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Men’s soccer recovered from a 2-0 deficit to take a 5-3 victory, B8

Students can now rent bikes through Zipcar in the city, A8

Members of BC’s SLAM! discuss the ways students express themselves through poetry, B3

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The Independent Student Newspaper of Boston College Vol. XCVII, No. 33

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Thursday, September 22, 2016

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because someone was stalking her. A second officer arrived to respond to Witt’s call specifically. The two searched their property but, Witt presumed, found nothing. Neither BPD nor BCPD has a report of a breaking and entry in their system from 235 Foster St. Witt said one of the men at one point approached the front door presumably to see if it was unlocked, Witt said, although he couldn’t see if he had actually tried the knob. Other than that, the men did not try to get into the house, as far as Witt knows. This trespassing incident comes in a string of off-campus break-ins that has been ongoing since last December. The most recent break-in was at gunpoint on Lake St. The BPD officers advised Witt and his roommates to keep their doors locked, Witt said. “We were pretty rattled,” he said. “Everyone got out of bed and was on high alert for a bit but I think it’ll be fine. Our house locks up pretty well. It’s just a little unsettling knowing this could happen at any time to anyone.”

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9P ?<@;@ ;FE> <o\Zlk`m\ 8jj`jkXek During the first week of school every semester, Boston College students are blessed with syllabus week, leaving ample free time for traversing the deep web for cheaper textbook alternatives , clicking through pages of “dorm room essentials,” and calling home to ask for everything that was forgotten. During the first month of school, “PACKAGE RECEIPT NOTIFICATION” may be the most eagerlyawaited email for many students. There has been a noticeable shift from packing up cars and driving belongings to college to hopping on the plane and leaving the rest to online orders. BC’s mailroom has been behind the scenes of it all. According to data from B C Facilities Services, the mailrooms have seen, on average, a 15 percent increase in the number of packages handled each year since 2010, while there has not been a significant population increase. The duties of the mailroom have been on the rise since 2007, when third party mailmen were prohibited from accessing dormitories in the aftermath of the mass shooting at Virginia Tech. “Typically, the first six weeks of

every semester, we see a deluge of packages,” said Albert Travaglini, director of Facilities Services and BC ’73. “Everyone moves in. Students are typically not loading up their cars anymore, so they need a bedspread, they call in Amazon—they’re not packing it up and bringing it with them.” This year, however, the mailroom, most notably Walsh Hall’s new mailroom, was hit especially hard—from BC’s Office of Facilities Management, from the pure volume of packages received, and from students’ slower response times to picking up packages. With the demolition of Edmond’s Hall, which housed 775 people, came the acquisition of 2000 Commonwealth Avenue and the construction of Thomas More Apartments, which house 490 and 515 people, respectively. Previously, Edmond’s contained the second mailroom on Lower Campus; now, it has been squeezed into Walsh. The square footage of the Edmonds mailroom was 1,039 square feet—Walsh’s mailroom, even after the Office of Facilities Management took custody of a nearby carpentry room, only occupies 812 square feet. Thus, workers in the Walsh mailroom are operating with about 20 percent less space.

Without the carpentry room that Walsh’s mailroom borrowed, the square footage shrinks to 624, which comes out to 40 percent less space than the mailroom in Edmond’s. The mailroom’s size limitations were heightened in the beginning of the semester, when more people get packages delivered, and the size of those packages is generally larger. “I mean, this room used to be an apartment,” Manuel Miranda, Walsh Hall’s mailroom staff worker, said. “It is not easy to navigate with so many packages.” The four mailrooms ser ving BC are stationed in Stuart Hall, which ser ves Newton Campus; McElroy Commons, which serves all of Upper Campus; Vouté Hall, which serves Vouté, Gabelli Hall, Ignacio Hall, Rubenstein Hall, 90 St. Thomas More Rd., and Vanderslice Hall; and the newest addition, Walsh, which serves Walsh, Stayer Hall, The Mods, Greycliff Hall, 2000 Comm. Ave., and Thomas More Apartments. Last year, the Edmond’s mailroom served 2,324 students and received 9,813 packages in the first month of school. This year, Walsh’s smaller mailroom serves

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Matthew Desmond hates poverty. And he wants students to hate it, too. Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard and co-director of the Justice and Poverty Project, spoke Wednesday evening about the subject of his book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. The book, a New York Times bestseller, is about eight families fighting poverty and the troubles of eviction. Sponsored by the Lowell Humanities Series, the event was held in Gasson 100, where a packed audience waited to hear Desmond’s perspective on pervasive American poverty. Desmond shared stories and statistics from his time in a trailer park in Milwaukee, where he communicated and learned from real residents and

landlords in the 30th-most populous city in America. Desmond wanted to understand the role that housing plays in deepening poverty in America, and he decided to focus on eviction, which he thinks is a good starting point for understanding the challenges of poverty. Desmond found that there was a lack of research on the effects of eviction on the American public and the poor, so he did some of his own surveying of renters, landlords, and families in eviction court. In Milwaukee alone, there were over 100,000 eviction cases on record, not counting all the informal evictions that brought Milwaukee’s eviction rate up to 1 in 8 renters displaced every two years. But instead of drowning the crowd with statistics, Desmond focused on one family that went through heartbreak and loss several times. Desmond talked about a woman named Arlene, and her two sons, Jory and Jafaris. Arlene and her sons were evicted because Jory and Jafaris threw

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JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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Fridays and Saturdays. The pilot showed that students used the study space until around 2 a.m., and then usage dropped off, according to Scott Britton, associate University librarian for public services. The pilot program, however, was only active for three weekends at the end of the semester. The Office of Student Affairs and the University Libraries are working to collect more data to determine if the study hours should continue, and what hours the program should be active. The groups hope to bring back the extended hours in mid-October, around the time of midterm exams. They will then moni-

tor the room’s activity. If reinstituted, the University Libraries will provide study space on the first floor of O’Neill and the Office of Student Affairs will provide the funding for overnight security. Britton also said that the University Libraries might issue a survey to students during the fall extended hours to see the usefulness of starting the extended weekend hours prior to October. “We received a super positive response after the change, and a huge turnout on the weekends,” said Caroline Monnes, a Senator on the Campus Improvements Committee and MCAS ’19.

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things to do on campus this week

The Campus Activities Board (CAB) will host an outdoor sunset yoga class at Stokes Amphitheatre on Sunday from 6 to 7 p.m. Students with any level of yoga experience are encouraged to participate and relax before the start of the school week.

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Boston-area community activist Martha Guevara will hold a discussion as a part of the “After Obama: What is the future of our ‘Nation of Immigrants’?” discussion series. The talk will take place in McGuinn 521 this afternoon from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

In celebration of National Ice Cream Cone Day, CAB will host an ice cream social for students on O’Neill Plaza today from 1 to 3 p.m. National Ice Cream Cone Day is the first event in CAB’s monthly National Theme Day Thursdays.

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Political science professor Kay Schlozman has been chosen by the American Political Science Association for its Samuel J. Eldersveld Career Achievement Award. The award recognizes those whose professional work has made a significant contribution to the political science field. In the past, Schlozman has won the ASPA’s Philip E. Converse Book Award, Rowman and Littlefield Award for innovative teaching, and the Frank J. Goodnow Award for distinguished service to the political science profession. Schlozman has researched several topics having to do with American political life, including parties and elections, interest groups, voting and public opinion, political movements, money in politics, and the gender gap. Schlozman has also co-authored five books. Schlozman has been teaching at Boston College since 1974. She was chosen as BC’s first J. Joseph Moakley Professor of Political Science in 2012. Schlozman graduated from Wellesley College and received her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Chicago. “I was humbled, gratified and extremely surprised to learn that I had received this recognition,” Schlozman said to The Chronicle. “To be honored by my colleagues in this way means a great deal to me.”

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The tables turned Tuesday night when Chris Hansen shifted from interviewer to subject in McGuinn 121. Hansen is an investigative journalist who used to host NBC’s Dateline and now stars in his own show, Killer Instinct with Chris Hansen. Before a crowd of students, communication professor Lindsay Hogan asked Hansen what it takes to be a successful journalist, and an Emmyaward winning one at that. “It’s about being curious ... listening into someone’s mind and helping them tell their side of the story,” he said. “Get inside their head.” The talk, which was hosted by Boston College’s communication department, provided audience members with a firsthand account of the emotional challenges, personal sacrifices, and colorful characters that accompanied Hansen’s career in journalism. From the time he was a teenager, Hansen had the curious mindset of a reporter. In 1975, union leader Jimmy Hoffa disappeared near Hansen’s Michigan home. Even at 16, Hansen wanted in on the case and was eager to know what happened to Hoffa. “I got bit by the bug pretty early,” Hansen said. After enrolling at Michigan State University, Hansen joined the campus radio station, searching for stories on and off campus. Later, he had the opportunity to cover the 1980 Republican National Convention in Detroit. There, Hansen asked for some words of advice from veteran reporters who were

The Boston College Wounded Warrior Project, which pairs a student-athlete with a veteran to work on improving his or her physical and mental health, is hosting a gala to raise funds to continue the project into next semester. The project, which ﬁrst began last January, pairs BC student-athletes with war veterans for a weekly workout. The veterans then attend a luncheon with a BC professor who talks to them about health and nutrition. The gala is on Nov. 1 at Gregorian Oriental Rugs in Newton Lower Falls. They decided to hold the gala so that they are not reliant on funding from the Wounded Warriors Foundation, said Suvin Song, CSON ’17. They thought that raising its own funds would set a precedent for other universities interested in starting a program. Song said BC is the only university running a program like this, as far as she knows. The grant was originally intended for just one semester, but Burgess was able to convince them to extend it for another two semesters. As a result, the program ran throughout

POLICE BLOTTER Monday, Sept. 19 3:25 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a larceny at McElroy Commons. 10:38 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a traffic crash at the commuter lot. 11:50 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at Duchesne West on Newton Campus.

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Chris Hansen talked to students about being a successful investigative journalist on Tuesday night in McGuinn 121. also covering the event. “Get some comfortable shoes, s’cause you’re gonna spend a lot of time on your feet,” he said he was told. Post-graduation, Hansen did just that. First, he was hired as a reporter for a local Action News broadcast, calling in articles from a payphone as he watched daily events unfold at the courthouse downtown. He traveled across the state, and later the country, following stories to their sources. Eventually, Hansen worked his way into primetime as a reporter for Dateline on NBC. “Don’t let anybody tell you there’s anything you can’t do,” he said. Over 30 years later, Hansen’s career continues to evolve. Killer Instinct, which airs on the ID: Investigation Discovery Channel, centers on Hansen’s quest to ﬂesh out the details of notorious murders. Cops want to know who the culprit is, but Hansen wants to know why that person com-

the summer and just entered its third semester at BC. They hope to raise about $15,000 at the gala. This money would support the program through the spring semester and into the summer. There is no set guest list for the event, Song said, but they reached out to senior ROTC students, veteran alumni, and sponsors of the gala. The veterans who participate in the program will also be in attendance. Anyone is welcome to attend. “It’s a lot of work for a grant, and you’d have to report back to them essentially,” she said. “This way we aren’t as reliant on [the Wounded Warrior Foundation].” Song began working as an undergraduate research fellow for Ann Burgess, one of the faculty leaders of the Wounded Warrior project and a professor in the Connell School of Nursing, in May after returning from studying abroad for the spring semester. It was Burgess who introduced Song to the program. The program began in January, when Burgess and her colleague Stacy Garrity, a professor in the Connell School of Nursing, received a grant from the Wounded Warriors Foundation. The program reached out to

mitted the crime. Students watched a clip from the latest episode of Killer Instinct, in which Hansen engages with police officers, inquiring about the brutal 2007 murder of Jim Madonna. Madonna was a beloved father and husband slain in his hometown of Taunton, Mass. Officer Michael Chervan, who accompanied Hansen to the event, was the lead detective on the case, and spoke with Hansen in McGuinn. But before Chervan spoke Tuesday evening, he took the proper precautions to ensure sensitivity to a murder case. “Is anyone here from Taunton, or do any of you know the Madonna family?” he asked the audience. He paused, considering that the case or its details may trigger upsetting memories for audience members familiar with them. With no one in the audience identifying as a friend of the family, he continued.

Chervan explained how his work on the Madonna case became a topic for an episode of Killer Instinct. The show’s producers tracked him down and asked if he was interested in discussing the homicide. First, Chervan needed several permissions from the district attorney’s oﬃce, Bridgewater Police, and other key players in the investigation. Chervan and the show’s team also needed the Madonna family’s consent. “Our ﬁrst priority is always the family,” Chervan said, as Hansen nodded in agreement. With that sentiment, Chervan and Hansen captured the harsh reality of investigative reporting— the gaping holes left behind by the victims in the lives of children, spouses, and parents. “Being an investigative journalist, especially when covering homicides, is like being an anesthesiologist, hovering people between life and death,” he said.

student athletes, asking them if they want to participate. The athletes selected go through a confidentiality information session before meeting the veterans. For the first few weeks, the athletes and veterans meet for workouts on Tuesdays, but do not get specific pairings. They do this to allow natural friendships and pairings to occur. They will pair student-athletes with veterans based on interests. For example, Song said that if a veteran wants to work on strength training, they place them with a football player who works on strength training too. “We help pair them, but it’s not forced in any way,” Song said. The veterans receive a pass to the Flynn Recreation Complex, but they will also run around the Reservoir or up the Million Dollar Stairs. The veterans also receive a FitBit to track their progress, a BC parking pass, and BC workout apparel. Each semester, there are about four or five veterans enrolled. “It’s hard to make this a big program because then we can’t focus our attention on each person,” Song said. At the start of each semester, they weigh the veterans and have them take a depression test to better understand the ongoing effects of the program.

Many of the veterans, Song explained, cannot sleep more than three hours a night. But once they get involved in the program, they are able to sleep after the Tuesday workout. The program works with many different departments at BC, Song said, and they have all been helpful and supportive. BC Athletics gave them football tickets to auction off at the gala, and invited the veterans in the program to come onto the field at the Clemson football game on Oct. 7. After their Tuesday morning working out with the athletes, the veterans attend a health class, which is hosted by different BC professors. “That’s helpful for them because it’s not just exercising that is helping their well-being,” Song said. On Thursday, the veterans come to campus for class. Each week, the subject of the class is different. In the past, a professor from the German department has come to talk about his work translating German texts. “We don’t really want to talk about war because they don’t want to talk about war,” Song said. “So it’s really just about fostering a community that’s supportive and helping them transition to civilian life.”

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CORRECTIONS The story ‘Bienvenidos’ incorrectly listed Karina Herrera as MCAS ’17. She is MCAS ’18. The last two paragraphs were also incorrectly identified as Gerardo Acosta. The words were those of Jorge Meija.

9/19/16 - 9/21/16

6:08 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at Corcoran Commons. 6:58 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a traffic crash on Brighton Campus.

Wednesday, Sept. 21 12:48 a.m. - A report was ﬁled regarding a suspicious motor vehicle at an oﬀ-campus location.

Tuesday, Sept. 20 12:30 a.m. - A report was ﬁled regarding a ﬁre alarm at Williams Hall. .

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An open letter to University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., from the Graduate Pride Alliance: The Boston College community knows that when you joined our institution, you were tasked with fortifying our donor base and enhancing our institutional rankings and global reputation. As a proud part of this esteemed community of learners, scholars, and practitioners, we thank you for the role you’ve played in catapulting this university into national prestige. But this begs the question: at what cost? Boston College proudly espouses its Jesuit ideals in its institutional mission— values which guide our collective daily practice. We care for the whole student and want them to be their most authentic selves. We want our students to become critically-thinking, compassionate, and enlightened global citizens of tomorrow. Lastly, we endeavor to make our institution and world more socially just. Yet as minoritized identities are under constant attack, we’ve watched you stand idly by, refusing to weigh in on issues that matter most to the students you were brought in to serve. As black bodies are murdered across this country in high-proﬁle incidents from Ferguson to Charleston, our students of color are anguished, hopelessly waiting for the response they desire from their institution. Silence.

