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Legislators Hold Hearing

on Sexual Assault Law

State House, Senate seeking to establish

university guidelines.

By Isabella Cavazzoni Copy Editor

Allyson Mozeliak / Heights Editor

Experience Survey Results Released Students responses generally positive in first edition.

By Jack Goldman News Editor The flagship findings from Boston College’s first-ever Student Experience Survey have been released by the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment.

The survey was representative of the student population, according to Kelli Armstrong, vice president of planning and assessment, and the 2,417 BC students who responded are also representative of the demographics that make up the student body.

Students generally were positive about their experiences at the University: 86 percent of students would recommend BC to others, 75 percent would choose to go to BC again, and nearly 90 percent said they are generally satisfied with the quality of teaching, according to the release.

Three demographics generally responded more negatively to questions relating to whether they were treated fairly

by others on campus and felt a strong sense of belonging. While 90 percent of the entire student population said they were treated fairly and 82 percent said they felt a sense of belonging, students with “high financial need� and students identifying as either black or African American “rated the campus environment as less welcoming than the overall student population.� About half of those respondents felt they had borne the brunt of unfair treatment—factors cited include sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, country of origin, disability, or religion.

Armstrong noted that LGBTQ+ respondents were a third demographic that’s answers diverged from the generally positive reactions from most respondents—some LGBTQ+ respondents also didn’t feel a sense of belonging or did not feel as if they were treated fairly on campus.

The offices of Student Affairs, University Mission and Ministry, and the Provost sponsored the survey, according to a University release. Of the entire student body, 26 percent participated in the University-wide effort. A little over 16 percent of respondents—400 students—cited

academic elements of the BC experience as what they valued most about their time in Chestnut Hill.

Though marginalized populations took issue with how they’re treated on campus, 95 percent of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that diversity is important to them, according to the release. Sixty-two percent of respondents said that the BC community is open to discussions about “issues of difference.� The release did note, however, that respondents who identified as black or African American “were less likely to agree with these findings.� “The results of this survey reveal a positive experience for the majority of BC undergraduates,with students expressing overwhelming satisfaction with the quality of teaching and their ability to develop a stronger sense of purpose through reflection opportunities and engagement in retreats and community service,� Armstrong said in the release. “Most students also report a strong sense of belonging, and would recommend Boston College to others, which are both strong indicators of a positive

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BC Scores Another Lawsuit Hearing Win Doe loses ground as scope of case narrows.

By Jack Goldman News Editor Boston College won a few more major battles in the ongoing $3 million lawsuit brought against the University by an alumnus alleging the University

breached its contract with him during disciplinary proceedings against the alumnus in 2012 when he was accused of committing sexual assault. In the latest decision ahead of the April 22 trial, the scope of the suit was further limited, ruling out multiple witnesses and pieces of evidence from being admitted.

Doe was covering the 2012 AHANA Leadership Council Boat Cruise for The Heights when the alleged assault ocurred.

Brett Sokolow and Nancy Moore, two key expert witnesses the alumnus, identified only as “John Doe� in court documents, wanted to testify in court about alleged malfeasance on the University’s part. In particular, the work of Joseph Herlihy, BC’s general counsel, who Doe believes violated the basic fairness of the proceedings, will not be considered by the jury after District Court Judge

Massachusetts university and high school students, lawyers, lawmakers, concerned parents, and survivors of sexual violence packed into a small hearing room in the State House—seats filled quickly, leaving many standing in the aisles, as countless people testified for and against Bill H.1208 and Bill S.764. Personal testimonies of sexual assault survivorship greatly outnumbered public opposition to the bill on Tuesday, and, for over two hours, Massachusetts representatives heard stories of why or why not this bill should be passed.

Bill H.1208, if passed, will establish a task force on sexual assault climate surveys. The climate surveys will eventually be mandatory for public and private universities and colleges in Massachusetts. Sponsored by Representative Lori Ehrlich and Senator William Brownsberger, the House bill’s Sen-

ate counterpart is Bill S.764, which defines terms related to sexual violence and says that colleges and universities must have certain procedures in place for responding to sexual violence on campus.

The preponderance of evidence standard would be mandated by the proposed bill—the Trump administration is proposing that the federal government will no longer mandate that standard, giving universities the option to use a higher standard of proof.

If colleges choose, they will be able to use the “clear and convincing� standard rather than the “preponderance of evidence� standard.

It was presented by Senator Michael Moore. Both bills were discussed before the Joint Committee on Higher Education, with invited constituents speaking for or against the bills.

A Heights article published in March stated that the bills passed in the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives last year. The two bills weren’t consolidated into one bill between the two houses of Massachusetts’ congress before last year’s legislative session ended, preventing the bill from

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CSD Town Hall Kicks Off Ability Awareness Week Disabilites Dean shares thoughts on progress.

By Jack Miller Assoc. News Editor The Undergraduate Government of Boston College and its Council for Students with Disabilities (CSD) hosted a town hall Sunday featuring Assistant Dean of Students with Disabilities Rory Stein. Over the course of 30 minutes, Stein shared his own frustrations as much as students shared theirs, specifically touching on how little pull his office has been able to exert at BC during his tenure.

Audience members spoke directly to Stein, who fielded questions about his office’s capabilities, day-to-day operations, and issues with accessibility on campus.

The rest of the evening, which functioned

as UGBC’s penultimate general meeting, revolved around making plans for the remainder of the academic year.

The town hall was the first event in CSD’s “Ability Awareness Week,� which will run until Saturday and recognizes CSD’s 20th anniversary. Other events will include a speech by the first-ever CSD chair, a SoulCycle event, and volleyball practice for the Special Olympics.

Stein began by appealing to the civicmindedness he had seen at BC and by giving a brief overview of his role. He said that his primary responsibility is to ensure that students with impairments get reasonable accommodations in line with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). He pointed to examples, such as note-takers, extended exam times, reserved single dorm rooms, and wheelchair accessibility.

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Suffolk County DA Talks Policy Memo DA office will use discretion in minor crime cases.

By Abby Hunt Asst. News Editor Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins has recently received backlash for implementing a policy related to the

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non-prosecution of certain charges, including disorderly conduct, minor driving offenses, drug possession, and possession of alcohol by minors. Rollins discussed this policy and answered questions about the criminal justice system in Suffolk County at a panel at the Boston College Law School on April 3, which was hosted by the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy.

Rollins released a 65-page memo last month detailing data and proposals for

changes related to the way Suffolk County approaches criminal prosecution. The memo includes a proposal with a list of 15 relatively minor crimes for which the default would be to decline prosecuting.

Instead, these cases will be outright dismissed or, “where appropriate,� treated as civil infractions for which the person who commited the crime would have to complete

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The elections for the UGBC Senate, previously known as the Student Assembly, are today. Students can vote online until 4 p.m. using a link that has been emailed to them by UGBC.

Thursday, April 11, 2019

There will be a pottery painting night at the Clayroom in Coolidge Corner at 7 p.m. on Thursday. Tickets are available for $5 through the Office of Residential Life.

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UGBC and EcoPledge will be running an Earth Day Fair on Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Stokes Lawn. Various student organizations and Boston-area groups will be there to support sustainability awareness.

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NEWS Internal Transfers into Lynch, Applied Psych Popular BRIEFS

BC Grad Crowned WWE Champ

Kofi Kingston, WWE wrestler and BC ’03, won the WWE Championship Monday night at Wrestlemania 35—also known as “the showcase of the immortals.” Over 75,000 fans packed into MetLife Stadium to watch Kingston defeat four-time champion Daniel Bryan.

Kingston’s win comes after 11 years of WWE wrestling.

His victory represented a historic moment for the WWE as well: Kingston, who was born in Ghana as Kofi Nehaje SarkodieMensah, is the first African-born WWE world champion. Kingston is also only the fourth black man to win a heavyweight title in WWE history and the third to do so at Wrestlemania.

He began his career in wrestling in the New England independent circuit—the pro-wrestling equivalent of a local minor league. He debuted in WWE in 2008, performing as a Jamaican wrestler by the name of “Kofi Nahaje Kingston.” A year later, he switched to being billed as Ghanaian, dropping his faux Jamaican accent.

ESPN journalist Sean Coyle rated the match highly—it earned a 4.75 out of five points. Coyle called it “the best match of the night and one of the best of the year,” and awarded full points for storytelling, in-ring execution, match psychology, and timing, and .75 points for innovation.

“It was all love. The energy in MetLife Stadium was incredible ... and to have my family there to watch it, too, my dad had never been to a WrestleMania, so for this to be his first WrestleMania, is just unreal,” Kingston said, according to ESPN.

University Hosts Migration Conference The Boston College Global Migration Conference, co-sponsored by the the BC Law School and Graduate School of Social Work (GSSW), is set to “examine the rise of exclusionary politics and policies against migrants around the world, and consider the most effective means to protect, and promote understanding of, the rights of noncitizens,” according to a University release.

The two schools aim to explore whether the fields of legal and social work services have adequately addressed the complexities of modern migration.

BC Law Dean Vincent Rougeau and GSSW Dean Gautam Yadama will begin the conference on Thursday morning with some opening remarks. BC faculty and administrators will also participate as both panelists and moderators.

There will also be a number of outside expert speakers attending: Catholic Relief Services President and CEO Sean Callahan and Jesuit Refugee Service International Director Rev. Thomas H. Smolich, S.J., will kick off the second day at their panel, “Humanitarian Responses to Migration.”

Topics to be covered include migration control, naturalization, human rights, detention, and the effect of migration on the labor market.

“Global migration is a tremendously critical issue for our times,” said Theresa Betancourt, a professor in the School of Social Work.

“We currently are facing the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II, with conflicts in Syria and Yemen, for example. The human rights and dignity of populations fleeing violence around the world require global and interdisciplinary dialogue.”

By Abby Hunt Asst. News Editor

Large numbers of Boston College students are internally transferring from their respective colleges into the applied psychology and human development major in the newly renamed Lynch School of Education and Human Development. Lynch is set to begin offering undergraduate courses over the summer this year, which will help these internal transfer students graduate on time and have more flexibility in their coursework, according to Julia DeVoy, the associate dean of undergraduate students in Lynch.

The number of internal transfers received

by Lynch rose significantly from 2015 to 2018. Ninety-five students transferred into Lynch from other colleges in the 2017-18 academic year—a total that increased from 79 students the year before and 58 the year prior to that. For each of these three years, all but 10 internal transfers into Lynch were switching into the applied psychology major.

This academic year, 43 students have already internally transferred into the applied psychology major—a figure that does not include the 35 who have indicated that they would like to make the switch at the end of this semester, according to DeVoy. BC students are not allowed to transfer between colleges until the end of the spring semester of their first year.

DeVoy credits the major’s flexibility and relevance to the current way the workforce operates as being part of the reason for its

popularity.

“Both students and their families are recognizing the multiple pathways that one can take post-BC with this major,” she said.

Lynch has historically been most popular school to receive internal transfers, according to data collected about internal transfers for the Class of 2015 through the Class of 2019.

During this span, 317 students internally transferred into Lynch some time after their freshman year at BC. The next most popular school to receive internal transfers is MCAS, which received 165 internal transfers among the students in these cohorts, while 77 transferred into the Connell School of Nursing and 24 transferred into CSOM. “Students are transferring to Lynch, because what they are finding here … [is] community, “ DeVoy said.

DeVoy suggested that one reason the applied psychology and human development major is a popular one for students to switch into is that it has three different subpaths—human services and health sciences; organization studies and human capital; and policy, advocacy, and community change. A fourth subpath in the major, “science of learning,” will be debuting this fall for students who are interested in designing environments that would facilitate instruction, learning, and cognitive development, as well as fostering motivation in educational contexts.

Yi Zhao, Lynch ’19, transferred into applied psychology after starting her BC career as a psychology major in MCAS and taking Psychology as a Natural Science during her

first semester. She said she knew many people from that course that later transferred into Lynch because it made them view the subject of psychology differently and reconsider their course of study.

“I found out that I would probably be more interested in the applied side of the psychology, the actually doing experiments with people and seeing how the principles can be applied into real settings,” she said.

DeVoy pointed out that the number of students pursuing teacher education degrees has been declining over the past several years—a trend that can be seen in education schools on the national level, not just in Lynch. But while fewer students were choosing to get teaching degrees, more were electing to study in the applied psychology program, DeVoy said. Of the 633 students currently in Lynch, 474 are applied psychology majors. The major was the eighth most popular at BC as of December 2018, according to the BC Fact Book.

“I can really see the interest in this major being part of the new concept of career and part of a new concept of the world of work,” she said. “This major is very, very deep in allowing our students to experience academic rigor, but also meaning and purpose.”

DeVoy said that people who study applied psychology tend to really enjoy the major, and they can follow many pathways coming out of it. Students majoring in applied psychology have pursued work in a wide range of fields, including mental health counseling, social work, public health, business, community

development, government, and activism.

For the Class of 2017, 38 percent of applied psychology majors went directly to graduate school, 52 percent became employed full-time, and 6 percent went into volunteer and service positions, according to DeVoy. DeVoy said that another reason for the large transfer population into the applied psychology major in Lynch is that people across the University will declare a minor, later becoming so interested that they decide to major in the subject.

Lynch is going to offer undergraduate courses during the summer for the first time this year, which DeVoy said will help some of the students who have internally transferred into Lynch who otherwise might have had to postpone their graduation to take all of their required classes.

DeVoy also pointed out that many internal transfer students will be disappointed that they didn’t have the opportunity to take ERA—which stands for Experience, Reflection, and Action—Lynch’s first-year program, so the school has been giving them the opportunity to be teaching assistants for the course.

“The Lynch school is really a place where people find a sense of community, and that they matter,” DeVoy said. “They figure out how they can matter out in the world in a way that actually maps onto some really interesting potential trajectories. This is a door that gives you a wide-open opportunity for grad school and careers.” n

MSA Hosts Gathering for Massacre in Mali

By Abby Hunt Asst. News Editor A small group of students gathered on April 2 to express their emotions and frustrations with the lack of response—both in the Boston College community and around the world—to the recent massacre in Mali, where 157 people were killed in a March 23 attack on a village in the country’s Mopti region, according to The New York Times.

The event, titled “In Solidarity with Mali,” was organized by the BC Muslim Student Association (MSA) less than two weeks after the group sponsored a candlelit vigil for the victims of the shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.

The attack in Mali was directed at villagers who were members of the Fulani ethnic community and were accused of having ties with Islamic jihadist groups, according to the BBC. The victims were killed with guns and machetes, and nearly all of the village’s huts were burned down.

“We just had another vigil last week for the New Zealand mass shootings, and it didn’t take a whole week for another such event to take place,” said Tara Rahman, the president of MSA and MCAS ’20.

The students at the gathering for Mali discussed the lack of attention being given to the attack, both at BC and elsewhere, especially in comparison to the response to the attack in New Zealand.

Many resident directors notified students about the vigil on O’Neill Plaza for the Christchurch shootings, and hundreds of

students and faculty attended the event. Only around 15 students gathered on the secondfloor lounge in Gabelli for “In Solidarity with Mali,” which was announced through a flier in the weekly Undergraduate Government of BC newsletter.

Rahman said that it was difficult for the group to plan both events back to back, especially considering the time and effort that went into planning the vigil for the New Zealand shootings.

“This kind of shows that when you don’t have the proper support from the University we’re attending, everything kind of falls on the students—and that in turn kind of limits us from being able to give every single one of these events the proper respect that deserves,” she said.

Rahman also pointed out how the attack in New Zealand received immediate and extensive media coverage, while the same could not be said for that in Mali.

“I’m surrounded by Muslim people, I follow Muslim speakers and Muslim leaders, and I didn’t know about it for two days,” Rahman said.

Bilguissa Barry, MCAS ’22, who is Fulani and has family in Mali, said that there is anti-blackness within the Muslim community. She pointed out that few news articles had been written about the attack in Mali, there were no pictures of the victims online, and nobody was interviewing the victims’ families.

“You see the different reactions that people give the two things,” Barry said.

“And for me, as somebody that is Fulani

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and I am Muslim, I just feel … like if something like that happened to me or my family nobody would really care.”

Rockib Uddin, the secretary of MSA and MCAS ’21, mentioned that none of the students attending that night’s vigil were white and said that the only time news stories gain attention is when they occur in predominantly white countries.

“When it occurs in a place like Mali, they’re like, ‘Oh there’s a lot of political unrest there. It happens all the time,’” he said. That doesn’t mean we should ignore [it]—that means they deserve as much, if not more, attention than stable countries.”

Nurun Nahar, Lynch ’20, said that something that frustrated her was people saying that they would never expect something an event like the recent shootings to happen in New Zealand.

“We all as Muslims—like a lot of us that went up and spoke at the vigil—we kept saying that we weren’t shocked, because we know stuff like this happens,” she said.

Aneeb Sheikh, an MSA e-board member and MCAS ’20, said that it was important for members of the Muslim community to have higher standards for themselves and for the non-Muslims around them. He said he noticed that after the New Zealand attack, many Muslims were giving too much praise and gratitude to nonMuslim allies who had done only the

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bare minimum.

“It’s important for us to not just be like ‘thank you’ or whatever, but also to be like, ‘Actually, this is the bare minimum. We need you do more, we need you to be consistent, we need you to be fair, and we need you to not have a double standard,’” he said.

Uddin said that events such as this one should be taken equally as seriously, no matter where they happen in the Muslim world.

“We always talk about ISIS and Middle East, but we never talked about the terrorist organizations that happened in Nigeria and all the people who are affected there,” he said.

Adni Tahlil, MCAS ’19, encouraged the students in attendance to pray for the people who had died and their families, as well as to donate what they could, even if it was a small amount.

Nahar then spoke again, stressing the importance of continuing to foster community among Muslim students at BC. “It’s so hard for us to feel like we’re doing something, [and] it’s very easy to feel helpless,” she said. “But just being surrounded by people who can talk to you about this stuff, I think is really important. That’s where action and change comes from—it starts from conversation, and conversation starts from having a community.”

Ikram Ali contributed reporting to this article.n

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—Source: The Boston College Police Department

CORRECTIONS What skill or class should be taught in high school but isn’t?

“Financial Literacy” —Steven LaFever, MCAS ’22

“Home Ec. I wish they still had that. I want to make cookies.”

— Alex Angel, MCAS ’22

“Home Ec. To learn general life skills that are practical.”

— Lauren Tran, MCAS ’21

“Teaching students how to do taxes.”

— Matthew Walsh, MCAS ’21

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Disabilities Dean Explains Concerns CAB Confirms A$AP Town Hall, from A1 Throughout the town hall, Stein was both friendly with the students— calling on many by name—and honest.

One audience memb er a ske d Stein if he was “satisfied” with his department’s work on campus.

“I think it could be a more robust department,” he said.

“We have 600 students registered.

I’m a one-person office. I feel as though if we had more support, we could actually individualize certain aspects for each accommodation.

For instance, it’d be great to have somebody who handles note-taking alone … another person who could specialize in wheelchair accessibility, [and] another who can be on the technical side, making sure the course websites are accessible according to web content.

“I feel like there’s a whole part of Disability Services that can be compartmentalized. And I feel like we could do more on that.”

Several students also asked about the specifics of his job, with a special focus on what he was—and more importantly, wasn’t—involved with on campus.

Prompte d to speak about his involvement with Capital Planning, Stein explained that the biggest barrier by far is money.

“We had a suit in 2015, where we just found out that BC wasn’t provid-

ing as much wheelchair accessibility to certain buildings as they could,” Stein said.

“And so BC has gone through, building by building to make sure that they’re up to code and the wheelchair accessibility is there.”

As part of a follow-up question, somebody asked Stein about his involvement with new buildings—which Stein then described as minimal.

“I haven’t been included so far,” he said.

“But it becomes clear to me as these things arise that I should be. I know that they have to build buildings up to code, and there are certain ADA regulations that they have to meet. But I agree, I also heard that they are cutting corners in some situations and Capital Planning has been aware of some of the things that have happened.”

He also critiqued the lack of mechanical doors on campus. Giving a particularly egregious example, he complained that one of the areas in McElroy Commons has one entrance at the top of some stairs—rendering it effectively useless to people with disabilities.

Stein addressed his upcoming agenda as well, noting that he would like to spend time looking at housing, specifically the availability of singleperson dorm rooms for sophomores, juniors, and seniors for students with disabilities.

He pegged the number of such

rooms at about 17, which he said has become especially strained as the number of mental health disclosures rise.

He commended different oncampus student-run support groups for those with chronic illnesses and physical conditions, adding that he hoped to start one for mental health with the assistance of University Counseling Services.

Both audience participants and Stein speculated on potential reforms that could occur, especially after several in the audience described that they felt like “outcasts” at events like football games or Showdown.

One such suggestion involved the hiring of BC students for a work-study program.

Stein said his department currently employs a handful of graduate students from the Lynch School of Education and Human Development.

Eagle Escort was also a topic of interest, with several students noting that they experienced long wait times and felt that the two-a-day limit was marginalizing.

Stein promised to take note of their suggestions for van tracking and an app that could help drivers stay organized and efficient.

Aske d how he could work to expand his office, Stein joked that “begging and pleading hasn’t worked so far,” before describing his plan to submit a report on the shortcomings he has seen in his time at BC. n

Doe Continues to Lose Ground in Suit Lawsuit, from A1 Denise Casper handed down another ruling this week.

Both witnesses’ testimony was ruled irrelevant to the claims remaining in the case.

Two are left to be tried: whether BC breached its contract with Doe or violated basic fairness by improperly ruling out an alternative culprit defense or the Dean of Students office inappropriately influencing the disciplinary proceedings.

Steven Shedlin, a vocational expert, will have any testimony relating to emotional distress damages ruled

out from being used in the trial, officially ruling out any chance that the jury can award Doe emotional distress damages.

Previously, Casper had ruled out official pursuit of emotional distress damages, but Doe argued that he should be entitled to damages ensuing from emotional distress that affected his occupational future based on the testimony of his psychiatrist, Michael Bain.

Casper ruled that such damages are not to be considered by the jury.

Bain will also not appear as a witness during the trial.

Casper also ruled that both sides

will be given 12 hours, excluding closing arguments, to make their respective cases to the jury.

If Doe had won the legal battles over the scope of the trial, Doe’s representatives had estimated that both sides would need 40 hours each to present their cases.

All that remains to be determined is the jury makeup, jury instructions, and a verdict form for the trial.

At Thursday’s hearing, Casper indicated that she would rule on those matters during the trial—those rulings will probably come down around when closing arguments take place. n

BCPD Chief Evans Supports Rollins Rachael Rollins, from A1 community service, restitution, community-based programming, job training, or schooling. In the case that prosecution of one of these charges is warranted, district attorneys in charge of prosecution must first get the permission of their supervisors. “[These crimes] are clogging up the system,” Rollins said at the panel, where she was joined by BC Chief of Police Bill Evans, Suffolk County DA’s Office General Counsel Donna Patalano, and former U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Bill Weinreb.

“People are spending resources and hours in man and woman power on them, when we should be diverting that to helping solve the 1,000 unsolved homicides we have in Suffolk County, increasing the non-fatal shooting solve rate from around 10 percent.”

Massachusetts Public Safety and Security Secretary Thomas Turco released a letter criticizing a number of policies listed in the so-called “Rollins Memo.” The letter, which said that the implementation of these policies would inhibit the state’s ability to combat the opioid crisis and protect people who have been threatened with serious crimes, has lead to a days-long dispute between Rollins and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, according to The Boston Globe.

B o ston Police Commissioner William Gross told reporters outside of a Boston City Council hearing on Tuesday that members of his department will be using their discretion when it comes to arrests, according to WGBH. He emphasized that nobody who commits a crime will get a free pass just because they incorrectly interpreted Rollins’ policy.

At the panel, Rollins pointed out that 61 percent of the time that these 15 crimes happened during the term of her predecessor, Dan Conley, they were dismissed or diverted—Rollins

said that her policy just says out loud what has already been in practice.

She noted the difference between dismissing a case pre-arraignment and diverting it post-arraignment: Once someone has been arraigned, the charges will appear on their criminal record.

“For me, these 15 crimes—overwhelmingly crimes of poverty, mental illness, and substance use disorder—I want to get people out of the system and get them the help that they need, prior to them getting a record,” Rollins said.

