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Life is Good Festival brings laid-back, acoustic pop to Downtown Boston, C8
Comparing the pros and cons of living off campus vs. on campus, D1
BC wIns its first game of the season against the UMass Minutemen, 45-17, C1
BREAKing THROUGH
Monday, September 26, 2011
Vol. XCII, No. 31
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Manresa House props doors open to vocation By David Cote Heights Editor
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TJ Maloney (above left) and his family stand in front of the newly-dedicated Maloney Hall, named to recognize their major gift toward the capital campaign.
One less nameless building for BC, 21 Campanella Way now Maloney Hall By Taylour Kumpf News Editor
As of last Friday, Boston College has one less nameless building. 21 Campanella Way, commonly referred to by students as “Campanella,” is now Maloney Hall. The dedication of Maloney Hall took place Friday afternoon, and was attended by the Maloney family as well as their friends and colleagues. “The naming is in recognition of a major gift from TJ Maloney, and his wife, Nancy, and their lifelong support of Boston College,” said Univer-
sity Spokesman Jack Dunn. “The Maloney’s are a three generation Boston College family, as TJ’s father graduated from BC in 1949.” “BC is in the midst of a $1.5 billion capital campaign and has surpassed the midway point, with more than $800 million raised,” Dunn said. “This major gift from Trustee TJ Maloney will go a long way in helping us to reach that important goal.” Dunn said that the specific amount the Maloney’s donated will not be released, which is common for these kind of campaigns. At the dedication ceremony, Maloney’s fellow
Board of Trustees member, Kathleen McGillycuddy, board chair, said, “On behalf of the Board of Trustees, we are profoundly grateful to TJ and Nancy. We thank you for your generosity.” “There is no more important blessing than the devotion and generosity of our alumni and friends,” she said. University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J. also spoke at the dedication and said, “Maloney Hall is a bridge between Middle and Lower campus. This building is a thoroughfare. We are a
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Blog offers Yawkey Way responds to booster questions new take on #firespaz trend By DJ Adams Heights Editor
By Molly LaPoint Asst. News Editor
A Sept. 19 blog post titled “Firespaz. org: The Philanthropic Approach” on the website, Heights and Lows, suggests an alternative to spending money attending football games during a disappointing season. Usually, Boston College football gives students, alumni, and fans a way to connect in a unique way, but during losing seasons, this can be dampened. “We get to talk about more than the product on the field, we get excited about being together, we get excited about the positive recognition for our school,” said DL, the author of the post. There are many expenses involved in attending games, including ticket prices, food for tailgates, and, for some alumni, plane tickets. DL argues that, given the
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On Aug. 16, 2011, Yahoo! Sports released the product of an 11-month investigation, which contained evidence and specific admissions of guilt from University of Miami booster Nevin Shapiro on the accusations that he had provided thousands of NCAAviolating benefits to 72 different players and coaches, primarily of the Hurricanes
football squad, in an eight-year span from 2002-10. The findings contained hundreds of conducted personal interviews, as well as several forged documents, and showed Shapiro to have violated at least four major NCAA bylaws. While the severity of Miami’s violations certainly shocked the college football landscape, the program has performed subordinate acts before and received serious sanctions for its actions.
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A fan held up a sign at an NCAA football game on Sept. 17 between Miami and Ohio State.
Miami is not alone, however. In fact, only four programs, among the 120 currently instituted within the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, have yet to commit a major violation of NCAA policy: Penn State University, Stanford University, Northwestern University, and Boston College. How the University has developed such a clean record becomes a puzzling question, considering the seemingly constant allegations present in today’s collegiate sports. According to Gene DeFilippo, athletic director, while mistakes and violations can theoretically occur under any organization’s nose, the key to BC’s success in adhering to policies has been thorough education of those involved in the program of what might potentially trigger an NCAA investigation. “We work hard at it, we talk about it all the time, that we are all responsible for compliance,” DeFilippo said. “We talk to the coaches, the coaches talk to the players, and the players talk to each other. We make compliance very, very important. “And are we perfect? No, nobody’s perfect,” he said. “Could we have something happen? Sure we could. But we are going to do everything we can to do what we can do to make sure that doesn’t happen.”
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Though hundreds of Boston College students walk down College Road every day, far fewer of them examine the cozy, homely buildings which line it. Manresa House, at 58 College Road, for example, is as unassuming as the buildings which surround it. A smallish, three-story, brick home, with a short set of steps and a welcoming doorway. Much like the building, the opportunities available in the Manresa House are often overlooked. It is here that BC offers its services to those students interested in a life devoted to vocational service. Rev. Terrence Devino, S.J., is Manresa House’s sole full-time employee. Sitting behind his desk in what used to be the dining room of the small family home, it seems that it would be difficult to find a man who enjoys his job more. The youngest of three, Devino was the first of his family to attend college, at Worcester State University. He studied at Immaculate Conception Seminary on the campus of Seton Hall University, and was ordained a priest in 1987. It was not until seven years later, in 1994, that Devino became a Jesuit, after years of serving as a parish priest in central Massachusetts. After a time working at BC in the late 1990s, Devino worked in campus ministry at Fairfield University and the University of Scranton, both Jesuit institutions. He came back to BC in 2010 as a special assistant to the president and was appointed director of Manresa House. In Devino’s words, “Manresa House is a combined effort between the Jesuits of the New England Province and Boston College to encourage our students to consider, to look at, or even to question a vocation to the priesthood or to the religious life, and in particular to the Jesuits.” Students who have thought about living a religious life can stop by and talk to Devino about “the many and various opportunities within the life of the church,” whether as priests, as sisters, or as laypeople. Students are welcome at any time at the Manresa House. Devino makes sure of it. “I have about five work study students
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Rev. Terry Devino, S.J. (above) welcomes those interested in pursuing a vocation.