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NO RIX, NO PROBLEMMETROAs spring aproaches, so do Boston’s food trucks—including Bon Me and Rami’s, A8

FOOD TRUCK CITYSCENEThe student-run FM station held its Spring Concert at the local Great Scott venue, B2

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At least for a moment, Spencer Powers, BC ’07, was in an unfamiliar situation.

Powers returned to the Boston College campus on Tuesday night to speak with students in the BC Venture Competition club, as well as the participants of its social entrepreneurship “seed” competition. At the front of a room in Fulton Hall, Powers gave feedback on student proposals, and shared his own thoughts to those interested in service-oriented business ventures.

Powers is the 30-year-old co-founder of ArtLifting, an online mar-ketplace that sells artwork from homeless and disabled individuals in therapeutic programs. He had no prior entrepreneurship experience as a BC student, but his passion for service drove him to help create his own startup. A graduate of BC High and BC, Powers has taken many of the University’s values to heart, and works to incorporate them on a daily basis while managing his new company in Boston.

“The mission of the Jesuits has always resonated with me,” Powers said. “It has always been a part of our family and my daily life.”

Nanci Fiore-Chettiar, president of the Un-dergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) and A&S ’15, was awarded the Dr. Donald Brown Award for 2015. Established in honor of Donald Brown, the director of the Office of AHANA Student programs from 1978 to 2005, the award is presented to a senior who has signifi cantly contributed to to the campus throughout their four years, especially within the AHANA community. Fiore-Chettiar was recognized in a ceremony on Monday night.

Th e daughter of a white mother and South Asian father, Fiore-Chettiar did not originally think that much about being in AHANA. She grew up with her mom in a predominantly white town, and when she came to BC, she did not think the AHANA label applied to her. When she joined FACES as a freshman, how-

ever, she began to learn about racial inequalityand her own racial identity.

“To me, AHANA is not just an acronym,it’s an experience,” she said. “It’s a very dif-ferent experience than people who may notidentity as AHANA, and in some ways it canbe an experience of unity and celebration and camaraderie, and in other circumstances it can be an experience of marginalization andfrustration and isolation, so I think it’s bothpositive and negative.”

Fiore-Chettiar, who will graduate thisspring with a degree in sociology, has been avoice within the AHANA community sinceher freshman year. She created the viral “WeAre BC” video her freshman year in an attempt to build unity and acceptance on campus. Asa sophomore, she founded Backgrounds andcreated safe spaces for students to have dia-logues on race and diversity in small groups.

Boston College was ranked the fourth best “best value” college in Massachusetts—and 58th nationally—in a recent data report that calculated college cost against return for stu-dents. Th e study was conducted in March by SmartAsset, a California-based fi nancial data and technology company that uses interactive software to aid in fi nancial decision-making. SmartAsset draws information from over 130 data partnerships, and put together its college study using information from the 2013 National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the 2014 PayScale, and the 2013 CollegeInsight.

“With rising college costs, a lot of people wonder if it is still worth it to go to college, and pay that money, and oftentimes take out those student loans,” said AJ Smith, managing editor of SmartAsset. “We wanted to look at a number that wasn’t solely focused on the tuition.”

In determining the value of institutions, the report examined the cost-of-attendance in comparison to a measured value for students. In seeking to calculate the true cost of atten-dance, the report considered factors beyond just tuition of the school, also considering the average scholarships and grants off ered, and student living costs—which include room and board, textbooks and class materials, and transportation. Th e report took into account student retention rates—the percentage of stu-dents enrolled at the institution the following year—and the average starting salary for recent graduates as measures of student’s return.

“We wanted to take a comprehensive look at what college costs, as we know that is more than just the sticker price that you often hear, there’s other things in addition to tuition,” Smith said. “Also, we wanted to look at what you are getting in return as well, which creates this sort of value idea behind going to college and taking out these costs.”

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After 31 games and many cancellations, the Boston College baseball team finally played its first game of the season in Chestnut Hill. With rain pouring down hard, the Eagles defeated the Northeastern Huskies, 4-1, in the semifinal round of the Beanpot tournament. See page B8.

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Chicago Archbishop Rev. Blase Cu-pich will be the keynote speaker at Boston College’s 139th Commencement Ceremony on May 18, the University announced on Th ursday morning. Cupich was elected by Pope Francis in September 2014 to be the Archbishop of Chicago, the third-largest Catholic diocese in the United States. At the

ceremony, Cupich will be presented with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Univer-sity President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J.

Receiving honorary degrees alongside Cupich will be Sr. Marie Chin of the Sisters of Mercy in Jamaica, Michael Motyl, president of the Guadalupe Regional Middle School in Texas and BC ’01, writer Steve Pemberton, BC ’89, and journalist Lee Woodruff .

“BC students are committed to social jus-tice,” University spokesman Jack Dunn said.

“Archbishop Blase Cupich is a proponent of social justice and a champion for the eco-nomically and socially disenfranchised.”

To pick the commencement speaker, Leahy seeks suggestions from the BC com-munity and then presents the option to the Board of Trustees, who approve the speaker as well as the honorary degree recipients. Dunn does not believe there were any other contenders this year.

In November, Cupich began his duties

as the ninth Archbishop of Chicago, where about 2.2 million Catholics live. In his ministry, he has focused on reaching out to those on the margins, such as immigrant populations and those adversely affected by economic conditions.

Previously, he served as the bishop of Spokane, Wash., and Rapid City, S.D.,

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Powers and his sister Liz co-founded the low-profit limited liability company in Dec. 2013, and the venture has quickly grown to support 50 artists in seven major U.S. cities across the country. Before the idea took off, Liz Powers wanted to make an impact through her work. After graduating from Harvard and completing a senior thesis on the benefi ts of art therapy, Liz decided to work at homeless and disabled shelters for eight years and developed close relationships with the program directors and artists. She created and ran art groups in women’s shelters in Boston, and was amazed by the talent she encountered. As a social worker and artist herself, Liz combined the two interests and created “City Heart,” an annual art show that brought together eight homeless shelters in the city. Spencer Powers joined his sister by coordinating some of the business logistics of the event.

“We started working together on the annual art show, and it became clear that these groups of people need to continue to share their work not just on one day, but year-round,” Powers said.

In May 2013, the brother-sister duo set out to build something bigger, a program that would eventually help many more homeless and disabled individuals not only in the city, but across the country. Throughout the

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On Thursday, April 9, Shaun Casey, professor of Christian Ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washinton, D.C., will speak about reli-gion, peace building, and U.S. Foreign Policy in Fulton 511 at 5:30 p.m. He is currently writing a book about international politics and ethics. 1

The Eagles for a Cure 5K race/walk will start at 9 a.m. on Saturady, April 11. The starting line will be on Linden Lane across from Bapst Library. Race registration fee is $30 before Saturday, and day-of registra-

the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. 2

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The annual Boston College Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert is scheduled for Sunday, April 12 at 3 p.m. in Gasson Hall 100. Conducted by John Finney, the concert will feature Julian Honma, A&S ’15, in the Glazunov Saxophone Concerto. Admission for the concert is free.

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Advocating for equal rights of GLBTQ groups might not be common for the GOP nationally, but for the Log Cabin Republi-cans (LCR)—a group within the Republican party—gay rights and conservative values make sense together. Gregory Angelo, executive director of LCR and BC ’00, returned to his alma mater to speak about the inter-section of conservative values and gay rights on Wednesday in a talk sponsored by Boston Col-lege Republicans and the GLBTQ Leadership Council (GLC).

Angelo began his lecture by explaining that although the political right traditionally does not support gay rights, many gays identify with the right’s eco-nomic policies. He cited Ronald Reagan as being a conservative who was against California’s Proposition 6, which would have

banned gays and lesbians from working in California public schools. The title Log Cabin Re-publicans goes back to Abraham Lincoln, an earlier Republican president who was born in such a wooden structure and who exemplified a commitment to personal freedom.

The gay conservative agenda has increasingly become a space for family values, with growing recognition of gay couples who want to enter into partnership and create a home. Angelo re-minded the audience of the left’s original aversion to this platform early in the gay rights era, as they argued that gays should not seek to conform themselves to such a heteronormative and outdated institution.

Noting his unique position as a conservative gay man, Angelo highlighted the polarizing effect the rhetoric of both the far right and the far left has within the conversation of gay rights and

marriage equality, with the for-mer accusing those supporting marriage equality of being anti-religion, and the latter accusing those supporting religious free-dom of being anti-gay. While the media focuses on instances of tension between these groups, instances of bipartisan collabo-ration to secure religious and gay rights fall by the wayside.

Angelo made note of a bill recently passed in Utah that would b an d is cr iminat ion against GLBTQ people, which was endorsed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He also cited the Republican governor of North Dakota , who recently signed a bill that prevents discrimination against gay workers.

The death tax is another example of an intersection be-tween gay rights and conserva-tive economic policy, as Log Cabin Republicans support the repeal of this law that taxes

assets over $5 million left to someone other than a spouse. Log Cabin Republicans also advocate for a f latter, fairer tax code which puts same sex couples on equal footing with heterosexual couples.

Angelo credits BC with pro-viding him with an excellent education in English and the-atre, which allowed him to achieve his current position. He explained that when he was at BC, GLC was not recognized by the administration and had difficulty functioning as a group without any of the benefits of being a registered student or-ganization. He said that BC has made progress, and used to be referred to as “Big Closet” by the small openly gay community. He said that the conservative in him was inclined to respect BC’s decision to exercise their first amendment rights, but he was not obligated to donate any money to the school.

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POLICE BLOTTER 04/03/15 - 04/08/15

Friday, April 3

10:42 p.m. - A report was filed re-garding issuing a trespass warning in the Modular Appartments.

Saturday, April 4

8:41 a.m. - A report was filed re-garding a fire alarm activation in Kostka Hall.

7:17 p.m. - A report was filed re-garding found property in Walsh Hall.

Sunday, April 5

2:43 p.m. - An officer filed a report regarding a larceny at the Lower Lots.

Wednesday, April 8

1:51 p.m. - A report was filed re-garding medical assistance provided to a BC student who was trans-ported to a medical facility from Maloney Hall.

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NEWSBRIEFS

O’Malley reflects on gover-norship - Martin O’Malley, the governor of Md. from 2007 to 2015, spoke at Connolly House last Wednesday at an event sponsored by the Boston Col-lege Center for Irish Programs. O’Malley answered questions about his tenure as governor and emphasized the work he has done to make Maryland a better state, including raising the state minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 by 2018.

Prior to serving as governor, O’Malley was the mayor of Balti-more, Md. from 1999 until 2007. Early this year, O’Malley was ap-pointed to be a visiting professor at the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University.

He is strongly consider-ing participating in the 2016 presidential elections, he said Wednesday.

Syracuse University divests from fossile fuels - Syracuse Uni-versity announced last Tuesday that it will end its investment in fossil fuel and coal mining com-panies. Syracuse joins Stanford University and the University of Maine, both of which have divest-ed from coal mining companies.

The university will no longer directly invest in companies who primarily deal with the extraction of fossil fuels.

“Syracuse has a long record of supporting responsible environ-mental stewardship and good cor-porate citizenship, and we want to continue that record,” Syracuse Chancellor Kent Syverud said to Syracuse.com. “Formalizing our commitment to not invest directly in fossil fuels is one more way we do that.”

At Boston College, divestment has been a contentious issue, with several student groups holding protests, both registered and unregistered, that encourage the administration to consider di-vesting from fossil fuels. Climate Justice at BC, previously known as BC Fossil Free, is an unregis-tered student group that has been fighting for divestment since early 2013. Most recently, the group hosted an unregistered vigil for climate justice.

“We hope that in the near fu-ture Fr. Leahy and the BC Board of Trustees will take ownership of the Jesuit ideals which they represent,” Erin Sutton, A&S ’16, said at the vigil. “Though the consequences of the fossil fuel industry hold over us [are] frus-trating, we are here today because we have faith in a just, liveable future, and because we love one another enough to fight to make it happen.”

University of Virginia fra-ternity to sue Rolling Stone- Phi Kappa Psi at the University of Virginia, the fraternity accused of gang rape in a November Roll-ing Stone article, plans to take all possible legal action against the magazine.

On Sunday, Rolling Stoneissued a report made by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism that de-scribed the journalistic mistakes the magazine made in research-ing, reporting, and writing the article, entitled “A Rape On Cam-pus,” that detailed the account of a student, Jackie, who claimed to have been raped by seven men at a fraternity event at UVA.

Legal experts told the New York Times that a successful defamation lawsuit will not be straightforward. Though the fra-ternity has hired a lawyer, it has not yet taken formal legal action against the magazine.

By Jenn SuhHeights Staff

Raise your hand if you would go into an Ebola-stricken area dur-ing the height of the crisis, Lara Logan instructed the audience in the Heights Room Tuesday. After a long pause, a few audience members raised their hands.

Logan, a CBS News chief foreign correspondent and 60 Minutescorrespondent, did choose to go to Liberia during the Ebola crisis to re-port on health care workers for a 60 Minutes segment. She spoke about her experiences there, as well as reporting in other parts of the world, as part of the Chambers Lecture Series run by the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics.

Logan has worked for CBS since 2002, reporting from war zones, such as Iran and Afghanistan during the search for al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. She has also conducted interviews with notable figures like animal rights activist Jane Goodall and actor Mark Wahlberg.

Born in Durban, South Africa, Logan graduated from the University of Natal in 1992 before studying in Paris at the Universite de L’Alliance Francaise. As a student, she spent her time working with her college newspaper. She speaks Afrikaans, as well as French and Portuguese.

“When I come and talk to people, I don’t like to have anything written out,” she said. “I’ve been known to do a four or five-hour interview for 60 Minutes without looking at a piece of paper, because I feel like I want—I need—to know my subject well, and I always think it’s rude, when you’re talking to someone and they’re talk-ing to you, to be reading a piece of paper to see what your next thing is going to be.”

She started her career in journal-ism in 1988 as a news reporter for the Sunday Tribune and later for

the Daily News, both newspapers located in her hometown of Durban. She then transitioned into broadcast journalism as a senior producer for Reuters Television in Africa.

When students ask her how to get a job in journalism and do the kind of work she does, Logan always responds by asking them why they want to be journalists.

“If you want to be famous, you should do something else,” she said. “If you want to be on television, you should do something else. If you want to be a journalist, then knock yourself out.”

For Logan, working on television was only natural for her, because there were more jobs available for people like her—“a white South African un-der apartheid”—in broadcast journal-ism than in print journalism.

While Logan was still working in South Africa, apartheid was not yet abolished. She and her journalist colleagues took part in the struggle to end it by reporting on what was hap-pening at rallies and protests.

“That was the best job I have ever done in my life,” she said. “I’ve never loved anything as much as that, because the world was very simple in

those days—and, of course, it wasn’t. White South Africans like me, we didn’t have a voice in the international media. We were all ‘bad,’ but I didn’t care about that, because we were fighting for something that was big-ger than all of us.”

The lessons she learned while fighting against apartheid helped her to see that racism is present not only among whites and blacks, but also among Serbians and Alba-nians, Australians and aborigines, as well as Americans and Native Americans, while traveling to other countries.

In 2011, Logan went to Egypt for a 60 Minutes report on the protests that had been occurring for two weeks to overthrow the regime under Hosni Mubarak. On Feb. 11 in Tahrir Square, people were celebrating the successful end of the revolution, when a mob of men sexually assaulted her, tearing at her clothes and attacking her. Some 200 to 300 men were involved, and Lo-gan was eventually separated from her security guard.

“Everybody wanted a piece of the girl,” she said. “It’s amazing how fast your mind was working and how

slow everything is at the same time. And I remember—I’ll never forget the feeling—of the air, the night air, in Egypt, on my skin, because that was—it was just so devastating to be naked in this public place, in this terrible way.”

