although her voice is not the strongest, Little Boots musicianship has a distinctly wacky flair. She has a fascination with all things electronic, even going as far as to take lessons in the laser harp. This instrument is comprised of a series of lasers that fan outward; each beam needs to be blocked by the musician’s hand (with a special glove) to produce electronically enhanced harp sounds.

Little Boots is more than a series of computerized blips and fancy laser harps though. Her acoustic cover of Kid Cudi’s “Day N’ Night” demonstrates a quieter talent within the heavily produced artist. After the Icelandic volcano eruption in 2010, Boots was left stranded at California’s Coachella without any of her instruments. Rather than canceling, the singer improvised with what she could scrounge up on last minute notice, and was heralded for the off-character performance.

I was lucky enough to see Little Boots during her first U.S. tour, a planned 13-date trek that saw only six actual shows. It seemed like the tour was plagued from the very beginning, as she was not able her laser-operation certification in enough time. Luckily, by the time she hit New York, everything was in working order, laser harp and all. Hers was one of the most engaging concerts I’ve had the chance to see. In front of a rapt audience, Boots seamlessly moved from slow tracks (the somber “Ghost” which kicked off the show, Boots shrouded in near pitchdarkness) to numbers like “New in Town” and “Earthquake,” both of which sent the whole room into a whirlwind of dancing.

At one point, a stagehand wheeled an instrument onstage that looked like an iPad with a grid pattern overlay. Each row on the grid seemed to correspond to a noise (some musical notes, some human sounds); she called it a TenoriOn, and each column corresponded to a second in time. A line of light traveled across the grid every eight seconds or so that played the notes she had pressed.

She used it several times throughout the show, whirling her hands around like a tornado, using the device to sample such musicians as Peaches (riffing on her hit “F— the Pain Away”) and, surprisingly, Kelly Clarkson (who knew “I Do Not Hook Up” fit in so perfectly Boots’ hit “Remedy”?). She exhibited a mesmerizing and esoteric array of talents that the music industry (Top-40 in general) so desperately needs.

It remains to be seen why she didn’t catch on in the U.S. ; many people in the dance world view her as too poppy of an artist, but many in the pop-scene think she belongs in the club. Little Boots is hard at work on the follow-up to Hands at the moment; let’s hope the process allows her to finally strike a chord with American audiences.

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

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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Emmy Moments

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by Brennan Carley

HIGH: ‘JUSTIFIED’ LOW: LONELY The Emmys, much like the Grammys, ISLAND TAKE OVER are an old-timers club. Once an actor or series has won an award, it become difficult to topple them from that throne, so set are the Emmy voters in their ways. Much like the Grammy voters did earlier this year, the Emmy voters seem to have shifted their focus, bestowing more accolades on lesser-known performers than in previous years. Margo Martindale stood out as the villainous Maggs Bennett on Justified this season, a performance that crackled with backwoods ferocity, but next to nobody knew who she was when she stepped up to that podium on Sunday evening. Even for those not willing to invest in another television show, Martindale’s Bennett was one of the most disturbing and maleficent villains to hit the small screen in years. She captured the quiet cruelty of Dale Dickey’s Merab (from Winter’s Bone) mixed with the fluttery fury of John Lithgow’s Trinity Killer on Dexter.

Though right at home on their native Saturday Night Live, Andy Samberg and his band of buffoons (Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone) should have kept their follies off the Emmy stage. Akon, characteristically out of tune but looking as proud as a new father, tried valiantly to replicate the success of his “I Just Had Sex” Digital Short. Likewise, Michael Bolton reprised his role as Jack Sparrow in the hilariously unexpected skit of the same name, but the Emmys version lacked the key element of surprise. Only one part of the otherwise strained bit worked, and it didn’t involve any of the actual members of Lonely Island. Instead of Samberg and company, Maya Rudolph took on Lady Gaga’s role in “3 Way,” accompanied by John Stamos and Ed Helms. John Stewart later took the crew to task by commenting that he had a “lot of explaining to do” to his children watching from home.

HIGH: ‘OFFICE’ SPOOF

LOW: ‘RACE’ Last year, Bravo’s cooking staple Top Chef stole the Emmy from CBS’ The Amazing Race, a show that has been fading in quality for years.

The world-wide show had won the Outstanding Reality Competition for seven years in a row and was highly expected to lose out to Chef again this year, but managed to scrape out another win. It’s a travesty for this show to be continually rewarded; it’s not as if it was the worst of the bunch this year (that honor is bestowed to Dancing with the Stars), but it certainly wasn’t the best. This season of Top Chef: All Stars saw segments featuring The Muppets (yes, it was a cookiebased challenge to satiate guest judge Cookie Monster), Paula Deen (the queen of butter and oil), and a triumphant return for Chef Richard Blais. It was a touching and thrilling season of “can’t miss” TV, and should have been rewarded for such.

Though her opening video ran way too long (and elicited ver y meager laughs), Lynch rebounded in the later segment in which stars of other shows visited Scranton, Pa. The funniest interaction occurred between Aziz Ansari (Parks and Recreation) and Leslie Baker (Stanley). The wacky Tracy Morgan (30 Rock) fit right in with the absurd employees of The Office, as did others like Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad, here supplying the show’s resident kook Creed with his crystal meth), John Slattery (Mad Men), and Mariska Hargitay (no longer of Law and Order: SVU). Ashton Kutcher fell flat as the new boss of the Scranton branch (much like he failed to live up to Charlie Sheen’s role in the revamped Two and a Half Men, a feat that was hard to accomplish). Props go to Amy Poehler for her faithful Dothraki accent.

LOW: MINISERIES

HIGH: ‘FNL’

One complaint about the Emmys, year after year, is the length of the show.

Clocking in at close to three-hours, some serious snipping could be done to shorten the show while maintaining a steadier viewership. It’s obvious that the Emmy promoters would love to draw in a higher caliber of celebrities, and its feeble attempts to do so with the miniseries categories are a waste of time for those watching from home. There are only so many times audiences can watch Kate Winslet shedding her crocodile tears on stage, feigning surprise at yet another victory (all of which she has rightfully deserved, which is why the astonishment is silly at this point). It would be a major coup for the show to shift the category to the week-prior ceremony for the Creative Arts Emmys (the “Schmemmys” as Kathy Griffin calls them), but it would save audiences from a boring hour of television.

Many of Friday Night Lights’ band of devoted fans feared another Emmys shutout for their beloved drama series, its last year of eligibility for the prize. Critics declared that the Lights’ few nominations were victory enough for the struggling series. The storied history of the show is known by many: its final seasons were aired first by Direct TV in a deal with NBC, in an effort to allow the show runners the opportunity to close up shop the way in which they had always intended. Stars Connie Britton and Kyle Chandler were nominated for Lead Actress and Actor in a Drama, respectively, but all hopes were pinned on Britton for the win.

Her portrayal of Tami Taylor (Mrs. Coach to legions of devotees) was consistently striking and realistic. She was America’s favorite half of one of television’s best couples in history. When she was ignored, fanatics wept, only to bawl tears of joy moments later with Chandler’s humble, coach-like acceptance speech.

Experiencing The Who’s ‘Tommy’ from an exciting and new perspective Taylor Cavallo Whenever I attend a concert with my friend Demetri, we always play a game on the way: we both list the songs that we hope the artist will play. Although this little game is fun because it gets us excited for the show, it’s frustrating because none of my songs are ever played (of course, Demetri’s always are; good thing he always has excellent choices).

From Phish to Dark Star Orchestra, I always strike out. Last Saturday was the first time we both got to hear everything we wanted.

Roger Daltrey, lead singer of the timeless, classic British rock band The Who, performed at Boston University’s Agganis

Arena on Saturday, Sept. 17.

The allure of this concert in particular was that the set list included The Who’s entire fourth album, Tommy, which was the first set. The second set of the show consisted of other classic Who songs and even some surprising covers. An added bonus to the show was that Simon Townshend, younger brother of The Who’s Pete Townshend, was in Daltrey’s band, playing guitar and even singing some songs.

Hearing all of Tommy live was incredible. Daltrey’s voice was surprisingly strong throughout the whole show, and the intensity of the album itself was truly evident live. The only thing that we found distracting were the digitally animated movies being played behind Daltrey

and his band that were slightly embarrassing and slightly too cheesy. Daltrey later told the audience that his students at a university in England had made the videos, which in retrospect made them a little more bearable because of the sentimentality factor.

