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Statistics like this one from the National Sexual Violence Resource Center are part of what encouraged John Gabrieli, the former co-chair of the Harvard Health Policy Program, to begin his work on Senate Resolve S. 2471.

Gabrieli began working with Massachusetts State Senator William Brownsberger roughly two years ago. The coalition

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between the Harvard Health Policy Group and the senator’s office wanted to look into additional precautions Massachusetts could pursue to combat sexual assault on college campuses.

According to Gabrieli, it is difficult to find viable ways to combatting sexual assault on campuses because there is insufficient or unreliable data on the rate of sexual assault. He believes this is partly because there is no anonymous, universal way to survey students. There is also no record of which policies are actually working.

“What really stood out to us was that people don’t actually know what works

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The plans for Boston College Athletics to enter the 21st century will have one less roadblock.

On Tuesday evening, the AllstonBrighton Community Task Force met to discuss BC’s plans to build baseball and softball fields on the Brighton Campus.

The eight-person board approved the plans 7-to-1, moving the plans onto the next phase at the Boston Redevelopment Authority. The project has already been approved in the Institutional Master Plan, yet the task force provided an opportunity for people to air concerns among residents in the area. The plan then goes to the Boston Redevelopment Authority on Sept. 15, before construction can fully go underway.

“The approval today tells us that Boston College is doing a great job,” said Thomas J. Keady, Jr., vice president of governmental and community affairs, and one of the leaders of the Institutional Master Plan project.

BC’s new athletics complex will be in the northern part of the Brighton Campus, bordered by Anselm Terrace, Thomas A. Edison K-8 School, and Glenmont Rd. to the north; Lane Park and Campus Lane to the south; and Lake St. to the west. It will include a 1,000-seat baseball stadium—down from the original 1,500 seats—with FieldTurf, lighting fixtures, a press box, sound system, and batting cages. The seats will be 12 rows back behind home plate, with seating extending beyond the first-base dugout. There will be protective netting that extends beyond both dugouts. Fans, specifically students, will also have an opportunity to sit on St. Clement’s Hill beyond the outfield wall.

BC also will add a 300-seat softball

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Campus Activities Board (CAB) will host MisterWives, a band known for its hit song “Reflections,” at StokesSet, CAB’s first fall concert on Stokes Lawn.

The concert will take place Sept. 17 at 5:30 p.m., and tickets go on sale for $10 on Sept. 12 at 8 a.m. through the Robsham Theater website. Students can buy one ticket per student ID. CAB will still host Plexapalooza

and Modstock this year, in addition to StokesSet. The group felt that the festival would be an entertaining way to welcome students back to campus, said Kelsey Golden, director of live entertainment for CAB. The live entertainment portion of CAB started planning StokesSet at the end of last spring.

When deciding on the concert and performer, CAB took into account its year-end survey results that over 1,000 students responded to last year.

The group then worked with its music agent to find an available artist that was within CAB’s budget.

MisterWives is a six-person indie

pop music group consisting of lead singer Mandy Lee, percussionist Etienne Bowler, bass guitarist William Hehir, guitarist Marc Campbell, multi-instrumentalist Jesse Blum, and saxophonist Mike Murphy.

The group, which came together in 2012, has opened for bands including Twenty One Pilots, Walk the Moon, and American Authors.

“We hope it will all be a positive experience, and we kept in mind a low ticket cost to appeal to a wider audience,” Golden said. “Aside from the artists, we think that the location will be a unique experience, one which has never been done before.”

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During the admissions process, 28,956 students applied to be a part of BC’s class of 2020, but only 32 percent of applicants were accepted into the freshmen class.

Last year, BC admitted 28 percent of its applicants for the Class of 2019.

Within the class, 46 states and 41 countries around the world are represented.

Sixty-seven percent of first-year students are currently enrolled in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, traditionally the largest of BC’s four schools.

Twenty-three percent of freshmen reside in the Carroll School of Management, and 5 percent of students are in both the Connell School of Nursing and the Lynch School of Education.

The class of 2020 had SAT scores ranging from 1910 in the 25th percentile and 2150 in the 75th percentile, and on average exceeded the national mean for colleges by roughly 500 points.

This year, 32 percent of the freshmen body is composed of AHANA students or international students of color. The Office of Undergraduate Admission has been working to diversify the student body in recent years by making connections with community-based organizations, creating ties with different preparatory schools across the country, and targeting high schools that have large populations of AHANA students, said John Mahoney, director of undergraduate admission.

Fifty-four percent of the class is female, while 46 percent is male. One in every nine freshmen is a first-generation

college student.

One thousand three hundred thirtyfour high schools across the globe are represented in the class of 2020. Fiftythree percent of students attended public schools, while 27 percent went to a Catholic high school. Twenty percent of students attended independent schools.

The most students come from Massachusetts , Ne w York , Ne w Jerse y, California, and Connecticut. Outside of the United States, students come from 41 countries including Ireland, Costa Rica, Republic of Korea, Madagascar, and Tobago.

BC has granted financial aid to 60 percent of the freshman class, to a total of $35.7 million. An individual student, on average, receives $38,930. BC is one of 19 schools across the country that maintains need-blind admissions and promises to meet full demonstrated need for all students.

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this semester.

In the past, undergraduates were permitted to park in the Lower Lots. This year, however, the construction upheaved two of the parking lots adjacent to Edmond’s and the spaces on the roadway.

Faculty, visitors, and staff are still permitted to park on Lower Campus. Additional general parking spaces for faculty and staff were added onto the second level of the Comm. Ave. garage. Reserved parking spots,

which were previously located on the second floor, were moved to the seventh floor of the garage.

Because of the construction, undergraduates now park on the roof of the Beacon Street garage and in a lot near 2000 Comm.

Ave. When 2000 was renovated last year, the University kept the existing three-story underground parking garage.

“It has been a lot of shifting people around as spaces were being lost,” said John

Savino, BC’s transportation and parking manager.

Nick Muller, MCAS ’17, is frustrated with the changes in parking.

“It is really far for people who have to get places in the morning like nurses or athletes who have morning practice,” Muller said.

As a member of the rowing team, Muller finds that he has to wake up earlier, for an already early rowing practice schedule, to walk from Lower to 2000.

“It is also frustrating because the Mod Lot is not always full, and then on weekends it’s empty, but I can’t park there,” Muller said.

While it has only been two weeks since the parking changes were implemented, Savino believes that the changes have been successful so far, despite some student dissent.

“So far, so good,” he said. “It seems ... that everyone has been finding a parking spot.”

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The annual Mass of the Holy Spirit will take place today at the plaza outside O’Neill Library at 12 p.m. All classes in the 12 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. time slot will be cancelled in accordance with the Mass. The rain location of the mass is Conte Forum.

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First Year Academic Convocation 2016 will be held tonight with a walk along Linden Lane at 6 p.m. and the Convocation address by Steve Pemberton, Walgreens’s vice president of diversity and inclusion, at 7 p.m.

Pemberton will discuss his memoir, A Chance in the World.

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The McMullen Museum of Art will hold its first “Art After Dark” student late night series on Friday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. There will be food, music, games, and arts and crafts available to students. There will be music by BC’s own Electronic State of Mind DJs in the new atrium.

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ESPN reporter Tom Rinaldi recently released The Red Bandanna: A Life, which follows the story of Welles Crowther, BC ’99, who died while saving lives on Sept. 11, 2001. Rinaldi discussed his book with George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America this week.

Crowther’s father gave him a red bandanna when he was 6 years old, and Crowther carried it with him forever after. Crowther was a Division I athlete during his time at BC and always kept the red bandanna under his lacrosse helmet.

After graduating, Crowther became an equities trader at Sandler O’Neill and Partners, which was housed on the 104th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center. Although he loved the job, his life did not feel complete. He told his father that he wanted to change his career and become a firefighter in New York City.

Crowther was in the South Tower when the second plane struck. Survivors of the terrorist attack recalled a man guiding them to safety who was wearing a red bandana. He did not make it out alive.

During the Good Morning America interview, the audience was wearing red bandannas in memory of Crowther.

In Rinaldi’s book, he writes about how Crowther guided several people to safety and then told them he was going back up to save more people.

This highlights the central question of the book: “What would you do faced with that decision … a life-changing choice?” Rinaldi said.

In the book, Rinaldi details how everything in Crowther’s life led up to his decision that day, including his sports team, his family, and his local fire house. These influences in his life helped him make his decision, Rinaldi said.

“It has been a wonderful thing to see the growth of his legacy,” Rinaldi said on Good Morning America.

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As of this fall, students are able to request their student conduct reports via the Agora Portal.

The Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) began to push for the addition of the conduct request at the beginning of the summer. The link on the Agora Portal is listed under “Other Services” and was activated roughly two weeks ago.

According to Meredith McCaffrey, UGBC executive vice president and MCAS ’17, the student government hopes to increase transparency within the conduct process.

Initially, UGBC was hoping to create a conduct audit, accessible through the Agora Portal. With the audit, students would immediately be able to pull up their conduct forms online.

Due to confidentiality concerns, the University could not grant immediate access for students via the portal.

Instead, students are able to set up a meeting with the Office of the Dean of Students to review their conduct documents. The process is similar to requesting a transcript, but the conduct report must be picked up from the Office in person.

“Students should have access to their conduct reports in a way that is convenient to them, especially for students who are going to be applying to graduate school or just want to know for their own sake,” said Russell Simons, UGBC president and MCAS ’17.

Tables with the flavors of local restaurants, like Crazy Dough’s and El Pelon, covered the lawn on Brighton Campus Wednesday afternoon as part of the ninth annual A Taste of OffCampus, an event hosted by the Office of Residential Life, OffCampus Housing, the Office of Government and Community Affairs, and the Office of the Dean of Students.

The event, which was free and open to all Boston College students, offered attendees an opportunity to try local foods and mingle with BC administrators and city officials.

“We want to promote a positive relationship between our students and the local community,” said Peter Kwiatek, assistant director of off-campus living and one of the hosts of the event, said. “Oftentimes, neighborhood relationships can be strained because students and neighbors have different lifestyles and perspectives.”

Vendors and students were also able to interact at the event, with the restaurant representatives distributing food, coupons, t-shirts, and stickers.

The vendors included restaurants beloved by students, such as El Pelon, Crazy Dough’s, and Lee’s Burger Place, as well as some lesser-known but equally popular restaurants, like Thai North and the New Sapporo Restaurant.

A Taste of Off Campus offers a chance for students and local vendors to form a mutually beneficial relationship.

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Local eateries provided students with a chance to try their foods and meet with city officials at A Taste of Off-Campus.

“We’ve been coming up here three or four years now, and every year I see different faces and that translates into business for us,” said Fuel’s managing partner, Carlos Magalhaes. “So we don’t mind doing this. We see these faces here, and then we see them in the store.”

The event attracted all kinds of students, from off-campus juniors to BC Law students who already knew the tricks of the trade.

“I’ve never experienced something so transcendent, if you will,”

Eric Gesuale, MCAS ’18, said.

“It’s just free food everywhere.

I couldn’t get enough, quickly enough, and I’m just very excited to eat.”

Among the faculty in attendance was the off-campus student community liaison Stephen Montgomery. Prior to the event he posted fliers on the doors of off-campus residences, encouraging students to attend. At the event, he spoke with students and introduced them to members of BCPD and fellow Brighton

residents. Kwiatek finds that these relationships can be beneficial for students, as they normally only interact with Montgomery when they are in trouble.

“It’s great because often students will only interact with him on nights and weekends when he’s knocking on their door because they’re getting a neighbor complaint,” Kwiatek said. “This is just a way for students to talk to him at five in the afternoon, in a very casual social setting and get to know who he is.”

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By Chris Russo Asst. News Editor It’s time to drop the basketball and lace up your running shoes.

On Saturday, Sept. 17, the coaches and athletes of Boston College men’s basketball are partnering with the American Cancer Society to host the sixth annual Coaches vs. Cancer 5K Classic, a run to raise money in support of cancer research.

The race will begin at 10 a.m. outside of Conte Forum.

The course will loop around campus and the Chestnut Hill Reservoir.

Coaches vs. Cancer started in the early 1990s when a group of college basketball coaches decided it wanted to give back, according to Greg McKeever, community manager of the New England Division of the American Cancer Society.

“Since then it has really taken off,” he said. “The American Cancer Society threw its support behind it, but it has really been driven by the coaches

and volunteers at each of our schools and teams that gets involved. They are the ones making it happen.”

McKeever has been working at the American Cancer Society for two years. After working for a Division III sports conference in Massachusetts, he wanted to work at a place that would make an impact in the world. When a job opportunity arose at the American Cancer Society, he took it.

McKeever’s job consists of working with youth in high school and college to organize Coaches vs. Cancer events. He helps the schools’ outreach and fundraising efforts.

Coaches vs. Cancer hopes to eliminate cancer as a major health problem not only in the United States, but across the globe, McKeever said.

The American Cancer Society offers several ser vices to people fighting cancer, including a 24-hour hotline that people can call to receive assistance with medical insurance or to find support groups in

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12:57 a.m. - A report was filed regarding an underage intoxicated person at 66 Commonwealth Ave.

11:37 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a a cruiser repair at the Boston College Police Headquarters.

1:44 a.m. - A report was filed regarding an underage intoxicated person on Lower campus.

4:07 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a larceny at O’Neill Library.

7:19 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a fire alarm at the Mods.

1:03 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a suspicious circumstance on the Upper dorms roadways.

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ticipated in the 5K at BC, raising just under $5,000. Coaches vs.

Cancer raised a total of $32,000 last year from its races across the country.

This year, there will be an additional run, a half-mile loop, for children 12 and under. When the main race is finished, there will be a carnival set up for the participants which will feature games, food, and activities. BC men’s basketball players will also be signing autographs for fans after the race.

Each person who registers for the race will receive a free Coaches vs. Cancer t-shirt. The winners of the race in each age group will receive medals and other prizes.

Participants can register for the race on the American Cancer Society website.

“It has been a great experience to work with the coaches [at BC]. They are very supportive and enthusiastic about this cause,” McKeever said. “We are hoping to get as many people as we can out in the community to support the event this year.”

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The American Cancer Society also has a program that drives patients to and from chemotherapy and other treatments. In addition, the organization has facilities called Hope Lodges that provide a place for patients to stay while receiving treatment free of charge.

“It’s things like that which ease the burden of folks that are impacted by this disease,” McKeever said. “We wouldn’t be able to do that without events like the Coaches vs. Cancer 5K.” The funds raised will be distributed to where the organization sees most fit.

“The greatest need is here locally,” McKeever said. “A large portion of our research budget is used locally at some of the hospitals in Boston and throughout New England.”

Although several universities across the country host the Coaches vs. Cancer 5K, BC is the longest-running and most successful participant in the country, McKeever said.

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Gabrieli said that there is a large underreporting problem when it comes to sexual assault on campuses. Sometimes, according to Gabrieli, problems or situations that arise get brushed under the rug and students’ stories are not always heard.

Gabrieli and the Harvard Health Policy Group looked at recommendations from the White House Task Force on Sexual Assault, spoke with different experts on the subject, and interviewed students, faculty members, and administrators at several universities across Massachusetts. The group proposed a bill to Brownsberger’s office that would require colleges in Massachusetts to administer a sexual assault climate survey.

Students on college campuses in Massachusetts would be surveyed anonymously at the end of the academic year and asked about the prevalence and perception of sexual assault on their campus. Questions would ask respon-

dents about both their experience with sexual assault and their peers’ experiences.

According to Gabrieli, several different groups, including the Rape, Assault and Incest National Network (RAINN) and President Barack Obama’s administration, have looked into a climate survey in the past.

If passed, Massachusetts would be the first state to put a universal sexual climate survey into action.

The bill passed the State Senate this past July. The House, however, closed session before the bill could be picked up. Proponents are currently working to convince House members to take up the bill in informal session.

This fall, supporters, including Gabrieli, will be circulating a petition across campuses in Massachusetts, contacting legislators, and attempting to get the word out about S. 2471.

Boston College does not currently administer an anonymous sexual assault climate survey to the entire student body. Other universities in the area, including Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Northeastern have released similar anony-

mous surveys in the past.

Theology professor John McDargh, who has been at the University for 37 years, said in the spring that BC’s top administration opts out of having students participate in a nationwide survey about sexual health. McDargh said that the administration would like to continue to claim “plausible deniability” when it comes to students conducting in sexual acts or cases of sexual assault on campus.

Harvard’s survey, which was originally released in 2015, asked students about the prevalence of sexual assault, characteristics of perpetrators, and what students know about resources and the climate on campus. The survey asked students about topics including harassment, the absence of affirmative consent when it comes to penetration or sexual touching, and intimate partner violence.

The BC Women’s Center, however, works with students to prevent sexual assault on campus and step in as bystanders if they see a situation arising.

Now, incoming freshmen are required to take a survey asking about their attitudes surrounding the issue of sexual assault, but the survey does not provide the Women’s

Center with data on the prevalence of sexual assault on campus.

The Women’s Center works with Everfi, a program that administers Haven, a freshmen program on bystander intervention.

The Center consults the company to make sure the questions about bystander intervention are salient, resident, and relevant, Rachel DiBella, assistant director of the Women’s Center, said.

Freshmen are also required to participate in Stand Up BC, a program that educates students on how to speak up if they see a potential case of sexual assault occurring.

A few weeks after Stand Up BC, students are required to fill out another survey, again asking about their willingness to step into a potentially dangerous situation.

Often, the Women’s Center finds that students are less willing to speak up about a case of sexual assault after spending extended periods of time on campus, DiBella said.

“We are always tailoring our programs based on the information we receive from students,” DiBella said.

In an effort to continue education on bystander intervention into students’ later

college years, the Women’s Center is rolling out a new program called Speak Up BC. The program focuses on re-educating the leaders of student groups, athletes, and upperclassmen on what to do if they see an assault taking place.

This year, DiBella and the Women’s Center are focusing on intimate partner, or dating violence and the issue of exploitation.

“We want students to know what their rights are,” DiBella said. “We want them to see how consent also flows into issues of photos and reporting and social media.”

