The Heights September 26, 2016

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Violinist Daniel Stepner graced Gasson Hall with pieces from Bach, B7

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The Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) Student Assembly (SA) passed a resolution on Sunday night that calls on the University to create an LGBTQ student resource center on campus.

The resolution, which is the first formal stance the SA has taken on the matter, passed 15-2.

Connor Kratz, MCAS ’18, and Jon Barbosa, LSOE ’18, co-sponsored the resolu-

tion, which comes a week after letters on a sign in the Mod Lot were rearranged to say a homophobic slur. Besides a letter to the editor in The Heights from Dean of Students Thomas Mogan, the University has not released a public statement on the situation.

Kratz believes that there is a larger culture of homophobia and heteronormativity on campus that needs to be addressed.

“I want to make it overtly clear that this resolution is not just a reaction to one incident,” Kratz said. “It is simply utilizing the homophobic slur that … called attention to the BC community that the greater implicit culture of homophobia is present on this campus.”

The resolution will create a steering AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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Members of the UGBC Student Assembly met on Sunday night to talk about the specifics of a resolution for an LGBTQ student center.

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Boston College students living on Foster St. called the Boston Police Department Thursday afternoon after realizing that two of their laptops were missing and some of the money in their wallets was gone. The off-campus house has become one of several dozen robbed in 2016.

Sam Badeau, MCAS ’18, said that they had some friends over on Wednesday night.

The house has two units, and they were in the top unit when someone entered the unlocked back door and went into the bottom unit of the house. The intruder took two laptops—one from a backpack and the other

from a desk—and cash from two wallets.

Badeau believes it was not someone whom they had over who took their belongings, since they only had 20 of their close friends at their house.

Normally, the students keep all of the doors locked. They are not sure exactly when the intruder came into the house.

They were going up and down between the two units throughout the night, but Badeau said the person must have entered between 10 p.m. Wednesday and 2 a.m. Thursday.

“We were in the house, literally just upstairs, when some guy just walked into our house, took it and left, and we didn’t find out until the next morning,” he said. “He must have just slipped in for five minutes.

It’s pretty crazy.”

This trespassing incident comes amid a string of off-campus break-ins that has

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The University Strategic Planning Initiative (USPI), Boston College’s 18-month effort to set institutional priorities for the future of the University, will continue this semester through a series of meetings, including town hall-style conversations for faculty and staff on Oct. 5.

Last December, the USPI, led by a Steering Committee of faculty, began a period of assessment across the University. Between February and May, 24 teams made up of more than 200 faculty, staff, and students from across the University undertook self-assessments to understand the strengths and weaknesses of BC. The teams represented each of BC’s eight schools and other academic areas, as well as most vice-presidential administrative divisions, including Student Affairs, Facilities Management, Human Resources, Finance, and Information Technology.

Self-assessment teams also looked at initiatives involving multiple schools, departments, or divisions, including international programs.

The findings so far support the enduring core values expressed in major University documents and initiatives, including a commitment to undergraduate education and the liberal arts, student formation, and integrated research and scholarship.

Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley and Executive Vice President

Michael Lochhead, co-chairs of the USPI, said to the office of BC News and Public Affairs that the USPI reaffirmed institutional tenets while adapting to changes in academia and the greater society.

For example, Quigley said BC has long valued research and scholarship, but he sees that integration and collaboration are becoming important across fields and across schools. This can be seen in the pilot courses for the renewed undergraduate core curriculum and the possibility of creating an Institute for Integrated Science and Society.

“Our Jesuit heritage encourages us to engage with the world in a reflective way, but one that leads to wise action for the common good,” Lochhead and Quigley said in an email. “The Institute will be a powerfully tangible statement of our commitment to working across traditional boundaries to respond to these challenges.”

International initiatives are another emerging theme, Lochhead said. While BC has become more globally focused over the past few years, the Steering Committee is exploring ways in which BC can improve these initiatives.

In order to gain additional insight, the Steering Committee also welcomed comments and perspectives from University faculty, staff, and students.

“It was very impressive to see the thoughtful conversations that took place, and the obvious care and interest within the University community for BC’s future direction,” Lochhead said to BC News and Public Affairs.

The Steering Committee looked through the teams’ findings and identified key themes that the University must address in the coming decade.

Once the UPSI ends in March, the Steering Committee will send a strategic plan to the Board of Trustees, outlining a course of action to improve the University and maintain the elements that work in the upcoming decade.

Self-assessment initiatives such as the USPI have been in use for several decades.

Each decade, the University begins a new self-assessment period after which it establishes goals for the upcoming 10 years and begins a fundraising campaign.

From 2003 to 2007, the University Assessment and Programming Initiative (UAPI) conducted research at BC. Based on those findings, the University launched the Light the World campaign, which raised $1.5 billion.

In addition to the town hall meetings, the Steering Committee will conduct electronic communication and conversations with alumni leadership groups. Beginning in October, students, alumni, parents, and friends will be able to submit feedback on the USPI website. This will ensure that all voices are heard, Lochhead and Quigley said in an email.

At the town hall meeting, the Steering Committee, Lochhead, and Quigley will discuss the progress of the initiative to date and engage in a question-and-answer session with the attendees.

“We know there is great support throughout the campus community for BC’s mission as a world-class university shaped by its Jesuit, Catholic commitments,” Quigley said. “It is our sincere hope that this strategic-planning effort, informed by input and ideas from important stakeholders from across the community, will bear fruit in the form of a plan that enables BC to advance its distinctive mission for the coming decade.”

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Tanks in the basement of 2150 Comm. Ave. recycle sink and shower water for use in toilets.

“Sustainability is tied to stewardship” is the slogan of Boston College’s sustainability director, Bob Pion. With Pion directing sustainability efforts in the 2150 Commonwealth Ave. residence hall, Boston College sports not only maroon and gold, but also green.

Pion credits the success of the building’s swift construction to the collaboration of the design and construction teams to the BC Project Management team for managing the whole process.

The team collaborated with the Office of Residential Life, Student Affairs and University Health Services on design work for their respective components in the building. BC’s intent is that future new buildings on campus will be constructed with a Leadership and Energy in Environmental Design (LEED) standard in mind.

The LEED Certification System includes a checklist with a point system that corresponds to different levels of efficiency in building design. A silver rating constitutes a point score ranging from 50-59, while a gold score falls within the range of 60-69 points. BC’s 2150 Comm. Ave. scored a 57, placing it within the range for a silver LEED rating—however, this result has yet to be finalized, because it takes several

months to receive the result once the project has been submitted to the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).

Pushing for a silver, rather than a gold, rating seemed to be the most financially feasible goal, Pion said.

“There are times when you are not going to be able to get all of the points available within the LEED process,” Pion said. “The specific building type, location, and existing conditions influence availability of credits as well as making decisions on what is [in] the best interest for the university, the specific building, the building systems, and most importantly, its occupants.”

LEED can be broken down into

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Tuesday is National Voter Registration Day, and the Division of Student Affairs has partnered with TurboVote to educate students on how to participate in this year’s election. At several stations across campus on Tuesday, TurboVote will provide students with materials on how to register to vote.

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A year after former Senior Vice President James P. McIntyre’s death, executive director of marketing communications and Boston College Magazine editor Ben Birnbaum and senior writer William Bole have released a memoir detailing McIntyre’s 64-year service to BC. The memoir was compiled after University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., asked Birnbaum to capture McIntyre’s words and experiences while at BC. “Jim McIntyre invested so much of himself in Boston College, and through that investment he played a unique role in helping to shape the University,” Leahy said at the book release on Sept. 18. “He was a person of faith, which animated so much of his life, and a person who was steadfast in his love of and dedication to his family and Boston College.”

McIntyre began his BC career by attending evening classes at BC’s in-town campus on Newbury Street.

In 1959, he was hired as the first layperson to work in the Office of Undergraduate Admission. He met his wife, Monica, on his first day of work at the University.

Throughout his career, McIntyre helped establish BC’s financial aid program and a centralized Office of Student Affairs. He was also a part of the creation of Newton Campus, the Flynn Recreation Complex, O’Neill Library, Conte Forum, and Robsham Theater.

“He was, in his origins and in his development—and during those years in which he worked for BC—not just an agent of change, but an embodiment of the Boston College that evolved over those years, the BC that went from being somewhat uncertain about its place in this country and in the world, to the University that is presently sure of itself, of its strength and its responsibilities and its continued thriving,” Birnbaum said at the event.

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Sonia Okorie, CSON ’17, presented at the National Black Nurses Association’s (NBNA) 45th Annual Institute and Conference in Memphis, Tennessee, in August. She is a Keys to Inclusive Leadership in Nursing (KILN) scholar in the nursing school.

Okorie presented with her mentor, Allyssa Harris, as they discussed Harris’s research, “Father 2 Son: African American Father-Son Sexual Communication.” The two shared information on sexual risk behavior among African American men, stressed the importance of communication among family members, and suggested ways to facilitate these conversations.

“I was amazed by the breadth of topics at the conference,” Okorie said.

Okorie learned about the implications of Obamacare and the history of HIV/AIDS in the African-American community during her time at the conference. She was also able to meet young professionals at the event, networking and discussing the events of the day.

“I am grateful for KILN and this opportunity because the more I learn about the systems that affect my future patients, the more confident I feel about caring and advocating for them,” Okorie said.

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Monday, September 26, 2016

Andreana Clay, a professor at San Francisco State University, will host a lecture which will examine the response of hip-hop communities to current movements like Black Lives Matter. The event will take place on Tuesday from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Devlin 101.

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The Center for Irish Programs is screening the documentary, 1916: The Irish Rebellion, on Sept. 26 at 5 p.m. The film, which is being screened in the Murray Function Room, takes place during Easter week in Ireland in 1916, when a group of Irish rebels rose up against the British Empire.

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Martha Guevara, a member of CISPES, is a retired Spanish bilingual teacher and current community activist in the Boston area. On Thursday, Guevara spoke as part of a series, entitled “After Obama: What is the future of our ‘Nation of Immigrants?’” hosted by the Center for Human Rights and International Justice.

Guevara recently returned from a two-week delegation in El Salvador conducted by CISPES to study the impact of United States policy, particularly border militarization, on migration. The goal was to understand the factors that encouraged immigration and to make migration an option, but not a necessity.

Guevara began by detailing how she came to be included in the recent delegation that went to El Salvador.

Through her work, she experienced the long-standing struggle of the Salvadoran people from afar.

“I felt that I could not pass up this opportunity to hear from Salvadorans on their own soil about their understanding of the issues and about their efforts to address them,” she said.

Guevara explained that, while the Salvadoran Civil War began in 1980, many of the events that took place during her lifetime were caused by events that took place decades earlier. The impact of these events convinced Guevara to participate in CISPES’s delegation.

“There’s definitely an economic component, with high levels of poverty, and a lack of opportunity in the

country,” she said of the causes of immigration to the U.S. “There’s a desire for family reunification with relatives in the United States.”

As the presidential election approaches, Guevara noted, the issue of immigration has been a topic of debate in the U.S. Much of this debate, she argued, centers on American interests and fails to recognize the impact of policy proposals, such as border militarization, on people from Central America, specifically Salvadorans.

For example, she said, the Alliance for Prosperity was an American policy that Vice President Joe Biden strongly supported in 2015.

“It promises security and economic opportunity, but it requires acceptance of increased militarization and the privatization of services, perpetuating a culture of authoritarianism and profiteering independence,” she said.

Guevara spoke about the development of a movement of resistance to increasingly oppressive government policies in the 1960s, which largely began among Salvadoran workers, teachers, and university students.

“It is important to point out and recognize the efforts being made in El Salvador to rebuild its society,” Guevara said.

Gang violence and an overbearing foreign influence contribute to the flow of Salvadoran and other Central American migrants to the U.S., she said. But those Salvadorans who remain in their country and the region have been making attempts at resolving some of the factors that contribute to the crisis of violence and mass displacement.

In her account of the deterioration of El Salvador’s economic and political state, Guevara said that the Catholic community embraced Liberation Theology by calling on the Church to

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Martha Guevara spoke to students about immigration in El Salvador. accompany the poor in their struggle for a dignified life.

As a result, many of these humanitarian workers have given increased attention to El Salvador’s migrant crisis, as well as to the issues causing it.

Judy Swett, an attendee at the event and member of the Salvadoran Humanitarian Aid and Relief Education (SHARE) Foundation, is among those who work with the people of El Salvador to improve the lives of those who have no choice but to remain amid the violence.

There is also a large coalition of Salvadoran women advocating for their rights.

“They are connected, and they are working so hard … to get women empowered and educated, and they’re succeeding,” Swett said.

After delivering her remarks, Guevara opened the discussion to questions from others attending the event.

Aaron Salzman, MCAS ’20, asked what percentage of El Salvadoran migrants qualified for refugee status.

Guevara stressed that those attempting to flee Central America for the U.S. were required to provide

proof of physical threat before they would be considered for asylum. This has not, however, deterred Central American migrants from entering Mexico, a destination for migrants on their journey to the United States. These migrants, Guevara said, have tripled in number in the last four years.

David Grosser, a member of CISPES, later added that the organization is trying to ensure that anti-immigration features are not included in future foreign aid bills.

“We’re developing a campaign to pressure Congress all around the country,” Grosser said.

As of now, the process of migration from El Salvador and other regions of Central America often results in the separation of families, with many children traveling alone.

Those working for organizations such as CISPES hope to find alternatives to these harsh conditions, including improvements to life at home in El Salvador for would-be migrants.

“It’s terribly sad that these … policies are continuing, and what we have to do, is we have to speak up,” Swett said.

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On Friday night, Rocchio hosted a roll-out event for his book, Christianity and the Culture Machine: Media and Theology in the Age of Late Secularism, in the Theology and Ministry Library on Brighton Campus. He spoke about his nine-year journey in writing the book, and analyzed a video clip from the movie Joyeux Noël as an example of the kind of work he did to complete his book. Rocchio also had copies of Christianity and the Culture Machine available for purchase for the people in attendance.

Rocchio is especially interested in how the media is used to communicate with others. His previous works, Cinema of Anxiety: A Psychoanalysis of Italian Neorealism and Reel Racism: Confronting Hollywood’s Construction of Afroamerican Culture, both challenge

existing paradigms.

In his first book, he analyzed how Italian neorealism lacked any contemporary theory, and in his second, Rocchio studied the structures of racial hierarchy and how the media portrayed racism.

So, naturally, when it came to the topic of the institutional Church, Rocchio began to wonder why the Church as a whole does such a poor job of communicating.

The contradiction found in the Church and its poor communication led to his latest book. The Church, he said, is failing to use media to convey its theology.

“I believed the solutions to that problem could be found if we applied some of the theoretical tools of media and theoretical studies to the problem,” he said.

In the marketplace, Christianity is everywhere, but the Church has been stuck in, as Rocchio put it, a medieval model of how it conceptualizes its relationship to its audience. As the rest of the world changes with new technology, the Church is failing to grow

POLICE BLOTTER Thursday, Sept. 22 2:11 p.m. - A report was filed regarding the civil possession of marijuana at the Commonwealth Garage.

and develop its communication outlets. It simply can’t keep up, he said.

Currently, the Church has a Vatican newspaper and radio station, but their effectiveness is questionable.

“The Church still doesn’t know how to communicate the vitality of its message in ways that cultivate and captivate the allegiance of its followers,” he said.

Hollywood, Rocchio said, is much more effective at spreading the message of Christianity.

It found a gap, and it is trying to articulate these messages with storylines that have components of Christian theology.

Rocchio studied Profits and Kings, The West Wing, and Seabiscuit to understand how Hollywood portrays these Christian ideals within the story lines, he said.

As for the writing process, it wasn’t easy. Rocchio’s wife battled cancer, and he stopped teaching and writing to be there for her, as well as his kids. This caused about

a three-year gap in his work, but he eventually came back to it.

When he began to write again, he felt he was “wandering around in the dark” studying this new sub-discipline between media and theology. It was something that had not been done before.

Rocchio also struggled because he felt he was just one scholar complaining to a hierarchy that did not want to listen and did not care. But he was wrong.

When Pope Francis replaced Pope Benedict XVI in 2013, Rocchio knew it signaled a change not only for the Catholic Church, but also for his studies. He now saw someone who had a similar idea to his, acting upon it while in a position of power.