The moderator of the panel, BC Law professor Michael Cassidy, asked Evans about whether police officers would face a problem, in terms of maintaining order and protecting public safety if the community knows that once they are arrested for certain crimes, their case will be dismissed.

Evans said that there was a lot of discretion in Rollins’ policies that he thinks police officers have always had. “ What’s Rachel was saying is what’s always been—if we can give a kid a break, we’ll give him a break,” Evans said.

Evans noted that during his time growing up in South Boston, many of the kids around him were given second chances through diversion from the system, so he understood the importance of giving someone another opportunity.

Evans said that there are obviously violent offenses out there worthy of prosecution, but he thinks that Rollins has made it clear those are not going to be tolerated. Her intent, he said, is to divert people from the system who have extenuating circumstances pushing them to commit those crimes.

“The whole idea of a policy that you can’t lock up for shoplifting— that’s not what she’s talking about here,” Evans said. “She’s talking about someone who might be stealing because the mother needs diapers, or she needs formula, or something

like that.”

One audience member inquired about how Rollins planned to ensure the people she has oversight over, such as her assistant district attorneys and administrative staff, stick to these new policies.

“We’re going to be training, and we’re going to be documenting,” Rollins said. “There’s a section [in the memo] about what we’re going to be collecting. We are working closely with our data specialist to make sure we are inputting that information and looking at it often to see any trends.”

Another attendee asked if the number of the crimes listed in Rollins’ policy will increase because the message has circulated that the consequences are not as great as they used to be. Rollins responded that they would have to wait and see what the data said—which is why collecting it would so important.

“I don’t think [the policy] is being translated to ‘it’s free season,’” Rollins said. “We’re getting you services. … These are not the terrorist, mastermind people we’re talking about.

We’re dealing with people that are hurt. We’re dealing with people that have lots of issues in their lives.”

Rollins noted that she didn’t want to make excuses for people committing these crimes. She pointed out, however, that it costs $55,000 a year in tax dollars to house someone in the Suffolk County House of Correction.

“I’d rather put somebody into a program. … I’d rather get them services or treatment, and not in South Bay or Nashua Street,” she said. “I want them getting better and not coming into contact with our system. We are very good at—when people come in contact with the system—throwing them on a conveyor belt and getting them to jail.

“I just want to do a quality check on some of these crimes. If we need to put them back down, we can. We do that very well. We’re going to try some things differently.” n

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By Kaylie Ramirez Arts Editor An Instagram video of mixing engineer Derek Ali referencing a performance at Boston College incited a frenzy after it was posted to the Barstool BC Instagram and Twitter pages on Sunday night. The video, which was originally posted to A$AP Ferg’s Instagram story on Sunday afternoon, sparked rumors that the “Plain Jane” rapper is the performer for this year’s Modstock. After the video was uploaded on Barstool BC’s social media accounts for an hour, the video had amassed over 3,000 views.

Campus Activities Board (CAB), the organization responsible for booking performers and coordinating Modstock, however, denied that A$AP Ferg is this year’s performer in an email to The Heights.

“I saw the post on Barstool BC, and to maintain complete honesty, I can tell you we have not been working with A$AP Ferg for this upcoming Modstock,” Mike Florio, director of live entertainment for CAB and CSOM ’19, wrote in the email.

A$AP Ferg introduced Ali on the video preceding the viral video. Ali’s sentence

is cut off when A$AP Ferg’s video starts, but the sound engineer clearly states “Boston College” before continuing with the interview. Ali, who is best known for mixing Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy winning To Pimp a Butterfly, has also worked with Drake, A$AP Rocky, Schoolboy Q, Snoop Dogg, and more hip-hop artists.

Based on the video, it was not immediately clear which artist he was referencing when insinuating one of his collaborators would be making a stop at BC. CAB is usually the first to announce performers for Modstock, Plexapalooza, and Stokes Set via its own social media channels. This informal statement on behalf of Ali comes much earlier than CAB’s typically do—CAB announced that RL Grime and Audien would perform at this year’s Plexapalooza on Jan. 16, 10 days before the event. Modstock generally occurs on the last day of classes, which falls on May 2 this year. The club is notoriously secretive about its performers prior to the official announcements and so far has not released any official information about the performer for this year’s Modstock. In the same email, Florio mentioned that CAB has “some really cool announcements coming up.” n

Thai Indicted This Week

By Jack Miller Assoc. News Editor Eric Tran Thai, who was arrested by the FBI last month after initially being detained by the Boston College Police Department in Feb. 2018, pleaded not guilty in federal court to four charges of sexual exploitation of children on Tuesday. He was also released to house arrest with location monitoring on the condition that there are no computers in his home.

After hearing the charges and the maximum penalties, Thai entered a not guilty plea. At a bail review hearing later that day, his detention order was modified to house arrest. Previously, Thai was detained, pending the outcome of his trial after he was deemed a flight risk and a danger to the community.

Thai, a 36-year-old from Dorchester, Mass., was initially taken into custody when BCPD responded to reports of a man covertly filming BC students from a stall in the fifth floor men’s bathroom of O’Neill Library.

In a March 1 search of Thai’s home, law

enforcement officers found approximately “26 computer hard drives, 20 thumb drives, 27 covert and regular cameras, 14 computers, iPads, and cell phones, and multiple SD and Sim cards,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. Analysis of the recovered items revealed folders labeled Boston University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, Northeastern, Bunker Hill, Boston Latin High School, as well as various malls, airports, and locations in other countries, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.

Based on the videos recorded in Boston Latin School—taken throughout the course of 2017—Thai was charged with five counts of sexual exploitation of children. On March 28, a federal jury indicted Thai on four of the counts.

An initial status conference, which defines the scope of the trial, an evidence discovery plan, and the trial schedule has been set for May 14.

Thai faces between 15 and 30 years of imprisonment per charge, as well as five years to lifetime supervised release and a fine of $250,000 per charge. n

Armstrong Talks Results Experience Survey, from A1 said she believed the results of the Student Experience Survey show major improvements in those two offices. The release mentioned that, though the majority of respondents said they had meaningful discussions at BC with other students hailing from different socioeconomic statuses, races or ethnicities, or religious backgrounds, respondents also asked for more inclusive programming and spaces on campus, in addition to the University encouraging further opportunities to interact with people from different backgrounds. More than 75 percent of students said they developed a stronger sense of purpose at BC, with 79 percent saying they developed a better understanding of the distinctiveness of a Jesuit education, according to the release.

In a follow-up interview with The Heights, Armstrong said that she was happy with the response rate—but she hopes more and more students will participate in future surveys in the years to come—the rate of participation in the Student Experience Survey was similar to that of other surveys her office issues to various student and faculty populations. She also noted that she was very happy with senior administrators’ response to the survey, citing the consistent support University President William P. Leahy, S.J., has given her office, always listening to the data she gathered and the indicators her research found over the 15 years Armstrong has been at BC. She credited the committee responsible for putting the survey together, which included students, administrators, and faculty, for committing to gathering data that encapsulated such a wide range of the different types of experiences inherent to spending four years at BC. “I think it was [Father Leahy’s] thought, and senior administrators’, including the committee, that we when we put a survey out we wanted to measure the full BC experience, not just a slice of it,” Armstrong said. “So not just your satisfaction with

services, or how you felt about a particular aspect of the climate: What is the whole base experience like, including areas around discrimination and harassment, which are important things to uncover.”

Armstrong said her primary priority was ensuring that the survey reflected student voices as precisely as possible, because the survey can now inform administrator conversations with individual students, as well as focus groups. By successfully executing a survey, it gives administrators a chance to dive in more depth regarding major student issues moving forward.

“I know that we want to focus on our LGBTQ students and really understand more about their responses, talk more deeply with our black students, and with our high financial need students,” Armstrong said.

Compared to national student surveys, Armstrong said she believed BC’s results look “great,” although she cautioned that BC’s homegrown survey is not the same as the national surveys available.

She noted that it’s clear from the survey that the University needs to concentrate on increasing sensitivity toward its Montserrat population, black population, and LGBTQ+ population. Establishing a statistical basis for such action was one of the reasons Armstrong said she was thankful that the student body embraced participating in the survey.

Going forward, the administration will engage in conversations with student groups, the Undergraduate Government of BC, and focus groups, in order to fashion further response to the issues flagged in the Student Experience Survey. While Armstrong is departing the University to become president of Salve Regina University, she said that her office would continue to give presentations in the fall semester related to the findings in this survey.

An executive summary of the findings will be available online Thursday. Further disclosures will take place this fall as Armstrong’s office continues to parse the data, including comments that relate directly to questions contained in the survey. n

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McHugh RaceD Against Racism and now runs for a cause

By Kaylie Ramirez Arts Editor Discarded Band-Aids and paper cups were stamped into the pavement of the Chestnut Hill streets, serving as the only reminder that thousands of feet had passed through the usually calm suburb mere hours ago. Silence surrounded a lanky figure as he cut through the crisp night air, but the sounds of the day—the cheers of the crowds, the sirens of police escorts clearing the roads, the heavy breathing of the runners who bounced by—played on a constant loop in his head as if he had mentally recorded the soundtrack to the action that took place.

The sensory overload of his first Marathon Monday left Phil McHugh, CSOM ’19, in need of a nap, but hours later he awoke disoriented in his Williams Hall dorm room. Itching to prevent a night of twists and turns from nap-induced insomnia, McHugh went for a run.

“It was almost like a movie moment,” McHugh said. “In my mind I could hear the cheers and the echoes from that day, but it was completely silent.”

McHugh ran four miles of the Boston Marathon route that night. It was then that he knew he wanted to experience the sights, sounds, and feelings of the city-wide holiday from the other side of the barricade before he graduated from Boston College. The then-freshman’s first Boston Marathon experience had sparked in McHugh what it has in lifelong Bostonians and world travelers alike. A creeping ambition to arrive at the finish line and experience the catharsis of a satisfaction for which each runner so tirelessly strives took hold. Although the athletic allure was there from the start, McHugh had not yet identified a cause to carry his steps from Hopkinton to Copley Square.

Often pausing and shifting his focus to other areas of the Rat as if physically searching for the right words to answer a question, McHugh speaks with purpose.

This process of deliberation, of searching for meaning, is mirrored in his service-driven gestures: The senior initiated the campus-wide Race Against Racism campaign—an action oriented challenge to address racism within student organizations—earlier this semester, and he is the 4Boston council person for Marian Manor, a nursing home in South Boston.

“When he is with the residents and the staff at Marian, he is eager to help them with anything they need, no matter

how silly the task may seem, like dancing on a stage while there is a performer at Marian,” Maria Tavierne, a member of McHugh’s 4Boston group and MCAS ’20, said.

McHugh’s desire to connect with the world around him is further reflected in his plans to complete a Venture for America fellowship, a program that connects college graduates with startups in struggling cities, after graduating in May. McHugh’s time at BC has been defined by his commitment to others. It was inevitable that he would find himself searching for a way to serve others while running the marathon.

Shifting from the audible to the visible, McHugh’s sophomore Marathon Monday found the Cincinnati native pursuing a Where’s Waldo-like search in the massive crowd of runners. Again behind the barricade on Commonwealth Ave., McHugh sought three strangers who were wearing the same “Team Dewey: Kicking ALS” shirt as him. The women were running the marathon in honor of a family friend of McHugh that had been diagnosed with ALS in 2015. Although they had never been introduced before, the runners paused to hug McHugh when they saw he was

wearing the Team Dewey shirt.

“That rush of emotion of realizing who they were running for and [that they were] running for something bigger than themselves made me think like, ‘If I’m going to run, it has to be for something more important than just the excitement of the race,’” McHugh said.

Fast forward to senior year, and McHugh will be running the marathon for Tufts Medical Center, a cause he deems worthy because of the life-saving services the hospital provides to its patients and its commitment to serving Boston—a city that has provided him invaluable experiences during his four years at BC. Similar to how the hospital provides support to its patients in downtown Boston, the Tufts Medical Center marathon team has offered McHugh the necessary guidance to prepare for his first marathon.

Despite his show of athleticism during his first taste of the Boston Marathon, McHugh does not consider himself a runner. In fact, McHugh is perhaps the most inexperienced in his marathon training group, which includes veteran runners with up to four Boston Marathons under their belts—or in this case, bibs.

“We went around the first time we met as a charity team and everyone talked about how many Boston Marathons they’ve run,” McHugh said. “And it got to me, and I told them the longest race I’ve ever done is a Turkey Trot 5K back home.”

Although McHugh is a longtime writer for The New England Classic, he wasn’t kidding about his lack of experience—the 6-foot-4 senior had to work hard to build up the stamina and endurance for the 26.2 mile race. To prepare, McHugh runs with his friend Abby Arena, a runner for the Martin Richard Foundation and CSOM ’19, at 7 a.m. every Tuesday morning and goes on long distance runs with members

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After watching his first marathon as a freshman, McHugh was inspired to run one himself. of the Marathon Coalition on Saturday mornings.

Composed of 23 different charity teams, including Tufts Medical Center, the Marathon Coalition hosts a guest speaker who has been directly affected by the work of one of the charities before every run.

After hearing the stories of how marathon runners have influenced the lives of others, McHugh decided to add another element to his reason for running—McHugh is going to dedicate each mile to something that is important to one of his friends or family members.

McHugh’s friends began reaching out and asking if he could run a mile in honor of someone they lost, and he very quickly had 26 names of people and causes to decorate the back of his Tufts Medical Center shirt.

These additional intentions will provide McHugh with plenty to think about during the long race. Although over 30,000 people run the marathon each year and hundreds of thousands come out to watch, McHugh will be alone with his thoughts on the crowded streets—McHugh does not listen to music while he runs and often becomes

lost in thought or drifts into the minutiae of tests and assignments when he hits the six or seven-mile mark on his practice runs.

When leaving behind his own trail of paper cups and Band-Aids, McHugh will be doing much more than running down a dream born in the claustrophobic confines of a twin bed or chasing a movie moment on Comm. Ave. McHugh will be making an impact on those around him—whether that be unfamiliar hospital patients watching the action unfold on a television screen or lifelong friends hanging on the barricades waiting to spot the Waldo with names for stripes—with each stride. n

With Her Brother Cheering Her On, Humphrey Strides Ahead

By Madeleine Romance Heights Staff She was never the fastest on her high school’s cross country team, but on Marathon Monday, Caroline Humphrey, MCAS ’19, will line up to compete with some of the top runners from across the world in the one race where being fast isn’t everything—it’s not a sprint, after all.

B e yond solely increa sing her agility, her road to the marathon has been widely shaped by the charity she is running it for: The Gillian Reny Stepping Strong Center for Trauma Innovation (Stepping Strong). Although it was not an organization she sought out initially, she has grown to love it. In Boston, the process of being accepted to a charity for the marathon is highly competitive, so she’s excited and grateful for having even been selected. Stepping Strong was founded by the family of Gillian Reny, a high school senior who nearly lost her leg during the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. She was taken to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she was treated and ultimately made a full recovery.

Humphrey applied to Stepping

Strong without any previous ties to the organization, but during her training, it has become one she holds close to her heart.

“After meeting the Renys and all of the other runners, it has been a community I can’t imagine not having,” she said.

Established in 2014, Stepping Strong has brought together experts of multiple disciplines to perform trauma research and provide

tre atment to b oth civilians and military hero es who have experienced traumatic

injuries.

Humphrey grew up in Pelham, N.Y., but she often watched the marathon in person while visiting her extended family in Boston. Most of Humphrey’s family is from Beantown and have been avid spectators of the marathon for generations—but she is

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Humphrey is raising money for Stepping Strong, a charity that conducts trauma research.

the first in her family to actually run it.

“I’ve always wanted to run the Boston Marathon, and it kind of became a ‘now or never’ [moment] when I became a senior,” she said.

Senior year has been the ideal time for Humphrey to train for the marathon because she is enrolled in a much lighter course load in comparison to previous years—she said she has “no excuse not to run.”

Even though Humphrey was the slowest on her Pelham Memorial High School cross countr y team, she still loved the sport of running.

Humphrey’s enthusiasm for running is the reason why her older sister, Elizabeth, was hardly surprised to find out that Humphrey would be running the marathon.

“She’s always had a passion for running,” Elizabeth said. “I think it has always really been a great way for her to clear her mind.”

Humphre y ’s younger brother, Shea, is also a large source of inspiration for her. In 2017, the 13-year-old was unable to walk due to a complication from his mild cerebral palsy.

He needed to have six separate corrective surgeries on his feet and legs to provide better alignment and support, requiring him to wear double leg casts while in recovery. His recovery process involved six weeks of no walking, and when he began to walk again he required extensive assistance.

In the fall of 2018, when Humphrey began looking into charities, her brother was lacking motivation to learn how to walk again, but Humphrey’s drive to run the 26.2 miles encouraged him to strive to take a few steps.

Fortunately, her brother has begun walking again with assistance and will be in Boston to cheer on his sister as she sprints toward the finish line.

In the crowd of spectators, Humphrey will find the familiar faces of

her relatives and friends. Because many of her extended family members are from the Boston area, 13 relatives—including many cousins—plan to station themselves at each mile.

Her fellow Eagles are also confident in her abilities and will be there to support her.

“I know Caroline is going to do great, and we are all looking forward to seeing her at Mile 21,” her friend J.J. O’Donnell, CSOM ’19, said.

Although training for a marathon can seem daunting, Humphrey has maintained a positive mindset because she doesn’t have a particular time that she’s shooting for—instead, she hopes to finish the marathon while having fun and supporting a great cause. Luckily, she hasn’t had any injuries while training and has found yoga to be helpful in stretching her muscles.

In addition to preparing for the marathon, Humphrey has devoted her time at BC to the service organization 4Boston, for which she serves on Council as the leader of St. Columbkille Partnership School in Brighton.

With just over a month remaining until graduation, the hardest part for Humphrey has been balancing her social life with her training—particularly her early morning runs on Saturdays.

“It’s been hard because I don’t want to miss a Friday night out with my friends since there are only so many left,” she said. “My roommates have been so supportive, though, and sometimes they’ll run with me.”

This dedication hasn’t gone unnoticed by her peers, who admire the hard work she has put into her training. O’Donnell recalled a moment a few weeks ago when he had woken up at noon and was returning from Dunkin’ Donuts when he saw her running down Commonwealth Ave. “Clearly, I felt pretty bad about myself with a donut and iced coffee

in hand, but it definitely speaks to Caroline’s determination with her training plan,” he said.

According to those who know her best, Humphrey’s humility is another one of her defining characteristics.

“She does all these really cool things, but doesn’t really like the attention,” her sister said.

This contributed to another bump on Humphrey ’s road to the marathon—fundraising for Stepping Strong. With her $8,000 goal, Humphrey described the process of reaching out to family and friends to ask for money as being difficult.

Although Humphrey has struggled with raising money, O’Donnell praises her creative fundraising tactics, including a social event she hosted at Lansdowne Pub in Fenway, where a percentage of the profits were donated to her team. With less than a week left, Humphrey has raised over $7,000 and is still climbing toward her goal, but she is confident she will be able to reach it.

After graduation, Humphrey will stay in Boston to work as a technology consultant for Deloitte, a management consulting firm.

With her dedication to the sport and support from her family and friends, the once slowest runner on her high school’s cross country team plans for running to remain a part of her life.

“Who knows? Maybe I’ll run another marathon,” she said. n

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Bills Regarding Sexual Violence at Colleges Discussed at State House Sexual Assault, from A1 reaching Governor Charlie Baker’s desk.

“It’s time this legislation passes,” Moore said before the Committee.

Liam Lowney, the executive director in the Massachusetts Office of Victim Assistance (MOVA), stressed the importance of passing these bills, especially as MOVA host’s National Victim Rights Month in April. Lowney also emphasized transparency for victims of sexual assault, as the climate surveys will eventually provide survivors and non-survivors alike with information about sexual assault on college campuses.

In the crowd and testifying was Katie Babbin, BC ’18. Babbin currently works as a legislative aid for Representative Randy Hunt of the 5th Barnstable district of Massachusetts. Hunt expressed enthusiastic support for the bills and advocated for putting them into action as quickly as possible.

Bill S.764 mandates annual sexual assault and dating violence prevention and awareness programming to newly admitted

students of Massachusetts universities. The initiatives of Bill S.764 are similar to Stand Up BC’s Bystander Intervention program.

Babbin, who was a trainer for Bystander Intervention while at BC, highlighted the effectiveness of Bystander Intervention training during her testimony—saying that the annual repetition of awareness and prevention programs are crucial.

Bystander Intervention modules are currently administered to freshmen by Bystander Intervention trainers, such as Babbin. According to BC’s website, Bystander Intervention seeks to define sexual assault and promote awareness strategies, among other things. Still, Babbin believes that the restriction to first-year students limits Bystander Intervention.

“We knew that we could only reach a certain group of people freshman year,” Babbin said. “But it’s an ongoing issue, and it just needs more attention.”

With the passing of this new bill, Bystander Intervention will reach all students annually, instead of just training first-year students— the same goes for universities and colleges across Massachusetts.

Lily James, a student with a group from Mount Holyoke College that supports the bills, submitted a stack of printed photos of students to the Joint Committee on Higher Education, all of whom wanted to voice their support for the bills but couldn’t make it physically to the hearing.

Some people at the hearing opposed the implementation of the bills. Although few and far between—the number of survivors that came to speak in support of the bill largely outweighed those that testified in opposition—a few approached the committee with a lack of support.

Wendy Murphy is a lawyer specializing in violence against women and children.

She opposed both bills, arguing that they propose that criminal definitions be used, making it more difficult for survivors to bring charges against their attacker within the school.

The hearings for these bills at the state level coincide with the timing of President Donald Trump’s proposed changes to Title IX. The Trump administration has proposed to narrow the definition of sexual assault at institutions of higher education and limit

when the institution can be held accountable for instances of sexual assault.

According to The New York TImes, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s proposed changes to Title IX will enhance the rights of those accused of sexual assault. Should the Trump administration’s changes to Title IX be implemented, Title IX will hold “schools accountable only for formal complaints filed through proper authorities and for conduct said to have occurred on their campuses,” according to Erica L. Green, a New York TImes reporter.

“They would also establish a higher legal standard to determine whether schools improperly addressed complaints,” Green wrote.

Mayor Martin J. Walsh, BC ’09, publicly voiced his opposition of the Trump administration’s proposed changes. With such a heavy population of college students attending institutions of higher education in Boston, Walsh believes these changes would hurt students.

We believe women. And we believe they deserve more support, respect, and compassion—not less,” Walsh said.

Toward the end of the hearing, Debra Robbin, the executive director of Jane Doe Inc., voiced one of the final words of support for the bills. As a part of the proposed bills, institutions must have at least one confidential resource advisor that may provide a student with reporting options and refer a student to counseling, medical, or health services, among other things. The Senate bill will also provide survivors with an anonymous method to report assaults. For Robbin, the confidentiality and availability of advocates is a vital element to these bills.

“Sexual assault and domestic violence survivors should have access to advocates,” Robbin said.

Babbin believes that the proposed bills could aid with necessary changes to stop sexual assault at institutions of higher education.

“I think that if we have better understanding of what students are facing on campus and what they’re going through, we can get a better understanding, create better policies, better trainings, and then survivors may feel more comfortable coming forward,” Babbin said. n

Gross Denies Fault in Trust Act Hearing ‘All American Boys’ at ISG Unifies Audience

By Colleen Martin Metro Editor

Jose Martin Paz Flores sat in the chambers of Boston City Council yesterday and told the room about the time he was injured at work in 2017.

He had been in the United States for a few years—living in Florida before he moved to Massachusetts—and was working for a construction company when he sustained a fracture in his left leg.

He went to the hospital, had surgery, and asked his employer for worker’s compensation.

His boss called him in to his office, and Flores went with his 2-year-old and a friend who had driven him. He went in and talked, and when he walked out was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

“Since that moment, my life has been difficult in every sense,” Flores said.

His case was brought to the attention of the public when WBUR reported it in 2017.

The report prompted the City Council to call a hearing on Tuesday to examine the effectiveness of the Trust Act, an ordinance passed by the City of Boston in 2014 that says the Boston Police Department (BPD) cannot assist ICE in any way.

The goal of the order is to prevent undocumented immigrants from feeling that they cannot report crimes to the police for fear of deportation.

