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Field hockey capped a successful weekend with a dominant win over Northeastern.

Stavros Piperis sets out to make his mark on the music industry with his upcoming album, ‘Chances.’

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Environmental Science Launches Ph.D. Program 15 students will be admitted this year, with plans to expand By Owen Fahy Asst. News Editor

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BC Suffers Humbling 24-Point Loss to Kansas Kansas racked up 567 yards of offense, scored on seven straight possessions, and held BC scoreless in the second half.

AADS Recognizes 50th Anniversary The celebration begins with a lecture series & virtual walking tour By Jack Miller News Editor Created in 1969 in response to advocacy by the Boston College Black Student Forum, the initial African and African Diaspora Studies program—then “Black Studies”—offered only three classes: African Art, The History and Psychological Development of the Black Family, and African Nationalism Since World War II. “When [Black Studies] first started, it was very much focused on getting black students to BC and making sure that when they were here, that they had the resources to graduate from BC,” AADS professor Rhonda Frederick said. “They had courses, they had faculty, but it was more of a student support system.” Frederick said that the early Black Studies program was as much about providing faculty mentors and forging social networks as it was about writing papers and taking exams. It wasn’t until Cynthia Young arrived on the Heights in 2006 that the program grew into its current, academics-oriented form. Young expanded curriculum to include history from all around the African Diaspora—rather than just the U.S.—and

worked with other departments to bring in a wave of joint faculty hires. Now, 13 years after Young rebranded and revamped the program, AADS will finally offer a major. Hoping to spread the news of the program’s anniversary across campus, the AADS faculty has prepared a three-stage celebration. The first stage, organized by Frederick, is a “virtual walking tour” of black history at BC. So far, Frederick says she has scoured every source of campus history she could get her hands on: Burns Library archives, Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center records, and online issues of The Heights. To program the tour, Frederick has partnered with Stephen Sturgeon, a BC Libraries Digital Scholarship Librarian, and the final product is expected to launch in November. “It will look like an interactive map of BC’s campus,” Frederick said. “And as you scroll over sites, important events that took place in that area will pop up. And it’s going to be revisable, so at any point we can add more to it.” The idea to anchor the tour in location—rather than as a linear progression through time—is a consequence of the sheer volume of content, explained Frederick. The moments Frederick chose to highlight on the tour are wide-ranging, and include everything from protests to major BC figures to changes in University policy.

Frederick offered up the example of Alumni Stadium, which will tell the story of Lou Montgomery, BC’s first black athlete. Despite his consistent success as a running back, the football team benched him—including at home games—to placate Southern rivals. She added that there is also the possibility of transforming the finished product into an app to create a literal walking tour, which she compared to Pokemon Go and other augmented reality games. While phase one of the yearlong birthday bash is an entirely new endeavor, the remaining two are set to weave new themes into existing programs: the ongoing “New Directions” lecture series and the “Blacks in Boston” conference. Launching the 2019 New Directions series is Young—now the head of the Department of African American Studies at Penn State—who will give a talk titled “Black Study in the 21st Century.” “She did a lot for the program—we wouldn’t be a major without her—-so it’s nice to be able to honor her,” Régine JeanCharles, the AADS professor in charge of the series, said. “She’s also a scholar who cares a lot about institutions and institution building, which is why I’m excited to bring her in.” Her appearance is especially fitting, according to Frederick, because the series first

makes BC the place it is. “I want them to celebrate who they are, but also for others to learn,” he said. “I want all the cultures to come together to appreciate each other’s culture.” The event began with a procession of representatives from various culture clubs parading the flags of their respective countries, including Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and Mexico. Representatives from each of the clubs then introduced themselves and presented the mission statements for their organizations. Marcela Norton, an employee relations officer for BC Dining Services—who has helped coordinate Hispanic Heritage Month since its inception at BC 10 years ago—spoke at the celebration. She emphasized that the goal of the event is to spotlight the various heritages at BC by exhibiting different aspects of their cultures, including food, dance, and music, and ensuring

that all the Latinx student organizations are involved in the celebration. Associate Vice President for Student Engagement and Formation Tom Mogan and Vice President for Student Affairs Joy Moore spoke at the event and thanked those who were there for attending. Moore told the audience that the theme in the Division of Student Affairs for the year is “We Are One” and encouraged the various culture club members to support one another in all the programs, events, and activities they participate in. Davidson said he hopes that this Hispanic Heritage Month will encourage all groups, not just those associated with Hispanic heritage, to support each other and that it will be a time of “collective celebration” for the members of the BC community. This celebration of Hispanic Heritage

The Earth and Environmental Sciences Department has unveiled a new doctoral program that is set to enroll students for the 2020-21 academic school year. The doctoral program will join the master’s program, undergraduate major, and un-

dergraduate minor currently offered by the department. “We have had a master’s program for many, many decades that has been very successful,” chair of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department Ethan Baxter said. “We haven’t had a Ph.D. program, and we were the only science department that hasn’t had a Ph.D. program.” The department will expand to full capacity over a three- to five-year period, with Baxter hoping to accommodate 15 Ph.D. students and about six master’s students.

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Liquor Law Violations Drop by 13% in 2018 Alcohol-related transports decreased by 24 percent By Abby Hunt Assoc. News Editor There were nearly 200 fewer liquor law violations referred for disciplinary action and a 24 percent decrease in the number of alcohol-related transports to the Health Services Primary Care Center and St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in 2018 compared to 2017, according to a campus safety report and Associate Vice President for Student Engagement and Formation Tom Mogan. There were 1,264 liquor law violations at Boston College in 2018, compared to 1,461 in 2017 and 1,573 in 2016. The number of

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drug law violations also declined—from 177 violations to 139—from 2017 to 2018. These statistics were published in accordance with the Clery Act, which requires all colleges and universities receiving federal funding to release an annual public safety report before Oct. 1 of the year. The report must also list statistics related to sexual assaults and other crimes committed on campus. BC’s 2018 report shows that there were three burglaries, one weapons law violation referred for disciplinary action, and one act of arson—which occurred in Duchesne Hall—on campus last year. The report only lists incidents that have occurred within BC’s “Clery geography,” which includes on-campus property, public property that is within or immediately adjacent to campus, and non-campus property that is owned or controlled by BC and

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Career Fair Connects Hispanic Heritage Month Kicks Off Students to Employers Reps from culture clubs shared food, dance, and music By Madeleine Romance Asst. Investigative Editor Electric Latin pop and hip-hop music coursed through Gasson 100 for the Hispanic Heritage Month Opening Ceremony on Thursday afternoon. Originally scheduled to be held at O’Neill Plaza, the event was relocated inside Gasson because of rain—but nevertheless garnered a large student turnout. Rev. Michael Davidson, S.J., director of the Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center (BAIC), who was largely responsible for planning the event, expressed that celebrating the different cultures at BC is fundamental to understanding what

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The Career Center held classes to prep students for event By Brandon Kenney For The Heights and Haley Hockin

For The Heights The 2019 Boston College Fall Career and Internship Fair drew over 2,000 students and 152 companies to Conte Forum on Thursday, according to Associate Vice President for Career Services Joe Du Pont. Companies flock to the career fair to indicate their own interest in BC students—it’s not just a one-way street, according to Du Pont. There is a balance between BC students marketing themselves to employers

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and employers marketing themselves to BC students, Du Pont said. “They love the strength of the curriculum,” said Du Pont. “And there’s a lot of great social networking [and] liberal arts skills that are really important in a work environment.” Du Pont emphasized that the Career Fair is for all BC students regardless of their school or major. Compared to schools with less of a focus on the liberal arts, an education from BC equips students with a more diverse set of abilities, Du Pont said. In his experience, he has noticed employers place a high premium on “soft skills” such as good communication, teamwork, and leadership. He also mentioned the importance of being results-focused, working with integrity, and thinking critically.

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things to do on campus this week

Celebrate Constitution Day on Tuesday, Sept. 17, in Maloney Hall on the fourth floor at 2 p.m. with trivia, crosswords, and cake.

Monday, September 16, 2019

“Answering the Call: A Climate Justice Lecture Series” is hosting its first talk with Jim Hansen on Tuesday, Sept. 17, at 6 p.m. in Devlin 110.

Hunter Hayes will be on the Heights this Saturday, Sept. 21, at 6 p.m. for Campus Activity Board’s Stokes Set.

NEWS UGBC Makes Changes to Structure of Senate BRIEFS

BC No. 37 in ‘U.S. News’ Rankings

The 2020 U.S. News & World Report college rankings named Boston College the 37th-best national university, a one-spot improvement from last year’s placement. U.S. News adjusted its methodology last year, choosing to base its rankings on faculty resources, expert opinions, financial resources, student excellence, alumni giving, and outcomes. Outcomes—which accounts for the social mobility of graduates, graduation and retention rates, and graduation rate performance, which is a comparison of the actual graduation rate and a prediction made by U.S. News—now accounts for 35 percent of the overall score. The overall score came from a combination of factors, all of which were weighted to make up 100 percent of the overall score. Graduation and retention rates made up 22 percent of the overall score, while undergraduate academic reputation and faculty resources each accounted for 20 percent. Selectivity rates and financial resources per student each accounted for 10 percent. Graduation rate performance made up 8 percent of the score, with social mobility and alumni giving each making up 5 percent. A University release made note of BC’s improvements in both peer assessment and graduation and retention rate scores, but also said that its ranking was negatively affected by a recent change in methodology that emphasized the outcomes of Pell Grant recipients. After BC fell from No. 32 to No. 38 last year, the University released a statement arguing that emphasizing Pell Grant recipients would benefit larger state schools. BC generally placed behind rival institutions: University of Notre Dame was ranked at No. 15; Georgetown at No. 24; and Tufts at No. 29. BC beat out Boston University and Northeastern, who were both placed at No. 40. The University received its highest ranking at No. 7 for its “Commitment to Undergraduate Teaching,” earned the No. 8 spot for “Service Learning,” and the No. 23 distinction for its “Study Abroad Programs.” It was also ranked as the No. 34 “Best Value College.”

BC Law Starts New Scholars Program Boston College Law has begun the inaugural Drinan Scholars’ Program by hosting two junior faculty. Hernandez Stroud and William Sullivan will be a Drinan Assistant Visiting Professor and a Drinan Research Fellow, respectively. They will take part in faculty colloquia, workshops, and other academic events, according to a University release. Stroud, who comes to BC after clerking for two federal judges and teaching at Washington and Lee University, is teaching Civil Rights Law in the fall and will teach Advanced Legal Writing in the spring. He will also be working on an article that will propose solutions to the inequality that is present in the American educational system. Sullivan arrives from Harvard Law School, where he was the Raoul Berger–Mark DeWolfe Howe Legal History Fellow. He is also pursuing a Ph.D. through the University of Chicago’s Department of History and Classics. In his single semester at BC, Sullivan is teaching a seminar on Roman Law. Rev. Robert Drinan, S.J., served as dean of BC Law from 1956 to 1970. He ultimately left BC to represent its district in the U.S. House of Representatives, originally running on an anti-Vietnam War platform. The first Roman Catholic priest to serve as a voting member of Congress, he left in 1981 after Pope John Paul II ordered all Catholic priests to leave politics. “As Father Robert Drinan, a former dean of BC Law, devoted his life to working to ensure that law students and academics developed to their full potential, we think it is fitting to associate his name with our Junior Scholars program,” Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Renee Jones said in a University release.

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The Undergraduate Government of Boston College reformed its Senate ahead of the 2019-20 academic year, a change that included a redistribution of student representatives and a reorganization of committee structure. The changes are aimed at streamlining advocacy, according to Tiffany Brooks, UGBC vice president and MCAS ’21. The Senate will now consist of only 33 senators, a reduction of seven seats. The new structure allocates a total of five senators for each grade—previously, each received four. Just like last year, there will continue to be five at-large senators and one senator for transfer students and international students each. Each grade will elect their own representatives, while the at-large, transfer, and international promotions will be voted on by the entire student body. Delegates from the AHANA+ Leadership Council (ALC), the GLBTQ+ Leadership Council (GLC), and the Council for Students with Disabilities (CSD) will also keep their seats. There will continue to be senators rep-

resenting first-generation students and the Montserrat Coalition, a University Mission and Ministry initiative that aims to provide financial aid, mentorship, and support for students coming from low-income backgrounds. The First-Generation Club and Learning to Learn fill the former seat, the Montserrat Coalition the latter. Most of the alterations come through the elimination of “titled” seats in favor of more general positions, according to Brooks. These positions, which each represented a group of clubs with a similar focus, included senators for political organizations; service organizations; environmental clubs; specific interests; intercultural clubs; Campus Ministry; and music, arts, and performing groups. UGBC also removed representatives for each of the four schools this year. New to the Senate this year are representatives for student-athletes, who will receive one senator. The Student Athlete Advisory Committee, a University-organized committee featuring a representative from each BC sports team, will appoint a student to the student-athlete seat. Brooks, who was the Music, Arts, and Performance Groups senator before becom-

ing vice president, said that she hopes that the realignment toward more general titles will spark broader advocacy efforts. “Once you get rid of the title seats, it’s going to force people to think more about why they want to run when they make their platforms,” Brooks said. “Rather than say ‘Oh, I’m running for the Music, Arts, and Performance seat, here’s what I’m going to do for the arts,’ they are going to have more free reign over their platform.” This goal also inspired a change in the committee system, according to Brooks. Previously, the Senate housed six large committees: Academic Affairs, Intersections, Interpersonal Health and Wellness, Campus Improvements, Environmental and Sustainability, Conduct and Student Rights, and Mental Health. Under that system, senators were limited by the committee they had been assigned to, stripping them of the opportunity to explore different interests or work toward campaign promises, according to Brooks. “Once you were elected that senator, you were also a part of a committee that usually had nothing really to do with your area,” Brooks said. “So once you got on the commit-

tee, you were kind of just pigeonholed into doing that work. And so a lot of the time, the community that you represented under your title kind of fell to the wayside.” Starting this year, incoming senators will choose from a wide array of “areas,” which will be distributed between two large umbrella committees: Institutional Innovation and Intersectional Experience. Brooks said that each senator will submit a ranked list of their area preferences before the Senate convenes but added that senators will have the opportunity and the time to expand their focus to a greater degree. The Institutional Innovation committee contains areas concerned with student rights and safety, arts, athletics, academic affairs, environment and sustainability, and student organizations, according to Brooks. Each area will be staffed by two senators, except student rights and safety, which will receive three senators. The Intersectional Experience committee includes areas concerned with racial and cultural inclusion, LGBTQ+ and gender inclusion, accessibility, socioeconomic inclusion, religious inclusion, and mental health, according to Brooks. Each area will be staffed by three senators. n

CSD Chairs Plan to Expand Campus Programming By Samantha Karl Heights Staff As Boston College students find their way back into the familiar rhythm of classes, homework, and weekend football, Conor McCormick and Nick Claudio, both MCAS ’22, are planning to shake things up as the new co-directors for the Undergraduate Government of BC’s Council for Students with Disabilities (CSD). During their tenure, the duo plans to expand the Disability Services Office, review the current state of accessibility accommodations around campus, and put on programming for the broader student body. “For the most part, BC is very accommodating but still needs to implement changes to increase accessibility for all students,” McCormick said. “As a council, we hope to identify these features that need to be fixed, shed light on them, and demand change for the betterment of the school.”

In a CSD town hall held last April, several students shared their concern that Rory Stein, the assistant dean of Students with Disabilities, did not have adequate staff support. At the time, Stein said that, with more resources, his office would be able to provide students who need accommodation with more individualized support. Stein’s main responsibilities are to make sure that the University complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act and to ensure that students with impairments receive accommodations, such as note takers, extended test times, reserved single dorms, and Eagle Escort services. Student concerns include Eagle Escort van accessibility—the program enforces a two-a-day limit—and a lack of braille signage around campus, according to McCormick and Claudio. Disability Services currently employs two part-time graduate assistants to aid the over 600 students who need accommoda-

tions. McCormick and Claudio said they have spoken to Caroline Davis, director of Student Outreach and Support Services, about bringing in more support. The University will soon conduct a review of staff needs in the office, they said. “One of the main issues with making change for CSD is that [while] the University really does want to help and support the students with disabilities, there needs to be action taken alongside that,” Claudio said. McCormick and Claudio said they are eager to work closely with Michael Osaghae, UGBC president and MCAS ’20, and Tiffany Brooks, UGBC vice president and MCAS ’21, to revamp CSD programming, with a focus on expanding the council’s reach beyond the students who already follow CSD events closely. So far, McCormick and Claudio have planned three preliminary categories of programming: one focused on student outreach, one centered on community outreach, and one addressing policy and

accessibility on campus. They are currently selecting students for the council and refining the details of their early events. McCormick proposed that CSD put on a “Dinner in the Dark” event, at which students could experience a dinner blindfolded. He said that the evening could give the student body a glimpse of the blind experience. The 2019 UGBC budget has allotted $11,300 for CSD programming—the same amount as last year. McCormick said he hopes that in the upcoming year CSD’s advocacy will be launched into the mainstream student consciousness. “As men and women for others, we must attempt to lift up marginalized student populations, showing love and support to those who need it the most,” he said. “As a modern, Jesuit Catholic university, all faculty, staff, and students should feel heard, understood, accepted, and accommodated.” n

Public Health Observatory to Finish First Project By Owen Fahy Asst. News Editor Boston College’s Global Observatory on Public Health has been quite busy since its launch last year. Led by Philip J. Landrigan, director of the Global Public Health Program and the Global Observatory on Public Health, the Observatory is almost done with its first project, with several more on the way. Landrigan launched the Observatory in 2018 after he was hired to direct BC’s new Global Public Health program. The idea for the Observatory was born out of a large research project that Landrigan founded, which attributed 9 million premature deaths

to pollution. The Observatory is the “research arm” of the Global Public Health Program, which will be housed in the upcoming Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society. Landrigan describes the observatory as BC’s newest “think tank,” one aimed at addressing pollution from different angles. The Observatory is set to finish its first project on the burden of disease caused by air pollution in India by the end of the calendar year. The project was funded by the United Nations Environment Programme, which signed a memorandum of understanding with BC last year. Air pollution kills 1.24 million Indians

POLICE BLOTTER: 9/11/19 – 9/13/19 Wednesday, Sept. 11

Thursday, Sept. 12

2:02 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a medical incident at Carney Hall.

7:27 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding hazardous materials at Lower Lots.

9:28 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a medical incident at O’Connell House.

11:44 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a suspicious person at Fulton Hall.

per year, which Landrigan estimates has an economic cost of $30 billion from “productivity losses”—blows to the economy from illnesses and deaths—and health care costs. The project aims to draw resources to environmental issues by drawing media attention and equipping politicians and policymakers with a steady flow of background information. The Observatory is also currently working with the Monaco Scientific Center to study the health effects of polluted oceans. Prince Albert II of Monaco selected BC to conduct the special report, which is slated for a May 2020 release. The Prince’s concern with ocean pollu-

tion traces back to his father’s reign: France was threatening to dump radioactive waste into the ocean off the coast of Monaco, Landrigan said. Rainer, along with French explorer Jacques Cousteau, then collaborated to create the Scientific Center of Monaco. The report will examine how pollution affects the world’s oceans, with a focus on how vulnerable groups are affected. The group of international researchers also plans to take a look at how climate change is playing a role. The Observatory has already set its sights on a new project in Africa that will examine the ties between industrialization and pollution in Ghana, Ethiopia, and Rwanda. n

4:02 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a medical incident at Gasson Hall.

Friday, Sept. 13

4:16 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a traffic crash at Middle Campus Lots. 4:57 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a medical incident at O’Neill Plaza.

2:06 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a suspicious person at Lower Lots. 1:31 a.m. - An officer filed a report regarding an assault and battery at Williams Hall.

