Vol. XCVII, No. 3 Thursday, Janurary 28, 2016

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e s t a b l i s h e d 1 9 1 9

SPORTSThe Eagles fell to the Seminoles 72-62 on Tuesday night, B8

NOLE-IFIEDMETROBoston’s wacky shop speaks to its lighthearted nature, A5

CASH FOR WARHOLSCENEThe Theatre Department puts on its adaptation of John Cariani’s classic play, B3

ALMOST AT ‘ALMOST, MAINE’

Th e recovery process from Boston College

football’s disastrous 2015 campaign begins

right now.

On Tuesday afternoon, the ACC released

the football schedules for each of its 14

member programs. Although each school

has already sorted out its non-conference

agreements and knows the teams it will play

in the conference, this announcement by the

ACC reveals which games will be nationally

televised, highlighting those which are on

non-Saturdays. This should include BC’s

annual Friday night Red Bandanna Game, in

honor of Welles Crowther, BC ’99, a former

lacrosse player who gave his life saving 12 oth-

ers in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World

Trade Center.

While the non-conference slate may

pose little threat, the road of returning to

respectability isn’t going to be an easy one

for the Eagles.

In Steve Addazio’s fourth season, BC

will host ACC Atlantic Division opponents

Clemson, Louisville, and Syracuse; Buff alo, a

MAC team; regional foe UConn, of the AAC;

and FCS Wagner. Th e Eagles will travel to divi-

sional opponents Florida State, NC State, and

Wake Forest; Coastal Division rival Virginia

Tech; and FBS Independent UMass, which

plays its home games at Gillette Stadium in

Foxborough, Mass.

But, of course, we begin in Dublin, Ireland,

at Aviva Stadium. Th e Eagles will travel to the

Emerald Isle to take on Georgia Tech on Sept.

3 for their “home opener.” Th e Yellow Jackets,

the universal favorite to run away with the

ACC Coastal Division, fi nished a poor 3-9.

Th eir only ACC win came in an upset over

Florida State, famously dubbed by announcer

Brandon Gaudin as the Miracle on Techwood

Drive.

Th e Eagles will then travel to the home

of the New England Patriots on Sept. 10 to

challenge the Minutemen, who were 3-9 last

season. Last time the two teams met in 2014,

BC throttled them, 30-7, with Tyler Murphy

behind center. UMass left the MAC to pur-

sue the unknown paths of independence in

2016. Th is will include dates with three SEC

teams—Florida, Mississippi State, and South

Carolina—as well as trips to Provo, Utah to

play BYU and Honolulu to take on the Rain-

bow Warriors. Yikes.

Next up for BC is a trip to Lane Stadium

to face the Hokies on Sept. 17, the fi rst time

in nearly three decades that legendary Virginia

Tech head coach Frank Beamer will be absent

from the sidelines in a game against the Eagles.

Nevertheless, new head coach Justin Fuente,

who took the reigns after leading the Univer-

sity of Memphis to its highest-ever ranking in

school history, presents a serious challenge for

BC. Virginia Tech fi nished last year at 7-6, yet

still manhandled the Eagles in a 26-10 drub-

bing at Alumni Stadium. If freshman running

back Travon McMillian racked up over 100

yards on the ground against last season’s stout

BC defense, this year’s game against the Hokies

could bring a familiar result.

Remember the 76-0 blowout win against

Howard last year? Well, BC’s Sept. 24 matchup

with Wagner reeks of a similar FCS rout.

Wagner’s 2015 season included only one win,

against Central Connecticut, as the team

stumbled to a 1-10 record against less-than-

stellar competition. Th is is the fi rst-ever date

between the two schools.

BC will then open a new month against

Buff alo on Oct. 1. Th e MAC’s Bulls faltered

in their only showdown—a 27-14 loss to Penn

State in Happy Valley—against a Power Five

team (ACC, Big Ten, Big XII, Pac-12, SEC) in

a 5-7 2015 campaign,. Th e program has had

mostly downs in its existence: SUNY Buff alo

See Football Schedule, B6

In a recent meeting between the Un-

dergraduate Government of Boston Col-

lege and the administration, members

of the two groups discussed revamping

programming, creating a bias response

After its Tuesday announcement

that actress and transgender advocate

Laverne Cox would speak at Boston

College on Feb. 15, Undergraduate Gov-

ernment of Boston College’s GLBTQ

Leadership Council was informed that

Cox will no longer speak at BC next

month.

Cox’s agent told UGBC that the ac-

tress will be canceling all of her speaking

engagements from February through

April, which includes her visit to BC

and several other universities, because

she begins filming for the new Rocky Horror Picture Show in February until

May, according to Nick Minieri, chair of

GLC and CSOM ’16. Cox had signed her

contract with GLC prior to being cast

in Rocky Horror Picture Show, so there

was no way for her to know she would

be filming on the date of the event,

Minieri said.

Minieri explained that BC is not al-

lowed to hold any events during study

days or finals, which are the only dates

that overlap with Cox’s availability.

GLC is looking into having another

speaker come on Feb. 15 in place of

Cox, and hopes to reschedule Cox for

the 2016-2017 academic year.

Cox was planning to discuss how the

intersection of race, class, and gender

affects trans women of color at the

event, according to Afua Laast, UGBC

vice president of diversity and inclusion

and LSOE ’16.

In addition, Cox was going to speak

about growing up in a conservative,

Christian family in Alabama, and

how this affected her journey to

womanhood and her ability to find

her authentic self.

Minieri came up with the

idea to have Cox at BC last

March, after attending

a GLC conference

at Georgetown

University.

A student

leader from

Canisius

College, a

Jesuit uni-

versity in

Buffalo,

N.Y., had

Boston’s famous Citgo sign, a critical part of the Boston skyline and the

backdrop of Fenway Park since 1965, will need to fi nd a new landlord.

Boston University offi cials announced last week that they are putting nine

buildings on the north side of Kenmore Square up for sale, including the building

that has had the famous Citgo sign on its roof for the last 61 years.

Th e university contacted several real estate agencies to help with the sale,

but chose Boston brokerage fi rm Newmark Grubb Knight Frank’s proposal to

sell the buildings, for which the profi ts will be used to benefi t the university

and its students.

According to BU’s executive director of media relations Colin Riley, the

school is marketing the property for the benefi t of the mission of the school.

He says that all of the buildings for sale have a lot of square footage and are in

great condition.

“We’ve improved Kenmore Square tremendously, and hopefully [the sale]

will help with the improvement,” he said. Th e school’s website says they will

See Citgo, A8

PHOTO COURTESY OF CYDNEY SCOTT

See Laverne Cox, A3

See UGBC, A8

protocol, and expanding training for

students and staff in efforts to create a

more inclusive environment at BC for

students.

Thomas Napoli, UGBC president and

MCAS ’16, James Kale, chair of UGBC’s

ALC and LSOE ’16, and Afua Laast,

vice president of UGBC’s diversity and

inclusion branch and LSOE ’17, met with

Vice President of Student Affairs Barbara

Jones and Associate Vice President of

Student Affairs and Dean of Students

Thomas Mogan to discuss the proposal

UGBC drafted, titled “Towards a More

Inclusive Community.”

The Jan. 22 meeting followed the

release of the proposal, written earlier

this year after UGBC received feedback

from some students of color that they

do not feel at home at BC. UGBC has

been working with the administration to

institute the action plan over the last few

months, and asked that it be prepared

by Tues., Jan. 19., but the request went

unmet. The goal of the working proposal

was to create an equal home at BC for

all of the members of the community.

Many of the requests highlighted in the

document were discussed, including a

bias response protocol and an expanded

diversity training. UGBC’s request for a

vice president for institutional diversity,

however, was denied at this point.

According to Jones, in the meeting

“It is physiological,” Clark said.

“You are probably not addicted to

sugar, or addicted to cookies, or

whatever it is. You have probably just

gotten too hungry.”

Tucker agreed with Clark’s idea

of creating a regularly scheduled

meal plan. She urged the audience to

plan similarly to the way one plans

for classes, to avoid going without

food for too long or getting trapped

in the crescendo.

Clark tells her clients to divide

calories into four different “food buck-

ets” of equal amounts throughout the

day to avoid binge eating. By eating a

“food bucket” every four hours, clients

should be able to avoid hunger at the

end of the day, a food crescendo.

“There is a food bucket every

four hours to eat evenly on a regular

schedule,” Clark said. “Eat this way,

the even energy diet, in order to have

plenty of energy to study, to exercise,

and to enjoy life as a student.”

In regards to the types of foods

that students should eat, Clark

believes that protein-carbohydrate

combinations are the best way to

fuel and repair the body. Clark ex-

plained that hard exercise requires

an individual to refuel his or her

muscles afterwards.

Tucker believes most students be-

come stuck in a cycle that she calls the

“BC story,” a pattern of healthy eating

and exercising on weekdays, followed

by junk food, drinking, and partying

on the weekend. Although students

believe that they can maintain their

health through exercise and clean

eating on weekdays, their hard work

is undone after drinking with friends

on the weekend.

Tucker told the audience about a

recent study done on college students

who had five drinks or more, one or

two days during the weekend. These

students were then compared to the

students’ friends who never drink. The

study found that those who drank two

nights a week had bigger waist-to-hip

ratios, or waist circumferences, than

those of their friends with the same

energy requirements who did not

drink.

Clark ended the panel on a high

note, encouraging students of the

positives when eating healthy and

exercising routinely.

“When you eat well and exer-

cise regularly, you feel better, you

have more energy, you feel better

about yourself, so that everybody

always wins with good nutrition,”

Clark said.

THE HEIGHTS

The Center for Ignatian Spirituality and the Jesuit Col-laborative will sponsor a presentation by philosophy professor Marina McCoy on Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. in Corcoran Commons. McCoy will discuss the use of our imagination in terms of our human capacities and God.

1The music department will host a 10th Anniversary Family Concert on Jan. 31 at 4 p.m. in Lyons 423. The show will include opera scenes from The Magic Flute, Hansel and Gretel, and Brundibar, and will be directed by Barbara S. Gawlick. 2

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UGBC will hold its Spring Involvement Fair Jan. 28 at 6 p.m. in the foyer of Conte Forum. Clubs and organizations will have the opportunity to hand out flyers and speak with interested students. This is the second involvement fair of the 2015-16 school year.

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NEWSBRIEFS

The Lowell Humanities Se-

ries released its schedule for

the spring semester Jan. 26.

The series is open to everyone

and is sponsored by the Lowell

Institute, BC’s Institute for the

Liberal Arts and the Office of

the Provost. The first speaker,

Lev Golinkin, BC ’03, spoke Jan.

27 about his book, A Backpack, a

Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka.

This event was funded by the

Gerson Family Lecture Fund.

On March 2, Leslie Jamison

will be speaking in Gasson 100.

She is author of The Empathy

Exams, a collection of essays

which won the 2012 Graywolf

Press Nonfiction Prize and was

on The New York Times best-

seller list. It was named one of

the year’s best by National Public

Radio, The New York Times, and

Publishers Weekly.

Colm Tóibín, the author of

eight novels, including Brook-

lyn and Nora Webster, will be

speaking on March 16 in Gasson

100. His play, The Testament of

Mary, was nominated for a Tony

Award in 2013. Tóibín’s work

has been translated into over

30 languages. His appearance is

co-sponsored by Culture Ireland

and is part of the University’s

centenary commemoration of

the 1916 Easter Rising, a foun-

dational event in the emergence

of the Irish nation-state.

“We look forward to another

semester of stimulating debate,

dialogue and conversation with

an exciting lineup of speakers,”

James Smith, associate profes-

sor of English and series direc-

tor, said.

POLICE BLOTTER 1/25/16 - 1/27/16

Monday, Jan. 25

6:49 a.m. - A report was filed re-

garding the execution of a search

warrant at an off campus loca-

tion.

7:09 a.m. - A report was filed

regarding a reportable medical

incident at the Flynn Recreation

Complex.

8:09 a.m. - A report was filed

regarding a reportable medical

incident at the Cushing lot.

9:52 a.m. - A report was filed re-

garding a police service at the Bos-

ton College Police Headquarters.

6:16 p.m. - A report was filed

regarding the recovery of stolen

property in McElroy Commons.

Tuesday, Jan. 26

1:07 p.m. - A report was filed

regarding a larceny at the Flynn

Recreation Complex.

3:52 p.m. - A report was filed

regarding a work order at the Con-

nolly Faculty Center.

College Democrats of Bos-

ton College will host College

Democrats of Massachusetts

for their annual Winter Summit

on Jan. 30.

At the Winter Summit event,

College Democrats chapters

from universities all over the

state will join in Stokes S195

to discuss the organization’s

achievements over the past year.

They will also create goals to

improve CDM as an organiza-

tion in 2016.

CDM’s caucuses, including

the Black Caucus, Environmen-

tal Caucus, Laboral Caucus,

Latin Caucus, LGBTQ+ Caucus,

and Women’s Caucus, will also

speak on their group’s initiatives

for the upcoming year.

The attendees will discuss the

Democratic presidential candi-

dates and each of their policies

with respect to the caucuses’

goals.

The different chapters will

also compare their organization-

al styles and meeting methods,

in order to find the best way to

improve membership retention,

social events, lobbying, and “get

out the vote” initiatives.

Students can register for the

event online, and tickets cost $5

per person.

“Winter Summit is a time for

our College Dems chapters from

across the state to reflect on our

achievements and discuss how

we can improve CDM as an orga-

nizaton,” James Cody, president

of CDM said in his E-board up-

date. “Summit lets our members

reconnect with one another and

catch up ahead of what is sure to

be a busy spring.”

By Sophie Reardon

Assoc. News Editor

Ten days after what would

have been Dr. Martin Luther

King, Jr.’s 87th birthday, more

than 200 students, faculty, and

staff gathered in Gasson 100 to

celebrate his legacy.

The Monday event, Are We

Still Dreaming, is part of an

annual memorial gathering to

honor King.

The Office of Campus Min-

istry’s Martin Luther King, Jr.

Memorial Gathering Steering

Committee hosted the event,

along with the Black Student

Forum, The Martin Luther King,

Jr. Memorial Scholarship Com-

mittee, the Multicultural Chris-

tian Fellowship, the Dominican

Association at Boston College,

the Office of Student Involve-

ment, Eradicate Boston College

Racism, University Mission and

Ministry, and the Learning to

Learn Office.

Brittany N. Packett, the ex-

ecutive director of Teach for

America in St. Louis, Mo. and

the event’s keynote speaker, en-

couraged students to speak out

about injustices and ignore those

who try to silence them. Packett

explained that she attended an

elite, private high school where

she was still bullied because of

her racial identity.

“I was spit at by another class-

mate who said I was ‘stirring the

pot,’” she said.

The classmate told her that

nothing would be done because

his father was on the board of the

school, and he was right—nothing

was ever done.

Packett works on issues of

educational equity, youth lead-

ership development, and social

justice, with a focus on cultur-

ally responsive leadership in

marginalized communities. She

has been one of the voices to

portray the narratives of Fergu-

son, activism, policy, and racial

justice to media outlets, includ-

ing The New York Times, TIME

magazine, USA Today, MSNBC,

and CNN.

“There will always be an ex-

cuse of its equity,” she said,

“because it threatens the status

quo and keeps some comfort-

able while the rest of us suffer.

‘We win’ doesn’t mean ‘you lose.’

Eradicate ‘equitable and inclu-

sive’ democracy and create space

for the sun to shine on all of us.”

Prior to the event, BC com-

munity members marched in

honor of the Civil Rights Move-

ment and of King. Later, the

United Voices of Freedom, led by

newly appointed director David

Freeman Coleman, sang songs,

including “Go Down Moses” and

“Precious Lord Take My Hand/

Glory,” throughout the evening.

Shelly-Ann Dewsbury and Kadesh

Simms, two guest performers,

also performed a dance to “Amaz-

ing Grace.” Cai Thomas, MCAS

’16 and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Scholar, also spoke.

“The function of education is

to teach one to think intensively

and to think critically … Intelli-

gence plus character—that is the

goal of true education,” Thomas

said, quoting King.

She asked the audience where

BC successfully does what King

said education should do, and

By Kelsey McGee

Heights Editor

One of the biggest barriers to

healthy eating is that people think

that food is fattening, and that it

is the enemy, Red Sox nutritionist

Nancy Clark said at a Jan. 26 panel

titled “New Year’s Nutrition” hosted

by the Undergraduate Government

of Boston College.

The panel, originally planned for

Higgins 310, was moved to the larger

Higgins 300 after seats quickly filled

and students were forced to sit in the

aisles and on the stairs. The talk was

led by Clark, Sheila Tucker, registered

dietitian for the Office of Health Pro-

motion, and BC professor Shannon

Hogan to discuss healthy eating when

in a university setting.

“The goals of this talk are hope-

fully to inspire you to be as nice to

your body as you are to your car,”

Clark said.

Clark believes that eating a well-

balanced diet and paying attention to

the body’s needs are the most impor-

tant ways to maintain one’s health.

Clark also advocates for sleep.

After subjects in a recent study slept

an extra hour and a half each night

for a week, their cravings for sweets

where it lacks in fulfilling his

message.

“I think there is sort of three

ways of thinking about it: there is

dreaming, there is thinking, and

there is acting,” she said. “How am

I acting? How are you acting?”

As a freshman, she said, she felt

comfortable because she went to

a prepatory high school that was

very similar to BC, but many of

her friends struggled to adjust to

the BC culture.

Since her freshman year, Thom-

as said, BC has implemented many

new formal and informal programs

to help minority students, includ-

ing mentoring groups, United

Front—a group that seeks to foster

a supportive, interactive, unified

and safe community to celebrate

Black culture and its identities

within the African Diaspora—and

the Learning to Learn Office,

which aims to help underprivi-

leged students and students with

disabilities make the most of their

college experience.

Thomas said she came into BC

not knowing about all of the re-

sources available at the University.

“How I want to act upon this

being my last semester is mak-

ing sure that every student here

knows the resources that are avail-

able to them,” she said. “And that

what your zip code is and what

city you come from shouldn’t de-

termine what happens after your

collegiate experience.”

Students should engage in ac-

tive thinking, Thomas said. Last

semester was the first time she was

taught by a black faculty member,

and she could not help but wonder

if it will be the same if her twelve-

year-old brother decides to come

to BC.

“That’s not something I want,”

she said. “How do we celebrate

different identities here on this

campus? Are we inclusive?”

dropped by two-thirds. Clark noted

that sleep deprivation and obesity go

hand-in-hand, reminding the audi-

ence of the importance of sleep in a

healthy-eating program.

Clark has discovered that one

of the biggest barriers to optimal

fueling is negative body image, like

“feeling fat.”