When 49 innocent queer lives were taken in Orlando—a vicious attack targeting queer bodies of color—our queer students were in overwhelming pain, desperately hoping for any signal from their leader that these acts are worthy of condemnation, and that their identities would be supported. Silence. And now, we have an incident on campus directly targeting queer students. How does it get handled? It takes nearly three days to condemn with a statement that blatantly ignores the fact that this was a direct attack on queer identities, once again erasing queer lives from Boston College. Frankly, hateful as it was, at least the person who committed this act was able to acknowledge that queer people exist on campus. Unfortunately, your silence has directly impacted the well-being of your queer and minoritized students during their most vulnerable moments—and not for the better. Perhaps most disconcerting are your motivations for staying silent. Are you that terriﬁed to oﬀend donors by taking a stand against hate, and openly supporting our children, students, colleagues, and loved ones? Time and again, we watch you cower behind the oft-touted, “our students can think for themselves” talking point. No one is arguing that they can’t—but more importantly, so can you. What does it say to the BC community that its president thinks that a stand does not need to be taken against hate, and that our institution does not need to explicitly support

DREW HOO / HEIGHTS SENIOR STAFF

Students attended a cookout on Stokes Lawn, which was hosted by GLBT Leadership Council, in their “support love” apparel. its queer and minoritized students? Yet we spend billions of dollars not on creating a more socially just institution, but a prettier one—because as we know all too well at Boston College, appearances matter. As long as our buildings look shiny, what does it matter if the people within them are hurting? Worryingly, your students have learned from this example: appear perfect on the outside regardless of what is going on within. So, we welcome you to come talk to any one of the many queer students, staﬀ, faculty, or priests at Boston College and ask what it feels like to watch our institution erase us from existence. Come down from your ivory tower

of privilege and confront any queer student you claim to support. Ask them about this latest incident and witness the gut-wrenching pain in their eyes as they plead for support and compassion—and most importantly, as always, stay silent. Allow us to speak for the students, staﬀ, and faculty who share our sentiments but might not have the capacity to do so. Allow us to speak for those who kiss your ring instead of voicing their concerns because they fear the repercussions. While growing Boston College, you’ve silenced, erased, and explicitly oppressed queer and other minoritized lives—and history will look back on your silence with shame and

regret. In the end, every institution of higher education should always strive to bend its unique arc of history evermore toward justice—especially a university that prides itself on its social justice mission. We, the Graduate Pride Alliance, speaking for countless others on this campus, would like you to know that it would be a lot easier for the Boston College community to bend our arc of history evermore toward justice if you weren’t simultaneously trying so desperately to bend it back in the other direction. Your move…though, allow us to guess: Silence.

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ÊHl\\i C`Y\iXk`fe EfnË =c`\ij Gfjk\[ Fe :Xdglj By Sophie Reardon News Editor Fliers reading “Queer Liberation Now,” “Do Not Fear a Queer Planet,” and “This is Our School, Too” appeared Tuesday morning on the wall outside of The Heights’s oﬃce, McElroy 113, along the wall leading upstairs to Carney dining hall, and in the newspaper stands in Fulton Hall. The fliers were posted two days after a parking sign in the Mod Lot was defaced Saturday evening with an anti-gay slur by an unknown person. The case remains

open, according to John King, the chief of the Boston College Police Department. The fliers in McElroy and Fulton were not marked with the stamp that the Office of Student Involvement uses to approve fliers from students and groups. Anne Williams, the chair of the GLBTQ Leadership Council and MCAS ’17, said that she was not aware of the fliers. Gus Burkett, the director of the office of student involvement, was also unaware of the incident. The identity of the person or group who posted the fliers is not known.

threw a snowball at a car, which stopped on the street. The driver got out and went after the kids. The brothers raced into their home and locked the door, but the man kicked it down. He left the house, and the family was evicted based on property damage. “Families who get evicted relocate from poor neighborhoods into poorer ones, to dangerous neighborhoods with high levels of crime,” Desmond said. Arlene and her children had to move into a house that was eventually deemed unfit for human habitation, so they were evicted again. The majority of poor families are paying at least 70 percent of their incomes to pay rent, often not including utilities. Arlene had to use 88 percent of her welfare check and sell her food stamps to pay hers. Two-thirds of renting families below the poverty line receive no housing assistance from the government. Most victims of eviction are mothers with kids, and Desmond found that most landlords don’t consider it a form of discrimination to not take families with kids.

Desmond used Arlene’s story to make a point—we can make poverty in America better.

“I just hope that as you grow and go into your careers and think about your studies, that you just more and more come to hate poverty.É —Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University

Desmond noted that eviction isn’t a condition only attributed to the inner cities, or just a condition of the poor—it’s

causing poverty, and wrecking homes. Mothers who have been evicted suffer higher rates of depression, and eviction is a better indicator of job loss than job loss is of eviction. Yet, most Americans gloss over the experiences many people have to suffer each day throughout the country. Desmond, however, is hopeful for the future. He’s contributing through Just Shelter, an organization that helps to mobilize other organizations working to improve housing. Desmond also finds a sense of hope in looking back at our history. “Over the past 50 years, we’ve reduced world poverty by half,” he said. Desmond sees a light for the housing problem in America. “We have a civic responsibility,” he said. “[There’s] no code, no piece of Scripture, or ethical teaching that can be summoned to defend what we’ve allowed our country to become.” Desmond hopes students will one day see the injustice that comes with poverty. “I just hope that as you grow and go into your careers and think about your studies, that you just more and more come to hate poverty,” he said.

THE HEIGHTS

Thursday, September 22, 2016

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to Christianity in terms of how large it is. The Islamic diaspora has spread throughout the Middle East and over the Western world in the last 1,400 years. Bowering spoke about the foundings of Islam, which began when the Prophet Muhammad had a revelation from God. The Quran, which is the basis of Islamic law, theology, and education, is believed to be the word of God. Prior to teaching at Yale, Bowering taught Islamic studies at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a visiting professor at Princeton University. Bowering currently serves at the editor-in-chief of The Princeton Encylopedia of Islamic Political Thought. Bowering’s next lecture is on Oct. 12, titled “Seeking the Face of God.” “Muhammad is the seal of the prophets,” Bowering said. “No other prophets are to come after him.”

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Gerhard Bowering , who teaches Islamic studies at Yale, spoke on Wednesday afternoon to kick off the six-part Gasson Lecture Series, Engaging Islam.

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DXYlj1 EXmp kf :lk =l\c I\c`XeZ\ By Michael Zuppone For the Heights United States Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus delivered the inaugural Dean’s Distinguished Lecture at Boston College Law School on Tuesday. Mabus received his J.D. from Harvard Law School before serving as a surface warfare officer in the Navy. He was the governor of Mississippi from 1988 to 1992 and the ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia the following two years. Currently, Mabus is the longest-serving leader of the Navy and Marine Corps since World War I. Mabus began the talk by identifying the four key priorities that he has focused on during his tenure—people, platforms, power, and partnerships. He believes that these “four P’s” enable the Navy to maintain a global presence by reassuring its allies and deterring its enemies. Mabus then transitioned to a discussion on the importance of taking steps to achieve energy independence in the Navy. “Energy is its own weapon,” he said. “It’s a potential vulnerability to the Navy if we do not take steps toward eliminating fossil fuel de-

pendency.” Mabus set a goal for the Navy to increase its reliance on alternative energy sources by 50 percent before the year 2020. It is working to achieve this goal by building planes that can operate solely on biofuel. Another issue that Mabus has focused on is reconnecting the military with the civilians. “The Navy ought to reﬂect the society that it protects,” he said. To achieve this goal, Mabus has named several naval ships after human rights leaders, such as labor activist Cesar Chavez and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giﬀords, the victim of a 2011 shooting in Tucson, Ariz. These measures have added a plethora of names, which might have otherwise gone unrecognized by the Navy, to the U.S. ships. Mabus has also worked to promote inclusion in the Navy. He supported the 2011 repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” a law that prohibited openly LGBT people from serving in the military. “If someone can meet the standard, then everything else is irrelevant,” he said. Mabus has taken an active role to reduce gender inequality in the Navy and Marine Corps. Mabus tripled

maternity leave from six to 18 weeks and increased childcare options on military bases. He has also worked to reduce instances of sexual assault and made an effort to eliminate the differences between the uniforms of men and women, which is still a work in progress. Mabus concluded his discussion by talking about the influence that his father had on his life. “My father’s only advice for me was to be honest,” he said. “He encouraged me to do something bigger than myself, even if nobody learns about it.” Mabus believes that it is vital that the U.S. Navy continues to maintain a strong presence the world after he retires, especially given the unrest in the Middle East. His term as secretary will end in 2017. Afterward, Mabus answered several questions on topics such as climate change, national security, and his experiences working with Congress. He also reflected on his time working in Saudi Arabia. “I think that Saudis and Southerners have a lot in common,” he said jokingly. “They both value family, religion, and personal relationships, and drink in private while denying it in public.”

THE HEIGHTS

Thursday, September 22, 2016

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Sometimes I wonder if our generation has an unnecessarily complicated relationship with the truth. Thanks to our many social media platforms, it is all too easy to hide behind our phones and our computer screens on a daily basis. We can use the cover they provide to do something as innocent as starting a conversation with the person we can’t stop thinking about (but without actually having to face them in person), or to do something as cruel as saying something to someone that we would never dream of actually saying to their face. We mask our true meanings behind emojis and create profiles that show our friends and acquaintances how perfect—or maybe how adorably imperfect—our daily lives are. And despite how our finesse for personal branding and marketing increases, we seem to be losing the simple ability to look someone in the eye and risk telling him or her the truth about how we feel. Wouldn’t it just be easier to never actually go that far, and continue living in the twilight of half-truths that bubble from our lips (not to mention our fingers) so easily? Despite its ever-increasing popularity, this kind of existence in which perversions of the truth are—if not expected—taken for granted is obviously unhealthy. And if you’re living in a city, it’s flat-out dangerous. In order for such a large group of people living so closely together to function productively, we need people to actually say what they mean and tell the truth. Doing this could force us to display (and figure out along the way) who we really are, and it might just hold us accountable for words that come out of our mouths, and not just our fingers. But over the past 21 days, Bostonians have actually had the chance to force themselves to tell the truth thanks to Public Trust, an interactive art installation that opened on Aug. 27. Public Trust, the brainchild of Brooklyn-based artist Paul Ramirez Jonas and presented by the nonprofit organization Now + There, asks Bostonians to “consider the meaning of a promise in a time when words matter.” Beginning in Dudley Square, the installation also took place in Kendall Square, before ending in Copley Square on Sept. 17. Located in the dead center of Copley, Public Trust’s final iteration was impossible to miss. A giant white billboard covered in large black letters faced the passersby, enticing many to stop and stare. The top of the billboard, which was emblazoned with the date and weather forecast, quickly gave way to promises made by large corporations (like Volkswagen), public figures (specifically Clinton and Trump), and by Bostonians who had made a promise in one of the two tents located in front of the billboard. According to Hyperallergic, participants in Public Trust entered one of the two tents and faced one of the “performers” working the project before dictating their promise to them. Two chalk rub copies of the promise were then made, which the promiser then had to sign and either fingerprint or seal with a drop of his or her own blood. After one last oath was made on a physical object, the performer would ring a bell, and the promise was considered completed. Each participant was able to keep a physical copy of his or her promise, while the other was tacked to one of the smaller red and black boards located in between the tents. As the day continued, each promise made was also transcribed on the larger black and white billboard for everyone in the city to see. And although Public Trust has officially run its course in Boston, that doesn’t mean we should forget the problems it addressed. Withholding the truth has always plagued society, but modern technology fragments our lives in a new way and makes it easier to live with our lies. Unless we start saying things aloud for someone to actually hear, we cannot hold ourselves accountable for the promises we make. Public Trust is gone, but we should consider making public our truths every day.

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K_\ ?`jkfip f] 9fjkfe# Xj J\\e K_ifl^_ ?XpdXib\k 9P N@CC@8D 98K:?<CFI =fi K_\ ?\c^`_kj Boston’s Society of Architects’ latest exhibition, Haymarket: The Soul of the City, takes a look at the historic open-air food market through photography by Justin H. Goodstein. Put together by Historic New England, the exhibition runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 30 at the BSA space overlooking Boston’s Waterfront district. Curated by Ken Turino, the manager of community engagement and exhibitions at Historic New England, the exhibit examines the cultural impact of Boston’s famous outdoor market. The exhibition consists of 40 black and white photographs that take you on a journey through the four seasons, starting with winter 2013 and ending with fall 2014. The collection of photographs captures the bustling market’s pushcarts, shops, workers, and customers. Many of the images are accompanied by an oral history of the market and the regular faces that are seen at Haymarket every weekend. Haymarket: The Soul of the City is a part of a larger entity called the Haymarket

Project. In addition to the exhibition, the project includes a book, a series of oral histories, and a documentary film. Generations of Bostonians have relied on Haymarket for their food and income. Unfortunately, Haymarket is now being threatened by development and has continued to shrink year to year. That is why the BSA has recognized the market and decided to showcase the impact it has had on so many lives. The Boston Society of Architects is not solely about architecture and buildings, but rather more about city planning and design. The exhibit is located on the second floor of the sleek and contemporary BSA space. The minimalist aesthetic of the BSA fits well with the simple layout of the exhibition and makes the images the focal point. The framed photographs are hung chronologically on the sweeping white walls, accompanied by large quotes printed around the exhibit. The natural light coming through the floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook the Boston waterfront makes the images pop off the walls. Without the distraction of color, you can focus on the diverse faces and stories

that capture the true essence of the market as you move along the exhibition. “Haymarket traditionally has served the underserved in Boston,” Turino said. “I feel it has a very important place in Boston’s history, but it’s doing a real service today.” The entire exhibition took approximately two years to put together, with the oral history and photography being compiled over a year, and the setup taking another year to complete. Together, Turino and Goodstein hand-picked the best images from a collection of 100 that helped tell the story of Haymarket. Traditionally, Haymarket served poor Bostonians and immigrants. While for a good part the 20th century, the market mainly consisted of Italians, over the years it has become more international. “You now have vendors and shoppers from all over the world, and many of those are really the underserved,” Turino said. Over the years, college students in Boston have shopped at Haymarket due to the aﬀordable produce. Turino hopes the exhibition will encourage more young people to support and visit the market. In the past, the market had a reputation for

being unclean and rough, Turino said, but that is less of a problem now. Recently, Turino accepted the 2016 Merit Award from the American Association for State and Local History at the Leadership in History Awards. In its 71st year, it is the most prestigious competition in the United States for achievement in state and local history. Located on Blackstone St. in proximity to the Freedom Trail, right in the heart of Boston, Haymarket is open year-round on Fridays and Saturdays. The BSA is open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on weekends and holidays from 10 a.m.to 5 p.m. Admission is free, though the BSA is a nonproﬁt organization and relies on donations from visitors. “Boston is distinctly about place, The North and South Ends, the Public Garden, Kenmore Square, etc. Haymarket is a distinct meeting place for people of all races and classes,” Turino in said the exhibit’s press release. “This exhibition celebrates that diversity while making people aware of the pressure from development facing it today.”

