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Vol. XCVII, No. 1 Thursday, Janurary 21, 2016
HEThe Independent
Student Newspaperof Boston College
www.bcheights.com
e s t a b l i s h e d 1 9 1 9
SPORTSAfter a win and a tie against BU, Jerry York sits one win away from 1,000, B8
999 AND COUNTINGMETROGeneral Electric announced that it is moving its global headquarters back to Boston, A4
COMING HOMESCENEJunior singer-songwriter Chris Dalla Riva discusses songwriting, fi nding a band, and fi nding his sound, B3
VIVA DALLA RIVA
Boston College men’s basketball fi nished
13-19 in head coach Jim Christian’s fi rst sea-
son at the helm, a fi ve-win jump from Steve
Donahue’s pitiful last season in Chestnut
Hill. But that wasn’t Christian’s only suc-
cess—the Eagles also brought huge returns
to the Athletic Department’s pocketbooks.
After a down year in 2013-14, the program
returned to profi tability, according to the
University’s Equity in Athletics Data Report.
Th e U.S. Department of Education releases
this information, reporting fi nancial informa-
tion for any institution which receives federal
funding for athletics.
Donahue’s fi nal season, an 8-24 campaign
which saw only one notable win—a road
upset of No. 1 Syracuse University—was
hampered by misuse of his best players, a
lack of year-to-year improvement, and an
inability to adjust to rule changes by the
now-University of Pennsylvania skipper. But
its profi tability problems stemmed from a
challenging non-conference schedule that
featured several out-of-state games, includ-
ing trips to Los Angeles (USC), West Lafay-
ette, Ind. (Purdue), Auburn, Ala. (Auburn),
Brooklyn, N.Y. (VCU), and Manhattan, N.Y.
(UConn and Washington). Th is resulted in a
net loss of $1.68 million.
In 2014-15, Christian only scheduled one
major out-of-state tournament—a three-
game slate against New Mexico, UMass, and
Dayton in San Juan, Puerto Rico—while keep-
ing BC’s remaining non-conference games at
home. BC’s marquee home matchups against
Virginia, North Carolina, and Notre Dame
also occurred on Saturdays, likely helping
ticket sales at home. Because of these (and
other) factors, the program spent $5.68 mil-
lion, a 20.3 percent drop. Th is helped men’s
basketball turn a profi t of $1.12 million, a rise
from 14th to 10th in the ACC. Both Notre
Dame and Virginia Tech reported losses of
$3.15 million and $79,837, respectively. BC,
however, is still well behind the conference’s
frontrunners, such as fi rst-place Louisville,
which turned a $29.05 million profit last
season.
Yet men’s basketball wasn’t the only pro-
gram that showed a notable improvement in
only one year. Despite having the exact same
7-6 record in each season, BC football turned
a higher profi t during the 2014 season than in
2013, increasing from $4.07 million to $5.37
million. Like men’s basketball, this total still
pales in comparison to BC’s contemporaries.
Th e program again fi nished 14th in the ACC,
only $20,000 ahead of last-place Wake For-
est and well behind the conference average
of $16.71 million. Only four schools—BC,
Wake, Duke, and Virginia—reported rev-
enues under $10 million, while fi rst-place
Notre Dame amassed a profi t of a whopping
$54.25 million. Th is is largely due to Notre
Dame’s football independence—the Fighting
Irish earn a majority of their profi ts from an
exclusive TV deal with NBC.
Men’s hockey also received good news, if
only marginally so and for negative reasons.
Head coach Jerry York’s team fi nished 21-
15-3 in 2014-15 with a fi rst-round loss to
Denver in the opening round of the NCAA
Tournament in Providence, R.I. Th is was a
far cry from BC’s 2013-14 campaign, which
featured a Frozen Four run in Philadelphia.
But BC’s shorter season helped the program
fi nancially. Th e team still did not turn a profi t,
yet improved its losses from $1.46 million to
$892,650, a 61.1 percent decrease.
Of the four profi t sports, the only one
See Equity in Athletics, A8
At the end of last semester, the Under-
graduate Government of Boston College
called for a plan of action from the admin-
istration regarding race and institutional
racism to be released Jan. 19. Despite the
push for a response and changes made by
UGBC on the working proposal earlier
this month, the administration chose not
to release a statement or plan this past
Tuesday.
Since the initial release of its working
proposal, UGBC has been working with
Barbara Jones, vice president for student
aff airs, and Dean of Students Th omas Mo-
gan to create a proposal. Th is has included
benchmarking other schools, as well as
adding its own recommendations about
what a proposal would look like in order
to assist in the process. Members of the
administration were contacted, but have
not yet responded at this time.
“We are committed to continuing the
dialogue with students around issues they
have raised,” Jones wrote in an email. “We
look forward to discussing with UGBC
their concerns, correcting some misper-
ceptions, and sharing our mutual commit-
ment to diversity and inclusion.
See UGBC, A3
Despite a decrease in the number
of early action applicants and a rise
in the acceptance rate, landing at 32
percent, Boston College’s early action
admittance class maintained last year’s
academic rigor and matched the class of
2019’s average SAT and ACT scores.
BC Undergraduate Admission re-
ceived 8,600 early action applications,
a decrease from last year’s spike in in-
terest. John Mahoney, Boston College
Director of Undergraduate Admission,
said, however, that the number of appli-
cations is similar to what was received
in past years.
“We have carved out our niche in
terms of the reputation of the institu-
tion and the quality of students that
apply,” Mahoney said.
The admitted class averaged 2128
on the SAT and 33 on the ACT, nearly
matching last year’s early action class’
scores.
BC Undergraduate Admission ad-
mitted 30 percent of the 2020 class
through the restrictive early action
program. Because the office received
about a third of the overall applica-
tions through early action, allotting 70
percent of spots for the regular decision
students creates a fair playing field for
those who apply to the Jan. 1 deadline,
Mahoney said.
“We are great believers in this idea
that the people applying at the Jan. 1
deadline should be treated with the
same fairness and equity as those who
are applying early action,” Mahoney
said. “So as a result, we do apply a
Tickets for this year’s Plexapalooza went on sale
at 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning through the Robsham
box office. Two minutes later, the tickets were sold
out, breaking previous sell-out time records. The
Campus Activities Board announced Dec. 15 that
The Chainsmokers will be the guest performers at
the 2016 Plexapalooza.
Many upset students criticized the amount of
tickets on the event’s Facebook page.
“While we are happy to see that students are ex-
cited about this event, we understand the frustrations
regarding the limited number of tickets,” Christine
Cocce, CAB president and CSOM ’16, wrote in an
email.
Cocce wrote that the maximum capacity of the
venue is 1,800 people due to fire code and safety
laws and that all tickets were sold this morning. She
explained that the standard policy of two tickets per
student ID has always been in place for this event.
Cocce wrote that CAB has already identified students
online who are attempting to resell their tickets at a
higher price. Those tickets will be voided without
refund.
Tickets must be presented at the door, and all
tickets will be scanned upon entering the event,
which will be held Jan. 29 at 8:30 p.m in the Flynn
Recreation Complex.
See Early Action, A3
KELSEY MCGEE / HEIGHTS GRAPHIC
MARISSA VENUTO / HEIGHTS STAFF
By becky reilly
Heights Staff
While students spent their Win-
ter Breaks away from campus, Boston
College Campus Recreation worked
to improve facilities.
In the most significant of sev-
eral changes to the Flynn Recreation
Complex, Campus Recreation redid
its basketball wing with five new
wooden courts. Because two of the
five new courts in the Plex have
been expanded to NCAA regulation
dimensions, the other three had
to be shifted and reduced in size.
The material used to resurface the
courts in the Plex was taken from
Conte Forum.
According to Rebecca Cegledy,
the associate director of facilities and
operations, some unsafe bubbling
in the old courts’ synthetic material
prompted the renovation and the
Conte wood acquisition. As a result,
the remaining three courts were
resurfaced, too. Cegledy now expects
ing, depending on the student’s
medical bills, missed class time,
the time spent in the hospital and
the degree of his or her illness.
Levy hopes to solve the issues
amicably with a civil case. Levy is
confident that Chipotle will co-
operate based on the company’s
efforts thus far to regain its cus-
tomers’ trust. Chipotle’s insur-
ance would cover the students’
damages, Levy said.
“Generally speaking, with an
incident like this, it is our aim to
take care of customers that were
impacted by it,” Chris Arnold,
communications director and offi-
cial spokesman at Chipotle, said.
Under University policy, fly-
ers that are hung around campus
must be approved by the Office
of Student Services. The flyers
that Levy’s firm posted around
campus and on bus stops had not
been run through the University,
said vice president of the office
of student affairs Barbara Jones.
Levy has not reached out to BC
concerning the legal cases.
“These posters would not
be approved under the posting
policy and will be removed,”
Jones said.
BC is not planning on taking
any legal action against Chipotle
after 141 students were infected
in December, Jones said. Other
lawyers around the country,
however, have begun to take le-
gal action following the series of
e. coli and norovirus outbreaks,
Levy said.
The corporation has already
begun efforts to solve the health
problems within its stores around
the country. The restaurant
chain released a statement on
its website on Dec. 21 explaining
how the company is launching an
enhanced food safety program
and is working alongside state
and federal health officials to
solve the health issues.
Chipotle also announced
this week that it will be hosting
a national employee meeting
Feb. 8 to discuss food safety and
implement changes. Stores will
be closed for the afternoon due
to the meetings.
THE HEIGHTS
Artists Liza Lou and Ramiro Gomez, art historian and journalist Lawrence Weschler, and poet Ed-ward Hirsch will host a panel discussion on the role of contemporary visual arts in creating, defining, and critiquing the American democratic vision on Thursday at 6 p.m. in Devlin 101. 1
On Thursday, Jan. 21, Professor Mike Cronin, academic director of Boston College Ireland, will present a lecture titled: “The Enemy in Dublin, 1916: Who Were the British?” to commemorate Ireland’s Easter Rising of 1916. The event will be held in the Connolly House at 5 p.m. 2
Thursday, January 21, 2016 A2
Master Sergeant Cedric King, a veteran who lost both of his legs and suffered multiple severe injuries during his third tour in Afghanistan in 2012, will be speak-ing Thursday in the Shea Room in Conte Forum from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. A light lunch will be provided.
Top
things to do on campus this week
3 3
—Source: TheBoston College
Police Department
If you had won the powerball, what would you have done?
NEWSBRIEFS
On Jan. 17, Information
Technology Services (ITS), the
Office of News and Public Af-
fairs (NPA), and the Office of
Marketing Communications
(OMC) collaborated with con-
sulting firm r2integrated to
create the new Boston College
website homepage. The website’s
redesign is part of a multi-year
plan to update the most viewed
pages on the website, including
the Admission, Campus Life, and
BC News pages.
The new website looks dif-
ferent and is more functional.
There is a new events calendar,
a new audience page tailored to
students, parents, faculty, and
staff, and dynamic multimedia.
Although BC.EDU is still sup-
ported by Adobe Experience
Manager, it now has customized
pages, rather than the standard-
ized BC web templates.
“This web redesign would
not have been possible without
the extraordinary commitment
of our project team,” University
Spokesman Jack Dunn said, ac-
cording to the BC news release.
“Through their efforts, the Uni-
versity now has a website that
will vastly improve our ability
to tout the outstanding faculty
and students who make BC one
of the nation’s best universities.
This was a truly collaborative
effort that followed the input
of the campus community and
drew on the strengths of BC’s
talented staff.”
POLICE BLOTTER 1/18/16 - 1/20/16
Monday Jan. 18
2:15 p.m. - A report was filed
regarding medical assistance pro-
vided to a BC student who was
transported to a medical facility by
ambulance from Edmond’s Hall.
5:21 p.m. - A report was filed re-
garding a past motor vehicle acci-
dent in the Edmond’s Parking Lot.
Tuesday Jan. 19
11:11 a.m. - A report was filed
regarding medical assistance pro-
vided to a Campus School student
who was transported to a medical
facility from Campion Hall.
9:01 p.m. - A report was filed re-
garding a larceny from a non-resi-
dent in Corcoran Commons.
Wednesday Jan. 20
4:53 a.m. - A report was filed
regarding medical assistance pro-
vided to a BC employee who was
transported to a medical facility
from McElroy Commons.
Boston College’s capital cam-
paign, Light the World, reached
its goal of raising $1.5 billion
last month. According to the
BC news release, the Board of
Trustees, University President
Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., and
campaign co-chairs Charles I.
Clough, Jr. ’64, Kathleen M. Mc-
Gillycuddy BC ’71 and William
J. Geary ’80 launched Light the
World in 2008, just before the
economic recession hit.
This campaign marks one of
the most successful capital cam-
paigns in higher education this
decade and is likely one of the
factors that allowed BC to rise
to 30th in the US News rankings.
The money raised for Light the
World is nearly triple the $441
million that the Ever to Excel
campaign raised from 1997 to
2003. BC has used the money to
support academic excellence and
student-formation programs,
expand financial aid and campus
construction projects, strength-
en BC athletics, and fund several
major resource centers.
“More than anything, Light
the World has solidified our
place globally as a top-tier Je-
suit, Catholic institution with
great clarity about who we are
and what we want to do and be,”
McGillycuddy said.
The co-chairs of the cam-
paign urged that there is much
more that needs to be done.
“While we should be im-
mensely proud, our work is
never done,” said McGillycuddy.
“We are not wealthy in compari-
son to peer institutions, so we
must continue to focus on the
future, including gifts through
the end of this fiscal year. Pro-
viding financial support for the
University is a lifetime commit-
ment.”
By taylor st. germain
Asst. News Editor
On Jan. 8, John King, the di-
rector of public safety at Boston
College, exacted a ban on hov-
erboards on BC’s campus via an
email to the student body.
The decision to ban the hov-
erboards was initiated by King,
Dean of Students Thomas Mogan,
and George Arey, the director
of the Office of Residential Life.
The email said that the Office of
Environmental Health & Safety
recommended this measure after
the Consumer Product Safety
Commission cited that hover-
boards have caused 28 fires in 19
states. The University’s action is
out of concern for student safety,
the email said.
While Massachusetts has
not passed any direct legislation
concerning hoverboard use, in
2011 the City of Boston passed
an ordinance that banned the
use of electrical personal assis-
tive mobility devices on public
property. Other schools in the
area, including Suffolk University,
Brandeis University, and Univer-
sity of Massachusetts Amherst,
have banned hoverboards their
on campuses.
These bans are following a
larger, national trend in which
colleges across the country are
By taylor st germain
Asst. News Editor
In response to last month’s
norovirus outbreak , Boston
College students are beginning
to take legal action against
Chipotle with the help of Boston
criminal lawyer Brett Levy. He
using the Winter Break to release
updated policies banning the use
of the self-balancing scooters. The
same day that King sent out the
email to BC students, students
at Occidental College in Los
Angeles, Calif., received a similar
notification regarding a ban on
hoverboards on their campus.
California passed legislation
early in 2016 that legalized and
regulated the hoverboards. Rid-
ers must be at least 16 years of
age, wear a helmet, and cannot
ride in zones where the speed
limit is greater than 35 miles per
hour. These regulations follow a
viral video of former professional
boxer Mike Tyson falling off of his
child’s hoverboard, released Dec.
29, 2015.
Several airlines, like American
Airlines, Delta, and United, have
banned the electrical boards from
being brought on flights. Metro-
link trains have also prevented
riders from bringing the hover-
boards aboard.
“I was really excited to bring
the hoverboard I got for Christ-
mas to school this semester,”
Cameron Pott, MCAS ’19, said
in a phone interview. “All of my
friends wanted to see it and it
would’ve been a ton of fun in the
dorm. Unfortunately, this is no
longer an option for me, and I’ll
have to leave it at home.”
is currently working with two
students, and plans to file civil
suits against the corporation in
the coming weeks.
The students affected by no-
rovirus in December are looking
for compensation from Chipotle.
Each case differs in the amount
for which the students are fil-
Please send corrections to
[email protected] with ‘correction’ in
the subject line.
CORRECTIONS
JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR
Two BC students are filing civil cases against Chipotle after the norovirus.
BC Recreation resurfaced five basketball courts in the Flynn Recreation complex over Christmas break.
AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR
that the courts will serve club sports,
Plex programs, and Office of Student
Involvement projects well.
“I think overall it’s going to en-
hance our internal programming,
as well as events,” Cegledy said. “By
having the regulation-style courts,
our club sports teams are now going
to be able to host more events and
more tournaments.”
The new courts are one of several
facility improvements over the break.
Other changes include new lights
over the Plex’s tennis wing and two
TVs in the cardio room at Newton
Campus’s Quonset Hut.
“It’s an old building that was built
in the 1970s, so anything we can do
to enhance it is well worth it to make
it better for our students and our
members,” Cegledy said.
AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR
THE HEIGHTS Thursday, January 21, 2016 A3
By Nick DeMott
For The Heights
Flight School, a program to
connect student-athletes with
the professional world, was
launched last week by the Boston
College Athletics Department.
The new program has the goal of
seeing 90 percent of BC athletes
with definitive post-graduation
plans.
Seeking to make the transi-
tion from BC student-athlete
into BC graduate a seamless
one, Flight School has gathered
the help of alumni and their col-
leagues to serve as mentors.
The mentors, known as ad-
vocates, will help by recruiting
BC athletes into their industries.
The relationships could lead to
internships or job interviews,
according to BCEagles .com.