Pope Francis started doing what Rocchio had been studying and writing about.

“He wanted to shift the whole concept of the Church from obedience to authority, to amorality, to a concern for humanity and how that moves us closer to God,” Rocchio said.

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CORRECTIONS

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9/21/16 - 9/23/16

10:06 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at 2125 Commonwealth Ave. 11:04 p.m. - A report was filed regarding an underage intoxicated person at 2150 Comm. Ave.

5:48 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a medical incident at the Middle Lots.

7:21 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a trespass warning being issued on College Road.

9:14 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a minor in possession of alcohol at the Walsh Hall Lot.

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ÊJlggfik Cfm\Ë <m\ipn_\i\ ]fi Hl\\i :cXgYXZb N\\b 9P JFG?@< I<8I;FE E\nj <[`kfi After an anti-gay slur was written on a Mod Lot parking sign by an unknown person last week, Joon Park, MCAS ’18, decided to host a “Queer Clapback” week to bring awareness to this incident. He created a Facebook page calling on students to wear their “support love” t-shirts for the remainder of the week to show their support for the GLBTQ community.

“I just wanted something really quick and immediate that would not cause too much drama,” Park said.

He invited everyone in GLC to the Facebook page, as well as everyone he knew who were vocal allies. Word of the event spread from there.

“There were a lot of people who felt very personally attached to this, and so obviously

they invited their friends as well,” Park said.

He decided to host an event that did not need University approval because getting approval from the administration can take a while, he said.

“Personally, I felt that this was a very urgent situation,” Park said.

This was important to do, he said, because students who are new to BC and identify as GLBTQ need to know that there is support for them on campus.

Queer Clapback was also in response to the lack of administration support for the GLBTQ community, he said.

Park said that the event was a success—he saw a lot of people wearing “support love” t-shirts.

“Just the fact that students feel comfortable wearing them on campus I think speaks volumes at least to how students are fine with supporting LGBTQ issues,” he said.

committee to work with the administration to draft plans for an LGBTQ resource center. If created, the center would bring together the resources currently available to students on campus, including the GLTBQ Leadership Council and the graduate assistants that work on LGBTQ issues in the Office of the Dean of Students. It would also provide students with a safe space to discuss LGBTQ issues.

BC currently does not have one unified center for LGBTQ issues. GLC, which is the largest resource for LGBTQ students on campus, is completely funded by UGBC, whose funds come from the student activities fee, not the administration. Students are currently directed to the Women’s Center if they want space to talk about LGBTQ issues, according to Josh Frazier, GLC representative and MCAS ’19.

According to Kratz, the LGBTQ resource center would function similarly to the Women’s Center and the Thea Bowman AHAHA and Intercultural Center, which are already established on campus. There are resources currently available to students to deal with LGBTQ issues, but often they are not completely visible, Kratz said. The resource center would provide more transparency and availability when it comes to LGBTQ support.

In the past, the University has not put effort toward a the creation of an LGBTQ center on campus. In the spring of 2015, over 400 BC alumni signed the “For Here All Are One” campaign letter.

By signing the letter, alumni promised not to donate to the University until a resource center was created for LGBTQ students. The University did not respond to the alumni letter.

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Despite uncertainty about the details of the resolution, SA voted for a resource center 15-2 Kratz hopes that this financial incentive for the University to create a center continues in future years.

“I understand that the University is unlikely to establish this center immediately if we were to pass this resolution, however, I don’t think this is any reason to not take an affirmative stance on the issue as a student government,” Kratz said.

Georgetown University created an LGBTQ resource center for students on campus in 2008. The center was the first of its kind at a Jesuit university.

The steering committee, according to Kratz, will continue to research the best options for BC’s campus, while also looking at Georgetown as a benchmark. The committee will also look at implementing the center as part of

the University’s 10-year plan, which is undergoing its planning process this year.

Debate at the SA meeting centered around the specificity of the resolution.

Senators debated whether the resolution needed to more clearly outline what the resource center would include, prior to voting on the bill. It was decided that the ambiguity, in regard to what the resource center would hold, allows the steering committee to work more fluidly with the administration.

“I believe that it is time for the Undergraduate Government to fill its role as an advocate for the student body, especially our marginalized students, by passing a resolution to make our campus a little more inclusive for our LGBTQ community,” Kratz said.

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Inequities in race, gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic status are just some of the issues the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life will examine this year during its student conversation series.

The Boisi Center will host its first event on Wednesday: Speak, Stand, Sit or Scream? How Young People Engage in Politics and the World in 2016. The town hall-style event will take place in Fulton 511 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

The event will feature a panel of four students: Craig Ford, GSAS ’18, Najat Goso, MCAS ’18, Isra Hussain, MCAS ’17, and Russell Simons, MCAS ’17. The panelists will be asked a few questions at the beginning of the event to set the tone of the discussion before opening up a larger group conversation.

The main question of the evening will be about defining the millennial generation and what it means to grow up in a world filled with massive amounts of technology that expose the young gen-

eration to what is going on in the world, Hussain said.

Hussain believes that the millennial generation has been raised in a society that strictly defines success as making a lot of money or being famous, and Boston College students forget the values they learned in their philosophy and theology classes and do not actively confront systemic injustices.

“Until we have these conversations and force ourselves to be uncomfortable, we will merely be continuing these dangerous and exclusive cycles, losing the possibility for structural change,” Hussein said. “I hope this event provides a stepping stone for these conversations between students and faculty [and] launches an important discourse that may be missing from some facets of this campus.”

The center hopes the event will open a dialogue among students on campus.

“By sharing bits of our stories, discussing in an open way what attending a Jesuit university has taught us amid national events, and searching together for the answers to still elusive questions, I’m hoping students will hear some of their own concerns and

thoughts talked-about in new and enlightening ways,” Simons said.

Erik Owens, an associate professor of the practice in theology and international studies and the interim director of the Boisi Center, has been actively involved in planning the event.

“We are hoping that this different kind of format, that is not based on everyone listening, but rather everyone engaging in a thoughtful way, will provide a bigger open forum on campus,” Owens said.

The Boisi Center is named after Geoffrey and Irene Boisi, who made the contribution that created the center in 2000. Alan Wolfe, a political science professor, was the director of the Boisi Center until this fall, when Owens took over as interim director after serving as the assistant director for 10 years.

In July, Mark Massa, S.J., formerly the Dean of the School of Theology and Ministry, will take over as the director of the center.

“One primary function of the center is to serve as a forum for rigorous thinking about religion and American public life,” Owens said. “We try to convene good conversations about things that matter.”

The Boisi Center does not take a partisan position on politics and does not represent the interests of the Catholic Church. The Center instead strives to have diverse voices within its programs that will address issues that are of great concern to Catholics around the world.

“We don’t focus on issues that are about interiority, internal spirituality, or individuality, as much as religious ideas and institutions as they impact our common lives together,” Owens said.

In the past 16 years, the Center has held hundreds of events on campus that speak to these questions. The Center hosts visiting scholars each year, who come from around the world to contribute to the center’s mission and engage with the BC community.

The Center also hosts delegations, such as the U.S. State Department, that seek to have a conversation about religion and American public life.

The Boisi Center leads a research program in which faculty members study their areas of specialty. These faculty members teach courses in theology, political science, and international affairs to students

on campus.

The Center also hosts an annual seminar for both graduate and undergraduate students that features a study on a topic in religion and public life. The students meet each month to discuss the topic. The Center has not yet decided this year’s seminar topic.

This year, the Center has decided to focus its efforts on creating more events in which students can engage in a conversation about contemporary issues relating to religion and public life through the new town hall-style format.

“We are hoping that this different kind of format, that is not based on everyone just listening, but rather everyone engaging in a thoughtful way, will provide a bigger, open forum on campus,” Owens said.

The Boisi Center will hold several other events this year, including an event titled Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, and an event titled An Ethics for the Coming Storm: A Theological Reflection on Climate Change.

“We are really excited about these events,” Owens said. “This is a very busy semester for us.”

Jkl[\ek 8]]X`ij Glj_\j ]fi Jkl[\ekj kf Mfk\ 9P 8E;I<8 F:8J@F =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj With the upcoming national election around the corner, the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs formed a committee called the Boston College Civic Engagement Initiative for the first time since the 2012 presidential election.

This committee works alongside BC organizations like the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC), the Eagle Political Society (EPS), and the Boisi Center to get students involved in the community surrounding them.

Carol Hughes, senior associate dean of students and project manager for the Civic Engagement Initiative, said the initiative is taking advantage of the interest in the current election to get students involved in talking about the issues.

It has held the initiative at BC during the 2012 election and that same precedent was used to bring it back again this year.

“It’s really easy to get it going during a national election because it’s interesting, and this is a very interesting election for people,” Hughes said. “So we just thought it made sense to get some of the same players back in the room.”

With events like Constitution Day, Voter Registration Day, and debate and election watches, the initiative hopes to get BC students

involved in a discussion that is happening across the nation. According to Hughes, events like this in the past have fostered conversations among the students.

“At all of these debates, the Eagle Political Society said that during the breaks they have

“But civic engagement is not just about voting, it’s about being involved in the community in all sorts of different ways.”

—Carol Hughes, senior associate dean of students and project manager for the Civic Engagement Initiative

historically led some group conversations about the debates,” she said. “So students are talking to other students about what the issues are here, which is great.”

In addition to Voter Registration Day and debate watches, the initiative is also collaborating with the freshman House Calls Program.

An event that started last year, the House

Calls Program involves volunteers from the University going door-to-door in freshman dorms and checking in on them to see how they’re adjusting.

Events they will host include debate watches in the freshman residence halls with the residence hall directors on Newton Campus for students who may not want to go all the way to Robsham Theater to watch the debates.

With the first presidential debate today and National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, the Civic Engagement Initiative is kicking into gear as Election Day approaches. Hughes hopes to see 500 students at Robsham tonight at 9 p.m. to watch the debate.

Additionally, the Civic Engagement Initiative is collaborating with the Boisi Center on two events: Speak, Stand, Sit or Scream? How Young People Engage Politics & the World in 2016 on Wednesday, Sept. 28, and Religion, Ethics and the 2016 presidential campaign on Nov. 2.

Though the anchor of the initiative is the national election, Hughes hopes to keep the initiative going after Nov. 8 by getting students involved in local elections in Newton and Chestnut Hill and in UGBC elections.

“We would love to keep it going,” she said.

“It’s just easier to do it around an election. But civic engagement is not just about voting, it’s about being involved in the community in all sorts of different ways.”

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BPD was not able to confirm a report of a breaking and entering from 242 Foster St. Brian Denton, CSOM ’18, was the first to realize that his laptop was missing. When he asked his roommates if anyone had seen it, they all realized that they too were missing a laptop or money, including Badeau.

“I was at work, and I reached in my back pocket, took out my wallet, looked in, and my cash was just gone,” Badeau said. “It was super scary, but I still had my laptop.”

At approximately 12 p.m. on Thursday, Denton called BPD. He said that an officer

came and asked for his and his roommates’ names and phone numbers. The officer also took note of what was missing, the value of what was missing, and the serial numbers of the stolen laptops. The officer told Denton that he has had a lot of cases like theirs—college students who are living on their own for the first time and are robbed.

Badeau tried to use the Find My Mac app to locate the laptops, but he could not find them because the computers were not connected to Wi-Fi. He used the app to lock the computers, however, so that whoever has them can’t get onto them and take their personal information such as passwords and credit card numbers.

“We’re assuming they’re gone—there’s no chance we’re getting them back now,” he said.

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Boston College’s newest dorm at 2150 Commonwealth Avenue joins Stokes Hall on Middle Campus in becoming highly ranked for energy efficiency and environmental sustainability.

five key areas: sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, and indoor air quality.

“BC easily met some requirements in the site category because the building is located on Comm. Ave. and is close to the Bus and T stations and near other community services,” Pion said.

Another criterion for LEED involves the overall environmental footprint of the building given the layout of the open space, a requirement met by the large green area in front of 2150 Comm. Ave. Bicycle racks have also been installed on the ceilings and walls of designated bike rooms for students to secure their bikes.

Another sustainable feature of the new building includes the implementation of a new gray water system that collects used water from the sink, filters and processes it through basement holding tanks, and is recycled into toilet water.

This method has led to a 35 percent reduction in water use.

Though the original plan for the building involved the use of dual flush toilets, Pion settled on striking a balance between idealistic expectations and practicality by eliminating that idea, but implementing low flow shower heads and toilets.

In order to acquire the most sustainably manufactured furniture, BC hired DCI Furniture, a local architectural firm that has been connected to the University for many years. Capitalizing on BC’s mission for sustainability, DCI only uses locally harvested wood to make their furniture.

Riding on the sustainability success of 2150, Pion already has his eyes set for the future.

“We’d like to collaborate with [Einhorn Yaffee Prescott (EYP) Architecture & Engineering] on the building’s green features to remind people of BC’s commitment to sustainable design and construction,” Pion said. “Part of my job is to figure out ways to communicate these [sustainability aspects] to the community.”

What’s next for Pion? He’ll be working to make the new recreation center, which will be constructed on the former site of Edmond’s Hall, qualify for a LEED Silver standard.

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MSNBC, NECN, and WGBH called in Boston College political science professor Peter Krause to give his take on the bombings.

Krause, who focuses his research on Middle Eastern politics, terrorism and political violence, national movements, and international relations, was featured on NECN’s The Take, MSNBC’s Live with Tamron and WGBH’s Greater Boston on Monday afternoon.

Krause believes that there was a mass amount of press coverage surrounding the bombings because they were set in New York, the most populous city in the United States, and the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

On The Take, host Sue O’Connell asked Krause about why officials were reluctant to attribute the explosions to bombs and to connect Rahami to international ties.

Krause responded by saying that officials must be careful to not instill unnecessary fear in the public and to not be accusatory of a certain group until they have all the details and evidence.

O’Connell also brought up the question of when ISIS gets to claim responsibility for attacks on U.S. soil. Krause differentiated between the bombings and a mall stabbing in St. Clair, Minn., that injured nine people last weekend, for which ISIS did claim responsibility.

In the Minnesota stabbing, the suspect was pronounced dead and the operation was complete, so ISIS was able to claim him as an ISIS soldier, whereas in the New York and New Jersey bombings, the suspect is still alive, so ISIS must be

more careful in taking responsibility for his actions.

O’Connell and Krause also discussed the decreasing prevalence of the ISIS. Krause said that in terms of territory, ISIS will eventually lose out against powerful western nations. As a terrorist organization, however, Krause thinks that it will continue to carry out attacks throughout Europe, the U.S., and Africa.

In his interview with Tamron Hall, Krause spoke about the difference between Rahami and the Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He said that the Boston bomber operated more intelligently than Rahami. The bombs this weekend were placed in a dumpster, which limited the explosion; Rahami left fingerprints on the devices, which allowed the authorities to quickly identify the culprit; and cell phones were left with the bombs, which were not completely destroyed and gave the police access to additional records.

Hall and Krause also discussed whether the bombings this past weekend were a test run for future attacks.

Krause believes that it is still too soon to tell whether these bombings will stand alone.

For his final appearance of the day, Krause joined Greater Boston host Jim Braude and executive director of Community Resources for Justice Christine Cole to talk about Boston’s reaction to the bombings in New York and New Jersey.

Braude brought up a cellular alert that was sent out to New York residents in the area to warn them about the bombing and to keep an eye out for the perpetrator. Braude and Cole debated the merits of alerting the community when a tragedy occurs, and whether the cellular alert encouraged racial profiling.

Krause also discussed how web browsers like Google have started to filter the results of people’s web searches to discourage the public from allying itself with ISIS. For example, if a person

were to search ISIS on Google, links to negative press on the terror group would come up, rather than beheadings or killings of civilians.

Krause and Braude discussed whether incidents like this affect voting patterns, especially within weeks of the presidential election.

Krause explained that people will often vote conservative after an instance of terrorism, as the right often has more critical stances on issues of national security.

In this election cycle, however, Krause explained that polls show that the population puts more trust in Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, when it comes to terrorism issues.

When Krause was earning his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he served as a predoctoral fellow at the Belfort Center at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He was listed online as studying terrorism and insurgency in the Middle East, and news stations began to reach out to him to conduct interviews.