The hearing was held to examine how well the Trust Act is being followed by BPD and if anything needs to be changed within the act.

“We in the Boston Police Department honor and abide by the Trust Act,” BPD Commissioner William Gross said at the hearing.

“The Boston police do not enforce federal immigration laws, we enforce state laws. Boston police do not check immigration states in the face of possible criminal activity.”

At the time of the arrest, Boston College Chief of Police William Evans was the Boston police commissioner. Gross was his superintendent, which is the second in command in the BPD. Flores’ case was brought to attention because his employer contacted a member of BPD, and the police department in turn reported his location to ICE. Flores was not arrested because of his immigration status, but because he was suspected of identity theft, said Gregory Gallagher, a member of BPD’s drug control unit and the department liaison with ICE. Flores’ green card had a photo of an Asian male, but Flores is Hispanic, said Gallagher.

Lydia Edwards, councilor for District 1, questioned why BPD gave his location to ICE to begin with. If, in practicality, there is not as much of a separation between ICE and the BPD as there is supposed to be, then a better ordinance needs to be written, she said.

Gross continuously emphasized that the BPD did nothing wrong in the case and is here to protect all people in Boston from all criminals, regardless of immigration status.

The question of why the BPD gave ICE the location of Flores was never clearly answered.

“For us there are no blurred lines at all,” Gross said.

“ICE has their job and we have our job.

Our job is to protect the citizens of the Commonwealth.”

The country is a different place than it was when the Trust Act was passed in 2014 because of the Trump administration and its

harsh immigration policies, said Josh Zakim, councilor for District 8.

People in Boston are concerned about the role of the BPD in arresting undocumented immigrants, Edwards said.

She asked Gross how they can increase public trust in the City and the department.

“First of all, don’t believe everything that’s put in the newspaper,” Gross said.

The BPD has been unfairly scrutinized because of what is going in Washington D.C. with President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, the commissioner said.

The media has held the department in a bad light, he continued, and it shouldn’t be the scapegoat because of what is happening in the capital.

“You’re right, these are challenging times,” Gross said.

“We see what’s going on in Washington D.C. But the Boston police has never wavered in its duty or gone against the Trust Act.” One community member who spoke at the hearing voiced his disappointment that BPD did not acknowledge the possibility of any wrongdoing on their part.

He also pointed out that the commissioner left immediately following his own testimony, before Flores got the chance to speak.

The Council needs to clarify what the police are allowed to do, another said. Of the four citizens who spoke, all were in support of the Trust Act and the clarification of BPD’s inability to aid ICE. As a Boston Public Schools teacher, one saw the “traumatized state of fear” some undocumented immigrants lived in.

“We’re here to ask as human beings that the police not get engaged with these immigration issues,” said Rosa Benitez, Flores’ longtime partner. n

Conversations on Race Held in Newton

By Owen Fahy Assoc. Investigative Editor Shay Stewart-Bouley, who is black, and Debby Irving, who is white, took the small stage inside the large-windowed auditorium at Angier Elementary School in Newton to talk about race on Tuesday night. The event lasted 90 minutes and was entitled “Tell Me the Truth: Exploring the Heart of Cross-Racial Conversations.”

Irving is a racial justice educator and author of Waking Up White. Irving met Stewart-Bouley onstage at a promotional event for Irving’s book—Stewart-Bouley is the executive director at Community Change, Inc., an anti-racist non-profit organization. The two have been hosting public discussions together for many years.

The event opened with the reading of a set of guidelines and a poem that encouraged people to enter a “brave space.”

The poem was titled “Invitation to a Brave Space” by Micky Scottbay Jones.

Irving and Stewart-Bouley then took the stage and explained that the event was to be an unscripted, informal conversation between the two of them, based on topics the audience suggested. Irving suggested that the audience engage in a “collective deep breath” with her and Stewart-Bouley.

Following that exercise, the audience suggested five topics to discuss: Kyle Korver’s essay in The Players Tribune from April 8, interracial dating, “white fragility,” Greenbook, and fear.

Stewart-Bouley said she was not familiar

enough with Korver’s essay and had made a conscious choice not to see Green Book, so the speakers chose to begin with a discussion of white fragility.

Irving explained that white fragility is a term used to describe white people’s insecurity about being called out for racist remarks or actions, especially if they are unintentional.

“White women’s tears are a form of bullying,” Irving said. “White fragility is a form of bullying because it shuts everything down—now we have to make the white person feel better about themselves and we don’t do the actual work. It’s about manipulation.”

The two speakers discussed how overly emotional white people can steer the conversation away from a productive discussion about race and instead center it around themselves, seeking attention, not dialogue surrounding the issues at hand, often because they are in distress. “[Black womens’] tears don’t matter,” Stewart-Bailey said. “There is still a segment of the population that expects people of color to, sort of, be a bit docile in terms of how they connect with them.”

The conversation then segued into a discussion of interracial dating, where Stewart-Bouley shared her experiences in an interracial marriage and in raising biracial children. She discussed how she and her husband were treated differently, even when they were together, because she is black and he is white.

She also explained the struggle of par-

enting mixed race children who receive conflicting messages from society because of their blended background.

In schools, black students will only bring a “percentage” of themselves to school, Irving said, meaning that students will choose to only show sides of themselves that they believe will be well received by the white population of their schools.

Diversity is much more than who makes up a school or a workplace, they said—it is about how the organization’s structure and systems treat people of color.

“If diversity were measured by who populates the space, then plantations were diverse,” Irving said. “It isn’t about who’s in the space—it’s about who controls the space.”

The conversation concluded with a discussion about how the impetus surrounding the improvement of racial issues in our country is tied to elections, specifically the 2016 presidential election.

Stewart-Bouley said she is afraid that if a progressive candidate is elected in 2020, then conversations around race will subside and progress will be slowed.

She stated the need for people to continue discussions and progress, even when a progressive candidate is elected and racial issues are not in the news.

“Since 2016, there has been a real sense of urgency, because to be fair, for many white people in this country, that election year was when white people started to wake up and realize that matters around race and bigotry—the needle hadn’t moved as far as they thought it had,” Stewart-Bailey said. n

By Colleen Martin Metro Editor In 2015, two men were touring the United States to promote their debut novels. They were both published by the same company, and they visited a lot of the same places. But when they went through airport security or into a bank, they noticed that their experiences were not the same.

Jason Reynolds is black. Brendan Kiely is white. Together, they decided to write a novel about two boys—Rashad Butler and Quinn Collins—who are tied together after Quinn witnesses the brutal beating of Rashad at the hands of a police officer.

The officer, Pauly Galluzzo, is the brother of Quinn’s best friend. While Rashad is in the hospital recovering from his injuries, Quinn is at home and in school, trying to cope with what he saw and how he should respond. The novel is called All American Boys.

A group of actors got together and performed a round table reading of an adaptation of the novel on Thursday evening at the Isabella Stewart Gardner (ISG) Museum. The performers met for the first time six hours before they were set to read the script in front of an audience. When they took their seats at the four tables in the shape of a square in Calderwood Hall, they were separated by audience members who were assigned to sit at the table.

The people reading the script are not here to entertain you, said Helga Davis, the visiting curator of Performing Arts at the ISG, to the audience before the reading. They are here to be with you.

The script opens in a classroom on a Friday, and all of the kids are talking about their plans for the weekend. There’s a party at Jill’s house—the whole cast swoons and says “Jiiiiiill,” who has caught the attention of Quinn (Seamus Doyle)— and basketball season is gearing up soon.

Rashad (Ricky Pate) goes to Jerry’s Convenience Store for a bag of chips—not plain chips, “who even eats those?”—and as he’s shopping around, the cast calls out, “Now pay attention.”

One person narrates what is happening in short, punchy sentences. Another actor picks up a bucket and hits it at the end of each sentence, creating a suspenseful rhythm that had everyone in the room holding their breath. Rashad bends down to pick up his phone. The woman behind him doesn’t see him and trips over him.

The bottle she was holding breaks. Rashad’s chips go flying.

The store clerk runs over, accusing Rashad of trying to steal the chips. Cue the police officer and the moment that Rashad and Quinn will play over in their minds hundreds of times over the course of the next hour and a half. While Rashad is being beaten, Quinn runs away to his friends and goes to the party that night as though nothing had happened.

The effects of those quick moments reverberate for the rest of the story. Rashad’s father’s first instinct is to question him about what he was doing that made him a suspect. Were your pants sagging?

What did I always tell you about dealing with cops? Cooperate, keep your hands out of your pockets.

Quinn’s relationship with his mother is strained, too, when he starts to succumb

to his guilt and act on behalf of his good conscience. She views it as abandoning the Galluzzos, who have supported them since Quinn’s father died. The tensions between families, teammates, as well as those within individual people continue to grow until Rashad’s brother organizes a protest, drawing out both sides.

Around the room in Calderwood Hall hung white signs with black text. A name or two was listed on it, and a paragraph underneath each name chronicled how the person was killed by the police. When the protest scene approached, Quinn called out the name of everyone listed around the room. The cast called out, “Absent,” for each. When he finally called out “Rashad,” the young boy stood and said, “Present.” The scene was chilling, a powerful closing for an incredibly powerful reading.

Naheem Garcia, who played Rashad’s dad, said that for a while he wasn’t entirely supportive of Black Lives Matter. He was frustrated that black people committed crimes against each other and didn’t feel connected to any of the social movements he saw taking place. After his reading of All American Boys, though, something had changed.

“This has moved me,” he said. “And I haven’t been moved by the movement at all.”

All American Boys was brought to Boston because of Off the Page Education, an organization that uses art and creativity to bring history to young people.

Specifically, it was Jody Drezin Alperin and Vicky Finney, two white women who went to a middle school in Bed-Stuy to teach kids about civil rights in 2014. It was the day after a grand jury decided not to indict Daniel Pantaleo, a New York Police Department officer, in the death of Eric Garner, a black man who died after Pantaleo put him in a choke hold.

Alperin and Finney asked the kids what they wanted to research about civil rights, and the students responded that they wanted to look into racial profiling.

They made a podcast with their findings and brought it to the City Council, which was composed of mostly white people.

Alperin and Finney said that the councilors were so uncomfortable, they just asked the students what equipment they used to record the podcast and avoided the actual substance of what they had heard.

They felt that they had to do more with their students, so in September of 2015, Alperin and Finney created their adaptation of All American Boys.

As the goal of the performance was to be together, not to entertain, Davis gave a few people in the audience a chance to speak after they listened to the reading.

One young black man was moved to tears.

He said that he’s been in college for four years and is going to graduate in four weeks. Sitting in that room, listening to that story, he felt that he had seen others, and was seen by others, more than he ever had been before.

Members of the cast listened to him speak, and many of them joined him in his tears, seeing that their intended purpose with performing this story was received so fully by somebody in the audience.

“This is how we use art to make social and political change,” Davis said. “This is how we use art to see each other.” n

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Eagles Score in Seven of Eight Innings, Rout Quinnipiac

BY LUKAS MCCOURT Heights Staff Boston College baseball began Wednesday afternoon’s game against Quinnipiac with a walk and a double.

Both baserunQuinnipiac 5 ners crosse d Boston College 11 home plate later in the inning, setting the tone for a dominant offensive performance from the Eagles. BC would proceed to score runs in seven of its eight innings

at bat, coasting to a comfortable 11-5 victory.

RBIs from Jake Alu and Gian Martellini gave the Eagles an early 2-0 lead after the first frame. BC (17-17, 6-9 Atlantic Coast) added two more runs in the second, thanks to a two-out rally. A Chris Galland single drove in Dante Baldelli, and Jacob Yish then scored with clever base running as Baldelli drew a throw on a steal attempt. The second inning also marked the end of Joe Mancini’s starting

pitching outing. The freshman turned in two solid innings of work, picking up two strikeouts and only giving up one hit.

Nick Couhig replaced Mancini and got into a little trouble, allowing three hits in the top of the third. Fortunately for the Eagles, a big double play prevented the visiting Wildcats (13-17, 7-2 Metro Atlantic Athletic) from scoring more than one run in the inning. A Ramon Jimenez double added a fifth run for the Eagles, and

Joe Suozzi hit his first home run of the season, a two-run blast to left field.

Jack Nelson was the next Eagles pitcher to take the mound. He conceded one run on a sacrifice fly in the fourth. The Bobcats scored two more runs off Nelson in the fifth on another sacrifice fly and a single. Yet BC always had an answer. In the bottom half of the fourth, Jake Alu picked up his 21st RBI of the season on a line drive single to left field. In the fifth, Suozzi crossed home again, this time

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on a passed ball.

Michael Marzonie would pitch the next two innings for BC, giving up one run in two innings. Marzonie did not give up a hit but he did allow a run, as Quinnipiac scored via a throwing error from Cody Morissette. Still, the Eagles’ bats remained red hot, as Alu continued his great game, driving in two more runs through a single in the sixth.

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explosiveness, making it to the second level on runs in the first half. Bailey, in particular, was impressive, ripping off long gains on runs to both sides of the offensive line. The sophomore finished with 12 carries for 91 yards. Glines didn’t see any carries out of the backfield, but got the ball on an end-around and got the Eagles’ offense a first down. Dillon dressed, but didn’t touch the field, instead spending much of the game on the sidelines interacting with fans. After a tough sophomore campaign that featured a lingering ankle injury, as well as his bruising style that leaves him vulnerable to repeated hits, it’s only logical that BC limits the amount of contact Dillon takes during the offseason.

2) Offensive line doesn’t miss a beat The Eagles are losing Jon Baker, Chris Lindstrom, Aaron Monteiro, and Sam Schmal—all key pieces of the offensive line—to graduation, but their replacements impressed on Saturday.

Ben Petrula, the lone remaining starter from last season, played solid at left tackle, while 2018 reserves like Anthony Palazzolo, Alec Lindstrom, John Phillips and Finn Dirstine played a lot of snaps and opened up some impressive

Boston College lacrosse, ranked No. 1 in the nation, beat No. 13 Duke, 20-12, on Saturday afternoon.

With the victory, the Eagles remain undefeated. They beat their fourth consecutive ranked opponent and their ninth overall ranked opponent this season. They scored at least 20 goals for the sixth time this season. Sam Apuzzo, ranked first in the country in points, goals, and goals per game, added four goals and three assists to her season tally. Kenzie Kent, ranked third in the country for points, contributed three goals and five assists. Dempsey Arsenault led the team in goals, with five, and also contributed one assist in the victory.

But did you know any of that? Quite frankly, it’s incredible that BC Athletics doesn’t do more to showcase its best team.

If you don’t seek the program out, it’s easy to be in the dark about just how good of a season BC is having right now. The Eagles, playing in the toughest lacrosse conference in the country, have outscored their ACC opponents, 77-50, over the course of the season. Each one of those ACC opponents is nationally ranked.

BC also knocked off non-conference opponents who figure in the national rankings, like Southern California, Navy, Northwestern, and Georgetown. And in Saturday’s win over Duke, the Eagles limited Charlotte North—the Blue Devils’ most dangerous scorer who entered with the third-most goals in the country—to just one goal and zero assists.

Inside Lacrosse just named Apuzzo, Kent, Arsenault, and Elizabeth Miller First Team Midseason All-Americans, and Hannah Hyatt was honored as a Third Team selection. In addition to attackers Apuzzo and Kent, midfielder Arsenault and goalkeeper Abbey Ngai appear in the national lists of top players by their respective stats. As a team, BC is No. 1 in the nation in draw controls per game, No. 2 in draw control percentage, No. 3 in points per game, No. 4 in assists per game, No. 7 in shots on goal per game, and No. 8 in shots per game, among other notable rankings.

If it feels like I just threw a bunch of numbers at you, it’s because I did. There isn’t really a better way to list all of the team’s accomplishments. The Eagles are playing out of their minds this season. But that should be no surprise for BC fans.

After all, the Eagles have been national runners-up for the past two years after successful regular season and playoff campaigns. Apuzzo won the Tewaaraton Award last year, marking her the best women’s lacrosse player in the nation in 2018.

But, in spite of all that, it really feels like BC Athletics could be doing more to publicize its lacrosse program. I mean, imagine if football or men’s basketball had that level of success. BC Athletics would be talking about it left and right—rightfully so—and students would never hear the end of it.

Think about last week alone. BC Athletics sends out regular “This Week on the Heights” emails highlighting all of the

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A SPRING IN THEIR STEPS

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On a sunny Saturday afternoon, the Eagles returned to action in the annual Jay McGillis Memorial Spring Game, a contest that the offense won by a 71-55 margin with modified scoring.

BY BRADLEY SMART Sports Editor Boston College football divided up into two teams on Saturday afternoon for the Jay McGillis Memorial Spring Game, and, on a day in which A.J. Dillon watched from the sidelines and starting quarterback Anthony Brown played just two drives, the Eagles finished their spring with the Maroon team (offense) beating the White team (defense), 71-55.

The basketballesque scoreline was the product of an unusual scoring system that was put in place by the BC coaching staff for the first time in the Eagles’ Spring Game history.

Two years removed from the 2016 game in which neither team managed to score a touchdown and finished with an ugly 6-2 final score, BC took after other collegiate programs—Notre Dame and Boise State for instance—and devised an interesting points system. It awarded points for first downs, rushes of 10plus yards, passes of 15-plus yards, touchdowns along with defensive scoring for any stop per possession, three-and-out stop, sacks, tackle for loss, or turnover.

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So, on the game’s first drive, with Brown under center, the defense struck first. The secondary lost a lot of talent from last season after Lukas Denis, Will Harris, and Hamp Cheevers all departed—but it flashed potential right off the bat. On fourth down, Brown dropped back and found Kobay White short of the first down marker, but Tate Haynes flew in and punched the ball out, scooped it up, and went 44 yards for a touchdown. It was a strong play from the redshirt sophomore, whom head coach Steve Addazio had plenty of praise for after.

“Tate has had a great spring,” Addazio said, before singling out Brandon Sebastian and Elijah Jones as well. “They’re really talented guys and they’ve played well this spring.

We lost some talent there but we have talent there now. They’re ready to go.”

The second series, with Matt McDonald under center, stalled and resulted in a punt—but Brown returned and engineered a lengthy scoring drive. The redshirt junior connected with Korab Idrizi and Ben Glines for chunk gains, then displayed

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BY PETER KIM Assoc. Sports Editor Fall and the beginning of the 2019 college football season are still four months away, but on Saturday, Boston College fans were given their first preview of the 2019 Eagles at the Jay McGillis Spring Game. The contest featured a modified scoring system and an “offense vs. defense” format, so when the game clock hit zero the offense claimed victory, 71-55. Though the game wasn’t played by normal rules, there was still plenty to take away. Here are some observations from Saturday’s action.

1) Running Back Depth Last season, BC had three running backs—A.J. Dillon, Ben Glines, and David Bailey—hit the 100-yard rushing mark. A fourth, Travis Levy, didn’t rush for 100 yards in a game, but did play a starring role in the Eagles’ November win over Virginia Tech and showcased some skills as a receiving threat. In 2019, all four will be back, and if Saturday was any indication, BC should once again have one of the deepest running back rooms in the country.

Bailey and Levy got the bulk of the carries, and both showed good

LAX: BC Beats Duke on Red Bandana Day BASE: Pelio Fast Emerging as Eagles Ace

SPORTS IN SHORT...................................A7 The Eagles pulled away in the second half, moving to 14-0 The freshman has enjoyed a stellar start to his college career SOFTBALL.................................................A8 and recorded another win over a ranked opponent......... A7 and has four wins over ranked foes to his name.................A9 WOMEN’S TENNIS....................................A9

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Kent Leads Eagles Past No. 13 Blue Devils on Red Bandana Day

By Jeremy Khangi For The Heights

The stage was set on Saturday afternoon for Boston College lacrosse to honor BC’s beloved Welles Crowther by continuing Duke 12 its undefeated Boston College 20 season. Before the game, the team held its annual tradition of celebrating Crowther with a short ceremony in his memory. For this annual Red Bandana Day, senior Hannah Hyatt was given the honor of wearing the number 19 jersey.

Nonetheless, it would be a lie to say that there wasn’t some panic on the BC side during the opening half of Saturday afternoon’s matchup against No. 13 Duke. The Blue Devils almost ended up playing spoiler, as the lopsided 20-12 scoreline at the final buzzer was not an accurate indicator

of how the game went for the Eagles overall.

Through the initial 30 minutes of play, the contest saw five lead changes, an uncharacteristic trend during No. 1 BC’s (14-0, 5-0 Atlantic Coast) perfect season. The Eagles’ nine goals during this frame served as proof of their productive offense —six being split equally amongst powerhouses Sheila Rietano, Sam Apuzzo, and Dempsey Arsenault—but they couldn’t seem to slow down the Blue Devils (8-5, 2-3) on the other side in front of goaltender Abbey Ngai.

Duke was sparked by back-to-back goals from Abby Landry and, regardless of BC’s quick responses in the offensive zone, its sloppiness in clearing attempts on the other side of the field didn’t work in its favor.

Despite going on a 4-1 scoring run to close out the final 10 minutes

of play, the Eagles couldn’t distance themselves from the Blue Devils, as the half ended with a score of 9-6 in favor of BC. Things turned around quite quickly in the second half, however, as the squad began to play like the top-ranked team in the nation. The Eagles’ defense buckled down and put some much needed pressure on the Blue Devils’ attackers, with most of their offensive success beginning with a smart play on the other side of the field.

They forced the Blue Devils to commit a handful of sloppy turnovers—19 total by the end of the afternoon—that resulted in the majority of their goal scoring opportunities.

“It was everything,” head coach Acacia Walker-Weinstein said of her defense’s prowess in forcing turnovers. “I think when we come out and

put some healthy pressure, it obviously helps out in our favor.”

A quick unassisted strike from Cara Urbank at the midway point of the second frame ignited a 7-0 run toward the back end of the second half. During this stretch of Eagles dominance, Apuzzo and Kenzie Kent shined, as they either scored or assisted on six of the seven goals.

It may be hard to stick out among a roster as talented as BC’s, but Rietano’s recent success has brought her to the forefront of the team’s attention.

She was dominant in the draw circle, winning a team-high seven draws.

Recording nine goals in the past four contests, three coming against Duke, Rietano’s recent scoring spurt has not gone unnoticed by her coach.

“I’m flabbergasted by her, but don’t think that I’m surprised,” WalkerWeinstein said of the junior. “I’m not

surprised at all, and I know that that’s what she’s had in her all along.”

Overall, BC had yet another highly productive afternoon offensively, seeing seven different Eagles tally at least one goal. Arsenault led the charge, scoring five goals and tallying an assist. The Eagles’ most reliable offensive duo, Apuzzo and Kent, combined for a total of seven goals and eight assists, once again proving to be the backbone of the Eagles’ success. As a whole, BC is outscoring its opponents, 249-137 this season.

While the Blue Devils turned in a valiant effort, they simply couldn’t finish the job. BC’s win concludes the toughest stretch of their schedule, having played four top-15 teams in a row. The Eagles proved their keep against the best teams in the country, though, outscoring those talented opponents, 63-38. n

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Taylor Walker (left) scored twice, Kenzie Kent (right) recorded a game-high eight points with five goals and three assists, and the Eagles moved to 14-0 with a 20-12 win over Duke on Red Bandana Day. BASEBALL

Bats Come to Life, BC Beats Quinnipiac for Third Straight Win BASE vs. QU, from A6 Three more BC pitchers took the mound, as Will Hesslink, Sean Hughes, and Travis Lane combined to pitch a scoreless final two innings. In all, the Eagles used seven pitchers on the afternoon.

BC never let up, tacking on one more run,

courtesy of a Brian Dempsey single. It was a fitting end to the game for Dempsey, as his four total hits led all batters.

All in all, the Eagles recorded 13 hits and drew four walks. BC tagged every Bobcats pitcher except one—Joe Preciado—for one run, and chased Quinnipiac starter Blake DeCarr after just

three innings. What’s more, BC showed good plate discipline, striking out just three times.

The Eagles are in the midst of a muchneeded three game win streak. The upand-down season for BC has seen some great moments—such as a series win at Florida State—and frustrating losses,

like back-to-back defeats to Massachusetts and Hartford. Still, it has been an extremely promising campaign for the Eagles, and three straight wins show that things are starting to gel.

Their tremendous young talent has been put on display, and BC has already matched its win total from all of last

season.

