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At focus groups last year, Nic Sperry, the assistant director of recovery and support programs, found that students do not know Boston College’s policy toward alcohol-related issues. For fear of getting in trouble, they often do not ask resident assistants or administrators for help.

Alcohol Screening and Prevention (ASAP), which began a year and a half ago, now includes a support line, (617) 552-4000, students can call to learn more about BC, state, and federal policies regarding alcohol consumption. Students can also call in with concerns about their own health or the health of their friends and roommates.

“It is not an entirely new resource, it’s more of a person who is aware of the resources,” Sperry said.

In the focus groups, BC students said they would feel most comfortable talking with older BC students about ways to get help. As a result, ASAP decided to have six graduate students, who are trained on BC, state, and federal policies and are studying in counseling-related fields such as social work, run the support line.

Students can call the support line 24 hours a day, seven days a week and are

After years of construction and surviving the housing lottery, students are finally able to live in the Thomas More Apartments and the Reservoir Apartments for the 2016-17 year.

490 seniors scored a spot in the Thomas More Apartments this year, which feature lounge space, study space, reflection and prayer rooms, and a large community programming center. The new building comes with several music rooms, where students are able to practice and record music.

The Reservoir Apartments also opened this fall at 2000 Commonwealth Ave. and house a mixture of sophomores, juniors, and seniors. While the University did fill in the pre-existing outdoor pool, the complex has added a large outdoor community space for student programming.

The renovation, which took roughly a year, also added new energy efficient windows and build a new staircase from the first to second floor.

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On Aug. 24, the National Labor Rela-

tions Board (NLRB), the federal body that oversees labor law in the United States, ruled that graduate students at private universities are considered employees under the National Labor Relations Act. This decision overturns a 2004 ruling in which members of the NLRB stripped the rights of graduate workers at private universities to unionize, saying that these working graduate students were students first. With the formation of a union, graduate students hope to increase their negotiating power as employees.

“The grad student body right now has no negotiating power, we can only make requests and hope that BC administration agrees with us,” David Sessions, an organizer of BCGEU-UAW and GMCAS

’22, said.

Now, BCGEU-UAW must get a majority of graduate employees to sign authorization cards in favor of an on-campus union.

So far, they’ve had hundreds of graduate workers sign the cards.

If they get the majority, the group can petition the NLRB to hold elections on campus. If the majority votes in favor of forming a union at the election, the union will be certified.

But there’s another option. If the majority of graduate workers signs the authorization cards, BC can choose to recognize the union without bringing the NLRB to campus for an election. In Dec. 2013, New York University became the only private

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university to independently recognize a graduate worker union.

“Boston College is studying the NLRB ruling,” University spokesman Jack Dunn said in an email. “We have not heard from our graduate students regarding their intentions, so we will wait to see if they choose to petition the NLRB for recognition.”

If a union is established on BC’s campus, graduate workers will have the right to collective bargaining. BCGEU-UAW would have more power to negotiate with the administration than the Graduate Student Association (GSA). While the administration is under no obligation to

Walk into Agoro’s Pizza Bar and Grill newest Brighton location, in what used to be Roggie’s Brew and Grille. You’ll go through the sports bar area with slate tile decor, glossy granite countertops, and a statuette of an eagle sitting atop the bar as an homage to the school that provides more than its share of latenight pizza orders. Look up, and see a DJ booth. Agoro’s hopes to be more than just a neighborhood bar. The latest addition to Cleveland Circle just began the inspection process, and will be opening soon.

Dimitrios Liakos and his brother Nick were originally not sure if they

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The annual Student Involvement Fair, sponsored by the Office of Student Involvement, will take place on Stokes Lawn on Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Over 200 organizations will be represented at the fair to provide information to students.

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Boston College football will play Georgia Tech at Aviva Stadium in Dublin on Saturday.

The game will be aired on ESPN2 at 7:30 a.m. It will be the third time in the last six years American football teams have played in Ireland.

On Sunday, the AHANA Leadership Council will host its first “ALC Games” from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Stokes Lawn. The games will include life-size game boards, inflatables, and other classic field day activities. Prizes will be awarded to the winning teams.

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Today, the program is downloaded between 500 and 1,000 times a day.

The device allows students who are unable to use their hands to control a mouse to use head movements to operate a computer. The program is free, as the creators wanted to help as many people as possible, according to its website.

“To hear from these people and their wonderful, dedicated caregivers that Camera Mouse is helping them, even changing their lives, is gratifying beyond words,” Gips said to The Chronicle.

Camera Mouse is also used at BC’s Campus School, a day school for students with special learning and health care needs.

The program was initially created as a part of the B C EagleEyes Project and was meant to allow eye movement to be picked up by a computer, which would be used as a mouse. Gips’s project, however, uses head movement instead of just eye movement.

Today, the program has been dow nloade d over 3 million times.

“I strive for Camera Mouse to embody Boston College’s motto ‘Ever to Excel’ and mission of ‘men and women for others,’” Gips said.

CJF< ?fjkj Nfibj_fg As a part of the Lynch School of Education’s College Bound program, this past summer, high school students from China partnered with students from local Boston schools for a twoweek STEM workshop.

The workshop took place on Boston College’s campus and was the first international partnership that Lynch’s College Bound program has held. College Bound provides students from Boston Public Schools with a full-year pre-college program.

The workshop, which was led

by Mike Barnett, taught students the basics to robotics, solar power, coding, and hydroponic gardening. A mix of Chinese and Boston students were assigned to “companies,” which developed a solar-powered hydroponic system. The students were expected to collaborate, despite their language and cultural backgrounds.

B ar ne tt re cently st ar te d working in partnership with Chinese high schools to teach students STEM concepts. According to The BC Chronicle, this makes him the first American university researcher to work with China’s K-12 curriculum and students. “ These Chinese students come from a school that prepares its students to study at many of the top universities in America,” Barnett said to The Chronicle. “So we wanted to give students as much exposure to an American university as possible.”

In an attempt to make dining choices healthier and more sustainable, Boston College Dining Services joined the Menus of Change University Research Collaborative (MCURC) and is currently rolling out changes, including additional healthy food options and renovated eating spaces, in dining halls across campus.

MCURC is made up of 41 universities across the country that collaborate on nutrition research and education. The group plans to meet at Harvard University in October to discuss new ways to fix existing food issues at its member schools.

“For us, I don’t think it is going to be a big change because we’ve already been doing it,” said Michael Forcier, general manager of dining in McElroy Commons. “We’re just going to continue to do what we are doing and now we have a sort of buzz behind it to help us market it.”

Last year, BC Dining Services focused on culinary innovation.

Director of BC Dining Services Elizabeth Emery noted that the “test kitchen” menu options naturally became healthier without focusing on nutrition. This year, Dining Services’ primary focus is creating more nutritious and environmentally friendly options for students. It has developed about 55 new recipes for the new year, according to Forcier.

“If you look at the trends in restaurants, you’re just seeing people picking healthier, more sustainable options,” Emery said. “And a lot of meat eaters are starting to pick more of the grains and the legumes, which are all a part of this protein flip.”

As part of efforts to decrease the amount of meat and increase the amount of vegetables in students’ diets, Eagle’s Nest will introduce harmony bowls, which will replace the standard deli line. The bowls

Phil Fragasso thinks this year’s presidential candidates could use a little more Jesus in their lives. His latest book, The Jesus Ticket, satirizes the 2016 presidential election.

Fragasso, a professor in the Carroll School of Management, began his project in October 2015 after seeing the initial flaws in each of the presidential candidates. The book was published six months later and parodizes the issues raised in primary debates, speeches, and candidates’ actions.

In the novel, Fragasso follows the campaign of three fictional candidates: the Republican candidate Ronald J. Drumpf, the Democrat Shillary Clinkton, and the American Ideal Party candidate, Jesus Christ.

Fragasso added Christ into the race to show the more spiritual, humanistic side of politics, he said.

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BC Dining Services is rolling out new sustainable and healthy options for students and renovating several dining halls. feature marinated kale, brown rice, quinoa, and vegetables.

The harmony bowls were created after the BC Dining team visited a nearby restaurant and saw a similar version of the bowl. It became Forcier’s mission to replicate and improve the bowl for Eagle’s Nest.

Corcoran Commons and McElroy will also test out a sushi option once a week. The sushi will be pre-prepared and served to students. Corcoran Commons will also offer vegan pizza options, as Dining Services is focusing on creating alternative choices for vegan and vegetarian students.

Hillside will now include a Bagel Bar, where students can choose from a variety of bagel sandwiches, and a Starbucks bar. After the popularity of the Starbucks in McElroy Commons, Emery decided it would benefit students on Lower Campus to add a second location.

BC Dining paired with BC Athletics to offer lobster rolls and New England clam chowder at Alumni Stadium this year. Normally, stadiums around the country will have regional food options, Emery said, and lobster rolls and chowder represent BC. Dining Services also focused on improving the aesthetic of the Rat and

Eagle’s Nest. Eagle’s Nest was recently updated with new tables, booths, and couches. In the Rat, Dining Services updated the presentation and image of the dining hall by adding digital signage and rearranging the food.

The Rat will also now have a Shaker Salad Bar, which will allow students to create personal salads in a small, round container. The Bar will be similar to the Green It station in Eagle’s Nest.

Dining Services will continue its Culinary Showcases from last year.

Instead of holding each of the dining halls’ on different nights like last year, Dining Services will now hold every dining hall’s event on the same night.

Emery decided that this would increase awareness, and make students more involved in dining changes.

The first Culinary Showcase will take place Sept. 14 and will include a presentation on MCURC. EcoPledge and Health Coaches from the Office of Health Promotion will have booths to educate students on the environmental effects of the food they eat.

Emery is also trying to incorporate students into the decision-making process by creating a Dining Advisory Board, which will consist of students from different groups around campus

and will meet twice a semester. It will discuss improvements to be made within BC Dining. According to Emery, most of the new food options came from student suggestions.

Carson Truesdell, CSOM ’17, is working with Dining Services to present a study on the difference between positive and negative messaging on student decision-making and behavior. The research will be presented at the national Menus of Change conference at Harvard in September.

“Students should expect more marketing and signage relating to food waste in the future,” Truesdell said.

Emery said BC Dining is always looking for new suggestions from both students and faculty. Last January, for example, she bought the Dining Services team members selfie sticks so that when they saw new or innovative ideas to implement into BC dining halls, they could take a selfie and send it in.

“This time of year is really the time that we want students to come to us,” Emery said. “Particularly if they have an allergy, or a medical nutrition need, or if they just need help finding something. It’s so big, sometimes, that it is a little intimidating.”

asso became fed up with candidates claiming to be Christian, but not following Christian morals.

“You can’t be elected in this country unless you are a Christian, but yet they don’t act like it,” Fragasso said. “They are all selfish, they are all self-serving, they all lie, they cheat.

It’s just terrible.”

In order to come up with content for his book, Fragasso sorted through Bible quotes, focusing on the Sermon on the Mount, and read through transcripts of primary debates.

He drew on a statement Trump made in January: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose voters.” Fragasso took the situation to the next level, having the fictional character, Drumpf, admit in an interview that he had killed illegal immigrants working on Trumpf Tower and buried them in the foundation of the building.

Fragasso also became fed up with the candidates’ focusing on social

issues rather than topics like global warming and infrastructure failure.

He wanted to highlight the candidates’ focus on personal gain, rather than issues pertinent to the country in the book.

“What is so horrible about it is people are putting party and their own personal interests above the country, individuals, and the world,” Fragasso said.

Fragasso drew inspiration for the book from Philip Roth’s novel Our Gang, which is a political satire of the Nixon era. His goal was to create a contemporary version of the novel, showing the current flaws in politics.

His writing method is a little different from most authors, he said.

Instead of outlining the novel prior to writing, Fragasso lets the storyline go in any direction while writing.

Fragasso’s spontaneous writing style led him to incorporate events taking place beyond the presidential campaign, like the death of Supreme

Court Justice Anthony Scalia, into the book. Scalia’s death created another rift between the then-presumptive presidential nominees.

His writing method allowed him to create an unexpected conclusion to the novel.

“The end is a pretty substantial surprise that just kind of came to me as I was approaching the end,” Fragasso said.

Though the new ending would allow Fragasso to create a sequel to The Jesus Ticket, Fragasso is still unsure if he wants to undertake a new project.

As new issues and statements from candidates arise, however, Fragasso has been tweeting out commentary and additions to the novel.

Fragasso hopes that, after reading the book, readers will take a second look at American politics and the direction in which the country is heading.

“Something has to change,” Fragasso said. “And it’s not just at the presidential level.”

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After a spring semester with a reported 27 off-campus break-ins, a house on Lake Street was robbed by four men last week.

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By Sophie Reardon News Editor On Aug. 25, BCPD alerted the Boston College community that a house on Lake St. had been robbed at gunpoint. The suspects were described as four black men, three of them wearing masks and one a baseball hat. They are believed to have left the scene in a dark-colored Ford Crown Victoria with tinted windows.

The invaders didn’t harm the tenants, who were not BC students, but they did take many valuables, including credit cards that they tried to use at a nearby

ATM. Between Dec. 15 and March 17, there were 27 reported break-ins at off-campus houses. In many of the instances, intruders entered through a window or unlocked door and stole valuables such as laptops.

These break-ins left students scared to be home alone and frustrated with the lack of support from Residential Life, several off-campus residents said last spring.

The Boston Police Department, which is in charge of the Brighton neighborhood where most off-campus houses are located, encouraged students to lock their doors and windows and remove air-con-

ditioning units from windows.

This summer, several more break-ins occurred at off-campus houses in Brighton, including at 249 Foster St., 17 Gerald Rd., and 299 Foster St., according to members of the off-campus community. BCP was unable to confirm these break-ins.

BPD’s advice after the most recent break-in on Lake St. is consistent with advice given last spring.

“BC Police would like to remind you of the importance of ensuring that your doors and windows are kept secure at all times, and to report suspicious behavior and/or activity,” the bulletin said.

act on GSA’s recommendations, they would have to listen to the union’s requests.

“We have very little democratic representation,” Sessions said.

The graduate workers joined with UAW, which began as an auto-workers’ union in the 1930s but now represents over 50,000 academic workers across the United States, to join hundreds of thousands of other members across the country and get access to more resources and opportunities, including professional training.

Several other working graduate students at other private universities are also preparing to unionize. According to ABC News, working graduate students at Yale University sent a request Monday to the NLRB hold an election on its campus.

One of the key issues the union hopes to address is health insurance. The University revoked graduate workers’ health insurance a year and a half ago, which, Sessions believes, has affected the quality of BC’s graduate students.

“It doesn’t mean that our benefits are on average bad, it just means that there’s always room for improvement,” Sessions said.

While the new health insurance policies are of concern, BCGEU-UAW does recognize that there are a lot of positive aspects of being a working graduate student at BC.

“Part of the reason we’re doing it isn’t negative things,” Sessions said. “It’s not because we’re unhappy. It’s because we, by working together, realize that together we can have leverage to make sure that even where things are good that people have contacts and those things don’t change.”

Sessions believes that if they are able to make changes, such as improving the health insurance policy for working graduate students, there will be a ripple effect, with other graduate students and undergraduates experiencing similar improvements.

BCGEU-AUW also hopes that in forming a union, the graduate students will receive more recognition for all of the work they do for the University.

“The core thing for us and for everyone else that’s doing it is having what we do recognized as work,” Sessions said. “A lot of grad students are coming out of careers, many are highly educated and trained professionals already, and what we do here is an enormous part of making the university work.”

For example, Sessions works as a teaching assistant in the history department and Nate Nesbitt, an organizer of BCGEUAUW and MGCAS ’19, gets external science funding for the University.

“It’s so obvious to us that that’s work like any other kind and that’s what the decision recognized, so that’s why we’re so excited about it,” Nesbitt said.

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By Sophie Reardon News Editor In order to help avoid power outages in the area, Boston College’s Facilities Management team worked to cut back on the amount of electricity BC used this past summer.

Facilities Management established the Electricity Grid Alert System, posting fliers across campus and sending out emails about ways students and faculty could reduce their use of electricity. On hot summer days, people generally use more electricity to keep their houses and offices cool, which can lead to power outages.

The Facilities Management team suggested turning off and unplugging

appliances, keeping office thermostats at 75 degrees, turning off office lights, and keeping windows and curtains closed.

“We know that the grid is taxed pretty heavily during hot days in the summer,” said John MacDonald, BC’s energy manager.