“With a lot of these media things, if you speak articulately and they like you, then they’ll invite you back,” Krause said.

By the time he became a professor at BC, Krause had published several articles and NECN’s booking agents reached out to him to talk about terrorism and political violence.

BC’s Office of News and Public Affairs has also helped Krause set up interviews with local news stations in the past.

Before doing interviews with news stations, Krause said he does extensive research on the topic he is speaking about.

When he has a positive relationship with the stations, Krause can also pitch topics and points that he thinks are relevant to cover within the interview.

Krause said that media interviews can be difficult to fit into his schedule, as he is constantly working on research as an assistant professor at BC. “At the end of the day, if I feel I can still give some good insight, it’s worth it,” Krause said.

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Peter Krause, a prominent political science faculty member, spoke to MSNBC, NECN, and WGBH on the current social and political climate.

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De Paor is the latest in a line of notable Irish figures to come to Boston College as the Burns Visiting Scholar for the fall semester.

First started in 1991, the Burns program aims to bring scholars who have made large contributions to Irish culture to guest lecture for the fall semester.

“As the Burns Visiting Scholar, Louis de Paor brings many gifts to us at Boston College,” said James H. Murphy, the interim director of the Irish studies program at BC. “Louis is one of Ireland’s leading poets in the Irish language, one of their leading scholars in terms of Irish literature, and a man who has made great contributions to the culture.”

After his time at BC, de Paor will return to Ireland and resume his post at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He will give a public lecture entitled “Lethal in Two Languages: Flann O’Brien and Máirtín Ó Cadhain” on Nov. 9.

De Paor is teaching “Flann O’Brien and the Irish Comic Tradition” this semester.

O’Brien, a notable figure in postmodern literature, is well known in academic circles for his advancement of postmodern literature and by the general public for his writing’s bizarre humor and irony.

Students in de Paor’s class delve into three of O’Brien’s notable works, one of which is his most famous, the posthumously published novel The Third Policeman.

De Paor’s aim is to have his students leave with a better understanding of O’Brien’s works, along with developing their critical thinking skills through focusing the class around their ideas.

“I’m interested in developing their own responses to the text in and out

of class,” de Paor said. “I want to know what they think about the book rather than what they think about what someone else thinks about it.”

In the intimate seven-person class size, de Paor’s knowledge of both the topic and outside information reigns— he often goes on tangents on everything from Irish nationalism to Bruce Springsteen.

“I encourage everyone to take advantage of classes that are taught by Burns Scholars in general,” said Kaelie St. Pierre, a student in de Paor’s class and LSOE ’17. “It offers a unique experience to take a class by an international scholar in an intimate setting in the Burns Library.”

Born in Cork, Ireland, in 1961, de Paor took an interest in reading from a young age, particularly fiction in the form of Western novels.

By the time he arrived at university, however, de Paor’s interest had shifted to the Irish language itself and realistic fiction, which he found relatable.

It was under the tutelage of Sean O’ Tuama, a famous Irish poet, playwright,

and academic, that these interests really developed and came to fruition.

The director of the Center for Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway, de Paor has over 25 years of teaching experience under his belt.

An expert in the fields of contemporary and modern Irish language writing, de Paor has published numerous academic papers in the area.

Outside of the field of academics, however, de Paor is a jack-of-all-trades, having written three plays and composed numerous poems and songs. He’s currently working on a collaborative effort with a playwright.

De Paor is puzzled by the lack of interest in poetry. He doesn’t see why many college students seem to believe that poetry is more difficult to grasp than regular books.

“The best way to get young people interested in poetry is to point out if they’re interested in songs, then they’re already listening to poetry,” de Paor said.

“If you’re interested in rhythm, which is related to the beat, which of course is meter, you’re already halfway towards

being a reader of poetry.”

De Paor said that several factors are key to up-and-coming writers, namely writing on a regular basis and surrounding yourself with people who have similar interests to develop a sympathetic yet critical audience.

“It’s very difficult when a person starts writing to develop a strong habit of self-editing, and I think you can learn that in company of others, such as in a workshop,” de Paor said. “There does come a point, though, where the time comes and you have to leave the nest.”

De Paors’s time at BC is helping his own work. Burns Library, home to an extensive collection of Flann O’Brien’s personal papers and library, is serving as a resource to the professor, who is working on a book about O’Brien and his relationship with the Irish language. De Paor is planning on finishing the book within the next two to three years.

“There’s already material there that I was unaware of that people seem not to have drawn attention to in critical works on [O’Brien], so it’s a treasure trove for somebody like me,” de Paor said.

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Louis de Paor, the current Burns Visiting Scholar, is a prominent figure and scholar in contemporary Irish literature and is part of the program that aims to recruit the brightest minds in Irish studies to teach and conduct research at BC.

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He taught me why studying history is something to be admired, and he taught me life lessons through his occasional bouts of world-domination advice.

He instilled in me the notion that it’s incredibly important to observe what’s going on around you, and that the value of being able to learn from mistakes is vital to being a better person every day.

After all, if you make a mistake once, it’s a mistake, but if you make a mistake twice, it’s stupid. So when people ask me what I’m going to do with a history degree, this is what I tell them: If there’s one thing you should never do, it’s invade Russia in the winter.

Several have tried, and all have failed.

The Mongols, Napoleon, and Hitler all

got shut down, and trust me—if Hitler did something, it isn’t exactly a great idea to emulate it.

You will eventually succumb to the cold, to disease, or to the steamroller that is the Russian army before you reach Moscow.

Sometimes, it is best to listen to those around you and to observe what has happened before.

In your anger, or sadness, or hubris, it is easy to forget that your friends often know what’s best for you. Before you take the head-on plunge into shark-infested waters or Russian-fueled winters, listen to your best friend, your mom, and then talk to your dog. If they all tell you to take a step back, you probably should.

In 1788, the Austrian army attacked itself and lost 10,000 men.

Sometimes you are your own worst enemy.

As is the case with invading Russia in winter, you can’t win if you beat yourself. A big first step in succeeding is not shooting yourself in the foot.

Have confidence, read your books, eat your vegetables, brush your teeth, and sleep a little. Take the steps to prevent yourself from failing, and you’re already halfway there.

Those who don’t care about history are the ones who are doomed to repeat it.

Plus, I love winning a spirited argument, and knowing the ins and outs of what I’m talking about gives me an inherent advantage.

In reality, I’ve found that the entire histories of certain places are not dissimilar to the daily life of a college student.

Don’t dive into every club that sends you an email, because you may just be wasting your time and burning yourself out. Don’t shoot yourself in the foot—don’t stay up until 3 a.m. watching The Office instead of getting some shut eye.

If there’s one thing you should never do, it’s take an open-top car tour. Pope John Paul II, John F. Kennedy, and Franz Ferdinand would all

attest: it’s a bad idea.

Flaunting yourself and taking pride in trivial accomplishments is a oneway ticket to getting not only disliked, but possibly murdered. Sometimes it’s best to just swallow your pride and take a seat in the back row.

A lack of humility sets you up for the disappointment of your peers at best, and a bullet in your head at worst. Recognition for accomplishments worthy of recognition will come without you asking for it, and that’s how you can know it’s well deserved.

Catherine the Great was one of the greatest leaders to ever grace the Eastern Hemisphere. She greatly expanded the Russian Empire, westernized all of Russia, won several wars against the Ottoman Empire, and launched massive educational reform.

Most people remember her because she was killed having sex with a horse. Sometimes, despite your every accomplishment and noble deed, you will only be remembered by how you

go out.

Don’t burn bridges, because they won’t get rebuilt after you are gone.

Don’t soil relationships, and always make sure to thank the people that deserve it.

Take it from a book nerd that you will inevitably end up making more money than: history is important.

Yes, you will have a nice suit and a desk in Manhattan and a Porsche and a trophy wife, but if no one respects who you are and what you have done, it really isn’t worth anything.

Take a step back and ensure that you aren’t making stupid mistakes that will get you killed in painful and humiliating ways later.

Don’t invade Russia in winter, don’t attack your own army, don’t take an open-top car tour, and go out with a bang—just not like Catherine did.

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8[d`e J_flc[ I\jgfe[ kf J8 I\jfliZ\ :\ek\i I\jfclk`fe In the spring of 2015, a petition was created and signed by students and alumni who pledged to withhold donations to the University until a designated resource center was established for LGBTQ students. Then, The Heights published an editorial supporting the creation of this center, citing the need for a secure location and dedicated full-time director to support LGBTQ students. In the time since then, there has been little public progress toward the creation of this center.

The homophobic slur written on a parking sign last week has sparked the debate again and has demonstrated the need for action from students, as there has been zero administrative response beyond a letter to the editor from Dean of Students Thomas Mogan.

Sunday, the Undergraduate Government of Boston College Student Assembly passed a resolution calling for this LGBTQ student resource center by a vote of 15-2. The resolution creates a steering committee that is meant to work with the administration to draft plans for the resource center, which would bring together various LGBTQ resources on campus, such as the GLTBQ Leadership Council. The center would be logistically similar to the Women’s Center and the Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center that BC currently has. BC would not be the first Catholic, or even the first Jesuit, school to establish such a center. As was pointed out at the SA meeting, Georgetown established an LGBTQ resource center in 2008.

While this resolution is not likely to bring about an immediate response from the administration, it is a good step by the SA. As Connor Kratz, co-sponsor of the resolution and MCAS ’18, said, “I understand that the University is unlikely to establish this center immediately if we were to pass this resolution, however, I don’t think this is any reason to not take an affirmative stance on the issue as a student government.” The SA, as elected

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representatives, speaks on behalf of the entire student body, and by putting its support behind the center, it gives it a new voice beyond the alumni who signed this petition in 2015.

Yet, Kratz has acknowledged that the efforts of UGBC are largely futile here. If the administration fails to respond, it shows a lack of engagement with the student body that can be pointed to in future debates. Administrative silence encourages a disconnect between the student body and those who make the policies that govern it. At a point where the student government feels powerless, the onus is upon the administration to encourage a more open dialogue on this important issue.

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Boston College’s newest dorm, 2150 Commonwealth Ave., is within the range of a silver rating from the Leadership and Energy in Environmental Design rating system.

The LEED rating system measures building efficiency and awards environmentally-friendly buildings with ratings.

The residence hall was constructed with a silver rating, a score between 50 and 59, in mind because it was a more reachable goal than the gold rating, which is three points higher than 2150 Comm. Ave.’s current rating of 57.

As Bob Pion, Boston College’s sustainability director, said, “The specific building type, location, and existing conditions influence availability of credits, as well as making decisions on what is [in] the best interest for the university, the specific building, the building systems, and most importantly, its occupants.”

Aspects of this new LEED rating include sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, and indoor air quality.

The open space in front of the residence hall as well as its proximity to the BC Green Line stop both contributed to the silver rating.

Bike racks installed in designated areas, a new system that recycles used sink and shower water into toilet water, and furniture made of locally harvested wood are also sustainable features that lower the building’s environmental footprint.

All of these efforts brought up BC’s LEED score and led to the expected silver rating, which should be official after the results are reviewed by the United States Green Building Council.

Working toward and achieving this rating is a good step toward sustainability

at BC. Creating new buildings with this environmental standard in mind is a positive attempt to make BC a more sustainable campus.

Stokes Hall, built in 2012, also achieved the silver LEED rating.

The current plan is to make the new recreational complex a silver-rated building as well.

This new standard is a good plan for future building projects at BC. Efforts should also be made to improve sustainability features within current residence halls.

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

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

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Some of the steps taken in building 2150 Comm. Ave., such as sustainable furniture, would be good additions to existing dormitories to improve sustainability.

Improving sustainability in residence halls, regardless of specific LEED ratings, is a good project for BC that should be continued and expanded.

While the rating lends BC credibility in its attempts to improve sustainability, work should continue regardless of ratings to reduce BC’s overall impact.

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8EE@< >I8P 9LI>< SLIPPING INTO FIRST PERSON - TU/TD is meant to be an entity of supreme connection, a joining force that unites humanity around one 500word list. But sometimes, I like to sprinkle a little perspective shift.

You’ve always enjoyed perspective shift. We once shifted perspective repeatedly in a TU/TD just because we could and we couldn’t think of anything interesting happening on campus to write about instead. I always hate it when people do dumb stuff like that.

CUTTING YOUR NOSE OFF TO SPITE YOUR FACE - There’s nothing we here at TU/TD love more than folksy truisms and being horrible people. Ah yes, spite and bitterness, our bread and butter. Also, if you happen to have nasal issues, it’s always nice to consider lopping that olfactory little nub right off of there.

LAUNDRY PRICES - One month ago we walked into the laundry room, a bag of horribly stained field jackets slung over our shoulders, and saw that the washing machine now cost $1.75 instead of last year’s $1.50. Tossing the bag out the nearest window in outrage, we raised our fists in the air and cursed the powers that have added a quarter to our bi-semesterly laundry costs. The injustice! How can someone possibly expect us to pay a reasonable amount of money for a service? As disgusted screams came from beneath the open window, we vowed to fight the laundry subjugation. “Oh my God, what is that—jambalaya?” someone yelled as the smell wafted up toward the window. Never again would we pay that extra quarter to clean our soiled drawers. Instead we will wear those drawers proudly in defiance of the laundry-monsters that try to keep us down. They may take our dignity, but they shall never take—OUR QUARTERS! “GOING OFF THAT” - Sometimes a phrase becomes so overused that it starts to feel like a poke in the eyeball every time we hear it. There’s no need to chain your point to the one before it with this little disclaimer.

Just say things. Or come up with a better opening line. Personally, we’ve always preferred, “Just to toss a saddle on that last point, jump up on it, and ride that sucker to kingdom come.” After that opening, you can say anything you like and it’ll sound great. Trust us.

RUNNY NOSES - Going off that last Thumbs Down, runny noses are the worst: constantly running to find a tissue, feeling the gradual build-up of pressure in your sinuses, talking like some sort of ’90s sitcom nerd.

I just wish there was a good way to spite my face that would also address these nasal problems of mine in some horribly misguided way.

Whoops, I mean “we” just wish.

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Okay, fine. I’ll admit it. I went to Nobadeer on the Fourth of July two summers ago (forgive me, Father, for I have sinned).

For those who are unfamiliar with Nobadeer, it is a beach on the island of Nantucket whose sand is the unstainable carpet upon which sloshy debauchery ensues every July 4th. Frequented by young adults from all over the East Coast, the scene is almost as abominable as it is fun (but don’t tell the fanACKtics that I said that).

The year is 2015, and I’m strutting onto Nobadeer feeling patriotic as s—t in my American flag one-piece when, all of a sudden, an ex-boyfriend from high school taps me on the back with a crew of his friends trailing behind him. Despite the lyrics to Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” running on replay in my head—”Hello darkness, my old friend”—I manage a round of awkward hellos and then move down the beach, confident that my daily surprise was out of the way.

Not so.

Throughout the rest of the day, I run into more friends from high school, a brother of a friend from high school, a whole slew of acquaintances from home, my cousin from Kentucky, and yet another ex-boyfriend. It is in these moments of near-suffocating interconnectedness that I wonder how the phrase “stranger danger” ever gained so much traction: where are the strangers, much less the ones to be afraid of?

In our highly connected world, it often seems that a perfect stranger is harder to come by than a Prince Charming. Nowhere has this feeling resonated more strongly with me than at Boston College.

It is no secret: BC is full of students from New England. And unlike the West Coast, Middle America, or the South, New England is highly compact.

Black tracks and silver-red-blue flashes of Amtrak trains cut through stretches of Northeastern coastline and wilderness, connecting Northeastern states in free wi-fi harmony. One could drive for over 12 hours without leaving California, whereas some Northeasterners cross state lines just to get to work in the morning.

In some ways, this compactness is good. Having many friends in many places means having many mutual friends in many places, and who doesn’t like knowing a free bed upon which to crash? But when a striking 64 percent of the undergraduate student body is from the Northeast, it seems that one’s world is blanketed with free beds upon which to crash, rather than new, explorable terrain.

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You’ve never heard her name, never seen it on a listserv. You’ve never even cut her in the Eagles salad line. Intrigued at the prospect of having met a stranger, you leave class with an unfamiliar flutter of excitement spreading its wings in your tummy.