The Tommy set was relaxing and truly a listening experience.

Hearing an entire album live was incredible. With the second set, the show saw an exponential increase in energy. Keeping with the initial theme of eyesight as present with Tommy, the second set opened with “I Can See For Miles” and the crowd pleaser, “Behind Blue Eyes,” a heartwrenching song that graces the ‘Sad Song’ playlists of Who fans everywhere. It was also the first

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song I had hoped to hear, so I was loving it. A few songs later, the band whipped out “Going Mobile,” one of my personal favorites, with Simon Townshend on vocals and guitar, a small taste of Pete in the BU arena.

Being able to sing out that famous line about pollution, gypsies, and air conditioners was something I had looked forward to since I heard the initial banjo-like guitar hook. Daltrey surprised everyone in the arena by proclaiming himself a devout Johnny Cash fan, claiming he will “never stop playing his music,” and continued to play a medley of Cash songs that included “I Got Stripes,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” and “Ring of Fire,” which Daltrey asked the audience to sing along with him.

Discouragingly and surprisingly (considering Demetri and I were the only people there under the age of 40), not many people knew the words. But the Cash medley was fun, unique and surprising, which is the best kind of cover. Once we heard the unmistakable “Who are you?” we knew that could only mean one thing, and the concert took an epic turn. “Who Are You,” and “Young Man Blues” into “Baba O’Riley” seemed like the perfect way to end the concert. Daltrey unfortunately ended that incredible set with two lackluster songs, which in turn ended the show. And we were shocked.

We had been waiting for “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” but maybe that was a bit too hopeful. It was the only thing that was left to

be desired. All in all, we didn’t care. The concert was too epic to complain about.

What was truly amazing about this show was that we got to see Daltrey, the original lead singer of one of the most influential rock bands of all time, perform all of their classic songs. As much as “Baba O’Riley” is overplayed, hearing Daltrey, the man who made it famous sing it, was priceless.

For those two hours I felt like a member of the ’60s youth hearing Daltrey’s words through a record player ... and it was awesome.

Taylor Cavallo is a columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

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Roger Daltrey performed at the Boston University’s Agganis Arena for a packed house. He performed the entirety of The Who’s album ‘Tommy,’ a rock opera about a deaf, dumb, and blind boy growing up in postmodern America.

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Mixing upbeat tracks with heartfelt ones, Lovato bounces back

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Talk about the ultimate comeback story. Demi Lovato has grown up in the spotlight, following the footsteps of a typical, shiny-faced Disney star, until this past year when she faced personal struggles, family tension, and what her publicity team has referred to as “a nervous breakdown.” Most of America probably chuckled to themselves when the news came out that Lovato lost control and punched a backup dancer on the Camp Rock 2 tour. However, no one was laughing when Demi admitted to cutting herself, starving her body, and being diagnosed as bipolar. Thanks to Lovato’s latest album, Unbroken, all this drama has been put to rest through powerful lyrics filled with emotional vulnerability and music that has the power to heal even the deepest wounds.

The album’s release this past Tuesday created a social media storm not only across the United States, but also in countries around the world. Lovato is extremely close with her fans and explained to Seventeen magazine, “My fans have been such an incredible support system for me – I hope I can repay this and help other girls learn from my experiences.” Each song on her album teaches a lesson, empowers the listener to take control of his or her life, and emphasizes the impor-

tance of overcoming adversity. Take the lead single off the album, “Skyscraper,” for example. Chronicling Lovato’s journey through rehab, the track is essentially the theme song to Lovato’s life. The lyrics, “You can break everything I am / Like I’m made of glass ... Go on and try to tear me down / I will be rising from the ground,” are filled with heartfelt sentiment. Only someone who has experienced Lovato’s breakdown could create a song with this degree of genuine, raw emotion.

Lovato’s break from Disney shows in tracks like, “For the Love of a Daughter,” where she directly addresses her estranged father for the first time, saying, “How could you push me out of your world / Lie to your flesh and your blood / Put your hands on the ones you swore you loved?” This raw, unedited emotion would have been impossible if Lovato remained in the Disney music-sphere. About half of Lovato’s tracks on Unbroken are reflections of her most personal, trying times. However, all these challenges transform into moments of growth and allow Lovato to grow personally, musically, and lyrically as seen through the tracks, “Fix a Heart,” “In Real Life,” and “Lightweight.”

In complete contrast to the emotionally laden tracks on Unbroken, Lovato also brings a variety of fun, R&B, dance songs to the album, collaborating with R&B

Singles

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On ‘Unbroken,’ Demi Lovato shows off a more mature sound and brings some famous friends along with her. greats like Missy Elliot, Iyaz, Jason Derulo, and Dev. At first glance, these collaborations may seem farfetched, but they surprisingly work.

Lovato’s voice meshes flawlessly with Dev’s in the track, “Who’s that Boy.” Missy Elliot and Iyaz add some fun, upbeat pop songs to the album, but the real success is the song, “Together,” featuring Jason Derulo. With the perfect balance between pop, soul, and R&B, this

song is the ultimate feel good track, asserting the importance of coming together in order to overcome life’s challenges.

Every album has at least one mess-up track. Lovato is no exception as seen through the clichéd, “My Love is Like a Star,” that is extremely reminiscent of Lovato’s days as a Disney star, but, thankfully, the rest of the album outshines this one sappy song. And anyways breaking

completely from a corporation as large and influential as Disney is not going to happen over night.

Lovato is finding her way, breaking out of the Disney-child-star shackles, and maturing into a true artist. The combination of Lovato’s killer vocals and forceful lyrics gives her songs genuine emotion. Of course there is always room to grow, but Unbroken is perfect for Lovato’s career at this point in her life. n

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DeGraw hones in his sound and demonstrates his musicianship

By Kylie Rolincik For the Heights

Ah yes, those gloomy middle school afternoons, transitioning from soccer practice to the dentist, my chest cavity compressed in the backseat of a Toyota Sienna minivan beneath the unnecessary

resistance of a spiteful seatbelt.

These were unfortunate days, yet I recall the manner in which the radio could really turn things around for me (a reflection of my frivolous and unstable middle school mentality). Specifically, I remember the intense burst of rejuvenating fervor that accompanied the jazzy piano

intro to Gavin DeGraw’s “Chariot,” diluting my seventh grade angst as I brazenly delivered each and every lyric into the back of my mother’s head. That was 2003, and I am pleased to announce that eight years later Gavin DeGraw continues to deftly pound piano keys whilst producing warm gruff vocals

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Gavin DeGraw plays up his strengths on ‘Sweeter,’ an album with primal guitar playing and lyrics about drunken nights.

in his soulful way.

Released Sept. 20, Sweeter is DeGraw’s fourth studio album in eight years—bright, pop-rock, compelling musicality bellows from this 10-track compilation. For a significant portion of the album, DeGraw soars with his customary vocal launch, sparking emotive fires in the souls of an adoring fan base (headed by my seventh grade self).

Through these piano-driven culminations of sound, DeGraw tactfully plays up his strengths and pays homage to his previous musical accomplishments. He also extends his vision of self-expression into the realm of a darker hue, lyrically addressing intriguing conflicts and depraved romances.

The opening and title track “Sweeter” is a rocking stomper into a fresh, sexy, masculine direction—a road not typically traveled

by DeGraw and his musicianship.

This funky pop song captures the imperfect reality of a man pining after another man’s girl. There is something primal about the thumping rhythmic progress, which combined with the delightfully textured silk of that golden voice conjures the feeling of those bittersweet

emotions. With the guitar cranked up louder than the keyboard, infusing a cutting swagger that insists you groove along and renders your subconscious incapable of dismissing the catchy tune (this listener is currently suffering from that side effect), DeGraw displays a fascinating new dimension to his remarkable music personality.

This sense of explorative artistic release carries from the opener into the uncharacteristically dark thematic sketch of tracks like “Run Every Time.” Here he identifies himself as the bad boy, commitment phobic – an unusual move for the typically romantic DeGraw – through which he asserts, “I know a woman’s nature / There’s nothing you can save here / Me, I run every time.” Perhaps the most brutal of these lyrical realisms finds itself within the track “Radiation” as he admits, “If you get an invitation, I’m probably drunk.” This allusion to DeGraw’s intoxicated booty calls is relatively startling and yet a refreshing break from chariots gliding upon golden paths of eternal love. These vulnerable revelations and arduous emotional endeavors color the album with a mature

conception of rough honesty, not customary to DeGraw’s previous work.