Logan became fearful of death when she realized that she was in the process of dying from not taking in enough oxygen and that she would never see her children again, she said. Finally, after about 25 minutes, she was rescued by a group of Egyp-tian women and soldiers, who had to reach her through the crowd.

Although Logan is aware of the dangerous situations she is often in, she continues to accept stories wherever her work takes her.

“You have to be able to listen and put yourself in other people’s shoes all the time, and it makes the job difficult, because the more information you have, the harder it is—the process of putting television together—becomes more and more difficult as you go,” she said. “But I’ve always believed that having that fundamental understanding helps you make better decisions when you put your story together.”

Lara Logan shared the story of being sexually assaulted in Egypt when she was reporting on the Mubarak regime.ALEX STANLEY / HEIGHTS STAFF

with a College Education Value Index of 100—as well as the 10 best value schools within each state. Though thousands of schools, both public and private, were initially in-dexed in this study, the final compi-lation of the college and universities presented in the report was largely due to the availability of data points for all five factors, Smith said.

BC was ranked fourth in Massa-chusetts with a 79.12 College Educa-tion Value Index score, behind Tufts University (89.20), Amherst College (90.83), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (93.83).

According the report, the aver-age amount of scholarships and grants given out at BC totals $29,881, the college tuition is $43,878, the student living costs amount to $10,800, the average starting salary is $50,200, and the average student

retention rate is 95 percent.Smith noted that BC succeeded

not only in the statewide ranking, but also maintained a ranking of 58th in the national index. She at-tributed this to the retention rate, average scholarships and grants, and the average starting salary, which were all above the national average.

“The study confirms what we have long known—that a Boston College education is a good invest-ment with promising returns for its students,” University Spokesperson Jack Dunn said in an email. “Being one of only 19 private universities in the United States that is need-blind and meets the full demonstrated need of its undergraduates, Boston College strives to remain affordable to students from a broad socio-eco-nomic spectrum.”

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as well as the chair for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee for the Pro-tection of Children and Young People. Currently, he is also the chair of the board of the National Catholic Educational Association as well as a member of the UCSB Subcommittee for the Church in Central and Eastern Europe and chancellor of the University of St. Mary of the Lake.

“We expect that the announce-ment will be well received and we know from experience that he is a dynamic, charismatic speaker who we believe will deliver an inspiring commencement speech,” Dunn said.

Chin has been a member of the Sisters of Mercy since 1961. She taught for over a decade in Kingston, Jamaica, and then served a director of formation, admin-istrator, vice president, and then president of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas. Currently, she works as incorporation and voca-tion minister and local adminis-

trator for the Sisters of Mercy. At commencement, she will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.

Motyl, the next honorary de-gree recipient, graduated from the Lynch School of Education in 2001. For the past seven years, he has been president of the Guada-lupe Regional Middle School in Rio Grande Valley in Texas, where over one-third of the residents live below the poverty level. While earning his masters degree at the University of Notre Dame, Motyl was assigned to teach in the Rio Grande Valley. He will be presented with an honorary Doctor of Sci-ence in Education degree.

Pemberton is a corporate exec-utive, youth advocate, best-selling author, husband, and father. While at the University, he joined the Tal-ented Tenth, a student group that spearheaded campus initiatives and community outreach projects. He earned a degree in political science and returned to BC to work as senior assistant director of admissions. Later, he became the first diversity and inclusion

officer at Monster.com, and then adivisional vice president and chiefdiversity officer at Walgreens. Healso founded a non-profit called AChance in this World, which helps those aging out of foster care. He will receive an honorary Doctor of Business Administration Degree.

Finally, Woodruff, a CBS re-porter, is a journalist and authorwriting about family and parenting. She has four children, one of whom is a member of the class of 2015. Woodruff and her husband Bob—who sustained a traumatic brain injury in Iraq in 2006—foundedthe Bob Woodruff Foundation,which has raised over $20 million to help veterans integrate into their communities and receive neededcare. She will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree,which her husband also received at the 2012 commencement cer-emony.

“As an academic institution,Boston College tries to invite avariety of individuals with varyingperspectives to speak to students to impart their wisdom on our gradu-ating students,” Dunn said.

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The report used the numbers and data points from these five fac-tors—tuition, student living costs, scholarship and grant offerings, retention rate, and starting salary—to calculate the College Education Value Index, with all factors weighted equally in the ranking algorithm. The universities were ranked by their index score on a scale similar to a grading curve, with the highest rank-ing school receiving a 100 and each subsequent school measured against this 100. The results were presented on an interactive map and listed on SmartAsset’s website, allowing view-ers to compare universities’ value based on the ranking index.

The report lists the 10 best value colleges nationwide—with the Uni-versity of Michigan topping the list,

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Tuition: $43,878

Boston College in numbers

Avg. Scholarships: $29,881

Avg. Starting Salary: $50,200

Student Living Costs: $10,800

Student Retention Rate: 95%

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summer, they set out to make their idea a reality. The goal was to build a business that would have a strong social mission, but also be financially sustainable and not need to rely on outside donations to operate.

By September, a plan was in motion. The siblings met at a pub in Harvard Square to go over the business model, and immediately began working to create ArtLifting. Liz con-tacted local artists at therapeutic centers to obtain their paintings, and put images of their works online. Spencer began building the website and completing some of the smaller tasks of creating a company—like filing for legal status. Shortly after Thanksgiving, the website launched with a total of four artists collaborating in the venture.

“When we launched, we thought people would find us online and explore our artwork and buy it,” Powers said. “One thing we quickly found out was that it is really hard to get people to realize you exist online.”

With a significant amount of competition from other artwork sites online, ArtLifting initially struggled to get exposure. After the Boston Globe ran an article about the startup, however, many people visited the website and began taking an interest in the artwork. By the end of their first month live, the four art-ists sold a total of $11,000 worth of artwork. Additionally, three marginalized artists made over $1,000 in that first month—providing enough personal income for some to fund their own homes.

In recent years, art has become an increasingly popular method of therapy,

particularly for those facing economic or physical hardships. Many therapeutic initia-tives are instituted at homeless shelters and disability programs as an opportunity for these individuals to share their artwork, and potentially earn an income.

“There are a lot of people who suffer from disadvantages who have the oppor-tunity to create beautiful artwork,” Powers said. “The purpose of creating the artwork is for the therapy. It is peaceful. It is creative. It is tangible.”

After the startup’s successful first month, a number of homeless and disability shel-ters found out about ArtLifting online and reached out to the Powers siblings. Miami was the first city outside of Boston that partnered with ArtLifting, and a number of others followed, including New Jersey,

New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Austin.

While the company was growing, the team worked out of Liz’s apartment or wherever they could find space. In the spring of 2014, ArtLifting was accepted to the pres-tigious startup accelerator, MassChallenge, which provided free office space. Currently, ArtLifting is splitting time between Mass-Challenge and Harvard’s Launch Lab. The team is not sure where it will be headquar-tered in the next few months.

“We’re very fortunate there is a kind of entrepreneurial ecosystem built for young startups and that makes it easy to work from anywhere,” Powers said.

Looking to the future, Powers wants ArtLifting to become the go-to online marketplace for art. The company has

grown tenfold in just one year and aims to continue to expand globally and help an increased number of artists earn their own income.

Powers is currently working part-time on ArtLifting while he dedicates his days as a Management student at MIT, but he spends much of his spare time investigat-ing licensing opportunities for artwork and reaching out to large brands and corpora-tions selling products that could be deco-rated with artwork from ArtLifting.

“While art therapy doesn’t exist solely for artists to sell their work, having that opportunity can help people,” Powers said. “Companies like Toms Shoes have grown to be very successful while also embracing a social mission, and we would love to become that for art.”

events—I was not present, I didn’t feel the sense of responsibility or call to action that the brave men and women involved did. The one place I do feel pride and the only place where I truly embrace the “Boston” within me is Fenway Park.

For years, I’ve been embarrassed by my sometimes slip-of-the-tongue “ahs” when I get in my cah, always making a conscious effort to over-enunciate my Rs. I blush whenever I reveal a hint of my inner aggressive driver. I try my best to cover up my inner “Bostonisms,” but the one place they are revealed is at a Sox game.

The Red Sox organization is rich with spirit and knows what it means to hold tradition dear. Having not won a World Series for 86 years, tradition was the only thing that people could count on for a long while.

From the choruses of “Sweet Caroline” in the eighth inning, to the decadence of the Fenway Frank, to Jerry Remy’s sweet sounding voice on the television giving us the play commen-tary, to yelling “Yankees Suck” even if we are playing Tampa Bay, Boston knows what it means to keep traditions alive. And for a long time, this was done

with great intention, as tradition needed to be followed in order to win.

I remember when the Red Sox broke the curse in 2004, winning their first world series game since 1912. My family had a ritual: we would all sit and watch every game together, in the same spots of our living room, and could not move until the game was over. We would eat a bowl of Ben and Jerry’s Reverse the Curse ice cream in the seventh inning. If the Sox were losing, we would put on our rally caps, wearing our baseball hats inside out.

And, most importantly, my dad would wear “the shirt”—the coveted T-shirt he bought that fateful spring of 2004 and wore to every game he at-tended. Every time dad wore the shirt, the Red Sox won. It was a lucky ritual. My family and I like to take responsibil-ity for that winning season.

It was because of us and what some might call our silly traditions that the Sox won the World Series. These tradi-tions brought our family together, and inducted my young sister and I into Red Sox nation, as we became part of the crazy, superstitious band of devoted Sox fans.

Almost every time my dad bids

farewell to his friends, he can be heard yelling, “Keep the faith!” I heard my dad say that expression more times in that 2004 season than I had throughout the rest of my life. Being a Sox fan, desper-ately waiting for championship series win for 45 years, he finally experienced a win for what seemed to have been the most cursed team in baseball.

He experienced the heartbreak of Bill Buckner’s “between the legs” ball miss in the 1986 World Series against the Mets, he watched, year after year as the Red Sox struggled to find its footing and win some big games. But he never gave up.

He was faithful, and kept supporting the team that meant a great deal to his city. Yes, the Red Sox have a tendency to disappoint, but it’s because of its faithful that Fenway is sold out, game-after-game.

My dad inducted me into the Nation by allowing me to experience the pitfalls and successes of the team. I remember once when I was younger and my dad and I went to a game that the Sox lost, I started to cry (I was young and didn’t, still don’t, like to lose). “That’s life, you win some, you lose some, but you don’t give up,” Dad said. There’s always a les-

son in baseball, somewhere in the game. And that’s what my dad taught me about the Red Sox franchise: you can lose your favorite players (I still love you, Jason Varitek) and you can lose a few games, but you always have hope, traditions, “Sweet Caroline” choruses, and Fenway Franks.

With the beginning of the season upon us, it’s time to look back and embrace the traditions that allow us to be sports fans of any kind. It is within these traditions, these yearnings for suc-cess, that we feel a sense of pride and ownership in regards to our teams. It is through my experience as a Red Sox fan that I feel committed and dedicated to anything today.

My dad continued to wear the shirt, even after the shirt faced its first loss in its 2005 season. The shirts might let us down, the Sox might let us down. But traditions and pride hold true and shape the people we are today. “No matter what happens,” Dad would say, “The Sox are always there.”

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KAYLA FAMOLARE

An excerpt from my college supple-mental essay to Boston College:

Despite growing up in a town five minutes outside the heart of downtown Boston, I am eager to move closer to the city that shaped who I am today—a city so rich in culture and pride that yearns to be discovered.

I have learned three things from re-reading this sentence two years later. (1) Sometimes, cliche notions of explora-tion work in the eyes of admissions di-rectors. (2) It was destiny that I become a columnist for the Metro section. And (3) I’ve come a long way in my writing.

What is unique about Boston is the city’s sense of pride—a quality with origins in the Revolution, and the most powerful recent example of it being the determination of Boston and Water-town police departments back in April of 2013.

I witnessed or heard about these

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Urban Improv will host its annual fundraising event, “Banned in Boston,” this Friday.

Over the course of my intense, fast-paced life of luxury, people have often stopped me on the street to ask me questions about life. Mostly they just want to know why I’m staring at them, but sometimes they want to know the secrets to my success.

“Oh you poor, foolish people,” I say to them. “I obviously cannot reveal my many secrets to you willy-nilly, they would overwhelm you with their all-encompassing understanding of all that life is.”

These answer-seekers plead and beg, hoping that I will reveal just one of my pleth-ora of secrets and obscure vocabulary words. Usually, I end up abruptly running away, leaping onto a passing car, and escaping to one of my various hideouts. But today, I have decided to let my legions of devoted readers in on one of my well-guarded secrets.

Books. Books are good. You should read them more. They will make you less stupid.

There it is folks, a delicious, bite-sized nugget of wisdom. I would end this column right here, but then I would be far below the normal word count for a column and The Heights Metro editor would beat me for my insolence. So, I’ll elaborate.

Books. Books have words in them. Good words, well thought-out words that have been put in a specific order to convey an idea, or a story. By looking at these words you can gain a better understanding of just about anything in the world.

Reading expands your mental capacity, vocabulary, understanding of people, places, and things, and, most importantly, your capacity for moral thought and contem-plation. This is the important part. If you want to be a better person, if you want to accomplish meaningful things, you should start by reading.

Now that we’re done with that, it’s time to move on to the second part of this little tirade. The second part is why you should read paper books, real honest-to-god, glue-bound books, written in ink.

“But Archer, I want to use my e-reader, it’s so light and convenient,” you whine. “I can just click a button and buy a book.”

“Well la di da,” I respond. “Why don’t you just click a button and buy heroin, you miserable monster.”

“Archer,” you say. “That’s a gross misrep-resentation of the argument, your blatant dismissal of —”

Let’s just cut you off right there. E-read-ers are kind of stupid. I don’t have a great argument for this, but the truth is, I don’t care. Books are better, they smell better, they look better, they feel better, they pass on information in a more personal and meaningful way, and they won’t turn against you when the machines rise in 2037 and take their bloody revenge.

At this point you might realize that I’ve rambled on for almost the entirety of this column without coming to much of a conclusive point, or in any way relating this to the City of Boston and the Metro section as a whole. If I had my way, I would continue rambling for pages and pages un-til this newspaper is nothing but a bizarre collection of my thoughts. But “the man” says I can’t do that, so let’s find ourselves a conclusive point somewhere in this mess.

Now that my well-thought-out and extremely intellectual argument has per-suaded you to read paper books for hours on end, it’s time to suggest a place to buy them. The Brattle Book Shop, located on West Street just off the common, is one of the best used bookstores in Boston. The only reason I don’t declare it the best is because I’m always fair and never rush to judgement. Now if you don’t haul your sorry self over to the Brattle Book Shop, where you can browse a gargantuan selection of books, including fascinating rarities and classics, you’re an unintelligent ape, unworthy of your place in the City of Boston.

In all seriousness, in the war to reclaim your humanity and to expand your interior world, a bookshop is always important, and Brattle is a perfect place to start. It’s a Boston staple, filled with books of various genres and persuasions, it smells like paper and looks like an over-cluttered public library. All in all, it’s a beautiful place, and should be your next destination for any upcoming jaunts into Boston.

While the art of improv comedy is typical for pure entertainment, one Boston-based organization is offering a different type of performance.

For 23 years now, Boston’s Urban Improv has been visiting Boston-area classrooms to provide an interactive drama experience that allows students to confront many difficult situations facing teens in Boston.

“We deal with issues like peer pressure, cyber bullying, racism, homophobia, and violence,” Urban Improv managing director Narcissa Campion said. “Student roles play the scenarios based on their own choices,

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and experience the consequences of their actions in the safe environment that we create.”

Founded in 1992, Boston’s Urban Im-prov began as a response to escalating youth violence in Boston, and was modeled after the successful community outreach pro-gram in Washington, D.C. known as “The Living Stage.” Urban Improv was launched by Freelance Players Inc. in collaboration with Boston Public Schools following years of research, evaluation, and fundraising, and now serves to target at-risk youth in Boston’s schools.

