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Hours that Boston experienced “blizzard” conditions, as deﬁned by the National Weather Service

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BC emergency response teams react to the storm that shut down Boston BY ARIELLE CEDENO Assoc. News Editor Ranked sixth largest in Boston’s recorded history, Winter Storm Juno brought over 24 inches of snow to the greater Boston area, covering Boston College’s campus with a thick canvas. The state of Massachusetts declared a state of emergency on Monday evening, leading the University to suspend all non-essential operations and services until Wednesday evening. The suspension of University functions included the cancellation of classes, the closing of the libraries and the Flynn Recreation Complex, and the interruption of shuttle services for all of Tuesday and part of Wednesday. The University’s response to the storm was guided by the plans and protocols outlined by the Emergency Management Executive Team (EMET), a division of the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) that strategizes ways for dealing with a range of potential emergencies, crises, and threats to safety. In dealing with this snowstorm and the resulting school closure, the OEM and the EMET coordinated with various University offices and

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Winter Storm Juno dumped over 24 inches of snow on BC’s campus, cancelling classes for both Tuesday and Wednesday.

Dining in: serving Boston College through the blizzard BC Dining employees sleep over to keep dining halls open for snowed-in students BY ANTHONY PERASSO For The Heights Nearly 50 Boston College dining employees gathered in spaces across campus on Tuesday night and hunkered down for the night—sleeping on top of

portable air mattresses as Winter Storm Juno dropped over 20 inches of snow on campus, and a state-wide travel ban prevented employees from returning to their homes. Beth Emer y, who is in her first year as director of Dining Services at

BC, praised the efforts of BC Dining employees and student-workers, who sacrificed their beds and time to ensure that the dining halls stayed open. “ We had about 50 workers stay overnight on air mattresses,” Emery said. “Lower staff stayed in the Heights room, Mac staff slept in the faculty dining room, and Newton staff stayed in a faculty lounge.” Employees from Addie’s and catering

filled in positions in Corcoran Commons and McElroy Commons, while student-workers also worked extra hours—using ScheduleFly to quickly sign up to work shifts across campus. This was not the first time dining employees had to stay overnight. The last time this occurred was during the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, as the University was on lockdown in the manhunt of the accused marathon

bombers. Over the past two days, Emery noted that several students went out of their way to help BC dining staff, offering air mattresses to dining hall employees. “We already had air mattresses for our workers, but it was a very nice gesture,” Emery said. BC Dining Services made subtle

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Dance the night away at Plexapalooza, featuring DJ Dillon Francis, on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in the Flynn Recreation Complex. The dance party and concert will be thrown by BC Campus Activities Board, and tickets are currently sold out.

Thursday, January 29, 2015 Hear State Representative James J. Lyons and Pro-Life Legal Defense Fund President Robert W, Joyce, Esq. will give a legislative and legal perspective on contemporary pro-life issues in Mass. The talk will be at noon on Thursday in the Law School, East Wing, Room 120.

Improv Asylum’s “Show Against Humanity,” a comedy show based on the popular game, Cards Against Humanity, is back. The show is on Friday, at midnight, on 216 Hanover Street. Tickets can be purchased through BC2Boston for $10, via the Robsham Online Ticketing Office.

News Boston-based startup adds brand focus to emoticons Briefs By Maggie Sullivan Heights Editor

Postponements The heavy snowfall on Monday and Tuesday caused the University to close, and subsequently cancel any events scheduled for these days. Among those cancelled was the “After Ferguson” panel discussion, part of the series of race-oriented dialogues that has been scheduled by the Jesuit Institute for the spring semester. The Jan. 28 installment of the Lowell Humanities Project was also cancelled. Sheri Fink, author of Five Days at Memorial, was scheduled to speak in Gasson 100, but the new date, location, and time, will be announced in the near future. The first event in The Happiness Project was also cancelled. Five students and Rev. Michael Himes were set to speak in Cushing 001 at 8 p.m. on Jan. 27, but the talk has been moved to Monday, Feb. 2.

Snowball fight Th e Wi nt e r S t o r m Ju n o dumped 24.6 inches of snow on Boston, causing schools around the city to cancel classes on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Tuesday afternoon, an enormous snowball fight—organized by Anthony Perasso, LSOE ’17, of The New England Classic—took place in the Mod Lot, with over 2,000 people “attending” the event on Facebook. The event attendance exceeded Perasso’s expectations. “After creating the snowball fight event in my dorm room, I think I know just how Mark Zuckerberg felt when he invented Facebook,” Perasso, said. “There was an incredible turnout, and it was hilarious how all-out people went with flags and costumes.” The snowball fight began around 1:00 p.m. and continued throughout the afternoon until students eventually dispersed. Students climbed on top of large mounds of snow, hoisting flags and sleds. Although the BCPD largely kept out of the way of the students, they intervened when students began to use the piled snow to climb on top of the Flynn Recreation Complex.

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Participants at the Modlot snowball fight used the Rising Sun Flag—a traditional Japanese sy mb ol for “go o d fortune” first adapted by the Japanese Imperial Army in 1870—in their game of Capture the Flag. As images of the event were posted on the Internet, the use of the flag drew criticism from several BC students and alumni, concerned about the relation between the flag and the acts of the Japanese army during World War II. “Yeah … nice touch Heights. Good to see a symbol of oppression used as a whimsical rallying cry. SMH,” commented Jay Lee, LGSOE ’07, on a Facebook post. Although still used today by Japan’s militar y—and in some cases waved at Japanese sporting events—the flag is also associated with Japanese nationalism and is sometimes likened to the German Swastika for its use in WWII.

Fingertips are an indicator of individualism. With technology now allowing both information and expression to be available on one’s touch screen, Boston-based startup Inmoji hopes to allow people to further use their smartphone for self-expression. Inmoji was founded in May 2014 by serial entrepreneurs Perry Tell and Michael Africk. The app provides users of a messaging app, such as Textplus, with clickable icons that connect them to brands like Walmart and Fandango. Users can then send these “connections” to other users inside a regular message, as one would send a smiley face. Africk claims that all sides of this transaction—the user, the brand, and the messaging app—benefit from Inmoji. The user can engage in a conversation with more accessible tools for expressing ideas, the brand is exposed in a peer-to-peer setting as opposed to engaging in a brand push, and the messaging app can monetize its network. “It could be anything from sharing the location of a Starbucks, to sending somebody a gift card for a coffee, to viewing movie trailers, to going to getting the tickets for it,” said Inmoji co-founder and CEO Michael Africk. The business strategy behind Inmoji capitalizes on the fact that sending emoticons is already a method of communicating instilled in the habits of texters. By taking a closer look at the mobile phone industry and the trending habits of the general public, Tell and Africk have developed a method to monetize the way people send emoticons through text messages. “Before, you were using an emoticon to just express yourself

people don’t have access to the Internet, so they can’t get resources on symptoms, or how to take care of their loved who are sick.” This focus on the rural locations comes from his own childhood experiences in the remote village of Dscheng in Cameroon. When he was six, his mother had a stroke, a medical condition that no one in the village could identify or attempt to cure. It took two days to raise enough money to get to a hospital, which was so crowded and inefficient, that Assobmo and his family had to come to the United States to receive adequate treatment. The app has two parts, designed to work with users on both preventative and triage levels. The preventative feature sends its users text messages containing content structured with advice on how to avoid

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Tuesday, Jan. 27 2:43 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a property confiscation in Walsh Hall.

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Inmoji co-founder discusses how his app provides users with clickable icons that connects them to various brands. … now you’re not only telling someone how you feel, but you’re expressing the things that you’re interested in, lifestyle choices, and things of that nature,” Africk said. The startup was invited into PayPal’s Shark Tank in September of 2014, a rent-free office space that houses multiple startups and gives entrepreneurs opportunities to work side-by-side, share ideas, and make connections. “If you’re just in a good area that’s fostering life of young companies, you’re going to get good things from that,” Africk said. “Resources are available, the space is well laid out and has a positive energy, and people are just happy to come into work. It’s just a great place to be.” Inmoji is split between Boston and San Francisco, but is headquartered out of the Shark Tank in Boston. Before given the opportunity to work with PayPal, each of the two founders would venture into their respective cities—Africk in Massachusetts and Tell in California—in order to

infectious diseases. The advice is customized to certain demographics of the population, based on analysis and trends of people’s activities. “If we know that on Mondays in December, and we know our average user is going to a farm, the text messages will be customized so that they can continue participating in those activities, but be safer and healthier while doing it,” Assobmo said. The triage system will allow users to communicate via SMS to describe symptoms and the program would then be able to diagnose possible diseases and then instruct users how to proceed with care until they are able to receive professional treatment. “We want to empower these people so that while they are waiting to see a doctor, they at least get to start thinking about ‘what might my family member

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raise money. “ We basically determined, wherever more of the funding or opportunity came out of is where we would be,” Africk said. Another feature of the app is that brands will have access to more information about their consumers and be able to tell what is popular among what age groups, and in what cities. “We can give anatomized data back to a brand and say, ‘Hey, women 25 to 40 in Boston love the Starbucks frappuccino that you put out this past winter,’” Africk said. Inmoji’s adaptable software is designed to be compatible with whatever the hosting app may be. This adaptability, however, is dependent on the company’s partnerships with these app companies. “In order to be presented in the message bubble the way we are, the app itself has to write software that allows your images to be clickable in their text bubbles,” Africk said. The partnerships Inmoji forms with messaging apps will influence the deals it makes with brands, as

the emoticons will cater to the particular demographic that a certain app attracts. “If we put this in something like LinkedIn, the Inmojis might be … for Staples, it might be for travel, conventions … you might have different icons that would be more helpful to someone who’s in a different app.” Although the startup is Bostonbased, Inmoji has a small office in San Francisco, and frequently does business with apps and investors stationed on the West Coast. Currently, the company has signed with big-named brands such as Walmart, Drizly, Draft Kings, and FanDuel. Looking to the future, Inmoji has many more deals in the works, with the main goal of getting its software into the marketplace. “We’re talking to all the record labels, we’re talking to all the coffee chains, we’re talking to movie companies and movie studios, we’re talking to drink companies—you name it, we’re talking to them,” Africk said. n

App brings healthcare resources to rural villages Assobmo, from A8

be experiencing, what should I stay away from so that their illness doesn’t get worse, what can I start giving them so that they can start feeling better?’” Assobmo said. Assobmo showed his pilot program to doctors in Africa over the summer, and received very good feedback. Many doctors were worried that this program might encourage the tendency of Africans—especially those in rural areas—to self-me dicate. The do ctors were wary that these people might take their diagnoses and self-medicate with the wrong medicine, and then only go to a doctor when their illness gets too severe. But Assobmo said that the program wouldn’t be prescribing medication to patients, it would only help them understand what was wrong and give them advice on the actions they should take before ultimately

going to a doctor. At the moment, Assobmo is focusing on bridging the gap between when rural Africans get sick and when they are able to get to the doctor. In the future, however, he envisions that he and his team will have a far greater impact on healthcare in Africa. In the near future, Assobmo wants to use his app to track disease outbreaks in real time, linking reported outbreaks to detailed demographics, allowing health care workers to quickly and efficiently treat infected patients, prevent a spread of a disease, and best develop a cure. “I talk a lot about the end users and how we’re going to empower the end users by giving them resources they don’t have, but I think the potential is bigger than that, and I think we have the potential to shift the way healthcare works,” Assobmo said. n

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CORRECTIONS The following corrections are in reference to the issue dated Jan. 26, 2015 Vol. XCVI, No. 3 The article “The pursuit of happiness” incorrectly identitfied wRev. Michael Himes as a Jesuit. He is not.

1/26/15 - 1/28/15 11:43 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding medical assistance provided to a Boston College employee in McElroy Commons.

Wednesday, Jan. 28 1:42 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding property confiscation in Walsh Hall. 2:20 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding fire alarm activation in Roncalli Hall.