And if you are searching for a poignant wedding song, look no further than “Soldier.” This deeply tender track is one part trickling piano, one part delicately impassioned serenade, and one billion parts saccharine promise of eternal love and protection, “You’re thirsty, I’ll be rain / You get hurt, I’ll take your pain / I know you don’t believe it / But I said it and I still mean it / When you heard what I told you / When you get worried I’ll be your soldier.” As a flourishing gesture of idealized romance, it’s classic DeGraw, contrasting with some of the album’s more melancholy tracks to create a versatile image of life’s song – worthy elements. Also, this song is totally the new “Chariot.”

The cheery, soul-rock singer of smash hits manifests tremendous spiritual and aesthetic augmentation with Sweeter, yielding a cultivated image of both life’s dazzling gleam and its crude stains. The romantic is juxtaposed with the realistic in a creative format strung together by a voice full of evolved expression and timeless soul. n

Bennett brings it back to the basics on the long-awaited ‘Duets II’

By Christina Quinn Heights Editor

Certainly not a new name on the jazz vocal scene, Tony Bennett has crafted a stellar new album, Duets II, which is rich with classic jazz styling and familiar standards. The beauty of the album comes not from the variety of the accompaniment as much as from the unexpected nature of many of the vocalists.

Bennett brings together a very talented group of artists and presents a highly enjoyable listening experience sure to delight any fan.

As one would expect, several of the duets feature prominent names from the contemporary popular jazz scene. Unsurprisingly, Michael Buble and Bennett prove to be a seamless pair on “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore,” and as you’d expect, the daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, Natalie, proves to be an excellent vocal complement to Bennett as well. Similarly, the excellent use of bass in “Speak Low” provides a deep, resonant tempo naturally matched by Norah Jones’s crooning, sultry voice. Despite the age difference between the two, Jones and Bennett manage to make a seductive song enthralling

yet equally appropriate. Finishing off the group of artists known for their jazz backgrounds, Tony was lucky enough to record “Body and Soul” with the late Amy Winehouse.

Although their tones together don’t have the most enjoyable effect at all times, it’s wonderfully chilling to hear Winehouse.

Several of the featured artists are known for carrying away an entire song simply with their voices, and it seems as though Bennett almost wanted to challenge them to temper themselves to a controlled performance where vocals do not always outweigh the musical accompaniment. Listening to Aretha Franklin try to keep her voice low and steady throughout “How Do You Keep the Music Playing” is a stark contrast to her usual exploding intensity. Not until the end of the song, in many cases, do these famous voices get the chance to stretch their legs and pack the full force of their abilities.

Bennett brings forth unique performances from the likes of Josh Groban and Andrea Bocelli, which allows the listener to appreciate more gentle performances that showcase their artistic abilities to harmonize.

Shockingly, a large portion of Bennet’s duet partners hail from deep country roots. To hear Willie Nelson jauntily sing “Sunny Side of the Street” accompanied by softly swishing cymbals, you’d hardly suspect the 78year-old man behind the springy voice was more commonly found in past years singing alongside Johnny Cash.

In the same way, the soothing, softer number that is “Blue Velvet” betrays the spunky, buzz-cut woman belonging to the smooth, round voice of k.d. lang. The song is extremely soothing to listen to, especially accompanied by a full orchestra, and is extremely appropriate on a Tony Bennett album since his recording of the track was the first to hit the charts in 1951.

Bennett also chose several of country music’s notable leading ladies, including Sheryl Crow, to be his musical partners. As a former American Idol, it’s no secret that Carrie Underwood can belt, but she adopts a new tone for “It Had to Be You.” Clearly she’s left her Louisville Slugger at home. The jazz guitar in “The Way You Look Tonight” is beautiful, as is Faith Hill’s voice. She and Bennett deconstruct the song, taking it slowly from the start, and do great justice to a favorite Frank Sinatra tune.

If employing talent from south of the Mason-Dixon line seems innovative, then Bennett really blew the curve with some of his other singing partners. One of the best songs on the album, not simply based on musical talent but also because of charming dynamic between the two singers, “The Lady is a Tramp,” features Lady Gaga. This is a different

take on Gaga’s voice – much more unplugged and a bit out of character, but who would have thought scat could be so delightful? Also a bit out of his element, John Mayer adorably and tentatively takes on jazz alongside Bennett’s trained voice “One for My Baby.” Mariah Carey also shows her inability to begin a recording without a few token “ohhs.”

The true beauty of a duet album is that it gives a listener the chance to appreciate the musical talents of a favorite artist while simultaneously presenting a collection of the ways they interact with fellow artists – in many ways much more intimate than a solo album. Bennett’s age has clearly made him wise to the unexpected ways talent can combine. n

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Rounding up an eclectic but diverse group of artists, Tony Bennett has achieved musical perfection on ‘Duets II.’

Radio singles by Molly Moltzen Jason Mraz “The World As I See It”

V.V. Brown feat. Chiddy “Children (Keep on Singing)” Jason Mraz has made a living of writing songs that sound pretty, melodic … and mostly all the same. The typical Mraz format is ever present in his newest single – a beach-y sounding backtrack with Mraz’s singing about romantic feelings. However, the real downfall comes from the cheesy lyrics. We get it, Mraz – you write simple love songs, but writing the same one over and over won’t cut it.

British artist V.V. Brown may be best known in the states for one of her songs incessantly appearing in Degrassi commercials (guilty of watching) but “Children” is a fun pop number that might help her break out of the TeenNick mold. Brown’s voice is surprisingly rich, and the marching beat plays well off her vocals. In addition, an interlude by rapper Chiddy gives the song a little extra dimension.

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds “If I Had a Gun….”

If Noel Gallagher had a gun, one would assume the former Oasis member would use it on his brother, but, apparently, he would use it to spend more time with his love (slightly contradictory until you look at the lyrics). The song is written quite beautifully, and Gallagher’s voice has a comforting sound to it. The only real argument one could make is that it sounds like Oasis, which is just fine for stalewart fans.

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Thursday, September 22, 2011

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The 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s opus inspires reflection

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By Taylor Cavallo | For the Heights

espite having been labeled the music snob of my friend group, it has always been my belief that music is subjective and free.

Beauty is in the ear of the listener, to each his own, etc. That is the beauty of music – everyone is free to choose what appeals to him or her. However, some music is undeniably incredible beyond the shadow of a subjective doubt. There are some things my music snobbery cannot deny, and one of those things is the chill I feel crawl up my back when I hear the opening guitar rift of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” the first song on their groundbreaking and, dare I say perfect, album Nevermind.

Saturday Sept. 24, marks the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s album Nevermind. As someone who worships Nirvana, particularly Kurt Cobain, it is my belief that Sept. 24 should be seen as a day of remembrance, and if you are unfamiliar with the album, a day with a new beginning, because if you read this celebratory writing and decide to listen to Nevermind with virgin ears, your mind will be blown. This day is a joyous one for Nirvana fans everywhere, but I can’t help but include my own experiences and passion when I talk about Nirvana, Nevermind and all such related glory.

Simply put, every emotion anyone ever feels can be expressed through the lyrics and voice of Kurt Cobain and his

lethargic, emotive guitar. Krist Novoselic’s sharp and pristinely clear bass along with Dave Grohl’s angry and powerful drums make for an unbelievable mix, an unbelievable band, and an unbelievable album. Nevermind, and Nirvana is dark, occasionally borderline haunting, and raw. Don’t get me wrong, every single Nirvana album and song is amazing in its own right with that edgy, one of a kind sound that is unique to infamous trio.

But Nevermind did something more.

If anyone says that In Utero is their favorite Nirvana album, they’re just trying to be alternative. Although Nevermind was a look into the mind and heart of Kurt Cobain, it also reflected the minds and hearts of the youth at the time. With

written about the months he spent living under a bridge in Seattle after he ran away from home as a teenager, which his family later claimed was a lie. Whatever the back-story may be, the final song on Nevermind is sung in almost a strained whisper and accompanied by a delicate guitar, building and building to a tense climax at each repetition of the chorus.

At this point one must wonder how anyone of this generation has any authority on this matter at all since no

Nevermind, Cobain unknowingly was introducing a new movement of rock, which would eventually help bring other Seattle bands like Soundgarden and Alice in Chains to the forefront of music.

Every track on the album is perfect, and one can feel the transition from one song to another.