Flight School already has 70
advocates onboard, according to
Alison Quandt, assistant athlet-
ics director for student athlete
development.
In 2013, Director of Athlet-
ics Brad Bates announced his
goal for 70 percent of athletes
graduating in 2014 to have post-
grad plans. Bates’ mark was sur-
passed, and in 2015, the goal was
raised to 80 percent—then met.
To reach a goal of 90 percent
of its graduating student athletes
with jobs come May 2016, BC
Athletics has instituted Flight
School.
Similar to a LinkedIn-type
networking site, Flight School
is a database that can connect
student-athletes with advocates.
Athletes will create profiles that
list things like the sports they
play, their career interests, and
their desired regions to live and
work. Such characteristics will
help to match BC’s athletes with
the right advocates.
Along with the start of the
spring semester, Flight School
will officially launch this week.
Definitive post-grad plans “could
include employment, graduate
school, professional playing
opportunities or even planned
volunteer or activism projects,”
according to BCEagles .com .
Due to a high proportion of
accounting and finance majors,
Quandt said, the early numbers
show that 23 percent of student
athletes already have post-grad
plans.
Quandt pointed out that
much of this career development
and forging of relationships
between student athletes and
alumni or employers had already
been going on over the past two
years within BC Athletics, and
that Flight School only formal-
ized the process.
Whenever athletes were in
search of post-grad plans, the
Athletics Department would
assist by searching through
its rolodex of contacts. This
may have included alumni or
companies who have hired BC
student-athletes in the past.
Students were then able to align
themselves with advocates of
common interest.
Flight School is accessible
only to BC student-athletes. As
a result of the program, though,
BC Athletics expects the net-
work of connections to grow,
so this year’s graduating class
After receiving the UGBC docu-
ment on Jan. 4, a meeting between
the administration and UGBC
was scheduled for this Friday, Jan.
22. Jones said that in addition, the
administration is continuing listen-
ing sessions, which they started
last semester. This will begin again
with a dinner that is scheduled with
graduate students next week. As a
University community, it is impor-
tant to engage in issues in a manner
that is reflective, thoughtful, and
thorough, Jones said.
“For us, it’s incredibly disap-
pointing to not see the administra-
tion adopt any proposal of their
own,” Thomas Napoli, president of
UGBC and MCAS ’16 said.
On Jan. 20, UGBC posted the
proposal it had given the admin-
istration on its Facebook page,
along with a note expressing disap-
pointment. This was the first time
the proposal was released to the
public. Napoli explained that the
group has transitioned to bringing
its information to the public to be
more transparent. The document,
titled Towards a More Inclusive
Community, outlined the group’s
vision for an inclusive environment
on campus, as well as suggestions
for the administration on how to
achieve this inclusion.
“Even though this wasn’t the
announcement we were looking
forward to making, at this point
we really wanted to be able to say
we have this plan and it’s going
forward,” Olivia Hussey, executive
vice president and MCAS ’17 said.
“Even though that hasn’t happened
yet, we really wanted to be transpar-
ent in what has been happening in
the meetings with ourselves and the
administrators for three months
now.”
The document is broken down
into a preamble, an overview of the
action plan, and has categories of
institutional support, academics,
campus climate, and education.
The preamble includes a call for the
University to create a long-term
strategic action plan. Here, the
group outlined its goal, stating that
it hopes “to foster an institutional
transformation and ultimately, an
intellectually-enhanced environ-
ment.”
Napoli explained that the admin-
istrators left the door open to create
an action plan, but never indicated
whether they planned to release one
or not. Members of UGBC had not
received any information indicating
progress to create or adopt the plan
UGBC had proposed.
“They haven’t reached out to
us at all,” Napoli said. “So, for us,
we’re going off of the fact that there
has been no statement, which is a
statement of itself, and taking that
as a signifier of no action.”
Napoli said that despite the
group’s effort to use all of the re-
sources within the structure given
to it by the University, he now feels
that UGBC is in a position where
this structure is not working.
UGBC plans to release a state-
ment soon on what its response will
be. This may include getting more
student support, as well as looking
to alumni and professors, Napoli
said. Hussey expressed the group’s
determination to pursue the issue
of institutional racism and to change
BC’s racial climate.
“It’s important to remember the
‘why,’ because it can be easy in this
world to take things personally or
look at the people you’re working
with and just remember that the real
issue that’s at play right now is for
many students of color, we are get-
ting reports that BC doesn’t feel like
a home to them,” Napoli said.
UGBC, from A1
somewhat tougher standard to the
early action pool.”
In the early action admittance
class, students represent 46 different
states and 28 different countries. The
most students reside in Massachu-
setts, New York, New Jersey, Califor-
nia, and Connecticut. Twenty-eight
percent of admitted students also
come from an AHANA background.
Mahoney also believes that 25
percent of deferred applicants will
gain admission in the regular deci-
sion pool.
BC admission works through a
restrictive early action system, mean-
ing that students who apply early
to BC may not apply with a binding
early decision agreement to any other
university. Mahoney reasons that this
system gives students who are really
interested in BC a greater opportunity
to be admitted. Georgetown and the
University of Notre Dame practice the
same admission system.
The admissions team is now work-
ing to encourage those 700 to 750
students accepted to BC to enroll for
the fall of 2016 by hosting events with
BC alumni throughout the country.
Over Christmas break, 42 events were
held nationwide.
Undergraduate Admissions is
hosting Admitted Eagle Day on Jan.
31, when admitted early action stu-
dents will have the opportunity to visit
campus and hear from administrators,
professors, and students. Current BC
student volunteers will also begin to
make phone calls and send out emails
to admitted students.
“I am not exaggerating when I
tell you that we could probably enroll
Boston College’s entire freshman class
in that early action group,” Mahoney
said.
AMELIE TRIEU/ HEIGHTS EDITOR
Boston College Athletics Department developed Flight School to increase the number of athletes to graduate with jobs.
of student-athletes will actively
advocate for future groups of
Eagles, and so forth, so that the
goal of 90 percent can be success-
fully met every year.
“Walking across the stage
with a diploma in one hand and
a job in the other is what we’re
about,” Quandt said.
Early Action, from A1
DREW HOO/ HEIGHTS EDITOR
After the undergraduate student government President and Executive Vice President submitted a working proposal in November to the Board of Trustees, there has not yet been a public administrative response.
THE HEIGHTS Thursday, January 21, 2016 A4
JUAN OLAVARRIA
As I was sitting in my bed the
other night in a half-awake stupor, I
began thinking about the unhealthy
amount of Vines I had seen that day (I
may or may not have a problem), and
how they were taking away precious
minutes I could be spending doing
something else, anything else.
For some reason, my cousin had
forwarded me a page that consisted
almost exclusively of hilarious falls
that involved a popular, yet controver-
sial, product that was making waves
throughout the teenage population.
Everything I had watched was now
being re-played with that eerie flicker
of films of old, Tarantino style. The
next thing I knew, I was asleep.
***
*100,000 feet above the ground, two
survivors, Rich and Morphy, orbit the
Earth in their improvised spaceship
and discuss the remains of what was
once called Boston.*
Morphy: “So, Rich, what are we
doing here again? Please tell me this
isn’t one of your hilarious-to-you-but-
life-threatening-to-me shenanigans.
Because if we are not doing anything
productive, I’m out.”
Rich: “No, no, no. You must have
me confused with someone else. This
is completely for research purposes
and completely safe. Even if some-
thing were to go wrong—what were
we talking about again?”
“Rich! Pay attention! You were
telling me about the beginning of our
new civilization, or rather, about the
end of the previous one. How there
used to be so much beauty in that
world with so much to offer, only for
all to collapse like—how did it happen
again?”
“Well, it all started on Christmas
Day 2015. Yeah, I know how you feel
about that day. Stop crying! Like I was
saying, on that day kids and teens all
over the world, but somehow much
more so in Boston, decided that they
no longer wanted to use their legs to
move around.”
“Why, Rich?! They didn’t deserve
that! We didn’t deserve this! Why are
we here, Rich. Really, why have you
brought back to me all fo therse hor-
rid memories?”
“Let me finish my story, Morphy.
On that day, many forgot what it was
like to walk. We were among the lucky
few who never gave up that suppos-
edly inherent physical ability, but
they—well, you know the rest.”
“Yes, those devil machines! The
Hoverboards! Those kids, so many
lives! When they weren’t crashing into
walls or each other they were bursting
into flames—Oh, the humanity!”
*At this point, their space ship
approaches the surface. Flames rage
in the distance, bursting with pal-
pable volatility, illuminating the early
evening sky. The living dead are now
visible with their thousand-yard stare.
Some still have mobility due to their
charged products. Others, however, are
not so lucky.*
“Okay now, Morphy, go outside
and grab one of those things. I need to
win a bet I made.”
“What? I knew this would happen!
You bring me to this place and now
this? How could you do this?”
“I just need to prove a point. There
are those back home that do not
believe me when I say that I invented
this hoverboard. It’s ingenious, if I do
say so myself. I just never expected for
people to lose their minds over them.
If people just understood that there
is a time and place for everything and
used common sense, we would not be
in this mess.”
“Let’s just go home Grandpa. I
can’t take seeing another one of these
things.”
General Electric recently announced
that it is moving its global headquar-
ters to Boston. GE will be the largest
publicly traded company with its head-
quarters in Massachusetts, becoming a
valuable addition to the growing tech
industry in the city.
Boston was one of many cities bid-
ding on becoming GE’s new home, and,
along with the state, could give GE up
to $150 million in incentives through
grants and tax relief.
The financial incentives were one of
the key factors in persuading the com-
pany to move to Boston, but sources
have said that both New York and
Georgia offered more money than the
city or state governments, according to
The Boston Globe.
Boston also had an edge due to its
large and expanding tech sector, which
includes many startups, as well as being
home to some of the best universities
in the country.
The industrial conglomerate was
formerly based out of Fairfield, Conn.,
and was motivated to relocate because
of the state’s decision to raise corporate
taxes. “General Electric was looking
to relocate corporate HQ to another
state with a more pro-business envi-
ronment,” said CEO Jeffrey Immelt in
a press release.
There were many factors that led
the company to return to the city it was
founded in, but it was Boston’s identity
as an innovative ecosystem, one with a
vibrant startup sector, that tipped the
scales in GE’s decision, said Boston
Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09,
in his State of the City address. Being
home to 55 colleges and universities,
the Greater Boston area is home to
many of the country’s brightest and
most innovative individuals.
“Boston attracts a diverse, techno-
logically-fluent workforce focused on
solving challenges for the world,” Im-
melt said in a press release.
Along with millions in financial
incentives, GE is relocating to an area
where it will be surrounded by students
as potential employees and businesses
that are innovating new technologies
that will directly affect the company.
Hosting such a high-tech indus-
trial powerhouse does more than give
Boston an economic lift—it highlights
Boston’s growth as a hub for innovation
that continues to show growth, as city
statistics show.
“General Electric’s choice to move
to Boston is the result of the city’s
willingness and excitement to work
creatively and collaboratively to bring
positive activity to our local economy
and continue to grow our industries,”
Walsh said in his official statement
concerning the relocation.
“GE is not only a historic innovator,”
Walsh said. “It’s a magnet for talent and
investment that we’ll direct toward our
shared goals: in opportunity, in com-
munity, in education.”
GE has already been very present in
the Boston economy, with over 5,000
of its own employees in the Greater
Boston area working on aviation, oil
and gas, and energy management. They
are also involved in seven Boston-area
companies made through GE Ven-
tures.
Now that its headquarters is in
Boston, the company will likely be
even more active, Immelt said in a
press release, in the startup com-
munity through Ventures and a new
branch called the GE Digital Foundry,
which was created with the purposes of
“co-creation, incubation and product
development with customers, startups
and partners.”
The move should also signal to other
industry leaders that they can look
to Boston as a business-friendly city,
which could mean that other industry
leaders will consider Boston as a poten-
tial home in the future.
In his State of the City Address on
Tuesday night, Walsh was excited about
the prospect of welcoming back the
company to its origins, citing the cul-
tural advantages of the city, rather than
a purely financial one, as a contributing
factor in the decision.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
When Ethan Bernstein, founder of
Freebird, walked through the doors of
Denver International Airport on Presi-
dents’ Day last year, he had no idea that
inspiration for the next big travel tech-
nology company was about to strike.
Unbeknownst to Bernstein that
morning, he would drop out of Harvard
Business School within the next three
months and dive headfi rst into his brain-
child. Freebird, located in Cambridge,
Mass., was conceived on that Presidents’
Day as he saw the consequences of can-
celled fl ights fi rsthand.
During the summer that followed,
the app, one that aims both to simplify
the air travel re-booking process and
empower travelers, emerged seamlessly
from his imagination.
“Our product circumvents that en-
tire re-booking process, puts the power
back in the traveler’s hands, gives them
the information they need when they
need it and the tools to get through
the rebooking process in less than 30
seconds with just three taps of your
phone,” he said.
Freebird does more than display op-
tions quickly and neatly upon the event
of your fl ight being canceled—it also
serves as an insurance policy for your
fl ight. For just $19 one-way or $34 round
trip, Freebird will pay for whatever op-
tion you chose, regardless of the price.
As Bernstein and many of his vaca-
tion companions boarded their two
diff erent airlines both bound for Logan
Airport that Monday around noon,
however, this whole idea was far from
the people’s minds.
But as the fl ight Bernstein was on
soared into the sky en route for Boston,
the other flight was canceled due to
maintenance, its intended passengers
sent to stand in endless lines, wait on
hold with the call centers for hours, and
frantically search for alternative fl ights
on their phones.
Although Bernstein was not one of
those stranded in Denver that day, the
story inspired him. After four years as
a senior manager of corporate develop-
ment at the largest travel company in the
world, Expedia M&A, he had developed
a unique understanding of the travel
technology landscape, and in this ordeal,
he saw a problem to be solved. He saw
an opportunity for a service. Th is service
was Freebird.
Only a few months after that day,
Bernstein was building his company
right down the street from Harvard
Business School. Th is location has posi-
tioned it to grow into a future champion
of its industry.
“Boston is a travel technology hub,”
Bernstein said.
Th is strategic move puts Freebird
among the many Boston-based travel
technology companies, like Trip Ad-
viser, Kayak, Google Travel, Hopper,
and Lola.
All of these companies, by nature of
being in close proximity to each other,
formed a vast network of industry ex-
perts and resources. In this way, the
city is a crucial component of Freebird’s
success, Bernstein said.
“More than any other place in the
world, this is where travel technology
gets built,” Bernstein said.
Even in this “travel technology hub,”
Freebird has distinguished itself from
the rest of its neighbors.
Its focus on empowering the cus-
tomers to make their own decisions
by equipping them with the tools to
manage their own situations is a prime
example of this uniqueness. In addi-
tion, the technology behind the product
is something not found in any other
company.
In early November, the fruits of
Bernstein’s labor were unveiled. With
$3.5 million in total funding from three
separate venture capital fi rms, Freebird
is set to continue its rapid progress.
As its winter promotional fi xed-pric-
ing model comes to a close, Freebird fur-
ther evolves, this time by implementing
a revolutionary dynamic pricing model
that will price Freebird relative to the
fl ight of the customer.
As Freebird doubles its staff and
delves into uncharted data science, it
promises much more to come.
“It is a long road when you have such
an early-stage company, but there is a
roadmap in place to help us grow in a
way that is focused on the long term,”
Bernstein said.
KELSEY MCGEE / HEIGHTS EDITOR
This Tuesday, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, gave his State of the City address where he voiced his support for General Electric’s upcoming move to Boston.
start paying attention, and the street
noticeably lacks the character that
they tend to bring with them. New-
bury Street is mostly composed of big
brands like Chanel, Valentino, Dolce
and Gabbana, and Burberry—places
that I can only dream of shopping
in. Of course, there are a few more
affordable shops thrown into the mix,
but I keep coming past to wander
by the windows of stores that I can’t
fathom actually going into.
Maybe I tend to gravitate towards
Newbury Street, and others like it,
because, for me, it is a dream street.
Despite its lack of unique character, I
need streets like Newbury to exist be-
cause they provide me with a concrete
place of escape.
For a few moments, I can immerse
myself in the unattainable and look
longingly at a pair of Chanel boots
that I have as much of a chance of
owning as I do of becoming an astro-
naut.
Which is to say, absolutely no
chance because I have a horrible fear
of dying in space.
THE HEIGHTS A5Thursday, January 21, 2016
By Leslie Sellers
For The Heights
Downtown in Copley Place, the Sur
la Table teaching kitchen surrounded
me, fluorescent light beaming down.
As I stood across from pastry chef—
and my teacher for the day, Rachel
Miller, all I could think of were the
layers of butter and pastry that swelled
sweetly just before flaking away as my
teeth sank in. Over the course of the
next three hours, I would carefully
make the croissant.
I thought back to the day before.
On Sunday at two in the afternoon,
I sat at a small cafe table beneath the
street over in the South End. White
tile covered the floors while dim light
encircled the room and glinted off the
Perrier bottles on the walls that dotted
the dining space.
I looked down at the menu at Gas-
light, a French brasserie, searching
for coffee and the usual omelet that
colored my Sunday brunches. That
afternoon, however, the pan au choco-
late was speaking to me.
Back in the kitchen, the rhythm of
croissant-making was peaceful and
methodical, almost as a mathematical
performance for the senses.
