Vol. XCV, No. 11 Monday, February 24, 2014 H EIGHTS T HE The Independent Student Newspaper of Boston College www.bcheights.com established BY JENNIFER HEINE Heights Staff A cappella filled McGuinn on ursday night as the Boston College AIDS Awareness Committee hosted its first annual Acapelooza. Featuring musical groups The Dynamics, e Heightsmen of Boston College, Jammin’ Toast, e Sharps, and Against e Current, the event served as a fundraiser for Camp AmeriKids. This foundation is a summer camp for young people aged eight to 16 who are living with HIV/AIDS and sickle cell disease. Founded in 1995 by Robert C. Macauley, the eight-week program in Warwick, N.Y. allows inner-city children and teenagers living with these diseases to attend summer camp in a community with peers who understand their experiences. In addition to traditional summer camp activities such as boating, arts and crafts, and even a talent show, Camp AmeriKids also provides medical care, with doctors and nurses who reside on the campgrounds, as well as a wellness team, which provides psychosocial support. Participants do not pay for the program, which means that fundraisers are particularly important. For the BC AIDS Awareness Committee, the event serves both to inform the BC community and address the struggles of those living with HIV/AIDS in the United States. According to the organization’s president Ayman Bodair, A&S ’14, “HIV is a disease that affects 35 million people worldwide. Many people think that that disease can’t affect me here, in the BC bubble, in the United States of America. But the reality is 1.2 million people in the U.S. still have the disease today, even with the advent of medication and treatments.” He and the e-board decided to focus on the plight of HIV-infected children for this particular fundraiser. “What HIV does is, it strips your body defenseless against pathogens,” Bodair said. “It leaves your immune system completely vulnerable, and unfortunately, it’s the most vulnerable among us who tend to get the disease, especially children. “As a result, children born into families BY MICHELLE TOMASSI Heights Editor Tracy K. Smith, a Pulitzer Prize- winning poet, proved Thursday eve- ning that science fiction doesn’t just belong in the movies. Sponsored by Poetry Days and kicking off the Lowell Humanities Series this semester, Smith spoke about her most recent collection Life On Mars, which won the 2012 Pu- litzer Prize for Poetry and was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book. Smith has published two other books as well, and is currently a professor of creative writing at Princeton University. The poems within Life On Mars ex- periment with imagination and space, both in a celestial and a metaphorical sense. Smith’s poems suggest a fascina- tion with science fiction, but she admit- ted that the true sci-fi lover was her late father, a scientist who worked on the Hubble Telescope. His passing led her to explore questions of existence and rec- onciling the vast space of the universe with earthly experiences, resulting in a collection that bridges the limitless “out there” with the finite. “I realized that being ‘out there’ helped in articulating the questions and anxieties that came as a result of grief,” she said. “It all came together in an eeri- ly frightening way.” Smith explained that she never thought of herself as a sci-fi person, but her interest in science fic- tion movies combined with her father’s passion encouraged her translate those themes into poetry. Smith began with a reading of poems that outwardly project that otherworldly experience, such as “Sci- Fi,” “The Universe is a House Party,” and “The Weather in Space,” using metaphors of space in conjunction with human experience. Her poems ranged in form and subject matter, with some discussing questions of the intangible, such as “It&Co.,” with lines such as “We are a part of It. Not guests. / Is It us, or what contains us?” Smith recognized the “value and necessity of occasionally turning to form,” and as an example of formal structure, she read “The Speed of Belief”—an elegy dedicated to her father. Smith also looks to immediate sources for poetic motivation. “I often get a lot of inspiration to write from the news, and things that unsettle me, and things that challenge me,” she said. After reading stories about Somali pirates and realizing that mere acceptance of these events wasn’t enough, she decided to BC AIDS Awareness Committee fundraises at ‘Acapelooza’ Poet Tracy K. Smith discussed her recent collection of poems ‘Life on Mars’ last Thursday. BCPD became the ninth college police department in the state to receive accreditation from the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission. See Smith, A4 Tracy K. Smith talks poetry, sci-fi literary inspiration FEATURES Danny Gillis’ school spirit stems from century-long family tradition, C8 FIDDLE KID ARTS & REVIEW The theatre department presented ‘Circle Mirror Transformation’ last weekend, A10 SPORTS The men’s ice hockey team’s unbeaten streak is still alive, but its 11-game win streak ends, C1 BUMP IN THE ROAD PHOTO COURTESY OF BCPD See ‘Acapelooza,’ A4 BCPD receives full MPAC accreditation BY JULIE ORENSTEIN Assoc. News Editor e Boston College Police Department (BCPD) has formally received accreditation from the Massachusetts Police Accredita- tion Commission, becoming the ninth college police department in the state to achieve this status. ree assessors from the commission reviewed BCPD’s policies in a two-day assessment in early November. The de- partment was judged on whether it had written complying policies and followed through with procedures that adhered to the policies. Following that review, the assessors suggested that the department receive accreditation, noting that BCPD had complied with more than 280 national standards and best practices. An initial review last spring found that BCPD had already met more than 150 mandatory standards, and the department received certification. e 98 additional mandatory standards for accreditation were fulfilled by the time of the Novem- ber review, along with 75 of 125 optional standards. According to a press release from the department, areas that were assessed in- cluded patrol operations, administrative procedures, recruitment and selection, training and professional development, victim assistance, fiscal management, dis- cipline, performance evaluation, crime pre- vention and investigations. e standards upon which the accreditation was based EMILY FAHEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR A cappella groups filled McGuinn 101 last Thursday at Acapelooza, a musical performance hosted by the BC AIDS Awareness Committee. GRAHAM BECK / HEIGHTS SENIOR STAFF Lowell Series continues to progress See Lowell Series, B7 See BCPD, A4 The Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College has showcased numerous internationally acclaimed writers and continues to host famous speakers Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Smith discussed her recent collection of poems ‘Life on Mars’ For an inside look at BC baseball, softball, and lacrosse, see the Spring Sports Preview, B1 ‘CIRCLE MIRROR’ BY KENDRA KUMOR Heights Editor For over half a century, the Lowell Humanities Series has brought famous writers from myriad backgrounds to Boston College. As one of the most successful lecture series on campus, the events have brought BC international attention. With such acclaimed authors as Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, and Maya Angelou on the list of former speakers, attendees hold high expectations for future events. “The emphasis at the beginning was more heavily on poets and fiction writers; over time the range of speakers has broadened into nonfiction, journalism, and other fields,” said Carlo Rotella, director of the Lowell Humanities Series and a professor in the English department in an email. Rotella, in the first year of his three-year term as director of the series, hopes to continue to further the mission of the professor who created the program: Rev. Francis Sweeney, S.J. “Francis Sweeney knew a lot of prominent writers and wanted to bring them to campus,” Rotella said. According to the Lowell Humanities Series’ website, Sweeney believed that “There is nothing like an author reading from his or her own works,” sparking the idea for the early installments of the series. When actually planning an author’s event, there are several factors that determine the structure. “Poets and fiction writers will often read from their work, but I ask them to make sure to also talk about the work,” Rotella said. “Some visitors really look forward to the Q and A, and they want to emphasize that. When Governor Patrick came a couple of years ago, he wanted to get to the Q and A as quickly as possible.” A quick look at the series’ website will reveal the upcoming events for the entire semester. “We also start planning well in advance to get our visitors’ work onto syllabi for that semester, so that there will be particular classes or other groups on campus who take a special interest in the visit,” he said.
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The IndependentStudent Newspaperof Boston College
www.bcheights.com
e s t a b l i s h e d
BY JENNIFER HEINE
Heights Staff
A cappella fi lled McGuinn on � ursday night as the Boston College AIDS Awareness Committee hosted its fi rst annual Acapelooza. Featuring musical groups The Dynamics, � e Heightsmen of Boston College, Jammin’ Toast, � e Sharps, and Against � e Current, the event served as a fundraiser for Camp AmeriKids. This foundation is a summer camp for young people aged eight to 16 who are living with HIV/AIDS and sickle cell disease. Founded in 1995 by Robert C. Macauley, the eight-week program in Warwick, N.Y. allows inner-city children and teenagers living with these diseases to attend summer camp in a community with peers who understand their experiences. In addition to traditional summer camp activities such as boating, arts and crafts, and even a talent show, Camp AmeriKids also provides medical care, with doctors and nurses who reside on the campgrounds, as well as a wellness team, which provides psychosocial support. Participants do not pay
for the program, which means that fundraisers are particularly important. For the BC AIDS Awareness Committee, the event serves both to inform the BC community and address the struggles of those living with HIV/AIDS in the United States. According to the organization’s president Ayman Bodair, A&S ’14, “HIV is a disease that aff ects 35 million people worldwide. Many people think that that disease can’t aff ect me here, in the BC bubble, in the United States of America. But the reality is 1.2 million people in the U.S. still have the disease today, even with the advent of medication and treatments.” He and the e-board decided to focus on the plight of HIV-infected children for this particular fundraiser. “What HIV does is, it strips your body defenseless against pathogens,” Bodair said. “It leaves your immune system completely vulnerable, and unfortunately, it’s the most vulnerable among us who tend to get the disease, especially children. “As a result, children born into families
BY MICHELLE TOMASSI
Heights Editor
Tracy K. Smith, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, proved Thursday eve-ning that science fiction doesn’t just belong in the movies. Sponsored by Poetry Days and kicking off the Lowell Humanities Series this semester, Smith spoke about her most recent collection Life On Mars, which won the 2012 Pu-litzer Prize for Poetry and was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book. Smith has published two other books as well, and is currently a professor of creative writing at Princeton University.
The poems within Life On Mars ex-periment with imagination and space, both in a celestial and a metaphorical sense. Smith’s poems suggest a fascina-tion with science fiction, but she admit-ted that the true sci-fi lover was her late father, a scientist who worked on the Hubble Telescope. His passing led her to explore questions of existence and rec-onciling the vast space of the universe with earthly experiences, resulting in a collection that bridges the limitless “out there” with the finite.
“I realized that being ‘out there’ helped in articulating the questions and anxieties that came as a result of grief,” she said. “It all came together in an eeri-
ly frightening way.” Smith explained that she never thought of herself as a sci-fi person, but her interest in science fic-tion movies combined with her father’s passion encouraged her translate those themes into poetry.
Smith began with a reading of poems that outwardly project that otherworldly experience, such as “Sci-Fi,” “The Universe is a House Party,” and “The Weather in Space,” using metaphors of space in conjunction with human experience. Her poems ranged in form and subject matter, with some discussing questions of the intangible, such as “It&Co.,” with lines such as “We are a part of It. Not guests. / Is It us, or what contains us?” Smith recognized the “value and necessity of occasionally turning to form,” and as an example of formal structure, she read “The Speed of Belief ”—an elegy dedicated to her father.
Smith also looks to immediate sources for poetic motivation. “I often get a lot of inspiration to write from the news, and things that unsettle me, and things that challenge me,” she said. After reading stories about Somali pirates and realizing that mere acceptance of these events wasn’t enough, she decided to
BC AIDS Awareness Committee fundraises at ‘Acapelooza’
Poet Tracy K. Smith discussed her recent collection of poems ‘Life on Mars’ last Thursday.
BCPD became the ninth college police department in the state to receive accreditation from the Massachusetts Police Accreditation Commission.
See Smith, A4
Tracy K. Smith talks poetry, sci-fi literary inspiration
FEATURESDanny Gillis’ school spirit stems from century-long family tradition, C8
FIDDLE KIDARTS & REVIEW
The theatre department presented ‘Circle Mirror Transformation’ last weekend, A10
SPORTSThe men’s ice hockey team’s unbeaten streak is still alive, but its 11-game win streak ends, C1
BUMP IN THE ROAD
PHOTO COURTESY OF BCPD
See ‘Acapelooza,’ A4
BCPD receives full MPAC accreditationBY JULIE ORENSTEIN
Assoc. News Editor
� e Boston College Police Department (BCPD) has formally received accreditation from the Massachusetts Police Accredita-tion Commission, becoming the ninth college police department in the state to achieve this status.
� ree assessors from the commission reviewed BCPD’s policies in a two-day assessment in early November. The de-partment was judged on whether it had
written complying policies and followed through with procedures that adhered to the policies. Following that review, the assessors suggested that the department receive accreditation, noting that BCPD had complied with more than 280 national standards and best practices.
An initial review last spring found that BCPD had already met more than 150 mandatory standards, and the department received certifi cation. � e 98 additional mandatory standards for accreditation were fulfi lled by the time of the Novem-
ber review, along with 75 of 125 optional standards.
According to a press release from the department, areas that were assessed in-cluded patrol operations, administrative procedures, recruitment and selection, training and professional development, victim assistance, fi scal management, dis-cipline, performance evaluation, crime pre-vention and investigations. � e standards upon which the accreditation was based
EMILY FAHEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR
A cappella groups filled McGuinn 101 last Thursday at Acapelooza, a musical performance hosted by the BC AIDS Awareness Committee.
GRAHAM BECK / HEIGHTS SENIOR STAFF
Lowell Series continues to progress
See Lowell Series, B7
See BCPD, A4
The Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College has showcased numerous internationally acclaimed writers and continues to host famous speakers
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Smith discussed her recent collection of poems ‘Life on Mars’
For an inside look at BC baseball, softball, and lacrosse, see the Spring Sports Preview, B1
EIGHTSe s t a b l i s h e d 1 9 1 9
The theatre department presented ‘Circle Mirror Transformation’ last
SPORTSThe men’s ice hockey team’s unbeaten streak is still alive, but its 11-game win streak ends, C1
BUMP IN THE ROAD
For an inside look at BC baseball, softball, and lacrosse, see the Spring Sports Preview, B1
‘CIRCLE MIRROR’
BY KENDRA KUMOR
Heights Editor
For over half a century, the Lowell Humanities Series has brought famous writers from myriad backgrounds to Boston College. As one of the most successful lecture series on campus, the events have brought BC international attention. With such acclaimed authors as Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, and Maya Angelou on the list of former speakers, attendees hold high expectations for future events. “The emphasis at the beginning w a s more he av i ly on p o et s and fiction writers; over time the range of speakers has broadened into nonfiction, journalism, and other fields ,” said
Carlo Rotella, director of the Lowell Humanities Series and a professor in the English department in an email. Rotella, in the first year of his three-year term as director of the series, hopes to continue to further the mission of the professor who created the program: Rev. Francis Sweeney, S.J. “Francis Sweeney knew a lot of prominent writers and wanted to bring them to campus,” Rotella said. According to the Lowell Humanities Series’ website, Sweeney believed that “There is nothing like an author reading from his or her own works,” sparking the idea for the early installments of the series. When actually planning an author’s event, there are several factors that determine the structure. “Poets and
fiction writers will often read from their work, but I ask them to make sure to also talk about the work,” Rotella said. “Some visitors really look forward to the Q and A, and they want to emphasize that. When Governor Patrick came a couple of years ago, he wanted to get to the Q and A as quickly as possible.” A quick look at the series’ website will reveal the upcoming events for the entire semester. “We also start planning well in advance to get our visitors’ work onto syllabi for that semester, so that there will be particular classes or other groups on campus who take a special interest in the visit,” he said.
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POLICE BLOTTER 2/19/14-2/21/14
Wednesday, February 19
8:56 a.m. - A report was fi led regarding medical assis-tance provided to a BC employee in Maloney Hall.
11:41 a.m. - A report was fi led regarding a larceny from Corcoran Commons.
12:40 p.m. - A report was fi led regarding a traffi c accident on Brighton Campus.
6:14 p.m. - A report was fi led regarding medical assistance provided to a BC student in the Lower Lots. � e student was later transported to a medical facility by ambulance.
11:20 p.m. - A report was fi led regarding the civil possession of marijuana in Keyes North Hall.
Thursday, February 20
1:35 p.m. - A report was fi led regarding a traffi c ac-
cident on Campanella Way.
5:13 p.m. - A report was fi led regarding medical assistance provided to a BC student in the Quonset Hut. � e student was later transported to a medi-cal facility.
9:08 p.m. - A report was fi led regarding a suspicious vehicle at 9 Lake Street.
2:46 a.m. - A report was fi led regarding vandalism in Keyes Hall.
10:51 p.m. - A report was fi led regarding a vehicle stop on Campanella Way.
Friday, February 21
12:02 a.m. - A report was fi led regarding an unse-cured area at Hovey House.
1:15 a.m. - A report was fi led regarding medical
assistance to a BC student in Campion Hall. � e student was later transported by ambulance to a medical facility.
1:49 a.m. - A report was fi led regarding an intoxi-cated non-BC affi liate of legal age in Walsh Hall.
1:50 a.m. - A report was fi led regarding medical treat-ment provided to a BC student in Keyes North/South Hall. � e student was later transported by ambulance to a medical facility.
2:30 a.m. - A report was fi led regarding medical treatment provided to a BC student in Hardey House. � e student was later transported by ambulance to a medical facility.
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encing the works of Catholic philosopher St. Augustine of Hippo, and how his focus on God was adapted and varied by the Franciscan order.
“For St. Augustine the question was all about rightly-ordered loving—‘What do I love,’ ‘who do I love?’ I love my God,’” he said. “� e switch in the Franciscan tradi-tion I from the ‘what’ to the ‘how’—how do I love my God? It’s a question that’s really about relationship … it’s something that we share—something between God and us.”
According to Horan, all are in a rela-tionship with God—a person’s mere exis-tence, he said, can be interpreted as a sign
of God’s presence the lives of humans.“Everybody—whether they’re con-
scious of it, whether they’re aware of it, whether they’re thinking about now or not—is in a relationship with God,” he said. “� is idea of contingency is a sign of God’s love.
“Our relationship with God, whether we realize it or not, is always and every-where a human relationship,” he said. “Because just like everybody in your life, whether you’re really close to them or not … you bring your whole self. � e same is true with God.”
� e way people view their relation-
BY CONNOR FARLEY
News Editor
“� e core of a spiritual tradition is relationship,” said Daniel P. Horan, OFM. “Everything comes back to that.”
On � ursday night, the Church in the 21st Century Center of Boston Col-lege hosted Horan, a Franciscan priest and doctorate student at BC, to discuss intimacy and relationships in Catholic life through his talk Dating God.
Horan—who has authored dozens of scholarly articles, published several books, and is a columnist for the na-tional Catholic weekly America Maga-zine—has studied theology at both Bos-ton University and Harvard University and is currently completing his Ph.D. in systematic theology at BC.
The topic of Horan’s discussion centered on individual relationships with and contemplations of God for Christians, namely Catholics, and how human understanding has shaped the way people tend to communicate with God.
“Every time we talk about or think about or contemplate our relationship with God, we have to think in human terms because that’s what we bring—our human experience,” he said. “I think God knows something about what it’s like to be a human being.”
Drawing from his own experiences as a Franciscan priest, Horan began the discussion on relating to God by refer-
Horan examines relationships and ‘dating God’
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Horan’s talk focused on relationships and communicating with God in Catholic life.
ship with God, Horan noted, varies considerably.
While some regard God as a pa-triarchal fi gure, he said, others might interpret God as a friend or even a lover. � e Franciscan tradition focuses on identifying and developing those relationships.
“� e question, ‘How do I love when I love my God?’ presupposes that we have some sort of relationship with God, and I think that makes sense particularly if you take the Gospel seriously,” Horan said.
Horan also noted that throughout Christian tradition, God and other religious fi gures are often compared to parental images, with God representing the father and Mary the mother. � is notion of a parental relationship with God, however, might not be ideal for those with who have had negative or abusive parental relationships.
“If you’ve had bad experience with family members—if you’ve been aban-doned or abused—perhaps these images are not help when thinking about your relationship with God,” Horan said.
For Horan, the idea of “dating God” stems from a fundamentally human de-sire to know God in an alternatively inti-mate way. � ough he noted the concept of dating God isn’t helpful for everyone, it provides Christians an opportunity to develop an understanding and bond with God in a nuanced way.
“I think the action, the dynamism of the verb ‘dating’ is helpful when think-ing about God,” Horan said.
things to do on campus this week
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BY JULIE ORENSTEIN
Assoc. News Editor
Faculty members at the Univer-sity of Illinois at Chicago initiated a two-day strike last Tuesday centered on the issue of higher salaries for non-tenured faculty.
Both tenured and non-tenured faculty joined together in 2012 to form the University of Illinois at Chicago United Faculty, a union that represents both groups. The union is asking the university to increase the minimum salary for non-tenured, full-time faculty members to $45,000 from the current $30,000.
They argue that the approxi-mately 70 instructors who are cur-rently earning $30,000 are earning less than a living wage in Chicago, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The university counters that the union’s demands are unaffordable for the state insitution, and is propsing a new contract that would include
a smaller increase in minimum pay for faculty.
Last week’s walkout—the first faculty-led strike in campus his-tory—came after 18 months of prolonged contract negotiations that have shown an unusual level of unity between full-time faculty on the tenure track and those who work on a contingent basis.
� e Huffi ngton Post reported that while some classes were cancelled during the strike, others were taught by graduate students or teaching assistants, whose interests are rep-resented by a separate union.
Joseph Persky, an economics professor at UIC, said that the heart of the issue is remedying inequities in how tenured and non-tenured faculty members are treated.
“We’re looking to make [non-tenured faculty] real active members of their departments, as opposed to being treated like academic gypsies,” Persky told the Chicago Sun-Times.
College CornerNEWS FROM UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY
VOICES FROM THE DUSTBOWL
“Quesadilla days are the best days.”—James Zingarini, A&S ’17
“Talk to your advisor as much as possible.”—Sean Fisher, A&S ’17
“Wear an unnecessary amount of layers. Always.”—Nicole Sudano, A&S ’16
“If you could tell an incoming student one thing, what would it be?”
“Flat Tops are overrated.”—Danny Pimpinelli, A&S ’17
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TodayTime: 4:30 p.m.Location: O’Neill Reading Room
The Arts & Sciences Dean’s Colloquium will feature English professor Joseph Nugent discussing a digital humanities project on James Joyce’s Dubliners, which was created by the 15 students in Nugent’s literature seminar on the book.
Digital DublinersTuesdayTime: 7:30 p.m.Location: Merkert 127
The Boston College Portfo-lio Challenge, Boston College Investment Club, and Finance Academy will host young BC alumni sharing their early experiences in the fi nance world working for fi rms such as Goldman Sachs and ABRY Partners.
Careers in Finance PanelWednesdayTime: 5:30 p.m.Location: Stokes S195
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times national security correspondent Mark Maz-zetti will speak for the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy event. Mazzetti’s latest book on the CIA and U.S. special forces will be featured.
“The Shadow of War”
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The heighTsMonday, February 24, 2014 A3
So often we are called “men and women for others,” and it’s likely that most of the time, we are. We do service, we try to be good to those with whom we share a campus and a city, and we try to intellectually engage ourselves with the overt injustices that face us every day so that we might find a way to change them. This we do, and I am proud of that.
But this is like a switch that we turn on and off. One week we’re on a service trip in El Salvador being global citizens, but the next we’re walking right by the presumably homeless man who sits outside of Reservoir Liquors. Even if we notice him, rarely do we do anything. Unlike most writing that starts like this, I’m not going to spend the rest of the column preaching that we should. (We should, but that’s not what this is about.)
That man has a copy of Where Is God When It Hurts?, a book meant to help people understand and cope with their suffering. I noticed it the other day when he had left his things on the sidewalk, a little reminder of his humanity that I’m sure he never thought anyone would stop to notice, yet one that left me both heartbroken and disoriented. Not because I hadn’t seen him as a fellow human before, but because I saw him as a human who suffered along with me and who, like me, probably thought deeply about the world. No longer did he seem to me a charity case. He wasn’t just sitting there all day suffering—here was a man grap-pling with the same fundamental frustrations of life that Bertrand Russell expressed in the prologue to his autobiography, the so-called “suffering of mankind.” Russell felt an overwhelming sense of help-lessness because he “[longed] to alleviate this evil” but could not, so he, too, suffered.
We—those who help—are not the only men and women for oth-ers. So often we think of ourselves as the helpers, delighting in our ability to do that job. We make the world a better place. We give genuinely and without expecta-tion because we know we have been put in the privileged posi-tion. This is what troubles me.
We, though safe and warm at night, are not the only ones able to give.
When I looked that book up on Google later on, I realized that it isn’t just about selfishly under-standing our own struggles, but learning to cope with others’. He was not only looking inward at his own suffering, but also out at that of his fellow men.
He could give to me in a real and tangible way, not just because his situation could open my eyes to human suffering, but because the ability to give comes not only from financial privilege but also from simply trying to empathize with our fellow men and women. So often we’re instructed to see others as equal to us because we’re all created equally, but then we’re missing part of the point. We are also equal to each other because we all have something to give, even if it doesn’t always seem that way.
When we walk by that man, I hope that we will all first stop and do something, even if that means having a conversation. I hope second that we can start to think differently about our existences in relation to others by thinking not in terms of the seemingly positive power dynamic of helpers and re-ceivers, but in terms of true parity.
We are not saviors. We all suffer in some way, and in that mutual suffering is the unfathom-able kinship of mankind. We must give respect not because he with-out anything to give still deserves respect, but because he does have things to give, even if they might not be immediately obvious.
A shared humanity
AdriAnA MAriellA
Adriana Mariella is a senior staff columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at [email protected].
By Daniel Perea-Kane
For The Heights
The Coral Gardens Incident, the Green Bay Massacre, and the extradition of Christopher Coke are just some of the violent political inci-dents that have occurred in Jamaica over the last half-century.