—Source: The Boston College Police Department

CORRECTIONS What movie could you quote from start to finish? “Mean Girls and The Parent Trap.” — Heather Lee and Ellie Kominiarek, MCAS ’23

“Pitch Perfect.” — Catty Orphanos, MCAS ’23

“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” — Audrey Davis, MCAS ’23

Please send corrections to president@bcheights. com with ‘correction’ in the subject line. “Mean Girls.” — Emma Sullivan, CSOM ’23

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Mogan, Kelly Respond to 2018 Clery Act Numbers Clery Act, from A1 frequently used by students for educational purposes. BC hasn’t implemented any changes to alcohol-related policies in terms of training, enforcement, or follow-up that might have contributed to the significant decline in liquor law violations, according to Mogan and Director of Student Conduct Corey Kelly. “We can certainly speak to some of the proactive steps that the university takes around alcohol that could account for that, although it’s obviously hard to know,” Kelly said. Data collected from BC’s AlcoholEdu survey shows that there has been a slight increase in the number of students coming to campus who self-identify as non-drinkers—which is reflective of a national trend in higher education, according to Mogan. Mogan, who chairs an alcohol task force, said that one of the group’s main goals is to support students who choose not to drink alcohol and provide alternative activities for them, especially on Friday and Saturday nights. The Campus Activities Board in particular has worked to increase the programming offered during the weekends and during periods of the year where there might be high-risk drinking. “One example is the ice skating event that they’ve had during St. Patrick’s Day the last couple years—that has drawn significant numbers of students,” Mogan said. “And so even our numbers from the last couple years in terms of some of the higher risk drinking weekends or days have decreased.” The Office of Health Promotion (OHP) is also revitalizing its “Links” program—which mostly consisted of a listserv that would send students information about non-drinking activities—into a hands-on mentoring program called “Connect.” Residential Life also offers students the opportunity to live in the drug- and alcohol-free Healthy Living Community. In addition to the decline in violations, it is also difficult to pinpoint the exact reason behind the decrease in transports, Kelly said. Her hope, however, is that University efforts such as AlcoholEdu and other educational resources directed toward students involved in lowerlevel incidents are helping people make safer choices. When students are documented for a potential violation of the code of conduct for the first time, they have a conversation with their resident director—which Mogan said he hopes is formative for students in terms of changing their behavior and making safer choices. “We hope that that’s benefiting the students in the long run and then, hopefully, we’re seeing that in our lower numbers,” he said. Mogan said that the decreased number of violations and transports hopefully indicate that binge-drinking culture isn’t an inevitable part of the

BC student experience. Kelly urged students to remember that, under the help-seeking policy, if students call for help in a drug- or alcohol-related situation, BC will treat it as a health and safety matter, not a conduct matter. Under that policy, those seeking and receiving help for themselves or others will also not be subject to action through the student conduct system, although the student receiving help will still have to complete the necessary educational and counseling interventions. “I think it’s so important for students to just remember that their health and safety is our number one concern,” Kelly said. Despite the number of on-campus violations, only one liquor law arrest and no drug law arrests were made at BC last year. One liquor law arrest and one drug law arrest were made in 2017. In order to warrant an arrest, students typically have to be involved either in a high-level drug sale or some sort of dangerous or violent behavior, in addition to their alcohol or drug use, Mogan and Kelly said. “That might be somebody who is making serious threats or is assaulting an officer or really not leaving the police another option, essentially, to try to de-escalate [the situation] and just get them help and get them to the hospital,” Kelly said. Although the division of Student Affairs has recently been reorganized, Kelly said that the changes haven’t affected the student conduct process or policies beyond the normal updates that occur year to year, Kelly said. With the “realignment,” the offices reporting to Mogan and Melinda Stoops were more clearly divided into two teams: Health and Wellness, and Student Engagement and Formation. The team under Mogan—whose title has changed from dean of students to associate vice president for Student Engagement and Formation—now consists of the Office of Student Conduct, the Office of Student Involvement, the Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center, Robsham Theater, and the Office of Graduate Student Life. The Office of Health Promotion and Student Outreach and Support Ser vices—which were previously under Mogan—are now a part of the team under Stoops, whose title changed from associate vice president for Student Affairs to associate vice president for Student Health and Wellness. Mogan said that it makes more sense to group these offices with Stoops, because she also oversees Health Services, Counseling Services, and the Women’s Center. “Conduct still works very closely, I would say, with all of those partners, despite not being under the same [associate vice president],” Kelly said. “We talk daily to most of those campus partners, so it’s still a very close working relationship.”n

“The ability to create better, richer, broader teams increases the learning potential and the research potential of the team and the department as a whole,” Baxter said. The doctoral program was introduced now because of the current prominence of environmental and earth sciences, particularly regarding climate change. Another main reason that the University has chosen to introduce a doctoral program is the expansion of faculty within the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department—from 2006 to now, the department has expanded from six faculty members to 12. The department has also promoted two faculty members to positions of tenure during that time. “[The doctoral program] has allowed us to bring in some really exciting, fresh, young faces with new energy, with new innovative interdisciplinary interests that allow us to tackle these problems and really freshen up the department,” Baxter said. “We’ve done a lot of renovations to our labs, to our offices, and that’s really modernized the department in a really exciting way.” The addition of Ph.D. students will enrich the research that faculty within the department are able to conduct, according to Behn, who said he’s excited about the opportunity to get students involved. “Having students involved in research really enriches the overall research project in the sense that they bring more energy to a project,” Behn said. “I really think it’s going to enliven the department.” The final reason that the earth and environmental eciences department chose 2020 to launch the doctoral program has

a lot to due with the crater that many of the environmental sciences faculty and students can see out of their office and classroom windows. BC is in the process of constructing the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, which will focus on energy, health, and the environment. “We are already looking at the ways that energy and energy systems affect the environment and how environmental challenges and issues can affect human health,” Baxter said. “We see ourselves as a central player within the programs and the building of what Schiller could be in the future.” Associate professor Mark Behn said that in addition to attracting Ph.D. students, the new program may attract research-oriented faculty who could pursue larger research projects because they will have the opportunity to work with Ph.D. students. “We have been mindful in our departmental planning and working with the administration to make sure that our goals and directions are consistent with the broader goals for the natural sciences at Boston College,” Baxter said. “What we are doing has to fit with the goals and motivations of [the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society], and I think it does.” The structure of the doctoral program will be relatively conventional, with students taking classes as well as conducting research. All third-year students will take a new “broader impact” class. Each student will also have to dedicate a chapter of their thesis to address the broader impact of a student’s research. The emphasis on broader impacts is designed to make students wrestle with how their research fits

into a greater context, according to Baxter. He said that a main difference between the master’s and doctoral students is that doctoral students stay for up to five years, while master’s students are only enrolled for two years. There will be an avenue for master’s students to become doctoral students if they become interested in research. “[The doctoral program] allows us to do everything we’ve already been working on at the level of education, at the level of research, at the level of outreach and collaboration, we can just do it more efficiently and more deeply,” Baxter said. “Ph. D. students bring in an additional tier to the fabric that we have at the department.” Ph.D. students will be involved with the department longer than any other students in order to ensure they have the time to acquire new skills and then apply them within the department through research or undergraduate instruction, according to Behn. “Having undergrads around gives us a lot more opportunities to have [Ph.D. students prepare] for going to get an academic job in the future,” Behn said. “I can imagine having a whole spectrum from undergraduates to master’s students to Ph.D. students [working on research projects].” Baxter said that the addition of the doctoral program puts the earth and environmental sciences department in a position to lead both within the University and outside of it. “I hope [the doctoral program] allows our department to be the best department we can be,” Baxter said. “I think this helps us to lead in shaping and defining what Schiller can be. I hope that it’s our students that go off and make the biggest contributions to these challenges outside of the walls at BC. n

Students Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Hispanic Heritage, from A1 Month is especially important because the Hispanic population is currently going through a difficult time, said Davidson, who cited the challenges many have faced at the border. “[Hispanic Heritage Month] encourages them to really appreciate themselves and to know they are gifted and that BC will value who they are,” he said. Davidson said he hopes the month will result in a “bridge” that will allow the various groups across campus to live in harmony and peace. The Organization of Latin American Affairs (OLAA), one of the clubs in attendance at the event, represents all of the Latin American countries that don’t already have a club represented on campus. The organization’s projects and meetings address topics like indigenous rights and current events, such as last year’s Nicaragua crisis—a period of violent uprising against

the country’s government. This semester, the club plans on discussing the effects of climate change in Brazil. The club’s goal is to encourage the students to help each other and become allies no matter their race, religion, or sexuality. Mariana Quintero, MCAS ’21, and Nina Figueroa, MCAS ’22—two OLAA executive board members—said that celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month is important not only on a national level, but also at BC. “It’s important to feel represented to feel like you matter,” Quintero said. “It’s important to be there and support these groups.” The room erupted in applause, both in anticipation of and following the performance of Fuego del Corazón, winner of the Competition category of last year’s ALC Showdown. For the students in attendance, this event commemorating Hispanic Heritage Month meant a time to be together with

those who have shared similar experiences, Figueroa said. The event took a more serious turn when students began sharing their experiences through “spoken word” compositions that narrated their experiences as minorities. Matthew Alvarado, CSOM ’20, presented a slam poetry piece that he dedicated to his grandmother. The room was moved to silence by his emotional account of having left his extended family, including his ill grandmother, in California when he went to college and the struggles of being apart from his family and culture. Alvarado said that he inherited his resilience from his grandparents, who immigrated from Guatemala. Alvarado shared the powerful advice his grandmother imparted on him: to “find a way to become a better [him] and create opportunity.” The event concluded with students flocking to the tables that were overflowing with various Hispanic delicacies. n

Career Center Expands Services for Fair Career Fair, from A1 “Employers hire by competency, not by coursework,” Du Pont said. “Regardless of what your major is, recruiters are very attuned to the skills that liberal arts students bring. I think sometimes BC students take for granted how qualified they are.” Many of the employers at the fair echoed Du Pont’s point about the desirability and potential of BC students. “We are looking for coachable, competitive, and driven people for our internship program,” said Jared Brillo, a representative from financial services company Northwestern Mutual. “And I think Boston College has a lot of those.” The qualities employers are looking for in potential applicants extend beyond one’s GPA, Du Pont said. Companies look to BC students for the skills needed to be successful in any business environment. “[We are] looking for someone with an attention to detail, someone who wants to hit the ground running,” said Dionne Higginbottom, a representative from the financial group Mizuho. “So someone

who’s not afraid to ask questions, who’s not afraid to put in that extra work. Come in early, leave late getting the job done. And we’ve seen a lot of that today.” At the fair, multiple students commented that their initial apprehension melted away upon actually speaking with the employers. “Once you get into your personal interactions, it’s not overwhelming. It’s just that the whole environment looks a little bit intimidating from afar, but it’s not so bad once you get in there,” said Emma Dawson, MCAS ’22. Many of the employers who attended also took notice of the Career Center’s attention to detail. “There’s a great mix of companies in the room, and I like that it’s a good mix of bigger brands [and] smaller brands, and not everyone is from the same industry, so it doesn’t feel as competitive,” Higginbottom said. “From a company perspective, it’s everything we could have asked for today.” In anticipation for the fair this year, the Career Center also unveiled several

new resources for job-seeking students, including Career Clusters, which pairs students with an advisor based on career rather than school. Eagle Exchange—an initiative rolled out by the Career Center on Sept. 3—is an online platform that connects current BC students with BC alumni. Du Pont said that by Sept. 7, over 2,000 students had signed up. This platform allows students to build their network by industry, video-chat with alumni, and have their resume looked at by someone with more professional experience. The Career Center zeroed in on student concerns at their “prepare for the fair” session, in which they hoped to take BC students’ natural skills and talents and help them best present themselves to employers. This workshop helped students prepare to have meaningful conversations with the employers who came to BC. Other sessions held ahead of the Fair covered careers in STEM, resume development, and career planning. n

Visiting Lecturers Will Honor AADS AADS, from A1 began during Young’s tenure as program director as a means of pushing the new, interdisciplinary course she was navigating at the time. Following Young’s Sept. 26 appearance will be Northwestern’s Jennifer Nash, who is slated to address the long, intertwined histories of black studies and feminism.

Jean-Charles said she was especially excited about the final speaker, Farah Jasmine Griffin, who served not only as her—and Frederick’s—longtime mentor but also the namesake of her daughter. Rounding out the year will be the 2020 Blacks in Boston conference, a recently revived initiative that began as a forum for black scholars to discuss the city, its black communities, and higher education as a whole. The upcoming con-

ference will offer a retrospective on the program’s past and provide a roadmap for its future, according to Frederick. “I’m very interested in developing a student population who can take on some of these social concerns,” Frederick said. “I want students critically active in these conversations, so I want to give students—all students—tools to think more critically, even if they believe AADS is not for them.” n

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things to do in Boston this week

Join Bostonians in a march from City Hall Plaza to the State House to counter the opioid crisis on Monday at 9 a.m. The rally will feature a range of speakers, including elected officials and experts, engaging in discussion on how community efforts can fight addiction.

Monday, September 16, 2019

Head to Tremont Street on Wednesday night for a pop-up art event featuring original pieces from 35 local Boston artists. Window shopping will last from 5 to 9 p.m., and the event will also feature complimentary appetizer happy hour, a cash bar, and live music.

This Thursday, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will host its first “Third Thursday” of the year, a night of live music and art making targeted at college students. In partnership with Colleges of the Fenway, the event will feature embroidery, ceramics, and loom weaving classes.

Food

Brookline Farmers’ Market:

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36 Summers in Coolidge Corner Every Thursday, nearby farmers and local businesses gather in the Centre Street West Parking Lot. By Rachel Phelan For The Heights and

Sophie Ragano

For The Heights Open rain or shine for 36 years, the Brookline Farmers’ Market is a faithful supporter of local farmers and artisans. Held every Thursday afternoon from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m., the market is easy to reach: Take the C branch of the Green Line to Coolidge Corner, and it’s about a five-minute walk to the market. It sets up shop in the Centre Street West Parking Lot right behind the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Having kicked off the season in June, Brookline Farmers’ Market will remain open until the last Thursday before Thanksgiving. The Brookline Farmers’ Market is labeled as a Massachusetts nonprofit and run by a small board of three volunteers. Abe Faber, treasurer of the board for six years, has really been involved with the

Brookline Farmers’ Market for about 20 years as a vendor. Until about a year and a half ago, he and his wife, Christy Timon, co-owned Clear Flour Bakery, a crowd favorite of the market’s customers. In its earlier days, the market’s manager asked them to sell their baked goods, which helped increase business for the bakery, both at the market and the shop. The market consists of vendors who sell an array of products, including fresh produce, ice cream, and uniquely designed jewelry. A vendor from the Nicewicz Family Farm in Bolton, Mass., has been coming to the market since it was created. “The people here are all nice. It’s a great market, and we push a lot of product,” he said. The Nicewicz Family Farm sells produce including peaches, apples, plums, pears, corn, tomatoes, and squash. What really sets the Brookline Farmers’ Market apart is the quality of the

products. Faber explained that the produce vendors harvest their products the morning of the market, which is why it doesn’t open until the afternoon. Certain products are unique to Brookline’s market, like fresh gluten-free pasta from Valicenti Pasta Farm in Hollis, N.H., and keep customers coming back. “That is just the difference between that and what you’re going to get in any other grocery store where something was picked in California, Florida, or even in Massachusetts, you know, a week ago or two weeks ago. That was on the truck, on the loading dock, and in the warehouse, and cold storage,” Faber said. Buying from a farmers’ market directly supports local farmers and businesses, which often offer better quality products. This quality is obvious upon visiting the Brookline Farmers’ Market, as your eyes are immediately drawn to the vibrant rainbow of fruits and vegetables laid out at the booths. As Faber pointed out,

the vendors are directly involved in the production of their products and are happy to answer any questions about their processes. “It’s good to have your name out here to every one of these, and this one is live and packed—I mean look around, we have piles of people here,” said John Sterritt from Valicenti Pasta. Not only is the quality of products available at the Brookline Farmers’ Market better than what can be found at a grocery store, the experience is also more enjoyable. Some customers said they have been attending the market for years and continue to come back not only for the products, but for the company and camaraderie. The Brookline Farmers’ Market makes an effort to be accessible to everyone in the community, and about six years ago, they took a major step in that direction. The Market now accepts Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

cards, so that community members who receive government assistance can purchase quality, healthy foods. “It’s like a town meeting center,” said one long-time customer. “There’s usually a whole crowd of people we meet up with … It’s a lot of fun and socializing.” Some locals love to get Trombetta’s Ice Cream at the market, which they say is the best in town. They also buy peaches from the Nicewicz Family Farm and baked goods from Clear Flour Bakery. There is something for everyone at the Brookline Farmers’ Market, and it is an enjoyable experience for customers and vendors alike. The market unites both returning and new customers and seems to be flourishing every week. “Our vendors bring a diversity of products, most of which are produced here in Massachusetts or New England,” the website says. “ We are proud to support local growers, producers, and artisans, and to be a part of the Brookline community.” n

Museum

Museum of Fine Arts to Celebrate 150 Years in 2020 By Izzy Fenoglio Assoc. Metro Editor

When the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MFA) first opened its doors in 1870, it was home to 5,600 works of art. Today, the museum holds nearly 500,000 pieces—one of the most comprehensive and diverse collections in the world. More than a million visitors frequent the gallery halls each year, and to make sure that number grow this year, the MFA is throwing a yearlong celebration. To honor the 150th anniversary of the museum’s founding come 2020, the MFA announced a series of events and initiatives for the coming year on Thursday. Dual looking, the anniversary is designed both to celebrate the museum’s past and lay groundwork

for the future, with a specific focus on promoting a deeper commitment to inclusion, community, and generosity. “The MFA’s 150th anniversary is a moment to honor our past and, more critically, anticipate our future. The Museum was founded with a spirit of generosity and belief in the power of art and artists—values that remain among the pillars of today’s MFA,” said Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund director, in an official press release. “As we look ahead, we must also address the changing role of museums in society, amplifying our efforts toward becoming a truly inclusive institution and committing to a new sense of urgency in engaging with the issues of our time.” The MFA also released a strategic

plan to the public, which outlines museum priorities to anticipate organizational growth 10 years from now. “In ten years we will be central to an international conversation about the role of art and artists in ways that influence museums around the world,” the report says. “We will lead in framing a national dialogue about the role of museums in our communities. We will be linked to a new generation of supporters, collectors, and advocates who share our commitment to the excellence of our collections. In pursuit of this vision we will invite, welcome, and engage expanded audiences.” This commitment is reflected in the diversity of upcoming exhibits, which boast the immense growth of the museum’s global collection. Planned exhibits

range from from Ancient Nubia Now, set to open in October and highlight more than 400 pieces excavated from the Sudanese Nile Valley dating back to 2400 B.C. and 300 A.D., to an exhibit planned for April revolving around the post-graffiti movement of the 1980s. On Thursday, the first special exhibit of the series, Women Take the Floor, opened to the public, which offers a seven-gallery “takeover” of nearly 200 artworks by more than 100 women to promote gender equity and pay tribute to the centennial of the women’s suffrage amendment. In addition to emphasizing the growth of global collections, the Museum plans to forge deeper connections with the local community—it is launching a free first-year membership program to encourage Boston residents

to visit more frequently and become more involved. Throughout the year, community events will be held in coordination with local artists to highlight the creative talent of Boston. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the MFA will unveil an exhibition of 20th century art by artists of color, curated by teen fellows from organizations throughout the city. In April, plans for a community mural project led by Boston artists Rob “Problack” Gibbs and Rob Strull is also already underway. Celebration will culminate in late 2020, when the museum will host a final fundraiser in which the proceeds will benefit future diversity and inclusion efforts at the MFA. For a list of upcoming events, visit the museum’s website. n

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Monday, September 16, 2019

Trust Act Amendments Discussed at City Hall By Colleen Martin Metro Editor

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Protester Mask Ban Presented at City Hall By Audrey McKillip For The Heights In the wake of counter-protests at the Straight Pride Parade two weeks ago, the Boston City Council discussed the prohibition of wearing a mask, hood, or other devices designed to conceal the identity of protesters in Boston. Many of the protesters at the Straight Pride Parade were wearing masks to disguise their faces, the proposal said. The counter-protests led to the injury of four Boston police officers and 36 arrests. “When did protesting equals violence become society’s norm?” asked Tim McCarthy, the councilor who brought the proposal. “When did society say it was okay to throw cups of urine and bottles at police officers?” Boston wouldn’t be the first place to pass legislation like this. The proposal is based largely on a similar law in Virginia, which prohibits people over the age of 16 from covering their faces in public in an attempt to hide their identities. There are some exemptions, such as for people who require masks for their jobs or during theatrical performances. McCarthy is aware of the potential controversy surrounding this issue, he said, noting people’s hesitation to limit citizen’s first amendment rights. The councilor said he shares that hesitation. McCarthy argued, though, that the prohibition of masks and face coverings at Boston protests does not interfere with citizens’ constitutional rights.