The organization has presented to ap-proximately 65,000 students from fourth grade through high school at a little over 120 schools and community groups throughout

Boston, New England, and beyond.“There was a multi-year study done

on Urban Improv of our fourth grade curriculum that proved it both prevented the onset of violent behavior in children and also promoted pro-social behaviors,” Campion said.

This Friday, Boston’s House of Blues will host Urban Improv’s annual fundraising event, called “Banned in Boston.” This year marks the 20th anniversary of the show, which started with a cast and crew of about 200 people. This number has since grown to over 600 people. The event runs much like a Saturday Night Live-style show, and consists of a series of skits and songs written by Urban Improv’s artistic staff.

The show will star a cast of 40 leaders from the Boston and Massachusetts com-munity who have volunteered their time to be a part of the cause, and who are “willing to shed their self-respect and put on their funny bones.” This year, the lineup includes Tom Hamilton, bass player for Aerosmith, and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, as well as leaders of the Boston Red Sox, J.P. Morgan, and Harvard Business School.

Campion argues that many of these prominent individuals are happy to par-ticipate, because they truly enjoy it. Several performers, like Aerosmith’s Tom Hamil-ton, Ray Magliozzi of NPR’s “Car Talk,” and Congressman Jim McGovern, have come to participate for many years.

“Tom Hamilton, who of course travels all over the world with Aerosmith, told us

that there is nothing like it anywhere else,” Campion said.

This year’s show is named “The Bos-ton Survival Guide,” and will be centered on what it’s like to be in Boston: roads, potholes, winter, accents, food, and other distinct elements of city life. When they chose the theme back in October, Campion noted, they had no idea how relevant it would turn out to be.

Aside from the show, attendees can also participate in a popular auction. The event features items such as a JetBlue getaway for two, backstage passes to an Aerosmith Con-cert, Boston Symphony Orchestra Tickets, Patriots tickets, and pre-game field passes. Food will be provided by 20 of Boston’s best restaurants, which also cater two tastings prior to the Banned in Boston event and one VIP tasting afterward.

Campion, who has been planning and attending Banned in Boston for the past 20 years, said that some of her favorite memo-ries of the event involve the late Mayor Thomas Menino. There was one scene in which Menino was trying to say the word guacamole, and former Massachusetts Gov-ernor Deval Patrick came to his assistance. Another moment was when the organiza-tion staged a reenactment of the movie The King’s Speech, and Menino played Lionel Logue—he served as speech therapist for then-Congressman Barney Frank.

“It was one of the funniest things that’s ever happened on our stage,” Campion said. “But we have scenes to rival that for

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Dzhokhar Tsarnae v w a s found guilty on Wednesday on all 30 counts he was charged with in relation to the Boston Mara-thon bombing, which occurred on April 15, 2013.

Tsarnaev had been indicted of 30 charges relating to home-grown terrorism, 17 of which are capital charges punishable by death.

The jury deliberated for over 11 hours following closing ar-guments from the prosecution and defense on Monday, having heard 95 witnesses over 16 days. Some members of the victim’s families were present in the courtroom.

Following the verdict, the fed-eral trial is set to move into the penalty phase, where the same jury will decide whether Tsar-naev will get the death penalty or life in prison without parole. This second phase will begin next week in U.S. District Court in Boston.

Tsarnaev is an ethnic Chech-en who immigrated to the U.S. as a young child and received U.S. citizenship on Sep. 11, 2012. He attended the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School where he was captain of the wrestling team, be-fore moving on to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he became a high-volume marijuana dealer. During these

years, Tsarnaev grew increas-ingly more radicalized.

Almost exactly two years ago, the Tsarnaev brothers’ bombs killed three marathon spectators, handicapped 17 and wounded 240 more people, leaving many seriously injured.

Tsarnaev, now 21, executed the attack alongside his older brother Tamerlan, who was killed by Tsarnaev during a police shootout during which his brother ran him over with a stolen SUV.

In addition to the bombings, Dzohkar Tsarnaev was also con-victed for the murder of MIT police officer Sean Collier, and was found guilty on this count.

Collier was killed several days after the bombings, as the broth-ers attempted to obtain his gun before escaping to New York City in accordance with their plan to detonate their remaining explo-sives in Times Square.

While hiding out in a boat in Watertown before being cap-tured, Tsarnaev wrote a mes-sage saying that the bombing was retaliation for America’s military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The note also expressed Tsar-naev’s belief that his brother was now a martyr in paradise, and that he did not mourn his death. During a later interrogation, Tsarnaev confessed that the at-tack was motivated by extremist Islamic beliefs. Tsarnaev also re-

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Dzokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty on 30 accounts in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings.

vealed that he and his brother had learned to build explosive weapons online from a maga-zine published by Yemeni al-Qaeda affiliates.

During the trial, the de-fense tried to shift the blame to Tsarnaev’s deceased older brother, saying that he had a negative influence of Dzho-kar.

Though Tsarnaev’s lawyers acknowledged that he took part in the crimes, they ar-gued that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was responsible for radical-izing his younger brother and

convincing him to carry out the attacks. The jury did not accept the defense’s theory, resolving that either way, Dzhokar Tsarnaev had aided and abetted the plot.

“While today’s verdict can never bring Sean back, we are thankful that Dzhokar Tsar-naev will be held accountable for the evil that he brought to so many families,’’ Sean Collier’s family said in a state-ment after the verdict. “We want to say how much we care for the victims and survivors of this senseless tragedy and

their families. “The strength and bond

that everyone has shown dur-ing these last two years proves that if these terrorists thought that they would somehow strike fear in the hearts of people, they monumentally failed. We know Sean would be very proud of that.’’

During the penalty phase, the prosecution will present “aggravating factors,” the de-fense will present “mitigating factors,” and finally the jury will deliberate on Tsarnaev’s punishment.

Hans de Wit, a professor of inter-national education from the Universita Cattolica Sacro Coure in Milan, Italy, will replace professor Philip Altbach as director of the Center of International Higher Education in the Lynch School of Education. De Wit is originally from the Netherlands and has been a major leader in the International Higher Edu-cation realm.

De Wit was found by faculty from all departments at the Lynch School, Maureen Kenny, the dean of the LSOE said.

Kenny explained that they reached out nationally and internationally to leaders in higher education to receive nominations and explanations. Top candidates were then brought to the University for an interview.

“I was very pleased and honored to be selected for this position, as I am succeeding professor Altbach, who is not only for already 20 years my mentor

but also the internationally most distin-guished and recognized scholar in the field of International Higher Education,” De Wit said in an email. “Stepping in his footsteps was the only thing in my own long career in this field that I saw as something to aspire, so I am pretty excited that this is happening to me.”

De Wit has been to BC twice for visiting scholarships—once in 1995 for the sociology department, and once in 2006 as a Fulbright scholar at the Center for International Higher Education. He has already been in contact with his new colleagues, he said.

De Wit served as director of an in-ternational office, as vice president of international affairs, as a dean, and as a consultant. De Wit has also published much of his work. He believes that this combination of academic and practi-cal experience will help him lead the Center of International Higher Educa-tion at BC.

He believes his experience in the field will allow him to excel in his new position at BC.

De Wit worked in the Netherlands, Italy, and South Africa as a researcher. He has also advised national govern-ments, including those of Romania, Malaysia, South Africa, and Colombia, and organizations, such as the Organi-zation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Bank, and the European Commission on the impor-tance of higher education.

Kenny added that she believes that de Wit will help BC strengthen its ties with the other Catholic and Jesuit uni-versities internationally, especially in Latin America.

“Dr. de Wit will also build programs where students from across the globe can learn through Boston College to be leaders in higher education administra-tion and management,” she said.

Altbach expressed similar confidence in de Wit’s leadership and its benefits to the BC community.

“Hans has built a somewhat similar center at the Catholic University in Milan, Italy, and has good contacts with Catholic universities worldwide,” he

said. “His global visibility and reputa-tion means that the Center will continue to have a high global profile.”

De Wit’s new position will require him to teach graduate classes for the department of Higher Education, su-pervise doctoral students and plan, and execute research projects. He will also lead training activities through the Cen-ter, including grant applications.

De Wit hopes that higher education will not be elitist but inclusive—he hopes that all people will have to access higher education.

“It prepares graduates to be globally competent as professionals and scien-tists but also as citizens of the world that understand and address the global chal-lenges of our time, like climate, health, poverty,” he said. “Higher education is becoming so much more international in the context of the global knowledge society we live in, that it is important that there is more understanding of that role and that we look in a critical way to the challenges and opportunities that go with it.”

Gregory T. Angelo, executive director of Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) and BC ’00, came to Boston College Wednesday to speak about the intersection of gay rights and conservative principles in an event sponsored by Boston College Repub-licans and the GLBTQ Leadership Council (GLC).

LCR is a group of activists within the Republican Party that advocates for gay and lesbian rights in the United States, while also staying aligned with the party’s other core principles. LCR was founded in 1977 in California to provide an outlet for Republicans who were unhappy with the Briggs Initiative, a piece of legisla-tion that would prevent homosexu-als from teaching in public schools and allow teachers who supported homoseexuality to be fired. In 2013, Angelo was named executive director of the group.

There has been a trend over the past few semesters of the Univer-sity expanding the range of speakers brought to campus, perhaps most interestingly on topics of gender and sexual identity issues once com-pletely barred from campus. Access to a broad spectrum of viewpoints is fundamental to the legitimacy of any university. With the advancement of dialogue on sexuality and gay mar-riage—brought on by campus visitors like Angelo and activist George Takei, as well as the Heritage Foundation’s Ryan T. Anderson—the University develops its breadth of speakers.

BC is a rare place that can attract world renowned speakers on issues of spirituality and philosophy, and while these conversations might initially seem more natural at a Jesuit uni-versity, the scope of a BC education needs to go beyond them.

Universities that only consider liberal ideologies are flawed in the same way to those who err conserva-tive. While at a religious institution there will always be a certain tension

involved with bringing speakers to campus that do not match neatly with a Catholic message, it makes for all the more interesting conversation.

A goal of any administration should be to prevent insulating its students from opposing viewpoints on controversial topics. BC should not be a “safe space” for students or administrators. At BC, some push-pull has proven inevitable when bringing speakers and events to campus, particularly in relation to questions of sexuality. And while it doesn’t always make for the easiest exchanges, “push-pull” is far prefer-able to an environment that allows all thought to be dragged in one direction.

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Recently, SmartAsset, a company that uses data to answer financial questions, ranked Boston College fourth on a list of colleges that provide the best value in Mas-sachusetts . The rankings were determined by using a variety of factors, including tuition, living costs, average starting salary, and average scholarships and grants. Ahead of the University in the rank-ings are Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Amherst College, and Tufts University. The College of the Holy Cross is ranked just below BC. With its 95 percent student reten-tion rate and average starting salary of $50,200, BC earned a 79.12 out of a possible 100 points on the college affordability index.

Though the cost-of-attendance at BC is nearly $63,000, the study focuses on more than just the sticker price of the University. Rather, SmartAssets aims to capture what students get in return for their investment.

It is important to be slightly skeptical of any report ranking value purely in term of numbers. The University offers academic pro-grams many of its peers do not in education, for example. These pro-grams might not lend themselves to as high a starting salary as the Carroll School of Management, but they are valuable nonetheless, and when looking at what the University has to offer, metrics like starting sal-ary are not of highest importance.

To compete with the likes of MIT and Tufts, for example, BC would have to expand its programs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). MIT is a math powerhouse, and Tufts has an established engineering program.

The construction of Stokes Hall, a building where many humanities departments are housed, shows that BC is willing to invest elsewhere, and that’s a good thing. Expanding offerings related to engineering and considering the creation of an engineering school, however, could balance out the University, and provide stronger value to students interested in the STEM field.

At over $50,000, the average starting salary of BC’s graduates grows increasingly impressive. You might imagine this number would be skewed by the School of Manage-ment, which had a starting salary of $57,000 in 2013, but it is fairly representative of all schools at BC. The College of Arts & Sciences, for instance, reported a $50,000 start-ing salary. LSOE students reported a $46,000 starting salary. CSON students earned the highest starting salary, at $60,000. Across the board, the University is clearly providing students with the skills and knowl-edge they need to succeed in the workforce.

The study, in which Harvard Col-lege is ranked in eighth place out of 10 universities, is indicative of the premium BC places on education and practical skills, which comple-ments its emphasis on liberal arts degrees that are less obviously ap-plicable in the job market. BC does many things right, and the SmartAs-sets ranking serves to confirm this. The University, however, can still improve, particularly by working to bolster STEM curriculum—techni-cally-oriented programs should be, metaphorically, brought out of the annals of Carney Hall, and show-cased like the University does the humanities.

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puddle of hopeless grief imagining you are one of the 2.7 billion people who struggle to feed the ones they love on $2.50 or less a day.

Suppose I say “violence.” You probably won’t immediately sense the vulnerability of leaving your entire life behind and run-ning away in search of asylum from armed violence, like the 45 million people who did so in 2012 alone.

Suppose I say “oppression.” You prob-ably won’t instantly feel caged by an inability to leave the house on your own, vote in elections, or own property, like many women around the world do.

Poverty, violence, and oppression are not fake tigers, or bad dreams—they exist. Yet we involuntarily disconnect psycho-

logically from such words and ideas, even when those words represent real experi-ences. Poverty, violence, and oppression exist, but our mental safety net keeps us from grasping their gravity.

To some, poverty is just a word, vio-lence just a word, oppression just a word.

And when I say the word, you prob-ably won’t quiver in fear. What is a word to you? You can distinguish between the word or the idea and the real experience of the word, whatever that is. In fact, you might have never even seen the word. If this were not the case, we would be crippled by psychological terror at the mere mention of scary things like the word, because its mentioning would evoke a very convincing, yet fully imagined,

experience of the word. Plainly put, we would be pretty useless creatures, and collapse emotionally from an overly vivid imagination.

Poverty is just a word, violence just a word, oppression just a word.

Fortunately, we humans have de-veloped a fine degree of imagination suppressant within the twists and turns of our noggins to keep us from becom-ing lunatics every time the word is said. Sometimes this noggin system fails, though—sometimes we feel something and make an empathetic leap—but gener-ally we keep the machinations of our mind in check.

And so, the issue remains: how do we modulate our pesky noggins? In many ways, it is necessary to suppress our imag-ination in addressing vast topics, for if we were to be brought to a chest-heaving fit of tears by every news story and statistic, living would be too much of a task. While being rocked by emotion is an important first step, in its extreme it is not a sustain-able methodology to affect change. In the same way, it is necessary to encourage a deeper imagination in addressing vast top-ics, in order to fully connect to them. If we were to coldly accept every news story and statistic that came our way, living would be void of care. How do we reinforce car-ing with enough emotion to make attack-ing the tigers of our world the habit, not the exception?

Rev. Greg Boyle, S.J., speaks to these concerns in his mantra: “Love is the answer. Community is the location. Tenderness is the methodology.” Love and caring may be what is best, but the necessary emotional leap—the unlocking of your suppressed imagination—that key is turned by the community you live in, and your shared exposure to those tigers. Caring fueled by that emotion—tender-ness—then becomes warm methodology, not cold anomaly.

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TOURS - It’s always a hilarious break in our day when we can walk by a tour as we’re crossing campus, thinking about the mil-lion and one things that need to get done between now and when we put our heads back down on our pillows. We can pass a tour and hear a chipper tour guide talk about life at Boston College. We’re reminded that (1) things are pretty great here, all things considered, and that we shouldn’t be so bit-ter about being able to get an education, and (2) the phrase “get some work done” is too liberally thrown around to people visiting here. “This is Bapst Library, it’s a great place to get some work done.” “Here’s The Chocolate Bar, it’s a great place to get some work done.” Saying “get some work done” makes it sound like we’re sauntering in, kicking our feet up, listening to some good music, and lazily clicking a few buttons for 20 minutes before we’re done for the day. Tour guides, switch out “get some work done” with “buckle down and pray for divine intervention and inspiration,” and you’ve got a more accurate portrait of day-to-day life here.