For favorites, “Polly,” which was allegedly written about the kidnapping and rape of a 14-year-old girl in Washington, is an eerily sinister yet beautifully melodic song with a catchy refrain, that Cobain sings in a soft voice. The lyrics of this song never cease to amaze, and confuse. In addition, “Something in the Way,” the album’s last song, is a deeply personal song that Cobain claimed was

one at Boston College was, regretfully, a Seattle based grunge teenager listening to Kurt Cobain on my cassette player in a basement while wearing flannel, which Nirvana popularized too, by the way.

However late, there is no such thing as too late to be a Nirvana scholar of this generation.

And if you don’t own Nevermind, please go buy it in celebration of the wonderful day that it was released. It will be the best $9.99 you will ever spend on iTunes. n

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The release of Nirvana’s album ‘Nevermind’ in 1991 marked the beginning of a new trend in American culture. With the humble beginnings in the Pacific Northwest, Nirvana’s album gave birth to the grunge culture, which expressed both laid back and aggressive aspects of style. The music and fashion marked the voice of a new generation with Nirvana being the founding fathers.

Their hit single “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is deemed one of the most culturally astute and influential songs of the late 21st century.

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R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe led the announcement of the band’s break-up on their website.

The break up of R.E.M. marks the end of an music era Darren Ranck Every boy goes through the classic rock phase, the one in which the Stones, Tom Petty, and Led Zeppelin educate. I went through that, too, of course, but with the added caveat of a band with big name recognition but a less aggressive style.

R.E.M. helped me develop my sensitivity to music.

Before I became a fan at 14, I heard music, but I don’t think I truly listened until R.E.M. Founded by singer Michael Stipe, drummer Bill Berry, bassist Mike Mills, and guitarist Peter Buck, the group delivered songs with rather novel mix of folk acoustic and synth-powered pop rock. Every track felt right out of an ’80s independent film – each one sounded effortlessly cool and endlessly emotive.

After more than 30 years together, 15 studio albums, the loss of one member for health reasons, and an accumulated sale of more than 25 million records, R.E.M. announced yesterday that the band has chosen to disband after their next release.

I’ve given this some thought. The band that partly shaped my adolescence plans to put an end what I thought would be an endless stream of new music.

What does that mean to me? Many of our parents remember the day The Beatles broke up. I can easily see why people cracked after that one. For one thing, the group hadn’t produced many albums overall, and they ignited a lifestyle. R.E.M. never hit the same heights as The Beatles commercially, but I still felt a tinge of shock and denial when I read the news.

It’s easy to remember the first time we heard the big hits. Something as rollicking, innovative, and pop-oriented as “It’s the End of the World As We Know It” can only lodge itself into our brain upon first hearing it. As a young teenager, no song better encapsulates the carefree yet cynical

attitude of the age. There’s also reason to believe no song could better put mid-century composer Leonard Bernstein on the minds of members of a much younger generation. R.E.M. seemed to forever cater to the adolescent, the something teen full of misunderstanding, anger, love, and every other excess emotion. Many forget that “Losing My Religion” is, in fact, a song about unrequited love, but not the kind that Roberta Flack or Sammy Davis Jr. captured in song. This unrequited love is the kind that only the disaffected you can truly comprehend. It’s a love full of unabashed anger, unbridled sadness, and an overflow of confusion.

Nothing could better express the hormonal agony of the moment someone tells you, “I don’t feel the same way.” In a similar manner, “Everybody Hurts” harnesses the comfort you search for at that age with its dirge-like tone. It’s not the unwanted comfort your parents give you, the kind that’s coupled with advice or words of encouragement. It’s exactly the kind of comfort you look for as a teenager. It’s the kind that simply says, “Yeah, that really sucks.”

And you let it wash over you.

I still cling to the lesser known songs, the older ones that are strictly cool and fun. I think of driving around Houston blaring “Stand” or “Pretty Persuasion” or even “Orange Crush” and basking in the fact that I’m in the prime of life. I suppose I’ve become rather jaded these days. Year by year, I know I feel wiser, but I also feel older. When I listen to R.E.M., though, I’m always a teenager with a new driver’s license, an unrequited crush, and plans for a future so bright I need to wear shades.

That’s a feeling I want to hang to, and I’m glad I can through the music of R.E.M. Darren Ranck is the Arts & Review Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at arts@bcheights. com.

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The repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was implemented this Tuesday. Though repealed by law last December, the military was given additional time to prepare for the implementation.

President Barack Obama spoke to the General Assembly of the United Nations. In his speech, he said that the Palestinian Authority should delay its push for official recognition by the UN. Senate Democrats declined to introduce Obama’s jobs bill this week. Majority leader Harry Reid stated that Democrats have not yet decided whether to vote on the bill as a whole.

Economics Greece announced that it will implement more austerity measures as a condition for bailout funds. The measures include suspending civil servants and imposing pension cuts.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates placed first among richest Americans for the 18th year in a row. Gates’ net worth is estimated at $59 billion, due in large part to the success of his company.

The Federal Reserve announced the beginning of Operation Twist this week.

The plan will sell about $400 billion in Treasury bonds in an attempt to lower interest rates.

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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, right, has come under criticism for splitting the existing company, Netflix, into two services, Netflix and Qwikster.

Netflix changes cause serious drop in stock

By Paul Witko For The Heights

It seems like decades ago when consumers went to the local Blockbuster and rented a movie for the upcoming weekend.

Nowadays, that trip to the store has been all but eliminated. With the DVD by mail and online streaming options available, it seems almost silly to have to leave the couch to get a movie.

Companies like Netflix have been pioneers in the movie rental industry, always one step ahead of the curve. This time it seems that Netflix, the industry leader of in-home media, may be taking a step back. Earlier this month, they revealed a new baseline pricing plan that

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Users of Facebook have harshly criticized new additions to the site’s news feed.

Facebook now shows stories that it calculates are most interesting to users, instead of the most recent stories.

day that it expects its number of subscribers to drop from 25 million to 24 million for the upcoming quarter.

On that note, Netflix’s stock plunged nearly 19 percent Thursday and continued to drop another 8.3 percent by the closing bell on Friday. The declining stock price did not improve at all over the weekend. When the market closed on Monday, Netflix saw its shares fall an additional 7.37 percent, a 34.67 percent decrease in just three days.

Monday’s drop in price was a result of some more surprising news by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. On Monday, Hastings sent out an e-mail to customers offering an apology for

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Xbox TV to be released by the year’s end

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has angered many of its current customers.

The old pricing structure had customers paying $10 per month, giving them access to unlimited online streaming content and the ability to rent one DVD at a time.

Having taken effect Sept. 1, the new pricing structure splits those features into two separate costs. For access to only unlimited online content, customers will now pay $7.99 per month. Additionally, if customers also want to rent one DVD at a time, they will again be charged $7.99 per month. So those who used to pay only $10 per month for both unlimited online content and one DVD rental at a time are now paying $15.98, an increase of nearly 60 percent. With this new pricing structure in place, Netflix announced Thurs-

Microsoft is entering the fourth quarter of 2011 with a brand new take on an old idea. Microsoft plans to release a TV feature on the Xbox in the later months of this year. Xbox TV will offer a new way to watch TV over the Internet using a device

that many consumers already own.

The feature is set to offer live television as well as on-demand video, all available to any Xbox 360 owner who subscribes to Xbox Live. Once the product is released, Boston College customers will no longer be tied to the limited number of cable channels available through the school.

Microsoft is opening up every channel

that customers may be used to getting through their home digital or satellite cable service provider, using the Internet to make the lives of its customers more convenient.

Microsoft’s latest addition to the Xbox 360, the Kinect microphone-and-motion

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Google opened its social networking site, Google+, to the public. Previously people could only have joined if they received an invitation from a current user or Google.

A federal judge set the AT&T merger trial date for Feb. 13 of next year. The Department of Justice has sued to block AT&T’s merger with T-Mobile.

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35 bodies dumped by unidentified men onto a Mexican highway. The perpetrators dumped the bodies off moving trucks.

$40 million donated by an anonymous donor to the University of Buffalo.

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Microsoft’s award winning console, the Xbox 360, will be used to integrate the company’s new television programming service later this year.

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That company lost sight of what mattered. Then Washington stepped in.

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Full Tilt Poker was not a legitimate poker company, but a massive Ponzi scheme.

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26 pieces of a U.S. satellite that will survive its landfall. The sixton spacecraft is expected to crash land on Friday.