“This [the safety of first responders] is incredibly important,” McCarthy said. “This is what this ordinance is based on. The common sense legislation that people should not be allowed to do what happened last week. That is not First Amendment speech, that is violence, and it shouldn’t be stood for in the City of Boston.” Historical context must be kept in mind during this discussion, said Lydia Edwards, the councilor for District 1. She cautioned the council not to overestimate the power of this legislation. The Ku Klux Klan have prompted legislation against face coverings in the past, she said. “You want to make sure when you come out, you need to be out about who you are,” Edwards said. “But at the same time we shouldn’t assume that this is a silver bullet nor do I think that you are saying that. This is not going to eliminate violence and protesting.” Exemptions for religious beliefs and health reasons need to be discussed, said Josh Zakim, councilor for District 8. He emphasized that the law needs to be enforced fairly and without selectivity, “As an Arab with Arab sisters, my cultural community, that are Muslim, my father, as you know, is Muslim,” said Annissa Essaibi-George, an atlarge councilor. “I worry about the role of religious exemptions, especially in this.” The docket has been assigned to the Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice for further discussion. n

City Employees Barred From Cannabis Industry By Colleen Martin Metro Editor City of Boston employees and their immediate family members will be prohibited from participating in the city’s cannabis industry. Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, BC ’09, filed the executive ordinance on Friday that bars employees from seeking approval for a marijuana business from the City or any of its committees. “I am committed to ensuring this new industry is fair, transparent, and equitable for all who wish to participate in it,” Walsh said in a press release. “My Administration works closely with businesses and applicants to make sure they get the support they need, and neighborhoods have a voice in the process. This executive order will create a new standard for city employees and remove potential conflicts of interest that may arise as the City continues its work to develop and implement the growing cannabis industry.” The order follows Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia’s indictment for extorting cannabis companies in exchange for granting them a license to operate. The order is in effect for any business that is seeking, or will seek, a license to open a pot shop. Applicants will also have to complete a Beneficial Interest Form that demonstrates the business and personal interests of the owner. Members of the Zoning Board of Appeal, the Boston Licensing Board,

the Boston Public Health Commission, the Boston Zoning Commission, the Boston Planning and Development Agency, and their immediate family members are also prohibited from participating in the marijuana business. “This executive order builds on Mayor Walsh’s commitment to ensuring this new, developing industry is grounded in equity, with a focus on bringing new opportunities to the residents and business owners that have been most impacted by the war on drugs,” the press release said. Bringing equity to the marijuana industry has been a topic of conversation, as a coalition—Real Action for Cannabis Equity (R.A.C.E.)—formed in Cambridge two week s ago to address the unequal distribution of cannabis licenses. An ordinance to create a Boston Equity Program and a Boston Cannabis Board, which seeks to amend the disparities in ownership of legal recreational establishment, was proposed by the Boston City Council in February. The Cannabis Control Commission for Massachusetts had guidelines for creating equity in the marijuana industry. Applications for Economic Empowerment (EE) applicants are available for people belonging to groups that have been disproportionately affected by the policing of marijuana. Accepted EE applicants have priority when applying for a license to operate a cannabis business. n

Amendments to the Trust Act, which intends to stop Boston Police Department (BPD) officers from complying with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, were discussed during a hearing on Friday. Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, BC ’09, proposed the changes in June. The act has been given more attention since a lawsuit was filed on behalf of a man who was turned in to ICE agents by a member of the BPD in 2017. The suit, filed in March of this year, alleges that after Jose Martin Paz Flores was injured at work and attempted to get worker’s compensation for his broken femur, his employer told a member of the ICE/ Boston Police task force that he thought Paz had given him a false name. The BPD officer turned Paz in to ICE. Boston College Chief of Police William Evans was the BPD commissioner at the time. “We want to make sure that the public knows what kind of cooperation is happening to the extent there are task forces, more transparency about what those task forces are, who’s on them, and what they do,” said Laura Rotolo, a representative for the American Civil Liberties Union, at the hearing on Friday. The amendments clarify the definitions of language used in the original Trust Act. The goal, the councilors said, is to make clear what the BPD can and cannot do when it comes to collaborating with ICE agents. “Given the changing climate, given just time passing, we felt it was necessary to revisit it and I’m proud of the work we

did with Mayor Walsh, with John [Towle, Walsh’s advisor] in particular, and with many members of the Boston Police Department command and legal staff to come up with what I think is a step in the right direction,” said Josh Zakim, a councilor from District 8 who brought the ordinance. “[It’s] a better, stronger act that clearly describes what sort of activities both the Boston Police and the city employees in general can do when it comes to federal responsibility of immigration enforcement and maintaining trust in our communities and really making this city a safe place for everyone regardless of their immigration status.” BPD officers cannot interrogate, detain, or arrest people on the basis of immigration status, which is a federal responsibility. They are barred from asking about immigration status, acting as an immigration officer, giving ICE information about a person’s release date for the sole purpose of enforcing civil violations of immigration laws, or detaining someone solely because of a civil immigration detainer request. A civil immigration detainer is a request to hold someone in custody or notify ICE when the person in question will be released. The amendments still need to be improved, Rotolo said. The extent of cooperation between ICE and BPD is still unclear, the Paz case is not addressed, there are exceptions granted for the prohibition of asking about immigration status, and info-sharing with ICE is not prohibited in civil matters, she said. The feedback is well-received and will be discussed before further actions are taken, Zakim said. n

Closure of the Week

Weeknight Changes to Green Line D Branch: Sept. 16-20 On Monday (Sept. 16), bus shuttles will replace train service between the Newton Highlands and Kenmore stops. No shuttle service will be provided at the Beaconsfield stop, due to narrow roads. Regular train service will run on Tuesday and Wednesday (Sept. 17 and 18). Due to a Red Sox game at Fenway Park this Thursday evening (Sept. 19), shuttle bus service between Newton Highlands and Kenmore will be postponed that day until 10:30 p.m. to accommodate game day traffic. Weekend Changes to Green Line D Branch: Sept. 21-22 Bus shuttles will replace D Line train service between the Newton Highlands and Kenmore stops, beginning at 8:45 p.m. No shuttle service will be provided at the Beaconsfield stop, due to narrow roads. Weeknight Changes to Blue Line: Sept. 17-18 On Tuesday and Wednesday, bus shuttles will replace train service between Orient Heights and Wonderland, starting at 8:45 p.m. Regular train service will resume as usual on the mornings following closures. n

Straight Pride Charges Dropped By Colleen Martin Metro Editor A Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justice ruled to vacate the charges against a man arrested at the Straight Pride Parade in response to a petition filed by District Attorney Rachael Rollins. She filed it last week to overturn Judge Richard Sinnot, who had insisted on upholding the charges despite the prosecution’s requests to have them dropped. The record of the arrest will also be expunged, Rollins said in a press conference on Monday. “Fundamentally, the judge had no authority to ‘deny’ the Commonwealth’s entry of a nolle prosequi,” wrote Justice Frank Gaziano in his decision. “His effort to do so violated the Commonwealth’s constitutional rights under art. 30 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, and infringed upon the separation of power enshrined therein.” A nolle prosequi is an abandonment

of charges by the prosecutor. Sinnot has refused to drop the charges for dozens of other people arrested at the parade and protest as well. The judge overstepped his boundaries in his refusal to acknowledge the prosecution’s decision to drop the charges, Rollins argued. “I find it really interesting, though, that when a district attorney uses discretion that they’ve had since 1806, but it’s not moving toward incarceration, it’s not moving toward wealth and race disparities, and it’s turning the other way, people are suddenly asking lots of questions,” Rollins said at the press conference. “Nobody cared before. We care now.” The decision to press or drop charges has consistently been placed in the hands of the prosecutor, Gaziano wrote. Sinnot had argued that the prosecution failed to notify the “victims” of the charges that the defendants were appearing in court, preventing them from attending the hearing. Gaziano ruled this explanation to be unacceptable because disorderly

conduct is a crime against the public, not an individual victim. Even if there had been a victim, a judge is not permitted to overturn a nolle prosequi, the justice wrote. There are still several open cases that the DA’s office will now revisit. Some were already arraigned. Other cases were dismissed when the nolle prosequi was filed. “With respect to the pending cases I think this makes it clear we can do what it is we proposed we want to do,” Rollins said at the press conference. The prosecution did not file to have the charges dropped for eight people and those individuals were arraigned because they were allegedly violent, Rollins said. Four police officers were injured, and they still have not returned to work, according to the DA. “Any indication that this administration does not take seriously violence against law enforcement or the community is false,” she said. n

Newton Prelim. Winners Announced By Izzy Fenoglio Assoc. Metro Editor C a n d i d a t e s Wi l l i a m B i s h o p Humphrey and Kathryn K. Winters emerged victorious over Rena L . Getz in a tight preliminary election to determine Newton’s Ward 5 city councilor on Tuesday. Humphrey, a lifelong resident of Newton and former senior editor at The Globalist Magazine, secured 491 votes, just ahead of Winters—a Boston College graduate and president of the Waban Area Council—who received 483 votes. Getz, a research scientist, earned 437 votes, losing to Winters by a mere 46 votes, the city clerk’s office reported on Tuesday night. Humphrey and Winters stress similar policy priorities, as identified on both candidates’ websites. On his campaign website, Humphrey outlines eight major issues to prioritize if elected and states that his number one policy issue is combating climate change and safeguarding the environment of Newton by improving transportation and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. His remaining issues include housing, expanding public services and resources, increasing disabilities access and integration, enhancing senior life, welcoming young residents, promoting revenue fairness and inequality, and education. On her campaign website, Winters

PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE CAMPAIGNS OF KATHRYN K. WINTERS AND WILLIAM HUMPHREY

William Humphrey and Kathryn Winters will advance to the November election. stresses 11 key priorities she would hold as councilor, which include fostering increased communication for constituent services, community building, improving city streets and sidewalks, elevating Newton public schools, protecting city green spaces and the environment, reforming zoning codes, and increasing housing options—to name a few. Newton City Council, the city’s legislative branch of municipal government, is composed of 24 members—16 at-large councilors and eight Ward Councilors. Councilors are elected every two years. The role of a ward councilor is to provide constituent services, vote on

city council policy decisions, resolve conflicts and problems within the community, and keep residents updated on city plans such as road repairs, snow and waste removal, environmental policies, and petitions. Of the eight wards, Ward 5, which includes the neighborhoods of Waban and Upper Falls, was the only district to cast ballots in the preliminary election. Voter turnout was 17 percent, city clerk David Olson told the Boston Globe. B oth Humphre y and Winters advance to the primary municipal election, which will be held on Nov. 5. The winner will replace current councilor John Rice, who is not seeking reelection. n

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Editorial

Job Fair Should Represent More BC Majors On Tuesday, over 2,000 students and 150 companies attended the 2019 Boston College Fall Career and Internship Fair. The fair was advertised as a networking event for all students and alumni from all BC schools. The event, attended by about 14 percent of students, is a major recruiting function, both for companies and students. The vast majority of companies present aligned closely and almost exclusively with Carroll School of Management (CSOM) students and their expected jobs. According to the job fair’s app, 153 companies were present at the fair. From those companies, users can filter the companies based on “job functions” for which those companies are hiring. Filtering for the finance industry, which at 1,048 students is CSOM’s largest concentration, lists 71 companies. A search for economics-related jobs, which includes 1,094 students in both CSOM and the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences (MCAS), yields 89 companies. Economics is available both as a major in MCAS and as a concentration in CSOM.

But for MCAS students not majoring in economics, the search results are very different. Filtering jobs even remotely related to political science, the third largest major in MCAS with 873 students, yields just 27 companies. Only 20 companies were looking for the 757 students majoring in communication for work explicitly related to their field. For MCAS’ 408 English majors, 10 companies were seeking jobs directly related to their major. MCAS is highly flexible, though, and instead of hiring students into jobs that directly correspond to their undergraduate studies (as is done for CSOM hires), employers generally value the ‘soft skills,’ such as good communication and teamwork, taught in all schools at BC. Not all students will be—or want to be—employed in a job related to their major following graduation, as the majority, according to the most recent senior survey, will work in a field outside of their major. Nevertheless, an overwhelming majority (96 percent) of graduating BC students will have jobs or other “meaningful volunteer or graduate place-

ments.” There are a significant amount of MCAS students who continue directly to graduate school after graduation instead of entering the work force. Five percent of all BC graduates engage in volunteer work following graduation. Even though an MCAS degree is quite flexible, different interests within the college are not well represented. Despite demonstrated employer interest in hiring liberal arts students, over 100 of the 153 employers at the fair were specifically looking for students to work in financial fields. While it is not impossible for non-economics MCAS majors to be employed in finance jobs, it is often rare and difficult to break into those fields. The fair seemed to be more geared toward economics majors and CSOM students. Future fairs should feature a more robust selection of industries to better represent BC’s makeup of majors. The liberal arts give students valuable and employable skill sets that can be used in a variety of fields—the next job and internship fair should reflect the diversity of majors at BC.

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THE HEIGHTS

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Stop Catcalling Consequences of Technology-Free Classrooms Women ing speed. Every so often though, I find a professor that is said in class. If you intend to test your that is clinging on to their paper and pen—which students at the end of every class period on is, in my opinion, archaic. To our esteemed Boston what was taught, then perhaps this paperCollege professors: let your students type. notes-only model makes sense, but if you’re As I’ve already established, the enforcement teaching a class that is founded on prolonged of technology policies harm students with slow retention of information, of which will be processing speeds. While it might not be inteneventually be tested at a later date (like any tional, these policies harm students who struggle to normal class), then what is discussed in class keep up in the note-taking process with handwritis less important than what is recorded in ing. Personally, when I’m required to take notes, notes. what I’m writing quickly devolves into something And finally, this rule is very, very dated. between chicken scratch and my own version of We’ve been given great technology that hieroglyphics. Professors are probably (reasonably) enhances our ability, as students, to retain worried about students getting distracted—I get it. information, and prohibiting the use of However, blanket policies like a simple ‘no technoltechnology is looking that gift horse straight ogy’ do end up hurting students like me. Most of the in the mouth. time, I don’t even have time to write every letter, so And, at the end of the day, are we not I attempt to make a distinguishable shape that I will adults? While I appreciate the concern on be able to puzzle together what I was writing down the part of the professors in regard to our when I translate my class notes into something curriculum retention and the possibility of comprehensible. distraction, college should release us from the Although it is possible to obtain an exemption rigid confines of high school. At orientation, from technology policies, this requires documentaI was told that BC is not just an institution tion from the Office of Students with Disabilities, dedicated to servile education but to educawhich likely entails expensive and time-consuming tion of the self, and the education of the self testing, of which can cost so much that those who should include developing and being able to could benefit from acquiring such documentation exercise autonomy and discipline. It is on us are dissuaded from attempting to do so. to learn the curriculum with the tools availProfessors will defend this policy by arguing that able to us—it should not be the responsibility physically writing notes is better because students of the professor to handhold us into learning remember what they write better. To that I raise the it. following question: so what? So, to BC professors, for whom I have The entire purpose of taking notes is to have the utmost respect for, drop the antiquated, material to reference back to after the class is over, discriminatory policy of technology-free and if it is your goal to assist in your students’ classrooms, and allow us, as adults, to be the comprehension of the material, then why should it responsible students we know we are. matter if they recollect everything that was said in class? If anything, prohibiting the use of laptops, or Louis Gleason is an op-ed columnist other forms of technology, for note taking, limits for The Heights. He can be reached at many students’ ability to take notes on everything opinions@bcheights.com. 69

LOUIS GLEASON When I would read my high school math class syllabus, I read it differently than most of my classmates did. While my teachers would specify that homework would only take between 45 minutes to an hour to complete, I read it as between three and four hours—because that’s how long it would take me. Similarly, in elementary school, my teachers often employed group reading where we, as a class, would each read a passage by ourselves, and then come back together to discuss it. My teachers would instruct us to “put the book down when we were done.” As I listened to the thump of books falling onto desks and the pages fluttering as the covers were closed, I was typically between halfway and three-quarters done with the reading. This is because of something called a slow processing speed. It sounds like exactly what it is: it takes me a long time to process and transcribe information. It is not nearly as inhibiting as dyslexia, nor do I really consider myself particularly limited, as I am fine spending the extra time on homework. If anything, it forces me to pay more attention to what I’m doing. However, there is one instance in which I feel as though I am limited by this: in technology-free classrooms. For reasons that are beyond me, my typing never suffered from my slow processing speed, which is why it became my preferred method of note taking during the fifth grade. I even learned how to construct diagrams and graphs for note taking during math and science classes. Life in the 21st century has alleviated some complications that accompany a slow-process-

ALEXA SARCI It’s about that time of year when everyone is just about settled in. Friends, classes, and schedules are all now familiar. As we adjust to our new home, we realize that no matter where we are some things just never change. On a Friday night, I’m getting dinner with my roommates after class, wearing my favorite but simple denim blue skirt, white tie-front collared shirt with my newly cleaned Air Force 1s. My hair is blown out and my makeup took me an hour to do. To be frank, I’m feeling my look. As I’m in the checkout line with my Screamin’ Eagle, I can feel eyes glued to my body. I find a table, sit down, and that’s when I hear it: “Damn, I’d tap that”—the dreaded catcalls. I freeze and put my head down. Maybe until the end of dinner, I can act as if I don’t hear what is being said to me or, even worse, being said to someone else. But I know what I heard. Still, I can’t get what was said out of my mind. Out of discomfort, I jet to the bathroom and assess if my outfit is showing a little too much (spoiler alert: it’s not). I look into the mirror and study my redfaced self. That’s when I realize what they saw—an object. I was turned into something I didn’t want or expect to be when I left my dorm this morning. If I had known the response I would have received, maybe I would have just chosen jeans and a sweatshirt. My initial response was embarrassment. Later though, when I got back to my dorm, my embarrassment turned into seething anger. I was disgusted that someone would feel so comfortable in an environment to yell such a disturbing statement to someone they had never even met. Those dreaded catcalls are

Stokes Set: Hunter Hayes

the ever-present reality of so many women in every part of the country— and on every college campus. Although it may be viewed by some as “nothing” and “something small to brush off,” it made me uncomfortable, and it wasn’t the first encounter I’ve had with catcalling. People may view catcalling as a compliment and as something “endearing,” but I’m here to say that nothing is endearing about being shouted at like a dog. Don’t get me wrong, everyone welcomes compliments—but nobody, I repeat, nobody, wants the kind of attention that is demeaning and diminishing.

Naming Opportunities A Higgins Hoedown. A Carney Country Carnival. Because, you know, a majority of BC’s students are very familiar with fairs, square dancing, and fried chicken.

Middle School Throwback Eyeliner, side bangs, Aéropostale shirts, dating someone whose gender doesn’t accord with your current sexual orientation, and Hollister perfume.

The Genre in and of Itself It’s country. It’s country. It’s country. It’s country. It’s country. It’s country. It’s country.

More Middle School Fantasies He’s like a grown-up Justin Bieber, but country. Like the one that’s married to Hailey Baldwin, not the one who got a DUI and egged his neighbor’s house.

