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Chase Rettig will try to lead the Eagles to an upset victory on Saturday, A12
Co-founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, visits MIT to discuss his latest aspirations, B8
The storied genre seems poised for a roaring comeback this fall, B1
Friday, September 28, 2012
Vol. XCIII, No. 32
Player charged last spring returns to the field for BC By David Cote News Editor
And Greg Joyce Heights Editor
Jaryd Rudolph, the football player charged with unlawful secret recording last March after he allegedly recorded a consensual sexual encounter between his roommate and a female graduate student, has played in all three of Boston College’s football games this fall.
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Students gathered in O’Neill Plaza on Monday night for BC Ignites, a new public forum on diversity and racism at Boston College.
BC Ignites urges further discussion Three student speakers address issues of racism on campus By Mary Rose Fissinger Heights Editor
Students found seats on the newly installed grass of O’Neill Plaza, the stone steps that border the renovated area, and the benches along the perimeter as the organizer of BC Ignites, Conor Sullivan, LSOE ’13, took the podium to begin the public forum on diversity and racism Monday night. Sullivan thanked everyone for attending, and invited Synergy Hip Hop Dance Company to the front for an introductory performance. Following that, the keynote speaker and Director of the Office of AHANA Student Programs, Ines Maturana Sendoya urged audience members to think about how one should consider race and racism in the context of a Jesuit
Catholic University. She stressed that the term “social justice” can apply to more than just traditional community service, and that justice must be advanced at home, as well. “During the four years you’re at the Heights, Boston College is your home,” she said. She also spoke about existing programs at BC that encourage and foster the kind of discussions BC Ignites was hoping to bring about, such as Dialogues on Race and FACES. She strongly echoed the sentiments of Sullivan and his reason for creating the event when she urged the audience to be proactive and start conversations about race with people from different backgrounds.
See BC Ignites, A4
According to a BCPD report, Rudolph admitted to using his phone to make the recording and to forwarding it to his roommate’s phone. The graduate student, who did not consent to the alleged recordings, claimed that she only learned of them after comments were made to her by members of the football team. Rudolph, a native of Plympton, Mass., was issued a summary suspension by
See Rudolph, A4
Moloney and Price disagree on contents of Belfast Project tape By David Cote News Editor
Editor’s Note: This story is part of an ongoing series about the subpoenas of the Belfast Project. Recent statements by Ed Moloney—an Irish journalist and former director of the Belfast Project, an oral history endeavor sponsored by Boston College that chronicled the experiences of various paramilitary members during “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland—and Dolours Price, an interviewee of the project, conflict greatly on the specific content of the tapes currently being sought by the Police Services of Northern Ireland (PSNI). In a press release dated Sept. 14 and in an affidavit filed in the Belfast courts, Moloney announced his claim that in her
interviews with Belfast Project researchers, Price made no mention of Jean McConville, the Irish mother of 10 who was abducted and killed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1972. He also claimed that Price did not mention Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein politician who helped orchestrate the Good Friday Agreement and who has often been accused of being an IRA leader during the Troubles. “When this research project at Boston College began we gave interviewees a pledge that nothing of what they said would be revealed until their deaths,” Moloney said. “I intend to keep that promise. But the pledge did not cover what the interviewees did not say. I now wish to make the following facts public: in her interviews with BC researcher, Anthony McIntyre, Dolours
See Belfast Project, A4
Faculty Dining Room will be opened for student dinners BCDS will sponsor TV Chef Series By Eleanor Hildebrandt Heights Editor
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Gus Burkett (above) will serve as the new director of the Student Programs Office.
Gus Burkett ready to learn BC’s culture By Brigid Wright Heights Staff
This fall, Boston College welcomed Gus Burkett, new director of the Student Programs Office (SPO), to continue the campus traditions and foster more student involvement. Burkett, with a passion for encouraging student involvement and a busy career in student affairs, intends to use the upcoming months as a learning period for absorbing BC’s unique culture and student body. Burkett, who was born and raised in Santa Fe, Argentina, received his first introduction to BC as a 16-year-old exchange student studying in Maine. “I was hosted by a host family, and my host father is an alumnus of BC,” Burkett said. “He used to take us to the hockey games and football games, and the first coat I ever bought in the United States was a BC coat. So this is fate.” Burkett returned to the U.S. after his first year of college in Argentina because there were no opportunities for him to get involved in extracurricular activities.
See Burkett, A3
Starting in early October, the Faculty Dining Room in McElroy Hall will open its doors to undergraduates once a week. Boston College Dining Services’ (BCDS) new TV Chef Series will kick off with a night featuring the cuisine of Food Network chef Jamie Oliver, and is slated to continue on Thursdays throughout the academic year. Director of BCDS Helen Wechsler said that the new program is actually a reincarnation of an old, popular dinner series called “Channel Surfing,” which used to be held in the Walsh Function Room. “They’d actually pick a TV station and theme the dinner around that,” she said. “It was really great food, and students would make reservations, and they loved it. It was one price, and you could use your mandatory [meal plan money], and it was very successful for a long while.”
Interest in the Channel Surfing program eventually waned and the program died out, but Wechsler said that BCDS has recently been looking for ways to give BC students more culinary options. “We were thinking about things that we could do that would be exciting for students, particularly those who had mandatory plans,” she said. “Students have asked us every once in awhile, ‘Why can’t you open a restaurant on campus?’ and that sort of thing. The Faculty Dining Room is perfect—it’s a great setting.” Wechsler credited the management team at McElroy with helping to put the TV Chef Series together. She also praised all the chefs from the on-campus kitchens for testing and working out the recipes. “They love doing this—this is really fun for them,” she said. “This is what they do at home, and they get to do it for a group of students, hopefully that appreciate it.” The series plans to feature the cuisine of a wide variety of chefs in the future, including Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis, America’s Test Kitchen (located in Brookline, Mass.), Guy Fieri, and Paula Deen.
See Dining Room, A4
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The walkway between the north and south wings of Stokes Hall (above) is nearing completion.
Stokes Hall nears completion as opening date approaches By David Cote News Editor
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The Faculty Dining Room in McElroy Hall (above), will be open to students starting in October.
The top floors of Stokes Hall are currently being outfitted with carpet and wood molding, and the project remains on schedule for completion around Halloween and an official opening in January, construction managers have said. Stokes Hall will be a 183,000-square foot academic and administrative building when it is finished in October, with 36 classrooms ranging in size from 20-person rooms to an 80-person mini-amphitheater classroom. In addition, the building will house offices for the theology, history, English, classics, and philosophy departments, as well as the College of Arts and Sciences
Honors Program. The offices for First Year Experience will be moved from their current location in Brock House to Stokes Hall, and the building will also house the Academic Advising Center. “The current focus is on everything,” said senior project manager Mark Lootz. “It all comes together around this time.” Currently, the project is proceeding at 175 man-hours per day, with a variety of projects being finished. As masonry around the outside of the building is finished, scaffolding will come down and the completed exterior of the building will be visible. Progress has been made faster on the north building, mainly because it is smaller, managers have said.
See Stokes Hall, A4