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Tensions rise in debate on divestment

Reassessing excess in dining halls Initiative donates extra food from BC to local charities

Climate Justice takes on ambitious agenda against administration

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Asst. News Editor According to a Sept. 2013 New York Times report, it would take a global temperature increase of two degrees Celsius to cause drastic and irreparable climate changes.

Around 2040, the report estimated the trillionth ton of fossil fuels will be burned, at which point companies will need to figure out a way to capture and store their carbon emissions to avoid going over the two-degree threshold.

Climate Justice at Boston College (CJBC), an unregistered student organization, has been attempting to convince the University’s administration to divest from fossil fuels. Currently, it is hoping to attract the support of other students and alumni who are unhappy with the University’s endowment’s being partially invested in fossil fuel companies. When describing its efforts, CJBC posits a positive correlation between fossil fuel consumption and rising temperatures.

CJBC has been active in the past by sending letters to John Kerry, various donors, and Pope Francis. It also notably protested at a Bank of America information session, questioning the bank’s involvement with fossil fuel companies. This semester, its coordinating team has planned an entire series of events that is headlined by a march to University President’s Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., office on Friday, Feb. 13 that will end in a vigil.

“The vigil is kinda just a representative end to [the week’s activities] and that’s where we’re going to be doing a lot of the chants about breaking up with fossil fuels,” said Zack Muzdakis, A&S ’17. “We’re just showing Fr. Leahy that we’re still here, we’re still planning to push for divestment and even though we went over break, it’s not over.”

Organizations around the world are organizing similar events pushing for divestment on Feb. 13 and 14—known as Global Divestment Day—and CJBC has planned its march and vigil around those dates. They will read a Valentine’s Day themed letter about breaking up with fossil fuels during the vigil.

“If you’re doomsday with people about environmental stuff, they’ve heard that all before,” said Alyssa Florack, A&S ’17. “Everyone knows they’re supposed to recycle and they shouldn’t drive Hummers because it’s bad.

We’re trying to do something more empowering … we’re trying to do more positive things, and the theme this week is breaking up with fossil fuels for Valentine’s Day.” Muzdakis and Florack said that CJBC plans to host two to three informational sessions designed to educate the student body on the potential effects of climate change caused by fossil fuel consumption and carbon emissions. They are organizing another rally equivalent to Rights on the Heights in March that will be centered around free speech and will feature other groups on campus. In addition, they want to coordinate another event in April or May that will be more radical in nature, pending the University’s reaction to the vigil and the March event.

“Another thing about these bigger actions—the vigil, Rights on the Heights—it’s representing the urgency of the situation, it needs to be addressed,” Muzdakis said. “We can’t really sit back anymore, it’s an urgent issue.”

Florack said that loud and drastic actions are needed because CJBC considers the administration to be disinterested in having a dialogue with the group about divestment.

Despite meetings with UGBC and Leahy, CJBC believes they have nothing to show for

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BC has established a “snow farm” on Brighton Campus, where it hauls truckloads of snow plowed off Main Campus.

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Boston continues to dig out after third storm and fourth missed day of classes at BC, with snow totals still mounting

BY CAROLYN FREEMAN News Editor Boston College resumed regular operations at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, pushing back on a Massachusetts state of emergency called into effect the evening before. As the city of Boston scrambled to remove snow—calling in the support of the National Guard to expedite melting efforts—University students and faculty carried on with class, returning to a regular schedule after a Monday cancellation spurred by Winter Storm Marcus. According to the National Weather Center, approximately 65 inches of snow had accumulated in Boston over the last 30 days.

Executive Vice President Michael Lochhead and Provost and Dean of faculties David Quigley together made the decision to reopen Monday night.

University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J. did not play a role, according to University Spokesman Jack Dunn.

Kevin Shea, executive assistant to the president, also helps to determine cancellations and delays, Dunn said.

The decision makers consult a variety of sources when determining whether or not the University will close, including the Office of Emergency Management, BCPD, and Facilities Management, among others.

Responding to a forecast that called for snow to end late Monday evening, the facilities crew had informed those who made the decision that they

could have most of the lots cleared and the garages opened, Dunn said.

“They made the decision to have a late start at 10:30, which in retrospect proved to be the appropriate decision,” he said.

Snow stopped falling mid Tuesday morning, and many city employers chose to give their employees the full day off, responding to a request from Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09. Due to excessive snow accumulation, the MBTA shut down mid-day Monday. Several schools in the Boston area, including Harvard University, Northeastern University, Emerson College, Suffolk College, and Boston University, had canceled class for Tuesday. T service resumed Wednesday morning.

BC was part of a second group of schools— Brandeis University, Bentley University, and Babson College—that chose a delayed start.

Dunn said that the difference between the schools that chose to close and those that had delayed starts was that those that closed were more centrally located in the city—thus, their employees and students rely heavily on the MBTA to reach campus.

Fifteen percent of BC students living off campus, some relying on the T for transportation. Most, however, are in the the vicinity of the University’s bus routes, which were active Tuesday.

Savannah Hulsopple, CSON ’16, lives in Back Bay, outside the area of BC’s bus service. Hulsopple

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Fallen from grace: Unbeaten Eagles toppled in Beanpot final

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No. 4 Harvard played the spoiler role in the Women’s Beanpot final Tuesday, putting an end to BC’s 28-game unbeaten streak. The Crimson were able to shut down Alex Carpenter and get past goalie Katie Burt in the 3-2 victory. See page B8.

It is 8:20 p.m. on a weeknight, and across campus, dinner has officially ended 20 minutes ago. Students eagerly gather outside the blocked off entrances to the dining areas in Corcoran Commons, McElroy Commons, and Stuart Hall in anticipation of the opening of Late Night.

Behind the blocked off entrances and out of sight, however, is a very different scene.

Students are packaging the excess food from the day—food that would otherwise have been thrown away—and sending it off in a refrigerated food truck to be taken to shelters and food kitchens across the Greater Boston area.

The Every Bite Counts (eBC) initiative was launched as an effort to address the amount of food that was wasted each night in the dining halls across campus. A similar organizational effort had before been instituted under the same name in 2011 by another group of students. It became inactive in 2013 due to a declined student interest.

In September of 2014, Lynn Petrella, Coordinator of Sustainability within the division of Student Initiatives in Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) and A&S ’17, approached administration from Dining Services with her idea of conserving and donating the dining halls’ unused food to those in need, an idea that aligned closely with the organizational goals previously instituted by the first iteration of Every Bite Counts. Petrella, along with the help of Johanna O’Day, A&S ’15, effectively took over the old Every Bite Counts, relaunching it as an initiative from UGBC in November.

The new eBC’s relaunch brought with it the proper organizational and student leadership to make this initiative sustainable.

The initiative serves as a way to reduce and eliminate food waste and cultivate sustainability on campus through the donation of excess food. Each weeknight at 8 p.m., student volunteers repackage the surplus food from the dining halls into containers, which is then delivered throughout Boston.

Petrella’s idea for starting a school-wide initiative followed after taking notice of the wasted food in the dining halls, but the idea truly originated after her participation on a service trip in May of 2014, where she realized that many could benefit from this kind of service.

“I went on the Jamaica Service Trip and I saw very poor people who didn’t have food, and I knew that at BC we spend a lot of money, but a lot of it is put to waste,” Petrella said. “I was just thinking of the people when I was in Jamaica—they could be using that food—and I was sure that there are people in Boston with similar situations, who could also be using our food.”

Petrella noted the support of dining services since her initial proposal in September, in backing the idea and allocating the necessary resources to make the initiative’s refocus possible.

“We are delighted to support Every Bite Counts in their efforts to work with the BC Dining team and Lovin’ Spoonfuls to donate wholesome food that might otherwise be discarded to neighbors with need,” said Beth Emery, director of Dining Services, in an email. “Their mission has a positive impact on the community and prevents food waste which also supports our sustainability goals. Thank you to the student volunteers that have made this wonderful program possible.”

The eBC initiative partners with Lovin’

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Hosted by FACES on Feb. 12 in Stokes Hall 195S at 6:30p.m, ‘Let’s Talk About the Four Letter Words’ will focus on the challenges and complications involved with interracial dating. Students can hear about their peers’ experiences and engage in open dialogue.

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Boston College Amnesty International is presenting their second annual SLAMnesty on Feb. 12 at 7p.m. in Gasson 100. The event will feature dance performances and slam poets focused on “Reflection and Culture.” Hot chocolate and cookies will be included.

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Sexual Chocolate is performing Friday Feb. 13 at 7p.m. in the Robsham theater. The show will also feature a guest performance

by Synergy Hip Hop Dance Company. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online or at Robsham.

Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

News On campus, a discussion on the Keystone XL pipeline Briefs

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Belfast update Winston Rea, a former loyalist prisoner, successfully secured an emergency restraining order against the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) as it attempted to secure his interviews from the Belfast Project, an oral history project Boston College conducted between 2001 and 2006.

The emergency restraining order will last until Friday, at which point Rea’s lawyers will renew his claim that obtaining the materials is a breach to Rea’s privacy.

On Monday, Rea lost a court bid that would have stopped the PSNI from accessing the interviews. A judge had previously been told that Rea’s interviews were needed to investigate into a series of crimes that spanned 30 years.

The interviews that were part of the Belfast Project were given by dozens of former paramilitaries with the understanding that the materials from the project would not be released unless the participants consented or died.

Rea’s lawyers took the case to the court of appeals after their challenge to the PSNI’s attempt to seize the materials was thrown out Friday by a High Court Judge in Belfast.

The PSNI were on a flight on their way to Boston when the Court of Appeals judges issued the ruling that banned them from obtaining the materials. Though the members of the PSNI are now in Boston, they will not be able to seize the Belfast project materials until further legal action is taken.

Depression The annual survey conducted by the University of California, Los Angeles, Cooperative Institutional Research Program found that incoming university students in 2014 are at their lowest self-reported levels of mental health. This change could be spurred by students spending more time on the computer and less time with friends than ever.

The survey includes students from 227 colleges and universities.

Boston College was not included in the study.

Of the surveyed incoming freshmen from 2014, 9.5 percent felt depressed—this is a 6.1 percent increase over the past five years.

The number of students that claim to frequently fall asleep in class has reached 14.1 percent. In addition, 34.6 percent of freshmen feel overwhelmed by schoolwork and other commitments.

Alcohol consumption has changed as well—in 1984, 69 percent of freshmen said they occasionally or frequently drank beer. In 2014, just 33.5 percent of freshmen said they occasionally or frequently drank beer. Of the freshmen surveyed, 39 percent said they drunk hard liquor, whereas in 2004, 52 percent of freshmen said that they did.

Along with this change, students have been spending a significantly increased amount of time on the Internet. In 2007, 18.9 percent of students said they spent six or more hour a week on social media. In 2014, that number had increased to 27.2 percent.

However, just 23.4 percent of students aspire to earn no more than a bachelor’s degree. Forty years ago, 50.8 percent of students did not aspire to further education. In addition, in 1974 just 28.1 percent of people aspired to earn a master’s degree as their highest degree, whereas now, 43.6 percent of students aspire to that level of education.

Originally proposed in 2008—and a topic of controversy ever since—the construction of a proposed Keystone XL extension of the Keystone Pipeline running between Canada and the United States has lately found its way back into the public eye. It was approved by the U.S. Senate last month and more recently by the House of Representatives Wednesday evening.

Pipeline Politics: Keystone XL and American Energy Policy, a joint event hosted by the Eagle Political Society (EPS) and Boston College EcoPledge featuring professor of political science David Deese, brought the debate surrounding Keystone XL to campus on Tuesday. The talk provided a forum for discussion, examining questions of energy and the environment.

Before opening the conversation to a discussion-based question-andanswer session, Deese addressed a multitude of issues that the Keystone pipeline could possibly create, analyzing its construction as a logistical, commercial, and environmental issue. Citing a statistic that approximately one third of the United States’ net oil imports come from Canada, Deese stressed the importance of the trade relationship between the U.S. and Canada with regards to energy.

Deese made an effort to explain the complicated logistics which disincentivize fossil fuel commerce, and also noted the problems created by dependence upon fossil fuel as a source of energy.

“It’s not only environmental but it goes through some indigenous lands in Nebraska and it touches on these bigger issues of fossil fuels—do we want to rely more and more and more

Heights Staff This past week, alumna Karen Daley, M.S. ’04, Ph.D. ’10, was appointed as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. This institute provides children and adults with cancer treatment as well as conducts research into a cure.

“I feel honored to have the opportunity to serve as a Trustee for this outstanding organization and to bring my knowledge, voice, and perspective as an experienced nurse leader to further enhance the safety and quality experience for Dana-Farber patients and staff,” she said.

Daley was elected to serve as a governing trustee, the main charge of which is to oversee management of the organization. Specific duties include attending and participating in Board and committee meetings, overseeing of the care quality at the hospital, approving the organization’s direction, approving of operating and capital budgets, and selecting and evaluating the CEO, she said.

Daley said she hopes that her new position on the Board of Trustees will allow her to assume more

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The U.S. Senate approved the pipeline extension, which critics believe will have severe climate change impacts. on fossil fuels?” Deese said. “No, all the countries’ energy policies around the world are really trying to diversify away from fossil fuels.”

Recent events also essential to the Keystone XL pipeline discussion included an agreement between the U.S. and China to combat climate change in which the U.S. promised deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and China set a target for capping their emissions by the year 2030.

Deese emphasized the importance of this agreement from an environmental standpoint and foreign relations point of view.

“Neither China nor the U.S., by far the two biggest greenhouse gas emitters, had committed to any sort of target,” Deese said. “Any commitment on the part of one country appeared to hinge on a commitment from the other country.”

After priming the audience with this background information, Deese opened up the floor to questions, most of which explored the explicit and implicit environmental impacts of both the project and the recent

leadership positions in the future.

“More importantly, I would hope appointments like mine at Dana Farber might represent an important shift that signals a greater recognition of the value of nursing’s voice and presence in healthcare,” she said.

Daley has been a nurse for 42 years. In 1973, she graduated from a Boston area diploma program.

“I think I considered and chose nursing in high school as one of the limited options presented to female students by guidance counselors at that time,” Daley said.

Even though Daley chose nursing due to the limited options women were afforded at the time, she has enjoyed her work.

“I loved clinical practice because I knew I had the opportunity to impact the quality of a patient’s experience and outcome,” she said.

“Since leaving clinical practice in early 1999, I have enjoyed constant learning and growth along with the many leadership opportunities I have experienced.”

In 1998, Daley contracted HIV and Hepatitis C while working in the emergency department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

She went to discard a used needle

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agreement between the U.S. and China. One major issue addressed by the audience and Deese was the feasibility of the new U.S.-China emissions agreement, and more importantly whether both sides would honor this agreement in light of the potential expansion of domestic energy production. Deese expressed uncertainty mixed with hopefulness on the part of the United States in honoring these commitments.

“The reliability or the predictability of the Chinese meeting their commitment is higher than that of the U.S.,” Deese said. “You’ve got a new president in two years cranking away in February of 2018 and it depends a lot on who it is. So certain steps that the U.S. takes I think will be locked in, and I hope and pray that the EPA rules on limiting big U.S. power plant emissions are actually going to go into effect as intended and stay there.”

This “Pipeline Politics” discussion, held an hour prior to a general meeting of Climate Justice @ BC, drew a large portion of its crowd from those active in the climate justice

community. The discussion tended toward issues of climate change and conservation in both developing nations, those who lack the capital to seek alternative energy sources, and domestically.