Roll the dough out to 15 inches. Do
the letter fold. Chill for one hour. Roll
the dough out to 20 inches. Do the
book fold. Chill for one hour. Roll the
dough out to 15 inches. Do the letter
fold. Chill for one hour.
The butter and pastry were layered
and layered tirelessly. The chilled
dough was then cut into the triangles
and two-inch rectangles that would
become the homes of chocolate, al-
mond, and cheese. Twenty minutes in
the oven, and they glinted gold on the
butcher-block countertop.
Sitting on their cooling racks, the
golden pastries were saying more than
the quintessential “Eat Me”—sorry,
Alice in Wonderland.
Through the process of their cre-
ation, I began to look at the memory
from the day before with more fond-
ness and appreciation rather than just
sweet-tooth satisfaction.
Food is art. Food is also the only
form of art you can experience with all
five senses, unless you take to eating
canvas, oil paint, or wood.
Food, in many ways, is the most
accessible form of art because it is
necessary to survive, literally. And
this necessity makes it an art form that
people want to explore themselves
by trying their own hands at cooking
and baking. Food is an art form that
most are not afraid to delve into, un-
like painting, printmaking, creating
large-scale installations, or playing
the guitar.
As this art form has taken hold in
restaurants across America, gourmet
eating has become so pervasive that
over the course of the last few decades,
“foodie” became a desirable way to
identify oneself.
Consumers have become both
more erudite and selective about the
food they consume for themselves
and their families, causing a language
shift—adjectives are more prevalent
than ever because we must differenti-
ate between the superior and substan-
dard. Adjectives commonly used today
LESLIE SELLERS / HEIGHTS STAFF
Sur La Table offers cooking classes in the South End for the Boston Foodie, and the chocolate croissants that each student produced.
ARCHER PARQUETTE
I don’t know if you’ve ever no-
ticed, but there is a storefront on
Newbury Street that never really
stays the same—144 Newbury Street,
to be precise.
When I first came to Boston, it
was a futuristic MakerBot store, filled
with fragile-looking plastic shapes
that seemed to have no purpose other
than hanging in the store’s floor-to-
ceiling windows.
The next time I came back, the
MakerBot store was gone, and the
windows, although dusty, allowed
passersby to peek into the vacant
storefront, which seemed overwhelm-
ingly concrete and grey.
But when I came back this sum-
mer, about to start the semester, the
store had taken on new tenants. I
couldn’t find a name or brand on the
outside, but I could see the colorful
clothes hung haphazardly on huge
rolling racks through the now less
dusty windows.
I peeked in, and discovered that it
was a sample sale for a rather obscure
brand.
This store, and I find this strange
because it should have been a fleeting
sample sale, seemed to stick around
for quite a few months. In fact, I
began to wonder if it was going to be-
come the first permanent sample sale.
I forgot about it and let it blend
into the streets like one of the im-
movable big brands, hoping that 144
Newbury had finally found something
permanent. But, as with most things, I
looked away. When I looked back, the
sample sale was gone.
Maybe it left because of the cold.
Although the frigid air outside
has convinced me that an inability to
cope with the rapid drop in tempera-
ture seems like an increasingly valid
excuse to jump ship, the empty store
has been bothering me over the past
few days.
I don’t really mind the loss of the
sample sale. It’s more the fact that this
particular storefront is unable to hold
down an occupant. I sincerely doubt
that 144 Newbury is cursed, but why
is it so hard for something to stick?
With its generous windows that
would bathe any merchandise in
sunlight (for the limited time that the
sun is actually shining), and a size that
is big enough to prevent people from
feeling cramped, but small enough
to be manageable, retailers should be
clamoring to claim the space.
I poked around online, but instead
of finding theories about a curse, I
found articles pointing to the starkly
realistic explanation of quickly rising
leases on properties in the Back Bay
area.
The Boston Globe revealed that
property taxes in the Newbury Street
area have recently risen 18.4% percent
a number that forces out many of the
smaller independent businesses on the
street.
I thought about the cheerful-yet-
overstocked pet store where I met a
lady with a bulldog-shih tzu puppy
(I’ll let you guess the official name of
that breed) that mysteriously vanished
after my first visit to the city.
And the art gallery-bistro com-
bo—where my mom and I had picked
at wheat berry salads before decid-
ing that cake and hot chocolate were
probably a better call for lunch—had
disappeared as well.
Although, in all honestly, the bistro
may have disappeared for the greater
good.
I felt a horrible guilt for the small
businesses that are still being shoved
away from what could have been their
home for decades and wondered why
I always gravitate towards Newbury
Street when I’m in the city.
The dwindling number of inde-
pendent shops is obvious once you
MADELEINE D’ANGELO
By Heidi Dong
Heights Editor
Tuesday night, on the stage of Sym-
phony Hall, Boston Mayor Martin J.
Walsh, WCAS ’09, delivered his second
State of the City address. Walsh’s speech
emphasized his plans for education, hous-
ing, income inequality, a higher minimum
wage, and public safety.
Walsh opened with a slew of statistics
supporting his assertion that “the City of
Boston is as strong as it has ever been.”
In 2015 more homes were built than in
previous years, Boston’s first high school
dedicated specifically for science and tech-
nology began construction, both violent
and property crimes went down for the
second year in a row, and unemployment
and homicides both fell. Additionally,
safety measures for firefighters were imple-
mented, the city earned the title of the
leading American city for energy efficiency,
and it created America’s first Office of Re-
covery Services to fight substance abuse.
Boston has even ended chronic veterans’
homelessness, Walsh said.
Walsh then excitedly welcomed Gen-
eral Electric to its new global headquarters
in Boston.
“It’s not only another step forward for
Boston on the world stage,” he said. “It’s a
magnet for talent and investment that we’ll
direct toward our shared goals: in opportu-
nity, in community, in education.”
Hundreds of Boston public high school
students attended the event in response to
Walsh’s invitation.
“We don’t need you to be perfect,” he
said in his address to the students. “We
need you to keep learning, and keep believ-
ing in your dreams. The rest is on us.”
Last year, Walsh appointed a new
superintendent, hired 24 new principals,
extended the school day for every student
up to eighth grade, and took community
input to help create a 10-year school-build-
ing plan. For the third year in a row, Walsh
is sending the City Council a budget plan
that increases school funding. He is calling
for fairer and more sustainable funding for
both district schools and charter schools.
Walsh then focused on education fund-
ing, shining a spotlight on pre-kindergar-
ten education.
“The Boston Public School’s pre-kin-
dergarten program is proven to close the
achievement gap,” he said. “The city has
added seats in each of the last two years.
Yet hundreds of children still sit on wait-
ing lists.”
Despite a total increase of $90 million in
school funding since he has entered office,
Walsh expressed urgency and necessity
for more. He calls on neighboring cities,
legislators, and more to help the chil-
dren without access to pre-kindergarten
through the state budget process in the
year to come.
Next, Walsh addressed the challenge
of affordable housing. His administration
plans to strengthen its inclusionary devel-
opment policy to provide more affordable
homes where they are most needed. This
policy will lead to the increase of middle-
class housing around the city. In an effort
to keep residents in their communities,
Walsh introduced a new Office of Hous-
ing Stability.
With an increase in affordable hous-
ing and more stability for communities,
Walsh also aims to increase the quality of
life for Bostonians. Six acres of land will be
converted into parks, Ramsay Park will be
renovated, and Boston Creates, an initia-
tive to support the arts in each neighbor-
hood, will be completed. It will also invest
$1 million in local artists.
With an increase in af fordable
housin“Workers and employers moving
forward together,” Walsh said. “That’s our
economic vision, and it’s a proven success.
What we offered GE was less an incentive
package, than a cultural advantage. Inno-
vation. Education. And a community that
works and grows together.”
His business initiatives will help em-
ployers add jobs and support workers
through a Business Expansion Toolkit, as-
sist entrepreneurs through a Small Business
Center, and also empower women workers
through the offering of 40 more Salary
Negotiation Workshops. Digging deeper
into the roots of income inequality, Walsh
will build a new Apprenticeship Program
that will offer on-the-job training as well
as a two-year degree for low-income work-
ers. A task force of workers and employers
will be formed to more seriously consider
and study the possibility of a $15-per-hour
minimum wage for the city of Boston.
Besides education, inequalities in hous-
ing and income, and initiatives to improve
quality of life, Walsh is also ramping up
public safety in response to the increase
in non-fatal shootings last year.
Walsh also expressed concerns over
the state of gun reform and a hope that
the country will continue moving toward
tighter controls.
“We are proving that when Boston
comes together, when we truly act as one
community, we can change our city, and
change the world,” Walsh said, “We’ve been
doing it for a long time.”
ABBY PAULSON / HEIGHTS EDITOR
include free-range, grass-fed, organi-
cally-raised, hormone-free, locally-
sourced, and in-season. We live in the
age of the hyphenated moniker.
As knowledgeable as our popula-
tion is becoming, however, most only
experience gourmet food created by
a chef. After repeated gastronomic
memories, one becomes well versed in
the difference between bouchees and
bouillabaisse, but lacks understanding
of time, technique, and skill.
When I first bit into the croissant at
Gaslight, I thought of little else besides
the warm chocolate, flaky pastry, and
the calories I didn’t care to ask about.
But after standing for hours and mak-
ing croissants myself, by becoming the
artist, I found a deeper appreciation
for the commonly known pastry be-
cause I understood it on a level beyond
reception. I knew it from inception.
As the foodie movement continues
in cities across America, the American
consumer might find that to enrich
the dining experience beyond know-
ing terminology, they should try their
own hand at the most beloved, and
sometimes abused, art form.
Creating can often exceed receiv-
ing and yield more understanding.
But the finished product doesn’t taste
bad either.
Flight School is Boston Col-
lege Athletics’ new program for
student-athletes. The program
is meant to serve as a means for
student-athletes to prepare for
post-graduate careers, such as at-
tending graduate school, finding a
job, or playing their sport profes-
sionally. By connecting student-
athletes with a network of alumni
and professional mentors, Flight
School attempts to make entry into
the post-grad world as painless as
possible.
Two years ago, Director of Ath-
letics Brad Bates set a goal for 70
percent of student-athletes to have
post-grad plans. After meeting this
goal, he raised it to 80 percent for
the next year. Now, as the success
of the program builds, the initiative
has been formalized into the Flight
School program.
This year, the goal of the pro-
gram is for 90 percent of stu-
dent-athletes to have concrete
plans for life after graduation. The
early success of these attempts,
as evidenced by the meeting of
high goals, is an indication of the
strong promise shown by the Flight
School program.
By creating Flight School and
developing a formal program from
the earlier goals, this initiative is
better prepared to deal with the
task of helping student-athletes
prepare for their futures.
BC athletes commit themselves
year-round to their sport. Sports
programs demand much from
athletes and are also a part of the
school’s attraction for incoming
students.
Student-athletes devote a great
deal of time and effort to practices,
workouts, and games, which de-
tract from other aspects of college
life. It is good to see the Athletic
Department supporting the ath-
letes who work constantly toward
its betterment.
The immediate goal of athletic
success can easily be the greatest
focus when it comes to working
with student-athletes. Athletic
departments could view their ath-
letes as solely resources for athletic
success.
The Athletic Department’s ef-
forts toward promoting a program
that focuses instead on the future
of these students, the lives that
await after sports, is a worthwhile
endeavor. It demonstrates a true
interest in the well-being of the
student-athletes at BC.
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Tickets to this year’s Plexapaloo-
za, featuring The Chainsmokers,
sold out within two minutes of being
available in the Robsham box office.
Students took to social media to ex-
press their dismay over the unprec-
edentedly fast sell-out, complaining
that the Campus Activities Board,
which sponsors the event, did not
handle the ticket-selling process
properly. CAB president, Christine
Cocce, CSOM ’16, responded to this
criticism by stating that the Board
is pleased about the enthusiasm,
but also understands the frustra-
tion of those who were unable to
buy a ticket.
Plexapalooza, as a concert that
takes place in the Flynn Recreation
Complex, is automatically limited in
the amount of people to whom it can
sell tickets. The venue can only hold
1,800 students due to fire and safety
codes—a limitation inherent in the
staging of the concert, as there are
no legitimate alternatives.
If Conte Forum were to be used,
further fire and safety regulations
would force students to sit in the
bleachers, essentially destroying
the dancing aspect of the concert.
With the Plex being the only pos-
sible venue for this concert, there is
little that can be done to increase the
maximum capacity for the concert.
Due to this severe limitation of
venue capacity, it is to be expected
that a popular concert will sell out.
Based on the positive reaction CAB
received upon its Dec. 15 announce-
ment of the Chainsmokers’ per-
formance, there should have been
greater anticipation of the rate at
which tickets would sell and further
action taken.
The biggest issue with this rapid
sell-out is the two-tickets-per-stu-
dent-ID policy that CAB has typi-
cally instituted for the concert. This
policy is problematic in that it allows
BC students to buy tickets for their
non-BC friends. While not an issue
in itself, this becomes frustrating
when large numbers of BC stu-
dents cannot buy tickets due to a
second ticket purchased by those
before them.
As a group meant to promote on-
campus activities for BC students,
CAB’s priority should be ensuring
that the greatest possible number
of interested BC students are able
to attend these events.
One option CAB has to improve
the system for selling these tickets
in the future is to limit the number
of tickets sold per student ID to one
ticket. When an event such as Plexa-
palooza is scheduled, for which great
interest is expressed and ticket sales
promise to be high, CAB should put
this measure into place to prevent
non-BC students from obtaining
tickets while BC students are unable.
Another aspect to this could be giv-
ing preference to juniors and seniors,
further rewarding BC students who
will soon leave campus.
While nothing can be done about
the 1,800-person maximum capacity
of the concert’s venue, this is a step
that can be taken to improve the
current ticket-selling system and
mitigate student frustration for the
next BC concert.
America spends the most in the world on its
health care coverage per capita, yet 33 million
people are still uninsured and, compared to
every other developed nation, we rank dead
last in quality of care.
Not only would Bernie’s health care system
be more effi cient, it would also take the pres-
sure off of businesses and entrepreneurs who
have to bear the brunt of medical costs under
our current system. Paradoxically, by having
government take over health care, it would
free companies from the expense of paying
for their employees’ insurance, allowing them
much more fl exibility in how they manage
their hard-earned profi ts. Additionally, Bernie’s
plan would remove one of the biggest barriers
for new entrepreneurs: extreme independent
health care costs. Th is combination of factors
ensures that Bernie’s health care proposal is
the most fi scally responsible because it would
not only cost less than our current system, but
it would also allow for more freedom in busi-
ness and entrepreneurship.
Th e other $3 trillion in Bernie’s economic
plan is dispersed among many federal spend-
ing proposals, including $1 trillion to rebuild
America’s infrastructure, $750 billion to make
public college tuition-free, and $5.5 billion in
a youth jobs initiative. Government spending
is a staple of Keynesian economics, a school
of economic thought, and its benefi ts toward
aggregate demand and the economy’s health
in general are well-documented. Strategic gov-
ernmental spending can jumpstart a faltering
economy, such as after the Great Depression.
Even though we are supposedly the great-
est country in the world, we have the 25th best
infrastructure, a sign that we desperately need
improvements. Bernie’s plan to improve in-
frastructure will create 13 million new jobs as
well as repair our nation’s roadways, railways,
and airports, rendering them more business-
friendly. Making public college tuition-free
would vastly improve America’s workforce by
allowing more people to attend college who
had previously been unable to due to fi nancial
barriers. It would also make students more
active consumers, since they would no longer
be overwhelmed by student loans.
Th e sum of these fi scal policies will be an
explosion in jobs and an improvement in an
ever-faltering American workforce. Th is will
put more money in consumers’ pockets as they
become employed and gain greater-skilled
jobs, which will in turn spur more consumer
spending and increase aggregate demand,
aiding the economy as a whole. What is more
fi scally conservative than aiding the business
health of this nation?
Now the question is: how the heck is
Bernie going to pay for all of this? Well, for
starters, a tax on Wall Street speculation will
foot the bill for his free public college pro-
posal. A combination of closing corporate tax
loopholes, increasing taxes on the wealthiest
Americans, and eliminating Social Security
exemptions for millionaires will provide the
rest of the $2 trillion in proposed non-health
care spending. Bernie’s Medicare-For-All
plan is paid for by a combination of taxes on
businesses and individuals (it’s important to
note that 91 percent of households would pay
less than $250 per month with no co-pays
or deductibles), closing tax loopholes for the
wealthy, and losing the obsolete tax-breaks
for now-defunct insurance companies. Every
dollar is accounted for, the national defi cit does
not increase, and thus, those worried about the
economy can sleep soundly.
Th e ‘socialist’ policies of Bernie Sanders
make economic sense. His proposals will save
money, increase the freedom of businesses,
encourage entrepreneurship, and improve the
economy as a whole. Bernie will invest in the
American economy, an investment that will
see immediate benefi ts as well as immense
long-term payoff s. If you consider yourself
fi scally conservative, take an honest look at this
so-called fringe candidate, and you just might
fi nd yourself feeling the Bern.
THE HEIGHTSThursday, January 21, 2016 A7
ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES - With the
start of a new semester comes a bevy
of options. Th e entire world is our
oyster here at Boston College. Get
straight A’s? Read Ulysses? Join a
new club? Make a new friend? Prove
to the world that your existence
matters? It all seems possible in this
fi rst week.