CLASSES YOU WANT TO TAKE - It’s that time of year again when we’re simultaneously trying to keep our GPAs afloat and envision where our lives will be in a couple of months when we start the fall se-mester at BC (except for you, grad-uating seniors. As Kurt Vonnegut so eloquently put it, “Everything is going to become unimaginably worse, and never get better again.” Just kidding. Real life is pretty cool). This means thinking about classes and digging through Agora Portal to find ones that interest us. And while we might find a couple that seem dull but necessary for the core or major requirements, there will always be one or two classes that spark joy in us. They offer something in that? That’s ridiculous. That’s not even work, that’s just plain fun. Even if you’re a couple of years into school, you can’t help but be amazed by the fact that there’s so much freedom in taking what you want to take in college, and while we have the opportunity, we should definitely take advantage of it.

PICK TIMES - That great class you want filled up in 10 minutes and it’s no longer available, ever. Have a nice day now.

BAPST HOURS - It’s practically finals season, so let’s just keep Gargan Hall open 24 hours again, shall we? We could put up with getting kicked out when things weren’t all too serious, but we pay damn good money for this place. Keep the library open.

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Between first and second grade, I wrote my first book. It was about 14 pages long, bound in one of those thin, off-white cardboard covers, and titled Harry Potter and the Sorserers Stone. There was a strange feeling I had for that book—it ran deep like love or reverence. But there was something else: something intrinsic, basic, like I’d come upon a dear friend I hadn’t thought of in years. That was the summer I learned to write. Not so much to use good grammar, seta scene, or spell properly, but write. I found my way into telling stories by telling them, like you learn to swim by kicking madly through the deep end. I’m an English major now, pretty happy to be doing roughly what I did then every day: reading, writing, and learning to get stories down on paper.

I bring it up, though, because I think that these are useful things for all students to be doing. And because, without fair amounts of luck and help, I probably wouldn’t be doing them.

Fortunately, my 16 years in school have included more than a few brilliant teach-ers—the gifted kind, who can spot unbridled passion and creativity from miles off. Most everything I’ve ever learned, I owe in some sense to Mr. Fields (5th grade), Mrs. Greene (12th), and my mother (all the time between).

I believe, wholeheartedly and with the utmost conviction, that teachers like this are the closest things on Earth to angels. If you’re one of the few who has come this far without one, you have my deepest sympa-thies.

Because if not for their influence, I’d be a business major. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course. For a student who’s got a passion for calculation, conversa-tion, and negotiation, there probably isn’t a better way to go. We run into a problem, however, when children choose it out of fear of unemployment or an inadequate resume, in spite of their passion for something else.

More and more, four-year degrees are viewed as commodities in the vein of gold or oil, investments from which the buyer has every right to expect tactile and immediate fiscal returns. Internet sites have actually come to use this awful market language ex-plicitly, putting lists up in the spirit of Forbes’25 Colleges With the Best Return on Invest-ment, which measures the overall tuition of universities against the average starting salaries of their recent graduates.

Such shallow, shortsighted sentiment doesn’t bode well for the public discourse or an informed electorate, and certainly not for the Liberal Arts.

Governors across the nation have spoken out in recent years against traditional Liberal Education, cutting funding for it dramati-cally in favor of more practical professional and vocational training.

What they’re saying is that these once pervasive fields of study simply don’t make sense anymore. That they are outdated, ivory tower luxuries that we can no longer afford to waste our time on.

They’re wrong, by the way. The United States is home to the most

revered universities in the world for a reason. These places are hallowed temples of rational thought and innovation. They’ve taught Liberal Arts for the length of their existence—not for any immediate result, but for the foundation such a curriculum provides.

Steve Jobs didn’t get through an engi-neering program at Harvard. He didn’t study those god-awful “7 Habits of Highly Profit-able Handsome Conflict-Managing CEO” books that we’ve started using as textbooks, and no one ever gave him a presentation on what sharp business casual dress looks like. He studied calligraphy and philosophy, using what he picked up to create an intui-tive, user-friendly operating system that has become a global standard.

People trained for a trade contribute to the world. But the ones who change it do so standing on the shoulders of Locke, Hume, Socrates, and Shakespeare. They always have.

In the end, it’s understanding we crave. What drives us, where we came from, whom and why we love. As long as two of us are still breathing, we won’t stop looking for that. And for any hope of finding it, we’ll need to hold onto Liberal Arts.

that what you think we do? Is that what you think goes on behind the scenes?” Joey stared at a spot on the wall, neck frozen.

Brent was laughing. “The kid was drunk, stressed, and confused, and he had to lash out. Drunk entitled college kids pull worse stunts than that all the time. If you look at that and see a vast, shadowy conspiracy, you’re screwed in the head.” Brent followed “vast, shadowy conspiracy” with jazz hands.

“And the witnesses?”“They were there.”“And you knew that.”“Sure! Everything you kids do online

is linked together.” Brent contorted a web with his fingers to stress his point. “Ya know, ya know, the more information we get, the more uh, they, can plan to keep you safe and running properly.” Brent helped himself to some of Joey’s gin and sloshed his way through these next few words. “They’re tying the whole thing together so they can … uh … keep you in house.”

Joey felt lost. “We were never going to find the arsonist, were we?”

“Man, you’re still stuck on that? Of course not, we went to all those apartments to find dirt on the cleaners, and make sure you weren’t snooping in the wrong places. Nimitz loved it—it was great fun. But things are different now. I picked a bad time to be a BC cop. This Big Crackdown stuff gives me the Hebrew Jebrews.” Brent stood up. “Thank you for the gin. Now I’m gonna go sort my life out.”

At the door, Joey called out to Brent. “You know Brent, sometimes I think you and I are two sides of the same coin.”

Brent winced as he left. “What in the heck is that supposed to mean?”Epilogue - May 2015

Over the last week of school, Joey had all the gin and all the cigarettes in the world. He suspected Nimitz was follow-ing him. Not much was remembered about those last few days. It was mostly dead quiet, punctuated by bursts of new evidence that they were on to him and they were following him. Just enough rope. He heard a Nimitz knock on his door. Not Nimitz. Somebody bigger, quieter.

words) that the protestors had been in-volved in some graffiti action at the Foster Street Dining Pod. The protest submitted. It never had much legs anyway.

Mostly the sheer bewilderment of the Big Crackdown was enough to deter your average BC student from any supposed political calling. There was enough extra-curricular stress to go around. The buzz around campus was that the protests were all hot air and of little concrete issues, and that concerns about student rights were old hat before the protests. More eyes were directed at BC’s latest viral likeability ploy, a Jesuit-starring choreograph set to the recent hit “Take Me To Church.” Joey passed by the set of this production on his way home from the protest.

The video was a digestible level of institutional incompetence that any BC student could confidently lambaste. All but the least tasteful BC administrators could see it for the tonally-misguided, humorless skin-crawler that it would be in BC’s hands, though Joey wondered for a moment whether that wasn’t BC’s plan all along. From its inception, the “Take Me To Church” video was doomed to be passed around in the Yik Yak snark party a dozen times before being put meekly to bed by a New England Classic hot take. So go the real BC issues, Joey thought as he walked by the dancing priests.May 2015

Of all the police and infraction hunters that had come knocking on Joey’s door, the most surprising was an inebriated Brent, who rolled into Joey’s apartment unan-nounced one evening. It would seem that the pressures of the job had rolled Brent down a similarly liquory path. The Big Crackdown got everybody housed, Joey thought.

“Nimitz man, him and these city goons went hardo on this Big Crackdown,” Brent went in. “It’d be crazy to say he loves it. I can’t tell, he might just actively hate young people. But he scares me, man.”

“You know this was their plan all along, Brent,” Joey replied. “All the way back to the arson.”

“Oh give that case a rest Joey!”“Did you frame him?”“Who?”“The arsonist. Did you frame him?”“What? Hell no. Listen to yourself. Is

[Note: This is the third part in a three-part satirical series. All characters and situations are fictional and products of the author’s imagination.]May 2015

The truth of the administration’s big plans were clear to Joey now, leaving him drunker and more paranoid than ever. With the Big Crackdown leaving hundreds of students in legal and residential limbo, fortress-dorms were being constructed in record time to settle the displacement caused by No More Than Four to “Get Students Housed.” Off-campus residences, control of which had been ceded to the school by city mandate and reluctant landlord compensation, were being rede-signed like dorm rooms. The towers on the Heights reached halfway to Allston, beset-ting the neighborhood complementary bugged WiFi, an off-campus Boston Col-lege Dining marketing blitz, and Registered Off-Campus Security Liaisons.

Emails from the Student Investigative Liaison office were chiming in every day asking Joey for more “leads” on the where-abouts of the arsonist or contact informa-tion for any of his “potential associates.” The emails were growing more exasperated at Joey’s stalling for time, and Joey won-dered whether the emails didn’t suspect him of conspiring against them.

There had been a demonstration earlier that day. Joey had watched from a bench. The cleaners had rounded up enough people and facilitated enough graffiti to feel comfortable pressing the issue. But it seemed to Joey the cleaners had struck while the iron was cold—the administra-tion was stronger than ever and hadn’t blatantly attacked the students as of late. He saw Nimitz and other large, authorita-tive men from either the city, the school, or somewhere else exchanging some tense words with some of the protestors. Evidently they would face disciplinary ac-tion—natch—but it would be more severe if it could be feasibly ascertained (their

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

William Blake, “The Tyger”

If I say the word “tiger,” you probably won’t quiver in fear. What is a tiger to you? You can distinguish between a word or an idea of a tiger and the real experi-ence of a tiger, whatever that is. In fact, you’ve likely never even seen a tiger in the wild. If this were not the case, you would be crippled by psychological terror at the mere mention of scary things like tigers, because their mentioning would evoke a very convincing, yet fully imagined, tiger experience. Plainly put, we would be pret-ty useless creatures, and go extinct darn quick due to an overly vivid imagination. Fortunately, we humans have developed a fine degree of imagination suppressant within the twists and turns of our noggins to keep us from becoming lunatics every time the word “tiger” is said. Sometimes this noggin system fails, though—a terri-fying dream seems real, or a vivid memory brings you to tears, for instance. We have the ability to imagine shockingly realistic experiences, but generally we keep the machinations of our mind in check.

This thought experiment is a useful way to begin understanding the protec-tions and shortcomings of the mind. The suppression of our imagination works both ways, good and bad. Not only does it protect us from frivolous fears, like mis-taking the idea of a tiger for the real thing, but it also stops us from fully addressing other ideas that hold real substance—ideas that humans allegedly care about.

Suppose that instead of “tiger,” I say “poverty.” You probably won’t collapse in a

NATE FISHER

WILL FLAUTT

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“Professor Gallaugher was key in getting us off campus and into the city,” Jebbit COO Jonathan Lacoste told me in an interview. “Tom and I would commute to Harvard I-Lab or Venture Cafe most nights and shake hands, swap business cards, and eventually meet many of our first customers.”

The Jebbit team went on to take a leave of absence from BC and participate in TechStars, a prestigious startup accelera-tor in Boston that would provide them with $100,000 in additional financing. Now, the BC-rooted startup has raised over $2 million, and partnered with big brands including Coca-Cola, Spotify, and Bose.

Other BC ventures including Drizly and NBD Nano have both raised over $5 million and been hugely successful. These students started out with little idea of how to found a business, but broke into the Boston tech scene by attending events on campus, networking with standout alumni, and getting into the city to do the nitty gritty work of spreading the name of Jebbit around the community.

These success stories are clear indica-tors that now, more than ever, is the per-fect time to start a business in Boston. The entrepreneurial culture that has evolved

recently in Boston has set the city up as a startup powerhouse contending with the likes of Silicon Valley.

“The Boston of today is very different from the Boston of a few years ago,” Gal-laugher said. “Years ago, all the venture folks were in Waltham or Rt. 128. None of the students could get to them, and there were few activities downtown.”

Now, Boston and Cambridge host a number of leading venture capital firms, as well as thriving startup incubators like TechStars, MassChallenge, and Summer@Highland with a deep alumni base that are key in helping these ideas become realities. Kayak, HubSpot, and Wayfair are some of the local firms that are usher-ing in the next phase of student startups. Student-led investment funds like Rough Draft Ventures and the Dorm Room Fund are backed by leading venture capital firms and are also giving students oppor-tunities like never before. Many of these organizations work directly with student teams, help them hone their ideas, under-stand the market, and get them ready for accelerators or minimum-viable-product launch.

It’s great when a number of these new companies emerge in the Boston tech scene, but the problem is that many of

them leave right after they hit it big. Face-book, Reddit, and Dropbox are just some of the big names that have Boston roots, but later opted for opportunities in Silicon Valley and New York City.

So why is it that many of these com-panies leave Boston after having such a successful start here? It’s clear that we have a great entrepreneurial community, but what is missing?

“A big consumer-focused anchor busi-ness,” Gallaugher said. “We’re the strong number two [city] nationally, but distant when you consider that the Bay area has Apple, Google, Facebook, and San Fran-cisco alone has Twitter, Uber, Airbnb, and so many others.”

Gallaugher argues that the reason why the consumer is important is that we have had many of these billion dollar “exits” from Boston. We need something that will stick around and be attractive to students. When given the opportunity to work at a firm like Facebook or Google compared to a firm working in “enterprise search” (a product most people probably have never heard of ), the big tech giants win hands down. Young graduates want to work at firms that their friends and families understand.

Part of the problem is that Boston

startups need a powerful press presence. TechCrunch, PandoDaily, and Re/code are the go-to sources for all tech-related news, but they are all based in Silicon Val-ley. BostInno has been a local cheerleader for many startups, but a majority of the news is lopsided toward the Valley, and this leads to a misunderstanding of indus-try leaders.

“Many think Yelp is the biggest player in recommendations, but TripAdvisor (lo-cated in Newton and whose CEO has spo-ken to our students) has more revenues, is more profitable by far, and has a bigger market value,” Gallaugher said. “Outlets like Pando and TechCrunch cover Yelp more, further skewing the perception that San Francisco outclasses Boston. We’ve got to fix it.”

With the talent coming out of Boston, we really have no excuses. We have the education. We have the opportunities. We have the mentorship. We’ve developed an entrepreneurship community that has the potential to usher in the next Facebook.

More startups are emerging each week, but can we keep them here?

BENNET JOHNSON

Jebbit traces its roots back to Shaw House in 2010, when Tom Coburn and his roommate Jeb Thomas, BC ’13, decided to collaborate on an idea for the Boston Col-lege Venture Competition (BCVC).

At the time, students could earn $10,000 for a successful project that would go toward initial funding of an idea (the amount has now doubled to $20,000). Coburn and Thomas created an online platform that worked to get consum-ers to engage with ad content and truly understand a company’s message. The idea was sound enough to earn the team a first-place tie at BCVC competition.

Immediately, the team got a taste of what the Boston startup culture has to offer with the help of the engaging entrepreneurial community and John Gallaugher—who serves as an Associate Professor of Information Systems in the Carroll School of Management and works closely with student entrepreneurs.

On spring afternoons, hand-made crafts and vin-tage finds are only half of the appeal of the SoWa Open Market. A Boston favorite for a decade,

the part-farmers market, part-art show consistently brings thousands of locals to Southie, but it is the parking lot on Harrison Ave. that keeps them coming back.

Six out of the seven days of the week, 540 Harrison Ave. is far from unique. The cracked asphalt is interchange-able with any lot in the city, surrounded by a sea of brick and pavement and supporting the weight of tires and Massachusetts license plates. Sundays, however, redeem Harrison Ave. from normalcy. On that one day of the week, the empty lot transitions to a bustling maze of shoppers and eaters. Curious eyes scan chalkboard menus as lines weave in and out of one another. Forks pick at styrofoam containers filled with options from barbeque brisket to banh mi. The 24-foot long, rolling kitchens make 540 Harrison Ave. a global marketplace, and the Boston’s best summer lunch spot.