That said, if BC wants to turn an encouraging season into a special one, it must carry its current momentum into the rest of the challenging ACC season.

The Eagles will be tested immediately, as they host a skilled Georgia Tech team this weekend. n

Top-Ranked Eagles’ Success Merits Much-Improved Marketing Respect Deserved, from A6 games students can attend in the week ahead. That seems to be its primary method of advertising games to students—any other marketing campaign relies on students going out of their way to follow BC Athletics on Twitter or other forms of social media, while the emails go to all students.

Last week’s email listed football’s Jay McGillis Memorial Spring Game first and baseball’s slate of games second. Lacrosse came third out of four sports on the email, even though it was defending its undefeated campaign against two ranked conference opponents. And though the matchup against Duke was the Red Bandana Game, there was no separate email to let students know about it. There was, however, a separate email advertising football’s Spring Game.

Listen, I get it. I understand that lacrosse isn’t one of BC’s revenue

sports, and football is. But I think there is absolutely no reason why the spring football game—an out-ofseason intrasquad scrimmage that, historically, has been less-than-exciting—should get top billing in the weekly email over an undefeated, No. 1 lacrosse squad, or should get its own separate email when the Red Bandana lacrosse game does not.

Especially because the Spring Game was played with a modified scoring system this year and featured limited action from the program’s biggest names. And there’s the fact that, well, it’s actually lacrosse season. Why should football outshine lacrosse during lacrosse’s own season? Hasn’t lacrosse earned more than that?

I reached out to BC Athletics before writing this column, and it responded with some fair points.

For instance, BC Athletics does make the home games available to watch online via live stream. When BC hosts the ACC Championship

later this spring, all of the teams will be able to use the Fish Field House to practice, and the games will be played at Alumni Stadium—which will likely lead to increased attendance to games among sophomores, juniors, and seniors who don’t always make the trip over to Newton.

And in the summer following the 2017 season, after lacrosse head coach Acacia Walker-Weinstein wanted another assistant coach, Director of Athletics Martin Jarmond hired Kayla Treanor. So yes, it’s not like BC Athletics commits nothing to lacrosse—but I still think lacrosse has earned more attention than it has received.

Take the facilities, for example.

The Eagles’ home field is on the Newton campus—home to only about 900 or so undergraduate students. The field itself is nice, but the locker rooms are literally trailers. And there aren’t even bathroom facilities by the field. Fans and players—home and visiting alike—all

use a row of porta-potties. How is it possible that BC Athletics can renovate every locker room under the sun on this campus and put in perks like the fueling station, but lacrosse can’t even get real locker rooms and bathrooms at its home field?

Imagine coming from other top programs and seeing that BC doesn’t even have a proper bathroom for its lacrosse team. Imagine being a recruit comparing facilities at other top programs with BC’s facility.

Sure, BC has the most dominant women’s lacrosse program in the country right now—but if it wants to keep landing the best recruits, it has to build facilities that can rival the best schools in the ACC and Big Ten. There are two regular season home games left, followed by the ACC Tournament and then the NCAA Tournament. Enhancing the facilities isn’t a quick fix—though it absolutely should be a priority—but BC Athletics can and should step

up its promotion of the remaining games. It can easily send out multiple stand-alone emails to students to advertise the game against Yale and the Senior Day matchup against ACC foe Louisville. That maximizes the probability that a student will find out about it—it’s easy to gloss over the “This Week on the Heights” emails, but a special email highlighting the undefeated lacrosse team is more likely to grab students’ attention.

Lacrosse is in the midst of a historic season. Every student on this campus should be aware of the team’s success and its individual players’ accomplishments. Honestly, there’s no reason why the likes of Apuzzo, Kent, and Arsenault shouldn’t be household names on campus. It’s time for BC Athletics to shout it from the rooftops.

Annabel Steele is the former assoc. sports editor for The Heights.

SPORTS in SHORT ACC Lacrosse Standings

Numbers to know

Conference overall

North Carolina Duke N.C. State Florida State Virginia Wake Forest Miami Georgia Tech Boston College Syracuse Notre Dame Louisville Virginia Tech Clemson Pitt

12-0 10-1 10-2 9-3 8-4 7-5 7-5 7-5 5-7 5-7 4-9 2-10 2-10 2-10 4-15

24-1 18-2 21-4 17-5 16-5 17-7 14-6 10-9 15-7 12-7 11-11 10-12 8-13 8-14 0-12

69

Errors for softball, 12 more than any other team in the ACC.

15

Wins for women’s tennis this season, a total which ties their winningest season in the past 15 years.

8.0 6

Scoring margin for lacrosse this season, the largest in the conference.

QUote of the week

“I’m flabbergasted by her, but don’t think that I’m surprised.”

— Lacrosse coach Acacia Walker-Weinstein, on Sheila Reitano’s recent scoring outburst.

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Running Back Depth, New Secondary on Display in Spring Game FB Spring Game, from A6 his impressive mobility with a first-down run. Glines, who only saw a few snaps on offense, was utilized on an end around in a similar manner to Jeff Smith last year, and turned the corner well for a slight gain.

“We didn’t run Benny [Glines] at tailback at all today,” Addazio said of the redshirt senior. “He might have had the most impressive spring, team-wide. We’ve got some depth there, which you need.”

Eventually, David Bailey—who spoke after the game about losing 10 pounds in the offseason, dropping to 240 pounds, and getting stronger—broke free through the left side for a 28-yard touchdown run, one of 12 carries for 91 yards on the day for the sophomore.

“It felt great being on the field,” Bailey said. “All spring ball all the backs have been getting reps, and with A.J. not there it was a chance for the younger guys to step up and show what we can do.”

Bailey was joined in the stat sheet

by Javian Dayne and Peter Stehr, a pair of little-known redshirt freshmen who played well on Saturday. Dayne punched in a touchdown at the goal line in the first quarter and piled up 102 yards on 21 rushes.

Stehr, meanwhile, carried the rock 23 times and found slightly less success, totaling 73 yards.

Dillon watched from the sideline as one of several starting players that took a back seat to their companions on the depth chart, and the rising junior even played catch with a few kids in the stands at times.

Fans got to see almost the entirety of the quarterback depth chart on Saturday, whether it was Brown, McDonald, EJ Perry, Dennis Grosel, Matt Valecce, or highlytouted recruit Sam Johnson. The most impressive was arguably Valecce, a redshirt freshman from Mamaroneck, N.Y. He led all passers with 78 yards, going 9-of-11 through the air. Johnson showed his inexperience at times, and while he had one nice throw, he finished 2-of-5 and looked shaky despite the lack of a pass rush, per Spring Game rules.

The defense was solid in the back half of the game, working its way back on the scoreboard. Joey Lucchetti had three sacks, while Jaleel Berry and Medhi El Attrach— the pregame recipient of the Jay McGillis Memorial Scholarship—both had one. Mike Palmer picked off a McDonald pass in the

third quarter and had a weaving 36-yard return, then Nolan Borgersen added a 40yard return after a forced fumble. Izaiah Henderson, a freshman, looked good on the defensive line for the Eagles as well, who are replacing seven starters in total on defense.

“He’s going to be a talent,” Addazio said of the Mater Dei Prep product. “He started coming on at the end of the spring. You can tell he’s figuring it out. He’ll be playing this year, and we need him. We’re going to play a lot of young guys on that side of the ball.”

The game wasn’t without shaky spots, though. The kicking situation saw John Tessitore miss his first extra point of the game, while Danny Longman hit his first.

Longman was roughly 10 yards short of a 52-yard field goal attempt—the football hit

in the middle of the end zone—but he hit his extra points and surely will be considered the favorite to replace Colton Lichtenberg.

The game ended on a sour note, too.

Tito Pasqualoni, a tight end and the son of former BC assistant Paul Pasqualoni, went down with an injury while the clock was running in the fourth and was carted off. Addazio was unclear of his status after the game.

Overall, it was a typical Spring Game, one defined by youth and guys getting to shine in a game situation. The Eagles have a lot of pieces to work into the starting lineup after losing a bulk of their All-ACC talent in the offseason, but Saturday’s flashes of skill showed that there are some players who are poised to make the leap from the sideline to the field. n

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Danny Longman looked better than fellow placekicker John Tessitore, while David Bailey took the brunt of the carries, with teammate A.J. Dillon watching from the sidelines, as the Eagles wrapped up spring practice.

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holes in the running game. Pass protection was also excellent—albeit with modified pass rush rules—as the BC quarterbacks were often afforded five or more seconds to throw the ball and plenty of time to scramble if need be. The real test for the Eagles will of course be in the fall when the season begins. But on Saturday, at least, BC looked like it will once again have a stalwart offensive line in 2019.

3) Tempo The offseason also brought about major changes to the Eagles’ offensive coaching staff, as Scot Loeffler departed for Bowling Green and head coach Steve Addazio tabbed Mike Bajakian as his replacement. What appears to have stayed

the same, though, is BC’s up-tempo approach. The game was played at a rapid pace, with huddling a rarity. There may be some changes to the Eagles’ offense under Bajakian’s leadership, but it appears the pace won’t be one of them.

4) Pass Rush? Still Unclear A Spring Game isn’t really a fair place to judge the state of the Eagles’ defensive line—after all, anything more than light contact on the quarterback wasn’t allowed—but what was more concerning was the amount of time BC’s gunslingers had to throw the ball and the amount of space they had to scramble if they couldn’t find an option down the field.

Jaleel Berry and Izaiah Henderson both had good moments for the Eagles at the defensive tackle spots, but with Zach

Allen and Wyatt Ray gone, BC needs an edge rusher to step up and fill the void.

Unfortunately for the Eagles, none of their defensive ends really flashed on Saturday. Put simply, BC still has question marks along the defensive line heading into the fall.

5) Turnovers / Ball Security On the first series of the game, Kobay White caught a short pass from Anthony Brown and turned upfield, before being stripped of the ball by Tate Haynes, a redshirt sophomore defensive back that has excelled this spring. That very play was repeated on the final series of the game, with Nolan Borgersen taking the ball away from Noah Jordan-Williams and returning it for a score. Mike Palmer also intercepted Matt McDonald off a tipped

pass in the second half. The Eagles’ ability to generate turnovers Saturday was a plus, but the two forced fumbles also raised some questions about BC’s ball security on offense. That said, the Eagles still have plenty of time to clean that up before the season begins.

6) Injuries Hurt players are never a welcome sight during any game, and even more so during a bona fide scrimmage. So, it was unfortunate to see Tito Pasqualoni carted off after absorbing a big hit late in the fourth quarter. His status was unclear immediately following the game. C.J. Lewis was also briefly injured in the first half, but was able to walk off on his own power and appeared to be okay.

7) Scoring System Leads to Some

Confusion Because of the offense-defense format, and the fact that BC was unable to field enough players to form two full teams, the game’s scoring system was hardly traditional. Instead, a touchdown was worth only five points for the offense, and first downs and big plays also resulted in points.

On the other side, stops and tackles for loss, as well as turnovers, earned the defense points. The abnormal scoring system led to a very “high-scoring” game, and at times it was difficult to keep track of how the respective sides were being awarded points. The system also seemed to favor the offense, which racked up a 35-14 lead at the end of the first quarter and never trailed after that. n

SOFTBALL

Martinez’s Eighth-Inning Double Lifts Eagles Past UConn

By Bradley Smart Sports Editor Several times during her first two years on the Heights, Boston College softball sophomore Emme Martinez has proven Boston College 5 that she isn’t Connecticut 4 faze d by the biggest moments of the game.

On March 22, she hit a walkoff single to lift the Eagles past visiting Syracuse. Then, a week later—with her team hitless against North Carolina State through seven innings—she broke up the no-hit bid with a single and launched a come-from-behind victory.

So, with a runner on second in the top of the eighth inning against Connecticut in a tie game with two outs, it’s no surprise that Martinez once again came through in the clutch. The third baseman, albeit 0-for-4 with a

strikeout on the day, took two pitches, fouled one off, then drove in the eventual game-winning run with a double to center field in a 5-4 extra innings victory for BC. The Eagles (12-23, 3-9 Atlantic Coast) snapped a season-worst sixgame losing streak with the muchneeded win. The Huskies (15-21) tied the game on four separate occasions— in the first, the fourth, the fifth, and the seventh—but were unable to complete one last rally. BC starter Susannah Anderson went the distance, eventually stranding the tying runner on second base in the bottom of the eighth.

Anderson, who had been handed a loss in three of her last four appearances, bounced back with a career-high eight innings. The freshman allowed eight-plus hits for the second outing in a row, but largely worked out of trouble and held UConn to four runs, three earned, while walking five and

striking out four.

She was handed a lead four separate times, but struggled against a pesky Huskies lineup at times.

After teammate Jenna Ergle was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the first inning to bring a run in, Anderson gave it right back when UConn came up to bat. After giving up singles to two of her first three batters, she loaded the bases with a walk before giving up a sacrifice fly to Olivia Sappington.

Anderson escaped further damage, though, inducing an inning-ending groundout.

BC quickly rallied to its pitcher’s side, getting another run off of Huskies starter Jill Stockley in the second.

Stockley would last just three innings, needing 72 pitches and failing to get excellent support from the defense behind her. The second run—and second unearned run—charged to her was the product of an error by third baseman

Carli Cutler, allowing BC’s Gianna Randazza to trot home safely.

Anderson worked two scoreless innings before the Huskies erased the slim 2-1 lead. In the bottom of the fourth, Sappington took the first pitch she saw from the freshman and deposited it beyond the center field fence for her third home run of the year. The home run bug would bite Anderson again in the bottom of the fifth. After BC took a 3-2 lead on a sacrifice fly from Ergle, UConn’s Briana Marcelino tied the game with a blast to left field.

Huskies’ reliever Marybeth Olson recovered by throwing a scoreless sixth, but again the Eagles took a one-run lead. This time, in the top of the seventh, it was freshman Ellie Mataya who stepped up, lacing a one-out single to right center to bring in a run.

BC couldn’t plate another run—despite having runners on the corners with one

outs—which set up yet another UConn rally. The Huskies forced extras on the strength of an error and a double, with the latter coming off the bat of Alexis Lemus as her team was down to their final out.

While it was a frustrating win for the Eagles—they left 10 runners on base and still needed extras to beat a Huskies team that committed five errors—it was still a win. BC was in desperate need of some form of momentum after being thoroughly swept over the weekend by Notre Dame, and with Anderson and clutch hitting from Martinez leading the way, the Eagles might’ve found some.

BC is a youthful team subject to the twists and turns you’d expect from a freshman-heavy bunch, but it still has four weekends left to try to gel behind the leadership of a sophomore at the plate and the gutsiness of a first-year on the mound. n

MEN’S TENNIS

Conference Struggles Continue for BC in Road Loss to Duke

By Nicole Pla Heights Staff After falling to North Carolina on Friday, Boston College men’s tennis came into Sunday’s match against Duke with something to prove. The Eagles have fallen to the Blue Devils, 7-0, in each of the last two seasons, so a win this afternoon was imperative for a team that has still yet to win an ACC match this season. Unfortunately for the Eagles, their trip down south this weekend ended without a win, as they were bested, 6-1, by the Blue Devils.

BC (6-14, 0-11 Atlantic Coast) had

a tough start to the afternoon, with Duke (10-11, 4-6) sweeping the doubles matches to clinch the doubles point.

Derek Austin and Connor Mullins fell to Jason Lapidus and Vincent Lin, 6-2, and Sean Mullins and Max Mendelsohn were edged out by the junior duo of Robert Levine and Spencer Furman, 6-3. Heading into the singles matches, the Eagles had to play catch up.

Chris Grasel was the first to fall on the second court. Losing in straight sets, 6-4, 6-1, to Catalin Mateas, the Eagles were down, 2-0, as the other matches were finishing up. Mendelsohn was also outplayed by Sean Sculley in

straight sets, 6-2 and 6-4. It was the sophomore’s second loss of the afternoon, putting the Eagles down, 3-0.

Following Mendelsohn’s defeat, it was up to the rest of BC’s singles players to win their matches to have a chance at an upset.

As the clouds cleared in Durham, the Eagles’ chances at a win only dwindled. Sean Mullins fell for the second time of the afternoon to Lapidus in straight sets of his own, 7-5 and 6-4.

Closely following the trend of straight set defeats was Markus Nordby, who fell, 7-6, 7-2. Lin retired from play in the fifth court to give Conor Mullins

the match and BC’s only point so far.

The bad luck continued for the Eagles, though, after Austin couldn’t clinch the third set and fell to Furman, 6-3, 6-0, 7-6. Austin’s loss meant the Eagles were heading back to Boston with just two match wins for the weekend, coming from Wills Tutecky—who sat out of Sunday’s matchup against Duke—and Conor Mullins.

BC’s struggles were only highlighted throughout the match, as they failed for the 11th time this season to secure an ACC win. Despite picking up a few non-conference victories, the Eagles can’t seem to translate that success to

league play.

If the Eagles continue their winless trend within ACC competition, their conference record would stay at 1-48 over the course of the last four seasons, which is embarrassing at best. BC has now lost the doubles point in three straight matches, too, and the pairing of Austin and Mullins have been unable to return to the peak of when they knocked off Harvard’s No. 44 duo.

Starting matches on the wrong foot has put a lot of pressure to turn it around in singles, and that hasn’t been in the cards for the Eagles this season—or the last few, for that matter. n

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SOFTBALL

Dolby Fans 11 in Complete Game Effort, BC Beats Fairfield

By Taylor Covington Heights Staff

Coming off a quality win over Connecticut on Tuesday, Boston College softball returned home, eying its second straight v icFairfield 0 tory. Plagued Boston College 4 with inconsistency so far this season, the Eagles have been struggling to break even overall, last winning back-to-back games in late March. BC has had issues crossing the plate at times and grappled with defensive miscues, losing multiple heartbreakers to start the season. On Wednesday night, though, the drama

was largely absent.

Behind a complete game effort with 11 strikeouts from freshman Camryn Dolby and a late offensive push from the Eagles, BC knocked off visiting Fairfield, 4-0.

Dolby struck out the side to start the afternoon, setting the stage for an impressive day in the circle. BC’s offensive stalwart, Lexi DiEmmanuele, was prepared to capitalize on the Stags’ impenetrable defense, singling to right and stealing on the first pitch in the bottom of the first. Her efforts went unrecognized on the score card, though, as Karisa Hughen escaped the inning unscathed, ultimately stranding

two runners on base It soon became a pitchers duel, as both teams struggled to cross the plate through the third inning. After conceding a single to start the fourth, Dolby once again found her rhythm and closed the inning with her eighth strikeout of the game. The freshman has proven to be invaluable in recent games, eventually evening her record at 8-8.

Another scoreless frame paved the way for BC’s Kennedy Labshere, who brought Britney Richardson home with a groundout to score the Eagles’ first run. It proved to be all they needed the rest of the way, but they went on to add three more. Labshere’s effort high-

lighted the inning and hoisted BC to a much-needed advantage. After leaving two more on base, the Eagles headed into the fifth inning, where they put the game away.

Dolby retook her place in the circle and continued to shut out the Stags.

The Eagles proceeded to score three unearned runs in the bottom of the fifth to secure the win, as Gianna Boccagno reached second on a fielding error, sending Jules Trevino to third and Emme Martinez across the plate. Ellie Mataya grounded out to third, bringing Trevino home to extend BC’s lead to 3-0.

Boccagno scored the final run on a wild pitch to seal the 4-0 shutout, the Eagles’

second victory of the week.

Having lost a lot of talent last season, the Eagles are in the midst of a rebuild period. With a young team, BC has struggled to be competitive in conference play. Despite leading the ACC in errors, though, the Eagles didn’t commit one against Fairfield and had just one the day prior. These two games provide a bit of confidence for the team, and nonconference victories are essential in BC’s effort to inflate its win total going into another ACC-laden stretch. The Eagles will take on Louisville in a three-game series at home this weekend in hopes of improving their conference record with newfound momentum. n

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The Eagles were mired in a six-game losing streak before bouncing back in non-conference play, slipping past Connecticut on Tuesday in extra innings before knocking off Fairfield on Wednesday behind dominant pitching.

BASEBALL

Behind Strong Pitching, Eagles Roll Past Visiting Rhode Island

By Marc Occhipinti Heights Staff

On Sunday, Boston College baseball picked up a signature win over No. 3 North Carolina State. In fact, the victory was the Eagles’ Rhode Island 0 fifth against a Boston College 4 top-25 team this season. But time and time again, BC has struggled to carry that momentum over to non-conference play—entering Tuesday’s contest versus Rhode Island, the Eagles were just 1-3 in games following top-25 upsets.

That wasn’t the case against URI, though, as the Eagles’ pitching was locked in and shut out the Rams by a 4-0 margin, the staff’s second blanking of the season.

Joey Walsh picked up his first win of the year, tossing four scoreless frames of three-hit ball. Travis Lane was stellar out of the bullpen, throwing three hitless innings coupled with four strikeouts. BC’s (16-17, 6-9 Atlantic Coast) pitching gave up just

five hits on Tuesday, marking the fourth time this season where the Eagles have surrendered five or fewer knocks.

“They attacked the zone, they threw strikes today,” head coach Mike Gambino said of his group’s dominant performance.

“Walsh threw the ball great, and then Travis [Lane] came in and for a second looked like he wasn’t going to throw strikes, and he settled right back down and started pounding the zone.”

After suffering the loss to N.C. State on Friday night, Walsh took the ball to start the contest for the Eagles. Coming into Tuesday, the redshirt sophomore lefty’s longest outing of the season had been 2 2/3 innings. Making his first start of his 17 appearances against URI (14-15, 7-2 Atlantic 10), he threw four frames in which he walked just one batter and struck out two.

The Rams threatened in the second, third, and fourth innings, getting runners into scoring position in each frame. Walsh buckled down and got out of trouble each

time, however. In the second, a John Cristino double followed by a grounder to the right side gave the Rams a runner at third with one out. Josh Brodeur proceeded to hit a grounder right at BC third baseman Jake Alu, who quickly fired home and threw out Cristino, who was running on contact.

“I was just trying to throw strikes and attack guys with not just my fastball, but my slider and go after people,” Walsh said of his effective start. “Gian [Martellini] helped me stay calm which really helped.”

Aggressive baserunning led to the Eagles scoring the game’s first run in the second inning. Jack Cunningham led off the frame with a bunt single down the third base line that beat the shift the Rams were putting on the big lefty. With one out, Cunningham stole second and advanced to third on a poor throw by Cristino. Cody Morissette brought Cunningham home on a hard single up the middle to give the Eagles an early lead.

BC doubled its lead in the bottom of the

fourth, largely in part to another defensive miscue from URI. With a runner on first, Dante Baldelli pinch-hit for Cunningham, seeing his first at-bats since he crashed into the center field wall and injured his left shoulder on March 22 against Clemson.

The junior hit a soft ground ball to third base, which was fielded cleanly by Brett McManus, but was thrown away at first base, moving the runners to second and third. Martellini brought home the second run on a sacrifice fly.

The Eagles tacked on another run in the fifth off the strength of a bases-loaded sacrifice fly by Brian Dempsey and added another in the sixth when Baldelli reached on the Rams’ third error of the afternoon.

Morissette skied the Eagles’ third sacrifice fly into right field for his second RBI of the afternoon, and Baldelli crossed the plate, giving BC a four-run edge.

Lane came on to pitch the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings. Despite the cold day, Lane’s fastball was popping and he was keeping hitters off-balance with

his off-speed stuff. The four strikeouts on Tuesday were a season-high for the freshman, and, despite walking three, the big righty was able to pitch out of danger and find his command when he needed it most. His brother Thomas came on in relief to pitch a scoreless ninth and locked down the victory for the Eagles.

On a mighty cold day in Brighton, the Eagles manufactured runs on the strength of only five hits. BC bunted, stole, and forced URI to make plays, forcing three Rams errors, a play style that’s at the core of the team’s identity.

“That’s how we’re built,” Gambino said. We’re built on as a team, when we’re good, we play great defense, we run the bases, situational hits, we play good team baseball.”