THE LEFTOVERS - The best televi-
sion show currently airing fi nished
its phenomenal second season in
the beginning of December. If you
haven’t watched this depressing,
perplexing, and extremely reward-
ing show, you need to fi x that im-
mediately. Every minute you spend
watching Severely Overweight Truck-
ers’ Wives and My Son’s in Love with
a Gerbil: An Adorable Atrocity is a
complete waste of television time.
WATCH THE LEFTOVERS before
it dissap
WINTER - Some people say winter is
the worst season of the year. Th ose
people are what we in the business
call wrong. Winter is a perfectly
unique season with the most cap-
tivating weather of the year. We
all get to wear jackets and breathe
little clouds of magical vapor into
the air every time we exhale. Th e
driving winds might numb your
face, and your nose might run like
a disgusting waterfall of snot, but
always remember that winter is what
separates us from the godforsaken
land of California.
A CROWDED PLEX - With the bitter
cold of winter rolling in like a ter-
rifying ball of frost-covered chutney
comes a Plex filled with pansies.
What’s the matter, too cold to run
outside? Scared of a little frostbite?
Who needs toes when you have the
empty satisfaction of having run
through the ice and snow like a
rugged woodsman. All of you bums
taking up the treadmills need to get
outside and brave the cold so you
can open up the Plex to dashingly
handsome, clever, and charmingly
humble newspaper writers who need
to drop a few pounds.
DOING THINGS AGAIN - After nearly
a month of pure relaxation, it’s
time to fi gure out how to take care
of business once again. It’s time
to start writing in your planner,
marking events in your calendar,
sobbing under a cold shower, and
being a professional student. Spring
semester has begun, children, watch
your backs.
HOVERBOARDS - They don’t hover.
Th ey are not hoverboards. Th ey’re
goofy-looking Segways without the
handles. But unlike Segways, these
things catch fi re and explode. Th e
only thing they have ever accom-
plished is knocking down heavy-
weight champion Mike Tyson. BC
was right to ban the idiotic fire
hazards.
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I glanced back at the room I had left
behind. On every wall, I saw myself: frozen
in place, with each image varying slightly
in expression and stature. It wasn’t until I
escaped that I realized I had been living in
a room of mirrors, each wall projecting a
diff erent refl ection. I had been surrounded
by the identities assigned to me—some by
outsiders, others by myself. My attempts to
meet those expectations left me constantly
shifting from one wall to another. Like Earth,
I had spun so quickly for so long that the
revolutions became indiscernible. My truest
self was the girl spinning in the middle of
the room, changing rapidly to refl ect endless
variations and extensions of herself. Th e
movements themselves were natural, for hu-
mankind is meant to change and adopt new
identities. It was in trying to mimic the stasis
of those fi xed refl ections that I interrupted
my personal growth.
When I tell people that this past break
has been my best yet, I don’t know how to
express the idea past the cliches: a comfort-
able and secure home, quality time with
people who will always love me, and the re-
sulting freedom that allows me to see more
from my couch than I could from the top of
a mountain. I can’t recall a time when I’ve
felt more at peace, comfortable in my own
skin, and separate from everyday stresses.
Th at’s when I escaped the room. I found
myself spending entire days relaxing, watch-
ing movies and eating meals with people I
hadn’t seen in months. My many perceived
identities became irrelevant. I realized that
there was more to my life than those false
identities that had guided me during the past
semester at Boston College.
In less than a month, I saw so many
positive changes in myself that I couldn’t
help but notice how limited I’d been before.
Th e reduction of stress and allotment of
free time transformed me into someone my
friends wouldn’t have recognized: timely,
well-balanced, and focused. I realized that
I had been underperforming because I was
being pulled in too many directions at once.
Like so many other well-meaning BC stu-
dents, I had become over-involved, trapped
in that room of mirrors in an eff ort to play
every role. I was Atlas, carrying a world
on my shoulders, and in hindsight, I don’t
understand how I remained standing. Giving
myself the challenges of a superhero didn’t
make me one.
My focus now is on quality over quantity.
I don’t have to be in six clubs (and perform
perfectly in each one). I don’t have to know
everyone on campus. I’m taking the time
and space to examine the walls around me,
so that I can be the self that best fi ts me now.
Inevitably, I will disappoint some people—
an idea that resounds as anathema to many
BC students. Our commitment marks us
as leaders, hardworking and steadfast, ad
nauseam. We don’t like to show our hands,
even if it means saving our lives.
We can’t entirely stop facing refl ections
of ourselves, and we shouldn’t. As time
passes, we transition from one room of mir-
rors to another, searching for an identity that
fi ts—for the time being. When we grow dis-
satisfi ed with the restrictions of that identity,
we move along. Th e mirrors are accepted
for what they are: portions of truth. Th ese
identities are reassuring because they give
us boundaries, remind us that we exist, and
show us our place. Th ey also scare us be-
cause they do not refl ect an entire truth, and
as a result cannot bear our weight, collapsing
under too much pressure. If we accept them
as the alpha and omega of identity, we can
very well fall victim to the same fate.
Th e key is to remain in this state of ex-
ploratory motion without losing our balance.
Earth was meant to revolve. We are meant
to evolve. Th at doesn’t mean that we drop
everything at a moment’s notice. We hold
ourselves to some measure of consistency
and accountability, so that when we decide
to move along, we take ourselves seriously.
Our decisions hold weight, and our lives
are not nihilistic. Th ere is some overarching
order to our lives that we cannot begin to
comprehend. It is felt in the chaotic rhythm
of our lives. In accordance with the universe,
with God, with whatever you call that which
moves us, we spin at speeds we don’t entirely
understand—planets, wanderers of unsure
ends, minds marvelling at themselves. To
stand still is to oppose our very nature.
similarly enforce cultural homophily among
BC students, bringing them together based on
shared interests and backgrounds.
It’s not a problem in itself that these envi-
ronments exist. It’s most often in these groups
that we create the friendships that defi ne our
experiences at BC—and if there is a place BC
is truly exceptional, it’s in the relationships this
community aff ords us.
But I have come to see that these environ-
ments can pull students apart or bring them
together for relatively superfi cial reasons. Take,
for example, junior year housing. Th e people
you live with junior-year are very likely to be
who you’re close with through graduation, and
currently, those living situations we end up in
are heavily dictated by our fi nancial ability to
do things like live off campus or go abroad.
Th is housing divide slices up undergraduates
by family wealth, and reinforces a culture that
“otherizes” those of modest means.
Th e challenge of BC housing is that it
forces us to abandon the diverse experience of
freshman housing, and can often direct us to-
ward more limited, homogenous communities.
And when it comes to student organizations,
the current process for joining them does force
you to make snap judgments on just where
you best fi t. It might be based on high school
history, it might be based on an upperclass-
man you know, but regardless, student groups
consistently struggle (or are altogether lacking
in the resources) to bring together an organiza-
tion fully taking advantage of the diverse pool
of students at BC.
Of course, each student group has its
unique set of challenges in recruiting, but
smart outreach and collaboration between
groups has potential to really broaden an
organization’s perspective. What I can say
from experience is that, if you wait until junior
or senior year to begin identifying where your
organization could do more, odds are those ar-
eas will remain wanting. Most BC institutions
move slowly—if at all. If a piece of the culture
feels too exclusionary to you as a freshman, it
probably is. Someone could probably use your
help. You can do better.
happiness here is dependent on our faith in the
institutions we inherit.
Perhaps this is why when Princeton
Review ranks BC among the top schools for
“Little Race / Class Interaction” for seven
consecutive years, the gut reaction is to
question the validity of such polling samples.
Meanwhile, we’ll happily suff er a poll’s shoddy
data collection practices if its conclusion is
favorable. And while campus climate surveys
conducted internally as recently as 2012 have
similarly highlighted a dissatisfying state of
race relations at BC, each time these prob-
lems resurface the institution seems taken off
guard—as if the problem just arrived at BC,
and couldn’t possibly be built into the way our
University functions.
To “Eradicate Boston College Racism,”
as the campus’s most recent wave of student
activism has urged us to do, demands we
investigate the very architecture of a BC
education. Th is certainly extends to policy and
curriculum decisions made at the top, but it
does not stop there.
And while much of the criticism of this
group has targeted its tactics, I believe it’s
actually its message which really off ends
proponents of the University’s exceptionalism.
BC does good, so it can’t do better. If we’re
interested in seeing a solution, as individuals
we also need to take stronger ownership of the
problem. As students, it’s easy to reduce BC’s
troubles to some caricature of Father Leahy,
making all University decisions from some ma-
hogany-walled room in Maloney—but the re-
ality is that senior administrators are relatively
limited in their infl uence on the day-to-day of
student life. Furthermore, such characteriza-
tions diminish student autonomy in improving
the institutions closest to them.
I do believe, in your four years here, you
can have a profound impact on how the
University functions—but this requires some
strategy. As the national conversation on race
at college campuses turns to safe spaces for
solutions, I’d argue that many of BC’s problems
endure because of “safe spaces” built into stu-
dent life. While some Walsh eight-mans might
indeed be centers for diverse discussion, my
experience is that University housing can lock
students into relatively narrow perspectives on
college life. Meanwhile, student organizations
About 35 minutes into the interview, its
direction shifted. Our conversation on under-
representation in the media moved from the
Oscars to Th e Heights. “It just seems like a
white club, and that shouldn’t be the case,” stu-
dent fi lmmaker Cai Th omas, MCAS ’16, said.
Here I was, editor-in-chief of the largest
student newspaper on campus, and in all hon-
esty, I had never had this conversation about
my organization before. It was a disarming
moment, and I fi nd myself frequently thinking
back to that exchange.
I was fi rst inclined to explain to her that
there was actually little I could do to change
anything, having only a semester left before
leaving the paper’s editorial board, which turns
over once per calendar year. But then, how
ridiculous would it sound for me—as leader
of the group—to not only admit that I never
before thought of my organization’s identity
as a problem, but also that I was powerless in
changing it?
Th e craziest part is, for all intents and pur-
poses, it probably was too late to do much at
all. Th is is a conversation I wish I had sooner,
and while I’m mostly proud of what I achieved
with Th e Heights, this is a point I wish I had the
bravery to act more aggressively on. It’s a fl aw
in the University’s culture that we often use the
good we do as justifi cation for not trying to do
better. And when our organizations fail to suf-
fi ciently build on the school’s diversity, we’re all
on the losing end of the conversation.
Boston College is a place with a lot of
memory, which is to say that most of the
institutions making it up move slowly—if at all.
Its culture is heavily governed by tradition, and
I’d hazard to guess that, for most students, the
historic mystique of the school is actually a big
part of their initial attraction to it.
And central to the endurance of these
traditions is a belief that the bones of this
University are essentially good—that the BC
DNA is exceptional, and on some level, our
In defi ance of the economic stigma sur-
rounding the infamous S-word, Vermont
Senator Bernie Sanders, the one ‘socialist’ in
the presidential race, has the most fi nancially
sound policies of any candidate, even when
compared to so-called ‘fi scally conservative’
candidates. If you haven’t actively sought out
the information, you may not know much
about the specifi cs of Bernie’s policies . A
recent study by news commentator Andrew
Tyndall showed that Bernie received only 5
percent of the television exposure his primary
rival, Hillary Clinton, was given, despite having
topped her in both New Hampshire and Iowa
polls and having the most individual campaign
contributions in the history of American
politics. Consequently, many Americans have
an obscured, rose-tinted understanding of
Bernie’s label or no legitimate idea about the
policies he’s proposing.
Bernie has put out the most extensive
series of policy proposals thus far in the race.
His ambitious agenda accounts for every
dollar. While most candidates spout hot air
about how they will make America great again,
Bernie has, on his website, laid out the exact
steps he will take to rebuild our crumbling
middle class. Th e total price tag of his plan is
$17 trillion over 10 years, which I acknowledge
sounds anything but fi scally conservative. At
the core of fi scal conservatism, however, is
the belief that the government should foster
economic growth, and that is exactly what
Sanders is proposing.
Th e vast majority Senator Sanders has
suggested spending comes from his proposal
for universal health care, to the tune of $14
trillion. Trust me, I can hear your gasps from
here. It’s an obscene amount of money. But
get this: Bernie would be saving the average
American family $5,000 a year and businesses
$9,000 an employee. Our current health care
system is far from fi scally conservative. It’s
bloated with administrative costs and increas-
ingly plagued by exponential price infl ation.
JOHN WILEY
JOSHUA BEHRENS
MG WILSON
THE HEIGHTS Thursday, January 21, 2015 A8
The Northeast is not often associated with the
Southern tradition of smoking beef, especially due to
ever-changing weather conditions that aff ect the quality
of the end product. Th e Harvard-based startup Trignis
hopes to reshape the age-old process and bring it into
the 21st century.
Founder Jordan DeGraaf, a senior in the engineering
program at Harvard University, got the idea for a smoker
from a junior-year project in which all the students in the
class were tasked with building a better grill or smoker.
“In the course there is a new topic every year,” she said.
“We had to develop the concept and build the product.
We actually did over 880 hours of testing in the freezing
Boston weather.”
Th e result of all of the testing is that the Trignis
Smart Smoker makes use of better airfl ow, an automated
fan system to minimize hot spots in the grill without
requiring frequent monitoring, and an integrated app
for smartphones.
Th e new design aims to create a constant environment
inside the grill that allows for a consistent result, time
and time again. Ensuring that environment in the harsh
New England winters was one of the biggest challenges
the development team faced.
“Smoking is a long process, up to 10 hours,” DeGraaf
said. “It’s easier in the South than in the North, with
the big hour-by-hour temperature changes that cause
temperature discrepancies in the grill itself.”
To combat those temperature changes, Trignis imple-
mented a fully-automated system that can be operated
from the app itself—the algorithms in place control the
airfl ow and the amount of smoke in the smoker itself,
and self-regulate by sensing the temperature in diff erent
spots of the grill and compensating as necessary.
Th e app does more than simply ensure the ideal
conditions for the meat to cook. It also serves as a step-
by-step tutorial for those new to smoking meat.
“Th e goal is to make better meat and be more acces-
sible to the consumers,” DeGraaf said. ”It works a lot like
autocorrect: if you are a novice it will walk you through
the process, but, if you’re more advanced, there is a lot
of customization and recipes available, too.”
After its fi nal presentation during the spring of 2015,
which featured representatives from Williams-Sonoma,
the development team decided to go forward as a startup.
Th e feedback the team members received from taste
tests was positive enough that they decided to pursue it
full-time as soon as they graduate.
“Th is is a fi rst-class brisket … as good a brisket I’ve
had in months and months,” Dave Schaefer from Blue
Ribbon BBQ said during a tasting session.
Originally, Harvard took care of ensuring the proof
of concept and fi led for the intellectual property patent,
but Trignis has begun working with its own startup
lawyers and is evaluating licensing the remaining IP
from Harvard.
“After we’re done putting all of the pieces in place in
terms of development, we go full force,” DeGraaf said.
One of the biggest challenges encountered during
the transition from product to company has been that
many startups are based around software, while they are
dealing with hardware, which involves manufacturing,
transportation, and storage, on top of all of the other
issues software companies face, such as marketing and
app development.
“We can’t follow the 1,2,3 startup guides … we are
paying good attention to all the details, [we face] higher
stakes,” DeGraaf said.
Trignis is currently applying to tech incubators and
searching for beta testers—they are looking to launch
their product sooner rather than later. Much of the
press the company has been getting has been from more
“techy” publications and word of mouth, according to
DeGraaf.
“We want a fun, techy, cool … product to have in the
backyard,” she said. “Although we fi rst want to target
beginners interested in techy products, while eventually
reaching the die-hard smokers who want the best quality
meat possible.”
ABBY PAULSON / HEIGHTS GRAPHIC
Trignis, a Boston startup, is creating a smoker with cutting-edge technology that can outlast the harsh Boston weather.
that reported worse returns in 2013-14 than
in 2012-13 was women’s basketball. Erik
Johnson’s crew posted a record that was one
win better (13-19) last season, but reported
an 11.5 percent decrease in profi ts—the team
reported a loss of $3.1 million. Yet, when
compared to the rest of the conference, BC
sits at 11th, ahead of Miami, Georgia Tech,
Syracuse, and Notre Dame.
Th e program’s revenue and expenses both
totaled about $69.3 million. Th is is the fi fth
consecutive year that BC has not reported a
profi t from its Athletics Department. Pitts-
burgh is the only other program in the ACC
that did not report a profi t in 2014-15. Florida
State turned the highest profi t in the ACC at
$23.6 million. Th e average profi t of an ACC
school was $5.55 million.
Th is is the fourth year that BC did not
report institutional support for team revenue
for its ticketed sports. Because of this policy,
men’s basketball, women’s basketball, men’s
hockey, and football can reveal their actual
profi t fi gures. Every other varsity sport at BC
is a non-ticketed event and therefore does not
report a revenue or expense without includ-
ing institutional support. Th at means that BC
reports all sports (other than the four listed
above) broke even whether or not they actu-
ally lost money. Th is is a common practice
around the NCAA.
Th e Department of Education asks that
schools report their fi nancial information
from between June 1, 2014 and May 31, 2015
by no later than Oct. 15, 2015. Th e schools do
not have to report any fi nancial information
prior to that point.