DiBella thinks that any new form of collecting data, like S. 2471, is beneficial.

She also believes that BC is cutting-edge when it comes to preventing sexual assault on campus.

“The most important thing to us is that we are really and genuinely engaging with students and not making them feel talked at,” DiBella said. “We want this to feel like a movement that we are cultivating together with everyone versus coming in and making people go through a presentation.”

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By Sophie Reardon News Editor There are finally printers in Corcoran Commons.

Although the two new printers were not installed by the first day of classes due to unforeseen power and data issues, technology director Scott Cann said, they were installed Friday, Sept. 2, and are now available for students to use.

One printer is located on the second floor of Corcoran Commons near Addie’s in the alcove to the left of the staircase, and the other, also on the second floor of Corcoran Commons, is between the dining tables.

The installation comes after years of discussion about the need for printers in

more convenient locations on campus.

Former UGBC President Thomas Napoli, MCAS ’16, and Executive Vice President Olivia Hussey, MCAS ’17, made the installation a priority of their campaign platform in the spring of 2015, but they were not the first to bring up this issue—in the past decade, all of the UGBC presidents have called for more printers on campus.

The printers were purchased last semester but logistical holdups, such as electrical outlets, wireless internet routers, zoning laws, and bureaucratic delays, prevented IT Services from installing them until last week.

This is a pilot program, Cann said, meaning that over the course of the 201617 academic year, IT Services will collect user data to understand whether students

are using the printers. If the printers prove to be popular, IT Services will explore the possibility of moving the printers out of O’Neill Library and into convenient locations on campus, such as McElroy Commons.

“It’s really going to depend on how much these get used,” he said.

In the future, IT Services plans on displacing printers from the library to make the change in the most cost-responsible way.

The issue is not that there aren’t enough printers on campus, Cann said. The issue is that the printers are not in good locations.

Cann did not know how much students have been using the printers since their installation last week, but he said he expects students to use them more later in the semester as their course loads increase.

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The two printers were installed with the hopes of making printers more convenient to students.

“The goal here is really to just make things better for students,” he said. “We

definitely heard the demand for these things last year and in years prior.”

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Students were able to meet with Career Center staff for casual conversation about jobs and internships at Careerfest in O’Neill Plaza.

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Tables with people, food, and prizes lined O’Neill Plaza on Wednesday afternoon for the Career Center’s annual Careerfest.

At the event, students were handed “passports” that prompted them to attend five different tables at the event to receive a t-shirt.

There were also number of games at the event, including a bungee challenge, a giant Connect Four, and a celebrity career roulette wheel. Popcorn and ice cream were also available to students.

Careerfest is an effort by the Career Center to introduce students who may be wary about internship and career exploration to advisors at the Career Center.

“Career exploration, by nature, can be a bit intimidating for some students, and we want to demystify that process a bit and encourage students to seek us out,” said Joseph Du Pont, associate vice president for student affairs and career services. “By creating a festive, fun environment, we hope to encourage students to do just that.”

Du Pont hopes that students walked away from the event thinking that Career Center staff are fun, approachable

people who care about them.

There was something available for everyone at Careerfest, according to Du Pont. Students from all grades and at all points in their career search, including those who were preparing for a targeted internship, job search, or graduate school, attended the event.

Careerfest was strategically held before the Fall Career and Internship Fair, an event that allows students to network with potential employers. The advisers at the Career Center hope that students will become more comfortable with the idea of attending Career Center events, like the career and internship fair, after exploring the Careerfest.

Many clubs were also featured at Careerfest, including BCEMS, EcoPledge, the Latin American Business Club, and Leadershape.

“Although they are very different, all, in their unique way, help students get involved, reflect on their talents, and build skills, important attributes regardless of how they decide to use their talents in the world,” Du Pont said.

The advisers at the Career Center will host two more events in the coming weeks that they hope will engage a wide audience of students.

The first event, Launch, is a career

conference that will allow juniors and seniors to explore their interests, talents, and skills, better understand hiring timelines, and learn job searching skills from alumni and recruiters. The event, which will be co-sponsored by the Office of Residential Life, will take place at the Thomas More Apartments from 10:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 14.

The second event, Endeavor, is a three-day career-exploration program for sophomores who have a liberal arts major. The program connects participants with alumni, who act as mentors for the program, providing personal anecdotes on their career experiences.

Sophomores will also take trips into Boston to explore potential career options. The event takes place from Jan. 11 through Jan 13.

Rachel Greenberg, associate director of the Career Center and organizer of the Careerfest, said she was happy with this event.

“It was a lot of fun to interact with students—and for them to interact with us—in a fun, informal way, while also showing them how the Career Center can support all students regardless of where they are in their career discernment process,” she said.

In 2008, Crystal Tiala, chair of the theatre department, started the Arts and Social Responsibility Project. It’s just what you’d think—she wanted to help students marry their passions for theatre, design, drawing, and painting with their social justice inclinations.

One of Tiala’s students, inspired by the project, went down to Quito, Ecuador, to do a summer theatre program, helping impoverished children to learn how to read. She made a documentary about the experience called Theater of Hope, which got some press coverage and eventually found its way to Sr. Maureen Clark, the Catholic chaplain of a women’s prison in Framingham, Mass.

The chaplain contacted Tiala with the idea that became Prison Arts Outreach, a group of about 30 students who, in teams of four or five on Sundays and Wednesdays, go to two prisons in Framingham to do crafts, improv and dance performances, and creative exercises with the inmates.

“This is a way of actively involving incarcerated persons in the art itself,” Tiala said. “It’s a way of helping their self-esteem, showing them somebody cares about them, that they aren’t just a number.”

Getting ready to actually go work in a prison is a challenging process. There is a lengthy orientation and a strict dress code—volunteers may not wear anything that could be used as a weapon or currency, which includes denim—the group is limited in the materials it can bring for activities, and they only get an hour. So planning is crucial.

Once the group is actually in the prison, there are more rules. Those extend to the activities—if 20 pens go in a room, 20 pens have to come out—and to the talk: personal connections aren’t allowed, so it’s first names only. Plus, the whole thing is based on the Prison Arts Outreach’s advertising, so sometimes 35 inmates show up, and other times it’s only one. Despite those limitations, the student volunteers have found that the program tends to be one of the best hours of the week.

“For these women, it’s the one time per week that they’re given an hour that isn’t scheduled,” Kelly Laughinghouse, MCAS ’17, said. During one of their sessions, an inmate told a group of volunteers that, outside of Prison Arts Outreach, she and the rest of the women generally didn’t get along. But for that hour, in that room, she said, they forgot the “inmate code” and could all have fun and

be together.

“A lot of times, they can get run down and lose their morale, after being there for so long,” Natalie Curtis, MCAS ’18, said of the inmates.

“This is a way for them to feel like a human.”

Katherine McCartin, LSOE ’18, said that one of her favorite activities is “six-word memoirs,” where the women express themselves in funny or deep ways, revealing how a short, creative phrase can pack major punch.

Sometimes there are great stories told, problems and fears aired. Sometimes it’s as simple as letting the women choose the game—one time, all of the program’s attendees wanted to play Simon Says.

In addition to all the preparation and rules involved, only having one hour per week can make it hard to connect with the women. McCartin said that she never wants the hour to end. Even when connections are made, maintaining them is hard. Sometimes, a woman is released from prison who volunteers have gotten to know. Curtis said that, on the one hand, she is always happy when somebody starts a new chapter, but on the other hand, it can be hard to say goodbye so suddenly. Volunteers can’t exchange contact information, so keeping in touch is impossible.

There’s also the problem of relating to women whose situations are sometimes unimaginable to volunteers.

“Sometimes when you’re presented with a story, and you think it’s so far beyond your understanding, and that you can’t advise, all you can do is listen,” Laughinghouse said.

“You can say, ‘I’m sorry to hear that,’ and that means something, I’m sure, but it’s hard to know what to say.”

David Makransky, MCAS ’17, was involved with Prison Arts Outreach last year as an organizer. He said that sometimes there is no real incentive for the women to come to successive workshops—they can’t keep the work they do, for example. But certain activities have been hugely important to both the volunteers and the women, like a production of Godspell he helped put on with them during his freshman year. He said that the limitations of working in a prison are just logistics they have to overcome and work around, and sometimes, all the students agreed, the location is almost irrelevant.

“The coolest part is when you forget that you’re in a prison,” Laughinghouse said.

“There are a lot of times that the women are so happy to be there for that hour, they’re so cheerful, that you forget that they’re inmates, you forget that they’ve done something bad to be there. … They become more than just what their crime was.”

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The reality of the situation is beginning to sink in—the unthinkable, paradigm-shifting event that many within the industry refused to accept as fact has come to the forefront. What was once an afterthought has metamorphisized into a nightmare, the type in which you find yourself consciously trying to wake up but are unable to. When the day finally comes, we have but to ask, will there ever be another individual who rivals the type of influence David Ortiz has had over one city?

The last few years have seen the relatively common practice of city icons begin to erode like limestone under acid rain into oblivion, with Ortiz the latest to call it quits. Sports icons, especially those that have managed to remain in the same city for over a decade, are an endangered species. These individuals, with other examples being Derek Jeter and Kobe Bryant, carry larger-than-life personas that transcend their own individuality, resulting in their becoming synonymous with their respective cities.

Each, with his or her distinctive personality, has also served as a source of hope and normality during times of tragedy, Jeter with his cool, composed demeanor in the aftermath of the Sept.

11 attacks, and Ortiz with his “This is our f——g city” speech after the Marathon bombings in 2013.

They represented the values of a community that took them in as one of their own. But these characters are becoming an endangered species. In an era of globalized media with absurd amounts of money being thrown around, it has become difficult for individuals to remain loyal to their home fan base (I’m looking at you, Kevin Durant). A worthwhile question would be to evaluate whether loyalty can even be expected at this point.

People my age, those born between ’94 and ’97, were blessed with a plethora of heroes to look up to—we knew nothing other than Ortiz in Boston and Jeter in New York. That was the law of the land.

When Jeter finally retired in 2014, one of my good friends actually had tears in his eyes, a feeling many around here will experience when Ortiz plays his last game in October.

Are such icons necessary, or even beneficial to a city? Should we continue with the expectation that athletes should be held to a higher standard, while also publicly chastising their every mistake?

Should kids idolize these characters and follow their every move, especially with the prominence of social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat that give unprecedented access into their private lives?

The type of society we are moving toward is one that no longer holds traditional values in the same regard, where many are no longer expected to live up to the almost impeccable standard of behavior of athletes of the past. In fact, the public is acknowledging the human capacity for error, to an extent, like when swimmer Ryan Lochte had a run-in with Brazilian authorities during the Olympics. All a public figure has to do to re-enter the good graces of the public is issue an apology.

Even NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley once said that he is not a role model, that just because he can dunk a basketball does not mean he should raise your kids.

I think he has a point.

For now, the best we can do is enjoy the end of the era of the city icons, where individuals still stand for something other than themselves and experience absolute adoration within the confines of their city.

Farewell tours for athletes, like the ones enjoyed by Kobe, Jeter, and now Ortiz, will soon become a thing of the past, since it is highly unlikely that another star stays for the requisite time at one institution to receive that type of universal affection.

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The initiative, started by the city as part of its ‘Imagine Boston 2030’ city master plan, aims to increase exposition opportunities for local artists while also turning Boston into a cultural hub.

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College students head back to their respective campuses around the city, bringing in both old and new admirers of the array of arts, culture, and attractions available in the Boston area.

And now, for the first time, the city has a process to map out area culture. “Boston Creates” is the first cultural planning process for the city. As part of the 10-year plan to blend arts and culture into everyday life in Boston, it seeks to open more opportunities for all residents and visitors to participate.

“The goal is to keep artists in Boston and encourage people to engage in artistic pursuits,” said Julie Borros, chief of arts and culture for the city of Boston. “Our programs are meant to be inclusive, which can be seen through its focus on individuals rather than organizations.”

In its vision of a more creative and stimulating environment, the “Boston Creates” process incorporates community engagement as part of its core belief that creativity involves both the professional artists and designers and Bostonian innovators in fields such as health care and technology. The cultural plan is the perfect chance for college students to display their art.

On Aug. 18, The Friends of Symphony Park and the city of Boston’s Edward Ingersoll Browne Trust Fund presented a 16-foot

sculpture made of granite, Corten steel, cast bronze, and stainless steel at Symphony Park.

Created by Boston-based artist Jacob Kulin, First Chair incorporates musical elements to honor the relationship between the park’s name and its location close to Symphony Hall.

“Public art is important for early-stage implementation,” Borros said. “We plan to add public art to municipal buildings for future capital construction buildings.”

Boston has a rich history of arts and culture, including many American cultural firsts: the first public park; public library; public secondary school; public school for AfricanAmerican students; the Perkins School for the Blind, a school for visually impaired students; and the oldest performing-arts organization in the U.S. Boston also has more arts and cultural organizations per capita than any other metropolitan areas in the nation.

Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, hopes to make the city a municipal arts leader through the creation of a sustainable cultural plan, an increase in performance and work spaces, and support for a range of arts and cultural traditions that come with the rich diversity of Boston’s population. In Walsh’s 2013 mayoral campaign, there was much demand to prioritize arts and culture in the city’s plans for the future.

Artists of all skill levels are invited to participate in creating green space-inspired works of art. The Boston Parks and Recreation Department is hosting free Watercolor Painting Workshops throughout September

from 12-2 p.m. in parks across the city. The first session is Saturday, Sept. 10, and will be held at Christopher Columbus Park.

One new program provided by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture to help artists thrive and ensure everyone has access to the arts is the Peters Park art wall. In partnership with the Friends of Peters Park and Old Dover Neighborhood Association, the department is seeking proposals for a new mural as part of the major restoration of Peters Park play areas, paths, and dog parks.

Boston-area artists living within the Rt. I-495 area are invited to submit proposals with more details for the Peters Park Art Wall. Applications are due by midnight on Friday, Sept. 16.

Using input from the community engagement process and research on arts and culture in Boston, members from the Boston Creates Steering Committee, Leadership Council, special affinity groups, Greater Boston Arts Funders Group, Mayor’s Office, and Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture made recommendations that fall into three different categories—goals, strategies, and tactics—for the cultural plan.

The plan for action calls for the the city to work with the community to determine common goals and aspirations and whether an action will be city-owned, city-led, or city-catalyzed. The Boston Cultural Council, which makes grants to arts organizations, has received three times its original funding in the first and second budget from the Walsh administration.

Since July 2016, a $1 million investment using BRA community benefits funds started funding a full-time employee in the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture who will work closely with the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services and help artists navigate City Hall and a competitive artist fellow program.

The proposed budget for the 2017 fiscal year contains $2.3 million for the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, seven times the amount of funding available before.

According to the plan updates on the Boston Creates Cultural Plan website, the city is “already making substantial investments and policy changes that will have significant impacts across the city with the launch of the cultural plan,” Walsh said.

Also on the agenda is Imagine Boston 2030, the city’s first comprehensive planning process in 50 years.

“Timewise, it is great that the two started at the same time and will end around the same time since Boston Creates rolls right into the larger and more comprehensive plan of Imagine Boston 2030,” Borros said.

The plan includes a commitment to catalyze three neighborhood Arts Innovation District. The city, along with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, will develop strategies to strengthen Upham’s Corner as a cultural hub and take advantage of the existing Strand Theatre and local businesses and arts. The other two locations will be determined through Imagine Boston 2030’s public-engagement process continuing into the fall.

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This Saturday, the annual Boston Arts Festival will showcase visual and performing arts. The Boston Arts Festival takes place at the Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park, a scenic park located at the edge of the lively North End and the popular tourist destination Faneuil Hall.

Celebrating the noteworthy talents of local photographers, painters, jewelers, woodworkers, artisans, and musicians, the Boston Arts Festival provides artists the opportunity to show their work.

In collaboration with the city of Boston’s Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events, Mayor Thomas M. Menimo started the Boston Arts Festival in 2003 to reaffirm Boston’s identity as one of the largest cultural hubs on the East Coast and to foster the development of the city’s rich culture. The festival commences the Open Studios taking place throughout the fall.

The festival is returning for the first time since 2014, but it is now under the management of the Artists Crossing Gallery, an arts events organization responsible for organizing the Beach Hill Art Walk, Boston Harborfest, and the Beacon Hill Holiday Fine Art and Crafts Sale.

An organization passionate about preserving the annual celebration of Boston’s cultural identity, the Artists Crossing Gallery has been planning the event since February, according to chief event organizer Jen Matson.

Although the festival has showcased works from out-of-state artists in the past, the Artists Crossing Gallery hopes to bring the Boston Arts Festival back to the local artists and artisans and strengthen its dedication to patronizing local talent.

“It’s really about bringing it back to the local artists and showcasing their talent,” Matson said. “We’re shining a light on the

great talent within the Boston area.”

Matson also emphasizes that the art community and the city as a whole deeply felt the festival’s absence last year, and the Artists Crossing Gallery is committed to reviving the truly distinctive Boston pride, energy, and spirit that this festival brings.

An estimated 70 visual artists and artisans participate in the event and will be selling unique pieces that showcase their artistic abilities. Festival-goers can expect to see and purchase handmade, fine art and listen to a free concert.

Ten musicians and bands playing a variety of music genres will be performing on the Waterfront Stage for the entirety of the event, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Attendees can access artist profiles and portfolios on the Boston Arts Festival’s Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook pages to preview some of the talent showcased on Saturday.

The festival will post a complete schedule of the musicians and bands later in the week on its social media pages.

As a private organization, the Artist Crossing Gallery relies on external

sponsorships and donations to finance the festival’s production, which has certainly proved to be its greatest challenge. To raise money and support the talents of local artisans and artists, the Artists Crossing Gallery has established a GoFundMe fundraiser with the goal of raising $33,000. “[The festival] provides artists a platform to form and showcase their talent as well as the exposure, help, and support of the residents, art patrons, artists, neighborhoods, businesses, and tourists,” Matson said.

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Tracy Chang, BC ‘09, is set to open her first restaurant this fall in Cambridge and will bring her signature fusion of Japanese and Spanish flavors, served tapas style, to offer a culinary experience with its own unique character.