Although not all of the students and faculty stay on campus for the summer, he said, there are still some people, including RAs and RDs, student athletes, and summer students. It’s their use of air conditioning during the summer months that contributes to an increase in the amount of electricity the campus uses.

The posters and emails proved effec-

tive, MacDonald said. The automated system the Facilities Management team uses to measure the amount of electricity BC uses indicated that BC was able to cut back on its usage this summer.

“We were able to save a considerable amount of energy,” MacDonald said.

Students and faculty alike saved large print jobs until the grid alert ended, kept their coffee makers unplugged, and turned off lights.

This initiative, however, is only done in the summer because it’s too difficult to implement when school is in session.

“We would like to thank the faculty and staff for helping us out,” MacDonald said. “They did a tremendous job.”

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To avoid power outages this summer, students turned off lights and air conditioners.

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ASAP expands its programs by opening a support line students can call to learn about BC’s alcohol policies without getting in trouble.

This year, Boston College has increased security measures by adding new locks and proximity card readers within residence halls around campus. During move-in, however, the new system posed problems for several groups of students, primarily freshmen, who faced difficulty accessing their bedrooms and bathrooms.

With the new system, students must tap their ID cards to gain access to residence halls, their individual bedrooms, and the hall bathrooms. They must enter their individual PIN as well to enter their individual bedrooms and the hall bathrooms, in some, though not all, campus residences.

The system was tested in Cheverus Hall in January, and implemented in all residence halls on Newton, Upper, and College Road this fall. The new proximity card readers and PIN door locks were also added to each

apartment door in the Reservoir Apartments and Thomas More Apartments.

When freshmen arrived for move-in, however, they were initially unable to enter their individual bedrooms using their ID card and PIN code, according to Duke Saunders, MCAS ’20. After having issues gaining access, Stanley Security, the security company working in partnership with BC, issued temporary ID cards to help students enter their rooms.

Via email, Resident Director Matthew Razek directed members of the first and second floor of CLXF to contact facilities staff or resident assistants if they had been locked out. In addition, bathroom doors had to be propped to allow student access, the email said.

Throughout BC Welcome Week, the IT staff worked to change some lock mechanisms on individual bedroom doors in the

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not required to identify themselves.

The support line will not get students in trouble, Sperry said, but will nstead serve as a resource for students o get educated on alcohol policies.

“There’s no intention on our part of getting individuals in the conduct system through this,” he said. “It’s completely designed to support students who have questions about policy and resources.”

Students who call the support line can also receive an over-the-phone alcohol screening, called an AUDIT, so hat he or she can better understand his or her condition.

Since the line began working Sunday, it has had two callers.

If a student is in trouble, Sperry said, he or she will need to call BCPD. But if the student wants to know what that’s going to look like, the student can call the support line, and the graduate student will explain it.

“There’s a lot of confusion surrounding the health-seeking policy,” he said.

“There’s a lot of confusion around these types of situations. And so our hope is that if students have questions about the health-seeking policy, they’ll utilize the support line.”

ASAP has several other initiatives on campus. It hosts public screening events in places such as the Plex and

residence halls where students can learn about blood-alcohol content and how to drink responsibly.

It also trains faculty, staff, and student leaders to have more competent conversations with students about alcohol on campus. The process is known as Screening Brief Intervention Referral to Treatment (SBIRT). Last year, ASAP trained nearly 150 people and hopes to train hundreds more this year.

“Working with our focus groups and BC students demonstrated that the majority, if not the entirety, of support for high-risk drinking only occurs after it’s been mandated through the conduct system,” Sperry said. “And we feel that’s an issue.”

JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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From 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., temporary planters and fencing extended the sidewalk, allowing city officials to fill the new space with tables, chairs, and umbrellas available to any passerby.

Bostonians were not only able to take a minute out of their hectic mornings to sit down and relax, but were also able to have coffee with project organizers, and give their own feedback about the experimental popup.

Given the uniquely wide streets that make up the intersection—remnants of city planning from the 1790s—the concept of repurposing the intersection’s streets for pedestrian use has been on

the minds of officials in the Boston Transportation Department (BTD) for some time.

After considering multiple suggestions for the space that were proposed by planning firms and students alike, the BTD’s project recently gained traction thanks to the perfect storm of events.

“One of those is that Go Boston 2030—which is the city’s long-term transportation plan—has created a public realm working group that looks at ways we can improve public space and space making in the city, on the streets and sidewalks we control, so this falls under this umbrella,” said Alice Brown, a planner at the BTD. Along with the momentum from Go Boston, the completion of several construction projects in the area is also prompting project organizers forward.

Millennium Tower, a new residential tower, and a plaza in front of the building are scheduled to open soon, along

with a new set of stairs in front of the area’s T stop.

BTD officials expect that there will be a noticeable increase in foot traffic after these projects are finished and the construction in the area concludes, which further spurred interest in creating a public space for pedestrians.

Although the designs employed for the popup on Tuesday focused more on urban design issues than engineering ones, the usage of planters and fencing lent the experiment a flexible nature.

Since nothing permanent, such as striping or paint, was used, officials were able to alter the design in real time.

City officials also made potential future designs and plans available to the public in order to gather comments and opinions on what the plaza could look like in the future.

“The idea behind the pilot is that we’re able to stand out there and experiment both with how people use the

space when we fill it with a few things, but also to shift the edge [of the Popup Plaza] and watch traffic patterns while we’re out there,” Brown said. “And if we can understand the on-the-ground needs that must be mitigated in the final design, we can have a better final design.”

But the organization of the project, which allowed officials to receive and respond to feedback on the Popup Plaza in real time, was not the only trait that makes this initiative unique.

The Plaza’s eventual permanent installation will take place in stages that follow rounds of feedback.

“We don’t usually test things [intermittently], so this is a new method for us of doing design in pieces, where we get feedback along the way, and as we close things down,” Brown said. “We close streets down pretty regularly for parades, and we sometimes block off lanes for people to do construction … we don’t usually just close off a lane

or two.”

Brown also said that BTD hopes to continue testing projects in this manner in order to make Boston a more pedestrian-friendly area.

Following the information gathered during Tuesday’s popup, the next phase for the plaza is already underway.

The architectural firm Höweler + Yoon, which, while working with Millennium Partners , has already presented the BTD with potential designs for the next phase, will work the feedback gathered during the Popup into its plans.

And given the strength that the project gleans thanks to many perspectives within the city—Public Works, the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and Boston Bid have all contributed to the planning—the following phases will allow the BTD time to continue searching for similar locations where the bustling public is in need of a plaza that Bostonians will enjoy.

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“We came up here [Roggie’s] and we looked at it and we fell in love with it,” Dimitrios said. “We could definitely see ourselves opening up a spot in Boston. … It just kind of landed in our lap.”

Dimitrios and Nick grew up in Somerset , where the y spent their childhood in and around the restaurant industry, especially through their parents’ establishments, which operated under the Minerva name. In 2010 the brothers took over the business, gave it their own personal touch, and renamed it Agoro’s Pizza Bar and Grill, which became their original location in Somerset.

This ne w name w a s their w ay of staying true to their roots—it’s a shorter version of their mother’s Greek name, Agoritza. They then expanded that location from 70 to 350 seats with two function rooms for private events and experienced much success in the area, spurring them to think about expanding further.

After the deal for the Brighton location went through, the brothers began a grueling construction process. Then, they needed to obtain a liquor license— a protracted process, they said, due to crackdowns by Boston regulators. The license was eventually approved and transferred, and the brothers can pick it up once they finish up inspections, a process that is beginning now.

“We didn’t think we’d need to gut this place, but we gutted everything out,” Dimitrios said, pointing toward the kitchen.

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the appliances to the counters, and added a brand-new pizza oven that can make around 250 pies each hour.

They also completely remodeled the dining area to make it clear that it is more of a restaurant than simply a bar and pizza joint. Six months of work later, the place is unrecognizable, with decor modeled after their Somerset location.

Dimitrios oversees daily operations and staffing, and Nick is in charge of private events and catering operations.

Randy Machado is the general manager and has been working with the Liakos brothers for years. Gary Gianchetti, who has previously appeared on Cutthroat Kitchen on the Food Network, will serve as the head chef.

As the Liakos brothers have been going through construction during the past six months, they have met many families that comprise the Brighton community, and they want to do their best to become part of the community in every aspect, perhaps by holding events where families can eat for free, Dimitrios said.

The brothers were inspire d by Cleveland Circle’s role as a transportation hub, so they decided to integrate this into the pizza side of the restaurant. Now, a model train running around the perimeter of the room will carry slices of pizza for younger children.

As far as catering to Boston College students, Agoro’s plans to hold themed nights, including a trivia night, a paint night, and a karaoke night. They also hope to designate Tuesdays and Thursdays as senior nights. They intend on serving and delivering pizza by the slice until 3 a.m., and keeping the bar open until 1 a.m.

“I’ve been in the entertainment and restaurant business for a long time, so for us it’s not just about the food, it’s the ambiance, it’s the lighting, it’s the

sound,” Dimitrios said. “You want to come to a restaurant, and you want to feel the energy and the vibe.”

But Agoro’s plans to appeal beyond the atmostphere. The restaurant boasts a full menu like the one in Somerset, serving everything from its specialty

Greek pan pizza, to pasta, steak, and seafood. The Greek influence on the food is derived from the Liakos family culture.

“We’re food-driven first,” Dimitrios said. “We care about making people happy and if the food is great every-

thing else will follow suit.”

In addition to the improvements geared toward creating an inviting social atmosphere, Dimitrios is serious about his food business.

“If I wouldn’t eat it, I wouldn’t serve it,” he said.

JOANNA YUELYS / HEIGHTS STAFF

Agoro’s Pizza Bar and Grille will serve the Cleveland Circle community not only Greek-inspired pies but also senior nights.

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By Keaton Beams Heights Staff Although home might sound like the ideal office, working from home is often lonely, demotivating, and distracting. Actual offices, on the other hand, can be demoralizing and expensive, while good workspaces, like coffee shops, are nearly impossible to find consistently in cities. Cove, a Washington, D.C., start-up with deep roots in the Boston area, has partnered with a new local coffee shop, Barismo, to offer Boston residents a “happy medium” between a traditional office and their homes—the ideal workspace. For an all-access pass of $135 each month, users get private cubicles and meeting spaces.

Although Cove is based in D.C., where the company has established a network of convenient locations for D.C. residents over its three years of operation, both of its cofounders, Jeremy Scott and Adam Segal, regard Boston as the real hometown of their brainchild. As Segal puts it, the opening of the Kendall Square location on Aug. 22 was “a true homecoming.” Cove plans to create a network of locations in and around Boston similar to that which it established in D.C. over the past three years.

Cove’s local roots go back to 2012, when Segal and Scott mapped out their business plan in Voltage, a coffee shop once located in the same place as their new location

in Kendall Square. At the time, Segal was pursuing his master’s at Harvard University and Scott was pursuing a Ph.D. at MIT. “This location is very personal for us,” Segal said. “Who knew a few years later, we would open a workspace in the very spot where we were writing the plan for the company.”

Spurred by sentiment, Segal and Scott decided this location was an opportune venue for a novel variation upon their idea. Partnering with Barismo, a Greater Boston coffee retailer and roaster founded in 2008, Cove created a workspacecoffee house power combination.

Together, these two Boston-born start-ups sought to create a space where everyone, from small businesses to individual workers, can maximize their productivity. Barismo has two existing locations in Arlington and Cambridge.

While the concept of co-working space in itself is no original innovation, Cove has reengineered it. “[The space] enables both employees and employers to choose when, where and how they work,” Scott said.

To achieve this, each location is equipped with private call boxes, on-demand meeting spaces, free Wi-Fi, color printing and scanning, and free coffee, tea, and soda. Cove workspaces are designed specifically to support the modern lifestyle, according to its website.

And the Cove app serves as an essential tool for Cove members, providing them with an entire arsenal of amenities at their fingertips.

It allows them to view nearby workspaces, reserve conference rooms, interact with members on-site, and scan in and out of a workspace so that others can view availabilities at each site.

Each workspace is engineered to empower the modern worker with the flexibility that life demands, enabling an individual or a team to work when, where, and how they want, as though they were working from home, while providing the motivation and resources a shared working environment, such as a traditional office, fosters—along with the perks of a high-quality coffee shop.

Barismo has expanded rapidly in both popularity and scale due primarily to a series of bold innovations to the coffee buying, shipping, and brewing processes they have designed and implemented to ensure transparency in sourcing their ingredients, attention to detail, and exceptional coffees. Segal called it an “innovator in the coffee space.”

“We feel like the one thing we haven’t been able to do with Barismo is to provide the working/studying resource that many cafes give away,” said Jamie Van Schyndel, Barismo’s founder. “Finding a way to improve on that is what our partnership with Cove is trying to accomplish.”

KEATON BEAMS / HEIGHTS STAFF

The coffee shop turned workspace, Cove, in its Kendall Square location, where customers can go to work and socialize.

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AL8E FC8M8II@8 Boston sports. Those are two words that in isolation evoke two very different images: the former brings to mind clam chowder (chowdah!) and buildings like the Prudential Center, while the latter conjures thoughts of hot dogs and thrilling athletic events.

When those two seemingly separate and independent words are put together, however, they mean one thing: the Sox and their historic ground, Fenway Park. At least, that’s how it used to be.

David Beckham, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Steven Gerrard, Luis Suarez—names that but 10 years ago would have brought about a look of confusion with a twinkle of familiarity on the faces of most Bostonians now bring forth the opposite reaction: understanding.

Soccer has slowly but surely grown from an essential nonfactor in the American sports market that is focused almost entirely on the NFL, NBA, and MLB for decades (no disrespect to the NHL), into a major player in the country and the city. The usual critique of the inherent nature of the sport continues (cue the “What type of sport doesn’t let you use your hands!” and the “What! A tie?”), but many have now joined in the excitement that is taking the nation by storm.

Not only has Major League Soccer seen its stock reach all-time highs (the discussion of whether the New England Revolution should have its own stadium is best saved for another time), but the historical stalwarts in the sport have also reached a new level. These include leagues like the English Premier League and the Spanish First Division, with teams like Real Madrid and Manchester United enjoying massive support on this side of the pond.

Walking around the city on any given day of the week, it’s hard not to notice the amount of soccer shirts on people’s backs—the sheer quantity comes close to rivaling the presence of the Boston “Big 4” sports. The organic nature with which the sport has captivated the city is one of its best features, with several fan groups sprouting in which individuals get together and watch games, even if these take place as early as 7:30 a.m. on some weekends.

LFC Boston, the official supporters club for Liverpool F.C. in the city that meets for all of the games at the Phoenix Landing bar in Cambridge, serves as a testament of the sport’s growth in the city. Organizations like this show that the sport does appeal to even the most skeptical of supporters, even in a city like Boston that is known for its stubbornness regarding the “tradition” of sport.

Boston also served as one of the host cities for this past summer’s Copa America Centenario, a special iteration of the continent’s most prestigious

international soccer competition.

Just over 59,000 fans poured into Gillette Stadium to watch the quarterfinal matchup of Lionel Messi’s Argentina vs. Venezuela.

But the most significant aspect of the crowd that day was that it was mostly composed of club soccer supporters, not just those there to watch their country play in real life. The star power of Messi was there for all to see.

The sports culture has come under attack from every discernible direction nationwide over the last few years, with off-the-field controversies usually dominating the news cycle rather than on-the-field results. One needs to only look at the resilience shown by storylines like Deflategate, concussions, and Lochte’s recent run-in with Brazilian authorities during the Olympics.

Many individuals have become disillusioned with professional sports, as evidenced by declining regular season attendance in the NFL, according to Sports Business Journal. This specific fact is makes the sport’s rise nationwide all the more impressive, with the MLS currently seeing its highest attendance levels ever.

The sport, with its running clock that never stops and uncertain game length, is capturing the hearts of many around the country. The game may not have originated here, like clam chowder and the Prudential Center, but it has now become a part of the city’s culture.

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One of the pianos on display during this special ‘Play Me I’m Yours’ exhibition, where passersby can play a tune

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By Ryder Lee For The Heights It just got a little bit easier to become a street musician. From Sept. 23 to Oct. 10, close to 60 individually decorated pianos will appear at various locations around Boston, free for Bostonians from every corner of the city to play and admire.

Each will feature a simple yet inviting message somewhere on the piano: “Play me, I’m yours.”

Designed to provoke interactions and conversations within the city ’s various neighborhoods, the Street Pianos Boston project combines performing and visual arts.