Th e Equity in Data Athletics report also
reveals that BC has the lowest salary per
Citizens of this modern world con-
stantly redefine love. They probe not
only what love should mean in today’s
fluid society, but also how people across
the globe talk about the oftentimes elu-
sive and messy feeling. This week, on
Jan. 21, WBUR, Boston’s largest public
radio station, will enter the conversation
head on through a collaboration with the
New York Times. WBUR plans to bring
the Times’ ever-popular ‘Modern Love’
column to life through its much-antici-
pated Modern Love: The Podcast. Modern Love: The Podcast is the
brainchild of WBUR’s Idea Lab (iLab), a
space where members of WBUR explore
and invent new content that resonate
with modern listeners, and take advan-
tage of today’s advanced technologies.
In an interview with Current, WBUR
general manager Charles Kravetz said
that the WBUR iLab is currently working
on multiple projects, with a total of $1.5
million set aside to fund the projects.
Although Kravetz declined to reveal the
cost of Modern Love: The Podcast, he did
highlight the content of the upcoming
podcast through a quick preview on the
WBUR website.
Each episode of the soon-to-be
weekly podcast will center around an
essay that was originally published as
one of the ‘Modern Love’ columns in the
Times. The columns, which have grown
in popularity since their first appear-
ance in 2006, are a weekly staple in the
Sunday Style section of the Times. Each
column runs between 1,500 and 1,700
words, and is chosen from a large pool of
reader submissions before being edited
by Daniel Jones.
Jones revealed in an interview with
Times Insider that he can receive up-
wards of 7,000 submissions a year,
though the paper only publishes 52.
The rules for submission are very strict
and require that the writer maintain a
high level of integrity—names cannot
be changed, characters must appear as
they did in reality, and events cannot be
invented or elaborated. In the past, suc-
cessful columns have resulted in many
full-length books, as well as eventually
abandoned attempts at television shows
and musicals.
Although the column’s theme of
love in the modern world might seem
straightforward, the stories that result
from it are anything but. They range
from heartbreaking to uplifting, covering
everything from foot fetishes, glimpses
from a florist’s perspective, to the sci-
entific possibility of forcing oneself to
fall in love.
For Modern Love : The Podcast ,
standout essays were selected from the
large the pool of published columns to
be featured in each episode. An intro-
duction on the WBUR website reveals
that during the first part of the episode,
the chosen essay will be read aloud by
well-known figures such as January
Jones, Judd Apatow, Jason Alexander,
Joshua Jackson, and America Ferrera.
The stories, however, will not end there.
After each column is brought to life, the
original author will be interviewed by
‘Modern Love’ editor Jones, and Meghna
Chakrabarti, the host of WBUR’s own
Here & Now.Kravetz also revealed to Current his
high hopes for the podcast’s success, as
the project is entirely funded by WBUR,
with the Times providing support
through marketing. If the show does
reach its desired success, it will continue
into the next year.
Given the current fame that cer-
tain podcasts—such as This AmericanLife and the true-crime investigation
Serial—have achieved over the past
couple of years, and the overall rise in
the popularity of podcasts as entertain-
ment, Kravetz’s aspirations may not be
so ludicrous.
Recent data collected by Edison
Research and the PEW Research Center
clearly highlight the growing presence of
podcasts in the world of media entertain-
ment. By 2015, 49 percent of Americans
over the age of 12 were aware of the ex-
istence of podcasts, and 33 percent had
listened to at least one podcast in their
lifetime, both numbers more than double
what they were a decade ago.
In an interview with BetaBoston,
Jones mentioned the high readership the
column attracts, with the most popular
receiving 10 million online views.
By harnessing both the loyalty of the
Times readers and the rapidly growing
community of podcast listeners, Modern Love: The Podcast has the potential for
great success, a success that is already
becoming apparent as Modern Love: The Podcast already holds the 43rd place in
the top charts of the iTunes podcast after
only releasing a tantalizing preview that
lasts a grand total of 99 seconds.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ERNESTO ANDRADE
head coach—male or female sport—in the
ACC. BC has the most female varsity sports
in the conference, yet pays its coaches an
average of $91,616. While this is $38,000 less
than 14th-place Wake Forest, and half of the
average female head coach salary of $182,080,
it is a $4,000 increase from last season. Th e
salary per male head coach at BC is $384,440,
about $30,000 less Notre Dame, the next clos-
est team in the order. Th is is a 16.4 percent
decrease from last season’s total of about
$460,000, and is 419 percent more than the
average female head coach salary. Much of
this number is skewed heavily in favor of BC’s
three male profi t sport head coaches: Steve
Addazio, Jim Christian, and Jerry York.
There are 336 male athletes and 380
female athletes at Boston College, without
duplication across sports. BC lags, however,
in spending an equal amount on male and
female athletes in recruiting. In 2014-15, BC
spent $2,519 per male athlete, 11th-most in
the ACC, and only 23 percent behind the con-
ference average of $3,261—the program has
the fi fth-most athletes in the conference. By
contrast, the department only spent $708 per
female athlete, despite having the most female
athletes in the ACC by a wide margin.
Th is average is $400 less than 14th-place
Virginia ($1,129), and is less than half of the
ACC’s average spending on recruiting female
athletes ($1,693).
Spending on recruiting is a highly variable
total per year. It often depends on how many
needs schools have in a given year. Addition-
ally, BC recruits most heavily in the New
England area, and thus does not have to pay
much in terms of travel when recruiting.
BC Athletics did not immediately respond
to a request for comment.
Equity in Athletics, From A1
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THURSDAY | January 21, 2016
THE HEIGHTS Thursday, January 21, 2016B2
A FULLER PICTURE
CHRIS FULLER
“Phil… wake up. I thi—I think there’s a
tornado storm ahead of us,” I complacently mut-
tered to my sleepy passenger.
It’d probably be quite a spectacle to see a
Californian kid such as myself thinking he’s
about to pass a series of tornadoes for the fi rst
time. My buddy Phil and I were on the second
leg of Winter Road-Trip Extravaganza, pass-
ing through Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho
to meet up with our good friend, Ryan, who
lives in Eugene, Ore. We had woken up before
the crack of dawn to make good time on the
probable 20-hour drive from our friend’s house
in Boulder, Colo., to Eugene, and as the sun
peeked up over the Rocky Mountains, we were
pleasantly surprised to fi nd that not a single
cloud covered the brisk baby-blue sky. For us,
this seemed a pleasant and necessary escape
from the sleet and hard winds that had plagued
the fi rst leg of our journey from Southern Calif.
out to Boulder.
Driving through these harsh conditions on
our fi rst drive out to Boulder hadn’t been all
that bad, though. I had never driven anywhere
east of Las Vegas before, and encountering the
better parts of Nevada, Utah, and Colorado was
an unparalleled delight. Phil and I had mused
that, immediately passing through state borders,
each state’s scenery necessitated the name that
state had. Utah’s rolling, empty, and snow-cov-
ered hills demanded that the state be named
Utah. Colorado’s quick-climbing mountains and
uniquely clean and crisp air suggested that a
passerby could only claim to be in Colorado and
not anywhere else in the world. For being a 14-
hour drive that practically consumed the whole
day, the scenery these states surrounded us with
made the trek feel like a walk in the Common in
the fall, sublime and relaxing.
A fellow Heights editor, Caleb Griego, wrote
a column before Winter Break about enjoying
beautiful scenery and architecture as nature
and man’s art. While I’ve always considered
myself engrossed with and captivated by the
landscapes and buildings that I live and work in,
I reminded myself of Caleb’s column before set-
ting out on my trip, and I encouraged myself to
consciously appreciate the trip’s views as much
as I possibly could. Th is thinking made for an
extremely pleasurable road trip—that is, until I
saw the tornadoes.
Th e four tornadoes met in the blackest
cloud I had ever seen. If death took a natural
form, this is what it would look like. As we
drove closer and closer to the terrible mess, my
heart skipped a few beats, and I started sweating
profusely. I was not prepared for this. I had
never seen a tornado, let alone driven near one.
Or four, for that matter. Th e highway, however,
looked as though it veered out of the way of the
beasts ,and I decided to press on, at least until
things looked like they might get hairy.
Th en it hit me like a ton of bricks. Th ose
ghoulish tornadoes weren’t moving anywhere or
farther apart from each other. Th ey seemed to
be static. Confused, I kept driving and noticed
that my calculations were incorrect—the
highway was going to pass rather close to these
horrendous creatures. “What could they be?” I
asked myself. “What could possibly account for
these hulking, black plumes?” Th en it appeared
over the horizon: the gates of hell. Sitting in a
valley in Wyoming, along the I-80W, was the
largest factory I had ever seen. It was bellowing
out gobs of the dirtiest and most corpulent
smoke that I think could possibly exist.
Th e plumes that rose out of these four
massive smokestacks, the four columns that I
had mistaken for tornadoes, congregated in the
most disgusting heap of air imaginable. Th is
clump of smoke was so heavy that it condensed
into a thick layer extending out a few miles
from the factory. Everything that unfortunately
found itself under the horrendous mass was
untouched by the sun. As I passed the most
terrifying sight I’d ever encountered, I reminded
myself that that factory probably exudes its crap
all day, almost every single day.
I’m no expert on environmental science or
clean energy, nor can I really speak on the ne-
cessity or needlessness of that factory I passed,
but one thing I can say is that factory and the
countless others like it found throughout the
world are dumping an unbelievable amount of
toxic and terrible gas into the air. I can’t imagine
how many gorgeous landscapes and towns are
plagued by industry like this. Now, whenever I
see a painting or picture of a valley with rolling
hills, I can’t help but imagine a big black blob
being smacked onto the canvas.
THIS WEEKEND in artsMUSE(MON. AT TD GARDEN, 7:30PM)English rock band Muse is set to hit the stage at Boston’s
TD Garden this Weekend. Grab tickets to hear the high-
energy performance of their newest album Drones at
Muse’s website.
JENNIFER NETTLES(SAT. AT HOUSE OF BLUES, 8PM)Head to the House of Blues this weekend to hear new
songs from country singer Jennifer Nettles. After break-
ing into the music scene and making headlines as the
lead vocalist for Sugarland, Nettles is currently pursuing
a solo career.
LOS OLVIDADOS(THURS. IN DEVLIN 101, 9AM-5PM)Visit Devlin 101 for this pop-up exhibition featuring the
work of Ramiro Gomez. A panel discussion with the artist
is scheduled for Th ursday, and the art will be on display
for one day only.
NEWS PAINTINGS EXHIBIT(O’NEILL LIBRARY, JAN-MAY)Th e O’Neill Library’s Level Th ree Gallery will feature a
semester-long exhibit titled 24 Hour News. Professor
Mary Armstrong of the Fine Arts Department shares her
meditations on war through a series of paintings.
DIRTY GRANDPA(OPENS FRI.)Zac Efron and Robert De Niro co-star in this crude new
comedy. Filled with crazy parties, wild bar fi ghts, and spring
break madness, the movie hits theaters this weekend.
RIDE ALONG 2(NOW PLAYING)Comedian Kevin Hart teams up with Ice Cube to bring
viewers this action-packed sequel. Entangled in a drug
ring, this unlikely pair attempt to bring justice to a cor-
rupt system.
13 HOURS(NOW PLAYING)John Krasinski and james Badge Dale star in this
chaotic account of a security team that works to de-
fend the United States consulate in Benghazi during
a horrific attack.
5TH WAVE (OPENS FRI.)As a series of alien attacks put the human race on the
brink of extinction, fearless teenager Cassie Sullivan sets
out on a frantic search for her brother. Alliances form and
friendships are tested in this fast-paced sci-fi fi lm starring
Chloe Grace Moretz.
BY: HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN | HEIGHTS EDITOR
COLUMBIA PICTURE PICTURES
Awards never resonate with me.
Awards particularly having to do with
art seem to mean even less. In many
ways they seem just a way for self-pre-
scribed authorities to tell the masses
what is and is not of artistic merit.
During the Grammys, Golden Globes,
or Academy Awards seasons, many
flock to see their favorite celebrities and
artists intermingle and take the stage
to accept acknowledgement of their ar-
tistic endeavors. But in what ways does
this truly validate an art? And, more-
over, should it? Should the arts operate
under the confines of a select few who
can dictate what they feel is of more
merit, to brand works as Best Picture,
Best Album, Best Score, Best…?
This is not to say that the commit-
tees behind these awards do not recog-
nize that the ceremony is a reflection of
their own opinions. But the pageantry,
the grandeur, and the power of celeb-
rity may influence the average person
to shape their opinions around the
opinions of these committees. In this
way, people may neglect to see films, or
listen to music, that do not fit the stan-
dards of those running the industries.
In the end, it is just a couple of people’s
view on a matter pertaining to some-
thing as varied and prolific as art.
In 1996, after winning the Grammy
for Best Hard Rock Performance,Eddie
Vedder of Pearl Jam took the stage with
some controversial views. Looking
at the trophy, he said, “I don’t know
what this means. I don’t think it means
anything.” A nervous laugh shook the
room. Vedder took issue with the award
because the acknowledgement of one
group innately neglects the achieve-
ment and work of others. If everyone
who deserves to be recognized is not,
Eddie’s point stands markedly. These
kinds of things do not seem to be for
the artists, but really are a way to col-
lect celebrity in one place and capitalize
on their influence. Moreover the use of
superlatives is a little off-putting. It is
the best? Sure it is.
Look at actors like Di Caprio, who to
this day (we will see with The Revenant)
has not won an Oscar. Do his perfor-
mances in The Departed (2006), Django
(2012), or Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
not warrant an award? The truth is it
does not matter. His work stands as his
award and testament to his career. He
does not need a trophy to validate the
magnificent work he has done and no
doubt will continue to do. His reputa-
tion as an actor gets us in seats to see
his movies, not the awe we feel as we
tally his trophies.
Look at films and entire produc-
tions. In 1994, Forrest Gump won Best
Picture, pushing out Pulp Fiction and
The Shawshank Redemption. Is this to
say that it was in any way superior to
the other two films, considered mas-
terpieces by many? No. But they only
give out one award, thereby putting all
other contenders to the side. Again,
the legacies of these films, watched and
rewatched over the ages, is a more of a
testament to their influence and success
than any single award ceremony in any
given year.
The fact that terms like Oscar Bait
exist is representative of the endemic
nature of awards. Sooner or later people
or organizations bent on achievement
will neglect the true passions of the
artistic process in favor of a synthetic,
systematic processes used to draw in
votes.
But if these awards do not really
mean anything, why do viewers flock
to them as authorities, by which they
hierarchically rank art? Fear of missing
out defiles the minds of almost every-
one. To cut through brush in search of
the Best, we turn to Rotten Tomatoes,
Top 100s, The Academy, and other
people to tell us what is and is not good.
With so few hours in the day, these
authorities’do the work for us. This kind
of investigation transcends the con-
versational intrigue of “What did you
think of the movie?” and turns it into
“What should I think of the movie?”
With so much media to consume, these
sources help people decide what they
might like and what they might not.
Certainly these things serve a purpose
as a preliminary judgement of media,
but ultimately it falls on the individual
to say what they enjoy.
Apart from musing in conversa-
tion, placing one film, song, or album
over another should not be taken as
seriously as people tend to take it.
Sometimes we have to watch and listen
to things we do not like to solidify the
reasons for why we don’t like them and
why we like other things. That kind of
relativity is essential in developing a
diverse and mature taste. The opinions
of others will never lend the kind of
certainty that is given when experienc-
ing something first-hand.
The kind of spontaneity that it takes
to try something new, something you
might not like, is thrilling to experi-
ence, as you challenge yourself to grow
in taste. It is in minute moments that
we find things that resonate with us,
which are completely separate from the
droning opinions of a committee.
People’s tastes are more complex
than popular opinion. We may never
experience everything there is. For
every film we see, there are thousands
more we have not. For every song
listened to on repeat, we are missing
out on another that we would enjoy
more. But that is okay. Everyone should
find pleasure in these things because
they simply enjoy them. They do, but
someone else won’t. If we actively look
for the Best as prescribed by others, we
may never venture far enough to find
the things we really enjoy.
ABBY PAULSON / HEIGHTS EDITOR
CALEB GRIEGO
THE HEIGHTSThursday, January 21, 2016 B3
HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN
Just like Nutella, Jennifer Law-
rence, and other things that are de-
cidedly overrated, Winter Break just
isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
As soon as that brief thrill from
holiday decorations, home-cooked
meals, and the long-awaited reunion
with the family dog wears off, the
month-long hiatus-from-hell follows
the same sort of blueprint for us all:
college friends are MIA, high school
pals have to spend time with their
parents, and you’re stuck home alone
while your family flies to Disney
without you for a week (I’m hoping
that applies to someone other than
just me).
After a solid and blissful three
days or so of basking in the dim glow
of a stocked family refrigerator (one
that can hold more than just three
pineapple Chobanis, two chocolate
milks, and a freezer-burnt Ben &
Jerry’s), you realize that your small
Massachusetts suburb is the single
most horrible place you could ever be
trapped for a month.
Then again, as soon as you ac-
knowledge that your hometown is
known primarily for its high-security
prison and the most exciting desti-
nation within a four mile radius is a
newly refurbished McDonald’s where
the McFlurry machine is always bro-
ken, you realize that you’ll have to get
crafty in order to preserve your sanity.
Personally, I like to interpret the
term “crafty” pretty loosely. I mean,
the craziest thing I did over break was
take the commuter rail into the city
and explore the mean streets of Bos-
ton alone a few times (wild and risky
and utterly spontaneous, I know).