Last Thursday, as part of a lecture series sponsored by the department of African and African diaspora stud-ies, professor Deborah Thomas of the University of Pennsylvania gave a lecture to shed light on her research of these events.
Regine Jean-Charles, an assis-tant professor of French within the Romance languages department, introduced Thomas to the audience. Thomas began her speech with pre-liminaries about her field of study.
“Archive-making is really impor-tant for African and African diaspora studies because it’s a means through which we unsettle colonial notions about what it means to be human,” she said.
She continued by saying that violence can open doors analytically even as it is devastating to communi-ties worldwide. Thomas went deeper into this by focusing on one particular piece of history in Jamaica, the Coral Gardens Incident of 1963, in which hundreds of Rastafari were jailed and tortured by Jamaican police.
Thomas first learned about the incident as a graduate student at New York University. She decided that the events might be a compel-ling subject for her book Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica and later decided to turn that research into a film, Bad Friday: Rastafari After Coral Gardens.
Thomas’ work in Jamaica involved interviewing survivors of the inci-dent. Although many now associate Rastafarians with universalism, ac-cording to Thomas, attitudes of fear and disdain directed toward them were more prevalent in the ’60s.
“They were seen as a threat to the consolidation of the new nation because they did not accept the authority of the Jamaican political leadership, instead seeing Africa as home,” she said.
Thomas also discussed how the once maligned Rasta identity has
become the most well-known symbol of Jamaican identity throughout the postcolonial world.
While in Jamaica researching her film, she interviewed Rastafari about how they came to the faith, what happened as a result of Coral Gardens, and about English injustice. The documentary has already had an official run.
“Our primary agenda with the film was to create awareness of this history and, through doing so, to support the community in their efforts toward whatever reparative goals they identified,” Thomas said. “We’ve been satisfied that these sorts of intergenerational dialogue have been fostered.”
She then focused on another incident on May 24, 2010, in which Ja-maican forces launched an operation in Tivoli Gardens, West Kingston to fulfill the U.S. Department of State’s extradition order for drug lord Chris-topher Coke, resulting in an unknown number of causalities by the Jamaican army and police.
“Today I want to concern myself with how these narratives cause us to experience temporality,” she said. “What I want to focus on in particular is how narrations of the state of emer-gency always contain the sediments of what has happened before.”
Thomas continued her speech by playing audio from oral histories she conducted on Jamaicans who lived in Tivoli Gardens in 2010, such as Nadine Sutherland, whose son died during an incident in 2008 and whose nephews died in 2010.
“The extreme violence of the state’s actions in 2010 produces a multiplicity in which the loss of Nadine’s son and the loss of her neph-ews become simultaneous events,” Thomas said. “By this I mean to suggest something different from the stories that many psychologists would tell [about post-traumatic stress].”
Thomas also briefly alluded to the Green Bay Massacre of 1978, which led to an extended discussion of gar-rison politics in Jamaica.
In response to an audience ques-tion, Thomas refined her motivation for making the film. “Our agenda with this is to make people uncomfortable and to squirm about their own com-plicity,” she said. “A mirror needs to be put back to the community.” n
Thomas discusses violence in Jamaica
Chorale repertoire showcases range of piecesBy Jennifer Suh
Heights Staff
Parents, grandparents, chil-dren, and students filled the pews of St. Ignatius Church to watch and listen to the University Cho-rale of Boston College perform at its annual winter concert on Saturday.
The hour-long concert began a few minutes after 7 p.m. inside the church, which was illuminat-ed by yellow-hued lights hanging from the high ceiling. The chorale was conducted by John Finney, who is in his 21st year as the director of the Chorale.
The University Chorale’s vice president Sydney Barada, A&S ’14, gave an introduction, fol-lowed by a performance of “Toll-ite Hostias” from Oratorio de Noel by Camille Saint-Saens. It is “kind of a signature song of the University Chorale,” Finney said.
Organist Dexter Kennedy, who is a master of music candi-date at the Yale School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music, accompanied the singers. Ken-nedy was also the organist for the Chorale during its tour in Rome last March.
“Having been trained as an organist myself, I know that what he’s doing is very, very tricky and very complicated,” Finney said while introducing Kennedy at the concert. “To take an orchestral score and make it sound as ef-fortless as he does on the organ is a real skill.”
Finney has also been the con-ductor of the BC Symphony Or-chestra since 1999 and is known as one of the most important musicians in the Boston area.
With approximately 160 male and female members, the entirely student-run chorale is the largest singing group and the second-largest organization on campus. Its repertoire is mostly classical
but also includes modern pieces from film soundtracks, Ameri-can folk songs, and traditional carols.
“I think the concert was fan-tastic,” said the Chorale’s presi-dent, Mariana Eizayaga, A&S ’14, in an email. Eizayaga was recovering from strep throat and sat with the audience during the concert.
“It was strange to be in the public and not singing with the chorale, but I got to hear the whole piece instead of just the part that my section sings, and that made it a very different ex-perience,” Eizayaga said.
Other classical songs that were performed included “Exsul-tate Justi” by Lodovico Viadana, “Magnificat” by Francesco Du-
rante, “Ave verum corpus” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and selections from “Missa Sancti Nicolai” by Franz Joseph Haydn. The performances of the selec-tions from Haydn featured a duet by sopranos Hannah Bowlin, A&S, ’17 and Jessica Letizia, A&S ’14.
“The winter concert is always wonderful since it’s the one time in the year we get to perform in St. Ignatius,” Barada said in an email. “Performing with just the organ, too, gives the concert a very special feel. We’ve been rehearsing three hours a week since the semester began, prac-ticing new pieces, old favorites, and some selections from the fall concert.”
The singers and organist per-
formed American songs during the second half of the concert, beginning with “Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal,” a hymn arranged by Alice Parker. The song featured an exchange of the female and male voices in the choir.
The next song, “Alleluia” by Randall Thompson, was unique in that the only word sung was “al-leluia” until the end when “amen” was sung once.
The last four pieces included two African-American spirituals written by Moses Hogan, who was a classmate of Finney at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music.
“He was a brilliant, brilliant pianist and a brilliant arranger of spiritual,” Finney said.
The concert ended with a
performance of “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” a hymn arranged by Mack Wilber.
As the only organization on campus that is allowed to travel internationally—besides those for service trips and athletics—the Chorale will tour and perform in Madrid and Barcelona during spring break from Mar. 3 to 7.
Its upcoming events include its spring concert in Trinity Cha-pel on Newton Campus on April 12 at 8 p.m. and the Arts Festival at O’Neill Plaza on April 24.
Other performances through-out the year include its annual Pops on the Heights concert during Parents’ Weekend, the fall concert, the Christmas concert series, the spring concert, and Arts Festival performances. n
The University Chorale’s annual winter concert included renditions of classical pieces, African-American spirituals, and modern American arrangements. EMily SAdEghiAn / hEightS Editor
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were adopted from the national Commis-sion on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA), Inc.
Lt. Laurene Spiess, BCPD accredita-tion manager, said in November that the department had documentation indicating its compliance with some of the standards even before it officially adopted the stan-dards.
“We took all of the optional standards for the Crime Prevention and Community Liaison Program and had a lot of the com-pliance documentation prior to adopting the standards, because we have a very strong community policing program and we’re already doing the things the stan-dards required,” Spiess said.
BC Chief of Police and Director of Public Safety John King explained that BCPD was able to confirm its sound poli-cies by comparing them to the accreditation standards.
“In many respects, we affirmed in writ-ing many of the practices that were already in place at BCPD,” King said in an email. “In some cases, we established new policies and procedures. This process did require weekly dissemination of policies, many with associated tests. Staff are required to achieve a grade of 100 percent on all policy tests.”
Spiess said that BCPD volunteered for accreditation and would receive no money or grants upon receiving the distinction.
“We are committed to evaluate and reassess our policies and procedures on a regular basis and always strive to be better,”
Spiess said. “We do these things because we do care about our community. We are your police department, and we strive to be the benchmark for others in our industry to model after.”
King recognized Spiess’s comprehensive knowledge of accreditation requirements and credited her for preparing BCPD for re-view. He also noted the entire department’s commitment to the accreditation process.
“The journey to accreditation began over three years ago, and we achieved an earlier milestone of certification in April of 2013,” King said in the department’s press release. “Nearly every member of the BCPD staff contributed to the achievement of accreditation either through researching or writing policies or by providing im-portant feedback during policy comment periods.”
“Achieving accreditation gives us a great sense of accomplishment that our department has been evaluated against a set of established standards recognized by our profession,” King said in an email. “Our staff has done an outstanding job throughout this process.”
The accreditation will be in effect for three years, and the department’s poli-cies and procedures will be reviewed on a scheduled basis throughout that period. In 2017, assessors will return for a three-day assessment to appraise BCPD’s adherence to both the 98 mandatory standards and 75 optional standards for accreditation.
More than 170 police departments in Massachusetts are participating in the ac-creditation process, with 40 departments being fully accredited. n
play devil’s advocate and look through the lens of the opposing side in her poem “Ransom.” Smith spoke further of hate crimes that prompted her to consider the role of compassion in society, and imagined that her father would have a compassionate view of people currently on earth. She specifically addressed five hate crimes that later manifested them-selves into her poem “They May Love All That He Has Chosen And Hate All That He Has Rejected.” The speakers of the poem are the victims of the crimes, who address their assailants in the form of postcards. This poem marks a break from the fantastical elements of science fiction, as Smith expressed her desire to give a voice to those who were silenced, and attempt to gain access into the minds of those who have suffered.
Her experimentation with style prompted a series of questions after the readings, focusing on her background and advice for aspiring writers. Place and setting played a significant role in some of Smith’s poems, so she addressed the need to settle in a location that will allow creative inclinations to thrive, and to surround oneself with supportive individuals.
“When I was a grad student, I just fell
in love with my classmates,” she said. “I fell in love with their poems and their desire to become poets. It’s necessary to find some way to connect with people, and to learn from them.” Smith spent her childhood in California, but ended up on the east coast after receiving her B.A. from Harvard University and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Co-lumbia University. “I liked being in New York because I felt like I could disappear there,” she said. “I needed a new place to examine with courage and honesty the stuff that matters.”
Beginning writers may tend to think that their work needs to make an argu-ment, or have a definitive point, but Smith noted that moving away from absolutes is an essential and liberating aspect of poetry. “It was only after I realized that I could start asking things and playing with the possibilities that it became fun,” she said.
That questioning nature connects with Smith’s final discussion of faith and spirituality in connection to poetry—she noted how a poem is often written by lis-tening to the unconscious voices. “I feel like it is a matter of quieting down the other voices that we are enthralled to,” she said. For Smith, poetry is strongly connected to being—and accepting the poem as a sentient being itself. n
with mothers who are HIV positive tend to contract the disease within the first year of life, and many are left either to die or are orphaned,” he said. “As a result, when they get into childhood, or even adulthood, they are left with a stigma for nothing they did wrong. Maybe they can’t play with the other kids on the playground, due to medical issues, or even have a normal summer camp experience. And that’s why we’re here tonight. “Camp AmeriKids was very excited to work with us, and we found them to be a fantastic cause for this event,” said AIDS Awareness Committee Vice President Shane Daugherty, also A&S ’14. The committee showed a video that Camp AmeriKids made specifically for the Acapelooza event, which allowed the camp
executive director, Gabrielle Moss, to address BC directly. “Our mission is to enrich the lives of youth living with HIV and sickle cell disease,” she said. “I want to thank the AIDS Awareness Committee for having this wonderful event, I want to thank all the singing groups for coming out and participating in Acapelooza, and I want to thank the audience for coming out and showing your support.” Ultimately, Acapelooza raised $670, meaning that the AIDS Awareness Committee is well on its way to its $1,000 goal, the cost of sending one child to camp. “We most definitely consider this an accomplishment,” Daugherty said. In addition to helping Camp AmeriKids, they hope that the success of Acapelooza will help spur interest for other events this semester, including a speaker panel and a 5K run, co-sponsored by UGBC. “We’re a small
group, and we’re trying to really expand,” said organization treasurer Neal Shah, A&S ’14. “The point was to raise awareness of who we are and what we do and to raise money for this cause. And I really think that we hit every goal that we had going into this show. That gives us motivation for our next event.” “We’re looking to do big events this semester,” Bodair said. Although much of the e-board will graduate this semester, the members expressed hope in the future of the organization. “We’re absolutely hoping that this event will help raise our visibility on campus,” Daughterty said. “We’re hoping people come here and see that this is a great event, and I look forward to seeing it again next year. Unfortunately, we’ll be gone, but we’re looking forward to coming back. We’re hoping that next year, it will be sold out. That’s the goal.” n
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A cappella groups sing to promote awareness
BCPD named ninth college in Mass. to receive accreditation
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet discusses writing style at Lowell Series
Last Thursday, Tracy K. Smith discussed the influences of science fiction on her writing and the development of her poetry.grAhAM beck / heights senior stAFF
The BC AIDS Awareness Committee hosted a cappella groups to raise funds for Camp AmeriKids, a summer camp for children living with HIV/AIDS.eMily FAhey / heights editor
‘Acapelooza,’ from A1
By NathaN McGuire
Asst. News Editor Catholic Memorial School, an all-boys school in West Roxbury, Mass., announced on Friday, Feb. 14 that it has selected Peter Folan, BC ’97, as the school’s fourth president. Folan, who earned a master’s degree from the Lynch School of Education (LSOE) and a doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania, has worked in secondary and higher education for 17 years. He has taught high school English, coached varsity wrestling, and worked as the assistant director of program management in the Office of First Year Experience at Boston College for the past six years. Education had always been Folan’s calling in life. One of his earliest childhood memories was one of him playing on the campus of Belmont Hill School with his best friend, whose father was the school’s president. That was in kindergarten. Folan went on to attend the school some seven years later as a student and then taught English there later in his life. Although he always felt compelled by education, it was not until his sophomore year at BC that he decided on that path. He recalled that Rev. Bill Lambert, S.J., a priest and then the volunteer coordinator within the Campus School, pushed him to consider a career in education. “He pointed out to me something that I had already known, but I just didn’t listen to, so that’s been a big part of my life,” Folan said. “A calling toward
the education of young men and boys is something that has been a hallmark of what I have wanted to do.” Folan listened to Lambert and started to take classes in LSOE his sophomore year, and he earned a master’s degree in the school’s five-year program. Catholic Memorial’s appointment of Folan was a culmination of a nine-month long national search, in which 10 candidates were screened and interviewed. The school’s committee charged with finding the next president unanimously agreed to hire Folan for the job. “In Peter we have found a president who will be a powerful leadership presence in the CM community,” said the Catholic Memorial press release announcing the school’s decision. “Peter is an approachable leader with a passion for educational excellence, a belief in the Catholic Memorial mission, and a commitment to preparing boys for a global future.” Catholic Memorial educates boys in grades seven through 12 and is part of the Christian Brothers Schools of Boston. After earning his master’s at BC, Folan went on to teach English at Avon Old Farms School, a prestigious all-boys boarding school in Connecticut. He also coached the varsity wrestling team there. After his first year at Avon, Folan’s mother was diagnosed with leukemia, so he returned home to Belmont to
be with her and started teaching in Belmont public schools. He taught there for a number of years and coached the varsity wrestling team at Lexington High School. The students of Belmont High School recognized him with a Teacher of the Year award, but he began to question his career path. “I did that for a number of years and wasn’t so sure if I was going to stay in the educational field,” he said. “I think that third or fourth year teachers always start to wonder whether it’s the field [they] want.” Just around that time, Belmont Hill—the high school Folan graduated from—called and offered him a job as an admissions officer, English teacher, and varsity wrestling coach. Folan accepted and enjoyed his time at Belmont. In 2006, BC called to offer him a job in the Office of First Year Experience. Folan returned to his alma mater—the same school where his mother and wife graduated—and has since led programs such as the 48Hours retreat. “I think I’ve learned more maybe than I have given to the students that have sat in my office, and that has given me such great confidence as I leave Boston College to know that there is nothing I would be uncomfortable with students and parents talking with me about,” he said. For the past two years, Folan has taught a course about gender with Women’s Resource Center Director Katie Dalton. The course, titled “Thinking about Gender,” is part of the University’s
Cross Currents Seminar program. “In many ways, I noticed when I first came to Boston College, that I saw in freshmen that same look in the eyes that I saw in middle school [students],” he said. “They’re trying to figure out how they’re supposed to be and who they’re supposed to be.” Folan said that he does not prefer one age group to the other, but that both offer exciting and unique experiences. He hopes to take what he learned about students during his six years at BC to better prepare the students at Catholic Memorial, where he will begin in July. Specifically, he said he will evaluate the school’s retreat programs to see how they
prepare the students for life. “It’s been interesting for me to go through that discernment process that I’ve spent so much time helping students consider,” he said of his decision to accept the Catholic Memorial job. “I think the hard part is when you have two great options like I had.” Fo lan’s t ime at B C ha s b e en formative for him—as a mentor for seniors who lead 48Hours and as a guide to all students who come knocking on his office door. His decision to take the Catholic Memorial job was a difficult one, but one that he believes will allow him to influence the impressionable lives of young men. n
Folan to leave BC after appointment as president of Catholic Memorial
Folan, BC ’97, will leave BC to assume his new role as the president of Catholic Memorial.juseub yoon / heights stAFF
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LETTEr TO THE EDiTOr
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Thank you so much for keeping the Campus School. This means so much to our family since our sweet grandson, Jack, is a student there. We are so happy for Jack but we are also so happy for all of the students this wonderful school
has touched, is touching, and will touch in the future.
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Peter Folan, BC ’97, was tapped by Catholic Memorial School last week to serve as its fourth presi-dent. For the past six years, Folan has served as the assistant director of program management in the Of-fice of First Year Experience (FYE), having worked in education since he graduated from Boston College with a master’s degree in education in 1999. Catholic Memorial is a Christian Brothers school in Bos-ton that educates boys in grades seven through 12.
During his time at BC, Folan has been instrumental in the de-velopment of 48Hours, a freshman retreat offered by FYE. In that capacity, he has worked especially
with seniors, preparing them to be leaders of the retreat. He has also contributed significantly to FYE, even beyond his work with 48Hours, through the mentoring he offers freshmen. Outside of that office, he has co-taught a course on gender as a part of the University’s Cross Currents Seminar program.
While Folan’s departure marks a loss for FYE and the University, it is also a prestigious opportunity for which Folan deserves recogni-tion. It speaks very highly of both Folan and the University that he was selected to serve as Catholic Memorial’s president. BC should ensure that his successor in FYE is equally capable.
Gold Pass still has room to improve
Athletics should continue to seek student input, resolve kinks in Gold Pass
In past years, students received an email over the summer offering multiple season ticket packages for Boston College’s revenue sports. Entrance into games was limited to those students who had purchased tickets before they ran out, and at the beginning of each season, students would receive print-able tickets via email. This year, however, only one package—the Gold Pass—was offered. It was made available to all students and included paperless ticketing and access to all BC sporting events for a single price.
While its price point of $175 is higher than the individual prices for the previous football, men’s basketball, and men’s ice hockey packages, the cost of the Gold Pass is still a better deal considering the access that it grants. Although some fans expressed disappoint-ment at the beginning of the year that they could not buy season tickets to a single sport, the extra cost is more than made up for in the extra access that students receive.
Perhaps the most important ele-ment of the Gold Pass is the new points system that accompanied it. This system, which awards stu-dents points for attending sporting events, incentivized students to at-tend traditionally under-attended games. Usually, the demand for games was low enough that the system allowed for everyone who wanted to attend a game to do so. There were certain events, how-ever, such as the men’s ice hockey game versus Boston University, which required students to have accumulated a certain number of points in order to attend.
This ticketing system for high-demand games was beneficial in two ways. First, it increased at-tendance at most sporting events, and second, it created a way to decide which students got to at-tend high-demand games. In the past, the first students to purchase tickets over the summer were the ones who got to go to these games—hardly an equitable way to make such a decision.
Although the Gold Pass was a success overall, like any new sys-tem, it has its kinks. Some students studying abroad complained that the points system was unfair to them, since they had no oppor-tunity to accumulate points dur-ing the fall semester. The athletic department has stated that it has a method for dealing with this problem, however, it was not clear whether students returning from abroad were aware of this.
Another problem that ha s
emerged is the lack of guidelines for exactly how points can be earned. While it is clear that at-tendance at games is necessary, there are details that are unclear, such as when students can show up to a game and how long they have to stay to receive points. With the current system, some students simply show up to a game, swipe in, and then immediately leave, which hardly seems fair to the students who come and watch the whole game.
One way to address this would be to require students to swipe in by a certain time—for instance, before halftime at a basketball game—and then to have students swipe their IDs as they are leaving the game as well. While this is not necessarily the most convenient way to make sure people are not simply check-ing in and then checking out, it is one way to stop what has become a noticeable phenomenon at games. Additionally, problems with IDs not swiping correctly, and a policy for what happens if a student shows up to a game and has forgotten his or her ID, should be addressed.
Finally, a major issue currently facing the Gold Pass is how it can promote attendance at spring sports. While giving games with low expected turnout high point values, offering bonus points for showing up early, and designat-ing some games as “double point” games has helped boost student appearance, with the last high-de-mand game having passed, there is little incentive to go to any more games. Assuming that points do not carry over from year to year, there is not currently a reason to gain more points other than the desire to appear on the “Top 10” leaderboard on the Rewards website. Offering a 10 percent carryover of points from year to year, which amounts to no more than five points for most Gold Pass holders, could solve this problem by allowing students to gain a mod-est head start for next semester. It also addresses the issue of senior priority, which was raised during the year.
Another way to encourage at-tendance at spring sports would be to offer perks to the students with the most points, such as bus rides to Hockey East games, trips to away football games, or the opportunity to watch a game with Athletic Di-rector Brad Bates. These are cur-rently only a few enticements that would surely motivate more students to come out to the spring sports, and the athletic department should look into even more creative ways to incentivize these games.
Folan’s departure marks loss for FYE
Peter Folan has prestigious opportunity to bring BC-style mentoring to high school students
The following letter is in response to “University, parents aim to keep Campus School at BC,” an article by Connor Farley, originally published on 2/13/14:
It’s approaching two years (shudder) since I graduated from Boston College, a fact with which I have finally come to terms. This process has been helped along by return visits to campus where Stokes Hall has finally been completed, where O’Neill Plaza is no longer a cement for-tress, and where our once beautiful Quad has been rendered unrecognizable and utterly char-acterless. When you graduate, BC moves on, preparing itself for the future and the next class of Eagles. You will always carry your memories of BC, but BC will march forward without even noticing that you are gone.
However, there is one exception. BC will al-ways remember you as a source of money. I can’t even begin to tell you how many emails I have received from BC asking for a donation. Do you want a BC calendar? Donate. BC is in the Bean-pot! Donate. The Beanpot is tonight! Donate.
I get it. Donations are important. They help to fund the things we love about BC, as well as giving BC the chance to move up in college rank-ing surveys, thereby enabling us to feel ever more proud of our degrees. But I’ve finally reached the point where BC’s never-ending quest to squeeze every last dime out of us has disgusted me.
Recently, I received an email from my local alumni chapter informing me of a Mass to be
celebrated at Georgetown with Dean Joseph O’Keefe. Realizing that it has been quite some time since I’ve attended Mass, I thought this would be a great opportunity to reconnect with my Catholic self.
But this being BC, there’s a catch—you have to pay to attend this Mass. Really? I have to pay to attend a Mass being held for alumni? Granted, the cost is only $15 dollars, but is BC really so money-hungry that it needs to ask us to pay to go to Mass? While there is a reception being held afterward, I don’t feel the need to gorge myself on free food and drink (assuming it is even free). It would be lovely to share time in the BC and religious communities, but I don’t feel compelled to pay to do so.
Perhaps it was naive of me to believe that I would ever be anything more to Boston College than a dollar sign—a source of income for four years and then hopefully a donor until death.
I write this as a warning to the Class of 2014. I wish I had known that once I walked across the stage at Alumni Stadium, I’d be nothing more than a stream of income to the place I love so much.
JaninE a. HanraHan
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then invaluable. Which doesn’t seem fair, because what the hell does “practical” mean anyway? Never mind that the word “poetry” (what he feels he’s intimately taking part in in so many ways) means “a making” in ancient Greek, he gets the feeling that “practical” doesn’t mean what “practical” means. He gets the feeling that “practical” is just some concept someone with leverage uses to rope young innocent people into doing something for them on the cheap. So, he thinks, by transitive property, getting taken advantage of is valuable? It doesn’t make sense. But what choice does he have?
He has five choices, he realizes. Five choices available to him right now. UIS stares. He plays the game he’s played so many times before. What if he didn’t switch from classics? He goes to the portal and checks his GPA, remembers it is rock solid. Which, why? He wonders. It’s not like the material is easy. By Jupiter, it is not. He thinks of times he spent up late studying, and how, amid The Clouds, or Horace’s Odes, his mind becomes some sort of whirring thinking-feeling machine but better—a human, in other words—and how the library walls seem to drip away and he’s just lost, but lost as in Waldeinsamkeit or Wordsworth, not lost as in searching for value in something meaningless. What a pleasure that is, he thinks. He thinks about how important that is to him. How valuable that is.