By Juan Olavarria Metro Editor A sense of audacity is coming to the city. Pagu, the newest addition to the ever-evolving culinary landscape of Cambridge, where innovation and defiance intersect, creates a blend of character and progress that permeates the neighborhood.

Tracy Chang, BC ’09 and founder of Pagu, sees this new opportunity as both a continuation of her family legacy, since her grandmother was also a restaurateur during the 1980s and 1990s, and as the culmination of her journey of self-discovery. Although there is not a set date, Pagu is set to open this fall.

The signature style of Pagu, JapaneseSpanish fusion, is one that is influenced

by Chang’s experiences growing up, as well as her ever-present love for different cultures. Her philosophy was to introduce Boston to tapas-style food combined

with the nuances of East Asian cuisine.

Chang points to this different concept as one that is more connected than people may believe, as both countries had historical nautical trade routes, and, as a result of constant contact, both regions developed a cooking style with minimal use of ingredients—something she wishes to emulate.

Chang did not, however, follow the common path taken by most professionals in the culinary industry. Instead, she graduated from BC with a finance degree and had no real idea of what the future held for her, especially during the grueling economic climate of the Great Recession—she graduated two years after the financial crisis.

“I became a finance major because I felt that it would be practical to study,” Chang said. “But my passion was in languages and culture.”

Around this time she realized that, for her, foods from different cultures around

the world were a unique form of language spoken through the firing of chemicals inside taste buds. This language contained both the essence of a people and its own individual concept of comfort, which showcased each civilization’s identity and values. By deciding to enter this new world head-on, and by extension having to convince her family that this was the path she chose, her long journey toward Pagu began.

Her culinary career started with a trial at a local restaurant—not the typical place for a recent graduate with a finance background. But, instead of focusing on the gap of experience between her and the other employees at the time, Chang embraced the opportunity and her underdog label.

“It was very challenging because I came in with … no tangible experience [working in a professional kitchen],” she said. “I did a lot of learning through doing … [it] reminded me a lot of a childhood

spent playing sports, it felt like a tryout.”

That feeling of not belonging drove her to learn as much as she could in as little time as possible. A lot of her previous experiences watching her grandmother cook also came back as if a levee had been opened and all of the passion came rushing in. Her childhood dream of emulating her grandmother and having her own restaurant resurfaced, letting her go full-throttle toward her vision.

“I remember writing [for a school project] when I was 10 that my dream was to take over my grandmother’s restaurant,” she said. “It really came full-circle.”

Convincing her family, however, was not an easy step. The conversations Chang had about her situation and her grandmother’s focused on the difference in circumstance and about the reality of an immigrant coming into the country, as her grandmother had done decades prior.

Her grandmother opened her restaurant as a way of supporting her family. Chang

just chose to follow her gut, something her family respects and has supported.

“A lot of my peers looked like they were not super passionate about what they were doing,” she said. “I was just fortunate to find that calling from an early age.”

She does credit a lot of her experiences while in school as the catalyst for her future success, especially the determination, attention to detail, and intellectual curiosity. The freedom she had to pursue her interests in different cultures and weekends spent cooking with friends would prove invaluable in the years that followed.

After spending some time studying patisserie at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris and working with chef Martin Berasategui at his three-star Michelin restaurant in San Sebastian, she returned with one vision that eventually became a reality: Pagu. She credits her current success to her passion for cuisine and encourages current students to pursue their own, whatever form they may take.

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By Madeleine D’Angelo Asst. Metro Editor Boston is a city with its eyes firmly set on the future. With the Innovation District in the Seaport, the first of its kind in the United States, it is hurling toward tomorrow. But, Boston will always remain a site of rich history, built on the past. Beginning Sept. 22, Bostonians will have the chance to glimpse back into the past with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s upcoming exhibit, Beyond Words: Italian Renaissance Books. Part of a larger exhibition also hosted by Harvard’s Houghton Library and Boston College’s McMullen Museum, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will showcase 65 rare Renaissance-era books, each illuminated with stunning and intricate paintings.

The planning for this exhibition began around 10 years ago when Jeffrey Hamburger, a professor from Harvard University, and Dr. Liam Stoneman, the curator of Houghton Library, began imagining a way to showcase the wealth of rare books and manuscripts located throughout Boston.

“Boston has a rich tradition of collecting rare books and manuscripts that goes back to the early 19th century,” said Nat Silver, the assistant curator of the Gardner museum’s collection. “At the heart of this project was the desire

to show the public the great riches of Boston books and manuscripts for the first and only time. This has never been done before.”

Fueled by this desire to present the public with these specimens, Hamburger and Stoneman compiled a list of manuscripts that they hoped to include in the exhibit. As the list grew, the two men drew in the minds of other scholars in the area—Nancy Netzer and Lisa Davis of Boston College, and Anne-Marie Eze of the Gardner Museum—and the project gained more and more traction as the curators and scholars hunted for the ideal examples to showcase. “[The curators] were looking for objects which had never been displayed before, objects of great rarity, very famous objects,” Silver said.

According to Silver, an early-16thcentury prayer book illuminated by the famous French painter, Jean de la Chambre, is the perfect example of such an object. Already in the Isabella Stewart Gardner collection, the manuscript is especially rare since it is one of the only intact surviving examples of such a work.

Eventually the list spanned about 260 rare books and manuscripts from 19 different institutional lenders, with over 80 scholars from around the world contributing to research for the exhibit.

And although organizing the collaboration between so many lenders and institutions proved complex, Silver revealed that many happy discoveries—such as the prayer books of Pope Julius III unearthed deep within the Harvard collection—were made along the way.

But with such a large number of examples to showcase, the curators decided that the exhibit would span three venues.

Each of the three venues will host a selection of thematically-organized books. For BC, Manuscripts for Pleasure and Piety, for Harvard University, Manuscripts for Church and Cloister, and for The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Humanist Library.

Within the Gardner’s Humanist Library, the exhibit will be separated into four sections (Study, Library, Chapel, and Press) and focus on examples from 15th century Florence. From this venue alone, highlights will include enormous choir books from San Sisto, an essential Benedictine congregation during the Renaissance, an illuminated edition of the Labors of Hercules made for the Duke of Milan, and the first Florentine edition of Dante’s Divine Comedy, which dates from 1481.

Thanks to the shallow cases chosen by the curators, visitors of the exhibit will have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to examine the stunning books closely,

but with great care. Due to the delicate nature of the relics, most of the books in the exhibit are generally kept closed and under watch to preserve the artistic treasures they contain.

“This is really the sole opportunity that Boston will have to see these treasures that otherwise remain in libraries among them,” Silver said. “Most of these books have never been seen before, and an event

like this is never going to happen again.

This is really a unique and one-time-only opportunity to see the wealth of book-art from the greatest period in the history of manuscripts—so that is from the 11th and 12th century up to the 16th century—that Boston has to offer. And I think that the local community will be surprised by the wealth of artistic riches right beneath their fingertips.”

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The new Beyond Words exhibit highlights rare manuscripts from 15th century Florence.

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“There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.”

Attempts to address the issue of sexual assault on campus are often hampered by a lack of information, including unreported assaults. Senate Resolve S. 2471, a bill that passed the Massachusetts State Senate in July, attempts to rectify this issue.

The bill, which has yet to pass the Massachusetts House of Representatives, would require Massachusetts colleges to anonymously survey their students at the end of every academic year in order to better understand how often sexual assaults occur and how students perceive the problem. This bill would make Massachusetts the first state to mandate a sexual assault climate survey.

Currently, the bill is stalled, as the House is not in session. Advocates are attempting to convince the House to hold an informal session to vote on the bill, but it is not clear when this will occur.

Regardless of whether this bill passes, Boston College should consider the issues the bill presents. A sexual assault climate survey is a necessity if we are to better understand the issue and the current situation on our campus.

BC already has similar programs that institute similar types of surveys, including the Women’s Center’s bystander survey and the Stand Up BC survey, which are taken by freshmen. A sexual assault climate survey would extend to the entire student body and help illustrate what problems exist on campus and how the administration can address them. Without this information, it is difficult to put forward solutions and ideas to address sexual assault, as the issue remains clouded.

Theology professor John McDargh, who has been at the University for 37 years and has advocated for LGBTQ students, said this past spring that students don’t participate in surveys relating to sexual health due to decisions made by the top of the administration. According to McDargh, these deci-

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sions are made so that the administration can maintain “plausible deniability,” about sexual activity on campus.

This needs to change so that those who want to address the problem of sexual assault on campus have the information they need, including information about sexual activity.

While the information can be unpleasant, it is essential that it is collected and studied. In 2012, BC released a survey of a somewhat similar nature that also returned disheartening results. A study done by the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment revealed that women at BC reported lower self-confidence after four years than men, despite having, on average, higher GPAs.

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Other Boston-area colleges, such as Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Northeastern, have released similar climate surveys in the past, and BC would be better able to address the problem of sexual assault if it did the same.

Even if Senate Resolve S. 2471 fails to pass in the House and does not become law, BC should seriously consider implementing the necessary measures to understand and address sexual assault on campus.

-Anton Chekhov, Letter to A.P. Chekhov

A Response to “A GOP in Jeopardy” Ask any self-identified conservative their feelings on the Republican Party’s 2016 primary season, and you’re likely to hear groans of disgust, despair, and dejection.

Many of us wish we could forget those long summer months of sinking hopes that eventually led to the nomination of Donald Trump. Ryan Duffy, in his recent column “A GOP in Jeopardy,” seems to have succeeded in doing just that.

He revels in the supreme irony of a party that, after realizing in 2012 a desperate need for an “overhaul,” finds itself in 2016 supporting a candidate who embodies all the things that needed overhauling, a man possessed by all of the party’s demons. Perplexingly, Mr. Duffy seems to assign blame for the GOP’s woes at random, first faulting party leadership for not fixing their party’s deep, structural problems, and then, in a bizarre turn, also blaming Mr. Trump for not acting in the best interests of the “future of his party,” as if the candidate ever acted in any interest but his own.

Mr. Duffy seems to imagine the GOP as operating much like a corporation, with the Republican National Committee as a sort of board of directors, and with the nominee as a kind of CEO. This way of thinking, however, is faulty.

The Republican establishment and Mr. Trump are not, as Mr. Duffy implies, on the same team, nor do they share the same basic ideology. Those of us who remember the primaries can recall a GOP bitterly divided, mostly over Mr. Trump.

His unique brand of populism sent deep fractures through the Party, pitting white

working-class voters against the Party’s traditional elites. In the end, a vocal minority of around 30 percent of Republican voters carried Mr. Trump to the nomination on plurality after plurality, while the rest of the GOP poll-goers failed to coalesce around an alternative candidate.

It doesn’t matter that the Republican Party has consistently stood for free trade, small government, the separation of powers, firm commitments to our allies, and a hearty respect for the Constitution. Mr. Trump cares nothing for the principles that have been the underpinnings of the Republican Party for decades, and his ideas are stunningly antithetical to them. In truth, Mr. Trump’s rise to power represents a sort of hostile takeover of the GOP, an intellectual occupation in which the party’s leaders are either being held hostage or collaborating with their newly crowned candidate. Asking Republicans to “rein in” Mr. Trump would have been like asking the Vichy French government to “rein in” Adolf Hitler’s more unpleasant rhetoric.

Mr. Duffy is uncharitable for victimblaming the Republican establishment, implying that if only they figured out the cruel irony of a GOP that in 2012 resolved to disavow all that their current candidate represents, they might realize that they should, like a board of directors, simply manage their CEO better. Unfortunately, like the rest of us, they’re simply along for the ride.

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A time many Boston College students thought they would never see has finally arrived. After years of false starts and broken hearts, printers were installed on the second floor of Corcoran Commons on Sept. 2, and are now available to students—that is, when they are not jammed. The printers are part of a pilot program that will study how often the printers in Corcoran Commons are used in order to determine if printers should be removed from O’Neill Library and permanently installed in Corcoran Commons and McElroy Commons. Printers will remain in Corcoran Commons only if they are consistently used and prove to be better located than current printers. Hopefully, this pilot program will prove successful and lead to a better printing system for students.

The Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) deserves commendation for bringing this about. After many challenges that didn’t produce the amount of tangible changes many had hoped for, this installation marks a success for UGBC that will benefit students across campus.

Much of the work that led up to this was done by former UGBC leaders, who have been calling for printers in Corcoran Commons for a decade. After Thomas Napoli, former UGBC president and BC ’16, and Olivia Hussey, former EVP and MCAS ’17, advocated for the installation of the printers last year, there was an extended waiting period as the printers were purchased but not installed. Delays lasted months as electrical outlets, wireless internet routers, zoning laws, and bureaucracy pushed the installation date further and further into the future. This process was marred not only by excessive delays and a crawling pace, but also by a lack of transparency.

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Many students were unaware of what was preventing this seemingly simple project from completion, leaving many confused and incorrectly blaming members of the student government. In the future, endeavours such as this, undertaken cooperatively

by UGBC and the administration, should be more transparent to the student body.

Despite these negative aspects, the installation still marks a positive step for UGBC, as it continues to advocate for changes in policy and more tangible projects.

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The success of installing printers in Corcoran Commons stands as an example of both positive and negative aspects of the process.

In the upcoming year, UGBC should strive to imitate the eventual success that came from advocating for printers, while also trying to avoid the bureaucratic delays and lack of transparency that harmed the process.

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

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IIII INSTEAD OF IV - If you happen to be the type of person who exists within the constraints of time, unlike myself, you probably look at the clock during class. You may have even noticed that instead of IV, the normal Roman numeral for four, the clocks say IIII. Immediately intrigued by this revelation, the TU/TD Underground Retroactive Investigators Needing Endearment team was sent to uncover the truth. This secretive squad of desperately lonely professional investigators in search of love uncovered some juicy information through an investigative technique known as “googling it and clicking on the first link and then none of the other links because who cares about multiple sources, this is Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down, you fools, I AM THE SOURCE.” Long story short: Many clocks, including fancy-pants ones in major American cities, replace IV with IIII, and a definitive explanation for why does not exist. As a result of this endeavor into the depths of hard-hitting investigative journalism, the thumb-meister has concluded that a shadowy group of conspirators has been planting IIIIs in our clocks for years.

Boston College must have purchased clocks from this group, presumably at a discount. Now that these mutilated clocks are in our school, all hope is lost. There’s no telling who might be involved in this conspiracy. The evidence clearly points to mind control and historical revisionism. If they can change our Roman numerals, they can change our minds, they can change our hearts, and they can change our souls. Truth becomes subjective. Love becomes control. Freedom becomes chaos.

Once our brains are turned into oatmeal by constantly staring at these inexplicably changed Roman numerals, these evil operators will start phase two of the conspiracy: setting all the clocks to Saint Pierre and Miquelon Daylight time. Our minds won’t be able to comprehend the change, and soon we will all believe ourselves to be residents of colonial France. That’s when the real fun starts. Operation Dark Clock will commence: a time of shattered windows, smoky skies, and camouflage bandanas. We will all be forced to watch in horror as Gasson Tower comes crashing down, and black helicopters descend from the clouds to the sound of Mozart’s “Dies Irae.” Fall to your knees and behold the destruction of all you hold dear. Death, thy name is IIII.

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Another skirmish in the culture war broke out Aug. 24 with the publication of the University of Chicago’s welcome letter to the class of 2020.

The administration’s explicit condemnation of “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” in the letter has sparked the most controversy. While these are important, albeit amorphous, concepts that must be discussed, the heart of the letter lies elsewhere.

The letter was fundamentally an attempt to communicate to incoming students that during their four years they will be exposed to ideas—in books, in class, and in discussions with professors and friends—that will dislodge some of their foundational beliefs. This process of subjecting all prevailing beliefs to criticism and argument may “even cause discomfort.” But this is the purpose of the university, the administration claims.

Perhaps the administration did it clumsily, but I commend it for sending this letter to the incoming class. The underlying concern that motivated the administration to write it is real: students are unwilling to earnestly engage with ideas that may challenge their deeply held beliefs. This is a cause for alarm.

Examples abound. Students at Wesleyan University have defunded a school newspaper in outrage over an op-ed that questioned some elements of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Nicholas and Erika Christakis stepped down from their positions as facultyin-residence at Yale’s Silliman College for sending an email to their students that presented an alternative intellectual lens through which to view Halloween costumes. Jason Riley, a prominent speaker on race, was disinvited from Virginia Tech. Christina Lagarde withdrew from her planned commencement address at Smith over raucous protests, as did Condoleezza Rice from Rutgers

University. An alarming number of students are unwilling to hear and consider different views, even from their friends and classmates.

Rather than listen to those who disagree with them, then scrutinize their views and push toward the truth, these students, and sometimes professors, seek to silence dissent.

Students and administrators at Boston College have at times demonstrated willingness to, like the University of Chicago, stand athwart this groundswell in universities across the country. During my freshman year, BC brought Ryan Anderson from the Heritage Foundation to deliver “A Case Against Gay Marriage.”

Even though I support gay marriage, I decided to attend. I recall being quite impressed with students who leveled with Anderson, prodding his argument for holes. I recall being quite unimpressed

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The point is not that I agree with Anderson, the thoughts expressed by the speakers disinvited from campus, the teachers dismissed from their posts, or the students so often afraid to express their views. I usually do not.

The point is that contending with them in public and private discourse— rather than getting them fired, launching ad hominem attacks, getting their invitation to speak rescinded, or subjecting them to public derision—is the only way to get closer to the truth. Prior to attending “A Case Against Gay Marriage,” my support for gay marriage was an unexamined belief—dogma I accepted from the loudest voices around me. Now, I still support gay marriage, but Anderson’s talk prompted me to find out why for myself.

This investigation has been going on for

three years now, and it has expanded far beyond the arguments put forward by Anderson. In the process, my zeal has tempered, and I’ve adopted far greater intellectual humility in regard to my position on the issue. I’ve realized that I may be wrong.

Intellectual humility, curiosity, and imagination are required to seek out and fully understand other views. The dearth of these qualities is behind much of the strife on college campuses and the unrest across the country.