Mostly, though, I opted to hide under
an expertly-crafted blanket cocoon
and catch up on the movies, shows,
and albums I was way too busy to bite
into during a hectic fall semester. So,
armed with my trusty laptop, a couple
of movie tickets, and way too much
time on my hands, I jumped right in.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is
the kind of show that’s capable of
making viewers chuckle in a sweet,
simple “this-isn’t-the-worst-show-
I’ve-ever-seen-but-it-sure-as-hell-
isn’t-the-best” kind of way. Ellie
Kemper channels her inner Erin from
The Office with her character Kimmy
Schmidt, a stereotypically clueless
Midwesterner whose 15 years in cap-
tivity only adds to her naivete about
the big, bad world around her. One
note I took on this series says “Small-
town girl tries to achieve her dreams
in the big city, all the while getting by
with a little help from her friends.”
You probably cringed while reading
that sentence, but you also now have
the basic plotline of every Kimmy
episode created to date.
Master of None is just awesome,
and I would praise the new gem of
a television series all day if I could.
It’s honest and unapologetic, without
being obnoxious or brash. It’s smart,
original, well-written, and Aziz Ansari
deserves all of the awards—all of
them.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
returned for its 11th season, and I feel
like I need to express my sheer grati-
tude to creator Rob McElhenney for
making such a great series. Maybe I’ll
name my firstborn after him or some-
thing. Netflix is the devil, because
I sat virtually immobile until I had
caught up with the show’s previous
10 seasons. Some notes on this series
include a growing tally of the number
of times Danny DeVito is nude on
screen, “Charlie Kelly is the best worst
person ever,” and “this show is never
allowed to end.”
Joy is a movie starring Jennifer
Lawrence, and it’s also a common hu-
man emotion that I felt none of while
watching said movie. It was clunky,
awkward, and didn’t include any sem-
blance of sexual tension between Law-
rence and Bradley Cooper’s characters,
which threw everyone for a loop.
Mad Max: Fury Road is the greatest
film I never want to see again. It was
completely devoid of any interesting
plot point, apart from a guy attached
to the back of a rig who mercilessly
shreds on a guitar despite bullets and
shrapnel flying every which way. The
CGI was awesome, though (as it prob-
ably should be for a budget of roughly
$150 million).
I justified my lack of productivity
by tossing out a few key words and
phrases like “work” and “necessary”
and “The Heights Arts & Review Sec-
tion” when confronted by my mom
about why I was wasting so much time
over break. I mean, an assistant arts
editor needs to be well-versed in the
entertainment world, she needs to be
good at clicking the “Next Episode”
button on Netflix without missing
a beat, and she needs to rewatch all
seasons of 30 Rock in preparation for
Fey’s film Sisters, dammit. Now, I am.
So, in that sense, I guess it was a
pretty successful break after all.
Students rush across Linden Lane,
either running to their next class or
trying to evade the freezing cold’s grasp
as quickly as they possibly can. Teeth
chatter and students shiver as they pass
the golden Baldwin that sits upon its
pillar perch.
While most people bundle up to the
best of their ability, one student, Chris
Dalla Riva, MCAS ’17, strips down to
his flannel shirt and wades out into the
snow in front of Bapst Library. He’s not
too cool for the cold, but he realizes how
much better the photo will look without
his North Face pullover on. While he
may be a singer-songwriter, guitarist,
pianist, and harmonicist, Dalla Riva’s
artistic vision extends far beyond his
musical talent.
Dalla Riva posted his first EP, I Want You To Know, on his Soundcloud page
last summer. I Want You To Know is
emblematic of Dalla Riva’s sound. It is
small-band rock at its finest. The EP
only has six tracks, but Dalla Riva has
been writing and producing music for
much longer than this would suggest.
He’s been playing guitar, learning the
piano, writing, and singing since he was
in the seventh grade.
“I was never really confident in my
abilities to play covers of songs I loved,”
Dalla said. “I figured if I can write my
own song, there’s no possible way I can
mess that up.” Since then, Dalla Riva
has written over 50 of his own songs,
and he doesn’t plan on slowing down
anytime soon.
“I just want to play and write as long
as I can,” he said. “You know, everyone
would like a record deal. It’s always nice
when you meet people that connect
with your music or lyrics you’ve writ-
ten. I’m focusing on building a fanbase
of people that my music can touch in
some way or another, as cliche as that
sounds.”
Invested isn’t a good enough descrip-
tion for Dalla Riva’s relationship with his
craft and process—“absorbed” works
much better. He enjoys working through
and adding his own touch to themes and
narratives that have existed in music
throughout its entire history.
“You always come back to same
tropes people have been writing about
forever: love, youth, and escape,” Dalla
Riva said. “I won’t stick to these exclu-
sively, but I see that my view on these
themes has shifted drastically even in
the last five years, and I think they prob-
ably do for most everyone.”
One of the first things you notice
when talking with Dalla Riva is that
he exudes confidence. His personality
doesn’t come off as superficial. He just
knows what’s he is talking about, and he
doesn’t have to dance around a subject
to get to his point. A conversation with
Dalla Riva is especially refreshing. He’s
not afraid to admit where he’s gone
wrong in his music career, or to promote
what he thinks are his strong suits as a
musician.
“The last couple years have been
about trying to find the right group
to bring an idea I have to life,” he said.
“Relationships can be fickle, and it’s
difficult to find people who agree with
what you believe in musically and not
only that you agree, but also that you
work well together too.”
While Dalla Riva has gained and lost
band members over the years, his friend
and trumpeter, Peter Julian, CSOM ’16,
has been a steady collaborator whom
Dalla Riva has involved heavily in his
creative process.
“I usually write a song, bring it to
Pete, and then we work an arrange-
ment with just the guitar, vocals, and
trumpet,” Dalla Riva said. “Then we’ll
bring it to a bass player and a drummer
because the hardest part is working at
a trumpet line. Playing live though, you
really only need Pete and I.”
It’s intriguing to talk with Dalla
Riva about his interests outside of
music. He’s a co-producer for BCTV’s
comedy division and often works with
BC’s comedy teams to develop and
broadcast comedy specials. He’s an
avid film fan and reader who can go off
a tangent on any of his favorite stories
(George Lucas’ American Graffiti and
Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man andthe Sea). It’s difficult to encapsulate
Chris Dalla Riva in a nutshell. There
is an endless amount of inspirational
and sophisticated quotes that he whips
out on a whim. He’s both mysterious
and entirely approachable, just like his
music sounds.
Some may think he’s more inclined
toward studying the arts, but Dalla
Riva’s actually a mathematics and eco-
nomics double major. He has a very
unique view of the relationship between
his studies and his musical career.
“People usually think math and mu-
sic are such divergent paths, but to me
it’s a very similar process that you go
through with both,” he said. “They share
a general form. You’re doing something
different when you work in either, but
with both you’re facing a creative prob-
lem and you need to solve it in a novel
way. To me, music, math, and econom-
ics come together in a really nice way,
despite their apparent differences.”
VivaDalla Riva
Chris Fuller | Arts & Review EditorChris Dalla Riva on Writing, Singing, and Living His Music Day by Day
THE HEIGHTS Thursday, January 21, 2016B4
Tuesday night was the last
time—disregarding TV’s syndica-
tion of (500) Days of Summer,
Yes Man, Elf, and now New Girl
itself—that Zooey Deschanel could
be found in a living room near you.
When Deschanel’s Jess walked out
of the loft at the end of Tuesday
night’s episode of New Girl, leav-
ing behind a heap of advice for her
friends in her typical fashion, she
marched into an invisible arc of
secluded jury duty. Deschanel her-
self is on maternity leave and now
New Girl—as always—is forced to
reinvent itself.
It’s weird that New Girl is in its
fi fth season. Th e show is like your
friend who lives back home, yet
somehow still cracks you up. And
there’s nothing wrong with either!
New Girl was born before the era of
the transcendent comedy—Trans-
parent, Master of None, You’re
the Worst—the flesh-and-blood
sitcoms that mix commentary
and comedy in one fell half-hour
swoop. But before those shows
were fi lling up your queue, there
was New Girl, hunting spiders
and playing True American in a
wildly spacious loft. In its second
season, with the chemistry between
Deschanel’s Jess and Jake Johnson’s
Nick Miller, New Girl reinvented
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Th e ideas behind Nina Nes-
bitt’s music video for “Chewing
Gum,” a song from her upcoming
EP, Modern Love, are similar to the
concepts of the song itself—simple,
catchy, and unfortunately, repeti-
tive. “Chewing Gum” uses a single
visual gimmick to carry the three
and a half minutes of audio, and if
the end result is not revolutionary
by any means, it is at least as eye-
catching as intended.
Th e video opens with Nesbitt
getting dressed as the previous
evening’s conquest lies asleep
and forgotten in the bed behind
her. The presumed one-night
stand moves through a quick
background jump to a nightclub
featuring a feathery blonde who
leaps through a similar fl urry of
camera-perspective tricks to fl irt
with another man. Th e dominoes
continue to fall, with each new
participant in the fl eeting shots
of bedrooms and crowded par-
ties dropped—through the magic
of editing—into a new partner’s
arms.
Th e trick is that what is behind
the walls is not just another room,
but another moment, each as
inconsequential and doomed to
end as the next. At times, Nesbitt
herself reappears after the latest
jump cut, backlit in a foggy hallway
and quirking an eyebrow to drive
home her apathy Th is same imper-
manence is seen in the varied cast
of characters tethered together
only “until the fl avor’s gone.”
This concept coincides per-
fectly with the song’s cycling assur-
ance that its vocalist is uninterested
in “forever,” and though the visual
might not convince any wary view-
ers to feel the same, it plants a cyni-
cal seed of thought. When Nesbitt
glides into a car at the end of the
video and embraces the driver
there is a sense of imminent doom
even as the intimacy is still unfold-
ing onscreen. Ultimately, the video
falls alongside its characters into a
pattern it is unwilling or unable to
break, and the resulting monotony
leaves no soft sentiment for the au-
dience after the fi nal blackout.
“CHEWING GUM”NINA NESBITT
FOX BROADCASTING COMPANY
NEW GIRL‘JURY DUTY’
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RELEASEJAN. 19, 2015
OUR RATING
bar breaks and gets his pants wet.
It’s one of those typical New Girl
plots—Jess is up to something
quirky, the gang is up to shenani-
gans in the loft. Here, they’re tack-
ling an age-old dilemma. How do
I be friends with my best friend’s
girlfriend/fi ancee? What do you do
when relationships change?
And as Jess seals her fate and
departs with her uncompromising
dedication to the judicial system,
Nick and Cece compromise. Cece
admits that she may never know
Schmidt like Nick—Schmidt’s col-
lege roommate and best friend—
knows Schmidt. Th ough, she adds,
he may never know Schmidt like
she does physically, to which Nick
responds, “You’d be surprised.”
Th ere’s also a funny bit in which
Nick and Winston try to say “at
the same time” in unison, which
doesn’t sound all that funny, but di-
rector Eric Appel lets the moment
run as long as awkwardly possible
to let the joke build and burst.
The show won’t be the same
without Jess. But the show that it’s
been so far this season has been a
shadow of its screwball season two
high and the hardboiled comedy of
season four. So maybe Megan Fox,
who replaces Deschanel on the
call sheet and Jess in the loft for
the foreseeable future, will jump-
start the show and transform it
into something new all over again.
New Girl grew out of the quirkable
Deschanel project long ago into the
still-delightful ensemble comedy it
is now. But anyone who loves the
show has surely wondered how it’d
run without its star. Jess is still the
heart of the show, but it should be
fun to see how far it might go and
what it might fi nd without her at
the center.
Grandpa slings raps, slurs, and clubs with his grandson. He is old. He is mean. He certainly is dirty. And he’s not what you would ex-pect. Th ough a barrage of insults di-rected toward Zac Efron’s character and non-sequitur humor are sure to reign in a few laughs, Dirty Grandpa has little in terms of substantiated or crafted comedy.
Following the death of his wife, Dick Kelly (Robert De Niro) seeks
to spice up his life with a trip to Daytona Beach. With the help of his submissive and soon-to-be-married grandson Jason Kelly (Efron), Dick makes his ambitions of sex and partying a reality, while showing Jason how to loosen the grip of his controlling fi ancee. Police, drugs, gangs, and Grandpa make for a dangerous combination.
Dirty Grandpa’s plot is pre-dictable, with characters ending up exactly where you think they would. In fact, the progression of each character can be accurately
predicted within several minutes. We have seen this type of dynamic before, with reserved and radical characters butting heads. In the end, both sides fi nd a sentimental truth through various trials and antics. Th is is apparent in Neighbors (2014), in which Efron plays a similar role. In that comedy, his position was that of the radical fraternity member, tormenting the couple next door. Th e story was of a struggle between two households, with no clear vic-tor in sight. Conversely, in Dirty Grandpa, Efron is on the receiving
end of most of the ill will, yet the shared fate of him and his grandpa is completely foreseeable.
The movie wastes no time in building up to De Niro’s character’s crazed nature. Shortly after his introduction, the ridiculous situa-tions, lines, and quips come in full force and rarely slow down. Insult humor dominates as Dick con-tinually berates and emasculates his weak-willed grandson. As they traverse the roads and party scenes together, Dick truly leads the way, with Jason looking on awkwardly. Th e unfortunate simplicity of the plot can be forgiven, as the film wastes no time jumping into the action and quickly progressing from scene to scene.
The insult humor is at times very funny, as Efron does not lead the show. Instead, he fi lls the role of a human punching bag. Much of the humor is easy and simple, but demands laughs or chuckles at its delivery or nature. A good portion of the humor falls into pitfalls of shock humor. In place of a joke with buildup and payoff , writers substitute for easy laughs with a penis to the face or fart noises on a stage. Th is kind of humor is easy to pull off and will garner some laughs, but those are cheap and easy laughs.
Making Efron the human
punching bag functions very well. His reaction to De Niro’s per-formance is authenticated by his sincere looks of desperation and shame. For Efron, this fi lm can be seen as an extension of Neighbors, as he continues to shed his pretty-boy persona. In many ways, the movie continues to prove that. His misery is a highlight of the movie.
De Niro makes the movie, as he precisely embodies a dirty grandpa. Most of the funny moments come from the situational comedy that ensues from seeing a grandfather in the situations presented on screen. De Niro pulls off everything with confidence. Shotgunning beers, rapping, lighting cigars, and seam-lessly mingling with spring break-ers make for some entertaining spectacles. De Niro is trying new things and for a man of 72, this is admirable. Clearly he does not need to make fi lms anymore, but he does for the love of it. Just as his character is made to feel younger through his antics, De Niro is given vigor as he continues to churn out fi lms, proving that he still has what it takes to deliver a good, or at least entertaining, performance.
Dirty Grandpa is fun and will have you chuckling throughout. Though it has few well-crafted jokes, the fast-paced nature of the movie will keep you engaged. LIONSGATE FILMS
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Bieber’s mysterious new track was released solely on his offi cial Vevo page. Intentional leak? No one knows. All we know is that Bieber steps out of his conventional wheelhouse on “I’ll Be There” to perform his own rap-fi lled bridge, a job generally reserved for outside hire. “I’ll Be There” lives up to the “Bieber-fever” hype.
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DOROTHY’s new track “Missile” is perfectly timed to revitalize interest. The trademark gritty, bluesy sound of the band radiates throughout the single, along with singer Dorothy Martin’s powerhouse vocals. The song sounds like a Taantino western and garage band, suggesting great album to come.
DOROTHY“Missile”
Breaking away from the angst, The 1975 delivers a bubbly, electro-pop anthem. Featuring the vocals of a children’s choir and pulsing synth beats, “The Sound” is the last thing anyone would’ve expected from the indie band, while lead singer Matty Healy maintains his typical emotional, conversational lyrics.
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Dazed, confused, and gradually reclaiming control of their extremities as the numbing eff ects of a mysteri-ous elixir wear off , the gang from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fi nd themselves in shackles—and diving headfi rst into season 11 of the criti-cally-acclaimed FXX series.
In the corner of a dilapidated basement, an outdated, static-laden
MacDennis 2: Electric Boogaloo?” Th e executive of a game company
contacts the crew about a potential business deal involving “Chardee MacDennis”, the gang’s own original board game of physical, mental, and emotional challenges featured way back in season seven. With utterly insane rules and incredibly dangerous “puzzles”, the gang attempts to show the businessman exactly what the riveting competition entails.
Mac (Rob McElhenney), Charlie
(Charlie Day), Dennis (Glenn Hower-ton), Sweet Dee (Kaitlin Olson), and Frank (Danny DeVito) return weirder, funnier, and more shameless than ever. Th e newest season doesn’t waste a minute in revealing how dissolute and horrible these not-so-clever con artists can be. Willing to risk anything to make a quick buck, their new venture in the game industry and the subsequent physical harm it causes is just another day in the life of the gang.
Episode two opens with a nonsen-sical argument in Charlie and Frank’s apartment. Mentally, Frank becomes stuck in the year 2006, which allows Dennis and Dee to take advantage of their father’s unfortunate condition. Th e twins try to have another go at inheriting Frank’s fortune. Mean-while, Charlie and Mac conspire to toss Frank out of his own apartment in hopes of raking in more rent money.