He returns to an earlier question. What for? Because someone told him this is the way, he realizes, someone who might actually believe it’s the way, someone whose way this actually is, but for damn sure didn’t know what he, the classics major, was about. And what is he about? What are his values? What matters to him?
Isn’t this the time to find out, he thinks? Bravely he makes his five decisions.
tributed to global warming, many have started to question how changing temperatures will now affect the feasibility of the Winter Games in the years to come. For Vancouver in 2010, 300 truckloads of snow were brought to the event to make up for the lack of snow and ris-ing temperature. However, temperatures have always (obviously) been of main concern when hosting the winter event.
When reading an article in National Geo-graphic about the climate change and its effect on the Winter Olympics, I was introduced to the studies of Daniel Scott. Scott and his team have analyzed the locations of the past 19 Games, ultimately determining that all previous host cities would, at the moment, be capable of still hosting the Winter Olympics. However, Scott has proclaimed that by the “midcentury” only half of these cities will be capable, and by the “late century,” only six would be able. As many of us look forward to the winter events, and as it has become a tradition of nationalistic, friendly competition, perhaps we are all now forced to question what the future holds. While I could be called somewhat of a “greenie” and have already often feared the future implications of the world’s current disregard for the environment, perhaps these Games have now opened the eyes to many who previously did not really pay attention. What if we could never again hold the Winter Olympics?
In addition to the unpredictable warmth that competitors have endured in Sochi, why would the IOC pick Sochi if they sought a city that could promise transparency? Reporters covering the Games have continually brought up their confusion and have been unable to discern where all of the money is going. Costing at least $50 billion, according to USA Today, a third of this total amount has been lost. Talk about transparency … but, in Russia, this is no anomaly.
The topic of Russia, and what seems to be Vladimir Putin’s never-ending reign, has been brought up for years. During my senior year in high school, I took a Comparative Politics class in which we studied Russia. My study of the country has taught me about the question-able goals of Putin, an ex-officer of the KGB who then moved into the political realm. Things started to grow fishy in 1999 with
President Boris Yeltsin, under whom Putin was responsible for relations with regional governments. Suddenly, in August of 1999, Yeltsin replaced his Prime Minister with Putin. By December of the same year, Yeltsin gave up his presidential office and put Putin in charge instead. Since then, Putin has weaved through the powerful seats of the executive—switch-ing with Dmitri Medvedev to serve as prime minister and then returning to presidential office again.
While Putin seeks to place Russia as a leading nation once again, is a life free of corruption and misdoings forever impossible in the Russian world? USA Today announced that a study by the Global Financial Integrity in February of 2013 had discovered that over $200 billion had been lost to “illicit financial outflows stemming from crime, corruption and tax evasion from 1994 to 2011.” This proves a problem for the people of Russia, for such money could be used to better their own lives and state of their country. A country starved of its financial wealth does not seem to have a promising future of global leader-ship, especially when it has corruption rooted in its system.
The $50 billion that was apparently spent on this year’s Games did not prevent a variety of problems from occurring, as images of bizarre toilets to brown water to malfunction-ing door locks spread across the web. Many have been astounded to discover the condi-tions of the event, especially when it is the most costly Winter Olympics in the history of the Olympics. A country that declares itself a democracy fails to live up to the democratic promise of transparency, as truckloads of money constantly disappear from the nation. Where is all of this money going, and what does the future hold for Russia? Being a host of an Olympic event is a position worthy of re-spect and attention for every city that has been granted the opportunity. But perhaps this is a platform the Russians should have avoided, as now the world has focused so much attention on the country that its mysterious mishaps are in the spotlight.
value of knowing Marcus Aurelius’s Medi-tations in the original? Plutarch’s Lives? What good is “in the original” when translations are readily available? The world around him tells him one thing. It says, “The world is in translation, man, welcome to the world-wide culture; the power of connection, man; translation in action, man.” Which he sees the merit of, in a sense, he really does. After all, that’s how he first got interested in classics. But translation for the sake of translation is what he used to do, when he was in high school just trying to figure out what the hell was going on. No question, he trans-lates like that now, but it’s just the first step, and he feels, with every new text he reads, like that first step is disappearing—he doesn’t need it anymore, the words themselves come to him as they are. The world of the text opens up, then. There’s a connection. Sensations—it’s almost physi-cal. It’s that moment of almost-telekinetic communication for which he burns. But when he thinks about this, he sighs. Tele-communication is so different. It’s just different. What about the original?
Let’s go back to where he is—he’s sitting there, and he’s about to type “7”, hit enter, etc., etc. He’s just been thinking about language, and now his mind turns to something else. If indeed he commits to his new two majors, what is he com-mitting to? What for? It isn’t the thought of econ or accounting in themselves that make his stomach turn a little. The Latin vomitorium flashes. He has friends who genuinely care about the subjects, find them intellectually stimulating, and treat them seriously. He has no problem with that, and god, if only everyone felt that way about what he or she does. And sure, they’re practical, but practical in itself isn’t bad either. Somebody has to do things to run this place. It’s just that the term practical value skeezes him out. It makes things black and white, or, it makes any value a function of practical. He dislikes that he sees it like this, but he does—if practical, then valuable, if not,
Medals of Honor - Recently the White House announced that it would be awarding Medals of Honor to 24 Army veterans from WWII, and the Korean and Vietnam wars that may have been overlooked for the most prestigious decoration in the U.S. military because of their race, ethnic-ity, and/or religious affiliation. The Department of Defense conducted a rigorous review of veterans honored in that time period to ascertain how many soldiers were overlooked for discriminatory reasons. Out of the 24, three are still living and will at-tend a ceremony at the White House on Mar. 18. Though a little belated, it’s still good to see them getting the recognition they deserve.
BC nurses - It has come to our at-tention that this weekend was a particularly rough one on the Boston College campus. For some studetns, Spring Break just cannot come soon enough, and they took it upon them-selves to begin celebrating this week-end. As a result, the Infirmary saw an increased influx of students, as some people could not contain themselves and partied just a little bit too hard. Luckily, the nurses in the infirmary stepped up their game to attend to the many patients they saw that night. We would like to extend to them a Thumbs Up for all of their hard work this weekend.
MoCk Trial kids - Yesterday, there were a bunch of outsiders infiltrating our home turf on the Heights and they were in the form of participants in a BC-run mock trial. While we recognize the value in opening up the campus for events—it does bring prestige to BC, after all—we would really like it if we did not have to wait in excruciatingly long lines in Mac to get a lunch-time omelet.
Hell Week - Without fail, there are always the same crunch times every single year—the two days before Thanksgiving, the three days before Easter, both weeks before finals, and the week before Spring Break. Well, folks, today marks the beginning of one of those times. When all we can think of are our impending trips to somewhere warmer, it seems as if all of the professors in the University have conspired to make this week miserable. Look, we understand that the concept of the “mid-term” onto-logically dictates that said exams be in the middle of the term, but come on, that can be a flexible range of dates. There is really no reason that every mid-term needs to converge in the one-week period before break. Some could be in the one-week period after break, and that would still be roughly the middle of the term.
sHeeTs of iCe - These are dangerous, conniving creations. They are surrep-titiously hidden around the vicinity of BC just waiting to trip us up. As things seem to be thawing these days, we just can’t wait for these sheets of ice to turn into nasty puddles into which we will likely fall.
Canada - You have thwarted us yet again, Canada! We are angry and bitter that our Olympic dreams have been crushed by you eh-saying, maple syrup chugging, Canadian-bacon eat-ing, Justin Bieber-producing Canucks. We would be more angry, but we can’t bring ourselves to do anything about it because you are so damn nice about it. We wouldn’t be surprised if you were up there north of the border apolo-gizing to your local neighborhood American for beating us.
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The Olympics in review
Time is in our hands
Jaclyn Susskind is a staff columnist for The Heights. She can be reached at [email protected].
The classics major, one of the last, is staring into the black depths of UIS. People say it’s ancient, UIS, but he knows that word. The word itself, the construc-tion of it, he knows, too. Latin roots are more than just SAT tips in his eyes—they’re how he sees the world. Anyway, he loves that so much of English is the great-great-great-etc.-grandchild of Latin and Greek. How many times were these words spoken, in how many different lips belonging to what unfathomable assort-ment of people? Ante. How did “ancient” spring forth Athena-like from that? Every word is its own little story—an epic one, he believes, and he sees it as just about divinely fitting that the records of its best usage are epic themselves, such profound and human tales. Odysseus and the triumph of human spirit! Achilles and the sacking of Troy! Aeneas and the founding of Rome! Grand histories, panegyrics, en-comia! Sometimes he looks at the world speeding past him at megabytes/second and asks, “Where has that vitality gone?” The ancient is more present than the present. Yet, what is presently going on is the classics major is staring into the black depths of UIS, about to type “7”, hit enter, and sign up for macroeconomics, then search four more times, twice for econ courses, twice for accounting courses and, finding them, hit enter four more times.
Because, despite all that he had just been thinking about, the beauty of language, the profundity of spirit, the joy of knowledge, he has been consumed recently with the notion that he, classics major, isn’t exactly employee material. What he means is this—What good is a classics major? What is the practical
As the 2014 Winter Olympics have now come to a close, we have the privilege of reflecting on this year’s games. The biggest question I have come to ask myself is, was Sochi the right choice? How did it even get chosen in the first place?
In 2007, after two years of debates, the In-ternational Olympic Committee (IOC) made the executive decision to host the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. President of the IOC Jacques Rogge has previously declared on the Olympic website that the Committee takes two years to make its selection “to ensure that the city that is elected is capable of hosting the Games and that the process is transparent for all involved.” And so, naturally, it seems that Russia is the most entitled of options, with its heaping pile of transparency.
While there have been many uncontrol-lable factors that have caused these Games to be extremely strenuous to host, we have simultaneously been given more insight to the mysterious world of Russia.
The IOC chose Sochi over Salzburg, Austria. But why? For a Committee that strives for a location that is both capable and transparent, Salzburg, to me, is clearly the right answer. This year’s Olympiad has con-tinuously struggled from weather conditions, with temperatures never dropping below 40 degrees Fahrenheit and reaching 60 degrees Fahrenheit on several days. Those in Sochi had prayed for snow prior to the beginning of the Games, but were forced to resort to arti-ficially producing snow. As a result, they have produced enough snow to cover 500 football fields, according to The New York Times. While the IOC could obviously not predict these weather conditions years in advance, these temperatures are not too abnormal, says National Geographic. Sochi will most likely be the warmest winter Olympic event in history. While the increasing warmth is some what at-
The classic adage, “Never talk about religion, politics, or football” exists because, as polite, mild-mannered citizens, we are taught that it is not proper to start a conversation that might create conflict, awkward silence, or a back-and-forth that might not end. So, what do we do? We comment on the weather, the endless drudge of exams, and how terrible BU is—in short, everything upon which we can agree. Yet, there is still something else that perhaps gets talked about even more than any of these topics. It is something that affects everyone and is universally lamented—time. Time is one of the few things that every sentient creature on Earth experiences equally, in the sense that every minute and day is the same for all and more can’t be bought. In addition, it is the only state of being that we experience that is totally ours to do with as we wish, for time is what the events of our life are made of. With these conditions, it is safe to say that time should be our friend, but mostly it seems to be working against us, and that is definitely something that everyone has felt.
Time usually has a good pace when we are young. It never seems to fly by too quickly or go by too slowly, but somehow, once we become older, it seems that time is never on our side. I mean, I’m still trying to grapple with the fact that midterms are happening and Spring Break is next week. What’s even worse is that, after Spring Break, we are practically at the middle of the entire year. Didn’t 2014 just begin? Now it’s almost over? And even when times are great, it seems to go by way too quickly as well. As a senior, I began this academic year with the intent of living it to the fullest, and even though I have had a great time, I am already in the middle of my last semester as a college student. Yet, time is also slow. Everyone has had a moment that felt like an eternity and usually it’s an incident that was either completely embarrassing or just plain boring. Maybe you recall a time when you had a presentation and as soon as you got up there you forgot everything that you were supposed to say. Or maybe you’re stuck in a Calculus class and everything just sounds like Chinese to you. When seen under this light, there is very little to be thankful for with regard to time. Happiness and fun fly by and the dull moments drag on. We seem to be just enslaved to a tread-mill that runs at various paces over which we have absolutely no control.
That may be what we feel, but when we really look at what time is, then it seems impossible for it to work against us. Time is the canvas on which we paint our lives, so it can’t fight us—it is there for us to experi-ence love, joy, perseverance, and everything in between. Thinking about how long or how short time is only distances ourselves from the reality that time has given us the present moment to fulfill our dreams, and that’s happening right now. Probably our best moments have been experienced when we actually realize this and it can be in the most mundane moments. For example, I was sitting outside in O’Neill Plaza in late April watching people walk by to class (more like run), hearing the bell ring above the chatter of some students passing out pamphlets or coupons, and smelling the scent of spring in the air (which, at BC, smells like freshly fallen rain, flowers, and outdoor burgers!), and it seemed as if time had stood still. I could simply enjoy the moment by not thinking about the daily task list, not being glued to the iPad, and not wondering how long this feeling would last. So, when we feel tempted to curse at that damn clock for ringing, or feel like you can’t catch up with the day, thank that feeling, because when we feel time is slipping through our hands, it reminds us that time is in our hands. So here’s to time! As a senior I’ve learned to appreciate and respect it, (and not complain about how soon midterms have appeared!).
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BY CAMERON HARDING
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3 Days To Kill is nothing short of an incoherent disaster—unworthy of even the most modest ticket price. Directed by Joseph McGinty and written by Luc Besson and Adi Hasak , this action thriller follows the story of Ethan Renner (Kevin Costner), a former CIA opera-tive trying desperately to win back the
affection of his es-tranged daughter, Zoey. Af-
ter being diagnosed with brain cancer, Ethan is approached by Vivi (Amber Heard), a “sassy” (though “promiscuous” and “witless” may be better descriptors) secret agent who offers Ethan an “experi-mental drug” to alleviate his condition. In exchange, Ethan must help Vivi hunt down two of the most forgettable vil-lains in recent film: “The Albino” and “The Wolf.”
There are simply too many issues with this film to compact in one review, but let’s start with the cast. To his credit, Costner gives a solid effort in portraying Ethan. If nothing else, Costner makes the film almost tolerable. Zoey (Hailee Steinfeld) is everything you’d expect in a stereotypical 16-year-old brat with daddy issues: she’s moody, annoying, and utterly unlikeable. Vivi is a complete anomaly. It’s hard to fathom how bizarre, obnoxious, and uninteresting this char-
acter is. She resembles a 12-year-old boy’s impression of what a strong, sexy, international spy would be. In all likeli-hood, Heard was probably cast just to fulfill the “hot chick” quota. The other characters barely do anything and aren’t even worth mentioning.
The action plot is simply ridiculous. Why Vivi relies so heavily on Ethan, what the Wolf ’s and the Albino’s plans are, and why any of it matters remain a mystery. Vivi mentions how Ethan is qualified because he is dying and therefore has nothing to lose (except of course his daughter). While Ethan may be a great shot, the ailing cancer patient hallucinat-ing on experimental drugs who collapses every time his target is within his sights and passes out may not be the best man for the job. Sure, this is a big action film, no one expects total realism, but the lapses in logic are so profound that the result is a convoluted catastrophe.
3 Days to Kill is a surprisingly strange blend of comedy, family drama, and ac-tion. It’s fairly pathetic how McGinty poorly integrates these elements in a cluttered mess of “what am I even watch-ing?” For example, McGinty likes to use cheap humor during multiple torture/interrogation scenes. It’s impossible to determine if Ethan is supposed to be a badass or just a quirky father. The jokes are bland, awkward, redundant, and forced—crickets will probably have a heyday with this movie.
The father-daughter relationship is riddled with endless cliches. The same
conflict is hammered into the audience again and again: Ethan wasn’t around for Zoey because he was too busy shooting bad guys. Ethan’s redemption manifests in boring scenes involving flying swings, drinking cocoa, and teaching Zoey how to ride a bike. McGinty relies heavily on painfully generic and schmaltzy music to convey every single emotion. The biggest problem with the family drama element is that it consumes so much of the two-hour runtime that it’s easy to forget that 3 Days to Kill is an “action thriller.”
The biggest irony of 3 Days to Killis that the action sequences, which are the least terrible part of the film, unfortunately coerce the movie into an absolute tonal nightmare. Aside from shoot-outs and chase scenes, all of which leaned more toward realism, nearly ev-erything else in McGinty’s film suggests it was meant to be somewhere between a goofy comedy and family drama. We go so quickly from Ethan and Zoey sip-ping cocoa to Ethan taking a shotgun shell to the chest: the effect is dizzying. The editing seems noticeably jumpy and the tone shifts so dramatically back and forth throughout the entire film that it’s unclear if 3 Days to Kill was even meant to be taken seriously.
Overall, there is absolutely no reason to waste time and money on this movie. 3 Days to Kill’s biggest fault is that it’s not even bad enough to be entertain-ing. Some movies are terrible but can still be thoroughly enjoyable—this isn’t one of them.
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� e second season of Netfl ix’s House of Cards premiered Friday, Feb. 14, a little more than a week ago. And when I say premiered, I mean Net-fl ix unleashed all 13 episodes of its “prestige” drama into the wild to be de-voured by a legion of couch potatoes.
What could have been a quiet or even a wild Friday and Saturday night became a stressful one. Should I click Play Next? It’s 1 a.m. and I could sure use some sleep, but another hour wouldn’t hurt too much. Shoot, here comes the countdown. Fifteen seconds until Netfl ix plays the next one for me. What’s another hour of mood lighting and Frank Underwood’s deep baritone? Fine, you win, Netfl ix.
� is isn’t a phenomenon exclusive to House of Cards. Netfl ix releases all of its television in this format. But House of Cards is one of the only shows
Netfl ix produces on its own. It was the fi rst—the fl agship with the marque executive producer (David Fincher) and marque star (Kevin Spacey). And it’s a show cut and processed for just this splurging format. Watching House of Cards washes over you in a way that doesn’t particularly feel all that great, but by the time you begin to question how the show makes you feel or if you even like the show the next episode has already started itself.
If House of Cards premiered every week like any other network, cable, or premium show, I think we’d have enough time to think about how the show makes us feel. We’d have to time to surf the message boards or discuss the show on Twitter and Facebook. We’d be able to interact with the greater watching community, because whether we all watch it at its exact air time or not, we’d all be on the same general schedule. And we’d be able to realize that House of Cards isn’t that
great of a show after all, that most of its characters are one-dimensional—in-cluding Frank Underwood. � ose are perhaps loaded statements, because the show was conceived and produced for just this format—a format where one episode bleeds into the next, and the next, until we’re left with a pulpy mess at the end of the night that sure seemed good, just like the bags of chips that lay at your feet. It’s a format that feeds on and even creates loneliness.
� at’s tough to swallow. Because there’ve been times when Netfl ix has been one of the more important things in my life. Who needs friends when you have a Netfl ix account? Or more so, because Netfl ix accounts aren’t cheap, who needs more friends after you’ve found one with a Netfl ix account? Within the industry, Netfl ix has also proved invaluable. Without Netfl ix, Breaking Bad wouldn’t have had its thundering conclusion. Without Netfl ix, Scandal wouldn’t be set to
blow up next fall. But here, Netfl ix was the tool, not the nucleus. It helped get us all caught up. It helped fi nally connect us, so that after each weekly episode we could come together and commiserate.
But House of Cards isn’t bringing us together. You can’t tweet about the show, or you’ll be stoned for spoiling the plot for lethargic viewers. You can’t talk to your friends about it—assum-ing you still have some after spending seven consecutive hours watching the show—because they’re either behind or ahead of you.
Television, more than other ve-hicles of pop culture, is supposed to bring us together. It’s for families—or college friends—to snuggle into a re-clining couch and let the small screen whisk us away. But that’s just not how it is anymore. With laptops and DVRs galore, watching television is some-thing we do alone, or when we get lonely to pass the time. Netflix isn’t
going to change, and why should it? Why purposefully make life less con-venient? So this is our fate, for televi-sion to get better and better and for us to draw farther and farther apart. Maybe Her has had it right all along. Maybe if Netflix had Scarlett Johans-son talk to us while we watched House of Cards or Scandal we’d feel better about ourselves. But maybe if we found other human beings to watch Netflix with, we’d feel even better.
Does it have to be this way? Do we have to waste away alone but delight-fully entertained? No, I don’t think so, because while Netfl ix may be conspir-ing to coax and trap us in our rooms and basements so it can take over the world, it’s not that hard to escape. All you have to do is close your laptop—or better yet, open it with someone.
Trapped in ‘House of Cards’: the isolating effects of Netfl ix programsRYAN DOWD
Ryan Dowd is a staff columnist for The Heights. He can be reached at [email protected].
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never diminished, but their taste for works within this category has been evolving. In the ongoing MFA exhibition, voters’ top three favorites—which hold “a place of honor” near the entrance—reflect the preferences of art lovers nowadays. With 4,464 votes, Van Gogh’s Houses at Auvers (1890) beat out all other works in the collection, while Monet’s famous Water Lilies (1907) came in second with 3543 votes. Edgar Degas’ Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer (original model 1878–81, cast after 1921) was ranked third with 2,869 votes. As the only sculpture on display, the young ballerina stands proudly between the houses and the water lilies.
The captions for the top three are also evidence of what Bostonians think about the artworks they picked. If one is curious as to why the Van Gogh piece received more votes than Monet’s more famous works, he can find voter Jordan Spiers’ explanation in the caption—“Monet painted looking outward. Van Gogh, looking inward.” Meanwhile, it is interesting to see how present day voters’ views differed from the Impressionists’ con-temporary critics. For instance, Degas’ sculp-ture was seen as a “grimly realistic portrayal of a scrawny teenager” in his time, while voter Kelly Knight, who grew up in Revere, Mass., expressed her childhood attachment to it. She remembers that, as a little girl, the Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer was one of the first artworks that she “ever completely fell head over heels in love with.”
Even though the three favorites help to characterize the city’s taste for Impression-ism, the diversity of the rest of the collection reveals more details about the art movement itself and its connections to Boston. For ex-ample, the snow scene in Monet’s Boulevard Saint-Denis, Argenteuil, in Winter (1875) (“an unusually raw and somewhat unlovely glimpse of Argenteuil”) reminds visitors of what they see as they walk down the streets of Boston in the snow. Entrance to the Village of Vetheuil in Winter (1879), another painting by Monet, shows the more “lovely” side of a snowy day—as noted in the caption, “Monet’s rendering of freshly fallen snow appealed to New England audiences.”
The only American and the only female artist to appear in the exhibition with the French Impressionists is Mary Cassatt. Many of her works were images of modern women in everyday social scenes. Cassatt’s In the Loge (1878) is on display in the exhibit. It features a woman holding her opera glasses and looking not at the stage, but across at someone else. The question of what or at whom she is gazing triggers great curiosity in the observer, and this makes Cassatt’s piece stand out among the 30 Impressionist pictures.
The MFA’s Assistant Curator of European Paintings, Emily Beeny, wrote to visitors, “We must acknowledge that our tastes—why we like the things that we like—have a history.” This exhibition explores the history of Bosto-nians’ appreciation for Impressionist art and offers a snapshot of their views today. n
performers offered beautiful contrast to the sole male voice, while the guitarists provided a complementary layer that made up for the group’s small number of vocalists. The first song was followed by another popular one—Maroon 5’s “This Love”—for which percussion was added. By the end of the song, the entire audience was clapping along with the beat.
Up next was the non-denomina-tional, co-ed Christian a cappella group, Against The Current. The ensemble opened with a powerful and exciting rendition of “Shake It Out” by Flor-ence + The Machine. The lead vocalist probably could have gone without a microphone as her voice rang mightily throughout the lecture hall, demanding
the crowd’s attention. Her command-ing voice, paired wonderfully with the well-practiced background singers of the group, brought great energy to the performance. The group continued with the soulful rock ballad “Praise You In The Storm” by Casting Crowns and fin-ished with the spirited and enthusiastic “Joyful Joyful” (originally from Sister Act 2). The song featured a riveting call and response rap verse: the group questioned the audience, “You down with G-O-D?” to which every person in attendance was instructed to respond, “Yeah, you know me.” The excitement in the atmosphere was greatly apparent after the performance.
While the energy level in the lecture hall was high, the all-female ensemble The Sharps, wearing mostly red for AIDS awareness, took over for a short
performance. Starting with their own rendition of “Locked Out Of Heaven” by Bruno Mars, The Sharps captured the attention of the audience with a well-choreographed performance, fea-turing a powerful layer of background vocals and striking lead performance. The group followed with one of the most appreciated songs of the night, its own take on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s classic “Sweet Home Alabama.” “Sweet Home Boston College” included references to the basketball team’s recent win over the No. 1-ranked Syracuse Orange, the overall dreadfulness of South Bend, and BC’s most recent famous visitors, Kobe Bryant and Liam Neeson. The original and witty song drew laughter from all corners of the room.