Gasson 001 is the new location of a valuable resource for the Boston College community – University Counseling Services (UCS). Utilized by more than 1,300 students per year, UCS is dedicated to addressing issues of mental health on campus. I recently sat down with Dr. Thomas McGuinness, director of University Counseling Services, to ask him a series of questions about the importance of psychological well-being and the type of help available through counseling services. His answers, found below, will hopefully encourage students who may be struggling with emotional difficulties to reach out and request assistance.

1. What problems most often bring students to counseling services?

Students visit counseling services because they are feeling upset or troubled.

These emotions, which can stem from various life experiences, are what bring people in, rather than particular diagnostic labels.

Usually, students feel overwhelmed, having difficulty with the adjustment to college life, and are not functioning effectively as a result. Sometimes, it is clear to the clinician (typically a psychologist) that a student is depressed or suffering from another mental health problem, but he or she may not recognize this on his or her own. What students do recognize is that they are in a state of discomfort, and this is what prompts their visit.

2. Has there been an increase in the number of students who visit counseling services in recent years? Or a change in the severity of the disorders or issues they are troubled by?

The numbers have not changed all that much, but most of the students we see now are coming in for clinical reasons. In the past, we were involved in more developmental issues. There has been an increase in the level of seriousness. There are some students who would not be able to attend college if it was not for prior treatment or medication.

And since there has been a much greater acceptance of mental health services over the years, more students come in already having had therapy. As a result, we are doing more collateral work and coordinating with other professionals outside of Boston College.

3. In 2005, the NIMH called mental disorders “the chronic disease of the young.”

Why do many mental health disorders begin in early adulthood?

Some major mental health disorders (like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) hit in late adolescence or early adulthood. There are certainly biological and brain development elements involved. For many college students, this is the first time they have been away from the protection of their family, and preexisting problems come to light when they leave home. Students realize that their

Clara Kim Like many college students across the country, Facebook and I have a love-hate relationship. I love the fact that Facebook is, in some ways, a memory collector. It allows friends to write posts about inside jokes, upload pictures from that one unforgettable night, and leave hilarious “I miss you” videos on your wall for you to discover when you wake up the next morning. But I must confess I have two complaints about Facebook: it is the greatest temptation in times that are meant to be productive and something always seems to be changing.

It seems that since its induction to the Internet, Facebook has constantly been tweaking its applications and security options to provide better and safer services to its users worldwide, while still keeping that signature blue strip

across the top of the page. Recently, I logged on to find that along the left side of my home page, there are new “smart lists,” and Facebook promptly informed me that it was a new feature. Turns out, Mark Zuckerburg and Co. have only started to give Facebook its new facelift.

“An upcoming Facebook developer conference in two weeks is expected to reveal additional changes,” according to The Wall Street Journal. These changes are taking place in order to allow users to have more control over their privacy, with less hassle. So, this is what’s new so far: Tagging. Just when we started getting used to tagging people by inserting the “@” symbol before a friend’s name, Facebook changes the tagging policy. Just click on the person with the “+” symbol and Facebook will automatically add names onto the post as you type them in. Now, we’re allowed to tag people who we aren’t Facebook friends with, but only after they have given their consent. And vise versa: when others tag you in a post, it must be approved by you before it officially shows up. But that’s obviously not good enough, because now, you’re given

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Facebook’s changes have always brought considerable outcry from users of the website. the option to view the post or photo uploaded by a Facebook friend before it shows up in albums, news feeds, etc.

Does this seem tedious? You have the option to turn this feature off by changing your privacy settings.

Profile. OK. So a friend decides to tag

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you in a photo that you don’t particularly think shows your best side. Don’t love it but don’t absolutely hate it? Remove it from your profile by clicking the “Remove Post” under the drop down menu

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Should the Massachusetts legislature approve casinos in state?

Yes, if people want to gamble their money it’s their decision. Great way to make jobs.

Yes, it fits in perfectly with the Democratic ideal of helping the poor.

Yes, it should promote steady revenue for the state.

Yes. Enough people leave the state to spend their money. Let the gambling money stay in Massachusetts.

A well regulated casino system could provide important revenue for the state.

Who has the best chance of winning the 2012 election right now?

Probably Romney. He’s the most presidential, and usually that gets votes.

Mitt Romney’s personality, if it existed.

Mitt Romney has the credentials to be the leading candidate for the 2012 elections.

Not Obama.

Obama, he has done an excellent job and he will continue to do so in a second term.

Will The Buffet Rule help lower the deficit?

Hopefully, but probably not.

If it generates money it will be wasted, as always.

Not enough for Ron Paul to go back to his real job delivering babies.

It could make an impact, but shouldn’t be utilized as the main solution.

The Buffet Rule goes for a good target, but isn’t enough to reduce the deficit and shows class warfare.

It will make a cut in the deficit and will help critical social programs.

Should the U.S. continue to support Israel?

No way. Almost the entire world disagrees with us on this one.

You Don’t Mess With The Zohan made a profit. The U.S. will always support Israel.

Yes, we can’t be frightened into giving up support for our democratic link to the Middle East.

We shouldn’t turn against our ally that is threatened by a terrorist network on a daily basis.

Yes, the United States should continue to support its close ally in the Middle East.

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Finance At A Glance

I have decided to deviate from the stock market for this week to talk about business that has a bit more of a trend (and is not so depressing).

In order to kick things off, I need you to answer a couple of questions for me: Do you have TiVo? Are you one of the many Americans who pride themselves on watching their shows without commercial interruption?

If you answered yes, then you are part of the reason for a changing advertising dynamic.

If you are among the growing group of recorded television viewers, then chances are you do not watch commercials.

Nearly 90 percent of people who watch their favorite programs on delay skip through advertisements. Much to the chagrin of conventional advertising players.While television advertising remains the go-to medium to reach consumers, new forms have emerged. With the burgeoning of technology, we have reached a new era of advertising marked by social media and gaming.

Various new deals and partnerships have also emerged.

The other day I was watching television and to my surprise what comes up? An ad within an ad. Yup, that’s right. There was a conventional 30-second TV spot and then a message in the bottom right-hand corner of my television screen asking me if I wanted a coupon for my next purchase of this item.

Unbelievable, right? Well, now Xfinity itself allows these additional advertisements.

Xfinity is not the only player in this field. DirecTV, and more specifically, NFL Sunday Ticket allow you to view full screen ads and to view them again at any point during the game.

Marketers are also playing off the world’s addiction to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Just how big is advertising on social networks? Social media has become so large that marketing companies now have their own social media teams that only deal with Facebook and Twitter. With Facebook evolving to more than just a social network, these adaptations have paid off. Companies now use Facebook to help launch a new campaign or to introduce a sweepstakes. Companies have branched out even further to offer digital coupons for their products. One of the biggest

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Boston College Law was drawn to the national stage last year after an anonymous student letter went viral.

Market for law grads questionable

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Boston College is a university that frequently finds itself on a national stage. On Oct. 15, 2010, BC was once again in this situation, but not for positive reasons. On this date, an anonymous third-year law student posted a letter online to George Brown, the interim dean of the law school at that time, offering up a special deal: he would leave the school without a degree if the University would refund his first two-and-a-half years of education. This letter quickly went viral, attracting the attention of national news outlets.

The popularity of the letter was due to its poignancy and its relevance. The law student claimed to be writing the dean from a “more desperate place than most” because his wife was pregnant and he faced immense debt upon graduation. On top of fearing the inability to support his child, this student became a voice for disgruntled law students across the country when he expressed his resentment at the thought that he was “convinced to go to law school by empty promises of a fulfilling and remunerative career.”

Nate Kenyon, the director of communications at BC, defended the University in his response to the letter, claiming that this law student was trying to find a job in “one of the most difficult employment climates in the past 70 years, not only for BC Law, but for all schools across the nation.”

Now a year removed from this e vent , the hundre ds of current BC Law students and the thousands of prospective lawyers across the country have one question on their minds: has the job market for lawyers improved?

That depends on whom you ask. Top law schools such as the University of Virginia and

Yale University claim to have a 99.6 percent job placement rate nine months after graduation.

BC reports that 79.2 percent of its law students have jobs at graduation, and 97.6 percent of its students have a job after nine months. These numbers do not seem so bad, yet last year’s market was supposedly the worst in 70 years.