The Eagles have bounced back from a four-game skid with a pair of wins in the last three days and continue to straddle .500. This time, there was no letdown from a promising weekend win, and that bodes well as the year winds to a close. n

BASEBALL

Freshman Mason Pelio Establishing Himself Among ACC Elite

By Bradley Smart Sports Editor

Last season, Boston College baseball left fielder Chris Galland made program history as the first Eagles freshman to earn an ACC accolade as prestigious as an All-ACC Third Team nod. This year, with the way Mason Pelio is pitching right now, Galland will very likely have some company. The 6-foot-4 native of San Diego, Calif., is off to an excellent start and has been making his case as one of the best starting pitchers in the conference.

Through seven starts, Pelio is 4-1 with a 1.64 ERA, and he’s currently on a run of three straight quality starts—a game in which the pitcher completes at least six innings and permits no more than three earned runs. Remove his two non-conference starts at the beginning of the year—and just consider ACC play, which has featured four top-25 teams thus far—and his numbers are even more impressive. In five starts against conference opponents, the likes of which include No. 3 North Carolina State, No. 21 Florida State, and No. 20 Louisville, Pelio is 3-1 with a 1.36 ERA and is holding opponents to a .143 batting average. That ERA is the second best among starters in league play, with a fellow first-year star in Clemson’s Davis Sharpe holding a slight 20-point edge.

Put simply, Pelio is doing something in his first year on campus that few Eagles have done before. While BC still has 23 games remaining and Pelio will likely pile up five more starts, his current numbers are worth

a historical comparison. If you look at BC’s single-season record books for ERA, you’d find that his current 1.64 mark slots in at third—trailing Steve Langone, who set the record as a senior in 2000 at 1.54, and Doug MacNeil, who posted a 1.60 mark in 1989 as a sophomore. If you consider the top 10, you’d find just one freshman: Jacob Stevens (2016).

While it’s hard to forecast what’s ahead, Pelio likely has starts remaining against No. 17 Georgia Tech, No. 21 North Carolina, Duke, Virginia Tech, and Notre Dame. The first two are tough matchups, but the hard part of his schedule is largely over. The Yellow Jackets will be arguably his biggest test on paper, as they boast a .301 batting average in conference play, and the Tar Heels are patient—they lead in ACC play in walks and strike out the the fourth-fewest times per game—but the final three games offer him a chance to finish strong.

His latest start, against a potent Wolfpack lineup that entered averaging 8.6 runs per game—a full run more than second-place Wake Forest—was a prime example of just how good he can be when he’s on. Pelio’s only mistake was a home run surrendered in the fourth on an 0-1 grooved fastball, but otherwise he was effective and had N.C. State hitters struggling. He’d retired eight straight before the home run, then responded by retiring eight more in a row. Pelio set down the last three batters he faced, the final out being a harmless groundout to second base on his 114th pitch of the day.

“He doesn’t look like a freshman out there, does he?” head coach Mike Gambino said after the game. “He

loves it. He loves the chance to pitch in a big spotlight. He’s a special one.

Moose is going to be really special the next couple years.”

Pelio was described in the team’s announcement of the Class of 2022 as a “great worker” who has the “ball jump out of his hand,” and he hasn’t disappointed. Scouting reports out of high school described the Rancho Bernando H.S. product as someone who “attacks hitters” and is capable of “throwing a lot of strikes as he works to get ahead of hitters with quick tempo.”

Still, this dominance wasn’t necessarily expected—especially after his trial run in the New England-based Futures Collegiate Baseball League this past summer. Playing for the Nashua Silver Knights, Pelio made three tough starts before being moved to the bullpen for his fourth and final appearance of the summer. Facing off against collegiate talent, Pelio never got past the third inning in any of his starts and was tagged for 13 earned runs on 13 hits in just 6 2/3 innings.

Still, his lone relief appearance on Aug. 5 offered signs of growth, as he faced one batter over the minimum in two innings of work and registered a strikeout. It’s safe to say now, though, that he was just getting adjusted to the collegiate level.

Now, he’s further developing an arsenal of pitches that has wowed the likes of area scouts. Stu Murray, a college baseball podcaster and editor, was in attendance for his latest start and tweeted that “Mason Pelio looks real.” He clocked the righthander with “dynamic 91-95 mph gas with legit cut” and also was impressed by his

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Through seven starts, Pelio has a 1.64 ERA, by far the best mark on the team.

feel with his curveball and changeup.

Gambino offered a similar scouting report when asked about Pelio’s offerings.

“It all starts with fastball command,” he said. “He changes speeds of his fastball and he can locate both halves of the plate. Then it’s that changeup, curveball, cutter mix. He’s got that cutter now, and that makes him really dangerous.”

O verall, Pelio has helped his team avoid series sweeps against highly ranked foes and has just two

starts—one his first outing with the Eagles—where he failed to make it to the seventh inning. He’s the staff ace and is keeping pace with some of the best individual seasons in program history. The last time BC made a postseason run—back in 2016—it did so on the strength of aces Justin Dunn and Stevens, who combined for a 2.31 ERA across 140 innings of work. With Pelio firmly solidifying his place in that category, the Eagles are halfway to forming a similarly dynamic duo. n

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EDITORIALS

QUOTE OF THE DAY

BC Should Have Assault Climate Survey, Annual Bystander Training The Massachusetts State Legislature is preparing to vote on Bill S.764 and Bill H.1208, two separate House and Senate bills relating to sexual violence on college campuses.

If passed, the bills would establish mandatory sexual assault climate surveys for universities and colleges in the state and mandate programs such as annual Bystander Intervention and that schools use a ‘preponderance of evidence’ standard when investigating cases of sexual violence. That standard is consistent with guidelines previously provided by the Obama administration. The Trump administration has revoked Obama-era guidelines and is preparing to give colleges the option to use the higher ‘clear and convincing’ standard. The ‘clear and convincing’ standard would make it more difficult to prosecute assault cases.

Boston College should implement most of the bills’ suggestions whether or not they are made law.

Bystander Intervention, a program that only requires freshman participation, should be mandated

for students during all four years of their education at BC. Extending the program would help reach additional students and ensure that students would be reminded of their capabilities and responsibility to intervene in an assault situation.

Additionally, a sexual assault climate survey should be conducted annually so that the University has a consistent understanding of attitudes toward sexual violence on campus. It is imperative and beneficial to have a survey of this kind separate from the Student Experience Survey. Sexual assault climate deserves its own survey so that the magnitude of the issue does not get lost among questions about Newton busses.Students are more likely to take a sexual assault climate survey seriously when it is given separately from a survey which touches on everything from intramural sports to bus availability.

The University should also make it abundantly clear which standard it plans to use when prosecuting cases, and give clear reasoning as to why it

chose that specific standard.

Sexual violence is unfortunately a pervasive issue on any college campus, and BC is not an exception.

The number of rapes reported to the BC Police Department went up from 27 in 2016 to 38 in 2017. Though this does not necessarily indicate an uptick of overall rapes, as only 20 percent of cases are reported, it does prove that sexual violence happens to BC students. Sexual violence is an extreme form of trauma that affects victims on a day-to-day basis. Panic attacks, depression, suicide, anxiety, sleep disorders, and flashbacks can all be present in victims as a result of the trauma. Half of female undergraduates who are assaulted will develop post-traumatic stress disorder for the rest of their lifetime.

The University should implement elements of the law, such as Bystander Intervention training all four years and a campus-wide sexual assault climate survey, whether or not the bills pass. It is BC’s responsibility to do all it can to protect its students from sexual violence.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

In Response to: “A Fifty Year Love Story: Jeff and Margaret Flagg” To the Editor, I’m just writing to thank you for publishing your piece about Profs. Jeff and Margaret Flagg in the Mar.ch 24 edition of The Heights. They have been so important to this school and to everyone here who has known them, and it’s going to be hard to imagine Boston College without them.

I first met the Flaggs four years ago as a freshman; I took a French course with them, and they were and are wonderful. The classroom was filled with great stories and jokes, lots of laughter, and (believe it or not) fun adventures with “Mireille and Robert,” two characters in the “French in Action” program.

It’s difficult to do justice to that class, but Jeff and Margaret gave it this sense of warmth and joy—real, genuine human interaction. Jeff called me and my classmates “our friends,” and we were friends—we all knew each other and cared about each other. For me, a kid who was new to college and who was still worried about finding friends and knowing people, it was the best thing that could have happened.

I’m going to miss that—and just stopping by and chatting with them as they tell a story about a fascinating person they’ve met and want to know how your day’s going. Both Jeff and Margaret love this school with their whole hearts, and they’ve given so much to it.

They deserve a wonderful retirement—though, knowing them, they have plans already made for it, probably ones that involve France! I know I’ve told them before, but I just want to say thank you to them both, so much. You’ve meant so much to me and to all of us who have been in your classes. Enjoy your retirement; you deserve it. We’re all going to miss you. À bientôt, professeurs! Merci beaucoup pour tout.

- Karl Salzmann, MCAS ’19

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THE HEIGHTS

THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2019

What Social Media Has Taught Me more light-hearted in the wake of social media, the principles are relatively still the same. A definition on Urban Dictionary said it best, “the urge to frantically know everything about a person by searching their Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and sometimes even Pinterest.” The lesson to be learned here: stalking is generally accepted and presumably okay.

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DANI THOMAS Whether you realized it or not, the last of the ’90s babies are in college at this very moment.

That’s right, people, the children of 2000 are “adults” now. That said, the next wave of college students at BC will be the heart of Generation Z. In my opinion, there should be a clear line through the middle of this generation because of the technological improvements made within these 17 generational years.

When you were in high school, you probably noticed that these kids had an Instagram account by the time they were 11 years old. By 13, they had more than 1,000 followers. Who are these juveniles? How could more than 1,000 people care to follow them?

When I was growing up (9-13 years old), phones did not have touch screens yet. The Firefly—a cell phone designed for kids— was the most popular and controversial device to give to an adolescent, even though it was just limited to calling Mommy, Daddy, and 911. Even when my parents decided to give me a phone, all there was to do was text and call … I know. How could anyone possibly build a relationship with just those two modes of communication? Popularity in elementary and middle school was not based on how many likes your latest photo had.

Popularity was based on how many friends you had in real, physical life.

Enough of what’s wrong with this current world. The following are things that social media has taught me as a user, observer, and a judge of humanity (the good, the bad, and the ugly).

1) Stalking is WAY easier than crime shows depict. Although the word “stalking” has become

“My final words on the subject: Be aware of what you post online.”

roommate about wanting to unfollow people that are irrelevant to your life now. We all know the repercussions of the drastic unfollowing. The need to know who in the world decided to unfollow you has become such a secretive demand that there are plenty of apps to tell you who the culprit is.

4)The art of passive-aggressive indirection has been mastered by this generation. The “suspicious” or “hinting” post to how someone is feeling allows people to be as vague as they please while contracting all the sympathy they can manage. There are a few types of these indirect posts. For example, on Twitter, someone that you know that is in a relationship might post cryptic lyrics to a breakup song, like “thank u, next.” He or she might be indicating that they are now single or that they are over their current relationship. Normally, people who post such indirect tweets try to get people’s attention or want a reaction from their friends. Another example is on Snapchat. Let’s say that someone posts a black screen with the words, “I hate everyone, people are so fake” and nothing else. Typically, we see this situation play out with multiple people replying back to the person’s story asking “What’s wrong?” or “Are you okay?” The vague posts like the previous two examples are very irritating because more than half the time, people who post these stories or tweets will respond to their friends with, “nothing is wrong” or “I just like the song.”

Social media has changed society in many ways, good and bad. Communication has been redefined by technology and the people who use it. My final words on the subject: Be aware of what you post online. It might be cliché, but there are a significant amount of people who forget this from time to time.

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There Is No Non-Toxic Masculinity NINA NADIRASHVILI GUEST COLUMNIST

When I agreed to take this column, I didn’t realize how conflicted I would feel while actually sitting down and writing it. I was also surprised at how much worrying I’ve done over the past few days about insulting or upsetting those who identify as men.

But then again, it’s not as though my words or opinions are final and, if at any point below you as a reader feel compelled to disagree with me, please do not hesitate to do so. More importantly, if you feel as though I have insulted you, maybe think about why. And if you come up with something more legitimate than “you sound like a man-hat2)Cyberbullying was only relevant in the ing gargoyle,” then go ahead and write a Letter to the Editor early 2010s. Social media as a whole took a gut where you prove me wrong. I am just another student trying check to the ego when the movie Cyberbully to figure things out, I can always be convinced to change my came out in 2011 and shined a light on offline mind. effects of online bullies. Since then, attention The question I have been mulling over this week is that has strayed away from people who are bullied of toxic masculinity and what masculinity in general means online. Even our President, in an ironic counter to me. Ultimately, I have come to the conclusion that all his wife’s “BE BEST” campaign, habitually bulmasculinity is toxic and since it’s also largely constructed, we lies a new victim every hour or so. Harassment should work toward discarding the term. online has become a custom in this society, so I say largely constructed because, to me, there is an there’s no need to fear legal action. The only innate desire in many among us to express ourselves in one possible action is a fine up to $2,500 (if you’re way or another. Stating that gender is a total and absolute in 14 specific states). But harassment related to construction with no connection to the body is something someone’s (just for people in grades K-12) race, I have become less and less comfortable with throughout color, nationality, sex, disability or religion is this year. This is because I believe terming gender as entirely where the government draws the line. constructed can leave us with bodies that are just empty ves3)The key to friendship is a follow and a sels instead of active and powerful participants in the ways like. Social media has taught me to question we live gendered lives. all friendships when the number of followers Dani Thomas is an op-ed columnist for The It’s also due to the fact that terming gender a complete is not equal to the number of likes on a post.

Heights. She can be reached at opinions@ construction can undermine the obvious desire for some of You’ve probably had conversations with your bcheights.com. us to live with one gender over another. By this, I mean to highlight the fact that for a portion of our society (those individuals who are transgender, gender non-binary, or genderqueer), there is an innate feeling of rightness with one type of gender expression over another. While we can argue that a cis-gendered female such as I only wants to express the way that I do because of societal conditioning or pressure, there is little of the same to be said about those individuals who actively choose to go against the societal grain.

Masculinity in itself is constructed as a zero-sum game where the winner is momentarily safe from harm (until another more masculine and hegemonic individual preys on him) and the loser is effeminized. This is the idea that masculinity, whether hegemonic or not, must pray on the weaker in order to exist. Think if your stereotypical high school flick: It’s Raining Men Actually Running the That Midday Lull After Drunk-Eating El Pelón The football jocks look down on lacrosse bros, the lacrosse (Again) Boston Marathon The Darty at Noon bros sneer at the theatre male leads, the male leads make fun It’s supposed to rain on You totally can. You go If you nap, you’re out Burritos. Guacamole. Other of the videography club members, and that club laughs at the Marathon Monday for up the Upper stairs two for the whole day. If you delicious things. A bathroom chess club that excludes gay and transgender students. None the second year in a row. at a time and you’re only stay up, you regret every in case you get “motion of them feel masculine enough, because ultimately no one is I guess this just means breathing a little hard. second until your evening sick” by watching the rundevoid of love, compassion, and desire for compromise. we’ll be hiding out in Just cut back a bit on Late pick-me-up. Day turns ners. Please remember to tip By that I mean to say that masculinity can only exist in a the Dunkin’, gorging on Night. And drinking. And into night, and night itself power dynamic with other genders—classically, femininity. the employees generously. donuts again.

One can not display feminine behavior and be rewarded by smoking. Come to think of becomes abstract. A dark this day. the masculinity police at the same moment. This is because it, better not. time indeed. constructions of gender are used in order to first differentiate qualities and then to put them in a hierarchy—demanding that one is better, stronger, braver, or more desirable than another.

This creation of a power pyramid is in itself a very masculine and toxic act, leaving little to debate about who—at the highest levels of society—ultimately enforces, shapes, and validates gender roles. It is the work of masculine men. ask a cashier for it. There is still so much that can still have the option to choose between plastic The qualities that differentiate masculinity from femibe done Students still have access to plastic straws. and metal utensils at the water fountains. A ninity are aggression (in contrast with care or pacifism), BC should get rid of all plastic straws by replacing much more effective method would be to give individualism (in contrast with collective action or thought), them with paper straws while keeping straws by students direct access only to the metal utensils and refusal to compromise. Mind you, I did not come up with the registers. This would decrease the number of and have the plastic utensils off to the side in these—men did. straws consumed but would also have better efthe ‘to-go’ section only. Without direct access To me, in all of these categories, femininity is a better fects on the environment when students do choose to plastic utensils, students are less likely to use model for a society that is attempting to achieve harmony, RACHEL BHEECHAM to use straws, as paper straws are biodegradable. them. McElroy should set up a similar station peace, and progress.

Boston College is all about sustainability. Or As mentioned above, BC has also introduced so that students have direct access to metal Some may argue that, for example, providing for one’s at least, that is the idea that it has been trying to reusable to-go containers at Stuart Dining Hall utensils and have to go to the entrance by CoRo family or being a protector is a good quality of masculine starting with the 2018-2019 school year. I’m going to get the plastic utensils and access the ‘to-go’ behavior. I would counter that, in masculinity, the role of a promote.

The City of Boston banned plastic bags on to assume that the initiative has sat well with the station. breadwinner is not as much about loving one’s family as it is Dec. 14, 2018 and BC quickly followed suit. BC student body, as I’ve heard neither positive nor For a school that does so much to enforce about holding the financial power within that family unit. If has also taken initiatives of its own like remov- negative things about it, and, no news is good sustainability, it does very little to actually masculinity cared about putting bread on the table, then men ing straws from the open in dining halls and news. It is, at least, a step in the right direction. I manifest these ideas. It seems to value saving would not be historically so uncomfortable with having their introducing reusable to-go containers at Stuart feel like, however, for every step forward BC takes money more than doing what is best for the en- wives work—a trend that we have yet to totally transcend as a Dining Hall. However, BC still has a long way to on sustainability, it also takes 10 steps back. vironment– which could be a possible reason as society. There are other examples such as these which I won’t go in terms of sustainability, as the only form of A few of those backward steps occurred during to why the University refuses to divest in fossil expand on here in fears of turning this column into a novel. cutlery available at McElroy is plastic and, even the two-week period when the University was fuels. BC’s official reasoning behind its decision By arguing that all masculinity is toxic, I do not—under though the student population voted in favor overtaken by Smartwater. The stands of Smartwa- not to divest is that it believes divesting is not a any circumstances—mean to say that you can’t dress in a suit of divesting from fossil fuels, the University ter were literally everywhere—no matter which solution to climate change. At the time of this and have a short haircut without being toxic. This jumble of remains opposed, stating that divestment is not direction you turned there would be a stand offer- article, UGBC was working to issue a follow-up words that I have gifted The Heights is not about clothing, a viable solution to climate change. As a school ing you Smartwater. There was even a Smartwater resolution to the referendum about divesting burliness, beards, or any other outward form of expression. It that prides itself on being a leading university, it demo in Lower. And then, one day, they were just from fossil fuels. is about internal qualities that we possess as humans. is disappointing to see BC take a backseat in the gone. I’m still confused about the relevance of BC Dining is a separate entity to the UniverAdditionally, I don’t believe that people who identify as fight against climate change. It is BC’s respon- bottled electrolyte water, as they just removed all sity itself, but it is still an integral component of men should stop doing so—we can actually take guidance sibility to acknowledge climate change and do traces of it after two weeks. Single-use plastic wa- BC overall. BC is a leading research university from transgender individuals in this case. In making a transieverything in its power to combat it. ter bottles are detrimental to the environment, as and it should conduct itself as such instead of tion from female to male, some transgender individuals may Removing plastic straws has been a huge it takes one plastic bottle 450 years to deteriorate. offering solutions that don’t provide a longalter their outward appearance without altering their personmovement recently. During the summer of Another backward step has to be the plastic term solution for the environment. Climate alities. Transgender men who actively honed their feminine 2018, Starbucks announced that it would stop utensils in McElroy. Last semester, it had both change is real, and it is the University’s respon- qualities do not have to trade them for aggression or violence carrying plastic straws at its stores in favor of a metal and plastic utensils available for use. Cursibility to become a leader in fighting one of after transitioning. new lid that allowed for people to drink directly rently, there are both plastic and metal utensils in the most pressing issues facing its students’ Do I think that after discarding masculinity we should from a cup, every business and its mother fol- both Lower and Addie’s. Students on this campus, generation. all become feminine? No. For one, that in itself is a toxic and especially the freshmen (the main population that lowed. BC Dining has moved all straws from restrictive notion, as femininity can be. It would also imply their original location by the cups and water McElroy serves), have no choice but to utilize Rachel Bheecham is an op-ed columnist for that there are only two ways of expressing gender. Instead, I fountains and instead placed them at the cashier plastic. At Lower, there is a “to-go” section with The Heights. She can be reached at opinions@ simply believe that we should examine the traits within ourstations. If a student wants a straw, they have to plastic utensils and Saran wrap. However, students bcheights.com. selves that we believe make us masculine and decide if they are worth keeping around.

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Arena Actualizes Freshman Dream, Marathons for Martin Richard

The CSOM student finds her inspiration for intense training from the 8-year-old victim of the bombing.

By Maeve Reilly Asst. Magazine Editor Most people who have completed a marathon will attest that around Mile 20, they hit a wall.

As the waves of runners in the Boston Marathon approach Mile 21, the final stretch of a monumental athletic feat, they too hit a wall—a swarm of Boston College students leaning against the barricades, shouting, clapping, whistling, willing the runners to reach the end.

During the 2015 Boston Marathon, as she stood with her peers and cheered along with them, Abby Arena, CSOM ’19, made a decision: by the end of her four years at BC, she would be on the other side of the barricade in a final push to the finish line.

She first started thinking about running the marathon as a freshman, but the idea lay dormant for the next two years, due to a busy sophomore schedule and the opportunity to travel abroad as a junior. Now, her dream of joining the mass of runners on Commonwealth Ave. is finally coming to fruition in her last semester at BC. “I knew it was something I wanted to do, she said. “I called my parents that day and I was like, ‘I’m going to run the marathon.’”

After she announced that she would be running the 2019 Boston Marathon, a family friend reached out and told Arena about the Martin Richard Foundation—founded in honor of Martin Richard, an 8-yearold who was killed during the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

When Arena’s friend, who was close with the Richard family, told her about the foundation’s mantra—to spread kindness and peace—Arena felt compelled to run for the team.

She also finds it important to run for a group that is so active in the Boston community.

The summer after her freshman year of high school—about four years before her first Marathon Monday— Arena drove through Beantown on a trip to Boston with her family.

Capitalizing on their time there, they decided to check out BC as a potential future college destination.

Though it was just a quick stop

along the way, Arena fell in love with the school after exploring the campus.

While some of her classmates struggled when it came to making a choice about schools, the decision to attend BC was a no-brainer for Arena.

“I went to my college counselor [in high school] and asked, ‘What do I need to do to get into BC?’ and I just did that,” she said.

Though she had an uncle that had attended the University, and her high school sent a couple students every year, Arena’s Arena’s affinity for BC was personal.

When Arena received her acceptance to BC, she sent in her deposit on the very same day.

The Martin Richard Foundation is not the first place that Arena has found a tight-knit community during her four years on campus.

Upon being admitted to BC, Arena was placed in the Carroll School of Management (CSOM) Honors Program. At the end of the summer, Arena and about 40 other incoming freshmen in the program arrived on BC’s campus a week before the rest of the Class of 2019. The week consisted of bonding activities, such as scavenger hunts, service outings, and speeches from CSOM Honors alumni.

Arena credits her smooth transition to BC to the Honors Program— while many freshmen experience a slightly tumultuous Welcome Week, Arena already had 40 people she knew well.

Arena grew up in an athletic family. Her parents encourages her to stay active as a kid, and her mom ran a marathon in Hartford, Conn., where Arena grew up.

While she had club lacrosse as a competitive outlet at BC, she found that having only two practices a week wasn’t allowing her to keep up with the rigorous sports schedule her high school lacrosse team gave her. She began to run more frequently to stay in shape.

Inf luenced by her mom, who was an avid runner, Arena began to find calming clarity in long-distance runs.

They soon became an outlet to alleviate any stress she was experi-

encing.

Having run a half marathon before, Arena never struggled to balance running with her day-to-day life, as she factored long-distance runs into her daily schedule.

But when it came to training for a full marathon, she found she’s had to be more mindful and calculating in her training.