Later that night you receive a friend request on Facebook from your new stranger-friend. While giving yourself a mental high five for having been impressive enough to warrant a friend request (a real badge of honor in an age where reaching out has become a fauxpas), you open the request. And then you see it: 20 mutual friends. Tentatively plucking the forbidden fruit as you have every time before, you click and begin reading names. Habitually, you appropriate your mutual friends’ personalities and character traits onto your new stranger-friend until he or she seems a

stranger no more. The fluttering in your stomach subsides, and another mattress falls on your horizon.

Yet this need not be so. In our habit of assigning individuals an identity based solely on the identities of their associations, we condemn ourselves to live in a world that suffers under the illusion of the mutual friend. Mutual friends are just as indicative of a stranger’s identity as my left pinky toe is of my complete physical appearance (admittedly a bummer, as my left pinky toe is quite cute). By allowing somebody’s mutual friends to define our perception of their character, we become less inquisitive, less interested in finding out their real story under an incorrect assumption that the one we have fabricated on their behalf is sufficient. We fail to realize that, absent our invalid assignments and assumptions, these mutual friends are the enchanting strangers that we (or at least this writer) have come to miss in Chestnut Hill.

It is hard to say “hi” to a stranger. It is harder still to say “hi” to a stranger when we occupy what seems to be a stranger-less world. Yet hardest of all is to first recognize the strangers among us. This recognition is imperative to our understanding of the world. Strangers with whom we eventually get acquainted remind us of the hidden wonders that the world has to offer. And those who pass through our lives with identities unknown are sources of curiosity, reminding us to always look at the world with an inquisitive, childlike eye. Once adopted, these lenses allow us greater exposure to the world around us, affording us more diverse experiences, a larger web of connections, and a more comprehensive assessment of our place on this big blue-green planet. Therefore, we must change our ways to move in the direction of conversation rather than appropriation.

For only then can we hope to lift the duvets and pillows and mattresses that have come to whitewash our endlessly vibrant world.

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8C@J ;@:G@E@>8@K@J Colin Kaepernick, quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, currently finds himself deeply embroiled in perhaps the most controversial national political issue: that of the mistreatment of AfricanAmericans and minorities as a consequence of the fundamentally skewed power structures of the United States.

Refusing to stand during the national anthem before a preseason loss to The Green Bay Packers, Kaepernick claims to speak for these subjugated groups.

“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick said in a postgame interview. “To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”

The responses to Kaepernick’s actions have been polarized. Many people praise him as a champion of groups that do not have the power or means to speak for themselves, while others label him an attention-seeking brat. While he clearly has the right to kneel during the national anthem, we must assess whether his actions ought to be condemned or praised.

There is a complex but mutually reinforcing relationship between intense nationalistic fervor and the headstrong spirit of American sports. I often find myself questioning the place of the national anthem at a sporting venue, for the sake of a (relatively) meaningless game. Does it devalue the foundational principles of our country and the efforts of those risking their lives overseas to protect them?

Must we fuel the sparring that occurs on the playing field between “opponents” whose only differences are the jerseys they

wear? This develops a ritualistic quality to sporting events not entirely different from that observed at a Catholic Mass. With this comes an orthodoxy, an expectation of conformity. Is being patriotic nothing more than fitting an expected set of values and corresponding actions? Perhaps not putting a hand over one’s heart during the national anthem signifies that one is less patriotic than those who do. No one dares to keep a hat on his or her head, and God forbid one refuses to stand. The irony is that the expectation of cooperation, the expectation that there is an appropriate way to be patriotic, undermines the very nationalistic principles (those of religious and expressive freedom) that this cooperation attempts to enforce.

In a Washington Post article from August, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar argues that vehement opposition to Kaepernick’s actions reveals more about the patriotism of the American people than it does the quarterback’s. Abdul-Jabbar argues that athletes express devotion to their nation in different ways, and that they should be respected for doing so. In his view, true patriotism is to praise one’s country when it promotes the Constitutional values it promises to uphold, and to condemn it when it fails to do so. Understanding patriotism in this way recognizes the autonomy of the individual and allows for a multiplicity of “appropriate” ways to express it. After all, soldiers overseas serve to protect the freedom to do just this.

Critics, such as Mike Ditka, approach the Kaepernick controversy from a different angle. They argue that Kaepernick is himself the beneficiary of the very institutional structures that he condemns. Should acting as the spokesperson for a cause necessitate that one at some point ought to have been a subjugated victim? Other theories speculate that Kaepernick’s decision not to stand for the national anthem were personally expedient: a young quarterback down on his luck, trying to garner the popularity to reenter the spotlight and revive a faltering career.

Ultimately, there is no way for anyone

to truly know Kaepernick’s intentions, whether they are genuine, and precisely what ends he is trying to serve. But this knowledge is unnecessary for me to condemn his actions. Earlier in this piece, I raised issue with the demonstration of patriotism and nationalistic fervor at sporting events. I can condemn or question this all I want, but to do so would not be productive. The reality is that American sporting events necessarily incorporate a patriotic ethos for the sake of unity and togetherness. Hearing the national anthem inspires teams to act not in selfinterest, but for the sake of something more transcendent and meaningful.

The significance of sports as an integral component of American culture not only underlies a tendency toward community and togetherness, but also functions as an agent of healing and perseverance. In the early 20th century, immigrants turned to baseball to temporarily forget the hardships associated with living in a new nation. More recently, thundering applause for President George W. Bush’s first pitch at Yankee Stadium during the 2001 World Series represents an overwhelming desire to dismiss political divisions in the interest of promoting community for a nation devastated by the hatred promoted by global terrorism.

Ultimately, patriotism underlying sports exists as a means of promoting a benign unity, and the playing of the national anthem is an example of a way in which this goal is achieved. Exercising freedom of expression in the specific way that Kaepernick did represents a misunderstanding and defamation of the purpose of sports in the context of American culture and functions to further entrench the very divisions he supposedly condemns. Kaepernick indeed has a patriotic duty to speak out against a government unresponsive or antagonistic to its people, but to do so at a sporting event is not appropriate.

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D8KK?<N 9<;L>E@J Tensions have flared between MBTA workers and their leadership in recent weeks after plans were announced to consider outsourcing many of what are now union jobs.

Governor Charlie Baker believes performance and cost effectiveness are the ultimate goal, regardless of whether that is achieved by a public or private system. Facing aging infrastructure and equipment, increasingly harsh weather conditions, and a $100 million deficit, the T leaves no doubt that improvements have to be made. For many, including the T’s Fiscal Management and Control Board, this means looking to the private sector for things like the operation of part warehouses and maintenance of railcars. These responsibilities currently belong to union workers, but many argue they have been inefficient and ineffective in their work. Proponents of privatization argue that the private sector is a breeding ground for competition—competition that should theoretically equate to improved performance.

But privatization doesn’t always ensure better performance, and with so many union jobs at stake, we need to consider what cost-cutting actually cuts from our communities.

Keolis, the private company that runs the Commuter Rail, is a perfect example of how privatization doesn’t always bring about the desired results. Aside from losing an estimated $35 million a year due to its inability or unwillingness to collect fare properly, Keolis has long been criticized for delays and poor service. The apocalyptic winter of 2015 absolutely crippled the Commuter Rail, and Baker was one of Keolis’s biggest critics. It was not some privatized, well-oiled, and unstoppable machine that kept running in the face of disaster. Rather, at the height of the storms, canceled trains left hundreds stranded and nearly 67 percent of trains ran late in the month of February alone.

So if the privatized Commuter Rail has already proven faulty, why is there a push to outsource still more MBTA services?

It would seem the powers that be need a scapegoat for the T’s fiscal and performance woes. But it certainly shouldn’t be the people who have slaved to keep a broken system running. Cutting jobs or outsourcing work to the lowest bidder backed by cut-rate labor isn’t going to help an already failing system.

MBTA employees are one of the only reasons why public transportation is still worth taking. For every million stories I’ve heard about bad experiences on the T, I’ve not heard or had one bad experience with the devoted people who run it. I’ve been commuting to school in Boston for just shy of a decade, and I have never seen an MBTA employee act anything but courteous and committed. And why shouldn’t they be? The middle-class jobs these privatization and outsourcing efforts are targeting belong to members of our own community.

Just as our public transportation system snakes its way through the city of Boston and her suburbs, so too does it run vein-like through our community. And every day those veins, the varied multitude of MBTA lines, carry our fellow citizens, the lifeblood of our community, to and from where they need to be. MBTA workers belong to this community, and so do the families they raise. Their fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, sons, and daughters ride this system alongside us. Whenever the T is delayed, you can guarantee some MBTA worker’s spouse is late for work, or her child for school, or her aging parent for a medical appointment.

They too have an emotional stake in the system, in addition to a professional stake. Their devotion stems not just from a commitment to the community but by the very nature of the fact that they exist within the community.

Every day these hardworking people continue bailing out a ship that has been taking on water for years. You see it in the MBTA employee who has to figure out how to get an old, rotten, and rusted-out Green Line train back to the station after it loses power.

The employee who is going to take dirty looks from ungrateful passengers because of an unavoidable mechanical delay and go home late to his or her family, just the same as you.

It’s that same MBTA employee who gets up exhausted the next day, puts on his or her uniform, and announces the stops on the line in a funny voice so that people will have something to smile about on an otherwise miserable commute. Despite what management might think, that employee isn’t the cause of the T’s woes. In this rider’s opinion, employees like that are the only thing keeping this broken wheel turning.

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Food With Flair Fe jfg_fdfi\ @jXY\cc\ CldYËj @ejkX^iXd# (+#''' ]fccfn\ij ZXe kXg `ekf X nfic[ f] ]ff[# ]ifd YX^\cj kf Zifelkj% 9P A8D<J CL:<P =\Xkli\j <[`kfi As she would later note in our interview, Isabelle Lumb, LSOE ’19, is one to put the team on her back.

When she reached out to me last week, it was in search of some publicity—her food Instagram, @bite_into_this, was gaining some momentum. I took a quick glance at her page and it immediately had my approval—the frosting was plentiful, there was no shortage of sprinkles, and the follower count was north of 12,000. Between the colors, followers, and my coincidental hunger at the moment, it was an easy call to make.

As I sit here now, the follower count for @bite_into_this has jumped to over 14,000, and a new crop of colorful donut pictures has found its way onto the feed. This kind of growth, Lumb explained, has been nothing out of the ordinary recently.

“We gained 7,000 followers just this summer,” Lumb said. “The goal is 20,000 by Thanksgiving, but we usually get about 100 a day.”

“For the most part, they’re all real people,” Lumb added. “We don’t buy them.”

As it turns out, building @bite_ into_this into a true contender in the crowded food Instagram market was actually somewhat accidental. The account is a product of a distinct mix of boredom and hunger. Her and a pair of friends were at a friend’s party when inspiration struck.

“We were really not enjoying the party,” Lumb said. “So we made it there, at our friend’s house, on a couch. We kept it going and we got 1 or 2,000 followers fairly quickly.”

After a brief lull in activity following their graduation from high school, the three of them resumed last spring and have been full-steam ahead ever since.

Lumb and her friends remain now at the helm of this flourishing

account, and they’ve maintained a broad geographical presence in addition to their collection of glamorous food shots. Reporting from Washington, D.C., and South Carolina, in addition to Boston and their hometown of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., the trio brings a variety of flavors to the table, but their efforts are bolstered by their large and growing following.

Curated, crowd-sourced food photography constitutes a large portion of their photo collection.

Filtering through countless follower submissions is also part of the job for Lumb and Company, and their respective camera rolls are filled with thousands of candidate photos.

“I couldn’t take that many good pictures and I can’t spend that much money,” Lumb said.

The key to @bite_into_this’s success? Junk food photos go a long way, Lumb said.

“I do enjoy a good smoothie bowl, but healthier stuff definitely does not

do as well,” she said. “Our average is a little over 1,000 likes, and even if it’s semi-healthy it doesn’t get there.”

From here, the conversation descended into an exchange of adjectives—an extended discussion of which adjectives best describe the most Instagram-worthy shots.

High-resolution was a requisite parameter set immediately, but the nitty-gritty adjectives were the most entertaining. Highlights included gooey, chocolate-y, overflowing, and cheesy.

“Also, donuts,” Lumb made sure to add.

“This one was actually a little lowres,” Lumb said, producing a photo of a particularly overflowing donut.

“But I made the exception.”

The growth story of @bite_into_ this goes beyond simple creative exercise. The account has received some love from big players in the Instagram food game, and reposting has been a big driver for gaining followers.

“We got reposted by a few really big ones, which made us a couple hundred followers each,” said Lumb.

“Aside from that, once we hit 9 or 10,000 it’s just been crazy.”

Out of this craziness, @bite_ into_this has also managed to grow to the point that it receives promotional requests. Free stuff, in other words.

The trio has already seen the perks of their popularity: presents ranging from invites to food festivals to promotional soup delivered to their doorsteps. Most recently, they’ve been solicited by a frosting company called Dallop Frosting, and they’re hoping that the freebies will continue to roll in.

Ultimately, more free soup and frosting seem to be the objective of the group, which doesn’t really seek fame or facial recognition in its Instagram exploits. Beyond the occasional goodie in the mail, Lumb emphasized that the account is largely a way for the group to stay

connected with one another.

“We talk almost every day about it and I don’t think we would talk that much if we didn’t have it together,” Lumb said, citing her relationship with her co-owners as her favorite part of the gig. “I do really like the photography—and it’s cheesy—but it’s a lot about staying in touch with my friends.”

The account certainly has high hopes for the future, and ideally the freebies should follow suit. That is, if it can keep its pancake arguments to a minimum. Lumb also spoke to occasional friction within the group, citing the recent deletion of a pancake picture that sparked controversy.

“My friend didn’t think they were worthy of Bite Into This,” she said.

Food debacles aside, my takeaway from our conversation was simple—a food Instagram between friends is a powerful tool. According to Lumb, nothing brings people together like breakfast, lunch, and dessert.

9\Zfd`e^ Dpj\c] ;li`e^ k_\ Lgj Xe[ ;fnej f] Ale`fi P\Xi B8PC8 =<IE8E;F After I survived my Orgo II final at the end of the spring semester, my former roommate and I celebrated with ice cream at White Mountain. Before we went our separate ways—she to Commencement and traveling around the world as a filmmaker, and I back home to work in a lab and figure out what I was going to do with the rest of my life—I asked her what to expect in my junior year. She told me that it would be the year I would become myself. It was such

an abstract answer at the time, but I think I’m starting to finally understand what she meant.

From what I’ve learned during my first month back on campus, junior year is lonely. I thought I would know the ins and outs of Boston College by now, and that this year was supposed to be a bit more enjoyable. After a rough two years, I’m left waiting for a fairy godmother to swoop in and tell me that things are going to change for the better.

For the most part, I’ve become the stereotypically confident BC student who looks like she has her life together: I have friends, I’m involved, and I like my classes. But if I take a closer look, I can see that the lawn isn’t perfectly manicured and the Gothic towers don’t shine as brightly as they used to.

I have friends. I learned early in my freshman year that it’s better to be friendly than run around making friends left and right. Besides, Dunbar’s number suggests that you have the cognitive ability to maintain only 150 healthy social relationships. That ever-constant state of friendliness and a pleasant smile plastered on my face hid the fact that I’m drowning in perfunctory “heys” and mindless small talk.

I can’t seem to recognize anyone in campus hotspots like the dining hall or the library. Oh that’s right, I would remind myself, I’m stuck here while they’re having fun studying abroad or off campus. I couldn’t care less what time zone they’re in—it’s all the same to me.

I’m involved. I remember calling home every day freshman

year to vent my frustrations on how everyone else looked like they were adjusting to college life while I was left floundering. I learned my lesson, and subsequently became so involved on campus I wouldn’t have time to think about home. Employers love leaders, so I forged on and became one. I learned to take initiative, assumed leadership roles in various student organizations, and formed meaningful relationships with professors and other mentors.

It’s weird seeing underclassmen look up to you as a leader knowing that I was once in their shoes.

I keep holding onto the belief that the interpersonal skills I learn will come in handy soon enough out there in the “real world.” It feels like I keep gathering speed as I continue to rack up leadership roles for my

resume, and I feel the burden of different commitments on my back.