Catcalling mostly occurs in groups. I have yet to witness a lone male catcalling, as I assume they are all too aware there would be no praise from their peers, and their confidence surely would not be up to the verbal berating that confident young women might sling back their way. Dear catcallers: Although you learned some basic rules of respect in kindergarten, somewhere between adolescence and adulthood you must have forgotten them. Let me remind you of it now. Treat others the way you want to be treated—respect the boundaries of people no matter the background, gender, and sexual orientation. I’m not here complaining about catcalls because

Cultural Div. Core Helps, but Not Enough

I am a “hypersensitive” or “emotional” woman—I’m complaining about it because it is disrespectful and, frankly, disgusting. It’s uncomfortable and also just plain inappropriate. Catcalling is intended to demean and assert dominance over the intended party. I

in delivering this message are a bit unsavory (though

Just last year, we experienced an incident involving

a construction site in New York City—not in a place

to look back, even at old articles like these, and see how

declined to comment on. The literal “cultural diver-

that is supposed to be my home for the next three

far we’ve actually come.

sity” within the BC student population still has a long

years.

So the big question is, does this requirement achieve way to go, with the 2018-19 student body consisting

ALICIA KANG For most Boston College students, core require-

would, unfortunately, expect this kind of behavior at

conventional for their time), it’s also satisfying to be able racist graffiti, one that our president has infamously

Catcalling is both humiliating to the victim and

all that it hoped for? The article says that “taking a course of 62 percent white students (and only 4 percent black

a gateway to other major issues like sexual assault.

dealing with a culture that may be unfamiliar has the

students). And during my BC experience, I’ve still

It’s the small things that snowball. If we as a society

potential to make students more globally aware and

found that, oftentimes, students of the same race stick

accept and ignore these small forms of harassment,

more concerned about events that occur elsewhere.”

together.

how dare we condemn it when it becomes something

ments are pesky intro classes that take up a year’s

The cultural diversity classes also try to “grab a student’s

worth of college. They’re a huge part of what makes

attention in a particular area in which they thought they (KSA) general meeting, for example, it seemed that

BC the special, Jesuit university that it is. You might

would never have an interest.” Do these standards hold

the most “diverse” person in the audience was my

often hear a student, in passing, complaining about

up to what we experience today?

Filipina friend. Everyone else was Korean. It seemed

the Sexual Assault Prevention videos. Most of the

the core and asking why it was even created in the

major that we can’t ignore. In many cases, sexual assault is rooted in intial sexual harrassment. Before we walked on campus, we all had to watch

that the KSA was moreso a space for Koreans to get

discussion in the videos only covered sexual consent.

first place. For the cultural diversity requirement,

year I took a sociology course called African World

together and talk about Korean things than it was a

But, in order to prevent harassment at Boston Col-

the latest addition to BC’s core, you can actually read

Perspectives. In addition, one of the English courses I’m

place for non-Koreans to get to know the culture. And

lege, it is necessary for the school to include catcall-

BC’s reasoning from back in 1993.

taking this year—Contemporary Asian Cinema—ful-

this is in fact the case with many culture groups on

ing in its sexual assault videos to not only show they

fills the same requirement. I can honestly say that

campus. It seems that some BC students don’t look for don’t tolerate it but to also create an environment

sity requirement was a huge, progressive leap—and

both courses have been intellectually stimulating, and

a “serious acquaintance” with a culture that is “non-

yet, in some of the very language that The Heights

that I have learned a lot from both curriculums. As a

western” even when they have such opportunities

article uses to express this leap, there remains a level

disclaimer, in general, however, I’ve found that I enjoy

presented to them.

of provincialism.

BC’s core classes: In just one year, I’ve fallen in love with

The step toward implementing a cultural diver-

To complete my cultural diversity requirement last

When I attended a Korean Students Association

For one thing, the article explicitly refers to coun- philosophy, and I even appreciate theology. tries like China and India as “Third World countries.”

Regarding the cultural diversity requirement

The cultural diversity requirement aspires to

that is aware of its presence. Individually, we need to do more to stop this kind of behavior, both at college and in the general world around is. We need to start standing up and

improve the worldliness and sophistication of BC stu-

condemning this disrespectful, demeaning behavior.

dents. It tries to make students “experience different

A woman’s specific dress doesn’t mean she wants

The term is put positively, as the article gaily asks,

specifically, I believe that it accomplished its goals

cultures from around the world without ever having

degrading ignominious statements yelled at her. This

“Where else could you learn about the literature

from 1993—to a certain extent. My interest in different

to leave Chestnut Hill.” Even in the very language The

behavior is not and should not ever be viewed as

of Third World countries or Islamic art?” The term

parts of the world—such as various African and Asian

Heights article uses, it’s clear that we’ve come far from

normal in any aspect of society.

“Third World” came about during the Cold War, and

countries—has grown through my experiences in these

that time in 1993—perhaps on account of the require-

it didn’t exactly mean a developing country, as it does classes. But I’m not sure that I can declare, with 100

ment itself. But, as always, we still have a long way to

Let’s face it, the intelligent women of BC are not interested in being disrespected and verbally

today. Rather, “Third World” referred to those coun-

percent confidence, that I am now “more globally aware.” go, and the requirement is far from perfect. The next

assaulted on their campus. If you guys can’t pluck

tries that had not yet aligned themselves with either

Such an expectation is quite a high bar to set for a col-

step is increasing actual, physical cultural diversity on

up the courage to approach a young woman respect-

capitalism or communism, the two main economic

lege class. Though I learned a lot in one semester, in a

campus, in both the student body and the faculty, so

ably, then you should keep your thoughts to yourself

systems at war during that time.

sense I’m still as hopelessly uneducated about the world that students actually won’t have to leave Chestnut

and channel your hormones into a more appropriate

as I was before those 15 weeks.

outlet.

“First World” referred to capitalist countries like America, and “Second World” referred to com-

The aforementioned Heights article mentions that

munist countries like the USSR. In short, the 1993

“the coordinators of this new requirement hope that this

Heights article uses a now-outdated misnomer to

will translate into an increased tolerance in the world

explain the progressive, inclusive opportunities

outside BC.” But has the cultural diversity core even led

BC is setting out to offer. While the words chosen

to increased tolerance inside BC?

Hill to “experience different cultures from around the world.”

Alicia Kang 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.

If someone witnesses catcalling or blatant objectification, they need to report the harasser. There is no reason catcalling has a place anywhere, let alone in places we consider our homes. BC women have just as much a right to feel at home on this campus as the men do, and it’s about time for it to start feeling like that.

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

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By Isabella Cavazzoni Copy Editor Vibrant pastel colors and cartoon drawings on a once-clean pair of Air Force 1s: they’re definitely not sneakers you can buy at the mall. A labor of love, time, and a whole lot of paint, Henry Dunkelberger, MCAS ’20, created his own business selling sneakers with custom artwork that are as funky and cool as he is. His shaggy hair and stacked silver rings are emblematic of how his art comes together—effortlessly, simultaneously disheveled and put together— and the origins of his creations have just as spontaneous a story. “Right before junior year of college [my friend] asked me to paint a pair of Nikes for him,” Dunkelberger said. “I just, like, didn’t exactly know how it was going to turn out, but he basically just gave me, like, the freedom to do whatever I wanted on his shoes.” And with a single pair of custom painted shoes, Dunkelberger’s art was out on Boston College’s campus like it hadn’t been before. By creating a truly unique product for one of his friends, Dunkelberger essentially marketed his art and a new product for free, and the response was more than positive. To date, Dunkelberger estimates that he’s completed about 30 sneaker commissions, and many of them can be seen around campus. Dunkelberger’s first pairs were simply painted in vibrant colors. They were different from the variety of plain white sneakers typically spotted around BC’s campus—a homogenous jumble of Adidas Stan Smith sneakers, Reeboks, and Superga platforms. But his original idea to only paint the sneakers could have been done by anyone. “Once I started to add the drawings on top, [the sneakers] had this whole, like, other dimension that looked ... more reflective of my own art,” Dunkelberger said. The high demand isn’t for shoes that go with every outfit or make kids look “normal.” Clients want a new take on the frequently worn and recently revived Nike Air Force 1s, originally all-white, but now decorated with Dunkelberger’s signature touch—his drawings. Including the sneaker, Dunkelberger charges $210 per pair. And although his paintings and sneaker orders typically don’t stray far from his own artistic style, Dunkelberger occasionally receives orders asking for a theme. He created a BC-themed pair of sneakers complete with White Claw cans, St. Ignatius, and a sketch of University President William P. Leahy, S.J., on the big toe. But, his price won’t stay flat for long. Per pair of sneakers, Dunkelberger typically spends around six to eight hours. “I don’t really have, like, exactly tons of time because of school work,” Dunkelberger said. “But right now, it’s not really about making money … Right now it’s more about getting my artwork out there. And I feel like shoes are a great way to do that.” Dunkelberger’s sketchbooks are filled with drawings reminiscent of boredom-driven doodles found inside notebook margins and cartoon television animation. Dunkelberger sometimes takes one of his drawings and uses it as inspiration for his larger canvas paintings. As for color, he prefers not to plan. He describes his paintings as random, going with his own flow and painting as he pleases. Still, Dunkelberger manages to create cohesive art with little deliberation beforehand—his paintings come together to form characters in his own artistic universe. “If you were to look at a painting

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THE COLORFUL SHOES OF HENRY DUNKELBERGER’S UNIVERSE

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of mine, it would feel like it could exist on its own, like in a, in a world,” Dunkelberger said. “It has, like, a cohesive style and, like, a uniformity to the palette.” Myles Asante, CSOM ’20, has watched Dunkelberger’s creative process since the beginning. The two met during the first week of their freshman year and clicked—both share a passion for arts, music, and fashion. Whether it was blasting rap music or talking about up-and-coming clothing brands or creative directors they thought would be the next big thing—they knew about Virgil Abloh before he made it big—Dunkelberger

and Asante fostered their friendship with creativity on a college campus that is notoriously uniform. Asante was exposed to Dunkelberger’s penchant for doodling and creating art not long after just becoming friends. “Freshman year he wasn’t even doing canvases, he was literally just doing doodles on his wall,” Asante said. “So it literally just started from that type of inspiration. Like he’s always had a doodle book, always had a sketchbook, so it’s just really cool to see his process go down like that.” Asante went on to describe the “wall” that he remembers Dunkelberger sketching the faces of his

friends on. The wall, which Asante recalls as really more of a block of blank drawing space, was eventually filled with small caricatures of Dunkelberger’s friends during his freshman year. These small doodles that later led to Dunkelberger’s larger pieces were truly the start of his artistic career. He grew up around art and creativity, but whereas most artists realize their skills or hone their craft at a younger age, Dunkelberger did not start actively pursuing art until the end of his sophomore year of college after he watched The Radiant Child, a documentary about Jean-Michel Basquiat,

the late graffiti artist who painted the streets of New York’s Lower East Side in its punk heyday of the 1970s and whose 1982 painting of a skull fetched $110 million at Sotheby’s in 2017. Dunkelberger’s mother was an art teacher for the local elementary school he attended, the Potomac School in McLean, Va., shaping the creative environment in which he grew up in and reeling him in when he was rowdy. As a child, Dunkelberger frequently misbehaved, and when he got to fifth grade and began taking his mother’s art class, his focus wasn’t necessarily on art. “I don’t think that, like, my mom’s art class was really the catalyst for me becoming an artist. It was more like a fun like playground type of environment for me to, like, do what I want to do and then have suddenly more leniency because my mom was the teacher,” Dunkelberger said. While the cliche narrative of young burgeoning artists would tend to begin with an art class that shaped a life-long passion, Dunkelberger’s story is less cut and dry. An English major, he has a self-proclaimed fear of maths and sciences, and, early on, he had aspirations to be a writer. “I’ve always had the ambition to, like, do something that was sort of like of my own doing,” Dunkelberger said. “At first, it was writing where I felt like I could really carve out some sort of path for myself.” But, if his growing custom sneaker business isn’t enough evidence, writing wasn’t what he was meant to do—it’s painting and drawing that makes Dunkelberger feel alive. He developed an artistic style all on his own, one that he had never seen before. His current artistic obsession: a figure he calls a separated head, in which the jaw is detached from the head of a character. While hard to qualify in words, these kinds of images currently flood his Instagram (@dunks_donuts), as well as his most recent sneaker commissions. Dunkelberger isn’t stopping at sneakers, though. According to Asante, his friend has big plans to take his creativity to the next level. His next business venture? Clothing design. He plans to move to Washington D.C. following his graduation in May, a city close to his hometown in Bethesda, Md., and pursuing a career designing his own clothing brand—a venture very different from the gig he has going for himself now. Instead of creating made-to-order pieces, Dunkelberger plans to create capsule clothing collections with, say, 30 pieces he spent months designing and will release all at once. “He can just keep on expanding like that, because people are falling in love with, like, Henry’s designs as a whole,” Asante said. For Dunkelberger, the art gallery scene, an industry he described as “elitist,” isn’t really for him. Instead, he’s taking inspiration from one of his favorite clothing designers Austin Babbitt, more informally known as Asspizza on Instagram. Ideally, Dunkelberger sees himself creating clothing in a fashion inspired by Babbitt and moving away from made-to-order pieces in the future. Dunkelberger’s style won’t only be found on sneakers, he hopes, and will evolve into wearable artwork on hoodies, shirts, hats, and other pieces of clothing. The possibilities are boundless in his universe of whimsy and color. With a grand total of just over 1,350 Instagram followers, Dunkelberger doesn’t yet match Babbitt’s 155,000, but he has time. New York Fashion Week may have just ended, but Dunkelberger is booked—with 40 clients on his waitlist and nine months to leave his mark on campus. n

SPORTS

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

@HEIGHTSSPORTS

FOOTBALL

KANSAS 48

BOSTON COLLEGE 24

Quarterback Carter Stanley led Kansas past BC, which was held scoreless in the second half and stunned on its home turf. BY BRADLEY SMART Sports Editor It was Friday the 13th, and, well, Boston College football sure had a nightmare of a game. Despite entering the primetime matchup with Kansas as 21-point favorites, the Eagles turned in a night-and-day performance from the previous two weeks and were absolutely shredded by the Jayhawks, who handed BC a stunning 48-24 loss—ending Kansas’ 48-game road losing streak to Power Five opponents in the process. The Eagles (2-1, 1-0 Atlantic Coast) built an early 17-7 lead but then watched it vanish as they were unable to create a defensive stop. Kansas (2-1), which had been held to a single touchdown in a loss to Coastal Carolina last week, scored on seven straight possessions after digging a 10-point hole. That surge—which included 27 unanswered points to close the game—was enough to hand BC arguably its worst loss of the Steve Addazio era. “I just think that we cut guys free in the back end. We left gaps open in the run game and couldn’t get off the field, and it started early and it didn’t stop and, you know, it’s my job to make sure that we get that fixed,” Addazio said. “There’s no reason why we should play the way we did on the field today.” Kansas quarterback Carter Stanley— who had been held to a measly 5.6 yards per attempt against the Chanticleers—bounced back from an early interception and had a career day, throwing for 238 yards and three

touchdowns. His favorite target, Andrew Parchment, hauled in eight catches for 100 yards and a pair of scores, while the Jayhawks leaned on a two-headed rushing duo of Pooka Williams Jr. (22 carries, 121 yards) and Khalil Herbert (11 carries, 187 yards). “These things are going to happen more regularly with this program and a great place like Kansas,” an overjoyed Les Miles, Kansas’ head coach, said after. “If anybody wonders why a guy would come back to college football, tonight shows how much fun this game can be.” To make things worse, the Jayhawks’ defense made adjustments and was stifling in the second half. They held BC to just 10 yards and a pair of punts on the first two drives in the second half, which allowed them to extend the lead to three possessions, and it stayed that way the rest of the game. The Eagles’ first sustained drive, at the end of the third quarter, was a 14-play, 69-yard effort—and fittingly ended in a 31-yard missed field goal from Aaron Boumerhi. “You know, I felt like as long as we can keep this within a 10-point game, we still have an opportunity in the end to come back through,” Addazio said. “We moved the ball down the field and we got in field goal range … Well, we didn’t hit the three and then after that, I thought we got a little bit sideways.” BC showed promise early, going on a seven-play, 75-yard scoring drive right off the bat that was capped by a two-yard AJ

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Addazio’s Preparation Woes After Seven Years Are Unacceptable PETER KIM “Obviously, I did not do a good enough job getting our team ready to play tonight,” Boston College head football coach Steve Addazio said Friday after a 24-point setback to Kansas, which entered as 21-point underdogs. “I’m responsible for that and it’s my job to make sure we get that fixed.” Addazio is right, it is his job. But if he continues to do it improperly, like he did Friday night against Kansas and has done on several other occasions, it shouldn’t be his job anymore. In 2015, Boston College football lost, 3-0, to Wake Forest. As you might expect,

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given the scoreline, it was a game rife with Eagles miscues. BC missed two field goals, from 31 and 26 (yes, 26) yards. The only points of the game came after Eagles running back Jordan Gowins fumbled at his own five-yard line. Throughout the game, Addazio alternated between quarterbacks Troy Flutie and Jeff Smith with seemingly no rhyme or reason. But of course, nothing was as bad as the clock management at the end of the game. After BC’s defense miraculously forced a fumble at the Demon Deacons’ 11-yard line with just over a minute remaining, giving the Eagles’ offense one final chance to put points on the board, BC and Addazio put on a breathtakingly inept display of clock management. With 19 seconds to play, and the Eagles on the one-yard line, BC inexplicably chose to run the ball up the middle with zero timeouts. When Tyler Rouse

was stopped short of the goal line, the Eagles were unable to reset and get the ball snapped in time, and the clock expired. It was the cherry on top of a horribly coached game and undoubtedly was the worst loss of Addazio’s tenure at the helm. Until Friday. That was when BC lost, 48-24, to Kansas. Despite jumping out to an early 17-7 lead, the Eagles were doubled up by the Jayhawks, a team that lost, 12-7, the week prior to Coastal Carolina, a team in just its second season as a full-time FBS program. Even though BC was favored by 21 points, and was playing at home, Addazio’s team was totally outclassed by a program that, coming into Friday, held a 19-91 record this decade. Yeah, you read that right. 19-91. Before beating BC, Kansas had lost 48 straight road games against Power Five teams. The last time the Jayhawks won one of those games? Oct. 4, 2008 against

Iowa State. After its first two drives ended with an interception and a punt, Kansas scored on seven straight possessions, turning a 10-0 deficit into a 41-24 lead. Pooka Williams Jr. and Khalil Herbert, the Jayhawks’ running back duo, combined for 308 yards rushing, while Carter Stanley, the same quarterback that completed 13-of-19 passes for just 107 yards and two interceptions in the loss to the Chanticleers, picked apart the Eagles secondary, completing 20-of-27 throws for 238 yards and three touchdowns. To make matters worse, many of the receivers that Stanley found were wide open, without a BC defender in sight. The Eagles were simply chasing shadows, unable to manufacture any sort of big defensive play, even if their lives depended on it. Defensive linemen were unable to hold their gaps in run defense, and Kansas repeatedly found big gains off the same

MSOC: Eagles Drop Conference Opener WSOC: BC Runs Unbeaten Streak to Eight

types of pitch plays and off-tackle runs. In pass defense, BC was no better, choosing to stay in its base personnel even when the Jayhawks put four wide receivers on the field, forcing linebackers to match up with wide receivers. Even worse, the Eagles stuck with a soft zone coverage for most of the night, leaving Stanley free to have his pick of easy short throws. Now to be sure, there were missed assignments aplenty, and poor tackling, and some of that has to fall on the players on the field. However, a stubborn inability to adjust to a dominant Kansas offense and find an answer for Williams Jr. and Herbert, or play closer to receivers in order to make life at least slightly harder for Stanley, certainly didn’t help, and should fall on Addazio, Bill Sheridan, and the entire defensive coaching staff. Sheridan

See 48 Steps Back, A10

SCORES AND STANDINGS..................... A10 .... A11 In a rematch of last year’s ACC Tournament matchup, BC Freshman Allie Augur had five saves for the Eagles, who FOOTBALL................................................. was shut out by North Carolina State................................A10 blanked Mississippi State in Starkville...................................A10 FIELD HOCKEY........................................... A12

