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Monday, February 17, 2014
Athletics reviews Gold Pass system
BY CONNOR MELLAS Heights Editor
hugging him and patting him on the back to complete an emotional day at Conte Forum. Kelley was remembered by the team with a slideshow and moment of silence on Sunday evening, before its ACC matchup with rival Notre Dame. After being diagnosed with ALS in September 2011, Kelley served as the team’s sports information director, until the disease limited his abilities. The University helped Kelley move into an apartment at 2000 Commonwealth Ave. after he could no longer use
Having passed the halfway point of the first year of Gold Pass implementation, the Boston College athletic department is pursuing student feedback and new initiatives to further develop and improve its ticketing system. Beginning this past weekend, the athletic department is utilizing small student focus groups to gain feedback on the system and explore ideas for the Gold Pass in the future. The groups— comp ose d of roughly 10 student s each—will target various demographics of the BC community, including high-, mid-, and low-range Gold Pass users, non-Gold Pass participants, and transfer students. “The driving force for year one was attendance,” said Jamie DiLoreto, associate athletics director for External Operations. “Things I’m looking at going into year one to year two is improving our processes. I want satisfaction rates to be extremely high.” In an effort to gain a wider range of feedback, Athletics is targeting a March 10 release date for a general survey that will seek to gather information on what students’ expectations were going into year one, their experiences with the Gold Pass thus far, and their expectations entering year two. Among the questions Athletics is focusing on are issues of earning points for road- tripping to games, matters of
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A legend’s passing: remembering Dick Kelley BY ALEX FAIRCHILD Heights Editor After a three-year battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, Boston College Sports Information Director and Assistant Athletics Director Dick Kelley passed away on Thursday evening at Massachusetts General Hospital. For over two decades at Chestnut Hill, Kelley served as the primary contact for BC’s men’s basketball team. He assisted the men’s ice hockey, soccer, and football teams,
as well. In the early 1990s, Kelley taught a newswriting course for BC’s communication department. Kelley, who graduated from BC in 1987 with his bachelor’s degree in communication and political science, returned to his alma mater in 1991 as an assistant sports information director, after being an assistant media relations director at Boston University. For BU, he worked with the men’s soccer, basketball, and baseball teams. In 1999, Kelley was the assistant media coordinator for the East Region First and Second Rounds of the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament, which
was hosted by BC at the Fleet Center. Raised by his parents Ann and Ed in Andover, Mass., Kelley became a member of the College Sports Information Directors of America and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association. The latter organization awarded Kelley with its Most Courageous Award last February. A ceremony at center court before the men’s basketball team’s game with Virginia honored Kelley with the award. Thenfreshman Joe Rahon’s last-second shot to beat the Cavaliers happened in front of Kelley, who was seated on press row. After the buzzer sounded, the team rushed over to their hero,
Swiss Jesuit discusses faith, Christian-Jewish relations BY JULIE ORENSTEIN Assoc. News Editor
CONNOR FARLEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR
Last Saturday in Robsham Theatre, the Chinese and Korean student associations hosted ‘Jade,’ the organizations’ annual cultural performance.
CSA, KSA host 14th annual culture show BY ARIELLE CEDENO Heights Editor This past Saturday, the Chinese Students Association (CSA) and the Korean Students Association (KSA) presented their 14th annual Culture Show, the Jade Awards. The show celebrated the diversity of Chinese and Korean cultures through an array of traditional and contemporary cultural performances. As one of the largest events of the year for both organizations, the cultural showcase included 13 performances and over 150 studentperformers. Each performance explored a different facet of Korean or Chinese tradition, both old and new. In conjunction with this year’s theme, the production was conducted as a competition show, with each individual performance competing to win the honor of the Jade Award. The pretext of competition allowed for a fluid transition between the performances, as the masters of ceremony, Austin Hong, CSOM ’16, and Alison Chan,
A&S ’16, announced each new piece as a new contender for the award. The show commenced with the traditional Chinese Lion Dance, a celebratory dance in which the performers imitate a lion’s movements. The extensive choreography by Tony Hu, A&S ’17, and the elaborate traditional lion costume helped make an impactful first performance. Other traditional Chinese performances included an impressive kung fu fight routine set to contemporary music, choreographed by Thinh Nguyen, CSOM ’15. The Dragon Lantern performance, a traditional Chinese dance that uses mounted paper lanterns to imitate dragons, illuminated the theater as the performers lined the aisles with their lanterns, making intricate designs and patterns. The ancient Ribbon Dance, in which dancers create sharp, rhythmic movements using long colorful ribbons, was modernized through the incorporation of contemporary music in lieu of traditional Chinese music. Other acts that explored
contemporary Chinese culture include the Chinese pop music dance and vocal performances, and the Chinese yo-yo routine, in which the performers juggled colored, glowin-the-dark discs on the traditional Chinese yo-yo—a modern approach to a traditional Chinese pastime. The display of Korean culture began with the Salmunori drum routine choreographed by Woo Young Choi, A&S ’16, featuring the repetitive percussion of four instruments used to represent the natural elements: thunder, clouds, rain, and wind. The Korean Fan Dance featured dancers in traditional Korean dress, using fans to elegantly imitate images and form patterns. In one of the more intense performances of the night, students meticulously executed the Korean martial arts tradition, Tae Kwon Do. Similar to the Chinese pop music performances, there was an array of contemporary
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An international prospective on Christian-Jewish relations was highlighted in the third annual Pope John Paul II lecture Sunday night, which featured Rev. Christian M. Rutishauser, S.J. of Switzerland, speaking on the “Jewishness of Jesus” and renewing Christian appreciation. Rutishauser is in the Provincial of the Swiss Jesuits, as well as a lecturer on Jewish studies at the Faculty of the Philosophy of the Society of Jesus in Munich, Germany. He is also a member of the Commission for Jewish-Christian Relations of the Swiss and German Bishops Conference and the Vatican delegate at the International Liaison Committee for the Relations with the Jews. In addition to authoring articles and giving lectures around the world on his area of study, Rutishauser led a pilgrimage on foot from Switzerland to Jerusalem two years ago. Rutishauser broke his lecture into four chapters, each focusing on separate facets of the Christian-Jewish relationship. The first chapter looked at the theological history of the two faiths, noting that many scholars have begun to treat Jesus as simply another historical figure from the ancient world in a modern secularization of faith. “Many believers gradually came to realize that history alone could not provide adequate spiritual nourishment,” Rutishauser said. “Additionally, there was a danger that Jesus would become one early religious founding figure among many. “The secular, historical perspective of Jesus has to be widened to include the history of the New Testament period as a whole, and of course, also that of the Old
Testament. The text of the Bible must be read as a document written by believers in antiquity—there is no alternative in order to get the original meaning.” He also discussed how two religious movements—the Messianic movement and the Rabbinic movement—that sought to reinterpret the history of God’s guidance arose out of the catastrophe that was the destruction of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. “They shared core elements of faith, but interpreted them in opposite ways,” Rutishauser said. A third faith, he said, was formed as Islam began in the seventh century. Islam takes up the same topics and themes as
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Rev. Christian Rutishauser, S.J., discussed the ‘Jewishness of Jesus’ at last Sunday’s event.
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