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If all of the buildings got into a fight, who would win? “Gasson, it’s the most well lit.” —Crisi Otano, LSOE ’18

“Gasson.” —Kayla Dowling, LSOE ’18

Gasson, so majestic.” —Helena Low, A&S ’18

“Medeiros.” —Liam Cotter, A&S ’18

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Suggestions to make Boston more appealing to new college graduates Bennet Johnson

Jamie Manning is exactly the type of person Boston wants to keep in the city. Manning is the 32-year-old CEO and co-founder of SnagaStool, a Boston-based startup that acts as an OpenTable for barstools. He moved to Boston in his 20s to attended Suffolk University for graduate school, and has been navigating the city’s startup culture ever since. As Boston zeroes-in on attracting young professionals and entrepreneurs to the city, Manning is a prime example of someone the city wants to make happy—perhaps so much that he never wants to leave. This year, Boston welcomed

nearly 400,000 students from around the world, according to the US Census. About 37 percent of Boston’s young adult population is enrolled in school. With a large population of young people, Boston is immediately associated with student culture. In any major city, vibrant startup and tech communities also draw in young professionals and entrepreneurs from around the world. But with an increasing number of BC students flocking to areas like New York City and San Francisco for attractive internships and full-time jobs, leaving Boston behind is becoming more common today than ever. So why has the city traditionally struggled to retain these students after graduation? What can be done to make one of America’s historically old cities young? And how can the city improve the lives of younger generations? “One of the first things I noticed about the city was the

entrepreneurial vibe,” Manning said. “You could really feel it—it was pulsing when you talked to people. These days, kids aren’t graduating and hoping to work 30 years in a big corporation. Everyone wants to work for a startup or a company they feel they have some ability to work for a cause or push forward. Now, the city needs to have a collaborative discussion on how to keep these kids happy, and how to keep them in Boston.” Over the past few years, the city has taken some small steps to keep Boston open later. In March, former Governor Deval Patrick launched the MBTA late-night service program—a one-year pilot program that extended MBTA hours by 90 minutes. The problem with the late-night program is that it will likely be eliminated in the near future. There is simply not enough revenue to keep the program going, due to a lack of corporate sponsorship. After

getting shut down by Legislature last year, Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, recently pushed for extending hours for restaurants and bars until 2 a.m. Despite the city’s efforts to keep Boston open later, there are several key distinctions that separate the city from the likes of young professional powerhouses New York City, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Austin. Happy hour—historically, Boston has had a more conservative bar scene. Most notably, Boston doesn’t have a happy hour. This is a major point of distinction between Boston and other cities that have a successful nightlife. Even without extending bar hours, the city could implement a happy hour in order to cater to the individuals—regardless if they are 21 or 40—who want to get a drink after work. New York City hosts a number of networking events at bars for startups. The more events that are held,

the more young professionals that go out and network at bars in the city. There are so many opportunities for startups and young businesses in Boston, so a happy hour for startups would be a great first step in confronting the problem. High rents—living in Boston is becoming cost-prohibitive. Soaring rents over the past 10 years are deterring students from living in a city that is known to be heinously expensive. The average graduate from BC undertakes a debt of just over $20,000, according to Boston.com. Even a generous starting salary cannot cover a new graduate’s rent and student loans, leaving one with virtually no disposable income. This is escalating to the point where students cannot afford to live on their own after graduating from college—especially in a city where the cost of living is notoriously high. “If I were graduating with a

huge debt—with the rents the way they are here in Boston and the cost of living so high—I would seriously considering moving somewhere else,” Manning said. Change cannot happen overnight. But in order to accomplish some of these goals, there needs to be a conversation. Young college graduates, bar owners, and city politicians should join forces to come up with mutual interests that coincide with improving the lives of the younger generations in Boston—and most importantly, keeping them here. Mayor Walsh has done a solid job since taking office by getting past some of the historically conservative ideas under Menino, but we, as students, can do so much more. Let’s start the conversation.

Bennet Johnson is the Metro Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at metro@bcheights.com

Injunction issued as North Ireland moves to sieze Belfast Project tapes Former prisoner requests BC to not release records from oral history project By Carolyn Freeman News Editor

Last Friday, a former loyalist prisoner of Northern Ireland, Winston Rea, has secured a temporary injunction on the release of interviews he gave as part of Boston College’s oral history project, the Belfast Project, according to The Irish Times. It was determined after a hearing in Belfast that no release will take place before Thursday, when the case will be revisited, said the report. The series of interviews, which ran from 2001 to 2006 and was directed by the Burns Library, were meant to record the experiences of the people involved in “the Troubles,” a period of violent turmoil and revolution in Northern Ireland that started in the 1960s. The political strife ended in 1998, with the Good Friday Agreement. The interviews conducted by Burns Library, which was then under the leadership of Robert O’Neill, were held under the condition that the materials would not be released until the death of the participants unless they gave consent. Tapes from the project, which was directed by Irish journalist Ed Moloney, were subpoenaed for the first time in May 2011 by the U.S. federal government on behalf

of the United Kingdom as part of the ongoing investigation by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) into the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean McConville. They were subpoenaed a second time and ordered to released all interviews in the archive that were relevant to the murder case. On Dec. 27, 2011, BC was ordered to release the interviews of former Irish Republican Army (IRA) members Dolours Price and Brendan Hughes, both of whom are now deceased, in spite the University’s efforts to suppress the Department of Justice’s subpoena. In May 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit decided that the district court had “abused its discretion” in its subpoena of the Belfast Project interviews. The court ruled that just 11 of the 85 interviews originally ordered to be released were relevant to the investigation of the McConville murder, according to The Boston Globe. The lawyers representing the loyalist prisoner, Winston Rea, requested that Rea’s interviews not be released upon learning the members of the PSNI were planning to fly into Boston last week-

end to gather the Belfast Project materials. The PSNI has not yet said why it wants this material, according to a report by The Irish Times. The U.S. Attorney’s Office has asked that the matter remain confidential throughout the duration of the proceedings, according to University spokesperson Jack Dunn. Rea claims that the subpoena is unlawful and that it does not specify why the material is needed, according to The Irish Times. Moloney, formerly the director of the Belfast Project, has covered “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland for much of his professional life. In his blog, The Broken Elbow, he argues that the work of the PSNI to obtain the interviews of Rea is so to show that they are even-handed and not solely focusing efforts on the IRA. If the PSNI is successful, everyone who participated in the Belfast Project could see their interviews released, he wrote. “The truth is that this PSNI pursuit of Mr. Rea is a fishing expedition carried out for narrow political purposes,” he wrote in a post. “They have no evidence that any alleged interview given by Mr. Rea describes any offence committed by him. There is, as far as is known, no current investigation into Mr. Rea and if there was one he would have been arrested long before now and questioned.” n

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The Burns Library project tells stories of people who lived through ‘the Troubles,’ 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland.

Student athletes support Bates’ vote against cost-of-attendance By Michael Sullivan Heights Editor Turns out, the students and the administrators are on the same page. On Wednesday, Collin Fedor, president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) spoke in an exclusive interview about the Boston College Athletic Department’s reasoning behind disapproving of the NCAA’s motion to enact full cost-of-attendance scholarships for student-athletes. The measure, voted on by the 65 Power Five Conference (Pacific-12, Big XII, Big Ten, Atlantic Coast, and Southeastern) schools and 15 student-athletes, passed two weeks ago by a count of 791, with BC as the sole dissenter. Although director of athletics Brad Bates announced last week that BC will comply with the decision, he still has been vocal about the department’s rationale behind voting against it. Fedor, a member of the varsity track team and A&S ‘15, commented on behalf of SAAC on cost-of-attendance and the athletic department. “The general consensus is we agree with the way BC voted,” Fedor said. He confirmed that Bates

requested SAAC’s input prior to the decision, and that the committee had lengthy discussions about the measure before Bates put in the vote. Fedor stressed that college sports should not exist for the purpose of making money, and that focusing on the cost-of-attendance motion as an emphasis for athletic departments strays from the purpose of college sports. “Colleges are here to form

young minds, and athletics is one avenue of that,” Fedor said. “Part of what BC prides itself on is it has a huge athletics department—750 student-athletes , which is one of the biggest in the country. “It provides those opportunities consistent with Jesuit ideas of the University as a whole, because you learn the teamwork, and the hard work, and the ethics that are really important for the formation of a person. That’s

what we saw as the purpose of college athletics.” Fedor believes that the money allocated for full cost-of-attendance scholarships would be better served elsewhere in the athletics department, such as to provide opportunities for sports that may not get as much attention as the profit sports. He recognized that recruiting will grow more difficult for BC after standing alone in voting against the measure. “You have

to think of it in terms of the costof-attendance is also smaller for BC compared to a lot of other schools, so that is going to potentially hurt us in recruiting also, because we’re going to be living by these guidelines,” Fedor said. Fedor conceded, however, that by sticking to its principles, BC may get a boost in recruiting. SAAC advocates for studentathlete welfare on campus, and features a 15 student-athlete primary board, with represen-

tatives voted on by the entire student-athlete body, which sets the agenda for the organization. Once a month, SAAC meets with all of student-athletes to receive their input on various measures or to develop other skills, such as nutritional information or self-defense classes. The recent work of SAAC includes installing healthy-choice vending machines in the athletics center and pushing back hours for the Rat from 3 p.m. to 3:30. n

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Although the measure was designed to help student-athletes, Fedor and the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee at BC found cost-of-attendance to go against the mission of college athletics.

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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Juno covers Boston: schools, city shut down Snow Response, from A1 services—including the Office of Student Affairs (OSA), Facilities Management, BC Dining Services, Boston College Police Department (BCPD), the Office of News and Public Affairs, the Office of Residential Life, and Boston College EMS, among others. “We [the EMET] have an emergency plan for the University, and winter storms are one of the hazards that we plan for,” said John Tommaney, director of OEM and chair of the EMET. “We take what we call an all-hazards approach—we plan for a whole range of things that could happen.” Tommaney noted that BC had recent experience in dealing with an event of heavy snow—just two years ago, the blizzard Nemo brought nearly 25 inches of snow to the Boston area and closed the University for two days. Coordination and internal talks via conference calls and meetings with key parties on campus regarding Juno began as early as last week, when the school was made aware of the potential of the storm to develop into a blizzard. As the weekend wore on and it became apparent that the storm would severely affect the Boston area, the school made efforts to increase measures of preparation and step up operations for dealing with times of inclement weather. “We have 7,000 students to support on campus and other operations that are going on, so we factor that all into our planning to make sure that plans are in place to have additional people and resources

on campus before the storm even begins,” Tommaney said. “A lot of that coordination took place on Sunday and Monday—we had a large meeting with all of those key parties to make sure that we’ve covered all of the bases relative to the storm.” These operations included extensive planning with dining services, facilities, BCPD, and ResLife to increase their staff on campus, and to make provisions for individuals involved with these

“BC Dining Services—They are kind of an unsung hero in all this—they keep the campus fed.” —John Tommaney Director of Emergency Management and Preparedness operations to stay on campus for the duration of the storm. Action was also taken to contact the vendors for dining services over the weekend to bring additional food on campus before the storm in case of emergency. “BC Dining Services—they are kind of an unsung hero in all of this—they keep the campus fed, a critical operation not only for our students, but also for all the employees that have to be here

when something like this occurs on the campus,” Tommaney said. Special action was required in this storm, in particular, as transportation to, from, and around campus was limited. Measures taken included the addition of EMTs and increased BCPD presence on Newton, Upper, and Lower campuses, and contact with BC’s ambulance transportation providers. Facilities brought in additional staff, outside contractors, heavy equipment, and outside vendors to aid in the extensive snow removal process, in order to keep priority areas of campus open, accessible, and safe during the storm. These priority areas include the roadways around campus—so that emergency vehicles can get around easily—and the pathways between residence halls and dining halls. “There were many heroes in dealing with this storm—they include the facilities workers, some 225 staff and private contractors, who worked around the clock with limited sleep to clear the campus to keep the roadways open for emergency vehicles and to enable us to be in position to reopen tomorrow,” said University Spokesperson Jack Dunn. “They deserve to be applauded for their efforts.” The EMET is also responsible for consulting with, informing, and updating the Office of the Provost and Dean of Faculties, the Executive Vice President (EVP), and the University President, who make the ultimate decision regarding the closing of the University. In deciding storm closures and weather oper-

ations, there is a protocol in place that considers various factors that affect the University—such as the status of roadways in the area, walkways and roadways on campus, and the forecast. The OEM works closely with the National Weather Service and local and state emergency management officials, Tommaney noted. Directives from state and local government officials are also are taken into consideration when deciding school closure—including the declaration of emergency made by Governor Charlie Baker and the travel ban—as well as the decisions made by peer institutions in the Boston vicinity, all factored into University’s decision to close. Ultimately, the safety of the students, faculty, and staff is the determining factor in deciding on a closure, delayed start, or an early release, Tommaney said. “Our primary concern is for the safety and well-being of our students and for the members of the University community who are traveling to BC from every New England state,” Dunn said. “Given the historic scope of the storm, and our desire to protect the safety of our students and members of the BC community, it was a prudent decision to make.” As the snow storm began to subside late Tuesday night, facilities began working toward clearing the main roadways, parking areas, stairways, and addressing sightline visibility—all of which were factors in the University’s decision to reopen Wednesday evening. n

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The school made special arrangements to deal with the nearly-record breaking amount of snow from Juno. Facilities brought in additional staff and outside contracters to keep students safe.

