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Where to Go for a Cup of Joe A4-A7 Public Meeting Held Over Seizing University Land Newton Mayor Ruthanne Fuller asked the CPC for $15.7 mil.

By Gavin Zhang For The Heights

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Klavan Event Met With Student Protest

Over 100 students objected to Klavan’s Tuesday appearance.

By Scott Baker Copy Editor

Owen Fahy Asst. News Editor and Megan Kelly

For The Heights Andrew Klavan, a conservative author and talk show host, was met by mass protest at his Tuesday lecture, titled “The Art of Being Free.” In the days leading up to his appearance, several student groups had

objected to his history of Islamophobic, racist, sexist, and homophobic comments. He spoke to a Higgins classroom of 50 students, the vast majority of whom were members of the Boston College Republicans.

The BC Republicans-sponsored event—which had been moved to a smaller classroom due to delays in the approval process—began 15 minutes early, shutting out many of the students who had hoped to protest from inside.

Instead, large numbers of students had gathered in the hallway outside to chant, clap, and stomp, as well as occasionally pound on the windows, doors, and walls of the room. The talk was nearly inaudible in the back of the classroom for a large portion of its duration due to the protests.

Luis Duran, president of BC Republicans and MCAS ’21, began the night by saying that he and BC Republicans had been the target of criticism he viewed as unfair.

“We’ve been accused of being things which we are not,” Duran said. “We have been accused of harboring hatreds which we do not. We have been told that our actions are dangerous to others, which they are not … We’ve been slandered, verbally attacked, humiliated … And why? Well, because we dared to decide and speak. Because we dared exercise our God-given right to free speech.”

Duran did not respond to a request for comment.

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ResLife Begins Analyzing Survey Results Initial findings have shown satisfaction with RAs, security.

By Madeleine Romance Asst. Investigative Editor and Haley Hockin

For The Heights The Office of Residential Life has begun analyzing the executive summary from the Residential Life Assessment survey it conducted last spring—the first of its kind since 2008. Boston College plans to use the responses to compare its dorms to competitors universities’.

Dorrie Siquerios, director of Residential Life, and Greg Jones, director of Housing Operations at the Office of Residential Life, explained that the decision to revive the survey again was largely motivated by the desire to fill the gap of data the school had regarding residential life.

“We were going through a review for something else and we realized we had nothing to point to if we wanted to know what people’s experiences were across the years,” Siquerios said. “When we look to make improvements, we do want to see the things we do well and have some data on that.”

“The program allows us to compare ourselves to other institutions similar to Boston College whether that’s other research universities, universities located in

New England, and other universities that might be a little different than us but that we aspire to be more like,” Jones said.

The University currently compares data from its surveys to schools such as Northwestern University, University of Miami, New York University, using Skyfall, a survey collection tool for colleges and universities, according to Siquerios and Jones, Siquerios explained that the widespread use of the program helps it function as a longitudinal study.

The Residential Life Assessment focused on two major areas: learning and satisfaction. The survey mostly looks to collect data surrounding what skills a student is gaining

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Administrators Share Vision of Schiller The forum highlighted the interdisciplinary goals of the institute.

By Madeleine Romance Asst. Investigative Editor Students and administrators gathered Wednesday for the first Student-Administrator Forum of the semester to discuss the upcoming Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society. Tom Chiles, vice provost for Research and Academic Planning, and Sunand Bhattacharya, associate vice provost of Design and Innovation Strategies, joined a panel of students to talk about the future of STEM programs at Boston College.

In his presentation, Chiles recalled the

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moment four years ago when he began thinking about what building a STEM institute like Schiller would do for BC. He realized it could be an opportunity for the University to provide students with a “completely unique” and “transformative” experience that links the entire campus together, not just those involved with STEM. “[Schiller will cause a] shift on this campus as to how we think about learning [and] how we think about developing the whole person beyond an academic standpoint,” Chiles said. “How we get students to start thinking about design in the sense of the process, not just physically putting things together.”

He explained that the key principle at the heart of Schiller is “integration across disciplines.”

The building is set to open by fall 2021, but several Schiller-related programs have

The Community Preservation Committee (CPC) of Newton held a public hearing session regarding taking Webster Woods from Boston College through eminent domain on Wednesday night. Mayor Ruthanne Fuller first announced her plans to secure funds for the acquisition in September. The mayor has requested $15.7 million from the CPC to take the woods.

Alice Ingerson, CPC staff members, and other sponsors of the acquisition program gave brief presentations about the timeline of events for acquiring Webster Woods, and the means and potential effects of taking the land via eminent domain.

Lisle Baker, Ward 7 councilor—where Webster Woods is located—represented the City Council at the hearing. Baker said that in 2015 the City Council—then the Board of Aldermen—passed a unanimous resolution

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First Circuit Hears Fair Process Case Against BC The plaintiff has argued that BC’s process is flawed.

By Jack Miller News Editor A panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit heard arguments for the lawsuit against Boston College that could reshape how private universities investigate cases of sexual assault on Tuesday.

The plaintiff in the case, a BC studentathlete going by the pseudonym “John Doe,” had been suspended in June after the University found him responsible last November for sexually assaulting another student, “Jane Roe.” The University’s investigation said that Doe had engaged in a non-consensual sexual encounter with Roe while she was intoxicated, although it did not find that he had known or should have reasonably known that she was incapacitated by alcohol. Rather, the investigators concluded that Roe did not give “clear and voluntary agree-

already launched, including the Global Public Health minor and the Innovation through Design Thinking course. The Shea Center for Entrepreneurship, an already established program, will also move to Schiller so that students with skills in business and management can also develop a “mindset of innovation,” Chiles said.

Chiles, who has worked at BC since 1992, observed that students come to campus with concrete ideas about how to change the world. The University’s response should be to help students gain the skills necessary to do that, he said.

“We have a responsibility as a University to help you achieve that and to give you the tools you will need,” Chiles said. “We’re going to get you going on the way. We’re going to catalyze that much sooner than it would’ve

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urging the mayor to preserve the Webster Woods. Baker requested that the CPC vote to support the acquisition, so that the City Council can vote on it.

Thomas Keady Jr., vice president of the Office of Governmental and Community Affairs at BC, represented BC at the hearing, speaking on behalf of University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J. Keady said that BC contributes to the city in various ways, from its economic ties with the city to the thousands of student volunteer hours spent in the city.

Keady spoke of the $5 million BC spent for renovations and the $1.5 million already used to repair a broken sewer line, as well as how the University’s project of constructing a road salt storage facility was previously approved by the city. He also said that the city has other municipal projects that compete for funds with the acquisition of Webster Woods.

“With all the serious financial issues facing the City of Newton such as unresolved Newton teachers’ contract as well as other unions, unfunded pension liabilities,

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ment” to sexual intercourse, a separate issue from her level of intoxication, according to court documents.

After BC denied his appeal, Doe took the case to court, primarily arguing that the University’s “single investigator model” had violated the principle of fundamental fairness. The heart of the complaint is that Doe did not have an opportunity to present questions for the investigators to ask of Roe and other witnesses.

The University’s model utilizes a pair of investigators—in this case Assistant Dean of Students Kristen O’Driscoll and external investigator Jennifer Davis—who interviewed Doe, Roe, and 17 other witnesses. They also reviewed EagleID records, Uber receipts, several photos and videos of Roe taken throughout the night, and text messages sent by the two parties to other students, according to the investigatory report, which BC submitted as evidence.

Massachusetts common law holds that all contracts contain and inherent promise of fundamental fairness. The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has also

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Seminoles Fend Off BC’s Fourth-Quarter Comeback

D.J. Matthews had a 60-yard score with 1:48 to go, and FSU pulled away from BC. INDEX

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Ahmet T. Kuru will talk about his new book Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison, today at 5:30 in Higgins 310.

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IEW to Focus on Environment The Office of International Programs (OIP) and the Office of International Students and Scholars (OISS) will launch Boston College’s 10th annual International Education Week (IEW) today, Nov. 11. This year’s iteration addresses environmental justice, according to Nick Gozik, director of OIP. IEW is an important initiative because it helps students learn more about international approaches to pressing issues, rather than viewing them from the United States’ perspective, according to Gozik.

Students with global experience, such as international students or undergraduates enrolled in study abroad programs, and those who have never left the United States, can benefit from IEW programming.

“We want to make sure all BC students, staff, and faculty have the opportunity to be part of [and] benefit from internationalization and to learn from others,” he said.

Gozik said that the theme— “Global Environmental (In)Justice: How D o We Resp ond?”—came about after BC’s International Education Committee looked at what BC students have shown interest in addressing in recent years.

“Each year we sit around and we look at what are the main themes that have been discussed on campus, what matters to people,” Gozik said. “Questions of climate change, questions of pollution, questions of all these different factors are being discussed [at the] clinical level.”

Their goal is to focus on climate change and pollution on the international stage, but tie it to the local level, according to Gozik.

He noted that, while important, science is not everything when it comes to this conversation—the conversation also needs to include how environmental trends affect human lives and communities across the planet. “[We are] thinking about marginalized communities,” Gozik said.

“And that could be locally, that can be in the Boston area, that can be nationally, or it can be internationally. So each of these different levels becomes relevant in this global conversation.”

NeuroBoston Comes to Campus Boston College hosted a neuroscience symposium on Thursday in conjunction with the new neuroscience major, which launched this fall under the psychology department.

The symposium featured keynote speakers Rebecca Shansky, a psychology professor at Northeastern University, and Ziv Williams, a neurosurgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital.

B o s to n A re a N e u ro s c i e n ce Group, a chapter of the national Society for Neuroscience, brought local researchers together for the event. The Society for Neuroscience is the nation’s largest neuroscience organization—it brings together researchers and physicians to discuss the field’s latest developments.

The symposium was part of the Neuroscience in the Liberal Arts (NiLA) series at BC, which aims to attract neuroscience leaders who have succeeded in the research and academic fields to help attract attention to the new major, according to a University press release.

“Establishing the neuroscience bachelor of science major addresses a longstanding student demand for the program, capitalizes on departmental strengths, and puts the University on par with many peer institutions,” John Christianson, an associate professor of psychology, said in a University release.

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Gabrielle Oliveira, Maheen Haider, and Elitsa Molles will be taking part in a panel titled “The Immigrant and Refugee Experience” today at 7 p.m. in Stokes South 117.

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Farmers from Puerto Rico and Honduras will talk about the impact of climate change on their work at 12 p.m. on Wednesday in Gasson 100.

Social Work Researchers Partner With LEGO

By Julia Kiersznowski For The Heights And Nadine Akkawi For The Heights The LEGO Foundation recently awarded a grant of $3.2 million to the Boston College School of Social Work’s Research Program on Children and Adversity (RPCA) as part of the foundation’s Playful Parenting initiative.

The program primarily researches the developmental risks of children who have faced poverty and other conflicts, according to Jordan Farrar, associate director of the program.

Primarily operating in Rwanda and Sierra Leone, RPCA’s research assess community needs. One of RPCA’s main methods of research is through interventions, meaning it sends trained professionals to meet with children and their caregivers.

“We go through effectiveness trials over evidence-based interventions with the hope that we can translate those interventions into policy or into mainstream services,” Farrar said.

Farrar explained how in one recent project RPCA conducted a longitudinal and intergenerational study of child soldiers in Sierra Leone following the end of the country’s civil war in 2002.

The researchers performed psychosocial

assessments on reintegrated youth who were affected by the war at four different periods in their lives. This type of study represents RPCA’s approach to all of its research, Farrar explained.

“This is how organizations begin to craft programs,” Farrar said. “If they understand that these individuals experienced a certain type of trauma, then they can provide directed services.”

Over time, RPCA was able to collect data on how war experiences influence interactions between people, from caregivers to intimate partners to children.

Farrar said RPCA’s research showed them that traumatic experiences encountered during one’s youth leads to difficulties stabilizing emotions and stress later in life.

RPCA’s research is completely grantfunded, meaning in order to get funding, the program needs to submit proposals to potential sponsors. It was LEGO’s Playful Parenting Initiative—which aims to redefine play as a necessary part of the learning process—that drew LEGO to RPCA’s proposal given its recent success in Rwanda, Farrar said.

“Our family home-visiting intervention had gone through two pilots, and we had just wrapped a scale up study that involved 1,049 families at the time when we were starting to interact with LEGO,” Farrar said. “We had done those initial analyses and had seen positive impact

in the families on our core constructs in primary outcomes.”

RPCA plans to use the money from the LEGO grant for a new research project in Rwanda that will focus on the districts of Ngoma, Rubavu, and Nyanza. The group of researchers includes interventionists, mentors, trainers, and district officials, all of whom will directly interact with caregivers in Rwanda.

“The LEGO Foundation aims to build a future in which learning through play empowers all children to become creative, engaged, lifelong learners,” Sarah Bouchie, head of Global Programs at the LEGO Foundation, said in a University release.

“Primary caregivers are fundamental to this aim, as they are critical to their children’s development. We are proud to partner with UNICEF, ChildFund International, RPCA at the Boston College School of Social Work, and Save the Children on this important initiative to help parents across the world incorporate playful learning in their daily lives.”

The job of the interventionists will be to actively coach caregivers in their district on how to properly care for their children. Farrar said that something that will make this particular study unique is that interventionists will set aside 15 minutes per coaching session to have the caregivers play with their children.

The interventionist will watch and coach

the caregiver on how to most effectively play with their child in order to foster development and learning. This added element of play, Farrar said, is one reason the LEGO Foundation was attracted to their project.

Farrar pointed out that, although national governments often say they want to roll out certain projects, there is often a disconnect between their goals and what actually happens in communities. Because of this, RPCA will actively ensure the continuation of effective communication at all levels of the government in Rwanda. It will accomplish this by scheduling frequent meetings with interventionalists across all three districts to share the knowledge and data they have gathered.

Farrar said that the end goal of this project is to be able to present a plan to Rwanda’s government on how to most effectively coach caregivers. She said that, in the end, RPCA wishes to remove itself from the equation and to have the Rwandan government control the instructing of caregiving.

Farrar expressed that RPCA is extremely excited about partnering with the LEGO Foundation.

“One of the great things about partnering with an organization like LEGO is that they’re very much in tune to the Rwandan context and culture, so they’re a very engaged funder,” Farrar said. n

Perrault Hopes to Make Diversity of Voices Heard

By Abby Hunt Assoc. News Editor When Laura Perrault, MCAS ’21, first arrived at Boston College, she struggled to understand the discussion surrounding the need for increased diversity on campus.

Her New Hampshire hometown provided a homogenous contrast with life in Chestnut Hill, so it took her some time to realize the difficulties that students from more diverse communities were experiencing.

But rather than letting these differences discourage her, Perrault let it drive her developing interest in issues surrounding diversity and intersectionality. One of BC’s weaknesses, she said, is that students who think these issues don’t apply to them tend to forget they exist at all.

“The diversity aspect might not play a huge role in every part of my life at BC—I don’t experience it every day—[but] that doesn’t mean I can’t help someone else who is experiencing those hardships,” Perrault said.

New to the Undergraduate Government of BC this year, Perrault now serves as the chair of the Intersectional Experience

Committee. Under the new structure of the UGBC senate, Intersectional Experience is one of the two umbrellas under which senators are grouped—Institutional Innovation is the other.

The Intersectional Experience committee deals with areas of racial and cultural inclusion, LGBTQ+ inclusion and gender inclusion, accessibility, socioeconomic inclusion, religious inclusion, and mental health.

The new structure has been working well thus far, Perrault said.

“It seems like a natural structure to me, because as a part of my committee I have six subdivisions … and so I feel like it’s just a ton of different types of students that we’re reaching out to, but they all kind of relate to each other,” she said.

One big initiative the Intersectional Experience committee is trying to push is getting feedback from students on what they would like to see change on campus, Perrault said. The senators are going to start tabling on campus to ask students about what can be improved at BC, and they are also going to try adding a link on the weekly UGBC newsletter that will allow people to submit

anonymous feedback.

The senators also plan to talk to representatives from different organizations that relate to their respective designations. The LGBTQ+ and gender senators, for example, will be talking to the GLBTQ+ Leadership Council (GLC) and the Women’s Center to see what the biggest needs of the students they interact with on campus are.

“It’s up to every senator how they want to approach it,” she said. “Because, for example, [with] LGBTQ, tabling might not be the best approach to reaching out to that community.

It might be going into safe spaces and finding out who they work with and then talking to them through there.”

Once the senators have this feedback, they will be ready to sit down and figure out what resolutions and initiatives they can create to help students feel more included on campus, Perrault said.

The committee is also working on scheduling networking nights for first-generation college students, as well as workshops to help students learn American Sign Language.

“I think that’s something that kind of like gets swept under the rug as far as accessibility—people don’t think about nonverbal

communication techniques,” Perrault said.

Perrault described herself as a bridge between her committee’s senators and Michael Osaghae, UGBC president and MCAS ’20, and Tiffany Brooks, UGBC vice president and MCAS ’21, who have formal meetings with members of the administration about the issues UGBC wants to address.

“None of these things are going to come to fruition until we have the administration behind us, and, obviously, there are certain administrators that are better for certain issues as far as rallying behind us,” she said.

“If they feel super passionate about it, we want to include them.”

At the end of the semester, Perrault will be passing the baton as chair of Intersectional Experience to John Gehman, MCAS ’21, who will be returning from a semester abroad. But Perrault—who will still be on campus—said she’s eager to continue helping out with the initiatives that she’s started, even when she is no longer formally the committee chair. “[In] the end, I hope that ... some students on campus feel as though an initiative passed by UGBC helped them feel more included,” Perrault said. n

Graduate Schools Unite on Palliative Care Program

By Eric Shea For The Heights Boston College is now offering an Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Certificate (IDPCC) for graduate students in the Connell School of Nursing, School of Social Work, and the School of Theology and Ministry. The program aims to attract individuals who have experience in or exposure to hospice care, according to Teresa Schirmer, associate dean of the School of Social Work.

CSON professor Susan DeSantoMadeya will direct the program, although the certificate is awarded by BC—rather than through any of the three schools— upon completion.

Schirmer said that it is important that palliative caregivers receive an interdisciplinary education because it’s sometimes difficult for care providers to address the variety of concerns that patients may have

as they approach the end of their lives.

Palliative care helps patients with chronic or fatal illnesses address physical pain and mental stress, and it often encompasses early stages, such as identification, as well as assisting families with their distress, Schirmer said.

“That’s where the nursing, the theology, and the social work really complement each other because a social worker may come in and talk about how it’s impacting the family, how it’s impacting the person, what their wishes and dreams are for the rest of their days, and nursing can also provide them with medical information,” Schirmer said.

Schirmer said the program will be a good opportunity to increase understanding between students of the three disciplines, as it will expose students to personnel in different fields that they will encounter on the job.

“I think all three treatment providers can really collaborate nicely in the

classroom and bring in their experiences,” Schirmer said. “These are all practical degrees, so people have been in the hospital, they’ve been in the community, they’ve worked with individuals. That pieces of it [are] going to make the conversation really rich in the classroom.”

Students will be encouraged to bring their personal experiences and insights to in-class discussions, Schimer said.

“If we give them this opportunity to collaborate with their future peers and colleagues, this is fabulous because I think there is going to be this respect, this understanding of how we all work together for the best interest of the patient,” Schimer said.

Recent trends in the industry have made palliative care training increasingly popular—the proportion of hospitals with palliative care programs tripled from 2000 to 2016, according to Schirmer.

The program is the brain child of Katie McInnis-Dittrich, a recently retired profes-

POLICE BLOTTER: 11/2/19 – 11/3/19

CORRECTIONS

Saturday, Nov. 2

Sunday, Nov. 3

12:22 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding an underage intoxicated person at Modular Apartments.

12:04 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding an underage intoxicated person at Modular Apartments.

1:31 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding malicious destruction of property under $1,200 at Duchesne West.

12:44 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding an intoxicated person of legal age.

1:20 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding an underage intoxicated person at Vanderslice Hall.

3:13 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding malicious destruction of property under $1,200 at Fenwick Hall.

6:45 p.m. - An officer field a report regarding a medical incident at health services.

sor in the School of Social Work, who was the driving force behind the development of the program, Schirmer said. McInnisDittrich holds a position of the advisory board for the certificate program.

“She has been a champion, working with older adults in the community and she knew that this was going on in the community and that we needed to train our students to work with nurses and pastoral care really effectively,” Schirmer said.