Following The Sharps was the all-male group The Heightsmen, who—
upon taking hold of the microphones—was already receiving a round of cheers and applause from the audience. The cheers continued to emerge from the back right corner of the hall throughout their opening song, “Colder Weather” by Zac Brown Band and endured through-out the performance. The Heightsmen continued to rouse the crowd through songs like Stevie Wonder’s “Supersti-tion” and R. Kelly’s “Ignition.” The final song received perhaps the most praise, as the lead vocalists’ microphone failed just seconds into the song. He didn’t seem rattled at all as he dropped the mic on the floor and continued the song with even more energy, drawing an extremely positive reaction from the crowd. Once the technical difficulties were resolved, the final group prepared to give one of the leading performances
of the night. The Dynamics, a co-ed group, began
with a rendition of “Give Me Love” by Ed Sheeran—its interpretation was absolutely incredible. The audience responded accordingly with thunderous applause and praise. The collaborative continued to rock the lecture hall with “You Know I’m No Good” by Amy Winehouse and—perhaps the greatest single piece of the night—“The Cave” by Mumford & Sons. The complicated yet beautiful layers of background vo-cals supplemented the powerful and smooth lead vocals. The final words of the song triggered a wild reaction from the audience, eliciting a standing ova-tion from some members of the audi-ence. “The Cave” proved to be a fitting finale for a well-produced event for a great cause. n
Baker’s ‘Circle Mirror Transformation’ comes to Bonn Studio Theatre
‘Acapelooza,’ from A10
BC acts hold ‘Acapelooza’ charity event for Camp AmeriKids
John Wiley / heights editor
Degas’ ‘Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer’ greets guests entering ‘Boston Loves Impressionism.’
MFA surveys Boston’s taste for Impressionism in new exhibit
‘Circle Mirror,’ from A10
Daniel de Leon, A&S ’15, explored darker themes with his performance Saturday night, speaking from the persona of a ‘suicidal thought.’
‘Impressionism,’ from A10
of an acting studio, playing a counting game. Feeling out each other’s pauses, the five char-acters collectively try to count to 10, breaking silence with the next number in the sequence. Inevitably, the actors count over each other, and the exercise begins again.
At face, Circle Mirror Transformation is a narrative on failure—these characters are bound to fall short of what they set out to do, necessarily colliding along the way. Playwright Annie Baker, however, is eager to look beyond that. For her, it never especially matters what the characters are counting up to, or why they’re trying to get there—even the class itself never seems to fully under-stand the reasons for these games. Since there’s little motivation for the actors in the activities themselves, the focus is moved to the interaction in these seemingly trite classes. Circle Mirror Transformation is the story of the collisions along the way.
Director Maggie Kearnan, A&S ’14, paid particular attention to bringing out these small collisions hidden in the script. Audi-ence members sat on three sides of the stage and were positioned remarkably close to the action. There was a lot less potential to trick the audience when it sat at such a broad angle. The actors moved very organically about the stage—the show wasn’t blocked with any strong sense of geometric order. Even founda-tional ideas of movement didn’t seem to apply in Kearnan’s production. Movement had less to do with plot motives and an awful lot to
“Hope Killed The Ice Phoenix.”Lauren Audi, A&S ’14, centered some
of her work on femaleness, handling the subject with rich metaphoric language just as Kerr’s did. Her poem “Lady Bird” was her most intense—she spoke about feeling trapped in her body, saying, “I did not ask for this cage,” while wishing she could “fly away liberated from the perch.” Audi’s writing was striking in and of itself. It wasn’t interested “in preaching,” she said, but more “about beauty.” This focus on beauty was apparent throughout her entire performance—in a piece she deliv-ered half in Spanish and half in English, as well as in “Cherry Blossom,” a piece about coming to terms with senseless deaths, like Jordan Davis’s, Trayvon Martin’s, and her close friend’s from BC.
Death was a prevalent theme in many of the poems. Reading a short story that tried to tackle a number of big issues, including abuse, bullying, and suicide, freshman Karina Herrera ended her reci-tation with the startling image of a woman killing herself with a bullet to the head.
The last student performer of the night, Daniel de Leon, A&S ’15, also spoke on suicide, but in a much more direct way. He shared two poems that he hadn’t let
many people hear before, but he explained why he felt it was necessary they were heard now. “We don’t like to think about death,” he said. “We find things that make us happy instead.” His first piece, “Suicide Thoughts,” personified these thoughts by relating them through a first person speaker. The technique had a bold effect on the poem, arresting the audience’s at-tention as he ended with the provocative line, “I am a suicidal thought—that has become another suicide.”
Whether they spoke about death and depression, beauty and femininity, or something else entirely, the poets pos-sessed a close connections to their works. Fatin Yousif, A&S ’15, for example, read something she had written for her father. Her eloquent and personal ode was one of separation, loss, and redemption—of how although her father left his home in Sudan, he still “harbors his country’s music in his lungs.” She described how she and her brother sometimes forget to ask their father about his past, but also how they try to keep it alive. “Our father’s stories,” she said poignantly, “are not foreign to us.”
Jovani Hernandez, A&S ’16, also read a poem about immigration, dedicating it to his brother, who had come to visit and was sitting in the audience. Tentatively
titled, “His Story,” his poem was one of the strongest of the evening. It dealt with the obstacles a family faces when it leaves its home to live in America. He spoke about being placed in ESL classes, for ex-ample, and being discriminated against “because we read a little slower—I write slow,” he said. “But I write at the speed a Latino’s heart starts racing when they see their loved ones / Or the move-ment of their feet when their favorite song comes on / Or their willingness to pack everything and leave to a foreign country.” Closing the poem off, he said intently, “I can write fast / It just has to be our story.”
In addition to the spoken word pieces, SLAMnesty also featured a dance performance by female step team F.I.S.T.S. and The Black Hearted, a pair of student rappers featured on the recently released Chorduroy album. They sang three songs—one about vices, one about loss, and their single “Drunken Poets.”
Showcasing the breadth of talent at BC, SLAMnesty offered students an opportunity to explore hard issues in a welcoming environment. It proved students’ willingness not only to speak about and but also to listen to things that aren’t often discussed openly—it proved the power of the spoken word. n
SLAMnesty event focuses on tragedy, taboo‘SLAMnesty,’ from A10
John Wiley / heights editor
do with objects that incidentally fascinated, or had some simple functional purpose for the characters—an exercise ball, a mirror, an outlet to plug in an iPhone, a cubby for a backpack, a water bottle.
Lauren (Julia James, A&S ’17) is the youngest member of Marty’s acting class, a high school girl taking the class with the hope of preparing herself for the role of Maria in her high school’s upcoming production of West Side Story. As the class goes on, Lauren grows increasingly skeptical of Marty’s act-
ing games. Her role is particularly important to the play in that she carries many of the viewer’s doubts.
Lauren’s impatient, immature attitude toward the class mirrors the careless deci-sion-making of the adults around her. In one theater game, each member of the class is instructed to write down a secret no one has ever heard. The secrets are then shuffled and read anonymously in the circle. While Lauren’s silly response manages to draw a disapproving look from Marty, it’s a secret
presumably belonging to Marty’s husband James (Colin O’Neill, CSOM ’14) that proves to destroy a marriage.
Schultz (Ben Halter, A&S ’16) and Theresa (Sarah Devisio, LSOE ’14) strike up a romance in the class, only to have it complicated and then cast aside over the course of the summer. Schultz, perhaps the most visibly moved by Marty’s teaching, is a middle-aged carpenter, recently divorced but still wearing a wedding ring at the show’s start. Devisio and Halter have undeniable chemistry on stage, and
much of the show’s plot is driven by Schultz’ unwavering hopefulness—and hopeless pur-suit of Theresa.
Throughout the show, actors would incre-mentally drag open a curtain covering a giant mirror along the backside of the classroom. At first, the mirror seems to represent the growing self-awareness of the characters very neatly, but by the shows end, it becomes clear that these characters aren’t “developing” so much as colliding and falling apart again. The Circle Mirror Transformation suggests that the nature of people isn’t so open to change, but that circumstances are. It would take more than a summertime course to make Lauren a great actress, and more than a summer romance to heal the wounds of Schultz’ divorce.
In a cast of five, there’s no room for weak performances. Fortunately, the actors seemed to prop each other up. This was an unusual production in that no one took away or stole from the energy of it, a testament to Kearnan’s focus on the smallness of the show.
By the end of the show, the mirror at the back of the stage was reflecting more the audi-ence than the actors themselves. Fittingly, the play ends as it starts: with a theater game, but this one transforms into a real-life encounter. Schultz and Lauren are first just playing them-selves 10 years from the end of the class, but in time, it becomes clear they are themselves 10 years from the end of the class. It’s Baker’s reminder that theater, at its truest, is more than an abstraction of life—it is life, and it’s ever ready to start again. n
Alexandra Lewis, A&S ’14, plays Marty, the teacher of an adult acting class in Shirley, Vt., whose relationships are challenged by her work. eMily sAdeghiAn / heights editor
THE HEIGHTS Monday, February 3, 2014A8
BY ARIANA IGNERI
Assoc. Arts & Review Editor
Snaps and applause echoed in Gas-son 100 on Saturday evening, as eight of Boston College’s slam poets performed for SLAMnesty: Uncensored.
Sponsored by Amnesty International, the event’s goal was “exercising the right to freedom of expression through spoken word.” Each piece focused on diff erent themes, such as femi-nism, suicide, and immigration, but collectively, the poetry of the night sought to “bring topics not normally talked about to light,” as Genie Han, A&S ’15, said in her introduction.
� e atmosphere encour-aged honesty and intimacy, while the poets spoke about deeply personal issues and made themselves vulnerable to an unknown but eager audience. Guards were down—ears, minds, and hearts were open.
Amanda Espiritu, A&S ’14, was the fi rst to take the mic. Her opening poem, dealing with abuse, was sincere and raw. It was created from pieces of real interviews she had conducted. “No one dares draw attention to it / It’s not talked about,”
she said. “We have to act to make a change … We’re worth more than they say … Verbal or physical it’s not okay—abuse will never be okay.”
Espiritu’s second poem possessed the same quality of candor. She argued that the media fails to portray beauty correctly, making women obsess over things such as “bad hair days,” make-up,
and thigh gaps. “Your beauty is in your actions … Be sugar, be spice / Be more than everything nice,” she concluded.
Like Espiritu, other students were also concerned with issues of self-image and femininity. Haley Kerr, A&S ’17, shared three of her poems, one of which, titled, “Chocolate Chip Banana Bread,” had to do with her understanding of her sister’s anorexia. It was “written about beauty when I was 14,” she said,
“when my idea of beauty was very skewed.” Kerr’s poetry dealt with heavy topics but
explored them through cap-tivating language and vivid images—her other pieces were “Fireflies and Liberation” and
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Transformer: a new LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf has been issuing quite a few apologies lately, but instead of clearing things up, he seems to have been confusing people even more—so much so that James Franco wrote a New York Times Op-Ed piece this week trying to defend and explain the Transformers star’s behavior.
At the end of December, LaBeouf was ac-cused of basing his fi lm Howard Cantour.com not so loosely on a story by graphic novelist Daniel Clowes. He apologized on Twitter, admitting that he had “neglected to follow proper accreditation,” but the odd thing is, the tweet itself was plagiarized too. Now, there’s a mistake no form of remorse and no number of hashtags could ever fi x.
LaBeouf claimed, in an attempt to justify his actions, that the whole thing was for the sake of performance art—as if calling plagiarism art makes it acceptable (that’s an argument for another column, though).
Pushing the boundaries of art even further, LaBeouf arrived at the premier of his movie Nymphomaniac in Germany at the beginning of the month wearing a brown paper bag on his head. � e words “I AM NOT FAMOUS ANYMORE” were scrawled on it in sharpie and two holes were cut out for his eyes.
Getting caught plagiarizing is humiliat-ing, but accessorizing with an oversized lunch bag at a black tie aff air is neither a smart “critique,” like Franco called it, nor a wise solution. So, if this was LaBeouf’s way of proclaiming his aversion to, or his attempt to separate himself from celebrity culture, it failed miserably—because, ironically, LaBeouf is more “famous” now than he ever was before. Had he really wanted to “show up the media” and had the lifestyle he led truly bothered him, he would have been more successful if he just left Hollywood, rather than making a scene—talk about counterpro-ductive.
� e most recent of LaBeouf’s stunts, however, took place a week later when he opened a controversial gallery in LA. Titled #IAMSORRY, the exhibit featured him sitting silently in a chair with the now infamous bag covering his face. Viewers were allowed to sit before him and stare.
Like LaBeouf’s actions leading up to this performance project, #IAMSORRY begs the question: What is LaBeouf trying to do? And like his statement on the red carpet, it seems to be a giant, perplexing contradiction. After all, what is he apologizing for? For plagia-rism? For his poor red carpet manners? For the project itself, which some argue rips off of someone else’s artwork? If LaBeouf’s purpose was any of the above suggestions, the exhibit seems to stand opposed to all of them.
If it wasn’t a social critique or an apology, maybe #IAMSORRY was actually a work of art. But that’s debatable, too, since it could be plagiarizing Marina Abramovic’s � e Artist is Present, a piece in which Abramovic sat in the Museum of Modern Art for 750 hours—a living, human exhibition. For art to be art, it should be more or less original. Where does that leave #IAMSORRY, then?
While he supports it, even Franco isn’t 100 percent certain. “I think Mr. LaBeouf’s project, if it is a project,” he wrote, “is a worthy one.” He believes it’s LaBeouf’s eff ort to “reclaim his public persona,” but he doesn’t eliminate the possibility that the actor could be plain reckless or simply crazy. He’s no Louis Stevens anymore. Like former child stars Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears, he’s grown up, and retrospectively, his actions don’t seem to be too diff erent from theirs. Look at Cyrus’s provocative performance at the VMAs last year or Spears’ decision to shave her hair off in the 2000s. How is the public supposed to interpret these things—as art, commentary, or insanity? Or were these celebrities just taking back their “personas?”
Whether LaBeouf’s #IAMSORRY signals a psychological breakdown or an artistic breakthrough is still a contested topic—if nothing else, though, it proves that LaBeouf should’ve been clear about his intentions, at least if he wanted the public to take him seriously. If LaBeouf meant to apologize for his plagiarism, well, then he should’ve done that, but if he meant to make art, he should’ve made art. As of now, no one really knows what LaBeouf did, or has been doing, these last few months, but whatever the point of it all was—he should’ve left the hashtags out. #sorryiamnotsorry.
ARIANA IGNERI
THE FINER THINGS ‘Acapelooza’ hosted as benefi t for Camp AmeriKids
BY HARRY MITCHELL
Heights Staff
A few minutes after the scheduled starting time, a crowd began to roll into McGuinn 121, the intimate setting for “Acapelooza.” The performance featured five Boston College musical acts—they provided two hours of incredibly well-performed and choreographed music, all for the benefit of Camp AmeriKids, a non-profit organization whose mis-sion is to enhance the lives of youth living with HIV/AIDS and sickle cell anemia by offering a traditional summer camp experience. BC’s AIDS Awareness Committee charged a $5 entry fee for
“Acapelooza” and successfully raised over $1,000 to send a child to camp for one week.
Once the audience settled in and opening remarks were delivered, the not-so-a-cappella group Jammin’ Toast took the stage. With two guitar players, a percussionist, and three main vocal-ists, Jammin’ Toast provided some ex-citing cuts, playing a set that resonated well with audience. The group started with the song “Daughters” by John Mayer, a catchy and meaningful song on fatherhood that had the audience captivated. The voices of the female
JOHN WILEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR
Monet’s ‘Ravine of the Petite Creuse’ was one of the pieces Bostonians voted into the exhibit.
MFA opens crowdsourced ‘Boston Loves Impressionism’BY BETTY WANG
For The Heights
� e incredible power of technology and the Internet makes crowdsourcing a widely popular and eff ective method of decision-making. Recently, it has contributed to the organization of the exhibition Boston Loves Impressionism at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston—which will be open until May 26. For the fi rst time, the museum invited the public to choose their favorite Impressionist mas-terpieces, voting online during the month of January. � irty were selected from a list of 50 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works, to be put on display in the Lois and Michael Torf Gallery.
� e exhibition is exclusively Bostonian in
the way that it not only presents artworks by main Impressionists such as Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edgar Degas, but also sheds light on the history of Boston’s taste for Impressionism. Encouraged by American painters, particularly J. Foxcroft Cole and Lilla Cabot Perry, Bostonians began to purchase large numbers of Impressionist paintings in the late 19th century, when many critics in Paris still laughed at them. As more and more of these works appeared in exhibitions, such as the 1892 show of 21 Monet paintings by the Saint Botolph Club on Newbury Street, Impressionist artists captured the heart of the city of Boston.
Bostonians’ love for Impressionism
Jammin’ Toast, Against the Current, Sharps, Heightsmen, and Dynamics hold charity concert
CIRCLE
BY JOHN WILEY
Arts & Review Editor
One. Two. A pause. � ree. A longer pause. Four! Start again.
Circle Mirror Transformation starts as it ends: with a theater game. Set in a sum-mertime adult acting course, the play follows five residents of Shirley, Vt. as they learn arguably little about traditional theater, but a remarkable bit about themselves. Circle Mir-ror Transformation, presented by the Boston College � eatre Department, brought a living realist portrait to the Bonn Studio � eatre this weekend. It was a rare production that kept itself acutely concerned with character, avoiding traditional plot points and instead developing relationships through awkward and seemingly slight dialogue. Much of the plot kept entirely to the subtext—and many of the show’s most telling moments were silences.
� e show begins in medias res, with the four students and their teacher, Marty (Alex-andra Lewis, A&S ’14), lying on the wood fl oor
See ‘Circle Mirror,’ A9
MIRROR
EMILY SADEGHIAN / HEIGHTS EDITOR
EMILY FAHEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR
See ‘Acapelooza,’ A9 The Sharps performed parody ‘Sweet Home Boston College’ at ‘Acapelooza’ on Thursday.
See ‘Impressionism,’ A9
‘SLAMnesty’ confronts social taboo with poetryAmnesty International hosts evening featuring slam poets, rap artists, and F.I.S.T.S. dance group
See ‘SLAMnesty,’ A9
BASKETBALL PREVIEW
THE HEIGHTS 2014
SPRING
SPORTS
PREVIEW
COMING INTOFOCUS
The women’s lacrosse team is back
with a couple of powerful offensive
and defensive weapons, looking for
its fi rst NCAA tournament win.
WOMEN’S LACROSSE, SEE B8
The women’s lacrosse team is back
powerful offensive
weapons, looking for
its fi rst NCAA tournament win.
WOMEN’S LACROSSE, SEE B8
In his fourth year as head coach, Mike Gambino’s
vision for BC Baseball is reaching a turning point. See B4
After a diffi cult season, the
Eagles are back
with new pitch-
ing depth, hop-
ing to build on
last year’s offen-
sive high notes
and seeking a
more successful
year.
SOFTBALL,
SEE B6
GRAHAM BECK / HEIGHTS SENIOR STAFF
FEB. 24, 2014
2013 ERA: 3.88
27 hits in 2013
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NUMBERS DON’T LIELast season, the Eagles fi nished at the bottom of the ACC, and their
stats show it. Illustrated below are BC’s season totals, shown in comparison to the ACC average.
NUMBERS DON’T LIENUMBERS DON’T LIE
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THE HEIGHTSFEB. 24, 2014 B3SPRING SPORTS PREVIEW PROJECTIONS
SEASON PROJECTIONSWith veteran leadership, young talent, and bullpen depth, Boston College baseball has the potential to navigate conference play and make it to the ACC tournament in May.
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2014 SCHEDULE
Tom Bourdon
Chris ShawNick Colucci
Blake ButeraJoe Cronin
John HennessyGabriel Hernandez
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Eric Stevens
Tyler HinchliffeLuke Fernandes
IN THE BULLPEN
Johnny AdamsJoe Cronin
Johnny Adams
Nick Sciortino
Andrew ChinJohn Gorman
Logan Hoggarth
Nick PooreMike KingMichael StremJeff Burke
Bobby Skogsbergh
Jesse AdamsJustin Dunn
John NicklasEric Stone
2014 ACC TOURNAMENT
5/20-25
Wake Forest*3/23
even since I took over, knowing it was going to be a rebuild, and knowing it was going to take a couple years, and also knowing the character of what is now our senior class.”
Gambino’s vision for success is based around character and hard work, both in baseball and life. He’s built the core of his team around those ideals—his three captains, center fielder Tom Bourdon, infielder John Hennessy, and pitcher Eric Stevens have been through the ACC wringer over the past few seasons but espouse nothing but faith in the system, the team, and belief in what unrelenting effort can bring.
In his first season as head coach, Gambino brought the No. 8 jersey back into BC baseball. Before losing his battle with Hodgkin’s disease in the summer of 2000, Peter “Sonny” Nicta-kis—a two-year captain—had worn No. 8, and Gambino began a tradition of giving Sonny’s number to the player who best exemplified the spirit of BC baseball and handled adversity well. Returning as a captain, Bourdon is wearing Sonny’s number for the Eagles this season.
“To see the number of votes he got last year [for captain] as a junior was unbelievable,” Gambino said. “And then [he] did it again this year. The team also has a say in who wears No. 8, and to see how many votes he got for that, it’s amazing to see.”
Bourdon, Hennessy, and Stevens are the official ambassadors of Gambino’s team, but in the face of early adversity, the widespread accountability Gambino has worked to build into his squad is be-coming apparent. In the first weekend of regular-season play, senior catcher Nate LaPointe blew out his knee. With the starting catcher’s job thrown into question, LaPointe abandoned any allowances of self-pity and shifted immediately into a player-manager role.
On Wednesday night at practice in the bubble, Travis Ferrick, a newly established utility man, Nick Sciortino, a high school short stop turned catcher, and Stephen Sauter, a sophomore catcher, took
rep after rep from behind the plate, simulating a throw down to second. LaPointe stood on crutches a few feet away, watching on, offering criticism, advice, and encouragement.
“For a kid that got some not-so-great news that his season’s over—at best his season is over, at worst his career might be over, and we’re still kind of waiting on that—and to completely put himself on the back burner and say, ‘Well, now what can I do to help the team?’—his leadership has grown since that injury,” Gambino said. “Our three captains are guys that we know lead and we know are great leaders, and Nate has jumped right in there as well.”
THE HEIGHTS FEB. 24, 2014B4 SPRING SPORTS PREVIEW FEATURE THE HEIGHTSFEB. 24, 2014 B5
CHASING A
VISION After one of the worst seasons in the
history of Boston College baseball, head coach Mike Gambino believes his team
has the character and talent to win.
CONNOR MELLAS | SPORTS EDITOR
At a young 36 years old, Mike Gambino looks like a baseball player. Sitting at his desk wearing a maroon-and-gold Eagles baseball cap and a grey Boston College sweatshirt, it’s not hard to picture Gambino fielding
grounders in the infield or taking at bats for the Eagles—the player is still very much a part of the coach.
Gambino the manager has struggled far harder than Gambino the Birdballer ever did, though.
Fourteen years ago, Gambino finished his college baseball career in Chestnut Hill. After 166 starts in the middle infield, a career bat-ting average of .313, and first-team All Big East, All-New England and All-Northeast region honors his senior year, he graduated and headed for the Red Sox minor league system.
Fast forward to 2010. After stints scouting for Detroit and coach-ing at Virginia Tech, Gambino was chosen as the new head coach of the BC baseball team. Charged with a daunting rebuilding as-signment, he knew it would be a difficult challenge, one that would take time—his goal was long-term program success, not short-term team accomplishment.
History has shown that time is a commodity coaches can scant afford, and after three years, 51 wins, and 106 losses, many on the outside have lost faith in Gambino’s vision and the end game. Last year’s seemingly endless downward spiral led to calls for his job and spawned frustrated pleas for an intervention to stop the program’s bleeding.
Yet after three seasons with very little to show for his effort and even less to celebrate, Gambino sits in his office filled with confi-dence. As frigid, rain-sopped snow pounded Alumni Stadium out-side his window, he smiled, unable to contain his enthusiasm for the season ahead and the team he’s built. Gambino hasn’t lost faith.
“I don’t—I sort of want to be cautious about sounding too opti-mistic, but I love where this team is right now,” Gambino said last week. “I love our leadership, I love how the boys are working, I love our depth. This is a year that I’ve sort of been looking toward really
Bourdon makes the switch from No. 7 to No. 8.Four years ago, in his fi rst season in charge of BC baseball, Gambino began a tradition of bestowing the No. 8 jersey to the player that best exemplifi es the spirit of BC baseball and handles adversity well. The No. 8 Jersey honors Peter “Sonny” Nictakis, a former BC player and two-time captain who died of Hodgkin’s disease in 2000.
THE SIGNIFICANCE
OF 88 FOR SONNY
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Refl ecting on last season, Gambino said one of his mistakes was failing to truly prepare such a young team for how hard the ACC schedule would be. BC fi nished a dismal 4-25 in confer-ence play, with all four of those victories coming at the end
of the season when his team was seasoned by relentless play and lessons of defeat.
“For a group of kids who haven’t lost a lot of baseball games in their lives—all those freshmen and sophomores coming in—for them to realize that if you’re 15-15 in our conference then you’re a top-10 if not top-15 team,” Gambino said. “You might get swept on a weekend. You don’t want to, but you might get swept.”
By the end of the season, though, Gambino said the team was able to look ahead to next year, and the silver linings buried in loss after loss were emerging quickly.
“As discouraging as that record was—and none of us were happy about that record—there were a lot of really encouraging things at the end of last year,” Gambino said. “We sort of left last year, and everybody kind of looked around saying, ‘� is year stunk, but this program, we’re okay right now, and there’s some pretty good things going on.’”
One of those takeaways was the performance of Andrew Chin. Chin started 13 games and made 14 total appearances for BC, fi nishing the season with 45 strikeouts and a 3.88 ERA. � e redshirt sophomore has continued to improve this year, going 2-0 in his fi rst two starts with a .84 ERA and striking out seven batters in 10.2 innings pitched.