“Fat is not really a feeling,” Clark

said. “You don’t feel brown eyes, you

don’t feel brown hair, and you don’t

feel freckles. What you do feel is

uncomfortable with your body. You

might be feeling imperfect.”

Another barrier that clients face is

regulating calories on calorie-count-

ing apps. By tracking daily intake of

calories, clients often unintentionally

starve themselves. Instead of using

apps, Clark believes the body is the

best means of tracking calories, and

recommends her clients pay close at-

tention to their bodies’ needs.

“I want to invite you to think: Does

my body need this food?” she said.

The largest barrier students come

across when attempting to eat healthy

or lose weight is binge eating after

craving sweets, Clark said. To combat

binge eating, especially at night, Clark

suggests eating large meals at sched-

uled times throughout the day.

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THE HEIGHTS Thursday, January 28, 2016 A3

scheduled Cox to speak at his university, and

put Minieri in contact with Cox’s speaking

agent.

BC was going to be the fifth Jesuit school

Cox has spoken at, following Marquette Uni-

versity, University of Loyola Chicago, Saint

Louis University, and Canisius College.

Minieri worked with Laast to draft a contract

alongside Cox’s agent in September. Minieri

and Laast then drafted a proposal for the

administration and received approval from

the Office of Student Involvement.

“I think the main thing for us was framing

the event in the context of the Jesuit values,”

Minieri said.

UGBC originally expected the event to

sell out, with about 560 students attending

the talk.

“Laverne is the biggest speaker that we

have ever had,” Minieri said before the event

was cancelled.

Along with GLC, the talk was going to

be sponsored by the Women’s Center, the

Campus Activities Board, the Thea Bowman

AHANA Intercultural Center, and the African

and African diaspora studies department.

GLC has been pushing to add a section for

gender identity to BC’s Non-Discriminatory

Policy, Minieri said.

He hoped that Cox’s talk would foster

their efforts and continue the conversation

about the topic.

“This event will show current and future

trans as well as LGBTQIA+ students that they

are welcome on this campus,” Laast said in an

email before Cox cancelled on Wednesday.

“GLC hopes to continue to expand their

transgender programming and increase

resources on campus. The event will reach

many students who do not normally attend

GLC events, and we hope they will learn the

importance of understanding gender identity

and ending transphobia on campus.”

Photos of students, their hands and

faces covered with inky phrases like

“swept under the rug” and “smiling but

not happy,” are scattered over Facebook

in an effort to share insecurities, and

why those insecurities are not absolutely

defining.

The What I Be Project, an eight-day

online photo campaign, is returning to

campus for the second time as part of

Undergraduate Government of Boston

College’s Mental Health Spotlight Series.

Created by artist Steve Rosenfield in 2010,

the What I Be Project focuses on build-

ing students’ self-confidence through

expressing their insecurities.

The photo campaign is “designed

to create an open and safe community

around campus that encourages diversity

and empowers students,” according to the

UGBC website. The project will culminate

Monday, Feb. 1, when UGBC will host an

event to reflect on the campaign.

As a part of the project, Rosenfield will

photograph portraits of over 80 Boston

College undergraduate students, each

with his or her largest insecurity written

somewhere on his or her face or hands.

The photographs will then be publically

posted in an album on Rosenfield’s pro-

fessional Facebook page throughout the

week. Links to the album will also be

made available on the UGBC Facebook

page.

“I think the best part about What I Be

is that everyone struggles with something,

but the important thing is not letting it

define you,” said Connor Marshall, UGBC

senator and MCAS ’18, a main organizer

of the event. “Unfortunately, that is so

much easier said than done.”

The caption of each photo describes

each subject’s insecurity in detail, stating

“I am not my ____.” By stating I am not

my_____, “students acknowledge their

insecurities, but do not let them define

who they are,” Rosenfield explains on

his website. Students can sign up on the

event’s Facebook page.

“I chose to be photographed because

the photo emphasizes that everyone has

these troubles,” Joseph Arquillo, LSOE

’17, said. “It is time to be honest about the

differences that affect us today.”

The project has created bonds be-

tween people, Arquillo said.

“Suffering in silence is something that

one should not have to go through alone

because feeling alone is something that

we all can attest is not a good feeling,”

Arquillo said. “Ultimately we are more

than our scars and struggles.”

The What I Be Project has visited

college campuses across the country,

including Providence College, Cornell

University, and Princeton University.

Rosenfeld said that his initial inspira-

tion for the project came while talking to

a friend about an idea to share people’s

insecurities without literally showing

them.

“I decided that night that I wanted to

photograph my friend with her insecurity

written somewhere on her face or hands

as a way to boldly displaying [sic] her

greatest insecurity on her skin and fear-

lessly stare into the lens for a powerful

headshot,” Rosenfield said on his website.

“I wrote ‘thunder thighs’ on Amanda’s

hand, alongside the photograph she came

up with the statement, ‘I am not my body

image.’ And thus, the ‘What I Be’ project

was made.”

The What I Be Project first came

to campus in the fall of 2014 as part of

UGBC’s Be Conscious campaign. The

2014 campaign was a success, with Rosen-

field photographing over 70 students.

The project invoked a strong, positive

response from the student body, attract-

ing thousands of views, likes, and shares

on Facebook.

Molly Newcomb, MCAS ’18, co-direc-

tor of the UGBC mental health committee

and UGBC senator, said the popularity

of last year’s campaign made it an obvi-

ous choice for this year’s UGBC agenda.

Newcomb believes the best part of the

What I Be Project is its ability to make

students relate to one another.

“It completely shatters the image

of the ‘perfect BC student,’” Newcomb

said.

By Eileen Corkery

For The Heights

LUCIUS XUAN / HEIGHTS STAFF

The Lowell Humanities Series brings a speaker to Gasson to talk about his field.

Laverne Cox, from A1

“WHAT I BE” WEBSITE

Students join ‘What I Be’ photo campaign, hosted by undergraduate government, in efforts to take away the power of their insecurities.

By Shannon Longworth

Heights Staff

On Wednesday night, Lev Golinkin,

BC ’04, described his experience as a Jew-

ish, Eastern Ukrainian refugee attending a

Catholic, American college.

“It sucked,” Golinkin said. “I didn’t have

an identity.”

The journalist and author was invited

to speak as the eighth guest in the Lowell

Humanities Series this year. Since 1957,

the Series has invited various well-known

personalities to Boston College to share

their knowledge about their respective

fields, whether scholarship or art.

The event, held in Gasson 100, included

a lecture as well as time for questions and a

book signing. Golinkin spent a fair amount

of the lecture itself discussing his journey

as an undergraduate at BC.

Golinkin recounted a meeting that he

had in his senior year with a professor who

he considered to be his mentor. He voiced

his concern that he did not have a future.

To his surprise, the professor agreed.

“You don’t have a future because you

don’t have a past,” Golinkin said. “You’re

a Jewish kid who’s hiding in a Catholic

college.”

This inspired Golinkin to think more

deeply about his past, and what it meant

for who he was. He continued to share with

the audience anecdotes from his childhood

in the Eastern Ukraine. At the age of seven

years old he began to realize how different

his family was from the other families in his

community. He said he recognized their

common use of the terms “us” and “them,”

as if the rest of the world were somehow

against him and his parents.

Golinkin’s parents taught him early

on to be very careful with the word for

‘synagogue,’ as it would give away the fact

that he was Jewish. This was dangerous

information at the time, which he said

he understood completely when he soon

found himself prohibited from attending

school.

At this time, Golinkin briefly paused

in his story and explained that about six

months ago, he was giving a talk to a

group of children in middle school. He

acknowledged that the wonderful thing

about children is that they ask simple,

smart questions.

“Why didn’t you move?” was the ques-

tion that Golinkin repeated.

He then took the opportunity to clarify.

He described the Soviet Union as a prison

the size of a continent, explaining that the

one thing keeping it together was that no

one left. Even once the government began

to fall apart, his parents did not take the

decision lightly because one of the rules

was that you had to leave all possessions

behind.

Thus, this rule was part of his inspira-

tion to write. A Backpack, A Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka is the title of his memoir,

as well as a list of the objects he brought

with him while escaping Ukraine.

The vodka, he told the audience, was

used for bribing anyone and everyone his

family encountered on their trip to the

train station in Vienna. This was where

they found assistance from people who

felt morally responsible for their safety. His

family was sent to the United States, where

American Jews adopted them.

Presenting himself as a Jew who does

not practice the religion, he described the

disillusionment that he, and so many oth-

ers, brought to American Jews. A student

in the audience asked about this label. He

explained that, as the child of Soviet Jewish

refugee parents, he also considers himself

Jewish although he does not practice the

religion. He further disclosed that his

friends never quite understand how that

could work. In response, Golinkin pointed

out that he believes there is a difference

between being ethnically Jewish and reli-

giously Jewish.

Overseas, around Christmas time,

each household would bring a tree inside,

Golinkin said. Similar to the idea of a

Christmas tree, this was a New Year’s tradi-

tion in which people of all religions took

part. When Golinkin’s family came to the

U.S., they were told that Jewish people did

not do such things, and they were handed a

menorah. Golinkin said that those candles

meant nothing to them, though. Once his

father got a job and they were living on

their own, Golinkin said his family dis-

carded the menorah and obtained a tree.

Golinkin told the audience that he does not

need to practice the religion to consider

himself Jewish.

“I feel the most Jewish when I am

building another house for Habitat for

Humanity,” he said.

This was one of the many activities

that molded his identity while he attended

BC.

“The important thing about Boston

College is that this is a place that empowers

people,” Golinkin said. “This school is the

antithesis of being powerless.”

He then charged the listeners to try

something. He told them that on a colder

day in the middle of winter, they should

try walking around Boston with just a

light shirt on. He then explained that that

is what it felt like for families such as his

in the Ukraine.

When asked about why he wrote his

memoir, he gave a short response.

“I wanted to write a book about some-

one who is still a work in progress,” he said,

“and that’s okay.”

THE HEIGHTS Thursday, January 28, 2016 A4

JUAN OLAVARRIA

And so it goes, literally.

This week, Amherst College over-

whelmingly voted to remove “Lord Jeff” as

its mascot for athletic events after the large

majority of students, alumni, and staff ex-

pressed negative views about it, according

to The Boston Globe.

“Amherst College finds itself in a posi-

tion where a mascot—which, when you

think about it, has only one real job, which

is to unify—is driving people apart because

of what it symbolizes to many in our com-

munity,” the trustees of the college said in

a statement.

This is but the latest occurrence in

an ongoing national trend taking place

at many colleges and universities, where

the students or the administration have

engaged in historical revisionism to ensure

that individuals who are representing their

institutions adhere to university values.

“It is fair to recognize that historical

context may influence, or make us cau-

tious about, judgments concerning Jeffery

Amherst the man,” the trustees said in the

same statement. “It is equally fair to decide

that 18th-century standards should not

govern a 21st-century choice of symbol.”

That being said, some have been more

successful than others, as tensions remain

high nationwide. One only needs to look at

the events that took place at Yale and Miz-

zou to see the reality of the situation.

Even here at BC we saw some demon-

strations take place, and rightly so.

But, this brings forth the question:

Why is this taking place at this time? The

knowledge that the namesake of Amherst

University, Lord Jeff Amherst, allegedly

caused the spread of smallpox among Na-

tive American populations during colonial

times has been around for centuries.

Over the past year, there have been

protests, talks, tensions, name changes,

convictions, and the legalization of gay

marriage across the nation. One thing is

abundantly clear: the country is fed up

with the system in place and is beginning

to take action to change it.

Presidential candidates took note, with

some fine-tuning their whole campaigns

to fit a specific viewpoint and feed off the

outrage.

As in that recent Sandra Bullock movie,

they have made “Crisis” their brand.

The country finds itself in a state of

this-but-not-that. Individuals are taking up

the opportunity to finally act upon what

they see as unjust, not just for their own

sake but for those of future generations.

In order to deal with the realities of their

world, of our world, they are grabbing the

bull by the horns to get their point across,

although not always in the most appropri-

ate ways.

Their point has been made, how-

ever. The fact that an institution such as

Amherst even considered the move shows

how far the opinion of the public has

shifted: racial intolerance will no longer be

tolerated, at any level, and neither will the

glorification of those guilty of it.

To answer the question: Why here and

now? Because it has to, otherwise, we find

ourselves guilty of perpetuating that which

we try to eradicate.

Here in Boston, there have been calls

to rename Yawkey Way in the Fenway area,

as the late Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey

has been accused of racial prejudice, based

on his refusal to sign Hall of Famer Jackie

Robinson in 1945, as reported by The Boston Globe.

Harvard Law School is also reconsider-

ing its official seal, as it holds elements of a

slaveholding family crest.

Future generations will do one of two

things when looking back at this “second

civil rights era.” They will either commend

this generation for fighting for humanity’s

sake, or condemn it for not doing enough.

In this “best of times, worst of times,”

as Charles Dickens once said, it is the time

to question, but to question prudently. The

future of the city, nation, and the world is

in our hands—what will we do with it?

Finally, a Pepe’s in Massachusetts.

Frank Pepe popularized ultra-thin

pizza, or “New Haven” style, in the

Northeast, and it has been a staple in

New England ever since its creation

in 1925. Located in the Chestnut Hill

Mall, Frank Pepe’s Pizzeria offers both

take-out and in-house dining.

Pepe’s is known for having lines out

the door at its original location in New

Haven, Conn., and is anticipating the

new location to be quite busy, as many

Pepe’s loyalists are in Boston, having

moved to the city from elsewhere in

New England.

Pepe’s has never expanded to Mas-

sachusetts until now. Perhaps trying

to build the brand with college-age

students and millennials, its first loca-

tion here is in close proximity to many

college campuses.

Strategically stationed next to a

gelato store within the mall, Pepe’s Piz-

zeria offers an authentically Italian ex-

perience. The custom brick oven, both

an aesthetic and a cultural focal point

for the restaurant, is visible from the

moment you step into the pizzeria.

Each Frank Pepe’s location is

modeled after the original, so that the

taste of the pizza is not compromised

based on where one chooses to dine.

This is the consistency in quality and

tradition that is central to the mission

of Pepe’s.

The oven is based on the classic

brick ovens of Italy, and when the chefs

swing the door to the furnace open,

countless burning orange coals and

cooking pizzas are visible. When the

pizzas come out they appear charred,

though the wait staff quickly explains

that this is intentional and just a by-

product of the cooking method.

Pepe’s takes pride in its product,

and each pizza is handmade to order.

In the restaurant, pizza is served fresh

from the oven on trays, contributing to

the authentic atmosphere.

Just above the entrance to the kitch-

en lies a red, neon sign with simply the

words “Tomato Pies” written in script.

The old-fashioned pizza is mainly

tomato sauce with minimal cheese,

something that may seem foreign to

the pizza lovers of today.

Frank Pepe’s signature forest-green,

wood-paneled booths were clearly con-

tinued in this location. Tall and private,

they offer an element of seclusion for

diners. Outside the doors of the pizze-

ria lie tables for those who might opt to

people-watch in the mall, or perhaps to

house overflow crowds on particularly

busy nights.

And there are plenty of busy nights,

but most patrons feel that it is worth

the wait.

Pepe’s is famous for its white clam

pizza, which consists of fresh clams,

cheese, olive oil, fresh garlic, and

oregano. While pizza is the signature

meal of the restaurant, there are also

Italian salads available for those who

cannot or opt not to indulge in the

signature dishes.

Foxon Park Soda, another staple,

has been served at Pepe’s since the

restaurant’s inception. The soda is

similar to colas that most college

students would recognize under more

common brand names.

The restaurant also offers Gassosa,

a classic Italian lemon soda, white birch

beer, root beer, cream soda, orange

soda, and ginger ale. The restaurant

stays true to its Italian roots in offering

San Pellegrino as well. The sodas are all

served in glass bottles, reminiscent of

an older time.

Pepe’s paints itself as a proponent

of the American Dream, with Pepe

himself coming from Italy and making

a lasting name for himself. His legacy

lives on the walls of his restaurants.

Lining the walls are pieces that display

the original Frank Pepe himself and the

history of the restaurants.

Pepe’s has the registered trademark

phrase “Old Reliable” just underneath

its logo, along with a cartoon of the

original Frank Pepe. This logo speaks

to the mission of the brand, as Pepe

committed himself to providing a qual-

ity experience and product.

JOANNA YUELYS / HEIGHTS STAFF

Boston in Flux, the latest collaborative

effort between Boston-area filmmakers Paul

Villanova and Richard Hawke, explores the

history and evolution of the city both men

call home.

The three-minute, 13-second-long short

consists of archived, black-and-white footage

of iconic locations around the city, overlaid

with similar scenes in modern color, set over

captivating, period-style backing sound.

Like the city it chronicles, Boston in Flux

finds an intricate balance between historical

footage and modern postproduction, from its

silent film-style cutscenes to its distribution

on YouTube.

Such a style of film is relatively unex-

plored—that’s part of the reason Villanova

wanted to pursue the project that focuses on

the untold story of Boston.

What Villanova and Hawke see every day

is a strange yet enrapturing paradox within

Boston that Villanova deemed “inescapable,”

a constantly changing city with deep histori-

cal roots.

Villanova called the short “a labor of

love,” driven largely by his interest in Boston’s

unique past. While many Colonial-era cities

have historical significance, Villanova was

quick to point out that Bostonians them-

selves identify with their history more than

their counterparts do in other urban centers.

He then cited Boston’s intrinsic value as a

historical site.

“[You can] be looking for the T stop and

be standing on the site of the Boston Mas-

sacre,” he said. “So I think that’s a unique and

really cool thing.”

Unique and cool, perhaps, but also chal-

lenging. Researching Boston’s recent his-

tory in preparation for production proved

difficult, and securing archived footage for

use in the film was an unexpected obstacle.

Digitized footage of Boston from the early

20th century is rare and difficult to license.

When actually filming Boston in Flux,

however, both men were excited rather

than annoyed by the unique challenges the

project posed.

Boston in Flux represents Villanova’s

first nonfiction, nontraditional project. His

previous works, including the short films

Grudge Match, A Briefcase Full of Knives, and

Octopus, all fall into the genre of orthodox fic-

tion-narratives. Boston in Flux, according to

its creators, “flirts more with documentary.”

Hawke described the challenging camera-

work as one of the reasons he wanted to

create the film.

One of the most pertinent aspects of

the project is the film’s modern-day role

and relevance. Both filmmakers noted that

Boston is undergoing a new era of gentri-

fication. Evidence points to neighborhoods

like Charlestown and South Boston catering

more to 20-something college graduates

than to the heavily-accented Bostonians of

years past. Since the turn of the century,

more than 20 percent of neighborhoods with

median incomes and housing prices under 40

percent of Boston’s average were undergoing

significant gentrification.