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STANDINGS Atlantic Division CONF OVR HOME AWAY STRK W3 1-0 Clemson..................... 2-0 3-0 2-0 L1 0-0 Boston College......... 1-0 2-1 2-1 W3 1-0 Wake Forest............... 0-0 3-0 2-0 W2 1-0 Louisville.................... 0-0 2-1 1-1 L1 0-1 N.C. State................... 0-0 2-1 2-0 L1 0-1 Florida State...............0-0 1-2 1-1 L2 1-1 Syracuse.....................0-1 1-2 0-1 Coastal Division CONF OVR HOME AWAY STRK W3 1-0 Virginia....................... 2-0 3-0 2-0 L1 0-1 North Carolina............ 1-0 2-1 2-0 W2 1-0 Duke........................... 0-0 2-1 1-1 W2 0-1 Virginia Tech............... 0-1 2-1 2-0 L1 0-1 Georgia Tech.............. 0-1 1-2 1-1 W1 0-1 Miami......................... 0-1 1-2 1-1 L1 0-1 Pittsburgh................... 0-1 1-2 1-1 FRIDAY’S RESULTS Kansas 48, Boston College 24 Wake Forest 24, North Carolina 18 SATURDAY’S RESULTS West Virginia 44, N.C. State 27 Virginia Tech 24, Furman 17 No. 13 Penn State 17, Pittsburgh 10 The Citadel 27, Georgia Tech 24 Louisville 38, Western Kentucky 21 Miami 63, Bethune-Cookman 0 Duke 41, Middle Tennessee 18 No. 25 Virginia 31, Florida State 24 No. 1 Clemson 41, Syracuse 6 BC’S LAST GAME Kansas Boston College

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First Quarter BC—Dillon 2 yard run (Boumerhi kick), 12:41 BC—FG Boumerhi 40, 11:09 KU—Luavasa 19 yard pass from Stanley (Jones kick), 3:27 BC—Idrizi 20 yard pass from Brown (Boumerhi kick), 0:17 Second Quarter KU—Hall 1 yard run (Jones kick), 14:19 KU—Parchment 4 yard pass from Stanley (Jones kick), 3:41 BC—Brown 12 yard pass from Lewis (Boumerhi kick), 0:45 KU—Parchment 3 yard pass from Stanley (Jones kick), 0:05 Third Quarter KU—FG Jones 24, 10:24 KU—Williams 12 yard run (Jones kick), 5:25 KU—FG Jones 30, 0:35 Fourth Quarter KU—Herbert 6 yard run (Jones kick), 5:44 KU 23 45-329 238 0-0 5-96 0-0 20-27-1 0-0 4-45.3 0-0 8-75 31:53

First downs Rushes-yards Passing Punt Returns Kickoff Returns Interceptions Ret. Comp-Att-Int Sacked-Yards Lost Punts Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Time of Posession

BC 26 228 219 0-0 8-203 1-17 21-41-0 1-6 4-45.3 2-0 8-55 28:07

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING — Boston College, Dillon 27-151, Bailey 7-25, Brown 5-18, Levy 5-16, Flowers 2-9, Glines 1-9. Kansas, Herbert 11-187, P. Williams 22-121, Stanley 5-23, Hall 1-1, D. Williams 6-(-3). PASSING — Boston College, Brown 18-36-1-195, Grosel 2-4-0-12, Lewis 1-1-1-12. Kansas, Stanley 20-27-3-238. RECEIVING — Boston College, White 3-45, Burt 3-16, Long 2-48, Idrizi 2-28, Bailey 2-25, Lewis 2-13, Garrison 2-13, Brown 1-12, Flowers 1-10, Robinson 1-8, Glines 1-3, Dillon 1-(-2). Kansas, Parchment 8-100, Lassiter 5-67, Robinson 2-31, P. Williams 2-2, Luavasa 1-19, Charlot 1-10, Fairchild 1-9. MISSED FIELD GOALS — Boston College, Boumerhi 31. Kansas, none. BC Schedule vs. Virginia Tech*.................................................W, 35-28 vs. Richmond........................................................W, 45-13 vs. Kansas............................................................L, 48-24 at Rutgers.............................................................Sep 21 vs. Wake Forest*..................................................Sep 28 at Louisville*........................................................Oct 5 vs. N.C. State*......................................................Oct 19 at No. 1 Clemson*...............................................Oct 26 at Syracuse*........................................................ Nov 2 vs. Florida State................................................... Nov 9 at No. 7 Notre Dame*......................................... Nov 23 at Pittsburgh*...................................................... Nov 30

*indicates conference play

NEXT WEEK’S SCHEDULE Boston College @ Rutgers, 12 p.m. (BTN) Louisville @ Florida State No. 17 UCF @ Pittsburgh Western Michigan @ Pittsburgh, 12 p.m. (ACCN) Elon @ Wake Forest, 12 p.m. (ACCNX) Appalachian State @ North Carolina, 3:30 p.m. (ACCNX) Central Michigan @ Miami, 4 p.m. (AACN) Ball State @ N.C. State, 7 p.m. (ESPNU) Old Dominion @ No. 25 Virginia, 7 p.m. (ESPN2) Charlotte @ No. 1 Clemson, 7:30 p.m. (ACCN) AP TOP 25 13. Wisconsin (2-0, LW: 14) 1. Clemson (3-0, LW: 1) 15. UCF (3-0, LW: 17) 2. Alabama (3-0, LW: 2) 16. Oregon (2-1, LW: 15) 3. Georgia (3-0, LW: 3) 17. Texas A&M (2-1, LW: 16) 4. LSU (3-0, LW: 4) 18. Iowa (3-0, LW: 19) 5. Oklahoma (3-0, LW: 5) 19. Washington St. (3-0, LW: 20) 6. Ohio State (3-0, LW: 6) 7. Notre Dame (2-0, LW: 7) 20. Boise St. (3-0, LW: 22) 21. Virginia (3-0, LW: 25) 8. Auburn (3-0, LW: 8) 22. Washington (2-1, LW: 23) 9. Florida (3-0, LW: 9) 23. California (3-0, LW: NR) 10. Utah (3-0, LW: 11) 11. Michigan (2-0, LW: 10) 24. Arizona St. (3-0, LW: NR) 25. TCU (2-0, LW: NR) 12. Texas (2-1, LW: 12) 13. Penn St. (3-0, LW: 13) Others Receiving Votes: Kansas State 91, Oklahoma State 51, Army 50, Michigan State 37, Memphis 26, Wake Forest 14, Brigham Young 12, Iowa State 7, Temple 7, Mississippi State 4, Appalachian State 2, Minnesota 1 COACHES POLL 1. Clemson (3-0, LW: 1) 2. Alabama (3-0, LW: 2) 3. Georgia (3-0, LW: 3) 4. Oklahoma (3-0, LW: 4) 5. LSU (3-0, LW: 5) 6. Ohio State (3-0, LW: 6) 7. Notre Dame (2-0, LW: 7) 8. Florida (3-0, LW: 8) 8. Auburn (3-0, LW: 9) 10. Michigan (2-0, LW: 10) 11. Utah (3-0, LW: 12) 12. Penn St. (3-0, LW: 11 ) 13. Texas (2-1, LW: 13)

14. Wisconsin (2-0, LW: 17) 15. Texas A&M (2-1, LW: 15) 16. UCF (3-0, LW: 16) 17. Oregon (2-1, LW: 17) 18. Iowa (3-0, LW: 18) 19. Washington St. (3-0, LW: 20) 20. Boise St. (3-0, LW: 22) 21. Washington (2-1, LW: 21) 22. Virginia (3-0, LW: NR) 23. California (3-0, LW: NR) 24. Arizona St. 3-0, LW: NR) 25. Kansas St. (3-0, LW: NR)

RV: Oklahoma State 100, Memphis 68, TCU 55, Michigan State 40, Wake Forest 33, Army 31, BYU 28, Kentucky 14, Appalachian State 12, Temple 7, Mississippi State 6, Minnesota 5, Duke 4, Nebraska 4, Navy 4, Tulane 3, Iowa State 3, Arizona 1, Wyoming 1,

THUMBS UP

WOMEN’S SOCCER Standings CONF OVR HOME Duke........................... 3-2-1 7-3-2 4-0-2 8-0 9-0 Virginia....................... 1-0 6-0 7-2 Florida State...............1-0 N.C. State................... 0-0-1 4-3-1 2-1-0 7-0-1 5-0-1 Boston College......... 0-0 5-0 7-1 North Carolina............0-0 5-0 6-0 Louisville.................... 0-0 3-1 6-2 Notre Dame................0-0 5-0-1 3-0-1 Clemson..................... 0-0 3-1-1 1-1-1 Miami......................... 0-0 3-4-1 2-1-1 Pittsburgh...................0-0 4-1 8-1 Virginia Tech...............0-0 5-3-1 4-2-1 Wake Forest............... 0-0 2-5-1 2-0-1 Syracuse.....................0-0

AWAY 2-3 1-0 1-1 2-2-1 2-0 1-1 1-0 3-1 2-0 1-0 1-3 2-0 1-1 0-5

STRK L1 W9 W5 T1 W1 L1 W6 L2 W1 W1 L2 L1 L3 L1

BC Schedule vs. Massachusetts.................................................. W, 2-1 vs. Massachusetts Lowell.......................................W, 4-1 vs. Boston University............................................... W, 3-0 at Princeton............................................................. W, 2-1 vs. Northeastern......................................................W, 1-0 vs. New Hampshire................................................. W, 2-0 vs. Providence......................................................... T, 1-1 at Mississippi State.................................................W, 2-0 at Florida State*..................................................... Sep 19 vs. Miami*............................................................... Sep 26 vs. Louisville*..........................................................Sep 29 at N.C. State*.......................................................... Oct 5 at Pittsburgh*..........................................................Oct 10 vs. Wake Forest*.....................................................Oct 13 vs. North Carolina*................................................. Oct 17 at Virginia Tech*......................................................Oct 24 at Virginia*.............................................................. Oct 27 vs. Clemson*...........................................................Oct 31 *indicates conference play

MEN’S SOCCER Standings Atlantic Division CONF OVR HOME Clemson..................... 1-0 5-0 4-0 Wake Forest............... 1-0 5-0 4-0 N.C. State................... 1-0 3-1-1 3-1 Louisville.................... 0-0-1 2-1-2 1-0-1 Syracuse.....................0-0-1 1-1-3 1-0-3 Boston College......... 0-1 4-1 2-0

AWAY 1-0 1-0 0-0-1 1-1-1 0-1 2-1

Coastal Divison CONF OVR HOME Virginia....................... 1-0 4-0 2-0 North Carolina............1-0 3-1-1 1-1-1 Virginia Tech...............0-1 4-1 0-1 Duke........................... 0-1 4-1 4-1 Notre Dame................0-1 3-1 2-1 Pittsburgh...................0-1 1-3-1 1-1-1

AWAY STRK 1-0 W4 2-0 W3 2-0 L1 0-0 L1 1-0 L1 0-1 L1

STRK W5 W5 W1 T1 T3 L1

BC Schedule vs. Quinnipiac.......................................................... W, 2-0 at Boston University................................................ W, 1-0 vs. Rhode Island......................................................W, 2-1 at Holy Cross............................................................W, 3-2 at N.C. State*.......................................................... L, 2-0 vs. Pittsburgh*........................................................ Sep 20 vs. Massachusetts.................................................. Sep 24 at Virginia Tech*......................................................Sep 27 vs. Merrimack..........................................................Oct 1 vs. Wake Forest*.....................................................Oct 4 vs. Northeastern......................................................Oct 8 vs. Virginia*............................................................. Oct 11 at Louisville*........................................................... Oct 18 at Clemson*............................................................ Oct 25 at Harvard................................................................Oct 29 vs. Syracuse*.......................................................... Nov 1 *indicates conference play

Volleyball ACC Standings CONF Pittsburgh...................0-0 Wake Forest............... 0-0 Louisville.................... 0-0 Notre Dame................0-0 Florida State...............0-0 Boston College......... 0-0 Georgia Tech.............. 0-0 Virginia Tech...............0-0 Clemson..................... 0-0 Duke........................... 0-0 Virginia....................... 0-0 Miami......................... 0-0 NC State..................... 0-0 Syracuse.....................0-0 North Carolina............0-0

OVR 10-0 7-1 6-2 6-2 5-2 6-3 6-3 6-4 5-4 5-5 5-5 3-3 4-5 1-4 1-5

HOME 7-0 3-0 5-1 4-1 2-0 0-0 5-0 0-0 4-2 4-3 2-2 3-1 2-1 0-0 0-2

AWAY 1-0 2-1 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-2 0-2 1-3 0-1 1-0 0-2 0-2 1-1 1-1 1-1

For BC to Improve, Addazio Must Go 48 Steps Back, from A9

Scores and Standings Football

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

STRK W10 L1 W1 W2 W3 W1 L2 W3 L2 L3 L1 L2 W1 W1 L2

BC Schedule Oregon Classic...................................................... 1 of 3 UConn Challenge.................................................. 3 of 3 FAU Invitational..................................................... 2 of 3 at Harvard............................................................. Sep 18 Rhode Island Challenge....................................... Sep 20-21 at Clemson*......................................................... Sep 27 at Georgia Tech*.................................................. Sep 29 vs. Duke*.............................................................. Oct 4 vs. Wake Forest*.................................................. Oct 6 vs. Virginia*.......................................................... Oct 11 vs. Pittsburgh*......................................................Oct 13 at Florida State*................................................... Oct 18 at Miami*.............................................................. Oct 20 at North Carolina State*...................................... Oct 25 at North Carolina*................................................ Oct 27 vs. Louisville*....................................................... Nov 1 vs. Notre Dame*.................................................. Nov 3 vs. Syracuse*....................................................... Nov 6 vs. Virginia Tech*..................................................Nov 8 at Wake Forest*................................................... Nov 17 at Virginia*............................................................Nov 22 at Syracuse*......................................................... Nov 24 vs. N.C. State*...................................................... Nov 30

and his predecessor, Jim Reid—who was demoted after the 2018 campaign—have both overseen a defense that has steadily regressed since the 2015 unit that Don Brown so masterfully oversaw. And that’s just on defense. On the offensive end, BC abandoned the AJ Dillon-David Bailey rotation that had been so effective in the first two games of the season, and drastically underutilized Zay Flowers, who touched the ball just three times the whole game. Perhaps most criminally, after Dillon rumbled for 128 yards on 22 carries in the first half, the Eagles offensive coaching staff gave him just five carries total in the second. To be fair, BC trailed by multiple scores for a large portion of the latter half and it’s understandable that Addazio doesn’t want to run Dillon into the ground given the junior’s injury history, but five touches in a half for one of the team’s most dynamic players—one has also displayed a newfound ability to catch the ball out of the backfield—is poor playcalling at best. Now, every coach certainly has bad games, or days when the game plan just isn’t working, and the guy coaching opposite Addazio, Les Miles, is a former national championship winner. But any person that’s going to call themselves a head coach at a Division I NCAA football program has to be able to react to their opposition and adjust. That’s part of being a prepared head coach, and something that Addazio and his whole staff failed miserably at Friday night against the Jayhawks. Of course, one bad game wouldn’t be the end of the world. The truly concerning thing, however, is that this has become a trend the past seven years. It started in 2014, when the Eagles lost to Colorado State, 24-21, at home. Granted, that Rams team finished the year 10-3, but won just one other game against a Power Five opponent, and BC came into the game as six-point favorites. Throughout the game, the Eagles were unable to get pressure on Garrett Grayson (something that also happened in abundance against the Jayhawks) and allowed him easy completions underneath. Not surprisingly, Grayson led Colorado State down the field before throwing a game-winning 12-yard touchdown pass on a coverage breakdown with just over a minute left. Then, of course, there was the Wake Forest debacle in 2015, and a 49-0 undressing at the hands of the Hokies in 2016 in which BC went three-and-out 10 times and managed just 124 total yards of offense. Addazio and Co. stubbornly insisted on establishing the run and simply weren’t able to slow down Jerod

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and lost, 30-13, to a Purdue team that finished the season 6-7 and started the season 0-3. Once again, the scoreline was much closer than the game itself was. Addazio and Co. stubbornly ran Dillon into crowded boxes all game long—the then-sophomore finished with just 64 yards on 19 carries—and didn’t come up with any answers in the passing game. Anthony Brown finished with just 96 yards and four interceptions. On defense, the Eagles struggled with tackling all game long, notably failing to wrap up Rondale Moore on a 70-yard touchdown that completely changed the game’s momentum. Later in the year, there was the nowinfamous loss at Florida State. With 2:52 left in the fourth quarter, and BC up, 2116, Addazio chose to punt the ball with the Eagles facing 4th-and-1 from the

*indicates conference play

Field Hockey ACC Standings CONF Louisville.................... 0-0 North Carolina............0-0 Duke........................... 0-0 Syracuse.....................0-0 Virginia....................... 0-0 Boston College......... 0-0 Wake Forest............... 0-0

OVR HOME AWAY STRK 6-0 3-0 3-0 W6 5-0 3-0 2-0 W5 6-0 1-0 5-0 W6 5-1 2-0 3-1 W2 5-1 4-0 1-1 W1 3-3 2-1 1-2 W2 1-4 0-1 1-3 L2

BC Schedule at Providence...........................................................W, 2-1 vs. Fairfield.............................................................. L, 2-3 (OT) at Maryland............................................................. L, 1-3 at Northwestern...................................................... L, 2-3 vs. Dartmouth..........................................................W, 5-2 vs. Northeastern......................................................W, 6-2 at Wake Forest*...................................................... Sep 20 vs. Louisville*..........................................................Sep 27 vs. Saint Joseph’s....................................................Sep 29 at Virginia*.............................................................. Oct 4 vs. Quinnipiac.......................................................... Oct 6 vs. Harvard.............................................................. Oct 10 at Boston University................................................ Oct 13 vs. Syracuse*.......................................................... Oct 18 at New Hampshire...................................................Oct 20 at North Carolina*.................................................. Oct 25 vs. Duke*.................................................................Nov 1

THUMBS DOWN

Margo Carlin The freshman has scored in all but one game for field hockey this season.

Run Defense Football was gashed for 329 yards on the ground in an embarrassing 48-24 loss to Kansas.

Jewel Strawberry She leads volleyball with 102 kills, 40 more than any other player.

“Fast Starts” Football looked to have a chance to start the year 6-0, but now its future is unclear.

Non-Conference Play For the second year in a row, women’s soccer finished non-conference play unbeaten.

Shutout Men’s soccer was held scoreless for the first time all season against N.C. State.