Deese spoke about these domestic efforts, highlighting the imperativeness of striving toward an energy model which prioritizes conservation and efficiency in energy use. He also endorsed the use of technology such as electric vehicles and home insulation, among other technologies which the federal government can set standards in regulating “Conservation and efficiency are really the huge things that keep us from consuming more fossil fuels,” Deese said.

Deese concluded by speaking broadly about consumption culture in the U.S. and conservation efforts going forward.

“It’s a culture change—such as phasing in renewable energy, most of which is electric power generation,” Deese said. “It’s a narrower domain, but it is very promising.” n

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and brushed another that was protruding from a sharps box.

“It was a totally life changing experience for me,” she said. “I left clinical practice in order to undergo pretty difficult therapies—the first year of treatment was especially challenging.”

Rather than give in to the challenges of her treatment, Daley embarked on a mission to spread awareness on this issue.

“Once my treatment regimen stabilized, I became engaged in advocating for sharps injury prevention at state and national levels,” she said.

At the time of her infection, she was president of the Massachusetts’ affiliate of the American Nurses Association (ANA). She said she used this experience to raise awareness about the preventable nature of these injuries and secure legislative reforms for protecting other health care workers from similar injuries.

“We certainly have greater access to safety-engineered devices and increased awareness of the preventable nature of these injuries,” she said.

“We still have work to do, but we have made significant progress.”

From 2002 to 2010, Daley studied at Boston College in the dual-

degree nursing graduate program.

Her time at BC, she said, helped her advance her studies and her career pursuits.

“Every facet of my advanced education in nursing at BC broadened my knowledge of scientific inquiry and advanced clinical practice,” she said. “I also believe it helped prepare me to pursue and assume leadership as president of the American Nurses Association.”

Since graduating, Daley has served as ANA president for four years, and has been on the Board of the American Nurses Foundation.

Daley is also a member of a number of advisory boards, including the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, in which she continues to advocate for sharps injury prevention in the state.

After a lifetime full of serving others through her career as a nurse, Daley offered some advice to BC nursing students—she urged students not to be satisfied with the status quo, but to take time to give back.

“Learn to welcome opportunities and accept challenges,” she said.

“But to do your best for patients, you must first care for yourself.” n

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What are your Valentine’s Day plans?

“I was thinking of going to a party off campus I was invited to.” —Nicolas Morales, A&S ’18

“I’m going to see 50 Shades of Grey.”

—Lisa Richmond, A&S ’16

“I don’t know yet.”

—Evan Bolling, CSOM ’18

“Probably going to do homework.”

—Ashbrook Gwinn, A&S ’18

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MacArthur fellow discusses childhood, cartooning career

By Jennifer Suh Heights Staff

Cartoonist and graphic memoirist Alison Bechdel, known for her novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, spoke at Boston College last night as part of the Lowell Humanities Series.

“There’s an old saying that cartooning is a field for people who are mediocre writers and mediocre artists, and I would say that in my case, those things are pretty much true,” Bechdel said. “But what this saying about mediocre artists and mediocre writers fails to take into account is that writing and drawing, together, is its own thing.”

Her work has been widely translated and anthologized, and has appeared in several publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and Slate. She was a recipient of a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. She currently teaches at the University of Vermont.

“There’s something about the way words and pictures work together on a page that has always just seemed really brilliant to me,” she said.

Bechdel began her career with her self-syndicated, award-winning comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For, which ran from 1983 to 2008. The comic strip, published in the Funny Times and various LGBTQ newspapers, revolved around the daily lives of a group of LGBTQ characters.

“One of my preoccupations in my comic strip was always the tension between being an outsider and being a citizen,” Bechdel said, who came out in college. “I liked being an outsider as a lesbian. I felt like it gave me this kind of privileged view, an objectivity on how things work, that I wouldn’t have if I were inside the system.”

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Allison Bechdel, cartoonist and graphic memoirist, spoke Wednesday as part of the Lowell Humanities Series. She talked about her dysfunctional upbringing as well as her creative process.

She stopped her comic strip after a 25-year run in 2008, partially because of political and personal reasons.

“If the lesbian and gay civil rights movement actually started achieving its goal, we would, kind of, in a way, make ourselves obsolete,” Bechdel said. “There would be no more lesbian bars or gay newspapers or women’s bookstores, because there wouldn’t be the same need for them. We would just be like everybody else.”

Two years before the comic strip ended, her graphic memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic was published.

Time magazine named it the Best Book of 2006, and it was a finalist for a

National Book Critics Circle Award. Fun Home has been adapted into a Broadway musical that will premiere in March for previews, and open in April.

During her talk, Bechdel showed the audience a video of how she created the graphic novels.

She writes and draws simultaneously, using font made out of her own handwriting, on Adobe Illustrator. Once she finishes creating all the pages of the book, she puts them together in InDesign. Then, she prints them out to draw the actual images with pencil, coloring them in Photoshop.

“I started writing comics about my own life, but I feel like the only memoirs

that I have gone on to write count on the same mission as the comic strips,” Bechdel said. “They’re very personal stories, but they’re also stories about the way our most intimate selves can’t escape their historical context.”

Fun Home chronicles her tense relationship with her late father, Bruce Bechdel, who was an English teacher and director of a funeral home, the “Fun Home.” He died shortly after she discovered that he was gay. Growing up, her family hid the fact that her father had had affairs with men—when she came out, this made her want to be upfront about it, she said.

In 2012, her second graphic mem-

oir, Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama, was published. While Fun Home told the story of her father’s experiences coming of age before the gay rights movement, Are You My Mother chronicles her mothers experiences growing up before the feminism movement. Bechdel also explores the relationship with her mother and her mother’s attempts at becoming a writer.

“One strand of [Are You My Mother?] explores my own mother’s desire to be a writer,” Bechdel said. “And the ways that she inadvertently taught me to write and to be a writer—the writer she wanted to be.” n

Burns Library exhibit displays artifacts of Irish culture, music

By Yolanda Bustillo Heights Staff

Many documents in the Irish collections in the Burns Library allow people to uncover stories that reveal the history, literature, and culture of Ireland and Irish America.

One Story Draws Another: Staff Selections from the Irish Collections at the Burns Library is on display from Jan. 26 to May 8. The exhibit was coordinated by Justine Sundaram and Kathleen Williams. Boston College University Libraries sponsored the collection. Contributions come from all of the Burns Library Staff members and student employees, who selected exhibit materials, wrote and edited label text, and installed the exhibit.

The exhibit is divided into four sections: Irish-American Fine Press Books, Irish Traditional Music, Irish American History in Boston, and Irish Literature.

In March, the library will host a fifth section, which highlights published scholarships that used research materials from the Burns Library’s Irish collections.

“Burns Library Staff members have the opportunity to explore collections from many different perspectives—from organizing collections with other staff to providing access to these collections to scholars, students and faculty in the reading room,” said Justine Sundaram, the senior reference librarian/bibliographer of the Burns Library in an email.

“For this exhibit, we wanted to focus on the multiplicity of connections between these perspectives, especially in the Irish collections.”

The Burns Library began the Irish Collection when it acquired the John T. Hughes Library in the 1940s. BC librarian Terence Connolly, S.J. asked Helen Landreth to build on the Hughes materials and expand the Irish collections. Working with BC for the past 30

years, Landreth assisted in bringing BC’s Irish Collection international renown.

To recognize Landreth’s contributions, the Eire Society of BC awarded her their Gold Medal in 1964. Afterwards, Landreth received a Bicentennial Medal from BC in 1976.

The history of BC and Ireland are intermixed. BC’s founder John McElroy was born in Ireland in 1782. McElroy immigrated to the United States in 1803.

Writing to the bishop of Boston in 1843, McElroy asked whether a Jesuit college could be established in the city in hopes of serving the Catholic population.

His request was very urgent because not many institutions were hospitable to Catholics. In 1847, plans were underway for McElroy’s Catholic college. BC was chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on April 1, 1863.

The “Irish-American Fine Press Books” collection mainly comes from The Traffic Street Press, which printed

their efforts.

“They’ve already told us BC won’t divest, so it’s pretty useless to continue to cater to what they want us to do when what we’re doing is clearly in opposition to that,” Florack said.

Jack Dunn was unvailable for comment.

CJBC is currently part of a city-wide initiative that has created a Multi-School Fossil Free Divestment Fund in collaboration with students at Tufts University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Northeastern University—among others—and Impact Assets, a firm that facilitates investments in socially conscious endeavors.

“The petitions we have are pretty worthless as far as the administration goes, they don’t really care about it,” Bobby Wengronowitz, GSAS ’19, said. “The next level is actually get involved and actually showing up for stuff, and there are a lot of people who have a hard time showing up to things—but they care a little bit and they might do something.”

The fund is designed so that people who are interested in donating to a specific university without having their money go toward fossil fuels can donate money through the fund, which will then freeze those assets until the end of 2017 or until the school divests. If the school has not divested by the end of 2017, the money

gets donated to other participating schools that have divested. Currently, 17 people have pledged money to BC through the divestment fund, totalling approximately $500. The entire fund has a little over 50 total donors and is nearing $5,000, Wengronowitz said.

The Investment Club at Boston College is in charge of managing and investing a small portion of the University’s endowment, and currently has made no moves to divest.

It has recently invested in companies within the energy sector because of the recent drop in oil prices, Manas Sharma, one of the Investment Club’s executive board members and CSOM ’16, said in an email. These trades were made because the club believed it would offer a higher return as the stocks were undervalued, not because of any decision to divest, he said.“The con of investing in oil and gas is that … these natural resources will one day run out,” Robert Graff, another executive board member and CSOM ’16, said in an email. “We have confidence that the companies we invest in will evolve with the changing resource levels and environmental needs of our country (and the planet); it is certainly possible that some of these firms will evolve in their role as energy providers to develop sustainable and environmentally friendly alternatives.”

Cambridge Associates, an area group that helps advise the University on the investment

Samual and Russell Freedman, two rare manuscript dealers. This collection contains letters written by Shaw to Bernard Gould, an actor in the premier performance of Arms and the Man. Shaw received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925, joining other Irish recipients including William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett, and Seamus Heaney.

Irish writers, such as Yeats, would share tales of folklore and fairy stories popularized by the Celtic revival. When examining the materials in the Irish Literature collection, students will note Irish roots present throughout, highlighting the home of “saints and scholars.” Each of these Nobelists can be found in the Burns Library. Additionally, students can find busts of Yeats, Shaw, and Heaney in the Irish Room.

A fifth section that highlights published scholarships that utilizes research materials from the Burns Library’s Irish collections will begin in March. n

eBC helps needy with food

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these same works as a part of its Irish Poetry Series. These volumes focus on Ireland and Irish experience.

The Irish poetry collection emphasizes stories of emotion, highlighting the shared experiences that past generations would understand.

The “Irish Traditional Music” collection focuses on Irish music, song, and dance. Oftentimes concerts, dance events, and informal gatherings would be filled with these musical traditions.

Traditional Irish songs tell tales about the way Irish life used to be.

The “Irish American History in Boston” collection ranges in content, brought together by a shared affiliation with BC and Boston. Librarians examined items from BC’s archives and alumni papers, political manuscripts, Boston historical collections, and business records.

The largest sources of Irish Literature are by and about George Bernard Shaw.

These materials were obtained from

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This Tuesday CJBC held a general meeting

of its endowment, was unavailable to comment on divestment specifically in regard to BC due to their policy of not discussing individual clients. They do, however, fully support institutions that build their investment strategies around environmental or social missions, according to their website.

Florack said she is surprised that, as a Jesuit institution, BC is not taking a stronger stance on the issue of climate change, citing Pope Francis’ recent comments on the urgency of the matter. She said that BC can be a leader in Boston when it comes to divesting should they choose to do it now, but if other schools begin to divest, more pressure will be placed on the administration.“Our club specifically is in a tough spot because we go to Boston College where, obviously, the administration is conservative,” Muzdakis said. “Even the student body to a general extent is a lot more conservative than other schools, so I think getting support from the overall student body is going to be difficult for us.”Ultimately, Muzdakis believes that it will be up to the students to convince the Universityto divest. n

Spoonfuls, a Boston-based non-profit organization that allocates resources through food donors—grocery stores, produce wholesalers, farmers markets, and now universities—and uses a direct distribution method to pick up and distribute food to local organizations and meal centers within the same day.

Lovin’ Spoonfuls picks up the containers of food that have already been packaged, dated, and weighed by students and takes it to various food centers.

The partnership with Lovin’ Spoonfuls was facilitated after O’Day contacted the organization at the start of eBC. “We facilitate the rescue and distribution of healthy, fresh food that would otherwise be discarded,” according to the organization’s website. “Lovin’ Spoonfuls works efficiently to deliver this food directly to the community organizations and resources where it can have the greatest impact.”

The initiative has already seen tangible results in the little time since its inception.

At the close of first semester, several weeks after its creation in November, eBC had collected and donated approximately 450 trays of food, with a total of around 6,750 servings of food. The recovered food had been sent to New England Center for Homeless Veterans, CASPAR Emergency Services, and the Boston Rescue Mission. EBC has expanded to around 28 students, who currently volunteer once a

week from Sunday to Thursday, at Corcoran Commons or McElroy Commons, with oversight at each location from O’Day and Petrella, respectively.

There are plans for expansion to Stuart Hall on Newton Campus—eBC currently lacks freshman volunteers at these location.

The program is open to all, and eBC has seen strong participation from students involved in other sustainability-related student organizations, like Real Food BC and EcoPledge.

Since the start of the initiative, the total amount of food being conserved and repackaged each night has been reduced, as eBC has influenced the spending habits of Dining Services. In response to the issue of food excess, there has been a reduction in inventory. On the first day of eBC in November, there were 22 trays of food saved, with each tray containing around 18 portion sizes. EBC currently averages around 10-12 trays of food conserved each night, Petrella said.

“We’re getting less and less food which is good for Dining Services because they’re buying less food and producing less food,” Petrella said. “It’s good in both ways. Our purpose of giving it to people who need it is decreasing a little bit, but we’re helping Dining as well.”

EBC hopes to expand its program to other schools. So far, Petrella has contacted approximately 20 schools in the Greater Boston area in an effort to expand the initiative to a city-wide effort for sustainability. n

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My letter to Mayor Walsh

Bennet Johnson [Note: this is a letter composed to be read by Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, in the final year of his first term in 2017].

Dear Mayor Walsh, By the time you read this, it will be 2017. I will be graduating from Boston College, and you will be lamenting your final days as Mayor of Boston—unless, of course, you get reelected for a second term.

Or five terms like Menino. There is no doubt that you have big shoes to fill, Marty.

After just one year as the leader of our city, it is clear that you are already forming your own legacy, but now I ask you to take a step back for a minute and reconsider some of your initiatives along the way.

You’re probably wondering why I am writing to you in the first place. Nearly two years ago, I came to Boston after spending my childhood living in the arctic tundra that is Minnesota. By 2017, I will have spent four years living in a completely new home—and will be considering if I want to spend the next chapter of my life in Boston, or another major city.

There are many key issues currently going on in the city that will not only have a lasting effect on current Bostonians, but will impact the future of the city’s college population. In 2017, I’m asking that you look back at some of your initiatives in the first two years of your term and consider a student’s perspective: Olympics—The International Olympic Committee’s decision of whether or not Boston will be host to the 2024 summer Olympic games will be made in the fall of 2017, just a few weeks before your term will end. I know you expressed your concerns about the bid in its beginning stages, but after hearing you speak to hundreds of Bostonians at the first public meeting, it is clear that you and Boston 2024 officials are one team. As you continue to push this idea on the public, the question arises: Will you open the bid to a vote? Regardless of what you decide, I hope you involve Bostonians—and college students—in a decision that could completely change the future of the city.