As it turns out, the average reported employment rate after nine months for all American law schools, according to U.S. News and World Report, has been rising ever since 1997, when the

“Our employment rates at graduation and at nine months dropped slightly, due in large part to the economy and to a change in the U.S. News methodology.”

-George Brown Interim Boston College Law School Dean in March of 2011 statistic was first tracked. In the most recent report, 93 percent of grads were working after nine months nationally. In 1997, this number was only 84 percent.

Why then, were the complaints of 2010 so much greater than those of 1997?

Data to answer this question is hard to come by, as law schools never like to admit that they have lowered their placement rate from the year before, fearing that they will be ranked lower in rankings such as the U.S. News and World Report.

Interim Dean George Brown admitted in March “our employment rates at graduation and at nine months dropped slightly,

due in large part to the economy and to a change in the U.S. News methodology.” This type of honesty from someone in Brown’s position is rare in a time when law schools like the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego have been sued for printing misleading statistics about their job placement rates. When the difference in law school rankings translates to millions of dollars yearly, schools will engage in many deceptive practices, such as hiring their own unemployed graduates to low-paying, shortterm jobs right before the ninemonth report of placement rates is due.

Considering the general propensity of law schools to skew their numbers in an optimistic manner, it is helpful to look at hiring rates from legal services instead. Human resources consulting firm Robert Half International has released research that states 31 percent of legal services in the United States are looking to hire in 2011, a big step up from last year. Though this number points to the fact that the market is on the rise, experts still warn that the job market will not improve drastically this year.

Jim Leipold, a research analyst for the National Association for Law Placement, believes that graduates of 2012 “will be the first class for which we might see some kind of uptick in employment.” He refuses to make a prediction that the job market will fully recover for the class of 2012, however, simply that the market “probably won’t recover much before then.”

55,000 people took the LSAT last fall, and 6,942 applied to BC Law last year. It seems the now famous letter has not deterred students from studying law here, or anywhere else. The only question is will jobs in the field of law exist for the Class of 2012 and beyond? The market seems to be getting a bit better, but current law students will still have to wait and see. n

feelings are not normal and that they have the opportunity to do something about this, so they seek help.

4. What are some of the warning signs that may indicate students should seek help?

We look at three things: (1) Your academic work. Are you slipping, unable to complete assignments, lacking energy or interest, or missing classes? (2) Your relationships. Has there been a change in the quality of your relationships? Is there increased conflict, disappointment, or strain? (3) Your sense of well-being.

Sometimes great students, who are academically successful and thought to be quite happy, are actually really miserable and unhappy with themselves. We all go through phases in life were everything seems bad, but if these phases last, are too intense, or occur too frequently, get help.

5. Why should college students in particular be concerned about mental health?

Any mental health problem can serve as a strong deterrent to achieving goals. A student who becomes depressed could easily miss a semester. In college, students are faced with a number of different challenges, including coming to grips with who they are as individuals, working out reciprocal relationships, and living in an environment where there is an increased risk for substance abuse and eating disorders.

Not to mention stress, which can be a considerable burden for some.

Detecting and addressing problems early allows students to get back on track much more easily.

6. If you visit counseling services, will your parents, professors, or class dean be notified? Can future employers access psychological records?

The short answer is no. The practices of our psychologists and psychiatrists are governed by professional codes of ethics and the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. There is also sound professional practice – if you expect to be trusted, you need to be trustworthy. However, we will speak to parents, deans, or other individuals with a student’s permission. The student has control.

A detailed information sheet about our confidentiality policy is always provided.

7. How much does a visit cost?

There are no charges. Consider our services prepaid, covered by the cost of tuition.

8. What help is offered through counseling services?

We offer consultations, brief individual counseling and psychotherapy, group counseling, and emergency services (24/7).

Students frequently schedule a consultation with us when they are worried about friends or room-

“Students visit counseling services because they are feeling upset or troubled. These emotions, which can stem from various life experiences, are what bring people in, rather than particular diagnostic labels.”

-Thomas McGuinness, Director of University Counseling Services mates. We really encourage this, and you can come in alone or with others who are also concerned.

All information is confidential.

Students should not have to handle troubling situations by themselves.

The best way to stay psychologically fit, says McGuinness, is to maintain positive relationships and to not be afraid to ask for help.

If you need assistance or have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact University Counseling Services.

Rachel Newmiller is a staff columnist for The Heights. She welcomes comments at marketplace@ bcheights.com

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Rick Perry was born on March 4, 1950 in Paint Creek, Texas. His father, Joseph Ray Perry, was a rancher, long time Democrat, and former county commissioner. He attended Texas A&M University, earning a bachelor’s degree in animal science in 1972.

Perry was a prankster in college, as he not only placed live chickens in an upperclassman’s closet, but also set off firecrackers in an occupied bathroom.

After a short stint as a door-to-door salesman, Perry enlisted in the Air Force.

He flew C-130 tactical aircraft on missions to South America, Europe, and the Middle East. He was honorably discharged with the rank of captain in 1977 and returned to his family farm. For the next seven years he helped grow cotton, milo, and wheat, while also becoming a self-professed Reagan Democrat. He married his wife, Anita Thigpen, 16 years after their first date.

Rick Perry was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1984 from

district 64. He served on the House Appropriations and Calendars Committee, and chaired Al Gore’s 1988 presidential campaign in Texas. In 1989, after five years serving as a Democratic representative, Perry switched parties, becoming a Republican.

In 1990, Perry ran for agriculture commissioner. The Democratic incumbent, Jim Hightower, was plagued with charges of corruption and bribery, and Perry won a narrow victory. As commissioner Perry notably endorsed President Clinton’s 1993 health care plan, though it was ultimately defeated by Congressional Republicans.

He won a second term in 1994, and served until 1998.

In 1998, Perry ran for Lieutenant Governor of Texas (the lieutenant governor is elected separately from the governor). He won a narrow victory over Democrat John Sharp. In 2000, Perry became governor of Texas after George W. Bush resigned to become president, and has maintained the position ever since, winning three consecutive re-elections. n

Windows 8, Xbox TV compose Microsoft’s new product offerings Xbox, from D1 controller, will be integrated into the use of Xbox TV. Instead of having to use a more complex controller and menu system that a typical device like this might feature, a user can find programming using Bing, while using voice commands and hand motions to navigate through menus.

It is rumored that a specific remote control reminiscent of a typical TV remote might be sold after the release of Xbox TV. How can Microsoft suddenly succeed in this field that both Apple and Google failed in?

The simple answer is hardware.

Millions of people already have the Xbox 360, whereas both Apple and Google attempted to sell other devices in order to integrate their product. Microsoft needs to deal only with providing cable, not distributing the devices. Not only does Microsoft avoid having to market its hardware, but the company does not even need to market the delivery service for Xbox TV as Xbox Live already has millions

of subscribers.

Another important question to address is who will provide content for the new cable system? Microsoft CEO Steve

Microsoft is coming out with [Xbox TV] around the same time as its release of Windows 8, which has received much praise so far during the pre-release time period.

Ballmer announced that the company will be partnering with Comcast and Time Warner to be the source for the cable service.

All deals with content providers still have to be finalized in order for Xbox TV to be available by the end of this year, but that

shouldn’t be an issue considering the sheer amount of Xbox users that already exist. Content providers need an audience to be swayed into providing service, and with the continuing success of the Xbox 360, that audience already exists.

Microsoft is coming out with this plan around the same time as its release of Windows 8, which has received much praise so far during the pre-release time period. If Microsoft can follow through with their new products in the upcoming months, the outlook for their stock is good.

The recent weakening of Netflix with the removal of Starz and the price hike which has upset consumers, adds yet another advantage for Microsoft in the online video market. With space suddenly available, Microsoft is not hesitating to try their luck with online video streaming.

Microsoft is taking a different approach in this market that has never been seen before, and if it proves successful, it will shape yet another way to gain access to television. n

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Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO, sent an e-mail to customers apologizing for the company’s recent price changes.

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the recent price hike and announcing that Netflix’s online streaming and DVD by mail services will be splitting up. Hastings began the e-mail saying, “I messed up. I owe everyone an explanation. It is clear from the feedback over the past two months that many members felt we lacked respect and humility in the way we announced the separation of DVD and streaming, and the price changes.” The online streaming content will continue to be called “Netflix,” but the DVD by mail services will be renamed “Qwikster,” a reference to the quick delivery.

A completely separate website, Qwikster.com, will host the DVD by mail services, making Netflix and Qwikster two separate entities.