BC Dining employees change service to accomodate storm Dining, from A1 changes to its menu in order to make, serve, and prepare food efficiently with less staff on hand, Emery said. A common trend seemed to be limiting options for students to completely customize their dinners. Instead of offering the traditional mac-and-cheese bar with make-it-yourself choices, BC’s dining halls provided three different pre-mixed styles of macand-cheese. Pre-mixed stir-fry noodles were also available at Wok Away on Tuesday night. While the wind and snow were whipping outside, BC Dining employees in Corcoran Commons concocted a special wrap dubbed the “Blizzard Bomb,” comprised of ham, turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, and banana peppers in a wheat wrap slapped with chipotle mayo. When asked about the snowstorm special, Corcoran Commons Dining general manager Derrick B. Cripps had one word to describe the choice: “marketing.” Cripps explained that the wrap featured some new toppings, which BC Dining wanted students to experience for the first time. Cripps added that his staff is continuing to experiment with pre-made specials, so that people know what they want to order immediately when they get to the front of the line. “What we don’t want is kids getting to the front of the line and hesitating about what to order, which slows things down for everybody,” Cripps explained.

Cripps said BC Dining hopes to carry out more pre-made specials in the future. The staff has already had success with its pre-made special sandwich called “The Screaming Eagle,” which was featured in The New York Times. While BC Dining ramped up efforts, several students took feeding themselves into their own hands. While many ventured to the dining halls to scrounge for food, some remained in their dorms during the blizzard, eating various dorm food essentials. “The store was pretty crazy,” said Caroline Fernandez, CSOM ’17, who took the B-line to Star Market on Monday afternoon and bought essentials like chips, guacamole, and tuna—just in case she didn’t want to walk to the dining hall in the snow. “You’d think some kind of apocalypse was about to happen. Almost all the bread was gone, the store was packed with people, and I wanted in line for like 20 minutes before I got checked out.” Other students voiced their concerns as they pursued other means to procure food in preparation for snowstorm Juno. “We’ve been having chips, and we went to On-The-Fly, which was pretty picked-over,” said Lauren Santilli, CSOM ’17. Tom O’Boyle, A&S ’17, ventured to Wegman’s for food. “I got Bagel Bites, which is basically the taste of Tuscany straight from the microwave,” he said. n

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Employees of BC Dining changed their approach in order to best serve students — many stayed on campus over night.

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One city sees two storms

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In February 1978, the city of Boston was buried under 27.1 inches of snow. With just over 24 inches of snow, Winter Storm Juno was just shy of that record.

A look back at the Boston blizzard of 1978 Historic Storm, from A8 In February of 1978, the city was hit with million in damages, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The storm enveloped cars and mailboxes, stranded over 3,000 people in snowdrifts along Route 128, and caused destructive tidal waves in towns across the North and South shores. In total, the 100 lives and 4,500 injuries caused at the hand Boston’s Blizzard of ’78 made it the most devastating storm in city history. “The Blizzard of ’78 caught everybody by surprise,” said Charles Famolare, who has lived in the city’s suburbs his entire life and has faced Boston’s fair share of blizzards. In 1978, Famolare was living in Winthrop, Mass. with his family. At 20 years old, and commuting both to college and work, the blizzard impacted Famolare similarly to the rest of the city’s residents.

“My street was blocked for four days,” he said. “A lot of cities had people stranded on roads and highways because it snowed so much that they couldn’t get the roads cleared up in time. That was the difference between 1978 and the other day, that now we were prepared and then we weren’t.” Per the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, in 1978 there were just 2,800 plows attempting to clear the streets of Boston while on Tuesday the number of crews tending to the snow was about one and a half times that. The blizzard of ’78 virtually halted all transportation in and out of the city. Instead of simply canceling flights for a few days, as Logan International Airport did in response to Juno, the major metropolitan airport had to quite literally be shoveled out. Over 200 National Guard troops were flown in to clear out the immense

amounts of snow that blanketed Logan and the remainder of the city. Despite the disastrous snow accumulation, the city still had to function in 1978 as it did on Tuesday with some essential employees having to brave the blizzard. Famolare’s father was a part of the Boston Police Department, stationed in South Boston, during the time of the storm. “At the beginning of the storm we put chains on his tires and pushed him down the street, he had to get into the city for work,” Famolare recounted. “He was on the job the entire time— keeping streets clean and directing tow trucks—just helping people however he could.” For the Blizzard of ’78, necessary city employees and officials had no choice but to be both efficient and tireless in dealing with the storm’s aftermath. Michael Goldman, the former communications director for the Met-

ropolitan District Commission, was responsible for managing the area’s coastal beaches, inner city highways, and the Boston police force. He stayed in his office for six days, juggling press conferences and meetings, constantly working on relief of the destruction. “In the end, few would ever again exhibit the pre-storm hubris that was the norm before the Blizzard of ’78 permanently etched itself on the psyche of all who continue to recall its force and impact,” Goldman said in a Globe article, reflecting on the blizzard after winter storm Nemo hit Boston in 2013. “The truth is the Great Blizzard of ’78 was not just another winter weather event, but rather that rare communal experience that changed forever how modern Bostonians came to view themselves with regards to the power and force of the weather,” he said. n

Boston recovers from storm, prepares for next snowfall

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After the historic storm Juno dumped over two feet of snow on the city, Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ‘09, urged Bostonians to clear the snow from their properties.

Boston Snow, from A8 snow in the streets. The mayor also threatened to ticket any public departments or agencies that do not clean up their personal properties, including public libraries. “We’re going to set the standard on how snow removal should happen in the city of Boston,” Walsh said in a press conference Wednesday afternoon at City Hall. With the parking ban lifted at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Walsh explained that inspectors would be patrolling the streets on Thursday, ensuring that residents

and businesses properly maintained the property. “The big issues are going to be sidewalks, and what to do with the snow, and how to deal with the cold,” Baker said. Wednesday evening, Mayor Walsh announced that Boston public schools would be closed on Thursday as well. According to Walsh, the safety of students is the main concern for the closure, and the mayor plans on resuming school on Friday. “This is a public safety issue,” Walsh said. “I have grave concerns about the status of our sidewalks and the well-being

of students walking to and from their bus stops, or needing to stand in the street when they are waiting for the bus.” After shutting down on Tuesday, the MBTA resumed its service on Wednesday, although many delays and cancellations were reported. Increased snowfall along with freezing temperatures will cause problems for the T over the next few days, according to The Boston Globe. The massive cleanup of the mountains of snow across the city will not be getting any help from nature soon. The National Weather Service is warning that more snow is on the way over the

next several days—with two to five inches of snow expected in the Boston area on Friday. According to the report, temperatures will be below freezing over the next few days, and could fall to near zero. Since Monday and by the end of Wednesday, Walsh anticipates the city’s emergency hotline will have fielded more than 16,000 calls and complaints, mainly about plowing the snow left throughout the city. The mayor is asking his public for a few more hours of patience. “We’re going to get to you,” Walsh said. “We’re going to get to every corner of the city.” n

The gate to Alumni Stadium was open, so we took it as an invitation. Spinning up three floors of stairs and rows of bleachers, we made it to the top. Snow was sliding across the enormous dome protecting the field in ripping waves. Snow was in our hair and eyebrows and we looked like frostbitten old men. It was two in the morning and Juno was just beginning. Some hours earlier, a van with a driver I’ll never know made its way around the city of Boston for a final time, looking to find members of the homeless population to take to the local shelters. The Boston Globe reports that people would be taken off the street even against their will. “We’re not going to let anyone out there in these conditions,” Police Commissioner Billy Evans said. Vans would drive around until midnight, the time when the travel ban would go into effect. The next night, there was a collective nervous pause on campus as the hours ticked away and there was no announcement of a second closure. When the announcement finally came, there was a loud roar that echoed from the Mods up to Stayer and over to Walsh, like a Brazilian city when a goal is scored during the World Cup. People who hadn’t been cutting loose started and people who had been kept going. The collective nervous pause became a collective roar of energy. It’s something else, isn’t it?—when everyone is running through the halls excited and it’s all about the same exact thing, and everyone is so aware of all being so close on the same wavelength that no one says anything about it. Everyone meaning Boston College students, because although the storm wasn’t the most devastating in history, it still ranks up there, and shelters across the city worked through the night to keep things together. The director of PR and Communications at Rosie’s Place, Michele Chausse, felt that the smaller shelter she works for was affected atypically. Rosie’s Place stayed open, but didn’t feel overcrowded as the sitting room was opened for people to come in and warm up. Meals were served, while a skeleton crew continued to provide basic services . Why do we go so crazy over snow days? Start with understanding why people go so crazy over snowstorms: humans are, innately, risk lovers. This is according to Maria Konnikova of the New Yorker, who cites the underlying neural mechanisms that exist in all humans for the obsession with a blizzard like Juno. We thrive off danger. It gets us going. But it isn’t just the danger that gets the BC student body so rapturous over snow days. It’s the steady compiling of long, winding hours of performance at such a high caliber—the wild race that is college. In strolled Juno, twirling a cane and smoking a pipe, shutting down the school not once, but twice, and for a university that took three extra hours to make a decision whether to stay open after the governor declared a state of emergency, this was no small feat. For a person with no home, a blizzard brings no roar of joy—it could mean death. And although the Long Island Homeless Shelter closed over three months ago, finding accommodations for all 700 hundred displaced persons has been a struggle. Two weeks ago, a two-story brick building on Southampton Street opened its doors to 100 men, the Boston Globe reports. The hope was to house another 600 people by April. In marches Juno, the nightmare many feared when Long Island shut down all those months ago. Five more inches are predicted for Friday. A foot for the Bean Pot. There will be no roar across campus for these snowstorms; no early morning walks to the top of Alumni. Classes will be on. Life will resume. And yet, for the growing homeless population of Boston and the public workers that aid them, the fear will resurface.

Ryan Daly is an editor for The Heights. He can be reached at metro@bcheights. com

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Removal of primaries a positive change

As announced at the Elections Committee’s mandatory meeting last Thursday night, there will be no primary elections for the upcoming election for president and executive vice president of the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) election. This falls in line with the decision to shorten the campaign season to only 10 days, a change that was instituted in 2014, and was part of the election committee’s efforts to limit the demands of campaigning. The effects of this change were not felt last year because a primary was unnecessary with only two teams ultimately running. The changes will be particularly noticeable this year with four teams potentially vying for the student body’s vote. The removal of a primary should facilitate greater fairness in the elections process. Primary voting is generally not as popular as the final vote, often drawing mostly the attention of particularly engaged students (especially those involved with the campaign teams), instead of votes that represent a significant portion of the student body. No election will draw votes from an entire population, but hopefully this change will capture the sometimes-inconsistent attention of the student body, allowing the 2015 UGBC election to be as representative as possible. There are a few possible complications to this change. It could make certain events during the

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campaign logistically more difficult—most notably: the debates. The y could easily become too lengthy and, with so many voices, difficult to distill for voters trying to gather more information. In addition, the four potential teams add a factor that affects many elections—when too many teams are running, teams with similar messages can divide similar demographics and perhaps change the way the results of the election could fall. Even with these potential drawbacks, this is a positive change overall. As stated by Kiera Keller, co-chair of the Elections Committee and A&S ’15, in an email to The Heights last week, “We expect that since more teams are running this year, the candidates will be even more enthusiastic and ambitious than last year … We also believe that with more teams involved, more of the student body will also be involved.” This change encourages the teams to stay engaged throughout the entire campaign season, and the shorter election season will keep them from getting exhausted through the grueling process. It will also keep the student body from becoming desensitized to the campaigning and allow proper attention to be devoted to the election. With more teams in the race, the student body will have to scrutinize the platforms of each team more closely and, hopefully, be more informed in its voting.

“‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.’” -Louis C.K. (1967- ), comedian, writer, actor, director

Letter to the Editor Use of the Rising Sun flag during school snowball fight This is in response to your recently posted entry on Winter Storm Juno that describes how students passed the time during their snowday. In particular, the article detailed an organized snow ball fight on Lower Campus. The editorial staff of the Heights has decided to use a picture of the snow ball fight featuring a large number of co-eds looking to defend their fort that has Rising Sun Flag flying over it. Very likely, the students who were no doubt having a great time participating in the snowball fight are unaware that they are flying a the flag of the Imperial Japanese Military and seen as a sign of Japanese Imperialism and aggression. In many parts of the Asia, in particular Korea (both North and South) and China, it is akin to Swastika flags in the west. I find both the decision to fly the flag in these “war games” and the decision to feature of picture of it to be in very bad taste (although the idea that a random student had a Rising Sun Flag in their dorm ready to be flown is more disturbing). I hope the university I love so much can use this as an opportunity to educate beyond the euro-centric focus of the liberal arts education of Boston College. I loved my time at BC because it exposed me to much more than I initially desired to learn. It is

important to not be explosive in response, but to learn from it. This was echoed in 2013 when the UFC great, George St. Pierre wore a gi to the ring featuring the Rising Sun to pay homage to his Japanese martial arts training. When informed of how many view the symbol, he agreed to never wear it to the ring again apologizing that he was unaware that it would offend. Full disclosure: I, as a Korean-American and double BC grad, was not aware of the true meaning of the Rising Sun until this incident, nor would I expect many other on campus to be either. This letter is not meant to demonize what has happened in the past, but to prevent any further unintentional reopening of wounds on campus. This is letter is not meant to trumpet ignorance, but expose an absence of education about non-western history. I know BC has come a long way in regards to making students of color (AHANA) feel welcome, but as long as the student body is so strongly ethnically and culturally homogeneous, there will always be stumbles along the way. Diversity is not a celebration, but a wonderful opportunity to learn first hand about others. BC students are up to the task.