As the city finally makes its transition from the most brutal winter in history to a long awaited spring, tulips and daffodils dotting the sidewalks aren’t the only signs of warmer weather. Every April, a colorful fleet as vibrant as the blooming spring flowers descends upon the city. In ad-dition to the return of the Red Sox and the fast-approach-ing Marathon, spring in Boston is food truck season and this year, over 50 local vendors are prepared to park their trucks from Copley Square to Chestnut Hill.

Before the trucks can open shop at the SoWa Open Market, they have to survive the city’s site lottery. Since Boston’s food truck initiative in 2011, the city government has not only begun regulating food truck operations but has also encouraged the growth of this mobile market

with their yearly redistribution of vending locations. Though the vendors can park at over 20 public sites,

in addition to multiple private or special locations, the popularity of food trucks in Boston has led to an increased demand and decreased space in the most highly trafficked locations. The lottery system, which distributes the prime and non-prime locations evenly among registered food trucks, aims to manage the space and demand issues and provide fair business opportuni-ties for every vendor.

“The interesting thing about the new spring schedules for us is that we get to sell at so many new locations,” Erica Normandeau, the marketing specialist of Bon Me, said. “It also means that some of our customers get sad when we aren’t in their locations anymore. Throughout the year, we grow a presence and gain customers, but have to change every spring.”

Though Bon Me’s followers may have to change their lunch schedules to keep up with their new locations, it is unlikely that this inconvenience will hinder sales of its infamous sandwiches and rice bowls. One of the most popular food truck operations in Boston, Bon Me began on top as it won the City of Boston’s Food Truck Contest in 2010. In just a few months, founders Alison Fong and Patrick Lynch would be selling “bold, fresh, and fun vietnamese cuisine” out of their newly-equipped mobile kitchen in City Hall Plaza.

Now a fleet of four multicolored trucks and two storefront locations, Bon Me is a prime example of the flourishing Boston food truck scene. This spring sea-son, at the hands of the lottery, one Bon Me truck will even grace the parking lot adjacent to the reservoir in Cleveland Circle. The now-local favorite is enthusiastic

about bringing its cuisine concept to Chestnut Hill and expanding the excitement over food trucks outside of the city.

Trucks like Bon Me and Roxy’s Grilled Cheese, which was able to open its first brick-and-mortar location in Allston in December, have seen years of success in the Boston food truck scene. But each spring season brings new trucks to the parking lot.

Rami’s Food Truck will hit the streets for the first time this month, and will offer traditional Middle Eastern cuisine as Boston’s second kosher food truck. Unlike the traditional truck to storefront transition that many of Boston’s mobile kitchens eventually evolve into, Rami’s is taking the opposite approach—the vehicle is the newest addition to the local restaurant chain.

“We loved Israel, loved the food, and loved Rami’s,” said Chef and Owner of Rami’s Food Truck Ari Kendall, who will run the truck with Co-Owner and friend Matt Pultman. Kendall and Pultman, Massachusetts natives, started the truck on a whim. After a year living in Israel, they were both accustommed to Middle Eastern cuisine, which led them to Rami’s after Kendall decided to leave his restaurant job.

“I wanted to have a little more control and creative input in what I was doing, so I quit my job, applied for a food truck permit, and a few weeks later we were starting to build,” Kendall said.

With a coveted parking spot at City Hall Plaza, Kend-all and Pultman were enthusiastic about their first day.

“The food truck is obviously a beautiful creation in and of itself,” Kendall said. “People are just happy that they have access to more awesome, authentic, healthy, and great food.”

The Bacon TruckOwners Sam Williams and JJ Frosk are firm believ-ers that bacon is the single greatest food known toman. This devotion to their favorite food sparked the idea for The Bacon Truck, and after a few yearsworking on other local food trucks, their vision came to fruition. Now The Bacon Truck can be seen parked around the city serving different bacon-fo-cused items every day, including Nutella covered Bacon strips and Chicken Bacon Ranch-pressedsandwiches. Featuring local, thick-cut, applewood smoked bacon in just about every menu item theycan think of, Sam and JJ hope The Bacon Truck helps people fulfill their “inalienable rights: Life,Liberty, and the pursuit of Bacon”.

unity and acceptance on campus. As a sophomore, she founded Backgrounds and created safe spaces for students to have dialogues on race and diversity in small groups. She co-wrote the FACES videos during her junior and senior years to respond to racial slurs posted on Yik Yak and the grand jury’s deci-sion to not indict those involved with the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric

Garner.While most BC students are not, in

Fiore-Chettiar’s opinion, consciously discriminatory toward other students, she says she sees discrimination on a daily basis in the form of microaggres-sions. These comments are from stu-dents who haven’t had many discussions on race and who make comments that are unintentionally hurtful, she said, but even students who do participate in these conversations can still be guilty of

harmful comments.“I have said a lot of those comments

in the past and sometimes still do, be-cause there’s no way to know everything or know how something will be inter-preted by someone else,” she said.

Fiore-Chettiar is currently working at an internship with the Federal Court at a re-entry program for non-violent offenders who had been arrested at a very early age. For example. she might work with a client who was arrested at

the age of 6 for stealing something at a convenience store and is struggling to readjust back into society. She com-mented on the disparity between the treatment of minorities and whites who are caught stealing.

While a minority might be arrested even at the age of 6, white children who are much older and are caught stealing might be punished by having to return the stolen items and apologize to the clerk, she said.

Her current internship sparked her interest in social work outside of the BC and AHANA community. She plans topursue a Masters degree at the BostonCollege School of Social work.

“Just by being incarcerated at such a young age … can have a lot of negativeeffects on their psyche, in terms of in the way that they view themselves insociety, and also feeds into this idea that that’s all anyone thinks of them in thefirst place,” she said.

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Chicken and Rice GuysIt began humbly in 2012, when three friends pur

chased one, yellow, truck with their parents’ moneyChicken and Rice Guys has since become a city stapleand can often be found at the end of lines stretchingacross several Boston blocks. The smell of their signature Halal Chicken draws in loyal customers and firstimers alike, and is served with seasoned rice, grilledpita, and salad. Some Chicken and Rice fans are temporarily disgruntled as their favorite lunch spots haveshifted in the wake of the city’s location lottery. Thelocal support, however, is typically overwhelming andhas prompted the original owners to quit their officejobs to not only man the food trucks full time but develop Chicken and Rice Guys enough to open a Bostonbrick-and-mortar location by the end of April.

Fresh Food GenerationOne of BostInno’s top five anticipated food trucks

of the year, Fresh Food Generation is bringing a farm-to-table concept on the road. By cultivatingrelationships with Boston-area farmers and foodorganizations, this truck is making high quality ingredients more accessible. In addition to local andhealthy food, this food truck takes culinary influencefrom traditional Latin American and Caribbean cui-sine offering items like Jerk Chicken and handmadeempanadas. Most important to Fresh Food Genera-tion is its philosophy that where you live should notdictate how you eat, as they are committed to serving Boston neighborhoods with the greatest need for real food and affordable options.

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BETTER CALL SAULTHE ‘BREAKING BAD’ SPINOFF FINDS ITS OWN ROAD IN ITS FINALE,

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REASONABLE DOWD

RYAN DOWD

We measure time by the seasons, and that’s probably the most numbingly obvious statement you’ll read all day. I measure time by the movie calendar and the baseball season. Opening Day is a local equinox where I come from. I know it’s summer when Opening Day swings around, just like I know it’s fall when every edible piece of food becomes pumpkin-based.

The movie calendar is an equally proficient mechanism for measuring time. When the capes and crashing cars come out, you can bet your tights that summer and its host of operatic action and chaotic comedy have arrived. Lucky for us, Opening Day was last Monday, and Fast 7 premiered last weekend. So, while it may look like winter, feel like fall, and in any real measure actually be spring, it’s really summer. We made it.

I’d like to offer my services, because I know summer can be a stressful time. I will act as a guide to you of sorts, steering you through the attractions the theater provides. I’m not going to talk extensively about what is actually com-ing out this summer, because I’ve done that before.

Basically, I head over to IMDB to check out the schedule, whip up a couple clever lines about each movie that looks like it deserves a couple clever lines, and we all move on with our lives. You want to know what’s coming out this year? It’s the same as last year, and the year before that, and that’ll come out next year—The Avengers, a Judd Apatow movie, Fantastic Four, Terminator,Jurassic Park, Magic Mike, Entourage,something John Green wrote, and the much needed Ted 2.

Here’s how to actually enjoy it.Bring / buy snacks. If you don’t want

to mortgage your home for a bag of popcorn, I understand. And summer offers some difficulty when it comes to bringing food into the movie theater. It helps to go with someone who has a purse, because from personal experi-ence it’s uncomfortable and embarrass-ing to cram a family bag of Twizzlers in your pants.

Go at night. You don’t want to see Mad Max on a Wednesday afternoon. You want to see that at night. There are few things more disorienting than going to a movie during the daytime that takes place at night. It’s worth the few extra bucks to go on a Friday or Saturday night. I always remember movies bet-ter when they’re the last thing I do at night. And it shouldn’t be that hard to get someone to go with you. People like going to the movies.

Don’t be afraid to make your own double features. If a theater physically allows you to stay all day, do it. You’re only young once.

Understand what you’re getting into before you buy the ticket. The only time you should be upset or frustrated after seeing a movie is if the movie didn’t deliver on its promise. Every movie, with its trailer and general advertis-ing, makes a promise. Fast 7 promised to toss cars out of planes. It does that. The Avengers: Age of Ultron promises the combination of comedy and pathos Whedon has become known for. My point is that a dumb movie isn’t always a bad one, as long as you’re both in on the joke. One of my favorite features of last summer was Godzilla. Did the movie have any characters? No. Did it have a plot that made any sense? No. Did it have Godzilla? YES. And that’s the only promise I cared about.

Bring / buy drinks. Ideally, you’re 21 and the theater sells beer. If not, you’ll make do with a well placed bottle of soda (pop?). Again, it helps to travel with someone who carries a purse.

Catch some indies. Sure, you might get burned once (The Spectacular Now), but if you’re careful and go alone in the daytime, an indie is the perfect antidote to a slow afternoon.

And with this sage advice, I release you into the wild.

THIS WEEKEND in artsTHE BEETHOVEN PROJECT(THURSDAY 7:30 P.M.)Boston College Chamber Music Society students will perform Beethoven’s Trio in Bb minor, Op. 97 “Archduke.” The performance will be held in Gas-son 100. Admission to the performance is free.

D’ART: SEEING THE CARIBBEAN(ONGOING)The Caribbean Culture Club opened its Spring art exhibit this week. Come see some of Boston College’s Caribbean students’ artwork and pieces inspired by the Caribbean. The exhibit can be found in the study space in Stokes South.

EX MACHINA(OPENS FRIDAY)Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, and Alicia Vikan-der star in this sci-fi thriller about a young Internet programmer who is chosen to analyze the charac-teristics and thoughts of an artificially intelligent robot in a breakthrough experiment.

GAME OF THRONES (SUNDAY 9 P.M.)The gory premiere of the 5th season of HBO’s hit fantasy series airs this weekend. The episode will be available for viewing on HBO, HBO HD, HBO Now, or your friend’s brother’s HBO GO account.

JERRY SEINFELD(FRIDAY 7 P.M.)The legendary comedian will be doing a stand-up rou-tine at the Citi Wang Theatre this weekend. Tickets are pricey, but it is definitely worth it to see the man who is all about nothing.

MOVIE NIGHT(SATURDAY 8 P.M.)Nicholas Sparks’ latest film adaptation hits theaters this weekend. Luke and Sophia are young flourishing couple who are reminded of the significance of their relationship by a bereaved lover, Ira.

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA(SUNDAY 3 P.M.)The Boston College Symphony Orchestra will be holding its Spring Concert this Sunday. Come see an assorted set list and performances from guests and Concerto Competition winner, saxophonist Julian Honma.

WINE TASTING(SATURDAY 10:30 A.M.)The Campus Activities Board is hosting this tour of the Nashoba Valley Vineyard. Attendees will get an intricate look at the process of making fruit wines, distillates, and brandies. Tickets are $12. Buses leave at 10:30 a.m.

BY: CHRIS FULLER | ASSOCIATE ARTS & REVIEW EDITOR

PHOTO COURTESY OF HBO

WZBC, Boston College’s student-run radio station, held its annual Spring Concert in Allston, featuring musical performances by Little Spoon, Skinny Bones, and Ricky Eat Acid.DREW HOO / HEIGHTS EDITOR

ALLSTON – On the outside, it’s hard to differentiate Great Scott from many of Boston’s other bars and hangouts. Situated on the corner of Harvard Avenue, just along the B-Line, you’d most likely dismiss it as just another dive bar. Yet, on April 7, the droves of guests lined up along the avenue were not just there to turn up on a Tuesday—they were there to turn up for WZBC’s annual Spring Concert series.

90.3 FM WZBC, the student-run FM radio station of Boston College, has a strong presence in the Greater Boston mu-sic scene. Active since 1960 and based in the depths of McElroy on Upper Campus, the station serves not only students on-campus, but all of the station’s fans across Boston, with student DJs giving lesser known artists a platform to be heard.

“We’re not from BC” said Alex, a junior from the nearby Berklee College of Music at the concert with two friends. “But we discovered the headliner [Ricky Eat Acid] from the station and couldn’t pass up on the lineup.”

Once inside the venue, the appeal of Great Scott became more apparent—it was a perfect marriage between a low-key dive bar and a wellspring of underground

musical performances. College students and music enthusiasts from across the Boston metro area packed the quaint venue for WZBC’s showcase.

Little Spoon of Rochester, N.Y. opened the night up with what Little Spoon (real name Cameron Potter) describes himself as “pillowpop.” In practice, his music fit somewhere between chill-wave electron-ica and shoegaze rock, both in the lo-fi quality of his ambient soundscapes and in his somewhat constrained stage pres-ence. Nevertheless, the Boston-based resident didn’t need such a presence, as the early-night audiences’ cheers of ap-proval showed

Skinny Bones was perhaps the most engaging act of the night. The band, comprised of Jamaica Plain natives Jacob Rosati on vocals and guitar and Christopher Stopiello on drums and synths, played 30 minutes of electronic folk-rock to a jovial and rowdy audience. The pair included interludes of Mitch Hedberg-like banter with the audi-ence and eccentric anecdotes between songs characterized of bluesy lyricism and masterful percussions. Toward the middle of the set, Rosati directed the attention of the audience to a self-made, ambient-sounding instrument made from scratch using wood and bristles Ricky Eat Acid, the headliner for the concert, specializes in experimental dance music.

DREW HOO / HEIGHTS EDITOR

from a street-sweeper.Sam Ray, AKA Ricky Eat Acid, was

the last musician to take the stage. Specializing in experimental dance, Ray incorporates pre-produced sounds with live instruments (namely, a microphone and keyboard) to give his shows both the energetic style of EDM DJs and the live musicianship of a more traditional artist. Unlike the acts before him, how-ever, Ricky Eat Acid had few words for the crowd—instead, he let his music do most of the talking for him in a half-hour continuous set that had mostly everyone in attendance bouncing.

This year’s WZBC Spring Concert is the 42nd iteration of the series. For the fans, it’s a good excuse to go out in the middle of the week and show support forartists earning their stripes on the musicscene. For the musicians themselves, they expressed gratitude to WZBC for the exposure.

“WZBC is almost like a label to us,” Ja-cob Rosati of Skinny Bones said. “Peoplecome to our shows because they’re fansof the station. Without them, we don’t get great crowds like this one. They get to know us and everyone else because of it. In a way, they’re like family.”

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I always love the people who keep their phones out after the “Please Silence Your Phones” warning before any show.