;feX ?XYXeX 9iè^j X KXjk\ f] :lYX kf k_\ Jflk_ <e[ 9P D8>>@< 9I<< ?\`^_kj JkX]] Doña Habana opened on Sept. 1 at the Hampton Inn in Newmarket Square, occupying the space of the now-closed Rudi’s Resto Café. The owners, couple Hector and Nivia Pina, also have been successfully running Vejigantes, a Puerto Rican restaurant in the South End, since 2012, as well as Merengue, a Dominican restaurant and catering business in Roxbury, since 1994. The couple has been working in the restaurant industry for 25 years, and now with Doña Habana, their restaurants cover the cuisines of the three major islands in the Caribbean. Although Cuban cuisine resembles that of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, it also incorporates its own spices and zests to traditional dishes like chorizo and papas fritas. The head chef, Roberto Nobeo, was born and raised in Cuba and previously headed the kitchen of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba, the island’s historic luxury resort in Old Havana. “It is really the success of Merengue and Vejigantes [that inspired me],” Hector Pina said. “People from those different countries try our food and identify with it. They say, ‘This is real. This is Cuba.’” Hector and Nivia pride themselves on opening the first Latin restaurant in a hotel in the state of Massachusetts. With two other Cuban restaurants in the area, both of which are in Jamaica Plain, Hector and Nivia Pina recognized the need for a greater Cuban presence in the Boston area. The couple has always been fascinated with the music, food, and culture of Cuba and view the restaurant as a symbol of their appreciation for the Cuban culture. According to Hector Pina, the easing of travel restrictions to Cuba has augmented the demand for Cuban food. “I saw the opportunity of opening a Cuban restaurant because of what is going on with Cuba now with the opening of the United States [tourism], which is bringing more tourists into Cuba,” he said. “People will come back [to Merengue and Vejigantes] raving about the Cuban food.” Considering its proximity to Boston Medical Center, Northeastern University, and

Boston University, the restaurant’s location certainly appeals to the younger crowd that the Pinas are targeting. The restaurant is an ideal destination for a merienda, Spanish for snack, with a tapasstyle menu and a cocktail menu that includes 53 diﬀerent variations of the mojito. Among its most popular items are the lobster, arroz imperial, a rice-infused Cuban twist to lasagna, and caldo de mariscos, a seafood stew. The menu also features items that can appeal to those who are less familiar with Cuban cuisine, such as assorted soups and pulled pork sandwiches. Doña Habana is a good ﬁt for those who are looking for an authentic Cuban meal in New England. The décor adds to the island aesthetic, where customers can truly forget that they are, in fact, in South Boston and not sipping on their mojitos along the Havana beaches. The restaurant plans to use the separate room with a vast bar and nearly 20 dining tables in the

future to host Cuban artists and guests. Hector genuinely believes that the name of a restaurant is immensely important and communicates its overall message. When the Pinas began the process of brainstorming their plans for the restaurant, they researched pictures of Cuba online, where they stumbled upon a picture of a traditional Cuban. They then developed a ﬁctional story behind the woman in the image through which the Pinas derived the name of the restaurant, “Mrs. Havana.” The couple hired Arturo and Gloria Velasquez from the Boston-based graphic design company Imagix to design the logo. The Velasquez actually traveled to Cuba and captured over 5,000 pictures of the Cuban scenery, food, garb, and population as inspiration for the logo. The logo that they designed synthesized the restaurant’s name and the Cuban style that the Pinas and the Imagix team wished to share and

communicate with the customers. This image provided the vision for not only the restaurant’s décor but also its message, and it is now displayed on the wall in the main dining room and on the menus. A vintage convertible protrudes from a wall, and white drapes and fairy lights suspend from the ceiling. Murals depict the bustling activity characteristic of the Havana streets. After two years of renovations, planning, and design work, Doña Habana is excited to open its doors and ﬁll the plates of avid foodies. Despite only being open for nearly a month, the prospective future of Doña Habana is promising, with Hector Pina alluding to undisclosed plans for other business ventures in the Boston area. “I see Dona Habana in ﬁve years on the Waterfront and in a couple of more cities,” he said “It is great branding, and we have a great product to bring.”

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The decor of Dona Habana attempts to bring the customer as close to the island nation as possible, with murals that depict city scenes.

THE HEIGHTS

Thursday, September 22, 2016

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Last Saturday, visitors flocked to the Linden Family Wing Entrance of the MFA for the #mfaNOW Overnight Launch Party, during which the museum was open free of charge for the entire night. By Madeleine D’Angelo Asst. Metro Editor Boston’s nightlife just got the lifesaving electric jolt it has desperately needed. This energy was the result of the #mfaNOW launch party, the ﬁrst of four overnight parties hosted by the Museum of Fine Arts to celebrate exhibitions in the museum’s contemporary wing, and to engage the Boston community in the art world. After the MFA officially closed its doors for the day on Saturday at 5 p.m., the doors to the Linden Family Wing entrance reopened at 6 p.m. and multicolored lights began dancing across the building’s walls as

the #mfaNOW launch party began. Visitors of all ages were admitted for free and invited to participate in the many events and activities scheduled to last until 10 a.m. Sunday morning. The events ranged from lectures given by artists whose work was on exhibit to dancing the night away to the music from the DJ collective, Substructure. But such an intricate event with such a range of activities took careful planning from museum staff and curators, who were inspired to find some way to celebrate the return of Christian Marclay’s The Clock, as well as the upcoming UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991-2015 exhibition. The Clock is a constantly-playing 24-hour movie composed of film clips from both feature films and home

movies, and UH-OH: Frances Stark is a new exhibit of contemporary art. “We started with the fact that we had the Frances Stark exhibition and we were putting The Clock back on view,” said Kristen Hoskins, the curator of lectures, concerts, and courses at the MFA. “We haven’t had The Clock on view in ﬁve years, so it presented us with the opportunity to do overnight events. We wanted people to be able to see it overnight. So we started brainstorming about what the might look like, and we came up with these four nights.” An essential part of planning these four nights—three more #mfaNOW overnight parties will take place between now and December—was ensuring that there would

be an activity for every kind of visitor that would still draw their attention to the new exhibitions that the contemporary wing had to oﬀer. Hoskins explained that this ethos ultimately led to a surprising range of activities, many of which were actually suggested by partners who worked with the MFA on the event. For partners like Heartbreak Hill Running Company, The Clock served as inspiration for the late-night run around the museum grounds because, she explained, runners live by the clock. The party proved to be so popular that the hourly capacity was quickly reached, and the line of visitors awaiting admittance snaked from the Linden Family Wing entrance all the way to the MFA’s bet-

ter-known front entrance on Huntington Street. Hoskins and the organizers of the event were delighted that the turnout exceeded expectations—this was the MFA’s first overnight event of such a nature, she said, and they had no idea what to expect. Although the line was long, those waiting were still able to amuse themselves by taking advantage of the four food trucks—Bonetown Burgers, Indulge India, North East of the Border, and Sheherazad—located in the museum parking lot. Shortly after passing the food trucks, those waiting were steps away from entering the museum itself. What lay inside was well worth the wait. Once inside the museum, attendees were able to watch The Clock for the first time in five years, as well as visiting UHOH: Frances Stark 1991-2015, an exhibit of contemporary art that opened to the public that night. The UH-OH exhibit, organized by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, features around 120 works by the renowned contemporary artist Frances Stark. Each work revolves around Stark’s exploration of selfexpression in modern life and references a moment that each viewer can relate to: when they’ve know that they’ve gone too far, and cannot help by say “uh-oh.” Throughout its opening night, UH-OH was packed with viewers who delighted in examining everything from Stark’s drawings and collages to video installations about Stark’s online sex life that elicited laughter and interaction from the audience. After exploring the exhibits, many visitors returned to the dance floor, tried out the art vending machine—which dropped out a piece of art whenever someone put in $5—or perused the food truck area outside, which was filled with lawn games like a giant Connect4 and cornhole, as well as lawn chairs and long communal tables for diners. The next #mfaNOW Overnight: College Edition is Oct. 14 and will feature another selection of carefully-curated activities specifically geared toward college students. Then, Boston’s student nightlife will be lit up as well.

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On Sept. 18, visitors flocked to the seventh annual Boston Local Food Festival in order to learn more about locally sourced and sustainable dining options. Hundreds of local vendors, such as Big Rock Oyster (right) participated in the event. By Maxine Alindogan For The Heights Shrouds of gray fell over the Boston skyline last Sunday, but that did not deter Bostonians from soaking up as much warmth as they could over the past few weeks at the Boston Local Food Festival. Tucked in between the New England Aquarium and Faneuil Hall were rows of white tents, each featuring an array of different foods, enticing shows, and curious minds, all culminating in the lively event that is the Festival. The Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts (SBN) started the annual festival in 2010. Since its inception, the festival has aimed to promote and support the local food industry. With its recurring theme of healthy, good food for all, the event has received

an increasing amount of recognition over the past seven years. Initially, the festival grounds were located in front of the Children’s Museum, but due to an increasing number of attendees, it has since moved its location to the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Public relations and logistics coordinator, Nicola Williams, explained that this allows the festival to accommodate more visitors, as numbers have risen to more than 50,000. The new location is also in sync with “the green way of life” that both the event and the park try to educate on and encourage in the residents of Massachusetts. Hundreds of diverse vendors are dispersed through five blocks of the Greenway—the colorful array begins at State Street and ends on High Street. Products range from all-natural condiments, sauces, and syrups to fresh

seafood and international, but locally produced, dishes. Vendors like Maple Nut Kitchen, a local granola company, have been participating in this food festival ever since the beginning of the company. Vivian Cubilla-Lindblom, the owner of Maple Nut Kitchen, decided to join the festival after hearing about it from another vendor. She was attracted to the idea of a festival that was well attended and focused on healthy, flavorful foods. Other than the promotion of environmentally friendly means of living, the Boston Local Food Festival also strives to practice sustainability, as it is a zero-waste event. The Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts made it a point to minimize the impact on the environment. Williams emphasizes that it is an

event that is able to divert over 91 percent of its waste and offset 100 percent of its energy use. On the official website, an extensive informational guide on the different means of transportation to get to the festival was provided in order to encourage the use of public transportation. A “green” mindset has become a popular lifestyle for many like Emily, an experimental cook who heard about the festival from a friend. What struck her most about the festival was the variety of products and the ways in which natural food sources are being used for different things. After making her way through the entire five blocks, she said that it was a great way for tourists to be exposed to the local cuisine and for Boston natives to truly appreciate the vibrant culture of the city. This sentiment is reflected in

the observations of Trina, a tourist from Japan who said the food festival was a great way to spend time with family on a Sunday, and that it is an interesting concept that hopefully will be started in her home country someday. She continued that it’s a great way to help the local economy and promote the culture of any country. The most challenging thing about running this festival, according to Williams, is the inability of the organizers to control the weather at the time of the event. She said that even if it rains, people still come out to support. Williams stresses that it’s not a festival exclusively for foodies, it’s a celebration for the everyone in the Boston community. It’s a means by which foodies, chefs, students, children, and adults can learn about the local industry, as well as support it.

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Currently, O’Neill Library closes at 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. During the spring of last year, the library’s weekend hours were extended to make the first floor open to students 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This pilot program was temporarily stopped at the beginning of this year to gather more data and determine student demand for a 24/7 library service. The pilot program and subsequent change in hours came as part of an initiative from the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) after a number of calls for increased study hours, including a Heights column last November. Now, the Office of Student Affairs and the University Libraries expect to re-open extended hours in mid-October, during which time they will monitor its use. Having a 24/7 library would be a positive addition to BC’s student offerings and is worth the cost of adding security for the two weekend nights. If someone needs to work on a weekend night there are few options outside of their room, which often leads to disruption from roommates. Considering the workload of a college student, it is clear that students will be working on the weekends for many, if not most, of the weeks of the semester, and they deserve a designated place to do that. The argument behind closing a library on weekends is that it encourages students to avoid focusing entirely on work and appreciate the social possibilities of college, becoming a more balanced and healthy individual. While it is true that balancing work and a social life is a necessary part of a healthy life, a 24/7 library does not hinder this. Rather, it allows students to work when work needs to be done.

These students would be working regardless of the library being open, and by opening the library BC is simply supporting them and providing them with a venue for their studies. The library is open 24/7 during finals due to the increased workload, but a 24/7 library remains important during the regular school year. Midterms are not limited to mid-October for most students. Tests, papers, and problem sets extend from September to November, and keep students constantly working. During finals week, extracurriculars have normally ended and students are able to spend their entire day studying if need be.

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During the first few weeks of school, the mailroom in Walsh Hall was overwhelmed. Packages were stalled in processing as an influx of online orders, coupled with smaller facilities and delayed pickups, kept packages in the processing room for days after they arrived. The Walsh mailroom, which had to be used after the demolition of Edmond’s Hall, does not have the facilities to handle the 10,665 packages—an average of 367 packages per day—that it has received during this first month of school. B oston College Facilities Ser vices has done an admirable job of working through a difficult situation and clearing the backlog of packages. The backlog was cleared on Sept. 14 and now, the mailroom is running as it should be again, and students are receiving packages on time. The nine members of the mail staff deser ve commendation for working through the excessive number of packages while also dealing with limited space. They addressed the problem quickly and prevented worse delays. But the difficulty of the first few weeks should help BC Facilities better prepare for the beginning of next year. C o n s i d e r i n g th e s i z e co n s t r a i nt s and the growing popularity of online textbook ordering, Facilities should be prepared for a similar, or even worse, onslaught of packages come next September. Expansion of the Walsh mailroom is one effort already in the works. This expansion would be a positive step toward more efficiently delivering packages next year.

One way to prepare for this would be to create temporary mailrooms for overflow packages. The minimized space was a large factor in the backup. By allocating other spaces as mailrooms in the case of overflow, there is more organization and space so that the most students possible have their packages waiting for them. Another issue was students not pick-

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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Student Staﬀ Members of the Women’s Center Respond to “Parking Sign Defaced With Anti-Gay Slur”

We are deeply disturbed by the incident that took place last Saturday, Sept. 17 regarding a homophobic slur displayed on a vandalized parking sign in the Mod Lot. In light of these events, there are many questions and issues surrounding what occurred Saturday night and what has—or rather, what has not—followed. First and foremost, we are extremely saddened, angered, and disturbed by the incident. It is important for the Boston College community to recognize this occurrence as one of blatant hate speech—not merely a joke in poor taste or an isolated incident. This violation offends and threatens our community, and we affirm that there is never justification or excuse for such violent speech. Further, we want to acknowledge that homophobia violates our community in many ways, impacting male survivors of sexual violence, queeridentifying or otherwise, fueling rape culture, and negating our Jesuit identity of love and service to the marginalized. Secondly, the minimization of such hate should concern us all. As one student so clearly explained, “If you say you care about social justice, [or] you say you’re a Christian, [or] you say Black Lives Matter, then this should enrage you, too. We can’t selectively care about justice and peace.” As in the recent events impacting the gay community in Orlando, actions driven by homophobia cannot be untangled from intersections of racism, sexism, ableism, and so on, which we are committed to fight. While this incident must be made public knowledge, the manner in which the incident has since been treated by our campus has indirectly exacerbated the sadness and anger surrounding the event. There are several student news resources on campus, and yet many in our community failed to hear of this event due to violent silence that consumes many social justice issues. To quote

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and the premise of the Bystander Intervention program, “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” What is most concerning, however, is not neutrality, but a silence that serves as tolerance and passive support. The ease with which publications have reposted photos, quoted the sign directly, and repeated the speech only further highlights the normalization and endemic nature of this hate. We must ask ourselves if such actions would be tolerated if the slur had been sexist, racist, or ableist. If the outcomes would be different, we must consider why and what action to take going forward. The Women’s Center is an open space to process this event and other issues regarding sexism, racism, ableism, and so on. Likewise, we want to acknowledge the resources available through the Dean of Students Office, especially Caroline Davis and Mark D’Angelo. Additionally, University Counseling Services offers a confidential space for all students. We stand in solidarity with marginalized peers and denounce hate of any kind on this campus. We are deeply concerned with our community’s response to this incident, and continue to demand that our university be one of love, inclusion, and celebration.