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Jay Lee LSOE ’05 / LGSOE ’07

University responds impressively to Juno As Winter Storm Juno rocked through the Greater Boston region, the University made the decision to cancel all classes Monday night, as well as Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. The city and its surrounding suburbs ground to a halt, the snow accumulation as high as three feet in parts of the region. Many roads were impassable due to the storm, forcing Governor Charlie Baker to issue a travel ban for Tuesday. Baker lifted the travel ban effective midnight Tuesday, but encouraged citizens to travel only if necessary. These difficulties created by the storm necessitated a strong response from Boston College, and the University met the challenge decisively. In past winter storm events, BC has been slow in announcing the cancellation of classes—a decision often credited to a desire to prevent excessive partying in University dorms. During this storm, however, BC listened closely to directives from the Governor’s office and recognized the dangers in compelling students and professors to travel to class during the storm. It made the right decision at a proper time Monday afternoon to cancel classes for Tuesday. Acting cautiously, the University also canceled most Wednesday classes. With the travel ban lifted, it was BC’s prerogative to hold classes. Again, the University should be commended for making the decision to cancel at a proper time. A cautious response from the city of Boston and its universities severely limited the number of casualties from the storm and helped in the prompt cleanup of The views expressed in the above editorials represent the official position of The Heights, as discussed and written by the

city streets. The University went into overdrive on these days of rest for students. Residence directors sent emails to their respective students, keeping students well updated and also redoubling efforts to keep dorm buildings safe. Resident Assistants and members of BCPD were vigilant and focused on enforcing policies. There were five student hospitalizations during the unexpected break from campus, but overall, operations went smoothly in the residence halls. BC Facilities and BC Dining Services are two of the many examples of the University doing its best to serve the student body. Facilities worked through the night clearing walkways, stairways, and roads in order for BC students and employees to get around campus. Multiple snow vehicles could be seen at any moment working around campus. Snow was cleared frequently, with pathways around campus relatively safe for travel through most of the storm. BC Dining Services works with similar dedication as many employees sacrificed time home with family to stay on campus and serve the BC community during the worst of the storm. This was a tremendous asset to the University’s emergency efforts. Those who committed to work on Jan. 28 slept overnight in dining halls, and even with the compensation of double-overtime pay, this was still a great sacrifice. Although certainly a less-than-desirable situation, this “historic” storm was made a little more manageable thanks to the University’s workers and residential staff. Editorial Board. A list of the members of the Editorial Board can be found at BCHeights. com/opinions.

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Now and then: historic storm buries Boston Baker, Walsh direct clean up after Juno slams Boston

Juno sparks recollection of damaging 1978 blizzard

By Bennet Johnson

By Sarah Moore

Metro Editor Two days after Winter Storm Juno blanketed Boston with 24.6 inches of snow, the city is still working to recover from the historic blizzard. The snowfall produced howling winds at more than 70 mph that slammed the city and surrounding parts of New England, creating a whiteout that shut down the city. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker was forced to declare a state of emergency and a statewide travel ban was issued effective at midnight on Jan. 27. On Wednesday, the city reopened roads, restarted its MBTA service, and reopened Logan International Airport. Most schools, universities, and city halls were closed for a second day. “Despite the fact that we had record-breaking snowfall in many parts of Massachusetts, we’ve come out of this, I think, in relatively good shape,” Baker said at a press conference Wednesday morning. “I am going to give everybody involved an ‘A’ on this one.”

Winter Storm Juno hit Massachusetts hard, leaving more than 30 inches of snow in parts of Worcester and Middlesex counties. This makes it the sixth-largest snowstorm in the city since 1935. By 9 p.m. on Tuesday, over 10,000 utility customers had lost power, according to NStar and National Grid Officials. Nearly all of the 12,000 residents on the island of Nantucket also lost electricity. Currently, more than 11,000 customers in Mass. remain without power. “If you’re the one dealing with power outages, you don’t really care that the number is a lot less than expected,” Baker said. “But the fact that we are dealing with 25,000 power outages and not 250,000, I think, is a little bit of a blessing in all of this.” On Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, asked for residents’ cooperation in clearing sidewalks. He advised people to make sure they were not throwing

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Asst. Metro Editor On Tuesday, Boston was quiet. Snow blanketed everything from T tracks to the Charles River. The wind blew a constant, cold haze over the city. Images of citizens cross country skiing past the State House and sledding down the streets of Beacon Hill circulated the local press circuit. The city was stagnated in a “state of emergency” that extended until early Wednesday morning. Winter storm Juno dropped upwards of 24 inches of snow on the greater Boston area this past week, leaving the majority of the city shut down from Monday evening through Tuesday. The blizzard prompted the closure of Boston Public Schools and many of the area’s colleges and universities, over 11,000 power outages in Massachusetts alone, and a 24-hour travel ban. Despite the turmoil caused by Juno, which took about 4,000 snow crews to plow, this blizzard was just the sixth heaviest snowstorm that the city has ever

seen, according to The Weather Channel. Although Juno was originally reported to be a “historic” storm for Boston, the snow accumulation did not amount to nearly as many concerns as in the past. According to a statement by Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, there were very few major incidents or injuries as a result of this week’s storm beyond flooding and power outages. The apparent ease by which the city, Mayor Walsh and Governor Baker seemed to handle Juno differs from the problems caused by many similar storms in the past. If Juno had dropped only two more inches of snow it would have broken historic accumulation records for Boston, instead of just being the largest January storm that the city has seen. Although it was only an inch-anda-half away from the record set by the most catastrophic storm in Boston’s history—the Blizzard of 1978—Juno didn’t come close in resulting damages.

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Snapchat geofilters don’t quite capture city’s personality

Sarah Moore Two months after I was born, Cal Ripken Jr. broke the record for most consecutive baseball games played. I was two when Biggie Smalls was killed with a blue-steel pistol, three when Clinton legally defined the extent of an “inappropriate relationship,” and five when the world emerged into a new century. I could—and still can—recite the original 150 Pokemon (from Bulbasaur to Mewtwo) and sing along to all of the songs on Britney Spears’ debut album. I had a light purple Game Boy Advanced, arms layered with multicolored scrunchies, pockets full of lip smackers, and spent too much time playing Oregon Trail on my dad’s Gateway Desktop.

As a proud Millennial, I have had the pleasure to live through an exhilarating 19 years. More significant than living through the rise and fall of the boy band, I have lived through the birth of social media. I was allowed to use the computer on my own just in time for the onset of MySpace, from which I eventually graduated to Facebook profiles and a Twitter account. I proudly avoided Tumblr and Tinder but am (still) terrifyingly active on Pinterest. I am a product of the social media age, ingrained with as much technological proficiency as I need to know what all of my “friends” are doing, all of the time. Snapchat, the latest social media giant, capitalizes on this need of my generation and also provides an outlet for another Gen Y appeal, harmless self promotion, all the while encouraging the misconception that the “selfie” might not always be narcissistic. Most simply, Snapchat is a photo sharing app that allows users to send and receive photos

and videos for a short time period. As messaging app describes itself, “Snapchat has always been about sharing your point of view. That’s why our application opens straight into the camera. It’s the fastest way to share little moments with our friends—to let them know where we are or how we feel right now.” Although it may be easy for Snapchat developers to think that high schoolers across the world are using their application to share the “little moments” that are so important to them, it is used more to selectively “share” the moments you want everyone else to see. Practically, Snapchat is a way to not-so-humble brag about where you are and what you are doing, and with the notification of who has seen your “story” or opened your snap, you can ensure that your “friends” know what you’re up to. At its core, the app is a degree egotistic and promotes a false sense of community, and cleverly exploits everything that the social media generation, myself included, has grown to love. Snapchat has gone a step further in

line with Millennial favorites, by now offering Geofilters based on the location of users sending snapchats. If you take a selfie in Times Square, a city skyline themed font spells out “Manhattan” on the bottom left of your screen. Snaps taken on the beaches of New Jersey get a nautical overlay that says “The Shore.” Major sporting events will warrant a geofilter and pictures taken in most Soulcycle locations have a yellow bike wheel in the right hand corner. I can even get a cartoonized Gasson geofilter from the sanctity of my bunk bed. Although the geofilters originally were only sprinkled across Los Angeles and New York City, they have made their way to The Hub as of last week. Newbury St., Back Bay, The B Line, and Fenway are just some of the new overlays that are sweeping selfies across the city. As excited as I was to let everyone know, via selfie, that my roommates and I were frolicking past the brownstones of Back Bay last weekend, my Gen Y appeal toward the geofilter seemed to fade when it was my

city that I was exploiting for my narcissistic sense of self worth. As much as I appreciate the white script that spells out “Back Bay” on the bottom of my selfies when I am studying at the BPL, no cursive letters or digitized illustration could capture the atmosphere of any one of Boston’s neighborhoods. It seems wrong to pick one element to define an area, and even to digitally section off a neighborhood in general, in this city. Neighborhoods here have personalities characterized by their individual conglomerations of history, art, residents, architecture, and culture. How can you distinguish Newbury St. from Back Bay, or Boston University from the B Line? Against my better—Millennial—judgment, living in the Boston area for (almost) two years has led to an appreciation of this place and its personality that can’t be summed up in a Snapchat Selfie.

Sarah Moore is the Assistant Metro Editor for The Heights. She can be reached at metro@bcheights.com.

BC student’s app links patients to doctors in rural Africa Loic Assobmo, A&S ’15 to pilot mobile service to improve medical care By Gus Merrell Asst. News Editor For every 10,000 inhabitants of subSaharan Africa, there are only two doctors, leading to drastically overcrowded hospital with many rural Africans having little to no access to health care resources. Additionally, Africa bears 25 percent of the global disease burden, but its inhabitants have access to only three percent of the world’s health care workers, according to the World Health Organization. Loic Assobmo, A&S ’15, is attempting to address the poor health care system in rural Africa with a SMS-based platform that will connect rural Africans to health care services that are otherwise inaccessible. Working with a team that includes

Dr. Edwin Choy of Massachusetts General Hospital, students at Harvard Medical School, a startup at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a student at Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology in Ghana, Assobmo hopes to launch a pilot program in Tetegu, Ghana, as soon as they raise the necessary funding. Assobmo participated in the social entrepreneurship category of the BC Venture Competition in April 2014, winning first place and $2,500 which he used to refine the app he is hoping to pilot in Ghana. Although there has been a rapid increase in mobile penetration in Africa over the past 10 years, the market for smartphones in rural Africa was much smaller that Assobmo anticipated. “The one assumption I made, which was false, was that they would have smartphones, so we had to go back and develop a feature phone solution,” Assobmo said. Assobmo discovered a tech-startup at MIT who had developed a mobile platform

that would allow him to integrate much of his original idea and interface into a text messaging service. To purchase the MIT students’ platform, as well as get the necessary licenses and contracts with African telecommunication companies, Assobmo plans to raise $10,000 through his live Medstartr campaign, a goal he’s currently working toward. “All the pieces are there, we just need the seed funding to make this product available to the market,” Assobmo said. Assobmo isn’t planning to focus on cities with hospitals and inhabitants with ready access to medical resources, despite the fact that these hospitals are overcrowded, with lines out the doors of many from morning until evening. “We’re trying to target the remote rural areas,” Assobmo said. “These are the areas where there aren’t any hospitals, there aren’t any health care workers, and