Local artists of all backgrounds and experience levels were commissioned to decorate the pianos, each of which is completely unique.

Artist Luke Jerram first had the idea for public street pianos in 2008. Upon seeing thousands of people going about their daily lives without interacting or even acknowledging each other, Jerram realized that similar cases of urban isolation were occurring around the globe.

“I suddenly realized that within a city, there must be hundreds of invisible communities, regularly spending time with one another in silence,” Jerram said.

“Placing a piano in the space was my solution to this problem, acting as a catalyst for conversation and changing the dynamics of the space.”

In his goal to promote human interaction within urban centers, Jerram has largely succeeded. Since the incarnation of the project in Birmingham,

England, more than 1,400 pianos have been installed in more than 50 cities, covering five different continents.

In total, the project has reached more than 8 million people. 2016 marks the second time Boston will have pianos on its sidewalks.

Organized for the first time in 2013, Street Pianos Boston is again being brought to life by the Celebrity Series of Boston, which promotes the performing and visual arts within the city.

The Street Pianos project is part of a larger community engagement initiative run by the Celebrity Series called Arts for All!, which combines workshops, interactive concerts, masterclasses, residency programs, and ticket discounts to bring music and the performing arts to more than 22,000 people.

According to Karen Brown, project manager for Street Pianos Boston, that number is certain to rise once the street pianos are revealed on Sept. 7.

After the first time heading the Street Pianos project in 2013, the Celebrity Series was certain they wanted to host it again. Brown called the project representative of the organization’s mission and audience.

One element unique to the 2016 showcase was the process used to attract visual artists to decorate the street pianos.

The Celebrity Series issued an open call and an open press release to draw in artists from around the Boston area. Those artists were chosen to represent a variety of ages, socioeconomic levels, ethnicities, and artistic media, according to Brown.

By choosing such a diverse selection of artists for the project, the Celebrity Series hopes to produce an equally diverse and expressive set of street pianos.

There are two specific pianos that will highlight the soul and spirit of Street Pianos Boston, according to Brown: the piano of professional artist and teacher John Provenzano, and the piano of Emily Evans.

Provenzano’s piano—which Brown described as a “bright,” “vivid,” collaborative effort—incorporates the input of his students at the Boston Renaissance Charter Public School. Evans’s piano includes not only visual artwork, but an accompanying dance performance inspired by the piano’s design, illustrating the artistic creativity that Street Pianos Boston helps bring into the public light.

Intended to maximize exposure and impact, the pianos are in places with significant pedestrian traffic, to allow for more people to see, admire, and interact with the exhibits. The organizers assigned at least one piano in every neighborhood in the city proper.

The locations of all 60 street pianos will be announced on Sept. 7.

“We knew we had something special on our hands when we originally decided to take on this project,” Brown said. “But we didn’t really have an understanding of the magnitude [and] joy … we were pleasantly surprised with how the public embraced the project, and we expect similar, if not higher, numbers of participation this time.”

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This most recent robbery is another in a significant number of recurring offcampus break-ins and thefts.

There were 27 off-campus breaki n s re p o r te d b e t w e e n D e c . 1 5 a n d March 17.

Over the summer, there were several more break-ins at addresses such as 249 Foster St., 17 Gerald Rd., and 299 Foster St., although BPD was unable to confirm them.

It is clear that students living off campus this year face the distinct possibility of a break-in.

The Heights reported on these breakins last semester, including an editorial calling for an improved alert system.

This continues to be a serious issue that threatens the safety of students and their possessions.

Intruders often enter through unlocked doors or windows in order to steal laptops and other unprote cte d valuables. Mitigating these break-ins is key to maintaining a standard of safety for off-campus students.

For the majority of off-campus students, this will be the first time they are living on their own outside of a dormitory, and the University should take responsibility to address the break-ins and provide multiple opportunities for education on safety measures.

An off-campus safety meeting held Aug. 31 dealt with alcohol consumption and off-campus parties, but didn’t extensively address the break-in issue.

Although the importance of locking doors and windows was mentioned, it is necessary to further address the dangers that students encounter off campus.

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“You live in a deranged age—more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”

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over the past year, students deserve a warning about what they will be facing off campus.

The problem of break-ins is unique to students living off campus, who are responsible for their own security in an entirely different way from on-campus students.

Just as students receive the same alcohol talk every year, off-campus students should receive a warning and recommendations for practical measures for protecting belongings and securing a house or apartment.

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Bulletins, such as the one sent out to some students af ter the L ake St . robbery, should be frequently used to disseminate information about recent break-ins and further recommend security methods.

Work shops and other e ducational methods would help ensure that students who have no other choice but to live off campus understand the potential for break-ins and better realize the importance of security.

Especially after the armed robbery at Lake Street, this is an issue of student safety that must b e extensively addressed.

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Alcohol Screening and Prevention, a Student Affairs initiative, opened a support line for Boston College students who want to better understand alcohol policies on campus or have health concerns regarding themselves or their friends.

The line is staffed by BC graduate students who are trained in these policies and are pursuing degrees in counselingrelated fields.

Nic Sperry, the assistant director of recover y and support programs , has said that calling the line, which is open 24/7, will not get students in trouble, and that it is meant to educate students on alcohol policies.

This means, for example, that if a student has to call BCPD, he or she can first call this hotline to understand what will happen when he or she calls BCPD. The conduct system and policies surrounding alcohol use can be obscure to students, who are often unaware of the best course of action after an incident.

Knowledge of the process is key in helping students who are dealing with an alcohol incident and are unaware of their options. Dedicating resources to informing students who are affected by these policies is a good step toward making the process more transparent and offering students the help they need.

The line also serves as a way to remove the stigma surrounding alcohol policies and seeking help after an incident. Implementing this line allows students to seek it without worrying about repercussions.

It is important to ensure that these resources are used in the most efficient way possible.

The views expressed in the above editorials represent the official position of The Heights, as discussed and written by the Editorial Board. A list of the mem-

The line is a good way to reach students and has been publicized at building meetings, which effectively informs students at the beginning of the year. Making sure that students are aware of the support line is key to the program’s success.

Resources like this can frequently go unused when a lack of publicization leads to unawareness in the student body.

As the year goes by, ASAP should continue to search for the best way to reach students and build on the progress brought about by this support line.

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ASAP’s other programs, such as public screenings regarding alcohol issues and the Screening Brief Intervention Referral to Treatment initiative, which trains faculty, staff, and student leaders in how to effectively discuss alcohol on campus, are both steps in the right direction.

bers of the Editorial Board can be found at bcheights. com/opinions.

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Normally we’re like most college students—dead inside—but the excitement of returning to campus has just filled us to the brim with girlish glee, like a cannoli about to explode.

GOLLY, THIS IS FUN!!!!........................ ... all right, back to normal now.

EDMOND’S - Goodbye, my friend. Will I ever love again? You’ve always been with us, Edmond’s, a friend to the healthy-living people, the sustainable-living people, the unhealthy, unsustainable, self-destructive-living people, and even the average people.

Every day, we shed a tear over your dilapidated, half-destroyed husk. You were beautiful, Edmond’s. Beautiful.

AIR CONDITIONING - Sorry, freshmen.

The first few weeks are going to be a mess. Every night you’ll wake up soaking in a quagmire of your own bodily fluids, choking on the stifling air, blinded by sweat, strangled by blankets, and begging for death. But beyond that, college will be great.

As for the rest of us, living in airconditioned dorms like the exalted Vanderslice, home of heroes and champions, we will spend our nights cloaked in a blanket of cool, artificial happiness.

SEAT BELT WARNING SENSORS - Hasn’t humanity suffered enough? Why must a horrible, high-pitched alarm drill straight into our brain stems if we don’t put on a seat belt? We all know that putting on a seat belt makes you “safer” and “can prevent serious injury,” but sometimes you just don’t want to be restricted by that horrible belt, or, as us freedomlovers call it, “the liberty shackle.” If you want to die in a terrible and yet totally avoidable accident, that’s your God-given right. LET FREEDOM RING! AGGRESSIVE EMAILS BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS - “If you took this class thinking it would be an easy A, THINK AGAIN, JACKASS! You’d best come prepared to learn, or you’ll end up bleeding in a ditch on the side of the road. That’s right, I’m going to actually, literally, truly murder you with homework and tests because THIS CLASS ISN’T A JOKE. IT’S SERIOUS. MY LIFE IS IMPORTANT.” Okay, professor.

I understand that your class is a real thing, you don’t have to threaten me before we’ve even met.

REALIZING YOU’RE OVER THE HILL - For the upperclassmen, it’s important that you know your life is kind of going down the toilet. This year is going to go by in a second, and then it’s time to party. And by party I mean enter the workforce and struggle to turn your degree into a good job and then spend the rest of your life working until you grow old, contract a terminal illness, and die in a smelly hospital bed, begging for just one more minute.

BEING A TOTAL DOWNER - Who needs to talk about death when we can talk about puppies? Have you ever seen a Bernese Mountain Dog? Look it up. It’ll make you feel better.

When I stepped foot in the Boston Public Library for the first time three years ago, I entered with the same awe-induced, wide-eyed wonder with which I saw many things that first year.

Everything was fresh and waiting to be discovered—I was new to college, new to New England—and I bestowed this wondrous, half-starved gaze on almost everything I encountered in my strange surroundings. From the first autumn leaf, to the first hockey game, to first friendships, to my first Dunkin Donut, that year was prophetic—romantic, even.

From the window of my beloved single on the third floor of Fitzpatrick, watching a football being tossed around on the snowy lawn before dinner, I’d think how I never wanted it to end. But of course, it would insult the definition of “new” if things could be new forever. Like all good things, every year must end, and a new one must begin.

With millions of freshmen and seniors across the country going into their first and last years of college, I’ve had change and memory on my mind.

Freshmen, underneath their bright-yellow Superfan shirts and newly-learned football chants, are probably wondering what the next four years will bring for them and whether they made the right choice. Seniors, underneath their confident smiles and Marathon Monday scars, may be wondering similar things.

In the span of three years, many things have changed, as things tend to, both for the worse and for the better. College is no longer as strange and thrilling as it was to me the day I first walked down Linden Lane with the rest of my class.

Walking into the Boston Public Library now, I am still impressed by its beauty, but I am not breathtaken as I was that first time. I know it inside out, and my once wide-eyed gaze is now accustomed to the grand marble staircase and the

frescoes on the walls. I’m used to the high, vaulted ceilings and the majesty that once stopped my heart. I sometimes wish I could experience everything in life with that same delicious excitement that I had experienced the library with for the first time, or my freshman year of college. Imagine if we could preserve good memories and feelings like water in a pool and dive back into them whenever times got tough. Maybe we would immerse ourselves in them forever. But how many hundreds of times can we replay the same happy song before joy turns to nostalgia, and nostalgia to sorrow, and sorrow to utter numbness? And more importantly, how can we live this year of college in the best way possible, with little nostalgia for the past and even less fear of the future?

I don’t have all the answers, but I have a few suggestions. One of them occurred to me the other day while I was waiting for the B Line. You know how people are always sticking their heads out on platforms to see if the next train is coming? The other day at Copley Square station I caught myself doing it too. Why do we stick our heads out to look for the train when we know it’s coming anyway? In life too, we’re always sticking our heads out to see what’s coming, but to what end? If it’s coming, it’s coming anyway, and if it’s not, then it’s just as useless to stick your head out. In college we can get so caught up in planning for our future that we forget to enjoy this brief period of our life in which we can be both virtually independent and mostly carefree. We have the luxury of time to learn about and get involved in things we’re actually interested in, so why not take that random French new wave film class along with the resume-padding internship?

Not everything we do has to be “useful.”

(Not that a French new wave film class is necessarily un-useful.) I guess in the end it all depends on your definition of useful. Something that brings you joy, and nothing more, could be seen as “useful” just for that reason. The best and most durable things, after all, are usually ends in themselves, not means to certain ends.

Another seemingly obvious but

actually strange thing I noticed the other day: a man painted in all silver on a bike with his scarf blowing in the wind, as though frozen mid-ride. He was a real man, of course, a regular street busker.

But it made me quite sad. He had neither an audience nor any tips in his silver hat served by his outstretched arm, while the breakdancing crew next to him had a huge, cheering crowd. Well, you might say, what’s so great about a silver-painted man standing still? Everyone loves a good breakdance. And I agree, after a while it’s pretty damn boring to watch someone just not moving at all. But at the same time, it’s kind of amazing. In a world that’s so bustling, where everything exists in a flurry of motion, it’s hard not to notice such stillness, and even to admire it. You seldom see someone sitting alone on the grass (iPhone not in hand), just looking around. And if you do, you’d probably notice (and maybe think it’s weird). In our day-today lives we’re so obsessed with constant activity that we hardly ever take a moment to look around and appreciate our surroundings, even our existence.

I guess what I’m saying, clichéd as it sounds, is that we should practice living in the present. We should stop sticking our heads out and be the silver man for a moment—still, watching the world move around us. Memories are important, but we can’t live in them or try to dress the present in the past’s shrunken clothes.

The future is important also, but we cannot get so lost in imagining and planning that we forget to experience where we are. After all, there is only so much pining and planning that can be done.

Whether you’re a freshman organizing your entire college career, or a senior trying to figure out what to do with the next chapter of your life, plan but don’t over-plan. We can’t plan everything about our college experience, just as we can’t plan everything in life. I planned this column to be about the political climate on American college campuses, and look how that turned out.

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Creamy, melted fontina cheese. Butter-coated bread, toasted to a golden crisp. Crisp stalks of endive, tossed with basil and lemon. Aromatic and tangy fig jam, fresh from a saucepan. Do I have your attention? I’m not trying to seduce you with food talk or even make you hungry—I just want to tell you about my dinner.

This meal may sound gourmet, or perhaps even restaurant-made, but I actually made it. Me. An amateur cook with an inflated sense of skill and limited ingredients. It only took an hour and most of that time was hands-off, simply letting the jam simmer into a thick, condensed jelly. The most difficult part of the cooking process was stopping myself from eating the fontina cheese before putting it in the sandwich.

In my culinary fantasy, I prepared for this meal by going to a local farmer’s market. I sorted through the stalks of endives and wooden bins of figs. I talked to my neighborhood baker, and then settled on a freshly-baked loaf of country bread.

Once at home, I picked a lemon from my tree in the backyard. I meandered around my garden for a few minutes to inspect any other promising produce before heading inside to pick some sprigs of basil from my windowsill plant. Then I put on an apron, opened my grandmother’s recipe book, and let the inspiration flow through me.

I didn’t actually do all those things.

Instead, I ordered a meal package from Blue Apron. For those who don’t know about this meal service, I’ll explain. For $9.99 per person, you can have a gourmet recipe and handpicked ingredients delivered to your door. No grocery

shopping. No recipe hunting. Not even the guilt of unused cilantro that sits in a rotting heap after you’ve picked off the leaves you need.

Before you accuse me of product placement, let me be clear. This foray into Blue Apron cooking was probably my last. As much as I enjoyed the initial crunch into my fontina grilled cheese and the refreshingly bitter taste of my endive salad, I can’t lay claim to this recipe. It belongs to Blue Apron, not to me.

After I had finished my meal, I tried to feel the surge of satisfaction that comes from a well-crafted meal.

It wasn’t there. As the slightly neurotic cook that I am, I fixated on the oddity of this reaction. Why did I feel like I hadn’t really cooked it? What separated this meal from any other one?

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Although creativity often hides behind the juicier label of artistry, it applies more broadly to the creation of something new. It could be a string of words or a business plan or even a piping-hot plate of spaghetti with maple syrup (on second thought, maybe not that one).

For me, creativity seems most alive in the kitchen, where a basil leaf or a dash of paprika can spark the creation of something utterly unknown and unexpected. Forget Steve Jobs and Van Gogh, I want to hear about Escoffier and Fernand Point and Alice Waters.

With the introduction of Blue Apron, I suddenly find myself questioning this understanding of creativity. Can we call

something creative when all it involves is following the guidelines of somebody else’s recipe? When the only ingredients we pick out are those that have been dropped on our doorstep? What exactly is the creation there? And who exactly is creating it?

I try not to give in to food snobbery, but I can’t help thinking that Blue Apron has taken art and creativity out of the kitchen. It has distilled cooking down to a process and food to a product. Perhaps this is what people are looking for.

And I certainly don’t mean to criticize those who simply want something easy and fast.