“With this I’ve had to be a lot more intentional, saying, ‘This day I’m going to do this run, and I’m going to run this far,’” she said. “It didn’t work as well into my daily routine … it took up a lot more time.”

MR8, Arena’s team under the Martin Richard Foundation, made training fun for Arena and the other runners she practiced alongside.

One of her favorite elements of the training plan was the Saturday runs.

Saturday, runners from the charity would gather weekly to run together.

Everyone started together and then completed the remainder of the run at their own pace. Recently, MR8 completed its longest run yet—21 miles.

Running as a group has made the Saturday runs more enjoyable, said Arena.

Arena knew that she would find physical and emotional satisfaction in training for the marathon, but she didn’t expect the community that MR8 brought with it.

She described being at the kickoff event, surrounded by seasoned and new runners alike, and feeling excited.

Arena fully credits her charity group for enhancing her experience.

“It makes it so much more meaningful when you’re running down on a Saturday and you see someone else in their MR8 gear, and you give a wave or a smile.”

Although training can be a daunting task, Arena has discovered that, for the most part, it has only enhanced her senior spring experience.

Arena has been able to maintain her social life while still finding the joy in running for an hour every day.

Her roommates have been especially supportive of her training journey. Caroline Kopfler, MCAS ’19, met Arena their first day of freshman year.

They began their college careers living across from each other in Hardey and are ending it together in a Mod.

Kopfler, who has supported Arena throughout the process, says living with someone training for a marathon is crazy at times—she and her other roommates will wake up Saturday morning to Arena having just finished an 18-mile run.

“She’s always been a regimented person in general,” Kopfler said.

“When she said she was doing the marathon, it wasn’t shocking to me.

She really enjoys her training. It’s awesome to see her come back and be happy after a run.”

Arena has never been one to back down from a challenge. Growing up, Arena has developed a competitive and determined attitude. Her tenacity will help push her and those on her team to the finish line. Most important for Arena is achieving her individual fundraising goal of $7,500 for her charity and the people the Martin Richard Foundation supports.

“I think, especially in Boston, there’s so much emotion [surrounding the marathon],” she said. “Especially in running for Martin Richard’s foundation, that it makes it all the more special, to do it and complete it for such a strong mission.” n

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Arena’s mother was also an avid runner, often encouraging her to train and to find the calming clarity that running can offer.

‘The Adventures of Riley the Museum Dog’ To Hit Shelves Soon

By Isabel Fenoglio Assoc. Metro Editor Bostonians fell in love when the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) announced last January that Riley, a slobbery 12-week-old Weimaraner puppy with icy blue eyes, was joining the museum’s security force.

While Riley does not make up the stereotypical museum guard, he plays one of the most important roles in safeguarding MFA collections: sniffing.

As a volunteer for the conservation, protective services, and facilities departments, Riley sniffs for moths and other insects potentially hiding in current and incoming artwork.

A little more than a year after his hiring, and following extensive training, Riley is all grown up and now the star of the museum’s newest children’s book, The Adventures of Riley the Museum Dog. Released in collaboration with The Boston Globe, the book follows Riley

on a chase to catch Wiley, a tiny moth hungry for artwork. The story takes readers on a hunt through the galleries of the MFA, during which Riley and Wiley encounter 20 of the museum’s beloved pieces, ranging from Monet to Copley to Kahlo to Gauguin.

“We’re thrilled to collaborate with The Boston Globe on a delightful children’s book inspired by Riley, a beloved member of the Museum’s family,” said Katie Getchell, chief brand officer and deputy director of the MFA in an official statement. “This book is a fun way for us to introduce our collection to young readers, and we hope that it will inspire them and their parents to plan their own adventures at the MFA.” The idea for the book came soon after the Globe published a story and video about Riley when he joined MFA forces last January.

Food writer Devra First wrote the story, and Ryan Huddle, a design director for the Globe, provided the illustrations.

“The book idea came about as a fresh way to keep the story going and showcase the many narrative talents of the Globe newsroom,” said Janice Page, deputy managing editor for arts and newsroom innovation at The Boston Globe in an official statement.

“We’re delighted that the MFA is as excited about this project as we are.”

Visitors of all ages are invited to participate in a special celebration and book launch on April 17, where they will get the chance to see Riley in action and, if lucky, get their books stamped with his paw print.

Riley’s mom, Nicki Luongo, the MFA’s head of protective services, will lead Riley in a series of scenttraining demonstrations, followed by a meet and greet with the pup. First and Huddle will also be there to host a reading and sign books.

The celebration coincides with the MFA’s annual April Vacation Week, which runs from April 16 to April 19 and coincides with spring break for

Boston Public Schools.

The MFA offers free admission during this time with the hopes of attracting students and families on their days off.

In addition to Riley’s book release

party, drop in activities, including art making, family art walks, and interactive storytelling performances will take place throughout the week.

More information can be found on the museum’s website. n

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Riley, the titular museum dog, uses his sense of smell to search for insects in art.

Walsh Announces $3.48 Billion Budget for 2020 Fiscal Year

By Isabel Fenoglio Assoc. Metro Editor Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, BC ’09, announced his official budget proposal for fiscal year 2020 on Wednesday morning, which prioritizes investments in creating and sustaining future growth in the City of Boston and significantly increases funding toward education and housing, among other areas.

The $3.48 billion proposal raises total spending by 5 percent, and specifically increases investment spending in six major categories: early childhood education, affordable housing, climate preparedness,

addiction recovery services, public safety, and economic opportunity.

Walsh seeks to achieve these goals by combining short and long-term investments, and the budget supports the city’s long-term plan Imagine Boston 2030.

This is the first attempt in 50 years aimed at guiding inclusionary growth to boost quality of life and equity resilience in every neighborhood across the city.

“Boston’s budget sets forward a blueprint for the values that matter: creating opportunity, ensuring equity and working towards a better Boston for all residents,” Walsh said in an official statement.

Over the past six years, Boston has increased annual spending on public education at Boston Public Schools (BPS) and charter schools by over $300 million, and the FY20 budget allocates more funds than ever before to education.

The proposal allocates $15 million toward the “Quality Pre-K Fund,” a program that seeks to guarantee equitable access to free pre-kindergarten for all 4-year-olds living in Boston within five years.

Additional investments in education include free MBTA passes to all students in grades 7 through 12, $6 million in school-based investments, $2 million in funds to prevent schools

facing declining enrollments, and $2.5 million in new funds directed specifically to high-need students.

Walsh also seeks to ramp up efforts toward preserving and increasing access to affordable housing. Next year Boston will spend $125 million on housing, signifying a 45 percent increase in investment in City-funded housing efforts.

These efforts include investments toward the production of new housing preservation of existing affordable housing, and an expansion of the the Additional Dwelling Units program (ADUs) through which the city provides no-interest loans for income eligible homeowners.

To combat youth homelessness, $1 million in funds will be allocated to provide connections to employment, rental assistance, and supportive services for youth most at risk.

The budget now waits to be voted on by City Council sometime next month, and it runs from July 1 to June 30 each year.

“I’m proud our strong fiscal management will continue to allow us to invest in the future of our city, and growing our middle class,” Walsh said.

“By investing in our future, we’ll strengthen our city for all who live here, and for our future generations to come.” n

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‘Pet Sematary’ Declaws King’s Sinister Narrative

By Tim Healy For The Heights As I strolled into the theater for the new Pet Sematary reboot, the narrowed, yellow eyes of Church, the family cat from Stephen King’s famous 1983 novel, glared down at me from the movie poster displayed on the screen. Along with most of the audience, the couple sitting next to me debated the best moments from the 1989 film adaptation. A woman wearing cat ears combed the aisles, promoting the newest edition of Feline Magazine. As the lights dimmed, Church vanished, the cat lady took her seat, the couple dug their hands in popcorn, and the audience fell into an excited silence. The anticipation was present, but unfulfilled.

Directors Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer stay true to the general premise of King’s book, while also making their own changes to the story of Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke) and his family as they move to a small town in Maine. At the new house, they discover their friendly, old neighbor Jud Crandall (John Lithgow), who cautions them against entering the woods beyond the spooky backyard pet cemetery—the book and movie get their shared name from the misspelling on a sign marking the area “Pet Sematary.”

After Church is run over by one of the many monstrous semi-trailer trucks that storm down the road in front of the family’s home, Jud feels sympathy for Louis, who prepares to break the bad news to his

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younger daughter Ellie (Jeté Laurence). Disobeying his own warning, Jud takes Louis to the dangerous woods to bury Church in a second cemetery, an ancient Indian burial ground. From there, the film spirals downward into a cliché of horror tropes and jump scares, as the cemetery’s supernatural evil terrorizes the Creeds. Unfortunately, the events described above occupy the entire first half of the movie. Kolsch and Widmyer take their time setting up the heart of the story, introducing characters and their backstories, and overemphasizing the rules of the cemetery through expositional dialogue.

Our main hero throughout the flick is Louis Creed, but he is not much of a protagonist. On the surface, he’s a loving father who’ll do anything to save his children, but we never get to dig much deeper. Instead, a hefty chunk of the runtime focuses on his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and her traumatizing childhood spent caring for her sister’s disturbing spinal meningitis. We even learn about Jud’s dead wife. Although these two contribute to the plot, neither character plays the leading role. Filled with lots of blood and important messages regarding death, Pet Sematary sells itself as a horror movie in its trailers and advertisements.

Despite this, laughter more often filled the theater than did screaming.

The movie presents the strange occurrences that haunt the Creed family as ludicrous rather than horrifying. For example,

after Louis wakes from a dream where he walks barefoot through the woods and is warned of the cemetery by his dead patient, he swipes off his covers to reveal his muddy feet. What should have been a chilling display of the cemetery’s paranormal power was overshadowed by Louis’s over-the-top astonishment and the audience’s burst into laughter.

Despite its comical tendencies, Pet Sematary shows moments of genuine terror: When Dr. Creed bandages up the drastic wounds of a college student hit by a car, blood squirts everywhere and the boy’s pulsing brain pokes out the side of his torn open head before he dies. Ghastly and grim, the gore sets the perfect mood for when the dead student shoots up from his bed and warns Louis about the cemetery.

It takes a while for the main plotline to get going, and, in the meantime, we’re hit over the head with exposition about the cemetery’s guidelines as if it were a tutorial video.

The film, at times, frightens the audience, but feels more like a bloody B-movie than a high-budget interpretation of a beloved book from arguably one of the most highly regarded modern-day authors. Only marginally better than the not-so-great 1989 film adaptation, 2019’s remake would be best served buried in a regular cemetery—where it can’t resurrect and cause that cat lady any more pain. n

Khalid Prioritizes Vulnerability on ‘Free Spirit’

By Tonie Chase Heights Staff On April 1, Khalid retweeted a tweet from a fan account that informed followers that one of the artist’s first singles, “Location,” recently reached 700 million streams on Spotify—and this was no April Fool’s joke: Khalid is a bona fide pop powerhouse at the young age of 21. This is not the only impressive stat on his Spotify profile, however.

He pulls approximately 47 million listeners monthly, making him No. 4 in the world on Spotify charts. His momentum’s not slowing down anytime soon, from the looks of his recent release Free Spirit, the artist’s second LP. The album was released on Friday under RCA Records.

Of the 17 songs that are included in the album, four were previously released as singles leading up to the full-length project, including “Talk,” “My Bad,” “Self,” and “Don’t Pretend.” Beginning in early February, Khalid strategically teased Free Spirit with these singles. After waiting a month to release the first single, he dropped the following singles in closer succession, the last leading single coming just four days before the full length project.

Free Spirit features “Better,” a song also released on his fall 2018 EP, Suncity. For the most part, these singles seem consistent with the Khalid sound that fans love, which includes a more up-tempo rhythm and Khalid’s subtly soulful vocals. The contrast

has just enough balance so that listeners could dance around or chill if they wanted.

“Self” was the only single to hint at the theme for the album, which deals with mental health. In the chorus, Khalid admits, “Always had a little trouble with self-reflection.”

In a slight, albeit welcome, departure from his typical sound, this song does not have a guitar as the primary instrument.

The opening track, simply titled “Intro,” lays a foundation for the rest of the album.

While it deviates from regular song structure by omitting a set hook, essentially the same chords repeat for the entire song. These instrumentals lack heavy percussion but are rich in lingering electric harmonies, employing a feeling of flowing with the music.

It is clear that the feelings Khalid renders through this music are not just be a result of heartbreak.

The possibility that another factor influenced the feelings Khalid’s prefaces the album well. Most songs with an inspirational message tend to come across cliché, but the relatability and growth that transpires during “Hundred” easily makes the song one of the best on the album. In the chorus, Khalid sings, “’Cause the world keeps spinning, the sun won’t shine on my face / I’ma keep it moving, got a hundred things I gotta do today.” For the outro, Khalid slows down to sing, “Hundred days and I’m still alive.”

Even the clever lyrics toward the end of the song slowly uncover Khalid’s journey to becoming more resilient and dealing with

his mental health.

The link between honesty and freespiritedness is apparent while listening to the album. He confronts suicide in “Alive,” which is ironic given the track’s title. For people who do not actively deal with mental health issues, they become witnesses to Khalid’s story, whereas others who can relate may see themselves standing in the same shoes, looking through the same eyes. In “Bluffin,’” Khalid combines a classic country sound with contemporary R&B. Interestingly, he also periodically includes a noise resembling that of a short, single choke throughout the song, which is not the most pleasing sound.

Throughout the album, Khalid alternates

between talking to himself, a higher being, and a loved one. This narration has no particular pattern but truly becomes evident by the latter half of the album.

At times, Khalid’s soft vocals are overpowered by the bass-filled production, and it can be difficult to hear his words. This project strays from most mainstream R&B, which has become either slow, emotional heartbreak songs or a more hip-hop beat with a blend of singing and rapping.

Especially in an era where handfuls of artists reject vulnerability, it is relieving to see Khalid, a black male artist, being honest about his emotions. Khalid opens his heart and his mind to the world—not for pity, but for an ear and empathy. n

Copy Editor Young men wearing wolf costumes running through the forest chased by young women wearing red capes resembling Little Red Riding Hood costumes who pounce on the “wolves” and engage in implied sexual relations sounds like a fever dream, but that encapsulates what the second part of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina feels like.

On Friday, Netflix released part two of the first season of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, a Netflix Original loosely based on the ’90s show Sabrina the Teenage Witch and shares a showrunner with teen drama Riverdale.

The show follows Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka), a half-witch, half-mortal girl who must choose between her mortal life with friends at the normal high school or a life serving the Dark Lord, Satan (Luke

Cook). In the first part of the show, Sabrina chose to sign her soul over to Satan to protect her mortal friends and Baxter High, opting to attend the witch school—called the Academy of Unseen Arts—full time to better embrace her witch side and prevent entangling her mortal friends in danger.

Freshly broken up with Harvey (Ross Lynch), her mortal boyfriend from a witchhunting family, Sabrina finds a new love interest in Nick Scratch (Gavin Leatherwood), a dashing young warlock at the Academy of Unseen Arts. Meanwhile, Satan has become increasingly present in Sabrina’s life, and Sabrina is revealed to be his chosen prophet, much to the chagrin of Lilith (Michelle Gomez), who currently is in the form of Mary Wardwell, new principal of Baxter High.

Sabrina struggles to choose between good and evil, and her two lives as mortal and witch, as she must make difficult decisions in addition to surviving high school.

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The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is much more coherent than its sister show Riverdale, but Riverdale admittedly set the bar low. The second part of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina feels oddly disjointed and random, with the plot jumping from character to character while missing a coherent center story that pulls everything together. The first part of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina centered on Sabrina’s decision and culminated in Sabrina being forced to sign over her soul and thus submit herself to the witch side. The second part just doesn’t seem to have this sense of urgency.

Yes, the Dark Lord constantly badgers her to commit petty crimes (like steal a pack of gum … way to make tension, Satan) and makes vague statements about making her his prophet, but the audience doesn’t really feel the gravity of those statements.

There’s a lot of talk about whether Sabrina’s nature is inclined toward good or evil, and the implication is that her good side is mortal and her evil streak belongs to her witch side, but the witches have also been shown to have morals, which makes this whole morality thing doubly confusing. The witches already worship Satan, and if there are some good people there, what makes them so different from the humans? If they aren’t so different from humans, what makes the whole prophet of Satan thing so bad?

Aren’t they technically already worshipping Satan? What are the stakes here?

Additionally, because Sabrina is attending the Academy full-time, it’s harder for her to be there for her mortal friends.

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Early on in the promo run for the fourth Vampire Weekend album Father of the Bride, lead singer Ezra Koenig made it clear that the band was going in a much brighter direction than 2013’s Modern Vampires of the City. “After you make the black and white album cover with the songs about death,” Koenig said in a Rolling Stone interview in late January, “you can’t go deeper. This is the life-goeson record.”

The singles from the new album match up pretty well with Koening’s vision for the record: Songs like “Harmony Hall” and “Sunflower” are the kind of summery tracks that Modern Vampires was completely devoid of. “This Life,” a track which deals with both the difficulties of a tumultuous relationship, as well as the kind of existential questions that littered the band’s last album, is a perfect blend of the upbeat, more pop- and funk-infused direction of the band, as well as their willingness to analyze the eccentricities of life.

The band, progressing with every album, seems to have hit its stride—Vampire Weekend is able to develop the kind of song you could see yourself mindlessly listening to on the beach, all while seamlessly injecting potent lines like “Oh Christ am I good for nothing?” without taking away the bounce of the song. n

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friend, Susie, comes out as transgender and chooses his new name Theo. Theo tells his father by explaining that he doesn’t want to wear a dress to the dance but instead a suit, before proceeding to ask for a haircut.

While intriguing, that sequence seems so separate from the story of the protagonist, since Sabrina is never actually around her mortal friends anymore. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina has many feminist themes that would be uplifting and empowering if they weren’t so juvenilely executed—really, they feel like an after-school special. All the clichés are there—Sabrina runs for Top Boy at the Academy and positions on all of the boys’ clubs, except, of course, her love interest, Nick, tells her that she can’t do it.

Sabrina also doesn’t do well in the elections and must resort to cheating to pass the first witchcraft challenge.

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is perplexing at best. The visual aesthetics are beautiful, but, coupled with the confusing plot, it just feels self-important and snobby.

Much like its sister show Riverdale, after a relatively coherent first release with a somewhat coherent plot, the follow-up just falls into total chaos and becomes a mishmash of pretty things that don’t make sense. Also like Riverdale, the chaos brings a level of entertainment, almost like a car accident involving an intriguing driver (and an abundance of Satanic worship). Although it has not yet reached Riverdale levels of insanity, Sabrina is still on its inaugural season, so it has plenty of time to get there. Only time will tell how bad it will get, but we, despite knowing better, can’t look away. n

With summer right around the corner and the Jonas Brothers finally back together, fans can expect “Cool”—the second single from the recently reformed trio—to be gracing their stereos often in the coming months. The music video, released on April 5, depicts the Jonas Brothers throwing an old school beach party on the warm shores of Miami Beach.

“Cool” is full of homages to ’80s culture as well as references to their Disney days. Reminiscent of their “Burnin’ Up” music video, this video begins with the Jonas Brothers performing poolside for a group of older women at “bingo night.”

The boys, decked out in Miami Vice-like attire complete with matching shades, are the picture of suave as they perform for the admittedly rowdy audience.

The video pans out in a three-part act, with each of the brothers getting up to their own shenanigans. In one scene we see Nick strutting down a brightly lit Miami street trailed by an orange ferrari. Two lines of dancers flank him, all dressed in colorful outfits on par with the ’80s theme. Nick even takes the time to shamelessly advertise his fragrance in collaboration with John Varvatos, spraying a healthy dose all over himself before blowing a kiss to the camera. Another scene finds the brothers on the beach, Joe belting out the lyrics with a boombox hanging off his shoulder evocative of John Cusack in the classic ’80s film Say Anything. A third scene finds Kevin on a boardwalk, two vibrant parrots hanging atop each arm before cutting to a shot of the brothers winding down on a yacht at the end of the day.

The song itself shows potential to become a summer staple. “Cool” lacks a coherent storyline, but the Jonas Brothers seem to be having enough fun to make up for it. If there is any fault to be found in their latest music video, it’s that Kevin is severely underutilized. While it may be hard to give him a larger role, considering he acts mainly as the band’s lead guitarist, he deserves a part in the music video that is at least equal to that of Nick and Joe. Nonetheless, “Cool” serves up a fresh dosage of summer fun and assures fans that the Jonas Brothers are here to stay. n

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Francine Almeda, MCAS ’19, had never tried her hand at art before creating the I Was Never Afraid of the Woods exhibit, an incredibly aesthetically pleasing, interactive experience that requires the viewer to ponder their life and engage with the art. She dabbled in pre-med and architecture before finding her home in the philosophy department, a discipline that explains the philosophic touch of her introspective exhibit.

The exhibit itself is cool and mysterious upon entry—an unusual soundtrack plays in the background as viewers read instructions off cards and move from station to station. At the beginning of the maze-like exhibit, you are given a clear cup. Each station displays a poem, often about feelings of discouragement or overwhelming anxiety, next to a container of soil, sand, or rocks. Viewers are supposed to fill their cup with the material to represent how much they resonate with the feelings expressed in the poem. This tactile element—using your hands to feel the weight and texture of all the different materials—is a crucial aspect of the exhibit.

Each station represents a different stage of life—the first one evoked memories of childhood bullies, while others brought forth pressures and expectations parents place on their children when applying to colleges. The final station was the most dramatic, as

participants reach upward to break a small twig off a large branch hanging by a chain from the ceiling. Little slips of paper are provided so that viewers can record an affirmation or personal goal and hang it on their twig.

Minimalist floating shelves placed at the end of the exhibit house the dozens of mini trees participants have left. The end products look like earthy sand bottles, each with a little branch sticking out. Many of the papers are a reminder of individual growth, reading phrases such as “learn to be okay with the unknown” and “it will come in it’s own time.”

Almeda encouraged me to take a look at the messages scribbled onto the branches. They served as a clear reminder that everyone has personal struggles, many of which aren’t all that different from what other students are going through.

The finished product is a wall of introspection and solidarity. The wall is a work of art in itself—dozens of cups filled with various patterns of neutral, earthy materials stand beneath the huge branch hanging overhead.

It’s easy to see how a person with a background in philosophy was behind this exhibit. Almeda cites her major as one of the reasons she wanted to design something so experiential.

“It’s for the person who is here,” Almeda said of the intensely personal aspect of the exhibit.

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is able to become a part of the final product, allowing them to fully reflect on their journeys.

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feels forced,” Almeda said. “This isn’t prescribed reflection … it’s elevating pain and suffering, like a collective catharsis.” n

Arabic Culture Night Explores Tradition Through Art

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Friday night saw the gathering of University community members to celebrate Arab Students Association’s (ASA) annual Arabic Culture Night. Co-hosted by the Islamic Civilization and Societies program, the event showcased the

breadth of Arab culture across countries and media.

The event began with a reception complete with traditional Mediterranean food. A video introduced the ASA’s membership, filmed in the mockumentary style of The Office. The audience, which filled the Rat’s central aisle, received these preliminaries with enthusiasm.

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Arabic Culture Night featured dances, musical guests, and traditional fashion.

Two students opened the show with solo performances, heralding a night of exceptional musical acts from people of all ages. While most of the performers were undergraduates, instructors and older Boston College community members also took part.

Many of the show’s students are actively enrolled in Arabic classes at BC. Those in elementary classes delivered their acts’ introductions in Arabic, an impressive display that belied their short time studying the language. They showed off on the catwalk with traditional dress and on the dance floor with sword fighting. Other Arabic students read and translated poetry, including that of Kahlil Gibran, an early twentieth-century Lebanese writer and one of the world’s best-selling poets.

The Middle Eastern Ensemble performed three numbers and announced several upcoming events. Led by director and musicologist Ann Lucas, they started with a slow, percussive belly dance song that showcased its talented first-row violinist’s skills. Lucas herself is an accomplished flautist and had a solo section during the piece.

They followed up with “Ghannili Shway Shway,” originally sung by Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. The song, which they performed as a sing-along, has multiple possible translations for its title, including “sing to me a little” and “sing to me softly.” The sing-along chorus gave the crowd the chance to try their Arabic pronunciation and partake in the performance when the ensemble’s singer handed it to them.