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Amy Poehler: Fallen eagle

Ryan Dowd Today, Amy Poehler accepts an award for “Woman of the Year” and most agree it’s richly deserved. Today, she is crowned “Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year,” which sounds like an 11 o’clock special on Spike TV, but trust me, this actually is a reputable event. Dame Helen Mirren won a few years ago, and she seems pretty fancy, so I’ll assume this is something I should have gotten press credentials to attend. Anyway, by now she’s been paraded around Cambridge, given her toast, and received a promised roast, and is settling in for a warm press conference. [Note: This column assumes we’ve defeated the frost giants of Jotunheim and are in fact alive on Thursday.] Doesn’t it kind of give you an itch that Poehler is being paraded through Cambridge and not up and down picturesque Chestnut Hill, around Gasson a few passes, down Linden Lane, and back to dear Lady Gasson? Don’t they know Amy Poehler graduated from Boston College (For Boston! For Boston!), not a Cambridge college, as this ceremony would suggest? BC loves to claim people (see Marty Walsh, Luke Kuechly). Things aren’t free of its eager grasp either (see Jesuit ideals, avoiding polite eye contact). But Poehler, to her credit, has evaded the hearty stamp of our favorite suburban Jesuit college. Any well-informed Freshman hears the whispers of her parents’ presence on Shea Field before a football game, and any adventurous freshman will go out in a hopeless search of what I’m sure is a delightful tailgate. But all you hear are whispers. Poehler doesn’t come up much around BC. One of my professors mentioned in passing that he taught her. She’s seen, I think, as more of a Bostonian than a BC alumnus, but she’s probably the most famous alumnus right now. Her flame, so to speak, has reached the “towers of the Heights.” Yay. You also won’t, however, find Poehler in any of those celebratory alumni videos BC shows at orientation, during sporting events, or the Pops concert. You know, the ones that shout, “Hey, you can be successful too!” and show Gasson a lucky 17 times. She did, however, give the commencement speech at Harvard in 2011 and joked at last year’s Golden Globes that she received a “Masters in Sex” degree from the school that punished students for handing out free condoms. It’s a bit awkward—the school’s usually obsessive itch to stamp something or someone as its own and Poehler’s refusal to stand hand-in-hand with all the other presidents and vice presidents of all the corporations at the internship fair. Poehler being recognized in Cambridge is one of the times BC feels far away from Boston. It’s a time when the “BC Bubble” isn’t a cute or novel way to explain that BC students just hang out around campus with precise hand motions to a waddling group of high schoolers. What we forget is that Chestnut Hill isn’t a real place. It’s just an imaginary pocket between Brighton and Newton, between the last city outpost and the first suburban village. The “BC Bubble” is really four things: the village of Chestnut Hill, the product of the comforts of college life (laziness), another general human phenomenon we’ve claimed as our own, and the structure that contains our larger community together. We’re all in the bubble—all of us who buy into (literally) the school and all those alumni who still bleed maroon, gold, and green (as in money). They’re the cash cows (shout out to my lone semester of marketing). You won’t find Poehler in the bubble. She’s in Cambridge. If she’s swinging by our pearly campus on a hill, then it’s not in a public manner. Which is a bummer, because we can learn a lot more about life (and sex, apparently) from her than a great host of cash cows.

Ryan Dowd is the Arts & Review Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

Breck Willis / Heights photo illustration

Much like the bridge between Stokes South and North, Spotify connects artists and listers, Facebook friends, and listerns to a host of personal playlists. And it’s free.

Sharing and caring: The Spotify Generation Ryan Dowd For Consuelo Garcia-Garcia, a hidden benefit of being a spin instructor is a healthy dose of Spotify followers. Boston College students surely come for their regimented hour in the plex, but some have stuck around for the tunes. “[Spotify’s] what I use to make my spin playlists,” Consuelo Garcia-Garcia, A&S ‘16 said. “Sometimes people come up after and ask me where I get them. I just say follow me on Spotify.” Garcia-Garcia jokingly boasts a more than respectable 81 followers. She estimates that around 80 percent of her Spotify usage goes to spin classes on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons, while the remaining playlist creativity goes to the abyss of study playlists. “Follow me on Spotify” has grown nearly as common as “friend me on Facebook.” The latter is just a modern way of saying “I want to see you around more.” The first is a little more natural. Sharing music is now almost inherent to listening to it. There was the gramophone and vinyl. There was the Walkman and handy mixed cds. There was Napster and the iPod. Now, there’s Spotify. How long will it take before Time publishes a cover feature on the “Spotify Generation?” Let’s

give them a few more years, at least. Seniors arrived on campus in fall of 2011, right when Spotify shot from neutral into drive and onto laptops and smart phones in most of the tech savvy youth. And by now, Spotify is the primary way students listen to music. Much like most students still in school only know a world with President Obama in the oval office and Netflix in their hearts, Spotify is music. In a Heights study of 55 students, 96.3 percent admitted to owning a music streaming service account. And 92.6 percent said that over the past 30 days, they’ve used Spotify the most. The vast majority (80 percent of whom stream at least two to three hours of music a day) agreed that Spotify is the best service at recommending music and the easiest account to set up and use. College students love “free.” We flock to free food. We love “easy”—think hot pockets or Ramen noodles. And when it comes to playing music, it doesn’t get much easier than Spotify. For students, who as a section of the human population don’t usually have the wide access to the fruits of the world (except the college library), Spotify is a chance for the student to experience it all. The download takes a few minutes, and then you get free music (given you have an Internet connection and are willing to put up with a 30-second ad every once in a while). And for just five dollars, students can get rid of those pesky ads.

Photo courtesy of Spotify

For many, the ads are a small price to pay for the ease of streaming and sharing playlists. According to the survey,a little over 50 percent of students do not download any music in a given month. We’ve taken off our pirate hats and patches and fell in line to the streaming beat. According to the survey, students still use iTunes and Pandora, but Spotify reigns supreme as a friendly conglomeration of iTunes, Pandora, and the friendly neighborhood Facebook. If a roommate is listening to Nickelback, you’ll know it, even if he or she (but probably a he) is covertly using headphones. Offering music for free is really just one aspect that’s made Spotify a social standard. If you really wanted a song, you could journey to one of the darker corners of the Internet and figure out some way to get your hands on that new Drake single. But with Spotify, it’s all there. It’s iTunes, Pandora, and Facebook all in one. It’s natural to like, rate, and share content across a self-created social network, and that’s what Spotify lets students do: impress their friends with their eclectic tastes or urge a dreary band of spin cyclist to peddle real hard for another few minutes. We do things to Spotify, under its watchful green eye. We pedal furiously in spin class, study to the hymns of Bon Iver, or celebrate to a friend’s playlist of ’80s classics. It’s become as common a practice to share Spotify playlists as it is to share a Netflix account, as it was once common to burn your lady friend a mixed CD with elegant purple calligraphy etched across the once bare and blank piece of plastic. But if the music industry is known for anything, it’s as one of culture’s outposts of change. Music was downloaded illegally before movies ever really were. So while for now, Spotify is king here on campus, it won’t always be the case. The record labels and powerful artists will have a legitimate response soon. Soundcloud may come out from underground to tackle the prominent giant. And perhaps we’ll joke about “Spotify playlists” then like we joke about mixed CDs now.

Ryan Dowd is the Arts & Review Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at arts@ bcheights.com.

This weekend in arts

By: Chris Fuller | Associate Arts & Review Editor

encore (1/29 -1/31 7:30 P.M.)

the loft (Ongoing)

The Dance Organization of Boston College presents its dance show ENCORE alongside Fuego del Corazon and the BC Irish dance club. Tickets are $10 through the Robsham ticket office

Five men’s dreams come crashing down tumultuously when a woman’s dead body is found in a shared penthouse that the friends bought to play out fantasies. This thriller stars Karl Urban and James Marsden as two of the poor miscreants who must prove themselves innocent.

Plexapalooza (Saturday 1/31 8:30 P.M.)

CAB hosts the famous DJ Dillon Francis in this epic bash in the Plex Saturday night. Pick up tickets at Robsham before 4:30 p.m. Friday. Tickets will not be given out Saturday, but prizes will be given out to the first hundred attendees.

A Common Cause (Through February)

Don’t miss your chance to see this compelling exhibit that chronicles and celebrates the lives and work of social reformists David Goldstein and Martha Moore Avery. The exhibit is located in Ford Tower in the Burns Library.

Photo Courtesy of the dance organization of boston college

Billy Idol (Saturday 1/31, 7:30 p.m.)

Billy Idol takes over the Orpheum Theater in Boston this Saturday. This rock legend can still to put on a fantastic show and knows how to please a crowd. Tickets can be found online at Ticketmaster.

An Uber-Good Comedy show (Friday 1/30 9 P.M.)

The Committee for Creative Enactments is putting on their first show of the year in the Vanderslice Cabaret Room. Sponsored by the Lyft, admission is free.

Project Almanac (ongoing)

Time travel goes horribly wrong when a couple juvenile delinquents stumble upon blueprints for a time machine. Newcomers Sofia Black D’Elia and Allen Evangelista have a lot to prove to moviegoers in this found footage venture this weekend.

The show against humanity (Friday 1/30 Midnight)

The Improv Asylum is putting on its wildly successful play-off of Cards Against Humanity, featuring Main Stage actors and alum. Tickets are $10 through Robsham ticketing office.

THE HEIGHTS

Thursday, January 29, 2015

A FULLER PICTURE

Shakespeare’s disappearance CHRIS FULLER

PHOTO COURTESY OF LOS ANGELES TIMES

Taylor Swift blasted Spotify and other streaming services for their low compensation for artists after removing her entire music catalog and newest album ‘1989’ in Nov. 2014.

The economics of Spotify: how artists are compensated through the streaming service Summer Lin | Asst. Arts & Review Editor If you grew up during the early 2000s, you might remember Napster, the peer-to-peer file sharing service popularized for sharing audio files and music. Founded in 1999 by Shawn Fanning, John Fanning, and Sean Parker, the pioneer music sharing service facilitated the illegal distribution of audio files and MP3s across the internet before being shut down in 2001 for violating copyright infringement laws. Napster’s short-lived run did more than initiate endless Britney Spears and N*SYNC downloads, however. The company brought relative ease to downloading digital copies of songs and spawned similar file-sharing companies such as Limewire. Napster also effectively ushered in the end of the Album Era, forever changing how people listen to music into the 21st century. Over 10 years later, the presence of music piracy and illegal digital file sharing has not faded with time, yet pay-tostream music services have risen to prominence in recent years. Founded in 2006 by CEO Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon in Stockholm, Sweden, Spotify is already the leading commercial music streaming service, having just launched in the United State in 2011. The company operates under the “freemium model”—basic services are free and additional services

are offered under premium subscriptions. Revenue is split among all rights holders based on the total percentage of Spotify streams their songs garner, rounding out to between $0.006 and $0.0084 per day for the average artist. In light of Taylor Swift pulling her entire music catalog from the music

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streaming service in November 2014, the company has come under fire for the way it compensates music artists. Amidst Spotify’s claims that Swift’s popularity could draw in more than $6 million in payments with her new album 1989, her record company has stated that Swift was paid less than $500,000 for streaming of her music over the span of 12 months with Spotify, according to a Time Magazine article. Swift’s 1989 quickly became the fastest-selling album in twelve years, selling 1.208 million copies in its first

week of release and toppling The Eminem Show’s previous record. Because payment is largely determined by artist popularity, CEO Daniel Ek argues that Swift’s presence on Spotify could drum up millions of subscribers, increasing Spotify’s revenue. Swift has spoken out against music streaming services and urges artists to reject companies that devalue their work through low payments. “It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is,” Swift said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. “I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.” Taylor Swift isn’t the only musical artist to air her grievances with Spotify to the public. Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke pulled his solo work and his band Atoms for Peace from Spotify’s catalog in July 2013. Yorke then stated on Twitter, “Make no mistake, new artists you discover on Spotify will not get paid. Meanwhile shareholders will shortly be rolling in it.” Similarly, the Black Keys has strategically kept new releases off of Spotify out of fear that the service would hinder sales of the band’s newest album. In a March 2012 interview with Rolling Stone, Patrick Carney stated his reasons for keeping

El Camino off of the streaming service. “Spotify isn’t fair to artists. For a band that makes a living selling music, streaming services are not a ‘feasible’ option.” Spotify compensates artists in a way that music downloading services such as Napster and Limewire did not. Rather than resorting to file sharing and music piracy, people turn to Spotify for free and reasonably-priced music subscriptions. In turn, artists are compensated on a per-stream basis and receive a drip of payments from the service. Criticism of Spotify’s business model have particularly pointed to its compensation of new artists. Because revenue is generated largely through artist popularity, newer artists are unlikely to receive much through the service. Over 70 percent of Spotify’s revenue also goes to rights holders such as the record label, distributor, and publisher. Spotify has defended its reign as the leading commercial music streaming service against claims of unfair artist compensation alongside an increasing number of competitors such as YouTube. In light of more and more big music artists pulling their music catalogs, the streaming service has released a ‘Spotify Artists’ page to explain its business model to its users. Spotify is slowly rethinking the way the company is compensating emerging artists. 

2006

13 Jan 2015

Spotify is founded by current CEO Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon in Stockholm, Sweden.