It is easy to behold the racism and xenophobia expressed by Donald Trump and his supporters and look no further, but it is much harder to actually engage with them and understand the cultural and social anxieties that often drive his support. It is easy to dismiss Plato or other thinkers and writers in the Western canon as dead old white guys with nothing to offer, but harder to grapple with their thought and discover for yourself what is true and what is not.

It is easy to dismiss BLM as reckless protestors, but harder to grapple with their pain and the system that is at least partially to blame. It is easy to think that we should require state-issued IDs to vote, but harder to consider who it would disenfranchise, or if widespread voter fraud even exists.

College is a place where people with a multiplicity of experiences, backgrounds, beliefs, and opinions come to live, learn, and grow together for four years. With empathy, humility, and respect we should argue, disagree, and yes, feel uncomfortable, as we examine our own inherited beliefs. So read books and publications that present different viewpoints. Seek out students and professors who see the world differently than you. Try to understand why they think what they do.

At the very least, you will emerge with a better understanding of the reasons why you believe what you believe—something that is critical for an examined life. And who knows? You may actually change your mind.

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K_\ :_Xcc\e^\ f] N_`k\ Jlgi\dXZp :I8@> =FI; Last Monday, the Office of Student Affairs launched Boston College’s official Diversity page within the Campus Life division of its site.

No one can doubt that it’s a beautiful page, and, moreover, no one can doubt that it greatly assists in keeping the BC community abreast of news and events related to—at least judging from the current calendar—topics involving race.

No one can doubt that the site stands as a visual monument to BC’s institutional aspiration to be a home to all of its students, regardless of race, gender and sexual identification, ability, and national origin.

And equally, no one can doubt that the site stands as evidence of the work that anti-racist student activism on campus can precipitate—in both its institutionally recognized forms led by student organizations like the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) and the Graduate Students of Color Association (GSCA) and in its extra-institutionally-recognized form in the coalition known as Eradicate Boston College Racism.

There is something—however inconvenient—that one can doubt about this new website: What does it do about white supremacy on campus?

It’s easy to read the words “white supremacy” and conjure images of white supremacist organizations like the Klu Klux Klan or of the most recent addition to the authoritative Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of hate groups, White Lives Matter. But that’s not exactly what I want to highlight here.

Instead, when I use the words ‘white supremacy,’ I refer to a constellation of factors that scholars have recognized result in an environment in which white bodies and bodies that pass as white gain access to certain affective and political spaces to which non-white bodies or bodies that fail to pass as white are frequently denied or reach only with great effort.

These affective and political spaces are not literal spaces, of course, but the import of the metaphor here is to recognize that white bodies can be in the same physical space as nonwhite bodies, and yet these two sorts of bodies can experience that identical environment in sometimes radically different ways.

At a rudimentary level, which elsewhere I have described using the metaphor of an ecosystem, white supremacy births an environment in which it is simply ordinary to expect white people to be in positions of authority, which is one of the United States’s most effective self-fulfilling prophesies. It births an environment in which it is normal

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This is where—though I could give more examples—it is normal to expect that the “proper” way to dress, to interact with others, or to be sexually attractive is to approximate styles associated with the looks and the mannerisms of white people.

In other words, white supremacy is a form of racism, but it is a form that does not necessarily implicate any one individual in, say, an act of racial discrimination, nor does it necessarily have to implicate an individual in

biased attitudes or prejudiced beliefs with respect to race. Instead, white supremacy is the form of racism that, prior to any person’s cognitive intervention, structures a climate in which white bodies are allowed to feel culturally at home, culturally at ease, and in which non-white bodies are made to feel culturally distanced, as always “on-edge,” as somehow “less than.”

To use a spatial metaphor that I first learned from the brilliant Sara Ahmed in her book Queer Phenomenology, white bodies are allowed to extend into space, whereas nonwhite bodies are forced to contract.

This is the reality that students of color at BC endure. It is the reality to which my colleagues in other graduate schools attest, as well as the students that I have taught.

It is what drew Eradicate into existence, and it is what is sadly and perhaps unintentionally obscured beneath the smiling faces and bright colors of the new diversity website.

There was one thing, in particular, with which I was pleased about the site.

It was the words of the provost, David Quigley, who reiterated BC’s commitment to creating an “inclusive and welcoming” space.

I very much believe that if we are to combat white supremacy, it will require a commitment, but it will require more work than listing resources and keeping track of different calendars: It will involve a true conversion of the mind and heart.

And conversion in this country has rarely happened without prayer and its fraternal twin, protest; without courage and the long work of reconciliation; without not just being welcomed, but also being at home.

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On the first day of my writing class in Venice, Italy, I looked around at the faces of the nine other students in the room and couldn’t shake the feeling that we were all so drastically different. I wondered how this was going to work— would we just be 10 islands, as distinct as the small, separate land masses that comprise Venice?

My first trip into the city with my class brought us to a beautiful church at the head of the Grand Canal—Santa Maria della Salute. The church is home to a very famous Tintoretto painting, entitled The Wedding at Cana, which had appeared in our reading. Unfortunately, when we got there, no one was present to let us into the sacristy that contained the painting. According to our professor, the readings and experiences in the first week could not possibly capture the painting. We would have to come back on our own and write a brief reflection to understand the written descriptions and see the fuller picture.

Experiences like these did allow my class to become friendlier and a bit more connected as the days went on, but if I were to choose a turning point for us, from a group of uncertain friends to something deeper, it would be the “Venice by Night” walk. We met in the main square. Before we began our walk, our professor encouraged us to use all of our senses. He would lead us through parts of the city that we probably hadn’t seen, and our job was to simply take it all in.

We weren’t even to talk—this was about giving Venice our full attention.

The walk felt like being caught inside of a movie. Music faded out, chatter and clanking in a restaurant faded, and the sounds of Venice, echoing over water and off of brick, were chillingly beautiful.

The variety of smells, from jasmine and ocean to fresh fish and trash, was something I’d never taken particular notice of, but it was so strange and raw. I thought about how many snapshots make up a life—of places and people, of words and scents, feelings and breaths—and felt awe-inspired. I wondered how many things I’d glanced at each day of my life, but never truly seen. The same sentiment, I think, went for the members of my class. I wondered if they had felt or thought some of the same things I had, but the looks on everyone’s faces once we came to the end of the walk, coupled with the quiet moments as we waited for our ferry, said it all to me.

Connected by the uniqueness of all that we had seen and experienced together, we had moved far beyond the initial awkwardness. Our time together had pushed us into a new realm—one of unity and easy friendship. As the next two and a half weeks passed by, my class grew more tightly knit by the day. We truly bonded, and I will always think of them as my Venice family.

As the class wound down into week four, there was something on my agenda that still needed to be done. I needed to visit the painting that we’d been unable to see our first week. Henry James, a writer we had studied in the course, described the painting as “a cluster of accidents; not an obvious order, but a sort of peopled and agitated chapter of life, in which the figures are submissive, pictorial notes.” Reading this quote anew and staring up at Tintoretto’s massive, colorful canvas, I suddenly understood that my class itself was so like this painting we’d studied—blended together with the intention of something greater than us, complementary in our differences, and beautiful when unified into one picture.

I could have learned to love Venice and found all the beauty in my time abroad on my own, but when the best experiences in life are shared with friends, they take on a new life—growing, multiplying, and evolving until the pieces come together. They paint a vivid picture, where colors are blended, transforming from distinct shades into middle ground and giving way to appreciation for the uniqueness of other people and the picture we can make when we let our distinct shades blend.

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In addition to the 2,319 students from the class of 2020, 141 transfer students have also come to BC this fall. One thousand three hundred ninety-four students applied to transfer to BC, and 26 percent were accepted. Transfers had an average collegiate GPA around 3.7 and came from 24 states and four different countries.

This past summer, BC saw 8 percent more visitors on campus than in prior years. Roughly 11,000 prospective students toured, and four tours and panels were given per day.

“I think it’s just the attractiveness of Boston College right now,” Mahoney said.

Mahoney attributes the uptick in visitors to the new construction of the Thomas More Apartments, the jump in Forbes’s rankings to the number 22 school in the country, and the University’s location in Boston, known for being a college town.

“I think it’s the reputation of the place, that just continues to get stronger with each passing year,” Mahoney said.

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In the early weeks of the semester, when the readjustment to classes and dorm life can feel like a ton of bricks crashing down, many students long for simple comforts of their life back home, particularly the comfort of a delicious and filling homemade meal. But with the recent opening of Bottega Fiorentina’s Newton Center location, this often dreamt-about and sometimes, elusive meal has become much easier to track down.

Specializing in high-quality, yet speedy, Italian dishes, Bottega Fiorentina opened its original Coolidge Corner location in 1994. The creators, Andrea Ferrini and his wife, Christina Ferrini, quickly charmed the many students and locals who lived nearby with their cozy atmosphere and specialty dishes. One of those students was Carlos Trujillo, the owner of the Newton Center Bottega Fiorentina location, who, after discovering Bottega Fiorentina 17 years ago, became enamored with the bustling restaurant.

“When I first came to Boston 17 years ago, my sister was already here a year before, and she actually introduced me to the owners there, and I fell in love with the concept,” Trujillo said.

But Trujillo’s love went beyond that of a loyal customer. He admired the restaurant’s concept—fine fast food combined with a

small grocery section—from a business standpoint. So around two years ago, Trujillo began discussing the possibility of expanding and franchising Bottega Fiorentina with the Ferrinis, finessing how best to revamp and brand the image. Once the negotiations were complete, Trujillo began scoping out locations in Newton Center, conscious not only of its proximity to many suburban families, but also its proximity to Boston College.

Eventually, after finding the perfect location and going through the building and permitting process, the restaurant was ready.

With a mix of counters looking out the large windows and intimate tables with red checkered placemats, eaters feel like they are eating in their grandmother’s kitchen.

But then, customers’ eyes are drawn to the beautiful photographic mural of Florence and a quaint patio table immediately visible from the entrance. All of a sudden, they feel like they are enjoying their meal on an outdoor patio in Italy.

The restaurant’s extensive menu only strengthens this impression, as it includes all of the Italian classics that eaters could hope for.

Beginning with a variety of specialty pastas and over 30 made-in-house sauces, customers can create their own pasta meal. And although all of the pastas used are high-quality imports, the house-made spinach gnocchi is certainly a must-try, along with the lasagna Bolognese.

“The lasagna Bolognese is also very popular,” Trujillo said. “On our menu it shows it only one day a week, but we actually make it more than four days a week. The students love it, because it is very hearty and it keeps you full.

It has the right amount of proteins, the right amount of carbs.”

And although the menu also includes daily specials and antipasto plates, as well as sandwiches and salads—both of which have been noticeably popular in the Newton Center location—the star is undoubtedly Bottega Fiorentina’s signature Fedora sauce.

The famous Fedora sauce, which is a hybrid of tomato sauce and crème sauce, was a recipe developed by, and named after, Andrea Ferrini’s mother. Its unique flavor has drawn customers back again and again, and the people of Newton Center are no exception.

“A lot of people coming to the store—at least during the summer time—were people that maybe were students a long time ago and used to go to Coolidge Corner,” said Trujillo.

“Now they live around this area and don’t go to Coolidge Corner that often, and they wanted to Fedora sauce again.”

The savory dishes are complemented by the gelato bar, a new addition for the Newton Center location, as well as a selection of local Italian pastries, and cookies available for purchase from the store’s grocery section.

Customers can also procure fresh cold cuts and high-quality cheeses by the pound, and marinated olives, mushrooms, and peppers.

Already, Trujillo has created a family atmosphere in the new location. This is due in part to careful planning regarding the staff—many of whom come from the original Coolidge Corner location—but also due to the appearance of customers who are already regulars.

And with specials like $4.99 pastas on Wednesdays and Sundays, the group of admirers is fated to expand into the BC community and beyond, ultimately allowing Trujillo to continue his plans of growing the Bottega Fiorentina brand as a chain.

It is frighteningly easy to get tunnel vision on a college campus.

The rush—of classes, of friends, of clubs, of work—is so powerful that, when you make it through a day, you are exhausted.

The moment your head hits the pillow, you are out like a light—well, either that, or you’re up for hours preoccupied by the tortuous thought of the paper you haven’t finished yet, or that one embarrassing thing you said last year that has mysteriously come back to haunt you at this exact moment.

Either way, you generally have no time to reflect on the past 24 hours and realize that—if you’re like me—you probably spent yet another day surrounded by the same group of people, in the same buildings, working toward the same basic goal. You may even have the shocking realization that it’s been quite a while since you had any meaningful kind of interaction with someone over the age of 21—a way of life that I find kind of cool, but kind of scary at the same time.

And even though the people you tend to surround yourself with are generally wonderful, the environment is stimulating, and the goals we set for ourselves usually have good intentions, all of the sameness can cocoon you, wrapping you up so tightly that you forget about the entirely different world unfolding right outside the campus gates.

Despite keeping up to date with the news and world events, it is easy to get emotionally separated from the reality of the outside world where people are concerned with problems and questions very different from what we experience during this stage of our life. In fact, at some point our college tunnel vision makes it difficult to imagine that there actually is a next stage in our lives, where we will leave school and be thrust back into the reality of the world around us, a reality where we will really start to age and mature, eventually having experiences that are impossible to imagine right now as we frantically try to float from assignment to assignment.

The more I’ve thought about this problem of tunnel vision, the more paranoid I’ve become about trying to avoid it.

Getting too comfortable in a reality where friends are essentially an arm’s length away, and where problems can be easily brushed off as bouts of immaturity, seems like a real possibility, so how does one remember the real world that’s waiting without throwing themselves into bouts of trepidation and nervousness?

The solution I’ve come up with is peoplewatching.

It’s a pastime I’ve come to treasure, something that gets me completely out of my head and immersed in the lives going on around me. And having the opportunity to people-watch in a city is about as good as it gets.

To me, cities—Boston included—are these fascinating constructs where people try to distract themselves from unpleasant truths. The reality of everyday life is clumsily, and sometimes altogether unsuccessfully, crammed behind shops, and parks, and museums—places where people can distract themselves by looking through windows at beautiful things they can dream about.

Watching people navigate this landscape is not only entertaining, but oftentimes illuminating.

When people-watching within such a landscape, you must choose your vantage point carefully. It must be somewhere where it’s not creepy to stare at people as they walk by, and somewhere that’s bustling, but not hectic. In Boston there are so many options—park benches, trendy coffee shops (those have the added benefit of food), T cars. The list could go on forever.

As you watch, you’ll begin to notice a pattern in the people that wander by: inevitably, there’s the young couple in love; the family; the loud group of teenagers; the brooding and disillusioned youth; the people who make you sad, happy, and melancholy.

Strangers who elicit emotions that tell you something about your state of mind, something maybe even you weren’t fully aware of. Strangers who might just widen your vision, making you wonder where you will be when your four years are up.

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The plan assured perservation of as much of the green footprint of the campus as possible. BC intends to keep 154 trees and plant an additional 50 or so, while removing 39, many of which have already been deemed sickly. BC will also work with the land to create the field.

Though it will be turf instead of natural grass, that surface will only extend to the field of play—all additional surfaces will remain grass. Softball will also be on the

ground level, where it currently exists, while baseball will have an elevated concourse as what fits with the land.

BC also presented a plan for both sound and lighting on the fields, both of which were voiced as concerns by the board and members of the community.

The light poles will stand between 70 and 90 feet: baseball will have eight, softball will have six, and intramural will have four. All of the light poles are specifically designed to point toward the field and minimize the amount that spills into the surrounding area.

Athletics will also implement a stateof-the-art sound system designed to minimize noise pollution in the neighborhood. BC provided a study that shows that, on average, the area around the Brighton Campus emits 50 to 70 deci-

bels during the day. This sound system, plus the crowd noise, is projected to be about 80 to 85 decibels at peak volume (defined as cheering after a home run) around the seats.

The construction leaders asserted that there will be a “hard-knee” compression system on the speakers. After studies have been finalized, they will preset a maximum level for the speakers that cannot be surpassed once installed, nor can it be revised. Keady believes that, despite the initial pushback, this is the ideal and most agreeable plan for BC and the community.

“The project was approved in the master plan, but once this is built, we’re really going to have to make sure that the sound and the lighting is what we say it’s going to be,” Keady said. “This isn’t like

Shea Field, where you’re going to buy some speakers at RadioShack and play it. If I lived beside where it’s really quiet and beautiful and dogs are running, and now we have a baseball field, I’d be here, too. I applaud these people.”

BC estimates that baseball will play six to 10 evening games, with potential start times anywhere between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Athletics could not give a definitive answer on start times, given that any that will be on television will be dictated by ESPN and the new ACC Network, the latter of which is coming in 2019. A majority of baseball and softball games will be in the typical eight-week period of April and May, when weather in New England allows for the sport to be played.

The move to Brighton will give both baseball and softball a more consistent

playing surface than the natural grass and dirt of Shea Field, which has been hampered by the effects of bad weather on the natural grass. It will also provide fans with extensive seating options, especially when compared to the parking garage. The estimated time of completion for the new fields will be for the 2018 season.

The approved master plan also calls for a 60,000-square-foot athletics building, which Keady refers to as “Phase Two.” This will include a new locker room for baseball and softball. Overall, however, BC Athletics is more than happy with the plan, according to Deputy Athletics Director Jamie Seguin.

“I think this is a great facility and great aspect for our student-athletes and our programs,” Seguin said. “We’re really excited for them to have this facility.”

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I think now, more than a week later, Gene Wilder’s passing is finally settling in my head. At first I think I was inclined to ignore the news, or at least act like it didn’t faze me very much. But in the last couple days, it’s become increasingly apparent to me how much I appreciate Wilder’s films, his aura, and his friends.

I’ve been a huge fan of Mel Brooks for over a decade now. My love and fascination with him and his entourage began when I saw Rick Moranis in his Dark Helmet get-up on the cover of a Spaceballs DVD. A few weeks later I picked up a collection of eight of his movies and made sure I had seen the rest of his filmography. The nicest thing about the Mel Brooks films was that, as you go through his body of work, you start to notice a lot of the same faces.

Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise, Cloris Leachman, Sid Caeaser, Wilder, and a few other comedians can all be spotted in multiple Brooks films.

Each member of the Brooks crew is different from the rest of the group, and even though they changed characters from movie to movie, something of each comedian’s air or persona was present in all of their work. To me, Kahn’s eyes exude the same sarcastic tone throughout all of her performances in Brooks’s films. As recently pointed out by Rishi Kaneria, Wilder’s perfect grasp of comedic timing is one of the essential components of his shtick. It’s actually pretty easy to spot some of these key characteristics in members of the Brooks entourage and it was especially fun, as a kid, trying to learn from these comedic legends some of the more subtle aspects of their humor.

This isn’t all to say that the Brooks entourage is the only one of its kind.

Especially with the start of SNL, it’s really easy to point to and distinguish between a few generational circles of comedians (the Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell, Kristin Wiig circles) that were produced from NBC. Aside from SNL, one can point to Jon Stewart’s wide spectrum of correspondents from The Daily Show or to Seth Rogen, James Franco, and their buddies as being two of the leading groups of comedians today.

What’s different, mainly, between the Brooks group and, say, Jon Stewart’s correspondents, besides their types of humor, is that I, and a lot of people my age, grew up watching Brooks and his pals. I was watching Silent Movie and High Anxiety before I really even knew what comedy was or what really makes a joke or situation funny. Over the last decade or so, I’ve found new ways of looking at some of my favorite jokes in Brooks’s movies, and jokes and bits that didn’t hit me when I was a kid have become some of my favorite shticks in comedy. So while there isn’t much that really makes the Brooks crew unique in and of itself, I’ve grown up with this ensemble—I’ve changed because of it.

All of this makes it really difficult to hear the news every time one of the Brooks ensemble passes away. At this point, there’s really only Leachman and Brooks himself left. For some reason, Wilder’s passing has been especially noteworthy for me over the last couple days. More so than when I heard that Harvey Korman or Dom DeLuise had died, the death of Wilder has made me spend a lot of time thinking about friendship, comedy, and specifically the influence that he and the rest of the Brooks clan have had on the world and, even more specifically, how I view it.

The last week has also been a helpful lesson for me in how to handle grief. Days after Wilder’s death, Brooks was on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Of course, the two had to talk about Wilder and while, to a small degree, Brooks did seem shaken up while discussing his friend, he told two beautiful stories about Wilder and their work together. That’s when I realized there are two ways you can handle death: wallowing in pain and remembering the beauty someone brought to the world. I’ll choose the latter of those two options every time.

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JEFF MENTZER / HEIGHTS STAFF

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Emotionally, blues are melancholy, reds denote anger and frustration, while yellows exude notions of happiness, and greens the bitterness of envy. Where, then, does pink lie on the spectrum of feeling, and what does it say about the people and places that employ its spry and alluring shade? The Seeing Pink exhibit in the O’Neill Library thirdfloor gallery, curated by Lisa Kessler of the fine arts department, explores the myriad uses and implications of the multiform color, showing how people everywhere use it for various ends through several eye-catching prints and photographs.

Shrubs depicts the side wall of a building, painted a loud shade of pink, flanked by dark green shrubs running along its length. One implied notion of pink, in this instance, appears to be deviance, as the brash color is sure to be seen as unsightly to some in the public

sphere. Its unnatural relation to its immediate surroundings suggests discord, in direct opposition to the natural color palette of the organic world. Pink distinguishes itself as abrasive, unabashed, and counter cultural.

Using a lighter shade, with a different use of the color, Doll is a simple photo of a doll laid on its side. The pink dress on the doll furthers the ideas of innocence inherent in the child’s toy. The soft color is a complementary element, used to bestow a pure, uncorrupt aesthetic unto the doll.

Alternatively, pink can be used to ostracize and castigate. Tent City of the Maricopa County Jail, a prison in Arizona, houses inmates in a complex of tents outside the proper facilities. In the sweltering desert summer heat, the institution forces its prisoners to sleep in pink sheets and wear pink clothes, including underwear. Tents depicts an inmate holding his pink-sleeved arms, with pink bedding in the background.

As pink is generally considered a feminine color, the enforced use of color among men seems to emasculate and shame the criminals. This form of

punishment speaks to the psychological aspects and influences of the visual on individual and collective psyches.

Code Pink depicts a pink-heeled shoe hovering above the ground as if it is about to be put down. As is evidenced by the title, the photo references the organization Code Pink: Women for Peace, which campaigns for grassroots movements of women to end globalist military ventures in the United States and around the world. Pink, in this instance, is used as a symbol of the female and female empowerment. Its use implies female unification under a cause. As the photo insinuates that women ought to “put their foot down” regarding war, the onus and responsibility falls on the active participation of women and their experiences in the world. Code Pink, a play off the medical emergency code, implies the emergency of war and acts as a calling card for women to action.

In a similar call for unification used to spearhead a movement, the Pink Angel Posse uses the color to draw attention to its fight against and for the awareness

of breast cancer. The motorcycle club seems to marry the brutish nature of a hardened group of motorcycle enthusiasts with the dainty, concerned color.

Pink is used as a means of unifying two unlikely worlds. Bearing angel wings on back of a pink MC jacket, adorned with all the appropriate stitches and badges, the ladies are enough to give pause to viewers as they roar down the road.

Other works, like Hair, which depicts a pink face with closed eyes, and Turf, displaying a section of turf sprayed pink, are more difficult to analyze, and yet speak to the varied uses of the off-shade of red. Pink, as a color, can be used to express many things, some of which may contradict each other. The end result is a color that demands careful examination and tact in its application.

It is in its varied uses that pink makes itself such an attractive color for political, as well as personal, statements. Pink demands a place on our color palette and cannot be ignored. In more ways than one, pink unifies us all.

After all, we’re all pink on the inside.

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THIS WEEKEND in arts

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SEEING PINK PHOTO GALLERY (SEPT. 2016)

Buy your tickets today for this popular BC band’s first concert of the school year. Grab your closest friends and enjoy a night of fruity funk and original hits like “Gold” and “Pineapple Groove” at the Brighton Music Hall.

Browse O’Neill’s third-floor gallery and enjoy this exhibit by fine arts professor Lisa Kessler about meaning, conflict, and the various implications of the color pink.

JASON ALDEAN WITH KID ROCK (FRI. 5:30 P.M.) Get your country fix at Fenway Park this weekend at Jason Aldean’s end-of summer show. Featuring appearances from Thomas Rhett and Kid Rock, this concert is sure to be an entertaining event for country music lovers.

‘SULLY’ (OPENS FRI.) This biopic features Tom Hanks as famed pilot Capt. Chesley Sullenberger, the man who made an emergency landing in New York’s Hudson River. The outbreak of an investigation, however, threatens this hero’s reputation.

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‘WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS’ (OPENS FRI.) After seeking the help of a surrogate mother, John and Laura Taylor believe the arrival of a child will complete their perfect family. Surprisingly, the woman who can make their dreams come true may just be a living nightmare.

THE LUMINEERS (WED. 6:30 P.M.) This folk-rock band is set to bring old favorites and new releases to the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion. Purchase tickets now to hear the band perform chart-toppers like “Ophelia” and “Ho Hey”.

ART AFTER DARK (FRI. 6 P.M.) As part of its new student late night series at the new McMullen Museum of Art, BC students are invited to explore its halls. This night at the museum features food, music, games, and art for all in attendance.

SUNDAY CONCERT SERIES: A FAR CRY (SUN. 1:30 P.M.) Attend this week’s Sunday concert at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Enjoy an afternoon of classical music masterpieces played by the Gardner’s resident orchestra.

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If you’re a fan of gritty and dark superhero incarnations, then you’re well aware that the last couple months have been disappointing.

Sure, Deadpool had plenty of blood and guts strewn about the screen, but Deadpool’s a comedy—you couldn’t possibly say that you were busy brooding over the state of humanity while crying your eyes out with laughter. No, we’re talking about the laughably awful Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad films, which posed as complex and dark superhero dramas, building up expectations as to the likability of antiheroes and darker interpretations of our favorite superheroes. With these two stinkers floating at the surface of our pool of superhero films and adaptations, it’s hard to be excited about your more serious-looking superhero projects.

That is unless, of course, you look at the superhero production company that knows what the hell it’s doing. If you’re looking for a superhero program that takes a deep dive into the mind and life of an emotionally complex, socially relevant, and hulking badass in an uncompromising and graphic setting, then look no further than Marvel Comics and Netflix’s upcoming series, Luke Cage.

Netflix and Marvel have a track record with this type of show. The two companies have collaborated on the wildly successful adaptations of Marvel’s Daredevil and Jessica Jones. Both of these shows have been praised for their unapologetic use of violence and sex, as well as for their darker, more realistic tones, which juxtapose well against these programs’ cinematic Marvel brethren, like the more lighthearted Thor and Captain America films. Marvel has already proven its ability to produce both more accessible superhero films alongside its obviously gloomy and morbid Netflix shows, and Luke Cage likely won’t prove fatal to this trend.

In fact, this isn’t Luke Cage’s first time on screen. Audiences and critics have already gotten to know him through his screen time on last year’s Jessica Jones, in which he proved his nononsense, collected fighting style and chivalry are awesome to behold. Set months after the events of Jessica Jones, Luke Cage will see Cage undergo an experiment that makes his skin extremely dense and insusceptible to wounds, while also endowing him with cellular generation.

While these powers aren’t necessarily original in their own right (i.e. Wolverine), the more realistic setting and atmosphere of

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There’s something strange about spending extended periods of time away from a close-knit group of friends. A clear-cut void makes itself comfortable somewhere deep in one’s subconscious, and the rather unnerving feeling of not being quite whole has a funny way of rendering people dissatisfied until they see their pals again. Specifically, I’m talking about the kind of crew whose antics can be classified as utterly stupid, their humiliating hijinks so uncomfortably cringe-worthy that it all seems, well, scripted.

As if overnight, the hot summer season has given way to a cool fall climate, the once-scorching sun replaced by bleak cloud cover. College students have returned to their respective classes and social cliques.

For me, though, the aforementioned void has yet to be filled. This summer, I’ve missed my crew—it’ll be nice to see what they’ve been up to while we were apart.

And no, actually, I’m not talking about reconnecting with my college friends.

If there’s one ragtag group of idiots I’ve been missing for months, it’s the gang from Fox’s consistently hysterical sitcom New Girl. For years, the show starring Zooey Deschanel has garnered much hype and accumulated a larger fan base with each passing season. Astoundingly, the show’s corny jokes and overly-complex love triangles are written and executed in a way that puts most predictable TV comedies to shame. The series’ producers and dynamic cast boast a unique ability to transform hackneyed plot from dull

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the Netflix-Marvel programs gives the limitations of abilities a bit more weight. Sure, Cage probably won’t die, but he’ll seem more vulnerable than your more fantastical “invincible” heroes and villains. At the same time, endowed with these capabilities, Cage will have to sort through what he wants to do with his powers: Does he want to hide them away and live a normal life or use them to push back against some of the evils in the world?

Set in Harlem, not in Daredevil or Jessica Jones’s iteration of New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, Luke Cage has the potential to explore both a different literal setting, as well as a unique cultural setting. Historically, Cage is Marvel’s first black superhero. Making a program amid the social strife that has dominated the last few years’ media and society that revolves around this hero makes sense. It provides communities of all different races and types with an unconventional hero that could be accessible and liked by people who feel they have nothing in common. In this sense, Marvel’s Luke Cage could potentially reach out to an unprecedented spectrum, as far as audiences are concerned.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, series creator Cheo Hodari Coker said of Luke Cage: “There’s never been a time in history where having a bulletproof black man, in terms of just looking at how that affects a neighborhood, in terms of looking at, for example, how it not only changes law enforcement but also changes the criminal world, and really in a sense, it’s like Luke’s entrance into this world changes the ecology of the entire neighborhood.”

As long as Luke Cage doesn’t muddle the line between blatant social commentary and subtle, symbolic expression, the program has the potential to be both a beacon of pure, superhero escapist entertainment and an example of how to have a discussion about social issues in the subtext of a thrilling drama. With its stunning critical track record thus far, it’s hard to doubt the capabilities of Luke Cage’s crew and the thinking of the Marvel and Netflix execs that brought the program together.

So yes, while DC Comics flails about like a dying fish, have no fear—Marvel seems to know what it’s doing.

The DC Comics films prove that superhero fans should never let their expectations run amok, but, on the other hand, Marvel has shown that it knows what it means when Peter Parker’s uncle Ben says, “With great power comes great responsibility.”

9P :8C<9 >I@<>F 8jjfZ% 8ikj I\m`\n <[`kfi What is television but an escapist fantasy into another world? And how far away are we from such entertainment becoming a simulated reality? As we become more adept at building worlds on screen, we also hone our skills at crafting worlds in this reality. From the creative mind of Michael Crichton, helmed by J.J. Abrams and Jonathan Nolan, Westworld premieres this October to delve into the moral conundrums of artificial consciousness inside an elaborate Wild West theme park.

Amid the daily operations of Westworld, the show follows human visitors and artificial inhabitants of the park as they interact and mingle. Drawing up fantasies and bringing them to fruition, the park serves as a fulfillment of yearnings for those brave enough to venture into the artificial domain. Unaware of their fabricated, servile reality, the artificial beings are manipulated and influenced to suit the needs of Westworld guests.

Just a few inhabitants of Westworld, Teddy Flood (James Marsden), Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood), and Maeve Millay (Thandie Newton) go about their lives presupposing their own will, while unaware of its prefabricated nature. As the show progresses, it is all but certain that the narrative will follow an allegory-of-the-cave-like progression, albeit with synthetic lifeforms instead of human ones uncovering the terms of their imprisonment.

Behind the scenes, the park’s creator, Dr. Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins), chief of operations, Theresa Cullen (Sidse Babett Knudsen), and head of security, Snubbs (Luke Hemsworth) work to ensure that the interactions between guests and Westworld inhabitants are satisfactory, while maintaining order threatened by the constant volatile nature of the western-styled chaos. Meanwhile, Bernard Lowe (Jeff rey Wright), grapples with the artificial lives he has created, as they roam a caged world, maintaining their function despite their captivity. Ironically, the Wild West is not so wild after all.

The 1973 film by Crichton, on which the series is based, is rife with potential for the new series. The story harbors the potential to investigate human obsoletion, the

rights of artificial life, and the notion of moldable realities. These varied issues are provocative veins that are constitutional aspects of the show. Due to its thematic and nearly identical backdrops, many of the same emotional, philosophical notes of Crichton’s Jurassic Park film adaptations are sure to make an appearance.

To quote the immortal Jeff Goldblum, “Life finds a way.” In this instance, one may suppose artificial life is also included.

The show is also an unlikely marriage of two beloved genres—science fiction and Western. Who is to say what kinds of undesirable situations various gunslingers could get themselves into once their bravado is crushed by the fact that they are not “real?” What untapped potential lies in their mechanical or biomechanical forms?

Visually, the show is apt to be an eclectic melding of the future and past. Westworld is likely to host a variety of different styles, ranging from dirt avenues littered with tumbleweeds to the glossy finishes and steel frames behind the horizon.

The show’s star-studded cast is sure to impress and, from initial trailer releases, compelling performances from Hopkins and Wood look to be on the horizon. In a series built on lofty science fiction ideas, solid performances are needed to bring stability to the emotional fulcrum. Ed Harris is another notable cast member, cast as The Man in Black, or the Gunslinger. His sight in the falsified world is a reminiscent reversal of his time spent as the man behind the curtain in The Truman Show (1998).

Westworld is poised to be an engrossing show, for both its visuals and narrative content. Depicting a future that is creeping closer to reality by the second, shows like this are a likely preamble to the inevitable future we will face. Old films, like Bladerunner (1982) and Total Recall (1990), have dealt with similar topics, while new ones, like Ex Machina (2015), continue along the same paths of investigation. Westworld may be an alluring reverie into the worlds of Colt SAA revolver duels and fateful tales of outlaws, but it may just keep us around wondering what exactly is behind the eyes of Westworld’s outlaws and townsfolk alike.

Are they human? Or are they something else?

NEW GIRL to delightful, and the recurring theme of romance-gone-wrong from overdone to entertaining.

This fall, life returns to normal in the gang’s trendy Los Angeles loft—er, well, as “normal” as a successful buddy sitcom in which every episode features buffoonery at its finest can be.

Since the predictably chaotic season five finale—one in which Schmidt’s spontaneous, last-ditch attempt to convince Cece’s mom to attend the wedding results in his attending his own wedding via video chat—fans of the series have been mulling over a number of cliffhangers that left various character relationships up to anyone’s guess.

Will Cece and Schmidt move out of the beloved loft? Has Coach returned to the Golden Coast for good? What the heck is happening between Nick and Jess? Does Winston care for new girlfriend Aly as much as he does his cat Ferguson? And, arguably most important of all the queries, where was Ferguson dur-

ing the pivotal last episodes of the fifth season? Such are the haunting musings that deprived fans of sleep and kept them up at night—thoughts that just barely scratch the surface of the pressing questions raised by season five’s eventful wrap-up.

Throughout the show’s time on the air, viewers have been privy to a host of interesting love affairs: Winston and Aly, Cece and Schmidt, Jess and Sam, Jess and Nick, Nick and Reagan—hell, even Nick and Tran. For five seasons, the show has orbited around the trials and tribulations of modern dating. It documents and mocks the sexual misadventures of 30-somethings, creating a painful-to-watch parody of love that viewers can laugh at. If season six stays fresh and entertaining while still following the show’s unchanged formula—hopelessly immature adults + humiliating love life = laughter—it will mark a real feat of creativity, indeed.

Deschanel directs the season six premiere, an episode rumored to revolve around Cece and Schmidt’s search for a new home. If the spunky starlet’s

talent in performing translates to that of TV production, viewers should expect a promising start to season six.

As for me, I’ve been craving information about the newlyweds, dying to get dirt on Winston’s budding relationship with Aly, and itching to see what unfolds from all the awkward, ever-present sexual tension between Jess and Nick. Soon—Sept. 20, to be precise—the crew will be back to entertain fans of the show with episodes detailing the disastrous dating lives and coincidental encounters so intrinsically rooted in the sitcom genre.