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Dean of Students Thomas Mogan Pens Open Letter in Response to Parking Sign Slur Dear Boston College Students, As you may be aware, at some point on late Saturday afternoon or early evening, an unknown individual or individuals vandalized a sign in the parking lot on Lower Campus to spell out a hateful and derogatory slur directed toward members of the LGBT community. Boston College takes this very seriously and, as the Dean of Students, I would like to make it clear that Boston College does not tolerate acts of intolerance and hate toward any individuals or groups of individuals in our campus community. The Boston College Police Department is currently investigating this incident. This act clearly represents a violation of our sense of campus community and of the Student Code of Conduct, and will be treated as such. We are working to identify the perpetrators of this incident and, if identified

and found responsible, they will be held accountable through our conduct process. If the perpetrators are not Boston College students, they could be charged criminally and trespassed from our campus. I encourage you to contact BCPD at 617-552-4440 if you have any information that may be helpful to their investigation. If you have been impacted by this incident and you wish to speak with someone, please know that the Office of the Dean of Students is here to provide you with support and assistance. Please call us at 617-552-3470, email us at deanofstudents@ bc.edu, or stop by to visit us in Maloney Hall, Suite 448.

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GLC Members Respond to “Parking Sign Defaced With Anti-Gay Slur” Sunday night, BCPD was alerted to an act of vandalism that had taken place on campus, in which someone rearranged the letters on the Mod Lot parking sign to say “No F**s.” The GLBTQ+ Leadership Council (GLC) strongly condemns this act of hate. Not only does this slur diminish and degrade the identities of queer students, but it furthermore sends a message to our community that we do not belong on this campus. It is a message of exclusion. It is a message of alienation. It is a message that cannot and should not exist on this campus any longer. But it will. It will until we as a university—students, faculty, and staﬀ—stand up to the insidious culture of prejudice on our campus. Insidious not because it is hidden, not because it is duplicitous, but because we have named it “tradition”—a word that gives us comfort in our complacency and bias. As a result, we are expected to live lifestyles and not lives, and therefore, we are given admission, but not acceptance. This tradition does not live up to our Jesuit ideals. We are called to love and recognize our whole selves, to ﬁnd God in all things, and to be men and women for others.* Now we ask you to not just stand for us, but with us. When we come together around these ideals, we send a new message; we

create a new culture. One where love and support is the norm, not the ideal. We can create a campus that fully embraces all students, regardless of how they identify or who they love. And together, we will. To any student who has been affected, especially first-years and transfers—we see you, we recognize you, and we honor your right to exist freely on this campus. You are not alone. There are hundreds of us at BC who have made a home here, found our chosen families, and are thriving. Those families are waiting for you with open arms. Finally, we would like to acknowledge the incredible work that the Office of the Dean of Students has done for the LGBTQIA+ community on campus, and we would encourage anyone who needs support to reach out to their office through Caroline Davis, assistant dean for Student Outreach and Support. Caroline can be reached at (617) 552-3470, and caroline.davis.2@bc.edu. What happened on Sunday does not define Boston College, but how we respond will. *”People for others” is more accurate, as there are more than two genders.

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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Fli J_Xi\[ ?ldXe`kp n`k_ I\]l^\\j 9\`e^ C>9K fe :Xdglj E8K?8E ;8?C<E THE MCMULLENS AND THEIR MUSEUM - Some of us may not have actually stopped by the museum because we don’t appreciate art and/or culture, but it’s still a pleasant sight on our daily 3 a.m. strolls down Comm. Ave. With our hands still trembling from the terror and adrenaline, struggling to light a cigarette and smoke away the memories of what we just saw (eyes like fissures in a dying sky—the monster among us), it’s nice to look over and see the illuminated museum with its fancy glass stuff and other rooftop-type, architecturey doohickeys. Next time we venture out into the never-ending night to do battle with the forces of eternal chaos, it’s nice to know this museum will still be here if we come home. DONALD GLOVER - In that beautiful year of sunshine and rainbows, 2008, a young thumbmeister surfed the magical world of YouTube and found a video by a group called DerrickComedy. After watching the clip, this young upstart realized that it was time to abandon his dream of selling subprime mortgages and strive to one day write thumb-related journalism for a college newspaper. Now the same guy from the sketch comedy group is the creator and star of a new television show, Atlanta, that has already broken FX ratings records, not to mention his successful music and acting career. Isn’t that just the cat’s pajamas?

In response to increasing international pressure, President Barack Obama announced Sept. 10 that the United States would accept 10,000 Syrian refugees this year—not even a dent in the over 4 million refugees that have fled the violence and terror in their home country. And yet, this decision is at odds with the view held by most Americans. According to a recent poll, only 36 percent of Americans think that we should admit Syrian refugees into the United States at all. Most think we should completely close the door. I would like to draw out two dimensions of our nature that I think drive much of the opposition to allowing Syrian refugees into the U.S.: apathy and cultural anxiety. When the fighting broke out in Syria around four and a half years ago, we were heartbroken and indignant. As the months turned into years, many of us stopped reading and talking about Syria. Meanwhile, the terror increased and the casualties mounted: over 470,000 people have died. We became numb to their pain. Our minds flash: “That’s far away. That’s not my community. Not my friends. Not my family. Not me.” Then we change the conversation. A wave of empathy re-emerges with each viral picture that captures the immensity of their suffering, then again subsides. Soon, Aleppo does not even ring a bell. A short attention span for distant suffering is an immutable feature of our nature. But I am afraid that there may be an even darker, more objectionable side to our psychology. More than just apathy for their plight, a kind of gut anxiety about other cultures resides deep in the American consciousness. Put in its most grotesque form: sure, we’re not paying attention anymore, but they’re also Syrians. They’re not like me. They look, speak, and talk differently. They like different foods and have different

pastimes. Their customs are foreign, not American. In these instances, we get caught up in our idiosyncrasies and fail to recognize the deep humanity that we all share. Nicholas Kristof exemplified this tendency best when he compared the reactions on Twitter to a photo he tweeted in memoriam of his dog to the comments on a column he published that same day about the suffering in Syria. There was a uniform outpouring of sympathy for his dog, but callousness toward Syrians pervaded the comments section of his column. “Why should we help them?” one of his readers asks. Sometimes, it seems, we see more humanity in a dog than our fellow human beings. If we are to have a reasonable discussion about the role we can play in ameliorating the horror of the Syrian conflict, our starting point must be the humanity we share with Syrians rather than our indifference and cultural fears. I think we too often invert this order of considerations, and I

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nomic concerns. Several countries have accepted more than a million Syrian refugees without a marked effect on their economies. The United States has at other times embraced far more refugees. We took in around 150,000 Vietnamese after the fall of the pro-Western regime in Saigon. Security concerns are not particularly persuasive, either. Syrian refugees undergo a strict vetting process that usually takes two years. Of the select few that are referred for the process, only a fraction make it through the intense scrutiny of various law enforcement, intelligence, and security agencies. It is extraordinarily unlikely that someone who wished to do us harm would A) actually make it through the vetting process and B) choose to endure this process in the first place when there are far easier ways to enter the country. The debate over values is somewhat murkier. Many Syrian refugees hold beliefs that differ greatly from those held by many Americans. The extent to which these views—about God, the role of government, and more—are incompatible with our sociopolitical fabric is up for debate. To be sure, this is a debate that must be had. It would be naive for us to dismiss any concerns about value compatibility as mere bigotry. But we also must be vigilant in ensuring that our cultural fears do not unduly inflame our concerns. I am quite confident that America can take in Syrian refugees and balance lives saved with any perceived effect on American values, coffers, or security. In order to have a reasonable debate about whether we should take in some of the more than 4 million refugees fleeing for their lives, we must consciously seek to overcome our natural inclination toward indifference, especially for those who may seem so different from us. If we did, I suspect that we would become more willing to open our borders to a larger number of Syrian refugees.

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FEELING THE ULCER EATING THROUGH YOUR STOMACH LINING - Sitting behind a desk in the library, your face tinged with the sickly light of your laptop, you cover your face with your hands and whimper quietly. Your sunken, bloodshot eyes stare out from behind the greasy, overgrown hair that hangs down like a set of homemade despaircurtains over your face-window. Oh God, even your similes are awful. A strange corrosive feeling rips through your stomach and you know that you’ve finally done it. You’ve given yourself an ulcer. A librarian walks by to let you know the building is closing in five minutes. “My life is pain,” you whisper back. As you collapse on top of your pile of granola crumbs and dying dreams, you think about all the starving children in the world, the war-torn regions, the crippling poverty, the crime and violence, and you still know beyond a doubt that you, a Boston College student, live the hardest life of them all. You think you can hear the angels weeping above, but then you realize that it’s the sound of the second-floor toilet flushing. THE SLOW ONSLAUGHT OF WORK - As September creeps toward its end, the papers and test are starting to loom over the horizon. Schedules are tightening like hairy palms around your throat. Columbus Day seems so far away. WORD COUNTS - The thumb has never felt quite so restricted. There are so many things to indicate approval or disapproval over. It’s impossible to stop talking. The thumb can’t be silenced. What if we just try to make the font smaller? Or what if we just get rid of the rest of this opinions section-type stuff and just make

B<CJ<P :FEEFIJ At the end of the first month of my freshman year, a phenomenon occurred that I remember quite clearly. It felt as if friend groups had become solidified. The period for introductions and small talk with strangers in the dining hall had passed. There were posts on Instagram of big groups at parties that said “squad” and “crew,” and pairs of girls who were already “best friends.” Just over a month into our first semester, there was talk of 8-man groups forming for next year. It all left me wondering if I was doing something wrong, and led me to try to force myself into a group of friends that I knew deep down were not the people I was meant to be friends with. Looking back, I know that this was a harmful and limiting viewpoint, but at the time, I wondered if I was making strong enough connections with the people around me. I still didn’t feel like anyone at school was my best friend. Was I doing something wrong? To all the freshmen, I encourage you not to fall into this trap. In all the time you are at Boston College, never, ever stop trying to make friends. Never stop branching out. Always be open to new people and to opportunities to meet new people. Some of the best friendships may not come into your life until next semester, next year, or your time abroad. Undoubtedly, you will lose friends here and you will gain friends. You will grow apart from some people and grow closer to others. This is normal and healthy and will be true not just of college, but of life. The most friends I made outside of my floor as a freshman came from joining clubs. Clubs open the door to great groups of people who can grow into your friends. The opportunity to connect with upperclassmen is an addi-

tional perk. Older friends I met through my clubs were always able and willing to offer me great advice on everything from professors to making the most of college. Their encouragement was uplifting, and their advice has often rung quite true. Upperclassmen can be valuable resources, and they are most easily accessed by joining clubs that pique your interest. Furthermore, don’t be afraid to try a club or activity you wouldn’t have tried in high school. Hidden talents and passions have the potential to grow and evolve into opportunities for majors and minors, awards, or careers. If something sparks your interest, give it a try. Best of all is the ability to meet people who have the same interest as you, but who may seem to be very different from you in other ways. These can be eye-opening friendships that remind us how con-

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my freshman Perspectives class, I was able to meet and bond with people that lived on Newton with whom I am still close today. If you feel the potential for friendship, don’t allow that bus ride to make or break it. They just may live two doors down sophomore year. In my case, friends who lived on Newton ended up eventually connecting me with my boyfriend. These connections often happen for reasons we don’t expect, and I was lucky to see many relationships grow out of what started as one conversation in the hallway before Perspectives. The most important thing to keep in mind is that being open-minded and open-hearted will never hurt you, but closing yourself off to forming new connections and exploring new sides of yourself absolutely can. It can be easy to fall into the belief that with the end of the first month at school comes the end of your window to meet and connect with new people, join new clubs, or find potential future roommates. This misconception could not be farther from the truth that I came to learn. In fact, finding two girls at random for my sophomore 8-man began as a stressful leap of faith but became a blessing in disguise. These two random roommates became two of my very best friends at school. They have inspired me, comforted me, and made me laugh until my stomach hurt. For the constant opportunity to connect with new people, I am forever grateful. Your best friend could be at that club meeting tonight that you just don’t know if you should bother attending. Your future suitemate may be the person with you in the elevator, and it is your choice whether to strike up a conversation. Countless times each day, you have the opportunity to connect with the people around you, and that is an awesome, amazing gift not to be taken for granted.

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:FEEFI BI8KQ For any queer student at BC, the homophobic slur “No F*gs,” which was posted on the Mod parking lot sign last Saturday, is a harsh but unsurprising reminder of what it’s like to be LGBTQ at Boston College. Homophobic and derogatory comments like “That’s so gay” and “F*ggot” have somehow found their place in the lexicons of many BC students who seem to completely disregard the effect these words have on many of our students. Perhaps the vitriol of public discourse surrounding the presidential election, especially from candidates like Donald Trump, has somehow convinced members of the BC community that it’s now socially acceptable to insult and denegrade marginalized communities when they’re dealing with their own frustrations and fears. Regardless of the cause of this open display of bigotry, the real concern moving forward is how the University will choose to respond. My unfortunate prediction is that its response will be severely inadequate. As an openly gay junior involved in queer groups on campus and the Greater Boston area, I didn’t become deeply frightened or depressed when I saw the sign posting on Saturday. I have grown comfortable in my skin and developed confidence through the supportive forces in my life to overcome my exposure to homophobia and heteronormativity. Instead, seeing that horrible slur made me furious, more than anything. Furious because there are plenty of students who are very vulnerable and deeply hurt by the use of this hateful term, and I would’ve included myself in that group not very long ago. Freshman year was painful. I was still questioning my sexuality and building up the courage to come out, yet wasn’t sure if this was a place I could feel comfortable doing it. It wasn’t long into my first semester that the University temporarily cancelled Queer Peers (a queer educational program in residence halls) and I had already become accustomed to many of my peers frequently using the homophobic “f-word.” When I finally mustered the bravery to confront some of them about using that word, I was told, “You’re not gay, so you shouldn’t be offended by us saying f*ggot.” I felt like I had moved backward from my public high school in Minnesota, where people respected each other’s identities, or were at least disciplined when they didn’t. I was convinced that this was not the place for me, and not the place I could feel comfortable, or even safe, being myself. So, yes, I’m mad. I’m mad that someone’s utter disregard and prejudice toward an entire community inevitably will cause students just like me when I was a freshman to remain in the closet and feel remorse and disdain for simply being themselves. But I’m also mad that BC will allow this climate of homophobia to persist. I’m mad that the administration won’t even consider the establishment of an LGBTQ+ resource center that can provide a permanent safe space for queer and questioning students to escape the homophobia and heteronormativity that pervades our campus. I’m mad that we can’t have an open discussion surrounding queer health and wellness without being censored by stringent administrative guidelines to ensure we don’t talk about sexual health, even though it’s obviously a critical element of queer health. It’s ridiculous that the LGBTQ community still can’t even hold a “dance,” but instead has to use the acceptable nomenclature “gala,” so that it doesn’t imply queer people are dancing together, or doing anything sexual that would occur at any other student organization’s “dance.” The list of prejudicial treatment toward the LGBTQ community goes on and on. If you’re a gay student at BC, how do you respond to these kinds of administrative actions? The lack of administrative support made my personal journey to acceptance and pride much more difficult than it needed to be. And my experience doesn’t even touch upon the added strife that comes with being genderqueer or a queer person of color at this institution. Queer people have fought a long and arduous battle for our rights to be respected as equals, and these rights cannot be squandered upon our entering the University. The administration needs to utilize its role in shaping the campus climate and take a stand against discrimination in all of its forms. Currently, the University is failing and needs to step up to the plate, because it will be ultimately responsible for the fallout of our homophobic campus culture. So I ask the BCadministration: will you stand up to bigotry and oppression, or ignore the issue and accept the status quo? Make the choice, because we’re tired of waiting.