Blue Apron provides a valuable service: the opportunity to cook without the pressure of buying ingredients or learning a recipe. Unfortunately, those steps are integral to learning how to cook. They exercise our sense of taste and smell and hone our culinary instincts. Without those, experimentation and innovation in the kitchen are nothing more than accidents, and rare ones at that.

As I begin another year in Boston College’s dorms, I’m starting to remember the stifling pressure of having limited ingredients and even more limited time. I have eaten more plates of scrambled eggs and baked sweet potatoes in the past week than I care to reveal.

My creativity, culinary or otherwise, is reaching a dismal level. I’m suddenly longing for that fontina grilled cheese and fresh fig jam, culinary integrity be damned.

Maybe this is Blue Apron’s secret. It plays on our overscheduled lives, and relishes in our tendencies to sacrifice creativity in the face of mounting outside pressures. Let’s not let it win.

Let’s remember that cooking is art and a well-crafted meal deserves more than an online order.

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IP8E ;L==P In 2012, as Obama cruised through a sizable reelection victory over Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the GOP’s top brass were disillusioned. The post-election trauma was palpable—Newt Gingrich declared himself ‘dumbfounded’ by the results, while Karl Rove—mastermind Republican strategist—was on air flatly refusing the reality and finality of the results.

How could this have happened? 2012 was supposed to be a competitive election. Despite this, Nov. 6 brought a decisive victory for Democrats. It seemed that there was an untold story unfolding behind the scenes. Beyond the country’s extant ideological and partisan splits, something was changing with American voters.

The GOP openly searched for answers, and found them in its now-infamous postelection autopsy. The blunt 100-page report delves into why Republicans are losing more and more at the federal level. The Growth and Opportunity Project is a convenient euphemism for what the document really is—a primer for how and why the Party needs an overhaul. It begins by noting that the GOP’s “federal wing is increasingly marginalizing itself, and unless changes are made, it will be increasingly difficult for Republicans to win another presidential election in the near future.” In the long run, it’s evolve or die for the Party’s strident and uncompromising wing.

The architects that crafted this grand strategy in 2012 probably wouldn’t have bothered to do so if they knew how 2016 would go. It’s almost laughable to juxtapose the report’s words with those of its current Republican nominee.

A few notable excerpts from the report: “Public perception of the Party is at record lows. Young voters are increasingly rolling their eyes at what the Party represents, and many minorities wrongly think that Republicans do not like them or want them in the country.”

“If Hispanic Americans perceive that a GOP nominee or candidate does not want them in the United States, they will not pay attention to our next sentence ... we must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform.”

“When it comes to social issues, the Party must in fact and deed be inclusive and welcoming.”

It’s all very well to explore and discuss the Party’s problems, but four years later, nothing has changed. By perpetuating hardline campaign bombast, refusing to throw compromise or consensus into his playbook, and dangerously discounting important constituencies, Republican nominee Donald Trump is mortgaging the future of his Party.

The 2012 postmortem carries valuable insights about long-term strategies, and Trump tends to cavalierly disregard them.

Take the foundation of his campaign, the springboard from which he launched to frontrunner: immigration, deportation, and border security proposals, as well as character smears, that have summarily alienated nearly the entire Latino community.

His rhetoric and policy proposals have led to very high unfavorability ratings among minorities, females, and young voters—all constituencies that will be electorally formative this year and in many to come.

For a Republican Party that has very transparently grappled with its public image, 2016 may be a decisive blow to any attempts at rebranding or extending overtures to traditionally non-GOP constituencies. When the best that the current nominee does to reach out to said groups is “What the hell do you have to lose?”, the party is unlikely to make any inroads.

In an era of shifting cultural attitudes and rapidly evolving demography, political parties must be malleable. With Trump at the helm, the Party is anything but. Election cycles have a myopic purview, and it’s important to not lose sight of a party’s long-term vitality. Party leadership—Reince Priebus, Senator Mitch McConnell, and Speaker Paul Ryan, among others—must do what they can to rein in the loose cannon that is Trump’s mouth. So far, they have been fairly unsuccessful: think the Judge Curiel comments or the feud with a Muslim-American Gold Star family (which were both well after party leadership backed Trump).

The GOP needs a seismic shift in its messaging and outreach to avert the self-diagnosed predicament of looming electoral and demographic challenges. Rand Paul colloquially summarized this problem: the GOP is becoming the “old white man’s party.” Throughout his entire campaign, Trump has not fought this stereotype. Instead, he has perpetuated it and has put the Party in serious jeopardy.

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Originally opened in Japan by Emy Wada, Lady M was bought by the Romaniszyn family in the early 2000s. Eager to expand Lady M’s presence in the United States, Ken Romaniszyn began opening Lady M’s first New York boutiques, the number of which steadily increased over the following decade as the brand gained renown. This past year, however, has been record-breaking for Lady M in terms of expansion, as it has opened three more locations in New York, as well as its first Boston storefront, which was originally projected to open in the early spring of 2015.

“It took a long time [to open the Boston location] just because of permitting,” said Kevin Hee, Lady M’s operations manager. “We originally intended to [have] seating, but that was a longer [permitting] process so we took it out. And when you take it out, you [eventually] have to put it back in. The permitting process for that is now finished, we can do it, but now we have to do the building.”

Yet despite the momentary lack of seating, the design of Lady M’s Boston boutique is a sight to behold. Painted entirely in a soft white, with a few pictures of Lady M cakes on the walls, the store is a tranquil bubble within the city. Visi-

tors immediately gravitate toward the display case, which is filled with Lady M’s layered cake creations. This effect was purposefully planned and executed by architect and designer Sam Trimble.

“Everything is very white, so the only things that have color are the cakes,” Hee said. “They are the only flashes of color, even when we use our floral decorations, it’s all white flowers. [So] the eye goes directly to the cakes.”

Although the cakes are prepared in New York and delivered fresh each morning, the finishing touches and decorations are done by a pastry

The signature vanilla mille crepe cake is composed by layering the delicate and delicious crepes with a smooth vanilla custard creme.

The top crepe is caramelized to create a creme brulee effect, a bolder flavor that contrasts wonderfully with the subtle vanilla. Lady M’s other mille crepe cakes, such as their green tea or coconut, pack more of an obvious punch, delighting eaters with more shocking and complex flavors.

Another success in the Newbury Street location has been the Gateau aux Marrons, a subtle and delicate chestnut cake that Hee recommends enjoying alongside a light cup of tea.

But even with the range of elegant flavors already available to Boston customers, Lady M will also offer a Bostonexclusive red bean mille crepe starting in September. This crepe cake will allow Lady M to combine the flavors of a more traditional Japanese dessert that might be newer to Boston customers with its already-popular crepe cake.

The red bean mille crepe cake, based on the Japanese dessert ‘azuki,’ will be prepared by boiling down red beans and adding copious amounts of sugar. This reduction, which results in a light yet sweet bean flavor, will be mixed into a pastry creme and layered in between the crepes.

And with three successful months already under its belt, Lady M is looking forward to the months ahead, which will bring seating along with even more flavors of cakes to the Newbury Street location.

“We just want to make people happy, and we just like to sell cakes,” Hee said. “We’re happiest selling cake. Who wouldn’t be?”

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chef in the boutique in order to maintain the cakes’ stunning appearances.

Lady M’s Boston location offers more traditional confections, such as chocolate mousse cakes (the Couronne du Chocolate), strawberry shortcakes, and cheesecakes, as well as some more innovative options. Especially popular is their specialty mille crepe cake, which is made by layering up to 25 thin, handmade crepes with pastry creme. The mille crepes can be purchased in more traditional flavors such as a soft vanilla, or more exotic ones, like green tea or coconut.

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“We appreciate everyone’s patience with our team as we continue to improve and enhance the safety and security of everyone in our BC Community,” Deputy Chief of BCPD Thomas Atkinson said in an email.

The implementation process was a joint effort conducted by the BCPD,

Residential Life, BC Information Technology Services (ITS), BC Facilities, BC Student Services, and Stanley Security Solutions.

The additional security measures are a part of a larger three- to five-year project, which will include providing similar upgrades to the remainder of residence halls, academic, and administrative buildings on campus.

With the new security system comes new responsibility for students. Students were told to have their ID cards

with them at all times, even to access the bathroom. Eventually, if a student gets locked out of his or her room once, he or she will receive a warning.

After the second time, he or she will have a meeting with the Resident Director of the building, and after the third time, the student will be fined $50.

All other residence halls now have the proximity card reader to enter the buildings. To enter individual rooms, however, students still only need their group PIN code, and do not have to tap

their ID card.

Security changes were also made in Walsh Hall, where there will no longer be an active security guard on duty.

According to Atkinson, BC aimed for consistency within dorm security, and with the new proximity readers to enter the dorm, did not feel it was necessary to have an active security guard.

“The security changes should provide each student with a stronger sense of security,” Atkinson said.

In my opinion, personal space is not a rare luxury, but something essential to properly functioning in everyday life. In order to reflect on the day and organize my thoughts, I need brief bursts of quiet and relative privacy. And during the summer, I can get used to the ease of luxuriating in my own space.

For many of us, the summer time becomes our own time again, and—whether that means getting a job, an internship, or exploring the world around—we are free to parcel it up as you please. For many of us, relinquishing our privacy by sharing a cramped, decades-old bedroom with multiple people, bathrooms with 40 other people, and essentially the entirety of where we exist with the rest of the student body, immediately becomes more of a wispy memory. Why would anyone preserve the memories of shower shoes and mysterious hairs on muted carpets for any longer than necessary?

And just as forgetting a foreign language occurs almost immediately once you stop speaking it, forgetting how to compromise with people you live with (but aren’t related to) happens all too quickly. Or, at least, it’s something that I forget.

But thankfully, while eating at the delicious food truck-turned-restaurant, Mei Mei, I happened to stumble across one of Boston’s intriguing city initiatives: the parklet.

This structure, located in the street just outside the restaurant, was about the size of two parking spots. Multicolored wooden plants made up the parklet’s flooring, and the entire structure was separated from the street by subtle fencing and even thriving planters. Wooden benches, along with brightly colored metal chairs and tables, filled the parklet’s deck, providing seating to passersby. A prominent white and blue sign was nailed to a planter in the center identified the structure as a “Boston Parklet” with “all seating open to the public,” and suggesting that people “Sit. Hang out. Enjoy.”

Yet despite its inviting signs and appealing appearance, the parklet only hosted one-(very brief) visitor during the time I was there. Perhaps, on such a miserably hot day, people were merely choosing air conditioning over sitting in the sun, but this lonely fate seems to have befallen many of the Boston parklets.

The parklets were introduced to the Boston public in 2013 as a facet of the Boston Complete Streets Program. Despite the parklets’ hefty price tag, city officials anticipated the project’s success, hoping that the parklets’ seasonal presence would not only add beauty to the city, but also encourage and strengthen community interaction.

Unfortunately, an article from The Boston Globe pointed out that after the original installation of parklets in locations like Jamaica Plain, the structures received much less usage than city officials originally anticipated. Perhaps because of how close the structures were to traffic, or maybe just because of the bustle of the city, Bostonians just didn’t seem eager to use the parklets as locations for relaxation and community bonding.

But in addition to these more logical reasons, I could not help but think about these parklets in terms of personal space. Instead of isolating oneself at a table in a coffee shop, or foregoing the outdoors entirely in favor of an office, sitting in the parklet would force Bostonians to voluntarily share their space with strangers, and be hyper-aware of the world around them.

Even though this kind of interaction may see intimidating, after a hectic day, where all of you want is to sit alone in complete silence and decompress, it may be one of the most important experiences to have on a day-to-day basis. Instead of avoiding strangers and unfamiliar spaces in order to greedily protect one’s personal space, perhaps we should gravitate toward places like Boston’s parklets.

Who knows, they might just be able to keep our skills for sharing personal space sharp, and strengthen one of our most important traits: our ability to compromise.

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It gets stranger and stranger coming back to Boston College every year. Faces change, buildings are renovated, and people move off campus or go abroad for a semester. Over your four years, you move from being the twerp to the big man on campus, and you see your friends in other classes go through the respective changes as they climb the ladder above you or beneath you.

As you move through BC, you start to meet upperclassmen and eventually see them break through to the real world, leaving behind legacies and friends that continue to shape the school’s spirit over time.

There are also a lot of dynamics at play in each year of school. The freshmen are imbued with this outrageously fun, uplifting energy when they first arrive at BC. They jump at the opportunity to meet new people and join as many extracurriculars as they possibly can. Eventually this outburst subsides as the freshmen fall into routines and start studying for midterms and finals, but they still mostly hold the flame that was ignited when they got to campus.

While they may be weary and tired from the long academic school year, ready to spend a well-earned summer with family and friends, give them a month or two back home and they’ll be more than ready to jump in for round two.

Though incoming sophomores may lack the ecstatic vigor that characterized their first few weeks at BC, they come back to campus refreshed, reminding themselves that they are still in the early days of their BC experience. This year, holding a certain familiarity that freshman year lacks, goes by in a flash. By the time you know it, it’s May and you’re trying to find a place to hide all your crap from your room for the next four months.

This is where things start to get interesting and scary: the halfway point. Even when you comb through your days at BC, remembering each and every second of your time here, it’s still hard to imagine entering the second half of college.

I’ll stop my personal overview of the BC experience right about here because this is as far as I’ve gotten. While everything above definitely does not apply to every student, I think enough people feel the same way to make a point out of these feelings and situations. I don’t consider myself much of a sage, but looking at my BC experience, I have a suggestion for underclassmen, especially the aspiring artists among you.

Take advantage of the energy that courses through the veins of BC in these first couple weeks. Freshman artists, play your music, paint, draw, and write outside.

Share your work. Talk about your interests.

Leave a poster in your study lounge saying you want to start a band. At some point, the academic year will start to impose itself upon your schedule. You will fatigue, to various extents. So, if there’s one piece of advice I have for you, it’s to make the absolute most of this month.

As an arts & review editor, it’s been strange to see the upperclassman talent leave this school. I’ve seen some very good musicians, artists, and filmmakers leave this campus, and it can be a bit startling to see them all go at once each year. Eventually, however, I remind myself of that ageless phrase, “Out with the old and in with the new,” and I realize that the incoming freshmen and sophomores have just the same potential as all the great BC artists who came before them.

So, in a few closing words, I suggest to this year’s freshmen—in particular those of you who are artistically inclined—to show this school who you really are and what you can do. That’s exactly what all of the artists that have rolled through this school before you have done, and that’s precisely what those who come after you will do, too. I can’t help but think in writing this of all of the regrets I’ve heard from upperclassmen about not trying out for this or that a cappella group or play, and I hope that, keeping these words in mind, a few of you will be inspired to step out of your comfort zones and see what the BC arts community has to offer you.

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LAVA RECORDS

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Offstage, Lis is unpretentious and congenial.

Success so early in Lis’s career can be attributed to his love of music from a young age.

He began playing the piano and drums at 5 years old. At 7, he discovered that his passion was singing.

Like many young and hungry artists, Lis created a YouTube channel to showcase his talent. His cover of Leona Lewis’s “Better in Time” currently has 2.6 million views, and

his cover of Passenger’s “Let Her Go” has 1.7 million views.

Jason Flom, founder and head of Lava Records, saw videos from Lis’s YouTube channel and was so impressed that he invited Lis to showcase at his office.

“When Liam showcased at our office I knew immediately that we had to sign him,” Flom said to Musicconnection.com. “His singing, dancing, musicianship, songwriting, style, and swagger were so strong, especially for someone so young. It was clear that he was—and is—destined to be a star!”

Lis was soon signed to Lava Records and began to work in recording studios with producers.

Attending The Browning School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Lis found it somewhat challenging to balance his academic life with his music career. Lis credits

Christopher Dunham, the head of Browning’s middle school, with keeping him grounded and focused on his work while being understanding of his other ambitions.

As Lis released original songs and more covers, his fan base began to grow.

“I wanted to show people my music and perform for them,” Lis said.

Lis embarked on the Camplify tour at just 10 years old, performing at summer camps across the nation. Lis was also an opening act for Zendaya and Fifth Harmony. His fan base and his passion for music continued to grow as he toured.

Lis recalls one of his most memorable moments so far, which was performing his song “If You Fall” for a girl stricken with meningitis. Lis performed for her at a fundraiser organized by his team.

“She was so sweet,” Lis said. “I love my

fans so much.”

In April, he released his music video for “Number 1 Girl” featuring Fetty Wap. When he found out through a mutual friend that Fetty Wap was interested in working with him, he was amazed.