Now that the characters seem to have grown and developed significantly—exhibited perhaps most notably through control freak Schmidt’s calm and uncharacteristically apathetic attitude toward missing the wedding that he at one time obsessed over—the question of whether this newfound maturity will augment or detract from the characters’ humor and likeability emerges as a prevalent concern.

Returning for a sixth season this September, New Girl brings everyone’s favorite group of misfits together for another pathetic attempt at mastering adulthood.

This season, Schmidt will navigate life through the unfamiliar lens of a married man. Winston will learn to love a woman more than he loves his cat. At some point, Nick will most likely screw up whatever is going well for him. Finally, Jess’s quirkiness will most likely manifest in one of three ways: sporting her signature wacky wardrobe, doling out lame dad jokes, or transforming the loft into an arts-and crafts-kingdom.

Fingers crossed it’s all of the above.

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Actually, If I’m being honest, my first move as a music mogul would be to buy a fleet of yachts—one for myself, and then one for each of my exotically-bred lap dogs that celebrities always seem to have too many of—just because I could. Or maybe I’d cause some kind of distasteful controversy over an overtly insensitive tweet I posted.

Unfortunately, that kind of thing seems to be pretty “in” with the celebrities these days.

But, I digress—that’s a fame-infused fantasy for a different day.

Instead, what I’ve been examining lately is what exactly music’s biggest names do to rack up global praise, and why exactly they do it. Publicity stunts and rumor mills aside, I’m primarily concerned with actual accomplishments—real, meaningful music content that contributes something pretty cool to the industry. In today’s increasingly competitive realm of music, it seems as though the attention-getter du jour is none other than the scintillating power and widespread implications of the coveted visual album.

It’s the masterful merging of two art forms, cinematography and music, and it dates back to the days when a certain British boy band was king across the globe. It was an age when the release of that same band’s incredibly influential comedy film A Hard Day’s Night garnered global praise for its unprecedented plot centered around an existing music album. It was a time in the ’60s when, believe it or not, the band’s signature moptop haircuts were actually regarded as attractive.

Pink Floyd and Prince released visual albums in their heyday. Michael Jackson’s iconic “Thriller” made history for being far longer than any music video needed to be.

Now, after a rather extended hiatus from the forefront of the music industry, it seems visual albums are making a comeback.

In 2010, Kanye West—consumed at the time with the thought of a certain Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy—made one entitled Runaway. Setting a widely-imitated precedent for artists who dabbled in the visual album after him, West included odd elements to evoke a stirring “what the heck?” response from viewers.

Beyonce blew the minds of music lovers across the globe with Lemonade, the symbolism and imagery present in the film regarded as visionary and admirable in the steadfast fight for two pressing social matters: the universal acceptance of feminist ideals, and the reclaiming of black culture. Far less intricate in art direction and costume design than Lemonade, but nonetheless regarded as evocative, was Frank Ocean’s Endless. The perfect gift for his patient fans after months of waiting for a new release, the visual album and accompanying LP caused a tsunami-wave of rejuvenated support and effusive praise for the musician in Aug. 2016.

What I want to know is whether these artists create visual albums (often a catalyst for conversation about complicated and deeply involved social issues) for a purpose, or for an attention-seeking stir to which their name may be so firmly affixed. Are these motives mutually exclusive, or do artists see an opportunity to open valuable conversation while simultaneously promoting their image? Is it their PR and production team that calls the shots scene-byscene, or is the music star actively involved in the creative process and emotionally invested in the social issues addressed in their works?

In an industry in which profundity and spectacle are often preferred over genuine content and talent, it is unclear whether this new fad of churning out visual albums is an honest expression of artistry or a bandwagon attempt at a big break.

More importantly, if the end product entertains, does it even matter?

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From its outset in August of 2015, Netflix’s hit drama Narcos has faced a unique challenge. Premiering only two years after the fifth and final season of AMC’s Breaking Bad, Narcos has filled an emotional hole for drug-crimecraving audiences everywhere. This is both a blessing and a curse, as the popularity of its spiritual predecessor means that Narcos must reach an especially wide audience (averaging 3.2 million viewers per episode, to be exact) to compete with Breaking Bad’s viewership. Running parallel to

this point are notions of originality—is Narcos truly unique enough to come into its own after riding the coattails of the drug drama craze? Unfortunately, the answer more clearly becomes no with each episode of the second season.

Narcos is the story of the life and deeds of crime lord Pablo Escobar, but in retrospect, it is more accurately the story of conventionality. In its willingness to stand out as a historical drama, Narcos becomes less tied to its own method of storytelling. Especially as the second season lingers on, classic television tropes become more and more visible: the shady lawyer, the ma-

nipulative crime lord, the DEA agents willing to bend every rule to catch their big white whale. If this formula sounds familiar, that’s because it’s the same formula used by every antiherocrime drama in the past 20 years. And therein lies the fundamental issue of Narcos—these tropes were reality, not fiction. Though disheartening for Breaking Bad fans looking for their newest fix, reality is not always as compelling as television writers would like it to be.

This saddening lack of originality plays out in more ways than one.

Most obvious is Narcos’s off-putting method of pacing. Without spoiling

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any plot points, the show’s finale simply does not feel cohesive—in all actuality, Narcos (though constantly foreshadowing the inevitable endgame) does not truly commit to its finality until the back half of “Al Fin Cayo,” the last episode of season two.

This directorial choice, which starkly contrasts the rest of the season, gives the finale of Narcos an inescapable sense of hurry.

Narcos’s second season is not all bad—far from it, in fact. For one, the show is shot effectively. Though it would do well with less narration and more set-piece framing, it’s difficult to argue that Narcos’ cinematographers do not know the trade. Narcos is furthermore unafraid to question the nature of right and wrong—one of the fundamental questions it seeks to answer is whether a man is justified in his malice if it brings good to the less fortunate. Though not decidedly original, pursuing this topic certainly makes interesting television.

The program’s clearest strength is Wagner Moura, who portrays Pablo Escobar across the 10 50-minute episodes in season two. Moura’s incredible acting range is one of the show’s major saving graces. Without Moura’s skill lending weight to the riveting duality of Escobar’s actions, Narcos very well may have been an unwatchable mess in regard to characterization. Boyd Holbrook and Pedro

Pascal (Steve Murphy and Javier Pena, respectively) provide passable performances, but not much more than that. The difficult truth is that most Narcos characters are just simply uninteresting—the fault of mediocre writing rather than mediocre acting.

With this in mind, one is forced to face the reality of Narcos’ future.

On Sept. 6, Netflix announced that it had officially renewed Narcos for two more seasons. Based solely on viewership numbers, this seems like a prudent financial decision, but taking the plot into consideration, Netflix’s latest decision seems potentially disastrous. Spoilers ahead—“Al Fin Cayo’s” final moment watches Pablo Escobar take a bullet to the head.

With Wagner Moura as the only huge draw to Narcos, how will the program continue? Certainly not solely with the DEA’s war against the cartel.

Narcos, as an undeniably flawed television program, now faces a crossroads: either develop a new, more interesting angle to take the show in in the aftershocks of Escobar’s death, or face the viewership consequences of a half-baked plotline. Netflix’s answer to the crime-drama genre is not unsalvageable by any means, but it simply fails to hold enough interest to become anything great—a problem that, if unaddressed, may put a few bulletholes in the longstanding credibility of Netflix originals.

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Although Rodeo had its undeniable downfalls, it was a wellcrafted artful, and experimental album from the Houston-born hip-hop artist. When discussing Scott’s artistry, it seems that his content doesn’t quite go deeper than the surface-level cool and the excitement of the sound.

This was true for Rodeo, and it remains true for Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight. Scott’s music, although enjoyable, trippy, and at times thrilling, is ultimately a little hollow and too lofty.

Two songs that stand out are “Way Back” and “SDP Interlude.” Both feature fascinating sounds and create an almost psychedelic head space for the listener, something Scott excels at. “Way Back” is grounded in deep vocals that resound from the back, creating a slow yet exciting sound that is fresh in comparison to the relatively derivative lyrics. “SDP Interlude” is more of an experiment. While it is unconventional, it is also painfully repetitive. The female voice

is soothing and its vibrating contrast well with the dizzying qualities with Scott’s.

The track “Biebs in the Trap” is layered with metaphorical meaning, but stumbles lazily in conveying something deeper.

The sound is again trippy and energetic, but it is overall a derivative song with little to offer the listener who wants more beyond the surface-level drabble about the drug-filled, party lifestyle Scott dwells on. While this may be sufficient for single listens, the tracks offer little interms of longterm interest.

Young Thug has little to offer on “Pick up the Phone,” and the same goes for Kendrick Lamar’s presence on “G oosebumps .”

L amar seems to fade in the spotlight of his own greatness as his verse on “Goosebumps” pales in comparison to his usual standards. The track, however, is one of the most entertaining on the album. Scott and Lamar flow and work well together, and the overall sound is pleasing and smooth.

“Pick up the Phone” is equally fun and features a smooth sound with some apt vocal interjections from Young Thug. In his verse, lyrically speaking, Young Thug does not offer much to the piece other than his usual entertaining

jumble of words.

He and Scott flow exceptionally well, however, Young Thug’s scratchy sound balances well with Scott’s deeper tone, which helps the track achieve a suave sound.

“Sweet Sweet” is again derivative, and although it is a bouncing track, it has little energy to offer. “First Take” is a bit of an upgrade, but again falls a bit flat within Scott’s realm of heightened, trippy sounds . “Lose” offers the best of Scott’s kaleidoscope vision, and although the

convoluting, scratching noises can get annoying, Cassie adds some needed freshness to the vocals of the track.

Simply, Travis Scott presents a generally lazy effort at compiling an artful, layered trip of an album. The potential is certainly present, and tracks like “Lose” and “SDP Interludes” highlight what could have been. The instrumentals in both tracks are strong, but most importantly they stand out in a colorful way.

Scott explores new territor y in regards to sound with these

pieces, and although all of it may not work, the artistic drive is apparent.

In most of the rest of Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, however, Scott’s vision is not as farreaching.

It would be too harsh to say Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight does not have potential, but the overall content leaves the listener feeling that Scott’s process was either rushed or he was simply too lazy to dive deeper into his own artistic vision and sound.

It’s a special experience to watch an artist’s relationship with the work he creates. For those who find themselves in the industry of creation, life becomes defined by the art that someone creates. And in some very rare, deeply saddening cases, one’s death becomes defined by his or her art as well.

Last Friday, The Frightnrs, a rela-

tively unknown band operating under Daptone Records, dropped their newest album. Aptly titled Nothing More To Say, the release was marred by the untimely death of the lead vocalist, Dan Klein to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis early this summer. ALS is a debilitating disease and though it has taken the life of an up-and-coming artist, it has not taken the voice of Nothing More To Say. Fittingly, Dan Klein’s ethereal voice is at the forefront of the album’s

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strengths. Klein has the unique ability to emulate artists from the golden age of reggae, giving himself not only an air of mystique, but one of sophistication as well. Klein’s mastery shows through in the back half of Nothing More To Say, particularly with the song “Hey Brother (Do Unto Others).” His voice echoing through the background into the foreground, Klein sings of brotherly love and treating others right—by no means a new concept, but one that is expertly

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utilized by The Frightnrs.

Expertise is what carries Nothing More To Say, truthfully. On their website, Daptone Records outlines this: “You’ll find no imitation here—none of the faux-Jamaican cliches of lesser reggae bands.”

Their description is more than just corporate propaganda—refreshingly, it is the truth. Nothing More To Say opens with “All My Tears,” a smooth intro into the sounds of The Frightnrs.

As the song progresses, it adopts more and more of the classic reggae vibe, leading right into “Nothing More To Say.” The title song is the album’s best.

It sounds like it was ripped straight off of Bob Marley’s Catch A Fire—this is meant in the very best of ways.

This is, unfortunately, where Nothing More To Say begins to falter.

No album exists without weaknesses, and Nothing More To Say’s is its homogeneity. Embodying a problem that tends to plague recent releases within the reggae genre, “What Have I Done,” “Purple,” and “Trouble In Here,” feel ever-so-slightly uninspired—a bit of album-filler to pad the stronger pieces of Nothing More To Say. “Till Then” and “Lookin’ For My Love” bring back some strength to the progression of songs, but at this point in Nothing

More To Say it feels as though the listener’s will has been worn down.

Hardcore fans of the genre will likely not confront this issue, but casual listeners may begin to feel that the songs on album are overly similar.

By no means does this make Nothing More To Say weak—it is actually of very high quality—but this form of songwriting does not introduce an environment that fosters newer listeners. Some may be converted, but Nothing More To Say will most definitely find its home with those who love reggae as a genre.

Dan Klein is full of life as Nothing More To Say comes to a close. Even with its weaknesses, the album truly does demonstrate a mastery of the finer points of the reggae genre.

Last May, Klein said in a public interview, “You’ll notice there are no Jamaican accents on this record.”

The willingness of The Frightnrs to commit to their own style rather than inflame a fleeting popularity gimmick speaks to the professionalism with which Nothing More To Say is imbued—from beginning to end, the album is a work of art. It is a genuine shame that the guiding light of The Frightnrs has faded as quickly as he appeared.

Over the weekend, Drake dropped a 12-minute short film adaptation of his cheating scandal Views track, “Childs Play.” While Drake has not exactly broken the bar set by Beyoncé back in April for cinematography in modern pop music videos, “Childs Play” is something memorable in its own right, hiking up drama and pure entertainment value over an already catchy track.

The video centers on the infamous and wonderful line, “Why you gotta fight with me at Cheesecake / You know I love to go there,” referencing a lover’s quarrel taking place at Drake’s beloved eatery, The Cheesecake Factory. Tyra Banks takes on the role of jilted girlfriend, having gone through Drake’s phone to discover his double-crossing. The argument that unfolds results in Banks smashing the cheesecake in Drake’s face and pouring a glass of wine over his head Later at the strip club, under the wing of a new, antagonistic, and preachy manager, we see a lot of women’s gyrating bodies,.

As Drake raps, he is surrounded by the working women, sitting clothed and somber on all sides.

At every step the short film is ridiculous in a way that flirts between messy, disjointed absurdity and something smarter.

Though not quite so evolved as to be satire, and certainly problematic in several senses, the video also plays in an unexpected way. At its best, the video is Drake staring morosely into the camera with a chain-brand dessert smashed all over his face, or Banks delivering a performance that, amid its hysteria, slips in the very real complaint of women being dismissed as crazy in order to silence their justified anger. It is ridiculous, overdramatic, and strangely earnest—a combination that seems just as fit to describe the artist himself.

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“#WHERESTHELOVE” is a remake of the Black Eyed Peas 2003 hit, “Where’s the Love.” Featuring a union of superstar singers, the song discusses issues of social justice, including racial and social equality, that must be brought up and processed, ideally sooner rather than later.

SIA FT. KENDRICK LAMAR “The Greatest” The message #WEAREYOURCHILDREN flashes on the screen at the beginning of the video and is followed by the slow reanimation of seemingly lifeless dancers that join Sia in her number. One may suppose the 49 dancers in the video are meant to represent the 49 killed in the Orlando shooting.

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For the fourth time in four games, the 6-foot-2 senior transfer from Germany came off the bench and scored, this time an equalizer in the 51st minute that brought Boston College men’s soccer even with Villanova. But unfortunately for the Eagles (3-1-0), the lone goal wouldn’t be enough in their last match before ACC play, as the Wildcats (1-2-0) snuck past the No. 11 team in the country, 2-1, thanks to an 87th-minute bullet off the boot of freshman Jacob Anderson.

After a shaky start, BC emerged from halftime firing on all cylinders.

Behind strong play from midfielders Raphael Salama, Callum Johnson, and Zeiko Lewis, the Eagles switched the ball seamlessly and coordinated high-speed assaults on the Nova back line. Together, they racked up 19 shots and earned 12 corner kicks. In comparison, the Wildcats managed just seven shots and three corners.

Yet Villanova capitalized on its few chances and didn’t squander its lucky bounces. In the 32nd minute, a mess in the box ultimately left Padraic McCullaugh with the ball and a wide open look at goal. The senior, who is listed at 6-foot-6, slipped one past goalkeeper Cedric Saladin on the ground for a 1-0 advantage.

After Schulze-Geisthovel’s header to begin the second half, BC was hungry for a game-winner to maintain its perfect record. In search of the perfect combination on the pitch, head coach Ed Kelly experimented with some different lineups to kickstart the offense. He tried moving Lewis out wide, where he used his speed to connect with Trevor Davock and Ike Normesinu on the wings. Kelly even moved forward Simon Enstrom back to attacking midfielder in an attempt to mesh his play with that of SchulzeGeisthovel.

“Going out wide isn’t really a problem for me,” Lewis said. “I know my role is to get [Enstrom] the ball for flick-ons so that we can keep the momentum moving forward.”

No matter what blend of talent Kelly inserted onto the pitch, the Eagles continued to impress. The passing was crisp, the tackles were unyielding, and, most importantly, BC forced Nova to play at its tempo of choice. Johnson picked up his third assist in as many games, and has quickly won the job of taking set pieces for the team. Fintan Devlin, filling in for the injured Len Zeugner, anchored a defense that looked impenetrable for most of the game. And Lewis is still the most electric playmaker on the field, drawing “Oooohs” from the crowd after every dazzling spin move and dropping jaws with his vision-defying through balls.

The fact that the Eagles

dominated every statistical category except for the most important one doesn’t make the loss any easier to swallow. But after the defeat, Kelly was surprisingly—and rightfully— optimistic about his young squad.

“I thought we did really, really well. Some days you just have to say, ‘Hey, we were a little unlucky,’” Kelly said. “Wipe it clean, and start again.

It’d be nice to go undefeated but that’s just not realistic.”

Perhaps it’s the kind of patient demeanor that comes with coaching for three decades, or maybe it’s because the proof in this team’s ability is right there in last season’s Elite Eight run.