Would hosting the Olympics be an incredible opportunity for Boston? Yes. But we’re more concerned with whether Boston can reestablish itself as a world-class city. You promised Boston’s Olympic bid would expedite the process of revamping the city, especially the MBTA. Regardless of whether or not Boston wins the bid at the end of your term, the city needs to do everything in its power to follow through on the development plans of the T. Housing—It is clear the city needs more affordable housing. How are students—especially new graduates—supposed to find a place to live if the rent is so hideously expensive? Here at your own alma mater, countless students are in violation of the “No More Than Four” ordinance, simply because they cannot afford the rents in Brighton. As the city inspects potentially overcrowded offcampus addresses in the future, I ask that you consider the notion that students are the ones being forced into these situations.

If students can’t find affordable housing after graduation, they will leave. I urge you to initiate conversations with students, universities, and landlords to figure out how the city can reduce rents.

As a college student, I’m part of a group that plays a critical role in the city. Over 250,000 of us go to school in Boston each year, and we are at the core of the city’s reputation as a hub of education and innovation. You don’t want me and thousands of other students from the world’s top universities to leave Boston after spending four years, only to never return. Already more and more students are heading to glamorous places like New York and San Francisco for jobs and internships.

I hope that you consider this letter as you wrap up your first term as Mayor and usher in the next generation of Bostonians. In 2017, I will graduate and enter the workplace with thousands of other young adults, and we will all undoubtedly consider Boston as an option.

Can you keep us here?

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

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BC team “FabuLisa” raises sum to benefit Memorial Sloan Kettering as Cycle for Survival event takes over local area gyms to raise money for rare cancer research.

Cycle For Survival puts new spin on cancer research

By Maggie Maretz Heights Staff When Jennifer Linn was diagnosed with sarcoma in 2004, she became a member of a distinct group.

Roughly half of all cases of cancer in the United States share a certain quality—they are all classified as “rare.”

Unfortunately, since they have been labeled as rare, these types of cancers have been historically understudied and underfunded—even though they account for a large portion of canceraffected Americans.

As Linn battled the rare disease, she and her husband, Dave Linn, sought to centralize and strengthen efforts to find cures for rare cancers.

Capitalizing on the spinning trend that was circulating throughout the U.S., the Linns founded Cycle for Survival in 2007—an indoor cycling event based in New York that is designed to fundraise, generate awareness, and create a community for those affected by rare cancers.

Linn, who was a patient at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, partnered with the organization and allocated 100 percent of funds raised by Cycle for Survival to Memorial Sloan Kettering for rare cancer research and

clinical trials.

Founded in 1884, Memorial Sloan Kettering is the world’s oldest and largest private cancer center, and was named number one in the United States for cancer treatment by U.S. News & World Report in 2014.

Although Jennifer lost her battle to cancer in 2011, Memorial Sloan Kettering continues to receive 100 percent of funds raised by Cycle for Survival, and is working continuously to find cures to a variety of rare cancers.

“There’s probably in total about 400 types of cancer, and many of them are not very common, but for each patient that’s the most important cancer—the one they have,” said Dr. David Solit, director of the Center for Molecular Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering. “So we need to figure out for all of these cancers, even if they’re rare, what is the biologic basis, and what is the best treatment.”

Solit, who first got involved with Cycle for Survival in memory of his sister-in-law, Cher yl, has gone on to participate in a number of events across the country over the past four years, often acting as a representative for MSK. This past weekend, Solit participated in his first Boston-based event,

and described it as something you have to experience in order to understand fully its impact.

“It’s a real high energy event, and there’s a lot of enthusiasm and excitement and I think that becomes a little bit infectious,” Solit said. “People really appreciate that common goal of trying to get money raised for studying these cancer types.”

Cycle for Survival’s journey to Boston was catalyzed by the work of the Gallups, Lisa and Barry Jr., who were friends of the Linns and saw the demand for an event in Boston when Lisa was diagnosed with a rare cancer and realized that she had a lot of friends and family back home in the area who were eager to get involved.

The pair—who are the children of Boston College associate athletics director Barry Gallup—started the team “FabuLisa,” which received donations from over one thousand individual donors and became the highest fundraising team for the event.

Although most events take place in Equinox centers when groups are too large or cannot make it to centers, Cycle for Survival will organize “Satellite Events.” At BC, an annual Satellite Event organized by women’s field hockey coach Ainslee Lamb aims to

carry on the legacy of Lisa Gallup, who was a survivor until 2012. All varsity sports teams participate, and classes are taught by student instructors.

“It was definitely the best teaching experience of my life,” said Consuelo Garcia-Garcia, a spin instructor at BC. “It’s hard to describe, there’s just so much energy, not a silent moment in the class, and everyone was singing along.”

The BC community has provided “overwhelming” support for this cause, Gallup said.

One of the elements that gives Cycle for Survival a personal touch is its practice of inviting speakers to come talk to cyclists in between classes. Representatives from Equinox, members of Cycle for Survival, doctors from MSK, and people shared their personal stories of cancer’s impact on lives.

“When you’re there and you listen to those speeches, you realize that everyone, unfortunately, is connected one way or another to cancer, and everyone has their own personal story,” Gallup said.

“It can feel like a very lonely thing when you are going through it, but you realize there’s a whole community that’s also suffering, which in turn provides a lot of support.” n

NewTV gives local students hands-on film experience

By Magdalen Sullivan Heights Editor When Joe Garozzo was in middle school, he wished he had an outlet to share his passion in video production. Now, he is in a position to create one.

As Director of Educational Media at NewTV, Garozzo works closely with Newton public schools. He teaches classes in video production, airs student content, and films school events. He also produces shows in NewTV’s studio with students who are interested in video production.

NewTV is a non-profit community access center in Newton, Mass., “providing the diverse Newton community with a platform for opinions, news, and local information,” according to its mission statement.

“If you’re a Newton resident, you can come learn how to use the camera equipment,” Garozzo said.

“We teach them how to use high definition cameras, all the editing software, filming and editing techniques.”

In his effort to further engage the Newton community, Garozzo has launched NewTV’s first Short Film Challenge. The competition is open to both high school and college students. It dares young filmmakers to show off their creative talents.

“I thought, ‘Well, I mean, if I couldn’t do [a video competition] when I was in high school, then, you know, why not run one?’”

Garozzo said.

“I just thought the idea would have been something I would’ve loved to do in school, and giving the kids an opportunity to do that kind of made it a reality for me.”

The weeklong competition runs from Feb. 15 to Feb. 22, beginning at this Monday’s Kickoff event where production teams will choose the genre of their film out of a hat.

Production teams can be as large or as small as the participant prefers.

“If you want to do it by yourself, one person, or upwards to as many as you want—up to 10, 20—whatever a production team consists of is not really limited, as long as [they’re] in as one production team, then that’s fair game,” he said.

Participants are given a week to create a four to seven-minute film. Each production team is given the same character, prop, and line of dialogue that they must incorporate into the short film.

Despite the rules and requirements that shape the competition, the most challenging limitation around the contest, Garozzo said, is the time limit.

“All of the creative process … will be happening in just seven days. All the writing, all the editing, all the acting, the production … the challenge is to make a short film in just a week,” he said.

At the end of the week, each video will be judged based on creativity, following of the guidelines, and originality.

NewTV will screen the top three films at a private event in their studio. The three winning films will also be shown at Newton’s Festival of the Arts in May. The first place-winning production team will receive a GoPro camera as well.

According to Garozzo, the prize of the competition is the hands-on experience.

“The whole production of it is benefitting them,” he said. “And if that’s something that they want to go into as a career, this could be a great stepping-stone to launch their passion—their hobby. So it can be anything from just a cool conversation topic to something they can put on their resume for future reference.”

Registration for the contest opened on Jan. 14 and will close on Feb. 14. As of now, three production teams have entered.

“As far as numbers go, I’m not quite concerned with the actual outcome of the numbers. I mean, if I get three groups or 30 groups … as long as kids are sparked by the idea of short films and production, then that’s pretty much my goal.”

NewTV’s mission is to create community and provide educational services for Newton residence. Garozzo believes this competition reflects that purpose.

“I think a successful Challenge would be to have the kids feel confident in what they made, to give to us as like a competition piece,” he said. “I’m looking for that spark in the creative mind of the kids and to give the students a chance to show everybody in Newton what they can do.”

Through his Short Film Challenge, Garozzo hopes to send young filmmakers a message loud and clear: “You don’t have to go to Sundance to get recognized for a short film.” n

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NewTV’s non-profit community access center in Newton hopes to engage the community through hosting a short film challenge.

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Sunset Cantina offers spicy Valentine’s Day specials T buried in age and snow

By Anthony Perasso For The Heights

Sunset Cantina argues that it may be the perfect place to celebrate or commiserate Valentine’s Day over dinner with a group of friends. Valentine’s Day lies on a Saturday this year, and Sunset Cantina is rising to the occasion. If this is a typical Saturday at the Mexican hot spot, the restaurant is expected to be teeming with big groups of single college students going out for the night.

“Traditionally for Valentine’s Day, we’re not much of a couples place,” said Dave Nassiff, the manager of Sunset Cantina. “We tend to get a lot of groups of people, like singles. They’ll come in to celebrate or commiserate being single and get pitchers of drinks or nachos and just hang out.”

Trading a girlfriend or a boyfriend for a big group of friends and some nachos might not sound like a bad deal.

Sunset Cantina’s atmosphere is full of bustling conversation and laughter between large tables and booths. The restaurant offers easily shared portions, and welcomes big groups of young adults with open arms.

It’s important to note that Sunset Cantina doesn’t take reservations. According to Nassiff, the decision came from the fact that student schedules frequently vary. The restaurant, however, has never had a problem filling up tables. With Sunset Cantina’s surging popularity among students, there are typically extended waits during dinner rush hours, but the restaurant stays open until 1:00 a.m. on weeknights and 2:00 a.m. on weekends.

Students can expect to spend around $20 to $30 during a typical visit to Sunset Cantina if they buy “two drinks and some food,” according to Nassiff.

Sunset Cantina hopes to add some Tex-Mex spice to your Valentine’s Day this weekend. Boston College students just have to head down Commonwealth Ave. on the B line for 3.1 miles—or about twenty minutes—and get off at St. Paul station. Once they arrive, Sunset Cantina will be glowing with neon signs and faces of local students on the right.

Since its founding in 2003, the TexMex restaurant has been a hotspot for

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Local Tex-Mex hotspot Sunset Cantina will offer a wide variety of margaritas, tequilas, and beers to patrons on Valentine’s Day. Boston University students and faculty.

It offers a large and sharable smorgasbord of Southern and Mexican food, from burgers and ribs to fajitas and tacos. Students can go one night and experience Southern cuisine, and another night they can drop below the border and taste what Mexico has to offer.

According to NAssiff, the nachos are “100 percent” the most popular item on the menu. The nachos are available to order in small and large sizes, and both portions are hefty enough to be shared as an appetizer or as a meal. The comfortfood delicacy offers a synthesis of the greatest hits of Mexican and Southern food: Barbeque chicken, Cajun chicken,

pulled pork, and steak are all viable contenders to top an already divine plate of chips, melted cheese, guacamole, and sour cream.

The wide array of choices and combinations does not stop on the food menu.

For those above the legal drinking age, Sunset Cantina offers 150 unique tequilas, as well as an assortment of blue, pink, and traditional margaritas, and 40 different beers on tap. The rustic bar is a popular place to drink with friends and other college students while waiting for a table, or just stopping in for a quick bite.

Sunset Cantina is aware of college students’ tight budgets, and has been

working with distributors to provide drink specials at a low price. Most recently, the restaurant paired with Coors and offered cheap pitchers of beer during the NFL playoffs. Nassiff anticipates Sunset Cantina will provide more food and drink specials during March Madness.

Looking to the future, Sunset Cantina has challenged more BC students to burst out of their seclusion in Chestnut Hill and challenge BU’s dominance of the restaurant. Things could get heated between Terriers and Eagles. With Sunset Cantina’s nachos thrown in the mix, however, no one should have anything to fight about. n

Northeastern alumna is changing how people think about food Collegiate Vegan, from A8 the blog’s increasing success has most recently translated into the publication of her first cookbook, “The Collegiate Vegan Presents FIVE: 50+ Plant-Based Recipes, Five Ingredients or Less,” which was published as an e-book in October.

Although she is now a full-time blogger and recipe developer, Heising had no intention of getting involved in this profession, let alone becoming a vegan, until she arrived at Northeastern as a freshman.

“If you had told me at this time last year what project I was about to embark on, I would have said you were crazy,” she said.

Heising has been a vegetarian since age 10—however, her ascent to veganism was based purely on a whim. “It turns out that the freshman-15 is a very real thing,” Heising said, who only began considering veganism during her sophomore year as a means to lose weight.

After changing her eating habits for only a week, Heising was sold on the benefits of the plant-based diet that would prompt the creation of The Collegiate Vegan.

“By the end of the week I had had way more fun cooking and was able to do cool things with my food,” Heising said. “I had actually started thinking about food for the first time, and I was really happy with it, so I stuck with it and three years later, here we are.”

Although The Collegiate Vegan now gets about 10,000 viewers every month, the blog began as a way for Heising to both document her progress and make sense of her new lifestyle. As her pageviews increased so did her readers’ responses, allowing the blog to become an outlet for questions and discussion about how easy a plant-based diet can be.

“As other students started to ask me questions, I fell into this really cool position where I could encourage people to eat healthy,” Heising said.

Although The Collegiate Vegan now features recipes like balsamic glazed butternut squash and avocado alfredo, Heising still makes an effort to highlight the simple creations that she originally concocted in her sophomore dorm.

“Honestly, everything I started with and have grown on since has been based on frozen food. Maybe throw in some beans or grains and then you have everything you need for a balanced meal—vegetables, grains, protein,” she said. “That’s where I started and I still make very similar stuff to that today. My friends joke that I make all of my meals at home, which is kind of true.

That was my thing in college and that will probably be my thing for a very long time.”

As appealing as cooking in her tiny kitchen is, Heising was enthusiastic about how easy her transition to veganism was in the city. “Your average salad bar is going to get boring after a while but that’s the really nice thing about Boston, it is really easy to eat out,” she said. “I am constantly

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Madeline Heising originally became a vegan in hopes of losing weight, and now she is sharing her recipies in her new cookbook.

surprised when I go into some of the city’s best restaurants and see quinoa cakes and asparagus on the menu. It just shows how Boston as a whole is really accommodating to vegans and vegetarians.”

After two years on the blog, Heising sought out to tackle a different outlet for her recipes with her first cookbook. Between August and October, she juggled her last semester as an undergraduate with writing, photographing, and designing “FIVE,” a concept that stemmed from the most popular section on her blog, recipes with only five ingredients or less.

In “FIVE,” Heising includes some recipes from The Collegiate Vegan, but the majority are new concoctions that she hopes reflect the book’s theme of ease, accessibility, and health. Above all, Heising hopes that her book and blog convey a different way to think about food.

“For me it is all about trying to eat more plants—you know we have been told since we were little to ‘eat more vegetables’ but it turns out that you really do need to,” Heising said, chuckling. “It turned out that for me when my entire meal was going to be plant based, I thought about how I was cooking differently.”

Although “FIVE” was only just published this past year, Heising is already working on her next projects. Over the next year she hopes to release a series of small e-books as well as publish another, longer book.

“Now that I have graduated and have this glorious thing called ‘time,‘ I am actually working on a lot of new, exciting things,” she said about the idea for her next book, which will be focused on food basics, and how to do them well.

She plans on bringing readers through simple meals, from start to finish, to show them how to work from scratch without a recipe.