14 July 2011

Spotify launches its U.S. service.

2009

13 Dec. 2013

iTunes changes single pricing from $0.99 to $1.29.

Kanye West releases Late Registration.

Beyonce releases selftitled album.

Nov. 30 2011

Oct. 7 2008

Launch of mobile Spotify Apps and App Finder.

Spotify launches for public access with paid subscriptions open to everyone.

Aug. 30 2005

Spotify reaches 15 million paid subscribers, 60 million total.

May 18 2010

Spotify Unlimited (Spotify Premium without mobile features) and Spotify Open (a reducedfeature Spotify Free) announced.

3 Nov. 2014

Taylor Swift withdraws her entire music catalog from Spotify.

Though instantaneous success has its perks, I would imagine that it is every artist’s dream that his or her work be recognized after death. An artist’s goal is to create an everlasting impact on a reader, observer, or listener. William Shakespeare has particularly earned his place in history, standing as arguably the greatest playwright of all time. Despite Shakespeare’s prominence and notability among scholars and readers of our time, however, most American filmmakers and audiences have sadly abandoned Shakespeare’s plays as worthy adaptations for the silver screen. There is, however, one notable exception. In 2012, Joss Whedon, director of Marvel’s The Avengers, its upcoming sequel, and cult show Firefly, created his own adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shakespeare’s renowned comedies. Despite Whedon’s reputation as a sci-fi/ fantasy director, he showed audiences his love for the theater in this quirky adaptation. Filmed over the course of 12 days at his home in Santa Monica, California, Whedon’s version of the comedy features several recurring actors from his film career and is set in a modern setting rather than the Elizabethan time period. The film is awe-inspiring, with its incredible production and wonderful cinematography. Although Whedon is not nearly the first to adapt a Shakespeare play outside of its original context, his film is an example of the creative substance available within these works. Reading Shakespeare’s plays for the first time, I tend to fall into a bit of trap figuring out the tone and cadence that lines should be spoken. Also, though I’ve in recent years become more adept at understanding the dialogue in the plays, I entirely understand that in a modern context these works are not entirely accessible to a general audience. However, I’d argue the skills one acquires from continually tackling Shakespearean language make a person a better reader, a better analyst, and a more adapt member of any theater audience. These plays feature some of the most recognizable archetypes that exist in human storytelling and reach across several cultures and time periods to bring together myths and legends into compassionate and heartfelt storytelling. Although it may take a quite a bit of time and a lot of genuine effort, there is an overwhelming joy in deciphering Shakespeare’s language. For any avid reader, Shakespearean writing is filled with the most passionate, elegant, and expressive language. There are 38 plays attributed to Shakespeare, some of which, like Hamlet and Macbeth, are far more famous and distinguished in modern culture than are some of his less notable works like The Comedy of Errors or As You Like It. Although audiences have seen several variations of some of Shakespeare’s most reputable comedies and tragedies, there exists an expansive grove of interpretations and settings for his lesser observed plays that viewers and critics would probably die to see. Granted, there are many Hollywood directors and producers that would do this playwright’s fame large injustices, I cannot help but imagine a Tarantino Titus Andronicus or a Scorsese Julius Caesar. Shakespeare left behind an impressive assortment of comedies and tragedies that still hold relevance today. One of my favorite shows, professional and amateur, that I ever saw was a high school performance of Much Ado About Nothing that was set in an early 20th-century suffragette household that played with and changed the usual character dynamics and genders, all without changing a word of dialogue. What was most impressive was that the students entirely took credit for the concept as their original interpretation and production. If a high school theater team could imagine such an intriguing take on the remarkable comedy, Hollywood big shots are surely capable of putting together something formidable. Despite the infamous inaccessibility and waning popularity of Shakespeare’s plays, moviegoers and especially filmmakers should consider the power and possibility behind these timeless works. After all, they have been around this long for a reason.

Chris Fuller is the Assoc. Arts & Review Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at arts@bcheights.com.

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

‘Uptown Special’ revives funk and soul with a fresh groove BY MARIAN WYMAN Heights Staff When Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars joined forces in “Uptown Funk,” popular culture was blissfully reintroduced to the funk genre. This single’s vast commercial success paved the way for Mark Ronson’s newest album Uptown Special. A funk album through and through, Uptown Special is difficult to market in today’s popular music industry. Nonetheless, masterful collaborations with artists like Stevie Wonder and Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker prove that this record is both legitimate funk and legitimately good. There is much to be said in the fact that Ronson’s songs with the legendary Stevie Wonder are not even the album’s greatest moments. Every track of Uptown Special is a collaboration, and musicians like Jeff Bhasker and Mystikal enter into a mutually beneficial relationship with Ronson. As Ronson’s technique guides the artists’ varying musicality, each song develops its own flare. The Uptown Special track that packs the most punch is a collaboration with Keyone Starr. Deciding on Keyone Starr was crucial to the spirit of “I Can’t Lose.” With a more modern

instrumentation involving synth and drums, the occasional brass hits and Starr’s soulful singing are brought out. This track is simultaneously jazz and pop, latin and rock, and funk in a way that is neither convoluted or confused. Kevin Parker of Tame Impala is one of the most prominently featured artists on Uptown Special. With Parker’s influence on “Summer Breaking,” the single develops a smooth ‘70s melody. “Daffodils,” another single with Parker’s style, is funk and pop at its best: enticing guitar riffs, smooth, pop-edited vocals, and the occasional screeching rock guitar. “Leaving Los Feliz” has an even more psychedelic, retro vibe, and the guitar, bass, and vocals bounce off each other fluidly. Aiding Mark Ronson in the entire creative process for Uptown Special was his co-producer, Jeff Bhasker. Together, the two wrote the entire album and sought out featured musicians and soloists. Bhasker additionally performs prominently on two of the record’s tracks, the best of which is “In Case of Fire.” This song has a slight early-80s tone with its easy drumming and light base throughout the verses, but becomes undeniably funky in the choruses. There, the deep and electric instrumentation balances out among

high, sultry vocals. “Crack In the Pearl” is another powerhouse single on the record, and its groove is so strong that a second part of the track serves as the album’s conclusion, where Stevie Wonder enters to bring it all home. In the initial song, the most impressive element is the vocals. Different vocal lines soar over each other miraculously, experimenting in smooth and soulful harmony. While the beats behind the song are simplistic, they

are not mindless. They allow the vocalists to have the most impact, as they create an undeniably beautiful story. In “Crack In the Pearl, Pt. II,” the song gets a more upbeat, funky flare. Instrumentalists take the scene, and whether it is percussion, altered brass, or electric guitar, the melody is taken over. Now, the vocalists work together with the instrumentation. This track poses a satisfying conclusion to the album as a whole, as it shows how collaborative Uptown

Special really is. Uptown Special is not just a casual jam record, and it is nothing pretentious or overdone. With Mark Ronson’s funk genius, and his system of supporters and fellow music-lovers, this record becomes a testament to music that is both effortless and skilled. It is a dichotomy of funk that has been largely missing from today’s music scene, but with Ronson’s recent recognition, it should find a welcome spot among today’s music hits. 

UPTOWN SPECIAL MARK RONSON PRODUCED BY COLUMBIA RECORDS RELEASED JAN. 13, 2015 OUR RATING

Heights Staff

Ne-Yo’s Non-Fiction begins with a spoken monologue. “The story you ‘bout to hear is complete fiction. It is however made up of a group of stories. True stories. About real people.” The rumblings of music build underneath the speaker’s voice as he continues with film noir-esque authority: “Our story begins in a dark place.” The 18 tracks that follow tell a story of love corrupted by money and celebrity and a search for a lost sense of reality. At least that’s the idea behind

the whole production. For all its ambition, Non-Fiction doesn’t quite live up to the hype that Ne-yo created for it. The album is definitely a story and Ne-Yo is most definitely a storyteller, one of the most adept storytellers in popular music today, for that matter. But after a grueling 19 tracks (or a still-grueling 14 tracks in the non-deluxe edition), the mixes that serve as Ne-Yo’s accompaniment become repetitive and boring, crossing the line from smooth to flat. The distinct narrative voice of NeYo is buried under synthesizer, electronic beats, computerized sounding horns, and R&B melo-

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dies that hardly ever waver or break new ground. It’s a shame, too, because NeYo’s story is genuinely compelling, heartfelt, and interesting. In “Integrity,” he introduces us to the independent woman of romantic interest who gives her name to the song. His relationship with Integrity challenges him to question his celebrity, its effects, and himself. “Do you love me for me though? / The real me, not my fly altar-ego,” he ponders in “Make It Easy.” Ultimately, he loses Integrity after giving into the temptation of unfaithfulness, leaving him back where he started.

NON-FICTION NE-YO PRODUCED BY MOTOWN RECORS RELEASED JAN. 27, 2015 OUR RATING

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Musically, these songs don’t really do justice to the story. “Time Of Our Lives,” NeYo’s collaboration with Pitbull, sounds like everything else on mainstream radio, embracing the nearly ubiquitous pop theme of forgetting responsibility and partying “every night like my last.” It employs dance beats, mini bass-drops, and a sample of Ne-Yo’s voice singing the main hook. “Who’s Taking You Home” also crosses deeply into pop territor y, var ying only occasionally from the catchy lyric, “Who’s taking you home?” and featuring an unsurprising drop after the bridge. The songs that cross into this simplistic pop formula undermine the album’s more complex and introspective purpose. Other songs, like “Integrity” and “Make It Easy” rely more on Ne-Yo’s R&B abilities. His voice is constantly crisp and flavorful, reminiscent at times of a Michael Jackson at his best, even underneath a dash of auto-tune. He has a distinct ability to create a scene with specific characters, something that is not seen in popular music, which tends to be more general and vague. He sets up Integrity’s character in “Integrity.” (“She don’t really drink much so she say but by the way she was putting the Malibu

Reds away she was either ‘bout that life tryna front but tryna get right.”) The problem with these R&B songs is that they never change. By the 10th track, the electronic beats, the catchy, smooth hooks, and the perfect synthesizers all blend together. They distract from the story with their conformity. There are no major differences between, for instance, the rhythms of “Integrity” and “Take You There.” The songs never do anything to surprise—they never take any real chances in melody, dynamics, instrumentation, or with R&B stereotypes. There is very little innovation to be found here. In terms of music, there is nothing here that hasn’t been done already by any other R&B artist. There’s a certain point where, in their smoothness, all the songs begin to sound like they’re just about sex, and the character of Integrity gets momentarily forgotten. In an age where almost anything could be auto-tuned, vocal prowess alone has a hard time inspiring. There’s a chance that the staleness of the album is just a consequence of its length. More likely, it is the result of Ne-Yo’s precarious balance between R&B and pop, and the mixed responsibilities of being an artist and selling catchy hooks. 

The Pros and Cons of life as a reputable Spotify savant KAYLA FAMOLARE It’s Friday night, around 8 p.m., and preparation for the night out has commenced. Three, six, nine, damn so fine. Move it so you can sock it to me one more time, I sing to myself as I mentally prepare for my big night on Brighton. My phone, which has (obviously) been ringing off the hook with the night’s plan, begins to chime again. It’s a friend, one who usually would not be calling me this early in the night. “Kayla.” Yes? “What are you doing right now? Are you throwing down? Are you having a party? Your Spotify is blowin’ up right now.” Plagued, yet again, by the Spotify “view-and-judge-what-yourfriends-are-listening-to” option of the popular music-sharing site. Little does Joe know that I am actually sitting in my bed, fresh from a shower, decked in my signature fuzzy, white bathrobe, with my hair dripping wet and wrapped up in a towel, glasses on, and snuggled in my bed. This, my friends, is why Spotify is the next form of social networking. Between attempting to

guess what a peer is doing based on his or her current music selection to following and discovering music preferences, Spotify has the ability to facilitate the sharing of music, as well as guess a friend’s mood based on his or her musical preferences. Alongside the obvious perks of having a Spotif y account, however, there are even more obvious glitches that its creators overlooked. And, being a “Spotif y Pro” myself—which, we shall quantify as having the “healthy amount” of 50 followers—I give you “Kayla’s Official List of Pros and Cons of being a Spotify User.” PRO 1: Spotify has a feature that shows whatever song you and your friends are currently listening to in a news feed of sorts on the side of your Spotify player. This is great for discovering new music. CON 1: Great, now everyone can see that I’ve listened to “What Makes You Beautiful” by One Direction eight times in a row. PRO 2: Not having to pay $1.29 per iTunes song—Spotify users have access to a massive catalogue of songs and don’t have to pay a cent for it ...