“I was shocked,” Lis said. “He’s awesome and really humble.”

He also got the chance to work with Nile Rodgers, guitarist for the 70s band Chic. Rodgers plays the guitar in Lis’ single “4 the Luv.” Lis’s musical inspirations include Bruno Mars, Maroon 5, and Taylor Swift, and he would love to work with Adam Levine in the future.

For Lis, the rest of the 2016 summer included performing at different shows and releasing new music via YouTube and SoundCloud, preparing for his upcoming EP release.

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by The Doors cuts through the rain of sludge and graces the ears of the men soaked in the black liquid, in a world lit on fire.

“That’s Vietnam music, man. Can’t we get our own f—king music?”

This scene from Jarhead (2005) always stuck with me. The concept of a soundtrack to our lives is not a new one, but sometimes it is, as it was for Jake Gyllenhaal’s character in the film, not always what we would expect. Killer soundtracks are something that can change

our perception of a film or television show. The accompaniments can make or break scenes, adding enough emotion to a moment to raise a scene from mediocrity to genius with one stroke of a piano key. Music can travel hand in hand with film. Just as film can say things that words cannot, sometimes music can ostensibly convey feelings that could not simply be seen.

When watching movies like Jurassic Park (1993), could the same feeling of awe and pure, childish joy be elicited without John Williams’s brilliant score? Though the feat of seeing dinosaurs living on screen was an accomplishment worthy of a pause, the emotional weight of the moment is realized through the orchestral development. As the violins break, the sense of wonder and majesty of the dinosaurs is realized, Williams’s arrangement beckons to things of dreams, conceptually congruent with the idea of making dinosaurs walk the earth.

Williams makes it known that contrary to science, you can hear in space. Without his work in Star Wars, much of the mythos and preconceived notions about characters would be lost. Darth Vader would appear less menacing without the “Imperial March,” and the tragedy of the Skywalkers through the “Skywalker Theme” would feel less despondent.

Instead of bringing heart to a film, the soundtrack can rope in a sense of seriousness.

The music serves as a sort of foundational work on which Shakespeare in Love (1998) seems to create seriousness, or undercut it depending on one’s point of view, within the context of the comedy-drama.

Even unoriginal scores can, or at least attempt to, dictate the emotional ties that the film wishes to instill in audiences. While not much can be said for Suicide Squad (2016) in terms of cinematic excellence, its success is

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due, in part, to a soundtrack that tried to amp up the audience in a ways the ensemble of baddies failed to do.

In films like John Wick, a single song can serve to solidify notions of strength, revolve, and pure unadulterated rage. In the now-famous nightclub scene, “Think” by the British electropop duo Kaleida allows the ensuing gunfight to adopt a notion of justice and virtue despite the brutal fashion in which the events are carried out. Wick savagely dismantles, summarily executes, and hunts his adversaries. As the lines “Think of me / You’re never in the dark” are sung, the sentiment seems to be shared by Wick as he stares into the Russian mafia’s soul. Resolute on its destruction at his hands, it is realized that hiding from the boogeyman in the dark is a futile effort.

Music and film are forever linked. Making clear the nature of characters and injecting a wealth of emotional breadth to moments that would otherwise feel hollow, soundtracks are a crucial, yet generally underrated part of the film-going experience. In the same way, just as any banal instance in a film, may be enriched by sound, as we walk about the world listening to a song on the way to class, we make the day our own.

As the soldiers of the Gulf War trudged on, it may have been disappointing to hear sounds that failed to resonate with their own experience. As we all wrestle through a different kind of sludge in our own lives, our own music, our soundtrack, may serve as the motivation necessary to push on and break on through.

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THIS WEEKEND in arts

BY: HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN | ASST. ARTS & REVIEW EDITOR

CELEBRATING CREATIVITY EXHIBIT (SEPT. 1— SEPT. 30)

MISSIONARIES & LINGUISTS: JESUIT GRAMMARS (SEPT. 1— OCT. 7)

A collection of photographs, paintings, collages, and knitted works, this exhibit showcases the talent and creativity of Boston College Libraries’ staff. The annual art exhibit will be on display in O’Neill Library’s Level One Gallery.

‘DON’T BREATHE’ (NOW PLAYING) When a trio of thieving friends break into the house of a blind veteran, the robbers assume this stunt will be their easiest operation yet. Once trapped in the home, the robbers must fight for their lives in this suspenseful thriller.

‘HANDS OF STONE’ (NOW PLAYING) Robert De Niro plays legendary fighting trainer Ray Arcel in this captivating sports drama. Coming out of retirement to coach world-class boxer Roberto Durán, Arcel teaches the star fighter strategy for his impending, history-making rematch against Sugar Ray Leonard.

Books, dictionaries, and grammars collide in this fascinating exhibit of Jesuit literary history. Located in O’Neill Library, the exhibit features early European alphabets and sound systems to represent native tongues that lacked writing systems.

FUEGO FILMS

FASTER, HIGHER, STRONGER: HISTORY OF THE SUMMER OLYMPICS (SEPT. 1— SEPT. 30) Since the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, the world has seen everything, from record-breaking performances to scandal and controversy. Located in O’Neill Library, this exhibit highlights the event’s most memorable moments.

KANYE WEST- THE SAINT PABLO TOUR (SATURDAY AT 8 P.M.) This weekend, TD Garden plays host to one of today’s most iconic music makers, Kanye West. The rapper will perform hits off of his groundbreaking new album, The Life of Pablo.

STEVEN TYLER- OUT ON A LIMB SOLO SHOW (SUNDAY AT 7:30 P.M.) The Aerosmith singer is set to take some of his hit songs to the Boston stage this weekend. Head to the Citi Performing Arts Center to see the legend perform his first full-fledged solo tour.

‘THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS’ (OPENS FRIDAY) Starring Michael Fassbender, this drama-romance blend follows the story of a couple who decide to raise the child they discovered washed ashore in a boat along the Australian coast. Complications arise for the family as a result of the unorthodox adoption.

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There are usually two rules to follow when trying to predict each summer’s box office results: superhero movies do exceedingly well and romantic comedies do not.

But this isn’t a proven formula. Highly anticipated films can get poor ratings or might not perform as well at the box office as their corporate overlords might have hoped, while the summer box office has seen its share of dark horses over the years (Maleficent in 2014, Pitch Perfect 2 in 2015). And although the 2016 summer box office held many of these characteristics, this summer’s box office will be noted by cinema nerds of the future for one quality: there weren’t many good films to be found in it.

To be fair, let’s give credit where credit is due. There were a few standout films and performances that both did and did not garner the critical reception and box office results that they deserved. Disney and Pixar’s Finding Dory, the first animated film to hold the top slot in the box office since Pixar’s Toy Story 3, brought audiences a new adventure with Disney’s most famous fish that didn’t rely too heavily on Finding Nemo and brought an even more pressing emotional weight to the tragedy that is Dory’s short-term memory loss.

Found just below Finding Dory in the summer box office results, Captain America: Civil War saw some of Marvel’s most beloved heroes clash over their right to perform their heroics independent from the U.S. government. Even if it is another superhero sequel, the third Captain America entry introduced a few new faces to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and a few new facets to some of the franchise’s most beloved characters. It’s nice to know, at least when it comes to these films (and a few other big league blockbusters) that audiences’ money went toward substantive films.

Also, much farther down the box office list, a few diamonds could be found among the slew of lower-budget films that hit theaters this summer. A24’s The Lobster depicted a complex and dystopian society where people are forced into couples by the government or are otherwise turned into animals. While The Lobster requires a viewing to be accurately and quickly explained, the film’s implications of what modern love really is and what modernity has turned love into are staggering.

Of special note is Matt Ross’s Cap-

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tain Fantastic. Starring The Lord of the Rings’s Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic finds Ben Cash bringing his children, whom he raised deep in the forest of Oregon, back to New Mexico in the wake of his bipolar wife’s suicide. While Captain Fantastic does have some strange tonal turns, it provides a unique take on dysfunctional families that is sure to ingrain itself in the minds of viewers of all ages. These films might not have had the financial backing of, say, Finding Dory or Captain America, but they did possess enough oddity and character to stand apart from the batch of this summer’s lower-budget movies.

Aside from these films, this summer’s box office list was a mess. 2016 will now be forever known as the year The Angry Birds Movie, a film based on the wildly popular app, was released. The 1996 sci-fi thriller Independence Day, 2010’s Alice in Wonderland, and 2013’s Now You See Me all got sequels that no one had ever asked for, wanted, or even thought about. And while the Ghostbusters remake did receive a lot of unwarranted prejudice from misogynists who didn’t like seeing women fill the shoes of the original cast, it was still a bad movie plagued by a lackluster plot and almost laughable (and not in a good way) CGI ghosts.

It’s sort of difficult to think of what to suggest to Hollywood these days. We’re all quite aware that the American film industry churns out sequels by the boatloads, but while critics and audiences chastise production companies and Hollywood writers for creating these movies, a lot of the time we still go and see them. If the 2016 summer box office suggests anything, it’s that we as audiences need to take the Hollywood sequel problem into our own hands. We need to stop giving money to movies like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows and X-Men: Apocalypse, as hard as it may be for some people to resist.

This call for audiences to overlook the onslaught of sequels hitting theaters over the next few years is sort of ridiculous.

It’d be impossible to convince everyone across the country not to watch these films, but even then it’s worth a shot.

Convincing people not to see or give money to these sequels is the only way to end their domination.

Hollywood executives are only seeing dollar signs when they put out The Purge: Election Year or Ice Age: Collision Course, and until those dollars aren’t there, they have no reason to change a damn thing about tinsel town.

9P :8C<9 >I@<>F 8jjfZ% 8ikj I\m`\n <[`kfi As the seasons shift, the heat will begin to subside, tans will woefully lose their luster, and beach towels will once again be stowed away for months. And just like that, the memories of summer and all its accoutrements fade and atrophy. Though the summer of 2016 is entering its twilight hour, the vast stores of television gold will serve as a reminder for us of all the merriment, debauchery, and good times had.

From the premiere of the Stephen King-inspired happenings of Stranger Things to the always tumultuous and retching endings in Game of Thrones, the summer of 2016 has stamped itself firmly into the history books as worth a gander or two. Continuing successes, and penning new ones, television in the summer of 2016 will not fall victim to erosion or fading.

Though the lawn chairs and grills will be retired, the great television of this summer is but a click away, ready for all to enjoy on every small screen and monitor.

Continuing down the avenues of ’80s nostalgia and entertainment love letters to the ages of old, Stranger Things encapsulates the look and feel of classic, big screen productions. Hitting notes from The Goonies (1985), Stand By Me (1986), The Thing (1982), E.T. (1982), The Evil Dead (1981), and innumerable other ’80s cinema staples, the series is rife with sight gags and blatant references while maintaining an elaborate and gripping multifaceted story. After the sudden disappearance of pre-teen Will (Noah Schnapp), a group of boys (Gatten Mozzaratto, Caleb McLaughlin, Finn Wolfhard) along with Will’s mother (Winona Ryder) and sheriff Jim Hopper (David Harbour) investigate his disappearance. When a strange girl with a shaved head arrives in town at around the same time, the coincidences and mystery of the events plunge the town deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole.

Game of Thrones saw fitting ends to scores of characters in grandiose styles not seen since Season 2.

Venturing far from its source material, this season made for engrossing television as the world ventured into untested grounds outside of George R. R. Martin’s epic framework. Though it is known that all men must die, at least in regards to this bloody season, this includes women and children, too.

Another HBO show has also sparked considerable interest dues to its graphic and grave content. The Night Of is an anthology series. The story follows Naz (Riz Ahmed) as he lives through a harrowing prison experience,

accused of the vicious murder of a young woman (Sofia Black D’Elia) of which he has no recollection. Naz must, in fashion sure to turn stomachs, confront himself as a potential perpetrator, just as others pass a similar judgement from the outside.

As courtroom tension mounts and Naz’s future looks bleaker and bleaker, it is up to his lawyer John Stone (John Turturro) to prove Naz’s innocence and uncover the mysteries of the night in question.

Scream, MTV’s television spin-off of the classic ’90s slasher hit, made considerable strides in its sophomore season.

The residents of Lakewood continue to battle with a new killer donning the Ghostface mask. As he leaves he takes the blade to his victims, leaving their remains blood-soaked, burned, and eviscerated.

Relationships buckle under the weight of the murders, and friends begin to question each other’s loyalty and motives. At the center of it all, Emma Duval (Willa Fitzgerald) finds that no place—home, school, or otherwise—offers safe passage, as she navigates a community filling with remnants of the killer’s violent marauding.

On a quieter note, AMC’s Preacher opened this summer with little recognition or buzz. The DC comic adaptation follows Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), an old Southern preacher, faltering on his failing faith. After his body comes to harbor a powerful being, he is imbued with powers that make him an efficacious voice crying out in the desert. Custer holds a power so provocative that it pulls at every moral fiber in his body and soul.

Harnessing the power and becoming a true preacher of all things good and evil, he, along with Irish vampire Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) must take the fight to foes in this world and the next.

To be sure, there are plenty of other television shows that graced our screens this summer (The Get Down, Orange is the New Black, and Mr. Robot to name a few). Thus is the beauty of this summer in television, like a summer’s eve sunset. With so much to see, it is unlikely that one would fully relish in it all at once. In the coming winter months, as we rest about the fire and as the storm rages outside, we will dream of warmer months, watching tokens from a summer past to keep us company in the meantime.

Music 9P ?8EE8? D:C8L>?C@E 8jjk% 8ikj I\m`\n <[`kfi If summer 2016 taught music lovers anything, it’s that the industry is never lacking in rumors and incessant activity.

In the span of just three short months, Calvin Harris put up a decidedly overdramatic stink about ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift’s contributions to his music-making prowess; Justin Bieber was allegedly dating someone new, and the pop star’s army of predominantly preteen followers drove him to deactivate his instagram account ; and Swift’s once-spotless reputation was called into questioning following an incident that involved a certain large-bottomed socialite-turnedreality-star who shall remain nameless.

Wielding the power of Snapchat like a mighty sword, she sent Swift fans into a tizzy as they struggled to understand what drove America’s sweetheart to lie about her role in Kanye West’s song “Famous.”

All of which—if one hadn’t already noticed an underlying pattern in the aforementioned, music-related hullabaloo—has nothing to do with actual music.

Unfortunately (and rather disappointingly), the music industry was shrouded in petty publicity stunts and meaningless Hollywood drama for the majority of the steamy summer months. News about highly-anticipated album releases was tossed aside in favor of petty gossip.

Music “fans” seemed to care more about the age gap between Bieber and his new gal pal than the impressive singles “Cold Water” and “Let Me Love You” released this summer by the Canadian crooner.

That’s not to say that there weren’t a handful of high-quality albums and incredibly successful singles released over the summer, however—that’s just to say it was all largely (and unfairly) overlooked.

These releases, gifted to music buffs by artists of all genres, provided an expansive summer soundtrack.

After several months spent waiting for Frank Ocean’s new album, rumored to be titled Boys Don’t Cry, fans were treated to a slew of R&B bliss in the form of Endless, Ocean’s debut video album. The artist enjoyed incredibly positive feedback, his first stab at a visual album soon lauded as captivating, oddly beautiful, and an aesthetic adventure. Proving that all good things truly do take time, Ocean further rewarded his fans for their patience by releasing an astoundingly creative music video for his new song “Nikes” on August 20, as well as his second studio album Blonde—all of which garnered global acclaim.

Another new album, released by an old pop favorite, was Britney Spears’s Glory.

Known predominantly for earlier hits like “Hit Me Baby One More Time” and “Circus,” critics have deemed Glory a surprising comeback for the prominent pop princess. As Spears’ ninth album, Glory

propelled the singer back into the spotlight this summer with memorable tracks like “Private Show” and “Make Me…” featuring G-Easy. The album, synth-soaked and dance-heavy, has become the perfect pop album of summer 2016.

While well-produced and criticallyacclaimed LPs were, unfortunately, few and far between this summer, there were innumerable notable, radio-ready singles released which created quite a contest to earn the esteemed title of this year’s song of the summer.

Coinciding quite nicely with his soldout Purpose World Tour, Bieber singles “Cold Water” and “Let Me Love You” include all the aspects of great summer songs. “Cold Water” boasts a bouncy and infectious background beat, while the lyrics to “Let Me Love You” have all the makings for an enthusiastic summer sing-along song.