Though there are still a few months of work in her cramped, studio apartment ahead, Heising hopes that her second book will be as successful as the first.

“I am shocked by how much support everyone has been giving me and it makes me really happy how many people are interested in this kind of cooking culture,” she said. “As long as people are interested, I am going to keep working on it.” n

Boston is a city iced over, soon to be lost beneath the snow.

Governor Charlie Baker and Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, will do the best that they can to pacify and contain the chaos, the riots in the streets, and the runs on the banks, but they’ll both ultimately flee, too. People will keep arguing about Boston 2024. Generations will pass and all remains of the once great, youthful urban landscape will be nonexistent beneath a blanket of white—people will struggle to piece together how everything fell so far, so fast.

Should a chronicle of the final days be put together, early records will show the complete abandonment and collapse of the MBTA as a catalyst for the apocalypse. As the MBTA collapses under the weight of its own remarkable, billions of dollars worth of debt, and shoddy finger-pointing by the people running it, so too will collapse hundreds of thousands of privately owned businesses, and this very University. Boston College prides itself on its dedication to service—you can’t walk around during the tour without having this fact crammed down your throat.

I mean that in the best way. Over half of recent graduating classes have been engaged in some form of community service. That’s a damn good thing to brag about. The number of engaged college kids 4Boston and PULSE ship off into the city week after week keeps many organizations afloat. Students aren’t afraid to scrape their knees up and bruise a knuckle or two, metaphorically speaking.

A student volunteer acquires the latter part of that title by way of the T—the path in.

The T is more than just a form of transportation, but a play of sorts, and if the student volunteer rides the T enough times at the same times, the play takes fuller and fuller shape. On the early morning T rides I take to get into the city, the same people always sit or stand in the same spots—they always say good morning to each other in English, and have side conversations in any language but. It’s hard to imagine exactly how many different places they go, all these people.

The Atlas’ of this city, waking up and getting out far before most alarms go off, start their days rocking and bouncing forward on the city’s famous and infamous piece of public transportation.

The snowfall is at about 79 inches according to The Boston Globe, and soon it will breach the previous record of 107 inches of snowfall, and continue to move upwards through the hundreds as Boston is buried. Modern generations will find it hysterical looking back at the MBTA and the T, because its failure will not be concerned with whose fault it actually is, or the debt anchored to its ankle, pulling it down deep. History doesn’t care for these banal explanations. Modern generations will just see pictures of empty T platforms, trolleys sitting hauntingly empty, the doors left ajar for the people that have given up on it.

When the T shuts down, it effectively shuts down the city.

No one wants to put faith in a system that insane and that unreliable, so the only viable option is to fix it. A recent development that looks as if it’s playing out in favor of the T has been the $2 billion Green Line extension, with $1 billion of funding coming in from the federal government. This errant miscalculation will be forgotten when Boston goes under, too, but it’s worth thinking about while the city’s seams hold together: you can’t fix a car with a busted engine by giving it a shiny new wheel.

Walking through the city last Tuesday, getting back to the T after my time serving at a soup kitchen, the city streets were unrecognizable. Banks 10 feet high needed to be climbed to get from street to sidewalk back to street. Traffic was squeezed down to one lane, and it was hiccupping along at a nonexistent pace. Snow was still falling. Feels like the end of the world, I heard a heard a disgruntled man who walked past me mutter. When I finally got to the T station, there was a single man—dressed in bright orange and yellow—at the bottom of the steps acting as the gate-keeper to the unparalleled nerve that runs through Boston, nonchalantly waving off the crowd of people I was included in.

“No outbound service today” he said.

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

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Problems with the T affect University

The MBTA and the Greater Boston area struggled to recover from the snow that blanketed the city earlier this week. Rail service eventually resumed on Wednesday, ending a two-day city shutdown that was imposed following a historic snowfall that dumped over two feet of snow in some areas of Massachusetts.

Over the past week, numerous cancellations and delays on the T have made it increasingly difficult for local residents to navigate the city. Some MBTA trips over the past few days have ended in fire—others in ice. As a result, thousands of city workers could not make it to work, hurting businesses. Newly-elected Governor Charlie Baker called the recent delays “unacceptable” and vowed to work with the city to improve the service as soon as possible. In the midst of the snowstorm, the city asked commuters to seek alternative transportation. MBTA general manager Beverly Scott abruptly announced her resignation on Wednesday amid accusations at the agency after the groundbreaking snowfall in recent weeks. Governor Baker will meet with MBTA officials on Thursday to create a plan of action for the future.

The recent delays and cancellations of the T have raised questions on whether the troubled system can be modernized soon enough to handle the Olympic Games if Boston wins its bid to host the 2024 games. Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, has argued that Boston’s Olympic bid will speed up the process in revamping the MBTA, as the 2017 decision date for awarding the games will require city officials to create a set plan of action for the system. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) decided to extend the MBTA late-night program until June 19. As part

of the program, the agency provides rail and bus service for 90 additional minutes on Friday and Saturday nights.

According to The Boston Globe, the MBTA currently owes nearly $9 billion in debt and interest, while at the same time Governor Baker is facing a $786million state budget deficit. The Boston Herald also reported on Wednesday that the MBTA has failed to publicly file reports detailing the problems relating to the system for over five years. On a given day, a snow-related shutdown of roads and transportation is estimated to cost Massachusetts $265 million a day, according to a study from the American Highway Users Alliance.

At Boston College, the expectation is that the public transportation system will be in proper working condition and be able to transport students into the city. At a University that prides itself on its commitment to service, programs like 4Boston and PULSE were cancelled multiple times recently because of the troubled system. In many cases, an increasing number of students are relying on Uber as a viable—though expensive—transportation option, due to the unreliability of the T. As the recent snowfalls have shown, the T is increasingly becoming an obstacle for the city of Boston. The aged system is becoming too costly—slowing commutes and hindering economic progress for the city.

In order to maintain a reliable public transportation system in Boston, city officials need to collaborate, realizing no number of resignations can fix the T’s troubles, and immediate action is necessary in reclaiming Boston’s failing infrastructure. While Scott’s resignation indicates a start to the process of reformation, it will take far more to create real change.

University makes right call with delay On Sunday, Boston was hit with its third snowstorm in two weeks, which resulted in a city wide shutdown for the fourth time. Many of these closures continued into Tuesday. Harvard University, Boston University, Northeastern University, and Emerson College all canceled class for the day. Boston College’s decision to hold class drew criticism from some in the student body, especially in light of the fact that Governor Charlie Baker had declared a state of emergency for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shortly before the University announced it would reopen. Like BC, Bentley University and Brandeis University had delayed starts this Tuesday. BC opened at 10:30 a.m., Bentley 10 a.m., and Brandeis 11 a.m.

Given the condition of roads and sidewalks around campus, BC made the proper decision reopening Tuesday. By the time students embarked for class around 10 a.m., the majority of the sidewalks and roads on campus had been cleared and salted. This can be attributed to the exceptional work of the BC Facilities staff, who have continued to work throughout the snowstorms to make campus safe and clear for classes to resume. Many professors and dining employees said that their commute was easier than normal because the main roads were clear, and there were not very many other cars on the commute.

With BC in the suburbs, there are some students and professors who take the T to campus, but not as many utilize public transportation as do at a school in the city, such as BU or Northeastern.

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MBTA closure, therefore, had less of an effect on BC. Eighty-five percent of BC students live on campus, and the majority of remaining students live very close to Main Campus—all shuttle buses were running yesterday, so most students who live off campus should have had no trouble commuting to class.

Though transportation for professors and students is a genuine concern, during an event such as Tuesday’s—when transportation was not prohibitively difficult—commuting difficulties did not escalate to the point where class would have to needlessly be canceled.

The MBTA closure had a larger effect on schools within the city of Boston than it did on schools in Boston-area suburbs.

Individual professors had the ability to cancel class at their own discretion if they felt that conditions were too unsafe to get to campus. But overall, the conditions in and around campus meant that there were no safety problems in holding class, despite the furor surrounding campus when the University made its announcement.

The University has had four full snow days and one snow delay so far this school year. It has been a historic winter, but at a certain point, it becomes impractical to allow the weather to completely disrupt the academic schedule. There has been 79 inches of snow this winter—a colossal, nearly unprecedented amount. With that in mind, the safety of students should always be considered, but safety concerns Tuesday did not escalate to a point where class cancellation was necessary.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR A Response To School Delay the Night of Feb. 9th Dear Rev. William Leahy, S.J., Let me first begin this letter by stating that I do not want another snow day tomorrow, I do not want to miss more class time, and I certainly don’t need more excuses to sleep in past noon. However, I am ashamed and astonished by the recent notification that Boston College will be operating under a two-and-a-half-hour delay tomorrow morning, with all classes beginning at 10:30 am. While I am sure that you and our students are already well aware about the closings of MIT, Harvard, BU, Northeastern, and Emerson, I feel it is important to reiterate that the decision of the BC Administration stands in stark contrast to that of our fellow Boston schools.

Furthermore, the MBTA has suspended service tomorrow, forcing faculty and students who commute to BC to seek alternate forms of transportation, which will surely be hindered by the significant reduction in available parking on campus announced earlier today. Additionally, Governor Charlie Baker has maintained the State of Emergency status for our area and strongly urged non-essential workers to remain home and off the roads on Tuesday due to the poor road conditions. Nonetheless, BC will be open for the vast majority of the day tomorrow.

My question to you is, why? I understand that we have already missed significant class time this semester due to the unprecedented snowfall over the past two weeks, but there is a reason we are still in a state of emergency and so many other schools have closed down for tomorrow: IT IS NOT SAFE TO HOLD CLASS TOMORROW. I can tell you from personal experience (several in fact), that there is a large amount of black ice beneath the snow, especially on surfaces that have already been plowed. I am incredibly

concerned that the safety of students, faculty, and workers at BC has not been adequately taken into account by the decision of the administration.

Though the sidewalks outside of Gasson may have been plowed and salted 20 times by now, you cannot control the conditions outside of our campus. Students living off campus face hazardous conditions commuting to class tomorrow, faculty living in surrounding towns face hazardous conditions commuting to BC tomorrow, students on upper (a mere five minute walk from Stokes) face hazardous conditions commuting to class tomorrow. President Leahy, it is simply not safe to hold classes tomorrow. Given the conditions outside, I am confident that a 10:30 a.m. start essentially does little to make campus safer.

To be perfectly honest with you, I feel that your decision to operate under a delay is more a political move, and I find myself asking, do you really care about my safety?

If you cared about my safety and the safety of my fellow classmates, professors, and workers, you would have closed BC, but you didn’t. What good does a 10:30 a.m. start do?

If you couldn’t improve campus conditions adequately within 48 hours, what makes you think that an extra two hours tomorrow morning is going to make a significant difference? I hope that you will consider what I have said, and contemplate deeply the cost-benefit of holding class tomorrow. I have come to hate snow days at this point, but I hate the feeling that my safety is being compromised even more. Please reconsider your decision; I know I am not alone in my thoughts and in my emotions.

FRANK DIMARTINO A&S ’17

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The power of campus aesthetics

Hagop Toghramadjian

Walsh Security Guards - Kim, Cruz , and Melissa: the dream team. Having to swipe in each and every time we walk into Walsh is a huge pain, but having a short conversation with whoever is on duty makes things just a little bit better. Each have something great to say, and considering the amount of crap they put up with on the weekends—when Walsh no longer is Walsh, but becomes The Zoo (a disastrous fallout zone of people trying to force their way in to go to a Walsh wall-to-wall party thrown by someone they only vaguely know)—it is commendable that they keep showing up for work at all.

Empty Coffee Shops - The snow keeps ever yone locked inside, huddling for warmth. Or maybe the snow has just gotten people lazy. Empty coffee shops are the best way to take advantage of these many people on the street at the same time: No lines and empty tables can make one feel like they’re still in their own home.

Snow Globbing it - Fierce winds and light snow turns all of Boston College into a real-life snow globe. Walking around, we feel like we’re cutting through a scene in a Christmas movie, which distracts us from this weird three-days-ina-row-similar-classes.

“They’re putting in new sod again?”

Almost all of us at Boston College have grumbled about our University’s seemingly endless slate of beautification projects and “campus improvements.”

There’s a light-hearted side to these complaints, and usually we don’t mean much by them. But many of us, myself included, have sometimes wondered: What is the logic behind maintaining a beautiful campus? Can we justify spending $78 million on a building like Stokes Hall at a time when the financial burden of college has become prohibitive for many? Expenditures like these can be quite difficult to reconcile with our sense of practicality.

Our school’s physical beauty is one of its most defining characteristics, and questions about this beauty are thus questions about BC itself. Others have recognized as much: critics such as The Heights’ own Nate Fisher have tied complaints about University buildings to broader denunciations of BC’s philosophy and mission. Whether one agrees with Fisher or not, his basic assumption—that the way our campus looks has deep symbolic and almost spiritual meaning—rings true.

Symbolism matters. As rationally and spiritually oriented as we are, our lives are firmly bound to our physical surroundings. To truly grasp metaphysical realities, we need to see them embodied, to touch and feel them. In Christianity, this truth is expressed through the mystery of Christ’s Incarnation, and is reinforced every time we experience the Eucharist: simple bread can become God Himself. The “incarnational ethos” helps explain why Christians have always seen churches and cathedrals—built from materials as mundane

as stone and wood—as capable of communicating deep spiritual realities.

The importance of symbolism doesn’t stop with churches. The places where we live, work, and study convey a message, both to us and to the world, about who we are and how we view ourselves. As Fr. Dwight Longenecker, S.J., points out, to discover what any society throughout history has valued, one needs only to find its most ornate and beautiful buildings. In today’s world, bank skyscrapers, sports stadiums, and shopping malls are often the most expensive and monumental structures we build. This speaks volumes about our civilization’s commitments, and one cannot help but feel that something in the environment we have created is out of balance.

To be sure, some of our society’s

Symbolism matters.

As rationally and spiritually oriented as we are, our lives are firmly bound to our physical surroundings. architectural and aesthetic choices are perfectly reasonable. It makes sense for a charity to allocate more money toward providing food and clothes than toward building ornate offices, and it makes more sense for a school to pay for skilled teachers than for a lavish new gym. But we need places in our society where noble enterprises are matched with inspiring physical settings. We need to be reminded, on a material level, that we are called to a higher purpose—we need soaring towers to chart paths for our spirits to follow.

So when BC builds a beautiful, new monument to the humanities, it is sending a dramatic message. It is telling society and students alike that our mission is irreplaceably important, and that we are fully committed to many more centuries of enriching the human mind and spirit.

By opening an edifice like Stokes Hall,

BC also extends a profound challenge to everyone who studies inside. “Live up to the calling laid out in these stones,” the University says. “Your work is so significant, so pivotal, that we created this building for you. Don’t fail in your mission, don’t let our hope in you be misplaced.” If we went to school among plain concrete buildings, overgrown gardens and mangled grass, BC would still be an inspiring place, filled with inquiry and reflection. But our higher purpose would be harder to remember.

Our tenacious enterprise would sometimes feel foolish, and our confidence in the human spirit would sometimes feel inappropriate. It would be much easier to sink into the mistaken belief that our university is only a utilitarian job factory, meant simply for a hardheaded accumulation of skills.

The beauty of our school, then, is no waste. Gasson’s turrets, Bapst’s windows, Higgins’ glass roof, and Stokes’ wood paneling all function as both messages to society and as ways to strengthen our own spirits. As long as we remember that our school’s physical splendor is meant to challenge us to equally splendid intellectual and spiritual growth, the University’s investment in beauty is deeply worthwhile.