The certificate requires students to complete four courses, beginning with the School of Social Work’s Dying, Grief, and Bereavement class, which is required for all students. They can choose two or three electives in CSON: Serious Illness, Death, and Dying; Responding to Suffering in Serious Illness, Death, and Dying; and Interdisciplinary Leadership in Palliative Care. They must also take either Grief and Loss or Death and Dying from the School of Theology and Ministry. n

—Source: The Boston College Police Department

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Residents Attend Newton CPC Hearing Klavan Criticizes Media Webster Woods, from A1

we request the Community Preservation Committee reject the city’s proposal to use all of the Community Preservation Act to purchase Webster Woods,” Keady said.

The Friends of Webster Woods—an organization that aims to preserve the Webster Woods—voiced its support for taking the land via eminent domain.

“Rarely do you get a chance like this to protect such important land forever,” said Suzanne Berne, a Newton resident and BC professor in the English department. “The Friends of the Webster Woods and the people of Newton are counting on you to seize this opportunity.”

Richard D. Primack, a lifelong resident of Newton and professor of biology at Boston University, said that the Webster Woods are important for research because of its large habitat and wide array of species.

Mentioning several studies conducted in the woods by members of BU—one about bird behavior, another about pollution diminishing deeper in the woods, and one about noise pollution—Primack said that the woods have a research value that is not limited to its immediate peripherals, and constructions by BC will deprive the woods of such values.

“If these woods are fragmented by Boston College building at the center of them, their value for research and education will be greatly diminished,” Primack said.

BC has said it does not currently have

any plans for developing the land.

Representatives from two BC student organizations, EcoPledge and Climate Justice, voiced their support for the acquisition at the hearing as well. Stevie Walker, president of EcoPledge and MCAS ’21, and Kyle Rosenthal, representative for Climate Justice and CSOM ’21, spoke.

“Maintaining the continuity of the Webster conservation area is of the utmost importance and we deplore any decisions made by the Boston College administration to develop the property …” Walker said.

Peter Mahoney, a resident of Newton and BC ’87, said that he and his wife Joanne, BC ’87, received a letter signed by Leahy and Peter K. Markell, then-chairman of the BC Board of Trustees. The letter requested that they voice their support of the University on the matter and called the city’s actions “unfair” and “ill-advised,” Mahoney said.

Mahoney said that he refused to support the University because he found issues in the letter, citing among them BC’s lack of commitment to preserve the woods, its claim of financial strains incurred by the acquisition, and its inappropriate comparison between the price of developed campuses and undeveloped land.

“While I recognize the fact that the land transaction was not handled well by the city in the past, the city is now making a fair offer to an important partner and neighbor to preserve a critical resource for the future,” Mahoney said. “I implore BC to stand down from the fight for the greater good, or, as the Jesuit Latin scholars might

say, ad maius bonum.”

Justin Traxler, president of Newton Girls’ Soccer, spoke on behalf of several Newton athletic organizations. Due to the minimal attention received in the past decades, he said, the fields are in poor conditions. Traxler urged the city to invest more in these fields instead of using all of the money for Webster Woods.

“Hundreds of our youths play on these fields every day during spring and fall,” Traxler said. “We think that they deserve more. We think a small portion of the amount of money being allocated to this project could go an extremely long way in helping these athletics in our facilities.”

Dawn Davis, a Newton resident living on Prentice Road, said that she wants the woods to be preserved, but doesn’t understand why the city didn’t take actions to preserve them back in 2015, when BC bought the property. She is also concerned about the legal battles that might ensue after the acquisition, which will put extra burden on taxpayers. The possible effects on the public image of the city caused by the acquisition might also be an issue, Davis said.

“I’m hoping that there’s a bridge that we can get to that will help us avoid the legal battle and potentially the deterioration of [the relationship] with a good neighbor,” Davis said.

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Doe, BC Argue Before Panel of Judges First Circuit, from A1 euled multiple times that private colleges and universities have to provide students accused of sexual assault with basic fairness, rather than just following the letter of the contract. More recently, the First Circuit ruled in a separate suit against BC that colleges must provide “basic fairness” in the disciplinary process.

On Aug. 20, Judge Douglas P. Woodlock agreed and ordered BC to allow Doe to return to campus and register for classes this semester. In that hearing, Woodlock said that BC’s investigatory process did not thoroughly address questions of credibility because there was no opportunity for “realtime cross-examination.”

Woodlock likened fair process at private universities to the constitutional due process obligations of public universities.

He cited the recent First Circuit ruling in Haidak v. University of Massachusetts Amherst, which said that public schools must offer the accused student to ask questions of the complainant or witnesses in realtime, possibly through a hearing panel or representatives.

First before the panel, which consisted of Judges Sandra L. Lynch, Michael Boudin, and Kermit V. Lipez, was BC’s attorney, Daryl Lapp. After giving a brief summary of the case for the class of high school students in the room, Lapp began addressing the court.

The panel rebuked Lapp’s assertion that following the Student Code of Conduct would qualify as fair process: Lipez asked whether it would be possible for the process

that the University had set forth via contract to be deficient. Later on, Lynch questioned whether the contractual obligation for fundamental fairness is more than simply not being “arbitrary and capricious.”

The panel rebuked Lapp’s assertion and stated that following the Student Code of Conduct would qualify as fair process: Lipez asked whether it would be possible for the process that the University had set forth via contract to be deficient. Later on, Lynch questioned whether the contractual obligation for fundamental fairness is more than simply not being “arbitrary and capricious.”

Like he did before Woodlock, Lapp also argued that Haidak should not be the controlling precedent because, as a matter of due process, it could not be reconciled with previous state-level cases about fair process.

Lapp defended BC’s model by noting that the investigators spoke to Doe and Roe multiple times through an iterative process, with each meeting informed by information from previous interviews.

Doe was informed of the allegation, had an opportunity to respond to the specifics of Roe’s testimony, and reviewed the evidence binder at the end of the process, Lapp said.

The questions that the investigator asked of Roe were informed by Doe’s recollection of events, although he did not get to submit questions himself, Lapp said.

Lipez, like Woodlock did in August, questioned whether this process allows the factfinders to make determinations about the credibility of Roe and the other witnesses.

After Lapp’s 15 minutes before the panel, Doe’s attorney, Jeannie Suk Gersen spoke. Gersen, a Harvard Law professor who has previously written about and argued Title IX cases, had initially been blocked from representing Doe at oral arguments because it would “create a recusal” on the panel. It wasn’t until Nov. 1 that the court reversed and allowed Gersen to appear.

Gersen’s argument largely focused on the question of real-time cross-examination. She noted that neither Doe nor Roe had an opportunity to see the content of the other’s interviews, and therefore could not formulate questions or respond to specific claims.

Gersen said that Doe had a reasonable expectation of real-time cross-examination, potentially through a neutral thirdparty or the investigators reading off a list of questions for Roe. BC’s policy promises students the opportunity to review and respond to all the available evidence, Gersen said, which should not be limited to the end of the investigatory process.

Both Lipez and Lynch quickly probed her use of Haidak, pointedly asking whether she was asking the First Circuit to go beyond current Massachusetts standards for private universities and order BC to alter its process. Gersen demurred, responding that due process should inform fair process.

At the end of arguments, Lipez again suggested that the First Circuit would be pushing Massachusetts law past its current boundaries if it ruled against BC’s model. n

ResLife to Examine Other Universities ResLife Survey, from A1 conflict resolution and self-management skills. The satisfaction portion of the survey is centered around how students generally feel about their living spaces, which includes feedback on facilities, safety, and dining.

The Office of Residential Life has picked up on areas of general satisfaction and dissatisfaction about residential life at BC, but still plans to perform a more in-depth analysis of the results.

“One of the highlights of things that scored well is our campus security,” Jones said. “Students rated us very highly, especially compared to our peers, of the residences being safe buildings.”

One finding was a call for increased education around the room selection process.

The survey asked students how easy they found the experience and the results showed that students find the room selection info sessions helpful, Jones and Siquerios said.

“In a lot of ways, this is our starting point,” Siquerios said. “We’ll be able to see and have more data in a year and a half about what was unique to that year and what are the trends.”

She explained that in the coming years of housing selection, the Office of Residential Life hopes to increase attendance to these information sessions to ensure that they are engaged in the process.

Jones and Siquerios also said that student-staff relationships are another strong area of satisfaction in the BC community. She conne cte d this feedback to be an indication of welltrained resident assistants, as they devote a significant amount of time during the year building a community within the residence halls.

“I would like to point to the extensive training and selection that we have of resident assistants,” Siquerios said. “I think they do a large part in how someone feels safe and secure in their space.”

While the majority of the feedback from the Residential Life Assessment survey was positive, BC students did feel strongly that there are improvements for the Office of Residential Life to make in the next coming years, according to Siqueiros—for example, students feel strongly about housing assignments, particularly room selection.

The office observed some differences among residence hall satisfac-

tion rates, even within the same class year, although no clear trends—comparing Newton Campus dorms and Upper Campus dorms showed no clear winner, Siqueiros said.

“We even see buildings that are right next to each other and connected having different ratings from each other as well,” she said.

Jones also said that BC’s residential halls are unique compared to many other schools, which affects the housing process.

“Part of the things that we have to remember when we look at our campus compared to others is that we have a very different type of population than some other campuses,” Jones said.

Jones noted that a majority of BC students live on campus senior year and off campus junior year, unlike other colleges, and BC offers a greater diversity of housing styles as compared to other universities, which often offer one or two different room layouts.

“Part of what we have to do is make sure that when we’re looking at our data we’re looking at it in a way that makes sense for who we are and what we actually have here physically,” Siquerios said. n

for Crafting Narratives Klavan, from A1 Though much of what Klavan said was drowned out by the chants of protesters, he spoke at length about truth and bias in modern media.He said that the media often discusses the thing you have to worry about, or their mission, before they provide you with the actual facts of the case.

The political left is particularly guilty, according to Klavan, of trying to craft a narrative where there isn’t one. The person who decides the perspective of the piece is the person in control, he said, pointing to how media organizations approached the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting.

“In 2016, a Muslim man [walked] into a gay bar and opens fire and [killed] 50 people,” Klavan said. “What’s the issue? Is the issue anti-gay feelings? Is it Islamic intolerance?

Is it guns? Is it just a guy who has nothing to do with anybody else doing something that will never happen again?”

Klavan said that if one can’t hear people they disagree with, as he noted that liberals are often unable to do, then it is impossible to know anything. The left-wing is convinced of their moral superiority, according to Klavan.

Ideas are never completely agreed upon in society, but the integration of morals with political issues makes it so that you can’t speak for the opposition, he said.

Some protesters had planned to protest inside of the event by arriving at 7:00 p.m., the advertised start time, and silently walk out at 7:20. The doors of the event room closed, however, and the event began around 6:45 p.m. Five BC Police Department officers were posted outside the doors and would not let anyone enter.

One officer said that the event was full and they were not letting students in for safety reasons, and directed The Heights to Associate Vice President of University Communications Jack Dunn for comment. Dunn did not respond to a request for comment.

The protest consisted largely of chants outside the room which often were accompanied by claps or stomps to the rhythm, and at its peak included over 100 students at once.

Michael Osaghae, president of the Undergraduate Government of BC and MCAS ’20, said that he attended the protest because of Klavan’s Islamophobic views and that he wanted to contribute to a campus culture of care and concern but was not protesting in his role as UGBC president.

Klavan wrote in his 2015 book The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ that European culture is superior.

“Western thinkers have become so skittish around the idea of racism they will do anything to avoid naming their culture as superior to others, even if it means avoiding the evidence of their own eyes,” Klavan wrote.

“I know students are impacted on the one hand with bad feelings, but also students want to just have a speaker that they think represents their views,” Osaghae said.

“There’s a tension there, but also if a speaker is Islamophobic and anti-LGBTQ+, they

shouldn’t come here in the context of it’s not even open to students who attend.”

Aneeb Sheikh, MCAS ’20, said he was angry that Klavan was speaking at BC, and particularly that the event was being funded with money provided by the University.

BC Republicans spent $6,500 of their $8,000 budget on Klavan, money allotted to all student clubs through the Office of Student Involvement.

“I think it’s very dangerous that first of all BC allowed this person to come, and secondly that our money was used to fund this person,” Sheikh said. “I think first of all, the BC administration should make a statement.

I think that College Republicans should apologize for inviting him, publicly. And I think that we need stricter accountability of who we invite on this campus.”

Sheikh added his disappointment that the event’s doors closed well before the advertised start time.

“I’m pretty disappointed that this is being hosted on Boston College’s campus on Boston College’s dime,” said Jacob Ricco, president of College Democrats of Boston College and MCAS ’21. “$6,500 to bring in a speaker with the history of pretty vitriolic and repugnant statements is quite upsetting to me and the rest of College Democrats.”

“I didn’t think it was okay to just automatically assume they’re racist—that really hit me because, you know, like obviously I’m black, I’m a Muslim, and it was a little intimidating being there but at the same time, we should have the right to protest, but they also should have the right to go in and see whoever it is you want to see, that’s on them. Everyone has their own opinion.

And I feel like it’s just freedom of speech, like [BC Republicans] said,” Khadija Danazumi, MCAS ’23, said. “It’s not a good thing but like, what can I say? It’s freedom.”

William Foote, MCAS ’22, said that he disagreed with the protest.

“I would say it’s inappropriate to simply silence someone just because of different views,” Foote said. “There is divide in our culture, but this isn’t the solution for it.”

“I’d say over history they’ve sort of been the largest global power, so yes,” he said when asked if he agreed that European culture is superior, although he said he was not familiar with Klavan’s specific comments.

Ryne Meloy, a member of BC Republicans and MCAS ’23, stood in the hallway next to the protest, with other members of BC Republicans, all of whom were standing while the protesters sat against the walls. He described the protest as “ridiculous.”

“It’s fun to watch,” said Meloy when asked why members of BC Republicans were standing next to the sitting protesters.

“I don’t agree with protests.”

As attendees streamed out of the room at the end of the event, they were met with boos and had their pictures taken by protesters.

“Thank you everybody for showing out and letting them know that we don’t accept things like this at BC, at our campus, out of our money, so yeah, thank you,” one of the protesters said to the group as the night came to an end. n

BC Prepares for Schiller Schiller, from A1 happened had you not come to BC.” Bhattacharya, the first to fill his position since its creation in 2018, said that the goal of Schiller is to teach students how to process innovation and design thinking, and—in line with the University’s Jesuit values—pursue social impact with the hopes of doing good across the globe.

Bhattacharya then introduced three students enrolled in the Innovation through Design Thinking course, which presents students with case studies and in-person interviews and asks them to develop solutions related to a societal problem of their choice.

Brandon Lee, MCAS ’21, explained that he feels passionately that health is a “prerequisite” for human rights, and so he focused his project on concerns regarding health care costs. He said his project is about connecting people across the country who don’t have access to the technology or resources to “level the playing field” for health.

Dana Connolly, Lynch ’22, discussed how in his project he developed a horticulture and greenhouse maintenance program for students who, like him, are not inclined to take STEM courses.

Michael Osaghae, president of the Undergraduate Government of BC and MCAS ’20, also enrolled in the course because of his interest in advocacy and racial justice. He explained that the course helped him learn how design fits into the process of effecting change and allowed him to explore the question of whether solutions are reaching

marginalized communities.

Chiles emphasized that the students on the panel, who represented a variety of academic disciplines, exemplified the purpose of Schiller to create a school-wide culture of innovation. “[Schiller is about] integrating the entire University together to solve problems that impact society, to try to identify solutions,” Chiles said.

In the town hall portion of the night, one student voiced concerns about a shortage of faculty members in the computer science department, and he asked if Schiller might alleviate some of these hardships. Chiles explained that many universities have struggled to hire and keep computer science faculty as demand in the private sector has drawn them away from academia. He said the computer science department will be housed in Schiller, and over time, BC hopes to grow the department by hiring more faculty, and providing it with more resources such as digital innovations labs and robotics.

Conor McCormick, co-director for the Undergraduate Government of BC’s Council for Students with Disabilities and MCAS ’22, and asked how Schiller will accommodate students with disabilities.

Chiles responded by noting that while BC is bound by existing law, there are always more considerations to make concerning accessibility.He explained that architects are working toward ensuring all lab tables and sinks, as well as the building as a whole, are accessible, with the goal of making the building as inclusive as possible.n

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HEIGHTS COFFEE GUIDE 2019

Where to Go

There are plenty of places to get a cup of coffee in Boston, but not all are created equal.

Whether you need a place to study, a place to relax, or a place to grab-and-go, the 2019 Coffee Guide has you covered.

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Pour Comfort in Your Cup at Pavement Coffeehouse

By Jacob Schick A1 Editor

Pavement Coffeehouse is the mean between extremes. In a city full of coffee like Boston, it’s difficult to find a niche to fill. Dunkin’ and Starbucks have a lock on quick drinks, full of foam and syrup, and pastries or sandwiches to grab and go.

Places like Blue Bottle focus almost exclusively on the coffee itself, eschewing everything else for its sake. Caffè Nero is aiming for an upscale industrial experience.

Pavement Coffeehouse, on the other hand, has carved out its own corner of the market. It is a comfortable—with emphasis on comfort—place with coffee-forward drinks and high-quality but approachable sandwiches.

Walking into its largest location, on Western Avenue in Lower Allston, I was immediately glad that I was there. The Clash was playing at an acceptable volume for listening, talking, or working.

The inside seating was full but not crowded, customers in ones or twos spread out, some sitting in the sunny window bar, some in low-top tables, others with laptops open at the central workbench.

The chairs—mostly stools—weren’t the kind that hurt to sit in after 20 minutes. The menu, posted prominently above the heads of the employees at the back, was simple and easy to read.

Pavement’s menu has clearly divided sections for its beverages, reading “coffee,” “espresso,” “sweet,” and “tea.”

Below are listed “homemade bagels” and “sandwiches.” Off to one side was a large chalkboard listing the pour-over coffee specials (name, area and country of origin, tasting notes) and a few seasonal specials like apple cider or pumpkin spice.

The point here is that there is nothing needlessly complex going on.

Pavement is separating itself from the other coffee shops in Boston through a straightforward approach to its products and atmosphere. When I spoke with Andrew LoPilato, president of Pavement, it was this sentiment that he emphasized.

“We treat coffee as a culinar y product,” LoPilato said. “We really try to put the emphasis on high quality coffee from origin and not have a lot of options or syrups that are getting in the way of what coffee in its truest form is.”

And he was true to his word. The most generic Pavement product, its drip coffee, is leagues beyond the black coffee of most other Boston establishments.

Poured into a reassuringly heavy white mug, the steaming coffee was smooth, with notes of baking spices, especially cinnamon. I also tried one of their pour-over coffees, Frontera La Marimba from Acevedo, Colombia.

The accompanying tasting notes were listed as apricot, vanilla, and citrus. I didn’t get any apricot, but the coffee was as smooth as velvet and definitely had vanilla flavors—to the point of near-creaminess—and citrus. There is also a touch of sweetness in both the pour-over and the drip, which comes from the roasting, all done in house, at the Allston location.

Almost two years ago, Pavement began roasting its own coffee. Capturing this aspect of coffee production has allowed the company to experiment and explore the world of coffee on its own terms.

This practice, coupled with the fact that Pavement produces all of its bagels and breads—with the exception of a couple pastries—in its own kitchen, gives its food and drinks a fresh and local quality that is often very difficult to find.

Every morning, coffee and bagels are driven from Allston to each of its

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With locations throughout the city, Pavement Coffeehouse’s irresistable brews, homemade bagels, and delicioud eats are hard to avoid. seven other locations in the Boston area. But good coffee is not unique to Pavement, in Boston or anywhere else.

LoPilato said that it was its coffee in combination with its food that makes Pavement stand out.

“I think the other thing that we do really well is that we combine that with fresh bagels, and those two things [the coffee], I think, invite people to appreciate what’s normally really familiar and taken for granted,” he said.

“Like everyone knows what coffee is.

But to get you to slow down and enjoy the coffee, everyone’s had a bagel, we try to reinvent the familiar things like coffee and bagels. So the bagel program really sets us apart from a lot of our competition. Getting a hot breakfast quickly with specialty coffee is kind of our thing.”

Pavement has spent a long time honing its selection of bagels down to its very modest size. With eight regular

bagels and a “weekend special”—it was pumpkin when I visited—Pavement is shooting for quality, not quantity. Every night, Pavement’s bagels are made from scratch from no preservatives, kettle boiled and then baked in a rotating hearth oven.