I like my classes. I like what I’m learning, but the pressure to perform and the current of competition that define classroom culture will eventually wear you down as rivers invariably wear down the biggest of boulders. On an Excel sheet, my schedule looks perfectly fine, a handful of classes neatly distributed across five days. What you don’t see are the hours outside the classroom spent toiling over assignments and scrambling to master the subject material with the exam date looming ahead. I’ve had to micromanage every waking minute of my day, compartmentalizing meet-ups with friends into neat 30-minute time slots while setting aside a few hours a day to focus on my schoolwork.

So yes, junior year is certainly the year where I will become myself—I just didn’t know it would be such a messy, lonely process. My body is on autopilot as I go through the motions of college life. The newly crisp autumn wind chills me to the bone as I walk through campus, but for now it’s the only thing keeping me awake. Looking up at the cloudless sky and bright sun, I make a point to laugh—a genuine laugh or a crazed laugh of defiance, I don’t know which and it doesn’t really matter—at least once during the day.

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The faithful crowd in maroon and gold collectively held its breath.

Superfans flooded Brighton and Shea, firing up the grill as Alumni Stadium opened its doors for the first time in 2016. Though three weeks in, the conditions made for a perfect home opener: blue skies, crisp fall temperatures, and a bad FCS opponent.

But would it really be a perfect opener for Boston College football without a little stress?

Just three minutes into the game, Wagner—a team from the Division I-AA’s Northeast Conference, which went 1-11 last season but can boast wins against D-II St. Anselm and NAIA Concordia (Mich.) in 2016—took off. Seahawks quarterback Alex Thomson faked two handoffs, before the offensive line opened a perfect hole on the left. A missed, diving tackle and 55 yards later, Wagner had a 7-0 lead. The Eagles have had their fair share of bad moments in the past season, from Wake Forest in 2015 to Virginia Tech last week. But nothing would compare to the embarrassment of a home defeat to an FCS team.

Fortunately for everyone in Chestnut Hill, those fears were quickly destroyed by a BC running game that aims at a return to national prominence.

In total, the Eagles ran for 300 yards while stifling Wagner defensively for much of the remainder of Saturday. And for the first time since Sept.

It’s back, baby!

Football has officially returned to Chestnut Hill after three weeks of off-campus games, and boy, did it come back with a bang. Boston College welcomed Wagner College to Alumni Stadium for a 42-10 blowout, giving the Eagles a much-needed confidence boost. The Eagles (2-2, 0-2 Atlantic Coast) pulled away from the Seahawks (2-1) in the second quarter, scoring two touchdowns and allowing only a field goal to take a 28-10 lead into halftime. Although BC would go on to dominate the second half, finishing completely in control of the entire game, head coach Steve Addazio saw room for improvement heading into future, tougher matchups.

Offensive Line How would Addazio describe his offensive line today?

“I would say that it was consistently inconsistent.”

That sounds about right. The unit has experience playing together, but it is very clear that this offensive line needs more experience playing well together. There is no excuse for some of the mistakes made today. Wagner should never have come close to stopping running backs like Jonathan Hilliman in the backfield, but on several occasions the run was stifled at or before the line of scrimmage.

“There were times today … we were literally blowing guys off the ball, six yards, but losing sight on a gap scheme,” Addazio said. “All of a sudden you

See BC vs. Wagner, B3

See Football Notebook, B3

In five years of covering her, it’s rare that we at The Heights caught Alex Carpenter smiling.

Seriously, go back and look at the archives. I’ve covered women’s hockey myself several times and haven’t seen it in person. Don’t even get me started on the hundreds of photos I have cycled through to come up with the perfect featured image or gallery. Every time we captured one of the many amazing moments she created on the ice, Carpenter was locked in. Whether she barrelled at the net or ripped a shot from the blue line, Carpenter displayed a unique intensity at all times.

The only smile that comes to mind was from the Clarkson game, when Haley Skarupa scored her overtime goal to send Boston College to the national championship. But that one wasn’t even for Carpenter’s own accomplishment. And, other than that singular moment, there’s nothing but the utmost focus.

But on Friday night, Carpenter donned a bright smile of beaming joy and bliss to be back home.

It was the first time she took to the ice in Kelley Rink for a game since the NCAA Quarterfinals against Northeastern this March. Now a member of the NWHL’s Boston Pride, Carpenter joined four fellow alumni—Maggie Taverna ’09, Blake Bolden ’13, Emily Field ’15, and Lexi Bender ’16—in an exhibition game against the Eagles, a 3-2 win for the defending Isobel Cup champions.

For 60 minutes, Carpenter carefully reminded us what made her the best in the business. Megan Keller, the best defender in the country, struggled to fight Carpenter off the boards, even with her 5-foot-11 reach.

It wasn’t even a competition against BC’s other defenders. Carpenter easily bodied anyone who was in her way to get the puck.

Offensively, Carpenter put on a show. On a Pride power play, she was virtually untouchable. She once attempted a wraparound behind Katie Burt, before doubling back around Toni Ann Miano, shaking the defender out of her skates. She then rested on Burt’s right while the goalie sold out to left, sending a perfect cross-crease pass that was just missed

by Gigi Marvin.

For minutes at a time, Carpenter would park herself in front of the net.

Any time her blue liners would chuck up a shot at Burt, Carpenter was there to attempt to tip the puck into the twine. Head coach Katie Crowley would send two or three bodies at a time in Carpenter’s direction, knowing full well how dangerous she is.

Oh yeah, she scored a goal, too.

With under a minute remaining in the second period, Carpenter received a pass from Rachel Llanes from behind the net. She sent a clapper from the top of the left circle zipping past Burt’s left shoulder.

Homecomings like this are rarely easy in sports. Not everyone responds well to their favorite player donning different colors in the place where he or she gave them so many memories.

Mets fans like me initially cheered for Daniel Murphy when he returned to Citi Field in May. Despite joining the rival Washington Nationals, it was only fitting to pay our respects to Murphy, whose power outburst helped carry New York to the 2015 National League Pennant. But 19 games, seven home runs, and 21 RBIs later, let’s just say Murph isn’t treated so politely in Queens anymore.

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INSIDE SPORTS THIS ISSUE

Men’s Soccer: Bruening Takes Over

Field Hockey: Rough Weekend for BC

North Carolina’s Nils Bruening scored four goals in a 5-0 blowout of the Eagles.......B2

The Eagles had a tough time against Virginia and Massachusetts this weekend....B2

José Fernández..........................B2 Women’s Hockey.......................B4 Volleyball..................................B4

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MICHAEL SULLIVAN  One summer day, my dad approached me as I turned on WOR to listen to the Mets-Marlins game. He asked me what the pitching matchup was that day. I told him Jacob deGrom and José Fernández. He asked where the game was, and I said Marlins Park. Then, he asked, what was the point? Even as a fledgling baseball fan, my dad knew Fernández’s numbers in Miami: 29-2, 1.49 ERA. Of course, those numbers are as of this writing, but the point remains: resistance was futile against Fernández at home.

Still, I foolishly subscribe to Tug McGraw’s “Ya Gotta Believe” rants that he selfishly forced Mets fans to believe. Well, my dad was ultimately correct. Fernández tossed seven innings of two-run ball, striking out seven, and the Mets lost 7-2. It wasn’t Fernández’s best outing—not at Marlins Park nor even against the Mets. But it exemplified the dominance he could bring out at any time. Though I was listening on the radio, I’m sure he was smiling the whole time.

RILEY OVEREND  As electric as Fernández was on the bump, my favorite memory of the CubanAmerican came when he was in the dugout during his rookie season in 2013. Giancarlo Stanton stepped up to the plate in the bottom of the ninth with the Marlins trailing 1-0 and needing some late-game magic. Stanton launched a high fastball deep over the left-center wall and sent the crowd into a frenzy. But no one was more excited than Fernández—as soon as he saw Stanton’s moonshot, he pounded on the dugout railing like Donkey Kong and celebrated as if he had just scored the game-winning goal for his country in the World Cup. It was as animated as I’ve ever seen someone on a baseball diamond, but it was par for the course for Fernández. Pure joy.

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ANNABEL STEELE  My favorite player Bryce Harper’s motto is “Make Baseball Fun Again.” Fernández did just that. One memorable play from Fernández came back in 2013, when he was a rookie making a name for himself and tearing up the league (he would go on to win the National League Rookie of the Year). Troy Tulowitzki, then the shortstop for the Rockies, hit a hard line drive toward Fernández.

The pitcher stretched his glove out and snagged the ball. Tulowitzki stopped abruptly and stared at Fernández. “Did you catch that?” he asked incredulously. “Yes, yes I did,” Fernández replied, chuckling.

Tulowitzki stood in place for a moment, totally stunned, as Fernández returned to the mound. That was Fernández in a nutshell—ridiculously talented and always keeping the mood light. He was a fantastic competitor and a good person, and he will be missed.

It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. Boston College field hockey was poised to bounce back from an overtime loss 3 UMass at home Boston College 2 to No. 16 Virginia with a resounding victory against the University of Massachusetts on Sunday. The No. 9 Eagles had struggled recently, dropping games to ranked opponents like Northwestern, Maryland, and Syracuse. But the team still had enough talent to recover from these losses, especially against a weaker opponent like UMass.

Nobody told that to UMass, though. The Minutewomen stormed onto the Newton Field Hockey Complex and refused to quit, coming back from deficits twice to force overtime.

BC showed flashes of promise, but could not build up enough momentum to seize control of the game.

In the end, UMass pulled out a 3-2 overtime victory, dipping BC’s record below .500.

UMass (5-4, 1-4 Atlantic 10) attacked first, recording two shots on

goal early in the game. Five minutes into the action, Nicole Miller and Anne Dijkstra tested BC (4-5, 1-2 Atlantic Coast) and goalkeeper Audra Hampsch. Five minutes later, Nicole Kuerzi fired a shot on goal. Hampsch protected the net on each of these shots, making saves and handling the pressure well early in the game.

Lucy Lytle opened up shooting for BC. At first, UMass goalkeeper Emily Hazard denied her attempts, but Lytle would not be stifled for long. Almost 23 minutes into play, Brigid Wood sent a pass flying toward the goal.

Lytle’s stick found the ball, and she poked it past Hazard for the first goal of the game. It was Lytle’s fourth goal of the season and freshman Wood’s first assist of her college career.

The Eagles’ lead would not last long. About five minutes later, the Minutewomen managed to tie the score up at one apiece. Izzie Delario controlled the ball along the left side of the field, drawing BC defenders towards her. As she approached the goal, she ripped a cross to the cluster of defenders and teammates in front of the net.

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BC had two leads that the Minutewomen erased before losing in overtime. before it reached Hampsch, but the Eagles failed to secure possession of the ball. Hawkshaw gathered the rebound in and sent a shot flying past Hampsch, bringing the score to 2-2.

The Eagles opened up shooting in overtime. McCoy fired a shot on Hazard, but the ball went wide.

The Minutewomen received a lucky break when BC’s Ymke Rose Gote was penalized with a yellow card less than nine minutes into the overtime period.

With BC playing one man down for at least five minutes, UMass had the advantage and made sure to benefit from it.

Less than three minutes later, Dijkstra found herself facing down a BC defender in possession of the ball.

Dijkstra made her move, stealing the ball and slipping past the defender for an unobstructed shot on goal. Dijkstra fired a shot low to the ground, passing Hampsch for the game-winning goal.

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Twenty seconds into the second period of overtime, Kaela Dickerman of Louisville maneuvered her way through Boston College 2 the enLouisville 3 tire B C defense and scored the game-winning goal. Many of the Eagles reacted by dropping to their knees, astonished by the turnout—a tough, abrupt ending to a contest that they should have won.

Soccer is a long endurance game, and Boston College women’s soccer (9-2-1, 1-2 Atlantic Coast) experienced this firsthand on Sunday afternoon. Despite controlling the contest, and holding a 2-0 lead into the 74th minute, the Eagles failed to prevail against the Louisville Cardinals (7-

2-2, 2-0-1), falling 3-2 in overtime on a 90-degree sunny afternoon in Louisville, Ky. The first half was dominated by the Eagles, as their high-powered offense pressed into Louisville territory constantly. BC’s bread and butter involved playing the ball from the midfield down the line into the corners, where it would look to serve up a cross into the 18-yard box. Often these plays would result in corner kicks, which enabled the Eagles’ first goal.

In the 26th minute, Olivia Vaughn effortlessly buried home a beautiful ball that was volleyed to her by teammate Jade Ruiters, off of an outstanding corner kick that Samantha Hiatt served to the far side of the 18-yard box. This was the only time that the Eagles were able to turn a corner kick into a goal, but their strategy of

serving up long corners and winning the first and second 50-50 chance provided them with many good opportunities throughout the game.

It did not take long for the Eagles to see the ball go into the back of the net again. In the 33rd minute, BC’s McKenzie Meehan was given a great through ball that she finished past the diving goalie. The goal was called back due to a controversial offside call. But later, in the 38th minute, Vaughn delivered again. From just outside of the 18-yard box, she placed the ball perfectly in the top right corner, giving Louisville goaltender, Taylor Bucklin, no chance to make a play. The Eagles entered the half leading 2-0, and showing no sign of letting up.

As the contest resumed for the second period, the Eagles continued to play in an upbeat and aggressive

manner. The only problem with playing like this is that it can leave you vulnerable to the counter attack.

In the 74th minute, a turnover by the Eagles in the middle of the field gave the Cardinals the ball and an opportunity to score. Louisville forward Jill Vetere drew a foul on the play inside of the 18-yard box, and proceeded to convert the penalty kick, making it a 2-1 game. This goal gave the Cardinals an energy boost that they used to gain momentum down the stretch.

In the 79th minute, Louisville’s Shelby Cohen looked like she was about to score, before BC goalie Alexis Bryant made an outstanding save. In spite of this tremendous play

by BC, the momentum had quite clearly shifted at the most important moment of the game. Finally, in the 89th minute, Katrine Bjerke tied the game up for the Cardinals 2-2 with a

header off a long throw in, resulting in overtime. The excitement and energy of this wild ending to regulation time was too much for the Eagles to overcome in the extra period. Louisville drilled the post on a wide-open chance in the first overtime period, before Dickerman sealed the Eagles’ fate 19 seconds into the second overtime half.

While in many ways the Eagles appeared to be the better team for the majority of the contest, they were unable to deliver down the stretch.

ACC play provides a challenge with each game, and it is often difficult to come out victorious if you are not playing your best soccer at the end of the game. BC has done many things right so far this year, and the Eagles will look to move past the defeat as they head back home to face North Carolina State next Saturday.

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Flying to Chapel Hill to face No. 9 North Carolina, fans wondered: which BC would they see on Friday night?

Unfortunately for Eagles fans, it wasn’t the good one—BC fell 5-0 to the Tar Heels in Chapel Hill, N.C. From the opening whistle, the Tar Heels (6-1, 2-0 Atlantic Coast) controlled the pace of the game. In

the 33rd minute, Alan Winn caught the Eagles (5-3, 1-2) defense off guard as he made a run down the left side of the pitch. Just as he was about to run out of room near the sideline, he laid the ball off for Nils Bruening right in front of the goal. Bruening beat BC goalkeeper Cedric Saladin to the left on his first touch, giving UNC a 1-0 lead. The Tar Heels, notorious for seldom allowing comebacks, struck again just two minutes later.

Once again, it was Bruening who found the back of the net. This time, midfielder Nico Mela dribbled down the right side and floated a beautiful cross over the back line and directly onto the foot of Bruening. The sophomore slotted home his third goal of the season past Saladin for a 2-0 cushion before halftime.

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waiting for the ball, and she sent it flying past Hampsch for the score.

The Eagles came out of the break firing on all cylinders. They started the second half with a penalty corner and three shots. Despite the efforts from Eryn McCoy, Chelcie Mendonça, and Leah Frome, BC was unable to break the deadlock. McCoy’s shot went wide, Hazard saved Mendonça’s shot, and Frome’s was blocked before it reached the goalkeeper. With all the pressure, it seemed inevitable that the Eagles would find the back of the net before too long. Once again, it was Lytle who managed to record the goal for BC. The Eagles were awarded another penalty corner less than seven minutes into the half. Frederique Haverhals received the ball at the top of the D. She fired a shot off towards Hazard, but it took a deflection off of Lytle. The ball flew high and past Hazard into the back of the net, giving BC a 2-1 lead.