Yes, the constant rearrangement of sod, the planting and replanting of flowers, and the new staircase behind St. Mary’s can at times feel like excessive undertakings. But these highly visible and much-maligned projects make up a very small proportion of BC’s overall efforts to maintain stately buildings and grounds. The greater purpose behind the University’s commitment to aesthetics is a noble one. Grounded in a deep understanding of symbolism’s power to mold human hearts and minds, BC’s physical beauty calls us to take reflective, engaged, and energetic ownership of our education here.

Hagop Toghmramadjian is a staff columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

The irony of Galentine’s Day parties Doors Behind Lower - Every year, we hear rumors that they are going to be unlocked. Every year, this doesn’t happen. We are sick and tired of waiting at the back door for 10 minutes for someone to come open it. For a campus that needs work at accessibility, this is a place to start—it will take three seconds to fix the problem. Come on now, BC. Still No Rhythm - This whole stopand-go because of numerous snow days and delays has made getting into any sort of routine nearly impossible. We are just looking for some kind of routine so we can get a consistent sleep schedule and get all of our homework done.

We know that the first wave of midterms will hit, and we need to be the most rested and prepared for this inevitability. But, seeing as that Boston is going to become the city lost under snow, we have no hopes to have any full week routines established anytime soon.

Slush - The annoying younger brother of the snowstorm that sticks around and never gives anyone a break.

Snow Being Taller Than us That’s the moment when you know that Mother Nature needs to chill out and watch some TV instead of working so hard.

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Katerina Ivanov Six girls huddle in a garishly decorated double. Empty boxes of Franzia litter the ground. The Notebook plays softly in the background. Flimsy, pink, paper hearts line the walls. One or more of the attendees is crying ugly, sniffly tears into someone’s shoulder.

It’s Valentine’s Day in college.

What is it about February 14th that strikes fear in men’s hearts and triggers girls’ tear ducts? How does the world’s most infamous Hallmark holiday turn guys into lecherous opportunists and girls into weeping, abrasively drunk-texting messes? At this point, you’re probably feeling pretty indignant about these generalizing allegations. Kat, you’re thinking, I’m not one of those girls/guys.

I don’t get aggressively wine-drunk and leave my ex vaguely threatening Gone Girl voicemails. I don’t go out on Valentine’s Day simply because “the girls are most vulnerable.”

While I guarantee there are exceptions to the rule, have you ever been to a Galentine’s Day party? A Valentine’s Day stoplight party?

The generalization of the sobbing wine-drunk girl and the sleazy opportunistic guy are a lot more common than we like to think.

These are the defining and disturbing markers of Valentine’s Day in our generation. Stoplight parties, where if you’re single you wear green, taken you wear red, and wear yellow if “it’s complicated,” are a contradiction. Why would you go to a stoplight party on Valentine’s Day if you were in a committed relationship?

And how sad is it that in this day and age that “it’s complicated” counts as a relationship status? In my experience, it doesn’t matter what color the girl is wearing. Creepers gonna creep.

Galentine’s is another beast in itself.

Somewhere in my teenage years, I developed a formula that has just as much

merit as anything Einstein ever came up with. If you start with a group of single girls, add wine and pink drinks rimmed with sugar, subtract the friends who are out having romantic dinners, multiply the drinks, add some chocolate binging, and divide by romantic comedies, the end product will be tears, with a byproduct of aggressive drunk texting.

So why do we do it?

You know someone is going to cry at the end of the night. You know someone will aggressively rip the paper hearts in two, take a shot of tequila, and yell, “Love is dead.” You know you’ll feel a little lonely when you do it.

Maybe because it’s easier to feel lonely on a holiday that’s practically suffocating you on the idea of what “love” should look like when you’re with friends. Maybe it’ll make you feel a little

If you’re drinking in a room full of girls, sobbing into a wine glass as you watch Titanic, put down your Franzia and pull yourself together. less alone if you go out and meet someone new at a party, even if the theme is insufferable and trashy. The thing is, there’s really nothing wrong with going out on “D-day V-Day,” to Galentine’s or Valentine’s parties, as long as you’re going to them for the right reasons. If you’re going to that stoplight party because you have some deranged idea that it’s going to make you feel better about your ex-girlfriend, also known as Satan incarnate, I’ll give you a bit of advice: don’t.

If you’re drinking in a room full of girls, sobbing into a wine glass as you watch Titanic because you’re jealous your roommates have boyfriends, put down the Franzia and pull yourself together.

Do these things because, under the right circumstances, they can be bonding moments with the really important people in your life: your friends.

Don’t do them because “girls are easy on Valentine’s Day,” because that’s scummy and disturbing, and you should reevaluate your life if you view other people in that way.

But if you want to go out and have fun or enjoy Nicholas Sparks movies or have a good healthy cry, go for it!

Be safe, have respect for yourself, and enjoy time with your friends. Will you still be with your boyfriend of freshman year five years from now? It may be cynical, but I’m going to bet on no.

Will you remember the time your best friend crawled around the carpet, threw a stuffed animal rabbit at you, and made you laugh so hard you snorted? I sincerely hope so.

Being single on Valentine’s Day isn’t the end of the world. It can be quite a spectacle and a lot of fun—just remember the thing I said about having respect for yourself and doing things for the right reasons. However, if the night takes a turn for the worse and you’re the one crying hysterically or crawling on the floor, it happens. Don’t beat yourself up too much about it. Make sure to thank the saint who patted your back and murmured, “There, there,” to your hysterical self. Think about why you had such a bad night, and work on that with yourself on February 15th. Know loneliness is temporary and that there are people who love you, even when you are distraught and plastered.

And if a friend is having a bad night on Valentine’s Day, for god’s sake, suck it up and help them out. They’ve held your hair before, and now it’s time to pay the piper.

If your roommate is texting you “PLEASE HELP ME” from curled in the fetal position under their bed, crying into the never-been-cleaned dorm room carpet, go to them. You’ll feel uncomfortable when they wipe their nose on your shoulder and use the most colorful assortment of bilingual curse words to describe their scumbag ex, but you’ll be there for them anyways.

Katerina Ivanov is a staff columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

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A positive detachment

Alis Dicpinigaitis A common gripe of second semester freshmen at Boston College is that entrenchment in friend groups established early on prevents them from branching out to meet new ones. After all, time and circumstance primarily dictate friendships when we arrive on campus.

What perpetuates the problem that this situation itself propagates is our tendency to float through our daily lives. This, however, is not endemic because we ourselves are flawed—we succumb to this because of the circumstances of living within a collegiate social environment. Every morning, as we walk through middle campus, we inevitably pass several people we know and engage in a dialogue that fits a construct resembling this: “Hey, how’s it going?” “Good, how about you?” “Good.” After this, we move on. The phrase “how’s it going,” which has become nothing more than a superficial conversational placeholder for genuine interest, demands a lot more than the usual mechanical and lifeless response it receives. Imagine for a minute if this question were given a sincere response, and you would realize very quickly that you would never make it to class.

The broader extension of this admittedly contrived image is the notion that there is so much more in our minds and in our hearts than we let on, and that this is problematic.

And if we cannot communicate our feelings and desires, how then can we be genuine?

(Are there any reservations you maintain when interacting with close friends or with a partner?)

The call to be more genuine and more uncensored in our lives is a big statement with equally lofty demands. Being vulnerable and transparent is difficult. Dealing with a person who isn’t receptive to what you have to offer intellectually or emotionally, whether it is someone whom you are attempting to befriend or a girl whom you are trying to engage, can be difficult to process psychologically. A rationalization of the construct of “rejection” can come from the perspective of selfconfidence. When someone is truly confident in what they project to the world, whether it be physically, intellectually, or otherwise, it becomes fairly easy to brush off rejection. Admittedly, however, selfconfidence is difficult to achieve, and for some this can take a lifetime.

The other option is simply to invest less in people. The analogue to this is the classic cliche of the “naturally smart” student who gets poor grades because he simply doesn’t care to study. This justifies and rationalizes his performance without undermining his status. Is this not what everyone wants?

Although this may seem heartless, in many ways this is a perfectly legitimate strategy. The notion that there is a universal way to appeal to people, the idea that there is a formulaic way to attract people to us, is far-fetched and absurd. The reality is that no two people are alike and everyone harbors individual biases, prejudices, and preferences. This tells us then that, for the most part, finding friends, a girlfriend, or a boyfriend, is nothing more than statistics, a “numbers game.” The only way to be good at interacting with people is to understand that regardless of what you project, some people will like you and some people will not, and that’s just the way it is. The burden falls on us to put ourselves out there and expose ourselves to as many people as we possibly can.

It seems this is the most rational way to make sense of the social world we live in because it is logical and realistic. The understanding that people will dislike us no matter what we do is intensely liberating. If we simply approach enough people, many are bound to like us. This tells us that there is enormous value in projecting our interests and desires without apology or reservation.

It tells us to take chances on people. It tells us that people can disappoint us, but that they can also surprise us. Maybe this is the only way to really understand people.

This philosophy can make us socially successful, but can it ever make us personally fulfilled? This lifestyle demands a certain degree of detachment and desensitization to our own feelings and those of others. I do not believe treating people like “just a numbers game” is reducing them—the veil of selfconfidence are just hopeless defense mechanisms that help us continue floating through life.

Alis Dicpinigaitis is a staff columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at opinions@bcheights.com.

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Fresh ideas from dorm to table Boston blogger shares vegan recipes from the ‘world’s smallest kitchen’

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here is no dishwasher in Madeline Heising’s kitchen.

Pots and pans hang from wall-mounted racks, and utensils are clumsily arranged in coffee mugs. She only has one foot of counter space to chop, mix, stir, and blend the recipes that have made her website and cookbook so successful.

“It’s so funny, people see the book and the pictures and the food and expect that I have some huge kitchen and am living a crazy, blogger-queen lifestyle,” Heising said. “When really it is just me hanging out in my little studio apartment, trying to cook anything and everything, using my dining table as my cutting board.”

Heising’s blog, The Collegiate Vegan, has come a long way since it began in 2011. After graduating from Northeastern University in January with a degree in communication studies and a minor in food systems and sustainability, Heising, 22, now spends most of her time trying out new recipes for the blog in her, self-proclaimed, “world’s smallest kitchen.” Read by students and suburbanites alike,

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Not easy being green: the quest to track the T in real time MIT senior develops app to track location of Green Line trains with GPS

BY PASQUALLE DIFILIPPO Heights Staff With 87,420 average weekday entries to the Green Line alone, hundreds of thousands of Boston’s commuters, residents, and students rely on timely MBTA service every day. As the T has seen an incredible number of delays and cancellations in the wake of Boston’s winter storms, MIT senior Alex Grinman hopes his new app will help Bostonians navigate the seemingly unreliable system.

Grinman’s app, Greenline, provides real-time tracking of all MBTA Green Line trains. The app utilizes GPS tracking features to tell users exactly how far a train is from his or her current location, which will allow passengers to manage their schedules with delays.

Grinman, a computer science and math major at MIT, created his first build for Greenline in early January. Greenline is Grinman’s latest creation, but it is not the only software he has worked on, as he interned at tech giants Microsoft and KAYAK over the past five years. In addition to his professional experience, Grinman credits time with Blade LLC., a startup incubator in Boston’s Fort Point section, and his high school curriculum for his expertise in computer science. Currently, Grinman has constructed three functioning apps—all of which are featured on the MBTA’s Rider Tools website—that he developed during his time at nearby Brookline High School.

Greenline pulls location data from the MBTA website and determines the train’s longitude and latitude to figure out the

train’s exact location. Each MBTA train has a GPS device implemented within its cars, and broadcasts the data to the MBTA’s servers. Greenline features a polished and easy user-interface in which passengers can see both inbound and outbound green line trains as well as the stations on the route.

Grinman hopes to add an estimated time of arrival feature to the app in the future, but does cite its difficulties. “Currently the MBTA provides ETAs, however, it’s pretty unreliable due to stoplights and weather factors,” he said.

Similar to location features on other apps and social media, such as Snapchat and Facebook, Greenline features the ability to share a train with other users. The software utilizes Twitter, or a link to share location among users, allowing others to see the time, location, and specific train to ride on.

This GPS tracking is extremely reliable above ground. Once the trains enter into the Green Line’s below-ground stations, the MBTA no longer provides its location. Although much of the outbound stations are above ground, the majority of Green Line passengers get on at the inner city’s below ground stations, making this information disparity especially problematic, according to the MBTA. Grinman is confident that this information gap will be overcome and the MBTA will release this information in the future when it installs Automatic Vehicle Identifiers (AVIs) in tunnels, to benefit riders who use the app. These AVIs are expected to be installed by the end of the winter.

Through Greenline, users are provided

real-time locations for all train stations and cars on the Green Line. In addition, users can view the entire route path with all the stops on the map as well as have the ability to save stops that they desire as favorites. The app also has an option for users to receive official MBTA service alerts.

With the Green Line averaging over 230,000 riders a day, Grinman believes that his new app will be extremely beneficial to college students as well as those that work in the city who frequent the Green Line.

“If you just look out your window in the city you see people standing waiting for the train, my hope is to have people wait inside and track using the app and can walk outside and hop on the train,” he said.

This past week, due to record snowfall, the Green Line experienced a slew of cancellations and delays that left riders stranded in the cold and waiting for shuttle buses. Grinman created Greenline because of problems similar to this—he felt that there was a specific need to provide MBTA information to riders and felt that the Green Line schedule was unreliable compared to others.

“Schedules are kind of useless because the trains don’t follow them,” Grinman said.

“The red, orange, and blue lines don’t have as much uncertainty, but with the Green Line it’s another story.”

Previously Green Line tracking data was not available to developers, but the MBTA decided to release the real-time information this past October. Greenline

uses this information to feature service alerts for the MBTA Green Line through Twitter.

“Currently Greenline is passing updates through Twitter, as I feel it’s the quickest way to get information that users depend on,” Grinman said.

Although there still remain a few minor quirks to resolve, Grinman hopes to launch Greenline on the iOS app store in the near future. 

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As BC recovers from storms, snow and missed classes pile up

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Campus was cleared well enough for students to return to class Tuesday, with the University avoiding a fifth snow day in two weeks.

Snow Delay, from A1 said she could not make it to class because of the MBTA’s closure. She ruled out Uber as an alternative, because of prohibitive surge prices.

“There was a quiz in my class that

I won’t be able to make up, and even though that’s a small part of my grade it’s still something,” she said in an email.

“I wish the school had shut down when the T did.”

According to BC’s director of emergency management John Tommaney,

the state of emergency issued by the governor was not an order for people to stay off the roads. Unlike the state of emergency that was declared at the start of Winter Storm Juno, he said, this state of emergency was declared about 36 hours into the storm.

“This state of emergency was declared because the government needed to take certain actions to assist cities and towns with snow removal efforts,” Tommaney said. “This was their primary reason.”

On campus , the University announced just after 6:30 p.m. on Monday that parking lots would be closed all day Tuesday, and advised that vehicles typically parked in the on-ground lots should park in the garages, which did not close. A University email was sent at 2:58 p.m. Tuesday, announcing the Mod Lot, the Flynn Recreation Complex Parking Lot, the Edmond’s Parking Lot, the road between Edmond’s and Walsh halls, the Shea Lot, and all parking by Rubenstein, Ignacio, 66 Comm Ave, Gabelli and Voute would open at 5 p.m.

According to Dunn, it was up to the discretion of faculty and students to make the decision whether they would attend class.

“Despite some inevitable hiccups, the day seemed to progress well,” he said. “I talked to a lot of students—some were relieved to get out of their dorms and get back into the rhythm of the school day.”