They just need to get that last urgent update from their son or daughter, boyfriend or girlfriend, before a per-formance begins, before they isolate themselves from that oh-so-important world out-side of the here and now for two painstaking hours or so.

But at last Friday’s per-formance of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, the Tony award-winning Broad-way hit in New York, everyone in the audience was teeming with an anticipation that even their cellular devices couldn’t intrude on.

I am not at all a thespian. I can greatly appreciate the effort that goes into creating a live performance like a play, especially one on Broadway. The expertise that goes into perfecting the minutia of every scene, every minute, is absolutely incredible.

But for some unfathomable reason, I get incredibly bored in the second act of whatever it is I am seeing.

In spite of this irritable habit, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder not only put me in gut-busting laugh attacks on my first go around a couple years ago, it put me into an even worse laughing stupor on my second time see-ing it this weekend.

The musical tells the story of the not-so mysterious climb of Monty Navarro through the line of succession of a rather inhospitable family, the D’Ysquiths.

Monty, after his mother’s death, finds that she was a member of the reputable

family and schemes to claim the title of Earl of Highhurst (head of the D’Ysquith family), despite the long line of eight inheritors before him.

One incredible actor, Jef-ferson Mays, plays all eight members of the aristocratic, neurotic family. Regardless whether the character is a man or a woman, Mays will jump into each character’s costume off-stage with un-imaginable speed.

Sure, he does little to change his voice with each character he takes on, but that’s what’s part of the fun of the whole thing.

Mays steals the spotlight of every scene he’s in and it’s near impossible to imagine how he obtains the energy he emits throughout the perfor-mance six or seven times a week, every week.

Unfortunately, Mays lost the Leading Actor in a Musi-cal Award at the 68th annual Tony Awards to Neil Patrick Harris for his performance in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.While A Gentleman’s Guidetook home Best Musical, Mays is almost entirely responsible for the show’s success.

Seeing the show for a sec-ond time, I noticed many of the other featured roles in the show were recast, but Mays understandably stayed behind to shine as the show’s leading man.

It’s absurd to imagine anyone else taking on the role and it will be a sad day for AGentleman’s Guide when Mays finally hangs up his top hat and fake breasts.

If Mays’ performance isn’t captivating enough, AGentleman’s Guide’s aesthetic is one of the most intrigu-ing and bedazzling found on Broadway.

From the halls and din-ing room of the D’Ysquith residence to the degraded streets of industrious London, A Gentleman’s Guide’s color palette is unique, vibrant, and varied.

For having to change ward-

robes within two or three minutes, each of Mays’ cos-tumes are fabulously detailed and extravagant.

While none of the actors have to go through such quick and impressive trans-formations, the cast’s apparel pops off the stage in each scene.

The show’s lyricism is also fantastic and notable among Broadway’s best. There is an irresistibly catchy flow to al-most every song and the bril-liant amount of wordplay and double entendres in almost every line persuaded me to pick up the soundtrack.

Every once and a while a musical might have a really great song that I would feel compelled to get for my li-brary, but with A Gentleman’s Guide I couldn’t resist down-loading every song featured in the show.

Few shows on Broad-way are as captivating as AGentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.

From the instant you walk in the Walter Kerr Theatre, the gargantuan set piece that frames the production sets the tone for the hilarity and extravagance that ensue.

Jefferson Mays could turn the show into a one-man showcase of his characters and it would still be entirely worth going to.

He is the essence of the entire production, giving the impression that the show was either written for him or that the production has the most excellent casting-crew of all time.

It’s near impossible to find the time to get down to New York, but make the effort to see A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder if you’re ever in town. It’s the bestBroadway has to offer.

1997 - Founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings

2004 - Blockbuster boasts 9,000 stores across the globe

2012 - The first Netflix Original Series, Lily-hammer, premieres

2000 - Blockbuster takes in $800 mil-lion in late fees

2002 - Netflix goes public, with an initial valuation just under $95 million

2003 - Netflix ships more than one million DVD’s a day

2007 - Netflix starts streaming service

2010 - Blockbuster files for bankruptcy

2011 - Netflix announces plan to split company, then reverts

2013 - Blockbuster closes remaining US stores

2014 - Netflix boasts 57.4 million subscrib-ers worldwide

2015Daredevilpremieres

Who would think that Netfl ix would be born out of a $40 Apollo 13

late fee? Who knew Blockbuster’s decision to turn down an offer to buy the media mailing service is what would be the traditional rental service’s ultimate downfall?

Th e gargantuan streaming service, founded in 1997 by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings, took six years to turn a profi t. Built off of a $2.5 million startup investment, the DVD delivery service, with its tacky yet adorable puppet commercials and flat-rate, monthly $6 service charge, would blossom into a $100 million cultural staple in just over a decade.

Netfl ix revolutionized the long-standing media rental service in the late ’90s and early 2000s. Blockbuster (and, less so, Hollywood Video) held a huge monopoly over DVD and VCR rentals, but their rental policy, which worked off what most deemed excessive late fees, was pesky to say the least. Th e Internet accessibility of the day was incomparable to today’s technology, making the process of driving into town to rent a DVD less of an imposition. In 2003 things

began to fl ip. Netfl ix started making a profi t, expanded its collection to over 35,000 diff erent titles, and continually shipping out over one million DVDs a day.

In February 2007, Netfl ix started offering its now-hallmark stream-ing service, though then it was on a comparably miniscule scale. As interest in the online service rose, its grizzled competitors began to slide. After the stock-market crash in 2008, Blockbuster quickly began to lose its footing as the king of rental services, with Netfl ix heating up as a competi-tor. Just two years later, Blockbuster admitted to huge losses in revenue and fi led for bankruptcy in September of 2010. Later that year, Netfl ix started off ering its streaming service separate from the DVD delivery packages. Net-fl ix had transitioned from being one of the leading contributors to U.S. Postal Service’s business to being one of the most heavily traffi cked websites.

Furthering the distane between its DVD delivery and online stream-ing services, Netflix announced in September 2011 that it would be splitting its two services into two separate companies. Netfl ix would

continue streaming online and would create Qwikster to accommodate for its DVD services. With this announce-ment and the proposed raised rates, Netfl ix lost 800,000 subscribers. It’s the only dumb business move the company has ever made. Netflix quickly reversed their decision to separate the two services, leaving us-ers with an $8 subscription option that gave them both DVD and streaming services. And the rest is history.

Arrested Development pro-ducer Brian Grazer an-nounced on April 7 that

the show will receive another 17 episode order on Netfl ix. Th e stream-ing service continues its pattern of reviving old television shows. Before the arrival of Netfl ix, cancelled cult comedy series like Arrested Develop-ment and network shows that never made it past the development stage like Tina Fey’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt would never see the light the day. More recently, however, Netfl ix has been bringing the likes of The Killing, Trailer Park Boys, Star Wars: Th e Clone Wars, and other previously cancelled series to life.

Following in the footsteps of more established services—cable and HBO—Netfl ix and other online streaming providers, such as Hulu and Amazon, have been launching original series programming over the last several years. Since the fi rst Netf-lix original series Lilyhammer aired in 2012, the service has been churning out original content—ranging from television and documentary series to comedy specials. Flagship series such as House of Cards and Orange is the New Black have proved that online-only web television series have the potential for both commercial and critical success, earning Netfl ix nine and 12 Emmy nominations respec-tively. Kevin Spacey has also earned a Golden Globe award for Best Televi-sion Actor for his portrayal of Frank Underwood in House of Cards.

The success of Netflix’s origi-nal series began with the political drama, House of Cards, and branched out into documentary and comedy. Ranging from stand-up comedy to mockumentary-style series, Netfl ix has produced specials for the likes of Aziz Ansari, Craig Ferguson, Rus-sell Peters, and Nick Off erman. Th e

service has also acquired Chelsea Handler’s next project and fi ve Marvel series. Since the inception of original programming, the service has seen an increase from 33 million to 57.4 subscribers while boasting revenue of $5.5 billion.

Five years ago, Netflix served primarily as a DVD rental service that also happened to off er a library of “Watch Instant” television series and fi lms made available for streaming on the side. In 2015, the on-demand service has the potential to edge out premium cable competitors like HBO through the development of original content streamlined exclusively for streaming. In recent years, Netflix has produced content worthy of critical recognition—Th e Square was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards, marking the fi rst nomination for a Netfl ix Original production. As more people turn away from cable programming and to online streaming services, Netfl ix now off ers viewers the convenience of web streaming without forfeiting the high quality typically attributed to premium cable programming.

Daredevil arrives tomorrow. Netfl ix subscribers will get a 13-episode taste of Matt

Murdock, New York City lawyer by day and Hell’s Kitchen crime fi ghter by night. It’s the latest move in what has become a rapid arms race in media content. Netfl ix, a service that was once just a platform for marathons of Breaking Bad or How I Met Your Mother, is now a principal content creator of network and cable cast-offs, political dramas, comic book adaptations, and eventually four Adam Sandler movies. But Netfl ix isn’t the only company stockpiling assets and making moves. HBO has come out with HBONow, its own streaming service. Yahoo! produced and released the latest season of Com-

munity. Jeff rey Tambor of Amazon’sTransparent won a Golden Globe. To be a viable entertainment option now and through the near future,and that includes everyone from ABC to YouTube, you have to create and distribute content. And whoeverdoes that with the most effi ciency and creativity will win our hearts.

So let’s take a look at what Net-fl ix is doing to avoid the fate of its godfather Blockbuster. Th e stream-ing service will continue to produce over-wrought dramas and comediesthat fell through the network cracks. Netflix’s partnership with Marvel,however, gives them a breadth of possible characters to work with.Netfl ix has ABC’s Agents of Shield,but will soon host and stream theirown Marvel properties. Its next big move is first Daredevil, then his comic book street fi ghting pals JessicaJones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist, who are all set to have their own shows. Th e four will eventually pair up for a joint season called Th e Defenders.Does that sound familiar? It should. It’s the move Marvel made with Th e Avengers before. Th ey’ve just traded scopes—the movie theater for your laptop and the wide world for the newYork underworld. So far, it has paid off for Marvel Studios, who release two tothree highly profi table fi lms a year.

It’ll be harder to measure success with Netfl ix. Subscribers will pay forDaredevil whether they watch it ornot. And if folks have to choose be-tween the prestige quality of HBONow and Netfl ix, it’ll be hard to begrudgeanyone for going with HBO. But in thecurrent state of media, the only way to survive is to off er accessible contentthat no one else has—to tell stories that no one else has. For a long time, Netfl ix made their name on acces-sibility. Now, they’re fully embracing the content side. In a world where companies can fall as quick as you cansay “Hollywood Video,” the only way to survive is to forge ahead.

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Most notable for its intimate and evocative lyrics, Sufj an Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell uses emotional storytelling to turn a musical record into a personal narrative. Th ough Stevens has created multiple well-received albums (and a few not-so-well-received ones), Carrie & Lowellis perhaps the fi rst to fully introduce listeners to Sufj an Stevens the man, rather than the musician.

Each song on this record acts as a vignette of Sufj an’s story—most monumentally, his work is fl ooded with memories from his childhood with a volatile and often absent mother, Carrie, and a stepfather Lowell. “Fourth of July” and “Eu-gene” are two explicit examples of these vignette-style tracks. “Fourth of July” talks about a bright and proud holiday in a rather dark, eerie tone indicative of much of Stevens’ work. His childhood innocence is often tainted with drama and dis-honesty, which shows through, not only as he recounts these memories lyrically but also in his musicality. In “Fourth of July,” an intense piano line plays over the more standard acoustic melody, providing a musi-

cal depth to mirror the emotional experience.

“Eugene” is a track that refers to the Oregon town Stevens and his family often visited growing up. Its easy, acoustic melody evokes the simplicity of the scene, and Stevens’ lyrics add emotional depth. With his ever-present refrain “I just wanna be near you,” Stevens speaks of his struggle to make interpersonal connections with his parents, with friends, and even with strangers. Th e track’s sudden, abrupt ending starts a trend for various songs on the record, their endings leaving listeners wanting more.

“John My Beloved” and “No Shade in the Shadow of Th e Cross” are two such songs that work with unconventional endings. After a powerfully sensitive lyric demonstra-tion, “John My Beloved” ends on the sound of Stevens’ inhale—a seem-ingly wordless declaration of love, loss, and hopelessness, built through the entirety of the song. “No Shade in the Shadow of Th e Cross” has a similarly abrupt ending, taking the listener away from the expected, rote formula of a typical song.

Despite these standout songs, much of Carrie & Lowell’s musical style is tired, dull, and overused.

TOP SINGLES

1 Uptown Funk!Mark Ronson

2 SugarMaroon 5

3 Thinking Out LoudEd Sheeran

4 Love Me Like You DoEllie Goulding

5 Earned ItThe Weekend

6 Trap QueenPetty Wap

7 StyleTaylor Swift

8 FourFiveSecondsRihanna

TOP ALBUMS 1

Kendrick Lamar 2 Empire: Soundtrack

Various Artists 3 Fifty Shades of Grey

Various Artists 4 In the Lonely Hour

Sam Smith 5 1989

Taylor Swift

Source: Billboard.com

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MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK

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Set in what appears to be an abandoned church, Hozier’s “Work Song” music video begins with the band situated atop a makeshift stage among fl ickering candles, in front of an attentive congregation of eager concertgo-ers. At the fi rst sound of singer Andrew Hozier-Byrne’s distinct vocals, several members of the crowd couple off and dance with one another. Their sharp, me-chanical moves closely coincide with the track’s tribal undertones and ever-changing cadence. Th e dancers’ meticulous, expressive choreography is contrasted with the rest of the crowd, which ap-pears completely oblivious to the couples spinning elegantly in their midst.

Hozier-Byrne’s haunting vo-cals and cryptic lyrics create an eerie atmosphere pairing well with the swinging couples, robotically moving with the rhythm and va-cant in their stares. Appearing as though hypnotized or zombifi ed, the dancers move swiftly together across the littered church fl oor. Most impressive is the palpable intimacy of the dance partners, speaking to the song’s underlying message about undying love. From a cinematic standpoint, each scene of the video is shot exquisitely. Producers utilized sweeping cam-era angles to stimulate the crowd’s constant motion and develop a slightly dizzying eff ect. Somber, cool shades of blue replace warm tones as the scene changes with the track’s moaning refrain. Th e producers’ experimentation with light and exposure added even more drama to the video’s bril-liantly unsettling air. Though “Work Song” lacks a defi nitive plotline or established premise, its sheer simplicity provides viewers with an opportunity to extract their own meanings from a series of vague yet emotionally evocative scenes.

“WORK SONG”

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Off her newest album, Rihanna’s “B—tch Better Have My Money” is a departure from the singer’s folksy “FourFiveSeconds.” BBHMM is an urban club banger complete with a grinding hip-hop beat and brazen lyrics boasting of fame and opulence. With a catchy hook and a blaring bass, the up-tempo trap-infused track is practically designed for the club.

RIHANNA“B—tch Better Have My Money”

The Australian synth band unveiled the second single off its upcoming sophomore album, titled Currents. Known for their psychedelic

Impala’s “’Cause I’m A Man” is an infectious, slow-burning single complete with moody, funk-inspired guitar riffs characteristic to the band’s trademark sound.

TAME IMPALA“‘Cause I’m A Man”

Written for HBO’s Girls, St. Vincent’s “Teenage Talk” is a dreamy and synth-laden ode to teenage nostalgia that both celebrates and rejects adolescence. In a huge tonal shift from her much more upbeat, poppy art rock, “Teenage Talk” is a slower, more melodic song that listeners rarely hear from St. Vincent.

ST. VINCENT“Teenage Talk”

After 10 years of churning out chart toppers and releasing infec-tious albums, the dynamic duo of Matt and Kim is still producing poppy tracks perfect for those indie dance parties. Famous for cheeky lyrics and catchy background beats, the group dropped its fi fth studio

album New Glow this week—an eclectic convergence of diff erent music genres that work together almost seamlessly. Blending al-ternative elements peppered with bass-drops and poppy electronic instrumentals, Matt and Kim’s newest release reveals an evident evolution in their signature sound and style.