Villanova and Hawke did not seek to de-

bate viewers on the benefits and downsides

of gentrification. Instead, the film raises

discussion about urban evolution.

Villanova stated that “the film tries to ask

a question” about Boston’s ever-shifting de-

mographic and physical landscapes. Whether

the rise of skyscrapers and development of

real estate portrayed in Boston in Flux is a

conflict or a natural course of events is left up

to the viewer to decide for him or herself.

“We’re not approaching the film saying

‘gentrification is bad’ or ‘gentrification is

good’ or ‘big buildings are bad’ or ‘big build-

ings are good,’” the filmmakers said.

“We’re saying, ‘look at this paradox, what

do you think?’’ they said.

What Boston in Flux represents for

them is not just a provocative discussion

of the city’s past life and future direction.

It’s also representative of Bostonians them-

selves—young professionals juxtaposed with

generational residents. While what’s next for

Boston may be unclear at the moment, Vil-

lanova and Hawke have a clear idea of what

the future holds in store for themselves.

Though no individual project is currently

in the works for either, both men plan to focus

their efforts on a burgeoning filmmaker’s

collective based in Somerville. When asked

what his future plans were, Villanova said

the collective is important to support and

develop independent filmmakers, and keep

the spirit of filmmaking alive.

KELSEY MCGEE / HEIGHTS EDITOR

A view of the storefront that houses Frank Pepe Pizza Napoleatana, which hails from New Haven, Conn., and is now the newest addition to the Chestnut Hill Mall.

The short film, made by Paul Villanova and Richard Hawke, juxtaposes pictures of the Boston of old with current, modern videos.

THE HEIGHTS A5Thursday, January 28, 2016

Lectures during syllabus week are

always a toss-up. You could go from one

class with a no-nonsense professor at the

helm, or maybe you have the “Let’s spend

fi ve minutes-apiece saying our names,

majors, hobbies, past medical histories,

and favorite One Direction member” kind

of lecture.

Models of Politics with Professor Hayao

started on a diff erent tone.

He asked the class to list reasons why

Bostonians are bad drivers. “Narrow,

hard-to-navigate streets.” “Young popula-

tion.” “Bad weather conditions.” “Lack of

substantial testing before issuing driver’s

licenses.” “It’s in our blood.”

Th ere I was, expecting to learn a little

bit about my syllabus, or my classmate’s fa-

vorite guilty pleasure song, or maybe even,

you know, some politics—but instead I was

confronted with a list of reasons why bring-

ing a car to campus this semester might

have been an utterly horrible mistake.

I grew up 40 minutes outside of New

York City, so you would think I’ve had

experience with aggression behind the

wheel—both receiving and giving it. But in

my small town of just over 7,000 people, to

honk your horn at another car would run

the risk of honking at your teacher, your

neighbor, or, in the worst case scenario,

your mom.

KELSEY MCGEE / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Over the past few months,

I’ve become convinced that the

Boston area doesn’t get enough

credit. People who view the

area from afar see a veritable

mountain of snow covering

pink whales, boat shoes, and

respectable businessmen who

can trace their family histories

back to Plymouth Rock.

There is the ever impressive

Museum of Fine Arts and the

Orchestra peeking out from

the snowdrift because we are,

of course, talking about a met-

ropolitan area, which means

that it not only has history but

also abundant culture.

But, once you really start

looking at Boston, and the

cities surrounding it, you

might notice that they walk

themselves back from the abyss

of stuffiness (something that

can come naturally to cities

with just the right amount of

history) because they have de-

veloped a trait coveted in both

people and cities alike.

The Boston area refuses to

take itself too seriously.

Take for example one of the

newest storefronts in Cam-

bridge, Cash for Your Warhol.

If you walk past it, located

in Inman Square, the aggressive

yellow signs in the windows

might make you pause for a

minute.

Cash for your Warhol? Are

there people who wonder what

to do with all the extra Warhols

they have lying around their

homes? Who are those people?

They must be really rich.

You may be intrigued

enough to start peeking inside

the windows of the store, which

at first glance looks authentic

enough, kind of like those stores

that dramatically announce that

they will buy gold for cash.

But there are no Warhols of

any kind in the store.

There are only more of the

brightly colored Cash for Your

Warhol signs and a few checks

hanging on the wall.

At this point, you might be

so curious as to how this es-

tablishment functions that you

actually go into Cash for Your

Warhol.

If you do get to that point,

you will discover that the whole

thing is but a joke, with con-

ceptual art projects all wrapped

into one storefront.

Cash for Your Warhol is the

brainchild of Geoff Hargadon,

a Somerville resident, whose

day job is managing a wealth

management practice.

Hargadon’s passion for

photography and conceptual art

lead him to begin the project in

2009 with just a few Cash for

Your Warhol signs.

Hargadon intended to com-

ment on the financial crisis of

the time and the way art is sold

in the modern world, incuid-

ing in Boston, according to The Boston Globe.

The project gained momen-

tum from there as public inter-

est grew, and separate galleries

began featuring Hargadon’s

Warhol signs. Cash for Your

Warhol even has a function

phone number and a website

proclaiming that you can “Raise

cash!” and “Avoid bankruptcy!”

with your “Confidentiality as-

sured!”

For me, the fact that this

form of storefront can exist in

the Boston area is a victory.

Cash for Your Warhol is a plat-

form that opens up a discussion

for more serious topics, like the

nature of art or the financial

crisis, while allowing people to

laugh at the absurdity of it all.

It is the kind of place that

lends an important element of

lightheartedness and sends out

the signal that Boston is the

kind of city that you want to

actually be in, not just look at

from afar.

I guess that cities are not

too dissimilar from people. The

enjoyable ones are constantly

changing, with just the right

amout of stuff staying the same.

Like people, they also need

the ability to disassociate

themselves from the stressful

expectations of their past and

their present so that they can

make people laugh.

They need to be a space

where conceptual artists feel

comfortable setting up tran-

sient shops that will brighten

someone’s day and give them

something amusing to discuss

at the dinner table.

Like Hargadon, the Boston

area needs, and seems to have,

a practical side, where they

manage wealth, balanced by a

side where they can express—or

provide a place for others to

express—their passions.

how the system will work in three steps: submit

the location where you need the snow removed

from, relax while the work is being done, and

drive when the car is freed from the snow.

“Th e response has been phenomenal, [it]

has changed my thinking on how we’re going

to do,” said Barry.

When asked about the heavily seasonal na-

ture of the app’s purpose and it plans for the rest

of the year, Barry mentioned that he, alongside

his two other team-members, are looking for

ways to expand it to a year-long product.

“Depending on the feedback we get, it

could turn into a full-time job in the future,”

he said.

Currently the app is in the fi nal stages of its

heavy testing. Next week, it will go to Apple for

its stringent review process, with Barry hoping

that it will be short.

Last week, the large snowstorm that hit the

Northeast reaffi rmed his belief in the product,

especially since New York City Mayor Bill De

Blasio recently asked citizens of the city to re-

move the snow from public areas in exchange

for payment.

Barry sees that type of situation as an

opportunity Yeti could take advantage of in

the future.

For this winter, however, people seem really

interested and receptive to the idea, as their

early marketing campaigns have generated

good responses from the public.

“A lot of the attention we have gotten has

been self-generating,” Barry said. “Th is past

weekend we launched our fi rst heavy market-

ing campaign through Facebook.”

In regards to where the name “Yeti” comes

from, Barry admits that the “Boston Yeti” that

has been roaming the streets since last winter

inspired him.

“It has a connotation of strength and brutal-

ity,” he said. “I think it will catch on.” One of the promotional flyers placed on the windshields of cars in the South End to promote the launch of the Yeti.PHOTO COURTESY OF THE YETI CORP

So regret and fear sank in as I sat in my

fi rst class of the semester and listened to

my professor cite a study that concluded

Boston is far-and-away the worst American

city to drive in.

I’m not an aggressive driver. I’m not

a skilled driver, either. I don’t have great

refl exes on the road, nor do I have great

navigational instincts.

While my professor had moved on in

his lesson to speak to the possible policy

shifts a city could undergo to make changes

in this phenomenon, I simply stared at the

chalkboard that was now fi lled with several

reasons why I had several days to live

before being demolished by a devastating

four-car collision or somehow fl y off the

Zakim Bridge into the Charles River.

Before that 9 a.m. revelation, I planned

on using my car for my job or my 4Boston

placement—both 20-minute commutes.

But now venturing 20 minutes into the city

seems like a fatal endeavor. Where’s the

good in being from New York City if you

don’t inherit a skillful road rage?

After one trip from Newbury Street on

the T, I found the good.

I may not have acquired an over-

confi dence on the road from the Empire

State, but the Northeast did give me that

perfectly pretentious combination of ir-

ritability and pride everyone knowa.

And it was with that narrow-minded,

self-centered attitude—you know, the

one that makes you look at the world and

everyone in it as obstacles in your way and

not worth your time—that I sat on a bro-

ken-down T outside of Beaconsfi eld.

Once arriving at Reservoir (30 minutes

and two Adele albums later, mind you),

I waited yet another 20 minutes for the

Comm. Ave. shuttle.

My experience that Saturday morning

was not unique. It’s happened before—to

me, to BC students, to Bostonians. Th is

time, however, I sat on those tracks and

waited in the cold for that bus knowing I

could have avoided all of it if I got over my

fear of driving in the city.

An hour-long trip on the T that could

have been 15 minutes—that’s what gave me

the motivation to drive to work the next

day. And the day after that. And the next

day as well.

I haven’t had any near-death experienc-

es on the road. I haven’t had any epipha-

nies that take the shape of “I really can do

anything if I back-up my convictions with

courage, hard work, and the right attitude!”

Nor am I ashamed that the motivation to

conquer this fear was what many would

view as a vice: impatience.

Th e culture of bad driving in this city

may be a sad reality for our insurance rates,

but it’s also one of those rough-but-endear-

ing characteristics of Boston that sets it

apart from other places—like the harsh

weather or easily agitated locals.

It’s nice to know that at least on that

front, I fi t right in.

Yeti Startup, from A8

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This past Tuesday, the Undergradu-

ate Government of Boston College an-

nounced that Laverne Cox, transgender

actress and LGBTQ advocate, would be

speaking at BC on Feb. 15. Cox plays

Sophia Burset on the popular Netflix

series Orange is the New Black. A day

after this announcement, the talk was

cancelled by Cox, due to a conflict with

a movie she is filming this spring. The

talk was meant to revolve around the

experiences of a transgender woman

and the effects of race, class, and gender.

Despite the ultimate cancellation of the

event, there are still a number of positive

aspects demonstrated by the booking of

the event itself.

UGBC organized the talk . Nick

Minieri, chair of UGBC’s GLBTQ Lead-

ership Council and CSOM ’16, was re-

sponsible for first devising the idea and

then pursuing it alongside Afua Laast,

UGBC vice president of diversity and

inclusion and LSOE ’16.

Cox would have been one of the big-

gest speakers UGBC has ever brought

to campus. She has become very well-

known through Orange is the New Black

and has become a highly sought-after

LGTBQ advocate and speaker. Five

Jesuit universities have already hosted

Cox—(Marquette University, University

of Loyola Chicago, Saint Louis University,

and Canisius College)—making UGBC’s

successful booking even more impressive.

It is clear that the process behind orga-

nizing this event was not easy and that a

considerable amount of work went into

it. Minieri, Laast, and UGBC as a whole

deserve commendation for putting in the

necessary effort to secure a speaker who

would attract a great many listeners, while

also promoting the transgender discussion

they have been presenting for some time.

By organizing the talk, UGBC and its

co-sponsors—the Women’s Center, the

Campus Activities Board, the Thea Bow-

man AHANA Intercultural Center, and

the African and African diaspora stud-

ies department—demonstrated strong

efforts in their various campaigns to in-

crease LGBTQ inclusivity. Although the

talk was unfortunately canceled, the ini-

tial success in having secured her booking

is a hopeful sign that these groups will

be able to achieve future results in their

various projects, like GLC’s attempt to

add a gender-identity section to BC’s

Non-Discriminatory Policy.

The event was expected to sell out,

illustrating the campus-wide interest in

Cox and predicting the success of those

who have worked to bring the event to

fruition. Although many are disappointed

by the unexpected cancellation, it remains

important to remember that the cancella-

tion was prompted by Cox and the efforts

that went into securing the talk in the first

place are still worth commendation.

The people and organizations in-

volved in booking this talk contributed

greatly to campus LGBTQ equality ef-

forts and showed a great deal of effort.

In working with the administration

to secure this talk, they have demon-

strated a commitment to their various

ideals. Hopefully, the time, money, and

effort that went into securing this talk

can now be used for something equally

as impressive.

Mike Crupi has already identified most

of the practical problems inherent in Joshua

Behrens’s Jan. 21 Bernie Sanders panegyric,

so I’ll try to keep myself as brief as pos-

sible here. I actually enjoyed Mr. Behrens’s

piece; political discourse is always good.

Naturally, I don’t agree, either practically

or philosophically, and I’ll try to lay out my

reasons here.

Mr. Behrens’s favorite phrase (in the

piece) is “fiscal conservative.” He uses the

phrase, or a variation of it, seven times. I

have to admit that I’m a little confused here.

Behrens’s presumption, it seems to me (see

his first sentence), is that “fiscal conser-

vatism” is a good thing. Great! I’m a fiscal

conservative too (and a social conservative,

and a philosophical conservative, and a

pedagogical conservative…but I digress).

Either that, or he just wants fiscally con-

servative students to take a look at Bernie

Sanders as—supposedly—a fiscally conser-

vative candidate. (The second seems more

likely, but Mr. Behrens keeps using “fiscally

conservative” in a laudatory way.) Either

way, I’m afraid that Mr. Behrens has a faulty

understanding of fiscal conservatism.

“At the core of fiscal conservatism, how-

ever,” he writes, “is the belief that the gov-

ernment should foster economic growth,

and that is exactly what Sanders is propos-

ing.” Well… That may be what Sanders is

proposing, but I can assure you that that’s

not “fiscal conservatism.” The core of fiscal

conservatism, I’ve always thought, was that

private individuals and communities, not

an all-intrusive government, should foster

economic growth. At least, that’s what every

conservative I’ve ever known has fought

for. (Honestly, Donald Trump is no more

conservative than Sanders.)

Anyway, Mr. Behrens realizes the exten-

sive, overwhelming, “obscene” (his well-

chosen word) cost that Sanders’s health

care plan would impose. His justification,

however, sounds like it was taken right

from Sanders’s campaign rhetoric. The “ob-

scured, rose-tinted understanding” that Mr.

Behrens alleges is in fact the rosy portrait

that Sanders—and all socialists—paint.

See Mike’s piece for a good dose of com-

mon sense poured onto that “socialism-

is-amazing” picture (and then just look at

Europe and Canada). What are the magic

words? Oh, yeah—“Spend, spend, spend!”

John Maynard Keynes, whose “school of

economic thought” Behrens mentions, must

be smiling in his grave.

From an historical perspective, I have to

disagree with Mr. Behrens’s analysis of the

New Deal. As many historians now agree,

the New Deal did not “jumpstart a failing

economy;” the production caused by World

War II did.

Behrens’s last paragraph discusses that

age-old question, “How the heck is Bernie

[or any socialist] going to pay for this?”

Yup, you guessed it—tax the rich! Who

gets to decide who’s rich? Why, the people

who are taxing them, of course. And when

Sanders, or Mrs. Clinton, or any of our left-

wing friends runs out of “the rich” to tax…

Well, we won’t talk about that. Progress is

happening here, and we silly conservatives

can’t stand in the way of the coming brave

new world.

Another Response to “Bernie Sanders” Column LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

For the second year in a row, pho-

tographer Steve Rosenfeld will visit

Boston College as part of his ‘What I

Be’ project. This project involves taking

pictures of students with their biggest

insecurities written across their faces

and various other parts of their bodies.

It is meant to act as a tool for confront-

ing these issues and declaring that they

do not define you. By broadcasting an

unsmiling picture of yourself with your

deepest fear or insecurity written on

your body, you subvert the expectations

of social media and instead portray an

uncomfortable and personal revelation

about yourself.

By bringing this project to BC for a

second year, the Undergraduate Gov-

ernment of Boston College continues to

promote programs that address issues of

mental wellness. With increasing rates

of students seeking counseling services

and various mental health issues plagu-

ing colleges across the country, planning

events, projects, and campaigns that

address this is a positive step for UGBC.

The ‘What I Be’ project provides a pos-

sible outlet for many people suffering

from personal issues and is a good use

of UGBC’s effort.

A way for UGBC to build on the suc-

cess of last year’s ‘What I Be’ project and

take advantage of the interest generated

by this upcoming year’s would be to craft

a follow-up campaign that plays off these

already addressed themes. The cam-

paign allows participants to confront

their insecurities, but confrontation is

more effective when paired with a solu-

tion. This follow-up could approach the

issues brought to light by the project and

present possible solutions and ways of

improving upon or dealing with the in-

securities that have just been broadcast

across the Internet. By adding this to the

growing list of mental health campaigns

and events, UGBC would take further

advantage of the ‘What I Be’ project and

not allow the important issues it brings

up to be forgotten as time passes.

The ‘What I Be’ project is a raw

and discomfiting way for a student to

address their problems and refuse to

be defined by them. Its return marks

another admirable effort by UGBC to

confront mental health problems on

campus. The problems are still ongoing

though, and even further steps can be

taken. While the project is a worthwhile

and important part of addressing men-

tal health as a whole, a complementary

campaign that continues to address the

problems it brings to light would act as

a beneficial addition to UGBC’s mental

health efforts. Giving students the tools

and support needed to overcome these

insecurities could help to continue de-

creasing the impact they have on each

student’s confidence and success.

rael is even more outlandish. In 2012, the

CIA released findings from an investiga-

tion on Iran that stated it had completely

abandoned its nuclear weapons program,

and had no intention of starting a new

one. Even if Iran had nuclear weapons and

wanted to use them against Israel, there is

no evidence to suggest that the ayatol-

lahs are insane enough to risk their own

annihilation to do so. Many critics have

failed to put forward the best way to pre-

vent Iran from getting nuclear weapons: a

nuclear weapon-free zone.

The Iranian foreign minister, Mo-

hammad Javad Zarif, has called for a

non-nuclear zone in the Middle East

(the Egyptian government first proposed

such a zone in 1980), which most of the

162 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

countries are in favor of. Last year in May,

the United States blocked a U.N. addition

to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty to

create the non-nuclear zone. The U.S. was

criticized for stonewalling the month of

negotiations in defense of Israel, which is

not a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

member. If the U.S. had not blocked the

resolution, the U.N. Security Council

would not have needed to negotiate a

separate deal with Iran at all.