He also taught the audience to ululate, mimicking the high-pitched trills

that cultures throughout the Arab world use for celebration. Although the crowd was hesitant to take to ululating at first, it eventually warmed to the practice.

Every applause thereafter was scattered with the sound, letting the audience participate in Arab culture even between performances.

The ensemble ended with “Misirlou,” a guitar song written by monumental rock and roll artist Dick Dale, who is well known for incorporating elements of Middle Eastern music into his innovative guitar riffs. Along with impressive qanun and saxophone solos, the song appealed to the audience’s sense of modern American music—the track was sampled in the 2005 Black Eyed Peas song “Pump It.” After it ended, Lucas announced the Middle Eastern Ensemble’s upcoming show, featuring music from Arab cinema and a new Middle Eastern dance course in the music department.

The night concluded with two highly anticipated dance numbers. The stompheavy dabke, a traditional Levantine line dance, brought audience members into its fold as its students wound their way around the stage. Finally, 18 BC students performed a complicated belly dance routine, complete with homemade costumes.

After the show wrapped up, Sary Baladi, the president of ASA and MCAS ’19, expressed her desire for students to take away new knowledge about the Arab world and its place at BC. “Our hope is for people to leave with a more open mind about what Arab culture is and its presence on BC’s campus in the form of students, faculty, and extracurriculars offered,” Baladi said. n

‘In Her Footsteps’ Walks Through Life of Courage

By Isabella Cavazzoni Copy Editor

Rana Abu Fraiha began the screening of her first film, In Her Footsteps, with a brief disclaimer. Before warning the small audience seated in Fulton 511 of the emotions that were sure to surface throughout the film, Abu Fraiha invited viewers into her home in Omer, Israel, where her mother laid in her bed sick with cancer.

“You’re about to get to know me really, really well,” Abu Fraiha said.

She pressed play, and the film immediately thrust the audience abroad into the desert Bedouin territory her father grew up in. Throngs of Bedouin women, clad in veils and dresses, approach Abu Fraiha as she arrives. There’s no music to accompany Abu Fraiha as she speaks to a local, one familiar with her now-deceased mother, Rodaina.

Abu Fraiha’s father is a Bedouin by birth—historically, Bedouin people are nomadic and Abu Fraiha described the discrimination her father faced as seemingly unfounded. In fact, Abu Fraiha’s mother had to convince her own parents to let her marry

Abu Fraiha’s father. That’s where In Her Footsteps begins—with vintage films of Rodaina’s wedding. The audience gets their first taste of the sassiness and tenacity of Rodaina that gives Abu Fraiha’s film its flavor.

Soon enough, Abu Fraiha’s camera travels into Rodaina’s home as she sits on her living room sofa waiting for her doctor to deliver much-needed morphine. Speaking in Hebrew, Rodaina laments the immense pain she’s in as her illness continues to take over her body. Still, as Abu Fraiha’s camera follows Rodaina’s painful journey to its ultimate end, she gives her dying mother a platform to speak on the injustices she’s faced as an Arab raising children in Tel Sheva and Omer, Israel—primarily Jewish towns.

In between shots of Rodaina’s firey spunk, as she zings back her children’s quips and the dreadful debilitation of cancer on a human body, the audience learns of the uphill battle of Rodaina’s life. During motherhood, Rodaina had to decide how to raise her Arabic children in a Jewish community. Ultimately, this culminated in deciding where Rodaina would be buried—in the Jewish cemetery of Omer or in

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her hometown of Jatt. As an Arab, Rodaina wasn’t permitted to be buried in Omer, even though it was the town she resided in until her death, leading to a funeral many of her children wouldn’t be able to attend.

Abu Fraiha’s film closed with her eulogy of her mother. Tears flowed while the screening room lights turned on. Abu Fraiha described the need to document her moth-

er’s cancer and inevitable death as a form of coping—both with her mother’s death and the prejudice Rodaina and Abu Fraiha herself experienced as Arabs in a Jewish town.

Instead of embracing their heritage, Rodaina and her family had to hide it—speaking Hebrew instead of Arabic, for example.

“In practice,” Abu Fraiha said. “There is no room to really be different.” n

I was in fifth grade when I bought my first vintage piece. I marched straight into school, certain that my sartorial savvy would wow my classmates. Instead, I ended up getting bullied at recess. It was a scene straight from a grim coming-of-age movie. “Nice dress!” a catty group of girls who had been harrassing me for weeks taunted, “You look like a grandma!”

I can now objectively confirm that the dress was terrible. An ’80s floral monstrocity, it hung off my bony frame, puffing awkwardly in the shoulders and ballooning out in the skirt. But back then, it was thrilling to escape the realm of Aéropostale and American Eagle for something a little more unique. Collecting vintage clothes allowed me to play dress up, exploring different styles and identities as I surfed through eras.

You might assume that this episode shamed my affinity for weird clothes out of me, but it only made me more determined to stand out. Fortunately, my taste got better as I got older, and throughout high school I amassed a sizeable collection of vintage pieces, from 1960s mod sundresses to a giant military surplus parka.

As a shy kid whose chest pounded just from answering a question in front of the class, it was a way for me to express my individuality on my own terms, as well as a common interest that fostered friendship.

Only recently, however, did I realize how impactful the simple decision to buy used instead of new clothing can be. The fashion industry has a host of environmental and ethical issues surrounding it. Just think of the garment factory that collapsed in Bangladesh in 2013, killing 1,134 people, or the 80 pounds of clothing that the average American throws away every year. And it’s not just fast fashion retailers like H&M that are taking the heat for producing their products unethically— luxury brands have also come under fire for using forced labor. Prada, for example, scored nine out of 100 on a scale ranking companies on their efforts to eliminate forced labor from their supply chains.

With this in mind, it’s nearly impossible to determine which brands we can shop from with a clear conscience. But, even with that knowledge, buying new clothes—period—is detrimental to the environment. The only way to truly opt out of this dangerous system of consumerism is to buy pre-owned clothing. The fashion industry aims, above all else, to make money. Fair enough. What isn’t fair is the way that it goes about this: by increasing the number of fashion seasons by an absurd amount (there are now an estimated 52 micro-seasons a year) and producing poorly-made clothing to ensure that people’s closets will have a high turnover rate. The result is that consumers are buying increasingly more clothing, more often, just to keep up.

The clear escape from this endless, frantic cycle is to buy vintage. It drives me crazy when people complain about how everything was better in the good old days, but in this case it’s true: Older clothing is better made. I can personally attest to its sturdiness and fine craftsmanship, especially considering the fact that some vintage pieces have survived as long as 100 years without falling apart.

There’s a much smaller environmental cost to buying vintage than there is to buying new clothing, plus time-tested silhouettes are pretty much guaranteed to never go out of style. Forget that weird cold-shoulder top that you’ll hate in a month—this little black dress will last you a lifetime. Although you’ll find that vintage clothes can be a tad more expensive than fast fashion, the difference in their lifespans will make up for the extra cash you’ll spend on vintage pieces. Think of it as an investment.

At a time when society is finally beginning to come to terms with the destruction we’ve wreaked on the planet, trying to make a difference on an individual level can feel futile. You may not single-handedly save the earth by doing so, but a small step in the right direction is progress nonetheless. After all, if my awkward fifthgrade self could do it, so can you. Do your conscience—and your wallet—a favor and buy vintage.

Jillian Ran is the asst. arts editor for The Heights. She can be reached at arts@ bcheights.com.

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They considered Anchors Away.

Perhaps Bananas in the Backseat. Maybe even Drifter Dan and the Wham Bam Band. Finally, 45 minutes before they had to declare their set to Arts Council for the Music Guild’s Winter Band Showcase, Peter Toronto, Dan Pflueger, Madeleine McCullough, and Alex Eichler, all MCAS ’20, settled on Word on the Street.

Word on the Street is the latest Boston College band to spring up, but its members are no strangers to BC’s music scene. McCullough and Eichler are part of the a cappella group Common Tones; Pflueger, Toronto, and Eichler are all members of Music Guild; and Eichler and Pflueger are involved with the jam session club Jammin’ Toast. Toronto lends his talents to the 10:15 mass, while McCullough sings in the University Chorale. In addition, Eichler, Pflueger, and Toronto were all previously members of other on-campus bands.

With all four so heavily involved in the music community, it was only a matter of time before they became friends. It took longer, though, before they decided to form their own band. The idea originated from Toronto and Pflueger, who have been playing music together since their sophomore year of high school. The musicians, both of whom play guitar, enlisted two additional members in the fall, but Toronto and Pflueger couldn’t agree on the direction they wanted to take the group and disbanded. This semester, Eichler and McCullough joined the fledgling band as drummer and bassist, respectively. Toronto, Pflueger, and McCullough all serve as vocalists.

“The way that they phrased it was ‘Oh, you should come and jam with us,’ and I walked in the door and they said ‘We have two original songs and we’re working on a third and we’re probably going to perform for the Music Guild showcase in a week and a half,’ and I was like ‘That’s a shockingly short amount of time!’” McCullough said, laughing at the fond memory.

Despite the impending deadline, the members found that their easy-going relationship as friends translated to a fruitful chemistry as musicians. Although Pflueger and Toronto wrote the band’s first two songs, “Vega” and “Wait Until Sunrise,” the four quickly transitioned to a collaborative songwriting process that involves experimentation and fine-tuning, a sort of jam session approach.

“Everybody in this group is a really good listener,” Pflueger said. “I’ve been in many groups where that’s not the case, and that’s where you lose that kind of energy and capacity to interact and connect with people—when you’re not listening.”

All members agree that melody takes priority over lyrics. When crafting a song, Word on the Street typically begins with a short musical phrase, or “lick.” The members build the chord structure around the lick, and then come up with the lyrics as a group. Other times, though, one member will introduce a lyrical idea and the others will construct the song around it. The

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band credits the diversity of members’ music tastes and their openness to new ideas as the source of its creativity.

“Nine times out of 10 if you’re doing it individually you end up writing the same song like four times over any time you try, because the structure will stay the same,” Toronto said. “You’re predisposed to choosing whatever chord changes, and so having that sound board to bounce off of when you’re in a band makes all the difference in creating a product that sounds different and sounds interesting and people want to listen to.”

The band currently has four original songs in its repertoire, with two more in

every night through the Music Guild.

As Eichler, Toronto, and Pflueger will be co-presidents and vice president, respectively, of Music Guild next year, they’ve made it their mission to introduce another practice space for BC bands.

The recently purchased property at 300 Hammond Pond Parkway is currently being used as a rehearsal space for dance groups, and they hope to extend its use to musicians as well. Word on the Street has begun to test run the new space, and it’s Music Guild’s goal to officially introduce it to other bands by next year, as well as organize bus routes to and from the property.

Coldplay, Mister Wives, and Tedeschi Trucks Band as influences. Rather than consciously aiming for a certain genre, the band prefers to let songs develop organically, focusing its energy on forging a strong connection with the audience.

“That idea of engaging with the audience, being performative, having a good time with the music that you’re playing has always been something that’s important to me,” McCullough said.

“I think that’s the fun of live music—getting as many people involved as possible,” Eichler said.

In many of its songs, Word on the Street incorporates sections where the

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the works. It hopes to record its music sometime in the future, but as of right now, all four members can’t make room in their busy schedules due to their numerous commitments to other music clubs and ensembles.

The band initially rehearsed in Carney 205 A, virtually the only meeting place for on-campus bands. But the room is only available from 9 p.m. to midnight on weekdays, and it’s booked almost

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“The ultimate goal is to foster more bands,” Eichler said. “Because now this is the fourth band I’ve played in and that’s been my BC life, and I want other people to have that experience.”

Word on the Street describes its sound as indie-rock with elements of pop, jazz, and blues, and cites bands like

band members encourage audience members to clap or sing along. In addition to audience participation, Word on the Street places high value on creating an atmosphere that naturally draws the audience in.

“When you’re in a band that doesn’t have that same kind of energy and camaraderie through it, it’s harder to engage with the people who are listening to your music if you’re not really engaged with

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the music yourself,” Toronto said.

That confidence comes from the band’s friendship, as well as the members’ years of performance experience and trust in one another’s abilities. They’ve known each other for long enough that going onstage doesn’t induce the kind of stress that it would for most people.

Despite having only two performances under its belt—one at Music Guild’s Winter Band Showcase in February, the other at the first round of Battle of the Bands—Word on the Street has quickly found its groove.

The band only had time for one two-hour rehearsal between the Winter Showcase and Battle of the Bands, yet at the latter show it pulled off a slick performance that, true to its word, emphasized audience participation.

The band was one of the three groups chosen to progress to the next round of Battle of the Bands on the Arts Fest stage, set for April 25. The final winner will open for the headliner at Modstock in May. When asked if they were surprised that they were one of the three finalists chosen from the first round of Battle of the Bands, all four responded in the negative.

“It goes back to the trust that I have in these guys to perform their best on stage, and I think when we walked off of that stage finishing our set at the first round of Battle of the Bands, I wasn’t confident that we would make it through, but I was very proud of what we had put out there,” Toronto said.

On-campus bands at BC are closely linked. The members of Word on the Street are good friends with fellow finalists Unit One and Shady Lady, and Eichler was previously the drummer for the latter. Pflueger even performed with another competitor at Battle of the Bands, the jazz fusion band K.C.Q. A byproduct of this camaraderie, the Battle of the Bands is less of a fierce competition than simply another opportunity for Word on the Street to perform and, hopefully in the process, get the chance to open at Modstock. “[Winning Battle of the Bands] would be really confirming of the value that I place in this group,” Pflueger said. “It’s not a make or break thing, and there are a bunch of great bands who could totally deserve to win, but if we were to win, it would just be confirming that this is the right thing that we’re doing right now.”

In terms of musical experience, Word on the Street has had less exposure and time to cement its sound than its two Battle of the Bands competitors. Unit One released its debut album in February, and Shady Lady has also put out music on streaming services in recent months.

Last year, Shady Lady won Battle of the Bands and performed at Modstock after less than a semester of playing together.

This year, Word on the Street is gunning for the same outcome.

“If we don’t win I’m going to be happy for Unit One or Shady Lady because they’re our really good friends ...” Eichler began.

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Sr. Wilhelmina Fahey Speaks Out On Races Raft Offers University Pre sident Sr. Wilhelmina Fahey spoke out on race last week after repeated pressure from students at Boston College to do so.

She offered nuanced thoughts, citing the need for the community to come together and celebrate the races at Boston College. She noted that, contrary to popular belief, she respects all races, although she does have a clear favorite. “I do love all races,� Fahey said. “I

don’t know where all this hate about me not respecting other races is coming from, but it’s untrue. I think my favorite race is probably the Boston Marathon, though, and I’m stoked for Marathon Monday. I can’t wait to wake up at 4 a.m., do some tequilla body shots, and head down to Club Kirk and celebrate how lucky we are to have races on campus.�

Fahey added that he understands that certain races have felt margin-

alized on campus in recent years, particularly the Head of the Charles. “In light of recent events, I want to say that I fully condemn all forms of race hate, and I fully support the Head of the Charles. I want members of the rowing community to know that I fully support them in these difficult times, and University Counseling Services will be available for students in need. Additionally, we w ill b e instituting an online

race-training module next year, with tips including shaving your legs and loading up on carbs before a big race. “That said, I can’t wait to come out on Marathon Monday, do some sick keg stands, and go absolutely f—king nuts as the runners come flying down Comm. Ave.�

When pressed about recent racist events on campus, though, Fahey declined to comment and quietly skulked away to his office. n

A$AP Ferg Announced as 2019 Modstock Artist Kanye West has been named as this year’s Modstock headliner. The rapper, who appeared on Saturday Night Pre-Recorded for West Coasters dressed as a Perrier bottle in Sept., confirmed his plans to perform the mod lot concert by tweeting a picture of maroon Sleezy hats with the words “Make Boston College Great Again.�

CoRo sophomore boys quickly showed their support for Campus Activities Board (CAB)’s pick by putting “MBCGA� in their Instagram bios, many

of which also include the initials of their all boys Catholic high schools and the girlfriends from home that they routinely cheat on at mod parties before revealing that they are CoRo sophomores.

Last year, many criticized CAB’s decision to bring B.o.B. to campus for the event, due to the fact that some of his tracks have antisemitic references. The administration responded by promising they had made the approval process more thorough for future

years. University Spokesman and minor Hotlight character Mac Bunn stated in an AIM interview with The Depths that this year’s performer has values that are much more in line with those of BC. “Mr. West has very publicly supported President Donald Trump in the past election,� Bunn said. “A lot of wealthy BC donors also like President Trump—The Schiller Institute isn’t going to pay for itself. And East is pretty diverse if you know what I mean (wink

wink). It was a no brainer.�

CAB referenced the affordability of the artist in a Twitter direct message to The Depths. “As soon as West started to tweet about how broke he was, we knew he was the right choice for Modstock,� the CAB account said. “He even cut us a deal because we OKed his request to dress as a holy water bottle on stage.

When we saw the discount, we said, ‘Thank you Kanye, very cool!’ and the rest was history.� n

Martyr Blocked by BC ResLife A lanky redhead lifts his backward “Boston College Superfan� cap and runs his hands through his luscious curls, which sit unwashed for four days atop his strained noggin. He sits alone in his double on the first floor of Hardey, his neon lights flashing for not a roomful of eager freshmen during Welcome Week, but for himself.

This was the scene for Ta n n e r G a r r e d y , MCAS ’22, on the last night of room selection, after getting his pick time for his traditional-style housing after failing to secure a pick time at all for the previous three days of sophomore housing selection. Unfortunately for Garredy, his pick time was at 8:15 p.m., the tail end of the process, all but guaranteeing him housing on College Road. “I was pretty perturbed,� said Garredy, who is an economics major but claims he might as well be in CSOM. “I mean, how are they going

to screw me out of this, too?

First Newton, now CoRo— what if me and the boys don’t get a KICKIN’ HOUSE for junior year?�

He said he then checked his phone and discovered that he still had mobile notifications for BC Residential Life (ResLife) on Twitter enabled, and they had just tweeted that all rooms in 66 Commonwealth Ave. had been filled.

Garredy figured he had nothing to lose and decided to attack the source of his unhappiness, sure in his mind that the social media intern running the ResLife account had everything to do with his randomly selected pick time. “If we’re a atholic schhool [sic] how tf are you going to premaritally bone me this hard @BC_ResLife,� one tweet read.

In a response to a plucky gif celebrating the finish of housing selection, Garredy responded in a quick reply “@BC_ResLife brb setting up a collage in my room in greycliff featuring all the ways you [redacted] like a pig and [redacted] holding a [redacted] [redacted] bernie sanders [redacted] [redacted] in my [redacted].�

The cowards behind the

account blocked Garredy, who then resigned himself to his fate in the form of his Williams double. “ L o w ke y, C o R o i s th e spot,� he said. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single bad thing happen in any of these dorms. They remain a shining example of the integrity, compassion, and respect that BC strives to instill in its students.� n

Alternative For Tuiton Payment Bribery but make it different

Boston College has finally come up with a five-finger discount (Stephen Raft will say it’s 10, but sources close to the Old England Patriots owner confirmed that five will do). Rather than issue a universal cost of tuition for the 2019-20 school year, BC has opted to send out a survey to all returning and recently admitted students that asks them to estimate the absolute minimum amount of money they would have to be paid for three minutes in the “front bay� with Raft.

Boys born in Massachusetts and Connecticut with names of Matt or Mike are expected to pay next to nothing to attend BC in the fall semester. “Stephen Raft will not always be the party in question in coming [sic] years,� University Spokesman Mac Bunn said in an email to The Depths. “In future years, we expect to replace Raft with other prominent figures in the BC community.�

Bunn suggested that Bill Cosby, Morrissey, and Real Human Being Kellyanne Conway are all probable replacements for the Macaroni Man in future academic sessions.

Although a side door will not be offered for this upcoming school year, a back door option will be made available to class of 2023 applicants on the waiting list. Only applicants with an ACT score above 32 and access to vegan, gluten-free lubricants will be notified of this option.

S ome University community members have expressed concern over the types of students this policy will attract to apply for admission, stating that such a policy would favor non-virgins. “Most of my freshmen come in as at most half-virgins,� a slick Courage to Know professor said, citing the number of times male students stare at their crotch during the hour-and15-minute classes. “They’re obviously looking at their ill-timed erections.

What else could possibly be down there?�

The new tuition payment process is expected to materially change the ratio of virgin to non-virgin students, and as a result jeopardize one of the longest standing BC traditions, students losing their virginity in their occupied Fitz 4 Quads. Wait, let’s linger on that for a minute. Losing their virginity while ALL the other roommates are present, awake, and not even doing a good job pretending to be asleep. Come on, Brad.

Because of the University’s policies regarding sexual intercourse, all payments are scheduled to take place in the bathroom of the Cleveland Circle Dunkin Donuts.

At press time, Raft did not respond to The Depths’ request for comment. n

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On Friday, my friend Ethan from PULSE, is hosting a pregame in his 8 man in Walsh.

He said anyone can come, but we have to bring girls. ;).

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On Monday, UGBC is holding a ceremony to celebrate the passing of a motion to end debate on setting the time for their next meeting. Location TBD with a resoltion to be debated Tuesday.

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On Wedenesday, there will be a university wide dinner at Stuart Dining hall at 6:15. All other dining halls will be closed. #packthebus

NEWS Williams Hall Braces for Future Controversy BRIEFS Quesadilla Core The Boston College Office of Core Curriculum announced a new path for students to fulfill their cultural diversity credit: eating at campus favorite El Pelon. After eight visits in a semester—only four of which can be take-out— students will earn their requisite three credits.

All students who opt to take this option will be given a small punch card to track their purchases. Those who complete their card will also receive a free burrito.

“A central part of a liberal arts education is understanding the point of view of others who encounter the world in significantly different ways,” said Ryan Bureau, associate dean for the core. “We realized that, while our core offerings were diverse in some ways—did you know we have three professors from Kansas?—students really wanted something more.”

Bureau also explained that many students weren’t realizing that they hadn’t completed their cultural diversity core until right before graduation.

“I had actually heard something along those lines, but I assumed I had completed it,” Caitlin McLaney, MCAS ’19, said. “My freshman year roommate was an international student, why doesn’t that count?”

Beyond this expansion across Commonwealth Ave., BC will also add courses such as “There Are Other Religions(?)” and “Modern Ireland.”

If You’re Not Reading This, It’s Not Too Late

Raft to BoT, UGBC sez The Undergraduate Government of Boston College released a statement Tuesday calling for the University to reinstate Stephen Raft to the Board of Trustees. Raft, the owner of the New England Patriots, was charged on two counts of soliciting prostitution earlier this year.

Raft served on the Board of Trustees from 2003 to 2007 and is currently a “Trustee Associate,” an honorific title that marks past service on the Board. After being informed by the administration that Raft has no ongoing ties to the Board of Trustees, UGBC changed its tactics.

“We need to return Stephen Raft to the Board of Trustees,” the statement said. “This is the only way to strip him of the honorific title and serves to clarify the exact nature of his ties to BC.” UGBC, invoking BC ’s Jesuit values and mission statement, opposes Raft, due to his ties to human trafficking—the massage parlor he frequented was discovered by law enforcement as part of a larger investigation.

As the spring semester draws to a close, future residents of Williams Hall have begun bracing themselves for a shocking conundrum in the fall.

Many students expect an event similar to that time they tore down the Meatball stand on Lower. But like, this time, what if it was on Upper?

“It’s like the Chinese zodiac calendar,” Colleen Fee, Lynch ’22, said.

“Roncalli was two [academic] years ago, Welch was last year, Williams

is just due!”

While some have accepted the plethora of white Chad’s of the Boston College student body as a matter of historical determinism, others plan to take preventative measures.

S e veral student s have b e en studying recent trends in on-campus Chads and pinpointed several “Chad hotspots”—weekends where prejudice is more likely to bubble up and create several weeks of “I’m not like other Chads.”

Future Williams residents aren’t the only ones getting ready, either.

The Undergraduate Government of BC has also begun preparing a brand-new resolution, which one member of the Student Assembly (SA) described as “a few neat twists with all the same beats as the classics.”