Customers will now see two names on their credit card bill, one for Netflix and one for Qwikster. In the e-mail, Hastings goes on to explain the reasoning behind the split, saying, “We realized that streaming and DVD by mail are becoming two quite different businesses, with very

different cost structures, different benefits that need to be marketed differently, and we need to let each grow and operate independently.”

Despite the shake-up, Hastings did announce that Qwikster will now offer video game rentals for the Wii, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.

“We realized that streaming and DVD by mail are becoming two quite different businesses, with very different cost structures” -Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO Netflix’s recent troubles have not just been limited to the past week. Earlier this month, the cable company Starz announced it would not renew its agreement with Netflix. The termination of this

agreement, effective Feb. 28, will no longer allow Netflix to stream recently released content from Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures.

This announcement sent Netflix shares tumbling 9 percent. Not long ago, on Aug. 31, Netflix enjoyed a stock price of $240.74. Three weeks later that number has plummeted to just $143.75 per share.

With all the recent turmoil surrounding Netflix, what does this mean for Netflix customers? For most, it will mean a 60 percent price increase to keep their current services. For those only seeking online streaming content, this news may not be as bad as the stock activity indicates. With classes moving into full swing, college students seldom have time to wait for a DVD to arrive. Many students use Netflix solely for its online streaming content. Perhaps this price split and company transformation will actually make it easier and cheaper for students to stream Netflix. The degree to which all of these changes will affect the future of Netflix is still very much unknown. Is Reed Hastings still one step ahead of the curve? Time will only tell. n

U.S. hikers released from Iran American tourists held for 26 months on charges of espionage released yesterday B y M att P alazzolo

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Two hikers, Shane Bauer, right, and Josh Fattal, were held by Iran for more than two years on charges of espionage.

Two American hikers detained in Iran since 2009 were released on Wednesday. Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal, both 29, spent 26 months in prison on charges of illegal entry and espionage. A companion, Sarah Shourd, who is engaged to Bauer, was released last year for medical reasons, was on hand to greet them, as well as several family members.

Bauer and Fattal’s s eight-year sentences were commuted, and the government of Oman paid the combined $1 million bail for

their release. The Omani government had also paid the bail for Shourd’s release in September 2010.

The three Americans were detained by Iranian border guards on July 31, 2009. The three had been hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan on holiday. The Iranian authorities claim they seized the three once they crossed the border, while the hikers asserted that they were still in Iraqi territory when they were captured. Bauer and Fattal were convicted on Aug. 20, 2011 and sentenced to three years in prison apiece for illegally entering the country, as well as five years apiece

for espionage.

The three were detained in the notorious Evin Prison, where they were held in solitary confinement.

The hikers’ families were allowed sporadic visits, after which they stated that the hikers did not appear to be physically abused.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had previously suggested that the hikers might be released.

Since Ahmadinejad is giving a speech at the United Nations General Assembly tomorrow, it is speculated that the hikers were released as a sign of goodwill towards the United States. The release, while praised by American and United Nations authorities, was angrily condemned by the Iranian judiciary, which has opposed Ahmadinejad recently. n

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THE ISSUE:

The Massachusetts state legislature has recently begun debating a bill that would permit three casinos and one slot machine parlor in the state. Proponents of the bill argue that it will create thousands of jobs and bring in hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue. Opponents argue that the bill will raise crime, create addiction, and take advantage of the poorest residents of Massachusetts. Should the state legislature approve of in state casinos?

Bill could harm weak economy William Bourgeois After eight hours of debate last Wednesday, the Massachusetts House of Representatives voted in favor of legislation that could potentially have a drastic impact on the Bay State. The proposed casino bill would license the establishment of three geographic regions within Massachusetts, each containing one casino. In addition to these three, one additional slots parlor, containing up to 1,250 slot machines, would also be licensed.

A bill mirroring the one passed by the state’s House is now at the top of the Massachusetts State Senate’s to-do list. Debate on the Senate floor is scheduled to begin next Monday, Sept. 26.

But before deliberation can begin, senators must submit amendment proposals by the 21, a process that often slows the progression of debate. Were it not for the submission of over one hundred amendment proposals prior to the voting of the House, the bill likely would have reached the State Senate several days earlier than it did.

Many Massachusetts residents and politicians are in favor of the bill, thinking the establishment of casinos will increase state revenue and pump money into local economies surrounding the three venues. Among the politicians in favor of the bill are: Governor Deval L. Patrick, House speaker Robert A. DeLeo, and Senate President Therese Murray who together form what is often referred to as the “Big Three” on Beacon Hill.

Despite support from such prominent members of the Massachusetts political arena, the Senate floor, as The Boston Herald puts it, provides the best chance to prevent the proposed legislation from being enacted.

This is due, in part, to the fact that opposition tends to increase as controversial events, or in this case legislation, gain prominence and attract increased media attention.

While proponents of the casino bill expect increased revenues and the creation of numerous employment opportunities, the passing of this legislation should inspire fear of financial hardship. The casinos are bound to detract from the success of the Massachusetts State Lottery, which is considered to be the most efficiently run in the country. Apart from also being the most profitable state lottery in the country, the Massachusetts State Lottery provides aid to local governments, fueling economic growth throughout Massachu-

setts. With the establishment of three gambling venues, lottery ticket sales will fall, which will undoubtedly be damaging to the state’s economy.

Prominent among those in opposition to the casino bill is Ruth B. Balser, the city of Newton’s representative in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In an interview with The Washington Times prior to debate on the House floor last week, Balser said, “I look at the big casino states,

The establishment of casinos would also lure business away from hotels and entertainment venues, further damaging the state’s economy. places like California, Pennsylvania, Nevada … I don’t see a lot of good news…They have some of the biggest shortfalls in the country. And that’s what Massachusetts wants to model itself on? To me, this is a race to the bottom.”

The establishment of casinos would also lure business away from hotels and entertainment venues, further damaging the state’s economy. Moreover, the establishment of the three geographic zones would be counterproductive, as it would limit potential growth. By restricting the Boston area to having only one casino, the two others would be established in locations that

Facebook changes bring user criticism Jobs, from D1 and you’ll stay tagged in it, but it won’t appear on your profile.

Voila! It’s like magic….

Check-ins. I think Facebook got the drift when only iPhone/ iPad/iTouch users could check themselves in at a location, but then Blackberry and Android phones also jumped on the bandwagon and included this new feature in their Facebook apps. Old news, right? This time, Facebook users are given the freedom to add a location to each post. For example, I can type into my Blackberry Facebook app, “Eating lunch at Hillside with the roomies,” but this new feature gives you the option to add in “near Chestnut Hill, MA” in small gray letters at the bottom of the post. The point of this feature? To eliminate redundancy. Next time you have a new album from a family vacation, you don’t need to ruin a perfect album title by adding in the name of the place. It’ll just show up in small gray letters.

Viewers. If you want to upload an album with pictures that Mom and Dad might not approve of, have no fear. The

“Custom” setting allows you to decide who views what you post online. Users can either check “Public,” “Friends,” or “Custom.” According to The Wall Street Journal, “Facebook’s own blog hints at future improvements to this sharing awareness, saying that this drop-down menu will grow to include smaller groups of people.”

Links. During finals week, my roommate and I had an inside joke of raccoons, so I posted funny videos and pictures from specific websites on her wall by clicking the “Link” to add the URL. That’s not an option anymore. If you haven’t noticed already, if you want to post a funny video or picture on friend’s wall, you need to copy and paste the entire URL. I think it “unbeautifies” a wall.

But nevermind what I think.

With competitors like Google+ trailing behind Facebook, Zuckerberg is likeley to make more drastic changes. If you haven’t already noticed, Facebook is preparing for a new facelift.

Clara Kim is a Heights editor. She welcomes comments at marketplace@bcheights.com

lack the abundant resources and opportunities that Boston’s large population presents to its local businesses. The profitability potential of a casino in Springfield, Massachusetts, would not be anywhere near that of a casino in the Boston metropolitan area.

The casino bill will not only adversely affect Massachusetts’ economy, but will impact society in a variety of other ways as well.

Such potential negative repercussions include rapid increases in crime rates, gambling addiction, and homelessness.

Religious leaders throughout Massachusetts are among the loudest critics of the proposed legislation in terms of its effects upon society. The four Catholic bishops of Massachusetts issued a statement last week making note of the harmful implications likely to result from the passing of the casino bill.