Calvin Harris and Rihanna joined forces for what may have been the most played song this summer, entitled “This Is What You Came For.” The Scottish producer’s music-making acumen fused seamlessly with Rihanna’s signature, sultry vocals. Sia’s “Unstoppable” packed a powerful punch, while Drake’s “One Dance” and Kanye’s “Famous” were constant chart-toppers throughout the summer months.

Justin Timberlake topped charts with “Can’t Stop The Feelin,” a jaunty, punchy collision of sounds that somehow work in-

credibly well in concert with one another.

Ohio-born band Twenty One Pilots dominated radio stations with their high-energy single “Ride,” while The Chainsmokers charmed listeners with a tale of a wayward girl in “Closer.” Additionally, seemingly out of nowhere came Kungs & Cookin’ On 3 Burners with “This Girl,” an upbeat song with an old-school sound that became a fast favorite for many music lovers this summer.

Though the music released and made popular this summer certainly hadn’t wowed critics like that of previous years, there was never a shortage of tracks to enjoy and albums to play on an endless loop.

The upbeat, poppy singles released provided an appropriate playlist for the beach days and road trips of summer 2016.

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?8EE8? D:C8L>?C@E At 20 years old, I was the youngest person in the room by a large margin—a few decades, to be a bit more precise. Lacking the key ingredients that ensure a large millennial turnout, the movie I came for would not feature the attractive, chiseled-abbed actors or CGI-saturated action scenes that prove so alluring to younger generations. Nope, I sat through one hour and 50 minutes of a film whose main characters included an unfaithful husband, a hopelessly awkward concert pianist, and a tone-deaf woman in a fat suit.

I loved every second of it.

No, really. I did. The movie was Florence Foster Jenkins, and the clueless, bumbling woman was Meryl Streep. Assuming the role of a music-loving socialite whose passion for singing doesn’t align with the quality of her singing talents, Streep entertained with yet another impressive performance.

Streep is a delight, and every performance of hers a treat. She attacks each role with unmatched exuberance. She’s undaunted by the challenging characters and opportunities she is constantly presented with. Having donned the identity of America’s favorite faux-French chef in Julie and Julia; assumed the part of a freewheeling, free-lovin’ romantic in Mamma Mia; and broken hearts with her performance in the emotional 1982 film, Sophie’s Choice, Streep has established herself as a personable, “everywoman” icon—perhaps because her impressive career thus far suggests that she has, quite literally, played every woman.

Now, before this begins to sound like an overly-effusive expression of my undying support and love for this New Jersey-bred actress, let me explain. Over the course of her expansive Hollywood career, Streep has done so much—she has been so much. The actress has made a lasting impact on her industry, and she doesn’t seem to be in any rush to stop now. Her motivation is admirable, and her portfolio of ever-accumulating accomplishments utterly inspiring.

I thought a bit more about Streep, and I realized what it is that fascinates me most about her. What I’ve concluded is that she’s a doer. She’s constantly working on a new movie. For decades, she’s managed the stresses of stardom and and emerged gracefully out of it every time. Though I’m no actress (one brief stint in middle school is more than enough stage time for me, thank you), I’d like to think of myself as a doer, too. Sure, I’m not effortlessly navigating the chaos of Hollywood like Streep—I’m just a college student, after all. After this chaotic thing called college is over and done with, however, I want to have done something meaningful.

It’s just the beginning of my third year here at Boston College, and I can’t help but feel that time has already slipped away, far too quickly for my liking. I’ve always liked keeping busy, my toe dipped into everything I can—a student council here, a school newspaper staff there. In high school, I loved playing sports and thought volunteering was a real hoot, too. The problem I have always had, though, is time.

There really isn’t enough of it. Sure, the sentiment is trite and overused, but it’s true, and it’s scary. And at a place with innumerable opportunities like BC, it’s easy to find oneself spread a little too thin.

With my remaining semesters here, I want to join more clubs and try my hand at volunteering again. I want to have scintillating conversation with peers and professors, and I feel obligated ton try one of those classes at the Plex. What I really want, however, is to add a few more hours to the day. I want to get involved and make an impact on the world (you know, “set the world aflame” and “rise to new heights” and all that jazz), but I haven’t exactly figured out how to do all of that— how to be all of that.

As the credits rolled and our fellow moviegoers scurried out the double doors, my mom and I remained reclining in our large, movie theater seats.

“She’s good. She’s always good,” my mom said in reference to Streep, the two of us still sitting in the now-empty theater.

“Yeah,” I responded. “I don’t know how she does it.”

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Jg\Xij 8ZZ\[\j kf Ê>cfipË fe E\n Xe[ =Xd`c`Xi Ile^j f] Gfg 9P @J89<CC8 ;FN ?\`^_kj JkX]] Love her, hate her, say what you want about her, but pop sensation Britney Spears continues to release catchy and high-energy songs even after hits like “Oops!... I Did It Again” and “Toxic” caught everyone’s attention well over a decade ago. Spears returned to the spotlight with her ninth album, Glory, and her signature musical style, complete with synth dance beats and suggestive lyrics that live up to the album’s name. While Glory contributes a valiant effort in recreating a wild, party-themed col-

lection of songs that have defined the singer in the past, it as a whole sounds a bit processed and suffers from a shortage of ingenuity that would have elevated the album to a level beyond musical novelty.

The album starts off with “Invitation,” a song that highlights Spears’s breathy and high-pitched vocals over ethereal-sounding instrumentation.

It’s a fitting way to begin the album, as Spears sings, “Here’s my invitation baby / Hope it sets us free,” serving as a way to draw the listener in for the succeeding tracks.

A unique song, “Private Show” utilizes an effervescent a cappella

sound that really highlights the distinct sound of Britney’s belted-out vocals. The song also explores a conversational presentation of parts of the lyrics that strays from the usual glossy and noticeably refined vocals on Spears’ other tracks. As far as the lyrical content goes, the whimsical sound of the song enhances lyrics like “Strutting on the stage / Dripping in smiles,” while adeptly maintaining the listener’s ear despite being yet another fluffy seduction song. Another of the album’s more playful songs, “Clumsy” reiterates the suggestive tone of most of Spears’s lyrics, while throwing sassy vocals over a pulsing dance beat. As

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catchy as the song is during the verses, the musical transitions that separate them fall a little short in maintaining the attitude cultivated by the rest of the song.

One of the most lyrically developed songs on the album is “Man On The Moon,” in which Spears extends a metaphor featuring outer space over the song and relates it to being apart from her lover. Clever lyrics like, “Last night I was in your arms so strong / One small step and baby you were gone,” and “Houston, I know there’s a problem here,” make the song more compelling than some other tracks on the album that employ less creative lyrics.

No Spears album is complete without a string of songs dedicated to seduction, and “Make Me...” (featuring G-Eazy) falls into that category.

The track’s fluid melody paired with its formulaic song structure make it easy to engage with on the first listen, even though it’s not the most interesting song on the album. Other songs in the same vein include “Just Luv Me,” “Better,” and “Love Me Down,” which effectively renounce personal connection on anything beyond a physical level, and develop a deeper sense of emotional distance that detracts from the album’s personality as a whole. Themes of excess continue in “Slumber Party,” which uses stereotypes about sleepovers and their

youthful innocence and paints them in a more wild and twisted color. The track’s slower tempo and laid-back, sultry sound complement the warped scene that can be fittingly summed up with the lyric, “Pillow fights and overdosin’” a summary of the album’s sentiments.

Glory also uses another trick on a couple of tracks: some of the lyrics are sung in different languages. Part of “Change Your Mind (No Seas Cortes)” is in Spanish, which complements the Latin American influence of the track’s sound and its fiery lyrics. The album finishes with a vocally heavy track, “Coupure Electrique,” which is sung entirely in French. While the song keeps Spears’s signature sound, it remains unclear why the singer wrote a song in this language. “Coupure Electrique” has edgy and almost mechanical-sounding instrumentation to contrast with Spears’s melodic vocals, but mentions of “l’amour” make the lyrical theme of the song highly similar to her other tracks. Spears’s foreign tongue in this instance seems more like a gimmick than a genuine act of creativity.

On the whole, Glory is a successful follow-up to Britney’s wild pop legacy.

The album stays true to Spears’ lyrical and musical style, but develops it in such a way that doesn’t set her apart from the rest of the pop scene as effectively as she’s done in the past.

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Set in modern-day Detroit, Fede Alvarez’s film follows three downon-their-luck teenagers, each looking to leave the city for good. When they discover the home of a wealthy, reclusive blind man, they agree to rob him together—only to find out that some homes are far more sinister than they appear from the outside.

Coming off of 2013’s remake of Evil Dead—a major disappointment with respect to the 1981 original—Alvarez has proven that he truly does have the ability to surprise an audience.

Though it may seem counterintuitive to start by praising the film’s ending, Don’t Breathe is a breath of fresh air for horror in that its conclusion does not feel like a cheesy cop-out. The main characters suffer…immeasurably. More akin to real life than fiction,

the film does not wrap up its plot in a neat little package, leaving the viewer with a tiny urge to check over their shoulder as they exits the theater.

In fact, the pure terror and shock value are what makes Don’t Breathe so masterful. A special shout-out must go to cinematographer Pedro Luque, who, functioning largely in dark settings, sends chills down the spines of anyone fearful of being watched in the dark. Don’t Breathe’s most memorable scene has Luque to thank—shot in a muted gray, the main characters fumble around in pitch black, waiting to be strangled to death by the crazed blind man. Refreshingly, the film is not afraid to punish its characters, leading to a real sense of fear for viewers as Alex and Rocky traverse the house of horrors they find themselves trapped in. And as their journey tumbles further and further out of control, every plot twist becomes increasingly disturbing, while never truly becoming predictable or entering into the cliched.

Unfortunately, Don’t Breathe cannot deliver on every front, and it is during an examination of the characters themselves that the film does become somewhat of a giant cliche.

Every classic horror character trope is represented—Rocky, the classic tortured “hot” girl; Alex, the geeky techhead in love with Rocky; and Money, the douchebag gangbanger standing in Alex’s way. The only character to

truly break the horror film mold is The Blind Man, expertly portrayed

by Stephen Lang. It is a treat for the viewer to behold Lang in all of his ominous, ever-looming glory. In the film, Lang has a grand total of only 13 lines.

He makes each one count with his booming, gravelly voice, and though the writing could be improved in all areas of the film, Lang makes himself the crowning jewel of Alvarez’s work with only a few words.

The beauty of Don’t Breathe is most truthfully found in the way it responds to the accepted standard of the genre. What truly comes across

as fresh and exciting is not any visual or auditory aspect of the film, but rather the types of storytelling that the film employs. Though the characters themselves may not be as complex or nuanced, the way the viewer’s perception is toyed with is what makes the movie chilling.

The film’s victim quickly changes—almost without warning, the justified actions of a disturbed homeowner become sick, twisted, and incredibly hard to stomach.

Likewise, the anti-heroes seeking to make a quick buck quickly find themselves in the tortured victim

role. This dichotomy is incredibly interesting—rather than allowing the viewer to sit comfortably in their understanding of right and wrong or good and evil, Don’t Breathe challenges classical morality with the choices it forces its characters to make. And in a genre far too overrun with poor decision-making, it is wonderful to see a thriller in which characters struggle to make the right ones. If only modern horror directors followed Alvarez’s lead in this regard, audiences might enjoy a few more legitimate scares every now and then.

Leave it to the unbounded, uncensored mind of comedian Danny McBride to come up with a hit television program in which two Southern vice principals, longtime rivals each pining for the principal’s seat at North Jackson High, unite against the newly-appointed principal in an effort to tear her down from her post and claim it for either

of themselves.

This plot might not sound like the easiest selling point to pitch to producers when trying to get a show picked up by a network, but the folks over at HBO, having already worked with McBride on four seasons of his program Eastbound & Down, must have sensed that this clever and cockamamie show would hit home with audiences across the nation, at least for a little while. Vice Principals has been picked up its second sea-

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son, which will be its last.

Vice Principals is plainly absurd.

Quite like his character in Eastbound & Down, McBride’s Vice Principal Neal Gamby is incredibly narcissistic, crude, and unrelenting. He and his co-vice principal, Lee Russell, played by The Hateful Eight’s Walton Goggins, will stop at nothing to run Dr. Belinda Brown (Kimberly Gregory), the new principal, out of town. Russell in particular comes up with some very nasty and mali-

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cious tricks and pranks to intricately ruin Brown’s life. Russell’s untamed methods, however, do make Gamby question how far he is really willing to go to get his promotion, which makes it seem like Gamby has a heart, but eventually he falls back into his selfish and irrational line of thinking.

So with a show headed by two clowns like Gamby and Russell, it makes complete sense that Vice Principals was planned from the beginning to have only two seasons.

These characters are extremely vile.

They’re hilarious, but they’re vile.

Whether or not there’s room for real growth for either of them is yet to be seen, but it’s easy to doubt that there will be.

Aside from Gamby and Russell, few characters really stand out in Vice Principals. The most notable supporting cast member is Gregory playing Brown. Hebert Gregory brings just the right amount of sass and intimidation to make viewers admire and fear her. At times it seems Brown suspects Gamby and Russell’s antics, and when she sits them down and there’s an ambiguity as to why they are all meeting, viewers really fear that Brown has

caught onto the dunce vice principals’ ploys. Besides Brown, the rest of the supporting characters fail to stand on their own two feet. They only serve to mirror the audience’s surprise and disgust at Gamby in his more absurd and embarrassing moments. So while Gamby, Russell, and Brown hold enough spunk to keep this show funny for a little while, Vice Principals lacks an infrastructure that could hold up the program if the producers wanted to keep it running.

So, for being as self-referential as it is, Vice Principals is fairly good.

In many ways, McBride’s Eastbound & Down character and Gamby are identical and only hold different occupations. This job switch is enough to keep Vice Principals refreshing.

With a definite expiration date slapped onto the show, McBride and the producers seem to understand that this concept could only last so long and that after a point, the show would wear out its welcome.

But, knowing that the show has an end in sight and that the writers acknowledge the brief window they have to work with this story, it’s easy to sit back and let the good laughs roll with Vice Principals.

For any real Green Day fan, news of an upcoming album sent you in a mental time capsule back to that time in middle school, when listening to its angsty (pop) punk tunes allowed you to reach the absolute heights of edginess.

Known for lyrics that were as political as the punks of old with a moderate sprinkling of sex, drugs, and enough f-bombs to deter you from playing it with mom in the car, Green Day used age-old themes but managed to make them cool again. And although Green Day recycles the very themes in the “Bang Bang” video that once resurrected them in the mid-2000s, it at least manages to concoct a new, albeit safe, image in the process.

“Bang Bangs’” sound harkens back to the Dookie era, which probably excites the hordes of Green Day puritans who insist that only its pre-American Idiot discography is worthy of praise.

“Bang Bang” exists as the bastard child of the ’90s Green Day sound and the 2000s Green Day lyrics, a combination of new and old musical sucesses.

The video is a fast-moving digital version of stop-motion, filled with miscellaneous people and objects that appear to be cut straight out of magazines and collaged together. The lyrics are thrown on screen, surrounding images that are already seared into the American subconscious, like the moon landing, military tanks, and a gorilla whose recent passing is still a source of raw sorrow for many of us. It’s an engaging watch and is certainly produced artfully, but it feels like Green Day is just hurling cultural references at us in hopes of creating something relatable.

While it’s hard to fault Green Day for relying on its strengths and playing it safe, one can’t help but assume that, by the look and sound of “Bang Bang,” another revolution in Green Day’s image a la American Idiot may not be in the cards.

SINGLE REVIEWS BY CAROLINE MCCORMACK FLORENCE + THE MACHINE “Wish That You Were Here” Though its title ilacks originality, Florence + The Machine’s “Wish That You Were Here,” fresh off of the Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children soundtrack, fits in perfectly with the film’s supernatural tone. The spry vocals are paired with fantastical instrumentation, without one overpowering the other.

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ELLIE GOULDING “Still Falling for You” Coming from the new Bridget Jones film, this catchy tune seems to be the same song fans of Ellie Goulding are used to hearing. But hey, why fix the formula that has been proven to make hits? The upbeat track is sure to be a fan-favorite with its fast paced lyrics and airy synth beat.

Usher’s latest anthem, “Champions,” can be heard in the new boxing biographical film, Hands of Stone. The song easily melds together Spanish and English, reflecting the main character’s mixed American and Panamanian heritage to make a dynamic change from Usher’s typical crowd-pleaser songs.

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each other,” Gambino said.