CON 2: ... Unless you have a premium account that excludes you from annoying advertisements. Then you have to pay $10 a month. PRO 3: Listening to every and any song you want, of any genre, from any artist. CON 3: Except for artists like Taylor Swift, who took her music off of Spotify so that no one could play her tracks on repeat while sobbing and staring longingly out the window, letting out a deep sigh and taking yet another pull of that vino to the face. Thanks a lot, Taylor. PRO 4: There’s a feature that allows you to direct message certain songs to friends so that they can take a listen. This option also allows you to insert a personalized message a la “Oh my gosh, remember that time we did that thing with those people and listened to this song? Yeah, good times” or “This is the song I listened to when (insert evil ex-boyfriend’s name here) dumped me. It should make you feel great, too!” CON 4: Like, you couldn’t have just texted me that? PRO 5: The playlists—say no more. Spotify’s like iTunes,

TOP SINGLES

1 Uptown Funk! Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars 2 Thinking Out Loud Ed Sheeran 3 Blank Space Taylor Swift 4 Take Me To Church Hozier 5 Shake It Off Taylor Swift 6 Lips Are Movin Meghan Trainor 7 I’m Not The Only One Sam Smith 8 Sugar Maroon 5

TOP ALBUMS

Ne-Yo makes a tedious, stale attempt with ‘Non-Fiction’ BY JAMES FARRELL

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only you can share it with other people. The sleepy playlist, the pregame list, the crap-I-actually-have-to-go-to-the-gymand-workout-for-the-first-timein-three-weeks playlist; and the ugh-when-is-he-just-going-totext-me-back-and-appreciateme-as-a-person playlist (not to be confused with its Girl-power hits of the ’90s counterpart). The lists (and possibilities) are endless. Plus, it makes you feel like you’re a musical prodigy when your playlist that you spent more hours on than your homework has upwards of 15 followers. You think I have good taste in music? How cute. CON 5: There isn’t really a con to this—only when your Macy Gray is played immediately after your Blink 182. Then again, should they even be in the same playlist?. PRO 6: The collaborative playlist. There is a selection when creating a playlist that you can add your friends so that they can add the songs that they like and want to hear to the playlist as well. This is the perfect solution to the weekly Saturday night pregame bicker about which song to scream and pound your foot to

“Mr. Brightside,” obviously. CON 6: No Roz, we don’t want Wicked and Rent showtunes on the pregame playlist. From sharing music to the collaborative listening, Spotify has managed to create a new form of social media. The playlists, the features, the endless selection of music has helped the creators of Spotify facilitate an enjoyable listening experience while creating that social element that mu sical sharing has been known for. Despite its flaws and seemingly annoying elements, Spotify has proved to be the best and most user-friendly music sharing platform. It’s allowed me to discover music I never would have heard, share songs, and preoccupy myself while doing hours of homework and writing. It’s even upped my already booming social life—“Are you having a party? Your Spotify is blowin’ up right now.” Yeah, sure. Why not?

Kayla Famolare is the Outreach Coordinator for The Heights. She can be reached at arts@ bcheights.com.

1 Title Meghan Trainor 2 1989 Taylor Swift 3 Kidz Bop 27 Kidz Bop Kids 4X Ed Sheeran 5 Uptown Special Mark Ronson Source: Billboard.com

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From the moment of engagement to the reception’s start, most brides-to-be can only hope their wedding days will be the best of their lives. Thanks to impromptu performances by American pop rock band Maroon 5 at various California weddings, however, a handful of Los Angeles lovers can say with confidence that their big day was truly one for the books. Released on Jan. 14, the video for Maroon 5’s second single “Sugar” off of its newest album V features several wedding parties that receive a sweet surprise from lead singer Adam Levine and his band of merry men. An unplanned performance of sorts, the miniconcerts captured the wedding magic perfectly and put a positive spin on the term “wedding crashers.” The video begins with Levine and pals—dressed to the nines in suits and bowties—piling into a car and setting out to film footage for their soon-to-be viral music video. “It’s December 6, 2014,” an excited Levine announces before explaining the basics of their mission. “It’s gonna be awesome.” And “awesome” it is. The finished product is hilariously entertaining: a five-minute montage of unassuming guests, puzzled parents, and bewildered bridegrooms watching as the ballroom is transformed into a temporary stage. The sheer shock and surprise when the curtain drops and the wedding parties realize what the ruckus is all about is incredible. And the utter elation expressed during the spontaneous dance parties is pretty cool too. With an ingenious concept and beautifully-shot scenes, Maroon 5’s “Sugar” video is the sweetest we’ve seen from this genre in a long time. 

SINGLE REVIEWS BY EILEEN KAO IMAGINE DRAGONS “Shots”

KELLY CLARKSON “Heartbeat Song”

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE “Black Sun” Imagine Dragons has done a great job with its new single, harkening back to its indie rock roots. With its unique drumming and guitar riffs, this song is weaved together well, but it lacks the punch and imagination of some other Imagine Dragons most recognizable songs.

This song by the famed alternative rock group has an older feel to it, focusing on acoustics and taking on a slower pace. Although the words are heavy with meaning, the song ultimately transitions a bit too slowly, which causes it to become a bit repetitive and boring as it progresses.

Speaking of a blast to the past, your “Heartbeat” might just stop at your first listen of this old school Kelly Clarkson single. This song isn’t anything particularly special persay, but it does give the Kidz Bop Kids some fresh material to work with and that is something we are all thankful for.

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Eagles keep rolling along vs. Tigers, extend unbeaten streak A blizzard couldn’t slow down BC, as the women’s hockey team wins yet another game By John Pugh Heights Staff Not even a forecast of blustering 75 mile per hour winds, 30-inches of snow, and a biting negative two degree wind chill could cool Boston College women’s hockey team fiery streak. The Eagles’ 4-2 effort over the Princeton Tigers extended both their win streak to 22, and their season-long unprecedented unbeaten streak to 25. Alex Carpenter and Haley Skarupa continued as the driving forces for the team’s success, as the former Olympian

found a pair of goals both coming from assists by her linemate. Senior Kate Leary, however, was the first and the last to score in this contest. After just six minutes of play, Leary received a pass up the near crease from freshman Tori Sullivan, who turned and found the open net to give BC the lead that lasted the rest of the first period. The Tigers were slow to offensive play, amounting just four shots through the first two periods of play—giving little work for freshman goaltender Katie Burt. With the opening puck drop of the

second period, Princeton looked to change that tune. The Tigers pounced on the unsuspecting Eagles defense, scoring their first goal of the game even before the clock ticked past 19 minutes. Kelsey Koelzer gave Princeton a tie game at one apiece, firing a laser from the point. But it takes more than a single goal to bring a 25-game unbeaten streak to a halt. BC’s defense shook off the shot and took matters into its own hands for vengeance. Mounting their own attack in the seventh minute, the Eagles defensemen brought the puck across the blue line, where freshman Megan Keller sent a puck towards Skarupa at the top of the slot who shot towards the screening

freshman Kenzie Kent. The puck then took a good bounce towards Carpenter at the top of the crease—she pushed it up high over the goaltender’s left shoulder. Carpenter tacked another rebound goal onto the lead in the period’s waning minutes, but just a few minutes later, Leary matched Carpenter’s two goals with another of her own to end the second. Carpenter is alone in her pursuit of a new program record for the longest point streak. With a point in her next game, she is tied with the current holder (who happens to be herself ) at 24 games. And with the way this BC team is playing, she just might make it all the way to 30. For the second consecutive game, the Eagles struggled with penalties, leading to a pair of 5-on-3 situations for the Tigers.

Princeton managed one goal on four penalties, but Burt left the third with another nine saves as BC’s stellar penalty kill shut the door on the Tigers’ hope of a third period rally. BC’s third period struggles with discipline have yet to have major repercussions, but if the team wants to make it past a strong Boston University team in three weeks’ time, BC may have to consider making some adjustments. With the win over Quinnipiac last weekend, the Terriers are the only true obstacle in the way of an unbeaten regular season for the Eagles. Before that time comes, however, the Eagles head down to Rhode Island for a Friday evening game against the Providence College Friars.n

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Alex Carpenter and Kate Leary led the charge for the Eagles in this one, as each accounted for two goals. If she notches a point in her next game, Carpenter will break her own record for points in consecutive games.

Since playing street hockey in Lynn, Burt dreamed of BC From Burt, B8 For Burt, however, other people’s impressions have meant little to her success. Her entire career has revolved around proving her age and gender mean little in the game. Burt stopped her first shots playing with her brother and his friends in the streets of Lynn—a suburb 10 miles out of Boston. It was just for fun, until one of her friends needed a goalie for his team. He had a fairly easy time choosing who would strap up the pads. Oh, Katie’s a pretty good goalie, they said, so they stuck her in the net. Burt proved capable in more than just hockey. Jeff Earp, her baseball coach—yes, baseball, not softball—recalled some of Burt’s best career moments on the diamond. He recalls her first year of the majors level of Little League. On Opening Day, she hammered a moonshot over the outfield wall. This was the first of many homers she’d hit—Katie led her league that year as a 10-year-old playing with boys as old as 12. She also had the most votes for the league’s all-star team—in fact, she dominated in that category each year she played. “Every single year in baseball, she was the best player in the league for her age,” Earp said. Burt also assumed the role of vocal team leader. One day, after a disappointing practice, she angrily looked at Earp while he prepared the field before a game. “Coach, we gotta run because the team wasn’t hustling,” she said. Instantly, she lined the boys up on the foul line for suicides. And off they ran right behind her. As she got older, when baseball became softball, Burt realized the relaxed pace of America’s Pastime just wasn’t for her—she needed the thrill of the ice. Burt started in goal for Winthrop/ Lynn, the town’s high school women’s team, in the sixth grade. Her highlight game came in eighth grade, when she led the Lady Bulldogs to the state semifinals. Burt staved off 31 shots from a powerful Hingham team in the first two periods alone. Although Winthrop/ Lynn lost 4-3 in an overtime shootout, it was her resiliency that got her team to that point. “We knew that if we were going to win, Katie Burt was going to steal it for

us,” Bulldogs coach Anthony Martucci told ESPN. She later transferred to Buckingham Browne & Nichols, a prep school in Cambridge, during her freshman year of high school. BB&N, however, turn out to be just another stepping stone in

Burt’s hockey career. She achieved her lifelong dream when she committed to play for Crowley her sophomore year, following in the footsteps of her biggest inspiration by playing for BC. Growing up, Burt watched in awe at the prowess of Cory Schneider, cur-

rently of the New Jersey Devils and arguably one of the best goaltenders in Eagles history, as he powered BC to back-to-back National Championship Games in 2006 and 2007. From the way he played, she knew that she needed to take the ice at Kelley Rink one day. “I

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Burt has the strongest statline in college hockey right now: a .984 goals against average, six shutouts, and a .948 save percentage.

definitely think he helped me out with my love for Boston College,” Burt said. “I grew up watching him and always wanted to be here.” The accolades kept coming her junior year, when Burt made the U.S. U-18 National Team for the first time, leaving Budapest with a silver medal—the third in a row for Team USA against its formidable rivals from the north. The gold medal game, however, did not feature Burt between the pipes—Erin O’Neil played well, but not well enough for a USA victory. That changed in 2015. Burt again made the U-18 Team, this time as the primary goaltender. With Burt in net for the final game, America took home gold over Canada on its home turf in Buffalo, N.Y. She was later named as one of the top players in the tournament by her coaches. Although she recognizes the honor of donning the stars and stripes, Burt still had a child-like enthusiasm when on Team USA. In the first round, the Americans faced off against Canada in another tight matchup—tied at one, the game came down to a shootout. After a Jincy Dunne goal put the US up 1-0 in the shootout, Burt stuffed Elizabeth Giguere’s attempt, holing up the bottom left side of the net with her pad. Immediately after, Burt went over to the U.S. bench, fired-up and giving high-fives down the line. She brings a similar attitude to BC. No, you won’t find her screaming or dancing around on tables. Burt is very collected, reflecting her demeanor on the ice, but her cool personality boosts the team’s morale and makes the locker room more fun, according to her teammates. Earp struggled to find a word to describe Burt, eventually settling on “coach”—for her poise and ability to lead, he said. Crowley called her “athletic,” noting how Burt has performed on the ice. BC captain Erin Kickham summed it up most simply: “The best way to describe her is just Burt.” Katie falls quickly into the butterfly position, knees out to deflect the puck in opposite directions if she goes low, glove up and ready if she shoots high. Connery desperately rockets another shot in her direction. Burt nonchalantly snatches it out of the air—as it falls safely into her glove, she steps up, one skate at a time, and looks down at the puck. “Burt! Burt! Burt! Burt!” n

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Women’s hockey won its toughest game to date as it topped No. 3 Quinnipiac by a score of 2-1. Men’s hockey exacted revenge on UConn, beating the Huskies 3-2 at Conte Forum. Women’s basketball collapsed down the stretch and dropped a close contest to Pitsburgh, 78-70. In the Battle for New York, the red-hot Islanders beat the Rangers at the Nassau Coliseum 4-1 to extend its Metropolitan Division lead.