After four snow days, Quigley, in consultation with deans and faculty, made the decision to move all Monday classes to Thursday. This decision, made about one hour after the announcement Sunday that school would be closed Monday, had no bearing on the decision to hold Tuesday classes, Tommaney said. He said the administration was trying to offset one section of classes being continually hit by storm after storm.

In the 17 days since the first snow storm, Winter Storm Juno, snow drifts have piled up on sidewalks and in quads on campus. So far this winter, there have been 78.5 inches of snow—this being the ninth snowiest winter on record, according to The Boston Globe.

Much of of the snow being hauled off of Main Campus goes to a “snow farm” on Brighton Campus, where it is being melted down, Tommaney said.

“We’re trying to make the best decision we can … the University is trying to balance a lot of moving parts,” he said.

“For all the people who want to have stuff closed, the flip side of that equation is the people who are here to learn, who want to attend their classes.” 

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John Oliver and YouTube

Ryan Dowd John Oliver is back. His news/comedy show aired on Sunday night, and those of us with access to HBO Go accounts through an acquaintance who lives in Chicago got to watch it at our leisure on Monday.

Oliver falls under the tradition of John Stewart and to an extent the Weekend Update SNL sketch. The HBO platform has allowed him to expand the news/comedy form. He can curse. He can spend half his show on the prison system, FIFA, sugar, and the parade of other topics he examined over the summer. I can neither confirm nor deny that his show is the template the Scene spread aspires to mirror, tackling stories with detail, depth, and breadth.

I love Last Week Tonight. My summer at home would have been a little bleaker without Oliver’s incredulity.

But as it turned out, dipping back into Oliver was the tip of the icicle that’s reaching adequate sword length in the alley behind the barred windows of my apartment.

YouTube, as Marian Wyman noted around this very space on Monday, can be a powerful thing—for good.

She meant, I’ll wager, more in terms of societal good, but it’s more than just that. It can deter your honest intention of starting assigned reading, as you click on one Oliver video, which leads you to another, which leads you to a clip of John Stewart and Stephen Colbert doing a bit at the Emmys— that one where Harrison Ford is seen head snapping back in laughter. Love the guys that guy plays.

That Emmy video was before HD, which is hard on the eyes, but once you go down the rabbit hole of non-HD videos, things actually get really interesting, because why upload a non-HD video unless the actual content isn’t in some way absurd?

And so I went on a YouTube deep dive into Colbert and found a clip where The National and Justin Vernon sing “Vanderly, Cry Baby Cry,” which, you know, is everything I’ve ever hoped and dreamed.

I think it’s in those terrible videos that YouTube (or really wherever you go to watch people do stuff on camera) is best. Music is best captured live in concert miraculously in perfect frame by a cell phone. Bon Iver is best doing “Re: Stacks” with The Staves or doing a cover of The Outfield’s “Lose Your Love.” Colbert is best when the footage is grainy but his voice rings clear and his eyes still twinkle. Arguably, my finest moment on this good Earth occurred in a senior follies cancan with five other dudes on a bright stage in front of all my past peers and their parents which will thankfully live forever on YouTube.

Sometimes, we don’t need John Oliver in his finely curated HBO set to make sense of absurdity. Media can reflect, amplify, and refract life.

Sometimes you need to watch How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Sometimes you need to watch Boyhood. Sometimes you need to go out and actually see for yourself that we now reside in a snow globe. And every so often, I think, we should take in life at it rawest. I think it’s good to look at life without a lens sometimes. And yes, I’m talking about experiencing life in s—ty YouTube videos and not going outside. There’s a state of emergency after all.

When life is unprocessed and messy, it can actually turn out well.

The big truths you can find in the polished stuff (tv, movies, hip new content), such as power corrupts and it’s hard growing up. But the little truths, the ones that I think actually make a difference in our lives, can really only be found in little moments captured with a cell phone before everything was fit for three minute clips embedded in short blurbs.

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

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“The goal is to represent our aesthetic through music ... The people who love it here are diehards and we wouldn’t want to change the authenticity of it.”

“[WZBC] is not representative of only campus radio, and that’s something not many college stations have.

We want to appeal to a sense of localism and community.”

Drew Hoo / heights editor

WZBC, Boston College’s only student-run radio station, broadcasts an eclectic array of musical taste for its community.

WZBC sets standard as a local underground brand Summer Lin

Asst. Arts & Review Editor Behind the black doors of McElroy 107, you are unlikely to find the monotony of the Top 40, nor should you expect to.

Lining the densely-adorned walls of the WZBC studio are stickers and posters collected from over the past decade—a testament to the station’s sense of history and eclectic taste.

That’s ultimately what WZBC is about—a consideration of diverse ideas, tastes, and opinions that does not forgo the station’s historic roots.

Since its inception in 1974, WZBCNewton serves as Boston College’s only non-profit, student-run radio station.

Originally established as WVBC, the station emerged in 1960 to broadcast solely to on-campus buildings and dormitories.

Expanding beyond the confines of BC, the station was rebranded as WZBC in 1974 and licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, according to its mission statement. Currently, the station broadcasts at the frequency of 90.3 and serves a larger community,

branching out to the Chestnut Hill and Newton areas. For the station’s programming director Minh-y Tran and general manager Yonny Reichel, both A&S ’16, WZBC’s scope extends far beyond the college demographic.

“We are considered a genuinely local station,” Reichel said. “It’s not representative of only campus radio and that’s something not many college stations have.

We want to appeal to a sense of localism and community.”

WZBC offers array of programming— ranging from ZBC Rock, country, and reggae to news and sports.

From 6 a.m. to 4 a.m. on any given day, listeners can expect to hear Cousin Kate’s Sunday Morning Country, the daily news program Democracy Now, or the bluesy stylings of What the Funk. Perhaps WZBC’s most ambitious and unique programming airs under the moniker No Commercial Potential (NCP). True to its title, NCP is a sounding board for the more avant-garde, airing underground, industrial rock.

“We like to promote artists that aren’t always in the public eye,” Reichel said. “The

type of music that we put out there tends to gravitate towards avant-garde and something that people find provocative.”

Over the years, programming has evolved with a changing base of listeners and list of programs. Music directors curate playlists and have full reign over what the station broadcasts, while volunteers send in physical copies of CDs as well as use Spotify and Soundcloud to discover new artists. In recent years, Boston local radio has leaned towards pop rock influences. The shutdown of the WFNX station meant that the Boston community lacked an underground music presence that WZBC eventually filled.

“Recently, we’ve been gravitating towards electronic lo-fi and deep house rather than our original garage band rock,” Reichel said. “We cater to our listeners and the underground music scene.”

Beyond an extensive listenership, WZBC links area residents to the university by featuring guest DJ spots from local community members. Meanwhile, student volunteers at the station have carved out their own niche within BC’s alternative culture. While WZBC does

tend to attract a specific demographic, the station builds a sense of community by bringing musically-minded individuals together under one ceiling.

“The archetype of the WZBC persona tends to be described as elitist, because we are so aware of our own taste,” Reichel said. “The goal is to represent our aesthetic through music and that can come off as pretentious. The people who love it here are die-hards [for music] and we wouldn’t want to change the authenticity of it.”

While audiencec have been receptive to WZBC over the decades, the station hopes to diversify its music inclusion and convert its house CDs into digital form. Its top goal, however, is to remain authentic and produce accessible music to the public without straying from its modern rock beginnings.

“People who like to explore new and different music tend to gravitate towards WZBC because there isn’t always another outlet for experimental music,” Tran said.

“The goal is to explore new and strange music and to listen to music for listening’s sake.” n

This weekend in arts

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By: Chris Fuller | Associate Arts & Review Editor

BC Bop Live!

(Thursday, 8 P.M.)

Love is... (saturday, 4 p.m.)

‘fifty shades of grey’ (opens friday)

Love notes (thursday, 6:30 p.m.)

Boston College’s jazz band performs live this week at the Cabaret Room in Vanderslice Hall. This is the first performance of the semester for the group. Admission to the event is free.

The highly-anticipated adaptation of E. L. James’ bestselling novel comes to theaters this weekend. Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson star as the complicated, sex craved couple.

Kerry cronin on dating and relationships (thursday, 7 P.M.)

The date doctor of Boston College will be holding her famous talk on collegiate dating and relationships this week in McGuinn 121. The lecture is aptly timed for students looking for advice on how to ask that special someone out for Valentine’s Day.

The Chinese Student Association and Korean Student Association are holding their culture show this weekend in Robsham. Tickets to the showcase are $10 at the box office.

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‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ (opens friday)

A secret spy organization recruits a seemingly inept boy into its rigorous training program just before a global crisis unfolds. Colin Firth and Michael Caine are featured.

Let’s talk about the 4 letter words (Saturday, 7:30 P.M.)

FACES holds this discussion on the difficulties of interracial dating. The student panel and consequent dialogue with attendees will be held in Stokes South 195.

Join the Sharps, BEATS, Heightsmen, Bostonians, and Dynamics this week in Robsham for love ballads, just in time for Valentine’s Day. Tickets to this rare a cappella collaboration are $10. The BU Treblemakers will also be featured in the show.

Sexual chocolate big show (friday, 7 p.m.)

Boston College’s famous dance group, Sexual Chocolate, makes Robsham its stomping ground this weekend. Synergy hip hop dance company and the Dance Organization of Boston College will be featured as guest performances.

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ZBC prides itself in programs headed by an eclectic range of students—the Boston College radio station is open to programming from undergraduates of all class years if they live up to the station’s standards. One such freshman, Peyton Spencer, A&S ‘18, hosts her program “Music De Spencer” on Thursdays from 2 to 3 p.m. Spencer gained a slot in the programing rather quickly, working with the station for only a semester.

“To have an FM program I had to do an AM show with WVBC,” Spencer said. “And I had to intern for the DJs of WZBC for a semester, they listened to my AM show to make sure I was doing fine and then I submitted an application saying what I would be playing.”

Spencer’s program is a part of the station’s alternative rock scene, which makes up a large section of the playlists and shows that the station promotes.

Like many of the DJ’s that make up the WZBC roster, for an hour a week Spencer creates a playlist of music she’s listening to and that she can find among the station’s selections of albums, artists, and songs.

“I try to make the playlists flow together, stylewise,” Spencer said. “Generally I play alternative rock music, but it kinda varies from featuring synthetic instruments to more folksy sounds.

The first song I’ll play will be really electronic, the next will have a mix of synthetic instruments, and after that I’ll move on to the more folksy end of things, so that there is kind of a rhythmic flow to the show.”

Spencer features bands HOLYCHILD and Roadkill Ghost Choir on her program, bands that may not be known by most, but are definitely picking up steam in the industry. She also will take recommendations from listeners who call in, like many of the other DJ’s at the station. Although Spencer tries to go into a show with a generally solid list of songs she wants to play, she often goes to the station’s playlist for help. Alternative rock is one of the station’s cornerstones.

Many of the DJ’s shows are compiled from a WZBC playlist of CDs that the DJs listen to and make notes on which tracks they preferred and which artists they find have a similar style to a selected album.

It’s part of the station’s dynamic and diverse programming.

“We have a playlist of CDs that are similar sounding, where people write what style the music is on each CD, what songs they liked on the album, and what they especially liked about those songs, so in that sense it’s a nice collaboration,” Spencer said.

Alternative rock is not the only genre that makes up WZBC’s playlist. Reaching back to funk and soul from the ’60s and looking into the future of popular music, WZBC’s programing offers an escape from the typical hits and sound of today’s pop-music.

WZBC has a tight-knit group of music enthusiasts as their DJs and their love for the music they play contributes to the substantive collection that is the WZBC playlist.

Along with the rock-oriented programming that WZBC airs throughout the day, the station reserves certain shows for showcasing more experimental niches of today’s music and even has a few hours set aside for national programs like “Democracy Now!” One of the more popular programs featured on WZBC, “Sunday Morning Country,” hosted by Country Kate, is a four hour program, comprised of what the station would argue is “real country.” This program is compiled from an array of country genres including Honky Tonk, Country Boogie, Swing, Tex-Mex, and Classic country music.

One of the bigger, most successful elements of WZBC is its NCP (No Commercial Potential) shows that experiment with very funky musical tastes.

These NCP programs, such as “Abstract Terrain” and “Rare Frequencies,” venture to roam outside the borders of what is considered “modern music.” This type of music can only be bound by descriptions like speed core, power electronics, and industrial sound. Though this type of music might not be accessible to all, it speaks to WZBC’s mission.

WZBC features an impressive, diverse coalition of music-lovers from all different tastes and styles. The station’s DJ’s are evidently comfortable sharing their tastes and interests within WZBC and the many styles they bring to the table are extremely apparent in the station’s dynamic programming. From Country to WZBC’s own NCP genre, there is a wide range of content for listeners tuning in. n

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When the Star Wars Saga was announced on Blu-Ray, nothing could have made me more ecstatic. Coupled with the announcement came a trailer made for the purpose of showing off the HD quality of the newly formatted picture, some awesome, never-before-seen (yeah, right) behind-the-scenes footage, and some deleted scenes from the original trilogy. What that astounding trailer failed to mention was that Lucasfilms (and in my opinion, particularly George Lucas) had made some less than flattering edits to the original films in addition to the already controversial added-in scenes and edits that have appeared in the re-releases of these iconic films the last few decades.

One such edit, featured in Return of the Jedi, makes a mockery of one of the most pivotal points in the Star Wars universe. When Darth Vader faces his climactic decision whether or not to save his son or endure watching his torture, audiences originally saw him weigh the consequences in utter silence, a deep, convincingly appropriate decision for a character like Vader. Several decades later (and after Vader’s eerily similar, poorly received cry of, “Noo!” in Revenge of the Sith) George Lucas decided it would be best for Vader, after a moment’s consideration, to shout, “Noo, nooooo,” before grabbing and throwing the Emperor down a nearby shaft. Considering the reaction Lucas garnered the first time, I have always wondered why he would choose to stick something like that in such an acclaimed film and the only reason that comes to mind is for him to assert his creative ownership over the series and remind fans that he is the father of his sci-fi baby.

At what point do Lucas’ creative rights infringe on the love fans have put forth for so many years? Lucas has never even offered the previous versions of the films for retail as he claims that his films are a work in progress, constantly open to refinement.

Other filmmakers have always approached such impasses by making acclaimed “director’s cuts,” or (in the case of Lord of the Rings) extended editions alongside the theatrical releases of their films, but Lucas offers no such relief from some of the most pitiful edits in cinematic history.

Even the Halo: Master Chief Collection, which features total redesigns of the first two Halo video games, has a neat little add-on where a player can press a button on the controller and instantly fall back into the 2001 and 2004 graphics of the original games. While the Collection is an exception in the aspect among other remastered editions of video games on the market, it carries some newer features that gamers may not enjoy and also gives the option to turn them off. A little visual enhancement never hurt anyone, but even video game designers recognize that audiences might just want what they have always had.

There are some high points for the edits Lucas has made to his series over the years. Looking at older VHS copies, some of the space sequences and scenes in Cloud City have been greatly fleshed out and built upon visually since Lucas has had access to impressive CGI technology. But what hurts most about Lucas’ edits is that, at least to most fans, they just do not make any sense.

Fans have long argued that, “Han shot first,” and that Lucas’ rejection of such a notion diminishes the dynamic character develop of Han Solo and that Lucas’ edit to the scene detracts from Han’s roguish quality. An added-in song and dance number features CGI aliens singing in their dialect in Jabba’s Palace and looks ridiculously shoddy next to the practical effects aliens surrounding the scene and the CGI aliens themselves. I cannot understand how Lucas, who knew his own creation and fan-base so well, can look at the additions he makes and honestly think that they added something substantive to the film.