Both teams sent out freshman pitchers running on fumes. For the Eagles, it was Jacob Stevens, a future face of the program who hasn’t made it to the sixth inning of a ballgame since April 22 against Louisville. The Hurricanes put Andrew Cabezas on the bump—the young right-handed pitched 2 1/3 in relief on Saturday and wasn’t expected to last long.

After a laborious first, the big right-hander for BC got into trouble in the second. Johnny Ruiz scored following a double and RBI single by Jacob Heyward. Then, after a miscue by first baseman Mitch Bigras on a bunt, the Hurricanes had runners at second and third with only one out. That brought up Michelangeli, who smacked the first pitch he saw from Stevens—a fastball right down the middle—over the left-field wall for a three-run home run. Just like the previous two games, a big fly from a Miami player put BC in an early 4-0 hole.

Yet, just like in the previous games, BC knew exactly how to answer. Logan Hoggarth and Bigras got a rally started in the top half of the third with a single and walk, respectively. Later on, with the bases loaded and two away, Donovan Casey delivered again for the Eagles. His two-RBI single cut Miami’s lead in half with plenty of time remaining, knocking out Andrew Cabezas and convincing

Gambino to give Stevens one more inning. After the game, Casey reflected that the inning represented the attitude of the Eagles all season.

“We like to stay in any game no matter what,” Casey said. “Keep chipping away, and get base runners and clutch hits wherever we can.”

After trading runs in the bottom of the fourth and top of the fifth, Miami head coach brought in setup man Frankie Bartow for an extended relief appearance in a 5-3 game. The freshman put up a solid outing, giving up one run on four hits in 3 1/3 innings. Bartow, along with Miami reliever Thomas Woodrey, kept up their impressive performance despite bending heavily—the Eagles consistently got runners on, yet left them on the bags, nine in total.

But the doors were blown open in the eighth off the Michelangeli grand slam and the following scuffle. Though he was upset that the incident happened in the first place, Gambino stated that he liked how his team handled itself.

“We always talk about character, toughness, and class,” Gambino said. “I think our boys play hard, they play the right way, and they respect the game. You never want to see the benches clear but I am glad to see our boys had each other’s backs. It falls on those core values.”

BC’s rally in the eighth only yielded one additional run, the first career RBI for pinch hitter

Chris Balogh. Once Miami turned to closer Bryan Garcia, BC had no more magic—a 1-2-3 ninth sent the raucous and fiery crowd at Mark Light into a frenzy.

While the Hurricanes celebrated the continuation of their season after the game, the Eagles looked fondly on all they had accomplished. In one way, their season helped to prove their selfworth to a University and athletic department that has not given this program proper funding based on their Atlantic Coast Conference competitors. The Eagles play at Shea Field, an overglorified lot with only a few metal benches that is more famous for its football season tailgates than for baseball games. Plans have swirled for a new stadium on the Brighton Campus, hopefully ready by 2018, and Gambino has more than proven himself capable and worthy of the best facilities possible.

BC’s run also gives hope for New England baseball schools, capping off an incredible year for the nation’s most underrepresented region. Bryant, Fairfield, Rhode Island, and Connecticut joined BC in the tournament—the first time five schools from New England have gotten to the NCAAs. While the others bowed out in the Regional round, the Eagles pushed on.

Most importantly, the season represents BC’s overarching message of never giving up. Inspired

by Pete Frates, a former captain of the Eagles, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the pro-

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Edgar Michelangeli is greeted by his teammates at home plate after smashing a grand slam against BC. gram has brought awareness to the disease to the national forefront. While facing adversity of their own, the Eagles’ can’t-die attitude lifted them through the gauntlet of the ACC. For team captain Joe Cronin, who, as a

freshman endured a 12-40 campaign hampered by an inability to practice anywhere, this season was beyond special.

“I am proud of my class,” Cronin said. “I am just sad that it’s over. Like Coach said, you leave

it better for the next guy. I think we did that.”

A Super Regional run, a firstround pick, awareness for ALS, and capturing the heart of the entire nation. Hard to leave it any better than that.

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COR AL GABLES, Fla . — Mike Gambino never passes up an opportunity to have some fun with his players.

Even in victory, Gambino doesn’t let his squad, Boston College baseball, get away with mental mistakes or lack of execution. If there’s something that needs to be called out, Gambino will do it after the game. Today’s victim? Mike King.

In perhaps the gutsiest start of his career, King allowed nine hits, a career-high four walks, and three runs on 99 pitches in six innings against a tough University of Miami lineup. The junior from Warwick, R.I. mixed up his tough, two-seam sinker with a solid, sharp curveball. He credited catcher Nick Sciortino, one of the game’s best defensive backstops, with stealing strikes thanks to some some excellent pitch framing, not to mention his own ability to get ahead of the count.

But there’s one pitch Gambino wouldn’t allow King to let go.

“He made a mistake with Zack Collins, and he does what

he does with mistakes: he put it off the garage,” Gambino said. He was referring to a meatball King left over the heart of the plate that Collins, Miami’s powerhitting catcher, blasted for a long home run. Immediately, the court broke out in laughter.

Joe Cronin and Donovan Casey giggled at Gambino’s attempt at a joke, while King just sat there with a grin.

Despite that one mistake, King’s gritty start, combined with some clutch hitting by Mitch Bigras, gave No. 20 BC (35-21) a 5-3 victory over No. 3 Miami (49-12). With the victory, the Eagles and Hurricanes will play a winner-take-all game Sunday afternoon at 12 p.m. in their best-of-three Super Regional series. The reward: a spot in the College World Series in Omaha, Neb. King trade d zero e s w ith Miami starter Danny Garcia through the first three innings.

His run was highlighted by a stretch in which King struck out five Miami batters. After the game, King claimed to have been motivated after learning he was selected in the 12th round of the Major League Baseball Draft by none other than the Miami

Marlins.

“I found out in the clubhouse,” King said. “It definitely put a smile on my face to get drafted. … I struck out only three [of those five] in a row after I found out, but hey, who’s counting?”

But the Hurricanes struck first on the aforementioned bomb from Collins in the fourth.

Singles by Brandon Lopez and Willie Abreu brought up Jacob Heyward, who blooped it over Jake Palomaki’s head at second base. Quickly, Miami had a 2-0 lead and threatened with the bases loaded and only one out.

With a visit by pitching coach Jim Foster to calm him down, King got out of it with a strikeout by Edgar Michelangeli and a flyout

by Carl Chester.

A perfect spot for the Eagles.

In fact, it’s the only spot the Eagles want to be in.

Casey started the rally with a no-doubter home run to deep left field on a 1-2 pitch from Garcia, his first of the season. Cronin followed quickly with a double down the left-field line. After a sacrifice by Johnny Adams, Scott Braren lined a ball at Johnny Ruiz. The normally surehanded second baseman—one of many

on a Miami squad that boasts the third-best fielding percentage in the nation—booted it, allowing Cronin to score and tie the game.

Then came BC’s very own Mr. Clutch—none other than Bigras, the No. 9 hitter.

With two on after a Logan Hoggarth single and only one out, the slender left-handed hitting first baseman from Sarnia, Ontario lined a pitch into right-center field. Once again, Miami’s biggest strength turned into a huge weakness. Abreu misplayed it and fell down—after the game, he called it “unacceptable” that he couldn’t come up with the ball—and it rolled to the wall. Braren and Hoggarth scored standing up, while Bigras slid into third base. The kings of small ball responded in a huge way yet again.

“I thought Mitch did a great job, and it kind of speaks to our lineup,” Cronin said. “We’re one through nine, and it’s going to be a different guy every day.”

King nearly coughed up the lead in the top of the fifth but was bailed out by a quirky play.

With Collins on first, Lopez lined a ball off the third-base bag and into left field. But King’s quick

hustle to third allowed Hoggarth to nail Collins on a bang-bang play, leading to some screams

by Miami head coach Jim Morris. Had Collins been called safe, he would have scored on Ruiz’s ensuing tripled down the rightfield line, one that cut BC’s lead to 4-3.

The Hurricanes’ typical Mark Light Magic, however, worked against them. A deep fly ball by Abreu was knocked down by the wind, preserving the lead.

Solid two innings of bullpen work by Jesse Adams, the newest draftee of the Cincinnati Reds, helped B C get to the eighth with the lead. That gave Bigras another chance to shine.

A Hoggarth single and stolen base by pinch runner Dominic Hardaway gave him another runner in scoring position. And, once again, Ruiz failed to make a play on a ball hit at him. The insurance run was even more key for the Eagles, as a two-hour rain delay forced Adams out of the game for the final three outs.

Gambino, however, wasn’t worried. His other closer, Bobby Skogsbergh, was ready for the task.

Despite allowing a single, Skogsbergh breezed through

the ninth, capping it off with a strikeout of—who else?—Zack Collins. After the game, Gambino actually was thankful that the rains came—if it hadn’t, Adams would have come out for the ninth inning.

Because Skogsbergh got in an inning of work, Adams will likely be available tomorrow, giving BC its two best relievers. And, despite being huge underdogs in the series, Gambino feels confident in his team’s chances tomorrow.

“Whenever our boys walk on the field, they expect to win every day,” Gambino said.

Yet even after talking about all the good stuff, Gambino still had to remind King about the home run to Collins. When the head coach brought it up again, King looked back with a smile.

“Sorry buddy,” Gambino said.

“No please, continue,” King shot back, causing another round of laughs.

Still, it’s that kind of loose mentality, a lighthearted brotherhood, that has led BC through its magical run.

And it has brought the Eagles one win away from the biggest prize of them all: a trip to Omaha.

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CORAL GABLES, Fla. — “HIT IT TO THE ADIDAS SIGN!” Cheers from a raucous crowd of University of Miami fans rang out throughout a packed crowd at Mark Light Field at Alex Rodriguez Park.

The faithful of the No. 3 team in the nation consistently called on their powerful offense, one that entered Friday hitting .297 as a team, to blast each pitch to their sponsor’s sign in right-center field. Often times, they obliged.

And with every positive refrain for their beloved Hurricanes, there was an equally jarring taunt directed toward a player on Boston College baseball.

“LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT. SIÉNTATE!” That was the chant after BC batter struck out and walked slowly, head down, back to the dugout. Much worse was shouted at the bullpen, though none of it is suitable for print.

As they have done all year, and especially for the last several weeks on their incredible run to the Super Regionals, the Eagles scrapped for the full nine innings. But unlike all the previous times, their bullpen dug too big a hole for them to overcome.

Despite coming into this weekend’s series with overwhelming momentum as one of only two 3-seeds (East Carolina) to advance in the NCAA’s race to the College World Series, No. 20 BC (34-21) was outmatched by Miami (49-11) in a 12-7 defeat to open the NCAA Super Regionals. The Hurricanes are looking for yet another trip to Omaha and the CWS, while the Eagles will have to win the next two games to prevent elimination. Of course, says head coach Mike Gambino, that’s nothing new.

“We’ve been playing for elimination in our last 40 games, it feels like,” Gambino said of his underdog squad, which has quickly become the darlings of the college baseball world.

“We’ve been doing that since Week 6 in the ACCs.” Early on, the Eagles showed that scrappy grit. They got on the board quickly on Miami starter Michael Mediavilla. A single by Michael Strem forced Mediavilla to throw a pickoff attempt into right field, allowing him to get to third and score on a groundout by Nick Sciortino.

That gave ace Justin Dunn, the newest member of the New York Mets after they selected him with the No. 19 pick in Thursday’s Major League Baseball Draft, all the confidence he needed. The righty from

Freeport, N.Y. mowed down the top of the ’Canes order in the first, highlighted by a strikeout of Chicago White Sox first-round draft pick, Miami catcher Zack Collins.

Then came that nightmare third inning.

Leadoff hitter Carl Chester lined a base hit off Dunn’s leg, followed by a perfect bunt by Randy Batista.

That set up another matchup with Collins. This time, the slugger didn’t miss—Collins parked a ball over that Adidas sign in right-center field for a three-run home run. Two batters later, Johnny Ruiz followed with a blast of his own in the same spot.

The once-invincible Dunn had given up twice as many home runs as he had allowed all season in a span of three batters.

Given home plate umpire Bill McGuire’s incredibly poor (albeit consistent) strike zone, in which the far outside part of the plate was often called a strike, Dunn attempted to take advantage. Yet he got each pitch just a little too far over the middle against two hitters who you cannot miss with.

“I made two mistakes, and they hit them,” Dunn said. “It’s just baseball.”

The Eagles began an immediate comeback off Mediavilla in the top of the fourth. Team captain Joe Cronin

doubled home Sciortino, with an RBI groundout from Johnny Adams shortly after. Quickly, BC was back in the game.

Yet as the middle innings approached, Dunn tired, forcing Gambino to go to the bullpen in the sixth.

Dan Metzdorf and John Witkowski couldn’t keep runners off the bases and a two-run double from No. 9 hitter Edgar Michelangeli extended Miami’s lead to 6-3.

Meanwhile, Mediavilla began to settled down and work on a gem.

The sophomore lefty with a nasty slide step kept the Eagles uncomfortable with a strong breaking ball and devastating fastball. In 7 2/3 innings, Mediavilla only gave up those three runs on four hits and three walks, striking out seven on a career-high 123 pitches for his 11th win of the season.

While Mediavilla strengthened, BC’s bullpen only got weaker.

The combination of Zach Stromberg, Brian Rapp, and Jack Nelson all struggled mightily to find the strike zone in the seventh and eighth innings. The trio combined to give up six runs, capped off by a grand slam by Ruiz for his second home run of the day. A once attainable 3run deficit soon turned into a 12-3 blowout.

Yet rolling over isn’t something

BC knows how to do. With Miami sending rarely used reliever Ryan Guerra to the mound, the Eagles’ bats got to work. After a single

by Donovan Casey and a walk by Adams, pinch hitter Scott Braren blasted a three-run home run down the right-field line to cut the deficit to 12-6.

Logan Hoggarth and Chris Balogh followed with walks, forcing Guerra out and setup man Devin Meyer in.

Strem then lined a base hit up the middle and Sciortino walked with the bases loaded. 12-7 ballgame. Bases loaded. Two outs. A game that seemed out of reach was now a save chance for closer Bryan Garcia.

“The mindset is just pass it on to the next guy,” Cronin said. “And then obviously you think about that inning can change a weekend.”

He’s certainly right. It gave BC an opportunity to burn through some of the Hurricanes’ bullpen, just as they had done to the Eagles. Most notably, it gave them a chance to see Miami’s closer. And though Casey went down swinging, Gambino was proud of the grit in his ballclub.

“I had confidence in them before that happened, and I’m not surprised this team is going to go down swinging and with a fight,” Gambino said.

The Eagles are no strangers to having their backs against the wall.

All season, no one outside of Chestnut Hill thought Birdball—predicted to finish dead last in the ACC—would have a winning record, much less make it to the postseason. For Cronin, there’s no reason to count his boys out. After all, they fought back to make it a save situation with four runs in the ninth and the bases loaded.

Backs against the wall? Please That’s right where the Eagles want to be.

“It speaks to us as a team all year, we’re never going to give up, we’re going to keep battling,” Cronin said.

“Hopefully it sets the tone for tomorrow, and then we’ll take that into Sunday.”

They’ve got their chance to stay alive Saturday afternoon at 12 p.m., with the time of the game pending the unpredictable Florida weather.

Mike King, the team’s co-ace with Dunn, will head onto the bump to preserve BC’s season against Miami’s 9-3 left-hander Danny Garcia. There are few pitchers that exert a similar confidence in big game situations quite like King, the Warwick, R.I. native who boasts a 7-4 record with a 3.21 earned run average.

If Miami’s big bats come out swinging again, the game might just as well be at 11:59pm for this Cinderella squad.

But the later it gets, the better the Eagles become.

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Joe Cronin came up next and blasted a double down the line.

After Scott Braren struck out, Adams drove the first two men home on his first double, a line drive into left-center. Mitch Bigras followed suit soon after, hooking a base hit to right to make it a 3-0 game.

The Eagles continued to batter away at Tulane’s pitching, chasing starter J.P. France after just three innings, though just two of the five runs he allowed on the night were earned. They scored one run each in the third, fourth, and fifth, but the pen locked down after that, keeping a power-hitting offense within striking range.

Jacob Stevens, who hadn’t reached the fifth inning of a game since beating Louisville in a seveninning effort on April 22, still didn’t have his best command. He walked two and hit three batters, but allowed just four hits and two runs over a five-inning span.

He came up especially big against the final batter he faced in the fifth.