Bagel snobs might scoff at the idea of a bagel from anywhere that isn’t New

“We want people to feel comfortable and warm.”

York, but these really are good. Not simply bread in the shape of a circle, Pavement’s bagels are chewy and flavorful, with a delicious crust that, when toasted, provides a satisfying flake. I chose the Vegan Tequila (seasoned tempeh, diablo tofu spread, pico de gallo, sprouts) on an everything bagel and it was delicious.

The sandwich was filling but not heavy, and it was full of heat without being unapproachably spicy. This is the standard for all of Pavement’s sandwiches: They are approachable, and easy to like. Comfort is Pavement’s goal, in aesthetic, in food and drink, and in overall atmosphere.

“We want people to feel comfortable and warm,” LoPilato said.

“That’s not necessarily cool or hip or edgy. We’re just trying to go for comfortable, and that comfort or warmth doesn’t have to be high-end or really expensive." n

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Pavement Coffeehouse serves a number of pour-over coffees, such as Frontera La Marimba. Signature sandwiches served on bagels made daily to be enjoyed in the comfortable seating area, adjacent to the roasting facility in Allston.

Even the Coffee Averse Can’t Resist Blue Bottle BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE

By Meegan Minahan Multimedia Editor

I don’t like coffee. I have never liked it and I honestly don’t think I ever truly will. I think it is gross bitter bean water, but the one place where I actually like and enjoy it is Blue Bottle Coffee.

Blue Bottle has dozens of locations across the globe and four shops in Boston at the Prudential Center, Harvard Square, Kendall Square, and The Bowery.

On the weekends, I go to the Boston Public Library to study and when I get bored and need a study break, I head over to Blue Bottle in the Pru to refuel and get a change of scenery.

The cafe in the Pru is situated in the center concourse near Shinola and Ralph Lauren. The coffee bar itself is the definition of minimalism featur-

ing clean lines wooden cabinetry, and white accents.

The coffee bar and inside seating area are framed with floor to ceiling windows that look out over a green space, outdoor seating, and a courtyard.

The atmosphere is filled with soft light and minimalist aesthetics accented with Blue Bottle’s signature teal blue—a breath of fresh air in the chaos that is a Saturday at the Pru. The cafe itself is a little noisy due to the fact that I went on Saturday and it is the Pru, but, after getting my coffee and food, I headed out to the courtyard off of the cafe. It is a beautiful place to sit, chat with a friend, or do some homework on a nice day.

As an inexperienced coffee drinker, I asked the barista what her favorite drink is, and she answered that it was hands-down the oatmilk cortado ($4.25 pre-tax). The cortado is very

bold but creamy, even with the oat milk, and featured a beautiful swirl on top—perfect for your Snapchat story.

The baristas at Blue Bottle are very skilled, so every coffee is served at the perfect temperature.

The oat milk cortado was not too hot nor too cold and is the ideal beverage for those of us who are lactose intolerant.

I paired the cortado with Blue Bottle’s made-to-order Liège waffle ($4.50 pre-tax). The waffle’s crispy, sugary crust balances perfectly with the bitter undertones of the cortado.

The inside of the waffle is surprisingly fluffy and a great post-studying treat or mid-shopping refuel. If you have never been to Blue Bottle before I recommend you don’t even look at the menu. Just order their iced coffee—the New Orleans.

Th e N e w Orleans is

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Another speciality drink at Blue Bottle is the New Orleans, infused with chicory spices, milk, and cane sugar.

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A customer favorite is the oat-milk cortado, creamy and perfect for a snap story. honestly life changing, especially for a die-hard tea fan like me. The New Orleans is Blue Bottle’s specialty and is infused with chicory to give the coffee a smokey but sweet taste.

The coffee is mixed with whole milk and cane sugar making the whole drink taste like high quality melted coffee ice cream.

The New Orleans is served to enjoy at the cafe, to-go, or for purchase in adorable to-go milk cartons.

Other star items on Blue Bottle’s menu are the ginger molasses cookie, which carries a spicy and dark sweetness; its freshly brewed loose-leaf tea, which they set to a timer for the perfect steepage; and their showstopping drip coffee.

Vibes are very important when it comes to choosing a coffee shop to study at.

I’ll be honest, the inside seating area is kind of crowded and a little loud, but the outside seating the courtyard is stunning and peaceful even on a chilly fall day.

There are plenty of tables and benches for some serious essay writing and a grass yard that is perfect for reading or scrolling through Instagram to procrastinate reading.

The shop also features some pretty sweet merchandise including coffee (duh), drip coffee pots, mugs, and many more caffeine related items.

Blue Bottle is a pretty special coffee spot with some of the best coffee I have ever had, so if you are in the area, make a pit stop, get a New Orleans, and enjoy. n

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Take Your Next Coffee Break With a Break From Coffee

By Emily Himes Assoc. Arts Editor

So you think good hot chocolate is made from powder. Think again. Maybe Hershey’s syrup? That’s still not what I’m talking about—I’m talking about an abundant, intense drink that is both sweet and strong. And what could this hot chocolate possibly be made from, you might ask? Try single-sourced shaved chocolate originating from the best cocoa beans in the world, from South America to Madagascar. That’s the basis for the drinking chocolate at L.A. Burdick, making for an incredibly rich, smooth flavor that is more of a luxurious treat than an average hot beverage simply designed to warm you up.

L.A. Burdick works with ecologically sustainable cocoa plantations around the world to ensure its drinking chocolate, bars, pastries, bon bons, and signature mice are of utmost quality. The process of creating the chocolate is mostly kept under wraps, but the most impressive aspect of the entire procedure is the artistry behind each and every piece.

Every chocolate is completely handmade without the use of molds. Unlike other high-end chocolate shops, everything at L.A. Burdick is manufactured at its New Hampshire facility and crafted by hand, meaning it’s an incredibly intricate process. “ Th e e y e s [of the chocolate mice] are made with a little squeeze of chocolate, the ears are made from almond slices,” Robert Wilson, COO of L.A.

Burdick and BC ’89, said. “It’s really interesting to watch them make it, and it ships, for the most part, that same day.

It’s almost a make-to-order business.”

Master Chocolatier Michael Klug comes from a strong background of working with Three Star Michelin restaurants and hotels, and has worked with L.A. Burdick for almost 20 years.

He is the artist behind some of the distinctly charming chocolates adorning the shop’s shelves, such as the mice, elephants, and Halloween ghosts and bats.

Larry Burdick opened the original shop in New York City in 1987 and later moved the business up to Walpole, N.H., where all the chocolate is still being made today today. Currently, there are five L.A. Burdick stores—in Walpole, Cambridge, Boston (Copley), Chicago, and New York—and Burdick is getting ready to open the doors to a new Georgetown location in the coming weeks.

“We’re always looking for a location that’s a bit historical and says something about the city it’s in,” Wilson said. “It needs to fit our profile and our look.”

The Copley location is quintessentially charming, located in a former men’s clothing store that was built around 1883.

It’s a small house right in the middle of a bustling area, radiating a soft, warm glow from its windows onto the crowded Boston street.

Stepping into the shop is like walking into a bakery in Paris—one might feel so inclined to order a pain au chocolat along-

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L.A. Burdick’s Copley location resembles a European coffeehouse with decadent chocolate drinks and treats.

side their drinking chocolate. Wilson describes it as a cross between a “European cafe feel and New England charm,” with a large chandelier in the entryway, pastel-colored wallpaper adorned with vintage paintings, and French music playing softly in the background.

“You can sit with your friends and have a cup of coffee,” Wilson said. “It’s very comfortable, you don’t feel rushed.”

L.A. Burdick offers several variations of their classic drinking chocolate besides just the dark, milk, and white blends. Also available on the menu are beverages with single-source chocolate from Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Grenada, Madagascar, Peru, and Venezuela.

With such a solid base for all the products L.A. Burdick offers, the menu is always evolving. One of its most recent successes is the recent addition of walnut chocolate chip cookies, which are decadently rich and perfectly chewy.

The shop also began selling raspberry chocolate croissants earlier this year, but is always looking for ways to update its offerings.

L.A. Burdick’s gourmet chocolates have not gone unnoticed—big names such as Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg have wandered into the shops.

Politicians have been known to frequent the Walpole location during the New Hampshire primary as well—and surely

Georgetown will be no stranger to that same population.

L.A. Burdick is always trying to appeal to college students in the area, and with late hours at both the Boston and Camrbidge locations, they see a steady flow of people late into the evening.

It’s the perfect spot for dessert or a hot chocolate on a cold winter’s night (and they even make iced drinking chocolate for the warmer months).

If the shop’s decadent chocolate selection isn’t enough to draw you in, stop by for the ambiance. L.A. Burdick’s unwaveringly Parisian aura set in historic New England locations is a treat in and of itself. n

A Tiny Shop That’s Under the Radar and Over the Internet

By Mary Wilkie Asst. Metro Editor

Today’s coffee culture thrives on aesthetics with a strong digital presence and visually appealing photo opportunities. Yes, people care that the coffee tastes good, but sometimes it seems like they care more that the presentation is perfect.

Farmer’s Horse Coffee—formerly Farmer Horse Coffee—doesn’t quite conform to the contemporary standard of coffee shop: Searching for it on Google, you’ll find that the hours aren’t exactly right. Its website is ‘under construction,’ and looks as if it has been for a while. Its Facebook page hasn’t been updated since 2014. Its Instagram account posts about once a month—just often enough to remind its 6,300 followers that it’s still there.

The shop’s owner Meran Atoufi doesn’t particularly care about a digital presence,

though. He’s more concerned with maintaining its friendly atmosphere with gradual improvements that will enact lasting change. Atoufi has worked in the restaurant business since graduating from Boston Architectural College (BAC). Starting out in franchises—he still owns multiple Subway locations, including one just across the street from Farmer’s Horse—Atoufi realized that his creative instinct, which was encouraged while he studied architecture, is incompatible with franchising.

“I was so bothered that there was nothing I could do—nothing with the lights, nothing with the wallpaper, nothing. Not even the food products,” he said. “I had no say and I was just a franchisee who just stayed and followed what the franchiser was demanding. It was really tough on me.

I was like, no, I want to do something that I can show my skills and do good. That’s why I chose the coffee shop.”

With an itch for a creative outlet that the same time, Atoufi found a business would fit properly into his restaurateur partner—a relative of one of the farmers lifestyle, Atoufi drew up the idea for Farmer from whom he sourced the beans who lived Horse in 2011. Since its actual opening in in Boston at the time.

2012, it has seen a number of changes in Atoufi, in essence, bowed out, resourcing and management—especially in maining an owner but leaving the bulk of the last year. management to his partner. Four years The name of the shop emerged out of later, when he decided to return to Ethiopia, the idea that the coffee would come directly Atoufi became the sole owner once again from the source. The farmer’s horse is the and decided to update the shop, slowly vehicle that delivers the product from the but surely. source to the market. Farmer’s Horse aims Now, while Atoufi handles much of the to be that catalyst, emulating the task of an logistical business behind the scenes, Larisa actual farmer’s horse.

Bulicanu manages the floor. BeIn 2014, Atoufi began using sintween the two gle-sourced coffee beans directly of them, from families in Ethiopia. The “I want to coffee brewers at Farmer’s do something Horse began roasting the beans themselves so the [where] I can show my grounds would stay as skills and do good,” the fresh as possible. Around

shop’s owner Meran Atoufi said. “That’s why I chose the coffee shop.”

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Farmer’s Horse is a small shop, but it offers the perfect hideaway to escape from the bustle of downtown Boston.

Atoufi and Bulicanu are ensuring a united progression in the improvement of the shop, which includes plans to offer pre-packaged coffee grounds this winter and an outdoor seating on a unique patio by next spring.

“It’s a slow process—I don’t want things to happen overnight,” he said. “I look at it like a lifetime. Like a long-term business.”

Unlike Tatte’s clean minimalism or Caffè Nero’s bookish sophistication—which can be expected at all of its locations—Farmer’s Horse hides in a space that’s simultaneously cozy, like the dining room at your grandma’s house, and a little grungy, like your older cousin’s living room. Either way, Farmer’s Horse calls to mind a sense of familial comfort, which is exactly what Atoufi aims for with every development in the business.

“I want the place to have a character,” he said, “What I see here is that you just feel like you are comfortable, like you belong here, you know? Like, ‘it’s my place, it’s my spot.’

and I think I have made that atmosphere.”

The shop, on Massachusetts Avenue just off Huntington Avenue, is frequented by students from the New England Conservatory of Music, Berklee College of Music, and Northeastern University, as well as locals from neighborhood. With such limited seating and a constant stream of customers cycling in and out, though, Farmer’s Horse often fills up quickly. Of those who stick around, many have left their mark on the shop, signing names, scribbling cartoons, and inscribing quotes all over the fading red walls.

The shop is small and unique, there’s no doubt about that. But it’s also comfortable and personal. The enigmatic atmosphere makes the place all the more magnetic— with a rearing horse that guards the door, new customers’ curiosity grows while returners see a welcome in the ever-present symbol. Upon entrance, the baristas’ friendly smiles and casual banter set customers at ease.

“Coffee is very hard,” Atoufi said. “A lot of people, they think it’s very easy. It is very hard, just because you have to do something that is real and different. “People are very smart, customers are very smart. You can’t fool them. They know what is good, what is not good.”

With a fairly small but standard array of coffee drinks and and a selection of sandwiches and pastries, Farmer’s Horse offers all the sustenance one needs at a coffee shop. It’s not superfluous, but there’s something for everyone on the menu that offers single-sourced coffee from Ethiopia, loose-leaf tea, fresh-made sandwiches, and pastries baked throughout the day.

Sometimes, you might want a pretty coffee with a design in the foam on a sturdy wooden table over clean tile floors to post on your Instagram story. Other times, maybe you want a sophisticated coffee with an intricate combination of flavors that came from an extensive menu with minor variations in foreign languages, most of which you don’t understand, differentiating one drink from the next. But when all you want is to disappear with simple, good coffee, Farmer’s Horse is the place. n

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A Third Place for Everyone

1369 Coffee House has been drawing in an eclectic crowd for decades at its two Cambridge locations. The shop is a neighborhood mainstay on Massachusetts Ave.

By Colleen Martin Metro Editor If you go to a coffee shop, ask for the barista’s favorite pastry to go along with your caffeine, and he hands you something with peanut butter and chocolate, you know you’re in business.

This chocolate brownie with a thick and indulgent peanut butter saucy spread was topped with nuts and must have been invented for kings. It was the perfect complement to a cold brew with pumpkin spice (it’s fall, I’m allowed).

1369 Coffee House in Cambridge is the home of this divine meal, located on Massachusetts Avenue. Another location, the original, is on Cambridge Street.

The shop is pleasing to the eye without trying too hard—the outside is demure, with tables on the sidewalk, but the stream of people walking through the door draws you in.

The coffee house opens at 7 a.m.

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and doesn’t close until 9 p.m. On Fridays and Saturdays it stays open until 10.

places to sit in the back. Work from local artists lines the wall, with floral paintings on the left and more abstract prints on the right. The prices? Not outrageous. A beautiful oil painting comes in at $50.

The chalk menu hanging above the counter is simple— “We’ve had a nothing seems out of the number of staff who ordinary for a coffee shop. have gotten married.

There are a few standouts We’ve had a number of (seasonal apple cider), customers. I mean, it just and you can check out happens to me all the time the origin of the different where I meet someone and coffee beans on the 1369 they’re like, ‘Oh yeah, I had website, but everything my first date with my husfeels familiar. I prefer this, band [there], who’s now as going to a coffee shop the father of my three and being utterly confused children.’” about what everything on the menu means is a pet peeve.

(Can I please just get a chai?)

The pumpkin spice cold brew was pretty light on the flavor, not overwhelming but perhaps could Inside, two-person wooden tables have used a bit more pumpkin. 1369 fill the dining room. Even at lunch has been brewing coffee cold since hour, with a line forming, there were 2001, keeping it “smooth, chocolatey,

and Cambridge’s best iced coffee,” according to the menu. Though cold brew has been around for some time, it wasn’t on the menu at Starbucks until 2015, when a craze for it began.

I guess you could say that 1369 was a little bit ahead of the curve.

They started serving it even before the time of current owner Josh Gerber, who has worked with 1369 for 15 years and owned it for 10. He said that the owners didn’t like how other people were making iced coffee at the time—pouring hot coffee over ice wasn’t satisfying anyone. They started experimenting and training their employees on how to better use the espresso machine. Now, they serve on-the-go cold brew in growlers.

The coffee beans are shipped in weekly, and 1369 says that it will not brew anything 10 days after its roast date. There are house blends, and there are beans from Africa, Central America, and Indonesia. When 1369 likes its coffee, it doesn’t mess around with it. If the beans from a particular farm are good, they aren’t mixed with anything else, Gerber said. The coffee house also has specialty drinks—matcha, London Fog (steamed milk, earl grey tea, and vanilla), and hot chocolate, just to name a few.

The food menu is intriguing. Besides the array of pastries I couldn’t choose between is a lunch menu that includes, quiche (ask for the special), hummus, and sandwiches.

Looking into the room, something is different from other coffee shops.

It’s not the mismatched chairs, or the trendy 1369 Coffee House wall decal in the back. It’s the absence of laptops.

I, writing this, am the gross exception in a room of people reading books and magazines and just talking to each other.

It could be that only 45 minutes of free WiFi is offered per day at 1369, or it could be that I came on an off day.

Whatever the reason, it makes the room feel more relaxed. The music playing switches between instrumental and soft voices, sustaining the mood and making headphones pointless.

(Think somewhere between The 1975 and the Unknown Mortal Orchestra).

1369 wants to be the third place— the location people go to get away from work and home.

It says on its website that books and theses have been written at its tables, and friendships and marriages have formed there.

“We’ve had a number of staff who have gotten married. We’ve had a number of customers,” he said.

“I mean, it just happens to me all the time where I meet someone and they’re like, ‘Oh yeah, I had my first date with my husband [there], who’s now the father of my three children.’”

And just take a look on Google

Scholar—if you search “1369 Coffee House,” it is named as an example in academic articles about the social transformation of coffee shops, the need for queer spaces, and other inclusive community pieces. Gerber said that’s his priority and his favorite part of his job. At 1369, anyone can sit down for a cup of coffee. He said the shop attracts all kinds of people—construction workers, students, council people.

“The coffee houses in both squares have really become sort of neighborhood centers in a lot of ways,” Gerber said.

“And what I love most about my job and the coffee house and the work that we do is those interactions.”

Unlike other coffee shops that hustle and bustle to the point where you just need to get your cup and go, 1369 makes you want to sit for hours and never leave your seat. It’s relaxing.

There is enough to look at when you need a break from what you’re doing, but it isn’t impossible to get anything done.

If you do need more of a distraction, though, a cabinet in the back has the word “GAMES” written out vertically on the side, each letter designed to look like a Scrabble chip. Inside, you can find puzzles, chess, and odd old board games.

On a higher shelf is a piece of tape that says, “Take a book, leave a book.”

In the bathroom is a framed collage of 1369 business cards that were colored in as part of a 1994 coloring competition.

“I think that’s s o m e t h i n g t h a t ’s very true about Central Square as well, right.

It’s sort of this melting pot of Cambridge, in a way that’s very different from Harvard Square, or from really any other place in Boston that I can think of.”

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Smooth and chocolatey cold brew has been served at 1369 since 2001. Customers can get it to go in a growler with the coffee house’s logo.

The longevity of the shop has made it a neighborhood institution, Gerber said.

“I think that’s something that’s very true about Central Square as well, right?” he said. “It’s sort of this melting pot of Cambridge, in a way that’s very different from Harvard Square, or from really any other place in Boston that I can think of.”

“It get this sort of mixture of sort of academics and tech—all of that— and then also it’s Central Square is a little rough around the edges. There’s something really nice that goes alongside that.” n

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Editorial

BC Republicans’ Choice to Invite Andrew Klavan Was Unproductive, Needlessly Divisive On Tuesday, Nov. 5, Andrew Klavan, a writer and conservative talk show host, gave a lecture at Boston College titled “The Art of Being Free.” The event, sponsored

by Boston College Republicans, was heavily protested due to Klavan’s history of Islamophobic, sexist, and racist comments.