As a whole, right from the start the pitching staff looks much improved from last year. Stevens, Chin, and John Gorman round out the starting rotation, but an infl ux of freshman talent has provided the bullpen with much-needed depth. Mike King, Michael Strem, Bobby Skogsbergh, Justin Dunn, and redshirt freshman Luke Fernandes have emerged as viable relief options for the Eagles, as well as sophomores Jesse Adams and John Nicklas.
“� e freshman arms are going to have big roles, big roles out of our bullpen, and they’ve already earned trust about how they handle things right away,” Gambino said.
Behind the plate, the battle is wide open between Sauter and Scior-tino—either of the catchers could make a push for it—and Gambino said he believes they both have the ability to be very good ACC catchers.
One of the emerging talents on off ense last year was Chris Shaw, who led the team with six homeruns. � e 6-foot-3, 248-pound sophomore has quickly shown he can be the Eagles’ power hitter this year, batting .370 with a .667 slugging percentage and one homerun through seven games played.
After two weekends of games, BC is 4-3 , and has been, at times, resil-ient, dominant, and disappointing, winning big at Stetson but also failing in a ninth inning comeback.
Over the past few years, Gambino has faced a lot of challenges and a lot of problems. Now, with things looking up, he has a new hurdle: making his players believe that their success is real, not just a fl uke.
“I think one of our weaknesses could be an unfamiliarity with winning and being a really good team,” Hennessy said. “I think we have the potential to be a very good ACC team and make a run to the postseason. But just the fact that the last three years we haven’t made the postseason, so kind of building on that, is kind of like that fear of being really good—once we start making a run and becoming a really good team, it’s like ‘Wow, look at what we’ve done, what do we do now?’ I think that kind of works with our theme of not getting complacent and getting better every day.”
After three years of toiling through the regular season with no payoff in the end, the Eagles’ goal this season is to get to the postseason, to make it through the ACC tournament and to get to regionals. It’s not going to be an easy path. BC faces early away series at Miami and the University of Virginia, and then shortly after that, Florida State comes to town. Despite the talent this team possesses, it’s going to lose games, and in order to make the postseason, it must respond better to losses than it did last time around.
“It was pretty hard last year, going through a certain skid, but this year it’s just a diff erent makeup,” Stevens said. “I think we have the guys that
will surround each other and will pull together and be able to go through a tough time like that and be able to rebound and put something together. Hopefully that’s only one or two games, but you try and nip that in the bud early on.”
Gambino sits in his offi ce as the hellish mix of ice rain and snow continues in torrents outside his window. He refuses to use the northeast weather as an excuse—he says with the kids he’s recruited, adversity is that is the reason they’ll win, not the reason they’ll lose.
� e collection of objects arranged on Gambino’s desk is a testament to his coaching style. Among the as-semblage is a framed photo of his friend and teammate Sonny, a money clip given to him by a member of the last BC baseball team to make the College World Series, the St. Ignacius cup—an honor awarded yearly to one men’s and one women’s team that scores the highest in athletic performance, academic performance, overall citizen, and Baldwin points—a medal given to him by a BC graduate and Navy Seal team three member, and a plaque from his father, who passed away last year.
� e plaque faces outward so anyone sitting in front of his desk can see it. It reads: “� ere is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.”
Gambino’s vision of BC baseball is spread across his desk, represented in the monuments he’s collected: Build a team of closely-knit, hard-working, high-char-acter people and let them play for each other and their school—the wins will come as a result.
Gambino’s goal for the season is aligned with that of his team—to make the postseason—but on a broader scale, he wants to bring respect back for the program he loves and success for the senior class he loves.
“They came into a spot, I don’t know that they realized they were coming into a rebuild, and have been through the struggles and have worked so hard to get this thing going in the right direction,” Gambino said. “I’m excited for them to get paid off. I want nothing more than to watch these kids perform in a regional and for them to know how big of a part they had in getting us back to playing Birdball.”
For Gambino, much is riding on his fourth season. Achieve the goal of making the postseason, and his vision for a winning BC baseball program built on character and work ethic is one step closer to a reality. Lose like last season, and that vision could fail with him. He’s made mistakes and learned a lot over the past few seasons, and he’s smart enough to know that while this team has the potential to become great, it won’t happen overnight, and it’s going to require constant improvement. It’s going to take time, and there are going to be failed comebacks and series sweeps along the way. A vision doesn’t reach fruition simply from desire—it comes together game by game, individual wins and losses at a time.
“I tell the boys this and same for myself: Our job is to keep getting better every day,” Gambino said. “I defi nitely look back at some things I did over the fi rst couple of years and some mistakes I made and things that I would do diff erently, absolutely—and learning how to communicate better to a group of guys and learning how to develop guys. I hope I’m always getting better.”
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As practice wound down and everyone else cleared the field, Ferrick stuck around for extra reps from assistant coach Scott Friedholm as LaPointe watched on. Again and again he took the flip from Fried-holm, hopped out of his stance, tossed his mask, and gunned the ball to second. At one point, after hurling a ball that trailed to the right, Ferrick yelled “thank you,” and motioned as if to wrap it up. It was
a simple moment but a strangely telling one. Friedholm fired back “you’re not done yet,” and without a complaint or grimace—with only a chuckle, Ferrick yelled, “I was just saying thank you,” and dropped back into the stance to go back to work.
Gambino has had teams filled with character and hard workers before, but this Birdball edition is somehow different: There’s a new level of togetherness, a feeling of levity and focus, and a willingness to work being felt by the coaches and players. So far, BC has shown an ability to win, but has lost games in a frustrating fashion as well. During the first weekend of games, BC went down to Santa Clara early but fought back for the comeback win.
“We didn’t play great in the first couple of innings [of the Santa Clara game],” Gambino said. “In the past, you could just feel it in the past, when things went wrong like that it might have just gone away.”
This past weekend, that resilience was missing. BC went 1-2 in its series against Stetson, failing twice in come-back bids against the Hatters.
Gambino’s teams have had character and lost before. They’ve worked hard and lost before, too. At the end of a season, a team isn’t judged on its camaraderie—it’s remembered by its record. Whether success is the result of clubhouse chemistry and character or new talent, in the end, success—or lack of it—is what defines a season, and so far it’s been up and down for the Eagles.
While BC has a somewhat intangible and overwhelming feeling of togetherness, this team does have three visible things that have been sorely lacking in the past: depth, talent, and confidence.
Last year, Birdball was an extremely young team. BC dropped a lot of games and lost Bourdon to a hand injury for the last third of the season. The Eagles started the season losing early and often, at one point suffering 15 losses in a row. The coaches and team leaders couldn’t pull it together, and there was too much youth and not enough depth to right the ship.
“I told my staff when we took the job, year three was going to be our hardest,” Gambino said. “We knew what the roster was going to be, we knew how young we were going to be, we knew all those things.” ““I told my staff when we took
the job year three was going to be
our hardest. We knew what the
roster was going to be, we knew
how young we were going to be, we
knew all those things.”
“They came into a spot, I don’t know that they realized
they were coming into a rebuild, and have been through
the struggles and have worked so hard to get this thing
going in the right direction. I’m excited for them to get paid
off. I want nothing more than to watch these kids perform
in a regional and for them to know how big of a part they
had in getting us back to playing Birdball.”
GRAHAM BECK / HEIGHTS SENIOR STAFF
Gambino’s fourth season beginsGambino graduated from Boston College in 2000 after starting 166 games in the middle infi eld and batting .313 over his career. In his three seasons at the helm of BC baseball, Gambino’s teams have struggled, going 17-33, 22-33 and 12-40. 2014 has been a more positive start for Gambino, as his Eagles are 4-3 after two weekends.
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We all have things that we would like to put behind us. For some, it’s something as small as a badly timed joke or a wrong answer in class. For
others, it’s larger, such as a phase in their life or an en-grained habit. For the softball team, it’s last season.
“It was a tough situation for everybody. It sucks los-ing that many games, but I think that coming out of it, we just realized that we have all the pieces, we just have to put it together,” said senior captain Tory Speer.
Last spring, the Eagles fi nished in the bottom of the ACC after a season of 38 losses and just 14 wins, only two of them coming in conference play. With a clean slate and an entire season of games ahead of them, however, Boston College has already begun to build off of the issues that plagued it during the 2012-2013 season.
“I think we had a lot of big injuries last year, and we didn’t have the depth in order to get us through the year,” said head coach Ashley Obrest.
One of the biggest holes in the lineup was the one that senior captain Nicole D’Argento left for the entirety of last season as she was forced to redshirt because of injury. Watching from the sidelines as her team struggled, D’Argento became an asset on the sidelines, watching closely during every game and providing analysis and advice. � at kind of support can only go so far, though.
While the Eagles’ hitting did not suff er as much as their defense did, the lack of depth in the pitching staff left the Eagles at a severe disadvantage, to the point that putting up fi ve, six, even seven runs wasn’t enough.
“It was tough because you kind of really don’t have any control over what’s going on,” D’Argento said. “I think I made the best out of my situation and helped out when I could and tried to be another set of eyes for the coaches and for the team and tried to keep ev-erybody together as much as I could, but like [Obrest] said, I think injuries did plague us.”
D’Argento watched as the pitching staff of Chelsea Dimon, Stephanie Lord, and Andrea Filler put up an earned run average of 6.82—three points higher than the Eagles’ opponents’ average of 3.81.
Jessie DaultonChelsea Dimon
One of three captains for the 2014 season, DiMaso (R) came in third on the team in batting average for the 2013 season with a .307 average.
The Eagles struggled with pitching last year due to depth, but are regaining
that skill this year (L). Jes-sie Daulton (R) will be part
of the strong hitting core that hopes to improve on
last year’s results.
Alana DiMaso
She watched as the Eagles suff ered through 15 games that were cut short by the mercy rule, and as they were outscored by their opponents by a score of 371-221 on the season.
“I think our pitching wasn’t where we needed it to be, especially when you play top-25 teams,” Obrest said. “With that being said, our hitters did a really good job putting runs on the board, but sometimes seven runs wasn’t enough for us. Inju-ries really hurt us. � at’s not an excuse. We should have done a better job, but that certainly played a big role in it.”
With the coming of spring, though, the Eagles have a chance to put all of that behind them, building off of the bright spots from last season and rebuilding their depth in what they hope will be a season with a vastly diff erent tone from the last one.
Among those bright spots will be the leader-ship of a now fi fth year grad student, D’Argento, who will be back on the mound for the Eagles. As a junior, D’Argento had an ERA of 3.77 in her 10 wins and 13 losses on the mound, leading the team in strikeouts with 114.
Joining D’Argento on the pitching staff is fresh-man Jordan Weed.
“We have three healthy pitchers right now, and I think with Nic and Jordan especially, they both have been throwing the ball really well … I don’t think we’re going to have to use Nic for 14 innings when we play a double header, but if she’s rolling we’re going to stick with her, but I think Jordan’s going to be able to throw if we need her to,” Obrest said.
Weed made two appearances in the Eagles’ fi rst weekend of play, starting against Memphis only to be pulled after two thirds of an inning after giv-ing up three hits and three runs, and the next day against the Tigers once again, only to give up seven runs and seven hits in one and two thirds innings. Obrest is still confi dent in Weed, though, as her performance in practice and scrimmages has shown her potential on the mound.
“I think that a lot of people probably looked at Jordan’s numbers from the opening weekend, but
it was two games,” Obrest said. “We’re putting it in the books and moving forward, because she had been throwing the ball really well in scrimmages, so I think we’re going to have two aces.”
With another addition of freshman Taylor Coro-neos, the Eagles are hoping that they will achieve the depth on the mound that was so sorely missing last season. Weed and Coroneos are two members of a large fi ve-player freshman class.
“We’re all there for each other, and with the big freshman class, I think we’ve done a great job con-necting the two age groups together, and it’s just nice to play with both friends and teammates at the same time,” said senior captain Alana DiMaso, who returns to the lineup as an off ensive weapon after batting .307 last year with eight home runs.
With so many new players entering their college careers, and learning from last year’s lessons, the Eagles are placing a new, stronger emphasis on the community within their team.
“With last year, not winning a lot of games is going to create some sort of rift because people aren’t going to be happy. I feel like this year we made it a point to say that no matter what hap-pens, we’re all going to be there for each other,” Speer said. “Whether you get a start or whether you get benched a game, we’re still going to have your back.”
Last year, Speer led the team in batting average (.331), home runs (15), and RBIs (38). With all three of the top off ensive contributors—Speer, Dimaso, and sophomore Megan Cooley—returning, the Eagles have a chance to fall into a rhythm as the pitching and defense develops in support of their off ensive output.
“I think it’s going to be pitching, and she’s sit-ting here right now,” Obrest said, referring to the return of D’Argento. “I think everybody in the game of softball knows that. If you have a good one-two punch, or two good aces, you’re going to go far. � e hitters fi nd a way to get on base and put runs on the board.”
Even, with so much emphasis put on that side of the ball, D’Argento isn’t feeling the pressure as
The Boston College softball team had a rough 2013 season, but with senior leadership returning to the pitching staff and the retention of its three top hitters, the Eagles are gearing up to put the past behind them.
MOVING FORWARDshe relies on fi ve years of experience on the BC team, where, she has seen its ups and downs to calm her.
“It’s kind of a blessing that [D’Argento] got hurt, because this year we’re coming back even stronger, and now we have our ace pitcher,” Speer said. “It’s just going to make for that much better of a season this year.”
With 10 games under their belts this season, the Eagles have already leapt out of their rut and won six of them. With a long season ahead of them, the Eagles already have a goal on their mind—to make the ACC tournament, which no longer invites all of the conference’s members.
“Making it to the ACC tournament is going to be big,” Obrest said. “Not everybody gets in this year, and if you look at our records, we always fi nish in the bottom spot.”
It’s a long road ahead—the building blocks of hit-ting in place will need to get stronger, and the freshman pitchers will need to come into form if the Eagles wish to meet their goal, but the fi rst step—putting the past behind them—is already complete.
Tory Speer, Megan Cooley
Tory Speer (R) was the Eagles’ biggest offensive
weapon last season, while Cooley (L) was a menace to
defenses with her base-running skills.
The Eagles saw their hitting as a strong point last year, while their pitching suffered. Above are the
Eagles’ season totals compared to their opponents’.
EAGLE
S
OPPONENTS
HITS ERA
EAGLE
S
OPPONENTS
338
489
3.81
6.82
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EMILY FAHEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR
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THE ATTACK
ONE STEP FURTHERAfter qualifying for the NCAA tournament for the second time in three
years, women’s lacrosse is looking to advance for the fi rst time.
THE ATTACK
Brooke Blue
Appeared in justfour games in 2013 due to injury
Covie Stanwick
Scored 65 goals last season, a BC single-season record
Moira Barry
Took 34 shots last season, scoring goals on 20 of them
THE ATTACK THE MIDFIELD
Mikaela Rix
Her 71 draw controls led the team in that category
Cali Ceglarski
Tallied 18 points and 28 draw controls in 19 games
Sarah Mannelly
Scored 34 goals and had 12 assists in 20 appearances
Stephanie Sabatini
Won seven ground balls and caused three turnovers
Claire Blohm
Controlled 16 draws and collected 21 ground balls
Kate McCarthy
Scooped up 31 ground balls and caused 22 turnovers
Stephanie Sabatini
Won seven ground balls and caused three turnovers
ALEX TRAUTWIG / HEIGHTS SENIOR STAFF
CRUSHING DEFEATS
2011
L, 11-8Northwestern
The Eagles earned tournament berths in 2011 and 2013, with at-large bids,
but suffered losses to No. 2 Northwest-ern and unranked Dartmouth.
2013
L, 11-8Dartmouth
Record: 12-7 Record: 12-8
THE ATTACK THE DEFENSE
The most important thing is that the girls are loose when they play, because I think a lot of the time they are nervous, and when you’re nervous, you can’t play good lacrosse. “The most important thing is that the girls “The most important thing is that the girls
”you’re nervous, you can’t play good lacrosse.
”you’re nervous, you can’t play good lacrosse.
Coach Acacia Walker has created a more relaxed ato-mosphere for the women’s lacrosse team.
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When the ball fi nds its way to the stick of Covie Stanwick, the defense of the opposition locks in on the Boston College junior. Normally operating behind the goal, the attacker is a sensational talent with a high lacrosse IQ. Her intelligence on the fi eld is overwhelming at fi rst, as she has a nose for goal and an eye out for her open teammates.
Stanwick’s lacrosse mind shows up on the stat sheet as well. Tallying 65 goals and 22 assists in just 20 games as a sophomore last season, Stanwick became one of college lacrosse’s most potent off ensive threats.
But none of this would come as a surprise if you look into Stanwick’s past. Her last name is synonymous with the game. Her grandfather, Tad Stanwick, wrote the fi rst book on the 10-man game of lacrosse, which was simply titled Lacrosse. Stanwick’s father, Wells, picked up the knowledge and taught his eight children about the sport. Each of them went onto play at a high level.
“It was awesome,” Stanwick said. “It’s just really competitive. Still, to this day, we’re all trying to outdo each other in everything.”
While competitive, the family is tightly knit. Stanwick received seven texts wishing her luck before her game against New Hampshire, although the matchup was postponed until the next day.
Stanwick’s family lived just down the road from one of the most coveted grounds in the college game. When the kids were not playing in the backyard, their father would bring them to play at Johns Hopkins University.
“With each other, we kind of just mess around in the backyard and play,” Stanwick said. “We put my youngest brother in the goal and play with tennis balls and shoot on him.”
� ose games have developed into miniature scrimmages.“Now, we actually play a fi ddlestick game, 2-on-2 or 3-on-3, we play just to mess around in the backyard,”
Stanwick said.One of the most prominent features of her game is her stickwork, which can be improved upon by
spending time on a lacrosse wall. She still spends time practicing by herself and with others, but she grew up playing on a wall in her family’s garage.
“I used to call it my study break,” Stanwick said. “But it’s just nice to go out there and mess around. You have freedom to throw on the music and just hang out there.”
Her father originally had her on a routine which, depending on the day, consisted of 250 left-handed throws, 100 tosses with her right, and 100 switches.
“I had a routine when I was growing up, but then when I got to high school, I just kind of stopped count-ing and I would just to go until I felt good,” said Stanwick.
While each of the Stanwicks participated in multiple sports, including basketball and soccer, they gravi-tated toward lacrosse.
“I think we were the best at lacrosse,” Stanwick said. “We were all pretty good at the other sports, but best at lacrosse. It’s the most fun. It takes you the farthest.”
Stanwick grew up with one of the best to play the college game in recent years. Her brother, Steele, became the only member of the esteemed clan to win a national championship. His Vir-ginia team took the Division I crown in 2011—the same season in which Stanwick won the Tewaaraton award, which is given to the nation’s best player. Steele now plays professionally for the Ohio Machine.
“He’s really creative,” Stanwick said of her brother. “He’s really athletic. He’s the only one out of all eight of us that’s won a national championship so far.”
Stanwick’s upbringing also helped learn about the complexities of the game’s tactics. In fact, Stanwick worked with Walker to develop a new motion off ense to run against a zone defense.
Stanwick is not quick to mention herself, though. She was concerned, not only with improving every aspect of her game, but also with the welfare of her team. While she wants to get better at everything from dodging to fi nding her teammates, she just wants to win more.
“Getting a fi rst tournament win is what I really want to do,” Stanwick said.Having lost to Dartmouth in the fi rst round of last year’s NCAA tournament, Stanwick and the Eagles are
without an NCAA tournament victory in program history. Come the postseason in mid-May, whether or not the team lives up to that goal will depend on Stanwick’s ability to have another record-setting campaign.
CONNECTING THE DOTSCONNECTING THE DOTSCONNECTING THE DOTSStanwick paced the Eagles’ offense
last year and returns this spring hungry for more wins
McCarthy, the team’s workhorse, brings a high level of intensity to
BC’s stout defense
Covie Stanwick is the women’s lacrosse team’s offensive
juggernaut—but without teammate Kate McCarthy on
defense, some of the attacks would not start.
In high school, Kate McCarthy travelled across the country—as far as California—and out of the U.S. to Costa Rica to play a sport. But that sport wasn’t lacrosse. McCarthy is a senior at Boston College who features as a midfi elder for head coach Alison Foley’s women’s soccer team and Acacia Walker’s women’s lacrosse team.
“It isn’t as hard as everyone makes it out to be,” McCarthy said. “I get way more credit than I should.”� e humble Longmeadow, Mass. native is faced with the toll each sport takes on her body.“I’m always in season,” McCarthy said. “Out of season sports are way worse than in season. � e lifts are
much easier and everything like that.”Constantly active, her coaches are lenient with her duties fot both teams. Each gives her a break when-
ever she needs it.“It’s kind of tough,” McCarthy
said. “It’s different on my body too. Right now, I have a knee injury that I never have in soccer, but I get it because there’s way more cutting in lacrosse, so that’s tough for me. But I play midfi eld for both of them, so I run a lot.”
Before coming to BC, McCarthy played basketball, soccer, and lacrosse. Without physical education in the school’s curriculum, students played sports. Additionally, the senior took on club lacrosse and club soccer, the latter of which was a more serious com-mitment. With her soccer career at BC concluding after a run to the Elite Eight last fall, McCarthy is looking to extend her time at Chestnut Hill by adding on an extra year. She did not play for the lacrosse team in her freshman year, as she was recruited to play for BC’s soccer team.
“I was more of a vocal leader for soccer, defi nitely,” McCarthy said, “We made it to the Elite Eight for soccer, but we barely made the NCAA Tournament.”
In the two-sport athlete’s fi rst year in college, her roommate, a member of the lacrosse team, who she played against in high school, told her to come out for the team. After a two-week trial, McCarthy was told she was welcome to join the now No. 13 Eagles. Her supportive parents travel to all of her games.
Since becoming a member of the lacrosse team, McCarthy has functioned as a midfi elder, linking the team’s defense with its attack, though she is now being played more toward the defensive end.
“I’m big in transition, so when our goalie makes a save, I’ll try to get it up and then I’ll get it to Covie and she’ll set it up,” McCarthy said.
Not having a stick in her hands for nearly half of a year sets McCarthy back a bit, though. After missing out on the lacrosse team’s fall schedule, a period when McCarthy has a ball at her feet, it takes practice to get back into the groove of cradling.
“My stickwork gets really rusty though, in lacrosse,” McCarthy said. “During soccer, I never touch my stick or anything.”
Covie Stanwick and McCarthy go to the wall to work on their ball-handling, aiming for the same brick over and over again to improve their accuracy.
“It’s mostly left hand,” McCarthy said. “She [Covie] harps on that.”According to Stanwick, the senior’s skills are improving, though her true importance to the team comes
when she is collecting the ball.“If she’s in a fi ve-foot radius, she’s going to get the ball, and that’s just such a nice thing to have on our
team,” Stanwick said.Although not a captain for the lacrosse team, McCarthy’s presence in the team’s defense gives her
teammates an extra boost.“I think they’re more confi dent with her back there,” Stanwick said, “She just brings a tenacity that not
everyone has and she’s just all over the ball, she’s so aggressive. She just wants to win more than a lot of people. She wants the ball. She wants to do her job. She wants to do it well and I think that translates to everybody else on the defensive end.”
McCarthy’s prowess and hunger on defense, which includes her scooping up ground-balls and winning draws for the Eagles, is what allows what McCarthy called the team’s “quarterback,” Stanwick, to get the ball. With the two playing in tandem and in sync with the rest of the team, the Eagles will have the chance to make program history.
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THE HEIGHTS Monday, February 24, 2014C2
BY MICHAEL HOFF
Heights Staff
� e Boston College men’s hockey team took three out of four points from the No. 7 team in the country and extended its un-beaten streak to 19 games over the weekend, but given the Eagles’
high expectations, it didn’t feel like it after the fi nal horn of BC’s 2-2 tie with UMass Lowell on Saturday. � e Eagles’
struggles Saturday may have taught them a lesson that will help BC reach those expectations, though: Other elite teams, while maybe not at the Eagles’ level, are elite for a reason, and they won’t fold like so many have in the 18 games previous to this one.
For most of the game, the Eagles played like they have for most of the year. Both sides were held scoreless in the fi rst period as the Eagles outshot the Riverhawks 11-5 and killed off a late Ian McCoshen penalty. In the second, after Riverhawk forward A.J. White got sent off for tripping, Johnny Gaudreau, as he is wont to do, got himself in the right place at a similar time and, after a short delay, deposited the rebound from Kevin Hayes’ point shot past
BY MARLY MORGUS
Assoc. Sports Editor
Going into the third period, the Eagles were in an unfamiliar, uncomfortable position. Only Johnny Gaudreau’s goal separated the nation’s top off ense from one of the nation’s top defenses
in a tight, physical matchup with both goalies making save after save. It was a situation that the Eagles weren’t used to,
but it was one that they thrived in.� e Boston College men’s hockey team has the most productive
off ense in all of Division I college hockey through 31 of its 34 regular season games. Led by the prolifi c Gaudreau, Kevin Hayes and Bill Ar-nold line, which has combined for a total of 62 goals so far this season, the Eagles have scored an average of 4.34 goals per game.