The second goal was a record-setting one for Lytle—it was her first career multi-goal game.

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opportunities. In the 67th minute, Schulze-Geisthovel weaved through several Tar Heels before the ball rolled to winger Ike Normesinu. But his shot deflected off of UNC keeper James Pyle, who blanked BC with five of his six saves coming in the final 45 minutes.

With 10 minutes remaining, the Eagles earned their fourth corner of the night and the set piece nearly cut the deficit in half, but Pyle stood on his head again to preserve the shutout. The clock continued to wind down, and it appeared as if BC would suffer a only a modest loss to one of the nation’s best teams.

Then, the wheels came off.

Bruening, determined for a hat trick, received a feed from Zach Wright and finished in traffic to push the Tar Heel lead to 3-0. A minute later, Bruening brilliantly placed a strike off the right post and in from about a dozen yards out. His fourth

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goal of the match, and fifth of the season, left the Eagles searching for answers on defense.

Before time expired, Winn tacked on a fifth UNC score thanks to a screamer from beyond the 18 yard box that found that top left corner of the net. Ed Kelly’s squad couldn’t stop the bleeding.

For members of the ACC, who are surrounded by the nation’s best teams, losses like these are almost inevitable. It happened to BC last year around the same time to Wake Forest, which similarly dismantled the Eagles with superior technical play and had a big day from an individual phenom: No. 1 overall pick in the MLS SuperDraft, Jack Harrison.

There’s no cause for immediate panic. The Eagles should’ve had at least two goals against the No. 9 team in the country and outplayed the Tar Heels for most of the second

half. Once Len Zeugner is back to full strength, the defense—which also struggled against Albany—will be more reliable and can ease some pressure off of Saladin. Kelly still has a core of explosive scorers and one of the best midfielders in college soccer, Zeiko Lewis, at his disposal.

But BC needs to prove it is mentally prepared to deal with adversity.

Back-to-back goals are often a show of a lack of focus, a sign that the players were still thinking about the last score instead of preventing the next one. Experienced teams know how to stop the bleeding rather than allowing three goals in the final eight minutes.

After two consecutive Friday night road games against conference opponents, Kelly will bring his lineup back home to Newton Campus Field to take on Louisville next week. Once again, the question remains: Which brand of Eagle soccer will we see?

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Running the ball was the game plan against Wagner, according to head coach Steve Addazio.

He hasn’t been pleased with his team’s inability to establish balance in the offense early this season, and it starts with the ground game.

“We felt like we really haven’t run the ball well yet, up to what our standard is,” Addazio said.

“So we wanted to emphasize running the ball today, and we did that.”

Immediately following that Thomson rushing touchdown, Jonathan Hilliman led a quick charge downfield. A 41-yard run to the left, with a hole opened

by Aaron Monteiro, set up the Eagles (2-2, 0-2 Atlantic Coast) in the red zone. Shortly after,

Hilliman sharply cut left for a two-yard scamper and a tie game. The redshirt sophomore continued that strong play on the subsequent drive, showing his strength when bowling over a Wagner (1-2) defender for a solid gain.

It’s the type of play that Hilliman expects to make week in and week out. Entering the day, Hilliman had 158 yards on 49 carries—a subpar 3.22 yards per attempt. Take out his 73-yard touchdown against Georgia Tech, and that figure drops to 1.77 yards per attempt. With his 92 yards on 19 carries, not to mention two touchdowns, Hilliman showed flashes of what he can do.

“I feel like those are things I’m supposed to do when the hole is that big,” Hilliman said of his offensive line.

On that drive, the Eagles quarterback finished the job.

Patrick Towles nailed a 22-yard pass to Tommy Sweeney, before scrambling from 17 yards out to pay dirt. On that play, Towles rolled out to the right. Without

finding anyone open, Towles made a Wagner defender miss, before running back to the left.

Once there, Monteiro and left guard Jim Cashman did the rest of the work. It’s not the kind of play that an ACC defense might allow. But against Wagner? Not a problem.

Wagner again gave BC a scare to enter the second quarter.

Thomson again drove down the field with a scramble and a few good passes (helped by a silly hands to the face penalty by BC).

That set up James Cooper for a 34-yard field goal.

But that would be the last time the Seahawks came even close to scoring.

On the ensuing drive, the Eagles attempted to run up the middle with Hilliman, to no avail.

So Towles went to the air. He connected with Michael Walker on a fine, one-handed grab along the left sideline for 18 yards.

That set up a perfect play-action pass on first down—a rarity for the Eagles—to Towles’ favorite target: Jeff Smith. The 58-yard

grab was the longest of Smith’s short receiving career and his third touchdown of over 30 yards this season.

With the Eagles pulling away, Addazio sent in a new face: Davon Jones . The St . John’s Shrewsbury product redshirted last season as a defensive back, but has since converted to running back. During summer ball, Addazio touted Jones as one of his secret weapons and as one of the fastest guys on the field.

What Addazio neglected to mention was his toughness. Jones appears most comfortable when hitting the circle button and spinning off defensive backs, or carrying linebackers for 10 yards at a time. He had 90 yards on only 12 attempts, including two of over 25 yards on the same drive.

He helped set up a Towles diving touchdown that put BC up 28-10 at the half.

“We really like his future,” Addazio said. “He has great feet, he has great vision. He’s tough, he’s a really physical guy. It’s really hard to stop Davon for much

less than four yards.”

On the second drive of the third quarter, the Eagles fully separated themselves. Another strong return by Rouse—53 yards on a punt—set up Hilliman to dance in off the left for a six-yard touchdown.

Towles then went to the air in the third, particularly to Walker.

The sophomore from Naples, Fla., showed off his soft shoes with another catch along the sidelines.

Towles then threw a screen to the BC sideline, and Monteiro and Cashman gave Walker enough room to shuffle back to the cutback lane in middle of the field for a 27-yard score. It’s a play that Walker said he was tabbed with working on throughout the summer, and has finally clicked.

With the help of that left side of the offensive line, Walker found the end zone for the first time in his career, a thrilling moment for the young receiver.

“It was amazing, like everything that everyone ever said it would be,” Walker said.

Of course, Addazio saw plenty

of room for improvement. The Eagles had several silly penalties, and missed open throws on offense, which the head coach said may be due to the emphasis on the run game this week.

Towles’ stats were a plus from last week—9-of-16 for 157 yards—but Addazio still felt there were yards left on the field.

“We wanted to force the issue a little bit today,” Addazio said of the ground game. “But we have to be consistent in the throw game.”

Most importantly, the Eagles were just happy to be back in Chestnut Hill. Between Dublin, Gillette Stadium, and Blacksburg, a 1-2 road trip, defensive end Harold Landry and Towles agreed that it’s all about just resettling in the home clubhouse and hearing the cheers of their own fans.

“It felt amazing to be back in front of our home crowd,” Landry said.

After a long three weeks, how sweet home is. Even against an FCS team.

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say, ‘Oh my God—they’re hitting us at the line of scrimmage.’”

He suggested that the offensive line may have been thrown off by all the movement, even on slower pressure. As they play together more and more, Addazio believes that the o-line will adjust and handle the pressure better. He continued to turn to the run game Saturday as a way to give the offensive line more practice to carry into later games.

Offensive line improvements can be a great help to this team.

BC has historically been a strong running team. Developing a stellar o-line will only help the running game emerge as a serious threat this season. Hilliman has proven that he has the speed and explosiveness to make big plays. Giving

him extra support will turn him into a huge asset for the Eagles this year.

The offensive line should certainly be a point of emphasis for the team at practice. Allowing Wagner to stuff the run at the line of scrimmage is a bad sign.

If the offensive line can take the experience and improve together, BC can turn to the run game more against tougher opponents. If it continues to struggle, it will mean bad news down the road. “[The offensive line] is very much a work in progress,” Addazio said. “Being consistently inconsistent there stalls many drives.”

Penalties BC shot itself in the foot with penalties today. From the beginning of the game, the Eagles struggled to play cleanly—Michael Walker was whistled for a hold

on the opening drive. After that, BC tallied seven penalties, losing 85 yards in the process. After the game, Addazio emphasized the need to fix the mistakes. “[Penalties] don’t occur at practice,” he said. “I’ll bring officials in and purposely say, ‘We really want you to call the pass interferences play close.’”

However he accomplishes it, Addazio must limit his team’s penalties. The Eagles bailed Wagner out on a number of occasions by nullif ying plays thanks to penalties. One notable example was a Tyler Rouse punt return early in the second quarter. Rouse dodged Seahawks and put his speed on display, giving BC excellent field position at the Wagner 17-yard line. His punt return was called back thanks to a block in the back.

There were more frustrating penalties to be committed for the Eagles. With less than two minutes to go in the first half, BC lost even more punt return yardage on a sideline interference call that had steam coming out of Addazio’s ears. And later in the game the Eagles were penalized for offensive pass interference.

In a game against Wagner, these penalties won’t impact the final score. But BC still needs to get in the practice of playing cleanly—committing unnecessary penalties against tougher opponents like Clemson or Florida State is going to hurt.

“Sometimes the penalties can be extremely disruptive to your flow,” Addazio said.

Slow Start In every single game this season, the Eagles have failed to

score first. In more competitive contests, it’s obviously a guessing game as to who will reach the end zone first. Nobody should be worried that BC allowed Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech to score first.

But Massachusetts and Wagner? Who expected the Eagles to find themselves facing early deficits to the Minutemen and Seahawks?

The Eagles recovered nicely in those two games, but this issue can and should still be addressed.

When BC hits a tougher stretch of its schedule, it will need all the momentum it can get. Allowing opponents to take early leads means playing catch-up. BC will need to focus on coming out of the gates strong and seizing an early lead.

This defense is still elite.

UMass and Wagner scored touch-

downs off of momentary lapses, broken plays. The concern isn’t with the defense. BC completely stifled Wagner today, allowing the Seahawks to accumulate only 45 rushing yards and 62 passing yards for 107 yards of total offense.

The offense needs to come out of the gates and score. On its first possession today, BC had four plays but lost six total yards (thanks to that holding call). Mike Knoll was called on to punt, giving the ball back to Wagner (who would score on the ensuing possession). Coming out of halftime, BC received the kickoff but could do nothing with the ball, resulting in a three-and-out and another punt. The Eagles need to show offensive signs of life on crucial possessions like these to build up leads and momentum.

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In many ways, this simple moment sums up the weekend for the Eagles—there were opportunities, but BC (5-7, 0-2 Atlantic Coast) was never able to take advantage of them. After two tough losses to Northeastern and Harvard the weekend prior, the Eagles were looking to open up ACC play with a pair of wins against Syracuse (210, 1-1) and No. 12 North Carolina (10-2, 2-0). It wouldn’t turn out that way in either case.

The first set against North Carolina was off to a promising start, as the teams kept pace with each other and the game was still tied late at 17-17. North Carolina then went on a 9-2 run that gave

it the 25-19 win. BC committed several errors that helped give the Tar Heels a one-set advantage as the teams moved into the second set.

Despite close scoring early, UNC dominated the beginning of the second set. North Carolina was finally able to capitalize on this momentum as it went up 18-10 on BC, which struggled to maintain a setting series. This set featured many long rallies and spectacular diving saves, especially by BC’S Devon Michaelis, but tentative play by BC resulted in a North Carolina 25-17 secondset victory.

The third set marked a transition for BC, according to head coach Chris Campbell.

“We talked about how late in a game you just have to go for it, and to my complete amazement they bought it and did exactly that,” Campbell said. “They just, from that point on they never backed down and that is the mentality that you got to have.”

The beginning of the third set had a similar feel to the first two sets. Midway through it, the Eagles

found themselves tied 16-16. This set, BC did not let itself get overwhelmed as it had in the previous two sets, as it went on a 7-3 run to win the third set. The fourth set followed suit, with BC maintaining its momentum to pull ahead early.

It was challenged by the Tar Heels, who were able to pull within two, but BC responded quickly and withstood the challenge to pull ahead 21-16 via a 4-2 run led by several kills from McKenna Gross.

BC continued these attacks to win the competitive fourth set 25-21 to force a fifth set.

The fifth set was intense from the first serve, with the entire match at stake. The teams exchanged points and found themselves tied 15-15, at which point they continued to trade off serves.

Neither team was able to get up by the required two points to win the set, so the game continued with fierce play until an attack error by the Eagles finally gave the Tar Heels the set and the match.

The North Carolina match featured a lot of impressive play from the Eagles, mostly notably by freshman Jill Strockis, who shined

this game with 12 kills, as well as Sophie West, who led the Eagles with a .333 hitting percentage. Sol Calvete also continued to make her mark, as she contributed 13.5 points to the BC effort.

BC opened the weekend on Friday against Syracuse. Neither team could maintain long scoring stretches. Soon, however, Syracuse grabbed hold of the momentum and never let go. The Orange went on an 8-3 scoring run midway into the game, until a kill from Sophie West momentarily stopped the surge of Syracuse. After another brief period of back and forth, BC pulled within three points, but it couldn’t pull close to Syracuse, as the Orange soon took the set 25–18.

Despite an impressive kill by Anna Skold to secure BC the first points of the set, the momentum of the first set carried with Syracuse into the second set. The Orange scored 12 unanswered points, including three aces via sophomore Jalisa Trotter, to put Syracuse up 12-1 early in the set.

The rest of the match suit, with BC losing the second set 25-12 to put

the team at a two-set disadvantage for the match.

Going into a must-win set, BC needed to take control early to make sure that it did not suffer a repeat of the second set. This is exactly what it did, as BC took an immediate lead that it never gave up. Syracuse pulled within one midway through the match, but BC remained unfazed as it responded to this challenge with an 11-2 run that featured many impressive kills by Gross. BC took the third set 25-15 to set up a fourth set that again served as a must-win opportunity for the Eagles.

The fourth set was competitive from the beginning, with the lead bouncing back and forth from Syracuse to BC. The Eagles retained the lead for a portion of the game, but the Orange fought back and tied the game 16-16, later allowing it to take the lead from BC. Despite strong play from Calvete and Sophie West late in the game, the Orange was able to take a close fourth set—and with it the match—25-21.

BC played well against the

Orange in the third and fourth sets, but it couldn’t topple the momentum built up by Syracuse in the first two sets.

The first ACC game of the season did not go as the Eagles had hoped, despite great play from Gross and Calvete, who led all players with a .294 hitting percentage. The Eagles could not overcome the force of the Syracuse duo of Gorelina and Weaker, who led the game in kills with 13 and 12 kills, respectively.

BC’s first two ACC games left much to be desired. The Eagles had multiple opportunities in both matches to take control of the game and get the win, but errors and tentative play prevented the Eagles from taking advantage. The courage BC played with at the end of the North Carolina match was a hopeful sign, as it showed how great BC can be when put under pressure.

Moving forward into the ACC portion of their schedule, the Eagles need to find a way to replicate this fire throughout entire games and not just in short spurts of competitive play.

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The Eagles saw potential in new faces as it lost to a host of old friends.

For Boston College women’s hockey, exhibition games rarely pit friend against friend. Most games come against Canadian collegiate or junior teams, like the Cambridge Rivulettes, the Eagles’ opponents on Friday evening. But in the team’s unofficial opener on Thursday against the NWHL’s Boston Pride, BC fought some familiar faces—in particular, the former face of the program, Alex Carpenter. The game featured five former Eagles ranging from the Class of ’09 to ’15, as BC debuted a host of green freshmen and sophomores in a 3-2 loss.

The Eagles appeared outmatched early in the first period, failing in the offensive zone. BC completed only two shots on goalie Brittany Ott. On the other end of the ice, the Pride—the NWHL’s inaugural Isobel Cup champions—battered goaltender Katie Burt to the tune of 11 shots. Seven minutes in, Wisconsin great and 2012 Patty Kazmaier Award winner Brianna Decker hurtled the puck at Burt, who narrowly missed it. BC failed to recover during the period, mostly backing behind the blue line to protect the net. It was an uncommon experience for Burt, who, thanks to the Eagles’ strong defensive corps, was rarely challenged last season. She only faced 20 shots on goal per game in 2015-16, with three games in single digits. Even so, Burt welcomed the opportunity for more practice, which so rarely

came last season.