As the sponsoring organization, it was irresponsible for BC Republicans to invite Klavan. Klavan, as a provocateur by trade, did not contribute to debate on campus, and instead seemed to actively pride himself on worsening the divide between viewpoints. Clubs have a right to invite whomever they would like to speak but should consider whether their invited speaker will provide any benefit to the conversation.

Klavan’s speech meandered from bashing the left to speaking about “racism against whites” to suggesting women are uninterested

in going into STEM. His talk offered little in the way of actively encouraging students to challenge their own beliefs. Instead, he provoked students. Klavan’s snide laughs were shared by audience members when protesters yelled through the door, worsening the divide between the two groups.

As students at BC, those in both groups are called to rise to higher intellectual standards than the ones in Higgins that night. The BC Republicans shouldn’t have invited him. A cursory Google search about his prior contents or an understanding that The Daily Wire is not a reputable organization should have been enough to convince the organization that Klavan had no ideas worth debating at BC. His presence, however, should not excuse some of the protester’s actions after the event. As students left his talk, some protesters took to photographing and heckling

“Every man dies, but not every man really lives.”

- Braveheart, 1995

Letter to the Editor

fellow students for no discernible reason other than to make attendees uncomfortable. While these protesters need not agree with Klavan or even with the decision of their fellow students to attend his talk, these activities only further contributed to the divide between students.

BC Republicans have a right to invite speakers whom they think share their views. With that right comes a higher responsibility to ensuring that those speakers positively contribute to academic debate on campus. Klavan, as a writer for The Daily Wire, is well-known as a provocateur—following the event, he said that he “felt like Reagan after he was shot,” because of his police escort out of Higgins. If Klavan can’t handle how he was treated at BC, then he should reconsider his views—views that predictably and rightfully garner a less-than-positive response.

In Response to: “Boston College Republicans to Host Speaker With History of Islamophobic Comments’” On Nov. 5, Boston College Republicans brought Andrew Klavan, a prominent journalist, to our campus as a speaker on the topic “The Art of Being Free.”

The AHANA+ Leadership Council believes many clubs and organizations bring speakers to our campus on a regular basis to express different points of view that enrich our community. We welcome speakers who discuss different aspects of America’s religious diversity. Klavan, however, has expressed deeply troubling views regarding Islam and Muslims in previous remarks. We, the AHANA+ Leadership Council, believe that it is possible to affirm one’s political or religious beliefs without denigrating or distorting those of others. We condemn such comments, and stand firmly alongside our Muslim students and reject hateful and Islamophobic remarks.

As mentioned in the Heights article: In May, Stanford administrators openly criticized a Klavan speaking event at the University for his views on Islam, particularly citing a Daily Wire video in which he attacks Muslims: “Jihad is a spiritual struggle during which a Muslim attempts to rise to a higher plane of consciousness by slaughtering non-believers, raping their women, taking over their civilizations, and persecuting and oppressing them until they’re all dead,” says Klavan.

In his book The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ, Klavan sees European culture as superior to all other cultures: “It sometimes seems to me the entire postmodern assault on the concept of truth has been staged to avoid just this conclusion: some cultures are simply more productive than others and the high culture of Europe has been the most productive so far,” Klavan wrote. “It’s as if, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, Western thinkers have become so skittish around the idea of racism they will do anything to avoid naming their culture as superior to others, even if it means avoiding the

Letter to the Editor

In Response to: “To Compete with Top-Ranking Institutions, BC Should Take Koch Foundation’s Funding” We live in an era of outsized influence of the ultra-wealthy in our institutions. Lobbying has never been so profitable and so widely used. A single large donation to a politician’s campaign often is enough to make said politician make a 180-degree turn on a policy issue. Our regulatory agencies have been captured and regularly side with big business against consumers and workers. Washington works with unimaginable efficiency and diligence for the wealthy, and for the wealthy only. And we see the results of this: our political economy is upside-down. Income inequality is at a 90-year high, and millennials and Gen Zers are expected to have a worse quality of life than their parents—something that has never happened before in American history. In short, we are fast approaching a postmodern version of the Gilded Age. The intellectual justification for most of the policies that set us on this path—the embrace of the dogma of making every market as unregulated as possible, no matter its structure—comes largely from the work of University of Chicago

Professor Friedrich Hayek and his disciples. It turns out that Hayek only got his chair at the University of Chicago, from where he built his movement of free market fundamentalists, because he was sponsored by a libertarian millionaire, William Volker. Or said in a less euphemistic way, Volker bought Hayek a chair in a prestigious university so that Hayek could influence the American political economy in a way that would explicitly benefit Volker and his peers to the detriment of everyone else.

This kind of debasement of academic standards is common today—a rot that threatens good social science to the benefit of a privileged few. Boston College, as a Jesuit liberal arts college, has a duty to reject the Kochs’ offer of academic bribe. But BC should also reject it because it does not need the Kochs’ money. For one, accepting a bribe that actively hurts good academic practice will not, in the end, result in a better standing for BC in an era where increasing emphasis is (finally!) being put on the methodology of

the social sciences. Furthermore, BC has talented alumni who gained a lifelong concern for society as a result of their Jesuit education, and who’d be more than willing to give to the political science department should the University ask them so, but who would likely feel less compelled to donate to an academic department they’d (rightly) feel is corrupt.

And lest we forget: The Kochs would be responsible for much of the damage that would ensue should we lose the fight against climate change—from tens of millions of climate refugees to cities underwater. All of the good the Kochs have done through charity pales in comparison to the value of damage they have done by corrupting our institutions. In the end, accepting a donation from the Kochs is no different from accepting a donation from Harvey Weinstein or from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. Our morals and our academics are not for sale.

Signed by, -Alberto Troccoli BC ’18

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evidence of their own eyes.”

The AHANA+ Leadership Council stands in solidarity with Muslims, on this campus and around the country, against all forms of racism, sexism, anti-Muslim sentiment, and other forms of bigotry that have no place on our campus.

The AHANA+ Leadership Council urges members of the BC community to consider the impact that speakers like Klavan who misrepresent and distort ideologies of marginalized groups have on our campus.

The AHANA+ Leadership Council (ALC) functions as the Undergraduate Government of BC’s (UGBC) advocacy board for underrepresented and marginalized communities of color on BC’s campus. The purpose of this council is to facilitate collective action, work toward the elimination of structural inequity, and ensure that our campus is a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming environment that fosters holistic development; cura personalis. In an attempt to create a more inclusive environment for those who feel excluded from the acronym and community, the council is taking steps to normalize AHANA+ which helps bridge the gap between these marginalized groups. We actively uplift the voices of communities looking to champion the aforementioned and we look to have diversity celebrated, appreciated, and desired rather than just tolerated.

Signed by, -Victoria Ang, MCAS ’20 -Aneeb Sheikh, MCAS ’20 -Sasha Severino, MCAS ’21 -Ivana Wijedasa, MCAS ’22 -Maleena Guandique, MCAS ’21 -Kalkidan Tadesse, MCAS ’21 -Mohammed Sirage, MCAS ’22 -Arjun Abraham, CSOM ’21 -Antonio Mata, MCAS ’23 -Gabriella Ssewankambo, MCAS ’21

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— John Kooken, MCAS ’22

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— Bridget Ganz, MCAS ’23

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— Jerry Lin, LSOE ’21

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Participation Is Unfair Method for Grading Imitating Thoreau requirements for the frequency of speech needed to get a good grade. I personally learn best by sitting back, listening, and processing the content in my mind as the class progresses—which requires a lot of concentration, and time, to parse through.

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The added pressure of graded participation

ELEANOR GRONDIN

stifles my focus on the present material. I

When I first started college, I figured that participation grades would diminish in light of more intellectually challeng-

often become too preoccupied with what I should contribute to the class.

Since I need time to develop my ideas,

ing material that requires more individual

which are no less relevant than other com-

reflection and demanding assignments.

ments being made by students who are

Instead, in MCAS classes, participation

more prone to raising their hands almost

seems to take up larger percentages of final

impulsively, I not only lose out by missing

grades with each passing year. I am all for

much of the actual discussion taking place,

sharing ideas and having discussions with

but many times I have rushed comments

other classmates when applicable—we can

that do not demonstrate my fullest under-

and often do learn from each other, often a

standing of the content.

byproduct of class discussions. That said,

I know many other students who feel the

there is an issue with the extreme grading

same way—that our disposition and learn-

emphasis on participation.

ing methods undeservingly threaten our

While professors may see class participa-

grades too often. By allotting constant par-

tion as a way to incentivize student discus-

ticipation as the measure of effort and suc-

sion, and thus enriching class conversation,

cess in the classroom, introverted students

the overemphasis of it consequently hurts

are put at an unfair disadvantage. Yes, there

the learning process for students who learn

are often other ways of collecting grades

best by listening, absorbing information,

used in conjunction with participation, but

and piecing together their understanding of

participation can be worth as much as 35

the material—which a constant pressure of

percent of a grade in some classes.

“what do I need to say next?” hinders.

Graded participation often has det-

Even for students who are more comfortable sharing their thoughts in class, graded

rimental effects on hard-working and

participation tends to act as a prevent

thoughtful students’ grades by distracting

rather than enhancing class discussion.

from their interaction with the material

Bonnie M. Miller, an assistant professor of

by turning the classroom into an exhibi-

American studies at the University of Mas-

tion of who can take up the most air time.

sachusetts Boston, recalls in the American

In my experience, more professors tend to

Historical Association the comments of

be shifting toward the ‘quality vs. quantity’

some of her graduate students: “When I

model. Even with this model, some pro-

know that [participation] counts I try to

fessors ultimately still have unattainable

get my two cents in. … But when it doesn’t

count I’m more likely to be confident in my participation.” Miller herself questions the actual objectivity, and effectiveness of grading participation.

She writes, “A student of mine several years ago told me that he did not often speak in class because he was fascinated by what his peers had to say.”

Besides putting a damper on so many students’ education and grades, graded participation causes students to repeat so many generis comments that dilute the discussion in pursuit of ticking off participation points—ruining the whole point of graded participation in the first place, which is to stimulate productive conversation.

Such empty comments, which we are all familiar with in the classroom, highlight the lack of importance placed on listening (and ultimately a true comprehension and appreciation of the material) in the system of hyper-participation.

It says a lot when the student who repeats exactly what a peer said two minutes ago gets a better participation grade for the day than the student who refrained from regurgitating the same comment because they actually listened to, and processed, what was said. What the grading system values is air time. The amount of effort students put into their classes is very subjective, but I think it is best measured by the actual work being produced, and maybe the attentiveness in class—which comes in many forms, not just through talking.

Eleanor Grondin is an op-ed columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

With Benches

GRACE CHRISTENSON I make myself cry probably once a week.

To be clear, it’s not because I’m sad (usually). It’s because I find myself so intensely hilarious that I will laugh until I’m crying profusely at my own joke—a joke that I often don’t even say out loud. I will tell myself a joke, in my head, and then sit there shaking with laughter while tears (and sometimes snot) stream down my face. It’s a sight to behold.

All of this is to say that I truly enjoy my own company.

I find spending time with me to be great fun—a hoot and a half, even. I am perfectly content to spend hours alone with my thoughts, mulling over my running list of million dollar ideas or wondering how munchkin cats climb stairs, or replaying every conversation I’ve ever had and cringing.

The sort of solitude necessary for quality time with myself is hard to come by at college, though. I live with seven other equally chatty women, so I don’t typically experience “silence.” For a while there, I started to think it was a myth.

Yet, my love of my own company has come in handy recently, as my skunk-investigation co-conspirators (Gabi and Molly) rudely rejected my request for companionship on my new investigative venture: The Bench Plaque Mystery.

If you’re keeping score at home, you know that my investigations have spanned butter packets on Mac’s ceiling, a two-part search for skunks, and a somewhat lame foray into the world of procrastination (procrastinating my columns, as it turns out, drastically reduces their quality while simultaneously improving my quality of life.

It’s a catch-22). This week, I asked myself what key issue I should tackle next. The grad student union? The Koch donation? The BC Belfast case? No—it had to be bench plaques.

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When I interrupted Gabi and Molly’s date night to tell them this (behind being a columnist, my primary occupation is third-wheeling their relationship), and that the investigation would require reading every bench plaque on BC’s campus, they, in unison, expressed their complete disinterest in helping me realize my bench-related dreams.

They cited silly reasons like “having homework” and “not wanting to walk around aimlessly in the cold” and “visiting every bench is too many benches.”

Their hearts, it seems, are icier than the weather that

Flat Breads

Playa Bowls

` El Pelon

kept them from joining me.

Subway

Rather than interpret their refusal as confirmation that bench plaques are not the most exciting or reader-friendly topic (a conclusion I arrived at in my last column, but have since written off as invalid due to my exhaustion at the time of said column’s composition), I walked away more determined than ever, fully prepared to venture out alone.

And venture I did.

I began my investigation under the cloak of darkness, using my phone’s flashlight to make out the plaque inscriptions. Was this the result of poor planning? Was it an aesthetic choice? Did I fear seeing the judgment in my peers’ eyes in the light of day? The world will never know.

Actually, the world will—it was all of the above.

Anyway, you really would not believe the suspicious vibes I exuded while aggressively searching for the bench to end all benches—the bench that could save this column from its current free-fall—in the middle of the night. I scampered around campus leaping over fences and chan-

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nelling my inner Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez. I looked high (double entendre unintended, but accurate). I looked low.

I sat on a few benches. I laid down on one. I recalled hav-

Protesters Had Right to Attend Klavan Lecture

MAYA TAHA Last week, the Boston College Republicans invited Andrew Klavan to speak at an event titled “The Art of Being Free.” Several students appeared at the event protesting Klavan’s history of Islamophobic, racist, sexist, and homophobic comments.

The Office of Student Involvement (OSI) has a hard job when it comes to issues such as this. On the one hand, the BC Republicans and their speakers should have freedom of speech. On the other hand, the last thing a predominantly white, Catholic institution should be doing is contributing to the marginalization of minority groups on campus by allowing clubs to invite speakers who spread hate. It’s a tough decision to make, but the BC Republicans should not have invited Klavan, and OSI made the wrong decision by allowing him to come.

As a university, BC has a duty to allow debate on campus, and every student has the right to free speech—but one person’s right to freedom of speech does not trump another’s right to existence. Difficulties arise

when people abuse their right to freedom of speech in order to spread hate about groups that are marginalized. A difference of opinion stops being only discourse when the “opinion” renders another person inferior because of their religion, race, or gender.

It was a mistake to allow Klavan to speak on our campus. When bringing a controversial figure to campus, the least that the administration can do is ensure that voices from both sides are heard. OSI dug itself into a deeper hole by slow-walking the approval process, therefore preventing BC Republicans from extensively advertising the event.

The room in which it was hosted was smaller than the room requested by the BC Republicans, and the event started 15 minutes before it was scheduled, preventing protestors from silently walking out, as they had initially planned. Protests would not have prohibited other attendees from hearing the talk.

To reiterate, Klavan should not have been allowed on campus in the first place, but BC made the situation worse by downplaying the event. Had BC allowed the protestors into the room to present their counterarguments, all parties could have potentially benefitted.

The best way to defeat someone who spreads hate is through discourse. Pointing out the flaws in their arguments, perhaps in the presence of their supporters, is the best way to expose the flaws in said arguments. Commu-

nication can be the most effective method of protest. But in this situation, instead of being able to communicate, it seems as though the opposing groups only became more polarized.

Bigotry, racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia are all diseases on society as a whole. They can result and have resulted, on multiple occasions, in the loss of innocent lives.

There can be no tolerance for the spread of these ideologies—this starts, for us, at BC. Protesting this type of speaker is not enough.

We must take direct action to prevent this from happening again. We have a duty to ensure that all members of our BC community feel safe. When a club tries to invite a problematic speaker, it should be held accountable for that invitation, and it should be challenged through discourse.

BC Republicans should not invite people such as Klavan in the first place, but it may be inevitable that they do so. Mistakes happen. So when they do, they should not be downplayed or avoided. Instead, we should use it them as learning opportunities for everyone in our community to grow.

Maya Taha is an op-ed columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at opinions@ bcheights.com.

The opinions and commentaries of the op-ed columnists appearing on this page represent the views of the author of that particular piece, and not necessarily the views of The Heights. Any of the columnists for the Opinions section of The Heights can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

ing emotional breakdowns on more than I would care to admit.

Ultimately, I cannot lie: The plaques weren’t that great.

I should’ve known that it would be impossible to beat the Misery Club discovery of last week’s column. (If you’re behind on my columns, last week I found a bench plaque that reads “THANKS Fr. B - The Misery Club,” and it changed my life.) As the woman who ran around in the cold, at night, evaluating benches instead of doing her homework, I can promise you that no one is more disappointed than me—but also, I have no regrets. I had a good time getting up to some wholesome shenanigans on a Wednesday. I laughed at my own jokes. I danced to ABBA. I found the quiet I had been missing.

I’ve never read Walden, but I think that what I experienced with those benches was right up there with Henry David Thoreau’s whole woods experiment. (Yes, I just reduced Walden to a “whole woods experiment.” Again, I have no regrets.) I didn’t realize how much space college took up in my mind until I was left to nature, if you can call the quad nature (you can’t, but just go with it) and my own devices.

Taking time to be alone, even if it’s just to goof off around campus at midnight, is an incredibly restorative and underrated practice. Find your own Thoreauian bench plaque experience, kids—your peace of mind will thank you.

At the end of the day—and this may come as a surprise—I’m no Thoreau. One night of alone time with benches fulfilled my solitude quota for easily the next few weeks. I’m returning to the person-filled, seven-roommate lifestyle just like the rest of you. In fact, I’m taking applications for the Watson to my Sherlock—the second wheel to my investigative bicycle, if you will. Email me your thoughts on obscure, intense scavenger hunts and you might just find yourself the next infamous guest star of my column. Silly (but serious?) (but silly?) inquiries only. (FYI: Thinking oxymorons are fun is a mandatory quality for this position.)

Grace Christenson is an op-ed columnist for The Heights.

She can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

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BC was 1-14 in the ACC Tournament prior to this year, but made an inspired run before falling to No. 1 UNC in the title game.

By Peter Kim Assoc. Sports Editor

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Jaime Natale scored an equalizer with 3:21 left in the third quarter of the 3-1 loss.

When Boston College field hockey visited No. 1 North Carolina on Oct. 25, the Eagles lost a heartbreaker thanks to the North Carolina 3 stick of Yentl Boston College 1 Leemans.

With the score knotted at 2-2 and just two minutes left in regulation, the Tar Heels earned a penalty corner, and Leemans played a give-and-go with Romea Riccardo into the middle of the circle before slotting it home for a game-winner.

Unfortunately for BC, the story was the same two weeks later in the ACC Championship. With the two teams tied at 1-1 in the fourth quarter on Sunday, UNC won a penalty corner.

After the insertion, Erin Matson slid the ball to Leemans, and the senior found the back of the net off a high shot that just snuck inside the left post to give the Tar Heels the lead with 11 minutes to play. From there, UNC held on, running out the clock to beat the Eagles, 3-1, and ensure that BC came up frustratingly short of its first-ever ACC Championship in front of a standing-room only crowd

in Newton.

“I think it’s awesome,” Eagles head coach Kelly Doton said of the packed house. “I think a lot of the campus and the community has embraced the team over the last couple days.

[Our players] love playing in front of those crowds.”

After a slow start for both teams, BC earned the first penalty corner of the game and Fusine Govaert got a shot off, only to be denied by Tar Heels goaltender Amanda Hendry, who entered the game with a .837 save

See FH vs. UNC, A12

FOOTBALL

Eagles Erase Fourth-Quarter Deficit Only to Fall Late to FSU

By Bradley Smart Sports Editor

Last season, Boston College football continued a late-season slide at Florida State when cornerback Brandon Sebastian was beat deep by Florida State 38 Tamorrion TerBoston College 31 ry, who hauled in a 74-yard touchdown pass with 1:49 on the clock, sealing a 22-21 win for the Seminoles.

On Saturday afternoon, it was almost deja vu.

Not only did Terry catch a 74-yard touchdown—which kickstarted a run of 21 unanswered points from FSU—but Seminoles wideout D.J. Matthews turned a simple slant route into a 60-yard touchdown with an uncanny 1:48 left in the fourth quarter. It broke a 24-24 deadlock and created breathing room for FSU, which would score

once more and fend off a BC comeback effort in what became a 38-31 win.