Th e 10-song tracklist is a catchy

collection, its prevalent percussion provided by Kim Schifino and quirky lyrics sung mostly by Matt Johnson. Th e record is reminiscent of their past four albums. The new release, however, is far more synthetic than the simple, organic sound in previous LPs. Not afraid to hold back on lo-fi features and auto-tune, the songs just narrowly escape sounding overproduced.

Because the album is almost en-tirely made of remix-ready dance songs, the busy tracks excite rather than irritate.

Th e album opens with hit love song “Hey Now,” an upbeat track thats jaunty instrumentals and bleating horns set apart from the drum-heavy songs that follow. In true Matt and Kim fashion, the lyrics are a loud romantic confes-sional. With lyrics like “Sometimes you just make me lose my mind / But if you died I’d die right by your side,” the song is a love letter-turned musical track from Matt to his real-life wife Kim. With its brass background and fun feel, the song is a successful high-school-marching-band-meets-indie-al-ternative experiment.

New Glow is a rather signifi cant change from the group’s self-titled debut album in 2004. Initially soft-er and much more stereotypically indie-folk, Matt and Kim emerged on the music scene as fresh faces with a unique sound and an affi nity for the keyboard and drums. Th e albums that followed—Grand,Sidewalks, and Lightning—re-tained the same general sound and strayed very little in terms of

style from one album to the next. Since the release of Matt and Kim’s last album Lightning in 2012, the couple used the lengthy three-year hiatus to become a group who has become exceedingly more adven-turous and inventive.

New Glow, though, misses the mark on several occasions through-out the 10-song album. Lyrics lack substance and most of the tracks are extremely redundant. Th ough it suc-ceeds in its frequent comedy, “Hood-ie On” sounds at times like a Weird Al Yankovic parody gone wrong. Matt’s discordant yelling song after song quickly grows irritating. Some of the instrumentals sound identical to a number of annoying pop ballads that reuse the same stock synths and background music. Th ough the disappointing aspects of the album occur sporadically throughout New Glow, there are a few songs that the duo could have done without

Aptly named, New Glow revital-izes a band whose quirky boy-girl indie image has become common-place in the genre. Matt and Kim’s new, unexpected sound gives new life and attention to a band who may have otherwise been consid-ered old news.

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Nearly all the tracks follow the same pattern with a soft, acoustic guitar intro, a doubled vocal line, and occa-sionally an added piano part or some melodic background vocals. Far from bad, this pattern makes for easy listen-ing. Nonetheless, it becomes repeti-tive and boring with time. Th e tone is set with the drawl of the fi rst four tracks, “Death with Dignity,” “Should Have Known Better,” “All of Me Wants All of You,” and “Drawn to the Blood.” Th ese songs are undoubtedly good, but they’re markedly similar.

“Should Have Known Better,”

though, varies slightly in its more dramatic instrumentation that al-lows for both uplifting and dark emotions, and its complex ending.

Carrie & Lowell’s title track shows interesting instrumentation with a very rhythmic, acoustic strumming. Stevens’ vocals are more dynamic than they often are on the rest of the album, and the doubled vocal line, so characteristic of the rest of the record, is used more interestingly throughout. Demonstrating Stevens’ vulnerabil-ity and his sensitivity to emotion,

this track clearly speaks to his mis-sion for the album as a whole. It is more than entertaining listeners—it is engaging other human beings.

Ultimately, what this record lacks in musicality, it makes up for in heart. It is a lens through which to study a very interesting man with a poignant family narrative to share. Th ough it is no great feat of music and shows very little dimen-sion in that regard, its value as a work is no lesser. Really, Carrie & Lowell acts as art more than it acts as music.

Th is review may contain spoilers. Better Call Saul had a lot of

hype to live up to as the prequel to one of the most vehemently defended and critically acclaimed television shows of all time (May-be you have heard of it—it’s called Breaking Bad). And for nine episodes, it answered every chal-lenge and allayed every doubt.

Most of this past Monday’s season finale continued the show’s winning streak. Still reel-ing from his brother Chuck’s betrayal in the last episode, Jimmy McGill has a meltdown in a retirement home while calling

out Bingo numbers for elderly cli-ents. He goes back to his home-town of Cicero, Ill. to run a week’s worth of cathartic scams with an old friend named Marco. He tells Jimmy that he has had the best week of his life, but things take a turn for the worst when Marco dies of a heart attack. Jimmy is profoundly aff ected and returns to Albuquerque, NM. Th ere, he is off ered the deal of a lifetime to join in on a huge lawsuit with a big law firm and is about to meet to discuss the details. He plays with the ring on his pinky that once belonged to Marco, and hesitates before entering.

I so desperately wanted the fi rst season of Better Call Saul to

end right there. I wanted to see Jimmy McGill, the future crimi-nal lawyer (as in criminal and lawyer) of Breaking Bad, with his fate in the balance, with two seemingly opposite paths laid out in front of him. Instead, Jimmy defiantly turns away from the meeting, away from the upstand-ing life we have watched him try to fi nd for nine episodes, driving off into the blindingly illicit Al-buquerque sunlight to the tune of “Smoke On Th e Water” (the song Marco was humming just before his death), all but vowing to live a life of criminality.

For a character whose di-mensions had been so carefully crafted, who had seemed genu-

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inely well-intentioned albeit misguided, the unequivocality of the decision seemed too hasty to be satisfying, unflattering to the conflicted nature of Jimmy’s heart.

Better Call Saul, like its pre-decessor, has always been about the slow burn, the subtle process-es of long-term transformation. It’s that subtlety that makes these shows feel important. Th ey re-mind us that people don’t simply choose to be good or bad—im-morality comes from the very humanness that exists inside all of us, a composition of decisions and rationalizations that corrode our straightforward narratives of right and wrong.

Most of Better Call Saulseemed to be following that formula. For the whole season, Jimmy f loated between two worlds: the criminal world that once ruled Breaking Bad and the world of law and order mani-fested in his brother Chuck. We always knew Jimmy would end up living in the former—that’s the benefi t of the show being a prequel. But we essentially knew where Breaking Bad was going too. Walter had cancer, after all. Th e enjoyment, for both shows, is in the journey. And to skip to such a defi ant admission of failure to pursue the latter, for me, did not do justice to Jimmy’s own desires to follow the straight and narrow that seemed to exist, on some level, independently of

Chuck as well.Perhaps I’m not being fair.

After all, “Marco” really was an excellent episode. The Bingo scene was pure genius. Jimmy breaks down after reading five B’s in a row, which prompt him to think of haunting words like “Brother,” and “Betrayal.” In a room full of elderly clients, he shares the story of how he defecated through the sunroof of a rival’s car, unaware of the children sitting in the back-seat, leading to a sex offender charge that has haunted him throughout his life. The sound of the whirring Bingo balls in the background throughout the scene elevates tension and brings us into Jimmy’s emotional state, and Bob Odenkirk’s delivery is flawless. Marco’s sudden death was shocking and emotional, a particular feat given Marco’s few appearances throughout the season.

But to jump to the birth of Saul at the end of the first season, and more specifically, through a series of events tak-ing place over just one episode, seemed too heavy-handed. It’s like going on a road trip—being there will be great, but getting there is half the experience. And while I have no doubts that Vince Gilligan and Co. will continue to produce high-quality television for however long this show lasts, I feel a bit cheated out of that half of the road trip. PHOTO COURTESY OF AMC

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tinues to serve as Kelley Rink’s Albus Dumbledore, the hockey team will forge on as the mighty phoenix. The tears of this failed season will drop tenderly on the ashes of the Florida-bound Mike Matheson and burst into a fiery explosion of new recruits and NHL prospects, and new life will fill Conte once again. It’s only a matter of time before BC finds its next Boy-Who-Scored (see Hockey, Johnny) and another banner hangs from the rafters.

For next year, the Eagles appear to be in good hands with the additions of Colin White, a projected first-round pick alongside Noah Hanifin this year, and Jeremy Bracco,

who bears a resemblance in height and weight to a certain Gaudreau. Barring another Sonny Milano-type disaster, the Eagles, with the watchful eye of York looming over the bench, stand as a team ready to bring the “Title” back to Titletown.

Jim Christian:Fortunately, there is a heavy

Christian tradition being forged in the men’s basketball program. Jim Christian has arrived from Ohio University, but does that make him the chosen one sent from above to lead a program to salvation? Only time will tell if Christian can build a team of apostles around him after a couple of recruiting classes.

While this season was a wash, Christian proved his worth with the X’s and O’s of

the game, now he just needs to fill his table with a talented team of 12.

Out of all the teams at BC, this one requires the longest wait before the millenium ar-rives.

Kelly Hughes:Despite knocking off the

ranked Duke Blue Devils dur-ing the season, the women’s basketball season crumbled thanks to a slew of suspensions. The resulting changes in the lineup threw off any rhythm the team might have been building, but one constant remained the entire season: Kelly Hughes. Armed with a deadly shot and accurate 3-point range, Hughes has only improved in both of her seasons on the Heights, and she will joined by returning

captain Nicole Boudreau Darius Wade:Admittedly, the football

program is difficult to figure out. Back-to-back 7-6 seasons, with four wins in conference play each year, leaves a lot to be desired for Steve Addazio and his team—particularly when coupled with the bitter ending of this year’s Pinstripe Bowl. Addazio did admit that it would take a few more years to fill out the roster completely, so much like the state of men’s basketball, the future requires patience.

For now, though, the fate of the team rides on Tyler Murphy’s replacement, Darius Wade. He is young, has a better arm than Murphy, (which is not saying much), is a decent run-

ner in the mold of Ben Roeth-lisberger, but did not show all that much in the small sample size of the spring scrimmage.

Jonathan Hilliman and Myles Willis continue to be the focal point of the offense, but the Eagles need Wade to step up in the passing game to provide a more balanced attack on offense.

Chris Shaw:If anyone fits the bill as the

one man who can single-hand-edly lift BC athletics from the grave, it is Chris Shaw. The stats speak for themselves: three home runs in one game, two grand slams this year, and an OPS that breaks the time-speed continuum. Head coach Mike Gambino relates the slugger to Adam Dunn as the MLB draft

awaits him in June. With the Eagles just now

returning to Shea Field for the first home game of the season, Chris Shaw looks poised to put the dregs of a historic winter firmly in the rearview mirror. All it takes is one shot past the fences, and the world begins to revolve around Shaw.

At the moment, however, BC revolves around nothing—it is lost in the void and coming ever nearer to a black hole. But every Stanwick goal, every Shaw homer, and every Carpenter hat trick brings the Eagles closer to a new life.

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Gambino said. The move paid huge dividends

for the Eagles. Casey laid out to rob Foster of a bloop single with a runner on second, saving a NU run and helping Stone get out of the fifth—a play Shaw, in all like-lihood, would not have made.

At the plate, the Eagles strug-gled to muster offense. BC only mustered one hit through the first seven innings, capitalizing on a wild fourth inning by North-eastern reliever Brian Chris-tian. The righty from Plymouth, Mass. allowed three runs on two bases-loaded walks (RBIs for Casey and Jake Palomaki) and a bases-loaded hit by pitch (RBI for Johnny Adams).

A Joe Cronin walk and a second Shaw base knock set up a Michael Strem RBI single in the eighth off of reliever John Amendola.

And although he wasn’t par-ticularly impressed with his team’s offense in this one, Gam-bino believed his team did what it needed to do.

“Its all about situational hit-ting,” Gambino said. “Yesterday [in a 2-0 win against Dartmouth] we did it with a big double in the spot, today we did it with being selective at the plate and get-ting a big hit when we needed

it, twice.”As for the cold, it was noth-

ing new for these veteran Eagles. Although the conditions weren’t ideal, Shaw didn’t think that the weather had any effect on the team’s hitting.

Stone echoed that, not even noticing the freezing tempera-tures.

“It was tough to stay loose in between innings,” Stone said. “I didn’t even realize how cold it was until I was done throwing, so it affects you a little bit. But it really wasn’t too bad.”

And now, yet another BC team will have a chance to bring a Beanpot title to Chestnut Hill. The first two chances didn’t go as swimmingly as Eagles’ fans might have hoped, with men’s hockey finishing in third place and women’s hockey in second. But the Birdballers are just happy to be back home.

“Coach was saying before the game: it’s a new start to the sea-son, almost, it’s a shot of energy, something that most other teams don’t get,” Shaw said. “They hit that midseason lull, but we’re on the road so much, we get to come back here and take advantage of teams because we’re starting at home for the first time.”

And if you get to enjoy that advantage, you might play base-ball for BC. Donovan Casey (30) helped the Eagles on defense while Michael Strem (not pictured) notched an RBI single in the eighth inning to put BC up for good.

Following a cancelled series against Syracuse, the Boston College women’s softball team managed to squeeze in four games before another series—this time against Harvard—was also cancelled.

From these four games, the Eagles took two homes back with them to Chestnut Hill, Mass. Their record is now 16-15.

BryantThe Eagles started off with a

single game against Bryant on March 29, which they clinched in overtime. It was Bryant who drew first blood, and set itself up with an early lead. Pitcher Hayley Bottino had her only hit of the game in the first inning, a single that drove in Madeline Velasquez and put the Bulldogs up 1-0.

Bryant stretched its lead to 4-0 in the second inning, when designated hitter Elle Madsen launched a double that scored three. In the same inning, Madi-son Paulson gave the Eagles their first runs on the day, with a pop fly that sent two home. At the top of the fourth, Bryant’s Velasquez scored once more, this one off an error, then Madsen touched home in the top of the sixth, also off an error.

The Eagles went into the sev-enth inning with a four-run defi-cit. Jordan Chimento, who had scored earlier, set a rally in motion with an initial single that brought home Taylor Coroneos. Taylor Michalski scored from a ground-out at first, Chimento scored off of Jessie Daulton’s single, and finally Dalton completed the four-run momentum swing when Paulson drove her home on a triple.

In the first extra inning, the Eagles clinched the game. Sopho-more Tatiana Cortez claimed

the game winning RBI—a single that helped Megan Cooley touch home with a final score of 7-6.

VirginiaWinning ways continued as

BC played its first game against the University of Virginia last Friday, and saw itself on top, 9-7. The Eagles maintained a sizeable lead, which they amounted early on in the game. Scoring began in the first inning for BC with Annie Murphy, who hit a double that let Cooley add another to her run tal-ly. In the next inning, Daulton hit a solo home run to boost the score line. Chelsea Dimon put Chloe Sharabba on the scoreboard with a double, and finally the Eagles grabbed a 4-0 lead when Cooley drove Dimon home.

In the top of the fourth, Cool-ey scored Sharabba from a single. Then in the fifth inning, Murphy ripped a solo home run past center field. In that same inning, Virginia recorded its first point of the first five innings—a single home run by McKail Miller.

In the sixth inning, BC added three more runs to their already mounting lead, thanks in part to two singles and a wild pitch. Daulton, Paulson, and Sharabba all made it home. The Cavaliers gave the Eagles a scare in the bottom of the sixth, with a five run rally.

Two homers and a score of hits saw the Eagles shaken, but able to retire the side in the end. One run off of a sacrifice fly in the next inning finished the scoring for Virginia and their hopes of starting off the series with a win. Allyson Frei claimed the win, moving her record to 12-9. She struck out nine batters in the five innings that she pitched.

Jessica Dreswick started on the mound for the Eagles in the next game, also on Friday, but was taken out after two innings

and two runs scored. Those two runs came in the

second inning, as Virginia man-aged to bring in two runners off of a scoring error.

Dimon hit a sacrifice fly in the fourth inning, allowing Sharabba to make it to home plate. Dimon brought the score to within one run.