With one down and runners on first and second, Stevens recovered from hitting the previous man to produce a groundout to short, which Adams

and Jake Palomaki turned into a smooth double play. But that wasn’t nearly their biggest turn of the day.

Freshman John Witkowski entered in relief and pitched a perfect sixth and seventh, but he finally began to unwind in the eighth, allowing a double to the second batter he faced. He got the next man to hit the ball on the ground up the middle to a ranging Adams, but the reliable shortstop couldn’t make an acrobatic, spinning play, sailing the throw and allowing a run to score, cutting BC’s lead to three.

Bobby Skogsbergh then entered and allowed a hit and a walk, loading the bases with one down. But the baseball gods hung by BC, as Jake Willsey, a sophomore hailing from none other than Chestnut Hill, Mass., bounced a ball up the middle to Adams.

Like his day at the plate, Adams’ shovel toss to Palomaki at second was perfect, and Palomaki fired an equally stellar throw to first to escape the jam. Skogsbergh and Jesse Adams combined to strike out the final three Tulane hitters in the ninth to clinch the win.

With a win in each game this weekend—a key for BC to succeed, since the team does not have many strong options for a fourth starter—the Eagles advance to play Miami (FL), the winner of the Coral Gables Regional, in a best-of-three series at Mark Light Stadium at Alex Rodriguez Field. By advancing, BC

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Players and fans alike rejoice after Boston College advanced to its first-ever Super Regional with a victory over Tulane in the Oxford Regional. has already out-survived three of the other nine ACC schools in the tournament: Virginia, Wake Forest, and Duke.

Florida State and Louisville have also clinched berths in the

Super Regionals.

The Eagles have also continued their run of big celebrations, building off the momentum of their selection show celly to throw up their gloves, grab the Pete

Frates “Frate Train” flag, and mob Jesse Adams in front of the mound in the ninth. Johnny Adams, Cronin, and Sciortino, the three players who appeared in the press conference after the game,

each tried and often failed to contain wide smiles throughout, the smiles of guys who, in the words of Sciortino, “no one believed in” last fall.

All aboard.

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Justin Dunn hypes up his teammates in a pregame huddle before the final game of Birdball’s Super Regional bout against the University of Miami.

nothing bad about Dunn, who has allowed just seven earned runs in those seven starts and never more than two in a game, but more about the strength of the pitchers he’s facing—and, in the end, outperforming.

He flew by other leading starters to take the top spot in the ACC for ERA (1.52), and climbed draft boards even faster. The small high schooler who was taken in the 37th round by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2013 to No. 11 overall on Keith Law’s final lineup. Like BC baseball, he has grown up and

started to make a name for himself this year.

The team is currently holding a watch party for the draft, like it did for the NCAA Tournament selection show last Monday. The guys will undoubtedly be rooting for their leader—now both on the mound and during their pre-game hype-up rituals—to go early, even if it means he won’t be back at Shea Field next spring.

After all, this season isn’t over yet. Dunn’s starting for BC tomorrow in the Super Regional against Miami (FL). And they’re hoping he’ll get a couple more after that.

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United States Military Academy.

Foster spent the past two years as the pitching coach and associate head coach of the BC program, helping to develop a generally overpowered staff into the team’s greatest strength this season. Under his brief tenure, BC lowered its conference ERA from 4.75 to 3.37 and its overall ERA from 4.29 in 2014 to 3.83 this year, a mark that

ranked sixth in the ACC. His biggest accomplishment, though, was his contribution in developing Justin Dunn, BC’s shaky reliever-turned-ace in 2016. Dunn was drafted with the 19th overall pick by the New York Mets, tying him with Chris Lambert for the highest BC pitcher ever drafted.

The also helped to further develop

starter Mike King (Miami Marlins) and catcher Nick Sciortino (Boston Red Sox), who were drafted in the 12th and 17th rounds, respectively, this year. The three players have each decided to forego their senior seasons and sign contracts with their professional teams.

Before joining BC’s staff in the summer of 2014, Foster was the all-time

winningest head coach of the University of Rhode Island, leading the team to six-straight 30-win seasons and leaving with a .538 overall record.

Foster joins a program at Army that limped to a 16-32 record this season, finishing in last place in the Patriot League. He’ll get to work with a pitching staff that finished 2016 with a cumulative 5.48 ERA, and league

worsts in batting average (.251) and fielding percentage (.951).

Gambino did not say whether BC has any candidates in mind to replace Foster, though the program is likely to hire someone within the next month. In 2014, Foster was hired about a month after the former pitching coach, Scott Friedholm, left BC to become the head coach of UNC-Asheville.

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I predicted that, after five years of treading water at or toward the bottom of the conference, Mike Gambino would take Boston College baseball to the Promised Land: Durham, N.C. That might not be your idea of El Dorado or Atlantis, but for Gambino, it might as well be heaven. Durham represents justification for patience in his coaching, legitimization for his unique process, hope for the future of this program, and the culmination of everything he has worked for in his career. Durham is the site of the ACC Tournament, the first step to reaching the NCAAs, and, with some luck, the College World Series in Omaha, Neb. For five years, Gambino has attempted to makeshift an Eagles team that could soar into Durham Bulls Athletic Park. It’s been plagued by bad weather that has cancelled games and, in one season, destroyed its only on-campus practice facility. The Eagles’ roster has been hampered by stringent academic requirements and a lack of scholarship funding. They have been forced to play in the toughest college baseball conference in the entire country. For five years, the

Eagles have been grounded long before they could even talk about playoffs.

But now, those days are over.

Following a series win in Atlanta against Georgia Tech, BC baseball (31-19, 13-15 Atlantic Coast) is headed to the ACC Tournament for the first time since 2010. The Eagles had entered the three-game weekend set with only one win all-time at Russ Chandler Field, needing to take 2-of-3 to keep their hopes alive.

Now, the Eagles will enter the postseason as the No. 8 seed in Durham. They come into the same pool as Miami, North Carolina State, and Florida State in the round robin part of the tournament. But first will come a one-game rematch with the Yellow Jackets (35-20, 13-16) slated for Tuesday at 3 p.m.

This time, as Gambino reminded me over the phone, there won’t be any secrets when they meet. Still emotional from his team’s victory, however, Gambino had high praise and many thanks for his team leaders for getting BC this far.

“This senior class, I’m so proud of these guys,” Gambino said. “They came in at a time when they knew it would be a tough first couple of years. They took their lumps, they kept working, and just kept working at getting better.”

After dropping the first game, 6-3, with their ace Mike King on the mound, the Eagles chances didn’t look so good, worsened only by rain on Friday that forced a Saturday

doubleheader. But with superstar arms like Justin Dunn and Jacob Stevens, anything is possible. And with an offensive performance like the Eagles on Saturday, they’re unstoppable.

Dunn, the fireballer from Freeport, N.Y. took the bump in the first game of the day, efficiently mowing down hitters with a blazing fastball that touched 97 on the black. He was practically unhittable in the first five innings, allowing a mere five baserunners total.

On the other end, BC’s bats came alive against Georgia Tech’s trio of freshman pitchers. Senior Joe Cronin knocked in Jake Palomaki with an RBI single in the first, followed by Mitch Bigras’ RBI single in the second—seven hits in the first 2 1/3 innings quickly knocked out starter Jake Lee. His successors weren’t much better, as Cole Pitts and Micah Carpenter each allowed a run in two innings of work. More than halfway through, BC staked a 4-0 lead for a pitcher who is likely headed to the pros in the first round of the MLB Draft.

Dunn stumbled slightly in the sixth with a sac fly and balk cutting BC’s lead in half. No matter, said the Eagles’ offense. The team responded with four runs in the top of the eighth inning, using walks, balks, and a two-RBI double by Nick Sciortino to put the game out of reach.

The last time Dunn pitched in the ninth inning of a ballgame, he struggled as the Eagles’ closer. Now, he was merely finishing what he had

started. Dunn’s final line: the first complete game he had thrown at BC, a career-high nine strikeouts, no walks, and three runs (only one earned) on an economical 106 pitches. And if this, an 8-3 victory, is the last time we see Dunn in the Maroon and Gold, he certainly left his mark on BC baseball history.

“Justin was completely dominant,” Gambino said. “He dominated one of the best lineups in the country. Numbers-wise, that’s the best offense in the ACC.” While Dunn kept the drama out of the first game, both pitching staffs kept the blood pressure high in the second. Danny Hall’s starter, Burton Delaney, gave up a quick four runs in the first two innings. Reliever Zac Ryan wasn’t much better in his 3 2/3 of working with three runs allowed. And, as it should be, all of the damage was done by the top of the order. Cronin got an RBI double his first time through the order, while Palomaki tacked on two with a double and Michael Strem another with a single. Palomaki added his third RBI in the fourth inning with a base knock up the middle. Cronin put the finishing touches on with a two-run home run in the fifth.

“Those are really good arms all the way through, and the boys did a really good job of committing to our plan, getting good pitches to hit, and it happened top to bottom,” Gambino said of his offense.

On the mound, the Eagles bent as much as a pitching staff can.

Stevens only allowed a run in three

innings, yet his inconsistency and lack of command forced a quick hook from Gambino. Normally, Gambino would allow his young starter to work through a rough first third of a game. But, as the head coach reminded me, it was BC’s “Game Seven.” When you’re in that position, you don’t have the time to allow a pitcher to work through his issues.

Thankfully, Dunn gave Gambino that chance. With his bullpen fully rested, out came Brian Rapp, who gave up two runs in only 1 2/3 innings. Bobby Skogsbergh nearly gave up the lead in a five-hit, threerun eighth inning. Yet once Jesse Adams shut the door in a two-inning save, the Yellow Jackets had left 15 men on base and BC hung on to win, 7-6.

As soon as the final batter popped out, Gambino got to live out one of his dreams: watching his boys celebrate on the mound. He said he has always wanted to watch a joyous mob after a postseason-clinching victory, noting that it was “one of the highlights of my athletic career.”

Then, BC baseball celebrated in a unique way that only this team can.

As the Eagles boarded the bus, Cronin, the team’s captain, scrambled to gather everyone together. The goal?

FaceTime Pete Frates. The former BC captain, who has become the face of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) awareness through the Ice Bucket Challenge and recently had his No. 3 retired at Shea Field, has been the Eagles’ primary inspiration

since Gambino took over. And there was no way they were celebrating without him.

But reaching the playoffs is merely Gambino’s first goal. Now it’s a matter of making noise in the ACC Tournament and in an NCAA Regional. There’s no reason to believe this scrappy Eagles team won’t. They can claim four walkoff victories this season, including two against defending champion Virginia. They took a series versus a Louisville team that closed its regular season with a 46-10 record and .325 team batting average. They’ve won a Beanpot.

They’ve claimed six ACC series, most in program history, including two on the road. And it’s all only the beginning.

“Long term, it’s part of the step of developing this program into what we want it to be,” Gambino said. “I think we’re going to have the chance at Omaha very soon.”

And in a year of disappointment for Boston College in the ACC, why shouldn’t they be the last team standing? Of any BC squad, Birdball is the one that everyone believed in the least. And it’s the one that accomplished the most. So it’s time to start believing in Gambino’s squad, now and for the future, as the one that will make BC baseball a feared team in the Northeast and the ACC. I know I certainly do.

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With the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh inning, Michelangeli swung hard at a Jesse Adams pitch. The ball sailed through the thick, Miami air, over the left-center field wall, just to the right of the scoreboard at Mark Light Field at Alex Rodriguez Park. As he jogged around the bases, Michelangeli, the No. 9 hitter for the University of Miami, kept his right hand raised in the air.

As he rounded third, the trouble started. Michelangeli high-stepped into home plate, beating his chest and jumping in the direction of Nick Sciortino. The catcher responded the same way many of us would: “F—k you.”

Benches cleared. Screams and shoves ensued. And tensions ran high throughout the stands. No ejections came from the

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scrum outside first base, but stern warnings to both benches and police intervention came immediately. Yet none of the extracurricular activity changed one simple fact: a game that was once squarely in reach in the late innings was now a blowout.

The dream run is over. But you can’t say Boston College baseball didn’t have fight in it until the bitter end.

With seven RBIs from Michelangeli on two home runs, the No. 2 Hurricanes (5012) advanced to their 25th College World Series following a 9-4 victory over the No. 20 Eagles (34-22). The BC loss marks the conclusion of the University’s 2015-16 athletics season, as well as Birdball’s best season since 1967. Though his disappointment in the outcome was clear, head coach Mike Gambino was nothing but proud of how far his team had come.

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Johnny Adams is known for being a great fielding shortstop. That’s how he earned the starting job as a freshman two and a half years ago among a young class of high school shortstops, who are now scattered across the field for Boston College. No one else has started even a single game at the position besides him since 2014—Adams’ quick hands, reliable glove, and strong arm have made him the only player on head coach Mike Gambino’s roster to monopolize a position.

At times, that came at the expense of BC’s lineup.

His freshman year, Adams hit just .223, but that was the general status quo of a team still far outmatched. He flirted with the Mendoza line for much of 2015 before bringing his average up to rest at .240 by the end of the year. But for the first couple months of this season, he was back to around .200. The real bottom, after accumulating a decent sample size for an average in the first couple weeks, came on April 9, after a third straight hitless game against Virginia dropped him down to .191—a tough figure to see at any level of baseball.

But Gambino kept the trust in his guy.

Gradually, it began to pay off. One week later, he’d raised his average 25 points to

.216. A week after that, 26 points to .244. A week after that, he broke .250.

By the end of the regular season, Adams had worked his way up to .274. In the first three games of the postseason (ACC and NCAA play), he went 5-for-12, starting a rally against Utah with a double that led to a come-from-behind win. And in the Oxford Regional Championship on Sunday, the Walpole, Mass. native exploded, going 4-for-4 with three doubles, three RBIs, and two runs, in the process raising his average over 100 points from where it was two months ago. Adams’ day alone was almost enough for BC’s pitching, which held a strong Tulane offense to just seven hits and three runs in a 6-3 win.

A win, it so happens, that will be taking BC baseball to a Super Regional series—the first in program history.

“It’s amazing,” catcher Nick Sciortino said after the game. “Thirty-four of us started off in the fall, trusting it and believing in it … It’s been a ride, it’s been a great time.”

Before Adams caught fire, BC’s offense began the same way it did against Utah— taking advantage of mistakes.

After going down in order in the first, BC (34-20) ignited in the second. Donovan Casey led off the inning, hitting a grounder to Tulane (41-21) shortstop Stephen Ale-

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The recognition for Boston College baseball continues to roll in. Amid its unpredicted NCAA Tournament run, the team’s newfound ace, Justin Dunn, has been selected by the New York Mets as the 19th pick of the 2016 Major League Baseball Draft, tied with Chris Lambert’s No. 19 selection in 2004 as the highest ever for a pitcher from BC. Dunn exploded onto the scene as a top-notch NCAA pitcher earlier this year, when the then-closer, who hurls mid- to high-90s, started taking the mound at the beginning of games instead of near the end. While head coach Mike Gambino had two starters that he could trust over the weekend against ACC competition—Mike King, a proven veteran with sharp control, and Jacob Stevens, a freshman who allowed just two earned runs in his first 40 innings of collegiate work—the third man, Jesse Adams, consistently struggled in his first three conference starts, especially the second time through the order. So, Gambino made the swap.

This wasn’t Dunn’s first go of it on the mound. His final four appearances his freshman year were starts against non-conference teams, though they grew progressively worse. The coaching staff

tried him as a starter again his sophomore year, this time around the beginning of ACC play. The results: 8 1/3 total innings, 10 total runs, six walks (all in one game), and two BC losses. Dunn went back to the ’pen, where he slowly chipped away at a 6.75 ERA, just getting it down below 4.00 before a rough three-game stretch to end the season.

This year made it Dunn’s third time around. And it was a charm.

After a five-inning shutout performance in his debut against No. 16 Virginia, Dunn earned himself a regular role in the rotation, slowly building up his endurance with each start. Part of this has involved learning how much to hold back. Just because he can throw up to 98 m.p.h. doesn’t mean he always should. With this fine-tuning, helped along by pitching coach Jim Foster and catcher Nick Sciortino, he peaked with a complete game against Georgia Tech in the final series of the year, allowing just two runs and picking up a crucial win for BC—something he has become very good at during the seven starts that have propelled him to the top of draft boards.

Of those seven games, including the NCAA Regional game last Friday, Dunn has gotten just three W’s, but BC has ended up with seven wins. To be clear, that says

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