The Eagles (5-5, 3-4 Atlantic Coast) watched as a 14-10 halftime lead disappeared to the Seminoles (5-5, 4-4), as FSU came away with the victory despite firing head coach Willie Taggart earlier in the week. Quarterback James Blackman was 18for-26 for 346 yards and two touchdowns, while option-friendly quarterback Jordan Travis took three carries for 94 yards and a pair of scores, the latter a 66-yard sprint that iced the game with a minute left in the fourth quarter.

BC running back AJ Dillon recorded a career-high 40 carries for 167 yards after teammate David Bailey left with an apparent injury after his first rushing attempt of the third quarter. Quarterback Dennis Grosel was an impressive 20-of-29 for 227 yards and two scores through the air—and a oneyard touchdown run to tie the game in the

fourth—but had a costly interception that set up Travis’ insurance score.

It continued a year of inconsistency for Steve Addazio and the Eagles, who gave up 524 yards to the visiting Seminoles—the fourth time allowing more than 500 this year. BC was without starter Mike Palmer while Connor Grieco, who got the nod over safety Mehdi El Attrach last week against Syracuse, was additionally ruled out for the year.

Still, the team’s defense has been unable to string together respectable performances, and even an improved pass rush couldn’t overcome Blackman’s ability to move around the pocket and find open receivers.

Terry created separation throughout the game to the tune of seven catches for 156 yards, while three other receivers had 30plus yards on multiple receptions.

See FB vs. FSU, A12

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D.J. Williams dove for this touchdown with 1:48 left in the fourth to take a 31-24 lead.

After Loss of Talent, Crowley Has BC Humming Offensively

Bradley Smart Clearly nobody told Boston College women’s hockey that when you’re coming off your first season with double-digit losses since 201112 and facing an exodus of talent— which includes your top-four point producers—you’re supposed to take a step back.

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Instead, the Eagles have secured points in 10 of their first 11 games, going 9-1-1 and building a six-point cushion in the Hockey East table.

Save for a 5-2 setback on Sunday afternoon against Connecticut and a 3-3 draw with Maine near the end of October, BC has stormed through its early schedule behind the conference’s highest-scoring offense.

It’s been an impressive coaching job from head coach Katie Crowley and her staff, as the Eagles have withstood the loss of 201718 Patty Kazmaier Award winner Daryl Watts, 2018-19 finalist Megan

Keller, and talented forwards Caitrin Lonergan and Makenna Newkirk.

Crowley stressed before the season that she was eagerly anticipating a more balanced offense, and while that may of seemed like typical coachspeak at the time, it has absolutely been true.

“I think we’ll have more of a team production atmosphere as opposed to just a couple of players,” Crowley said before the season. “I think these players that are here have really bonded and I think they feel like they have a little something to prove.”

The keys behind BC’s offensive consistency do not involve one player or a single standout line, just steady play spearheaded by a balanced defensive corps and a plethora of scoring options up top.

It’s no secret that the best teams in college hockey get scoring throughout their lines—Wisconsin won a national championship last year with 16 players recording doubledigit points on the year—and the Eagles have been no different thus far. Crowley has established a set of lines that have largely remained unchanged throughout the year, and

MHOK: BC Rolls to Easy Sweep of UConn FB: Eagles Struggle Defensively in Defeat

the results have poured in.

During BC’s 10-game unbeaten run, 12 different players scored a goal and 16 logged points. It’s a lot for opposing teams to grapple with when there’s not one or two players to try and lock down. In the loss to UConn, the only line that produced any points was the third line, and the outcome was a three-goal defeat.

Other than that setback, though, Crowley has gotten production from up and down her roster.

As it stands, the Eagles have a

See Balanced Offense, A11

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A12 11 goals and held UConn to just one............................ A11 couldn’t clinch bowl eligibility on Saturday................A12 FIELD HOCKEY..........................................

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Räsänen Nets Hat Trick, Eagles Complete Weekend Sweep With Rout

By Emma Healy For The Heights After a blowout defeat of conference foe Connecticut at home on Friday night, Boston College men’s hockey looked to complete a weekend sweep of the Huskies on their home ice and get back over .500 for the first time since mid-October.

On the heels of junior attacker Aapeli Räsänen’s hat trick and a dominant offensive performance, the Eagles did just that, pulling away for a 5-1 victory on Saturday afternoon at the XL Center.

The Eagles (5-4, 3-2 Hockey East) were in control from puck drop, firing six uninterrupted shots on UConn (25-1, 1-3) goaltender Tomas Vomacka during their first power play just three minutes into the game. They went on to dominate both the offensive and defensive side of the game, racking up a season-high 46 shots on goal while holding the Huskies to just 17.

BC then went on to take eight more shots without much contest until Räsänen went to the box for tripping, giving UConn its first real chance to test Spencer Knight. The Huskies failed to capitalize, though, and just 12 seconds after BC regained even numbers on the ice, Räsänen buried a one-timer after emerging from the box for his first of the night.

Even after BC took the lead, Vomacka continued to have a strong night at the net, notching 21 saves in the first period alone, holding the Eagles to just two goals in the frame.

The second came from a shot by Ben Finkelstein during a BC power play with four minutes left in the period. Finkelstein’s goal came after a faceoff win, and he was able to take a shot beyond the circle that went by a shielded Vomacka. The Eagles then went into the break with a full head of steam after launching shot after shot at Vomacka, even while shorthanded.

BC continued to display a prolific offense early in the second frame, maintaining possession in its offensive third for the majority of the period, but its shots on goal slowed down.

After firing off 23 attempts in the first, the Huskies held them to just 10 in the second, but it appeared nothing would

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The Eagles had plenty to celebrate, scoring 11 goals in two games against UConn.

stop the Eagles from finding the back of the net.

Six minutes in, Räsänen scored his second of the night after UConn’s Yan Kuznetsov went to the box for hooking. The Huskies weren’t going to go down without a fight, though, as periodic breakaways provided glimmers of hope. A forced turnover led to a clear shot at goal for UConn freshman Vladislav Firstov, who hit a wrister to the bottom corner past Knight’s stick, bringing the score to 3-1.

BC then countered to expand its lead with just under two minutes left in the period on a goal by Mike Hardman—an attempted clear from the Huskies instead deflected off him and into the cage. As the clock wound down, BC continued to push, with Logan Hutsko even hitting the pipe just before the buzzer.

The Eagles went into the final frame with seemingly the same mentality as the first two: attack fast and often. They did just that, once again rattling off nine shots in the first five minutes to the Huskies’ two. The game looked a bit more even from there as BC shifted toward a more defensive stance, looking to hold its

comfortable three-goal lead rather than expand on it.

Still, Räsänen closed the night out with one final goal for the Eagles on a rebound after Hardman’s shot bounced off Vomacka’s pads. With that, he marked his fourth tally of the season and his first ever collegiate hat trick.

The Eagles closed out the game with just four penalties against them, a marked improvement from previous games this season. Penalties have plagued BC so far this year and contributed to key losses, but against the Huskies, they were far from an issue. The Eagles notched only seven penalties against UConn the entire weekend, a strong showing from the group.

Räsänen’s hat trick puts the Eagles above .500 in Hockey East, placing them comfortably in third place of the conference table going into two straight league games against lastranked Vermont. Likely poised to play with plenty of momentum gained from the dominant weekend against UConn, BC has the potential to roll through the Catamounts and continue an early-season push. n

Despite Departure of Stars, Women’s Hockey Still Boasts a Prolific Attack Balanced Offense, from A10

Pure Dominance Men’s hockey outscored Connecticut, 11-1, in two straight wins against the Huskies.

Unbeaten No More A 5-2 defeat to Connecticut was women’s hockey’s first loss of the season.

Good Starts Men’s and women’s basketball are a combined 4-0 after one week of play.

Defense After allowing 524 yards to Florida State, football is now giving up 486.9 yards per game.

Bouncing Back Volleyball rebounded from a pair of five-set losses with a sweep of Virginia Tech.

Turnovers Men’s basketball recorded an astonishing 28 turnovers against South Florida.

trio of lines that are finding plenty of success. The top line features wings Olivia Finocchiaro and Hannah Bilka with Kelly Browne in the middle, and those three have been as formidable as they come, totaling 46 points in 11 games. Finocchiaro has thrived in a more significant role from last year, Browne has taken the next step forward after closing 2018-19 strong—as Crowley expected—and Bilka has been one of the nation’s top freshman.

In sum, Bilka and Browne are second and third in Hockey East in points, the byproduct of consistent scoring and a few dynamic individual games. Bilka, the Hockey East Rookie of the Month, scored four goals on four shots against Holy Cross, while Browne matched that with a four-goal showing against New Hampshire.

That’s not to say that the Finocchiaro-Browne-Bilka line is the only one producing. Crowley’s “veteran” line, made up of longtime Eagles in Maegan Beres, Erin Connolly, and Delaney Belinskas, has 15 points.

Nine of those have come off the stick of Belinskas, who is tied for third in the conference with seven goals. Then there’s the duo of underclassmen Savannah Norcross and Caroline DiFiore, paired with a player who’s been around college hockey for a while: Lindsay Agnew.

Norcross, much like Finocchiaro, has thrived in a larger role, totaling six goals.

These forward lines wouldn’t have as much success without the best possible pairings on defense,

though, and that’s where Crowley has been able to engineer plenty of magic. Defense was even more of a question mark than the forward lines coming in, with the 13th-year head coach returning just two players from last year’s unit that ranked fourth in the conference in scoring defense.

Crowley paired both returners— Cayla Barnes and Jillian Fey—with freshmen Alexie Guay and Hadley Hartmetz, respectively. The third line of defense is a pair of firstyear players as well, with Deidre Mullowney and Abby Volo suiting up. The results have been terrific, as the Eagles have been able to build play up from the back and create opportunities in transition.

Barnes and Guay have been nothing short of formidable, ranking first and fourth in the conference in defenseman scoring, respectively.

The tandem has combined for 19 assists in just 11 games, a prolific rate that speaks to how much more cohesive BC has been able to play this season.

Hartmetz and Fey have combined for nine assists as well, so the unit is averaging almost 2.7 per game, a marked improvement from last season—when BC had more prolific targets up top and a Patty Kazmaier Award finalist on the blue line.

Overall, albeit in a smaller sample size, the Eagles are scoring almost a goal more per game (4.18, tops in Hockey East) this year and have additionally climbed a spot in the scoring defense ranks. A more united team approach has benefited BC, as it is no longer relying on one or two individuals to bail the team

out. The Eagles have three of the top-five scorers in the conference and five players find themselves in the top seven in assists.

Now, this should all be taken with a grain of salt. BC has faced just one top-20 scoring defense (Vermont) and has five wins over the likes of Merrimack and Holy Cross—the conference’s bottomfeeders. With the exception of the surprising loss to UConn, the Eagles have made quick work of a schedule that ranks 25th in the country. The path quickly gets difficult, though, as the run of games up to the team’s winter break will reveal a lot about whether this well-distributed offense can sustain its torrid play.

BC’s next eight games—before taking almost a month off—feature a plethora of ranked opponents. The Eagles play rival Boston University—currently 10th in the USCHO. com poll—three times, and also face off against No. 4 Northeastern, No. 1 Minnesota, and No. 2 Wisconsin. Plus, the two games against unranked opponents? A home-andhome series with UConn, which will be eager to replicate its Sunday afternoon success.

BC has impressed thus far, but this stretch of games will help answer the question of if the newfound scoring balance was simply a product of an easier schedule, or the result of an efficient offensive system that could have the team poised for a deeper run than last year’s up-anddown campaign.

Bradley Smarts is the Sports Editor for The Heights. He can be reached on Twitter @bradleysmart15

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Eagles Surrender Go-Ahead Touchdown in Final Two Minutes FB vs. FSU, from A10 “Listen, this isn’t complicated,” Addazio said about the defense struggles. “I mean, we lost a fair amount of players on defense, and we’ve got some very talented players that we’re trying to plug in on defense, and they’re young.”

Talented linebacker John Lamot—who had a team-high 11 tackles—offered a different analysis when asked about the team’s inexperience on defense.

“We’ve got guys that haven’t started previously, but they’ve had enough playing time and experience to limit that excuse,” the redshirt junior said. “So I feel like that shouldn’t be an excuse anymore—not really an excuse in the first place. To me, I feel like we just gotta play better.”

The game could not have gotten off to a better start for the Eagles, as they ate up almost six minutes of clock, running 14 plays and marching 75 yards downfield on their opening drive. Blown coverage

from the Seminoles resulted in Grosel connecting with a wide-open Kobay White on 3rd-and-Goal, allowing BC to take a quick 7-0 lead. The Eagles’ defense bent but didn’t break on FSU’s first possession, forcing the visitors to settle for a 20-yard field goal from Ricky Aguayo.

Then, in the second quarter, BC took a 14-3 lead on the strength of its rushing attack. The Eagles, after trading punts with the visiting Seminoles, covered 61 yards on just six plays—all runs—allowing them to take a two-possession lead via a Bailey 11-yard scamper.

That’s when things started to turn. FSU trotted out, and Terry once again burnt Sebastian, running by the second-year starter and catching a perfectly placed pass from Blackman for the lengthy touchdown. The Eagles had a chance to answer, working with four-plus minutes, but questionable time management at the end of the half ended in a missed field goal. Addazio ran the clock down with

BC facing a 4th-and-4, eventually taking a timeout with three seconds on the clock. He sent Aaron Boumerhi out, and the graduate transfer missed his second field goal of the game, this time from 46 yards out.

FSU, who deferred on the opening toss, scored right out of halftime after Danny Longman’s kickoff bounced out of bounds to set up good field position. It went 65 yards on seven plays with Travis, who transferred from Louisville, running a well-executed option and following his blockers for a 26-yard score. Just like that, the Eagles were on the wrong side of the scoreboard—trailing, 17-14—and they would never lead again.

The teams traded punts before BC turned the ball over on downs—Grosel rolled out and overthrew White—and the Seminoles struck again. This time, it was Cam Akers, who punched it in from 13 yards out. Outside of Travis, FSU largely struggled on the ground, managing just 84

yards on 27 carries between Akers, Blackman, and Tre’Shaun Harrison.

Boumerhi somewhat redeemed himself in the fourth quarter, sinking a 30-yard field goal after a lengthy 15-play, 57-yard drive that took five minutes off the clock.

Then, the defense stepped up, with FSU shooting itself in the foot with a false start as it prepared to go for it on 4th-and-1, and the Seminoles had to punt. That set up Grosel’s heroics, as he found Ethon Williams for a third-down conversion, ran 24 yards to the FSU two-yard line, and then flipped into the end zone on a quarterback keeper to tie it up.

Two plays later, though, the Eagles’ defense was left chasing Matthews downfield after a missed tackle, and he reached for the pylon with a dive from six yards out to give FSU the lead for good. It was a brutal turn of events in which BC had just one defender in the middle of the field—Tate Haynes—and he couldn’t bring down the speedster. Neither could El Attrach, who

was also in the area.

“That last quick gain they threw a three-step drop, quick-gain slant route that went for 60, that was a backbreaker right there to me,” Addazio said. “I mean, it was just quick gain, and goes for 60.

That can’t happen. You knock them down at that point, get the ball back, you’re in great shape. But we didn’t.”

The loss was a disappointing one for a number of reasons. FSU came in with an interim head coach in Odell Haggins and had lost three of its last four in the conference—the lone win was against cellar dweller Syracuse. It also had a propensity to blow leads late, having squandered a trio of fourth-quarter leads on the season. That didn’t matter against the Eagles, though, as the Seminoles bounced back and broke off a pair of 60-plus yard touchdowns to secure the win. Now, instead of having bowl eligibility locked up, BC faces an uphill battle with tough road games against

Seminoles vs. Eagles Drive Chart A look at BC’s 38-31 loss to Florida State, possession by possession:

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Tackling, Special Teams Once Again a Concern in Loss to FSU

By Peter Kim Assoc. Sports Editor After an emphatic blowout win over Syracuse, things were set up perfectly for Boston College football against Florida State. In the final home game of the year— and the sixth-annual Red Bandana Game no less—an Eagles win against a Seminoles team with an interim head coach would have secured BC bowl eligibility for the fourth season in a row and perhaps set the table for a four-game winning streak to end the year.

Instead, for the second straight year, FSU handed BC a heartbreaking loss.

After the Eagles surged to an early 14-3 lead, the Seminoles scored 21 consecutive points before holding off a late BC rally, beating the Eagles, 38-31, on a frigid day in Chestnut Hill. Here are some observations, “Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down” style, from the disheartening defeat.

Thumbs Up 1) Grosel is a Gamer Last week against the Orange, Dennis Grosel undoubtedly put on his best performance as a starter, completing 8-of-10 throws for 195 yards and three touchdowns.

He might not have been as efficient as he was against Syracuse, but Grosel was nevertheless still impressive, both throwing and running the ball.

It started on the opening drive of the game. The redshirt sophomore calmly rolled out of the pocket and completed his first throw of the day to Korab Idrizi for nine yards, before displaying his athleticism and picking up 22 yards on a quarterback draw on 2nd-and-19. Then, after a botched snap backed the Eagles up into 3rd-and-Goal

from the 17, Grosel dropped back to throw and briefly scanned the field before finding a wide-open Kobay White on a go route for a touchdown.

Grosel didn’t slow down. The Willoughby, Ohio, native, who finished the day 20-of-29 for 227 yards and two touchdowns, made a pair of clutch throws on third down to White just before halftime to help get the Eagles in field goal range. Then, in the fourth quarter with BC facing a 10-point deficit, Grosel upped his game once again.

First, there was a clutch third-down throw to Ethon Williams that set up a 30yard Aaron Boumerhi field goal to cut the Seminoles’ lead to 24-17, but the redshirt sophomore’s finest moment arguably came the drive after. With BC backed up to its own 10-yard line, Grosel orchestrated a 13-play, 90-yard drive to tie the score with 2:33 to play—a series that featured a 17yard completion on an in-breaking route to Williams on third down and a 24-yard scramble on 2nd-and-7 that gave the Eagles 1st-and-Goal on the two-yard line.

Fittingly, that drive was finished off by Grosel, who tumbled into the end zone on a rollout to tie the score. Unfortunately for BC, he couldn’t repeat the feat on its next drive, throwing an interception while on the run to effectively end the Eagles’ chances, but that was arguably Grosel’s only mistake of the day.

2) Dillon the Workhorse Entering the contest against the Seminoles, AJ Dillon’s career high in carries was 39, a mark he hit in 2017 against Louisville in a 272-yard performance that put the national spotlight on him for the very first time. Saturday, Dillon finally set a new career-high mark in carries, in large part

due to the fact that David Bailey didn’t play in the second half due to an undisclosed injury.

Even though he rarely got a chance to rest, Dillon still gave the Eagles everything he could. The junior grinded out 165 tough yards, often facing an incredibly crowded box. The tone was set from BC’s first possession, when Dillon bounced off multiple tackles before gaining six yards on the first play of the game, before breaking the attempted tackle of linebacker Amari Gainer behind the line of scrimmage and gaining nine more yards.

Against an FSU defense that made stopping the run a priority, the junior rarely busted big gains—his longest run was 19 yards, and he picked up more than 10 yards at a time just twice in total—but he also lost yards on just two of his carries, helping the Eagles’ offense stay on schedule and put up more than 30 points for the fourth time in five games.

Thumbs Down 1) Terry Strikes Again Last year in Tallahassee, with BC clinging to a 21-16 lead with 1:49 to play, Deondre Francois spotted Tamorrion Terry streaking down the field, with only Brandon Sebastian trailing in single coverage.

Francois promptly threw a pinpoint deep ball to the then-redshirt freshman for a 74yard touchdown. The score, which turned out to be the game-winning touchdown, handed the Eagles their second straight defeat and cost them their best chance at an eight-win season.

No one would have faulted BC fans for experiencing déjà vu Saturday. With four and a half minutes left to play in the second quarter and the Eagles up, 14-3,

Terry—who racked up 156 yards and a touchdown—found space down the right side of the field, once again gaining a step on Sebastian, and for the second time in as many years, found himself on the receiving end of a 74-yard touchdown pass. The score was crucial for the Seminoles, who had punted on their previous two possessions, and sparked a run of 21 straight points.

2) Field Goals After Colton Lichtenberg graduated following the 2018 season, BC netted a big grad transfer in the form of Boumerhi, who entered the season having made 31of-43 career field goal attempts. After four years of inconsistent field goal kicking, it appeared Steve Addazio had finally found the answer at the kicker position.