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Thursday, September 22, 2016

N`k_ 9`b\ Gif^iXd# Q`gY`b\# QX^jk\i <Xj\ Jkl[\ek KiXejgfikXk`fe 9P ?<@;@ ;FE> <o\Zlk`m\ 8jj`jkXek It’s easier than ever to weave in and out of stagnant Boston traffic on a bike. Two Boston-based companies now have a partnership that aims to ease and enhance transportation for university students and staff. Zagster, the leading campus bike share provider, and Zipcar, the world’s leading car share network, have announced the first national sponsored bike share program specifically for universities: Zipbike. “Universities are very interested in bike share,” said Jon Terbush, the communications manager at Zagster. “But the biggest problem that they have is a funding gap—that they either believe they don’t have funding, or they have no idea what to do with it. So, what Zipbike does, is it removes that financial barrier to entry, so that any university that wants to have a bike share program can have one.”

Zagster, the fastest-growing bike share provider in the nation, is pairing its tried and true bike-share platform with Zipcar’s university car sharing service into one low-cost offering. This new bundle offers campuses a bikeshare program that is subsidized to the point of costing only about 10 percent of what a typical university bike-share program would. For students and faculty, this means is the ability to purchase a membership that grants access to both cars and bikes. Founded in 2007, Zagster has since worked with more than 135 universities, small cities, businesses, and real estate properties to spread bike shares to communities that can neither afford nor need large-scale bike sharing that companies like Hubspot and City Bikes provide. Zagster offers smaller communities a more tailored, affordable, and convenient bike share option. Currently, Zagster operates more campus bike-shares than every other bike share provider

combined. “Basically, our mission is to make the bike the most loved form of transportation,” Terbush said. “We do that by providing bike shares to places that other bike share providers can’t reach or choose not to reach, and then we try to get as many people in the community to ride bikes as possible.” Zipcar provides a car-sharing program that allows members to use any idle shared car for any time between one hour and seven days. After joining Zipcar, members are sent a Zipcard, allowing drivers to access vehicles worldwide. Currently, Zipcar has operations on more than 500 college and university campuses, including a partnership with Boston College, which offers memberships for $15, free gas, and insurance. The new Zipbike offers universities six main features: a complete campus bike-share program, Zipcars on or near campus, an app-based interface, professional transportation planning,

24/7 maintenance and support, and a promotional program. “We expect Zipbike to become the leading national collegiate bike sharing brand, and ultimately become synonymous with the category,” said Timothy Ericson, Zagster co-founder and chief executive officer, in a Zipbike press release. According to Zipcar’s website, the impact Zipbike will have on college communities is fourfold, at least. Zipbike will relieve the stress on transit systems as well as decongest campus roads since bike- and car-sharing decreases individual vehicle use. Students will also save money by avoiding parking permits and tickets. In fact, students who don’t bring cars to their campuses save about $2,000, according to a calculation on the website. Students, faculty, and staff can also more actively avoid having to deal with parking demand and parking-related problems. Bike-sharing also decreases the university’s need to deal with aban-

doned bikes, as well as decrease the 53 percent chance that college students lose bikes to theft. “At the end of the day, it was just a no-brainer to have the two companies pair our services, and it helps that we’re both based out of Boston,” Terbush said. “It really just comes down to the fact that Zipcar is the leader in university car sharing, and Zagster is the leader in university bike sharing, and we felt that by combining our resources, we could deliver the best possible transportation solution to universities and their students and staff. It was an easy relationship.” Zipbike is planning to launch on 10 university campuses in the beginning of 2017, and reach 15 universities by the end of next year for a total of 800 bikes. Talks have begun with many universities with very positive feedback, Terbush said. “We encourage every university to come on board,” Terbush said. “Every university can beneﬁt from bike share.”

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Newton central facility. USPS does not differentiate between Vouté, Walsh, Newton Campus, or McElroy Commons, so it is the mail staff ’s job to sort all of the packages into different hampers destined for different mailrooms, then deliver the hampers to the correct locations. Once at the individual mailrooms, the packages are scanned, students are notified, and the packages are numerically ordered on the mailroom shelves for ease of access. United Parcel Service (UPS), in contrast, delivers directly to mailrooms but has no schedule. “We might get seven, eight, nine hampers of packages in a morning,” Travaligni said. “We work as diligently and efficiently and patiently as we can, and one by one we scan and report to the student that the package is in our possession. Then, UPS shows up when they show up. And they might have 60 to 70 packages on the truck, and all we can do is sign that we’ve received the 60 or 70.” It should be noted, Travaligni added, that when an online tracker says that a package has been delivered to BC, it

may be just dropped off at the Newton central facility, or it may be waiting for shelf space inside a trailer. His advice to students is to wait for an email inform-

“We need more space. We’re here for students. We do the best we can to make sure they have their packages on time.” —Manuel Miranda, Walsh Mailroom Staﬀ

ing them that a package has arrived, and is ready to be picked up immediately. This year, with the smaller room coupled with the increase in packages, not only did Walsh’s mailroom have to borrow a room from housekeeping, but Travaligni also rented a 20-foot trailer to accommodate the influx of packages.

During this chaos, another problem emerged—technology. The mailroom sends first, second, and third notices to students, informing them that a package has arrived and is ready for pick-up. Amid the record package influx, second and third notices were delayed in getting into the system by IT staff. This caused a delay in package pick-up, congesting the mail room, housekeeping room, and trailer even more. And when solving this IT problem, a telling discovery was made—this year, students are taking their time to pick up packages. Travaligni said that last year, students were much more efficient about retrieving their packages. Coupled with this year’s logistical challenges, that hasn’t proved helpful. “The sheer volume, the delay in second notices, and moving to a smaller space with the same number of personnel, while serving a larger community is all going to lead to growing pains,” he said. In an effort to keep up with the overflowing packages, Walsh and Vouté’s

mailrooms extended their hours last week and this week until 9 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday. The response was tremendous. Last week, mailrooms saw nearly as many students picking up packages from 6 to 9 p.m. as they did from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Their delivery rate essentially doubled. This week, however, the extended hours proved unnecessary as only 30 packages were picked up from Walsh’s mailroom during the night shift, and only three packages were picked up in Vouté Hall’s mailroom between the two nights. As of Sept. 14, the mailrooms were able to get rid of their backlog. Moving forward, Travaligni will continue his efforts to expand the size of Walsh’s mailroom. He hopes to secure at least another 300 square feet by second semester. This will keep the mailroom more organized, easier to navigate, and running smoothly. “We need more space,” Miranda said. “We’re here for students. We do the best we can to make sure they have their packages on time, have their books on time. They’re kind kids. These weeks, the volume has just been crazy.”

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feel like that day. The routine has set in. Under normal circumstances I find myself an ardent supporter of routines, as they give me the illusion that my days remain somewhat stable, allowing me to live under a thin veil of simulated normalcy. However, I know better. Wake up at 8 a.m., shower, get dressed, wait for the elevator to eventually reach the sixth floor so I can get breakfast (only to realize I have a grand total of five minutes to buy my food and eat), sit down in class, eat lunch, study, watch some Netflix, fall into a whole-hearted slumber, repeat. One of my roommates said to me, half jokingly but with just enough seriousness to get me to actually consider the scenario, “If you really think about it, it would be so easy to kill me … I do the same thing every, single, day.”

That hit a nerve as I saw myself unwittingly embroiled in such a predictable schedule. Is this what my life has come to now? I wondered whether, if I could track my daily steps, they would all be in the same general vicinity. If that’s the case, then what other predictable activities do I engage in? Could people predict what I was about to say? This realization ﬁlled me with an unnerving feeling that brought to the forefront all of the anxiety I had built up with the full force of an erupting volcano, with all of my insecurities spewing out like lava. I decided to try to change it—do something diﬀerent, break the cycle. I soon found out that shifting gears isn’t as easy as it sounds. While everyone envisions a glamorous afternoon wandering through the Boston Common, with stops in Copley and Newbury for some

shopping and food, you can only do those things so many times before even they become part of your routine. When I ﬁnally went downtown one day, I felt alone in a crowd of people, overwhelmed not by usual features of a city, such as bad drivers or screeching noises emanating from every discernible direction, but by the sheer fear that comes with stagnation. Walking around, seeing the deplorable faces of the humanity surrounding me, I heard a noise—thump, thump, thump— getting louder and louder with every step I took until I felt the sound waves striking my being, going through me and bringing me out of my anxious stupor. I looked around the corner. I found myself at the Common and followed the source of the noise. Suddenly, a crowd turned the corner in what seemed like slow motion, and I saw the origin of the

sound: a large drum repeatedly struck by a young girl. She was leading what seemed like a protest, but I no longer cared. I was intrigued by the situation and the eﬀect it had on my state of mind. My anxiety dissipated into oblivion as if it had never existed. This was all it took to break me free from my edgy state. Looking back, it wasn’t a good day, not even an average one. Going into the city doesn’t always bring to the table what I expect it to, not anymore, anyways. But, I saw something I had never seen before, something unexpected, and that, in itself, was enough for me to unravel the shackles of monotony.

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REVIEW

‘HIGH MAINTENANCE’

THE WEB-SERIES COMEDY TURNED TV PROGRAM DEBUTS ON HBO, PAGE B4 COLUMN

HANDWRITING AS ART

A REFLECTION ON THE BEAUTIFUL, DECAYING ART THAT IS CURSIVE, PAGE B3

REVIEW

‘The Divine Feminine’

MAC MILLER RETURNS TO THE RAP SCENE WITH HIS FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM, Page B2

THURSDAY | SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

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KELSEY MCGEE / HEIGHTS EDITOR

THE HEIGHTS

Thursday, September 22, 2016

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It feels like the more I write about sequels, the more sequels are greenlit in Hollywood that particularly piss me off. Whether it’s the new Jurassic World film in the works or the laughably atrocious Bridget Jones’s Baby that was released last week, the never-ending litany of Hollywood franchises tends to disgust me significantly. No sequel, I think, has ever dug under my skin as much as the idea of the Jumanji sequel that apparently started filming this week. Monday evening, Kevin Hart posted a photo on Instagram of himself, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan surrounded by a lush, green forest. The actors, all dressed in safari gear, look prepared to face the dangers of the mystical forest that swallowed up Robin Williams and spat him back out in the first film. In the photo’s caption, Hart informs his fans that the first day of filming the Jumanji sequel had just wrapped. Apparently, the mysticism that characterized the forest that existed in the Jumanji game wasn’t enough for the writers or Hollywood executives behind this sequel. Instead of being satisfied with Williams’s startling, abrasive assurance that we couldn’t possibly imagine the terrors that lie in that jungle, some Hollywood hacks have decided to make their own interpretation of the world of Jumanji. It’s due to be released in 2017. I never even really liked Jumanji growing up. It probably has something to do with the film’s man-eating plants. I don’t usually mind most monsters in movies, but for some reason man-eating plants are near the top of my list of fears. When Williams’s character jumps back to reality, it’s obvious that he has seen more than our world could possibly have to offer—and not in a good sense. The alleviation he feels upon his return home as well as the terror that wraps around him when he sees something from the Jumanji world come from Williams’s eyes and his eyes alone. When Williams talks about the Jumanji world, he doesn’t have much to say. He doesn’t describe the creatures that kept him up at night or the dangerous environments he had to traverse—he simply says that we can’t imagine what he’s been through. These two elements—Williams’s performance and the decision not to discuss in-depth Jumanji’s world—are what make Jumanji great. They leave viewers to imagine all the most terrible creatures and places, thinkable for themselves. Jumanji held a world that was personally terrifying to everybody who sat there and really thought about what the scariest things imaginable are. Sure, the movie gives us a few examples of the kinds of creatures and people lurking in that separate world, but the film implies that there is so much more to that other world, leaving a lot to the viewer’s imagination alone. I presume, based on the photos of the cast in a jungle setting, that most of the new film will take place in Jumanji’s jungle world. Hollywood is thus asserting that the world in this Jumanji is the world that Williams’s character had to live in for 26 years. The world that this sequel holds cannot match the ones that we, the viewers, have each created in our own minds. Instead, the writers will think up some banal creatures that, while they could be scary to some, will not be nearly as personally horrifying as the things we thought up for ourselves years ago. The sadder thought is that the movie that these guys are making probably didn’t have to be a Jumanji sequel. Sure, Jumanji inspired the writers of this movie to think up a dark, scary forest, but they didn’t have to call it the Jumanji forest. This new movie could have been about these four explorers traversing an untamable landscape. There’s no real mythology from Jumanji to carry over. There’s just a board game and a forest. So why call it a Jumanji sequel? Money. To rake in those that’ll say, “Hey, that first one was pretty good.” The people behind the new Jumanji movie have decided to risk tarnishing a great concept. And, it’ll probably do pretty well at the box office, maybe even inspiring a trilogy or a saga—a thought even scarier than the original Jumanji forest.

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CALEB GRIEGO / HEIGHTS EDITOR

=fi Ale`fi IpXe 9iX[c\p# Ifl^_ :lkj Xe[ E\n Gifa\Zkj 9P :8IFC@E< D::FID8:B ?\`^_kj JkX]] Walk into Ryan Bradley’s, MCAS ’18, room and you’ll find a haven of musical feng shui that every musician strives to create. The room, strewn with school books and posters, is also dotted with Maschine mixers and microphones. It is not uncommon to hear newly-crafted backing tracks or fresh ideas blasting from his room as he perfects every aspect of his wide array of songs. Bradley’s music is rooted in piano—his most comfortable instrument. But slowly, Bradley has spread out to a variety electronic themes as well, even meshing a bit into acoustics. With mixers, recording software, and a keyboard at his fingertips, Bradley is the quintessential picture of a Boston College artist looking to make his way into the music industry—talented, prepared, and most of all, driven. Though things may seem purely glamorous for a BC musician, Bradley’s path to where he is today was not all sunshine and daisies. Rather, it was a long process of selfdiscovery. “For better or for worse, I’ve sort of just found my own way, from my senior year in high school, to choosing a college, making strange decisions my freshman year, and

then finding a totally new path I didn’t think I would have taken,” Bradley said, opening up about his journey as an artist. Bradley grew up in Princeton, NJ, just minutes away from Princeton University. Bradley felt that he always wanted to live and go to school in Boston, despite the grayness that met him on his first visit to the city. Before coming to Boston, Bradley never considered any music-focused schools in the area, solely because he never realized that music was his primary aspiration in life. Though he grew up playing jazz piano and studying music theory, Bradley branched out and started his freshman year rowing for BC’s crew team. But it did not take long for him to realize what his true calling was. Around his sophomore year, Bradley made a few changes to his BC experience. One of them was picking up music again. Bradley himself will admit that he had trouble picking the piano back up, as he was frustrated with how poorly he played at first. But he pressed forward and then taught himself producing. Formerly his student in a recording class, Bradley now works for Jonathan Sage, BC’s audio and event services supervisor. And even though Bradley feels as though BC’s music scene flounders a bit at times, his experience

at BC and with Sage was critical to what came next. “Eventually it got to where it was this one-man type thing,” Bradley said. “I was making all of this stuff, producing it [by myself ], et cetera, but I wasn’t really going anywhere with it, ’cause I’m not the greatest singer in the world. I started a band last year called Six Towns. We competed in a few BC competitions, and then that sort of came to an end at the end of the year.” Still, Bradley never stopped pushing himself within his art form. He worked in New York this summer, freeing up large chunks of time to devote himself to perfecting his music. Rather than work the types of banking internships that bogged down his friends, he worked manageable work hours over the summer, and was able to spend a lot of his time in Manhattan writing his own music. Though he had previously been writing a lot during his time with Six Towns, this time allowed Bradley to evolve both as a writer and a musician before coming back to BC for the fall semester. In the future, Bradley is opposed to becoming one of those 9 to 5 p.m. cubicle workers. Though he’s certain of this, Bradley admits that he himself doesn’t really know what will become of his music career or what he really wants to do with it.