While it is the most straightforward

measure to prevent Iran from get-

ting nuclear weapons, the non-nuclear

zone is outside of the Overton window

in Washington. Getting support from

senators to approve the nuclear deal was

difficult enough, as congressmen were

worried that their constituencies might

not support them in the upcoming elec-

tion. New York senator Chuck Schumer

voted against the resolution, despite the

vast majority of Democrats voting for it.

It took President Obama eight weeks to

get enough votes to get the deal to pass,

after Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas

convinced 46 of his Republican colleagues

to sign a letter to the ayatollahs of Iran

stating that a new Congress or president

could easily undo whatever the eventual

agreement entailed. The letter was an un-

precedented attempt to undermine Presi-

dent Obama’s and Secretary of State John

Kerry’s credibility in negotiating with

Iran. Even though the deal got enough

votes to pass in order to prevent the worst

possible consequences, the president and

Congress should work together to create a

non-nuclear zone to ameliorate the prob-

lem permanently.

Creating a non-nuclear zone in the

Middle East will be particularly difficult

for politicians who receive donations from

the military-industrial complex. Israel’s

assumed nuclear deterrent strategically al-

lows the country to occupy the Gaza Strip,

the West Bank, and the Golan Heights

militarily without repercussions. The Is-

raeli possession of nuclear weapons allows

the country to engage in aggressive mili-

tary practice with imported conventional

weaponry. American arms manufacturers

profit from U.S. military aid to Israel, as

well as direct purchases from Israel. While

politicians voted in favor of this particular

deal to prevent the proliferation of nuclear

arms, it is not clear whether or not these

same politicians would vote to completely

expel weapons of mass destruction from

the region, because the political will does

not currently exist.

The international community largely

agrees that the safest future for us entails

the ban of nuclear weapons in the Middle

East, if not the entire world. Intellectuals

in the U.S. have a responsibility to them-

selves and the world to advocate peace

and make the truth known.

THE HEIGHTSThursday, January 28, 2016 A7

ABSENTEE BALLOTS - Sometimes we

gaze around our classes, listening

to our fellow students spout idiotic,

badly thought-out half-truths, and

realize that these people are going

to be able to vote. The kid with the

half-shaved head and the nasally

voice who preaches moral relativ-

ism to a painfully uninterested class

is going to have some say in who

next governs our nation. While

this is bound to bring about fear

and trembling in even the most

courageous U.S. citizen, it is also a

reason to remember our civic duties.

While we are trapped on this cam-

pus, separated from our homes and

any sense of reality, our respective

states will send us ballots, allowing

us to participate from afar. If you’re

feeling too lazy to register for this

ballot, you must remember that your

vote is the only thing off setting the

clove-cigarette-smoking, fingerless

glove-wearing faux-intellectuals

surrounding you.

FINGERLESS GLOVES - Everyone

knows that your fingertips are

completely immune to the cold. It

has been scientifically proven that

no human being has ever had cold

fingers. For this reason, fingerless

gloves are the most practical sort

of glove out there. There’s even an

added bonus: everyone will think

you’re a trend-setting, totally origi-

nal hip feller with a really interest-

ing, worth-listening-to view of the

world.

AMBIGUOUS ENDINGS - Fools often

despise movies, books, and televi-

sion shows with ambiguous endings.

But eventually the well-cultured

consumer of consumer culture will

develop a taste for the ambiguous,

thought-provoking end: the Tony

Soprano cut to black, the Tommy

Lee Jones dream soliloquy. Some-

times we all know there’s nothing

better than a frustrating ending that

doesn’t make any bananas.

SLIPPING ON THE STAIRS - Minutes

after a fresh batch of snow coats

campus, you’re walking down the

stairs. In your peripheral vision, you

think you spot a small gremlin wield-

ing a carving knife. As you turn to

confront this evil little creature, your

foot flies out from under you and you

go careening into the air, spinning

like a top, and then you land with a

heavy and embarrassing thud. Even

then it’s not over. You struggle to

stand up, but keep slipping and fall-

ing down the stairs on your hands

and knees until you’re crawling like

a dog, just trying to get back on your

feet. “I’m not a circus freak,” you

scream, tears dripping down your

cheeks, at the passers by who laugh

and gawk at your misfortune. “I am

a human being.”

THE WORD UTILIZE - There is no

functional difference between the

word “utilize” and the word “use.”

9.5 times out of 10, people who use

this word think it makes them look

smarter. It doesn’t. It makes them

look pretentious and positively

gormless.

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A yacht: 165 feet long, 7,500 square feet

of living space, max speed 17 kt, all-com-

posite hull. It includes a kitchen, dining hall,

gym, sauna, office, five bedrooms, three

bathrooms, and a built-in hot tub on the

deck. Its name: Size Matters. This is what I

would buy if I won the lottery.

My dreams of sailing along the Amalfi

Coast may be far-fetched, but the attention

surrounding the recent $1.5 billion Powerball

lottery was very real. And despite every news

source having fueled the lottery frenzy, I

figured I would still offer my two cents on the

situation (I would offer more, but I didn’t win).

Let us focus on the basics of Powerball.

Five white balls are selected out of a drum

of 69 balls, along with one red ball out of a

drum with 26 red balls. You win the jackpot

by matching five white balls in any order

and the red ball. Your odds of winning: 1

in 292,201,338. So you’re saying there’s a chance? Not really. At $2 a ticket, it is a bad

bet. And I think it’s easy for us to forget just

how ludicrous those odds are. To put $292

million into perspective, here is a Forbes.com

list of things that will more likely happen to

you before you hit the jackpot: Dying from

heart disease: 1 in 3. Injured by a toilet: 1 in

10,000. Crushed by a meteor: 1 in 700,000.

Struck by lightning: 1 in 2,300,000. The take-

away is that your energy, or at least your money,

is better spent elsewhere. Nevertheless, the

odds bring up an interesting question on hu-

man nature: why do we buy the ticket anyway?

I believe there is a two-part answer. First,

we have a tendency to overvalue the prob-

ability of beneficial events, and to devalue

the probability of negative ones. This is

because we are emotionally invested. We are

so desperate to improve the quality of our

lives—our happiness—that we unconsciously

ignore the numbers. It is our innate hope that

creates optimists instead of realists. Secondly,

we invest our happiness in material things.

From our earliest memories, we are either

directly or indirectly bombarded with ads

and marketing schemes that manipulate how

we think. These tactics subtly wire false ideas

of happiness into our subconscious. And this

is hardly an original realization, but no matter

how much we say that we are not materialistic,

it is much harder to put this statement into

practice. Our everyday surroundings motivate

us to “buy more” in order to achieve happiness.

We cannot possibly ignore this call completely.

Hence, when all these goods can be

obtained with money, the $1.5 billion seems

like the ultimate key to our success. A door-

way that will open to the path of everything

we could want. It is an almost irresistible

offer. But we recognize that this is not the

answer. The true happiness we seek is found

elsewhere, but none of these ads tell us where

to look. I am not criticizing our competitive

market system, but I am criticizing our in-

ability to find this happiness, especially when

we know it lies within ourselves.

In his TED Talk, Dan Gilbert attempts

to scientifically evaluate happiness. He

finds that paraplegics are equally happy as

lottery winners merely a year after their

respective life-changing incidents. In fact, he

argues, major life traumas have no impact

on your happiness after three months (with

some exceptions). These traumas lose their

significance because we exemplify a capacity

to change our perceptions over time. We all

have this unique mental perseverance that,

when exercised, redefines our inner-relation

with the world, allowing us to feel content

with our lives. This ability reveals that happi-

ness is accessible to everyone.

So where do we go from here? That’s the

$1.5 billion question. And I am not going to

answer with some cliche phrase like “friend-

ship is the real jackpot.” The reality is that true

happiness is deeply complex—many people

go their entire lives without finding it. We

must actively adjust, and then readjust, our

perspectives on the world in order to create

a reality in which we can feel fulfilled. In my

own search for happiness, I begin by practic-

ing gratitude—the conscious effort to appreci-

ate my life. Try this exercise that I did with my

4Boston group. Write a letter to someone you

care about, explaining why your life is better

because of him or her. Then send the letter.

I hope that, before long, finding hap-

piness within yourself becomes easier and

easier, until you genuinely are happy. And no,

the $45 million yacht is not worth it.

affection. “Especially when the men ask.”

It was in that moment that I recalled my

first moments on the roads of Managua and

felt how deep my ignorance was, even just

days prior. Nicaragua was not half-fantasy,

half-reality, but wholly and horrifically real.

We BC students, teeming with social privi-

lege and opportunity, were sitting in a world

where it was surprising for men to question

structural systems. Where people didn’t get

to debate climate change, but dealt with it di-

rectly. Where the only way to get a decently-

paying job was to support the single-party

dictator. Where women were scared of PAP

smears because instead of learning basic

medical information, they spent their time

taking care of their husbands. Suddenly, we

were not visiting Nicaragua—Nicaragua had

come to knock down our door and show

us what was really happening in the world

outside America, outside our soft, warm,

comfortable “fantasy-land.”

Our week in Managua was not a vaca-

tion, nor was it a service trip—it was a much-

needed encounter with the real world. We

did not return to Chestnut Hill feeling better

about ourselves for making a dark-skinned

child a bracelet. We came back feeling bitter,

furious, and woken-up. We did not revel in

our spiritual fulfillment. We reeled in a new

understanding of Nicaragua. Nicaragua as

home to the Centro de Mujeres Acahual.

Nicaragua of Chureca. Nicaragua of deep

government corruption, of structural sexism,

of deserved anger, and of inspiration.

Silvia’s work is noble and necessary, but

to truly solve Acahual’s problems, the world

needs to change—the way we confront issues

has to change. Students of privilege and

opportunity—the epitome of what we are at

BC—have the ability and thus the obligation

to understand what needs to be done, and

what we can do. Every organization we met

with in Nicaragua is struggling: with a lack

of funding, with underpaid and even unpaid

personnel, with an increased demand for re-

sources and services that are already scarce.

But they also have a ferocious community of

leaders with a vision of a new development,

and it is in our privilege and power as young,

bright, and educated students to help realize

it as the new “real world.”

at women’s centers, workers’ unions, poverty

rehabilitation programs, and champions of

disability rights—each of whom painted for

us a new face of the reality of Nicaragua.

One of these encounters was at the

Acahualinca Women’s Center, which focuses

on women’s issues in Nicaragua. Acahual is

situated in the neighborhood of Chureca,

Managua’s massive dump—a landfill for

most, but for Managua’s poorest, “home.” We

learned that many residents worked at the

dump as scavengers, looking for discarded

food, toys, or souvenirs to either reclaim or

resell, only to earn maybe 15 to 20 cordobas

(50-70 cents) a day. Silvia, one of the nurses

at the center, explained that working in

such conditions led to increased cases of

cervical cancer and other diseases of which

low-income, uneducated women were un-

aware. Worse still was the deeply ingrained

machismo culture of Latin America: the

cultural idea that men are naturally superior

to women, which expressed itself in cycles of

domestic abuse, extreme gender roles, and

income inequality, making Acahual’s clients

primarily single mothers with few alterna-

tives. Although Acahual offered counseling

for cases of family violence and sex workers,

self-esteem workshops, and health educa-

tion to counter these conditions, the need for

greater change was clear in both the harsh

machismo culture of Latin America and the

context of extreme poverty.

After Silvia’s talk, we drove around the

neighborhood of Chureca to see the dump

with a clearer lens. Although the Nicara-

guan government had recently relocated the

neighborhood out of the dump to counter

mounting health concerns, it was still per-

fectly accessible. As our bus drove through

the reclaimed neighborhood, we could see

people climbing over the wall to scavenge.

Mountains of trash pressed against a disturb-

ingly beautiful blue sky, and children played

among puddles of garbage water with bat-

tered toys. We watched in helpless silence.

Silvia relayed her talk in an oddly mat-

ter-of-fact tone, calm and eloquent, the way

only someone who had repeated these words

many times could be. But when our class

of 19 sophomores, 13 of us men, showered

her with questions about the neighborhood,

about machismo, and about the organiza-

tion’s challenges and triumphs, Silvia finally

smiled. “I love when groups ask questions,”

she said, each word dipped in patience and

“It’s all about the encounter,” Father Keen-

an said to us from the front of our tour bus,

as we cruised down the hot asphalt roads of

Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. Nineteen

fresh-faced Boston College sophomores

looked back at him, scribbling the words in

our new journals—all about the encounter—

without quite knowing what they meant. We

knew we were here to understand the need

for human development and social justice

in a developing nation, but that concept was

already abstract enough. Seeing our puzzled

expressions, he continued: “When you go to

a foreign country, you don’t remember the

place, you remember the people you meet.”

The truth of that statement was, at first,

dubious. I’d never been to a third-world

country before, and my first moments on

the road were already overwhelming. Apart

from the obvious language barrier, the palm

trees, and the punishingly humid weather,

I was not prepared for the reality of the

Nicaraguan streets. Corporate ads for Coca-

Cola and Firestone were pasted on massive

billboards, only feet away from the crum-

bling shacks. Spray-paint graffiti that read

“Long Live Daniel Ortega”—the country’s

controversial dictator—was scrawled across

concrete walls. It was a hasty mixture of

two different worlds, a series of mediocre

attempts to jumpstart an economy with too

many foundational problems to avoid, only

to result in a nation that seemed half-fantasy,

half-reality. I snapped pictures of dilapidated

homes on narrow streets, of garbage trails on

wilting grass, and of the structural aftermath

of repeated earthquakes and thought: This

is a third-world country, and this is what

I’ll remember.

Perhaps it was exactly this attitude that

made me so unprepared for the wave of

human emotions that followed. Right from

the start, it was clear that I was wrong—so

wrong that I will never again forget that a

country is not made of buildings and streets,

but of human beings. For those seven long

days, we “encountered” a series of fierce

defenders of human rights—representatives

On Jan. 16, 2016, the United Nations

lifted most of the economic sanctions that

have been imposed on Iran since 1979,

in accordance with the Nuclear Deal that

was passed unanimously by the U.N. Se-

curity Council in Vienna last year. While

it is not a perfect solution, it is plain to

see that the deal achieves the primary goal

of the international community: prevent-

ing Iran from building nuclear weapons,

and preventing a nuclear arms race in the

Middle East.

The deal eliminates Iran’s enriched

uranium stockpile and restricts the num-

ber of uranium-enriching centrifuges that

Iran needs to build a bomb. While the

Iranian government retains the ability to

enrich uranium up to 3.67 percent for nu-

clear power plants, which is much lower

than the 85 percent enrichment level for

viable atomic weapons, the International

Atomic Energy Agency monitors radioac-

tive material processing at all levels of the

supply chain in order to notify the U.N.

if the country is violating the resolu-

tion. Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell,

Francois Hollande, David Cameron, and

Angela Merkel have all praised the deal

for making the world a safer place, but it

is not a perfect solution.

Some critics of the deal have specu-

lated that Iran is the military giant in

the region, and that the deal enables

Iran’s ruling clerics to eventually acquire

weapons of mass destruction to destroy

Israel. These criticisms are completely

unfounded. In reality, Saudi Arabia and

the United Arab Emirates outspend Iran

on military expenditures nearly 7:1. The

Iranian military has relied largely on

obsolete military equipment from before

the Shah was ousted in 1979. The idea that

Iran wants nuclear weapons to destroy Is-

THE HEIGHTS Thursday, January 28, 2016 A8

UGBC, from A1

PHOTO COURTESY OF YETI CORP.

Chris Barry, a local entrepreneur, makes dealing with the snow slightly easier for one of the snowiest regions in the US.

It’s that time of the year again,

when Boston gets battered by a

seemingly never-ending wave of

winter storms— nor’easters as they

are known in these parts—which

leave behind a fluffy-yet-remark-

ably-difficult-to-remove cover of

snow everywhere. Yeti, one of the

new “Uber for x” startups popping

up in the city, will take care of the

snow removal for you.

Founder Chris Barry, currently

a business consultant, got the idea

for an on-demand snow removal

service from his own experiences

during last year ’s “Snowpoca-

lypse.”

“Firstly, I thought ‘Why isn’t

there a service for this?’’’ Barry

said. “So I started building up some

technical skills in app development

[last January].”

After months of managing a

full-time job and online classes on

computer science and app devel-

opment, Barry’s brainchild, Yeti,

brought Boston’s backs some relief

by providing an easy-to-use app

for those times when there is too

much snow and not enough time

to remove it.

“I was building the app as I was

taking the classes, applying every-

thing I was learning,” he said. “But,

at first, I wasn’t too sure it was go-

ing to take off.”

For Barry, Yeti was nothing but

a side project for a long time. The

more involved he became with the

development of this app, however,

the more intrigued he was and the

more people became interested in

it. He finally believed that “he had

something.”

The new app aims to match

those contractors and freelance

snow-plowers with individuals in

need of the service, such as when

someone tries to get to work ,

but his or her car is covered with

snow.

“It’s something similar to Uber,”

he said. “It’s not as difficult, [the

app development], as long as you’re

motivated and are willing to put in

the time.”

The app’s website describes

Citgo, from A1

promote improving Kenmore Square as an

even more vibrant part of the community

as a guiding principle when considering all

options available to them.

The decision to sell the nine buildings,

located on Commonwealth Avenue, Beacon

Street, and Deerfield Street, ultimately

occurred so the university could use the

money for more academic purposes. Ac-

cording to BU Today, the sale of Kenmore

Square properties is but a strategic move

to encourage development in Kenmore

Square. The university believes the sale of

these buildings will be a great opportunity

to raise capital funds, which will be invested

in its core mission of education, research,

and student services.

The sign, one of the most recognizable

features of the Boston skyline, can be seen

from many places throughout the city,

including the Charles River, the Boston

Marathon route, and inside Fenway Park.

Boston College student and Red Sox fan

Mary Lodigiani, MCAS ’18, who has seen

the sign at many baseball games both on

television and at Fenway Park, would be

sad to see it go.

“For many Red Sox fans, the Citgo sign

is nostalgic,” she said, “To see the sign go

would be a loss.” She hopes that if the new

owners are unable to keep the sign at its

current spot, they will be able to display it

somewhere inside the baseball stadium.

According to The Boston Globe, the

sign itself is not for sale, as it is owned by

a company that leases air rights atop 660

Beacon Street. University representatives

believe that any changes to the sign seem

unlikely, although it would ultimately be up

to the building’s new owner. BU hopes to

keep a voice in the building development,

although any large-scale construction

would have to be approved by the Boston

Redevelopment Authority.