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With markedly less talent, Les Miles still outcoached Addazio in all three phases Friday. Evans, who threw five touchdowns. In 2017, there was another embarrassing loss to the Hokies, a 23-10 defeat that was nationally televised and a whole lot more lopsided than the scoreline indicated. BC gave Dillon and Jon Hilliman a combined 23 carries for 57 yards, once again displaying a total lack of offensive innovation. On defense, VTech and quarterback Josh Jackson kept attacking the middle of the field with short throws, repeatedly victimizing an Eagles defense that seemed to have no adjustments It was the game that sparked the famous “It’ll come together and it’ll be beautiful” rant from Addazio, and for a while it looked like, indeed, that he had put his issues behind him. The Eagles rattled off five wins in their last six regular-season games before dropping a frigid Pinstripe Bowl game, and started 2018 off well, winning their first three games and jumping into the No. 23 spot in the AP Poll. But just when BC was riding high, the Eagles’ old problems reared themselves at exactly the wrong time. In Week 4, BC went on the road

Seminoles 40-yard line. BC had already converted in three 4th-and-short situations that day, but with the opportunity to close the game out, chose unforgivably to be too conservative. Three plays later, Tamorion Terry broke free for a 74-yard touchdown reception that won the game for FSU. On that play too, the Eagles looked unprepared. Despite BC being ahead, Sebastian was put in one-on-one coverage against Terry with no safety help, leaving the then-redshirt freshman susceptible to being beat over the top. Then of course, to top it all off, there was Friday. Put it all together, and you have a pattern of BC being totally unprepared to compete in at least one game a season. For a Power Five team that’s been trying desperately to break the seven-win plateau all decade long, that’s simply unacceptable. In fact, for any football team at any level, that’s simply unacceptable. And that’s just in-game preparation. Throughout Addazio’s time at the helm, the Eagles also have lacked year-toyear preparation. Granted, one of his

strengths is player development, and his work in churning out gems like Justin Simmons, Zach Allen, John Johnson III, Chris Lindstrom, and Harold Landry must be commended. But if Addazio and his staff are so good at player evaluation and development, then why can’t they find a competent kicker? The position has been an issue since 2014, when a missed extra point cost BC a potential bowl win. Over the past five seasons, the Eagles have made just 67.2 percent of their field goals—an abysmal rate—and, in 2018 alone, missed four extra points. It’s unforgivable that BC has neglected the kicking game since Nate Freese left campus, and hints at a coach who is either unwilling to take a hard look at his problems and fix them, or a coach who simply doesn’t consider the kicking game that important. Either way, Addazio and his staff come off as unprepared and neglectful. The most frightening part of this is that—as a seven-year pattern would suggest—Addazio simply can’t (or won’t) change. His in-game decision making has stayed the same for seven years, his offensive philosophy has stayed the same for seven years, he’s been unable to develop a consistent quarterback for seven years, and, most importantly of all, BC’s record has stayed mostly the same for seven years. It’s clear at this point that it’s unrealistic to expect any form of meaningful improvement for the Eagles under Addazio, and if BC has indeed peaked under his watch, then it’s time to make a change that can lead in a meaningfully positive direction. One could make the argument that consistency is important for the Eagles, but is a record of 21-38 against Power Five opponents the kind of consistency any ACC team, even BC, seek out? The answer, undoubtedly, should be no. And in that case, Addazio should go. When asked Friday about all the big plays that the Jayhawks were able to manufacture against his defense, Addazio responded with the following: “It’s my job to get that fixed. My job to make sure that that doesn’t happen, so it’s my responsibility, and so going to get back to the drawing board here first thing in the morning and put the film on and we’re going to get better and take that down next week and play a much better football game.” That’s just the problem, though. Under Addazio, there’s no reassurance that the Eagles will fix those issues, or play a much better football game next week. And that’s simply unacceptable.

Peter Kim is the assoc. sports editor for The Heights. He can be reached on Twitter @PeterKim_4

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Addazio, Eagles Sink to New Lows in Nightmare Loss to Kansas FB vs. Kansas, from A9 Dillon touchdown. Then, on Kansas’ second play from scrimmage, Stanley badly overthrew his receiver and Mehdi El Attrach picked it off with ease. The Eagles settled for a field goal despite the prime field position, but Boumerhi looked promising with a 40yard field goal to stretch the lead to 10-0. Kansas answered, though, as its third drive of the game reflected what was to come. The Jayhawks drove down the field, and Stanley found a wide-open Jack Luavasa on a seam route for his first touchdown pass. BC extended its lead to 17-7 as Anthony Brown found his own tight end—Korab Idrizi—for a 20-yard score. The Jayhawks’ offense was off and rolling, though. Hudson Hall punched in a

one-yard touchdown on the next drive, and after BC’s Brown caught a touchdown pass from C.J. Lewis in a trick play identical to the “Philly Special,” Kansas found time to answer before the half. With just 40 seconds left in the half, Herbert took an inside handoff for 82 yards to set up a Parchment touchdown reception. That handed Kansas a 28-24 lead, one that it would only build on as it rolled through the second half. “Backbreaker. Yup, no doubt,” Addazio said of Herbert’s lengthy run, in which the secondary seemed unaware at one point that he was running free. “We’re in man coverage, we had a run blitz on … Bizarro. I don’t know what happened on that run blitz” Miles challenged his defense to further step up in the second half, and that they did. While BC’s offense was struggling, the

Jayhawks were moving the ball with ease. Kicker Liam Jones, despite the snap being bobbled, buried a 24-yard field goal to open the second-half scoring. When the dust finally settled, Jones had hit another 30-yard field goal while Williams and Herbert both had rushing touchdowns to power Kansas to a 24-point victory. It was an ugly, ugly loss for Addazio and the Eagles, who simply seemed to give up in the second half. It was far from the effort that anyone expected after a 2-0 start to the year that featured a win over Virginia Tech. Quite simply, it’s hard to see a worse loss—other than perhaps the 3-0 setback to Wake Forest in 2015—for Addazio, and it’s certainly one that will have his job status seriously in question moving into Week 4. 

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Kansas wide receiver Dayton Charlot breaks one of many missed BC tackles.

Jayhawks vs. Eagles Drive Chart A look at BC’s 48-24 loss to Kansas, possession by possession:

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Blowout Defeat to Kansas Deﬁned by Missed Tackles, Breakdowns BY ANDY BACKSTROM Managing Editor Kansas covered the spread on Friday night—in the opposite direction. Coming off a 12-7 loss to Coastal Carolina, the 21-point underdog Jayhawks came into Alumni Stadium, erased a 10-point first-quarter deficit, and handed Boston College an embarrassing 48-24 defeat, snapping one of the more startling streaks in college football. The victory marked the first time since 2008 that Kansas—a program that, as of 2015, had just 39 scholarship players and, in this decade, has posted a meager 20-91 record—knocked off a Power Five opponent on the road. While it was a sign of hope for Les Miles and the Jayhawks, it couldn’t have been a worse Friday the 13th for BC. The upset is easily is in the running with the Eagles’ 3-0 defeat to Wake Forest for the worst loss of Steve Addazio’s seven-year tenure. In a game that featured 1,014 yards of total offense and 16 penalties, there’s a lot to unpack. But here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly—at least, as far as BC is concerned. The Good 1) AJ Dillon picks up where he left off Dillon was the star of BC’s Week 2 win over Richmond. He piled up 140 all-purpose yards, even recording two receptions for 54 yards and a score. The junior built on that performance against Kansas, especially in the first half. Dillon kickstarted the Eagles’ offense with 51 yards and a touchdown on their first drive. He carried the ball 22 times in the first two frames, picking up 128 yards in the process. But, in the second half, he only logged five rushing attempts. 2) Mehdi El Attrach intercepts Carter Stanley On Kansas’ second play from scrimmage, Carter Stanley faked the handoff and completely overthrew Andrew Parchment. Luckily for BC, strong safety Mehdi El Attrach was in the right place at the right time. The graduate defensive back nabbed the second

pick of his career, setting the stage for a 40yard Aaron Boumerhi field goal. El Attrach’s interception gave BC six picks on the year, which heading into Saturday, was tied for the most in the nation with Arizona. 3) BC runs an iteration of the “Philly Special” … again Addazio has a knack for dialing up trick plays when his back is against the wall. After the Jayhawks scored their third consecutive touchdown—taking their first lead of the game—BC turned to a trick play nearly identical to the one that the Philadelphia Eagles ran in Super Bowl LII. The Eagles also rolled out a very similar gadget play against Temple last year. Once again, it worked like a charm, with C.J. Lewis finding a wide-open Anthony Brown for six. 5) Travis Levy has himself a day in the return game Carries have been hard to come by for Levy in 2019, but the scat back has had the chance to fill Michael Walker’s shoes in the return game. It’s a tall task, but the junior has shown some promise, especially on Friday night. Levy ran back seven kickoffs for a total of 189 yards, averaging 27 yards per return. And, near the start of the second half, he burst through the left side for 41 yards, tacking on a few extra yards after contact. The Bad 1) Addazio abandons the Dillon-Bailey rotation In Weeks 1 and 2, Addazio made a conscious effort to rotate Dillon and David Bailey. The 1-2 punch was effective and efficient. In fact, the duo combined for 302 yards on 65 carries (4.65 yards per rush) during that span. Against Kansas, though, Addazio seemingly abandoned that philosophy. Dillon logged 22 carries in the first half—one shy of his 2019 game high—and Bailey was left to watch on the sidelines, making the Eagles’ offense a bit more predictable. Dillon ended up with 27 rushes for 151 yards and a score. Bailey? Just seven carries and 25 yards. 2) Addazio passes on a 36-yard field goal, BC turns the ball over on downs

Over the course of his seven-year tenure, Addazio has been criticized for game mismanagement. Fans could have played that card again last night. Facing a 4th-and4 from the Kanas 19-yard line in the second quarter, Addazio decided to go for it rather than kicking a 36-yard field goal, one that would have extended BC’s 17-14 lead to six and somewhat countered the Jayhawks’ previous score. Brown misfired, and the Eagles turned the ball over on downs. Eleven plays and 81 yards later, Kansas had scored its third straight touchdown. 3) Anthony Brown stares down Kobay White, struggles with accuracy Taking a shot downfield for Flowers would have helped every single Eagle on the field, but none more than Kobay White. Brown targeted the redshirt junior wide receiver on 11 separate occasions—eight more times than any other BC player—resulting in just three receptions. It didn’t take long for the Jayhawks to key in on White, and Brown, who started just 1-of-6 and only ended up completing 18 of his 36 passes, didn’t adjust. The third-year starter looked like a freshman at times, staring down White and missing easy throws. 4) Once again, the Eagles’ defensive line can’t stop the run or rush the passer Stanley played the best game of his career, but he also had loads of time in the pocket. For the third week in a row, BC’s new-look defensive line couldn’t get to the quarterback. Stanley wasn’t sacked once all game, leaving the Eagles with just three sacks through three games—to put that in perspective, Wyatt Ray had four all by himself in Week 3 last year. BC couldn’t slow down the Jayhawks’ run game either. Whether it was Pooka Williams Jr., Khalil Herbert, or Stanley, the Eagles had no answer in the trenches, giving up 329 yards on the ground. The Ugly 1) Missed tackles everywhere “That’s my responsibility to make sure that we tackle better than that,” Addazio

said. “I thought we tackled well in game one. I thought we had some mixed bag on game two, and I thought we missed a lot of tackles [tonight].” Tackling was a problem for both teams in the first half, but the Eagles didn’t snap out of their defensive funk at halftime. All night, Kansas’ running backs made BC look silly, rushing right past the line of scrimmage before shedding a number of tackles. Eagles defenders dove for the legs of Williams Jr. and Herbert, took bad angles, and waited for the Jayhawks to come to them versus driving their hips to make the tackle. After Friday night, BC ranks 115th in rush defense—and second-to-last in the ACC—allowing 214 yards per game on the ground. 2) Herbert’s 82-yard run before halftime If there’s one play that encompasses BC’s loss, it’s Herbert’s 82-yard run at the very end of the first half. With just 40 seconds left in the second quarter and the ball on the Jayhawks’ 15-yard line, defensive coordinator Bill Sheridan called for a run blitz. Even so, Stanley pitched the ball to Herbert and the senior—who finished with 187 yards on a mere 11 carries—surged through the trenches practically untouched. What happened next had everyone confused. Herbert navigated a sea of green in front of him as both BC safeties, El Attrach and Mike Palmer, ran toward their own end zone, still thinking it was a pass play. By the time they realized it, they were actually in a position to make the tackle, but El Attrach couldn’t wrap up and Palmer slipped. Herbert followed his blockers down the right sideline before being pushed out at the BC 3-yard line by Tate Haynes. 3) Nolan Borgersen gets dropped, hurdled over, and flagged Last week, Nolan Borgersen had himself quite the interception, the first of his career. Richmond quarterback Joe Mancuso threw the ball into double coverage, and Borgersen elevated for the highlight-reel pick. Against Kansas, however, the free safety couldn’t

seem to do anything right. Midway through the second quarter, Stanley fired a pass to Kawmie Lassiter II, and the wide receiver used a juke move to drop Borgersen, who came up to make the tackle. On the same drive, Stanley ran the readoption, faking a handoff before hurdling over a lunging Borgersen. The play made Stanley look fearless and Borgersen, well, ridiculous. To make matters worse, the graduate student was called for roughing the kicker on the Jayhawks’ first drive of the fourth quarter, gifting Kansas another first down and a chance to extend its streak of seven straight scoring possessions. 4 Lapses in pass defense As bad as BC’s run defense was, its secondary’s performance wasn’t much better. For the most part, the Eagles’ defensive backs held their own during the first two weeks of play, but everything unraveled on Friday night. After Stanley airmailed an interception, the senior completed his next 11 passes, picking apart BC with quick passes. The Eagles were giving the Kansas wideouts too much room off the line, allowing Stanley to complete easy throws and let his receivers make people miss. There were also a handful of breakdowns. On Kansas’ first touchdown of the game, tight end Jack Luavasa sliced by BC linebacker Paul Theobald, who bit on the play fake—following two Williams Jr. runs—and waltzed into the end zone for a wide-open score. Then, early in the third quarter, Elijah Jones had his eyes in the flat while Parchment streaked past the cornerback to get open and haul in a 29-yard reception. These were just two instances of a repeated theme from Friday night: missed assignments and mental gaffes in the secondary. Couple that with 329 Jayhawk rushing yards, and you have Kansas’ biggest offensive outing, in terms of total yards, since its Week 1 win over Rhode Island back in 2016. 

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Goals From Vaughn, Langenderfer, Help BC Beat Mississippi St. By Taylor Covington Heights Staff

It didn’t matter that Boston College women’s soccer changed coaches and lost its star player to another school: The Eagles have marched right along, and, with a 2-0 win over MisBoston College 2 sissippi State on Mississippi St. 0 Sunday, finished unbeaten in non-conference play for the second year in a row. Behind goals from Olivia Vaughn and Emily Langenderfer, BC (7-0-1) nabbed its first win against an SEC opponent in program history. While the Bulldogs’ (5-3) hoped to pick up their first quality victory of the year after alternating wins and losses for much of the early going, BC aimed to bounce back after drawing with Providence

on Thursday night. The issue against the Friars was that the Eagles couldn’t find a go-ahead goal despite having the balance of chances, and while they had trouble putting it away in the first half against Mississippi State, the classic Eagles offense reemerged in the final 30 minutes of regulation. In true form, BC came out with an aggressive offensive strategy. Langenfender gained possession quickly, getting a good crack on goal inside the first three minutes of the period, but the Bulldogs’ Katie Moore made a strong save to keep the score knotted at zero. The game soon shifted to a battle of the goalkeepers, as Mississippi State’s Hailey Farrington-Bentil attempted to thread a ball over the top, but failed to find the back of the net after a save from Allie Augur. The freshman goalkeeper managed to keep the

score stagnant after a sneaky attempt from Bulldogs’ forward Zakirah McGillivary just seconds later. The Eagles quickly regained control and sent the ball back into the Bulldogs’ defensive third, as Vaughn surged down the right flank and managed to get a shot off before Moore collected it from the far post. The rest of the half mirrored that of a stalemate, as the Eagles’ deliveries into the box were consistently met by a Mississippi State defender. Despite having five corners and a 6-4 advantage in shots, BC entered the break with nothing to show for it. It seemed as though another draw was on the horizon at the start of the second half, as several efforts from defender-turned-forward Gianna Mitchell came up just short. Despite getting her head on an early corner, Mitchell’s attempt went wide left. Moments

later, the junior found herself inches from scoring, getting a shot off in the box, only to have it bounce off the post. It wasn’t until midway through the half that the Eagles put an end to the scoring drought. Following a corner kick in the 67th minute, Vaughn ran onto a ball from Jillian Jennings, slotting it home with a rightfooted shot between Moore and the right post to hoist the Eagles to a 1-0 lead, all while tallying her 50th career point. Mississippi State’s Makayla Waldner looked for a response, sending a dangerous shot to bottom center, but Augur came up clutch again. It took the Eagles nine minutes to find the back of the net again, as Langenderfer managed to clean up a rebound from Francesca Venezia’s shot seconds prior, putting BC out of striking distance with a 2-0 advantage.

The win marked Augar’s third shutout of the season and the Eagles’ seventh win overall heading into rigorous ACC play. Although BC has seen an excellent start to the season, despite losing several key players last year, it must couple this aggressive offensive effort with an equal ability to finish the job in the box. Making the most of chances and avoiding frustrating overtime like the Providence draw is likely what head coach Jason Lowe is stressing before the difficult conference slate arrives. Prior to this meeting, the Eagles were ranked 18th in the TopDrawerSoccer poll and were receiving votes in the United Soccer Coaches Association Poll as well. Should they exhibit the same cohesive effort they showed in the last half of this game, they could continue to replicate last year’s impressive run to the NCAA Tournament. n

FIELD HOCKEY

Five Different Goal Scorers Lift Eagles to Rout of Northeastern By Ryan Bayne For The Heights

The crosstown rivalry between Boston College and Northeastern is a competitive one, with most athletic matchups between the two coming dow n to the Northeastern 2 wire and ofBoston College 6 ten going into overtime to decide the winner. That was not the case in Sunday’s field hockey matchup in Newton, though. The home contest between the No. 19 Eagles and Huskies proved to be a more lopsided affair, with BC continuing a highly successful offensive weekend with a 6-2 win. After dropping several spots in the national rankings following a difficult three-game stretch that included losses to No. 2 Maryland and No. 15 Northwestern, BC (3-3, 0-0 Atlantic Coast) turned things around on Friday with a 5-2 win over Dartmouth and brought the same energy to Sunday’s rout. “We know the road’s only going to get harder from here but we had to get those two wins,” Eagles head coach Kelly Doton said. “These guys rebounded, we had a great week of practice … and now we’re just looking to Wake Forest next weekend.” Northeastern (3-2) entered Sunday

on an impressive offensive streak of its own, scoring three goals or more in each of their games this season. The Eagles, though, saw to it defensively that this streak would not continue, holding the Huskies to just two shots in the entire first half—meanwhile, they racked up more goals than in any other game thus far. BC dominated the first quarter and opened up the scoring early. Fusine Govaert picked up a rebound off Brigid Wood’s shot with eight minutes to go in the first quarter and chipped the ball past Northeastern keeper Julia Gluyas for her fourth goal of the season. Shortly after, sophomore Sky Caron extended the lead off a penalty corner to give the Eagles a 2-0 lead heading into the second quarter. As with the first quarter, the ball seldom left the Huskies’ side of the 50-yard line in the second, and BC continued to dominate, as Nell Webber took a pass from Charlotte Von Huelsen and buried a shot with just over nine minutes to play before the half. Northeastern won a penalty corner soon after, but the Huskies were unable to get on the board before the close of the half. Coming out of the break, it looked as if the Eagles might have the game under wraps, especially as freshman Margo Carlin, who currently leads the

team in scoring, angled around the Northeastern keeper at close range to put BC up, 4-0, with five minutes to go in the third quarter. The Huskies were not to be counted out yet, however, as Camille O’Conor knocked a shot through within a minute of Carlin’s goal to put Northeastern on the board. Despite this slight surge on the Huskies’ part, the Eagles answered right back as another freshman in Charlotte Von Huesen ripped a shot into the top corner to make it 5-1. Despite a four-goal deficit, Northeastern kept the intensity up through the fourth quarter, immediately being awarded a penalty corner that Lauren Rowe capitalized on to cut the deficit to three. As the clock wound down the Huskies had many chances to gain leverage on the scoreboard, but BC held its ground defensively and keeper Sarah Dwyer made the only two saves needed to keep things under control. After an official review with just over six minutes to play, the Eagles were awarded a penalty stroke that Sky Caron buried for her second goal of the game, ultimately sealing the deal. After the three-game losing streak that ended with Friday’s win, Doton was glad to see the team’s preparations pay off, both defensively and with respect to getting quality shots that

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Nell Webber (back) accounted for three points, as the Eagles dominated Northeastern.

showed up on the scoreboard. “That was another area of preparation, making sure they were getting rewarded for all of their work inside the attacking 35,” Doton said. “Putting that many goals up on the board against a good Northeastern team—I was really proud of them.” The team jumps into its first ACC matchup next weekend, traveling to North Carolina to take on Doton’s alma mater in No. 15 Wake For-

est. Games within the powerhouse ACC present a challenge for a young Eagles team that’s failed to find success in the conference under Doton with more seasoned teams, but this group has some momentum after drubbing a pair of opponents by an 11-4 margin. There’s less room for mistakes going forward, but the team showed promise this weekend, albeit against lesser opponents. n