“While the Catholic Church views gambling as a legitimate form of entertainment when done in moderation, the gaming legislation opens the door to a new form of predatory gaming which threatens the moral fabric of our society.”

The combination of established businesses losing money, crime rates rising, gambling addiction increasing, and the moral fabric of our society being threatened illustrates the innumerable problems that would befall the state of Massachusetts if the proposed casino bill were to be passed by the State Senate.

William Bourgeois is a guest columnist for The Heights. He welcomes comments at marketplace@ bcheights.com

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The Massachusetts state legislature is debating a proposed bill which would allow three casinos in the state.

Casinos would raise money, create jobs Gerard Farara I’m not one to gamble. I don’t have the courage nor the guts to risk it all. I see the thrill, the excitement, or the high one gets from it, but I just can’t bring myself to ever commit. It’s like standing on the edge of a cliff. You’re on the precipice, the last few inches of what is tangible, what you can feel and hold, willing yourself to take that last step, that step into nothingness, where you are most likely bound to fall.

But you never quite muster the courage to take the plunge.

The closest I have ever come to taking such a leap of faith in probability was perhaps wagering a bet on an entire homemade lemon cake in a game of blackjack, which I did, in fact, manage to win back. But bets on cash, never. Like I said, no guts, no courage.

The word gambling alone is almost always painted with negativity, illuminated by little to no light. It’s a sinful word that perverts the innocent, robbing them of all that made them good. Traits such as benevolence, altruism, and goodheartedness are suffocated by the desperateness, uncouth, and menacing characteristics that forever trail this iniquitous action.

So when the Massachusetts state legislature proposed a bill to permit the construction of three casinos and a slot machine parlour, the initial reaction? Well, uproar of course. Based on this generally

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accepted conception of gambling one can only imagine the, yes, somewhat legitimate arguments against this bill. It’ll be a hub for criminals, city dwellers, addicts, and scum alike. Sure it’ll create jobs, the nations most illusive commodity, but at the cost of the most destitute and desperate among us.

My response? Well casinos can either be run with the utmost professionalism or with varying degrees of dubious activity. In other words, the kind of establishments these joints turn out to be will, in a sense, dictate the type of customers they will attract. Place them in the poorest parts of the state and yes, it’ll suck the most destitute in, raise crime, and will be a shining light that screams, “Drug dealers lurk around here!” But place it in a more high-end part of town, and the customers will most certainly be of a different ilk.

Republicans say that the rich are the job creators. Well that may be so, but they are also a source of revenue. A stimulus if you will for the Massachusetts economy. Casinos, despite their bad rep, could actually play an indirect role to the social improvement of those suffering the most. When a man has reached a certain level of financial security, he gains the confidence to risk a portion of what he has, for of course, the hope of gaining more. But if he loses what he originally wages, to such a man, the sting of loss gets muffled by his thick blanket of financial security. In other words, with financial as-

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surance comes the confidence to make bold decisions of little favorable probability. So why not, in these dismal economic times, take advantage of the misfortune of the rich, to improve the luck of the poor?

That seems morally, socially, and economically, a no-brainer.

It’s an idea based on the belief of proportionally sharing the burden. Each class of society has various economic boundaries. And these boundaries vary in size. Some differ marginally, while others are of a sizeable difference. Thus, thinking collectively rather than individually, it is only fair that each class uphold the parts of the burden that they can bear. Make no mistake about it, there is a burden to be upheld and its weight increases seemingly by the hour. The United States is facing a debt of seismic proportions, its economy is in desperate need of a boost, and so when the going gets tough, each individual must yes worry about his/her personal needs, but at the same time realize that tackling the collective needs of the state is at times tackling your own personal needs. The casinos and the parlors can be, if the Massachusetts state legislature so chooses, tax collectors. Tax collectors specifically tailored to collecting in cash, the misfortune of the financially fortunate among us.

Gerard Farara is a guest columnist for The Heights. He welcomes comments at marketplace@ bcheights.com

Thursday, September 22, 2011

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Troy Davis, shown in this photo from 1991, was originally sentenced to death in 1991 for allegedly killing a policeman.

Troy Davis executed after a brief stay

By David Cote

Marketplace Editor Troy Davis was executed at 11:08 p.m. last night by lethal injection.

The execution of Davis, who was accused of killing an off duty policeman in Georgia in 1989, was delayed for four hours last night by the United States Supreme Court.

The execution could have been postponed for up to one week.

The family of MacPhail were present in the front row.

Davis was scheduled for execution at 7 p.m. Wednesday night, but the Supreme Court granted a temporary reprieve after considering arguments by Davis’ legal team and the state of Georgia.

Davis was indicted for the murder of Georgia policeman Mark MacPhail on Nov. 15, 1989. In April 1990, Davis pleaded not guilty. In a hearing in November 1990, the judge excluded evidence from the case, stating that Davis’ mother did “not freely and voluntarily grant the police the right to search her home” to look for the evidence.

In August of 1991, the district attorney serving the state of Georgia sought the death penatly for Davis’ case. After ensuing arguments, a jury composed of seven blacks and five whites found Davis guilty of murder in under two hours. On Aug. 30, 1991, Davis was sentenced to death.

Because the death penalty was applied to the case, the sentence and conviction were appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court. In March of 1993, the Georgia Supreme Court upheld Davis’ conviction and sentence. In November of 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the case.

In 1994, Davis and his lawyers began the process of habeus corpus, petitioning that he had been wrongfully convicted. The petition was denied in September 1997 and November 2000.

In 2000, Davis and his lawyers attempted to challenge death by electric chair as cruel and unusual punishment, but the Georgia Supreme Court rejected the challenge by a 4-3 margin.

In 2001, Davis began the process

undertakings a few companies have pursued so far is e-commerce right on their Facebook page. So far it seems that whatever an online store has to offer, Facebook can deliver.

While Facebook has become a worldwide phenomenon, the United States is dominating the social media spend with 65 percent of the market share of the world’s social network spending according to emarketer. Not impressed? Facebook is expected to pull in $4 billion in ad revenue for 2011. Here, let me help you pick your jaw back up off the ground. There you go.

Now, you may ask yourself, when did this happen? Don’t get upset. The meteoric rise of online ad spending is relatively new. Forty-two percent of companies used social media advertising in 2008 and now that number has blossomed to

eclipse the 80 percent mark.

The ubiquity of Facebook has inspired marketers to engulf every part of your life with advertisements. Let’s say you want to watch a popular video on Youtube. Well, chances are that video will be preceded by a 15 second advertisement. Social media, video, television, mobile advertisers are making their mark wherever they can.

One of the most intriguing areas of new marketing is found in video games. One of the few places that you could have expected to be free of advertisements, advertisers have started to stake their claim in the world of video games. Video game advertisements have risen in the past few years. Companies like Sony and Google have already made their way into the video game market and are looking to expand. Other companies like Adidas and Panasonic, have also made their way onto the video game platform. Partnerships with gaming companies

like EA Sports continue to evolve and this evolution is for good reason. According to a report from Nielsen, the average return on investment was $3.11 per $1 spent on video game advertisements. Researchers have noticed that video game advertisements are a great way to reach target demographics, especially the 18-34 age bracket.

One thing advertising has shown us in the past few years is its fearlessness to adapt to the ever-changing world. How has it done it so far? Advertising has enveloped all worlds of entertainment. Pretty soon you might even have to watch an advertisement just to switch a song on your Ipod. Moral of the story, if you think you can eliminate advertisements from your life- think again.

Alexander Dripchak is a staff columnist for The Heights. He welcomes comments at marketplace@bcheights.com

of federal appeals, starting with a habeus corpus petition in United States District Court. Davis’ petition was denied in May 2004.

Throughout the appeals process, numerous witnesses recanted their testimonies and claimed that they were intimidated by police into testifying against Davis. Witnesses who were illiterate were found to have signed police statements that they were unable to read, and numerous witnesses stated in court that they did not know who killed MacPhail.

Another Supreme Court petition was denied in June of 2007.

As Davis’ case became more and more controversial he began to gain nationwide support.

Prominent individuals who called for a new trial for Davis include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Pope Benedict XVI and Jesse Jackson, Jr.

By Sept. 17, 2011, over 660,000 people had signed a petition for clemency for Davis.

Davis maintained his innocence until the very end of his life and asked his family and friends to continue working on the case. n paul sakuma / ap photo

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook is expected to make at least $4 billion from advertising revenue alone in 2011.

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