“My dad has always encouraged music, but I think it’s hard to encourage it as a career,” Bradley said. “There’s a way to do it right, even if there’s an element of wanderlust that’s sort of involved with making your way into being a musician. You gotta face that from a rational point. It’s a tough thing to confront.” Even though Bradley recognizes this need for rationality, he is certainly not slowing down as the year presses on. His art seems to be defined by a sense of selfnavigation, and that sense appears to be calling him both into the wider world and into the recording studio. He has already received show offers, and is finally planning to record some of last summer’s work. “Everything is planned out, and it’s going to happen very soon,” Bradley said. “Recording is sort of the colder aspect of music. The writing is done, we just have to get in and do it. It’s time to put nose to grindstone and churn some stuﬀ out. That’s where I’m currently at, even if the future is unknown.” Bradley says that he will be publishing a rough cut of his work in the coming weeks—once completed, fans will be able to find his newest work online. If all goes smoothly, it is very possible that Bradley may be the next big name in BC music.

CALEB GRIEGO / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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THIS WEEKEND in arts

BY: HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN | ASST. ARTS & REVIEW EDITOR

‘BRIDGET JONES’S BABY’ (NOW PLAYING)

OLD DOMINION (SUN. AT 12 P.M.)

This addition to the series brings Bridget’s complex love life back to the big screen. After the surprising discovery that she is pregnant, Bridget wonders whether her old flame Mark or her new beau Jack is the father-to-be.

As part of Country 102.5’s Street Party, this popular country group will bring some of its chart-topping hits to Boston. Head to the House of Blues on Sunday for country’s annual afternoon of good food and even greater music.

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (SAT. AT 6 P.M.) Famous Chinese pianist Lang Lang joins forces with Andris Nelsons to play a beautiful selection of Russian masterpieces for a Boston crowd. Head to Boston Symphony Hall this weekend for an unforgettable night of live music.

WARNER BROS. PICTURES

LYNYRD SKYNYRD (FRI. AT 7 P.M.) Experience classic American rock songs from a band that made bluesy Southern rock popular in the ’70s. Come to the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion this Friday to hear a revival of the great band’s hit tracks, such as “Free Bird” and “Sweet Home Alabama.”

HAILEE STEINFELD (SUN. AT 7 P.M.)

MEGHAN TRAINOR (SAT. AT 7 P.M.)

The actress-turned pop princess will play original songs this weekend at Boston’s Blue Hills Bank Pavilion. The 19-year-old’s high-energy hit “Love Myself ” is sure to make the set list.

Made famous for her body-positive song “All About that Bass,” this Massachusetts-born singer will return to Boston this weekend at the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion. Enjoy her performance of new singles like “NO” and “Me Too.”

‘STORKS’ (OPENS FRI.) In this high-flying family comedy, storks deliver packages in place of babies. Andy Samberg lends his voice to Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, who finds himself in trouble when he is tasked to find a home not for a routine package, but for an unauthorized human girl.

‘THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN’ (OPENS FRI.) When greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of Old West town Rose Creek, his insatiable desire to mine gold is met with opposition from some unassuming townspeople. Bounty hunters, henchmen, and evil collide in this unconventional crime-action blend.

THE HEIGHTS

Thursday, September 22, 2016

A MCLAUGHLIN MINUTE

Poetry and Matters of the Mind

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note is scrawled—words on a page, not yet spoken. Left captive there, they are rendered ineffective without a mouth to birth them into the world. Given the chance, these words have the ability to sway emotions and pull thoughts in other directions. Whether it is a small phrase scratched in a notebook, or a thought lost in the ambiance of our minds, often, the words that come to us are left unspoken. SLAM! (Soul, Love, and Meaning), a Boston College spoken-word poetry group, seeks to find and let loose these otherwise abandoned parcels of our speech. Haley Kerr and Kellie O’Leary, both MCAS ’17, described the feel and goals of the organization, as they, and other SLAM! members, bring their art to fruition. From serious and impassioned to light-hearted and merry, all styles of poetry are welcomed in an open and inclusive forum. Spoken-word poetry typically consists of free-verse poetry read aloud. It is a versatile division of poetry, as its poets may adopt different cadences, rhythms, and schemes to fit their dramatic purposes. The spoken-word format gives each poem an identity and a power to captivate. “Spoken-word poetry is something that allows you to express how you feel without any regulations or structures,” Kerr said. Free of stylistic constraints, SLAM! poets take the stage able to more accurately, and courageously, put forth un-

adulterated feelings and ideas. Whether these ideas are about love, a musing, a passing thought, or a banal aspect of the day, the forum is there to free it from the confines of our minds. This is different from poetry that is merely written. This form of poetry reaches its fullest potential when its poet stands before you. In this quest for a more authentic and real poetic experience, the words are best left to the minds that penned them. “It’s very alive, and it’s meant to be experienced, it’s not meant to be read,” O’Leary said. Inherently tied to the human element, spoken-word poetry adopts a kind of physicality not seen in other forms. Just as the voice adopts cadence and rhythms, so too does the body employ mannerisms and movements to reinforce the thoughts evinced by the words. When not on stage, members of SLAM! hone their craft with poetry workshops. During these events, the power of words comes into full view as poets seek to represent themselves in the most accurate way. Sometimes this may come down to a single word. The purpose of sifting through words is to find the exact word that you mean to describe exactly how you are feeling, Kerr said. Trying to find the words that best describe a feeling of loss, joy, or grief is essential for authenticity’s sake. But again, all these words may sound a different note if spoken from anyone but the poet him or herself. One exercise in these workshops exemplifies the verbalized element of this

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kind of poetry. In this exercise, poets exchange poems and read them aloud. Each person reads the poem differently from how the author intended it. With emphasis put on different words, poignancy was lost or gained in strange places. When read by another, these poems become incongruent with the emotions from which they stem. With the courage to stand on stage and speak, SLAM! poets are able to foster an emotional connection with the audience before them. After choosing words carefully, our shared language allows us to, in the slightest way, understand the feelings of another human being. “In a world where you can’t feel what someone else is feeling just by standing next to them, words are the only way to express how you are feeling,” Kerr said. With so many barriers apparent in our world, knowing the genuine thoughts of another can prove to be a provocative and inspiring thing. “It’s the closest you can get to living in someone else’s skin,” O’Leary added. And such brief glimpses have inspired amazing things at SLAM! events. When sharing an experience from their own stories, poets may prompt others to do the same. Founded on trust, on a shared emotional experiences, poets pass along courage as they speak with solidarity about harsher emotions of grief, loss, and pain. Such an intimate and personal atmosphere creates the foundation

for the organization. In triumphs and defeats, both the individuals and collective whole of SLAM! serve as bridges between lives. The spoken word is that bridge, making every stone on its path an important one. “[It’s about] finding the words to express an event so you can live it again, and also for the audience to live it for the first time,” Kerr said. Despite all of its successes, spokenword poetry often has to hurdle the stereotypical notion of the angsty, venting teenager. To transcend this archetypal figure of a poet, SLAM! never fails to conjure up new poetry about any conceivable topic. Describing her own evolving notion of poetry, Kerr described how it morphed from simple phrases of forlorn love, indignation, or anger to subjects of a less lofty material. She describes poetry as a means of communicating intense and passing emotions. What SLAM! speaks to on a deeper level is the power of words as a medium between people. In all the incalculable, confusing, or vexing interpersonal situations we find ourselves in daily, words attempt to lessen our communicative woes. Words, in many ways, represent our only ties to another person’s inner thoughts. The challenge is, then, to find the words that best map our thoughts for others to follow. “There is so much beauty that can come from someone’s mind being translated into words,” O’Leary said.

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Frustrated yet again, I tore the goldembossed stationery in two, crumpled both halves together in my hand, and watched as the paper ball sailed five feet through the air before landing with a soft thud in the small trash can I keep in the corner of my bedroom at home. It was the third card I had wasted in under 10 minutes. Too many times I had either smudged sentences, started to misspell something, or realized I had scrawled the letters a little too clumsily for my liking. If it offered any consolation as far as my paper-tossing talents and office-supply athleticism was concerned, though, at least I was three-for-three. I needed to try again. My stubborn, 11-year-old self would settle for nothing less than something that at least slightly resembled the artistic elegance and care with which my grandfather crafted every letter of every word in the weekly letters he and I exchanged. I was determined. One of these days, I vowed, the words I wrote would look as pretty as my Papa’s. Silently cursing all teachers after third grade who preferred printing to cursive—thus rendering my cursive handwriting good enough, but not incredibly graceful—I took another glance at the letter I’d just received from my grandfather that morning. His handwriting was immaculate—each loop and line made with a purposeful stroke of his pen, every letter flowed effortlessly into the next. I looked at the words he had written—typical smalltalk topics like how the winter weather in Boynton Beach, Fla., compared to that back in Boston; questions about my elementaryschool studies; and the routine well-wishes h e’d hoped I’d pass onto my parents and siblings. I remember being confused at how the less-than-scintillating content of the letters—polite conversation and a brief exchange of pleasantries—could carry such a regal aesthetic simply by being scrawled in cursive. “Handwriting is a disappearing art,” Papa Jerry wrote in one of these letters to me. And I believe it. Aesthetically pleasing and personalized from one individual to another, it’s an underappreciated art form that, apart from a few exceptions, has become all but extinct. I used to think, back when I was a young, naive third grader who had just been introduced to the wonderful world of cursive, that learning this particular type of penmanship was both a rite of passage and a true privilege. I cherished it as a skill that somehow classified a third-grade kid as just a little bit cooler than she was before being introduced to the odd-looking alphabet. Admittedly, apart from the yearly task of writing thank-you notes forced on me by my mother, I rarely ended up wading willingly into the realm of cursive writing. It became reserved for “special occasions,” a kind of chore or nuisance that I assumed might slow my writing process and potentially stunt creativity. Of course, these and others were my excuses for favoring simplicity over style. I got lazy. As it was for most people my age, cursive became an old friend I’d call upon infrequently, a stylistic decision which required an extra effort I deemed wholly unnecessary. For a while, I forgot to appreciate cursive the way my grandfather did—as an unconventional avenue for artistic expression. Recently, I was reunited with my grandfather’s writing in the form of his handwritten memoir. Every page had been filled with the familiar form of Papa’s cursive, his handwriting gradually becoming shakier with age. Despite its obvious discrepancies from the perfectly penned letters I received as a kid, a wave of familiarity hit me hard. It’s been years since letters stopped coming and Papa’s particular style of cursive ceased to flow from his pen. Now, I appreciate the unorthodox kind of art my grandfather was a staunch supporter of. Now, I think I understand it the way he did—stylized differently by all, a penmanship as unique as the person who scrawls it. Now, more than ever, I’d like to send him a thank-you note.

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Usher needs her, misses her, and crashes. He thinks there’s no limit. He’s stronger, and he’s a champion. He says he’s hard to love. Let’s see if he’s trying to elicit sympathy or if he wants to explore a complicated character not necessarily deserving of sympathy. Released on Sept.16, Hard II Love represents a return to roots for Usher—a supposed sign of maturity and introspection. This is Usher’s ﬁrst proper R&B album released in years—he had incorporated elements of R&B into his pop-oriented singles

over the last decade, but always in a subjugated role. Hard II Love makes no claims to be anything but R&B, and pop sits on the sideline. It’s a slower album than most of the fastpaced Billboard chart-toppers that Usher is known for, which results in a consistent and subdued tone throughout. Usher shines on the falsetto work and distorted vocal overlays, most notably on “Crash,” the second of the album’s singles. This single has the most pop leanings, but it ﬁts very well with the rest of the product’s chill tone and mood. The melodies get to the point and never dominate, al-

lowing Usher and his guest artists to do their thing with ease. “Bump,” yet another collaboration with Lil Jon, transcends the banality of the rest of the album with its lively chorus and sweet beat. Usher experiments on this album and sounds completely in his element on the harmonies and melodies. On “No Limit,” featuring Young Thug, Usher sounds calm and collected. Honoring rapper Master P’s hit “Make ’Em Say Uhh” in this song, Usher exudes a confidence not found elsewhere on the album, making “No Limit” stand out from most the rest. The conﬁdence exhibited on “No

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Limit” is part of the problem: its inclusion makes the rest of the album feel inconsistent, as though Usher is not sure what messages he wants to send. “No Limit” sounds jarring on the album itself, halting “Missin U’s” vibe, and restarting the groove as if to say, “Okay, play the ﬁrst single.” Of course, Usher’s not alone in having sacrificed albums with obligatory singles, but this one clashes with the rest of the impressive work done here. Even on “Champions,” a song about patriotism for opposing countries which features Rubén Blades, Usher still asks the classic, “What are we even ﬁghting for?” Nevertheless, Hard II Love is, at the very least, hard to dive into. Though a true R&B fan will be tickled by the artist’s return to form, the mainstream listener will not know what to latch onto. Nothing here matches the infectious power of Usher’s previous pop-oriented singles, except maybe “Crash.” Here, he channels the introspection and self-indulgence found in Sara Bareilles’ The Blessed Unrest and Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience. Timberlake got away with it because he appealed to the common human experience with “Mirrors,” albeit framed in a new way, and Bareilles wrote so beautifully that we couldn’t care less about the rest of the drab decorating the album. In compari-

son, Usher’s songs sound like they’re depicting one man’s slight problems, and he hasn’t done enough to make anyone care. Yet this is precisely the time when he should be answering this resoundingly, because he’s ﬁnally decided now to return to R&B. Hard II Love, however, is Usher’s treatment of the human material. The characters presented are either admirable or simply mistaken, without a single ﬂaw or nuance. Yes, the songs succeed melodically and vocally, but the lyrics bore listeners because they all end up sounding the same. A man loves the girl in “Crash,” wants her in “Need U,” or misses her in “Missin U,” and doubts himself in all of them. There are only ever statements or instances, never motivations or stories. Take the album’s titular track’s chorus, “I know that I’m hard to love, hard to love, hard to love / I know that I’m hard to trust, hard to trust, hard to trust,” or “Crash’s” chorus, “Would you mind if I still loved you? Would you mind if things don’t last? Would you mind if I hold onto / You so that I won’t crash?” There’s always the same male voice that doubts his love in some way, but he never grows or changes. The album feels very distant and removed from the listener. It’s not an album you would lip-sync to in the car, which is perhaps hardest to bear of all.