MEN’S SOCCER

BC Opens ACC Play With Shutout Loss to North Carolina State By Olivia Charbonneau For The Heights

After an exhilarating win over Holy Cross this past Tuesday—which was the third straight one-goal victory for Ed Kelly’s side—Boston College men’s soccer was shut Boston College 0 out by North N.C. State 1 Carolina State, falling, 1-0, in its ACC opener. The Eagles (4-1, 0-1 Atlantic Coast) were unable to conjure up an equalizer, and the late-game dramatics that appeared against the Crusaders, Rhode Island, and Boston University were nowhere to be found. From the opening minutes of the game, any BC (4-1, 0-1 Atlantic Coast) fan could see that it would be a tough match to win. The Eagles struggled early

on, allowing the Wolfpack (3-1-1, 1-0-0) offense to control the game throughout the first half. Of the six freshmen in the Eagles’ starting line-up, perhaps the one most challenged by the Wolfpack was goalie Giacomo Piccardo. The Genova, Italy native—who has started in all of BC’s games thus far—faced seven total shots and three shots on goal in the opening half. One of those seven shots, by N.C. State freshman defender Pablo Pedregosa, came just over 23 minutes into the first half and snuck by Piccardo, giving the Wolfpack the lead for good. After sustained pressure, N.C. State earned a corner kick and Gabriel Machado found Pedregosa, who scored inside the far post on a volley. BC, on the other hand, only managed two total shots in the opening half—both just

wide of the net. Despite trailing by a goal, the Eagles were able to conclude the first half cleanly, only committing two fouls to the Wolfpack’s five. The same could not be said for the second half, as BC freshmen Alejandro Zimmermann and Mike Suski both received yellow cards, and David Norris, a junior from N.C. State, was also booked. Although the Eagles couldn’t get on the scoreboard, they weren’t without solid opportunities. Late in the contest, freshman Stefan Siguardarson—who scored the game-winner two games ago against URI—had an excellent chance to beat N.C. State goalkeeper Vincent Durand, but was robbed of his potential game-tying goal by the veteran goalie. After the full 90 minutes had passed, BC had only seven total shots and one shot

on goal, struggling to truly challenge Durand on N.C. State’s home turf. The game ended as such—BC shut out by N.C. State, 1-0, in a similarly disappointing manner to last year’s loss in the first round of the ACC Tournament. It was a tough loss for the Eagles, especially after they started 4-0 for the first time since 2011. Following a rough start to the first half, BC rallied in the second, getting close to the tying goal that it fought for. Despite the unfavorable outcome, the Eagles are shaping up well as conference play continues. BC has a starting line up that includes six freshmen, including midfielder Amos Shapiro-Thompson, who has proven himself to be a prolific offensive player. The Worthington, Mass., native has led the offense this season, tallying goals against Quinnipiac

and Rhode Island. Piccardo, another freshman from Genova, Italy, has solidified himself as a starting goalkeeper and had four saves in the loss. Finally, freshman defender Victor Souza, another starter in the game against N.C. State, was a wall in front of the net, blocking key shots that would have resulted in an even larger deficit. These few freshmen, along with all of the other bright young stars, have taken steps forward in each game. The season has barely begun—the Eagles still have 11 games left on their calendar, including seven more ACC matchups. They’ll have to find their scoring stride that was evident earlier in the season, though, in order to provide just enough support for Piccardo, the conference’s fifth-best goalie by goals against average. n

VOLLEYBALL

Eagles Take Two of Three at FAU Invitational in Boca Raton By Marc Occhipinti Heights Staff

It was a tale of two weekends for Boston College volleyball to open the season. Beginning the year at the Oregon Classic, the Eagles came away victorious just once in three matches, with their two losses coming of the straight-set variety. The next weekend, head coach Jason Kennedy’s squad turned it around to sweep the UConn Challenge, looking focused and locked in for the entirety of the tournament. This weekend, at the FAU Invitational, BC split the difference, taking two of three in Boca Raton, Fla. The Eagles swept BethuneCookman and Southern Utah but fell to hosts and eventual invitational champions Florida Atlantic in a four-set affair. The weekend finale took place Saturday morning, pitting BC (6-3) against Southern Utah (5-4). The first set saw the Eagles jump out to an early 9-3 lead, built up thanks to two kills and a block from Amaka Chukwujekwu, whose 24 kills in the tournament

earned the junior All-Tournament Honors, alongside teammate Jewel Strawberry. A balanced effort—six different players recorded a kill in the set—helped BC cruise to a 25-12 first set victory. The Thunderbirds fired back early in the second set, opening a 6-4 lead, but the Eagles embarked on a five-point swing that brought the lead back to BC’s bench. Momentum went back and forth throughout the rest of the set, but the Eagles would clinch the set, 25-21, on a clutch combined block by Chukwujewku and Strawberry. Playing off the two-set lead they had already mounted, the Eagles continued their strong effort with a 25-18 match-clinching third frame. Senior right-side hitter Cat Balido notched six kills in the set alone, and she also paced the Eagles with 12 putaways in the match. The Eagles’ sole setback of the invitational occured on Friday night, a hotly contested battle against FAU (6-2). The match lasted four sets, each of which featured no more than a four-point margin of victory.

Strawberry was on fire early, killing four of the first eight points of the set, seven of which the Eagles won. FAU fought back, winning three straight points to cut the Eagles’ lead to 23-21, but two more timely kills by Strawberry would secure the set for Kennedy’s crew. The second set swung back and forth again, taking the sides to a 20-20 stalemate. With every point magnified, a pair of errors by Sophie West and Madison McKnight—her only miscue in a match where the setter tallied 30 assists—gave the Owls all the room they needed to take the set, 25-23. The third frame was just about deja vu for Kennedy’s side, with both teams fighting for every point, staking them to a 20-all tie. BC gained a 22-21 edge with kills from Strawberry, one of her game-high 20, and Clare Naughton. The Owls won the next four points, however, with putaways by Sydney Nemtuda and Jordan Yauch, followed by a pair of BC errors that ended a heartbreaking set, 25-22.

BC fans could feel the match slipping away in the fourth set, when the Owls came within a few points of victory, leading, 19-14. But the Eagles weren’t done yet, as four more Strawberry kills rallied the Eagles to an 8-0 run and a three-point advantage. Then it was the Owls’ turn to counter, though, and make a run of their own. Back-to-back kills by Massiel Matos, proceeded by two more BC errors, gave FAU the lead back. Neither side would fold, and a 25-25 tie ensued, but FAU took two critical points with another kill by Matos and another costly Eagles error to polish off the nail-biter with a win. BC’s opening match of the weekend saw it pick up where it left off in Connecticut. Bethune-Cookman (2-6) went down in straight sets, but the Wildcats fought hard to stay in sets and make things difficult for BC. In the first set, the teams went back and forth early, but 14 kills at a 31 percent clip proved to overmatch the Wildcats and help the Eagles take it, 25-17. Balido had five putaways in the frame to pace BC’s attack.

The closest frame of the match came next. Bethune-Cookman capitalized on seven BC errors to bring the set down to the wire. However, nine Wildcats miscues allowed the Eagles to emerge victorious in a close 25-20 affair. It was a different story in the third set, as BC was dominant out of the gates. Three kills from freshman Izzy Clavenna helped the Eagles storm out to a 10-1 advantage. A 55 percent hitting percentage helped the Eagles cruise to a 25-12 rout of the Wildcats and their first win of the weekend. Kennedy’s squad will take on crosstown rival Harvard on Wednesday in a midweek tilt before its final weekend tournament at Rhode Island next weekend. This is the chunk of the schedule where BC needs to fine-tune its game, as the Eagles are about to face the up-and-down perils of conference play. With just four games between the start of ACC play, Kennedy and BC will need to cut down on errors and see further development from its young core to avoid similar rough patches as last year. n

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Film Adaptation of ‘The Goldfinch’ Disappoints By Jillian Ran Asst. Arts Editor It was inevitable that film producers would seize on Donna Tartt’s novels for material eventually. The reclusive author’s works are undeniably cinematic, her stories sprawling and whimsical. But Tartt’s characters come to life through their inner worlds. Through all the slightly absurd twists and turns, what keep her novels grounded are the internal dialogues of her flawed, contemplative heroes. It’s difficult to translate that kind of emotion to the big screen. Adapting Tartt’s 2013 novel, The Goldfinch, into a movie was an especially risky project. The book follows Theo Decker

(played by Oakes Fegley as a child and Ansel Elgort as a young man), an exceptionally unlucky boy whose mother is killed in a terrorist bombing and who becomes an art thief by accident. What follows is an epic tale involving Ukrainian mobsters and crooked antiques dealers. Tartt has the remarkable gift of suspending her readers’ belief. After all, in her novel The Secret History, she passes off a clique of murderous, Ancient Greece-obsessed college students as something entirely in the realm of possibility. It’s no wonder that The Goldfinch struggles to maintain its source material’s integrity without making the audience’s eyes roll back into their heads. At the very least, The Goldfinch is beautiful. The camera’s attention to detail

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mirrors Tartt’s lush, flowery prose. Everything is bathed in gentle light. Meandering shots pick up the gleam of antique mirrors, the subtle texture of a sweater, the poreless skin of its beautiful leads. The storyline is mired in tragedy and violence, yet the camera spends more time lingering in quiet places than revisiting the violence of Theo’s upbringing. Flashbacks to the bombing avoid the bloody aftermath of the attack. The first—and only—time that Theo’s father hits him, it’s a shock, not because the scene is especially brutal, but simply because there is no pause to let the audience process what just happened. Unfortunately, this leisurely pace stretches the film to a vast two hours and 30 minutes that fails to adequately capture the audience’s attention. Swaddled in cashmere, with a pair of erudite-looking glasses perched on his nose, viewers are supposed to see grown-up Theo’s stillness as a kind of aloof charisma, but Elgort’s performance comes across as eerily blank. Without the inner monologue of the novel, there is no visible divide between who he is and who he presents to the world. The complexity of the character is lost. Meanwhile, man of the moment Finn Wolfhard was chosen to play Boris, Theo’s Ukrainian childhood friend. It’s hard to fathom how Wolfhard’s terrible accent passed muster with casting directors.

In its final moments, the film makes an abrupt turn from moody drama to apparent action flick. Theo encounters Boris for the first time since they were boys, and Boris reveals that he stole the painting years ago. He’s been using it in his illegal dealings as collateral, but the painting was stolen from him. The snail pace of the film jerks into motion. Suddenly Theo and Boris are flying to Amsterdam and exchanging fire with gangsters. None of this should come as a surprise to The Goldfinch’s readers. The film is faithful to the book’s plot, but perhaps to a fault. There’s a certain levity in the novel that allows for such a turn in the plot. But that irreverent spirit is absent from the film. The Goldfinch turns a whimsical Dickensian epic into a morose, largely humorless slog. The jumps through time don’t adapt well to film and result in awkward pacing. The depth of Theo’s character is lost in Elgort’s bland performance, and supporting characters become nothing but empty caricatures. Even Theo’s love for Pippa (Ashleigh Cummings), which permeates the entire novel, seems like a side note in the film adaptation. The cinematography is gorgeous, to be sure, but it does nothing to help along the struggling storyline. Producers should have never touched Tartt’s work, but alas, the greed of Hollywood knows no bounds. n

The Lumineers Explore Effects of Addiction on ‘III’ By Shannon Carmichael For The Heights Under the guise of a full moon and with the added mystique of Friday the 13th, The Lumineers released the haunting III, their third studio album. Leading up to its release, band members Jeramiah Fraites and Wesley Schultz promoted the album as a piece that would stray from its traditional upbeat, foot-tapping folk to instead explore a path that not only approaches difficult topics but tackles them head on. The album itself is divided into three chapters that follow three generations of a working-class family suffocating under the effects of alcoholism and drug addiction. Accompanied by 10 short films that act as a visual exploration of the piece, III is an intimately emotional experience that speaks to questions and feelings that are often ignored or left private. “Donna,” the first track of the album, greets the listener with soft and intricate piano scale and the calm tone but stern words of Schultz, the lead vocalist. The track introduces the character of Donna as a harsh mother with an adverse past. It’s a jarring opening for a Lumineers album, many of which are typically heartfelt and serious but far less narrative. Listeners are left with questions pertaining to the holes purposely left in the story as the album continues with “Life in the City,” a ballad with its traditional Lumineers folk

sound that alludes to songs of past albums: “And if the sun don’t shine on me today / And if the subways flood and bridges break / Will you just lay down and dig or grave?” echoes the previous questions posed on “Sleep on the Floor,” a song belonging to Cleopatra, The Lumineers’ second album. The first chapter ends with the introduction of the character Gloria as an alcoholic mother. The second chapter begins with “It Wasn’t Easy To Be Happy For You,” a contrastingly slower sound than its preceding ballad. “I know you tried / But you are no friend of mine” is a blunt yet empathetic line that underlines the complex nature of the relationship between a loved one and one overcome by addiction. The song is exemplary of the album’s distinctly candid method of storytelling—there is no thought or emotion left unsaid which only works to increase the album’s authenticity. “Leader of the Landslide” and “Left for Denver” continue this unsharpened approach, respectively altering between an emotion-filled folk sound to a stripped ballad of Fraites longing for understanding, accompanied only by the beat kept by a guitar. “My Cell” stands out among the other tracks, imitating the depth of emotion for which bands like Mumford and Sons and The Avett Brothers are known. Unarticulated feelings are subconsciously communicated through the raspiness in Fraites’ voice and the intense and fast-paced nature of the piano echoing the dips in emotion that the

song explores. The third chapter tackles the broken relationships formed inevitably through the struggle of addiction, best illustrated by the heart-wrenching story of “Jimmy Sparks.” Similar to Cleopatra’s “Patience,” “April” breaks the flow in the same way the month of April signifies a seasonal change every calendar year. The listener is granted 50 seconds of reflection by the means of a hallowing piano ballad that deepens the exhilarating experimentation that takes place on the album. In an interview with NPR on the network’s Morning Edition radio show, Fraites and Schultz acknowledge the solemn and earnest nature of the record and that the per-

formance of the songs for a concert crowd may not invoke the same lively atmosphere as their other albums. The musicians chalked this up to their purposeful approach to their latest work and detailed that their goal was to communicate important and raw emotions to help people connect to something. III is a complete expression of afterhours thought. It is capable of drawing out uncommunicated feelings that are relatable to any listener in one way or another. The Lumineers’ ability to elegantly tackle huge topics only further highlights the organic talent of the band and illustrates a transition for the band’s work as it wades into territories of personal narrative and real life heartache. n

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Mishandling of Rape Case Retold in ‘Unbelievable’ By Jacob Schick A1 Editor In 2008, a young woman named Marie reported that she had been tied up and raped repeatedly by an intruder in the night. Police responded, took her statement, and began an investigation. Over the course of the investigation, the detectives assigned to the case were unable to find much evidence, and leads were few and far between. Marie told her boyfriend, as well as two of her previous foster mothers, about the attack. When their statements, as secondary witnesses, were taken by the police, the detectives noticed small inconsistencies in Marie’s account: how she untied herself, how she dialed the phone, etc. This began to call into question the veracity of her report. When Peggy, one of her foster

mothers, expressed these same doubts to the police—citing Marie’s calm demeanor, her detached attitude, and her troubled upbringing—it seemed to everyone involved that perhaps Marie had fabricated the story. After all, she was under a lot of stress just starting to live on her own; she had done things for attention before; and maybe she just didn’t realize how far the whole thing would go. The detectives brought Marie in for questioning again in an effort to get the truth out of her. After direct questioning, Marie told the two men that she might have dreamed it, but then that she was “pretty positive” it happened. Over the next few days, Marie changed her statement back and forth. ProPublica wrote the resulting story. Netflix’s newest miniseries, Unbelievable, follows this story. Kaitlyn

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Dever stars as Marie, the focus of the series. To say that the show is uncomfortable, upsetting, or potentially triggering is both obvious and an understatement. Just like many movies, television shows, books, or other forms of media that take a serious approach to a story of rape, Unbelievable is all of those words and more. And, to say that the show is “good” or “does a good job” sounds hollow and patronizing, considering the material. Unbelievable portrays this extremely complex story honestly and well. The actors in the show all give extremely believable performances. Dever is at the top of her game, switching deftly between wearing her emotions on her sleeve and assuming a detached and remote frame of mind when it is clear that her character is too upset or confused to properly deal with her actual feelings. Even the secondary characters, such as the police detectives or other survivors, are nuanced and well-developed. The writing and direction of the show, courtesy of Susannah Grant, play on the audience’s perceptions and preconceived notions. Over the course of the first episode, Marie’s story is called into question so many times that it’s hard not to ask oneself, “What is really going on here?” As a viewer, you can feel the frustration of the detectives, the confusion of her previous foster parents, and the pressure that Marie is under.

But just as quickly, Grant and Unbelievable lay bare how poorly Marie’s case was handled. The second episode shows a similar crime committed in a different police jurisdiction. Again, a young woman was raped in a similar manner and by a similar attacker. This time, however, Unbelievable shows us the same story as Marie, except everyone does their job well and treats the survivor with respect, compassion, and patience. A female detective quickly takes over the investigation, and the differences between these analogous scenes are absolutely staggering. The detective is extremely calm, patient, deliberate, and non-judgemental when speaking with the new young woman. The nurses who conduct the exam at the hospital treat her with kindness. Clearly, this is done on purpose. But, with the knowledge that these two situations actually happened, it only underlines how utterly alone Marie must have felt. Instead of trust and a commitment to understanding, she was disbelieved by those closest to her and those whose job it is to help her. Unbelievable continues to lay out the investigation as it proceeds over the course of the next several years. It’s simply impressive that the show manages to reach its goal in presenting a story such as this so truthfully and understandably, even as it portrays extremely confusing events. n

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‘Father of all . . .’ green day

On Sept. 10, Green Day debuted “Father of All…,” the title track of its upcoming album, which is expected to be released in February 2020. With this quick 2-minute-and-30-second song, Green Day supplied its loyal fans with a catchy, and characteristically angstfilled song. “Father of All...” has a care-free, “so what?” attitude, perfectly encapsulated on the album cover by a rainbow-spitting unicorn. Green Day has never shied away from obvious critique of American society and American politics, more specifically. “Father of All...” focuses more on the general chaos of life, and the repeatedly mentioned “riot inside of us” doesn’t quite pack the punch of some other Green Day classics. With repetitive lyrics and familiar guitar riffs, “Father of All...” is an easily forgettable Green Day release. While it is a skippable Spotify play, it does lend itself to live performance with its up-tempo riffs. “Father of All…,” although full of empty lyrics, still has the potential to be an energetic and crowd-riling concert feature on the band’s 2020 stadium tour with Fall Out Boy and Weezer. “Father of All...” has all of the staples of an energetic rock song but falls short with its message, something that made Green Day’s earlier songs so memorable. n

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‘the git up’ blanco brown

Today’s world of music videos seems to be dominated by slightly obscure, dark, and edgy fare—with only slight relevance to the actual song appearing alongside the videos. “The Git Up” by Blanco Brown is a diamond in the rough in this sense. In the spirit of Lil Nas X, “The Git Up” blends some of the classic elements of country and parlor music, along with production elements that are more typical of modern hip-hop, such as a thumping beat and copious amounts of low 808 drums. Brown’s background does have some roots in hip-hop, as he has produced songs for both Chris Brown and Pitbull, among others, but he also does an admirable job of melding together these seemingly disparate genres. At its core, “The Git Up” is the epitome of a feel-good video. The music video progresses through a variety of circumstances, featuring Brown and a changing entourage of people dancing happily along with the beat of the song. The imagery is lighthearted and fun to look at, including settings such as a cozy diner and a field. Additionally, there are a variety of wholesome scenarios presented, such as Brown dancing with firefighters in a fire station and residents in a retirement home. While, on paper, these different locations might seem disjointed, the song , along with the fluidness of the directing, does well to meld them into a congruent whole. Seeing as this is Brown’s first single as an artist, his ability to craft a song and accompanying music video that is as catchy, funny, and inoffensive as this is an impressive move—its accessibility will likely allow him to gain a wider audience. It remains to be seen whether Brown decides to continue as a solo artist or to move back into strictly producing for other musicians, but “The Git Up,” which has already topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, has certainly gotten him off to a hot start. n

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Musgraves Saddles Up for ‘Golden Hour’ in Boston Montages:

By Emily Himes

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Kacey Musgraves is something of an enigma to just about everyone, fans and haters alike. She went from a twangy country songwriter with unexpectedly dark lyrics to a global star known for her floating, ethereal sound in the span of just a couple years. Her music is versatile, with

lyrics ranging from repetitive and catchy (“Velvet Elvis”) to honest and cathartic (“Happy and Sad”). They’re easy to pin down as great pieces, each and every one of them. Her persona, though, is a little bit harder to understand. Musgraves’ Oh, What A World: Tour came to the Rockland Trust Pavilion in the Seaport Thursday night, drawing inspiration from the perfect mixture of the classic

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country sound with visuals and aesthetics from the psychedelic era. Her hair was big, her pants were flared, and her band all wore monotonous bright pink from head to toe. She was notably ditzy (her Instagram handle, @spaceykacey, finally makes sense), which played out when she spoke to the audience. The few times she introduced a song or paused during an interlude, she rambled instead of talking succinctly (as you would expect from someone who has performed the set dozens, if not hundreds, of times around the globe). And, if you can’t tell already, her blast-from-the-past yet pretty contentious songwriting method was very apparent throughout. But, for every time Musgraves talked in circles about her inspiration for any given track, she blew the performance out of the park twice. She played every single song off her award-winning 2018 release, Golden Hour, in its entirety. This is significant—it’s a living testament to the success of not just a few singles, but of an album as its own piece of work. Not one person left disappointed that she didn’t play their favorite song off the record—she even played “Mother,” a minute-long track that is generally regarded as the Golden Hour’s one throwaway, the single track that always gets skipped when listening to the album full-through. Musgraves kicked off the concert with “Slow Burn,” in which her silhouette emerged from a thick smoke. Both these things, silhouettes and smoke, were recurring themes throughout the night. Her stage was often backlit but otherwise very dark, showing only her silhouette next to those of her band. The entire pavilion was filled with smoke, coming from both the stage and the audience and accumulating into a thick fog that dimmed the bright lights and lasers shining all around.