“We didn’t hit our stride until halfway through the season last year,” Kelly said. “So it’s just a matter of getting everything sorted out. It takes time to make it work.”

In a few weeks, BC could lay claim to one of the best young cores in the country, a fast-developing midfield, and a sturdy upperclassman duo of captains in Zeugner and Lewis. But when it comes to scoring, Schulze-Geisthovel can’t be the only one—and don’t point right at Enstrom, either. This attack needs to be as balanced as the rest of the team, and that means Davock and Normesinu finding the back of the net, as well.

Otherwise, when Kelly & Co. host Duke for the ACC opener next Saturday, a few unlucky bounces could prove the difference between a win and a loss, just like they did today.

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;\\g\i Xe[ Dfi\ <og\i`\eZ\[# D\eËj JfZZ\i @j E\Xi`e^ <c`k\ JkXklj A8:B JK<;D8E Last October, I wrote a column titled “Only A Matter Of Time Until BC Men’s Soccer Is Elite.” Ironically, I wrote it following a 5-0 drubbing at the hands of Wake Forest, then one of the best teams in the nation.

The game served as a harsh reality check for the group of young talented Eagles, but it was evident that head coach Ed Kelly was on to something with the freshman group that he had brought in. I figured a few more strong recruiting classes and time for everyone to gain more experience and this team could start to replicate the sharp, sexy passing game at which the Demon Deacons excelled.

By any measure, that team arrived close to the elite label way quicker than I could have imagined.

Exactly a week later, the Eagles upset No. 10 Clemson in a thrilling 2-1 game. Flash forward a few months, and the Eagles could literally call themselves an elite team, as they made a magical NCAA tournament and reached their first Elite Eight since 2002.

I gave myself a nice, hearty pat on the back for my fortunetelling abilities, but I still wasn’t convinced. It was clear the Eagles were punching well above their weight. They had been disman-

tled by Clemson—the eventual NCAA runners-up—in the first round of the ACC tournament last year and still had a long way to go before climbing to the top of a stacked conference.

As this season rolled around, the question was clear: can the Eagles live up to a No. 11 billing in the preseason coaches poll and No. 8 ranking, per College Soccer News? Could another freshman class make a strong splash like the one before? Four games into this season, with the Eagles sitting at 3-1, is BC making huge strides?

The answer is quite clear to head coach Ed Kelly.

“We’re miles ahead of where we were last year,” Kelly said following a win over Hofstra.

“Tougher team, more experience, a lot more depth.”

A comparison between the Eagles’ first loss this year, against Villanova, and last year, against Loyola Marymount, reveals a huge difference in the two teams.

BC fell flat against LMU, losing 1-0. The lone goal came off a long punt by LMU’s goalie that was misjudged and not properly cleared by the BC defense, allowing a forward to run onto the ball past the defensive line and score an easy goal. That game featured a makeshift backline featuring two freshmen in Derek Lyons and Rudolfo Postiga, and their early mistake gave LMU the advantage for the rest of the game. BC couldn’t even muster more than two shots on goal the whole game.

Fast forward to another

3-0 start followed by the first loss, and the Eagles look much improved. Like Postiga a year ago, freshman Fintan Devlin made his debut at center back, but Devlin settled in from the very beginning, putting in a strong performance and showing a knack for anticipation.

While there were obvious depth issues at this point last year, this first loss can be chalked up to some bad luck, and the Eagles can move on knowing they are well stocked with players across the field.

This starts with the man between the sticks. Cedric Saladin has shown he is capable of holding down the No. 1 spot at goalkeeper. The redshirt sophomore has had two years to learn under former starter Alex Kapp, and after sharing time with Kapp at points last season, Saladin is ready to command from the back.

In front of Saladin, the backline is quickly solidifying and showing consistency. Junior Mohammed Moro returns to his left-back position from last year and is the only player besides Saladin to play every minute thus far. Opposite Moro at right-back, Younes Boudadi is a major upgrade over a solid player in Derek Lyons, who has left the team after one year despite getting a lot of playing time last year. Hailing from one of the top clubs in Belgium, Boudadi looks ready to cover a lot of ground on the right side.

The depth and experience

that Kelly has applauded is most apparent at center back. An injury to Len Zeugner—BC’s best player last year after Zeiko Lewis—and the graduation of Toby Ampadu—who became one of BC’s most valuable players down the stretch—has forced Ed Kelly to replace last year’s starting pair. Sophomore Joshua Forbes has slotted in to replace Ampadu, with the former midfielder showing comparable strength and speed.

Junior transfer Tomas Gudmundsson—equal in size to Zeugner—has started the year next to Forbes, and his valuable experience at the D1 level with Coastal Carolina is very evident.

The deep roster really proved itself when Gudmundsson, who is still getting up to speed, needed a day off against Villanova, and the aforementioned Devlin was able to step up and have a strong debut.

In the midfield, the depth has led to a high level of competition for playing time. Junior Henry Balf, who has been a starter since his freshman year, has been one of the most consistent performers over the past two years while controlling the tempo in the middle of the field. With the addition of freshman Lasse Lehmann, however, Balf has fallen down the pecking order. While not as consistent yet as Balf, Lehmann possesses much better skill with the ball at his feet and has been BC’s best freshman this year.

Like on D, the depth in midfield has already proven its worth. BC

now has the luxury to replace a starting freshman midfielder— Lehmann injured his ankle in the third game of the year—with an experienced veteran in Balf who is hungry for playing time.

Also in the midfield, freshman Callum Johnson is starting to step up big time. Playing both centrally and outside, Johnson has won the role of free-kick and corner taker, and now leads the team with three assists as a result.

With an eye for the one-touch pass, Johnson has shown great vision and technical passing ability with lots of potential.

With a year under his belt, sophomore Raphael Salama has also really stepped up as one of the holding midfielders, jumping ahead of classmate Abe Bibas, who had been previously ahead of him on the pecking order.

Up top, experience and depth come together in the form of Maximilian SchulzeGeisthovel. After having been the main striker for Division II Saint Leo University, SchulzeGeisthovel was brought in to back up Simon Enstrom and has exceeded expectations thus far.

He is more than just fresh legs when Enstrom needs a break, he is the Eagles’ leading goalscorer, and Kelly cannot remember the last guy to score four goals in his first four games. The emergence of the big German takes some burden off of the hard-working Enstrom, who can now afford a rest.

With all these names comes the ability to mix it up and

tinker with the lineup. Senior captain Zeiko Lewis, by far the best player on the roster, can play centrally or move out wide, with either Johnson or even Enstrom replacing him the middle.

Simon and Max could potentially play in the same lineup, while wingers Trevor Davock and Ike Normesinu can also play forward. Even at the back, you could potentially pair two roughly 6-foot-4, 200 pounders in Zeugner and Gudmundsson.

There are a lot of mouth-watering possibilities all over the pitch.

Last year, 15 out of 25 players on the team were freshmen. When a team that is that young makes the Elite Eight, the future is bright. While the team had some up-and-down performances, when they were up, they were a force. Now a solid class of nine freshman joins that exceptional core of 10 sophomores, along with two strong, experienced groups of five juniors and four seniors, to make up an balanced and even roster.

With conference play kicking off against Duke on Saturday, this new depth and experience is going to come in handy as the Eagles look to cement themselves among the top dogs of the ACC. The time is now for BC to creep into elite company.

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Having their talent recognized on the national level is what all teams dream of. But such a lofty title can be hard to carry. Over this past weekend, the Eagles struggled to uphold the prestige the National Field Hockey Coaches Association bestowed upon them and lost both games at the Big Ten-ACC Cup. On Sunday afternoon, BC faced one of its toughest op-

ponents, the Maryland Terrapins.

Although it appeared the Eagles might make a comeback late in the game and upset the reigning Big Ten League Champions, they fell short. Unfortunately, the competition was too much for the No. 8 BC team (1-2), causing No. 6 Maryland (2-2) to finish the game with a 3-1 victory.

After the opening whistle, the Eagles flew downfield toward the goal. BC had multiple chances in the circle, but struggled to get any shots off due to the swarming Terps’ defense. Once the Terps maintained possession, they went on an offensive strike of their own, firing off four shots at Audra

Hampsch. The Eagles successfully denied their opponent a goal, but Maryland didn’t let up. Minutes later, Welma Luus blasted one low into the goal to give the Terps a 1-0 lead. The Eagles attempted to answer, but Sarah Holliday stood strong in net to maintain her team’s lead going into the second half.

The Eagles were hungry for a goal. They beat their defenders, kept their passes strong, and tried to take advantage of fast breaks.

After firing five shots at Holliday, BC was ready for a breakthrough.

Brittany Sheenan saw a loose ball in front of the goal and took the opportunity to deflect it into the

net to make it a 1-1 game.

With 18 minutes left in the game, the Eagles had ample time to strike again. But the BC offense struggled, getting only one more shot off before the final buzzer.

By fighting to the finish, Terps proved they were the better team.

With five minutes remaining, Maryland’s Emma Rissinger slipped one past Hampsch from the near post. Down 2-1, the Eagles decided to pull Hampsch in exchange for an extra offender.

Seeing this as an easy opportunity to seal the game, Luus netted her second goal of the game to give her team a 3-1 victory.

The Eagles also struggled early

in the Big Ten-ACC Cup against No. 16 Northwestern (2-1) with a 2-1 loss, a game that should have been a guaranteed win. BC struck early with a goal 13 minutes into the game after Sheenan’s low tip-in. The Wildcats continued to fire at Hampsch, but she denied every ball that came her way in the first half.

But the Eagles’ offense was silent in the second half, allowing Northwestern to make a comeback. With seven minutes remaining, the Wildcats received a penalty corner and took full advantage. After the ball was inserted, Elena Curley deflected Isabel Flens’s pass in order to tie

the game at one.

The penalty corners would come back to haunt the Eagles only minutes later. With time expired, all BC’s corner unit had to do was get the ball outside the circle in order for the game to be over. The Eagles committed penalty after penalty, allowing the Wildcats to string together four penalty corners in a row.

On the fourth and final corner, BC still could not get the ball outside the circle. Kirsten Mansfield converted with no time remaining in order to upset the Eagles with a 2-1 victory and hand BC its first loss of the season.

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the game.

That being said … man, how about that front-seven?

Solely from a defensive line and linebacking perspective, the Eagles look prepared to face any offense in the country. Paul Johnson’s rushing threat is a menace to anyone it faces. This unit held it to a measly 121 rushing yards. That’s the fourthfewest yards attained by the Ramblin’ Wreck against an opponent since Johnson moved to Atlanta.

Three in particular stood out to me: Connor Strachan, Matt Milano, and Truman Gutapfel. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, mind you—they’re clearly some of the best defensive players in the country, and I’ve been singing their praises for quite some time. But each showed me something different.

In Strachan, I saw tenacity. The newly-minted middle linebacker was everywhere on the field. He used his speed and toughness to power through the offensive line for four tackles for loss, many of which were deep beyond the line of scrimmage.

In Milano, I saw fear—well, in the eyes of his opponents. He had the game’s only sack, a nine-yard smash of Georgia Tech quarterback Justin Thomas. More notably, on a blitz package from defensive coordinator Jim Reid in the fourth, Milano rushed at Thomas. Instead of running directly at the quarterback, Milano waved his hands in the air like the Bogeyman and shifted to both sides. The move caught Thomas off-guard, forcing him to throw an errant pass to the dirt.

That’s the kind of smarts I want to see out of a senior leader and key player like Milano.

In Gutapfel, I saw complete command. BC’s defensive line was hampered by the loss of Harold Landry—the defensive end has been injured throughout camp, and needed to be eased into this game, according to Addazio. Yet Gutapfel stood up on his own. The 6-foot-3, 288 pound defensive tackle had 6.5 tackles (one for a loss), plus a fumble recovery. His imposing frame in the middle prevented Georgia Tech’s running backs from running through the middle for much of the game.

Those three players alone make it impossible to think BC can’t get back where it needs to be defensively.

So then, the offense. For the Eagles to succeed, it must have an offense that’s serviceable enough to get enough points on the board.

That word “enough” is subjective to some. Being enough isn’t good to everyone. Given BC’s current talent, and given last year’s disaster, enough is exactly what it needs to begin with, before we can worry about getting to a higher level.

For me, that means that BC, in my most reasonable of expectations, should have an offense that scores 26 points per game overall, 18 in the ACC. That’d be a ninepoint increase overall, and seven in the conference, from 2015. This may be more conservative than many of you would like, but consider this: if BC circa 2015 had an offense that, in each of its games, scored that average 18 points in regulation, it would have beaten Florida State, Duke, Wake Forest, and Syracuse, since the latter game went to overtime. It’s hard to play this “what if?” game, especially with that record-breaking defense, but I just want to give an idea of what 18 points per game could mean for this team.

This Georgia Tech game showed that BC has several playmakers on this offense. From the wide receiving corps, there’s Charlie Callinan, Michael Walker, and Jeff Smith. Callinan had four catches for 92 yards, the most since Thadd Smith had 99 against Duke. He also showed an ability to bust against defensive backs over the middle for long gains. The highly athletic duo of Walker (two for 28) and Smith (three for 26) also revealed an added dynamic to the game that BC lacked last season.

Hilliman, perhaps the most missed member of this offense, rumbled for 103 yards—73 of them on an electric touchdown run to open the third quarter. He showed toughness and smarts in how he exploited the holes by an offensive line that was full of holes last year. Now, the Eagles’ skill-position players appear comfortable using what is given to them up front. Also worth noting: as a unit, BC rushed for a net gain of 176 yards. Only eight of those yards were negative, meaning the offensive line was, for the most part, preventing plays in the backfield. Guys like Chris Lindstrom and Jon Baker look to be formidable men up front.

Most importantly, it appears BC will actually have a quarterback. Patrick Towles had 176 yards through the air on 11-of-17 passing, along with nine rushes for 27 yards and a touchdown. He looked like Tyler Murphy Lite on the ground with the shiftiness of a man 85 pounds lighter. His arm adds an extra dynamic that BC hasn’t had since Chase Rettig. It wasn’t all perfect from Towles. He had an interception tipped off a receiver’s hands and fumbled a ball after a blown protection from Jimmy Lowery. Yet he appears to be enough of a playmaker that could help keep BC in games enough to win.

“That’s what we have been working on all summer and all fall,” Towles said. “That’s what we are here to do and that’s the kind of team we are going to be. We’re going to be able to run the football like we did and we’re going to be able to throw it. We just need to do it more consistently.”

As for the special teams, well, those bright spots are a tad dimmer.

Colton Lichtenberg cannot miss two field goals in a game again this season. He’s now 3-for-8 in his young career, with the misses all coming in games decided by a field goal. Addazio must work tirelessly to build up his confidence and prepare him for the ACC. Yet in the punting game, there were positives. Mike Knoll had a ball land within the one-yard line, and looks to be confident and happy taking over for Alex Howell. Tyler Rouse appears to have given BC a solid answer that it lacked last year as a return man, with 36 yards on five returns.

Strong defense. Competent offense. And sharp special teams. The Eagles almost hit home runs on all three. While they ultimately failed, this first game proved that they have the foundation that will help them move forward. It could, potentially, lead to a successful season.

Because of all that, because of the growth and talent I saw from many players, today I’m being nice.

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defense. On the ensuing drive, it appeared as if the Yellow Jackets had figured out how to run the option against the front seven, with several strong runs up the middle.

But as it did so many times last year, the Eagles’ defense stepped up.

John Johnson forced Dedrick Mills to fumble, and it was recovered by Gutapfel.

The nightmare on special teams, however, continued.

Towles and Co. worked down the field again in the third. After Michael Walker slipped following a solid reception, the Eagles had 4th-and-2

from deep within their own territory.

Addazio had two options: run it up the gut with an offensive line that had played solidly, or turn again to Lichtenberg. This time, Addazio made the wrong choice. Lichtenberg shanked the field goal left, his second miss of the game, from 35 yards out. In the postgame press conference, Addazio was surprised and worried about the kicking game, but adamant about his choice to go for the field goal.

“Our percentage of kicking field goals this training camp was really high,” Addazio said. “Yeah, I’m concerned: we didn’t make two field goals out here. But it’s not what I saw in camp. In fact I had a tough

decision to make on that field and I decided to kick that field goal from the 18 because it was the right thing to do. It didn’t end up being the right decision.”

In 2015, this would have killed BC. But this time, the Eagles have a quarterback that can keep them in games.

Towles, the graduate transfer from Kentucky, charged down the field with two long passes to Callinan and Chris Garrison. But when it came time to score, Towles did it all himself.

The 6-foot-5, 250 pound quarterback found an expertly made hole in his offensive line to sneak through for the Eagles’ second touchdown of

the game.

Yet the Ramblin’ Wreck from Georgia Tech just wouldn’t quit. They immediately responded by driving down for a 40-yard field goal, on a drive extended by a Kamrin Moore pass interference penalty. On the ensuing BC drive, the Eagles went with an ultra-conservative offense, with three runs up the middle for almost no gain, in an effort to protect the ball.

That gave the Yellow Jackets time to make a play. A little too much time.

On their drive, Georgia Tech abandoned the triple option and went for the deep ball. Forced to a 4th-and-

19 after a Matt Milano sack, Thomas dropped back and fired in the air to Que Searcy. The receiver came down with it over the head of Moore on the BC sideline, giving Tech a first down.

Moments later, Thomas found Ricky Jeune on 3rd-and-long for a 26-yard pass. At that point, Johnson went back to the triple option, and Mills dashed in for a six-yard touchdown.

By the time the Eagles attempted a comeback, it was too late.

On the whole, BC has improved.

The offense moved better than it had in all of last season, especially along the line. The front-seven looked as dominant as ever.

But many of the same issues—

toss-up decisions that never seem to go BC’s way, late breakdowns, and special teams miscues—remained the same. And it keeps BC’s ACC losing streak—and the disappointment of Eagles fans everywhere—extended to at least another two weeks, until it takes on Virginia Tech at Lane Stadium on Sept. 17.

“Those four are costly plays that got them out of three 3rd-and-longs and one 4th-and-20,” Addazio said.