On Friday night, however, the nation’s best off ense came head to head with UMass Lowell, whose 1.97 goals allowed per game comes in at a three-way tie for fi rst in the nation. � e defensive prowess would show, as the Eagles were held to just one goal through the fi rst two periods.
BY TOMMY MELORO
Heights Staff
It was the worst of halves, it was the best of halves. � at was the story of the Boston College women’s lacrosse team on
Saturday against Ohio State. � e most important
thing in any sport, though, is the ability to fi nish strong. Despite a less-than-desirable start, BC was able to defend its home turf with a 9-7 victory over the Buckeyes.
On defense, BC looked sluggish at the get-go, as the Buckeyes scored on their fi rst possession, less than 40 seconds into the game. By the time eight-and-a-half minutes had passed, OSU had taken a 3-0 lead. At that point, however, the Eagles became manic on defense. � ey didn’t give up a goal in the remaining 20 minutes and 30 seconds, forcing eight total turnovers in the fi rst half. Although the Buckeyes were able to generate a few chances off ensively, they were no longer able to continuously
keep possession in the attacking zone. � e Eagles did a good job keeping their sticks active, relentlessly hounding whichever OSU player had the ball. At a critical junc-ture of the game, BC was able to elevate its performance in order to keep itself in contention.
On the other end of the fi eld, OSU’s defense completely stymied the Eagles’ of-fense in the fi rst half, as BC only managed one goal on 11 shots as Ohio State goalie Tori DeScenza saved six of the seven shots on goal. Ohio State played an interesting style of defense, opting to condense its defenders around the crease and attacking area. � is meant that, while BC was free to handle the ball outside the perimeter and behind the crease, any attempt to drive on net was instantly met with a wall of Buckeye defenders.
“� ey were running a really strong de-fense,” said head coach Acacia Walker after the game. “It felt a little unorthodox, so it was a little foreign to our girls.”
When BC was able to decipher the OSU
defense, however, the tides began to turn.� e second half of the game went very
diff erently from the fi rst. � is time, it was BC scoring three times in the fi rst seven-and-a-half minutes of the half, taking a 4-3 lead. � e scoring did not slow down. Both teams seemed to embrace the ideology that the best defense is a good off ense, as both teams traded scoring streaks. BC’s off ense was led by junior attacker Covie Stanwick, who managed to score six goals, all in the second half, to bring her season total up to seven. “I think as soon as we fi gured it out, we ran the right off ense and the girls made the plays happen, and that’s what it takes to win,” Walker said.
� e biggest diff erence, though, was the Eagles’ ability to fi nish. DeScenza was only able to make one save on nine shots, as BC began to fi nd the back of the net with regularity. During a particularly clutch se-quence, Stanwick scored three unassisted goals in 2:30 to turn a 5-4 OSU lead into
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The Eagles have had a successful start to the season, jumping out right away to 3-0.
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28 Consecutive games in which Gaudreau has scored at least one point
+57 BC’s current +/- rating after 33 games played
141 Goals scored by the Ea-gles so far this season
.937 Thatcher Demko’s save percentage
.912 BC’s team penalty kill percentage
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THE HEIGHTS Monday, February 24, 2014C2
BY STEFAN TODOROVIC
For The Heights
Saturday’s game was the fi nal regular season home matchup for the No. 6 Boston College women’s hockey team, marking the last time that seven seniors would play in Conte Forum’s Kelley Rink as the team took on BU.
“� ese seniors have done a tremendous amount of work for our program, college, and community,” said head coach Katie King Crowley. “It will be sad when they are gone, but we still have plenty of games to play.”
The local rivalry was evident from the start as the fi rst period was extremely physical. Both teams were playing for more than just the win—they had their city on the line.
From the high intensity came a penalty issued to BU’s Maddie Elia at 10:32 for trip-ping, but the Eagles were unable to covert for that power play was killed.
While the Terriers’ attack was strong late in the fi rst period with some challeng-ing shots, Boyles was at her best, keeping the Eagles’ defi cit at one. In net for BU was Kerrin Sperry, who ended the period with 15 saves while Boyles tallied seven.
Around the 10-minute mark of the second period, another penalty from BU’s Maddie Elia led to a man advantage for BC. � e Eagles were able to capitalize on this powerplay, as freshman Andie Anastos got a shot passed Sperry in the ninth minute tying the game at 1-1. While trying to close out the second period with a tie score and a bit of momentum, though, BC’s pressure led to a penalty issued on Kate Leary for tripping.
BU was able to benefi t from the penalty as Louise Warren scored with less than a minute left in the period, bringing the fi nal tally after the second to BC 1, BU 2.
BU didn’t relent during the third period, and high attack in the 13th minute led to an important save by Boyles to keep the Eagles in the game. � e BC attack was able to acquire some potential opportuni-ties as well, and at the 8:14 mark in the third period, Lexi Bender hit a blistering slapshot in the top left corner, tying up the score once more.
As the fi nal moments of the game were quickly approaching, BC was looking for any chance that could get it the win and avoid the game going into overtime. With fi ve seconds left in the game, Anastos was able to fi nd salvation for the Eagles by scoring her second goal of the day.
“� ey scored fi rst and sometimes that can set you back, but I’m proud of how our girls kept with it and the seniors were able to get the win for their last game here in Kelley Rink,” Crowley said.
With seven seniors leaving after this season, Anastos’ performance gives support-ers a sign of reassurance that the future will continue to be successful for the BC women’s ice hockey program.
On Sunday, the Eagles took on Boston University in Agganis Arena, earning their second win of the weekend over the Terri-ers by a score of 5-1. Leary, Anastos, Taylor Wasylk, Haley Skarupa, and Emily Phalzer each scored for the Eagles in the complete team eff ort, and Boyles continued her solid performance in net with 26 saves.
BC sweeps weekend seriesEagles honor seven seniors’ BC careersWOMEN’S HOCKEY NOTEBOOK
BY ALEX STANLEY
Heights Staff
Melissa Bizzari, Taylor Wasylk, Dani-elle Doherty, Meagan Mangene, Jackie Young, and Corinne Boyles stepped onto the ice for their last regular season game at Conte Forum.
It was senior day for Boston College women’s hockey. � e fi ve seniors and one graduate student comprised the starting lineup against Boston University on Sat-urday, a game in which the Eagles edged out the Terriers 3-2 in the last fi ve seconds. Senior Amanda Movsessian also saw her last regular season game as a member of the team—she has not been able to play due to injury.
“� ese seniors have done a tremendous amount for our program, and they’re all tremendous kids,” said head coach Katie King Crowley. “I’m really proud of who they have all become and what they have done for Boston College women’s hockey.”
In a team often defi ned by speed, Biz-zari is a mainstay in the side. She took seven shots against BU, tied for the second most on the team. � e alternate captain has been effi cient for BC over the years, recording 22 points in her freshman season, and she has kept that productivity alive for the four years that she has played at BC.
After the Eagles scored their fi rst goal, Wasylk came close to adding another.
� e senior forward charged through the middle of the slot and almost converted a cross into the back of the net, but the puck barely missed her stick. � at is the hole that Wasylk will leave—a physical 5-foot-10 frame, in addition to her aggressive play and powerful left-handed shot. Wasylk is an effi cient scorer, netting 36 total in her fi rst three seasons. � is season she was awarded Beanpot MVP for her two goals and one assist in the tournament.
Doherty is a forward who does not typically bask in the limelight. She has played any role that Crowley has asked her to fi ll this season, whether that means playing on her off -wing, at center, or even at defense.
“She has taken on a role that is very diffi cult, and I think she has done a tremen-dous job with it, and the kids have a lot of respect for her,” Crowley said.
Mangene is a controlling presence in the Eagles’ back line. � e captain and defender is just as good tracking back on defense as she is picking out the right pass to set the off ense in motion.
In her first three seasons with the Eagles, Mangene logged 35 points, 30 of those coming from assists. Her composure on the ice is clear, and it gives no doubt as to who should be wearing the “C” on her jersey.
Young’s heroics helped BC score its first goal on Saturday. As BU forward Sarah Lefort drove down the right wing,
she attempted to cross the puck into the slot—Young dove head first, however, blocking the puck with her body. Seconds later, Andie Anastos netted for the Eagles, leveling the score at one.
“Jackie is super, super energetic,” Crow-ley said. “She always has a smile on her face and she makes everybody laugh. She’s the jokester of the group. She keeps it light in the locker room.”
Boyles has been a model of consistency throughout her career at BC.
� e graduate student made 24 saves against BU, notching 71 career wins in the process.
In fact, just last week, Boyles was named one of the “Eagles of the Week” for her performance in two games, in which she managed to save 47 of 48 shots.
After the game, she was mobbed by all of her teammates.
Amanda Movsessian’s role has been contained to factors off of the ice, due to injury.
Movsessian played 11 games in her BC career, nine in her freshman year and two in her sophomore year. She has not touched the ice since.
“Amanda wasn’t able to fi nish play-ing but has been a great off -the-ice kid,” Crowley said. “She has been a kid that will keep the team together off the ice. She is a kid that takes the younger kids under her wing and tries to show them the ropes here at BC and within our program.”
UMass Lowell nearly fi nds revenge for loss in Saturday night tieRiverhawk goalie Doug Ward, making it 1-0 Eagles at 10:56. � e goal marked the fourth straight game with a power play goal for Gaudreau and extended his point streak—this time to 28 games. Senior Patrick Brown picked up the other assist, extending his own scoring streak to six games, impressive in itself while illustrat-ing the absurdity of Gaudreau’s tear.
Less than two minutes later, Brown added another secondary helper when Ryan Fitzgerald redirected Isaac Ma-cleod’s shot pass from the point to double the lead. � e goal highlighted what makes BC so frustrating for opponents in a few ways. If the Eagles are tied, or even down, their off ense is so potent, deep, and tends to score in clusters—all factors that combine to make any game perpetu-ally capable of turning from competitive to blowout.
Scoring consecutively, as BC did in this sequence, wouldn’t be possible without that depth. Gaudreau’s line, while it is historic and the best in the country, doesn’t score every goal, and it can’t play every shift. � ey took to the
bench after their goal, and Brown, Ma-cLeod, and Fitzgerald doubled the score. MacLeod, a stay-at-home defenseman, powered down to the inside hashmark from the point and fed Fitzgerald on the tape for the freshman’s 10th goal of the year. Brown’s assist was his 10th point in six games.
After BC strikes like this, most teams either concede or can’t stop the scoring train—or both. Riverhawks coach Norm Bazin’s team isn’t most teams, though, and he must have reminded his players of that when he called a timeout roughly three minutes after Fitzgerald’s goal. From that point forward, the Riverhawks defended like their nation-best goals-per-game average indicates they can, and punched back. BC outshot UMass-Lowell by just two in the third, and the Riverhawks had all the best chances.
� irty seconds into the third period, UMass-Lowell forward Derek Arnold beat Scott Savage and almost did the same to Eagles’ goalie � atcher Demko, but his sharp-angled shot hit the cross-bar and didn’t go down, leaving the Riverhawks scoreless despite Arnold’s misguided celebration.
Six minutes later, after Chris Calnan was called for high sticking, Riverhawk forward Adam Chapie skated from the left wall to the face-off dot and beat Demko short-side with the help of Josh Holmstrom’s screen to halve the score. � e goal was only the second given up on the penalty kill in the last 33 tries against BC.
UMass Lowell tied the game at 9:09 after the BC defense let the rebound from Riverhawk defenseman Zach Kamrass’ point shot skitter all the way into the slot, and A.J. White swooped in and ripped a wrister by Demko. BC head coach Jerry York called a timeout of his own with 2:33 left, but aside from a McCoshen shot catching iron early in overtime, BC didn’t come close to a deciding lead.
A game like this one may help York’s team in the long game, and it wasn’t as if the Eagles left their hearts and minds in Chesnut Hill—they played well. That, even for the number one team in the country, isn’t always enough, but it’s a lesson easier learned now than in Boston or Philadelphia, where the trophies York and his players work for will be awarded.
Men’s Hockey Saturday, from C1
EMILY FAHEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR
Johnny Gaudreau scored a powerplay goal for the fourth straight game on Saturday.
Baseball wins one, drops two in weekend at StetsonBY JOHNNY CAREY
Heights Staff
Down two runs with nobody out and runners on first and second in the top of the ninth, the Boston College Eagles looked poised for a late comeback Sunday afternoon. After a successful sacrifice bunt by sophomore Joe Cro-nin moved the runners over to second and third, the Eagles were only one base knock away from tying the rubber match of a three-game series against the Stetson University Hatters. That clutch hit never came for BC, however. Stetson’s Tyler Warmouth was able to shut the door on the Eagles and close out a series win for the Hatters with two huge strikeouts.
Jesse Gorman started the game on the mound for BC, tossing five innings of one run baseball while allowing only four hits. Despite his strong perfor-mance, the junior was pegged with the loss as BC’s bats were unable to break through. Stetson’s John Powers dazzled over seven and two-thirds innings, in which the Eagles were only able to muster up five hits and one run.
The scoring got underway in the bottom of the second as Stetson catcher Garrett Russini scored on a sacrifice fly after leading off the inning with a triple. Both pitchers cruised from that point forward, as the scoreboard remained unchanged until the bottom of the sixth.
Stetson jumped out 2-0 in the sixth as Patrick Mazeika rocketed an RBI double, scoring Tyler Bocock. Mazeika then scored again on an error, giving the Hatters a three-run lead.
The Eagles finally got on the board in the top of the eighth, as freshman John-ny Adams singled home Blake Butera, cutting the lead to two. That lone run was all BC would be able to muster at
the plate, however, as the Eagles fell by a score of 3-1.
Sunday’s win earned Stetson a series win over BC. The two teams squared off three times over the weekend, which included a Stetson win on Friday and a BC win on Saturday. Stetson entered the series 0-4 on the season, while the Eagles began the weekend sporting a 3-2 record.
The series loss boiled down to incon-sistent hitting and sloppy defensive play for the Eagles. In Friday night’s loss, BC actually out hit the Hatters. The Eagles registered nine hits as opposed to seven for Stetson, but what made the differ-ence was timely Stetson hitting and sloppy BC fielding.
The Hatters were able to score four times on three hits in the fourth inning, as the Eagles committed two errors and simply could not get a clutch out. From there, Steston cruised, winning by a score of 5-3.
On Saturday, the Eagles’ bats proved to be alive and well, mashing 12 hits and scoring eight runs. Chris Shaw led the way for the Eagles, going two for four and knocking in three runs. Five players touched home plate for BC, while three were able to score twice. Pitching was excellent for the Eagles as well, as Andrew Chin threw 5.2 in-nings of shutout baseball. The bullpen finished off the shutout, as BC earned its most convincing win of the season by a final of 8-0.
While the end result of the series was disappointing for the Eagles, there were moments of promise both of-fensively and on the mound. How BC fares from here on out, starting with its annual exhibition in Fort Myers against the Red Sox on Thursday, will be determined by a level of consis-tent play which was lacking over the weekend.
Eagles fall back down to EarthBY STEFAN TODOROVIC
For The Heights
� e Boston College men’s basketball team was back on the road this weekend, as it trav-eled to Coral Gables, Fla. to take on the Uni-
versity of Miami Hurricanes in an ACC matchup.
Coming off of a miraculous overtime win against Syracuse last Wednesday night in front of 26,716 fans in the Carrier Dome, the Eagles enjoyed a confi dence boost heading into their game against the ’Canes. BC’s win over the Orange snapped a fi ve-game losing streak, giving the Eagles an opportunity to turn their season around. Steve Donahue’s club was not able to hit enough open looks, though, and Miami breezed by the Eagles with a 69-42 victory.
BC was hoping to stop another streak for Miami, who had emerged victorious from the past seven meetings between the two ACC programs headed into Saturday.
� e two sides were competitive for the fi rst 10 minutes of play, before a couple of short runs by the Hurricanes created a seven-point lead for the hosts with 10:24 left in the fi rst. � e burst was capped by a layup from Miami sophomore center Tonye Jeriki.
� e Eagles were able to cut the lead to one with free throws from sophomore guard Joe Rahon, but Miami was able to create high percentage opportunities throughout the fi rst half and took a fi ve-point lead headed into the break.
� e Hurricanes started the second half with a missed jumpshot by forward Kirk Donnavan, but guard Garrius Adams fol-lowed up by hitting a 3-pointer to increase their lead to eight.
Shots from outside the arc were not falling for the Eagles in the second half. Donahue’s
team missed all eight of its 3-pointers after halftime, making just four of 20 on the night. Patrick Heckmann knocked down three triples in the fi rst half, before going cold.
With five minutes of the second half played, BC needed to capitalize on its missed shots if it was to win consecutive games for the fi rst time since November, but the Eagles failed to do so. Anderson’s put-back from a Heckmann attempt from distance accounted for just two of BC’s four second-chance points.
At the 15:42 mark, two free throws from senior guard Rion Brown gave Miami an 11-point lead on which they would build.
Anderson missed a jumper and junior guard Lonnie Jackson failed to hit another three, paving the way for a jumpshot from Brown to increase the Hurricane’s lead to 13.
� e game was still within grasp for the Eagles, who were striving to mount another comeback. A monster dunk from Miami’s Jeriki kept was able to bolster the home team’s advantage. After 10 minutes of play in the
second half, the game seemed to get out of hand for the Eagles as their missed shots and turnovers handed Miami multiple chances to further its lead.
Freshman guard Manu Lecomte’s layup and jumpshot, in addition to a deuce from senior forward Erik Swoope, extended the Hurricane’s lead to 17.
As the game waned into its fi nal fi ve min-utes, the Eagles could not fi nd a way back into the game. A layup from Brown increased the lead to 20 with 4:50 to play.
A scoreless two minutes from both teams kept the lead at 20 until Heckmann added two to the board with a simple layup.
� e closing moments of the game con-sisted of a desperate attempt to make some-thing of a dissatisfying performance. Olivier Hanlan, Sam Donahue, and Steve Perpiglia missed three shots from behind the arc.
Heckmann led the Eagles with 15 points while Miami’s Rion Brown picked up 22. Brown scored the 1,000th point of his career, becoming the 35th player in school history to tally that many points.
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Junior Patrick Heckmann was the leading contributor in the Eagles’ 69-42 loss to Miami.
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In the third, though, BC opened it up in a more characteristic style, and with help from � atcher Demko’s shutout, the Eagles came away with their 25th win of the season by a fi nal score of three goals to none.
“I thought tonight may have been as solid an eff ort for 60 minutes, from the goaltend-ing to the defense to the forwards, that we’ve had this year,” said head coach Jerry York.
Both teams came out guns blazing in the fi rst period, with the Eagles fi ring off a total of 19 shots, 14 of which went on goal to challenge Riverhawk goaltender Connor Hellebuyck. UMass Lowell came in just behind BC with 16 shots, 11 on goal.
Hellebuyck was the only net minder to falter, however, when Gaudreau took a no-angle shot to the right from a position next to the left post. � e shot hit Hellebuyck in the shoulders, bouncing back for a power play goal and giving the Eagles the 1-0 lead. � e goal extended Gaudreau’s point streak to 27 games.
“� e fi rst goal was an incredible play by Johnny Gaudreau,” York said. “I think he was almost on the goal line. � en to go top shelf, short side—that’s unbelievable skill.”
The Riverhawks kept pressuring on defense, though, as Gaudreau’s goal came off of one of the only shots in the fi rst two periods from inside the triangle in front of the net between the goal and the two faceoff circles. Of 29 attempted shots by the Eagles in the fi rst two frames of play, just three were from deep in the zone. With UMass Lowell dominating in front of the net, the Eagles were forced to take shots from further out, giving Hellebuyck and the rest of the River-hawks time to stop all but one through 40 minutes of play.
“We had to earn our goals,” York said. “� ey don’t give you many chances.”
On the other end, Demko faced his fair
share of shots as well, amassing 33 saves on the way to his second shutout as an Eagle. He also had a lot of help from the BC defense, which blocked nine shots on the night.
“I thought all our D stepped up to the plate when we needed them,” Demko said. “I know it’s hard to do, and they just battled through it and they just played really strong throughout the entire game.”
As time went on and the margin stayed at just one goal, the game got more and more physical. Neither team is a stranger to the penalty box—the Riverhawks average 4.6 penalties per game, and the Eagles 5.3 per game—and this game was no exception as the Riverhawks were sent to the box on three occasions and the Eagles were penalized three times as well, one of them a fi ve minute major when Isaac MacLeod earned a game misconduct for contact to the head.
“Issac’s probably our best penalty killer over the course of the season, you know, to kill a five minute major without our best PK guy … that was pretty impressive for us blocking shots and getting clears,” York said.
The nation’s best penalty kill came through on all three occasions for the Eagles, but the Riverhawks’ early penalty allowed for Gaudreau’s goal.
Going into the third period, though, it remained close. Just as it appeared that UMass Lowell’s defense was staving off BC, the fl oodgates opened up as they so often have this season, and BC’s depth showed with goals in quick succession from Adam Gilmour and Austin Cangelosi.
In the matchup of top defense vs. top of-fense, the Eagles had to fi re on all cylinders but survived the test and left the evening with their 18th straight unbeaten game.
“We weren’t content to just play out the regular season and wait for the playoff s,” York said. “Let’s keep improving and let’s keep getting better.”
Men’s Hockey Friday, from C1
Eagles blank Riverhawks in Friday night matchup Penalty kill, Demko pull through for BC
MEN’S HOCKEY NOTEBOOK
BY ALEX FAIRCHILD
Asst. Sports Editor
Penalty killing is an art. It takes an army of four men to block shots and sacrifi ce their bodies for the good of their team. No team in college hockey has killed penalties better than Boston Col-lege this season. Keeping the opposition from capitalizing on its man advantage requires an eff ort from the entire team, whether it’s Johnny Gaudreau or Steve Santini. Head coach Jerry York has got-ten an exceptional eff ort out of his team in this campaign, and one of the keys has been defenseman Isaac MacLeod. With 10:15 remaining in the second period of the team’s 3-0 win against No. 7 UMass-Lowell on Friday night, though, the Eagles lost MacLeod to a five-minute major and game misconduct after he toppled a Riverhawk who was away from.
� e penalty put the Eagles in a hole during the middle of a crucial second stanza, but BC pulled together to stop the away team’s attack. Patrick Brown took a shot off the inside of his leg before being called to block another attempt. Gaudreau took a shot for the team at the start of the kill as well, while Kevin Hayes worked hard to pressure the Riverhawks when they moved into BC’s zone.
Hayes bolstered the team’s off ense, getting multiple shots off in the game’s opening minutes, but the senior forward did not accumulate any points on the night. His play was based more on track-ing back to help break up play.
“It was Kevin Hayes’ best all-around performance,” York said. “Playing defense, playing forward, and just the jump Kevin had tonight was really good to see, but I think he’s versatile, you know, he’ll go back and play defense like that. He made some good clears from where he was. � at was important for us.”
As the Riverhawks dominated the Eagles in their zone, the shots kept com-ing at freshman � atcher Demko, though they were stopped by a defense that to-taled nine blocks on the evening.
“We had guys through the rotation just eating pucks the entire time,” Demko said of his power play, which, as of Friday night, had killed 91.7 percent of the penal-ties it faced this season.
During the fi ve-minute major, BC was able to break forward on two occasions. Gaudreau tried to fool goaltender Con-nor Hellebuyck, but his breakaway was thwarted by the away team’s defense. Quinn Smith had a similar opportunity moments later, but was stopped by Hel-lebuyck.
Demko then came up huge on a missed opportunity by Evan Campbell, who had the net at his mercy with 7:31 to play in the second period. � e angle was diffi cult for the Riverhawk to thread, and Demko was able to keep the Eagles’ side of the sheet clean.
Toward the end of the fi ve minute major, Gaudreau, Santini, McCoshen, and Arnold all took to the ice, clearing their zone to keep the visitors from further peppering Demko.
“� at was pretty impressive for us—blocking shots and getting clears, because they have a pretty good power play,” York said.
Shortly after the Eagles killed the fi ve minute major, Matthew Gaudreau went to the penalty box for hooking. � e kill came up with another stout performance to keep the Eagles’ 1-0 lead intact. Los-ing Santini for another penalty with less than fi ve minutes to go in the third period produced the same result. Hayes was instrumental in killing the fi nal penalty BC gave up on the evening.
Losing MacLeod was quite the blow for the Eagles, who entered the game
without injured sophomore defenseman Michael Matheson.
“It’s tough to have four or fi ve guys back there, but I thought all our D stepped up to the plate when we needed them,” Demko said. “I know that’s hard to do. � ey just battled through it. � ey played really strong throughout the game.”
Demko’s play between the pipes was strong as well.
“� atcher played extremely well and continues to get better over the course of the year,” York said.
� e freshman stopped all 33 shots (11 in each period) he faced from UMass-Lowell.
Demko stopped one grade-A op-portunity in the fi rst period, as his team pressed the visitors in their own zone. � e Riverhawks were limited to shots from long distance on counter attacks, each of which headed straight for the gut of the goaltender. As the game continued, UMass-Lowell had opportunities to attack Demko’s crease more often. � e penalties played a part in the off ensive uptick of the Riverhawks, and by the time the game came to a close, Demko stopped six more chances from close range, a few of which came from potentially lethal redirects in front of goal.
“Our D did a great job of boxing guys out, so they didn’t get very many second opportunities, which makes my job a little bit easier,” Demko said.