Insiders also claim University President Willhemia P. Feahy, S.J. has gotten an early start on practicing her stoic silence in case the incident occurs ahead of schedule. n

BC Honors Raft With Satellite Campus Even though Boston College attendees are urged to be “men and women for others,” Office of Residential Life employees are more fond of the “men and women for honors and full-paying students only” philosophy. Most of the Class of 2020 transfers, who are now rising seniors, have been declined on-campus housing—even those with doctor’s notes, demonstrated financial need, and blood sacrifices.

BC ResLife denied the students on-campus housing based on previous internship experience, mass attendance record, Instagram follower count, caliber of Jesuit prep school attended, virginity, and whether they own AirPods.

The satellite campus is near the Massachusetts-Connecticut border and will be built in the name of BC board chairman Stephen Raft in

hopes that his grandchildren will be accepted to the Carroll School of Management. While the Catholic Church has no opinion on Raft’s recent prostitution charges, it definitely stands firmly against cheating on the SAT. This means funding the new campus will be key to his grandchildren’s acceptance.

ResLife reminded students that the Raft Campus won’t be too different from on-campus housing: living spaces will still lack air conditioning, windows, and sound insulation.

Penthouse boxes will even include a faulty and loud radiator that clangs violently at 3 a.m., just like students are used to. The new housing development will also feature the “temporary” nature students have come to know and love, as the highly sought-after Mods residential area was guaranteed to be torn down

nearly 69 years ago.

The housing development will be built using only recyclable materials in accordance with the BC Green Initiative. 90 percent of the complex will be made from the remainders of cardboard Natural Light boxes found in the dumpster behind the Mods, with the occasional Keystone Light or even Franzia thrown in the mix for aesthetic purposes. Not only will the new residential buildings house 200 seniors in a 75 person maximum occupancy zone, they will also feature common rooms to house future overflow students.

These common rooms are complete with one decades-old, mysteriously-stained couch and a single wooden chair. On the upside, their view of the huge pile of melting snow in the parking lot far surpasses that of any other living accomodations. n

From the Depths Editorial Board to BC: It’s Your Fault That the Power Went Out On Tuesday, March 26, a local power surge damaged some of the power infrastructure at St. Clement’s Hall.

This building, a data center that houses over 2,000 servers which serve both academic, administrative, and eduroam functions, is located on Foster St., a fact that we at The Depths know and you don’t because we’re all smarter than you.

As a consequence of the ensuing power outage, Boston College’s digital infrastructure faltered. The main BC website, University email accounts, academic services (most notably Canvas), and WiFi coverage all shut down.

It wasn’t until Tuesday afternoon that power systems came back online and even later that important services returned.

While the easy route out would

be to admit our lack of understanding regarding the software and hardware that make our lives at BC bearable, The Depths Editorial Board has never been one for the easy route.

It is imperative for the student body and administration to shoulder blame equally after this complete and utter accident.

Both sides of this matter should strive to better in order to match their own rhetoric and create actual change at BC (a thing that happens all the time).

Students seem to have forgotten or moved on from the late 19th century, when everyone was clamoring for electricity to be invented.

Additionally, the calls for “WiFi” and email services reflect an embarrassing overreliance on the services, rather than an inherent

failure on the University’s part, as the complaints implied it was.

If the BC community wants actual change, it must show up and pour the fossil fuels that power everything and everyone on campus into the University’s backup generator.

Students should not simply stand by and watch. Showing up only when the power goes out suggests a lack of commitment—students and administrators should be voicing appreciation for electricity before a crisis hits the campus.

For now, students could try using email, Canvas, or the internet less in their daily lives.

Some groups on campus (The Depths) can serve as role models for the digitally too-literate—did you know we still make actual newspapers?

POLICE BLOTTER: 4/7/19- 4/11/19 Tuesday, April 9 8:04 p.m. - A report was filed regarding seizures due to nicotine withdrawl. The student reported losing his juul.

Wednsday, April 10 12:44 a.m. - A report was filed regarding a break in on Foster street. Tentants

reported leaving their door open, so I guess it doesn’t count. Among the stolen goods includes a rack of Natural Light beer, an inflatable doll, a broken folding table, and a jar of mayonnaise.

12:24 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a protest. Jesus Christ rose again to complain about unlicenced usage of his personal image on campus.

5:01 p.m. - A report was filed regarding chicken cooked to the proper done-ness at Lower Live dining hall. Report was filed due to unprecedented circumstaces.

6:22 p.m. - A report was filed regarding a dispute over ‘who puked on the radiator.’

—Source: The Boston College Satire Department

HeightsHaikus Featuring: Archer

“Haikus are poems.

But sometimes, they don’t make sense.

Hand sanitizer.”

Archer, we hurtle toward the sweet release of death together. Shhhh ... DJ

Read Archer’s columns.

He put Niles from ‘Frasier’ in.

He writes funny stuff.

Haikus can be hard.

It’s about Archer Parquette.

You’re welcome - Jacob.

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SOMETHING TO SHARE? EMAIL, EMAIL, EMAIL PLZZZ Do you wonder whether or not circles are pushing the cisheteronormative agenda?

Do you think this is newsworthy? Email Cole Dady at news@bcheights.com with a picture of your pants - he’ll tell you if they’re tight enough (they’re not).

Wanna go to MA’s? Bc shes 21, very cool Wearing existential dread like a suit of armour, Kaylie Ramierz, Arts Editor would be happy to tell you the reasons rock is dead and will never die.

Know something spicy about the University?

A glorified layout editor Jacob spends more time writing for other publications than this one. If you have any questions, or ideas-mayhaps- email him @ investigative@bcheights.com

Ever wondered what a beefed up sailor looks like?

Well, even if you haven’t, DJ’s still around.

He also has a finsta. for real. it’s exactly what you think.

Did we mess up? Yeah, probably.

The Depths only comes out once a year, so we won’t run the correction for a while.

Either way, you can direct your complaints to The Depths Deep State, Michael Sullivan and Ryan Heffernan. SEE: Mod 36B, Mac 11-something.

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Delivery If for some strange reason you still want print delivered to your home each week, still contact Avita Anand, previous General Manager at gm@bcheights.com.

She doesn’t “generally manage” things anymore now that she’s finding herself in Barcelona.

“Heyyy, do you have an ad for me?”

Please? Contact Kristen Bahr &c. at (617) 552-2220 monday through friday so content editors can continue to under-budget and still get away with it.

The Depths is produced by overworked meddling BC undergraduates who eat far too many Burrito Bowls and listen to a ~lot~ of Elton John, published on (or around) April 1 during the academic year by The Depths (c) 2019. No rights reserved.

DISCLAIMER Pages A17-20 of this April 11 edition are humorous, fictional portrayals of campus life, written in the spirit of April Fool’s Day. Names of “sources” in articles have been changed to maintain ambiguity and humor.

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SPORTY BOI LIKES THE PLAID STUFF

BLANKETS ARE MORE THAN FOR WARM

Do you cuff your jeans? Dress like a J. Crew mannequin? Well, I do. When I’m not drinking whiskey from one of the three mugs I’ve stolen from iHop, you can find me, an intellectual, pursuing my masters degree in English, as a true intellectual. I invite you to burn the midnight oil (and chocolate chip cookie scented soy wax candles) with me on Sunday nights in an undisclosed, highly flammable location without cell reception. Send resume and writing samples to formerfuturevegan@jcrew.com.

Ladies, do you ever pine for the careless summers of your youth? When you and your husband are at your Hamptons house, do you find your eyes drifting to the pool boy with the floppy hair? If you are under 45, you can stop reading now. Have you ever dreamed about a rendezvous with an fisherman with a misspelled yet well-intentioned business card? I’m up for short trips to The Dark Side of the Moon Telex me: fishinforlove@esquire.biz

But what about you, are you looking for someone to cozy up to on this Passover? Do you like bookstores on Newbury or Jewish delis the world over, but like, only on the East Coast? I’m your guy. Check out my now-defunct tinder profile for a sexy pic of me smoking a cigar that I most definitely didn’t light myself. Do you like a guy in power? Well, I flew on the 737 Max 8 a week before the ~issue~. So that’s gotta mean sometihng. AIM me: nyyanks97@comcast.net

Do you not eat food? When you do, does it generally come in the beige tone? Are poorly cut toasted bagels your sole form of sustenance? Join our support group for young men who do not conform to society’s standard of the “ideal male” with healthy eating patterns. You can find us in the Ratt at any time of day, just look for the ragtag group of lanky, flannel-wearing boys. Text: worndownconverse@4loco.me

Film major here. Are you looking for more geographic diversity in your life? Do you want to know why I chose BC over NYU? I’ve been meaning to watch the French film Amelie (oof)—it’s on Netflix. I have seen the One Direction movie a lot of times and did I mention Paul Rudd is from Kansas? I am also from Kansas. I’m actually a communication major. But I’m not like other girls. Serious inquiries only, contact ineedajob@kansas.net.

HORSEGIRL 101

MOOGY’S COUNTS AS A DATE

HANS MY ZIMMER

I AM A NORMAL HUMAN

THE NEC IS REALLY MISSIN OUT ON ME

Do you love horses? Do you hate the arts? Are you both fiscally and socially conservative?

Come exercise your passions at the Young Anti-Art Republican Horse Girl’s of America (YAARHG) BC chapter next week in the Tip O’Neill room. Join us in discussing our passions while getting to know a vibrant community of people like you. Occasional weekend events include apple-bobbing and checkers. Call me on my Moto Razr, 617-552-2223.

Do you think about yourself a lot? I do. I also think about, like, other stuff. Stuff that concerns me. Like sauce. Do you even like sauce?I bet you don’t like sauce the way I like sauce. OH, but also races. I know you read that other piece about Marathons but like, I can’t watch those without getting tired. MUCH better to watch white men make left turns ad infinitum. I mean, isn’t that life? See: newsies@bcheights.edu

Soliciting offers for new way to experience “Cornfield Chase” track from Insterstellar soundtrack, up to and including a pursuit through a large planted area of maize. Will date those with stronger jawlines than he and/or Michael J. Sullivan. Bonus points if both. Fans of showtunes welcome, exercise discretion. P.S. I’m hot. There was a scientific poll done. Not a brag it’s just, true.

Send media inquiries to @MichaelJSully

Dear diary: Do you ever think about yourself strictly in terms of what ice cream you’d be? No, but my roommate does, and she thinks I drink too much. But what does she know? Blue Rubi is blue rubi, after the third drink, it’s all Fruit on the Bottom, anyway.

Unlike the other losers on here, I’m dating someone, and I wrote a poem about it: Mods are red, Rubi is blue, I am in CSOM, and my boyfriend is too.

One musiccy girl boi looking for love strictly from non-heterosexual men. Kissing only, perferably after dark, in MAs, when I was 20. Cool! Also one ~professional~ CSOM woman in business searching for likeminded professional internships that will help her land a career in the totally unsaturated writers’ market. Will pay money to meet Nathan from Nathan for You. Biz inquiries: Nathan@Nathan4Jew.com

Freshman Donates Lots of #CashMoney to Arrupe Louie Pellegrino, CSOM ’22, made the largest recorded donation to the Arrupe International Immersion Program. Using a bounty of leftover meal plan money, Pegorino decided to give $1,000 to the program.

“A donation of this magnitude will go a long way,” said Alfonso Purrea, a student leader for the trip and MCAS ‘19. “Up to this point, we had raised only $19.91, but now, we’ll be able

to send two of our participants on a service trip.”

Arrupe International, which is named after former Jesuit Rev. Pedro Arrupe, S.J., sends student teams of 14 to 16 volunteers to different communities in Latin America. Not only do the students serve, they learn about the cultures and different realities of the countries where they serve. Ultimately, the program seeks to combine faith, service, and justice

in the spirit of Arrupe.

Many BC students do not seem to be moved by this inspirational mission. Arrupe volunteers often station themselves in the dining halls to fundraise, in order to cover the cost of their trips. Acquiring donations from students is a tough practice, though.

“In my two years at Arrupe, I have received only a single donation,” said William Sadman, LSEDHasdf ‘20. “I

have had to foot the bill for my entire service trip, and last year’s flight to Ecuador was not cheap!”

While some students may just ignore the pleas of the volunteers, others take a more combative approach.

Tevin Oliver, MCAS ‘20, is one of those students. When met with a, “Would you like to donate to Arrupe?”, Oliver emphatically yelled, “No!” “I already pay 70 grand to come

to this school, and I’m not spending any more on some stupid trip,” Oliver said.

Pellegrino found himself approaching Arrupe volunteers much like his classmates. But after discovering that he had over $2,200 left on his meal plan near the end of march, the freshman began embarking on several charitable activities. Sensing the fact that upperclassmen were running on slim rations, Pellegrino offered to buy meals for them—he became their “Mac Daddy,” as he calls it.

“Yeah, so a bunch of kids I knew were running low on meal plan money, so I decided to use my student ID for a greater purpose.”

When it came to his donation to Arrupe, Pellegrino had a similar motivation.

“Here at BC, I’ve really learned to be a man for others, and if there is anyone that has embodied Jesuits values right now, it has most definitely been me,” he said.

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THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT SAFE -RUPI KAUR

Go set Your Friends Aflame, Anarchist Bookstore Says Boston College has decided to axe one of its more controversial policies in the Student Code of Conduct—the ban on candles in the residence halls. While students are still not allowed to participate in candle-lit sexual intercourse under Sister Willhemina P. Fahey’s roof, they are now allowed to light up (not weed, that’s prohibited!) to their heart’s content.

The modification to the Student Code of Conduct comes after an intense year of UGBC begging the administration to please let them

make one real change on campus.

Proposals that were turned down include a “safe” label for each spacebar on O’Neill computers, the abolition of all anti-UGB C publications on campus (including The Old England Classic and The Depths), and the construction of a student center.

In response to this policy change, the BC Bookstore has announced the expansion of its product offerings to include a new line of candles. Some of the new scents will be based on staples of BC culture,

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including “Baldwin Suit,” A$AP Ferg at Modstock,” “Chocolate Bar Must,” “Mac 1 men’s room,” “Assistant Professor of the Practice’s Office Hours,” “Post-Cronin,” “Flutie’s Home in Natick, Mass.,” “Jesuit Robe,” “Courage to Know,” “Mod 28B, but make it classy,” “Cocaine,” “Cleveland Circle 7/11 When You Need a Juul Real Bad,” “On The Fly Before CoRo Cafe Killed it,” “ “Screaming Eagle (As Featured in The New York Times),” and “What it would smell like if you were Mario Elizzio’s mustache.”

Other scents are more general, and are targeted specifically at the families who did not enjoy their campus tour but decided to make a stop at the bookstore anyway. These scents will include “Broken Home,” “Unsweet Disposition,” “Horse” “I’m not like other girls,” “Cocaine,” “Google Groups,” “Lake Street, but after the Church Left,” “Foster St. Basement Party,” “Second Amendment Rights,” “That part of New Jersey Ever yone is From,” “The Boeing 737 Max 8,” “The Mandela Effect,” and “George Kills Lenny.”

“My favorite candle flavor [sic] is ‘the Oval Office the day after Jack Kennedy got shot,’” Conifer B. Maxfield, former public editor for The Depths and bookstore employee of the month of January, said. He was hard to pin down, as he spends most of time decrying the capitalist nature of the bookstore and prefers to drink nicotine in the Mac 2 bathroom. Kid has style.

The new line of candles will be located between the BC shot glasses and pillows embroidered with maps of campus.

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#WeHeardYou #EverToExcel Lacrosse Files Restraining Order Against Football, Basketball After Recent Success Fresh off a win against No. 3 North Carolina, Boston College lacrosse has taken several steps to protect its undefeated season—including filing a restraining order and University #Stay #Away orders against BC football head coach Mario Elizzio and men’s basketball coach Tim Tristan.

Head coach Oak Sprinter-Feinstein explained the move as simply part of her commitment to win at any cost.

“Listen, Mario and Tim are great guys, but I just can’t accept the risks involved with their presence,” Sprinter-Feinstein said. “Yesterday Mario called me during the game and UNC scored like four goals in the 30 seconds we spoke.”

She also recounted the time when Tristan had stopped by to see the team’s practice.

The effect, according to Sprinter-Feinstein, was immediate: players began tripping, missing shots, and showed signs of intense fatigue.

At one point, it looked like some-

one was finally going to score—the goaltender had fallen asleep—and the ball literally changed direction mid-air, like two magnets repelling, she said.

“It was supernatural, almost ungodly,” Sprinter-Feinstein said. “I realized I had to kick Tim out before his presence could do more damage.”

As evidence, Sprinter-Feinstein provided side-by-side comparison footage of football and men’s basketball games versus her own teams’.

The judge who signed off on the short-notice order said that it was an easy call.

Sprinter-Feinstein also added that the two coaches often send her unsolicited coaching advice and that she is looking at legal remedies to the problem.

Rumors about Elizzio’s unholy influence on others and his environment have swirled since the cancelation of the SERVPRO First Responder Bowl in December. The BC-Boise State

matchup was delayed, and ultimately ended, due to weather concerns— weather that observers noticed was localized around the coach.

At the time, Heights Sports Editor Dancy Frontstrom (now Depths mom) made note of the meteorological oddities of the day.

“The lightning appears to be following Elizzio around and cartoonish storm clouds have formed over BC players’ heads,” Frontstrom said in a tweet.

Star player Pam Opuzza provided some insight into how the players felt.

“At this point, we’ve stopped saying their names when a big game is coming up,” Opuzza said. “We use ‘He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Mentioned’ and ‘The Cursed One.’” Opuzza did not clarify whom was referenced by each name.

Elizzio and Tristan could not be reached for comment at press time. n

#WeHeardYou #BigLs Lacrosse Fires Head Coach After Eagles Fail to Record 34st Straight Win In his short time as Boston College Director of Athletics, Mark Jarvis has endeared himself to students and alumni alike by being unafraid to make the tough decisions and fire underperforming coaches.

That trend continued Saturday afternoon when Jarvis announced in a video released on Twitter that lacrosse head coach Oak Sprinter-Feinstein had been terminated after the Eagles’ devastating 11-10 loss to No. 7 Virginia.

Sprinter-Feinstein leaves the No. 1 Eagles after back-to-back national championship game appearances and with a career record of 105-37.

“We heard you,” Jarvis said in the video, while wearing his trademark BC athletics gear. “We hold all of our athletics programs at this school to the highest standards of competitive

excellence. While Coach Sprinter-Feinstein is a proven winner, recent results have shown that in order to maintain a successful program, it is necessary to move in a different direction.”

Jarvis continued to explain his rationale, citing BC’s inability to win more than 33 consecutive regular season games as a primary reason for the firing.

“Any lacrosse coach can win 33 games in a row,” the second-year athletics director stated. “It’s 34-or-moregame win streaks that really separate good coaches from excellent ones.”

It was not immediately clear who Jarvis would tab as a replacement for Sprinter-Feinstein, but in the hours following the firing he did hint at possible candidates—some of which might appear shocking—in Twitter

exchanges with some Eagles fans.

“Keep an eye on head football coach Mario Elizzio and head basketball coach Tim Tristan,” he wrote in response to a question about BC’s replacement. “Both proven winners with a long history of success. #WeAreBC.” The move to fire Sprinter-Feinstein was certainly abrupt, but it sends the same tough message that Jarvis has cultivated since his arrival from Ohio State. Mediocrity in any sport will not be tolerated and any sport that underperforms will undergo swift changes.

With that kind of demand for success and winning culture emanating from the highest levels of the athletics department, it’s clear what the expectations are for whoever Jarvis picks to replace Sprinter-Feinstein: winning streaks of 34 or more games are a must. n

Quarterback Returns to Eagles, Claims Role as Longsnapper Patty Washcloth was 70 yards away from perpetual fame—the former University of Western Kentucky and Boston College graduate transfer quarterback was auditioning to replace Dude Perfect’s Kyler Broney, who was recently offered a teaching job at University of Phoenix Online.

The once-four star recruit that wowed programs across the country, including the likes of ITT Tech, Kentucky, and Louisville, had one shot to throw a football into a basketball hoop smack dab in the middle of the end zone from his own 35-yard line.

The 6-foot-4, 215 pound gunslinger dropped back to pass and heaved up a prayer, all while reportedly screaming, “For Harambe!” Washcloth’s furry martyr must’ve not been watching

from above, as the ball spiraled out of control, bounced off the left goal post’s upright and hit Dude Perfect’s Brody Johnson in the back of the head.

Before he could even hear the verdict, the quarterback made a beeline for his car. As he started his 2003 Nissan Altima, Washcloth realized that he wasn’t born to throw a pigskin.

He had another purpose.

On Saturday, the Fargo, N.D. native announced that he will be returning to BC, using an unprecedented sixth year of eligibility—not as a quarterback, but as a long snapper. As mind boggling as the news is, the series of events leading up to the decision are even crazier.

This past summer, Washcloth was signed by the Cleveland Browns. But,

after a mere three days in camp, head coach Hue Jackson decided that the stocky quarterback would be a better fit catching passes.

After all, he had caught a few balls in college and his classmates always said that he was good with his hands.

Even the position change couldn’t save his NFL career—at least, that’s what analysts thought.

“He’s just not built to last in this league. At best, his arm strength is a 69 overall in the pirated version of NCAA Football 17,” AFL Network’s Rod Merriweather said.

Three days later, Washcloth was cut by the Browns and found himself back on the open market. Rather than quitting the game altogether, he opted to spend the ensuing seven months

learning martial arts and playing a full 82-year Madden NFL franchise mode.

It was in the simulation’s final season—the year 2099—that Washcloth had an epiphany. He wasn’t a quarterback, he wasn’t a tight end, heck he wasn’t even an offensive weapon—he was a long snapper. The position perfectly encapsulated who he was as a player: overlooked and unidentifiable.

Washcloth contacted BC head coach Mario Elizzio and begged for a chance to play. The fifth-year coach was sold instantly, considering injuries had severely depleted his team the season prior. The both of them ignored the gaping violation of NCAA rules. Eventually, Clark Everett caught on to the black market transaction, but gleefully allowed it to go through,

once hearing that it would bring in more money for BC, the ACC, and, inevitably, the NCAA. Besides, he’d have 10 years before a scandal would even surface.

Now, we’re here. According to Washcloth he’s already mastered the art.

“It’s simple,” he said. “All I had to do was reverse what I learned as a kid—I used to be the one taking the snaps, now I’m the one snapping the football. I don’t know why people are so surprised.”

Rumor has it that Washcloth concussed a coach at spring practice the other day, snapping the ball the wrong way during punt return drills.

At least, there’s nowhere to go but up—or through the legs, I suppose. n

Gay Community Launches Movement to Reclaim Morrissey A recent study shows that only 17 percent of students enrolled in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences (MCAS) actually know who Morrissey is. The study was informally yet benevolently conducted by the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus in the Rat, the agora.bc.edu for MCAS academics. Members of the nearly 200-member chorus identified MCAS students based on whether they had more than three laptop stickers and asked each individual if there is a light

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that never goes out. (The correct answer is yes, there is, and it can be seen flickering in the weird tiny windows of the mysterious fifth floor of Stokes.)

The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus conducted the survey of MCAS students in an effort to garner evidence for its case to reclaim The Smiths’ lead singer and known charmer Morrissey, a sexually ambiguous post-gay icon.

“Boston College students simply aren’t cool enough to claim such an icon,” Paul Abdul, the president of the

Chorus, said. “If Boston University named a school after Morrissey, we’d probably be ok with it.”

Passing out “Reclaim Morrissey” fliers in a crowd of Fjallraven Kanken backpacks and students who avoid pronouncing the brand’s name in Stokes Hall, the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus made its presence known to the Jesuit comma Catholic University.

The group treated the Chocolate Bar to an a cappella performance of the clinical depression-inducing “Please,

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Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want” before promptly being pushed aside by the unrecognized yet persistent Graduate Students Union, a group that was quickly asked to leave

by BCPD. The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus was permitted to stay on campus so long as they threw away any copies of the Communist Manifesto the group had on its person.

The initiative comes as part of a larger movement to take back LGBTQ+ motifs. Working in tandem

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with Gay Leadership Council (GLC), the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus also hopes to end the sale of frozen peaches (re: Call Me By Your Name) in the dining halls. Punishments to students who only found out about The Smiths from watching 500 Days of Summer are also part of the reparations the groups are seeking.

At press time, University President Willhemia P. Feahy, S.J., was seen fervently piling whole peaches into a cart at the Brookline Star Market.n

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