The problem is, Boumerhi has been anything but consistent for the Eagles this season. He missed his first field goal attempt of the season—a 38-yarder against Virginia Tech—and missed a 31-yarder against Kansas two weeks later.

Against FSU, Boumerhi failed to connect on not one, but two kicks. First, with BC nursing an early 7-3 lead in the first quarter, he hooked a 37-yarder well wide of the left upright. Then, just before halftime, after the Eagles had maneuvered themselves into field goal range, Boumerhi was sent on to attempt a 46-yarder, but this time pushed it wide right.

Those six points didn’t by themselves lose BC the game, and Boumerhi did make a 30-yard try in the fourth quarter that made it a one score game, but it’s once again incredibly concerning that the Eagles again don’t have a kicker that they can trust to make any field goal, much less a pressure kick. BC’s kicker woes

simply won’t resolve themselves.

3) Tackling Woes BC’s defense, which is now giving up 486.9 yards per game, has had its fair share of issues this year. Chief among them, certainly, has been tackling. The Eagles have consistently taken poor pursuit angles and failed to properly wrap up on all manner of receivers and running backs. Saturday, tackling was once again an issue for BC. All day long, the Eagles struggled to bring down FSU skill players—especially star running back Cam Akers—on first contact. On one particularly notable completion in the third quarter to Akers, he turned what should have been a twoyard loss into a 26-yard gain, running through the attempted arm tackle of Max Richardson. That missed tackle helped set up a 13-yard touchdown run from Akers in which he again broke free from the grasp of Richardson.

BC’s tackling woes were most apparent, however, on what eventually became the game-winning score. After Grosel’s touchdown run in the fourth quarter tied the game at 24-24, the Seminoles got the ball back and faced 2nd-and-11 from their own 40-yard line. FSU quarterback James Blackman dropped back to throw and found D.J. Matthews over the middle short of the first down marker. Matthews squirmed free of the tackle of Tate Haynes, before causing Mehdi El Attrach to slip on a simple cut to the right and diving just inside the pylon for a touchdown.

That kind of play simply can’t happen to any defense. What makes it even more baffling is that this has been happening to the Eagles all season, with no apparent fix on the way. n

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Late UNC Goals Doom Eagles to ACC Championship Defeat FH vs. UNC, from A10 percentage—tops in the ACC. The Eagles paid for that missed opportunity just three minutes down the road. Kate Pianko was given a yellow card, and, seconds later, UNC earned a penalty corner of its own. Off the insertion, the ball was laid off to Matson. The country’s leader in goals and assists per game slammed a shot toward the net, but a stretching Sky Caron got her stick on it. The problem was that the deflection took the ball right into the path of Marissa Creatore, who was all alone at the right post.

Presented with the simplest of chances, the senior tapped the ball home to give the Tar Heels a 1-0 lead.

The Eagles had multiple chances to add to their lead before the break, with a penalty corner just before the end of the first period, ending in another save from Hendry, and two more penalty corners in the second period. A tough UNC defense, however—which conceded just 18 goals all season—was up to the task, blocking a shot from Govaert and intercepting an attempted pass toward the end line on the other.

At the break, despite outshooting the Tar Heels, 4-3, the Eagles still trailed by a goal.

The third quarter didn’t start in ideal fashion for BC either. Halfway through

the period, Caron was assessed a yellow card, gifting the Tar Heels a man advantage. Dwyer moved to her right to deny Matson with a big save, though, and the Eagles were able to weather the storm. And just after Caron made her way back onto the field, BC struck for an equalizing goal.

Govaert carried the ball down the right sideline and hit a pass toward goal. The ball was deflected by a UNC player, but Elizabeth Warner picked it back up after a quick restart and got off a centering pass of her own.

This time, however, the ball found the stick of Jaime Natale, and the senior attacker—playing in her final game at home—fired a rolling drive that snuck under Hendry’s leg pads to tie the game at one and set up a dramatic final period.

But the fourth quarter belonged to UNC. Just 17 seconds into the quarter, Warner was handed a yellow card and 10-minute penalty for a physical clash along the sideline. Capitalizing on the extra player, Leemans struck for the go-ahead goal.

The Eagles threw players forward in an effort to find a late equalizing score, but instead it was the Tar Heels and Creatore who extended their lead.

Under pressure from two defenders, Emily Buttinger turned upfield but lost the ball to Creatore. With BC’s defense

out of position, Creatore dribbled down into the low circle before slotting home to the far post and pushing UNC’s lead to 3-1.

BC thought it had a goal back, as Govaert rocketed home a high shot off a penalty corner to reduce the deficit to 3-2, but it was disallowed for her stick being too high. All told, the Eagles finished the day 0-for-5 on penalty corners, while the Tar Heels scored on two of theirs.

“On a couple of [penalty corners], our tippers weren’t in positions where they should have been,” Doton remarked of BC’s inability to convert on those penalties. “But it’s not even about the first execution, it’s about getting those rebounds as well. Penalty corners are hard on both ends.”

The rest of the way, UNC was able to run out the clock by holding the ball, even after the Eagles pulled Dwyer with 2:24 to play.

The loss is heartbreaking for BC, which was making its first-ever appearance in the ACC Championship.

Nevertheless, it certainly represents a step forward for the Eagles, who had managed just one win all-time in the ACC Tournament before winning two games just in 2019.

“I told them at the end of the game that the ACC Championship is seven really hard teams and to make it to the

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Jaime Natale scored for BC, but the Eagles gave up two fourth-quarter goals.

final is an accomplishment in and of itself,” Doton said after the game.

Likewise, BC is almost certainly set to break a two-year NCAA Tournament drought when the field is announced Sunday night.

“I’m just happy for the hard work they’ve put in,” Doton said of the accomplishment. “They’ve really bought in to where we’re trying to go culturally with the program.

“I told them the season’s not over,” she added. “We wanted to win the ACC, but now we have the NCAAs to look forward to.”

The Eagles—solid defense and all—should be looking forward to the tournament. As a close loss to the best team in the country should indicate, they have the talent to make a run in what’s sure to be a loaded 18-team field. n

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By Nick Pulice For The Heights

Since picking up its pace of play at the turn of October, Boston College field hockey has impressed game in and game out.

Wake Forest 0 I n w h at h a s Boston College 2 quickly become a year of firsts, the Eagles only continued that trend on Thursday afternoon.

For the first time since 2015, BC advanced to the ACC semifinals, putting its defensive prowess on display as the Sky Caron-led back line didn’t allow a single shot on goal in an eventual 2-0 victory over Wake Forest.

Prior to this season, BC (12-6, 4-2 Atlantic Coast) had not fared well in the ACC postseason as it had failed to advance past the quarterfinals in each of the last three seasons. The Eagles’ last win coincidentally came against the Demon Deacons (9-11, 06), ending Wake Forest’s past playoff dominance of BC—in fact, between 2005 and 2014, Wake Forest knocked out the Eagles five times.

The first quarter was rather quiet as neither team could get on the board.

Both teams had stretches of strong

play, but a lot of the time any promising offensive chances were met with sticks poking the ball away at the last minute.

The Eagles outplayed the Demon Deacons on the stat sheet, registering two shots on goal, but both were saved by Wake Forest netminder Isla Bint.

The Eagles continued this pressure into the second quarter and were finally able to strike first blood in the final two minutes of regulation. Off a corner, midfielder Fusine Govaert had her attempt blocked, but she was able to retrieve the ball and make a great pass to freshman Darcy Clement, who fired a shot through traffic and past Bint for her first career goal. The Eagles took the one-goal lead into halftime while controlling play.

“At the end of the day, for a corner, you gotta get the ball on the cage and the best option is for Fu [Govaert],” head coach Kelly Doton said after.

“Wake Forest did a really good job of running that down and the ball bounced right back to Fu. “Instead of getting it back on the cage, she went the option with Darcy [Clement]. And Darcy was wide open and got her first goal. It was a smart decision by Fu [Govaert], but certainly we want to get that first shot on the

cage.”

Wake Forest came out strong after the break, as it maintained possession for a large period of time in the beginning of the third quarter. The Eagles regrouped and then created a few chances of their own. Leading goalscorer Margo Carlin was denied twice by Bint, as the freshman looked for her 18th goal of the season.

For the fourth quarter, Doton moved Govaert back to play defense to keep the lead intact.

BC survived an aggressive surge from the Demon Deacons after they pulled their goalie for an extra attacker with 2:55 to go.

In the final seconds of the game, Carlin sent a pass over to her fellow forward Jaime Natale, who was able to record the empty netter before the buzzer sounded off to give the Eagles the 2-0 win.

With the tournament being held here in Newton this year, home-field advantage will always be in the Eagles’ corner. The crowd was full of BC supporters, who cheered on their team from start to finish amid a hard-fought victory.

“I think if we keep getting those fans back in that cheering section, I

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Darcy Clement (center) scored her first career goal, which proved to be the game-winner.

think the girls really feed off it energywise,” Doton said. “We love playing on this field. We’re really fortunate to have it here.”

The win against Wake Forest also marked the Eagles' third shutout in

four games. It was a much easier shutout than ones prior, though, because Dwyer didn't face a single shot on goal. It's clear that, even in tournament play, BC's defense is firing on all cylinders. n

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he head coach of the Boston College Eagles football team [a few] years prior had coached Heisman Trophy winner Doug Flutie. And then two years later he was recruiting a future participation trophy advocate…” says Gary Gulman, in his new HBO special, The Great Depresh, his candid reflections on growing up with depression in the ’80s, when being told to “snap out of it” was the cure.

The special relaxes the conversation about depression with self-deprecation and unflinching candor and offers a fresh, substantive perspective when it feels like more people than ever are offering self-help advice.

Gulman, BC ’93, debuted on television in 1999 on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and made a career touring comedy clubs and late shows with Stephen Colbert, David Letterman, Seth Meyers, and others. He filmed multiple stand-up specials and made guest appearances on Inside Amy Schumer and The Pete Holmes Show.

He is one of Boston College’s most laughed-at alumni, and unlike his classmate Amy Poehler, BC ’93, who created the fictional Parks and Recreation town, Eagleton, to mock BC’s elitism, his story in The Great Depresh harkens back to the University ’s more humble days.

He’s out sp okenly grateful for his BC education, and his spot in the Class of 1993 wasn’t guaranteed with alumni donations or letters of recommendation. In fact, he almost didn’t even return after his freshman year.

Gulman was given a scholarship to play football at BC coming out of his senior year of high school. He grew up playing basketball—“It’s the only sport you can play by yourself,” he says—and although he received some interest from DIII schools like Bowdoin College, he didn’t think the sport was going to afford him the opportunity to go to college.

Standing 6-foot-6 in high school, Gulman’s presence was commanding.

There were two assistant coaches at his high school: twin brothers who told Gulman that if he played, he would get a football scholarship to pay for college. He agreed and dominated on the defensive line during his only year of high school football.

“I was being told by college football coaches that I was going to be great at this, and I cautiously believed them or let that override any doubts I had,” Gulman said.

He arrived on campus for preseason in the summer of 1989 and was initially put at defensive tackle.

But after strength and conditioning tests—bench press, squat, 40-yard dash, etc.—Gulman’s tall, slim frame made him a candidate for a position at tight end. The coaches told him that it was his best shot of playing as a freshman.

But Gulman was struggling with something bigger than earning playing time in his second year of his football career.

“There were learning resources for student-athletes which at the time was run by Kevin Lyons, and Kevin Lyons has spoken to us during preseason camp and he told us if we had any problems to come see him,” Gulman said. “One day, after practice, I went to him with what I now know that are symptoms of severe depression. And he told me about his friend, Dr. Tom McGuinness.”

McGuinness was a counseling

center director for 39 years before retiring and becoming assistant vice provost. In his time at University Counseling Services (UCS), McGuinness led an initiative to centralize services into Gasson—there were once counseling services outposts in Campion and Fulton—and to refocus how counseling operated within the University.

When he arrived, it was considered an extension of academic advising.

Some of the counselors were academic advisors, performing “personal counseling,” which dealt more with adjusting to campus and less with mental health. Over the years, McGuinness made counseling more clinical, eventually hiring full-time psychologists and refocusing counselors’ attention on the psychological needs of students.

But McGuinness was just starting his tenure as UCS director when Gulman showed up to his office on that day in August. He offered an air of stability as Gulman toiled in the cruel summer heat, playing an unfamiliar sport on an unfamiliar field.

“I mean, he was like a father to me during college,” Gulman said. “There are whole years of my life where I couldn’t tell you many specific details, but I can remember conversations I had with that man in his office. Not a day goes by where I don’t think of some of the wisdom imparted on me, or a moment or a situation I shared with him.”

When classes started, Gulman got into a routine and enjoyed making friends who were not on the football team. But once the newness of the school year wore off, Gulman felt similar to how he did in August.

“Every day, I would go to class, and I had early classes,” Gulman said.

“Then I would nap before practice.

The nap wasn’t really to refresh myself or anything, it was just to avoid my life. It was a depression nap, it was really deep sleep. It was problematic.

And then I would go to practice.”

As a non-starting freshman, he served as a member of the scout team, which runs the plays of that week’s opponent against the Eagles’ starters in practice.

“We would get manhandled by guys who were four and five years older than us,” Gulman said. “It could be pretty grueling, and the practices were pretty intense. I knew I had to do it, I didn’t see any way out.”

Even though the coaches were impressed with Gulman at the beginning of the year, by midseason he realized he wasn’t going to end up starting, at least that year. So he turned his focus to academics, which he felt to be the one area over which he had some control, and in which he took a bit of pride.

At the end of the semester, after getting crushed b y s t a r te r s e ver y day after class, Gulman had one of the h i g h e s t G PA s on the team.

“Despite not performing well on the football field, I felt I could hold up my end of the bargain by being a good student and perhaps raising the GPA of the team,” Gulman said.

Around the same time, McGuinness referred him to a psychiatrist off campus. UCS did not have its own at the time, so Gulman traveled to Newton Centre, where he was prescribed Nortriptyline, an antidepressant which, he said, made him feel like himself again for the first

time in a while.

Gulman returned in January feeling better but had to face the cruel reality of offseason workouts—waking up at 5:30 a.m. to walk in below-zero wind chills to lift weights ever y morning.

During the spring season, Gulman began to feel as if he wasn’t cut out for college football. McGuinness, who told him he usually doesn’t give advice, told Gulman to quit the team.

But he still felt an obligation to the team. So Gulman, a practicing Jew at the time, prayed to God for a sign to quit the football team. That spring, Gulman got moved to the offensive line and was struggling to maintain the weight needed for the position.

“Glenn Foley was the quarterback at the time and who went on to play in the NFL for a number of years,” Gulman said. “He got blindsided because I missed the block, and coach Jack Bicknell was so furious that he came across from the other side of the field and he laid into me.”

It was the sign Gulman was asking for, so he went into Bicknell’s office the next Monday and told him he was quitting the team.

Bicknell felt horrible, asked Gulman to reconsider his decision, and even called Gulman’s father in hopes of convincing him to stay. But Gulman’s mind was made up. He finished the semester with good grades again, except for calculus.

But without football, Gulman couldn’t keep his scholarship. He left Chestnut Hill after finishing his freshman year, unsure if he would return.

Determined to get Gulman to return for his sophomore year, McGuinness and Lyons told Rev. J. Donald Monan, S.J., University president at the time, that they were willing to resign if Gulman’s scholarship wasn’t honored for all four years. “[Lyons] called me and he says, ‘You’re good, you’re in, you’re staying,’ and I jumped for joy and I was so, so thankful,” said Gulman. ou came! You actually came,” Gulman says as he opens his special. “Thank you. It was a long time since I shot my last special, over four years. The reason why is I got very sick with ‘the Depresh.’”

Gulman has been performing stand-up comedy since 1993 and appeared in the spotlight just at the turn of the millennium, performing on Jay Leno in 1999 and David Letterman the year after that. He finished in third place in the second season of Last Comic Standing in 2003 and toured throughout the country before filming his first special with Comedy Central in 2012 called In This Economy. Stand-up comedian Jimmy Pardo said Gulman was among the best with “Brian Regan, John Mulaney, and Maria Bamford.”

He f i l m e d h i s second special, It’s About Time, in 2015, and appeared on Conan performing a joke that is one of his most w atche d on Youtube, with 1.3 million views called “Gary Gulman on How the States Got Their Abbreviations.”

“They thought it was going to be easy because Alabama lulled them into a false sense of security. They said ‘Alabama, AL, holy crap this is easy.’ … ‘What’s next?’ ‘Alaska, everyone cool with AL?’” says Gulman. “... By the time they got to Maine, Mar yland, Massachusetts followed

by Minnesota, Mississippi, and Missouri, shots were fired. So they did what any savvy business would do—they brought in a contractor. I’m sorry not a

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contractor, a contract-er.”

The joke was a hit, but Gulman was still struggling with depression.

He was hospitalized in May 2016.

In 2017, he appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert with a self-deprecating routine involving his day-to-day life with depression, and joked about how little motivation he has to perform basic tasks like doing laundry and waking up at 3 p.m.

“Gar, I said, I’m very gentle with myself, just brush your top teeth,” he said.

The audience loved it, but Gulman was still at war with himself inter nally. He w a s hospitalized again in 2017 and went on a hiatus from stand-up comedy, appearing as a fictionalized version of himself on HBO’s Crashing.

In 2018, he began doing a few sets of stand up and sent an audio recording to his manager, who suggested Gulman do a special about depression. Gulman said he didn’t have an hour of depression jokes, so his manager, Brian Stern, proposed a stand-up hybrid that would allow Gulman to tell his story of his battle with depression.

Stern reached out to Mike Bonfiglio, who had directed in 2017 Jerry Seinfeld’s special Jerry Before Seinfeld, which intertwines stories of Seinfeld’s childhood at his home with stand up about childhood.

“We wanted to make something that was first and foremost funny,” Bonfiglio said. “That was the most important goal. And then the secondary goal was to try to destigmatize mental illness, destigmatize some of the treatments that Gary had, to make something that would help people be comfortable in talking about these issues.”

Bonfiglio directed Gulman’s special with a similar structure as Seinfeld’s, but with a more serious tone. T he Gre at D epresh begins with a grainy v ide o of Gulman at the Comedy Studio in Boston,

somberly describing his depression.

Later, Gulman is shown sitting at home with his mother. A picture of Gulman in his BC football uniform as a freshman marks the cutaway. His mother holds up photo albums with pictures of him.

“See how happy he was,” she says.

“I mean, come on.”

“This is a book I made in second grade called The Lonely Tree,” Gulman said as he read the laminated picture book he made in elementary school.

“To anybody with just a small amount of psychology knowledge, this was a cry for help, an allegory.”

In this one scene, Gulman makes the audience laugh and addresses the larger problem younger generations face in asking adults for help.

Sometimes adults just d o n’t n o t i ce , a n d while unfortunate in the moment, by looking back and laughing about it, Gulman compels his audience to be more willing to ask for a hand and to lend one.

Much of Gulman’s authority comes from being the only one brave enough to take initiative and talk about depression so personally.

The conversation he has about depression in his 75-minute special isn’t of the vague, removed vein of previous generations. By taking the reins and addressing the reasons his own depression was so pestilent, Gulman has changed the tone and focus so that more people can laugh, cry, and speak up.

Gulman doesn’t arrive at a fix-all solution for depression, but that’s not what he sets out to do. Rather, the larger gesture of examination serves as a testament for others to prioritize their well-being, to keep a sense of humor, and to keep trying.

“In 2017, I thought about transitioning out of comedy, but then I started to feel a bit better and do some comedy,” Gulman said.

“I wrote new jokes and they were different, and I was encouraged by a quote of Samuel Beckett’s: ‘Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.’”

The response he’s re ceive d since the special’s debut in October has been more than enough to convince Gulman to stick with his comedy.

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my joke, but I never got a standing ovation,” said Gulman. “I never had people crying in line when they met me. And after I starte d being this v ulnerable and this honest on stage, I started to get the standing ovations regularly after shows, and people waiting in line for over an hour.” n

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Razor-Sharp ‘Knives Out’ Slices into Societal Issues

By Shaun Taxali For The Heights When Rian Johnson directed The Last Jedi, the eighth episode of the internationally worshipped Star Wars franchise, he broadcasted himself as a director willing to reject the norms of cinematic-universe-frenzied Hollywood. The movie introduced a new idea about how a franchise film could be conceived, taking risks with character development and plot while still honoring the storied past films.