Despite the history of the sign in Bos-

ton, it is not a protected city landmark, and

therefore is not immune to being taken

down. Though BU representatives believe

it will not be removed, there are no terms

about that in the sale, according to TheBoston Globe.

In recent years, Kenmore Square has

seen great improvements to many of its

buildings, including an updated T stop, new

restaurants, and the Hotel Commonwealth,

which was owned by BU until they sold it

three years ago, according to Riley. Yet the

north side, home to BU’s Barnes & Noble

campus bookstore, Bertucci’s Restaurant,

Cornwall’s Pub, and several other tenants,

remains unimproved. The university would

like to sell the property to someone who

could finish improving the facade of the

square, giving the school the opportunity

to focus on bettering its students.

The school’s vice president for govern-

ment and community affairs Robert Dona-

hue told BU Today that any developments

would have to be approved by the city and

the Kenmore Square community.

“The University will work in partnership

with the developers and the community,” he

said. “We have a long history of cooperation

with our Kenmore Square neighbors.”

Additionally, removing the Citgo sign

does not make sense, as it is one of the

unique attributes of the property, and it is

part of the character that makes Kenmore

what it is, said Riley.

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EMILY FAHEY / HEIGHTS SENIOR STAFF

Boston University is selling many buildings in Kenmore Square, one of which houses the famous Citgo sign—the sign will likely remain, but the new owner will have the final say.

the administration discussed revamping

the Mosaic program based on assess-

ment and feedback obtained from this

pilot-year launch of the program. She

also said that they spoke about expand-

ing training for students and staff in-

volved in educational efforts on diversity

and inclusion, and introducing through

Human Resources a new online module

on harassment for faculty and staff.

Jones said that a review of a bias

response protocol for students is ongo-

ing, which will provide opportunities

to address issues raised in the UGBC’s

working proposal.

“The University will not stand still on

these important issues and is committed

to making BC the most welcoming and

inclusive community possible,” Jones

said in the email.

Instead of adding a vice president for

institutional diversity, the administra-

tion plans to focus on utilizing existing

programs and committees, according to

Jones. She said that the efforts to become

a more welcoming and inclusive com-

munity are and must be collective, with

responsibility shared by all members of

the community.

Jones said that the University has

been assessing the charter and role

of the Diversity Steering Committee

(DSC) through the leadership of the

Office of Institutional Diversity (OID)

and has made the recommendation to

add two students, appointed by UGBC,

to the committee beginning in the fall

of 2016.

“This is an important step in better

engaging students in University diversity

and inclusion efforts,” Jones said in the

email. “Further, the results of the faculty

and staff experience survey initiated

by Human Resources during the fall

semester, and the upcoming summit on

diversity, will provide more information

for the DSC to consider.”

In the meeting, the students were

updated on both their old and new ef-

forts to address issues of race, diversity,

and inclusion, according to Napoli, who

also said that they were better able to

understand the work the administration

has been doing with these matters. He

said that the next step is engaging with

the community about the virtue of these

steps and that they will be working with

the administration to schedule a public

meeting.

“Hopefully this will lead to better

implementation of these steps and if

necessary, further goals we can continue

to work on,” Napoli said in an email.

Jones expressed the administration’s

appreciation for the concerns raised by

UGBC and the ongoing dialogue sur-

rounding issues of inclusion.

“Racism is a matter of concern for all

of society, and maintaining an inclusive

community where all students can thrive

is a steadfast commitment of Boston

College,” Jones said in an email.

Jones said that the Friday meeting

was helpful in better understanding the

concerns of UGBC, and that the meet-

ing afforded the administration an op-

portunity to communicate the efforts of

the University to address issues of race,

diversity, and inclusion. Jones noted that

during the past two decades, BC’s enroll-

ment of AHANA students has doubled

from 15 percent to 30 percent.

During this same time period, the

AHANA percentage of tenured faculty

has risen to 20 percent and 23 percent

of director-level positions in the Divi-

sion of Student Affairs are AHANA,

she said.

“The University is attentive to hiring

for diversity, and continues diligent and

focused recruiting efforts in what is a

very competitive environment,” Jones

said in the email. “Vice presidents and

deans are accountable for these efforts

within the University.”

In addition to recruitment and reten-

tion efforts, Jones recognized that the

document included clauses regarding

education, programming, climate, and

support efforts.

In the meeting, Jones said that the

administration highlighted the new

core curriculum pilot courses—Com-

plex Problems and Enduring Ques-

tions—which are meant to allow for

the opportunity to explore questions

on race and justice. Jones said that the

new Core Renewal Committee is also

exploring BC’s current cultural diversity

requirement.

Jones encouraged UGBC to draw

upon the resources of Student Affairs

and engage with individual vice presi-

dents on program within their areas.

She said that the discussions with these

other vice presidents will help to clarify

additional concerns where the group

may not have adequate information or

understanding.

“We look forward to continuing the

thoughtful and challenging dialogue

around creating a more inclusive com-

munity,” Jones said in the email.

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A FULLER PICTURE

“You’re just too good to be true,” Mike

Mastellone, CSOM ’18, belted out as the horns

and saxes of BC bOp! faded out. Thunderous

applause met the Boston College jazz band

as its fantastic cover of Frankie Valli’s classic

hit “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” ended. As

the cheers and whistles died down, the man

who decided he’d give his own performance

throughout the show let out his sixth cry of

the night.

“KATIE,” he shouted, slurring his words

horrendously, “KATIE!” The crowd chuckled

a bit, but the majority of people around me

weren’t happy. After each and every song BC

bOp! performed that night, this one man felt

the need to cry out Katie’s name, hoping to…I

don’t really know what.

While this one individual was the loudest

of the crowd that had gathered in Robsham

that night, he wasn’t the only one who had

had more than his share to drink. I got to the

show a bit early, as I customarily do when

I’m reviewing something for The Heights (I’m

an anxious guy that needs to be on time),

and I noticed more than a handful of people

stumbling in, being obnoxiously loud, and

even sipping from a flask they’d brought along.

It’s always funny to see people drunkenly

meandering to their seats at these shows that I

review, stone-cold sober. Trust me, after a year

working the Arts section, you start to notice

drunkards streaming into plays, band perfor-

mances, and dance shows more often than not.

I get it, to a degree. People want to have

a good time. Alcohol makes for a good time.

Maybe someone going to these shows thinks it

might be a little boring and that they’ll need a

bit of a kick to get them through the two-hour

performance. Maybe a group of friends is plan-

ning on going straight to the cast party after

the show and they want to start pre-gaming

during the show. Like I said, I get it—sort of.

But, as far as I can see, drinking before or

during on-campus performances becomes a

problem pretty quickly. People start heckling,

calling out to their friends on stage at really in-

convenient moments, and even getting sick in

the middle of shows. I’ve seen it all. It’s not like

most of these shows go very late into the night.

Most start at 7:30 or 8 p.m. I’ve seen people

running out of the theater, holding their hands

to their mouths at 8:30. I’m also not talking

about a few isolated incidents either. I’m not

going to say this happens at every performance

I go to, but like I said, I see these types of things

more often than not when I go to a show on

campus. The one exception is plays. Everyone

respects the theatre, I guess.

Now, I don’t want to sit here and sound like

Big Brother or someone who doesn’t indulge

in a couple drinks now and again, but I really

don’t see the point in going to these shows if

you’re going to be hammered. You don’t re-

member anything that happened. You sit there,

unable to focus, until that friend you came to

see in the comedy group comes out for his or

her bit. You try the best you can to process

what they did and while you might generally

remember the skit he or she was in, you don’t

remember a single line that, at the time, held

you in side-splitting laughter. I’ve been there,

I’ve done that, and it’s terrible.

And I’ve never been on the other end of

the tom foolery, but it’s hard to imagine that

the performers appreciate the shenanigans

that go on out in the audience. If I haven’t

pointed it out, it’s unbearable enough as an

audience member to see more than a few

students lampooning about in a really dis-

tracting manner. I can’t picture what must go

through some performers’ minds. Sure, some

of them probably couldn’t care less. I’d think,

however, that a few (if not most) people on

stage would prefer that their friends who

came to see them actually remembered what

the performer did in a show, not just that

their friend remembered seeing them for a

few minutes.

I might sound like a cranky old man, and

if you think I do, that’s fine with me. I really

don’t care. I’m not trying to point out an epi-

demic that I think needs a serious amount of

attention. I’m just trying to point out to those

who decide to have a few drinks before they

go to the next Irish Dance show or BC bOp!

program that they’re not adding anything to a

show when they make their presence known

to anyone. It’s usually not funny. It’s just sort

of a bother. Next time, leave the performing

to those who you came to see perform.

THIS WEEKEND in arts‘ALMOST, MAINE’(THURSDAY—SUNDAY AT 7:30 P.M.)Directed by Ryan Cooper, MCAS ’16, this emotional pro-

duction tells the intersecting love stories of various couples

living in a rural town in Maine. Sweet, sad, and adorable all

at once, the play will be performed in the Bonn Theatre this

weekend.

PLEXAPALOOZA (FRIDAY AT 8:30 P.M.)Head to The Plex this Friday to hear The Chainsmokers

perform some of today’s hottest EDM tracks live. The

American DJ duo will play some of their most popular

songs at BC’s annual Plexapalooza.

JEFF DUNHAM (SATURDAY AT 5 P.M.)Popular comedian, ventriloquist, and producer Jeff

Dunham will perform his stand-up routine in Boston

this weekend. Visit Boston University’s Agganis Arena

on Saturday to watch some of his award-winning

comedy live.

BLUE MAN GROUP(NOW PLAYING)Buy your tickets to Blue Man Group for a night of loud

music, bright colors, and the incorporation of crazy props.

Venture over to the Charles Playhouse for an exciting show

audiences won’t forget.

‘NICE FISH’(NOW PLAYING)Incorporating poetry, humor, and a whole lot of introspective

conversation, Nice Fish is a story about two Minnesotan ice

fishermen looking for their last catch of the season. Head to

the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge to view.

‘KUNG FU PANDA 3’(OPENS FRIDAY)Jack Black is back again in Dreamworks’ newest addi-

tion to the Kung Fu Panda saga. This time around, the

loveable Po struggles with the transition from student to

martial arts master.

‘THE FINEST HOURS’(OPENS FRIDAY)The SS Pendleton is severed by a violent storm,

trapping over 30 sailors in a rapidly sinking ship.

Action-packed and suspenseful, the film hits theaters

this weekend.

‘THE BOY’ (NOW PLAYING)When Greta accepts a nannying job in a rural English

village, she is shocked to find out that the child she is

expected to look after is actually an inanimate doll. Greta

soon experiences some very disturbing events in this

high-intensity horror film.

BY: HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN | HEIGHTS EDITOR

DREAMWORKS ANIMATION

Seeing The Hunger Games franchise

come to a close this past November was

somewhat enigmatic for me. As a long-time

fan of the series, I had read the books from

the very beginning and had seen most of the

midnight premieres of the film adaptations.

It’s safe to say that I enjoy the series, but it’s

also easy for me to admit that seeing the

last two films felt like more of a long-haul

commitment than something that truly

excited me.

Though not top-tier examples of

what Hollywood has to offer, The Hunger Games films are in no way low-quality. The

cinematography, especially in the latter half

of the franchise, is done rather well. The

films feature a number of impressive, well-

rounded actors, music from some of the very

best artists, a sprinkle of social commentary,

and enough high-octane fight scenes to keep

even the most distractible audience members

interested. If this is all true, why doesn’t the

series have higher reviews on the whole? If

the books they’re based on are so well-re-

ceived, why do the film adaptations suffer

from such mediocrity?

The answer is simple, but very easy to

miss: The Hunger Games did not take the

right risks.

This is a rather general assertion, so

consider a premier example of a film that

takes the right risks—Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption, one of the most re-

spected, revered, and well-known films of all

time. Shawshank is an excellent example of

a work that made the right corrections to its

source material, which in turn catapulted it

into cinematic immortality. The film is based

on Stephen King’s novella, “Rita Hayworth

and the Shawshank Redemption,” but the

two works bear a remarkably small number

of similarities for having nearly the same

titles. Despite the changes, King’s novella is

one of his lesser-known pieces, while The Shawshank Redemption is arguably the best

work to come out of American cinema in the

past 50 years. Had Darabont not taken this

massive risk of textual adaptation, his film

would not have been nearly so popular.

Textual adaptation, the act of altering a

film’s plotline or tone to no longer match its

source material, is a Bellagio-level gamble in

most cases. Incidentally, it’s also the reason

why The Hunger Games did not attain better

reviews. Gary Ross’ and Francis Lawrence’s

rendition of Suzanne Collins’ young adult

masterpiece stuck to its source material like

glue, and while this decision was “true” to

the book series, it also forced longtime fans

into a tough position. With no new storyline

innovations, fans of the books had no new

surprises in store, and thus very little to rope

them into seeing the next film. This, as I

discovered in November of last year, was my

problem as well.

Every decision in Hollywood is a risk, and

taking the right risks can make the difference

between a film becoming an instant classic

or falling flat on its face. Many examples shed

an interesting light on the vast array of paths

a movie can take when it comes to textual

adaptation. Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth was a

near line-by-line reading of Shakespeare’s

play, and yet (deservedly so) received stellar

reviews across the board. Shortly thereafter,

Star Wars: The Force Awakens proved that

retconning thousands of previous works

of fiction (even in its own family) can go

quite favorably if you have excellent new

characters to back it up. These are instances

of artists’ both risking the efficacy of their

source material, as well as rigidly clinging to

it, and still reaching critical acclaim either

way. Of course, there is always the other side

of the coin: Gavin Hood’s Ender’s Game cut

massive tracts of storytelling from Orson

Scott Card’s original novel and paid a hefty

toll for it at the box office. The young adult

action film Divergent suffered much the

same fate. Both of these films are examples

of directors taking the wrong risks—instead

of improving on original source material,

they handicap what already exists.

In the world of moviemaking, suc-

cess and failure depend heavily on one’s

willingness to gamble. If films from the

past five years are any indication, there’s

nothing inherently wrong with holding

the hand of the novel on which a film

is based. It will likely score average-to-

decent reviews, and then slowly fade

from the limelight. If a film is to truly

be a masterpiece, however, its director

must follow one simple rule: take the

right risks.

WARNER BROTHERS RECORDS

CHANDLER FORD

On a chilly evening in January, Boston was bustling with abnormal activity for a Monday night. Was it just marathon runners taking advantage of snowy, low-impact training conditions? Nope. People of all shapes, sizes, and ages flooded TD Garden for what will hold its early-set title as the “Best Show of 2016”—Muse’s Drones World Tour, featuring opener X Ambassadors.

X Ambassadors recently broke into the popular scene with their 2014 single “Jungle.” With their 2015 hit “Renegades,” their success was sealed. Between the Jeep commercials and radio play, the swampy, rhythmic track was inescapable this past summer. The quartet started its set at the Garden with retro soul track “Loveless,” off their debut album VHS. Continuing from the album with “Hang On,” lead singer Sam Harris showed no restraint in exercising his impressive vocal range, swinging from a falsetto note to a chesty baritone pitch within seconds—sometimes, even within the same word.

The band continued its set with the show’s sole homage to their 2013 EP, performing its title track, “Love Songs Drug Songs.” Then came “Fear,” a track co-written and recorded with Imagine Dragons on VHS, but performed well by Harris alone. Taking a more emotional turn, Harris and his brother Casey, the band’s

blind keyboardist, rendered “Unsteady,” before lightening the mood with vocal challenge “Gorgeous.” To close its set, the band gave the crowd what they all had been waiting for—“Renegades” and “Jungle” back-to-back in a dual finale. While these songs may be the only reason attendees knew X Ambassadors before the show, there’s no chance the audi-ence left without a newfound penchant, if not respect, for the talent of the group.

After a short break, the lights finally dimmed. While Muse is renowned for its im-peccable performance abilities, it didn’t limit itself to only living up to expectations. Every song performed had some sort of individual quirk, an additional aspect that made it much more beyond a studio. The opening number, “Psycho,” lacked none of this flair—glowing orbs descended from the ceiling in the dark to a taped rendition of “Drones,” circling the general admission pit as the four members of the band took advantage of our distracted state to sneak on stage. After the heavy, riff-laden “Psycho” concluded, the band continued with another track from Drones, “Dead Inside.” Then came Absolution’s “Hysteria,” which lead singer and guitarist Matt Bellamy closed with riffs based on Led Zeppelin’s “Heartbreaker.”

After performing “Map of the Problema-tique” and a shortened rendition of “The 2nd Law: Isolated System,” the band’s staging crew outdid itself with the lights and graphics ac-companying “The Handler.” Bellamy and bass-

ist Chris Wolstenholme took opposite sides of the stage, underneath billowing sheets of fabric that allowed video projection and acted as puppets under the holographic hands of an icy-eyed drone. Even as they moved around the stage, the “wires” connecting them to her hands followed, and the central Jumbotron seemed more menacing than any real-life threat as the drone’s virtual eyes scanned the crowd.

Muse then took a two-song run from Black Holes and Revelations, performing a version of “Supermassive Black Hole” supplemented with Bellamy’s rendition of Zeppelin’s “The Ocean.” It continued with “Starlight,” and then reached even farther back into its anthol-ogy with “Apocalypse Please.” After “Munich Jam,” a trippy light sequence and Jumbotron sing-along lyrics introduced crowd favorite “Madness.”

The set came back to the tour’s title album with a clip from JFK’s “Conspiracy Speech”—a perfect summation of Muse’s common revolu-tionary themes—and Drones single “Reapers.” The final feature from Absolution followed, serving as a reminder that unfortunately, “Time is Running Out” in its set. Then came the anarchist anthem “Uprising,” another 1984-based track, given an extended outro to satisfy the crowd’s (and Billboard charts’) love for the song. For the grand “finale,” the staging crew returned to astound the audience—dur-ing “The Globalist,” an HFO, or Heavy Fuel

Oil, drone flew around the Garden, barely escaping the grazing touch of fans trying toclaim some physical connection to the show. The set closed with another round of glowingorbs and “Drones” recording, as the audiencefidgeted anxiously, refusing to believe it wasreally over.

Of course, we were right. Muse returned to the stage after only a few minutes, picking up with the emotional Drones single “Mercy.”After the dramatic performance, the audi-ence was again set to wait as we listened inthe dark to Ennio Morricone’s “Man With aHarmonica,” an instrumental evocation of the Old West. The quasi-silence was broken with the iconic galloping percussion that could onlymean one thing—Muse was closing, per usual, with “Knights of Cydonia.” Lyrics flashed uponthe Jumbotron as every spotlight in the Gardenspun around the room, covering the stage insplashes of color. No expense was spared in this final song, as every ounce of energy they hadleft was poured into the final song.