Since a good amount of her music is on the slow side (especially just about all of Golden Hour), anything remotely high-energy was saved for the end. The show was front-heavy with some of Golden Hour’s greatest songs, namely “Butterflies,” “Happy and Sad,” and “Golden Hour.” Around halfway through the show, the entire band gathered toward the front of the stage and performed nearly the rest of the set sans bright lights and high production. It was stripped-down and excellent, complete with plenty of classic country elements like banjos and pedal steel guitars. The show took a u-turn from the laid-back, acoustic feel at the end when Musgraves played all her upbeat, disco-esque songs at the same time. Starting with “Velvet Elvis,” trippy background visuals started mirroring funky projections across the entire ceiling—everything from walking jaguars to waving hands filled the entire space. She then launched directly into “I Will Survive,” an unexpected yet well-appreciated cover that set the audience ablaze. Piercing bright pink and green lights engulfed the stage as she walked from side to side, seemingly unsure what to do with her body without holding the acoustic guitar. The show ended with a triage of songs flowing into each other, starting with “Follow Your Arrow,” an older hit off Musgraves’ previous album Same Trailer Different Park. She admitted the song didn’t do well on country radio—the lyrics likely pushed the boundaries of 2013 country music—yet every person at the concert knew all the words. She concluded the show by singing “Rainbow” and “High Horse,” with the former illuminating the crowd with all sorts of vibrant colors, being the perfect setup for the unexpectedly fun, dizzying finale. n

MacWeeny Chronicles Change in Street Photography By Grace Mayer Heights Staff

The McMullen Museum of Art’s newest exhibit showcases black-and-white street photography from Alen MacWeeny and selected photographs from six other photographers (Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott, Aaron Siskind, Jerome Liebling, Walter Rosenblum, and Donna Ferrato), curated by Karl Baden. These photographs offer a glimpse into New York City life and the bearings of street photography style from the 1920s to the early 21st century—a time adjacent to the mass-media culture of today. Alen MacWeeny and a Century of New York Street Photography’s first installment features 10 large-scale panoramas of MacWeeny’s New York Subway photos from 1977. The panoramas display two parallels: two different images seamlessly superimposed next to each other—creating compactness, mirroring the confines of the subway cars. Veiled in a layer of grain, the photos capture a blur of subway cars, bustling bodies, and lonesome figures darting past. Strings of graffiti and defunct advertisements scream from the walls of the subway platform: “Ask Us!;” “Yeshiva University;” “Winston filter cigarettes.” Everyone in the pictures is either unaware or oblivious of the camera. No one directly stares, no one vies for attention. This is vastly different from the camera-crazed culture of today. Rather, the

New York City residents of all ages remain undeterred or unaware, many masking expressionless, blank stares, closed eyes attempting to acquire rest and relief. The second part of the exhibit takes street style photography above ground— to the New York City streets. Berenice Abbott captured the changing New York City landscape in the 1930s, Walker Evans donned a hidden camera in the subway (a predecessor to MacWeeny), Aaron Siskind’s work provided honest portrayals of race and class in the city, Jerome Liebling honored “the everyday people,” and both Walter Rosenblum and Donna Ferrato found musings in their New York neighborhoods. At the time, the practice of street photography style was unassuming— MacWeeny captured people without them knowing or caring. It was about speed, a race to catch fleeting moments before they passed. Today, when cameras coexist with every mobile device, we are more self-aware than ever. Image is constantly captured, fine-tuned, filtered. Now, conversations about privacy in public atmospheres photographers have long sought-out for inspiration are changing the game of street-style photography— leading to the question of how street photography, at its core, will survive in the modern age. The exhibit is set to show from Sept. 9 to Dec. 8 and is designed to coincide with a panel discussion on Nov. 15: “When Everyone Has a Camera: Street Photog-

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raphy, the Right to Free Expressions, and the Right to Privacy in the Internet Age.” This discussion will undoubtedly attempt to answer some of the questions posed by

the contemplative images, but the truism holds for the exhibit. If a picture is worth a thousand words, street photography has nothing to lose but its voice. n

Opioid Crisis to Take Center Stage in ‘Resurfacing’ By Kaylie Ramirez Arts Editor

Resurfacing, a one-act play about the relationship between a father and his recovering addict son, will be staged in the Bonn Studio on Tuesday, Sept. 17. English professor Sue Roberts arranged for the play to be performed at Boston College after seeing it at a healthcare conference she attended last spring. The play details a veteran’s battle with opioid addiction and recovery, according to posters that were displayed around campus leading up to the show. Roberts initially wanted to bring the play to BC because she found the subject matter to be relevant—both to American society at large and to those within the BC bubble. “Everyone I have told about this knows someone—either a family member, a friend, or an acquaintance—who is addicted to opiates,” Roberts said. “We are in the middle of this right now.” In 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency, per

the request of President Donald Trump. At the time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that 91 deaths were caused by opioid addiction per day, according to the press release declaring the emergency. Current CDC estimates put the number of deaths caused by opioid overdose at 130 per day in America, based on 2017 data that was collected after the emergency was initially declared. “I think [the play] is very timely, and an awful lot of media attention has been put on [the opioid crisis], I think justifiably,” Roberts said. “The lawsuits that have started to crop up around it and holding the manufacturers responsible for the human toll that this has taken—is all occurring right now. So why wouldn’t you want to see a play that dramatizes some of that?” Last week, Purdue Pharma settled with thousands of municipal governments and at least 20 states, which sued the OxyContin manufacturer for their involvement in the opioid crisis. OxyContin, the company’s signature opioid, is widely considered a driver of the opioid crisis. At least 21 other attorneys general told NBC News that they

have not agreed to the settlement, which requires Purdue Pharma to pay $3 billion in cash over seven years. On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy following the settlement. But opioid addiction is much more than a matter of money for those affected by it, including the playwright. According to Roberts, the playwright recreates the story of his struggle with his own son’s addiction on stage, and the actor who portrays his son is recovering from addiction himself. Both will take part in a Q&A session following the performance on Tuesday. Roberts was holding a workshop at the “Power of Story: A Day of Sharing Among Patients, Caregivers and Providers” conference, which was hosted by Health Story Collaborative (HSC) and Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital, when she first came across the play. As an English professor, she found the intimate narrative to be an especially engaging method of examining addiction. She enlisted the support of HSC, Creating Outreach About Addiction Support

Together (COAAST), the BC Institute for Liberal Arts, the English department, and the Medical Humanities Program to make the BC performance happen. “It was, for a two-man play, very dynamic,” Roberts said. “And I think at that point the actors were still reading from the script—they hadn’t even really completed it yet. It was still a work in progress.” The play, with its urgently bleak subject matter, seems to diverge from the types of plays that usually appear under the lights at BC—recent performances that have taken place on campus, whether sponsored by the BC theatre department or by student groups, include 9 to 5, Pride and Prejudice, Hamlet, and The Addams Family. All of the plays pick and prod at some current societal issue in their own creative, albeit demure way, but Resurfacing puts the current opioid crisis at center stage. For Resurfacing, the social critique is not an undertone. The social critique is the play: the action, the dialogue, the heart. “I just hope we get a good crowd …” Roberts said. “The issue is so pressing. It’s so pressing.” n

Movie Magic Jillian Ran

A few nights ago, my roommates and I gathered in our living room to rewatch the classic Gen Z sleepover movie, Pitch Perfect. It was a dose of much-needed nostalgia. We talked over much of the movie, which wasn’t an issue since I’ve seen it enough times to know all the lines anyway, but when it came time for the movie’s greatest montage, I gave my due respect. As Nicki Minaj’s “Starships” plays, Aubrey (Anna Camp) whips her a cappella group, the Barden Bellas, into shape. The girls run laps, practice walking in heels, and brush up their choreography over a silly two-minute sequence. As anyone knows, the montage is the laziest, and therefore most enjoyable part of a movie. There’s something so satisfying about watching time pass without time really passing at all, not even movie time. In a matter of a couple minutes, things change, usually for the better. Couples fall in love. Main characters get their act together. The ugly duckling is made over. These kinds of transformations are addicting to watch. Because, as we all know, the montage is everything that real life isn’t. Upbeat music plays in the background as characters find success in a blink of the eye. There are none of the roadblocks or obstacles that appear for real people. A movie that ended up getting a fair amount of flack for the sheer number of montages it includes is La La Land. Yet most people loved that movie. Watching it was like eating a potato chip. You knew that it was empty calories, but it was just so good. The montages were breezy and romantic, and when things got tough and there was actually some dialogue, boom, suddenly another montage. La La Land was about 60 percent montage, but I propose something even more radical: a movie consisting solely of montages. In a world that feels bogged down, mired in conflict, does anyone really want to see fictional conflict anymore? Enough already, just let the characters be happy. Two hours of jump cuts of beautiful people achieving their wildest dreams over an aggressively inspirational film score would be a transcendental experience, I’m sure. Growing up, the montage that entranced me the most, the makeover montage, appeared in almost every teen movie. I’m sure plenty of other hapless girls have become convinced that their sassy best friend is capable of magically imparting confidence onto them by waxing their eyebrows and somehow completely changing the texture of their hair (I’m looking at you, The Princess Diaries). These movies portrayed makeovers as something slightly unpleasant, even sometimes unwanted, but ultimately necessary for the female characters to be better liked, or loved, by their peers. Even more puzzling is the rom-com montage. Common sense tells us that falling in love is an extended process that involves lots of talking and genuinely getting to know the other person. Rom-coms tell us that falling in love is just a series of flirtatious moments strung together. Yes, I get that the whole point of a montage is to show the passage of time, but this kind of montage just strikes me as lazy. Rather than showing us conversations, rom-coms suggest that love is primarily physical, because of course the music in a montage prevents the addition of any dialogue. Dirty Dancing, for example, has an excellent falling-in-love montage set to Eric Carmen’s “Hungry Eyes” that simultaneously shows Baby (Jennifer Grey) improving her dancing skills, because all it really is is clips of her dancing with Johnny (Patrick Swayze). But, by the end of the montage, Baby and Johnny are suddenly in love. Notably enough, Swayze and Grey actually despised each other on set. Montages are frequently ridiculous and always incredibly implausible. Yet that’s what makes them so entertaining. We want to believe that Bridget Jones can turn her life around just by buying some self help books and throwing away her vodka. We want to believe that Elle Woods can ace the LSATs because we see her studying a few times. Unfortunately, real life isn’t so simple.

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

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Stavros: Taking ‘Chances’ on his Own Terms

By Emily Himes

Assoc. Arts Editor

After graduation, Stavros Piperis, BC ’19, was sure of one thing—he had a collection of music memorializing his college years, and he wanted to turn those into professional recordings. Even if the songs weren’t heard by anyone but him, he wanted to make sure he heard them in their best possible form. For most, a professional recording is a lofty goal—but some, like Piperis have the determination to see it through. Piperis was a prolific songwriter and performer during his time at BC. Throughout his college years, he wrote songs and played plenty of gigs, even winning BC’s Sing It to the Heights competition in 2018. During the 2018 Battle of the Bands and Singer Songwriter, he even played “I Remember,” a soft, John Mayer-esque song that appears on the album. After graduating last year, though, his days have been busy recording a collection of the songs he has written over the past couple years. “Second semester senior year, I knew it was time to bring some of these songs to life,” Piperis said. “I had these songs and I was just dying to hear them with the full-studio treatment.” Piperis headed back home to Omaha, Neb., with some big goals in mind—much bigger and riskier than the dreams of most 22-year-olds upon graduation. He spoke with a few friends, and they brought up a local studio where he could record an album. Interestingly enough, that studio was where he learned about a better opportunity at ARC Studios—a place known for producing top-flight records. “I heard they drive down their rates for new artists, and I had no studio experience,” Piperis said. “I shot the producer a Facebook message, and once I pulled together enough money to pull it off, it came to life.” Piperis credits a lot of the album’s smooth, clean sound to his producer at ARC—a man named Benjamin Brodin. He has been recording professionally for over a decade, and is the house engineer for ARC Studios. Brodin has appeared on many albums, including those by Jason Mraz and First Aid Kit. He walked Piperis through the entire recording process, which they began in late June. Brodin assisted with a little bit of everything, even helping Piperis out with the instrumentals throughout the album. While Piperis did the vocals, guitar, and some piano, Brodin was able to fill in on all the other instruments used during the recording period, including percussion. Since all the songs were either written on the piano or guitar, Piperis and Brodin laid these two instruments down as a foundation. “For most of the songs, I had a vision of what I wanted them to sound like,” Piperis said. “But I didn’t actually know until we got in there and started trying things out.” They started out recording the piano or guitar, then moved to vocals. Once they had that done, the duo was able to dive in to additional aspects like percussion. And since Piperis has never been a drummer, he had to place a lot of trust in Brodin.

“Drums and percussion were the trickiest … We had rhythm guitar or piano, but drums are such an influence on the character of the song,” Piperis said. “Drums are really the heartbeat of the piece.” While some songs had a clear path for percussion, others were difficult to determine. For those songs that they didn’t necessarily know how to add drums, Brodin recorded five or six different drum beats so that when they arrived at the mixing stage of the recording process, they had options. Thankfully, Brodin understood Piperis’ visions pretty well. “He had good intuition, he caught on to what I thought felt right for that song,” Piperis said. The album itself, which currently has the working title Chances, was not originally meant to be one collection. When Piperis started writing songs, he couldn’t have possibly known he would one day be putting them into a single album, let alone professionally recording them. Although the album’s songs span from his sophomore year of college to this past June, he says there are definitely themes that run throughout. “I didn’t write them for the same record but they work together as a single record,” Piperis said. “These 10 match really well.” Piperis was detail-oriented enough to put a lot of thought into what songs flowed best together. The track order is fully intentional, and he had to make hard decisions regarding what songs fit with the overall feel of the record. “There were songs I had written that didn’t quite match what this album is about thematically, even though they were good enough to record and release,” he said. “There were just differences in intensity, tempo, outlook, and lyrics.” The musical aspects of creating the album are nearly done, but Piperis is currently in the midst of choosing album artwork. He cites this as one of

day his sister called out of the blue and told him she thought he should go with Chances. He took it as a positive sign—“and I think it sums the album up well,” he said. Although he’s toyed with a couple different ideas for album visuals, he

better.” He described large downtown buildings with just one or two lights on as “captivating”—and the image is currently leading his inspiration for cover photography. Piperis says it reminds him of the setting where he wrote most

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the most surprising and difficult parts of the entire process, along with choosing a name. Piperis is very aware of the importance of visuals—since they need to fit with the music and with each other. Cohesion is key. The working title, Chances, was on his list for a while. He kept going back and forth between his options, but one

has decided on photography, rather than digital artwork or something more abstract, to provide the aesthetic of Chances. “It wouldn’t make sense for me to have something digital as the cover because the entire album is all real instruments,” Piperis said. “Photography meets the aesthetic of the recording

of the album. “When people hear the album, that’s going to make sense,” Piperis said. It is hard for any artist to single out favorite songs that they have recorded, and Piperis is no different. But he does have a particular affinity for the album’s opening track, called “Time and Time Again.” He says it has some of his best

lyrics and melodies, but the song also surprised Piperis—it had the cleanest drumming and production out of the entire album. “Sometimes when I write a song, I have to go back to it a couple times,” he said. “I was really happy with this one from the first few lines, but somehow it also changed the most from when I originally wrote it.” The song was difficult for Piperis to record. The lyrics stretched his vocal abilities, and he admitted that he tends to stay in his comfort zone when it comes to singing. On top of that, the guitar lick that runs through the entire song was recorded live—and it was both hard to master and exhausting to complete. “By the time I would get to the second chorus, my hands were basically giving out,” Piperis said. “Trying to get a clean run through took a lot of effort, and to keep it rhythmically tight took a lot of coordination.” “New Orleans” is also a clear standout on the album, and it is another of his favorites. The song is smooth yet musically adventurous, especially in terms of chord progressions and harmonies, he said. One of the hardest parts was getting the vocals right—this song really pushed the boundaries for how high his voice could go. On top of it all, the song’s instruments are pianoand organ-heavy, which he said really “serves it well.” Recording Chances was a huge step for Piperis—an idea he had thought about for a long time but finally took the dive after graduating. As of right now, he’s taking baby steps. He plans to play some shows back home, but just like any new graduate, he’s not completely sure what comes next. “I don’t know how much space this will take up in my life,” Piperis said. “I just wanted to do this properly and give the songs what they demanded.” Piperis followed through with the project both because he was confident the world needed to hear his songs, but also because he needed to hear them recorded in their best format possible. There are some things in life that you do for yourself and hope that it can contribute something positive to the world in the process. “Since I first heard the mix, I thought, ‘Even if I was the only person who heard this, it would have still been worth making,’” Piperis said. “The songs needed to be brought to this level for my own listening.” Making the album wasn’t easy—it was time-consuming and expensive (“It drained my wallet, but it’s fine,” he joked). It is set to be released within the coming weeks in mid-October, although he still hasn’t pinned an exact date down. Piperis will have his hands on the final copy the last week of September—some of the album is still being mastered. But even with all the time and stress, he is undoubtedly proud of his work. The album might soar through the charts and become a sensation, or it might not. He is happy with it either way. “Hearing these songs in their final stages has been so rewarding for me,” Piperis said. “Anything that comes on top of that is just a nice bonus.” n ALLYSON MOZELIAK / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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‘Kacey Musgraves’

‘New York Street Photography’

Kacey Musgraves performed all of her breakout album ‘Golden Alen MacWeeny’s ‘New York Street Photography’ exhibit Hour’ at her Rockland Trust Pavilion Show............................. A15 examines a century of a changing cityscape....................... A15

‘The Goldfinch’..........................................A14 ‘III’................................................................A14 ‘Unbelievable’...............................................A14