With Johnson’s latest film, Knives Out, which he also wrote, he reaffirms his ability to push the boundaries in modern cinema, offering a fresh take on a classic murder-mystery whodunnit. While the superb

screenplay and precise editing maintain a speedy pace and, consequently, an entertaining plot, Johnson is also able to pack in some social commentary within the layers of the figuratively—and literally—rich story.

Within the first 10 minutes of Knives Out, the audience gets a clear idea of where the film might be going. Set in a gothic, lavish private estate filled with old books, expensive portraits, and lots of knives, a wealthy elderly man, Walter Thronby (Christopher Plummer), invites his family over for a dinner party. A presumed couple of cocktails and heated arguments later, everyone goes their separate ways … that is, until Thronby is found with a slit throat the next morning by his caregiver Marta (Ana de Armas).

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The all-star cast playing the large family is introduced one by one, as state detectives Elliot and Wagner (Lakeith Stanfield and Noah Segan) try to crack the case.

Walt (Michael Shannon), Linda (Jamie Lee Curtis), Richard (Don Johnson), and Joni (Toni Collete) each open up about their relationships with the late Walter. As the narrative weaves back and forth from the dinner party to present day, layers of exposition and character development are carefully disclosed. Viewers can try to piece the puzzle together as if it were a fun, real world adaptation of the Clue board game. In fact, as one character describes the maze of the Thronby mansion, “This place is practically a game of Clue.”

Each member of the cast is able to hold their respective weight. Stanfield, Plummer, Curtis, Johnson, and Shannon each shape and mold their characters in their own way. Collete sticks close to some common stereotypes but garners some of the biggest laughs, and Craig—with his odd southern twang—becomes more endearing as the mystery unfolds.

Even Captain America shows up, as Chris Evans plays a confident and witty Rampage, clearly distant and different from many of the others in his family. Ana de Armas might play the most likeable character in any murder mystery film ever.

Although de Armas’ Marta is a caregiver, she is portrayed as a wholly loving and

thoughtful person, with several characters coming to her to help them with various problems that arise.

What really makes Knives Out stand out is Johnson’s steady direction. He keeps it fun enough to be a mighty entertaining two hours. He sprinkles in contemporary jokes as the audience revels in the twists and turns that continue until the final moments of the film. While there’s constant back and forth between characters and setting, there is never a sense that the movie is overstuffed.

The plot is as sharp as the weapon found

by Thronby’s side, and Johnson definitely knows it. He also uses his structured script to comment on political issues. Many characters explicitly note their political stance in conversation, especially in an uncomfortable yet scarily realistic discussion about immigration policy between several characters.

Themes about privilege and rightful ownership nearly emerge as the murder investigation unravels. In fact, Johnson’s commentary on America doesn’t really conclude satisfyingly until the very final shot of the film. Knives Out does not just entertain, but also comments on where the future of the United States is headed.

Johnson is able to wrangle each of these elements into a well-acted, well-written, and well-directed film. From beginning to end, he not only hooks the audience with a story, but also slices through it by presenting the relevance behind it all. n

Rising Star Luke Combs Falls Flat on Latest Release

By Emily Himes Assoc. Arts Editor Luke Combs entered the country scene with loads of potential. His lyrics were witty, detailed, and often straight-up funny. He didn’t look like other people in country music, and he didn’t seem to care.

It was refreshing to see a new voice, and alongside it, a new character in the country music scene. His debut album, This One’s For You, was a breath of fresh air in a genre dominated by annoying, mindless music— but unfortunately, his latest release What You See Is What You Get tears down the solid foundation he built for himself.

Very few songs on this album are standouts, and the majority of them sound not only the same as each other, but also reminiscent of everything country music does wrong in 2019. Combs now joins mainstream country stars like Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean in singing about beer and trucks. Lyrics that once set him apart now lack any originality whatsoever, as he settles for cookie-cutter song themes on nearly every track on the 17-song album.

That’s right—17 songs, one full hour of this nonsense. And not one compares to his well-crafted previous hits such as “When It Rains It Pours,” “Hurricane,” and “Beautiful Crazy.” Each one of those songs had character—they told stories and they were catchy. He replaced comical, detailed tracks about love and loss with a whole

lot of songs about drinking away the pain.

Let’s hope he’s doing okay, because it’s a little concerning.

Some of the best songs on What You See Is What You Get are collaborations with established country artists like Eric Church (“Does To Me”) and Brooks & Dunn (“1, 2 Many”). “Does To Me” is the album’s best example of the clever lyrics representative of Comb’s previous work. He teams up with Church to retell charming anecdotes from high school and beyond while harping on the importance of being a good, hardworking guy, à la Friday Night Lights.

“1, 2 Many” may be centered on the most painfully stereotypical country lyrics around, but Combs pulls it off well. Along with Brooks & Dunn, Combs skillfully incorporates a snippy, fun twist to the chorus. Lyrically, it doesn’t do much. It’s a whole song about beer. Yet the lyrics are funny enough to be suggestive of “When It Rains It Pours,” invoking the same uniquely self-deprecating humor that allowed him to soar on country radio in the first place.

The album is aptly named after its strongest song. “What You See Is What You Get” is endearing, painting Combs as self-aware and somewhat relatable. Lines such as “At least I’m honest / I don’t spin it like a record / And I ain’t acting like I’m better / Than you know I really am” show an unprecedented serious side for Combs, who was able to turn even the darkest of

days around in his previous work. This does show an element of growth and depth in his work, but there’s just not enough of it on What You See Is What You Get to overshadow his debut album.

His latest radio hit, “Beer Never Broke My Heart,” is pretty bad on first listen. But as it got played more and more, its sound improved. It’s catchier than other stencil-cut country songs, and it almost seems to make fun of the bro-country subgenre that he’s starting to morph into. It’s ironic, and a little unclear whether he’s emulating the style on purpose.

Lines like “I’ve had a largemouth bass bust my line / A couple beautiful girls tell me, ‘Goodbye’ / Trucks break down, dogs

run off / Politicians lie, been fired by the boss” are almost painfully banal, and must be mocking the genre. If not, this song deserves zero stars.

The rest of the album echoes the tone of these lyrics, in a way that isn’t as entertaining. Combs toes the line between funny and eye-roll-provoking on the majority of the record’s songs, and he doesn’t pull it off on as many of them as he could have.

He’s a skilled musician with a great voice, refreshing sense of humor, and creative mindset—and not to sound like a mom, but if only he had applied himself better, he could’ve done a much better job. He has all the skills necessary for success, but he has to work hard for it to pay off. n

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For The Heights Everyone’s favorite troubled teens returned to Netflix on Tuesday for the second season of The End of the F***ing World. After the Season One finale ended on a cliffhanger, with the fate of main character James (Alex Lawthner) up in the air, fans have been itching for answers.

The dark comedy follows two misfit teenagers: James, a boy who has convinced himself he feels nothing, and Alyssa ( Jessica Barden), a girl who feels everything a bit too much.

In the first season, the pair runs away from their dreary suburban lives. The teen outcasts’ adventure ends with the murder of a pedophile and confrontations with the police, not to mention a budding romance.

Season Two deals with James and Alyssa’s attempts to move on after these traumatic events. It takes place two years later, with the friends living separate lives.

Yet fate brings James and Alyssa back together when the unhinged girlfriend of the pedophile they killed in Season One, Bonnie (Naomi Ackie), hunts them down.

While Season Two is a solid follow-up to the events of the first season, it lacks the emotional intensity of Season One. This switch in tone is a result of the show’s decision to portray James and Alyssa as adults rather than the rebellious teens they once were. Season One had such a large emotional impact because it explored the trials and tribulations of young adulthood, but in Season Two, James and Alyssa

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are suddenly all grown up.

It’s possible that the abandonment of James and Alyssa’s youth is an intentional choice made by the writers to help highlight the effects of trauma later on in the characters’ lives. Although they’re 19-years-old in this season, their behavior and the manner in which adults treat them would lead you to believe that they are much older. Even if this was a conscious choice, abandoning the juvenile aspects of The End of the F****ing World sacrifices much of the show’s appeal.

The first season was filled the vibrance of teen angst and awkwardness, and, in the shadow of this, the lack of youth in Season Two leaves it feeling a bit gray.

Additionally, the drama of Season Two, which is filled with plotting, secrets, and more murder, feels a bit redunant. The plot remains captivating, but it’s not fresh—just a rehash of the same tired storyline from Season One. The introduction of a new character is intended to add life to the story, yet it only ends up mimicking the sense of danger created in the first season by James’ plot to kill Alyssa.

Once again, James and Alyssa find themselves running from a variety of pursuers, but this time they have less direction.

This aimlessness leaves their adventures feeling more stale and pointless than their quest to reach

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‘DEAL WIV IT’ MURA MASA & SLOWTHAI

British producer Mura Masa enlists up-and-coming rapper slowthai for his single “Deal Wiv It,” a punchy, aggressive track that combines a punk rock spirit with Mura Masa’s signature choppy production style.

The single was released in anticipation of Mura Masa’s sophomore album, entitled R.Y.C. On “Deal Wiv It,” slowthai unleashes what might be the most British line ever uttered when he sneers, “I went to the pub and asked for a pint for three quid / He said it’s a fiver, well that’s gentrification, you prick” in his South London accent.

The rapper continues his tirade in a stream-of-consciousness style, decrying everything from low phone batteries to the inevitability of death.

A relentless bass riff reminiscent of The Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” drones on.

Just like the unhinged protagonist of “Psycho Killer,” slowthai too seems to be inching precariously close to losing his mind. It’s the aural equivalent of a teenage boy punching a wall: testosterone-fueled, chaotic, and completely nonsensical.

During the chorus, loud, crunchy synths mingle with slowthai’s chopped and screwed battle cry of “Deal wiv it!”

Throughout the track, Mura Masa adds playful production elements like skittering guitars and whining synths to balance out slowthai’s intensity.

“Deal Wiv It” is yet another feather in Mura Masa’s cap that demonstrates how he can bring the best out of his collaborators and produce something entirely original in the process. n

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‘The End of the F***ing World’ Has a Weak Return

By Audrey McKillip

SINGLE REVIEW

Alyssa’s dad in Season One. Although the plot is by no means uneventful, it simply doesn’t live up to the success of Season One. The writers succeeded in constructing a plausible story following the events of the first season and maintaining some tension and sense of danger. The problem is simply that the storyline doesn’t feel unique or innovative.

Despite issues with the plot, Season Two is full of the same dark humor that charmed viewers in Season One. Although the two characters develop considerably over the course of the season, James and Alyssa’s tumultuous relationship remains a source of comic relief as they try to navigate their feelings toward each other. A disconnect is created between the two

by Alyssa’s aggressive yet standoffish behavior and James’ unfamiliarity with emotions.

Because of the shadow cast by the first season, the return of The End of the F***ing World feels underwhelming more than anything else. The first season introduced an intriguing narrative, loveable characters, a quirky romance, and emotional intensity. It’s difficult for this season to live up to these high expectations. As a result, a collection of episodes that would otherwise be entertaining on their own end up feeling entirely inadequate in comparison. n

‘A PALÉ’ ROSALIA

Spanish pop star Rosalía revels in her mysterious side in her newest music video for “A Palé.” The video, which was directed by Jora Frantzis, manages to mix the flamenco influences Rosalía is known for with the grit of the song’s dark trap and synth beats.

Rosalía opens the video swaying in front of the camera, with her talon-like acrylic nails, unibrow, and gold grill instantly grabbing the viewer’s attention. As the camera pans out, a wall of industrial crates comes into view behind Rosalía, who is bathed in a circle of ethereal bluewhite light.

After a few moments, however, Rosalía throws niceties out the window as a booming bass note slams the listener. The scene suddenly shifts to a beige industrial setting, where workers send Rosalía down the assembly line as she stares down the camera.

Rosalía raps, dancing with a punchy flamenco style. When the song builds to the chorus, the singer flies through the air in an action-movie-esque jump, suspended in the air between two crates. Wearing a flowing gown with a monstrous train, Rosalía weaves beauty and danger together as a deep voice drones, “A Palé, A Palé, A Palé.”

Frantzis adds to the intensity with unique cinematography. Aggressive jump cuts and shaking camera frames give the “A Palé” video a layer of intricacy and mystique.

As the tension builds, Rosalía moves in unison alongside monochrome-clad dancers and uses the strong trap beat to her advantage.

With synchronous choreography, Rosalía’s visuals in “A Palé” pack an unapologetic punch and show off her dance prowess. As her fame continues to build in the United States and abroad, “A Palé” serves as a testament to Rosalía’s sheer musical talent. In successfully combining elegance and beauty with raw attitude and power, Rosalía sets herself on a new creative path. n

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Asinine Gets Goofy at Amphibian-Themed Show The Classics: A

By Emily Kaderabek

Heights Staff

Students lined the walls of a packed Fulton 511 on Friday, eager to see what Asinine’s newest show, Frog Time, was all about. Asinine lined the walls too, though in a much different way.

You couldn’t miss the makeshift portraits covering the usual subjects that line the fifth floor hall. Rather than the blank stares of deans, professors, and CSOM alumni, audience members

were greeted by figures a little more … amphibian. Asininers, alongside some famous frog figures, offered the perfect greeting to an audience that had no idea what to expect out of the night’s performance.

As the blaring “X Gon’ Give it to Ya” and “A Thousand Miles” mashup began to soften, the lights dimmed and the crowd hushed as Asinine co-directors Matt Sottile and Elizabeth Burke, both MCAS ’20, appeared on screen. They were trying to wrangle the rest of their

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At their show, entitled 'Frog Time,' Asinine entertained with sketches and improv games.

annoyed Asininers into making a decision: What font were they going to use?

The heated debate quickly evolved into a full-fledged brawl.

The butcher cleaver of Cole Hammers, CSOM ’21, made a compelling argument for Helvetica, and it only took one look for Isabella Espenilla, MCAS ’23, to make her fervor for Arial Narrow known. Culminating with the shocking murder of narrator August Riess, CSOM ’21, the Asininers’ scuffle ended with a casual agreement to settle the debate and get on with the show, their chaotic and off-the-wall energy following close behind.

With the lights back up and the fonts still undecided, Quinn O’Connor, MCAS ’21, opened up the first sketch of the night with TV cooking show It’s Mindy.

Commanding the audience—literally—was Sottile, intermittently holding up an “Applause” sign to encourage the audience’s participation throughout the show. Welcoming on guest star Chef Niko (Hammers), not much cooking was done as Niko immediately confessed his passionate love for rapper Lizzo, and audience members sang along to “Truth Hurts” as the bit closed.

Following up with the first improv game of the night, Brendan Barnard, MCAS ’21, introduced and led a “Death Game,” by the end of which Asininers had perished at the hands of the audience’s suggestions—which included NyQuil, late-stage capitalism, old age, and sexual tension.

Keeping the energy up with a game of “Bing,” bad science teacher Maggie Dockrey, MCAS ’22, attempted to poison her husband (Hammers), but instead she brought mixed drinks to a whole new level. As he slurped down the best chemical-infused piña colada he had ever tasted, his eagerness for new deadly drinks led Justin Manrao, MCAS ’23, to supply the tide pods for their White Russians as Dockrey stood in disbelief.

While Frog Time did not mark the appearance of any actual frogs (the group’s Facebook event advised attendees to bring their own amphibians), Asinine did provide the raucous crowd with a “ribbiting” performance. Laughter carried over after every skit, and crowd participation was high when members asked for random suggestions. The night closed with animated cheers and a well-deserved standing ovation. n

Craig Harris Quartet Breathes Life Into Jazz

By Nathan Rhind For The Heights

Jazz immediately evokes scenes of comfy chairs in hazy cocktail lounges, of socialites making conversation over martinis before James Bond even graced the television screen. For many, jazz is a thing of the past.

In Gasson 100 on Monday night, however, students and faculty alike were treated to a mesmerizing and, perhaps more surprisingly, fiercely relevant performance by the Craig Harris Jazz Quartet.

Craig Harris is a virtuoso trombonist who has helped push the sound of jazz into the 21st century. He has worked with progressive jazz legends like Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, and even the Roots.

Recently, Harris has been expanding his repertoire by venturing into performance art and multimedia, showcasing not only his musical ability but also his astute social commentary.

Harris immediately jumped into the performance, playing an otherworldly, minimal trombone melody as keyboardist Pete Drungle reached to his laptop and started an ambient, atmospheric noise track. Together, the trombone and ambient track produced abrasive, stirring waves of noise that brought to mind a manufacturing plant, not a cocktail lounge.

For those with prior knowledge of Harris’ work, the influence of Afrofuturism was obvious. Afrofuturism is an artistic and literary movement that contemplates the intersection of African Diaspora culture with technological advancements. Harris’s music incorporates technology and immersive, otherworldly sonic landscapes that continue to investigate the main aims of the movement.

While Harris’s use of technology was fascinating, it was his band’s passion that charmed the audience and kept them glued to their seats. Like all great

musicians, the performance seemed to be coming straight from the soul, especially in the case of bassist Calvin Jones. As his brow furrowed and teeth clenched, the pace quickened and the music turned violent and aggressive.

Jones had a slight grin and closed eyes as the music dialed back into a smooth, effortless, and gentle tune.

Undoubtedly the most emotionally stirring part of the performance came 20 minutes in from drummer Tony Lewis when he embarked on a drum solo. No one knew what the drums had done to make Lewis so angry and, after seeing Lewis pummel them over and over, were content to leave it that way.

Perhaps these percussive aerobics should have foreshadowed the final portion of the performance, when Harris played selections from his recent multimedia work, Brown Butterfly. The project mirrors the charisma and movement of Muhammad Ali through music, dance, and video.

While the audience was only treated to the musical component, the driving drum beat was enough to picture Ali dancing in the ring, tormenting his opponent with each thunderous roar of the crowd and crash of a cymbal. Harris played triumphantly, conjuring the image of Ali victorious and declaring “I am the greatest.”

Harris and Co. certainly provided a gripping performance for all in attendance, yet perhaps the most poignant moment came when Harris broke his determined snarl and praised the power of music by repeating the same chorus with slight alterations. “We just wanna play that surreal, yet so real music,” he said. “Yes the world could really use it.”

Perfectly summing up a performance that was otherworldly yet still intensely relevant to the current social climate, Harris hit the nail on the head and left the audience empowered to use music to shape a better future. n

Music Guild Expands Palette at Fall Showcase

By Kaylie Ramirez Arts Editor

Music Guild’s annual Fall Band Showcase saw a palpable shift in tone that set the event apart from those of years prior. In Boston College’s recent memory, the bands born of the student organization have leaned heavily on alternative rock—Shady Lady, Unit One—and modern funk—Funky Giant, Juice—to craft their sounds. Thursday night’s iteration of the event saw the introduction of new sounds to the club’s usual lineup with psychedelic rock and screamo.

Student bands took a makeshift stage in the Vanderslice Cabaret Room to perform originals and covers alike. Faxi Moto, a newcomer psychedelic band fronted by Kyle Maldijan, MCAS ’20—played two originals, the latter of which had an upbeat hockey stadium piano beat that ironically bucked against the angsty lyrics.

“Those two were originals, but this one’s a cover so it’s gonna be good,” Maldijan joked before launching into an incendiary cover of The Animals’ “House of the Rising Sun” that saw Enric Adillon, MCAS ’20, drop his keyboard to play the song’s iconic solo.

Later in the night, Greycliff—formerly Haze Surfer—found comfort in self-deprecating comedic relief.

“We used to be Haze Surfer,” lead singer Cory Normand said between Greycliff’s intense screamo torrents. “Now we’re Grey-

cliff and we suck a little less.”

John Braniff, MCAS ’20, is the only BC student in the band, which played a cover of Foo Fighters’ “Everlong."

Sleepwalkers, another newcomer on the Music Guild scene, debuted one original and covers of “Ain’t No Sunshine” and “Superstition,” the latter of which featured a strong keyboard section á la Stevie Wonder.

Returning bands included Word on the Street, a 2019 Battle of the Bands finalist, and Tough Lettuce, whose lead singer Matty Hogan, CSOM ’22, told the crowd that the band has an unintentionally rotating lineup.

Word on the Street performed an electric set of three originals, the last of which saw an energetic guitar solo from Peter Toronto, co-president of Music Guild and MCAS ’20, who stood on an amp.

Tough Lettuce closed out the show with two originals and a cover of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ “Under The Bridge.” During “Whatever Floats Your Boat,” some audience members sang along to the catchy lyrics. thefineprint.’s performance was the indisputable highlight of the night. Having released its debut album kites and body bags on March 11, the duo filled out its sound with polished recordings from the album.