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New York City’s spider web of skyscrapers, streets, and apartments covers over 300 square miles and houses approximately 8.4 million people. Behind every window and every door lives a unique individual with a complicated life and a compelling story. These lives often seem isolated and disconnected, that is, until you can find a string to connect them. HBO’s new show, High Maintenance, uses a drug dealer as the string that ties the lives of the people behind the doors together and tries to tell their stories. Today’s entertainment climate seems fixated on weed. Between Seth Rogen and his entourage making guaranteed box office successes and marijuana prominently featured across countless shows, the drug seems more prevalent in American pop culture than ever before. High Maintenance, a show with a drug reference in the title, takes a step back, and uses weed as a narrative device. The show centers on a drug dealer (Ben Sinclair) as he rides his bike through the streets of New York City, briefly interacting with other characters. Instead of just following the seller, however, the show decides to focus on the buyers. High Maintenance is formatted so every episode is about a different client, and the dealer

simply comes in and out of the story, acting primarily as the string that gives it continuity. The pilot episode contains two vignettes. In the first, much shorter story, the dealer is about to enter an apartment when he hears fighting. Inside, we see a Vin Diesel-type man fighting with his girlfriend until she storms out. When the dealer comes in, the Fast and Furious look-alike forces him to smoke, gives him fitness tips, plays with a katana, and tries to pay with coins. When the dealer becomes fed up and a little paranoid about the exchange, he eventually leaves with the coins, setting up one of the funniest reveals of the episode. In the second and more dramatic vignette we are introduced to two roommates, the young adults Max and Lainey. Again, not spoiling too much, the scene focuses on the toxic relationship of these two and comments on different types of addictions—people can be addicted to drugs, but they can also get sucked into addictive relationship sthat trap them in cycles where they are unable to help themselves. The production of the show has a fascinating past. The married team of Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld started the show as a web series in 2012, creating 19 episodes ranging from five to 12 minutes in length. Individual episodes reportedly cost under $1,000 to produce, and the show quickly gained a cult following.

In 2014, Vimeo picked the show up for oﬃcial online distribution. In 2016, HBO signed a deal to graduate it to a full-length TV show. While the new show is still enjoyable as a standalone vehicle, there is continuity from the web show to the HBO show. For example, the characters of Max and Lainey are both from the web series and got called up to the big leagues. This show is not for the easily offended. High Maintenance makes full use of being on HBO and the leeway provided by being on the premium channel. The show contains vulgar language, a constant depiction of

drug abuse, and full nudity. But these provocative scenes are not just for shock value. Rather, they help develop a feeling of authenticity. Overall, the show does a great job of capturing the atmosphere of New York. The show’s creators produce this genuine setting by doing the small things right. Whether it be the montages of the dealer riding his bike through the streets, the lights of the city blurring by, or the quick scenes of him getting his hair cut or trying to park his bike, these little details add real texture and spacial awareness to the show.

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The pilot revealed an ambitious, yet far-from-perfect show. The episode struggled with pacing and lagged at times, before accelerating too rapidly at other points. While the show was billed as a comedy, the jokes didn’t land as often or as well as they should have, making the show feel heavy and serious. At its worst, High Maintenance is a dull hipster comedy that’s not as funny as it should be. But, when it’s at its best, it’s a gripping character study that transports you into the emotional worlds of its characters.

The Divine Feminine, the new album from Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller, is a bit of a surprise. The album and its content, both lyrical and instrumental, seem to be a new undertaking by Miller. The Divine Feminine ﬂoats around images of love and its subtle beauties and painful intricacies. It never quite dives deep enough into its own ideas to be masterful, but it is

a worthy effort, possibly even one of the best of Miller’s career so far. The album has an undeniable sense of funk. “Dang!” supports this, and “God Is Fair, Sexy Nasty” is undeniably great. Kendrick Lamar provides the backing vocals on the track, which seem to float lethargically along with the piano in the background. It’s a fantastic song to listen to, infused with funk and classical influence, and a pinch of jazz. In “Stay,” trumpets and vocals fuse together. The trumpets

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bounce around and resonate with the ﬂowing melody. The backing vocals, by Ariana Grande, emphasize the gliding trumpets. The melodies and beats that deﬁne the album are inherently fresh and enjoyable to listen to. Miller employs a diverse array of talented musicians that add musical quality without detracting from Miller’s own presence and conveyance of his larger theme. The tracks “Congratulations” and “Dang!” featuring Bilal and An-

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derson .Paak, respectively, are good examples of this. The beats on both tracks are fast, with bop and style. Miller effectively weaves the pairings to produce, in essence, two very fun songs. Cee-Lo Green’s vocal on the song “We” is another example of Miller working well with others, to his own advantage and advancement. The crisp drums bounce around with Green’s vocals, producing another soulful, enjoyable song. Perhaps the best example, however, of artistic collaboration on the album is between Miller and Grande, whose first big hit, 2013’s “The Way,” featured Miller. Her sonic voice is sprinkled all over this album. She sings some backup vocals throughout, is featured on the track “My Favorite Part,” and even does some less-musical voiceover work. The pairing works well together in a musical sense, perhaps even better than in the thematic sense—though the two are rumored to be in a relationship. In fact, Grande’s presence highlight’s Miller’s thematic weaknesses on The Divine Feminine. Whereas some tracks are effective in exploring what it is to love, others, like “My Favorite Part,” falter at the line between lust and love, but maybe

that’s the point of it. In fact, the entire theme can really be understood as Miller’s exploration of this fine line, although this may not have been his intended theme. Miller has always been a relatively contrived artist, without original writing, but he tries his hardest to evolve as an artist on The Divine Feminine. He attempts to chip away at the layers of love, and his efforts yield some soulful compositions. One of the best aspects of the album is that there is much more singing than rapping, which isn’t necessarily a compliment to Miller. The singing on The Divine Feminine and the overall sound of the album are punchy and good, but the writing, the development of the ideas Miller strives to explore, is still relatively mediocre. He always seems to get lost in his own fixation on beauty and lust in his lofty, thematic pursuit. Miller never dives deeper into his subjects, leaving everything somewhat at face value, despite everything else that Miller and this album have going for them. Though, this is a step in the right direction. He isn’t there yet, but Miller is certainly on the path to better understanding himself as an artist.

Last Thursday, Meghan Trainor released the music video to her song “Better,” featuring Yo Gotti. Instead of being the fun, bubbly, and carefree video that all of us are used to from Trainor, it’s extremely dark and meaningful. The video begins in a jail, where Trainor’s grandfather, played by Beau Bridges, is being released. He calls her and demands that she pick him up. From their tones and appearances, it seems as if this scenario has occurred several times in the past. On their way back home, Trainor’s grandfather claims that he needs more pills, and when she replies by saying that she just recently bought them, it becomes clear that the grandfather is addicted to some unidentified drug and that his addiction has poisoned their relationship. When the music begins, we see that Trainor plays the role of a hairdresser, who lives with her substance-abusing grandfather. From passing out in a bathroom to fighting with his granddaughter at home, the grandfather lives a life revolving around alcohol and drugs, and Trainor is the one who is always forced to care for him. The entire video centers around the lyric “I deserve better,” as the granddaughter constantly has to put up with the grandfather’s careless actions. Toward the end of the video, the grandfather begins to understand his mistakes, and he decides to give Trainor a present, an old photo of them together. Before she even really has the chance to appreciate his gift, however, the grandfather is arrested and sent back to jail again. Though it is uncertain if this video is based off of Trainor’s personal experiences, her acting in the video is impressive. It may not be as cheerful as some expect from Trainor, but nonetheless, “Better” is attention-grabbing and will undoubtedly become viral in the near future.

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SHAWN MENDES “Don’t Be a Fool” The reputation of this song precedes itself. It’s rumored to be about the singer’s ex-girlfriend, Taylor Swift. The lyrics, “you were the one thing in my way,” oscillate throughout the song and seem to point to the relationship. Maybe the track works well as background noise or as a dance track.

In “Don’t Be a Fool,” Shawn Mendes slows it down a bit and tries to go out of his comfort zone. The singer tries to make the song distinctive with the use of his electric guitar. It falls a bit flat, however. The breakup ballad feels like something we’ve all heard before.

Fun, upbeat, and carefree, “Anything” has everything that’s been missing since summer ended. Beginning with a tropical-sounding solo, the song brings back memories of a less-busy time. The fast-paced track takes advantage of editing tools to make bubbly sounds with the background music and vocals.

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throwing for 307 yards and three touchdowns. He helped the Cardinals beat Texas A&M in the Music City Bowl, passing for 227 yards and two touchdowns and rushing for 226 yards and two touchdowns. Jackson was named Most Valuable Player in the 27-21 victory. This year, as a sophomore, it has only taken three games for Jackson to make sure every college football fan in the country knows his name. Louisville started the season with a splash, defeating Charlotte 70-14. In that game, Jackson passed for 286 yards and rushed for 119. He accounted for eight touchdowns, passing for six and rushing for two. That’s all well and good, you might say, but that was against Charlotte. Everyone expects Louisville to beat Charlotte. A blowout is no surprise. In fact, it would have been a bigger story had the game been close. What about another ACC team? What can Jackson do against an ACC football team? In Week Two, Jackson and the Cardinals traveled to New York to take on Syracuse University in the Carrier Dome. The game was never close. Barely 16 seconds into the game, Jackson heaved a 73-yard touchdown pass to James Quick to open the scoring up. Louisville never looked back, and Jackson led the team the whole way. He would ﬁnish with 411 passing yards and one passing touchdown as well as 199 rushing yards and four rushing touchdowns. Louisville crushed Syracuse, 62-28. All right, all right—so Jackson can beat an ACC team. Still, though, Syracuse is hardly a football powerhouse. What about one of the nation’s top programs? Can Jackson still put up astounding numbers against even tougher competition? You can probably see where I’m going with this. The answer is yes—Jackson can still dominate against college football powerhouse programs. Just ask Florida State. When the Seminoles rolled into Kentucky last weekend, they had no idea what was waiting for them. Jackson led Louisville to a 63-20 blowout of FSU. He threw for 216 yards and rushed for 146, again contributing one passing touchdown and four rushing touchdowns. Jackson has proved that he can lead Louisville into battle with even the toughest of teams and still put up fantastic numbers. Nobody has ﬁgured out how to stop him yet, and until someone cracks it Louisville will keep succeeding every Saturday. After the Florida State game, the Cardinals jumped seven spots in the AP Top 25 poll, settling in at No. 3. They trail only Alabama and Ohio State. (Florida State, ranked second the previous week, dropped 11 spots to No. 13. Yikes. You hate to see it.) So let’s recap his season so far. In just three games, Jackson has thrown for 913 yards and eight touchdowns. He’s rushed for 464 yards and 10 touchdowns. As a dual-threat quarterback, Jackson is ripping through college football. If he keeps this pace up, this season could be legendary. It’s hard to look at Louisville’s schedule and think that Jackson will slow down anytime soon. The Cardinals play Clemson in two weeks, probably the toughest game remaining on their schedule. Even so, Clemson is currently the

No. 5 team in the country, two spots below Louisville. And if Jackson could bowl over Florida State, there’s no reason to believe he can’t do the same to Clemson. If Jackson isn’t able to lead Louisville past Clemson, there’s a strong point to be made that he won’t win the Heisman. I believe it depends on the rest of the season. A loss to Clemson would be a blow to his case, but not necessarily a death blow. If Jackson bounces back and dominates for the rest of the season, I don’t think a Clemson loss would kill his chances. Other upcoming games include Kentucky and Duke. And Louisville is traveling up to Chestnut Hill to play BC. Football fans, you don’t want to miss this game—an opportunity to see Jackson in person. It’ll be worth it, even if he embarrasses the Eagles like he’s embarrassed other, better teams. There has been a lot of attention on Jackson, especially after the Florida State game. He has been compared to Michael Vick, a trendsetting dual-threat quarterback at Virginia Tech and in the NFL. Vick himself took to Twitter to weigh in on the comparison, and said that he believes Jackson is already better than he was in college. Vick isn’t the only one to take notice of Jackson. NFL.com draft analyst Lance Zierlin compared Jackson to Eagles legend Randall Cunningham. And Tyrann

now, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other players making cases for themselves. Christian McCaffrey, Stanford’s all-star running back, is continuing to impress this season. Last year, he capped off an impressive sophomore campaign by being named the Associated Press Player of the Year and the Heisman runner-up. Through two games this year he’s accumulated 298 rushing yards and 106 receiving yards. Surely McCaffrey is a huge obstacle for Jackson winning the Heisman? I don’t think he is. McCaffrey has put up 298 rushing yards in two games. Jackson has 464 through three. McCaffrey has rushed for three touchdowns. Jackson has rushed for 10. And McCaffrey’s numbers came against Kansas State and USC— hardly the most competitive of teams, unlike Florida State. The same goes for other contenders like Ohio State’s J.T. Barrett and Clemson’s Deshaun Watson. Both quarterbacks have put up strong numbers. Their names are being mentioned in the Heisman conversation. But they can’t beat Jackson. Sure, Watson led Clemson over Auburn this season—but his other wins have been against Troy and South Carolina State. Barrett, meanwhile, has led the Buckeyes past Bowling Green, Tulsa, and Oklahoma. Ohio State scored 77 points against Bowling Green. Jackson led Louisville to 63 points against Florida State. That’s only a 14-point difference. Jackson almost beat Florida State as badly as Barrett beat Bowling Green. Meanwhile, Greg Ward, Jr., and Donnel Pumphrey are also making cases for themselves. Ward, Jr., is the quarterback for Houston, while Pumphrey is the running back for San Diego State. It’s the same old story with them, too—they’re having great seasons, but not good enough to beat Jackson out for the Heisman. Ward, Jr., is also battling a shoulder injury right now. If the injury continues to nag, it wouldn’t be surprising if his numbers drop considerably. And Pumphrey has put up impressive numbers so far, but he hasn’t exactly been challenged by a team of Florida State’s caliber. He ran for 220 yards against Northern Illinois and only managed 98 yards against New Hampshire. And it’s not like there’s no precedent of someone being heavily favored to win the Heisman all season long. Not every race is tight. Sometimes, it’s pretty obvious throughout the season who will win the Heisman. Marcus Mariota was the preseason favorite to win the Heisman in 2014. His performance over the course of the season left no doubt in anyone’s mind that he would be the winner. Sure, upsets are entertaining. They bring an element of the unknown and the exciting. But not everything needs an unexpected twist. Lamar Jackson is rolling through college football right now. He can’t be stopped, and he won’t slow down. We may be only three games into the season, but it’s already clear what’s coming for him: The 2016 Heisman Trophy.