The execution of the Drones World Tourwas impeccable—from the band’s perfect collection and its discography and seamless transitions between songs, to the lighting and props’ staging—every moment of the show had at least one aspect that caused jaws to drop. From the start of X Ambassadors’ openingset to the end of “Knights of Cydonia,” this Monday night was likely one of the best TD Garden has had.

THE HEIGHTSThursday, January 28, 2016 B3

HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN

“Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs.”

The words are etched deep, scrawled repeatedly across the length of a wooden table on the fourth floor of O’Neill like some kind of tangible motivation. Driven either by optimistic aspiration or utter desperation (I’m not quite sure which), an anonymous undergrad must have used this graffiti as a visible incentive of sorts. I imagine this shaky scribbling was the handiwork of a stressed-out CSOM senior of yesteryear, perhaps a byproduct of mid-finals-week daydreams. Regardless of who wrote it when and why, this particular message from a Ghost of BC Students Past really got me thinking.

Just as prehistoric fossil records or Revolutionary-Age journal entries help historians unearth the mysteries of our ancestors, the doodles and diagrams covering virtually all of the library’s flat surfaces provide incredible insight into the subconscious minds of valiant BC students who came before us. A treasure trove of in-formation can be derived about BC culture from every teacher complaint, countdown to graduation, and “so-and-so was here” scribbled hurriedly onto a wooden study cubicle from the early ’80s.

Forgetting about my extensive to-do list, I decided the graffiti was worth investigating.

Luckily for me, the careless vandalism

of University property is apparently alive and well at BC’s O’Neill Library. Under my laptop, a faded blue ink blot read “Obama 2008,” which was followed by a social-media savvy supporter who wrote “#Obama2012.” Capping off this political conversation was one snarky opposer, weighing in with a “Yeah, and how’s the country doing now?”

Nearby, some sarcastic (or perhaps sincere) scientist-in-training claimed that “organic chemistry rules!” As an English/comm double major with little to no interest in the chemical composition of all things living or dead, I decided to take their word for it.

While some leave silly sentiments (“2 Chainz 4 president”), others express utter loneliness. Someone’s pink-penned note accompanied by a flock of fractured heart doodles boldly confesses, “I miss my boyfriend in NYC.”

Now, I do not endorse vandalism, nor do I believe it’s what the cool kids should be doing these days—I’d like that on the record. But, it is interesting to consider these desks as an ever-growing guestbook of people constantly coming and going.

In my humble opinion, the desk that once belonged to Goldman Sachs Guy is the best seat in the house—not because it offers a neat view of Alumni or reveals a fraction of the Boston skyline on a good day. I like it because despite what stress I’m enduring or what new writing-related pipe dream I want to chase, I find comfort in knowing that someone at some time in the past has literally been in my very posi-tion. Someone sat exactly where I have, feeling the same uncertainties and fears about the future that college likes to hurl at cocky students who think they’ve got it all

figured out. What’s most upsetting, though, is the

sheer unlikelihood that I’ll ever find out about any of these desk-damaging delin-quents. I won’t know if LH and MW really stayed “together 4ever,” and I’ll never find out if that frustrated physics major really did end up shoving his problem set where he threatened he was going to.

I want answers. I want to hear the gripping story of our fearless CSOM-er whose life could have culminated in a dramatic, “to-hell-with-business-school-I-want-to-be-on-Broadway” resolution. I crave some kind of epilogue that assuages our nagging fears about the future, one that assures stressed students that everything’s gonna be ok.

I wonder if Goldman Sachs Guy (or any of us, for that matter) really knew what he was getting himself into when he signed up for this whole thing. Could he have predicted the stress, the deadlines, or the competition? It’s just like what Alfred Tennyson said when he was talking about the difficult life of a BC undergrad: “Into the valley of Death rode the 9,100-or-so.”

Despite the stress, choosing BC was the best decision I’ve ever made. There are incredible opportunities, great profes-sors, and those friends who will stay up until 3 a.m. drinking tea and talking about important things like the universe to thank for that, I think. This isn’t to say everything’s all smiles and Superfan shirts, though. I’m not exactly sure what to make of that.

Every time the stage lights dim and the

soft, floating music restarts to signify the end

of a love-saturated vignette, a silhouette in the

shape of director Ryan Cooper, MCAS ’16,

takes detailed notes and whispers quietly to a

confidant sitting next to him.

Through a pair of dark-rimmed glasses,

his eyes scour the stage, making sure that

every prop is perfectly positioned where it

should be. For reference, Cooper recalls just

one of the play’s many set configurations that

he has committed to memory, as the various

characters, props, and set designs change

almost entirely with each new scene. Of these,

the show has nine.

The play is good—very good, actually—

and he knows it. Just 10 minutes into the first

act, the combination of the actors’ evocative

performance and Cooper’s meticulous at-

tention to stage direction has the audience

swooning. He watches the actors intently: their

every move and inflection studied, and the

effect they have on the audience duly noted.

The actors never seem to slip up, however,

and scenes transition smoothly despite each

scene boasting its own individual themes and

separated plotlines.

Throughout the performance, the naive

residents of fictional town Almost, Maine, fall

in and out of love in the most peculiar—and

awkward—ways. Funny when it needs to be

and stone-cold serious on more than one

occasion, Almost, Maine straddles a variety

of contradictory genres, skipping from one

to another and back again without skipping

a beat.

“It’s my favorite play,” Cooper said. Easily

beating out others on the short list of scripts

Cooper compiled at the advent of his direct-

ing stint, the heartwarming Almost, Maine emerged as a clear victor almost immediately.

“It does have this underlying, sweet message,”

he said. “It’s very much about how love has a

place in the world. Even though things can go

wrong, it still has this sense of hope.”

In one vignette, a giddy young woman

throws caution to the cold, winter wind and

confesses her love for a close friend. In an-

other scene, arguably the most notable due

to its humorous dialogue and inventive use of

physical comedy, two best friends discover a

compelling desire to be with one another after

all of their relationships with girls go south.

Wrestling with social constructs and gender

stereotypes that initially keep their feelings

under wraps, the friends unearth a love that

they were previously too timid to explore.

One of the most interesting aspects of

the performances is the play’s magical-realist

genre. In the town of Almost, Maine, fanciful

wonders exist, as love becomes tangible, lost

love physically hurts, and hearts break—lit-

erally. The centerpiece of the entire show

(sheer, billowing sheets suspended from the

studio rafters) gleam with iridescent beauty

when colored lights illuminate them between

scenes. The prop perfectly embodies the

Northern lights, a staple that helps establish

the play’s whimsical air and aides in extend-

ing the audience’s disbelief—a mindset that is

so vital to the enjoyment and understanding

of Almost, Maine. In reference to his produc-

tion concept, Cooper said, “I wanted to play

with this natural and ethereal thing. I wanted

to make sure [the Northern Lights] were

represented in this kind of beautiful, magical

way. In doing so, we’re able to kind of put in

this wonderment and ethereal quality to the

world of the play.”

The show is a marathon of wintery vi-

gnettes, and the impressive execution of the

miniature scenes makes the overly sappy sub-

ject matter addictive instead of annoying.

A smaller and more versatile space than

Robsham’s main stage, the Bonn Studio

Theater allows Cooper some artistic leeway.

Choosing to have the show in the round,

or structuring the stage so that performers

are surrounded by the audience on all sides,

Cooper takes advantage of the intimacy of

an emotional show like Almost, Maine. The

decision to avoid directing the play in prosce-

nium—with the audience watching the stage

from just one side—was a deliberate and non-

traditional break from the way Almost, Maine

has historically been performed.

“Because the show is so much about love,

so much about people and connection and

relationships, I thought that having it in the

round would provide a more intimate setting,”

Cooper said. “It would actually make the show

come more to life.”

For Cooper’s production of Almost, Maine, the Bonn theatre isn’t the only thing that has

to be versatile to meet the expectations of the

director’s vision. The small cast of seven actors

bustle in and out of scenes, changing costumes

enough times to represent a total of 19 charac-

ters. The plotlines and relationships intersect

at times, making for a guessing game of who’s

who that lasts throughout the entire show.

“Oh, of course I have a favorite scene,”

Cooper said, throwing his head back and

smiling as if playing the entire vignette out

inside his head. “It’s called ‘Getting it Back,’

and it’s really a very sweet scene.” He laughed.

“By the end I’m in a puddle—I think it’s just

the cutest thing.”

Charming and enchanting, raw and hon-

est, Cooper’s interpretation of the play is just

that: “the cutest thing.” A refreshing look at

love in all its wacky and often unpredictable

forms, the Theatre department’s January 28-31

performances will have the audience falling in

love with this rendition of Almost, Maine.

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Hip-hop was once a creative

engine of music and political mes-

sages, forged from the experiences

of diverse communities in New York

City and other urban centers around

the United States. Like all great

American creations—blue jeans,

American democracy, the iPhone—it

was exported around the world. And

like these things, American hip-hop

seems to have diverged and assimi-

lated into popular culture.

Gas-Lab is an Argentinian multi-

instrumentalist whose latest cre-

ation, a collab with MC Hache St.

called Jubilo, is a refreshing, genre-

defi ning mixture of diverse styles and

musical infl uences. Listening to the

album is as much an exercise in mo-

rality, culture, and regional politics

as it is music. Granted, much of that

political and cultural message will

be missed by non-Spanish speakers.

Yet Jubilo is enjoyable even to the

average American’s ears. Hip-hop

is about balance, and Jubilo assures

musical language takes precedence

over spoken language.

Gas-Lab has produced purely in-

strumental albums in the past, as well

as English-language projects. Jazz

Hop, perhaps his most recognized

work to date, could be brilliant, but

was largely inconsistent. Th at project

was incongruous—upbeat title tracks

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Alessia Cara 6 Stitches

Shawn Mendes 7 Same Old Love

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Th e fl uid aesthetic of the music

video “Wide Open” by Th e Chemi-

cal Brothers (featuring Beck) was

a striking contrast to the artist’s

usually jarring and edgy videos.

Th e track from its new album Born

In Th e Echoes attempts to blend an

electronic and, at times, monoto-

nous melody with its melancholic

lyrics. At fi rst glance, the video ap-

pears to be a simple representation

of the song through its gradual and

meandering nature. But when one

notes the nuances that embellish

the visual, the whole video takes on

an appealing attitude of refl ection

and wistfulness.

Th e video opens on a sparse

industrial warehouse. A dancer

walks into the gray light from the

windows. After staring inquisi-

tively and perhaps a bit crossly at

viewers, it becomes apparent that

one of her legs has turned from

fl esh into a shell of white netting

and nothingness, making her

limb look almost invisible. As the

song progresses, her movements

become increasingly wandering

in style, as limb by limb turns

invisible. At one point, an almost

total silhouette version of the

dancer stands before a mirror, and

the full-fl esh form of the dancer

wanders around in the refl ection’s

background before becoming

completely invisible

Th e video eff ectively portrays

the connection between the song’s

forlorn, detached lyrics with the

dancer’s silhouette transforma-

tion, as it demonstrates the “wide

open[ness]” and “drifting away”

of the song’s addressee. Th e lyrics

of the song are repetitive and are

spread out over the track in a way

that complements the slow-mov-

ing and seemingly aimless style

of the video’s sole dancer. This

aspect of the video demonstrates

the detached, almost mechanical

estrangement of the dancer. As-

suming one has the patience to

watch the entirety of the visually

unvaried video, the fi nal product

can be looked upon with artistic

admiration, but also a notable

amount of boredom.

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speed of Hache St.’s lyrics seems to

gradually quicken, building urgency

and changing the tone, which can

be understood even if the listener

doesn’t understand the lyrics.

Lyrically, Hache St. touches on

such major issues as racism in Latin

America, with a line that translates

to “black in plural, little white when

single.” Th e treatment of immigrants

in the United States is mentioned on

multiple tracks as well: he wonders

if he’d be questioned in the U.S.

as an illegal immigrant, due to his

heritage. He criticizes the U.S. im-

migration system as “failed reforms,

like Perestroika.” Such references

remind the listener that Jubilo—and

hip-hop—are global entities with

global awareness.

Despite the heavy content,

Jubilo is the sort of album that

can be studied to, chilled-out to,

or even slept to. Th e music calls to

mind sleepy jazz clubs of old, but

to quote one of Gas-Lab’s stylistic

infl uences, Guru, “there’s always a

message involved.”

And it’s important that there is

a message in Jubilo. Music makes a

listener feel a certain way, and hip-

hop is no exception. Jazzy, mellow,

intellectual hip-hop has existed

for decades—just look at pioneers

like Common, Gang Starr, A Tribe

Called Quest, Th e Roots, and the

late J Dilla. Modern.

Despite the language barrier,

Jubilo should not be ignored—it

represents hip-hop in the world.

As modern American hip-hop

drifts closer and closer to elec-

tronic, trap, and pop music, listen-

ers must wonder if the rest of the

world’s local hip-hop communities

will follow suit. To that question,

Jubilo is a reassuring, satisfying,

and enrapturing “no.”

In many ways, watching doc-umentaries can be like playing with f ire—large amounts of intriguing information, dissemi-nated in the context of entertain-ment, can very quickly draw in a high viewer count.

When documentaries have a strong political leaning, be it to

the left or the right, it takes only a single spark to light a fire that enrages the masses.

With that thought in mind, Michael Moore’s Where To In-vade Next walks a dangerous line from the very beginning.

Moore’s film operates on the premise that America has offi-cially run out of countries to in-vade, and that American officials need his assistance to determine

what country has the most valu-able “resources” worth stealing. Moore then travels to a variety of locations, from Italy to Slovenia to Tunisia, highlighting their practices and opinions regarding social issues in every area. The driving principle of Where To Invade Next is, by itself, a work of genius, deserving high ratings just for originality. Thankfully, the fun doesn’t stop there.

Moore begins by taking a trip to Italy, where he meets with anyone from average citizens to factory workers to CEOs. He asks them about their posi-tions on and experience with their work, and every answer is resoundingly similar: nearly all Italians are quite satisfied with their occupations.

Furthermore, middle-class worker stress levels in Italian society are at an all-time low, which creates a society with, generally speaking, good mental health.

Moore presses further—he discovers that this is, in large part, due to the six to eight weeks of guaranteed paid va-cation provided by the Italian government, as well as the fam-ily-driven culture of Italy.

In contrast with American ideals, Moore asserts, there is an undeniable disparity. He then “claims” Italy for the United States, stealing their idea to bring home to the U.S. govern-ment.

The documentary progresses with much the same formula, but it never becomes tiresome or worn out. Moore visits France in pursuit of better health edu-cation, Finland and Slovenia for college tuition, Germany

for workplace standards and solutions to racism, Portugal for narcotics policy, and so on.

Th e espoused message of the fi lm is undeniably progressive, but never feels abrasive, malicious, or anti-American.

In fact, Moore ends his docu-mentary realizing that America can regain much of her former glory if her citizens and govern-ment re-embrace forgotten ideals. It’s strange to associate the terms “Michael Moore” and “apolitical,” but this is just the path that Where To Invade Next takes.

Beyond the central message, the cinematic quality of Where To Invade Next is top-tier. Moore’s compilation of music and visuals is truly stunning, leaving the au-dience incredibly uncomfortable with the state of America’s social norms.

The film makes excellent use of silence as well, leaving viewers to comprehend the ramifications of what has just been said.

Regardless of whether or not the audience agrees with the message, the technical aspects of Where To Invade Next hammer home its mes-sage with disturbing eff ectiveness. Where To Invade Next easily fi nds it’s home among Moore’s eclectic collection vivacious and monu-mental documentaries. DOG EAT DOG FILMS

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In the wake of David Bowie’s recent death, “Look up here, I’m in heaven” could not be more appropriate opening lyrics to the pop legend’s fi nal single. This track offers ethereal synth and a pleasantly whining saxophone, along with a haunting vocal performance. Bowie beautifully bares his soul one fi nal time.

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Sia’s music is powerful and uplifting, but with the release of “Unstoppable,” it is clear that her formula is getting old. Her songwriting template, booming drum and basic piano accompaniment, is predictable and dronging. The album is fi ttingly titled This is Acting. Maybe it’s time for Sia to play a different role.

SIA“Unstoppable”

Coldplay has succeeded once again in making great background music. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. With a bouncing bass line and airy vocals, “Birds” doesn’t try to do too much. It’s fun, it’s light, and sounds like a cover of a Sting deep-cut. Coldplay avoids the melodrama that has come to defi ne much of its discography.

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Stephen Colbert took a pause before addressing former Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. To preface the question Colbert wanted to ask him, Colbert threw out one of Sec. Rumsfeld’s most popular quotes. “Th ere are known knowns—things we know that we know. Th ere are known unknowns—things we know we don’t know. Th en there are unknown

people to know that we know. With Iraq, it was known that there was not hard evidence, but we, as the American people, were given a partial picture. Do you think that was the right thing to do?”

The two went back and forth about going into Iraq with the right intentions, and how solid the Bush Administration’s information was about the situation in Iraq. Finally, Sec. Rumsfeld found the right words to answer Colbert’s question. “Th e

National Security Council had all the information. It was all shared between the departments, but nothing was ever certain,” he said. “If we were talking facts, the information wouldn’t be called intelligence. Th ere’s always information that you can’t verify and presidents have to make decisions based off of that intelligence.”

Th e audience went silent. Even Colbert seemed a bit shocked. After a brief pause and several seconds of applause, all Colbert could say was, “I think you answered my question.”

Th is interaction is emblematic of what Stephen Colbert has been doing with Th e Late Show since he took over the program last September. Th ese two, ideologically speaking, should not get along. If you had put Stephen Colbert’s hard-line conservative character from Th e Colbert Report with Donald Rumsfeld, the interview probably would have ended with Rumsfeld storming off the set. But on Th e Late Show, out of character, sincerely conversing with a politician that he has serious questions for, Col-bert is able to have both a friendly and substantive conversation.

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Fallon’s too afraid to get into heavy topics like this with people he knows might get upset.

Colbert takes the risk. He’s not afraid to ask his guests questions that might upset them. He usually won’t, though. Colbert crafts his more controversial questions with the most sincere intention and tone and it usually disarms his more abrasive and argumentative guests. Colbert’s is the cream of the crop, blending the hysterical and the serious. We rarely hear the same comedic scene or voice from episode to episode, and Colbert’s too quick-witted not to get more than a few laughs out of the most hard-to-please viewers.

“I think what’s important are the intentions and capabilities of the people in government,” Rumself said at the end of the interview. “It was Churchill that said, ‘Democracy is the worst form of government except for any other that’s ever been tried.’”