During the winter break, it looked as if junior Brian Billett was a lock to keep the starting job in goal. At the time, Demko was overseas representing the U.S at the World Junior Championship, but since arriving back on campus, the 18-year-old has put in several solid displays, including one in the Beanpot championship game against Northeastern.
“Right now, he’s on top of his game,” York said.
a 7-5 BC advantage. When Ohio State scored twice more to tie the game with just 1:30 left in the game, it was time for the Eagles to answer the call. � ey needed a defensive stand to send it to overtime or a quick goal to put the team in position for the regulation win. Calling a timeout with BC entering the attacking zone, Walker drew up a play. Covie Stanwick passed to sophomore middie Sarah Mannelly.
Mannelly, who had already scored to open the second half, spun around a defender and fi red low at the goal, scoring with just 18 seconds left in the game.
An encouraging sign, this game show-cased the depth of scoring that BC pos-sesses. Leading point scorer Mikaela Rix didn’t record a single point Saturday, though she was clearly a focal point of the OSU defensive scheme. With the out-burst from Stanwick, though, the Eagles showed they are not just a one-woman team. Mannelly scored twice, sophomore Caroline Margolis scored BC’s fi rst goal, and grad student Brooke Blue assisted on BC’s fi nal goal. � rough just three games, BC already has fi ve players with at least
fi ve points.Mannelly’s late goal certainly doesn’t
erase the memories of an anemic fi rst half, but it does assuage any fears that this is a team that can’t fi nish strong, even when faced with adversity. Not only did BC overcome its poor start, it was able to withstand a late charge from the Buckeyes to ensure that, at least until Wednesday when they take on No. 2 ranked Syracuse, this is the best of times.
Notes:Two days earlier, BC defeated New
Hampshire at home, notching a 17-8 vic-tory. In the fi rst half, BC went up 6-1, then 9-4 by halftime, and then cruised the rest of the way. Rix and Blue tallied four goals each, with Rix adding two assists to lead the attack, while Mata made seven saves on 15 shots.
Scoring started quickly for BC, with senior attack Moira Barry fi nding the net just 1:45 in, and Blue following up less than a minute later. After a UNH goal cut the lead in half, BC proceeded to score four goals in under four minutes, and UNH would never really get close again.
BC is now 3-0-0 on the season.
Stanwick hits six vs. OSU
BY STEFAN TODOROVIC
For The Heights
Returning from a four-game delay due to concussion symptoms, senior forward Kristen Doherty was back in the starting
lineup for the Boston College women’s basket-
ball team on � ursday in hopes of bringing some much-needed energy to the Eagles as they looked to break their three-game losing streak.
A career-high 25 points from Nicole Boudreau was not enough, as the Clemson Tigers were able to get the home win by a score of 72-67.
Despite an entertaining performance from both teams, this ACC matchup featured two struggling teams in the conference with Boston College seating in 14th place, Clem-son in 12th.
� is was the 11th meeting between Bos-ton College and Clemson, and BC is winning the series with a 7-4 edge.
BC shot 46 percent from the fl oor and 67 percent from the 3-point line, but it was the 17 turnovers that hurt the most. Clemson scored 20 points off turnovers.
Clemson and BC were both support-ing the PLAY4KAY campaign by sporting their pink colored jerseys. � e Eagles have supported former BC guard Clare Droesch ’05, who was diagnosed with cancer two
years ago. � e Tigers were able to score early by
creating a 7-2 run at the 17-minute mark, but shortly after, the Eagles brought the score back level after a 3-point shot from Boudreau produced a one-point lead making the score 8-7.
� e Eagles used their most lethal threat, shooting from outside the arc, to gain a 25-14 lead over the Tigers. Clemson didn’t let this lead last for long before the half ended, though, as a strong eff ort by the Tiger off ense had the Eagles trailing by fi ve.
At the half, the score was BC, 36, Clem-son, 41.
� e second half started with baskets from both teams, and at nine minutes, the score
was BC 45, Clemson, 50.� e Eagles had a chance to tie the game
on two fast breaks but were spoiled.Two jumpers by Zenevitch cut the lead
to three points with less than two minutes to play. After a jump ball, Clemson had pos-session and was fouled. Dixon hit one shot, making the score BC 61, Clemson 65.
In the end, the BC women’s basketball team was unable to come back and left South Carolina with the loss.
University of Maryland will square off against the Eagles in Conte Forum on � urs-day at 7 p.m. for the last home game of the women’s basketball 2013-14 regular season. It will be the fi nal home game for seniors Kristen Doherty and Katie Zenevitch.
Softball fi nds success in 4-1 weekend
Boudreau’s 25 fall shortat Clemson
BY ALEX FAIRCHILD
Asst. Sports Editor
Coming off two victories at the Univer-sity of Louisiana Lafayette Tournament, the Boston College softball team looked to improve on its second road trip of the season in Tempe, Ariz.
� e Eagles started off their weekend with a double-header against Idaho State and Drake. Solo shots from Speer and Dimaso in the second inning gave the Eagles a two-run advantage on which they built through a three-run third. Cortez supplied the homer that scored Daulton, Speer, and herself. But the Bengals cut into BC’s advantage in the fourth, as they made it 5-1. Pitcher D’Argento was pulled and relieved by Jordan Weed. While she blanked the Bengals in the fi fth, she allowed the Bengals to tie the game at fi ve in the sixth. D’Argento was put back into the circle to close out the game. Idaho State took a one-run lead in the top of the eighth, but the Eagles broke the tie in the eight when
Weed batted in the equalizer, before Megan Cooley’s game-winning single to left gave BC the 7-6 win.
BC dug itself a 7-0 defi cit in the second inning against Drake in the second game of its Friday double-header. � e Eagles were able to cut into the lead come the next frame, but the Bulldogs responded by scoring in the bot-tom half of the inning. DiMasio’s three-run homer and run was batted in by Speer, pulling the Eagles within two. Cortez homered in the top of the seventh, after an RBI single by D’Argento helped to power BC to another fi ve runs to give the Eagles 11-8 advantage, which it would hold onto for the win.
On Saturday, the Eagles started off an-other double-header with another meeting with Drake. � e second competition between the two had a similar result, with the Eagles pulling off an 8-4 win. Speer had a hit and three RBIs, while three Eagles—Cooley, Daulton, and DiMaso—had multiple hits. Jordan Week pitched two innings, allowing seven hits and four runs, while D’Argento
pitched fi ve, allowing just one hit and tallying seven strikeouts.
� e Eagles took on the hosts, the Arizona State Sun Devils, for the fi rst time on Saturday and found themselves quickly behind in the bottom of the second when the Sun Devils jumped out to a 2-0 lead. The team had a chance to make a comeback in the fi fth inning, but Arizona State’s defense came through with two runners on base, holding the Eagles scoreless. Cooley had two hits for the Eagles, while D’Argento, Speer, Dimaso, and Corneos each had one. D’Argento pitched all seven innings, allowing just eight hits.
For their fi nal game of the weekend, the Eagles took on Seton Hall. In what was by far BC’s most prolifi c off ensive outing of the season so far, the Eagles scored 16 runs to Seton Hall’s one to bring their record on the weekend to 4-1. Daulton had four hits and an RBI, and Speer and Tatiana Cortez had two hits. D’Argento pitched all fi ve innings, and the game ended early because of BC’s wide margin after fi ve innings played.
EMILY FAHEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR
Nicole Boudreau posted a career-high 25 points, but the Eagles fell to Clemson 72-67.
EMILY FAHEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR
Covie Stanwick led the Eagles’ scoring effort with six goals against Ohio State University.
Swim sets records at ACCsROUNDUP
BY ROB SHEEHAN For The HeightsAND SCOTT HILL
Heights Staff
� e women’s swimming team competed in the ACC Championship meet this week-end in Greensboro, N.C. � e highlight of the meet for the Eagles was a new school record in the 200 yard medley relay. Mad-eline Mailliard, Samantha Couillard, Jordan Parry, and Maureen Barron teamed up on the relay to produce the Boston College best time of 1:46.09. Junior Allie Manning had a big meet for the Eagles, setting three personal bests over the weekend. � e team fi nished in 11th place overall for the meet with 132 points.
The women’s tennis team traveled to University of North Carolina on Friday to take on the Tar Heels. � e Eagles dropped the close-fought match by a score of 6-1.
Sophomore Katya Vasilyev led the way for BC, winning her No. 3 singles match.
� e BC women’s golf team struggled to a second-to-last place fi nish (14th) in the Jim West Tournament, despite the strong play of junior Katie Joo. Joo posted a score of 235, +22, which was good for 30th out the 79 players in the fi eld. � e team as a whole reg-istered a score of 968, +116 in three rounds at the Bandit, a par-71, 6,178-yard course.
� e Eagles also received strong perfor-mances from freshman Christina Wang (239, +26) and junior Cristina McQuiston (240, +27), who fi nished second and third, respectively. � e Eagles’ scoring eff ort was rounded out by sophomore Regan Simeone (256, +43) and freshman Lelesse Mocio (272, +59).
� e Eagles will look to avenge their tough weekend in Texas by bouncing back in the Kiawah Island Classic in South Carolina from Mar. 2-4.
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program, offering high quality outdoor equipment to the BC community,” Crispell said. Interested in signing up for one of the OA programs? It’s as simple as stopping by member services at the Plex.
Another underappreciated aspect of BC’s Plex is without a doubt the pool. For those aquatically inclined students out there looking for some-thing outside of the realm of redundant freestyle laps, Campus Recreation offers a multitude of water activities, such as aqua jogging, aqua bootcamp, life-guarding and CPR courses, and various private and group swim lessons. Both water fitness classes are described as “high- energy, low impact, and highly innovative.” Both are perfect for any-one with a joint discomfort or injury. Campus Recreation has also launched the motivating “swim incentive,” a goal to “swim the Boston Marathon course” before the actual marathon this April. Moving your “running shoe” icon as you swim the distances between each mile marker, you can keep track of your dis-tance and email [email protected] every time you reach another mile. Word on the streets is that the top two finishers will receive a pretty cool prize. Swim on, BC!
Salsa dancing and Jiu-Jitsu have also earned a place on the list of unique,
fun, and motivating activities offered through BC Campus Recreation. Al-ways wanted to try out martial arts? The beginner Jiu-Jitsu program gives students the opportunity to “learn how to out-maneuver their adversary by ap-plying technique over speed, strength, and size.” And for the more experienced martial arts students, the advanced Jiu-Jitsu class offers the opportunity to “develop mental and physical exercises that emphasize endurance, strength, coordination and f lexibility.” As for the Salsa classes, be it for fun, stress relief, exercise, or simply to pick up on the latest moves, Campus Recreation encourages students to come out and learn the dance. “Social interaction is promoted but no dancing partner is required,” so even those alone in his or her pursuit of the cha-cha can learn. For both Jiu-Jitsu and Salsa danc-ing, students are encouraged to email [email protected] to register or learn more information.
These fun, inspiring, avant-garde classes only scratch the surface of the plethora of lesser known fitness oppor-tunities offered at our very own Plex. Ice skating, tennis, rowing, spinning, kickboxing, yoga, pilates, zumba, XFIT, TBC Step, barre fitness, and countless other classes confirm the fact that, though we may not have known it, BC Campus Recreation truly does offer “something for everyone.”
family, Danny Gillis, after whom our son is named, was given a hockey scholarship to BC and would have graduated with the class of 1978,” Michael said. “However, he died in a tragic car accident the first week of school during his freshman year.” Danny would have been a goalie for the team.
All three brothers grew up not only attending BC hockey and football games from a young age, Michael said, but also attending the Snooks Kelley Hockey School, after whom BC’s rink is named.
Danny’s mother, Julie, worked in BC’s development office for years and helped establish the annual “Pops on the Heights” concert, and all three of the Gillis children have been at-tending BC games before they could even talk.
With so much hockey running through his veins, it’s no surprise that despite his own loyal fans, Danny is still there to just watch the game. His favorite part of BC hockey games is simply get-ting to be a fan of the team himself.
“I get to cheer them on and see them win a lot, and since I play hockey I learn a lot of stuff from them,” he said.
In addition to hockey, Danny also plays baseball and soccer.
Like a true BC fan, Danny’s admi-ration for head coach Jerry York is limitless. “Jerry York is the greatest coach!” he said.
Danny’s fame shows no signs of fading out anytime soon. He went to his first Beanpot tournament this year and recently starred in a video for BC that, according to his Twitter page, will debut on YouTube later this week.
“He’s having a lot of fun with it, his sisters and the family are having a lot of fun with it,” Michael said. “As long as it remains that way, I’m having fun.”
Danny himself isn’t quite sure what to make of his sudden stardom. “It’s very hard to be very famous,” he said over the phone, before a burst of gig-gles from his sisters in the background led to a change of heart. “I guess it’s not that hard,” he said.
Demanding celebrity status aside, Danny has already begun thinking about continuing his family’s tradition of graduating from BC.
“Going to BC is like, on my bucket list,” Danny said.
If that dream comes true, he’ l l graduate as part of the class of 2028, ex-actly 50 years after the uncle for whom he was named would have received his own diploma.
Devon Sanford is a senior staff writer for The Heights. She can be reached at [email protected].
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BC Soars mentorship program helps bring college experience to elementary school kids
FEATURING BC’S STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
BY CAROLINE KIRKWOOD
Heights Staff
Constantly surrounded by a com-munity of fellow college students balancing academic work with clubs and extra curricular activities, a Bos-ton College student may forget that a college education is not the fate for every 18- to 22-year-old.
BC Soars, a mentoring organiza-tion on campus, strives to help bring the dream and later the reality of a col-lege education to elementary school students at James Otis Elementary School in East Boston.
BC Soars is in its inaugural aca-demic year as an organization on campus, as it was just started in September 2013. Through the larger organization of ESS (Education for Students by Students) that runs programs like BC Splash, BCTalks, and BC Nests, BC Soars attempts to excite the young students of James Otis about the possibility of a college education.
Inspired by their own placement at James Otis while taking PULSE as well as by their experience with BC Splash, co-founders Brittany Burke, LSOE ’15, and Traea Vaillancourt, A&S ’15, wanted to help these young elemen-tary school students understand what
a college experience is like. “We were meeting these great kids
at James Otis who didn’t understand college or what the experience was all about,” Vaillancourt said. “They didn’t have family members or friends to advise them on it. So the idea was to take the concept of educating students by BC students and apply that to a different demographic that is a little less privileged.”
BC Soars set itself up with a two-semester plan. The fall semester focused on fostering relationships with the students at James Otis at the school, while the spring semester aims to bring these students to BC’s campus to give them a taste of what college life is like. “The first semester focused on, ‘what does it mean to live in East Boston?’” Burke said. “[How to] immerse ourselves and understand that situation better before we bring the students here and teach them about what we find valuable as a col-lege student.”
During the fall, members of BC Soars went into James Otis once a week during the lunch and recess block to work with a small group of fourth grade students toward a project that they presented at a final event at the end of the semester.
The BC members could also work
with first grade students in a literacy buddy program. BC students work one-on-one with first graders to im-prove their literacy skills, especially because most students’ first language is not English.
BC Soars added this literacy buddy program that runs throughout the school day as a way to integrate BC students who may not have been able to meet the lunch and recess time restric-tions of their fourth grade program.
Although first and fourth grade may seem early to start promoting college education, BC Soars believes that it is this early push that can most affect students. “Starting young and planting that idea can help these students make decisions now that will help set them up in the future,” Vaillancourt said.
The f inal aspect of BC Soars involves weekly reflection groups consisting of e-board members and mentors. “The groups would talk about issues of social justice,” Burke said. “So the idea was to incorporate personal development with an un-derstanding of, what does it mean to serve.”
According to Burke, the theme of this second semester for BC Soars centers on what it means to be a col-lege student.
The organization will host an event similar to that of BC Splash wherein James Otis fourth graders will spend the day on BC’s campus. “We will have BC students teach classes that they are passionate about, ranging from academic to extracur-ricular subjects,” Burke said.
“The idea for the final event is college in a day,” Vaillancourt said. “We want to makes sure the students come and get the full experience. They will get a letter of acceptance that has their mentor’s picture on it. We want to try to get everything that we experience in our four years here and try to pack it into one day.”
BC Soars wants the James Otis students to leave with a fuller under-standing of what a college experience could look like. “We are going to top the day off with a graduation at the end and give them something to take home,” Vaillancourt said. “Something that they will keep and remember un-til it is high school and time for them to be looking at options for college.”
As a new organization on campus, BC Soars will continue to welcome new and interested mentors until the middle of March. “We really embrace this idea of inclusivity,” Burke said. “Our goal is to include as many people as we can.”
� e Boston College study-abroad expe-rience is often recounted in a short, fervent shout of joy. � e newly-stateside student gushes about his trip in rapid motion. His hands move wildly and his eyes light up as he sums up his semester with the repeti-tive use of “amazing,” “incredible,” or “best time of my life.” After this brief, episodic reaction, the student develops a glazed-over expression. His eyes drift away and he smiles longingly for his time abroad.
� e student might describe his week-end traveling along the coast of Greece or that time he met the French Ambassa-dor to India in a club. He will remember the food, the locals, the iconic sights. He will tell of the moments that are captured in postcards.
Yet rarely are the smaller moments mentioned—the moments that are not beautiful, surreal, or life-altering, but just as authentic to the abroad experience. � e metro ride to class when a student feels a sudden pang of longing for home. � e quiet moments in an apartment that feels foreign and isolating. � e frustration of restarting, trying to fi nd comfort in a new city.
� is past weekend marked the end of my fi rst month in Madrid. I stumbled into the study abroad program with a longing to immerse myself in a new culture, an abun-dance of confi dence, and just two years of Spanish and a Pass/Fail CCR course under my belt. I understood that the adjustment would be diffi cult, but I wanted to experi-ence something entirely outside of my comfort zone, and I was prepared to fi gure the rest out along the way.
As I stepped into my host mom’s cozy fl at in the heart of Salamanca, I was given a rude awakening. Angelique spoke in rapid Spanish and I followed behind her, alternat-ing my responses between “si, si” and “oh … lo siento.”
Although I can say that my conversa-tional skills have vastly improved since that fi rst morning, it has by no means been easy. I have found myself in a foreign city with the mind of a college student and the verbal skills of a six-year-old. While I want noth-ing more than to be receptive, warm, and attentive to those around me, my inability to off handedly converse in Spanish has left me feeling hesitant and uncharacteristi-cally shy.
Since being in Madrid, I’ve made all the mistakes—I have assertively told my host mom that today is my sister’s birthday, only to realize I had told her it was my sister’s “feliz navidad.” I have walked into a store and, not once but twice, blanched at the store owner as he off ered me a friendly greeting. I have diffi culties keeping up in Spanish lectures because sometimes, I just have no idea what the professor is talking about. From these and other experiences, I have learned to speak slowly, conjugating verbs and reordering phrases in my head before I expose them to the world.
As an English major, I rely on words to express my thoughts in a coherent, per-suasive manner. And as most of my friends can attest, I am not a woman of few words. Spain has, in some ways, altered that. � e characteristics I am most confi dent in—my conversational skills, aff ability, poise—are now a mere fraction of what they were in the States. I am often frustrated with myself, pissed that I can’t have a friendly conversation with the woman sitting next to me at a cafe. I feel exhausted and, though those around me are patient and welcom-ing, I am quick to beat myself up for my continuous mistakes.
Since being in Spain, I have seen sights worthy of a postcard. I have traveled to other countries for the weekend, and I have eaten paella that has left me in a state of pure bliss. But I have also missed home, I have felt defeated, and I have sat on a metro car wishing I were back on the Comm. Ave. bus.
I do not mean to say that these mo-ments take away from the abroad experi-ence. In fact, I mean just the opposite. I chose to study abroad to immerse myself in a new culture. � e diffi culties I have experienced—the most frequent being the language barrier—will not be solved with a study guide and a few nights of cramming. I will not be able to fi x this overnight, in a week, or even a month. � is is a diff erent type of challenge. � is is a day-in-and-day-out process, in which I will most likely nev-er fi nd perfection. And, I’ve come to realize, that is even more important to the abroad experience than a weekend in Rome.
Perhaps these smaller, less roman-tic moments do not fi t the idealized notion of a semester abroad. But I am confi dent that through these moments, I will gain patience, temperament, and humility—and I will carry these lessons home with me, alongside my stack of European postcards.
Lessons from the language barrier
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Fiddle Kid Danny Gillis embraces BC celebrity status
Plex provides unique f itness options for BC students
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PHOTO COURTESY OF DANNY GILLIS
Gillis became famous for his rinkside performances during “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.”
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the Big East,” he said. “I had to take classes to play soccer and that’s how I treated col-lege, which probably looks pretty strange at this point.”
Before he graduated in 1996, Gareau took an environmental biology class that changed both his perspective and his ca-reer path. Similar to Society and Environ-mental Transformations, which he teaches at BC, the course focused on a natural science perspective of how human beings are changing their environment.
“It totally blew my mind,” he said. “It really opened me up to a whole new world—I had always enjoyed hiking and backpacking and things outside, but I had never really thought about the impact people are having on their surroundings until I took that class.”
Graduating in 1996 with a degree in social science and a minor in environmen-tal studies, Gareau looks to that class as a point that “transformed” what he wanted to do with his life. “It was the start of my career,” he said. “Becoming a professional soccer player seemed less and less inter-
esting than a job that would allow me to fi nd a way to make humans conduct their aff airs more sustainably.”
Upon graduating Gareau applied to both environmental science master’s pro-grams as well as the Peace Corps, hoping to be accepted into one of them in order to further his study and involvement in the new career path he had chosen. Getting in to both options, Gareau decided to pursue the Master’s International Program with the Peace Corps through Washington State University, in which he received a Master’s degree in environmental sci-ence and regional planning after study-ing both in the U.S. and for two years in Honduras.
“Before I went into the Peace Corps I thought I wanted to be an environmental scientist, I went to study shade coff ee production and sustainability,” he said. “I came out very disgruntled with the way that sustainable development was hap-pening all over the world, and decided I wanted to focus on sociology in order to learn more about the social relationships
that are embedded in these environmen-tal problems.”
After writing a master’s thesis critiqu-ing sustainable development, Gareau headed to the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he received a doctoral degree in sociology with a focus in en-vironmental science and soon after was off ered his current job at BC.
“I chose BC for a couple of reasons,” Gareau said. “First, the sociology program is well known for its emphasis on social justice, critical sociology, and devotion to public sociology. But it was also impor-tant for me that this is a Jesuit institution and their concerns with social justice and educating the whole person—wanting their professors to be more than just lec-turers in a really deliberate kind of way.”
Now conducting research as well as teaching multiple classes each semester in a department that includes his wife, Tara Pisani, Gareau has found a career much different than he ever expected, rooted in society and environmental relationships.
Firstly, evaluate how many Advanced Placement credits you have and how much of the Univer-sity core you still have left to complete. You have completed three semesters at Boston College—37.5 percent of your undergraduate life. If you have not done so already, prepare a four-year trajectory chart that delineates all of your requirements and list of completed classes. Make sure you know that if you were to switch majors, you would be able to complete your requirements on time. Also, keep in
mind that you will have to live with the idea that you wasted time and valuable credits on a major you will not be completing.
Most importantly, make sure you are not making a rash decision because you are intimidated by a diffi cult course or some motivational speaker con-vinced you to “follow your heart.” Take all of Spring Break to think about the repercussions of your decision, both in the short and long runs. Your decision is also highly dependent on the major you are looking to switch to. Ask yourself if that major will aff ord you with a more profi table career in the future and try to predict your academic success in that major. It is highly important to strike a balance between fi nding a subject you are passionate about, but one that is also worth the BC tuition rate. Talk with your parents, your peers, and your academic advisor. Personally, I hold my parents’ opinions in the highest regard because they are paying for my education and always look out for my best interests. College is about both self-discovery and academic success—do not compromise one for the other, but be sure to leave BC with a practical degree.
When it comes to academics at BC, I’ve found there is no such thing as an easy answer. You can look to others for guidance on which professors take attendance or to fi nd the perfect history core, but that’s about it. Each student’s path is entirely his or her own.
� at being said, the decision to change majors is a highly individualized one. You must take into account all you have accomplished in your academic career thus far, and how much you can carry over should you decide to take the “leap of faith.” How much of the core have you completed? Have you nearly fi nished the fi rst major you seek to drop, or have you barely started? Have you considered picking up a minor instead of switching majors, or making your current major a minor instead? How diff erent are the two subjects—could you combine what you have already done with what it is you actually want to do?
� is fi nal question is important in terms of factoring in your quality of life moving forward. Changing majors is absolutely feasible—if you’re willing to put in the extra eff ort. Will the change mean you have no room in your sched-ule for the next two years? Will you have to overload? Are you willing to take the extra courses in order to study what you love, not just fulfi ll a degree?
Take the fi rst step: Meet with your advisor. In addition, I would suggest meeting with an advisor or a contact in the department in which you now wish to pick up a major. If you’re willing and able, take that leap of faith. You will not regret doing what you love.
Marc Francis is an editor for The Heights. He can be reached at [email protected].
Tricia Tiedt is an editor for The Heights. She can be reached at [email protected].
I am a sophomore who’s not happy with my major, but I’m afraid to switch because I might not have enough time to finish my requirements if I start all over again. How can I know if I should stick to what I started with or take a leap of faith?
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Where have all the bubblers gone?