Luckily, the other disgruntled fans and I don’t have to worry about Lucas’ meddling with his cultural phenomena any more. Disney, after buying the rights to the legendary series for $4 billion dollars a few years ago, has chosen to ignore his suggestions for further films and has very aptly placed visionary sci-fi director J.J. Abrams at the helm of their continuation.

I am not totally sure where distribution rights for the original and prequel trilogies lie (I think they are still held by 20th Century Fox), but I think Lucas is done tampering with his toys for good. Instead, maybe Disney can find a way to undo some of the atrocities Lucas has created in his own universe. I really hope that while sitting through the Star Wars marathon before the release of The Force Awakens I do not have to encounter Vader and his forced cries against humanity in Return of the Jedi.

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

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Creator Vince Gilligan and Bob Odenkirk reunite for ‘Breaking Bad’ spinoff ‘Better Call Saul,’ telling the transformation of public defender Jimmy McGill into crooked lawyer Saul Goodman.

“Breaking Bad” arc continues with comic fall of Saul SEAN KEELEY What do people want from a spinoff to Breaking Bad? This was the question that I skeptically asked myself when I first heard that Better Call Saul, an origin story starring Walter White’s scummy lawyer, Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), was officially greenlit. Breaking Bad was that rare show that delivered on its initial premise, improved over time, and never overstayed its welcome.

Creator Vince Gilligan perfectly fulfilled the basic mandate he envisioned from day one—turning Mr. Chips into Scarface—and delivered a widely acclaimed conclusion that wrapped everything up nicely. What more was there to say—especially about a comic supporting character like Saul?

Quite a lot, actually, judging from the first two episodes of Better Call Saul. It may be true that the story of Saul Goodman lacks the dramatic intensity of Walter White’s crystal descent into a meth kingpin, but Gilligan and company seem to understand that themselves.

There’s plenty of Breaking

Bad’s DNA in Better Call Saul, but the new show is not trying to be a clone. It is a variation on a theme.

That theme is transformation, and the ways that seemingly good men can get dragged down into the murk of crime. When we first saw Saul Goodman last Sunday, he’s living out his post-Walter White life in hiding as a Cinnabon manager in Omaha, just as he predicted at the end of Breaking Bad. As the show flashes back to 2002, though, we come to see Saul in a different light: not the anonymous sad sack of the prologue or the high-rolling criminal lawyer of Breaking Bad, but Jimmy McGill, a dirt-poor lawyer barely making ends meet with thankless public defender cases. (The first case we see involves a group of “near-honors students” who do rather nasty things to a decapitated head in a funeral home).

The hook of Better Call Saul, I think, is that it finds Saul in a different moral position than we are familiar with from Breaking Bad. Jimmy McGill may share the sardonic humor of his future alter ego, and his client list may be

equally dubious. But unlike Saul, Jimmy stands for something other than money. Nowhere is that clearer than in his relationship with his brother, Chuck (Michael McKean), who has been forced out of his own prestigious law firm because of an illness.

In the series premiere, we see Jimmy storm into his brother’s office and deliver a tirade of righteous fury toward the partners who have screwed his brother out of a just settlement. In the first two episodes, the Chuck storyline is slow going, but it also reveals surprising new facets to Jimmy’s personality: Who could imagine that Saul Goodman cared about justice or even had a meaningful relationship with a fellow human?

Throughout the first two episodes, the writers mix surprises with familiar elements in perfect proportion. Saul’s future right-hand man, Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) appears, but in 2002 he’s a disgruntled parking lot employee.

At the end of episode one, an accident scam gone wrong brings Jimmy to the doorstep of Tuco (Raymond Cruz), the sociopathic drug lord from

Breaking Bad. The sequence that follows, where Jimmy negotiates for the lives of his lowlife conspirators in the scorching Albuquerque desert, is an instant classic, recalling the “how-will-they-get-outof-this” suspense scenarios of Breaking Bad while demonstrating Jimmy’s surprising moral compass.

One familiar element thankfully ported over from Breaking Bad is its visual style. Fans of the previous show will recognize many visual signatures: low-angle perspective shots, wide vistas of the Albuquerque skies, and the use of slow-motion and tight close-ups of objects to accentuate characters’ inner anxieties and fears.

Like its predecessor, the new series likes to show off in the technical department, but some of the most striking shots are simple. My favorite is a distant shot of Jimmy furiously kicking a metal garbage can in the fluorescent-lit basement of a rival law firm, while a cool blond smokes a cigarette in the darkness outside.

It’s a thoughtfully composed, film-noir image that perfectly describes Jimmy’s own feelings of futility in the face of an

indifferent world.

Such weighty themes contrast with the overall tone of Better Call Saul, which is more comic than its predecessor. Whereas Breaking Bad was an intense drama with moments of humor, Better Call Saul seems to have the formula reversed: it’s a comedy with an underlying darkness. Finding the right balance between drama and comedy will be one of the trickier feats for the show to pull off.

Th e u l t i m at e c h a l l e n g e , though, will be for Better Call Saul to stand on its ver own, apart from its illustrious inspiration. Callbacks to Breaking Bad have their charm, but they cannot sustain a new show in the long term. Based on the evidence of the first two episodes, though, I am ready to put aside my initial skepticism and place my complete and absolute trust in Vince Gilligan—and as Jimmy McGill becomes Saul Goodman, I am excited to see Better Call Saul find its own identity too.

Sean Keeley is senior staff columnist for The Heights.

He can be reached at arts@ bcheights.com.

Father John Misty takes aim with a realistic set of love songs

BY JAMES FARRELL Heights Staff There was once a time when an artist could write a genuine love song, and everyone who heard it could reasonably believe that it was communicating some kind of sincere emotion. Soon, love songs became the pop music standard, and every teenage icon was singing about the

superficiality of holding hands, looking in your eyes, and vague assertions of beauty. Now, love and music go together like cliches and love songs, and the challenge remains of how to write about such a powerful, universal emotion in a new, personal, and truly emotive manner.

Based on the name alone, it may be difficult to imagine that any sort of genuine and not-cliched sentiment

of love could possibly exist on Father John Misty’s second studio album, I Love You, Honeybear. That is, until you remember that Father John Misty is the pseudonym/altar-ego for J. Tillman, drummer of Fleet Foxes, and one of the most creative and daring songwriters in indie music. As it turns out, the album, a collection of 11 brutally honest tracks about Tillman’s relationship with his wife, Emma, is a

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self-effacing, beautifully disgusting, and bitterly genuine portrait of an imperfect man in love with an imperfect woman, making it nothing short of an emotional masterpiece.

The lyrics of I Love You, Honeybear are filled with self-doubt and conscious awareness of imperfections, capturing love in its most honest form: sometimes beautiful, sometimes terrifying, and sometimes just intoxicating. The seemingly innocent and affectionate statement of love in the album’s title is juxtaposed, in the first track, against a crippling cynicism for the world, and an acceptance of personal dread. Accompanied by a melancholy, yet celebratory romp of rhythm (like a more plodding version of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes’ “40 Day Dream”), the lyrics of “I Love You, Honeybear” are a poetic ode to the shared misanthropy of two lovers.

The album traces several events in the Tillmans’ relationship, from hermit-like infatuation (“People are boring / But you’re something else completely”), to the perception of difference (“Of the few main things I hate about her, one’s her petty, vague ideas”), to a marriage free of traditional norms or cliches (“Oh, and love is just an institution based on human frailty”). Using the aesthetic of a psychedelic singer-songwriter, like a Pink Floyd-influenced Jackson Browne with the edginess of Jim Mor-

rison, Tillman bears his soul in its true colors on every single track.

The album’s most biting song, “The Ideal Husband,” reveals J. Tillman in all his doubts, fears, and imperfections. The song plays at Tillman’s desire to settle down with Emma, and perhaps even start a family, while simultaneously revealing the ways in which the happy cliches of that expectation occlude the moral fears of the individuals involved. Bombastic drums and a rising siren-like tone play behind two confessional verses, where Tillman lists the illicit things he’s done: “I spend my money getting drunk and high / I’ve done things unprotected / proceeded to drive home wasted.”

This reaches a fever pitch in the last verse, as the rising tones reach their peak and the drums explode while Tillman screams in fear, “Let’s put a baby in the oven / Wouldn’t I make the ideal husband?”

Of course not every song on the album focuses on Tillman’s relationship with Emma. “Bored In The USA,” for instance, is an incredibly subversive piano ballad that critiques the mindless nature of middle-class American life. But what makes I Love You, Honeybear incredible is Tillman’s consistent willingness to look into a brutally honest mirror, to deconstruct easy notions of love and self-assurance, to put his tattered self on full display, and then to turn that mirror around on us. 

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“LAY ME DOWN” SAM SMITH

British Pop sensation Sam Smith has certainly enjoyed an eventful week with his successful sweep at the 2015 Grammys. This viral music video has propelled him further into the public eye over the course of a few days.

Released on Feb. 5, Smith unveiled the emotional music video for his next single, “Lay Me Down,” off of his debut LP In the Lonely Hour.

The video—an artistic take on gay marriage in a religious setting—features Smith himself standing before a church’s altar at what appears to be the funeral of a loved one. As the song progresses, however, the mood shifts drastically and the oncemournful congregation cheers in celebration as Smith and his previously-deceased partner exchange vows at their wedding. The juxtaposition of the two events is powerful, as the immediate shift from a dark and somber scene to one overflowing with elation is profoundly moving. Heavy at times and lighthearted at others, this video advocates for equality in a way that strikes a sentimental chord and encourages discussion about a much-disputed topic.

The video is beautifully produced and expertly executed.

Smith’s signature soulful vocals stand out due to the music video’s simple concept and slow pace, while artistic elements create the drama necessary for captivating the attention and interest of the viewers.

This four minute, 10 second rollercoaster ride of emotion offers pop music fans the a dose of raw talent and genuine care for others that is often absent in music today. A heartfelt and soothing piece that simultaneously serves as a public service announcement in support of the LGBTQ community, Smith’s “Lay Me Down” video proves why this four-time Grammy winner has gone from an up and coming artist to an unquestionably relevant one.

SINGLE REVIEWS BY MARIAN WYMAN JESSIE J & TOM JONES “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” In a remake of The Righteous Brothers’ classic, Jessie J and Tom Jones collaborate to create a fresh, theatrical take on the love song that is both modern and soulful. With powerful vocals and emotional dynamism, the unlikely pair brings this ballad back to life in 2015.

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KENDRICK LAMAR “The Blacker The Berry” In this surprise release, Kendrick Lamar delivers an intense, angry, and impassioned performance about race and society. Bolstered by tense melodies that soften up at the song’s end, this track proves to be both musically and intellectually intriguing.

A definite pop song with flavors of funk and R&B, this track features Kylie Minogue channeling the likes of Madonna and other matriarchs of pop.

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Garland Owens (0) had up and down moments throughout the game, while Patrick Heckmann (33) had trouble keeping his feet straight.

range in the first couple minutes of the game. The Eagles kept the game close early, despite falling behind by as much as eight points early in the first half. A few 3-pointers from Aaron Brown, who led the team with 19 points in the game, kept Syracuse within reach.

BC center Dennis Clifford looked like he was moving a step slower than everyone else on the floor, as he would consistently miss defensive assignments, let passes slip through his grasp, or have the ball knocked out of his hands in the low post.

Clifford finished with six points and five rebounds to go along with three turnovers and three fouls. He saw an increased workload against the Orange, as his 34 minutes was his second-highest of the season. The only other game in which he played more was the Pittsburgh game, which went to an overtime period.

Heading out of the intermission down just four points, the Eagles closed the deficit quickly, using the hot shooting of Hanlan to cut the lead. BC tied the game with just over three minutes off of the clock, but Syracuse bounced back with a jumper from Kaleb Joseph and would not relinquish the lead for the rest of the game. Joseph’s consistency paced the Orange to victory, as he finished with 14 points on perfect 7-of-7 shooting.

Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim praised the impressive performance of Joseph, who is often regarded as the fifth-best starter for the Orange.

“He usually never shoots, but he’s been more aggressive in practice the past few weeks,” Boeheim said. “He did a much better job of getting into the open areas tonight, and when no one’s guarding you, you have

to hit your shots. He got a couple right away and never looked back from there.”

Boeheim also remarked that Wednesday’s performance was the best road game of the year for the Orange, but Conte Forum had a remarkably pro-Syracuse crowd towards the end. A “Let’s go, Orange” chant broke out in the final seconds, and was louder than a majority of the cheers that came from BC fans the whole game. The upper-level stands on either side of the court were filled with mostly Syracuse fans decked out in orange and blue.

This isn’t the first time that has happened at Conte this season, either. Providence College, the University of Virginia, and University of North Carolina all brought considerably large crowds with them to Boston, transforming the Eagles’ homecourt into a neutral site, at best. The Eagles are 1-3 in those games, including last night’s contest against Syracuse.

Christian was animated toward the final buzzer, trying a number of different lineup combinations to light a spark under his team. The spark never came, though, as the Orange stretched their lead with little opposition from the Eagles as the game went on.

“It’s a layup, it’s a stop in transition defense—these are all things we’ve done for 34 minutes,” Christian said. “We’ve got a little bit of fatigue, a little bit of duress, but you’ve got to deal with it.”

With just six games remaining on the schedule, the Eagles have only a few more opportunities to prove themselves before the start of the ACC Tournament in Greensboro, N.C. There are winnable games out there for BC, but only if the entire team is fully invested in going for the win. If not, the team will be in trouble, its problems likely to outlast the season. n

BC is perfect no more after a heartbreaking loss to Crimson

By John Pugh Heights Staff

Sweaters of white and crimson fly down the ice.

A forward takes a shot and misses to the right of the net. A second shot whips off a defender’s stick, careening far wide of Katie Burt’s net. From the point, Samantha Reber sprints toward the puck bouncing in the corner, but she loses control. She trips on her skates, flips onto her back, and lands hard on the ice.

Harvard (19-4-2, 14-3-1 Hockey East) came out tripping over themselves. But despite the looming shadow of the unbeaten Boston College Eagles (27-1-1, 18-0-0 Hockey East), a second period rally ended BC’s unbeaten streak at 28 games, as Harvard skated to a 3-2 victory.

The game was hard-fought on both sides and in no way resembled teams’ previous meeting in late November, when BC won 10-2. “They’ve obviously been playing better in the second half of the year,” coach Katie Crowley said of the 2015 Beanpot champions. “They’re a very good team.”

Crowley’s statements about Harvard’s recent success proved true as the final horn ended the third period and Harvard gear flew into the air from all sides of the ice.

Cheers erupted from fans dressed in crimson and white, and the pep band blasted “Ten Thousand Men of Harvard” triumphantly.

BC players and coaches alike were clearly upset as they left the ice. “The locker room was very quiet,” Andie Anastos said. “The coaches came in and said we played a good game, but we knew that we didn’t get the outcome that we wanted.”

Many players seemed to agree that, being so close to an unbeaten season, this loss was particularly disheartening.

Anastos keen to pointed out the true tragedy of the loss, however.

“We had that lossless streak but we didn’t get anything from it,” she said. “It meant a lot to the program but we didn’t win anything.”

Anastos refers to the trophy that was presented to Harvard following the game—a trophy BC was hoping to raise for the second year in a row.

The game was notable for both sides’ relentless attacks on the forecheck.

Whether the puck was behind the net of Burt or Harvard’s Emerance Maschmeyer, defensemen hoping to start a rush were swarmed by the forwards.

