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Thursday, November 7, 2013
Vol. XCIV, No. 41
Fall Concert took $112,000 loss with lowest turnout in three years SA committee offers recommendations for future concert plans BY ANDREW SKARAS Asst. News Editor
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‘AHANA’ still relevant, alum argues
With a record-low attendance out of concerts in the last three years, this year’s Fall Concert lost $112,376, according to data provided by Isaac Akers, a senator in the UGBC Student Assembly (SA), co-chair of the Fall Concert Fact Finding Committee (FCFFC), and A&S ’16. With total ticket sales of 955, the concert brought in only $23,325 in revenue against $135,701 in expenses. This is the lowest revenue, and resulted in the most money lost, since the Spring Concert of 2010 brought in just $28,650 of revenue.
Although it is normal for UGBC concerts to lose money, the $112,376 that the 2013 Fall Concert lost is the most since the 2010 Spring Concert, which lost $131,394. By comparison, the more successful Fall Concerts in 2010 and 2012 lost $23,761 and $38,460, respectively; the 2011 and 2012 Spring Concerts lost $81,949 and $74,278, despite higher attendence at the latter. On Tuesday, the FCFFC, created in September to “investigate the disappointments of the 2013 Fall Concert,” according to the SA resolution establishing the committee, released its findings at the weekly SA meeting. The report did not include the total cost of the concert or the effect of the shortfall in revenue on the programming department’s budget for the rest of the year. It mentioned the low ticket sales, but did not supply numerical data. Later, Akers provided specific revenues, expenses, and ticket sales for each of the last
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BY DEVON SANFORD “AHANA is not a club, it is not a name, it is not a distinction of a particular group or a person. It is an acronym.” Valerie Lewis-Mosley, director of Catechetics and Youth Ministry at Christ the King Church New Jersey and BC ’79, returned to campus Tuesday evening to discuss the relevancy of the AHANA acronym in today’s society. Lewis-Mosley was one of two Boston College students who coined the AHANA term in the late 1970s. “The A in AHANA stands for anyone who comes from the diaspora of the continent of African peoples,” Lewis-Mosley said. “The H, which also can be substituted for L, is for the Hispanic or Latino peoples that originate from their diaspora nations, which are a multiplicity of countries and even various continents. A is for all of those folk who originate from a diaspora of Asian nations. N is for natives peoples. And the American is not so much that each person may be documented American per se, but that we are folk living here, on these shores at this time, embracing our cultures.” Lewis-Mosley originally introduced the term as a BC undergrad studying in the Connell School of Nursing. She and Alfred “Alfie” Feliciano, BC ’81, created the acronym in the fall of 1979 and received the approval of the Board of Trustees to change the “Minority Student Programs” to the “Office of AHANA (African American, Hispanic, Asian American, and Native American) Student Programs.” The AHANA acronym was trademarked by BC in 1991, and has since been used by dozens of higher education institutions, including Boston University, Seattle University, Emory University, Fairfield University, Cleveland State University, the University of Wisconsin, and LeMoyne College. The Office of AHANA Student Programs (OASP) now serves hundred BC students each year through its 23 regular programs, and reaches all students through events, presentations, outreach efforts, and collaboration with other BC departments. When Lewis-Mosley first joined the BC community, a student programs office for minorities, multicultural, and multiracial students was nonexistent. Instead, there was the “Black Talent Program.” “My relationship began several years before that when a Dominican nun told me about the Boston College scholarship program called the ‘Black Scholarship Program,’” Lewis-Mosley said. “It was a scholarship that was for the purpose of recruiting black students to attend this college for changing the fabric, the quilt if
six large-scale UGBC concerts. “Simple math reveals that ticket sales were lower than in previous years, which translates into a shortfall in revenue,” the report read. “It should be noted that great lengths were taken to scale the event to the ticket sales, saving thousands of dollars.” The report did not include specifics on how much was saved by scaling back the event. Ticket sales of 955 indicate the lowest student participation in recent history. According to Akers, the least successful recent concert—the 2010 Spring Concert—sold 1,146 tickets and brought in $28,650, costing $160,044 overall. The 2010 Fall Concert, which was the best-attended concert among the six that Akers listed, brought in $120,000 in revenue on 4,800 tickets sold and cost $143,761. Also well-attended was the Spring 2012
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Walsh, WCAS ’09, edged out John Connolly in Tuesday’s election to secure the position of Boston’s next mayor. See C10 for more coverage.
Seeking to expand the Boston College Bystander Intervention Education beyond presentations, the program’s lead trainers Joseph Palomba, A&S ’15, and Andrea Giancarlo, CSOM ’15, along with graduate assistant Megan O’Hara, GSSW ’15, have begun to develop a program that will explore the concept of masculinity. The Bystander program, under the umbrella organization of the Women’s Resource Center (WRC), boasts between 40 and 50 trainers each year who present strategies to prevent sexual assault and combat rape culture with various organizations on campus. In order to further this goal of fostering a culture in which rape and sexual assault can be discussed more openly on campus, Palomba hopes to open the conversation up to men. “As an organization, we have 40 to 50 trainers, and I’d say under 10 are men,” he said. “So for me personally, it’s a direction I want to bring this program.” He hopes especially to bring the program to those without experience in these types of discussions. “The basic idea is not to preach to the choir, it’s to target the people who aren’t getting this message already,” he said. For Palomba, the other men’s organizations on campus serve both as inspiration and possible partnership. “A lot of solid men’s groups already exist, and a few that I’m still learning about, and so part of what I’m doing is just figuring out what those are, how they fit into the BC community and how my goals fit into what they do,” he said. For instance, the Center for Student For-
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York makes case for sportsmanship in hockey stands BY AUSTIN TEDESCO Heights Editor Jerry York paced back and forth in the Boston College locker room, a bright light shining on the head men’s hockey coach as he rehearsed lines for a video on sportsmanship. There was a slight strain on his face, and his hands began to clench and release. He wanted to nail his next take. “Just how Obama does it, right?” York asked the video crew, and the room let out a chuckle. After hearing from his wife, family, assistant coaches, and fans about some of the profanity used in Conte Forum recently, York, along with the athletic department, decided to produce a video on the topic. He delivered an earnest message, which BC fans should see soon, on camera yesterday afternoon. Some of the team’s veterans—Brendan Silk, Teddy Doherty, Cam Spiro, Destry Straight, Peter McMullen, and Patrick Brown—were there for the
shoot, and they had their eyes locked on the coach throughout his speech. York even made sure he had his patented blue notebook on hand, letting sports information director Mark Majewski run to grab it from his office after the first take felt wrong without it. “We’ve got to do something about this,” York said, taking a quick break while the camera crew rearranged the setup. York hadn’t heard any of the explicit cheers from the student sections, including the use of “f—” and other profanities, since he stays concentrated on the game, but enough people have told him about it that he thought the issue needed to be addressed. “We’re among the world’s finest universities, so we’ve got to display that as far as how we treat other people and how we support our teams,” York said after the video shoot wrapped up. “I don’t think it
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Members of the men’s hockey team gathered to shoot a video on sportsmanship.