“You know what else he said?” Stephen responded. “Try my solitaire game.” Colbert pulled out his iPad with a green, velvet background with hearts and diamonds that read “Churchill Solitaire.” “Th ank you, sir. It was a real honor to talk with you.” Th e two shook hands.

mixed with overly artsy interludes

and mediocre fi ller content.

It’s evident that Gas-Lab has

evolved not just as a producer, but as

a dynamic musician. Th e fi rst track,

“Reencuentro” (Rediscovery) is rife

with crackling vinyl eff ects, piano

backing, and maracas. Immediately

following “Reencuentro” is “Prima-

vera” (Spring), which includes jazzy

electric guitar riff s and traditional

cymbal accents. Perhaps the most

experimental track on the album is

the “Altas Montanas, Spoken Word”

(Highlands), a french horn-head-

lined, synth-heavy ode to Haiti and

its tragic history.

Th e diversity of the album’s styles

is present in its featured artists as

well. “Altas Montanas” contains a

verse in French Creole from guest

rapper Me-Stair. Several guest sing-

ers perform in English, and the fi nal

track features a pair of Mexican

artists sharing the mic with resident

MC Hache St.

Th e pacing of the album is slow

and methodical. Jubilo’s fi rst four

songs follow a similar formula of up-

beat bass and drum beats mixed with

slow, relaxing instrumental features.

The fifth, “Principio” (Beginning)

has quicker drums and more domi-

nant percussion, but retains a slow,

melodic chorus, meant to maintain

a tonal continuity. After “Principio,”

percussion remains strong for most

of the rest of the album, while the

unknowns.”“Th ose are the ones that get you,”

Sec. Rumsfeld interrupted. Th e audi-ence chuckled.

Sec. Rumsfeld looked uncomfort-able. He probably knew where this question was going, but he politely sat back and let Colbert get to his point. “I think there’s a fourth option though—known unknowns,” Colbert suggested, “Th ese are things we know, but we choose not to know or things that we know, but don’t want other

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THE HEIGHTS Thursday, January 28, 2016B6

There’s a cliche out there that hockey

should be called “goalie.” There are worse

cliches. In team sports, only quarterbacks in

football impact winning the way goalies do in

hockey. In baseball, pitchers pitch now and

then, and even quarterbacks sit for more than

half the game when factoring in special teams.

Goalies, though, are always on call. A hockey

team’s skaters can play like garbage ,and as long

as that team’s goalie is better than the opposi-

tion’s, he gives his team a chance to win.

It’s true in theory and in practice. Hockey-reference.com tracks all players in the NHL’s

individual “point shares”—that is, each player’s

estmated contribution to his team’s point total.

The stat is analogous to WAR, or wins above

replacement, in baseball or basketball. By this

metric, eight out of the 10 most valuable play-

ers in the NHL last season were goalies.

Last year wasn’t an anomaly, either. In the

2011-12 season, seven of the 10 most valuable

players were goalies. In 2012-13, the entire top

eight most valuable players were goalies. In

2013-14, eight of 10 again.

This season has been the aberration—just

five of the top ten players are goalies, but those

five are all in the top seven, and last season’s

Hart Trophy winner as the NHL’s MVP, Mon-

treal netminder Carey Price, has been injured

for most of the season.

If this horse isn’t dead enough for you, War-on-ice.com has its own total player contribu-

tion metric called goals above replacement,

or GAR. The website’s database goes back to

2005, and of the top 20 GAR seasons in that

time frame, 12 of those seasons have come

from goalies.

There are no equivalent statistics in college

hockey, but the differences between the college

and pro game only enhance the importance of

a top goalie. There is more variance in player

quality across college hockey than in the NHL,

and thus that variance matters most at the

sport’s most important position.

Every year, I argue with my friends that a starting

pitcher is the true National or American League Most

Valuable Player.

For example, there was never a doubt in my mind

that Clayton Kershaw was the most important player

in the NL for the 2014 season. He had the highest

wins above replacement (WAR), a stat that measures

how many wins a player adds to a team compared to

a below-average player, in the sport. Generally, that’s

something that’d make you pretty valuable. But the

argument people come back at me with is that pitchers

only play 33 games a year if they pitch a full regular

season (Kershaw, in 2014, only 27 starts) and should

be limited to the Cy Young Award, a pitcher-specific

honor.

Nay, I say to you, does it matter more how many

games you play or how many times you actually en-

counter a live ball? A batter who doesn’t get hurt or has

regular rest will have about 650 plate appearances in a

single season—Giancarlo Stanton, the man who fin-

ished second in 2014, had 638. Yet Kershaw faced 749

batters that season (he typically averages about 900),

meaning he had a direct impact in 100 more plays than

Stanton. And Kershaw did it better than Stanton.

These stars, like Kershaw, don’t provide offense.

They prevent it. And there’s no reason why that doesn’t

make them “Most Valuable.”

But I don’t believe that logic applies as well to

hockey.

I appreciate the talent that Thatcher Demko is.

There is no doubt in my mind that Demko is the only

logical choice for the third-annual Mike Richter Award,

college hockey’s response to its lack of a Vezina Tro-

phy. And he must be making a convincing case to the

people, considering he currently has a healthily wide

lead in fan voting for the Hobey Baker Award.

But I don’t know if I’d make the case if he’s the most

valuable member of Boston College men’s hockey

right now.

Don’t get me wrong, Demko has played fantasti-

cally. His statistics speak for themselves. But the Eagles

didn’t do so poorly without him. Backup and first

semester freshman Ian Milosz, a 6-foot-7 behemoth

of a goaltender, was thrown into the fire against Provi-

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WHO DESERVES THE HOBEY BAKER AWARD?

dence, the defending national champs and currently

the 10th-highest scoring offense in the country. In two

games, Milosz gave up seven goals. That’s normally a

lot, but against the Friars, it led to a win and tie for

the Eagles.

So if Milosz can seamlessly replace Demko, it’s hard

to say he’s the top option. So then who is?

How about Colin White?

On a team with a parade of offensive superstars,

White sticks out more than the others. The Ottawa

Senators prospect has notched a point in 16 of the 22

games that he has played, including nine multi-point

games. He has 31 overall (14 goals, 17 assists), good for

11th in the country, one more than fellow Eagle Ryan

Fitzgerald. But while Fitzgerald has scored 14 goals on

102 shots, White has done so on 80—only five players

have more goals on fewer shots than White.

But White’s ability to wreak havoc and attack

the net has proved an invaluable asset to the Eagles,

one they lacked last season. He (and Fitzgerald) have

already passed Alex Tuch’s team-leading 28 points

from last year. White has constantly attacked the net

with fervor throughout the season, keeping pressure

on both opposing goaltenders and defenses. It has even

led to two penalty shot attempts. (He missed them

both, but it’s the thought that counts.)

He’s also a natural leader as well, something that

most of these awards take very seriously—justifiably

so or not. In his first year as a member of the U.S. U-

18 National Team, White was elected as an alternate

captain with Auston Matthews and Louie Belpedio.

He has the flare of a freshman—you’ve all seen his

electrifying dab in the World Juniors—but the poise

of a senior. He rarely takes a penalty, with only 30

minutes total (14 of them in BC’s Nov. 8 game against

Maine). Not every freshman stays out of the box as

well as White (looking at you, Miles Wood, with your

nation-leading 62 minutes).

Oh yeah, and what happened when White was at

the World Juniors? BC’s offense became anemic. The

Eagles’ two Winter Break games in Estero, Fla. against

Ohio State and PC were disasters. BC fell 3-2 and 2-1,

respectively, to finish fourth in the Florida College

Hockey Classic. Since his return? BC has gotten a

point in every game.

You want to talk about valuable? Talk about Colin

White.

Additionally, players in college hockey are

worse, younger, and less-practiced than pro-

fessionals, leading to more defensive break-

downs and odd man rushes for offenses—cri-

ses that goalies must deal with.

To argue that any skater, no matter how

dominant in his time on the ice, should be

considered a better candidate than a premium

goalie for the award that goes to the top player

in college hockey is drawing dead.

Qualitatively and quantitatively, Thatcher

Demko has been a premium goalie this sea-

son. The classic butterfly goalie at 6-foot-4,

195 pounds, Demko is rarely caught out of

position, but after undergoing hip surgery last

offseason, he is flexible and quick enough to

make flashy, lunging saves when need be. His

presence dictates that BC has an advantage on

just about every shift, no matter the matchup

between skaters.

“I’ve been Thatcher’s teammate for four

years [between BC and the U.S. Develop-

ment Program] and I’ve never seen him as

plugged-in as he is now,” Demko’s classmate

and BC defenseman Steve Santini said after

the San Diego, Calif., native put on another

elite performance against Maine earlier this

season. “Confident, mature, at times he makes

it look easy, and for any team to see that, I

think it gives us confidence and helps us win

games.”

At .936, Demko’s save percentage is just

.007 back of the nationwide leader in that

statistic, Chris Neil of Bowling Green. Demko

has also played nearly 60 minutes, or a full

game, more than Neil, as Boston College’s

backup goalie situation has been in flux for

much of the season, and thus faced 48 more

shots than Neil. BC is sixth in the country in

total goals against, yet is 18th in total shots

allowed. Demko represents that difference.

There is nothing that drives a team’s suc-

cess in hockey like a high-level goaltender.

Demko has been that this season. Out of

all of BC’s top performers this year, Demko

deserves foremost consideration for the

Hobey Baker.

SUNY Buffalo cut football in

1970, returning it as a D-III sport in

1977. It moved up to the FCS level in

1993 before returning to FBS in 1999.

Since then, the program has com-

piled two winning seasons (2008 and

2013) and has not beaten a Power

Five school. BC is 6-2 against the

Bulls in the all-time series, the most

recent matchup a 41-0 destruction

by Matt Ryan in 2006. And they’re

only on the path to more pain in

2016—their best player, quarterback

Joe Licata, has moved onto (likely)

warmer pastures after turning in a

solid senior campaign (2,969 yards,

62.4 completion percentage, 15 TD

to 13 INT)—putting Buffalo back in

the rebuilding boat.

Mark your calendars: on Friday,

Oct. 7, National Championship run-

ner-up Clemson visits BC on what

will most likely be Red Bandanna

Night at Alumni Stadium. Deshaun

Watson is returning after his impres-

sive 2015 campaign, which saw him

throw for over 4,000 yards and rush

for over 1,000, becoming the first

quarterback in FBS history to do so.

He will try to carry his team to an-

other National Championship game

as he builds his case to be a 2016

Heisman candidate. Yes, there will be

hype: ESPN will pounce on the Red

Bandanna storyline and Deshaun

Watson’s unbelievable resume. Be-

neath all this, however, lie two foot-

ball teams with ferocious defenses.

Prepare for controlled chaos.

At this point, BC has what it so

desperately needed last year: a mid-

season bye. Following what could be

a physically and emotionally draining

game against Clemson, the Eagles

will have a week to rest and prepare

for two winnable battles at home ver-

sus Syracuse and on the road at NC

State. Last season, BC didn’t receive a

bye until November—by then, it was

too late to reap many of the benefits

that a bye week provides.

Coming out of the bye week,

the Eagles will host the Orange on

Oct. 22. Although the two schools

normally play on the final week of

the season, which is usually consid-

ered “Rivalry Week,” BC Athletics

confirms that it has not received

an explanation from the ACC for

why the game against Syracuse

will now take place in mid-Octo-

ber—however, there is no change,

according to BC Athletics, in the

two schools’ relationships and both

are considered the other’s rival since

the Orange joined the ACC in 2013

and reunited the two former Big East

foes. Syracuse collected its fourth

and final win of 2015 against BC in

the Carrier Dome during Rivalry

Week, but the team is a lot less scary

away from home—last season, the

Orange didn’t win a single game on

the road.

BC then travels to NC State on

Oct. 29 in a pre-Halloween clash in

Raleigh. Last year, Jacoby Brissett

and his receiving corps torched the

Eagle secondary en route to a 24-8

win in the final home game of the

season. This year, however, Brissett

is gone, leaving a gap in the Wolfpack

offense and few clear remedies.

Regardless, NC State is returning

a top-tier defense that rivals BC’s

own defensive unit, which could

make this year’s matchup another

low-scoring affair.

ACC Freshman of the Year La-

mar Jackson will lead his Louisville

squad into Chestnut Hill for another

contest on Nov. 5. Jackson has been

dubbed the next Deshaun Watson

by some, as he showed last year that

he is very dangerous when out of

the pocket. Although he still needs

work as a passer, the Cardinals are

confident that he is their guy for the

future after he torched Texas A&M

in the Music City Bowl. Last season,

Louisville escaped with a 17-14 win

on its home turf to push the all-time

series record to 5-3 in favor of the

Cardinals.

Jimbo Fisher & Co. remember

how BC’s defense nearly led to an up-

set last year, and the Seminoles won’t

forget it when the Eagles make the

trek to Tallahassee for a Friday night

grudge match on Nov. 11. The game

will be televised on ESPN as part of a

special Veteran’s Day broadcast. De-

spite BC’s dismal record last season,

don’t expect Florida State to take the

Eagles lightly. And with Dalvin Cook

returning to the line of scrimmage for

the Seminoles in 2016, BC will face an

immense challenge in slowing an FSU

offense that looks to plow through

opposing defenses all year long. Plus,

#FSUTwitter likely remembers the

scare the Tyler Murphy-led Eagles of

2014 put into them.

BC returns to Alumni Stadium

for the final home game of the season

against UConn on Nov. 19, in what

will be the 13th meeting all-time be-

tween the two programs. The Eagles

have won nine straight dating back to

1912, and the non-conference duels

are set to continue in the near future.

BC also has the Huskies scheduled

for meetings in 2017, 2022, and 2023.

The AAC foe finished 2015 at 6-7,

culminating in a loss to Marshall in

the St. Petersburg Bowl.

Finally, the Eagles will once

again wrap up their regular season

schedule on the road, this time at

Wake Forest on Nov. 26. The Demon

Deacon defense gave BC trouble in

their meeting last year, in what was

one of the most frustrating losses in

recent school history. Wake came

away with a 3-0 win as clock manage-

ment issues caused a painful defeat

in the final seconds of the game.

Look for BC’s offense to come out

in this matchup with a chip on its

shoulder.

All three of BC’s wins were at

Alumni Stadium—none against

conference opponents. But the

Eagles should have most of their

wins at home again this year. Only

two, Clemson and Louisville, pose

an overwhelming challenge, while

the others (including Georgia Tech)

are theoretically winnable games.

Addazio’s club will likely only face

one nearly-impossible threat on

the road, Florida State. Note that

he is only one year removed from

a highly successful road win streak.

2014’s 7-6 team won all but one of

its road games, the one mishap a

20-17 loss to the Jameis Winston-led

Seminoles, a team that later won the

conference.

Yet, unlike in recent years, BC

lacks a premier non-conference op-

ponent. Some of the recent members

of the Eagles’ non-ACC slate have

included Notre Dame, Southern

California (home-and-home), and

Northwestern (home-and-home).

When you include the Fighting Irish,

who play every other one of their

qualifying sports in the ACC besides

football (Independent), this will be

the first year the Eagles do not have

a Power Five non-conference team

on the schedule since 2006.

But you don’t need marquee

matchups to make bowl games, only

if you want to push higher in the AP

Poll and make a run at the College

Football Playoff. And right now, the

goal of this rebuilding program is

to restore itself to a winning record

and play December football. With

this schedule, improved coaching,

and development from the players,

BC has a chance to get there only

one year removed from a last-place

finish.

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big men, despite standing just

6-foot-2.

“He’s probably our toughest

kid,” Christian said.

On a team that sometimes

needs a bit more physicality, Hicks

could be in line for a more promi-

nent bench role as the year pro-

gresses, particularly if his off ense

develops further.

Th ree Down

1.) Transition Play: FSU likes

to play the game at a fast tempo.

It allows guards Dwayne Bacon,

Malik Beasley, and Xavier Rathan-

Mayes to attack the rim against

a backpedalling defense, picking

up easy buckets. Stretches of this

game turned into a track meet,

with both teams sprinting the fl oor,

throwing full-court passes and

relentlessly attacking the rim.

In theory, this would be good

for the Eagles, an offense that

struggles mightily to score in the

half court. Despite that, against

FSU, BC’s fast breaks were very

ineffi cient. Often the ball handler

simply put his head down, barrel-

ing to the rim and throwing up

a wild attempt, hoping for a foul

call. Carter was guilty of this a

few times.

Other times, the Eagles simply

couldn’t handle passes or maintain

their dribble on the break. Th ese

live-ball turnovers allowed FSU to

run the other way, allowing them

to score 16 points off turnovers.

2.) Defensive Rebounding:

In news that shocks nobody, the

Eagles’ lack of size was again an

issue against FSU. Th e Seminoles,

whose players have the third-high-

est average height in the nation,

amassed 16 offensive rebounds,

constantly beating the Eagles to

the ball or muscling them away

from rebounds.

Some of these issues were

because Eagles played a 2-3 zone

for some of the game. In the zone,

rebounding assignments are hard

to keep track of, often allowing op-

ponents to grab a high percentage

of off ensive rebounds.

Regardless , these second-

chance points helped the Semi-

noles score 36 in the paint and

shoot 25 free throws. Bacon pulled

down 14 rebounds, including fi ve

on the off ensive end, proving too

strong for BC’s smaller guards to

handle.

3.) Free-Th row Shooting: BC

ranks 330th in the nation in free-

throw rate, indicative of both its

lack of size and inability to get to

the rim consistently. In addition,

not only do the Eagles rarely shoot

free throws, but they also struggle

mightily to make them. As a team,

the Eagles shoot 63.6 percent from

the line, 320th in the country.

Against FSU, this season-long

issue once again reared its ugly

head. Th e team made just two of

its nine free throw attempts, a feat

that left Christian dumbfounded.

“Th at was a joke,” he said. “We

can’t go 2-for-9 from the line, es-

pecially at home.”

For the Eagles to win in the

ACC, they will have to work on the

little things, starting with the most

open shots in the game.

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No one hates Hockey East more than

Notre Dame head coach Jeff Jackson, which

is convenient, because Jerry York hates Jeff

Jackson, too. The Fighting Irish have had

the Eagles’ number in recent years, except

when it comes to, yaknow, actually winning

titles . Despite ND’s 12-game point streak ,

BC is going to find a way to come straight

outta Compton (Family Ice Arena) with a win.

The Irish are riding an 12-game unbeaten

streak into Friday night’s showdown in South

Bend, and haven’t been shut out on their home

ice in nearly a year. Both will end as Notre

Dame will run up against the country’s best

goalie in Thatcher Demko, who was the last

man to hold the Irish scoreless back in Febru-

ary of last year. The score in that meeting?

2-0. Eagles get revenge as deja vu strikes again.