“That was the story with those four plays. So you take those two things and put them together, it cost us the football game. Because, really, in between all that, we played pretty well.

But we didn’t win.”

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The University of Massachusetts enters this weekend’s local affair in tatters. Following a disastrous move to the FBS level before the 2012 season, UMass (0-1) begins its fifth season at college football’s highest level as an independent, having chosen to leave the Mid-American Conference. Over the last four seasons, the Minutemen have gone 8-40, including a pair of 1-11 seasons.

The program’s jump to FBS has failed to bring in the desired revenue to the school, even given UMass’s tendency to schedule high-paying non conference games against the likes of Notre Dame. A primary component of the revenue shortage stems from a drop in fan support. The high volume of losses has driven away fans in droves. Additionally, student support has waned as UMass plays select home games at Gillette Stadium, a two-hour drive from campus, while McGuirk Stadium undergoes significant renovations.

Head coach Mark Whipple’s crew has its hands full this season, needing to replace significant personnel on both sides of the ball. Given that the team struggled so much last season

even with the now-departed veterans present, his current task appears monumental.

Last season, Whipple used a pro-style offense, led by quarterback Blake Frohnapfel. The senior threw for 2,919 yards, but just 16 touchdowns to 13 interceptions. His numbers were aided by the presence of Tajae Sharpe, who reeled in 111 passes for 1,319 yards. The explosive receiver, now a starter with the Tennessee Titans, spent the entire season laying waste to defenses designed almost exclusively to stop him. His departure, along with those of every player who tallied more than 210 receiving yards, means that the Minutemen will need to reconstruct their entire passing offense on the fly.

Though he’s dealing with a young offense, Whipple should use this restart as an opportunity to stress the importance of third-down plays and red-zone opportunities. In 2015, UMass converted just 34.8 percent of its third downs, tied for 109th nationally, and scored points on only 69 percent of its red zone possessions, a mark only five teams failed to beat. Though its opposition as an independent—UMass has Florida, Mississippi State, South Carolina, and Brigham Young on the docket this season—may snuff out most long drives, converting these crucial plays will allow the Minutemen to at least remain competitive and give their defense a breather.

On the ground, sophomore running back Marquis Young returns.

Young led the team with 960 rushing yards as a freshman, showing very good speed and cutting ability. He proved durable as the season wore on, carrying the ball over 30 times in two of the team’s final three games, and ran for 240 yards and three touchdowns in the season finale against Buffalo. The ground game should get

a boost from quarterback Ross Comis, a dual-threat redshirt sophomore.

Comis has good mobility, though against elite defenses, he may not be able to showcase it.

In its opening 24-7 defeat at the hands of No. 25 Florida (1-0), UMass played a surprisingly competitive game. Entering as 36.5-point underdogs, the Minutemen only trailed 10-7 entering the fourth quarter. Despite this, the offense looked predictably shaky. Comis only completed nine of his 17 pass attempts, although he did connect with sophomore Andy Isabella on a beautiful 53-yard bomb.

He couldn’t find much running room and looked flustered in the pocket. His offensive line didn’t help him much, surrendering numerous sacks and pressures to Florida’s more physical defensive line. Though he carried the ball 19 times, Young only managed 59 yards on the ground. Hearkening back to last season’s issues, the Minutemen only converted one of 11 third-down plays, unable to keep the Gators’ offense off the field for any extended period.

Against BC, look for UMass to face many of the same issues, as it simply lacks the physicality up front to keep the Eagles’ elite defense out of the backfield. Though the Minutemen’s skill position players have speed, if Comis is forced to evade pass rushers all afternoon, nothing will come of it.

Barring some of the third-and-long defensive lapses seen against Georgia Tech, BC should have no problem neutralizing the UMass attack.

While they struggled on offense, the Minutemen really surprised on defense in their opener. For a team not known for its pressure, and with a unit missing four departed seniors in the secondary, Whipple’s men made life very difficult for the Gator offense.

They closed off rushing lanes and prevented Florida from establishing

any type of downfield passing game.

Quarterback Luke Del Rio averaged just 5.8 yards per pass attempt and needed 44 throws to accumulate 256 yards.

Forcing a team into primarily short-yardage throws can normally be a good way to get them off the field quickly. The UMass defense, however, squandered this opportunity. Continuing an issue from 2015, in which they allowed opponents to convert a whopping 47 percent of third-down plays, the Minutemen allowed Florida to convert nine of 17 third downs in the contest.

Eventually, this inability to get off the field, coupled with the offense’s lack of production, spelled doom for the defense. In the fourth quarter, it tired and allowed Florida to score on three straight possessions, with missed tackles galore.

On Saturday, BC needs to bear this in mind if it experiences some early offensive struggles. The key will be to not let a few failed possessions lead to forced throws or attempts at big plays. While the UMass defense may have some quality series, it cannot carry that effort over the course of the game.

As long as the Eagles stick to the game plan, continue to run the football, and convert manageable third downs, they should crack the Minutemen by the second half.

Returning home from Ireland to a legion of pundits grumbling about witnessing a repeat of last season, the Eagles will enjoy taking on their Massachusetts brethren.

The value of spending a week away from those nagging “Program in Turmoil” storylines can’t be underestimated. With clear heads and a refreshed mindset, look for BC to use this game to set a more competitive and mature tone for the rest of the season.

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Boston College football returns from Ireland seeking greener pastures as it takes on the University of Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium on Saturday. UMass (0-1) will provide the perfect opportunity for the Eagles (01, 0-1 Atlantic Coast) to rebound and move past the disappointment that they experienced last week against Georgia Tech.

The key to Saturday’s affair for BC will be getting off to a strong start and putting points on the board early. The Eagles must come out flying to prove to fans that they are not jetlagged from the trip across the pond. BC failed to score against Georgia Tech in the first half, with turnovers plaguing several solid offensive drives. If the Eagles come out in a similar fashion, it may prevent them from getting the momentum they will need.

In recent years, UMass has severely struggled in the second half of games due to a lack of depth on many parts of its roster. In 2015, the Minutemen were outscored 122 to 35 in third quarters, as they won just three games. BC head coach Steve Addazio will likely prepare for this by using running backs Jonathan Hilliman and Myles Willis to wear down the UMass defense and put together some longer possessions early on. In

2014, when the Eagles last met up with the Minutemen, they led just 6-0 heading into the half, before exploding to a 30-7 victory. In that contest, the Eagles rushed for 338 yards on 61 carries, and scored on four of their five drives in the second half. Addazio used the rushing game to set up his passing attack, as quarterback Tyler Murphy had a tidy stat line of 17-for24, with 173 yards.

On defense, look for defensive coordinator Jim Reid to stack the box as BC tries to slow down the Minutemen’s dangerous sophomore running back, Marquis Young. Against Georgia Tech, the Eagles’ front-seven dominated the line of scrimmage as Georgia Tech’s triple option managed to produce just 119 yards on the ground. If BC can replicate its effort from Week One, it should have no issues dominating UMass’s offensive line and getting to Young. Slowing down UMass’s rushing attack will put pressure on the Minutemen’s brand new starting quarterback, redshirt sophomore Ross Comis. He debuted last week—his second career start—with a a 9-for-17 performance with 141 yards and no touchdowns or interceptions in a 24-7 loss to Florida in Gainesville.

While BC’s rushing defense looked quite impressive against Georgia Tech, the secondary was at times weak against the Yellow Jackets’ passing

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Sports Editor Last week’s game doesn’t change my opinion of what will happen against Massachusetts on Saturday. The Eagles are clearly improved on offense from last year, with a front-five that looks to near where Steve Addazio wants it to be. Patrick Towles is a legitimate quarterback, and there is a wealth of wide receiver potential. Oh, and that defense. There’s no way the Minutemen will be able to match up with BC.

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Patrick Towles hands the ball off to Jon Hilliman, who recorded 102 yards. game, especially down the stretch.

This is one of the plagues of the triple option that the Ramblin’ Wreck runs: prepare too much for the run, and get burned by the pass.

If BC’s secondary can maintain the level it was at last year—it was the seventh-best passing defense in the country per yards per game—UMass, a traditional-style offense, will struggle mightily to move the ball through the air with its inexperienced quarterback and depleted receiving corps that lost

five of its six top performers from last year.

Week Two will provide an enticing opportunity for BC to pick up its first victory since last September against Northern Illinois. Though the Eagles made strides, they still managed to lose a close game and remain winless in the ACC. BC needs to buck the trends and habits that haunted it last season if it wants to generate momentum moving forward, and UMass must be a convincing victory.

Th e U M a s s o f fe n s e i s g o i n g to h av e a loooooong day against a BC defense that hasn’t lost a step from last season. The Eagles’ front seven is among the best in the nation, and the return of Harold Landry in full force only spells more trouble for the Minutemen. And that offense?

Well, Towles will do just enough to keep Superfans from sweating on Saturday. Expect Tommy Sweeney to rebound from a sloppy first game and Jonathan Hilliman to have another big day as he tries to make a case for All-ACC recognition.

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but the Eagle defense thwarted any shots. At halftime, BC was comfortably in control, and didn’t look back as the team continued to put its foot on the throttle.

The se cond half fe ature d more of the same. Though the BC defense made small mistakes early on, the Crimson still couldn’t capitalize on open opportunities.

The peak of the Crimson offense came in the form of a penalty kick after a BC foul in the box, but BC’s Alexis Bryant saved Karly Zlatic’s shot. The Eagles entered cruise control, and add-

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ed on one more goal, courtesy of Berman. BC then killed the clock en route to sealing its sixth victory of the season.

“I thought our physical speed and our general speed of play was excellent,” head coach Alison Foley said. “What will help us in the ACC is the depth. You know, if one of your forwards needs a break, you have Olivia Vaughn coming off of the bench, who is the fastest player on the team.”

With this win, BC continues what has been a sterling start to the season, while Harvard is sent back across the Charles in hopes of getting back on track.

Asst. Sports Editor Even though the Georgia Tech game didn’t go as BC fans hoped, it won’t negatively impact the UMass game. In fact, if anything, it will motivate the Eagles to come out even harder against an in-state foe that they should defeat handily. The defense will perform well, per usual, and hold the Minutemen. The offense, led by a confident quarterback in Patrick Towles, will explode against UMass and build conf idence for tougher matchup s ahe ad.

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ALEC GREANEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR

9P D@:?8<C JLCC@M8E Jgfikj <[`kfi DUBLIN — New year, same heartbreak.

In the season opener against Georgia Tech at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland, Boston College football had its guts ripped out by Georgia Tech. The Eagles appeared to have just enough offense with the same dominating defense for most of their game against the Yellow Jackets. But first-half turnovers and late secondary breakdowns plagued BC, leading to a 1714 defeat.

The Eagles (0-1, 0-1 Atlantic Coast) got off to a methodical start on offense.

The running back tandem of Jonathan Hilliman and Tyler Rouse skillfully used their blockers, especially Jon Baker and Chris Lindstrom through the middle, to gain yards on the ground on BC’s first drive. Patrick Towles helped with his legs, too, showing off the shiftiness he was rarely allowed to display at Kentucky.

But a tipped pass by Tommy Sweeney into the hands of Corey Griffin gave Georgia Tech (1-0, 1-0).

While Connor Strachan showed off his monstrous ability to get in the backfield—he had three tackles for loss on the Yellow Jackets’ first drive—the secondary collapsed. As a Paul Johnson-coached team is apt to do, Georgia Tech’s option run set up the deep ball perfectly. Justin Thomas completed two passes for 49 yards, before Matthew Jordan kept the ball for a three-

yard touchdown. After a three-and-out by the Eagles on their second drive, the first quarter concluded with a 7-0 Georgia Tech lead.

In the second, that swarming BC front-seven came alive. Three times, the linebacking corps and Truman Gutapfel forced three-and-outs by Georgia Tech’s running attack with stifling tackles. One of those drives was thanks to a brilliant punt by Mike Knoll. The embattled kicker who lost favor with the staff after a rough freshman appears to have stunted the blow of losing Alex Howell. His third punt of the half pinned

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the one, the Eagles got the ball back at the opposing 33-yard line. It nearly looked like a successful drive, as Myles Willis ran the ball well and the Eagles had two timeouts remaining. But at their own 22-yard line, right tackle Jimmy Lowery blew coverage of Antonio Simmons. The junior defensive lineman knocked the ball out of Towles‘ hands, right into an expectant Kyle Cerge-Henderson. In an instant, the collective BC faithful returned to the trauma of last season.

“The ball was wet, kind of a combination, but you can’t make excuses,” Towles said of his turnovers. “I’m 22 years old and I’ve played in a lot of football games. There is no excuse for that.”

It’s a good thing the Eagles have Hilliman again. The running back from New Jersey rumbled through the right side of BC’s offensive line, dashing down the sideline for a 73-yard touchdown run on an inside zone that was split to the outside.

For Hilliman, the touchdown was an important milestone. After breaking his foot last season against Northern Illinois, he exploded for 103 yards on 17 carries. Following the game, he was happy that he has finally had a chance to get back on the field. A long touchdown doesn’t hurt either.

“I saw the crease, the safety came down late, and all I had to do was outrun him,” Hilliman said.

Hilliman helped the momentum swing to the

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the Ramblin’ Wreck on their one-yard line, allowing for an easy BC stop.

But the scoring still didn’t come. On BC’s third drive, Towles moved the offense down the field. This was largely due to the superb athleticism of Jeff Smith, in his first game as a wide receiver, to find openings.

But that still fizzled. This time, it was the special teams, as Colton Lichtenberg’s 42-yard field goal was blocked—he had missed three of his first four attempts in 2015.

And just when it couldn’t get bad enough for BC’s offense in the first half—well, it did. Following that drive in which Knoll pinned the Yellow Jackets within

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DUBLIN — I can talk to you all day about the negative things. Usually, I do.

The state of Boston College football over my time as sports editor has allowed me to zero in on why this team loses, why it went winless in the Atlantic Coast Conference. I did it against Wake Forest, you might recall.

Before you even ask, yes, it’s a lot of fun to be negative sometimes. Setting fire to a vitriolic keyboard with the ultimate concoction of embarrassment as a student with friends at successful schools, angry empathy for Eagles fans everywhere, and annoyance at the fact that I can’t share the glory in my writing with a happy team.

But I’m not doing that this time.

I won’t elaborate on how BC fell 17-14 to Georgia Tech at Aviva Stadium on the final two drives of the game. I’m not going to talk about missed field goals, not going for it with a quarterback draw, or secondary breakdowns on fourth down. I won’t harp on the decisions I don’t agree with, though there were several. Trust me, you’ll be able to read about that a lot over the next few days—from the local, dedicated BC sites to newspapers in Europe. That’s not to say that they don’t matter—they absolutely do.

Head coach Steve Addazio and his staff have a lot to evaluate from a standpoint of both game film and strategy on their path to a bowl. But I can’t in good conscience just talk about that.

Why? Because of Jonathan Hilliman.

“It’s not the same team as 2015, it’s not the same feel,” Hilliman said after the game.

“Even when [Georgia Tech] went up, we looked around and said all right, let’s dig in. … We’ll find a way to win, it gets better from here.”

Those aren’t the type of quotes from last season. That isn’t the attitude this team had.

For much of 2015, BC looked defeated— with good reason, I suppose. But this bright side approach from the players? That isn’t something I saw much of last year. That warrants a mention of the good things that the Eagles did in the season opener.

Through all of the shortcomings, there were a lot of positives to take away from Saturday’s game. It begins with asking yourself the question: what do the Eagles have to do to get to the postseason in 2016? They must have a dominant defense. They must have a serviceable offense. And they must be electric on special teams. None of those objectives were fully achieved against Georgia Tech. They, however, were each partially achieved. Those building blocks should give BC fans confidence moving forward.

Let’s begin with the defense, because that’s where the Eagles looked the best (shocking). The secondary will absolutely have issues to address. John Johnson had the best game of the group. But allowing conversions on 4th-and-19 against a wishbone, triple-option team is inexcusable, something Addazio himself wasn’t afraid to admit after

See BC Makes Strides, B8 WOMEN’S SOCCER

9\_`e[ 9ipXekËj J_lkflk# 9: ;fnej ?XimXi[ kf @dgifm\ kf -$'$( 9P 9I@8E ?FDD<C =fi K_\ ?\`^_kj On a perfect Wednesday evening, Boston College women’s soccer continued to do what the team had done all season: win.

The No. 13 Eagles (6-0-1) kept their foot on the throttle from the word go, and used their superior ball skills and speed to take advantage of cross-river rival Harvard. Despite a slow start for both teams, the Eagle offense came alive to bury the Crimson (2-3-0) by a score of 3-0.

Miscues plagued both teams in the opening phase of the game, as neither team could find a rhythm. BC settled in first through its upbeat offensive pressure. Harvard had a difficult time holding onto the ball when it recovered possession, something that the Eagles exploited all game.

Coupled with some great footwork, BC was able to create chances for its offense.

Redshirt junior Lauren Berman exemplified this, as an early steal in the Harvard defensive zone led to the first real chance for the Eagles, despite a high missed shot.

BC managed its offense well in the

Crimson zone, earning corner attempts and shots. Harvard tried to keep its head above water by clearing the ball to its keeper, who subsequently sent the ball deep to midfield hoping for some help. But BC continued to jump on these chances.

After a Harvard clear, Berman found senior McKenzie Meehan with a nice through ball, which drew the Crimson keeper out just enough for Meehan to tap the ball through for the first BC goal of the night 28 minutes into play. After resetting the ball at midfield, BC’s aggressive play forced Harvard back into its own zone, and afforded the offense another corner try. On the ensuing cross, BC played the ball perfectly, as Madison Kenny connected with freshman Olivia Vaughn for the second Eagle goal of the night.

But Harvard adapted to the increasing deficit. The Crimson changed its offensive scheme to play to the speedy and explosive play of Margaret Purse, who created a number of chances for the offense. A number of through balls reached Purse in stride, LIZZY BARRETT / HEIGHTS STAFF

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INSIDE SPORTS THIS ISSUE

McKenzie Meehan, who opened up the game’s scoring, chases Harvard’s Dani Stollar down in a 3-0 victory on Wednesday night.

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