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Men’s Hockey: No. 14 BC vs. No. 12 Providence

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No. 12 Providence College will travel to Chestnut Hill to take on the No. 14 Eagles this Friday night for a critical Hockey East matchup, as only two points separate the top-five teams. After a weekend sweep of then No. 5 UMass Lowell, the Friars jumped up from No. 18 to No. 12 in the latest rankings. Meanwhile, the Eagles have moved up five spots to No. 14 after a back to back wins over Merrimack and UConn. The game features two of the most most talented U.S. goaltenders: Jon Gillies and Thatcher Demko.

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This Week’s Games

Sports Editor

Women’s Basketball: BC @ No. 16 N. Carolina Super Bowl XLIX: Patriots vs. Seahawks

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RYAN DOWD Arts and Review Editor

The time is right to renew the BC-Connecticut rivalry From Column, B8 a majority of the first two periods. Images of UConn’s upset victory in early November undoubtedly flashed through the heads of Superfans, a game in which 8,089 spectators packed the XL Center to watch goaltender Rob Nichols put on a clinic and shut out the Eagles. This time, Ryan Fitzgerald was too much for the Huskies to handle. His three-goal outburst paced the Eagles en route to their eighth win in 10 games, while the Huskies were sent back to Storrs with a quality game under their belts but no win to show for it. The environment at Kelley Rink was the best of the season, other than the Boston University game. The stands were full (for the second and third periods, at least) and the student section grew louder with every ring of the sieve cowbell. And the occasional cheers from the noticeable contingent of UConn fans only made BC fans want to drown out their words even more. It was college hockey at its finest, and it’ll be happening much more often from this point on. If this admittedly small sample size has shown us anything, it’s that the time is right for BC and UConn to come together again. The potential in a consistent series between the schools is too good to ignore, especially because BC is lacking

a local rival in the ACC. Presently, the closest school to Boston in the ACC is Syracuse, which is over 300 miles away. While DiFilippo might have thought it to be a good thing was all alone in New England, it’s hurting BC Athletics in the end. Now, there’s obviously the logistical challenge of either scheduling non-conference matchups with UConn or getting it into the ACC. It will likely take a current ACC member to leave or the University of Notre Dame to—by some miracle—join the conference in football. Should that happen, it would make sense to invite the Huskies, despite the current state of their football program—UConn did make a BCS bowl just five years ago. While UConn deserves to be in the ACC, it is tough to imagine a conference change in the immediate plans for the Huskies, so it seems more likely to start with non-conference scheduling. BC can extend an olive branch to UConn by proposing just that, and hopefully, with Calhoun gone, the Huskies can find it in their hearts to forgive the Eagles. BC and the UConn have been through the separation, the divorce, and the “seeing other people” phases. Now it’s time to make up.

Tom DeVoto is the Asst. Sports Editor for The Heights. He can be reached at sports@bcheights.com

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Behind Aaron Brown, the Eagles put up one of their best fights of the season, but the No. 10-ranked Cardinals proved too much to handle.

Jones, Rozier each score over 20 points to push Cardinals past BC From Men’s basketball, B8

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red-hot Cardinals, though. Louisville finished the game shooting 58 percent from the field, and even one of BC’s best offensive games couldn’t match that type of output. Despite the numerous key stops that the Eagles came up with, they were more than a few steals or defensive rebounds away from going ahead. In the end, this game turned out to be BC’s worse defensive display based on opponent’s shooting percentage, with some of that being caused by breakdowns and some by the lights-out shooting from the Cardinals. After Virginia head coach Tony Ben-

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nett said that BC was the toughest prep his team had all year, Pitino agreed after watching six tapes of the Eagles. Even though a lot of focus was put on Christian’s new-look defense in the game, Pitino was full of praise for BC’s offense. “BC’s offensive schemes are off the charts,” Pitino said. “They do things that great teams don’t do, and they are a nightmare to guard. Fortunately for us, we play great offense also.” For all the firepower and defensive strategy that BC brought to the court, the Cardinals out-maneuvered the Eagles every time. Matching the Eagles blowfor-blow, Louisville’s dynamic offense spearheaded by Jones and Rozier and

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bolstered by Mathiang and Harrell proved too deadly for Christian’s team. The fatal wounds came in the form of two daggers from Jones from behind the arc. With five minutes left, Hanlan missed a game-tying free throw, and in the next two minutes, Jones buried two 3-pointers. The rest of the game followed much like the Virginia game. BC slipped as Louisville took control. When Hanlan fouled out, the Eagles could not come back. For all the Napoleon-esque warfare that BC wages against far superior opponents, the Eagles will eventually march into Russia and then meet their Waterloo, falling victim to the larger armies of UVA and Louisville.

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Rookie of the Year

A case for a new rivalry with UConn Tom DeVoto

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The numbers tell the story: Katie Burt is BC’s best freshman on the ice this year By Michael Sullivan Sports Editor A crowd right in front of the goal, sticks all ready for the feed from the boards. Pushing and shoving, all screening the view of the girl at the gate. Nicole Connery took a lucky bounce off the pass from Emma Woods, and softly popped it into the back of the net. Just like that, the No.1 Boston College women’s hockey team found itself in an unfamiliar position—leading by one with the momentum swayed in the other direction and plenty of time for Quinnipiac to tie. “Burt! Burt! Burt! Burt!” Screams echoed from Katie Crowley’s bench, aimed towards the far side of Kelley Rink. Voices in the sparse crowd perked up too, not wanting this to be the day such a magnificent streak fell to the inevitable transience of perfection in the sports world. All shouting in support of their

team’s dominant gatekeeper, who, for a brief second—and for the first time in this game—looked like a mere mortal. Their cries did not go unanswered. The air felt more tense than normal for BC in its Saturday afternoon matchup against No. 3 Quinnipiac. The Eagles—the nation’s top offense, averaging almost a goal more per game than No. 2 Minnesota—only mustered two goals, but with a six-on-five advantage, the Bobcats looked poised to dampen the hopes of an undefeated season in Chestnut Hill. But a last minute comeback did not come for Quinnipiac. In fact, it hardly had a chance of starting. Not considering who was between the pipes. Meet Katie Burt: starting goaltender for the nation’s top hockey team, and the best freshman hockey player at BC. Yes, that’s right. Not Zach Sanford or Alex

Tuch, each of whom already were drafted by NHL teams. Not even the highly touted Noah Hanifin. It’s the rookie from the women’s team who tops them all. You’ve most likely never heard of her, but it’s time to take notice—Sports Illustrated has, featuring her in its magazine. Twice. The numbers say it all. Six shutouts. A .984 goals against average. An NCAA-best .948 save percentage. A 21-0-1 record, abbreviated only by a detour with the United States U-18 National Team, one recently coming off a World Championship—all after skipping her senior year of high school. Even Burt’s coach can’t believe it. “Coming in as a 17-year-old, her demeanor, how she handles herself in tight games, in games that we’re winning, it doesn’t change,” Crowley said. “She still stays focused and I’ve been very impressed with that.”

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Brown’s 28 points fail to slow down No. 10 Louisville By Jack Stedman Assoc. Sports Editor For the Boston College men’s basketball team, the forward marches and attacks are long and glorious, but only temporary. The back-and-forth nature of the season has been approximately 75 percent attack and 25 percent retreat, meaning the Eagles will battle with the best for the majority of the game, only to falter against the final push of the opponent. Things were no different against No. 10 Louisville, as BC stuck around for a long while until falling late to the Cardinals, 81-72. While head coach Jim Christian and the Eagles have focused on the defensive side of the ball for much of the season and Rick Pitino’s Cardinals are noted for their swarming press and attack-minded defense, the matchup on Wednesday night snowballed into a shot-for-shot contest. A plethora of 3-pointers, and-ones, and other flourishes of brilliance from BC were all matched on the other end. Early on, the Eagles did a tremendous job of breaking Louisville’s vaunted press. Two Louisville players in particular— Chris Jones and Terry Rozier—crushed any hopes of a BC breakthrough all night. “Jones and Rozier have been spectacular,” Pitino said after the game. “They’re in a class by themselves. They’re playing great basketball and doing it in the clutch, and the most impressive thing is how many minutes they play.” Feeding off each other the whole game,

the two guards played 37 and 38 minutes, respectively, but the quickness was still there in each step, even down the stretch. The tandem combined for an incredible 67.8 shooting percentage, including five-of-seven from 3-point range. Jones finished the night with 28 points, with Rozier right behind him at 23. “I’ve never seen two guards play the amount of minutes they play with the amount of intensity they play for an entire game,” Christian said. “It’s really special to watch.” While the game was close until the very end, it was tied only twice, and the lead never changed from the hands of the Cardinals into BC’s pocket. From the start, just as they did against the University of Virginia, the Eagles played well behind the likes of guards Aaron Brown and Olivier Hanlan, who were supported by the role players Patrick Heckmann and Will Magarity. This time, however, Hanlan went from field general to second-in-command, handing the scoring touch over to Brown while he provided the boost from behind. While he only finished with 11 points, he matched a season-high with nine assists. The fifth-year guard, on the other hand, shot a remarkable five-of-12 from long-distance, finishing with a seasonhigh 28 points. Magarity, tasked with fending off the monstrous duo of Montrezl Harrell and Mangok Mathiang, produced one of his best games of the season as well, even if the stat line only shows nine points and six boards. Coming up with a big 3-pointer early on, the Swede’s ability to stretch the

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floor and shoot the ball forced Louisville out to the perimeter on defense. BC threw everything it could at the Cardinals, including a brand new zone defense that was only introduced in a walk-through on Monday. The unconventional 3-2 zone worked to negate the flexible zone offense that looks to stretch the defense out. Having three guards on

top rather than two prevents the ball from getting into the lanes and alleys. Only briefly did the Eagles resort to man-to -man midway through the second half. The system change on D, and all the other little things that BC does to make it a tough opponent, could not stop the

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Boston College and the University of Connecticut have a shared history in athletics, though little has taken place on the playing field in the past decade. It started when BC decided to bolt from the Big East to the ACC in 2003, leaving UConn and the rest of the league in its trail. Former Huskies basketball coach Jim Calhoun said he would never schedule another game against the Eagles because of the way in which they left the conference. BC’s administration insisted this was the best business move for the school, and it wasn’t personal in the slightest. A suit was filed against BC and the other schools that left the Big East for conspiring with the ACC to deplete their former conference. Nevertheless, BC charged onward. Conference realignment in 2011 made a renewed rivalry possible, when UConn was rumored to be a favorite to receive an invitation to join the ACC. Then inexplicably, the ACC changed its mind. According to a report from The Boston Globe, BC was responsible for blocking the move because, as former Director of Athletics Gene DiFilippo stated, BC “wanted to be the New England team.” Pittsburgh was invited instead, and the Huskies were left to join the newlyformed American Athletic Conference, home to “renowned powerhouses” Tulane and Tulsa. UConn is not in a bad place athletically, considering championships last year in men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and field hockey, but the American can’t hold a candle to the ACC. So here we are now—UConn is halfway through its inaugural season in the Hockey East, alongside the Eagles for the first time since they were Big East partners. The two teams just wrapped up their season series, with each school winning its home game. BC-UConn games this season have been scrappy, hard-nosed, and a hell of a lot of fun. It brought out the best of each team, a fact readily apparent to anyone in attendance. It makes you wonder what could have been over the past 10 years. BC did not have a great basketball team, but you wouldn’t have been able to tell on that November night in the Big Apple. In front of a national television audience, the Eagles hung tight with the eventual national champion Huskies for the whole game, even getting a chance to win at the buzzer. That 2013 2K Sports Classic semifinal, a two-point loss for the Eagles against the No. 18 Huskies at Madison Square Garden, was the first matchup between the teams in a major sport since the split—and it was one of the best games the series had to offer. Ryan Anderson and Olivier Hanlan led the Eagles, but Shabazz Napier and DeAndre Daniels rallied the Huskies to victory in the final minutes. It was a classic showdown at “The World’s Most Famous Arena,” a back-and-forth battle on a grand stage, indicative of the animosity that had built up over the decade apart. Following the game, current UConn head coach Kevin Ollie told reporters, “That was like an old BC-UConn rivalry.” Maybe a return to the good ol’ days is just what BC needed. UConn does not have a great hockey team, but you wouldn’t have been able to tell last Saturday night at Conte Forum. The Eagles outplayed UConn in the opening minutes, but the troublesome Huskies took advantage of their few opportunities, holding a lead for

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Brown’s career day greatly surpassed his season average of 14.7 points per game.

Women’s hockey: Eagles slide by Princeton

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