If you don’t remember the last time BC and Notre

Dame squared off , you’re not alone: it took place the

day before fi nals started in December. Don’t worry,

though, because even if you forgot about the 4-3 loss,

the Eagles sure didn’t. Th ey’ll hit the ice ready and

raring to go, especially after a disappointing tie to

UConn last weekend. We’re officially entering the

most exciting part of the season, with the Beanpot

and Hockey East tournaments looming. Look for BC

to dominate the Irish and capture Jerry’s 1,001 win.

Prediction:BC 3, Notre Dame 2

Prediction:BC 2, Notre Dame 0

Prediction:BC 4, Notre Dame 1

It was a matchup between

the best and the worst of Hockey

East. Th e Eagles knew they could

walk away with a win in order to

keep their perfect season dreams

alive. Hoping to make a jump in

the league standings, Merrimack

prayed for an upset. Unfortu-

nately for the Warriors, their 15

shots to the Eagles’ 56 was not

going to give them the boost they

needed. Th e No. 1 Boston College

Eagles (27-0-0, 15-0-0 Hockey

East) defeated the Merrimack

Warriors (4-22-1, 2-14-1) handily

in a 4-1 victory.

Merrimack came out hot and

put pressure on Katie Burt. Just

seconds into the game, Katelyn

Rae had a great look on goal. But

Burt was there and robbed Rae

right on the goal line, allowing

BC to settle into the game and

take control.

Th e Eagles dominated most of

the fi rst period on the off ensive

end, fi ring off 20 shots on goal.

Haley Skarupa put the Eagles on

the board with a clean top-shelf

shot at 5:27 in the fi rst. Seconds

later, Warrior Annie Boeckers

headed to the box for interfer-

ence, giving BC its first power

play opportunity of the night.

Kenzie Kent made Boeckers

pay for her penalty when she

snuck one past goalie Samantha

Ridgewell to give BC a 2-0 lead.

Then Makenna Newkirk sent

one high into the net, giving the

Eagles a 3-0 edge after one.

To open up the second period,

the Warriors had 1:45 left on a

cross-checking penalty, giving

them a great opportunity to close

the 3-0 gap. Felila Manu fi red the

puck toward Burt and a BC de-

fender defl ected it into the goal,

making it a 3-1 game. For the re-

mainder of the period, both teams

went back and forth, but the goal-

ies stood strong and denied each

puck that came their way.

In the third frame, the Eagles

were prepared to seal a league

win to continue their streak.

BC continually put pressure on

Ridgewell, but nothing got past

her. Halfway through the period,

the score remained 3-1. Th ough

they were ahead, the Eagles were

still not satisfi ed.

Meghan Grieves fi red the puck

toward the net, allowing Kristyn

Capizzano to sneak the rebound

past Ridgewell to give BC a 4-1

advantage. Th e Warriors did not

give up. Th ey continued to push

the BC defense, but to no avail.

With under a minute left,

Merrimack had the biggest op-

portunity of the night with a

1-on-1 through the zone. Burt

rejected Madison Morey’s come-

back attempt, guaranteeing the

Eagles a 4-1 Hockey East road

victory.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

NCAA, from B8

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

some basketball players can go

one-and-done and do just fi ne

for themselves. But I’m thinking

about the bigger picture. Nobody

can play in the pros forever. And

while professional athletes like

Tom Brady or Steph Curry will

have job opportunities left and

right following retirement, most

athletes will not be approached

by ESPN when they throw in the

towel on their career. Less than

2 percent of college basketball

players make it to the NBA. For

so many hopeful athletes, the

dream of turning pro is just that:

a dream. So what happens when

an athlete who left school early

retires, or doesn’t get the success

they anticipate? Th ey’re stuck

without a diploma and without

any money coming in. Athletes

who graduate from college at least

have a degree to fall back on, and

with that the potential for another

career.

But I know how naive it is to

expect athletes to sit patiently

in college and graduate before

turning pro. For some of them,

big bucks await in the big leagues,

and it just doesn’t make sense to

wait around for that money. On

the fl ip side, many others mis-

judge the level of interest teams

are showing. Th e new rule change

protects athletes like that. Instead

of blindly declaring for the draft

and then realizing later that they

should have stayed in college at

least another year, athletes will

have a better idea of their position

in the draft and can make the

right choices for themselves with

the most knowledge possible.

Th e rule change hits close to

home for Eagles fans. In April

2015, then-junior Olivier Hanlan

announced that he was skipping

his fi nal season at Boston College

and entering the NBA Draft.

Hanlan had enjoyed success at

BC—in his freshman campaign,

he started every game, led the

team in scoring, and was named

ACC Rookie of the Year. As a

sophomore and junior, the team’s

record dipped, but Hanlan’s num-

bers stayed consistently good. He

was selected 42nd overall in the

second round of the 2015 NBA

Draft by the Utah Jazz. After a

stint with the Jazz in the summer

league, he signed a one-year deal

to play overseas in Lithuania.

If Hanlan had been able to take

advantage of the rule change, it’s

possible he would have consulted

an agent, learned how he’d stack

up at the combine, stayed at BC

for his senior campaign, gradu-

ated, and then gone on to pursue

a career in the Association.

So I commend the NCAA.

Th is rule change might hurt

coaches, who will not know what

positions they need to fi ll before

high schoolers sign letters of

intent, but it is the best thing they

could have done for collegiate

athletes. At the end of the day,

whether to declare for the draft is

an unbelievably important deci-

sion that will have an enormous

impact on an athlete’s future.

Th is new rule change is designed

to help athletes through the

decision-making process in the

best way possible. After years of

a system benefi tting the coaches,

it is a big step forward for the

NCAA to implement a system in

the athletes’ favor.

Rebounding, from B8

on the zone on a guard-heavy

BC squad.

“He’s in a tough spot,” Chris-

tian said. “He plays two, three,

and four for us because of our

team. But he does battle. One

thing about Darryl, he’s prob-

ably our toughest kid.”

Christian likened Hicks to

Clifford—an apt comparison,

as both have missed extensive

time due to their respective

injuries. They’re also the two

guys currently playing hardest

on the court for the Eagles.

“When the game is taken

away from you, you kind of

reevaluate things,” Christian

said. “So I think he’s just happy

to be playing . But he does

compete.”

Toward the end of the sec-

ond half, this intensity caught

up to him a bit. Just minutes

after Robinson came out of the

game after slamming into the

ground on a breakaway dunk,

Hicks attempted to make a

steal, fell, and his face slammed

into the floor, making a sound

no coach ever wants to hear.

Hicks walked off the court,

but didn’t return to the game—

the first in a while that BC has

been close enough to start the

foul game at the end, though it

never got too close. Yet the ef-

fort he made on that play alone

stood out. Christian has said

earlier this season that while

Carter and Clifford do have

certain roles as leaders on this

team, it’s also up to the younger

guys to take up the responsibil-

ity. Hicks is showing just how

that can be done.

Darryl Hicks, from B8

Eli Carter (3, right) shot only 33 percent from the field (6-of-18), but was still BC’s leading scorer with 16 points. Darryl Hicks, however, was the star.AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2016

INSIDESPORTSTHIS ISSUE

It’s a story all too common in today’s

world: A seemingly mediocre college

basketball player explodes during March

Madness, decides to leave college and

enter the NBA Draft, and then struggles

to keep up with the big boys. If you don’t

believe me, just ask Vander Blue, who

entered the NBA Draft at the end of his

junior year after a stellar March Mad-

ness run with Marquette and then went

undrafted. For the past few years he has

bounced around from team to team,

sometimes on an NBA roster and some-

times on a D-League roster. He even had

a stint playing overseas in Israel.

Earlier this month, the NCAA an-

nounced a rule change that will hopefully

limit stories like Blue’s. Previously, the

NCAA required that athletes declare

for the NBA Draft in April, before high

school recruits sign their letters of intent.

This arrangement only benefitted coach-

es and schools. They were able to assess

their needs based on departing players

and pursue high school recruits accord-

ingly. On Jan. 13, the NCAA announced

that, starting this year, athletes have up

to 10 days after the end of the combine

to withdraw from the draft. In addition,

athletes can declare for the draft more

than once throughout their college career

without being penalized. This year, the

NBA Combine will take place from May

11-15. Under the new rule, any NCAA

athlete has until May 25 to withdraw

from the draft.

This development is an overdue and

excellent step forward for college bas-

ketball players. They can test the waters,

participate in the combine, and work out

with one NBA team. If they sense interest

or believe that they will be drafted by a

team, they can enter the draft confidently.

If they believe they aren’t at the NBA

level yet and should play another year

in college to hone their skills and gain

maturity and leadership, they can back

out without losing any NCAA eligibility

and declare for the draft in future years

without being penalized.

I believe this change is just about the

best thing the NCAA could have done

for college basketball players. One of

the most painful mistakes an athlete can

make is declaring for the draft too early.

Sacrificing a successful college career and

a college diploma on the mistaken belief

that there is a team willing to take you

on is terrible and can only lead to painful

regret. This new rule gives athletes a bet-

ter understanding of their chances in the

draft and allows them to make informed

decisions that will impact their futures.

Now, if it were up to me, college

athletes would remain in school and

get their diploma before declaring for

any draft. I know, I know—besides the

fact that a rule like that can’t really be

enforced, many athletes are in their

prime during their college years. They

may be worried about severe injuries

hurting their chances of getting drafted

if they stay in school for four years. I

understand that there are a lot of factors

that go into declaring for a draft, and that

During one of the media time-

outs, an announcer made his way

to the BC logo at half court. Micro-

phone in hand, he tried to fire up the

crowd. Much to his dismay, no one

was there to answer. His “We Are!

BC!” chant fell on the empty seats of

Conte Forum.

In front of a sparse crowd—of-

ficial attendance was listed at just

over 2,000—Boston College men’s

basketball (7-13, 0-7 Atlantic Coast)

dropped its seventh straight game to

the Florida State Seminoles Tuesday

night (13-7, 3-5) 72-62, in a sloppy,

fast-paced affair. Though the results

were again dismal, there were several

positives hidden in the defeat.

Even Jim Christian agreed with

that notion.

“That was probably, for 40 min-

utes, the hardest we’ve played in a

while,” he said after the game.

Three Up1.) Jerome Robinson: Robinson

had an excellent game, scoring 15

points on an efficient 6-for-10 shoot-

ing clip. For most of the season, he

has impressed with his ability to

get to the basket and finish through

contact, as well as with his midrange

shooting acumen.

Tonight, he impressed from be-

yond the arc, canning three of his four

3-point attempts, tripling his total

from the first six games of ACC play.

Robinson did most of his damage by

spotting up on the weak side of Eli

Carter’s pick and rolls.

Robinson utilized the general

concept of the play above to hit all

of his threes. Christian knew before

the game that this particular shot

would be open.

“That was what was going to be

open today because of how they

guard the ball screen,” he said.

FSU had their center hedge hard

on the screen, essentially doubling

Carter. This left only Robinson’s

man to bump Dennis Clifford rolling

down the lane, which then opened up

Robinson for easy 3-point looks. He

was able to hop into the shot and set

his feet, making the defense pay for

its strategy.

2.) Eli Carter, Attacking: Though

he still settled for too many isolation,

pull-up threes, Carter demonstrated

his pick-and-roll skills throughout

the game. He totaled eight assists,

with the majority generated by his

penetration and its impact on the

defense. In addition to the passes he

made on Robinson’s threes, he had

several nice dimes to his big men

under the basket.

The play above demonstrates the

patience Carter has developed in the

pick and roll game. He drives into the

lane and waits for Boris Bojanovsky

to commit to him before dropping a

pass to Idy Diallo for the layup.

Carter also used the pick and roll

to score.

He does an excellent job of slow-

ing down and keeping his defender on

his hip, away from the ball. He then

crosses over and puts up a floater be-

fore the defense can recover. Most im-

portantly, the shot comes in rhythm.

If Carter can incorporate more of this

type of play into his game, forgoing a

few ill-advised threes, he could open

up even more looks for both himself

and his teammates.

3.) Darryl Hicks: During ACC

play, Hicks has gradually become

a staple in the rotation. While his

shooting range has not yet expanded

out to the 3-point line, he has shown

comfort with taking jumpers one

or two steps inside the line. Twice

against FSU, he capitalized on open

looks generated by teammates, some-

thing the Eagles desperately need.

He also showcased aggressive,

physical defense and tremendous

hustle, constantly diving on the floor

for loose balls and even getting a tip

in on a missed shot among FSU’s

Don’t turn the ball over.

Basketball coaches around the country

repeat this every day. On Wednesday night,

Boston College women’s basketball proved

exactly why coaches continually instruct

their teams to do this. The Eagles (13-7,

1-6 Atlantic Coast) turned the ball over 25

times on their way to a 62-61 defeat by the

Syracuse Orange (14-7, 4-4) at the Carrier

Dome in Syracuse, N.Y.

BC came out with a hot start in the first

quarter, taking an early 13-2 lead buoyed by

three 3-pointers from junior Kelly Hughes.

This mini-run to begin the game set the

tone for a solid first quarter effort from the

Eagles, who continued their scoring to take a

20-15 lead heading into the second quarter,

leading by as much as 13 at one point.

In the second quarter, adversity started

to hit the Eagles as the Orange began to play

much better. The turnaround for Syracuse

started late in the first quarter, and its de-

fense was the main catalyst.

The group forced 12 turnovers starting

at the two-minute mark of the first, and

continued that momentum into the second

quarter. Briana Butler dominated the first

half for the Orange, totaling 22 points, with

12 of them coming from beyond the arc.

Syracuse seized control of the game in

the second quarter. The Orange led by as

much as nine and took a 40-31 lead at the

break. The team’s ability to take over the

game and reverse the script was due to its

trademark defensive hustle, which forced a

total of 18 turnovers in the half.

The Eagles reasserted themselves in the

third and much of that was due to Hughes,

who rained down three 3-pointers to start

the second half, just as she did in the first,

and brought the Eagles back within four

points.

While the Eagles still turned the ball over

too much in the third, they held Butler to

only two points and got buckets from four

different players, in addition to Hughes.

This team effort and renewed commit-

ment to slowing down Butler reduced the

lead to as little as one point, and the Eagles

eventually trailed by only three at the end

of the quarter.

BC’s momentum from the third carried

into the fourth, and the comeback rolled on.

Two things keyed a strong fourth quarter for

the Eagles: freshman Mariella Fasoula and a

commitment to ball security. Fasoula scored

six points, and BC did not turn it over once

in the entire quarter.

By the 1:49 mark of the fourth quarter,

the Eagles tied it up at 61 apiece. BC had

a chance to pull ahead on its final posses-

sion when it got the ball into Fasoula in the

post with nine seconds left, but Briana Day

blocked her shot.

After the missed opportunity, each team

called a timeout as they postured for late-

game position. Out of the break, Brittney

Sykes drove the lane for the Orange, and was

fouled on the floor by Hughes. After the foul,

Sykes drove the lane once again and missed

the shot, but Cornelia Fondren rebounded

the miss and Kailey Edwards fouled her on

the put back attempt. Fondren drilled the

first free throw, then missed the second and,

just like that, the game was over. Syracuse

prevailed 62-61.

BC’s resilience was one positive take-

away from the game. Despite being down

big at half and turning the ball over too many

times, the Eagles fought back by playing

better defense. BC beat Syracuse 31-21 in

the second half and almost stole the game,

despite an alarming 25 turnovers.

Much of that can be credited to Hughes,

who scored 21, grabbed 13 rebounds, and

recorded four steals. Fasoula was the second

player whose effort kept the Eagles in it,

as she scored 18 with several big buckets

down the stretch. A road win against a solid

conference foe would have been impressive

for the Eagles, but their desire to fight was

nonetheless impressive.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Darryl Hicks is not the best

basketball player at Boston Col-

lege. He has made just one start,

he averages just 13.7 minutes

and 3.9 points, and he has never

made more than one free throw

in a game.

In many ways, he’s a great

representation of this year ’s

bench—a group that BC (7-13,

0-7 Atlantic Coast) has needed

to step up to help a streaky start-

ing lineup. As has been the case

for much of ACC play, Eli Carter

missed twice as many shots as he

made during BC’s Tuesday night

matchup against Florida State

(13-7, 3-5), and though Jerome

Robinson picked up some of the

slack, the Eagles couldn’t last a

full 40 minutes. FSU’s bench out-

scored BC’s 21-13 on its way to a

72-62 win for the Seminoles.

Individually, Hicks put up

a solid performance, knocking

down 3-of-5 from the field, grab-

bing three rebounds, and play-

ing better defense on forwards

than should be expected from

a 6-foot-2 guard. After slowly

working his way back from a pair

of devastating knee injuries that

forced him to miss his first two

seasons at BC, Hicks has turned

into head coach Jim Christian’s

scrappiest guy.

Unfortunately, it took a hard

crash onto the ground toward the

end of the game for him to get real

attention for it.

Besides point guard leaders

Carter and Robinson, who play

about 33 minutes a game, and

fellow starters Dennis Clifford

and A.J. Turner, who each aver-

age in the mid-20s, BC has six

other players, including Hicks,

who have played most games. In

that time, those guys have made

relatively little impact on the

score—they have each averaged

fewer than 20 minutes and five

points a game.

Where some of BC’s losses

in ACC play have ultimately

come down to cold shooting

performances and poor overall

offensive execution, that wasn’t

the biggest issue against Florida

State—though as a team, the Ea-

gles made just 2-of-9 free throws,

their worst all-time percentage at

Conte Forum, according to BC

basketball’s media guide. From

the field, however, the Eagles

outshot the Seminoles 44.8 to 39

percent in the game and utterly

lit up the 3-point line, making

42.1 percent compared to FSU’s

29.4. Take out a few desperate

heaves by Carter near the end,

and BC’s shooting would look

even better.

The real issue was on the of-

fensive glass. With both Clifford

and backup center Idy Diallo

in some early foul trouble, the

Eagles were forced to play small,

to the benefit of FSU’s Dwayne

Bacon and Jarquez Smith, who

combined for eight offensive

boards on the night. In all, the

Seminoles outrebounded BC 46-

28, with a 16-6 advantage on the

offensive side.

“We’re not very big to be-

gin with, it’s hard rebounding

sometimes out of zone, because

assignments get a little shaky,”

Christian said.

This is where Hicks really

comes in. Despite being 6-foot-2,

two of Hicks’ three rebounds were

on the offensive side. He jumps

up in the air for those boards, he

hustles and dives on the ground

for loose balls—all aspects that

have been notably missing from

BC’s young team this season. He’s

also playing in tough spots on the

defensive side, filling in down low

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ABBY PAULSON AND KELSEY MCGEE / HEIGHTS EDITORS