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and an NAIA school, Concordia University—the team has posted a 76-16 scoring margin through two games. Offensively, Houghtaling likes to run a pro-style scheme. He frequently uses two back sets, tight ends, and play action passing. When he ran Wagner’s NEC winning offense in 2014, he favored a ball control approach, racking up over 33 minutes of possession per game. As head coach, he has tried to implement this approach, to varying degrees of success. Junior Alex Thompson serves as Houghtaling’s signal caller under center. A pocket passer with some deceptive mobility, Thompson is poised for growth in 2016 after a baptism by fire in 2015. Having taken no snaps in 2014, he essentially served as a freshman quarterback last season, starting the final nine games. The lack of experience showed on his stat line—1,085 passing yards, a completion rate barely over 50 percent, and just eight touchdowns to six interceptions. Through two games this season, Thompson has already thrown for 415 yards and four touchdowns, highlighting more comfort with Houghtaling’s system and the college game in general. A l o n g w i t h Th o mp s o n’s growth, Wagner’s pathway to success depends on the continued emergence of junior running back Denzel Knight. After carrying the ball just five times over his first

two seasons with the Seahawks, Knight has burst onto the scene over the past two games, with 251 rushing yards and two touchdowns. He averages an impressive nine yards per carry, showing good speed and decisiveness. If Wagner is to return to Houghtaling’s ball control offense, Knight will need to shoulder the load in the coming months. Against BC, however, expect none of this improvement to show. Wagner’s offensive line will fare quite poorly against a BC defensive line with a significant size and physicality advantage. As a result, both the passing and rushing attacks will suffer. Thompson will have little time to throw passes, especially the deep balls that have given the Eagles trouble in recent weeks. Knight and the Seahawks’ running game will find no holes to run through. Houghtaling’s team will be lucky to string together consecutive first downs, let alone establish control of the ball for any extended period. If Wagner has any potential for success against the Eagles, it will come on the defensive side of the ball, owing to BC’s offensive struggles dating back to last season. Addazio’s offensive line has failed to form a cohesive unit through three games, beset by the combination of youth and injury, stifling a once potent run game. As a result, quarterback Patrick

Towles and the passing game have had to shoulder much of the offensive burden, to the tune of some undesirable results. Unfortunately for Wagner, it lacks the personnel to make BC into the one-dimensional offense that has stumbled out of the gate in 2016. Against an undersized front seven, expect BC’s rushing attack to finally get on track this week. The offensive line will have a much easier time moving the Seahawks defensive line around. With the running game activated, Towles and the passing game can return to their ideal complementary role. The Eagles should enjoy a much-needed offensive outburst, spending an afternoon away from their early season frustrations. Though the offense will light up the scoreboard on Saturday, everyone in the Eagles’ locker room knows that it won’t erase the mistakes of the past few weeks. Addazio admitted as much this week, saying that the focus must be on moving forward and improving execution. “Our goal is we’ve got to go be the best BC team we can be,” he said. “We want to get back going again. And that’s what football is. You can’t wait.” Especially given their opponent on Saturday, it’s easy to see why the Eagles are so enthusiastic about getting out on the field and working to solve their mistakes.

9: 8`dj kf I\nfib =le[Xd\ekXcj Mj% NX^e\i BC vs. Wagner Preview, from B8 should still be a resounding win by the Eagles, who will have the opportunity to go deeper in their roster than previously possible this season. That’s assuming the Eagles take advantage of the mismatch and go up early. It is important for the Eagles to not overlook this game despite the opponent and instead take this game as a time to improve and work out issues already experienced in the young season. After practice on Tuesday, BC quarterback Patrick Towles repeatedly said that the oﬀense was just “worried about us,” rather than dwelling on the loss or looking past their upcoming opponents. This is the exact attitude that BC’s offense needs to carry into the game against Wagner. Saturday is a testing ground for the upcoming must-win games against Syracuse (1-2, 0-1 Atlantic Coast) and NC

State (2-1). As such, Towles must have a continued focus on getting the ball out quickly. Against Wagner, the offensive line should hold up, but against more daunting opponents—especially on left side—it’s been prone to quickly collapsing. Towles needs to get ingame experience with keeping up a slightly faster tempo and getting the ball down the field quickly so that the BC offense doesn’t get stalled like it did against Virginia Tech. Look for Towles to practice throwing more downfield targets against a weaker Wagner secondary. Wide receivers Jeff Smith and Charlie Callinan, who have already shined this season, should continue to do so on Saturday, while Michael Walker and tight end Tommy Sweeney should use the advantage of more playing time to have a bigger impact. The run game needs to similarly rebound from a rough Tech game in

which BC rushed for only 44 yards, 17 of which came via Towles. The run game has been hampered by weak O-line play on the left side, which leads to a predictable run pattern that can be easily stopped by stacking the box on the stronger right side. As such, the running back corps led by Jonathan Hilliman has had trouble breaking through the holes. In theory, these issues should be less pronounced, due to Wagner’s weaker defensive line play, compared to earlier opponents. The other side of the ball must similarly view Saturday’s game as an important practice opportunity coming oﬀ of the beating it took last week. Virginia Tech, in many ways, provided a blueprint for how to best the BC defense: go up-tempo and straight for the secondary. Wagner does not have the firepower to replicate this approach, but expect them to still go after the second-

ary. BC’s defense is not as bad as a 49-0 loss would suggest, as poor offensive play left them in bad field position and on the field for 35 minutes of the game. That being said, the defense needs to reassert itself to show the world—and itself—that it’s top-tier and should be feared, not to mention that it shouldn’t miss former defensive coordinator Don Brown. BC should win this game, but it doesn’t just need to win this game, it must win big. This week is a bounce-back week and can provide a chance for BC to hit restart on this early season, but only if it approaches the game fully focused on improving its skills and techniques during a live-game situation. This game is not about Wagner. Despite what the scoreboard will say this weekend, it’s about the games that come after—that ones that will define the 2016 BC football season.

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the volley, giving the German phenom his team-leading sixth goal of the season and second of the game. BC’s fourth goal came in the 75th minute. Receiving a cross from Schulze-Geisthovel, Davock fired a shot that was blocked by Vallilo. Off of the rebound, Enstrom whirled one toward the goal, but Vallilo saved this chance as well. Finally, Lewis finished the play, scoring off of the second rebound, his first goal of the season. Nevertheless, Albany did not back down. In the 83rd minute, Nico Solabarrieta crossed the ball from the right side of the pitch to Afonso Pinheiro, who then kicked the ball towards the left corner of the goal. It appeared as though Saladin had made the save, poking the ball out of the net’s way. But it had already encroached the goal line, giving the Great Danes their third strike of the match. With time nearing expiration, the Eagles put the game away. Speeding deep into Albany territory, Lewis took the ball from a Great Dane defender, and scored his second goal of the game on a one-on-one with Vallilo in the 90th minute.

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Although BC allowed three goals to an Albany team that had only scored six times all year, the early deficit forced the Eagles’ offense to spread its wings. Having scored twice, Schulze-Geisthovel thinks today ’s performance will prepare him for BC’s date with No. 9 North Carolina. “It’s very important for me to score goals again, because I didn’t score the last two games,” Schulze-Geisthovel said. “It’s going to give us good momentum to fly to UNC and hopefully compete against the No. 9 team in the nation.” Additionally, head coach Ed Kelly remarked that Lewis played his best shift of the season in the second half. If the offensive success of Lewis and Schulze-Geisthovel continues, the Eagles could give the Tar Heels a scare. Even though BC played flat at times, it avoided the “trap.” Kelly felt that the match was a valuable experience for his team. “In the second half, it was just a matter of, ‘Do you want to win the game or not?’” Kelly said. “They learned that you must have effort and passion. [You must] show the desire to win the game.”

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Sports Editor Well. I was sort of far off last week. So, this time, I’m taking the conservative route. On paper, I suppose BC should beat up on the Seahawks. But what from last week justifies that as a possibility? The defense showed fatigue, but I’m not worried about that because of the amount of time it was on the field. The offense, however, was atrocious enough to make me think it will be a long time before it really clicks.

Prediction: BC 24, Wagner 10 RILEY OVEREND

Assoc. Sports Editor Wagner isn’t in the FBS. Wagner only registered one win last season in FCS play, and logged 10 losses to go with it. Wagner got demolished by BYU, 70-6, last November. But after traveling to Blacksburg and witnessing last week’s 49-0 drubbing at the hands of Virginia Tech, I simply can’t expect a Howardlike performance out of BC this Saturday. The offense shouldn’t rack up over a dozen threeand-outs like last week, but don’t expect the type of blowout that most Power Five teams would deliver to the Seahawks.

Prediction: BC 31, Wagner 3 ANNABEL STEELE

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9fjkfe :fcc\^\ ]ffkYXcc n`cc X`d kf ^\k 9P B8K< G<8HL@E =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj Last Saturday was one for the record books for Boston College football—records, however, that are best left unbroken. On their way to a 49-0 loss, the Eagles (1-2, 0-2 Atlantic Coast) and punter Mike Knoll set a team record for the most punts in a game with 13. It’s their largest margin of defeat since an Oct. 7, 1950, 54-0 loss to Ole Miss. In the loss, Virginia Tech (2-1, 1-0) quickly grabbed the momentum and never let go in a complete and utter domination. The Hokies outgained BC, 476 to 124, stalling the Eagles’ already-struggling oﬀense by forcing three-and-out after three-and-out. Not exactly a game BC fans, or players, will remember with fondness. The sting of the shutout should be somewhat relieved, however, by the home opener this Saturday against Wagner (2-0). On paper, Wagner looks to be a formidable opponent. The Seahawks come into Alumni Stadium on Saturday on a two-game

winning streak. In that time, they have beaten their opponents by an average of 30 points, while gaining an average of 7.2 oﬀensive yards per play. This all sounds impressive, that is, without context. Look at the schedule, and you’ll realize that those stunning defeats by Wagner came against Concordia (2-1, 1-0 Mid-States Football), a Division II team, and St. Anselm (0-3, 0-2 Northeast-10), a Division II team currently exploring the possibility of becoming a Division III team. With all of this laid out, it becomes clear that Wagner—an FCS team—should be a nearly automatic win for BC nestled between more evenly matched, mustwin games. This idea is further cemented by BC’s recent experience with other FCS schools. Last season, BC trounced Howard 76-0 in a game where the Eagles’ defense allowed just 11 yards and two ﬁrst downs. While it would be hard to imagine a beating that bad for Wagner, it

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YXZb kf YXj`Zj X^Xèjk NXê\i :fcc\^\% 9P :?I@J EFP<J ?\`^_kj JkX]] Steve Addazio took to the podium on Monday afternoon, coming off a bad weekend. “We’ve gone right into the meat grinder with it, and we’ve come out the other end right now, and I think we’ve learned some valuable lessons,” Addazio said, addressing the media. “It will help us moving forward as we move forward into our schedule.” These don’t sound like the words of a proud FBS football coach, a man directing a cog in one of the nation’s most lucrative businesses. They certainly don’t sound like the words of Addazio, the passionate and hardnosed head coach of Boston College football. But losing in a rout, a bitter pill to swallow, can lend a unique perspective to a coach’s mindset. Following its 49-0 drubbing at the hands of Virginia Tech (2-1, 1-0 Atlantic Coast) in Blacksburg last Saturday, BC (1-2, 0-2) has entered a week of introspection, with a focus

on the most basic aspects of the game, many of which were forgotten as the Hokies ran roughshod over them. “ We p r a c t i c e d [ S u n d a y ] ,” Addazio said earlier this week. “We went out and we had a fundamentals day, man. Went back to fundamentals: special teams fundamentals, offense-defense fundamentals.” Fortunately for the Eagles, they enter a brief respite in their schedule at this vulnerable moment. On Saturday, BC will square off against Wagner (2-0), a Staten Island-based FCS team from the Northeast Conference. Thanks to an annual NCAA football tradition, in which major conference teams effectively attempt to purchase wins by scheduling vastly inferior FCS opponents, the Eagles will get an opportunity to transfer their feelings from this past week to the visitor’s locker room at Alumni Stadium. Fans reminiscing about last season’s 76-0 laugher, with a shortened

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I’m a big fan of upsets. Upsets create storylines. They’re entertaining. People pay attention to to them. It took Leonardo DiCaprio about a billion years to win an Academy Award even though he probably should’ve won back in 1994. For a long time, the biggest storyline during Hollywood awards season was whether or not he’d finally get his Oscar. Upsets are, of course, a huge part of sports too. One of my favorite parts of March Madness is the inevitable Cinderella team, the team that surprises everyone with a couple of thrilling upsets. A few years ago, the University of Dayton Flyers went all the way to the Elite Eight before finally being knocked out by Florida. Upsets are also interesting in the sports award world. The most prestigious award in college football, the Heisman Trophy, has seen its fair share of upsets over the years. Peyton Manning, Larry Fitzgerald, and Vince Young didn’t win the Heisman. Neither did former Notre Dame and Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann, although his Heisman snub was, admittedly, less controversial. He did, however, change the pronunciation of his last name from Tease-man to Thighs-man to rhyme with Heisman. And then, after all that, he still lost. (He never went back to Tease-man, though.) The point is, upsets make life interesting. Usually, I’m all for a tight race and unexpected results. But this college football season is different. We’re just at the beginning of the season, but I can already tell you with complete certainty that the Heisman race is over. Lamar Jackson has already won it. And that’s just fine with me. Jackson is 19 years old, same as me, but he’s accomplished quite a bit more than I have in that same time frame. A native of Florida, he attended Boynton Beach Community High School and played quarterback for the varsity football team, the Tigers. As a senior, he passed for 1,293 yards and rushed for 1,039. Jackson threw 20 touchdowns and rushed for 19. He was the No. 30 quarterback in the country. With stats like these, it isn’t hard to see why he got offers from a long list of some of the top names in college football. Florida, Florida State, Auburn, and Clemson all wanted Jackson. So did West Virginia, Georgia, and South Carolina, among others. Jackson visited Nebraska and Florida, but in the end decided against them. On August 30, 2014, he officially committed to the University of Louisville. Jackson made a name for himself as a freshman. He threw 1,840 yards and rushed for 960. In the 12 games he appeared in, he threw 12 touchdowns and rushed for 11. Jackson had a breakout game against powerhouse Florida State,

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An intermission in Atlantic Coast Conference play is a blessing. Especially for Boston College men’s soccer, which most recently suffered a 2-0 defeat to No. 2 Syracuse University, and is scheduled to travel to Chapel Hill to face No. 9 North Carolina this coming Friday. Sandwiched between those two matches: a game versus America East Conference opponent University of Albany. Though newly unranked, the Eagles were expected to take advantage of Albany, a nonconference opponent with a negative goal differential, on Tuesday. After all, the Great Danes were on their fifth and final stop of their road trip. A stretch that included 3-0 losses to both DePaul and Loyola Chicago, prior to Albany’s trek to New England. Despite a 5-3 victory, the Eagles (5-2-0, 1-1-0 Atlantic Coast) nearly fell victim to a “trap game.” Both teams used physicality to limit

any scoring threats for the first 10 minutes of the game. Eventually, BC began to maintain possession in its back half, leading to the Eagles’ first scoring chance of the day. A Trevor Davock pass directed Simon Enstrom toward the middle of the box, but Davock’s touch was too strong. Albany’s (3-3-1) goalkeeper, Lucas Vallilo, snatched the ball before Enstrom could make contact. The Great Danes responded with an opportunity of their own in the 14th minute. Keith Traut crossed the ball to Carlos, but Clark’s shot floated left of the net. But soon, the scoring marathon began. In the 25th minute, Albany’s Moosah Khanat sent a corner kick to the middle of the box, finding Clark. The sophomore midfielder headed the ball into the left side of the goal. The Great Danes were not finished. Leo Melgar issued a through ball to a wide-open Pedro Espindola in the 42nd minute. Espindola trailed into the middle of the box and was tripped by a BC defender, ceding Albany a penalty

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kick. Melgar took the shot, guiding it past Cedric Saladin and into the bottom left corner of the net, extending Albany’s lead to 2-0. Finally, BC answered. While pursuing the right side of the field in the 44th minute, Isaac Normesinu was taken down by a Great Dane defender in the box, earning a penalty kick. Maximilian Schulze-Geisthovel blasted the kick past the keeper into the right side of the net, reducing the deficit to 2-1 at the end of the first half. Then, the Eagles’ offense took off. BC tied the match in the 50th minute. Enstrom and Normesinu executed a beautiful give-and-go, as Enstrom, moving behind the defender, received a pass from Normesinu and ripped a shot into the goal, his fourth of the season. In the 68th minute, Zeiko Lewis crept past the Albany defense and delivered a pass to Schulze-Geisthovel. The senior midfielder controlled the ball, kicked it up in the air, and rocketed a goal off KYLE BOWMAN / HEIGHTS STAFF

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Zeiko Lewis (top) leaps into the arms of Maximillian Schulze-Geisthovel after a goal.

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