Sunny tackles major controversies and profi ts off of political incorrect-ness. Th e characters are the worst people one would ever want to meet, their hilarious depravity responsible for a number of horrible situations. Since its series premiere in 2005, the gang has sold a variety of hard drugs, faked their own deaths, performed FX PRODUCTIONS
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several kidnappings, and posed as police offi cers. Th ey’ve committed fraud, ruined innocent lives, and eaten more cans of cat food than can be counted. Each new episode of horrifi cally immoral hijinks brings a tasty delinquent activity du jour, and fans eat it up every time.
Th roughout its long run on FXX, Sunny has received incredible praise virtually unmatched by today’s top comedy shows. With all but two seasons receiving a 100% on rottento-matoes.com, Sunny is an unapologetic show that takes major comedic risks while expertly retaining the quality and sheer originality that avid view-ers have come to expect and crave from creator Rob McElhenney. Having teamed up with fellow co-stars and executive producers Glenn Howerton and Charlie Day since the show’s conception, McElhenney has churned out nearly 11 seasons of uproarious episodes.
If this absurd season premiere and its subsequent second episode are accurate representations of what insane shenanigans the gang will get caught up in this time around, Sunny faithfuls are sure to be more than satisfi ed, with plenty of things to look forward to from the gang.
and embraced the screwball com-
edy of old—capturing the ‘will they
won’t they’ and ‘they can’t ever be
together but they must’ dynamic
of romantic relationship. Th e third
season proved that the Jess-Nick
union wasn’t as fertile as their
‘hardening caulk’ of a courtship.
Th e third season was entertaining,
but the fourth proved that New
Girl can still be really, really funny
(see “Wedding,” “Micro,” “The
Crawl”). Th at’s a hasty summary
of approximately 90 episodes of
television. With juicy syndication
rights in hand and Deschanel en
route to maternity leave, New Girl
could mail it in, or at least had the
opportunity at hand.
The ultimate answer to that
fateful question will be answered—
in New Girl fashion—in quiet
understatement. No one makes
big moves in the hallway of a loft
in the quiet of the night like New
Girl. Which brings us, fi nally, to
the episode in question. In “Jury
Duty,” Jess is off to jury duty, and
all of a sudden has to juggle her
judicial disposition, the sudden
appearance of John Cho, and now a
feud between her best friends Nick
and (his best friend’s fi ancee) Cece.
Sitcoms can be confusing. Nick is
fed up with Cece because she is hot
mess incarnate. And Cece is fed up
with Nick’s Wet Pants story—how
the bottom of a guy’s glass at the
TV set hums to life. Danny DeVito appears onscreen sporting an impres-sive disguise straight out of Saw, but the man’s short stature and trademark screeching voice blow his cover al-most immediately.
“Hello, gang,” he growls. “Th e keys to your cuffs have been sewn into your forearm. Beside you are some tweezers attached to a car battery. Last team out of the room loses.”
Well, what else could one expect from an episode titled “Chardee
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months will bring. Th ese are the
only two months that matter. Last
year, when the Eagles’ only three
losses were in the Beanpot Final,
the Hockey East Championship,
and the Frozen Four Semifi nal,
serving as a brutal reminder.
To say this year is diff erent
because BC is undefeated and has
succeeded against last season’s lo-
cal rivals would be wrong.
Although the 2015-16 Eagles
boast a 24-0-0 record—includ-
ing a combined 5-0 mark against
Harvard, BU, and Northeastern—it
is not necessarily a sign of im-
provement. At this time last year,
Crowley’s squad was not only un-
defeated, but also 5-0 against those
same three Boston-area schools.
So what makes this year dif-
ferent?
It starts with the maturation of
the team’s off ensive and defen-
sive MVPs: Carpenter and Burt,
respectively. Th e senior forward
is now nearing the end of one of
the most impressive campaigns
of all-time in the sport, and she
is hungry for hardware. Not to
mention, the 2015 Patty Kazmaier
Award winner is playing the best
hockey of her life—even better
than last season—as she has tallied
28 goals and 27 assists in just 24
games this season.
It’s diffi cult to drastically im-
prove when you’re already among
the best in nation, but Burt did
exactly that. Th e sophomore has
allowed just 20 goals in 20 games
between the pipes, making strides
as she sees higher volumes of shots
and tucks another year of experi-
ence under her belt.
On Tuesday, Burt and the Ea-
gles blanked Harvard, 2-0, for their
fi rst win at Bright-Landry Hockey
Center in 10 years. Burt collected
her 50th victory as goalie for BC,
making her the youngest and fast-
est in women’s collegiate hockey
history to reach the milestone. Th e
18-year-old’s ninth shutout of the
season featured two goals from
Meghan Grieves, proving that the
veteran fi rst-line duo of Carpenter
and Haley Skarupa doesn’t need to
score to secure a win.
On paper, there is little diff er-
ence between this year’s success
and the deceiv. But after an agoniz-
ing off season, Crowley has trans-
formed her team into one that is
ready for the big stage, and ready
to crush the perception that BC
can’t win when it matters. Rattling
off 24 consecutive wins to start this
season has shown the 2014-15 Na-
tional Coach of the Year that her
players have bought in. As fans, it’s
time to buy in, too.
Th is year, forget the tragedy
storyline—this team wants re-
demption, and it’s going to get it.
BY ANNABEL STEELE | ASST. SPORTS EDITORROUNDUPThe Boston College ski
teams competed at the Bates Winter Carnival in Sunday R iver, Maine , l a s t we ek-end. B oth the men’s and
women’s teams struggled to dominate in the contest.
Throughout the weekend’s events , BC earned 70 points and finished 15th out of 17 teams. Dannica Ashnault recorded BC’s best time for the women’s slalom, finishing two slaloms with a time of 2:16.13. On the men’s side, Carter Robertson ran two slaloms in 1:55.22.
O veral l , B C could not comp ete with p owerhouse scho ols l ike the top thre e finishers: Vermont, Dartmouth, and New Hampshire.
SKIING W. TRACKWomen’s track traveled
to Kingston, Rhode Island,last weekend for i t s f irstcompetition of the springsemester. The Univers i tyof Rhode Island hosted the
Sorlein Memorial Invitational and came infirst place, and the Eagles finished secondwith 107 points.
Multiple athletes set or tied personalrecords at the competition. Captain CarlyDaniel set a personal record in the 60-meterpreliminaries, and would go on to finish sec-ond overall in the event.
Paige Duca also set a personal record inthe 1,000-meter event. Elizabeth Knoll tiedher personal record in the high jump. The4x800 team qualified for the Eastern CollegeAthletic Conference championships with avictory in its event.
B oth swim and dive teams competed against Marist College last Satur-day. After a day of tough competit ion, the men’s team earned a 160-140 victory, while the women’s
team fell to Marist, 175-120. On the men’s side, Dan Kelly’s 50-yard free-
style time of 20.90 seconds earned him first place in the event, and Cole Malatesta’s 16-meter diving score of 341.55 brought him to a dominating finish over every other diver. The men’s A medley relay team comprised of Josh Williams, McKenzie Cole, David Howard, and Dan Kelly also came in first place with a time of 1:35:35 seconds.
On the women’s side, Jordan Parry finished the 100-yard butterfly in first place. Erika Free-man, Emily Mann, and Katherine Karle took first, second, and third places in the individual medley event. On Tuesday, the men’s team squared up against Tufts University, earning a 204-164 victory against the Jumbos. Tufts won only six events against the Eagles. Standouts for BC included Malatesta, who dominated the three-meter dive, and McKenzie Cole, who took the 100-yard breaststroke.
SWIM/DIVEWomen’s tennis opened up
its season with a loss to the University of Virginia. It was a much closer contest than expected, with the No. 7 Cava-
liers claiming a 4-3 victory over the Eagles. Sophomore
Asiya Dair was a bright spot during the day. Dair and her doubles partner, Jennifer Ren, earned a victory to set a good tone for the rest of the day. Later in the day, Dair scored a major upset as she defeated the eighth-ranked Julie Elbaba in straight sets. Dair was named the ACC co-player of the week (along with University of North Carolina’s sixth-ranked Hayley Carter) for her performance against the Cavaliers.
Meanwhile, men’s tennis traveled to Har-vard University and suffered a 6-1 loss to the Crimson. BC’s only win on the day came from Alexandre Thirouin’s 6-4, 6-1 victory against Harvard’s Kent Mukai.
TENNIS
Wins come easy for Boston Col-
lege women’s hockey. With 24 vic-
tories this season under its belt, BC
(24-0-0, 16-0-0 Hockey East) has
demonstrated its methodical path to
a win: strong defense, a wall of a goalie,
and fast-paced off ense. A fi rst-period
goal to start it off , an obligatory point
from Alex Carpenter (with an assist
by Haley Skarupa), and a few more
shots chipped in to seal the deal. It’s
almost a formula.
That formula was tested when
they faced Harvard University, the last
team the Eagles lost to—way back on
Mar. 21, 2015. In the 2-0 win against
the Crimson (10-7-1, 7-5-1 ECAC),
BC’s goals came from the third line,
with no points earned by Skarupa and
Carpenter. In addition, Harvard’s of-
fense tried to chip away at goalie Katie
Burt, hitting her with far more shots
than she is used to seeing.
Th e Crimson staved off an off en-
sive strike by the Eagles until halfway
through the fi rst period. When third-
line forward Tori Sullivan skated up
the ice and shot at the net, it was
defl ected by Harvard goalie Emerance
Maschmeyer, the player who shut
down BC’s win streak last season.
Meghan Grieves took advantage of
the disoriented goalkeeper and snuck
in her own shot, giving BC the lead.
Later, nearing the end of the sec-
ond period, Grieves and Sullivan part-
nered for another goal that would rival
a Skarupa-Carpenter collaboration.
After a pass from Sullivan, Grieves
streaked toward the net, backhanding
the puck past Maschmeyer to add
some insurance.
Unlike BC’s match against Mer-
rimack College Jan. 17, in which the
Warriors took eight shots, Harvard
managed 29 against Burt. Th e goalie,
who is not used to having so many
shots on her, could have cracked
under the pressure of lack of practice,
but remained constant, giving the
Crimson little leeway to sneak one
in. BC was also cut off off ensively,
notching 38 shots, which is slightly
under the team’s average of 41.6, and
a stark contrast to the 55 it put up
against Merrimack.
While extending their spotless
record against a storied rival is reason
enough to celebrate, the Eagles also
accomplished several other mile-
stones. Burt, in her 55th start with the
team, reached 50 wins, becoming the
youngest and quickest person to do so
at 18 years and 358 days. She has given
up 20 goals in the 20 games she has
appeared in this season, earning her
a .953 save percentage—just behind
Ann-Renee Desbiens of University of
Wisconsin’s .961.
Facing Harvard on the road hasn’t
been easy for the Eagles. Th e victory is
just the second in BC’s history at the
Bright-Landry Hockey Center, with
the last being on Valentine’s Day 2006.
Th at win set a fi re under the Eagles,
who have gone 10-4-1 against the
Crimson since that day, a far cry from
the 1-21-0 record that BC maintained
in the rivalry from its inception in
1996 to Feb. 13, 2006.
Though the number of goals
scored in the game is one of the lowest
for the Eagles this season, the victory
shows a team that has evolved from
last season. BC’s defeats against Har-
vard had scores of 3-2 and 2-1. With
her ninth shutout of the season, Burt
has demonstrated her ability to kill off
any team’s off ense, and the two goals
from the third line prove that every
Eagle has the scoring power to put
the team on the winning side. If it all
comes down to one goal in a meeting
against Harvard again, it could very
well be in BC’s favor.
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BC hadn’t beaten Harvard in Cambridge since Valentine’s Day, 2006.
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Jerome Robinson (1, top, right) had 20 points on a highly effective 9-of-14 from the field. On the other hand, Eli Carter had 12 points but on a poor 4-of-18 shooting performance.
Miami head coach Jim Larranaga
said. “They got some fast-break
opportunities … I thought we
gave them too many opportuni-
ties in the open court.”
As Miami managed to slow
down the game, BC fixed its
other problem—getting to the
line. The Eagles actually man-
aged 14 free throws after taking
none in the first half.
But these were representa-
tive of Miami making every
shot BC took much harder. Eli
Carter suffered the most from
this revamped pressure, going
2-for-13 in the second half, and
while BC still hung around for
much of the first half, the lack of
a go-to option beyond Jerome
Robinson—who finished with a
game-high 20 points on 9-of-14
shooting—proved too much to
handle.
While Robinson turned into
the Eagles’ best form of offense
in the game, BC actually came
out of the gate determined to get
its main big man going. Besides
finding A. J. Turner wide open on
the perimeter to open the scor-
ing, the Eagles pushed four of
their first six possessions inside
to Dennis Clifford, who has been
one of BC’s most reliable scorers
this season—when he hasn’t been
lodged in foul trouble. Establish-
ing Clifford early is also key for
BC to take the pressure off its
top guards, who often resort to
launching a poor shot as plays
break down.
Miami center Tonye Jekiri
kept Clifford in check, however,
causing BC to pick up three quick
turnovers before its own center
could handle the ball.
The one time they did success-
fully feed Clifford, he rimmed-
out an awkward fadeaway on the
side. A second personal foul five
minutes in sent Clifford to the
bench, and brought in Idy Diallo,
who has struggled in most facets
of the game this season.
Then suddenly, for a four-
minute stretch, Diallo didn’t
look like a body solely designed
to take up space on the court.
He began by knocking down an
open jumper at the free-throw
line, but followed up on the next
possession with a make inside
the paint, handling the ball far
better than he has for most of
the season.
He also played far better on
the defensive end, leading BC
head coach Jim Christian to give
him, as well as Turner, a verbal
nod in the post-game press
conference.
Miami, as most teams have
done to Clifford when he has
had success, renewed efforts
inside that prevented Diallo from
becoming a factor in the second
half, but it’s still a promising
sign for the BC program to see
development from its younger
contributors. Even though it’s
not easy to look past 14 misses
in the game for Carter, the guard
also tacked on eight assists, prov-
ing he has the ability to distribute
the ball. He’ll need both the help
and a hotter hand for BC to find
the win column.
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ANNABEL STEELE
Asst. Sports Editor
Well, well, well, Jerry. You’ve done it again.
Don’t lie to us, we know you don’t want the
praise. This happened when you were getting set
to win your 925th game, but instead of beating
BU at home like the fans wanted, you decided to
wait until the Alabama-Huntsville game. Over
winter break. In Minneapolis. Well, you win.
Your Eagles will dominate the sorry Minutemen
this Friday to get that 1,000th win on the road.
Few teams handle the power play better than
the Eagles. BC has scored seven points per game
in its last four matches, including Ian McCoshen’s
game-winner against BU last Friday. What’s
more, the Eagles have been even better defend-
ing against the power play, killing penalties at an
85.6 percent rate, good for 11th in the country.
UMass won’t hold off freshman Colin White—the
first known BC student-athlete to show off the
“dab” celebration—and the rest of the Eagles.
There’s no question BC pulls out the vic-
tory against the Minutemen this weekend. The
only unknown is just how much the Eagles will
dominate UMass. Th is is Jerry York’s 1,000th win,
and it should be big. Look for the Eagles to con-
trol the game from the very beginning. Th is will
be a statement game—a milestone for York and
another multi-goal victory to boost confi dence as
the Eagles head into the second half of the season.
Prediction:BC 5, UMass 1
Prediction:BC 8, UMass 3
Prediction:BC 4, UMass 0
Despite a third-quarter rally,
Boston College women’s bas-
ketball fell to Duke University
at Cameron Indoor Stadium in
Durham, N.C. on Sunday night.
The Blue Devils (13-6, 2-3 At-
lantic Coast) took advantage
of sloppy play and stifled the
Eagles’ comeback efforts to earn
a 71-51 victory.
The Eagles (12-5, 0-4) trailed
Duke 30-18 at halftime, but
refused to quit. Kelley Hughes
and Martina Mosetti provided
a spark with five quick points to
open the second half. Mariella
Fasoula then exploded for eight
consecutive points, bringing the
score to 35-31 with less than
five minutes left in the third
quarter.
The Eagles went 10-for-14
shooting throughout the quarter.
At the start of the fourth quar-
ter, Duke led 47-41. The team
thwarted any opportunity for a
BC comeback with a 10-2 run
to start the final quarter of play.
Duke earned its second victory
against an ACC opponent with a
71-51 victory over the Eagles.
BC sealed its own fate with
sloppy play throughout the
game. The Eagles did not start
strong, scoring just eight points
in the first quarter on 25 percent
shooting from the floor. In con-
trast, the Blue Devils scored 11
points off seven BC turnovers
en route to 17 first-quarter
points. In the second quarter, the
careless play continued as the
Eagles turned the ball over nine
times. Throughout the entire
game, BC allowed Duke to score
30 points off of 25 turnovers.
These 30 points would prove to
be too much for the Eagles to
overcome.
If there was a bright spot in
the game for BC, it was Hughes.
She went 5-for-9 from behind the
arc on her way to 23 points. Her
3-pointer at the start of the third
quarter marked the beginning of
the rally. Another third-quarter
three marked Hughes’ 1,000th
career point at BC. She sank all
five of her free throw attempts
and recorded four rebounds in
35 minutes of play.
Fasoula led the team in re-
bounds, grabbing five to ac-
company her 11 points over 32
minutes of play. She could not
outmuscle Duke’s Azura Ste-
vens, who recorded 14 rebounds
in the game. Mosetti led the
team with five assists.