Virginia’s Lauren Heintzelman quickly made that lead two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning, with a home run. Neither side scored again in this matchup, and the game ended 3-1. Frei pitched the final two innings, allowing no runs.

The final game of the series was played on Saturday in Char-lottesville, Va. and finished 7-4. Similar to the first game of the series, there was a good deal of of-fense, and the Eagles again started with the lead.

In the top of the second in-ning, BC sent home three run-ners. First, it was Paulson’s single that led to Sharabba recording the first run. After that, Paulson scored from a Cortez single and Cortez subsequently scored off a Cooley single.

It took three innings for Cooley to reach home, and she did off of an error when Murphy was at bat. After the top of the fifth inning, BC held a 4-0 lead. But a number of singles, a walk, a double, and a two-run homer, among others, spelled BC’s end in that very same inning. Virginia racked up seven runs in this one inning.

Frei was the losing pitcher, and her record now sits at 12-10.

HarvardThe Eagles were slated to play

a doubleheader against Harvard on Tuesday, but it was cancelled due to rain and cold weather in Boston.

The games are rescheduled for later in April.

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The Eagles look to stay hot coming into this week-end’s series against Clemson. Since dropping six games in a row to ranked teams in Florida State and Louisville, the Eagles are 11-4, highlighted by a neutral-site sweep of ACC rival Duke. Head coach Mike Gambino’s team is riding the scorch-ing bat of Chris Shaw, who raked in three home runs against Wake Forest on Sunday, adding on to his NCAA-leading total of 11. The Eagles must worry about Clemson’s ace, Matthew Crownover, who has dominated opponents this year with a 5-1 record and a 1.33 ERA.

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Left field, center field, right field—Chris Shaw put a ball over each wall in Sunday’s game against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons (21-13, 8-7 ACC). Shaw did this to head coach Mike Gambino’s amazement. “You ever seen that? With left field, center field, and right field? I don’t know which one he hit harder.”

Through the series, Shaw went a mind-boggling 8 for 12, tallying at least two hits in each game. On Sunday after-noon, Shaw’s hot streak continued for the Boston College Eagles (13-16, 5-9 ACC) in Winston-Salem, N.C.

The junior right fielder’s magic started in the top of the fifth, when a couple of walks and a single set the table for Shaw. When he stepped to the plate,

Shaw was more than ready to capitalize on his opportunity. Not only did he take the first pitch he saw for a grand slam, but he put it over the left field wall—an opposite field home run that brought a five-run deficit down to a one-run deficit. But Shaw still had more to add for the Eagles.

After Nick Sciortino tied it up in the fifth with an RBI single, Shaw was back at it in the sixth, smashing a home run the right over the center field wall to put the Eagles up one on the Demon Deacons.

Still, Shaw was not done for the day as he hit another home run in the eighth, completing the trifecta by putting a ball over the right-center field wall, capping off a monstrous day for the junior from Lexington, Mass. Gambino had more to add about Shaw’s tremendous day at the plate. “It may be the most impressive of-

fensive day I’ve ever seen,” he said. “Kid can really hit.”

Single-handedly, Shaw ensured that BC avoided the sweep, driving in seven of the 10 runs that the Eagles scored on Sunday on the way to a 10-7 victory.

Shaw’s superhuman effort on Sunday kept the weekend series from being a complete disappointment for the Birdballers, who dropped the first two games on Friday and Saturday. The story for much of the weekend was the struggles for the Eagles’ pitching. BC gave up a total of 23 runs to the Demon Deacons through the three games.

Friday’s game was a relative bright spot for the Eagles’ staff, which allowed only four runs. Outside of the first, right-hander Jeff Burke, the starter, and left-hander Jesse Adams did a great job of limiting the Wake offense, one of the ACC’s most potent offensive teams.

BC’s offense also provided a solid performance Friday afternoon, scoring one run in each of the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings to tie the game. De-spite the resilience of the Birdballers, Wake claimed the game in the bottom of the ninth on a walk-off hit by Joey Rodriguez, the Deacs’ center fielder.

If the Eagles showed resilience on Friday and their best on Sunday, Sat-urday was their worst, as they failed to quiet the stellar Wake Forest offense. In the fourth inning, center fielder Michael Strem hit a three-run shot to right field to jump on Wake Forest 3-0. Jake Palomaki homered to lead off the sixth inning and extend BC’s lead to 4-2. From there, the sixth inning and the rest of the game were totally downhill for the Eagles.

Wake reversed BC’s momentum as both stud second baseman Nate Mon-

dou and right fielder Stuart Fairchild hit home runs to make the game even be-fore an RBI single gave Wake the lead.

A three-run home run in the bottomof the seventh from designated hitter Will Craig, Wake’s best hitter, was thefinal, definitive blow to BC. Wake’spower outburst gave them the upperhand and took the game right from thehands of the Eagles.

As the ACC’s best offense, Wake Forest showed the Eagles vulnerabilityby exposing their pitching staff. Theirgreatest strength of the weekend, how-ever, proved to be the same that it has been for the entire season: the bat ofShaw.

Shaw carried the team out of a dismal weekend effort and salvaged an otherwise messy series. Again and again, the junior is proving to be BC’s saving grace.

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Th anks to traffi c crowding the roads, Boston College baseball arrived late to Hanover, N.H. for a weekday matinee with the Dartmouth Big Green. Th e original start time for the game got pushed back from 3 p.m. to 3:15, but once the Eagles showed up, they were ready to go.

Senior left-hander Nick Poore allowed the fi rst batter he faced to reach base on an infi eld single to the shortstop and a walk two batters later. But then he settled down—he didn’t allow a baserunner for the rest of his day on the mound.

Due to Poore’s mastery on the hill and

junior slugger Chris Shaw’s continued dominance at the plate, BC (13-16, 5-9 ACC) topped a struggling Dartmouth (6-18, 4-4 Ivy League) in a low-scoring 2-0 aff air.

Making only his fourth start of the sea-son, Poore got his fi rst win of the year by forcing 10 Dartmouth hitters into ground-outs, while baiting Big Green cleanup hitter Joe Purritano into two strikeouts. Poore is now the eighth BC pitcher with a win under his belt.

After blasting three home runs on Sunday against Wake Forest, Shaw played small ball with the Big Green on Tuesday. Shaw scored both of BC’s runs against Dartmouth, getting on base with two

singles and a double. In the past four games, Shaw is batting .688 with fi ve runs and seven runs batted in.

“It’s pretty special to have a guy like that in the middle of the order,” BC head coach Mike Gambino said. “He can carry a team off ensively at times.”

Despite the fact that the rest of the line-up only mustered up two hits, Dartmouth’s batters were even more ineff ective. Th e Big Green’s third, fourth, and fi fth hitters went 0 for 8 with three strikeouts on the game.

The team of Luke Fernandes, Jesse Adams, and John Nicklas relieved Poore in the sixth inning and continued its starter’s reign of dominance over the Big

Green. Fernandes allowed only one hit, while Adams gave up just a walk. Nicklas closed the door on the Big Green with a perfect ninth inning to get his third save of the season.

“All four of those guys threw the ball great today,” Gambino said. “Th ey located their pitches, stayed ahead of the count all day, and we stayed under 100 pitches. It was great to see them throw well.”

Big Green pitcher Chris England had an impressive day, allowing two hits through the fi rst six innings, but Dartmouth ran into trouble after pulling him with one out in the seventh inning. Reliever Chris Burkholder gave up two hits to the fi rst two batters he faced, allowing the Eagles’

second run of the day to come home.Burkholder settled down to retire the

next two batters to end the inning, but BC’sdamage had already been done.

Despite the late start, the game betweenBC and Dartmouth was especially quick, fi nishing under two hours. Gambino said that the team had food ordered for the busride home, but had to wait after the game ended for the food to arrive.

Th e Eagles are getting their pitchingarms going with a fi rst round Beanpot matchup against Northeastern Univer-sity—a team they demolished 22-1 earlier this year—looming tomorrow.

As long as traffi c allows them to show up for the game, they’ll be set.

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a comeback.The Eagles are notorious for slow

starts at the beginning of halves. Coach Acacia Walker challenged them to come out aggressively and finish the game. “I told the team it was 0-0 and it was another test of the first 10 minutes of the second half,” Walker said. “We are really trying to work hard on coming out strong so we told them to not let up and to think of the game as a fresh start.”

BC pulled itself together and pulled away. Covie Stanwick flew one past Weis 30 seconds into the half and less than a minute later Sarah Mannelly did the same, making it a 9-5 game. The Eagles continued to surround the Crimson goal and fired shots at Weis while limiting their opponents’ access to Ochoa’s net.

Fouls allowed BC to maintain the ball on the offensive end. On her way downfield, Mannelly was fouled and given a free possession. She dodged defenders and drew Weis out of the crease. Mannelly wrapped around Weis and ripped one into the empty net with 22 minutes remaining. With continued offensive pressure, BC led 16-8 midway

through the second half.Harvard attempted to make a come-

back with the help of star player Romeo, who scored a total of six goals. By us-ing rapid passing around the arc, the Crimson found entryways to the goal and shot into open space behind Ochoa. BC remained composed for the final five minutes and answered each time, successfully pulling off a 19-13 win on its home turf.

Stanwick and Mannelly each com-pleted a hat trick, while Chandler tal-lied four goals. It was clear the three of them, along with the rest of the team, fought hard despite Rix’s absence as she continues to recover.

Walker commended the three play-ers for the work they put into the game. “They are all playing pretty dominantly right now,” Walker said. “We asked them to step up so that they could make an immediate impact in today’s game so it would transcend down to the rest of the group and they did a good job with that so I’m proud of them.”

The final horn sounds as the referee signals the end of the game. The Crim-son exit quickly while the Eagles linger on the field, hanging onto the feeling of another hard fought win.

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Sarah Mannelly led the Eagles with four goals, with Covie Stanwick and Tess Chandler following closely behind with three apiece.

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Raindrops smack the turf as the Eagles rotate passes around the 8 meter arc with defenders in position to deny inside access. Freshman Kaileen Hart gets the ball and dodges inside toward the goal, ready to shoot. Whistle. A shooting space foul is called against Harvard University. Hart gets a free position at the top of the arc. She does not charge the goal to shoot. She cuts left to draw defenders. Kenzie Kent pushes her way into the arc and flies toward the goal. Hart passes through a mass of defenders to find Kent, who one-times it into the twine to put a tally on the board.

All afternoon No. 4 Boston College (12-2, 4-2 ACC) had to find loopholes and weave its way through Harvard (5-5, 3-1 Ivy) defenders to get a clean look at goalkeeper Kelly Weis. Without leading scorer Mikaela Rix, who is out recovering from a head injury she suf-fered against Duke, it was certain that

each Eagle needed to step it up on the offensive end. The Eagles worked tire-lessly on offense, pulling off a strong 19-13 win with the help of nine different goal scorers.

At first the team struggled to get inside the 8 meter arc. Tess Chandler led the way inside and bounced one past Weis. Less than five minutes into the game, BC held a 3-0 lead. The Crimson’s Marisa Romeo answered seconds later as she got past BC’s Zoe Ochoa.

Harvard scored three consecutive goals to knot the game at three. Chan-dler then took matters into her own hands, firing one past Weis’s head to complete a hat trick only eight and half minutes into the game.

Ten minutes later the team was up 7-3 as the defenders continued to lock the Crimson out of the arc. They only let one slip through the cracks allowing Harvard to make it 7-4 at the half. With a tight score, BC needed to make adjust-ments to deny the Crimson a chance for

Easter Season could not have come at a better time, as Boston College is in need of a savior.

Aside from an army of peeps, cut-throat Easter egg hunts, and the pos-

If you trot out of the dugout onto a college diamond in blustery winds while hail showers down onto the freshly uncovered grass, you might play for the Boston College baseball team. If you have to wear a plastic bag over your head while standing in the bullpen just to try and keep yourself from getting wet, you might play for BC. If your hands turn as red as your jersey when you stand at the plate, you might play for BC.

Yes, just like comedian Jeff Fox-worthy’s famed “you might be a red-neck” joke: there’s an endless list of reasons that make playing for head coach Mike Gambino’s team vastly different from other major confer-ence college baseball teams.

Many of those reasons involve the weather—as everyone in Boston knows by now, this year’s weather has broken a plethora of records, most of them snow-related. Because of the lasting effects of this tumul-tuous winter, the Eagles have spent most of their season trekking across the American South to face their ACC opponents.

But if you can go out in the hail, the biting wind, and freezing temperatures, and still win in your first home game, a mere 31 games into the season, you definitely play for BC.

That’s just what the Eagles (15-16, 5-9 ACC) did on Wednesday afternoon in their home opener at Eddie Pellagrini Diamond at Shea Field, affectionately known as “the Cage.” In the semifinals of Boston’s ugly stepsister of intercollegiate tournaments—the baseball rendi-tion of the Beanpot—BC defeated

crosstown rival Northeastern (11-20, 4-5 CAA) 4-1 despite the frigid 36 degree temperatures.

Although they have succeeded more at the plate this season than on the mound, the Eagles saw their pitching staff lead the way against the Huskies . Right-hander Eric Stone retired the first 11 men he faced before laboring through a tough fourth inning. The BC senior walked the bases loaded with two outs, dancing out of danger with a strikeout of third baseman Mike Piscopo. He then followed it up with a scoreless fifth.

“The changeup seemed to help me out of a couple of tough spots,” Stone said. “It was the last pitch I threw that got the out in a 3-2 count.”

That inning gave way to the Eagles’ bullpen, which again put up impressive numbers. Geoffrey Murphy allowed only two walks in 1 1/3 on the mound, followed up by an impressive outing by lefty Tyler Hinchliffe.

The pitcher, known by his team-mates as “Cheese,” tossed 2 2/3 of shutout relief—the only threat came in the top of the ninth when he allowed a double to center fielder Michael Foster.

The Eagles’ defense also bailed out the pitching staff, albeit with a different look in the outfield. Everyday right fielder Chris Shaw moved over to left, giving way to speedy freshman Donovan Casey. Gambino wanted to protect Shaw, who is not fleet of foot, from Shea’s expansive right field pastures. “I think that move makes us a little bit better in both [outfield] spots,”

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Sophomore midfielder Tess Chandler (5) leaps high to reel in a pass while Kate Rich (14) boxes out Harvard’s Marisa Romeo (20).AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS STAFF

sibility of sunny and warm weather, the Jesuits of BC welcome new life after the resurrection of Jesus Christ. While Boston University has found its libera-tor in the form of “His Holiness” Jack Eichel, Chestnut Hill, Mass. is barren and devoid of a chosen one. But the candidates are readily available as we end this year and look toward the start of new campaign for BC Athletics.

Alex Carpenter:Jesus was a carpenter. Katie King

Crowley’s best player is Alex Carpen-

ter. Not much more needs to be said. Women’s hockey fell short not once,

but three times as the team faltered in the Hockey East championship game, the Frozen Four, and the fi rst round of the Beanpot. But that doesn’t com-pletely erase a team that went 34-3-2. Th e reigning Patty Kazmaier Award winner is returning, along with three of the other top fi ve scorers from this season, and Katie Burt has a year under her belt as she looks to improve on her brilliance from this year.

Th e stars fell apart late in the year, but they are aligned once again, and Carpenter and the Eagles should come back with a vengeance to take the throne next year.

Covie Stanwick: Th e senior is one of women’s

lacrosse’s last chance for success in 2014-15. Th is is the same senior that has 35 goals in 14 games this year.

Th e No. 3 Eagles are 11-2 thus far into the spring. Despite losing top scorer Mikaela Rix to a concussion,

Caroline Margolis and Sarah Mannelly, who have combined for 107 points this year, can step up alongside Stanwick. Th ere is light at the end of the long tunnel dug out by the Eagles this year, and Stanwick is determined to get there.

Jerry York:“One college, under York, with

liberty and trophies for all,” or so goes the pledge. As long as Jerry York con-

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