The group—of which Caleb Savari, CSOM ’22, is the lead singer and guitarist—covered Post Malone’s “I Fall Apart,” the band’s drumline giving the melancholic song more of a bite. n

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The Playlist “Sinnerman” Nina Simone

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“Downpressor Man” Peter Tosh

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“Love That Burns” Fleetwood Mac “Wild Life” Wings “You Get To Me” Foy Vance “I Believe to My Soul” Ray Charles “My Old School” Steely Dan “Caledonia Mission” The Band “Can't Find My Way Home” Blind Faith “It Makes No Difference” The Band

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It’s surprising that Jacob Schick, A1 Editor and MCAS ’20, only filled 20 percent of his playlist with songs from The Band. It’s full of songs that are confirmed Emily-approved, or at least sound like something I’d probably listen to.

The playlist starts off reminiscent of Whose Manz, stacking classic male-centric pieces like “Sinnerman” and “Downpressor Man” in the first few minutes. He transitions to some songs by the world’s greatest musicians, except it doesn’t include any of their popular songs, instead opting for deep cuts and the world’s most terrifying picture of Mick Fleetwood (which, speaking of, “wasn’t that good live”). Schick has seen a variety of incredible concerts, and was quick to include “My Old School” after

having attended nine straight Steely Dan shows at the Beacon Theater. And just like Oh, Hello’s Gil Faizon, Schick got to see “Walter Becker from Steely Dan, playing his guitar like he’s in the band at the end of a Lunesta commercial.” He concludes with two Band songs, “Caledonia Mission” and “It Makes No Difference,” both relatively unheard of (and that’s coming from me), separated by “Can’t Find My Way Home”

by Blind Faith, off its first and only album, Blind Faith.

The 10-track playlist is nearly an hour long, which says a lot about the average length of each song included. What it is really perfect for is drinking various IPAs and German pilsners from a Wegman’s Craft Your Own Six Pack, while wearing a grey Patagonia sweater over a faded Band t-shirt. It’s what this playlist was intended for, and is definitely the best way to enjoy it in its original form.

Brief Inquiry

Kaylie Ramirez Music criticism can seem arbitrary.

When you agree with an album review, the words become scripture, a sacred text that reaffirm your beliefs about the world. When I read Rob Sheffield’s 4.5-star Rolling Stone review of Norman F—king Rockwell!, I felt how a boy in a [INSERT ALL-BOYS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL NAME] sweatshirt must feel in Fulton.

Yes, I am where I am supposed to be.

Conversely, reading Ann Powers’ NPR review of the same album, I thought to myself, Why should we punish a woman for singing about love if that’s what is most important to her?

Some albums garner more of a consensus among critics. If the consensus is positive, the album humbly begins its ascent to the land of the musical giants, where Nevermind and Rumors roam free.

Lingering in the presence of the greats, the album waits decades before a critic musters up the confidence to call it a “classic,” a coveted, albeit vague title for an album.

On occasion, an album is granted instant access to this lofty title. Such was the case with Radiohead’s OK Computer in 1997. Barry Walters of SPIN lauded Radiohead’s “audacious sonic sprawl [as] the most appealingly odd effort by a name rock band in ages." The praise was deserved: The mashing of bossa nova romance with spurts of megalomaniac distortion on “Paranoid Android” announced the album’s arrival with dignity.

OK Computer is operatic in its build and unrelenting in its refusal to provide catharsis. “Lucky” soars through stormy skies, and “The Tourist” plods along, beaten back by the sum of the album’s overwhelming sense of dread. Given individual inspection, each song has its own merits but it isn’t a single bassline or string of words that makes an album a classic.

“When people declare Shakespeare the greatest author, they’re probably not double-checking 'Titus Andronicus' before voicing that view,” Dai Griffiths wrote in his 2004 book 33 ⅓: Radiohead’s OK Computer.

It is the memory of the chills, the shock, the immediacy associated with the first listen that makes an album a classic.

Twenty-two years later I felt the same way about The 1975’s A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships that Griffiths and Walters felt about OK Computer—and so did a lot of other critics. Matty Healy, The 1975’s post-Instagram iteration of a new wave frontman, primed the album for comparisons to OK Computer early on. “‘OK Computer’ or ‘The Queen Is Dead’ — that’s what we need to do,” Healy told Q Magazine in 2017.

The 1975 achieved its moonshot vision. Following its Nov. 30, 2018-release, comparisons of 2018’s A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships to OK Computer appeared in a SPIN “essential” review, a 5-star NME review, an 8.5-star Pitchfork review, and a 5-star review in The Heights.

The album remains the only album I have given a 5-star rating in my meager 2-year tenure, and the similarities between it and the iconic 1997 Radiohead album made the album an “instant classic” by the transitive property. A year after the album’s initial release, A Brief Inquiry’s cynical findings still hold true—and they’re likely to resonate as long as we live our lives between Instagram grids. In 2004, Griffiths pinpointed “Fitter Happier,” a computer-narrated dissertation with empty resolutions like “Will not cry in public” and the imagery of “A pig in a cage on antibiotics,” as the defining track of OK Computer. The obvious postmodern pastiche of A Brief Inquiry is most salient on “The Man Who Married A Robot,” a Siri-voiced track that stories the relationship between a man and “The Internet.”

It is from this track that the album’s politics emanate. The lonely disassociation of “Be My Mistake,” the existential ambivalence of “I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes),” and the whole-hearted encouragement of “Give Yourself A Try” collide in just three minutes and 33 seconds. This is what it felt like to be alive in 2018 and 2019, and my guess is that the feeling will persist well beyond 2020. Music criticism can be arbitrary, but sometimes we get it right.

Kaylie Ramirez is the arts editor for The Heights. She can be reached at arts@ bcheights.com.

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NOW THAT’S WHAT ‘THE HEIGHTS’ CALLS THE TOP 10 SONGS OF THE 2010s ALLYSON MOZELIAK / HEIGHTS EDITOR

By Heights Editors The 2010s bore witness to a slew of drastic societal and political changes. America watched as the buttoned-up professionalism of Barack Obama’s presidency devolved into the clickbait chaos of the Donald Trump administration, which, regardless of your political leanings, was at the very least jarring. Social media became the medium through which we document our lives and gaze upon the lives of others. The iPhone made the transition from a luxury to a commodity. And all of this altered how we make and hear music.

Following the replacement of iPods and MP3 players with Internet-accessible iPhones, streaming became our music-listening format of choice. First Pandora, then Spotify and Apple Music, pushed us into a new era of listening, where playlists reign king and chart-ready singles are the currency of the art. In the last gasps of the decade, artists responded with the collective rise of the sprawling 15-plus track album, a “long play” in the fullest sense of the phrase—think Vampire Weekend’s 18-track Father of the Bride or Migos’ 24-track Culture II. Melodrama in the political and private spheres metastasized to give rise to more introspective genres of old—shoegaze—and new—emo rap.

The following list is by no means exhaustive—if we printed 24-page papers twice a week like we did in the decade prior, Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” (2015), Adele’s “Hello” (2016), and One Direction’s “Story of My Life” (2013) would have been in the following 10. And we’ll admit that recency bias is almost certainly at work here—most current Heights board members were between 9 and 11 when Ryan Seacrest first rung in the decade with the help of Daughtry, Jennifer Lopez, and The Black Eyed Peas. The following 10 songs are tracks that made us dance, scream, cry, and sometimes do all three at once during some of the most formative years in our lifetimes. From indie pop to modern rock to genres too specific to list, these are the songs that remain etched in the collegiate musical consciousness into 2020.

1. “Love It If We Made It” The 1975, 2018 A nth e m i c a n d glittering, The 1975’s “Love It If We Made It” is a blearyeyed manifesto for the Instagram era.

Over steady hi-hat pops and ethereal sparkling sy nths , DIRTY HIT frontman Matty Healy preaches “I’d love it if we made it” to a choir of Tumblr poets. The 1975 flips the basic concept of an anthem on its head, replacing resolute optimism with sincere ambivalence.

Politics are plentiful on the track, which clocks in at just over 4 minutes. Healy emotionlessly strings together the words “Fossil fueling / Masturbation” with clinical conviction, spewing his discontent for modern Internet culture with a potent tinge of contained vitriol behind his strained plea. When the song first debuted on Beats Radio 1 with Zane Lowe, Healy remarked, “I’m saying a lot of individual things, but the fact of the matter is all of these things are nuclear,” of the dissonant verse.

Healy takes punches at Trump, co-opting the absurdity of one of the world leader’s 2018 tweets during a rant about the newfound pettiness of the presidency: “Thank you Kanye, very cool!” Healy scoffs before charging “Modernity has failed us.” It’s a welcome change for a band whose career was jump started by a song that used “Chocolate” as a euphemism for weed. On “Love It If We Made It,” The 1975 affords its maturing audience a level of seriousness that far exceeds the band’s earlier work.

Despite the song’s bleak forecast, the beat ascends from a rocket-launch countdown of muffled synths to a celestial procession of ad-libs from The London Community Gospel Choir. Drummer George Daniels’s oscillating dance beat provides an intoxicating contrast to the dire lyrics: The 1975 is mixing uppers with downers at this apocalyptic pity party, but its vision is more focused than ever. In a decade that was largely marked by the reign of Taylor Swift’s apolitical blushing ballads and the rise of emo rap (“Rest in peace, Lil Peep,” Healy laments in one verse), The 1975 exited the self-important comatose of its earlier work with a vigor not channeled by its contemporaries. In the 2010s, The 1975 was the year in our headphones and on our lips. - Kaylie Ramirez, Arts Editor

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2. “The Less I Know The Better” Tame Impala, 2015 There’s the Lindsey Buckingham-Stevie Nicks-Mick-Fleetwood love triangle that inspired “The Chain” and “Go Your Own Way,” and then there’s the complex relationship MODULAR RECORDINGS between Kevin Parker’s indifferent lyrics, slapstick electronic beat, and eel-slick production.

Incendiary and bereft, Tame Impala’s “The Less I Know The Better” wades into a vacuous abyss of lyrical loneliness with the musical swagger of a man who already rebounded. Parker isn’t as openly broken as he is on “Yes I’m Changing” or as certain of his optimism as the clamoring build of “Eventually,” but apathy has yet to set in.

Tame Impala’s nuanced anti-melancholia dives into an emotional territory that is as hard to convey as it is to navigate: forced naïvete. Parker’s protective hesitancy bucks the millennial post-breakup routine of scouring Instagram profiles and Twitter likes. Following on the distant nostalgia of “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” (Lonerism, 2012), Parker has been roiled by romance once again. But unlike the unbridled discontent laced into the fiery lyrics and wailing guitar solo of breakup staple “The Chain,” Parker’s muted croon communicates the singer’s utter exhaustion about the whole ordeal.

The back-and-forth of the stumbling bassline echos Parker’s candid admission, “I was doing fine without ya / Till I saw your eyes turn away from mine.” It’s a sentiment that we all long to be on the other end of, but just as easily find ourselves mumbling in drunken bouts of regret. Parker’s visceral narration of the events qualify the track for ballad status, but the freshly waxed synth beat saves him from falling into the downtrodden mold of Bob Dylan’s “If You See Her Say Hello” or Frank Ocean’s more contemporary “Thinkin’ Bout You.” Parker appears as a one-man band on “The Less I Know The Better”—and on the 2015 Currents album more generally—not only in a lyrical sense, but in a literal sense. Parker is credited for the track’s mixing, vocals, and all instruments—including the now instantly recognizable sweeping “bassline,” which Parker revealed is actually the product of a guitar with an octave pedal in a 2016 interview with VICE. In the same interview, Parker told VICE he recorded the demo for the song in roughly half an hour. One man, half an hour, and a whole lot of clarity led to the reinvention of the breakup song and a sound Parker called “dorky, white disco funk.” And for all of our loveless late-night dance sessions, we thank him. - KR

3. “Liability” Lorde, 2017 Indie-pop virtuoso Lorde was thrust into the spotlight at age 16, lauded for her precocious lyrics and wisdom beyond her years. Yet there’s always been a coy smile behind Lorde’s most UNIVERSAL MUSIC serious works, and her critically acclaimed 2017 album Melodrama is no exception. Look no further than the title, which subtly acknowledges that from another point of view, the roller-coaster ups and downs that Lorde chronicles in her music are nothing more than petty teenage dramatics.

“Liability” sits unassumingly halfway through Melodrama. Unlike the other, flashier tracks surrounding it, Lorde’s voice on “Liability” is only urged along by a muffled, plodding piano as she slowly spirals. There’s nothing to distract from Lorde’s string of confessions, a series of dark, 3 a.m. realizations that are so raw that they’re almost painful to hear. Like a burning car crash, it’s hard to look away. “The truth is I am a toy / That people enjoy ’til / All of the tricks don’t work anymore” she sighs, her voice scratchy and tear-stained. But there are glimmers of wry self-deprecation in the track that indicate that even at her most vulnerable, Lorde is still hiding behind a character, having the last laugh.

A broken-hearted debutante, she’s “Crying in a taxi.” She wallows in self-pity as she laments, “I’m a little much for E-a-na-na-na, everyone,” her voice mimicking shuddering sobs. It’s all a little too cinematic to be believable. Is she broken-hearted or just playing the role, going through the motions? With the music industry’s black sheep, nothing should be taken at face value. In her March 2017 performance of “Liability” on Saturday Night Live, Lorde was clad in all-white with a rumpled veil over her hair like a 21st century Miss Havisham. The emotion in her voice was undeniable. Face cast in shadow,

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she bowed her head to every line as if they were weighing her down. And yet there she was in all white, slyly playing the part of the hysterical bride left at the altar. Even in the midst of an emotional breakdown it seems that Lorde’s millennial irony is inescapable. - Jillian Ran, Asst. Arts Editor

4. “Runaway” Kanye West, 2010 When Kanye West first performed “Runaway,” his second single off the album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, at the 2010 VMAs, many wondered if ROC-A-FELLA RECORDS the track would seek forgiveness from a 20-year-old Taylor Swift. After all, West infamously interrupted the country pop sensation the previous year at the annual MTV awards show. But, once again, Kanye did the unexpected.

As Brennan Carley writes in the Nov. 22, 2010 issue of The Heights, “[‘Runaway’] is Kanye’s long awaited acknowledgement of his wrongdoing, and he does so in typical Kanye fashion—cockily and boldly, with no apologies to be found.” The track has stood the test of time, just like the em dash.

West recounts relationship failures and reflects on his image as an artist, chanting the defiant lines, “Let’s have a toast for the douchebags / Let’s have a toast for the a——es / Let’s have a toast for the scumbags / Every one of them that I know.”

With a chilling instrumental that fits the build for just about any emotional movie soundtrack, West’s “Runaway” is just as versatile as it is beautiful. The pings of the piano in the track’s intro deviate from rap norms and lure even the most mild hip-hop fans into what is one of West’s most critically acclaimed songs. And the bass provides a sense of intensity that keeps listeners focused throughout the nine-minute track—a nearly impossible feat for any rap artist. - Andy Backstrom, Managing Editor

5. “Slow Burn” Kacey Musgraves, 2018 “Slow Burn” is not only a standout song f rom Kace y Mu s graves’ Golden Hour, but within modern country music as a whole. Soft and ethereal, the song is packed with detailed UMG RECORDINGS lyrics and clever contradictions, starting with the unexpectedly personal opening line, “Born in a hurry, always late / Haven’t been early since ’88.”

The mellow guitar that flickers behind Musgrave’s voice throughout the first verse gets bolstered by further instrumentation later on, giving the piece a fuller, more substantial sound. The song is fairly nonsensical, containing mostly vague lyrics that revolve around the floating beat in a cyclical manner. But this does not mean the lyrics are meaningless—the song has an inherently soothing quality formed by the combination of well-crafted lines draped perfectly over the sound of soft, repetitive guitar. - Emily Himes, Assoc. Arts Editor

6. “Hannah Hunt” Vampire Weekend, 2013 Ezra Koenig starts “Hannah Hunt” with a whisper, and then keeps whi sp er ing . S ave for its explosive interlude, the track is neatly bookended by quiet winds at XL RECORDINGS the opening and a single, resolved chord that walks out the end.

The lyrics, too, don’t ask for much.

Koenig sings a timeless, wandering ballad where the narrator wants nothing more, for he and the titular Hannah are all but commanded to have their “own sense of time” apart from the mind readers and The New York Times.

But this ideal is interrupted -and-a-half minutes in by the sobering realization that, in fact, living disconnected and on the move isn’t living at all. Koenig stops screaming about 40 seconds later only to linger for another 30 while begging the listener to consider the fairness of his declaration. “Hannah Hunt” could be split 85/15 between waiting and payoff, but isn’t everything? - Steven Everett, Editor-in-Chief

‘Fall Band Showcase’

7. “Colder Weather” Zac Brown Band, 2010 Zac Brown Band’s “Colder Weather” set the bar for what country songs could be in the 21st century. Country music has, for the last few decades, been the butt of the joke in ATLANTIC RECORDS the music world. It has been made fun of for the reliance on twang, clumsy metaphors, and trucks. While these criticisms are not without substance, country music has always been better than its weakest links. “Colder Weather” dusts off the best markers of the genre. It is a mournful song, full of story and emotion, with a hair-raising chorus.

It’s impossible to listen to the song without picturing it in your head. “The night is black as the coffee he was drinkin’ / And in the waitress’ eyes he sees the same old light is shinin’ / He thinks of Colorado and the girl he left behind him.” This is such evocative imagery, it’s nearly cinematic. This is one of the best songs country music has to offer in the last few decades, it deserves its place in the halls of country music, and music overall. - Jacob Schick, A1 Editor

8. “Knee Socks” Arctic Monkeys, 2013 Alex Turner’s leather jackets and jet-black pompadour would lead you to believe the Brit’s primary occupation is tending a gas station in middle-of-nowhere America circa the 1950s. But Turner, DOMINO RECORDS the frontman for Arctic Monkeys, is a songwriter at heart. While Arctic Monkeys 2006 debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not instantly usurped British air waves, it would take 2013’s AM to cement the band’s status across the pond. “Knee Socks” fully embodies the album’s timeless appeal, combining Turner’s imaginative songwriting and the album’s signature classic rock pastiche. Somewhere between Matt Helders’ foot-tapping kickdrum intro and Turners’ visceral painting of “the ghost in your room / That you thought didn’t approve of you knockin’ boots,” Turner tapped the murmured pulse of rock music in the 21st century. - KR

9. “The greatest” Lana Del Rey, 2019 When the only thing that the music world’s damsel in distress can offer is a world-weary sigh, you know that the future is truly bleak. “The greatest” is five minutes of soft-rock catharsis, an UNIVERSAL MUSIC elegy for the world as we know it. Lana Del Rey mourns the passage of time in all its various forms: the death of The Beach Boys’ Dennis Wilson, the dissolution of a relationship, the disappearance of rock ‘n’ roll. “And I’m wasted,” Lana sings, the last word stretched into a desperate warble. The singer strikes her final blows in the song’s last moments, unleashing a collection of eerie apocalyptic warnings.

“Hawaii just missed a fireball / L.A. is in flames, it’s getting hot,” Lana murmurs softly, utterly exhausted by the world just like the rest of us. - JR

10. “Bad Religion” Frank Ocean, 2012 Harrowing organ notes open the transcendent backseat monologue that is Frank Ocean’s “Bad Religion,” a standout from the singer’s breakthrough Channel Orange. It’s tempting THE ISLAND DEF JAM MUSIC GROUP to substitute “Bad Religion” with “Thinkin’ Bout You,” Ocean’s most prominent song to date. But “Bad Religion” packs a lifetime of despair and a cinematic build into just two minutes and 55 seconds. Openly gay, Ocean addresses his difficult relationship with worship in terms vague enough for the song to function as a romantic ballad. “If it brings me to my knees / It’s a bad religion,” Ocean cries three years before the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage throughout the United States. Ocean contrasts tradition with modern elements by injecting a crashing hip-hop drum beat into a classic violin section, mirroring the dissonance that resides in his mind and in society at large. - KR n

Asinine filled Fulton 511 with laughter during its fall show, Music Guild’s Fall Band Showcase featured returning bands which featured improv and sketch comedy...............................A17 as well as new acts with fresh sounds...................................A17

‘Knives Out’................................................. A16 ‘What You See Is What You Get’.................. A16 ‘The End of the F***king World’................ A16