“It’s much easier to stay in the game when you have a lot of shots, versus when you don’t,” Burt said.

“It’s really fun playing against all those high-caliber players, and I had a blast.”

BC returned to the ice energized. The aggression amped up after the Pride’s Amanda Pelkey made her way to the box for tripping. Less than a minute later, Alyssa Gagliardi sat alongside her, this time for slamming an Eagle into the boards. With a 5-on-3 power play secured for BC, freshman Caitrin Lonergan got to work. Off of a deflection from Kali Flanagan’s shot, Lonergan found a slot in between the goalie and the right pipe to poke the puck in. Immediately after her first goal as an Eagle, Lonergan went back for seconds. Though the result this time wasn’t a goal, Lonergan’s hustle provides some security in a group of freshmen that will have to make the jump up to college play—and reminds everyone that Lonergan is looked at by BC hockey experts as the solution to the loss of Carpenter.

To come full circle between new and old, Carpenter blasted one past Burt from between the faceoff circles. The former BC superstar had been itching for a goal all night, pushing past her former teammates for a one-on-one with Burt. The goal, which hit the net with just 42 seconds left in the period, only left BC wanting a win more.

“Obviously it stings when you’re on the other side of it, usually she’s [Carpenter] scoring goals for your

team,” defenseman Megan Keller said. “But she’s a tremendous player, and you gotta expect goals from her.”

Despite another 5-on-3 power play for the Eagles early in the third period, BC could not convert.

When the Pride got its own specialteams opportunity later on, however, Gigi Marvin ripped the puck past Burt from the blue line.

After Makenna Newkirk’s third penalty of the night cancelled out an Eagles power play, BC’s defense made quick work of the puck off of a faceoff. Kenzie Kent scooped it out of the corner of BC’s zone and passed it to Toni Ann Miano, who handed it over to Keller for the goal. Keller, the nation’s points leader among defensemen in 201516, knew that it was impossible for her to not make that goal. That is, if she wanted to return to the locker room after the game.

“I had a wide-open net, so if I didn’t put that one in, I think Kinger would’ve been a little mad at me,” Keller said.

For a team that lost six of its players this season and has many sophomores who have never seen ice time in college, the Eagles did a good job of keeping themselves in the game.

Five members of the Pride are Olympians, several are Patty Kazmaier Award winners, and all of them are now paid to play hockey on a championship-winning team—these are the best of the best, to say the least. Freshmen Lonergan and Caroline Ross proved that they will be integral to

this season, as Ross displayed an aggression and talent for redirecting the puck that is key to a good defense.

Something to look out for is the development of Makenna Newkirk.

Last season’s breakout player with 49 points—second in the nation among freshmen—Newkirk came back from the summer in a new position. After playing wing last season, she will line up as a center, likely to replace the hole left by Carpenter and her fellow graduate Dana Trivigno.

Though the right move down the road—Newkirk is a playmaker, and playing as a center will only increase her chances of creating goal-scoring opportunities for her and her linemates—she appears to still be adjusting to the new spot.

Usually one to stay away from aggression, Newkirk landed in the penalty box three times over the game, a huge increase from her total of nine penalties over 41 games last season.

Still, head coach Katie Crowley saw the potential in all 24 Eagles during the game, remarking after that they’ve been able to do a lot with a little.

“To have that be a 3-2 game, I was really impressed with the way our players played and how the team rallied together and kept up the fight,” Crowley said. “To have that kind of a game three practices in, I’m pretty happy with that.”

If BC keeps improving in later practices and games, it appears Crowley will be pretty happy for the rest of the season, too.

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It appeared Carpenter’s was no exception. Though there were hugs and pleasantries exchanged after the game, all of that was forgotten while the clock was running. One mini-fight broke out involving Carpenter in front of the Pride’s net. And earlier in the week, I spoke with Tori Sullivan, who jokingly (I think) said that she was looking forward to going up against Carpenter.

But Carpenter’s return still brought back the great memories of her time on the ice at BC. And it got me to thinking how much longer it’ll be until her No. 5 is in the rafters.

There’s no question that Carpenter is the best—and will likely always be the best—player in BC women’s hockey history. She’s a Patty Kazmaier Award winner.

She has 134 goals, 145 assists, and 279 points: all three are program bests. Those three basic counting statistics don’t even begin to scrape the surface of the number of times her name is in

BC’s record book.

I’d go further than that. It’s hard to go cross sport and say who is the “best.” And there’s no doubt that all of BC’s sports have had plenty of phenomenal athletes. (Forgive me if I forget a few.) BC has had its share of football greats: Matt Ryan, Luke Kuechly, Doug Flutie. Men’s basketball has had a few, in Troy Bell, Dana Barros, and Jared Dudley. Women’s basketball has Carolyn Swords. And, of course, men’s hockey has had three Hobey Baker winners—David Emma, Mike Mottau, and Johnny Gaudreau—plus countless NHL stars.

But has there ever been a single player more dominant than Carpenter while at BC? All of those players had great careers, but none were as head and shoulders above the competition from the second they put on the maroon and gold as Carpenter. In her four seasons at BC, she led the team in points. Her freshman year, she was sixth in points in Hockey East. The other three

seasons, she led the conference.

In five years—one of which she redshirted to win a silver medal at the 2014 Sochi Olympics for the United States—Carpenter transformed the Eagles. When she began here, Crowley was reworking a program into one that deserved national respect.

They had two Frozen Four appearances, four Beanpots, and one Hockey East title in 17 seasons. In the five years since, BC has four Frozen Fours, two Beanpots, three Hockey East regular-season titles, a Hockey East tournament title, and an NCAA Championship game appearance.

More importantly, Carpenter has made the Eagles the hottest ticket in all of college hockey.

She has made Chestnut Hill the No. 1 place for recruits, and Crowley and associate head coach Courtney Kennedy the two everyone wants to play for.

Look no further than this year’s recruiting class to prove that.

Caroline Ross, Delaney Belinskas, and Bridget McCarthy all have impressive resumes.

Caitrin Lonergan highlights them all. She comes in as a two-time member of the United States U-18 team. She won the New England Division I Player of the Year Award. If things break right, Lonergan is widely expected to be the next Carpenter. She even showed flashes of her potential in Carpenter’s presence, with a goal on Thursday.

Yet, as she usually does, Carpenter made the show about her on Thursday. Not on purpose, of course, but by going out and being the best player on the ice.

If it’s the last time we see her play at Kelley Rink, she certainly put on a show.

But it won’t be the last time she does step on the ice. The next time will be in formal attire, over a red carpet, as her No. 5 is raised alongside the other banners. That day shouldn’t be too far away.

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The story of seven Wild West heroes joining together to defend innocent townspeople from evil thieves has been told before. That doesn’t just refer to the legendary 1960 version of The Magnificent Seven, of which this new one is a remake, or even Seven Samurai, the Japanese original, but to the long tradition of Wild West films. The MAGNIFICENT SEVEN MagnifiMetro-Goldyn-Mayer cent Seven is full of all the classic Western tropes you could imagine: the pistol-twirling gunslinger, the silhouetted horseback rider, the tense duel in the middle of the street. Director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) brings in aspects from many of the most iconic Western films to create an action-filled movie that should satisfy any fan of the genre.

Instead of the band of thieves from the original film, the main villain in The Magnificent Seven is Bartholomew Bogue, an

industrialist hoping to turn the small town of Rose Creek into part of his mining empire.

Played by Peter Sarsgaard, Bogue is a churchburning, goateed killer who equates capitalism with God in his opening scene. This generic ‘evil industrialist’ idea essentially remains his motivation throughout as he terrifies the townspeople, killing indiscriminately and trying to force the townsfolk to sell their land for cheap. While the town is in distress, bounty hunter Sam Chisholm, played by Denzel Washington, rides into town to hunt down a wanted murderer. He is quickly dragged into the fight to save Rose Creek by Emma Cullen, the widow of one of Bogue’s victims. After agreeing to defend the town, Chisholm gathers together six disparate men to fight with him.

From here the plot moves quickly toward the inevitable confrontation between Bogue and the Seven.

Washington delivers a predictably compelling lead performance, playing his character with the confident righteousness of the best Western heroes. Chris Pratt, one of the seven, plays exactly the type of character he’s played in all of his biggest blockbuster movies—a wisecracking, charming tough guy. It’s a char-

acter he plays well, making some unexpected emotional moments in the film’s second half land convincingly. The other five heroes, played by Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Byung-hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, and Martin Sensmeier, are relegated to slightly less active roles, but all do serviceable jobs, particularly D’Onofrio, whose high-voiced, religious mountain-man character was strangely fascinating.

As the antagonist, Sarsgaard delivers a fine performance, although he is only in a limited number of scenes. His character lacks any serious depth, as do many of the other minor parts, but he still manages to play the villainous role well. Haley Bennett, who plays Cullen, delivers one of the best performances of the film, her grief and anger providing an authentic motivation for the violence of the final battle.

Including the explosion-and-gunfire-filled ending, the film is full of action scenes. Almost all of the characters are introduced through some violent escapade that ends in a shootout or killing of some sort. Near-constant gunfire characterizes many scenes as the film stacks up a considerable body count. For the most part,

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‘The Magnificent Seven’ is an homage that ecapsulates the chaotic elements of the Wild West.

The Magnificent Seven seems self-aware of its overt violence and action set pieces.

Many of the aspects of the plot, such as Bogue’s villainous greed or Washington’s quick-draw revolver skills, toe the line of cliché, but, through steady directing and acting, the film manages to remain an homage to these Western tropes without fully falling into kitsch. Fuqua directs the action well, maintaining the tension before each gunfight and the momentum during the chaos.

The throrough script serves as a vehicle for action set pieces, while avoiding the baddialogue pitfalls of many action-based films.

Though many of the characters lack any larger emotional journey or deep-seated motivation, there is little reason to expect that kind of story in The Magnificent Seven. The movie delivers the expected fighting and excitement with likeable heroes who carry the story through to its bloody conclusion.

The Magnificent Seven will inevitably remain in the shadow of its predecessors, but it stands as a solidly entertaining. It will not outshine the original or reach any heights beyond the expected, but it remains an entertaining and enjoyable movie—a worthy entry in the Wild West tradition.

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Though ‘Nine-Nine’ has plenty to subvert the formulaic cop procedural, its continued evolution makes for some of the best comedy on television.

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In a television age rife with such unusual subjects as dragons, hackers, and meth-dealing chemistry teachers, a cop comedy-drama seems too ordinary to be a likely stand-out.

But Brooklyn Nine-Nine does just that.

Winner of two Emmys and two Golden Globes—for Best Series and Best Actor, both in the musical/comedy category—Brooklyn Nine-Nine shines as a compelling cop dramedy that refuses to take itself too seriously.

The show stars Andy Samberg as the immature yet gifted Detective Jake Peralta, who works alongside his cold, robotic boss, Captain Ray Holt (Andre Braugher). Samberg is the star of this summer’s Popstar and is also recognizable for his many videos with the comedy group The Lonely Island and his fan-favorite d ay s o n BROOKLYN NINE-NINE Saturday Night Fox Live, while Braugher ha s had his fair share of TV appearances, notably on TNT’s Men of a Certain Age. While the fourth season premiere last Tuesday only features Samberg and Braugher out of the show’s main cast, much of Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s appeal lies in the strength of its collective ensemble. This includes Jake’s uptight, validation-craving girlfriend Detective Amy Santiago (Melissa Fumero, Gossip Girl), his best friend and bumbler Detective Charles Boyle (Joe Lo Truglio, Reno 911!), disengaged

administrator Gina Linetti (Chelsea Peretti, Twitter comedian and Samberg’s elementary school classmate), Stephanie Beatriz (in her breakout role) as mysterious detective Rosa Diaz, and the always hilarious Terry Crews as a detective also named Terry.

Since its first two seasons, when it was primarily an office comedy set in the nine-nine station, the show has evolved into something more plot-driven, with increasingly higher stakes. After the third season finale, which saw the mysterious mobster and killer Figgis evade police raids and threaten Jake’s life, he and Holt end up in Witness Protection in Florida.

“Coral Palms, Pt. 1” therefore sees Jake and Holt masquerading as frosted-tipped ATV salesman Larry and his mini-golf employee neighbor Greg. Holt has adjusted well to Coral Palms, befriending the local power-walking old ladies and angling for a promotion to assistant manager. Jake, meanwhile, has suffered six months’ depression and is restless both to see his old girlfriend and to get back to police work.

When Holt catches Jake working the Figgis case, he steals his files, prompting Jake, in a Machiavellian streak, to retaliate by ingratiating himself with the mini-golf manager, taking the assistant management job, assigning Holt mini golf’s most unsavory (and increasingly ridiculous) tasks, and turning the power-walkers on him. But when Holt, on hot dog costume duty, and Jake trip hilariously over their facility’s go-karts, one woman threatens to post the would-be viral video, which would compromise their new identities and make them Figgis’s targets once more.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s deviation from a

standard procedural format allows for many more gag opportunities than usual. Many of these usually rely on Jake’s incongruous silliness in spite of his detective genius, or involve jokes in their casework. There’s plenty of each—for example, tracking down the viral videographer means identifying her by her tattoo of Jesus punching Osama bin Laden, which turns out to be the area’s most common tattoo request. But now the show also has to deal with Jake’s identity issues. Jake visibly impresses Holt with his work on the Figgis case in his illicit files, but he refuses to say his favorite movie is, as his cover requires, Failure to Launch (instead of Die Hard, which he references over the seasons).

The new episode doesn’t quite feel like the Brooklyn Nine-Nine of last year without its main cast (or the actual nine-nine office), but it also feels more serious than usual. Jake’s saying a brief hello to his girlfriend’s picture is touching, and Holt’s decision to trust Jake’s instinct to return to police work, and to call him “son,” lessen the intensity of the episode’s feeling of isolation.

Looking forward, the show seems well up to the challenge of balancing plot progress, emotion, and sitcom silliness. The next two week’s episodes are parts two and three of “Coral Palms,” although hopefully the gang at the nine-nine office figures in somehow. It doesn’t seem like the hunt for Figgis is letting up anytime soon, either, which could make it still key in this season’s drama.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine isn’t exactly what it was last year—it’s better. And it will be even more compelling when Jake and Holt join the rest of the detectives on the case.

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The plot is as predictable as it could get, but it entertains kids, so in that respect, Storks reaches the goal it sets out to achieve.

Directed by Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland, Storks soared into theaters last Friday. The background is set up very quickly and the movie soon gets into its groove.

Storks used to deliver babies to awaiting fam-

ilies, until a stork named Jasper (Danny Trejo) lost the address of the baby he was assigned to deliver. Eighteen years later, the storks have sworn off babies and have built a package-delivery empire more than a little reminiscent of everyone’s favorite online shopping site. The baby without an address has finally grown up into the well-intentioned, yet accidentally destructive Tulip (Katie Crown), who works at the storks’ factory. Boss stork Hunter (Kelsey Grammer) orders the movie’s protagonist, a hard-working stork named Junior (Andy Samberg) to fire her and send her into the world, where she can’t wreak any more havoc on profit margins.

If Junior can complete this task, he will realize his dream of being the boss of Cornerstone.com. Junior finds himself unable to terminate the sweet and precocious Tulip, and instead relegates her to the abandoned letter department. Enter Nate Gardner (Anton Starkman), son of stereotypically busy parents Henry (Ty Burrell) and Sarah (Jennifer Aniston). Feeling neglected, Nate finds an old flier for the storks’ baby-delivery service and writes a letter requesting a sibling complete with “ninja skills.” Tulip receives this letter

and, in trying to do her best, creates a baby using the baby-making machine left in some dusty room of the warehouse. In order to save his job and rid himself of the baby, Junior takes Tulip to make the first baby delivery in 18 years. As expected, hijinks ensue.

While the movie hits all of the same beats as dozens of animated movies before it, it is not a bad time by any means. It’s a familiar experience, like reading a book that’s been read many times before. Most of the characters have moments in which they truly shine.

Pigeon Toady (Stephen Kramer Glickman), a pigeon employee and secondary antagonist, seems at first to be annoying and out of place.