The third-quarter rally did
not undo the costly turnovers
for BC. Even with explosive
offensive performances from
Hughes and Fasoula, the Eagles’
loss to Duke marks their fifth
this year. BC remains winless in
the ACC.
him far ahead of Parker on the all-time
coaching wins list. Parker sits at third
with 894, while York is at 999 and
actively searching for No. 1,000.
It wouldn’t happen on Saturday
night. Th e No. 10 Terriers (11-7-4,
5-4-3 Hockey East) prevented the
longtime Eagles coach from celebrat-
ing at Agganis Arena, on the ice that
bears Parker’s name. Yet the No. 4
Eagles (15-4-3, 8-1-3) still earned a
huge point in the conference stand-
ings, clinching a 1-1 tie thanks to Ryan
Fitzgerald’s goal with 2:05 remaining
in the third period.
But they were fortunate to get even
that. Th roughout the game, BU goal-
tender Sean Maguire stoned the Eagles,
saving 38 shots, often sprawling out to
do so. Terriers head coach David Quinn
felt that this was, without question,
Maguire’s best game of the season.
“From our end of it, we’ve gotten
elite goaltending,” Quinn said. “It cer-
tainly bodes well moving forward.”
Th e Eagles and Terriers showed
their hatred right from the game’s
outset. On a rush to the net, for-
ward Jordan Greenway collided with
Th atcher Demko. Inspired by their
goalie, the Eagles played tough in
the opening 20 minutes—almost too
tough. Demko was often forced to
stop BU with a man down—back-to-
back penalties by Matthew Gaudreau
and Ian McCoshen made sure of
that—but he made several great saves,
including one using his right pad to
stuff Ahti Oksanen on a redirection
from Greenway.
On the other end, BC had trouble
taking advantage of its early power
plays. After Greenway was called
for roughing with eight to go, the
Eagles played too hesitantly with the
advantage. BC’s defensemen spent too
much time waiting for the forwards
to get in position in front of the net
for a defl ection, instead of chucking
the puck up at the net and hoping for
some craziness. Even when they did
get a good look, as Adam Gilmour of-
ten did, Maguire was there to stop it.
Th e Terriers broke through after
clumsy play caused several break-
aways on both sides. Jakob Forsbacka
Karlsson started the attack by splitting
Teddy Doherty and Scott Savage to
put up a shot on Demko. After clank-
ing the puck off the boards, the Terri-
ers sent it out to Danny O’Regan, who
found team captain Matt Grzelcyk for
the easy goal. York placed the blame
on overall sloppiness rather than his
stalwart goalie, who fi nished with an
impressive 30 saves.
“It was a very shinny game for a
few minutes, but they were the ones
who got the red light on,” York said.
Maguire continued to stuff the
Eagles until late in the third. Zach
Sanford led a rush down to the BU
end of the ice, allowing Gaudreau to
show his creativity. He took the feed
from McCoshen before passing it to
a wide-open Fitzgerald in between
the circles. Fitzgerald blasted it above
Maguire’s shoulders to force the game
into overtime, which would turn out
to be an uneventful fi ve minutes.
Despite not getting his 1,000th
win, York was pleased with the fi ght-
ing eff ort from his team, which has
now earned four out of a possible
six points against two conference
foes (the other being Providence
College).
“It’s a tie, but it’s a late tie,” York
said. “I think it’s good for our team
that we can stay patient and hang
in a game.”
On the Terriers’ end, there
weren’t as many good vibes. Th ey
came away with only one point,
but came a combined four minutes
away from getting three. Still, there
was one positive to come away with:
preventing York from getting No.
1,000. Captain Matt Grzelyck was
asked about if that’s something the
Terriers should be happy about after
the game. Th ough he mentioned he
had all the respect in the world for
what York has done at BC, he still
eked out a small smile.
“We defi nitely didn’t want to give
that to them, especially at Agganis,”
Grzelyck said.
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But in the fi rst period, it didn’t look
like the Eagles were going to inch York
closer to magical No. 1,000. As an en-
tire unit, BC looked slow and sloppy in
the game’s fi rst 20 minutes. Th e team’s
forwards had a lot of trouble keeping
the puck in the off ensive zone, playing
a round of ping pong with the Terriers
near the BC logo at center ice. Th e
Eagles got an opportunity early in the
period to take a lead after Matt Lane
was called for a slash, but Colin White
whiffed on an easy cross-ice pass.
White would miss on a breakaway later
in the period.
Th e Terriers held the momentum
for much of the fi rst, taking advantage
of penalties by BC, one of which led
to a goal. Steve Santini’s boarding
call—a hit that could have easily been
avoided—allowed BU star freshman
Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson to notch his
sixth goal of the season.
As the second period hit, the Eagles
nearly reclaimed the energy for good.
Santini was called for another penalty
only 39 seconds into the frame, but
Austin Cangelosi goaded the zebras
into awarding him a penalty shot.
Th e junior treated the puck like a hot
potato, deking left-right-left-right-
left-right enough times to make BU
goalie Sean Maguire contract vertigo.
His equalizer was the first penalty
goal made by the Eagles since current
New York Rangers’ star Chris Kreider
notched one against the University of
Notre Dame on Nov. 18, 2011.
Th ey wouldn’t hold onto it for long.
Ahti Oksanen answered 17 seconds
later, leading a bull rush at BC goalie
Th atcher Demko, who had returned
from an upper body injury. Oksanen’s
sliding shot past Demko’s left pad put
BU back on top, 2-1.
But the rest of the period was all
BC. Zach Sanford rocketed a shot
off the boards and collected his own
rebound with a beautiful backhander
past a screened Maguire’s left shoulder
to knot the game up at two. Th en the
Terriers turned in their own dose of
sloppy play, earning several penalties
in a row, including one that gave BC a
5-on-3 for a brief period.
Terrier head coach David Quinn
noticed his team’s clumsy play, making
a point of it after the game.
White avenged himself by tak-
ing advantage of BU captain Matt
Grzelyck’s tripping penalty, swallowing
a gorgeous pass from Casey Fitzgerald
to put BC in front late in the second.
(McCoshen tallied the secondary assist
on White’s goal.)
In the third period, we saw a good
ol’ fashioned dogfi ght courtesy of the
most hated rivals in college hockey.
Th e Terriers kept a lot of pressure on
Demko by consistently breaking away
from the pack on 2-on-1s. But Mc-
Coshen was always there. He expertly
used his body and stick to poke away
would-be goals from oncoming BU
players.
“He was a man playing tonight,”
York said of his star defenseman,
giving him a telling look and a pat on
the back.
It almost wasn’t enough. With
under five minutes to go, the Ter-
riers capitalized on Michael Kim’s
goaltender interference penalty. BU’s
Charlie McAvoy and Bobo Carpen-
ter—brother of BC women’s hockey
captain Alex Carpenter—sent two hard
shots in on Demko. One defl ected off
his pads, ricocheting over his head
before Matt Lane tipped it in to tie the
game 3-all.
Despite whatever diffi culties you
may have had on your TV at home,
the show then fl ipped from the Battle
of Comm. Ave. to the Ian McCoshen
Hockey Hour.
With Miles Wood camped in
front of the net, waiting for the screen,
McCoshen converted on a penalty of
Carpenter’s. He fi red a laser from the
point that rattled both the water bottle
atop Maguire’s net and the entirety of
Kelley Rink, giving BC a 4-3 lead with
a mere two minutes remaining.
He wasn’t done just yet. Quinn
pulled the goaltender with 1:30 to go to
give the Terriers the 6-on-5 advantage.
Th e Eagles desperately tried to clear the
puck and battled constantly to keep
pressure away from their goaltender.
With 13 seconds to go, McCoshen
corralled the puck in the corner, at-
tempting to pass it off to Cangelosi
for the easy empty-netter. But instead,
McCoshen fi red it the length of the ice
and at the back of the twine, sending
the BC faithful into a frenzy, the vic-
tory now insured. McCoshen could
only laugh as he refl ected on the goal
afterward.
“It was like a Rory McIlroy chip
shot,” McCoshen said, referring to the
world-renowned golfer.
It’s just a microcosm of the success
McCoshen has had all season. The
junior has made excellent progress over
his three years at BC, and now has a
career 41 points in 92 games. As most
BC players do in postgame pressers,
McCoshen focused on the importance
of the team and getting the win over
individual accomplishments.
He has good reason to do so, too.
Th e Eagles have desperately needed “big
wins” to boost their PairWise Ranking—
this victory allowed them to leapfrog the
Terriers into the No. 9 spot.
But his coach, who was defl ecting
praise and excitement for his own
individual accomplishment, wouldn’t
let McCoshen get off so easy.
“Everyone knew exactly when No.
3 was on the ice,” York said.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2016
INSIDESPORTSTHIS ISSUE
BOSTON — Jack Parker wasn’t on
the bench Saturday night, but he sure
would be proud of his Terriers.
The former head coach of Boston
University constantly reminded his
players of one goal during his 40-year
tenure: beat Boston College. Throughout
his career, he did just that. The Terriers
outplayed the Eagles for much of Parker’s
time at BU, winning two national titles
in 1978 and 1995 while then-BC head
coach Len Ceglarski couldn’t muster one.
With Parker’s help, the Terriers took a
commanding lead in the rivalry between
the two schools.
That is, until Jerry York rolled into
town. Since then, he leads in three main
categories.
Entering Saturday, the Eagles are
42-39-7 against their adversaries from
down Commonwealth Ave. since York
has taken the reins. York has also brought
four championships to BC, compared
to only three by Parker. But on a more
personal level, York’s success has pushed
RILEY OVEREND
Reading through last season’s Boston
College women’s hockey archives is like
sitting front row at an ancient Greek
tragedy.
It opened in the winter of 2014, begin-
ning with intense rising action as head
coach Katie Crowley’s squad breezed
through the first half of the year to climb
to the No. 1 ranking. Emily Pfalzer, one of
the country’s top defensemen, anchored
the blue line as the Eagles racked up
shutouts and held opponents to a mere 19
shots per game.
Unwittingly, BC had already com-
mitted its fatal error. The team was too
good—by limiting opponents’ shots on
goal, the Eagles also limited save oppor-
tunities for freshman goalkeeper Katie
Burt (it’s not a tragedy without a little bit
of hubris). While the then-17-year-old led
the nation in goals against average with
1.11, she fell far behind the curve in terms
of experience.
Then you had your tragic heroine in
Alex Carpenter, the superstar U.S. Olym-
pian with an Ovechkin-esque resume
crowded with individual accolades but
devoid of postseason wins and champion-
ships. In the Beanpot Final last February,
she watched from the penalty box as
Harvard stole the title during her five-
minute absence to hand BC its first loss of
the year. For now, they’ll chalk it up as a
learning experience.
The dramatic irony is painful.
A month after the Beanpot meltdown
that ended their 28-game unbeaten streak,
the Eagles would fall victim to the pres-
sure once again, this time in the Hockey
East Championship against rival Boston
University. The Terriers overwhelmed
Burt with shots and scored four goals in a
rout of the No. 1 seed to win their second
straight conference crown over Carpenter
& Co.
Finally, in March, BC sought revenge
on the Crimson in the final act of the
season: the Frozen Four. Harvard goalie
Emerance Maschmeyer slowed the high-
octane Eagle offense just enough to eke
out a 2-1 win and send Crowley’s crew
home without any trophies as recognition
for its historic season. Losses like these
provide no great catharsis for BC fans.
Through January, the undefeated 2015-
16 BC women’s hockey team has drawn
an eerie number of parallels to last year’s
group, which won the most—but not most
important—games in school history. That’s
why it’s easy to get excited about the No.
1-ranked Eagles, but just as easy to remain
skeptical. Indeed, history repeats itself,
but there is another storyline brewing in
Crowley’s clubhouse.
It starts with Carpenter, the fallen her-
oine, stepping off the plane from Minne-
apolis after the team’s season-ending loss
to the Crimson in the Frozen Four, already
eyeing revenge like Leonardo DiCaprio as
he painstakingly claws himself out of his
own grave in The Revenant. Yes, the losses
still sting. But now, after nearly a year
of waiting, she stands again on the main
stage at Kelley Rink, skates sharpened,
ready for the challenges that the next two
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Oh, the difference halftime can make
in a game.
The 15-minute break can be the per-
fect time for a coach to have his guys hit
the reset button. Take a few moments for
a breather, address the issue, and then
get back on the court to fix it.
That’s exactly what Boston College
men’s basketball (7-11, 0-5 Atlantic
Coast) did in its 67-53 loss to No. 15
Miami (14-3, 3-2) on Wednesday night.
The problem for the Eagles was that the
Hurricanes did the same thing. And they
did it better.
Down by just one point at the half,
the Eagles had two glaring flaws on the
statsheet: they had drawn just four fouls
and hadn’t taken a single free throw in
the half, and they had turned the ball
over 12 times compared to Miami’s
six.
But besides those shortcomings, BC
played one of its better halves of the year.
A generally undersized team fought and
won the rebounding battle 18-16 in the
first half, and then the guys didn’t waste
time in moving the ball up the court.
This allowed BC to penetrate before Mi-
ami could set up its half-court defense,
a roadblock that the Eagles have had
trouble surpassing in recent games.
BC’s youth and inexperience showed
here, as the team often tried to do too
much, in one stretch turning the ball
over five times in three minutes. Yet
after a dozen turnovers in the first half,
the Eagles played smarter in the second,
turning the ball over just three times.
That adjustment a lone wasn’t
enough. While BC had found a way to
make tough-looking transition shots fall
in the first half, it began to miss—even
air-ball—in the second. After knocking
down 52 percent of their shots from
the field in the first 20 minutes, the
Eagles collapsed to 25.8 percent in the
second, hitting just 1-of-10 from 3-point
range.
That was Miami’s adjustment.
The Hurricanes, who themselves had
shot a poor 40 percent in the first half,
had played weak defense as BC got out
in transition. So they addressed that at
the half.
“In the first half, they outran us,”
The stout Miami center, Jekiri (23), snatched 17 rebounds in Miami’s 67-53 win.SAVANNA KIEFER / HEIGHTS EDITOR
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As the divide between the Power Five
and Group of Five Conferences grows
ever larger, football programs are scram-
bling to schedule teams that will make
them appear as competitive as possible
in the eyes of the College Football Play-
off committee. On Tuesday morning,
Boston College took that first step.
BC Athletics confirmed that Director
of Athletics Brad Bates has scheduled
two games for the Eagles against the
Big Ten Conference’s Purdue University.
The Eagles will travel to West Lafayette,
Ind. to take on the Boilermakers at Ross-
Ade Stadium on Sept. 22, 2018. Purdue
will then visit Chestnut Hill on Sept.
26, 2020. The department has not yet
responded to a request for comment.
This will be the first meeting be-
tween the two programs, who both
have all-time records of .500 against the
opposing conferences. BC is 37-37-1
against teams that play in the Big Ten.
Its most recent matchup was the 2014
Pinstripe Bowl, a 31-30 loss to Pennsyl-
vania State University on a missed extra
point in overtime.
The last time the Eagles had a Big Ten
team on their regular season schedule
was in 2012 when they fell 22-13 to
Northwestern University in Evanston,
Ill. Purdue is 14-14-2 all-time against
teams from the ACC. Its most recent
matchup came this season in a 51-24
drubbing at home by Virginia Tech.
Under head coach Darrell Hazell,
the Boilermakers are a mere 6-30. They
have finished with the worst record in
the Big Ten in each of his three seasons
at the helm.
The announcement provides more
clarity to the Eagles’ future schedule well
into the future. BC now has three games
on the schedule in 2018 and 2020. The
Eagles will play the University of Mas-
sachusetts, an FBS independent, and
College of the Holy Cross, an FCS team,
in 2018. They will play Holy Cross and
Ohio University, a Mid-American Con-
ference school, in 2020. Bates will likely
need to schedule one more game against
a non-conference opponent in each of
those seasons unless the ACC moves to
a nine-game conference schedule in the
near future.
Purdue will be the first non-confer-
ence Power Five program scheduled
by Bates during his three-year tenure
as Director of Athletics—BC’s games
against the University of Notre Dame
and The Ohio State University were
organized under previous Director of
Athletics Gene DiFilippo.
In the last few seasons, the Eagles
have been plagued by broken contracts,
most notably with the New Mexico State
University, forcing Bates to add Howard
University, a weak FCS program, to
the 2015 schedule. Bates, however, has
moved in a more positive direction in fu-
ture scheduling as of late, securing spots
against the University of Connecticut for
2016, 2017, 2022, and 2023.
CLIMBIN
G THE LADDER
Like most defensemen, Ian Mc-
Coshen earned his reputation for hard
hits and a take-no-prisoners attitude on
the ice. When he wasn’t in the penalty box
last season, he was engaging in fights. But
after Boston College men’s hockey lost
its two best blue liners—Noah Hanifin
and Mike Matheson—to the NHL last
season, head coach Jerry York needed
McCoshen, the highly-touted Florida
Panthers’ prospect, to step up as both a
leader and a player.
On Friday night against Boston Uni-
versity, McCoshen showed why, with each
game, he is making a case as the best all-
around player on an incredibly talented
2015-16 BC squad.
Thanks to McCoshen’s three points—
two goals and an assist—the No. 4 Eagles
(15-4-2, 8-1-2 Hockey East) took down
No. 10 BU (11-7-3, 5-4-2) in the 268th
meeting of this historic rivalry, lovingly
referred to as the Battle of Comm. Ave.
With the victory, York increases his career
win total to 999.
JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR
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