“We want to be a ‘go’ team,” said Harvard coach Katey Stone. “We want to put pressure on the puck all the time in every situation, in every zone.”

Two of the five goals scored on Tuesday were generated immediately from a takeaway in the defensive zone. And heavy offensive pressure with two—and sometimes even all three— forwards forechecking was the key to success for both teams.

While the remaining goals were scored in various other ways, the wide majority of chance and shots on goal were generated from an able forechecking squad.

Junior Alex Carpenter struggled throughout the game. The program record holder for longest point streak was uncharacteristically pointless. This is the second game in a row in which Carpenter has not contributed a goal nor an assist in regulation time.

This has left the Eagles’ scoring up to not only her linemates, Haley Skarupa and Kenzie Kent, but also, and more apparently, the second line of forwards.

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A goal by Haley Skarupa (23) was one of the few highlights on the night for the Eagles, who went undefeated in 28 consecutive games.

Anastos was responsible for the first goal of the game, her fourth goal in three games. When asked about her recent ability to find the back of the net in contrast to Carpenter’s failure to do the same, she explained that it wasn’t the fault of either BC players but rather that of the opponents. “[Carpenter] was just smothered the entire game,” she said. “Every shift she was out there, there were three or four people on her.” The first line has been matched up heavily by opposing teams, who have often abandoned their standard lines for a more radical approach to stopping BC’s first line.

Fans forget minor details, but will always remember the ending From Column, B8 memorable as the play, if not more so. The famous images—Randy Moss mooning the raucous Lambeau Field crowd, Reggie Miller clutching his throat in front of New York Knicks superfan Spike Lee, or hockey enforcer Tiger Williams riding his stick down the ice like a horse—remain in mind far longer than any other in-game play.

As spectators, we yearn for moments like these.

We live for moments like these.

We love these moments because they reflect how we felt during those times—we felt like flashing the money sign with BC hockey’s Alex Tuch, jumping up with Michael Jordan after “The Shot,” and falling to our knees with Brad Lidge after the 2008 World Series. We capture the moments when they happen and cherish them for long afterward.

As kids, few baseball games in the backyard ended without a Kirk Gibson-esque limping home run trot. Basketball games weren’t complete without disrespectfully stepping over an embarrassed defender, a la Allen Iverson. Games of mini golf always included a dramatic Tiger Woods-style fist pump.

Soccer games always led to penalty kick shootouts, a chance to show off your best Brandi Chastain impression.

Every celebration, like an individual’s playing style, is unique. People express themselves in different ways.

Playing a game in front of tens of thousands sets of eyes, with countless more catching replays from every angle on television, athletes get a special opportunity to express themselves after big plays during the game. The best ones take advantage.

Looking back at old highlights of our favorite teams, the plays became hazy, distant memories stuffed into the back of our minds. We forget statistics, and we forget details. We remember, however, the times we felt happiest—watching the jubilant celebrations of the players, and jumping around right alongside of them. And those are the moments that are the best.

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As a result of this focus, the second and third forward lines have had the opportunity to play against easier foes.

“We’ve got a really deep team, and now it’s important that those lines step up because everyone’s going to be matching up those first lines,” Anastos said.

The fate of BC’s postseason may, therefore, rely not on its star players but rather the ability to make use of the depth the team possesses in the forwards positions.

The attendance for the Women’s Beanpot championship was 1,412, more

than 1,000 attendees higher than the average home game for the women’s hockey team. Most notably, BC’s initiative in establishing a shuttle system for the game paid off, despite g a snow day on Monday.

BC’s student section dominated the Bright-Landry Hockey Center, only being matched in loudness by the brass sounds from the Harvard Pep Band.

Although the team didn’t come through on this night, it seems that many BC students have noted the accomplishments of the women’s hockey team this year, giving the players the attention they deserve. n

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The Eagles couldn’t overcome 20-plus point games from North Carolina’s Isaiah Hicks and Brice Johnson, falling 79-68. Men’s hockey combined with Merrimack for 115 penalty minutes in a 4-2 win in North Andover. The women’s hockey team returned to form with a 6-0 blowout of Connecticut, only to ultimately lose in the Beanpot. A poor first half doomed No. 9 Louisville in a 52-47 loss to No. 3 Virginia.

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The No. 10 BC men’s hockey team will take on No. 17 Vermont in a back-to-back set at Kelley Rink. The Catamounts’ hot start tapered off in recent weeks—the team is a mere 2-7-1 in its last 10 games dating back to Dec. 28. Vermont hasn’t beaten a ranked team since Nov. 15 (then-No. 16 Providence). Meanwhile, BC will look to shake off some rust—because of the Beanpot snowout on Monday, the Eagles haven’t played a game since last Friday, when they defeated Merrimack in North Andover, 4-2.

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But just over a minute later, Harvard responded, as it did following every major turning point for the Eagles.

Mary Parker found a wide open Lexie Laing waiting for the puck in the corner, who then found an also open Karly Heffernan right in front of the net.

Heffernan found a small slit rightbehind goaltender Katie Burt and slid the puck into the twine backhanded. The Eagles blew their defensive assignments, and the Crimson made them pay.

Shortly following that, Carpenter gave Kalley Armstrong a little extra shove along the side boards—a great hit in men’s hockey, a terrible mistake in the

women’s game.

The referees congregated, and after a discussion, they handed down their verdict—the death penalty for BC. Carpenter received a five-minute major, which B C head coach Katie Crowley admitted harshly stung the Eagles.

“We were confident in our penalty kill, but it’s tough,” Crowley said. “Especially when Carpenter gets a five-minute major, and I’m not sure she’s had five penalties all year. I don’t think she sits on the bench for five minutes at any point in the season.”

While losing its 28-game unbeaten streak and a chance at a Beanpot title will hurt for a while, Crowley made it clear that the season has not ended just yet. 

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Alex Carpenter’s highly controversial five-minute major in the second period led to the game-winning goal by Harvard forward Miye D’Oench.

BC solved the vaunted Syracuse 2-3 zone, but couldn’t finish

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Five minutes into the game, Boston College rotated the ball around the court to find Aaron Brown in the corner. Brown rose from the floor and let loose his classic, low-arc 3-point shot. The field goal gave BC its first and only lead of the game. The Eagles quickly began the game 2-of-3 from behind the arc, capitalizing on the strength of their spacing and ball movement.

It appeared BC found a solution to Syracuse’s troubling zone. Just two weeks prior, the Eagles lost by double digits at Syracuse in the Carrier Dome. Coach Jim Boeheim used his patented 2-3 zone to stump Hanlan and the Eagles. In that matchup, Syracuse’s defense forced the Eagles to rely on 3-point shots. An inability to work the ball inside forced BC to take low percentage shots around the perimeter.

On Wednesday, BC moved the ball with a purpose. The primary intention was to involve the Eagles’ center, Dennis Clifford.

Clifford failed to execute early in the first half, missing his first two short jumpers.

The effort, however, proved to make a difference. The inside threat allowed BC guards Brown and Olivier Hanlan to gain the necessary space to hit open jumpers early in the first half.

Having spread the floor, BC attacked the paint late in the first half and early in the second. BC started the second half shooting 68 percent from the field, and drew the game within one with about 10 minutes left.

“I thought our offense handled it [the zone] very well,” Eagles’ coach Jim Christian said. “We got the ball where we wanted to every time … I thought we got the ball to good spots.”

Controlling Rakeem Christmas Statistically, Christmas has been Syracuse’s best player night in and night out this season. Yet, the Eagles held him to seven points on the night, shooting just 3-of-8 from the field. Clifford primarily matched up to the big man and forced him to commit five turnovers. The Eagles double teamed Christmas to control him for most of the game.

“This is the most anybody has dealt with him,” Boeheim said. “They decided to

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The strategy differed from the Eagle’s previous matchup with the Orange. Christmas dominated the previous matchup, when Clifford alone guarded him.

Christian wanted to challenge Syracuse’s other role players. “We put different guys in the middle floor to try to go to Christmas,” he said. The approach worked. The Eagles remained within striking distance until midway through the second half.

BC’s Response to Syracuse’s Impact Plays The Eagles’ play against Christmas proved to be the only defensive bright spot of the day. BC suffered particularly in its transition defense against the Orange. The team’s inability to respond defensively to turnovers allowed the Orange to pull away midway through the second. Syracuse ended the game on a 27-10 run.

Syracuse’s closing stretch was highlighted by five steals. The Orange converted the five turnovers into 10 crucial points. The blunders shook the Eagle’s game plan. “Our response is never to play harder,” Christian said. BC simply looked like a different team once Syracuse began to run the floor.

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The Orange, who are third in the ACC in blocks per game, finished with six on the day, well above their season average. Blocks by Kaleb Joseph and Christmas in the second half propelled the Orange’s full court attack.

“Our transition game is only there when we get a deflection or block,” Boeheim said.

Following the game, Christian emphasized the importance of Syracuse’s success in transition. “We were awful in transition defense,” he said. “We have to have better communication.” Ultimately, BC improved offensively and against Christmas in its second contest against the Orange. These corrections, however, could not compensate for the Eagles’ late-game defensive errors. 

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Syracuse finishes off season sweep of BC with dominating win

BY TOM DEVOTO Asst. Sports Editor At this point in the season, you could write a game story about Boston College men’s basketball hours before the game starts.

Early in the game, BC falls behind by a couple points, but never enough to put the game out of reach. The Eagles enter the second half facing a small deficit, but almost immediately cut into it. Star guard Olivier Hanlan catches fire in the second stanza. Conte Forum fills with hope.

Then, as time winds down, all hope is sucked out of the building. BC gets lazy and makes a multitude of mental mistakes towards the end of the game. The “night shift,” headed by players like John Cain Carney and Alex Dragicevich, enters to scattered cheers. The Eagles lose by double digits. Fans go home sad, but they expected this result. Repeat.

It was just more of the same on this cold Wednesday night.

Clad in sleek gray throwback-inspired jerseys and with fans donning free giveaway shirts, BC (9-14, 1-10 ACC) walked the walk, but couldn’t talk the talk against the Syracuse University Orange (16-8, 7-4 ACC) in a 70-56 loss. The Eagles appeared to have inherited the talent of the teams that used to wear the jerseys—the 9-17 or the

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Following the defeat, head coach Jim Christian expressed his disappointment in his team’s effort towards the end of the game.

“We lost this game on effort—we stopped playing,” Christian said. “We stopped guarding, we gave up on transition defense, and that’s what our team does down the stretch.”

The loss drops the Eagles to last place in the ACC, with only one win in 11 games. Despite playing well against Syracuse’s famed zone defense, which is often among the best units in the country, BC could not get enough going to pull off the upset at home over the Orange.

Christian called out his team’s drive and determination towards the end of the game, lamenting that this is a recurring issue with this year’s team.

“When we go down, the response has to be better effort, better communication, and you have to have more invested in the game,” Christian said. “That’s the bottom line, and it’s the same story every game. The less you have invested, the easier it is to give in. We need more guys invested in winning.”

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“Thank you, Alex!”

A cheer rang out from the cramped red stands of Harvard University’s intimate Bright-Landry Hockey Center.

It was directed at Alex Carpenter, Boston College superstar and United States Olympian.

As the best player on the best team in the country, she is used to the spotlight. She was made to thrive in big games like the Beanpot championship. Hearing adoring fans call out her name is nothing out of the ordinary.

But this cheer did not come from BC supporters—the noise came from the corner of the stands where, laughing and pointing, sat the loud Crimson pep band.

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Alex Carpenter was on the other side of the ice, opposite her team’s bench, sitting alone and hunched over in the small glass enclosure at centerice. She was serving a five-minute major penalty for body checking, left to watch helplessly as Crimson forward Miye D’Oench tucked in an eventual game-winning goal just seconds into the power play.

Carpenter could do nothing but watch. The No. 4 Crimson (19-4-2, 143-1 ECAC) used this score and a herculean effort from goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer to hand the No. 1 Eagles (27-1-1, 18-0-0 Hockey East) their first loss of the season by a score of 3-2.

Elation, then dejection, then desolation, all in a span of less than three minutes.

Locked in a 1-1 draw just over 11 minutes into the second period, BC forward Haley Skarupa intercepted a Harvard pass in the offensive zone.

She moved to her left, gathered the puck, set one up and let it rip, beating Maschmeyer low to her stick side.

The Eagles regained control and looked poised to continue throttling

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Desmond Howard, Doug Flutie, and the complex art of celebration TOM DEVOTO Former University of Michigan wide receiver Desmond Howard possessed a lethal combo of blazing speed and elusive shiftiness, each of which was on display for the world to see at Michigan Stadium on Nov. 23, 1991.

The Wolverines were the No. 4 team in the country and facing the Ohio State Buckeyes, their biggest rivals, in the final game of the season.

OSU was no slouch itself, entering the game ranked No. 18 with an 8-2 record.

Michigan would crush OSU on this day—but people don’t remember many of the details of the game. The most memorable play of that historic rivalry game was, of all things, a punt.

Howard, Michigan’s primary punt returner, received a kick from deep in his own territory, sashayed left and right to avoid would-be tacklers, and then turned on the jets.

The maize and blue blur rocketed down the left side of the field, leaving Buckeye after Buckeye in his trail. He pointed up to the Wolverine faithful as he neared paydirt, acknowledging the 106,156 fans who braved the frigid Midwest weather. And then he did something to be replayed in football advertisements for a lifetime.

Howard made his way to the center of the end zone, lifted his left knee towards his chest, and extended his left arm, clutching the ball close to his heart with the other.

It was a position he only held for a split-second, turning around moments later to embrace his teammates still making their ways downfield. But it was instantly recognizable—the Heisman Trophy pose.

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cemented his place in college football immortality. He made a play, and then he made a statement. The play was remembered for a while, but a shot of Howard’s Heisman pose instantly became one of the most lasting sporting images of the 20th century.

“Caught by Boston College, I don’t believe it! It’s a touchdown! The Eagles win it!”

BC fans are all too familiar with this quote from college football announcer Brent Musburger, and the accompanying scene from the Orange Bowl in Miami at the end of the 1984 season. The Eagles went down to the University of Miami and toppled the defending national champion Hurricanes on one of the most unbelievable plays in sports history.

But fans don’t remember that Miami quarterback Bernie Kosar threw for a school record 447 yards, or that Hurricanes running back Melvin Bratton scored four touchdowns.

They don’t remember that BC blew a 14-0 lead early in the game. And they wouldn’t remember 45 of the 46 passing attempts slung from the arm of diminutive quarterback Doug Flutie on that warm November evening in tropical South Florida.

They remember that superhuman throw, that miraculous catch, and that chaotic celebration.

A jubilant Flutie leaping with arms extended, his white No. 22 jersey barely able to contain his body, jumping into the waiting arms of offensive lineman Steve Trapilo. Carrying Flutie toward the goal line as orange bodies stood motionless on the home turf, still in disbelief of what had transpired.

Gerard Phelan barely got up from the spot where he made his most famous catch before he was lifted straight into the air by his flanker Kelvin Martin.

The victors mobbing in a dog pile, joined by teammates, coaches, and

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fans alike. A state of utter euphoria— from the lowest depths to highest of highs in the time it takes to say, “Hail Mary.”

The contest between these two high-ranked teams lived up to its national television billing, and remains one of the most improbable comebacks in the history of college football.

Flutie, Phelan, and the rest of the 1984 Eagles live on.

The first moments after a major play in an athletic event can provide some of the most passionate displays of raw emotion available anywhere.

Some players dance, some mock the opposing crowd, some turn to share the moment with teammates, and some are so overwhelmed by it that they collapse to the ground in tears.

Pouring one’s entire life into a single activity will cause that reaction.

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