But when given a chance, he can provide some of the hardest laughs in this movie due to sheer weirdness and his stark contrast to the rest of the cast.

Two other characters practically stole the show, even though they were only in about three scenes. Alpha and Beta Wolf (Key and Peele) were the highlights of this movie. As leaders of a wolf pack that the main characters stumble upon, they are immediately overpowered by the cuteness of the baby. When Junior and Tulip escape with

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Laced with some enjoyable moments throughout, ‘Storks’ makes for a wholesome family film. the baby, the pack gives chase. Throughout the chase across a chasm and down a river, the main characters manage to barely evade the pack of wolves. This pack works so well together that upon Alpha Wolf’s command, they are able to form themselves into a ‘wolf bridge,’ a ‘wolf boat,’ and a ‘wolf submarine’ complete with ‘bing’ noises. While it sounds silly, the movie pulls off this visual gag with resounding success.

As previously stated, Storks doesn’t come with any surprises. All of the char-

acter development that one would expect is realized: Junior learns the value of friendship, Nate’s parents learn that they need to work less and play more, and the bad guy gets his comeuppance. If Storks is only aiming to provide a few good laughs and lots of cute, animated babies is the objective, it delivers the correct package.

But there is one issue it doesn’t wrap up: if the storks weren’t around to create and deliver babies for 18 years, where did the new babies come from?

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The main focus of the documentary is the rising tide of anti-nuclear sentiment following the disaster. The audience meets the eight interviewees over the course of the first act, as Oguma shows us how they felt at the time of the disaster and their thoughts on the actions taken by the government during and after the crisis. Particularly striking are the similarities of opinion and stark contrasts of views between these diverse members of society. One interviewee, a young woman who later joined and became an active figure in the protests against the

government’s reaction to the disaster, says that she could never forgive the then-prime minister for the government’s apparent inaction. In Kan’s interview, it is obvious that he was put in a very difficult position. He says he was lied to by top scientists and received no help from representatives at TEPCO, which owned the failed reactors. After resigning as prime minister in September 2011, he has become a vocal spokesperson against nuclear energy and is now promoting more proactive government regulation in the country’s energy field and on an international platform.

The documentary then moves to cover the initial surge of protests that occurred in Japan. Many people felt that the government was way too slow to release information regarding the exposure zone. Before the disaster, the acceptable amount of radiation dosage for an area was one millisievert per year. After the crisis occurred, the government raised the acceptable dosage to 100 millisieverts per year. The general sentiment was that the authorities did not care about people’s health. The documentary shows continuously building protest events as the government refuses to act. The number of protesters climbs into the hundreds of thousands, and the footage Oguma presents of such protests is incredible.

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In the wake of the 2011 nuclear power plant meltdown, the Japanese continue to hold a national discussion on nuclear power regulations.

While Tell The P rime Minister certainly has a strong bias against nuclear energy, it is very difficult to fault the film for this stance, considering the sobering events it depicts. Opponents of nuclear energy will definitely find

validation in the film, and it is strongly recommended for them. In addition, people who do not know much or who would like to learn more about the devastating Fukushima nuclear disaster should watch this movie. At one hour

and 50 minutes, the movie packs a heap of information into its runtime. While the experience was definitely enhanced

by Oguma’s presence, a good, but somber time can be had in any setting while watching this movie.

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?`ggfj 8mfZX[fj Af`e `e ::< J_fn CCE, from B8 each other. In a scene with three people, the person acting out the words had to adjust to whatever words the speaker voiced. This made for some excellent spur-of-the-moment decisions that put the group to a test that it passed with flying colors.

One of the most popular games the group performed was the “Oscar Moment.” A few members from the troupe participated in this scene.

During this game, the members would take a suggestion from the audience on what to structure the

scene around. From there, the group would improvise the scene with the help of the suggestion. As they would go about improvising the scene, one of the members off to the side would yell out, “Oscar Moment!” From there, the person speaking would turn his or her current dialogue into serious, tearjerking, Oscar-worthy dialogue.

The audience gave the group a hippo to use as its muse in the scene. The scene began with a boy looking at a hippo at the zoo. Just when he started speaking to the hippo, his Oscar Moment began.

The boy started talking of his upcoming bar mitzvah and how he was now

becoming a man. His mother then stepped into the scene and was shocked and startled by this revelation. She then began her Oscar Moment, discussing her worry with this new revelation.

The hippo even decided to chime in, first starting with animal noises and then began speaking during his Oscar Moment,” declaring that no one could understand him and expressing his concern for his recently lost friend, Harambe.

The sense of community this group of students brought to Stokes S195 and the campus at large at its show was definitely, not debatably, refreshing.

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret.

Near the end of Cowspiracy, Anderson comes to a chilling conclusion, based purely on the statistics of animal consumption: even if all utilities were turned off and every fossil-fuel-guzzling system of transportation ceased immediately, environmental damage that results from greenhouse gases would be irreversible. According to Anderson, even with humanity’s greatest, greenest efforts, the dairy and meat industries will still eventually destroy life on Earth.

Without question, this is not a message that the general American populace wants to hear. Anderson recognizes it may sound a tad hyperbolic, but he decided to share his message. After the murder of rainforest activist Dorothy Stang (and the subsequent murder of over 1,000 Brazilian environmentalists), Anderson nearly shelved his project. Upon completion of his filming, however, he decided that the message was far too important to back out of in the face of fear.

And at BC, willingness like Anderson’s to “change the world,” as it were, seems to lurk inside the minds of many, even at the cost of creature comforts. This has never been more apparent than last Wednesday night in Stokes

South 195.

A gathering of students came together to confront the reality of the dairy and meat industries—though Anderson’s documentary is rooted in humor, it does not shy away from the horrors that the industry inflicts on animals and humans alike. As Anderson comes to realize, it would be easy for BC students to avoid fear and persecution by ignoring the problems posed by Cowspiracy. The Environmental Caucus, however, rejects this path in its willingness to screen controversial material.

Many on BC’s campus feel as though the University is not socially progressive enough.

Whether it is the lack of a LGBTQ resource center or non-sponsorship of sexual health education, fighting for lesser-known issues can be a challenge for students under the Jesuit umbrella. Thankfully, these much-needed conversations often find their place in various BC clubs and organizations—one of these being the UGBC, of course.

Environmental issues are not always at the forefront of all students’ minds, but they are just as important, if not more, as any other social issue, and Cowspiracy shows that students are willing to discuss environmental issues in all of their complexities.

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When one pictures a gorgeous, perfect Sunday afternoon at Boston College, what comes to mind? Probably a clear, blue sky, a steady warm breeze, and, of course, a good classical violinist set in Gasson 100.

Okay, to be fair, hearing classical music in Gasson might not be at the top of everyone’s list of what makes up a perfect day. If, however, you happened to be in Gasson 100 Sunday afternoon listening to

professional violinist Daniel Stepner’s set, including pieces from Johann Bach, Paul Hindemith, and Bela Bartok, you would have to admit that the arrangement acted as the icing on the cake on what was a beautiful Sunday at BC. Stepner is the artistic director of the Aston Magna Festival and Foundation.

He was also the first violinist for the Lydian String Quartet for 29 years, as well as the concertmaster of the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra for 24 years. Besides his performance Sunday

afternoon, Stepner will return to Gasson 100 with pianist Donald Berman Sunday, Oct. 23.

Gasson 100, in and of itself, is probably the best place on campus to take in a selection of classical compositions. The hardwood floor, multitude of formal portraits, and the natural light flowing in from the windows facing Linden Lane all coalesce to set the perfect ambiance for a classical music performance. Throughout the performance, it seemed as though the wind would pick up and drop off in

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Performing pieces from Bach, Hindemith, and Bartok, Daniel Stepner filled the halls of Gasson with several melodious tunes.

synchronization with Stepner’s music, swaying the tree branches with an unnatural rhythm. Alumni and students alike gathered in the decadent hall to hear Stepner’s renditions of Hindemith’s “Sonata, Op. 31, No.2,” Bartok’s “Sonata for Solo Violin,” and a few other, smaller pieces.

The Hindemith and Bartok numbers were the central pieces of the performance, making up the first act before the intermission. Stepner worked his way through the several different stages of both pieces, separating them with a brief pause. The segments inside of each piece were tonally different and sounded thematically different. The first stage of Hindemith’s piece, for instance, sounded extremely harmonious and comforting, mimicking a serene walk through a well-lit forest. The number’s last stage, on the other hand, at times sounded very discordant, with sharp changes in the pitch of violin from note to note.

The several stages of each of the artists’ pieces suggest that each piece holds a stunning tonal and emotional range, but the broken-up nature of each of the sonatas makes these shifts in tone sound like a different song, not a developed stage of a cohesive piece.

B etwe en each of the pie ces he performed, Stepner would provide a bit of historical background on the upcoming number and its artist. These little

anecdotes were delivered passionately

by Stepner and were helpful in building a context for the themes and sounds of each piece. The morose tone of most of Bartok’s “Sonata for Solo Violin” is more easily appreciated when one knows that Bartok composed the piece while in exile.

Stepner’s stories gave attendees a taste of his enthusiasm for the history behind the music he performs.

T h e s e c o n d a c t o f S t e p n e r ’s performance consisted of comparatively smaller sets from Bach, Thomas Oboe Lee, Albert Spalding, Nicolai RimskyKorsakov, and from Stepner himself.

Of these sets, Bach’s “Three Dances” and Oboe Lee’s “Choros, Op. 63” were the most intriguing. And Stepner’s own composition, compared to the critically praised pieces he performed, held its own emotional weight.

It’s not very often that one finds the spectrum of people of different ages at a BC arts performance. This collection of diverse people, however, demonstrates the pervasiveness of classical music’s influence over generations. Stepner’s renditions of these classical pieces were impressive, making it difficult for those in attendance to say that they weren’t touched by what they heard in Gasson Sunday afternoon. While not all in attendance looked captivated by the performance, there were more than enough students and attendees swaying their hands and heads to the music.

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B\\g`e^ Lg N`k_ :lckli\ CALEB GRIEGO There is a certain amount of cultural literacy demanded of people. Without it, one will most certainly become a cultural pariah in a group of friends. As people spit movie lines at you, their meaning and importance seemingly fall on deaf ears. To a certain extent, we have all been on the outside of a conversation about a show or movie we have not seen. Any attempt to engage is as futile as a professor asking you to elaborate on a book you have not read. But the cases I am referring to are not so slight and demand further examination. These individuals are truly on the cultural fringe. My roommate is one such individual. He has never seen The Dark Knight.

In many ways, I am jealous of him, because he has a great experience coming in his future that will most certainly impress. It is hard to forget the emotions and feelings of an initial viewing of a cultural icon. But I got that experience back in 2008. I guess I’m just “ahead of the curve.”

I look at cultural literacy as akin to political literacy. When one matures to a certain point, socially, it is demanded that one keeps up, at least in small ways, with the political sphere. A person blissfully unaware of the current presidential election would garner a similar reaction from me as if they had said they had not seen Star Wars or The Dark Knight.

Seeded in our societal framework are these notions of culture. The common knowledge that one gets from watching a movie such as The Dark Knight is a gateway to conversation with just about anyone.

In France, among their culture, this kind of commonplace knowledge is expected to maintain topical and engaging conversations. Failure to do so demonstrates a lack of maturity, ahistoricity, or absent-mindedness when it comes to keeping a pulse on what is happening around you.

The French aside, Americans too should maintain a certain amount of cultural awareness and literacy. The fact that my roommate has never seen The Dark Knight, though surprising, is not completely ostracizing. He is aware of the quotes, has seen clips, and is generally aware of the significance of the film. I would argue that this is no substitute for watching the film in its entirety, but it is better than nothing. With that being said, he should see the film.

The idea of cultural literacy stems from the idea of bettering oneself. Through our experience, through our investigations and pursuits of knowledge, we are seeking to become less ignorant than we were before.

Though it is not possible to attain all forms of information and revel in each morsel of art the world has to offer, each stride to do so is one in the right direction.

In looking for all this art, we are better able to ascertain where the cultural scaffolding lies now—that is, where we are building, improving, and advancing. In novel film techniques, television narratives, or technological innovations, investigation into what is popular often allows us to see what is changing.

But keeping up with the times is not only a means of watching the cultural world around us change, but also a way to see how we change as well. In my own life, I have found myself at odds concerning the popular opinions regarding film and television. The knowledge of what is popular does allow for somewhat of a hipsterish critique of what is popular, but it allows us to draw a line in the sand nonetheless. With each artistic acquisition of knowledge, we are defining our own tastes. Each viewing or experience details further where we stand in reference to the mainstream.

The pursuit of this cultural fluency is also fun. Rarely does engaging the culture fail to bring about some conversation. We are able to connect with others through shared experiences. We can agree, dissent, and argue with passion about art, but shake off the vitriol that would be associated with a political conversation. But just because it is less caustic and serious doesn’t mean it is not just as important.

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With improv, the CCE melds the bizarre with the hilarious in first show.

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Take an avocado, a pizza truck, and a food critic. They seem pretty ordinary from the perspective of the casual observer. Who would think these things would have so much comedic potential? But the improvisational Committee for Creative Enactments knew these were not ordinary items from the start. Beginning with the avocado as inspiration, the group took the healthy, ever-popular food and ran with it. The group transformed the empty space in front of them into a food truck that sold guacamole.

But Guac City wasn’t the only food truck on the block. Pablo’s Pizzeria was the old name in town and started to take offense to the idea that Guac City was coming into its territory and taking its customers. Adding onto the pressure, there was a food critic coming by who wanted to review

the Guac City food truck.

Amid all of this, Guac City had an untimely shortage of guacamole and a love story that seemed impossible. This shortage of guacamole led to Pablo’s Pizzeria stepping in to receive a review from the food critic. The man wearing a chip costume for Guac City had undeniable feelings for Maria, the co-owner of Pablo’s Pizzeria, but Maria was married to Pablo. When Pablo finally revealed to Maria that he had also working for Guac City under the pseudo-name Jimmy, Maria knew in her heart that it wasn’t Pablo she should be with, but the man in the chip costume. Finally, Guac City and Pablo’s Pizzeria decided they should team up and make guacamole pizza. The critic loved it, and the two food trucks were back in business.

This story was told at the CCE show Friday night, when Stokes 195S was bursting at the seams. People were lined against the back

wall and sitting on the floor, eager to see the CCE present Debatably Funny. The room was humming with excitement, expectation, and some fun, popular sing-along tunes as the crowd anxiously awaited the performers arrival onstage.

Debatably Funny was definitely, not debatably, funny. The improv comedy group members had the audience bursting with laughter with almost every word out of their mouths. Each and every member of the group brought something special to the table. Some were loud and boisterous, while others were on the quieter side and would utter jokes when you would least expect it.

The comedy group decided to use an array of different tactics to facilitate the night. Perhaps one of the most out-of the box methods used was one in which the group members spoke for

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On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake occurred off the eastern coast of Japan. The resulting tsunami destroyed emergency generators cooling some of the nuclear power reactors at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.

This caused three nuclear meltdowns, a large release of radioactive material, and multiple hydrogen-air chemical explosions. While these events only lasted a few days, the damage done

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physically and socially to the country of Japan is still evident. In Tell the Prime Minister, director Eiji Oguma, a professor at Keio University in Tokyo, works to portray the social movements and change throughout Japan after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Oguma sp oke Thursday night in Higg ins to introduce the movie and answer questions.

Tell The Prime Minister is especially remarkable because it is not shot like

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The Environmental Caucus, a committee housed under the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC), presented a screening of Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret last week. In Kip Anderson’s 2014 documentary on the dark secrets of the meat and dairy industry, Anderson, an “aspiring environmentalist,” travels across the United States as he uncovers the harm that the production of meat and dairy products causes toward the Earth’s environment.

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Anderson describes his conversion to environmentalism with the acronym O.C.E.— Obsessive Compulsive Environmentalist.

He started behaving as every caring human should: taking shorter showers, composting and recycling, and decreasing his carbon footprint. Anderson slowly recognized, on the other hand, that his efforts were becoming more and more futile over time, thus prompting his research on what exactly was harming the Earth the most. His discoveries are what make up the entirety of

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