Note: To clarify, “bubbler” is another term for “drinking fountain” and, while it is also used in areas of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, it was originally coined in 1889 in Kohler, Wis. with the novel—and ultimately unsanitary—establishment of the bubbling faucet. I know, trivial detail, but what can I say, I’ve got to take pride in my humble state’s accomplishments, especially when I cannot legally consume or am intolerant to its leading com-modities—beer and cheese. Also, S/O to Wikipedia for helping a girl out.
Bubblers? … Bubblers? … Bubblers? From your complete absence in sev-
eral residence halls to your scarcity in din-ing halls and many older administrative buildings, one might assume that you’ve been skipping class at Boston College for some time now. But I promise, the BC campus needs you more than Sloane and Cameron ever will in terms of both convenience and sustainability, and I’m sure it’ll prove itself a far better infl uence in the long haul, too—and with a far less ’80s approach.
You’re being replaced: $10.99 Dasani 24-packs from On-the-Fly mini-marts all across campus are usurping your entire existence, one wasteful, 12-fl uid-ounce plastic bottle at a time. You’ve got to stop this, or before long, there will be abso-lutely no reason to buy the multi-colored, overpriced BC Nalgene and Camelbak water bottles from the Bookstore—and then what will become of the vast and intimidating world of Plex accessorizing?! How will BC biddies ever match their precious Lululemon attire tastefully?! How will BC bros ever get swole?! And how on earth will the students learn to cope in the face of such an aquapoca-lypse?! Now almost completely unde-terred, God only knows whether Diet Coke—the enemy—will strengthen its addictive hold on the student body, fac-ulty, and staff in lieu of adequate water sources….
We’re disappointed in you, Bubblers—you’ve really let the BC community down.
With this in mind, however, I do realize that installing you and your fellow water fountains in many of the older residence halls would be exceedingly expensive given the plumbing systems already in place. But the fact remains that, because you are nowhere to be found, the only sources for drinking water are the bathroom sinks, and this then causes many students to buy their own costly, purifi ed bottled water from on- and off -campus sites at the environment’s great expense. (Truth be told, the restroom tap water is perfectly consumable, but a multitude of individuals pursues fi ltered water, which thus fosters neglect for the advantageous reduce-reuse-recycle men-tality with widespread purchasing of plas-tic liquid containers from companies like Dasani, Aquafi na, and Poland Spring.)
Within BC’s top campus initiatives—including recycling, energy usage, multi-farious departmental policies, and “green” buildings—water conservation proves a signifi cant sustainability challenge. In attempts to reduce water consumption and thereby preserve a suffi cient amount of water in the Quabbin and Wachusett Reservoirs—supplies that provide for all of the campus’ and a lot of greater Boston’s aqua needs—the BC administra-tion advocates for taking shorter showers, leaving the water running for less time while brushing teeth, rinsing razors in the sink rather than under running water, refraining from using the toilet as a garbage disposal, and plugging the sink when washing dishes rather than letting the water run. (Please refer to the “Water Conservation Tips” stickers that bedeck each residence hall’s bathroom mirror.)
While all of these tactics might help “slow the flow” and should certainly be employed, campus could definitely use your help, Bubblers, in honestly and adamantly conveying that “BC Conserves.”
Anyway, I thought that writing this letter to you at least might be timely, considering the recent UGBC presiden-tial and executive vice presidential elec-tions and each team’s respective plat-form. On the campaign trail, both sets of candidates—Fiore-Chettiar-Marchese and Levine-Vergara—advocated for implementing greater “green” policies across campus to increase BC’s overall sustainability and reduce its waste. What better place to start, therefore, than with you, Bubblers!
� erefore, on that note, stop faking sick, get out of bed, and pull yourself together, Bubblers, for the sake of the entire BC community. We all under-stand how eff ective your wise-guy, clammy hands-antics are—yes, even the exceptionally obtuse Ed Rooney—but enough is enough—the jig is up. Water is essential, and you are to be our gener-ous benefactor. Your nonexistence is childish, stupid, borderline unhealthy, and incredibly wasteful, and we’re not in high school anymore, after all.
AN OPEN LETTER
MARC FRANCIS
CORINNE DUFFY
BY SARAH MOORE
Heights Editor
Boston College’s Brian Gareau didn’t always plan on being a professor. Now specializing in the sociology of global environmental governance and teach-ing classes ranging from Society and Environmental Transformations to an international studies senior seminar, the decision to pursue a career in academia came both later and abruptly for the now BC faculty member.
Growing up in the suburbs of Hart-ford, Conn., Gareau had a diff erent route in mind than the one that led him to his current career, an assistant professor in BC’s sociology and international studies departments.
� e only childhood precursor to the countless environmental sociology pub-lications he has now authored was the amount of time he spent outside explor-ing his hometown of Glastonbury, Conn. “� ere was lots of hiking and playing,” Gareau said. “I would get in trouble for collecting snakes and trying to store them in my garage, lots of that kind of stuff .”
More than time spent attempting to tap neighbors’ maple trees or building forts, Gareau was outside playing soccer. Starting at the age of four and continuing to play on multiple teams today, the sport was not only an example of time spent out-side but something that heavily infl uenced Gareau’s decisions.
“� at’s where the question about how I got involved in sociology is funny, because I basically went to college to play soccer,” said the assistant professor, who has now been involved with environmental sci-ence or sociology programs in at least four major research universities.
Gareau enrolled at Providence College in the early 1990s to continue playing the sport he so much enjoyed. “� at’s what my goal was, to play division one soccer in
PROFESSOR PROFILE
Gareau takes sociological approach to environmentalism
Corinne Duffy is an editor for The Heights. She can be reached at [email protected].
WHO: Brian Gareau
TEACHES: Sociology of global environmental governance
EXPERIENCE: Has a de-gree in social science, minor in environmental studies
FUN FACT: Received his Master’s degree through a Peace Corps programPeace Corps program
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most diffi cult competitors in the Northeast are Harvard, Dartmouth, and Cornell, Kat-sulas said.
Sullivan McCormick, A&S ‘15 won the Fulton Prize in 2013. He joined the team as a freshman after doing policy debate in high school because of Katsulas’ dedication to the Society and to the development of policy debate, he said. “When I won the award, I was extremely humbled to be a part of BC debate history and at the same time felt validated for the amount of time spent focusing on debate,” he said.
“A large part of the humility stemmed from having the opportunity to debate under the leadership of John Katsulas. I debated for Boston College because of Mr. Katsulas, and it’s impossible not to be inspired by his pas-sion for the activity.”
McCormick’s favorite part of debate is the unlimited potential for self-improve-ment. � ere is always room to improve in research, strategy, and rhetoric, McCormick said. � e Fulton Award gives student debaters something to strive for. � e wall in Gasson 305 is an example of the tradition of BC debate, he said.
“� e award is one that sets BC debate apart from other collegiate programs,” Mc-
Cormick said. “No other program has the legacy and tradition attached to a debate program.”
In the 114 years since the fi rst Fulton De-bate, only fi ve women have won the award. � is is partially because there are far fewer women on the debate team—there are 20 members of the Fulton Society this year, and only three are women.
� ere’s a much higher rate of attrition among women in college debate than men. There are many theories for this trend: Some people say the style is too combative, Katsulas said.
� e fi rst woman to win the Fulton Prize was Jane Osborne McKnight in 1973, when she was a sophomore. She thought prepara-tion was key to her win, in addition to the fact that being a woman was a novelty, she said.
“It is a very intense activity and not tra-ditionally feminine,” McKnight said. “I was very proud to win.”
� e best way to attract female college debaters is to recruit them in junior high and high school, said McKnight, who debated in high school for four years before coming to BC. Her experience on the debate team pro-pelled her to master’s program at Harvard and an over 30-year legal career, she said.
“I am fond of saying that nearly every-thing I learned in higher education I learned in debate,” McKnight said.
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McCormick, 2013 Fulton Prize winner, said debate allows for unlimited self improvement.
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“We’realreadythinkingaboutnextyear’sseries,andwe’lllockinourslateofspeakersoverthesummer.” In termsofchoosingauthors forthenextsemester’sevents,Rotellaandthegraduateassistantfortheprogram,KatieDaily,GA&S’17arealwaysopentonewideasforspeakers.“Wedefinitelytakesuggestionsandrecommendations,andoftenthewayitworksisthatacolleagueoradepart-mentwillcometousandsay, ‘Here’sa famous person you could invite forus, and we’ll make sure her work isona lotofoursyllabi thatsemester,’”Rotellasaid.“Thosepartnershipsworkvery well for everybody, and we relyonthem.” Another main consideration inplanninganeventiswhotheintendedaudience might be. “Our target audi-ence includes students, faculty, staff,andpeoplefromoffcampus,”hesaid.“One thing I’m very pleased about isthat we increasingly have a core ofregulars who come from on and offcampusnomatterwho’sspeaking.” Cultivating an engaged and edu-cated audience is key to the experi-enceoftheauthoraswellasthoseinattendanceatthelectures. “When the novelist Chang-raeLee came … we had students gettingupandsaying, ‘Inyourearliernovelsyouwereinterestedinthistheme,butin your more recent work you seemto have turned away from it,’ and soon,andafterwardheaskedme,‘Whoarethesepeople?UsuallyI’mluckyifsomebodyintheaudiencehasreadoneof my books, and they’ve read themall!’”Rotellasaid. Over the years, the events havebeguntocatertomorespecificaudi-ences in the form of “Poetry Days”and“FictionDays,”eventsthatareputtogetherinconjunctionwithacertainprofessororclass. “We collaborate to bring in thatpersonandschedulemultipleevents—not just a Lowell lecture, but also amore informal event with studentsand faculty in the afternoon,” Rotellasaid. Events are not always coordi-natedwithintheEnglishdepartment,though,astheserieslookstobroadenitsscope. Looking to the future, Rotellahopestocontinuebuildingontheac-claimed reputation the series alreadyboasts.Inordertocontinueattractingthisqualityofauthorstotheevents,itisimportantthattheseriesremainingoodstandingwiththeUniversityanditssponsors,whichincludetheLowellInstitute, Boston College’s InstitutefortheLiberalArts,andtheProvost’sOffice. Without the support of theseinstitutions, it would be impossiblefortheseriestobringsuchwell-knownspeakerstocampus,hesaid. “We’ve built up stronger fund-ing support from the University overtime,whichweappreciate,sowecanbring even more prominent speakerstocampus,”Rotellasaid. “We’vealsobuiltupastrongregu-lar constituency and a pretty reliablemodelforreachingtherightaudienceforaspeaker,sowe’remoreconfidentabouttakingachanceonaspeaker—ei-ther one who’s new to our audienceor one who costs a little more—andbeingprettysurethatwecangivethatspeakertheturnoutheorshedeserves,”hesaidn
campus quirks
Onweekendmorningsthissemester,CommonwealthAve.hasbeentransformedbyteamsofrunnerstrainingfortheBostonMarathon.HundredsofpeoplehavebeenrunningbyBostonCollegeeveryweekendand,unlessyou’reamorningrunnerorhap-pentoliveonComm.Ave.,youwouldhavenoideathisisgoingon.
Thissemester,IamtrainingfortheBostonMarathonandhopeI’llbeabletobandittheracewiththeCampusSchoolmarathonteam.DuetoatimeconflictthatmademeunabletoattendtheregularSun-daylongrunwiththerestofthemarathonteam,Isetouttorunthe7.5milesoftheroutebeforeBC,andback,bymyself.
Unknowingly,Ihadrunintoateamalsotrainingforthemarathon.Hordesofrun-nerswerecomingupanddownComm.Ave.Carsandtentsweresetupatvariouspointsalongtheroute,withtablesofwaterincups
fortherunners.TheHeartbreakHillRun-ningCompany’smascot,amaninagorillacostume,wasstandingonthecorneroutsidethestoregivingrunnershigh-fives.
AsIstartedmyrun,mostoftherunnerswerealreadyheadingbackupComm.Ave.asIwasheadingdownit.IsawtheirstrugglemixedwithfiercedeterminationastheybattledHeartbreakHill.Isawtheoptimismofknowingtheywerealmostdonewiththeirhalf-marathon.
Whatstruckmemostwasthediversity.Beingonsuchahomogenouscampus,it’salwaysshockingtobreakthe“BCbubble”andwitnessthevastdifferencesinanormal,population.IsawrunnersthatrangedfromguyswholookedliketheyjuststeppedoutofanUnderArmourcatalogue,totheyoungergirlswhoweretrainingataslowerpaceandjusthavingfun,totheolderrunnerswhoclearlyhadfamiliesoftheirownathome.
AsIturnedleftontoWashingtonStreet,Ibegantocatchupwiththestrag-glersofthefirstmarathonteam.Iremember
passingtwowomen:oneclosetomyage,theotherolder,maybeinher40sor50s.Despitethevastagedifference,therewasanequaldeterminationinbothrunnersthatIfoundsoinspiring.Theywereonlyhalfwaydone,buttheyweren’tabouttogiveup.
Thecamaraderieamongrunnersisunparalleled.AsIrandownWashingtonStreetandbackupCommAve,Iwasencouragedbythesecondandthenthirdmarathonteamsthatwerefollowingme.Allofussharedacommonpurpose.Aroundmileeightornine(themostdiscouragingmilesinahalfmarathon),arunnercomingtowardmeshoutedout“Yeah,goEagles!”afternoticingmyBCheadbandandjacket.Maybehewasarecentalum,maybehewasjustafanofBC,ormaybehewasjusttryingtospreadsomemotivation.Eitherway,hemademesmileandgavemetheencourage-menttokeeponrunning.
AsIcameupHeartbreakHill,Ifelthon-oredtobeabletosharethisincrediblejour-neyoftrainingforamarathonwithother
runners.No,Idon’tknowthesepeople,andprobablywon’teverseethemagain,butwesharedaspecialstruggleandachievementthatmorningthatinsomewaysisdeeperthananysortofrelationship.
AndIhadsomethingmore.ThesightofBapst,risingupatthetopofHeartbreakHill,wasthefinalmotivationIneededtoknowthatIwashome—andIknowBCwillbemymainmotivationduringthefullBostonMarathon.
Thereissomuchstruggle,elation,andcamaraderieonComm.Ave.everyweekend,andthemajorityofBCstudentsmissit.EvenBCstudentstrainingforthemarathon,whoonlyrunwiththeCampusSchoolteamonSundaymornings,areperpetuatingtheBCbubble.Iencourageallstudentstrainingtodoonelongrunbythemselves—youneverknowwhoyou’llseeandwhatyou’lllearn.
Caitlin Slotter
Running in the marathon and out of the BC bubble
Caitlin Slotter is a staff writer for The Heights. She welcomes comments at [email protected].
“Mindovermatter”hasbeenmyper-sonalmantraeversinceIcanremember.
IthinksomeonemusthaverepeatedthephrasetomewhenIwaslittleasIwascomplainingaboutnotbeingabletojumphighenoughtoreachthemonkeybars,andcoincidently,thenexttimeItried,Iwasabletograbthemandclamberacross.Needlesstosay,Ihavebelievediniteversince,assomekindofmagicphrase.
WhenIsaythisphraseIdonotmeantelepathyormovingthingswithyourmind.(AlthoughIdothinkthisphrase,whenusedcorrectly,canbejustthatpowerful.)Idomeanthatifyouthinkyoucandosomething,youaremuchmorelikelytocompleteyourgoals.
Therehaveevenbeenscientificfind-ingsthatprovemylittlemantraactuallyworks.ASelf-fulfillingprophecyistheideathatifyouorthepeoplearoundyoubelieve(ordon’tbelieve)youwillachieveagoal,thenitismorelikelythatyouwill(orwon’t).Thisisallproofthatyoureallycandoanythingyouputyourmindto.
Recently,though,Ihavediscovered“mindovermatter”initspurestformthroughmymarathontraining.
LetmeprefacethisbysayingIambynomeansanavidrunner,ahealthfreak,amorningperson,oranyotherimagethatpopsintoyourheadwhenyouthinkofamarathonrunner.
Mymomisbuyingtheover-pricedEasterbreakplanetickettowatchmerunthemarathon,notnecessarilytosupportme,butbecauseshedoesn’tbelieveIamactuallygoingtodoit.
Throughoutthepast10weeksoftraining,I’vehadtorepeatmymantratomyselfmoretimesthanIhaveinthepast10years.
ButonethingI’verealizedisthattraininghasbeenabattlebetweenmymindandthematterthatismybody(morespecificallymypoorlegs),notbetweenmybodyandthepavementunderneathmyfeet.Ithasalwaysbeenacontesttoseehowlongmymindcanholdout,nothowmuchmymusclescanhandle.
Becauseintheend,mymind—andnothingelse—iscontrollingmymuscles.Thecoldtemperaturesandsnowthathavedrasticallyhinderedmyenthusi-asmoverthepastfewweeksdon’treallycontrolmymuscles.It’smymindtellingmeit’stoocoldtowalktothePlexorrundownComm.Ave.
ThefactthatIread“16miles”inthisSaturday’sboxinmytrainingscheduledoesn’tcontrolmymuscleseither.It’smymindtryingtoconvincemeit’sprobablynotevenhealthyformetorunthatfaradistance.
I’venoticedthepowerofmymindanditseffectonmybodythroughmylongrunsversusmyshortruns.Forexample,whenmytrainingschedulecallsforthreemiles,IstrugglejustasmuchbetweenmiletwoandthreeasIdowhentheschedulecallsfor16milesandIreachmile15—proofthatifyoutellyourselfyouaregoingtorunthreemiles,youareonlygoingtomakeittothree.
Ifanything,mypast10weeksoftraininghavereassuredmethatwhenItellmyselfIamgoingtorun26.2milesonthemorningofApril21,Iwillbeabletodoit(butprobablynotastepmore,unless,ofcourse,ItoldmyselfIcould).
Sometrainerssayrunningis75per-centmentaland25percentphysical.ThefirstwomantowinthegoldmedalintheOlympicmarathoneventwasquotedsayingrunningis80percentmental.I’dgosofarastoskewtheratioevenmore,becausereally,along-distancerunnerisnothingwithoutwillpower.
MaybeitwasacoincidencethatIwasabletojumphighenoughtoreachthemonkeybarsassoonasIwastoldthatifIbelievedIcoulddoitIcould.WhatIdoknowisthatitwon’tbeacoincidencewhenIcrossthefinishlineineightweekstoseemymomstandingthereinuttershock.
ItwillbebecauseIdidnotletthepowerofmymusclesgetinthewayofthepowerofmybrain.
Kendra Kumor is the Features Editor for The Heights. She welcomes comments at [email protected].
Marathon trainingbecomes game ofmind over matter
Kendra Kumor
By Samantha CoStanzo
Asst. Features Editor
Everyone at Boston Collegeis thinking of the same thingthis week: Spring Break—thatinfamous, carefree week whencollegekidsacross thecountrystophittingthebooksandhitthebeachesinstead.Whilewemayall be thinking about the samething,we’rethinkingaboutitindifferentwaysandhavebeenforalongtime.It’ssafetosaythatno two BC students have everreallyhadthesamevacation.
Formanyofus,SpringBreakcan’t come soon enough, butin 1988, students complainedthatitwasinfactabittooearly.Thatyear, itbegantheweekofFeb.29.
“I’m just getting into theswingofclassesrightnow,andboom—we’re on break again,”said Denise Carron, BC ’89.Writer Eric Marcos attributedtheearlybreaktoanexception-allyearlyEasteronApril3andtheUniversity’straditionofput-tingspringbreakinthemiddleofthisholidayandthebeginningofthesemester.
Heights writer Nick Tamba-keras offered some alternativeSpringBreakoptionsthateventhemostunconventionalcollegestudent might laugh at. “Takeadrive toArkansasandgo seethe childhood home of formerpresident Bill Clinton,” he sug-gested. “You’ll learnsomethingandyou’llseethetruesourceofAmerica’scurrentmediawoes.”
Tambakeras also suggestedtakingatriptoMinnesotaforicefishing,orforthewarm-weatherseekeronabudget,simplybuy-ingabottleoftequilaandases-sion at a tanning salon for theperfectSpringBreakfake-out.
A large number of BC stu-dents,bothinthepastandtoday,opt for service-minded SpringBreaktripsinsteadofthemoretraditional,tropicalvenues.
The most obvious SpringBreakservicetripchoice is theAppalachiaVolunteersprogram,which,in1981,wasoffereddur-ing students’ “February Break.”Otherwise, the trip remainssimilar today to its originalroots. Students in the ’80s stillvolunteeredinruralpartsoftheU.S.andfundraisedthroughouttheyearforthetrip.
The Urban Immersion pro-gram,aservicetripthatfocuseson impoverished areas in Bos-ton, is now offered only in thewinter but began in 1987 andwas expanded to a spring tripaswellforafewyearsbeginningin1990.
“UrbanImmersionisnotanisolatedweek,”saidstudentfacil-itatorRayVaillancourt,BC’91,inthearticle.“It’snotsomethingwhere you go in, help a lot of
people,andthenleave.”Severalweekendimmersionexperienceswere also planned throughoutthespringsemester.
InOctober1999,The Heights reported that the Natchez Im-mersion Trip, during whichBC students volunteer at HolyFamilyCatholicSchool inNat-chez,Miss.,wouldbeexpandingto two trips: one over WinterBreak,andasecondoverSpringBreak.Thetripcontinuesinthesameformattoday.
Writers, however, have stillbeen sympathetic to the needsoftraditionalspringbreakersaswell.In2003,MicheleFrangellagavestudentssomehelpfulhintson identifying random peopleand places in their vacationphotos. Among them: “Lookat the previous three picturesin the roll to identify familiarsurroundings and/or alcoholicbeveragesthatmaybethecauseof your amnesia” and “give thestrangepeoplenamesandturnthemintomoviestars.”
Heights editor Julia WilsonwroteaboutUGBC’sSafeSpringBreak initiative in 2008. Over150studentsthatyearreceivedkitsthatcontainedinformationon safe drinking practices, sunsafety,traveltips,lipbalm,gra-nolabars,andsunscreen.
“The kits allow studentsto pause for a minute beforeSpringBreakandthinkaboutthechoicesthey’regoingtomakeonSpringBreak,”saidRobynPriest,then-assistantdeanoftheAlco-holEducationProgram.
Regardless of their destina-tions,studentsin1992werenothesitanttospendontheirtrips.
Margie Tyler reported thateveryone,fromseniorstofresh-men,waspurchasingexpensivehotelstaysinCancunandcheaptickets to Paris through BCTravel,theUniversity’sveryowntravelagency.
The agency also arrangedstudents’tripshomeortoNewYorkandothermajorcities forjobinterviewsduringthebreak,Tylerwrote.
A 2001 “Voices from theDustbowl” question asked stu-dents about their Spring Breakmantras for that year. The sixwho stopped to answer thequestion showed a somewhatsurprisingsenseofpracticality,forcollegestudents.“Relaxandbesafe!”answeredgradstudentJulieMarieBrown.CristinFred-erick, BC ’03, offered a similarbit of advice: “Don’t get toodrunk, because you’ve got thenextdayaheadofyou.”
ForLaurenWhitneyandJenBailey,bothBC’03,SpringBreakmeant one thing: “Naptime!”That’s one much-longed-forfeature of Spring Break thatstudentsstillcraveandlikelywillforyearstocome.n
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would be better to have more medals on the wall, Katsulas said.
“It’s prestigious to be in the debate, but it’s more prestigious to win the debate and get your name on the wall,” Katsulas said. “That’s even more attrac-tive than winning the gold medal.”
The debate generally consists of at least one debater from each division—novice, junior varsity, and varsity—and is slower and less technical than a typi-cal policy debate because the judges are often professors with no prior debate experience, Katsulas said.
This is done intentionally so that the debaters are forced to speak per-suasively. In this regard, novices often have a leg-up because they can be more skilled at judge adaptation and are less used to the rapid-fire style of policy debates, he said.
“They try to throw in some jokes, and they’re more animated since they’re trying to appeal to the judges and the students,” he said. “The debate is a lot more entertaining to watch than a regular debate just because there’s more pathos and humor in the debate.”
The Fulton Debating Society de-bates against other schools through three debate organizations—the Amer-ican Debate Association, the Crossfire Association, and the National Debate Tournament Committee—all of which debate the same topic. The Society’s
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BY SAMANTHA COSTANZO
Asst. Features Editor
The student section at Kelley Rink is screaming, but not for Boston Col-lege’s hockey team. In fact, the team isn’t even on the ice. It’s the second intermission, and the players are hid-den away in the locker room to talk strategy for the final period. No, BC fans are roaring for their favorite little celebrity: Danny Gillis, the red-headed second grader better known simply as “Fiddle Kid.”
What began as a few minutes of fame every game from adorably fid-dling along with the rest of the crowd whenever “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” was played at games during
the second intermission quickly trans-formed into something much larger. Somewhere in the middle of the season, people began to pay more attention to the little boy with the big smile as he played away on his imaginary fiddle, and Danny’s hockey experience hasn’t been the same since.
Now, he happily runs through the stands during games to take photos with his fans and has over 600 followers on a Twitter account run by his sisters, Michaela and Erin Gillis, and cousin, Liam Gillis.
But Danny’s rapid rise to stardom doesn’t come as a surprise to his family.
“He’s one of the most joyful, out-going kids you’ve ever seen,” said his father, Michael Gillis. “His smile
just makes him friends.” Perhaps, he speculated, that played a key role in Danny’s recent election to his class’ student council.
BC and its hockey team run deep in the Gillis family. Danny’s great-grandfather, grandfather, and father all graduated from BC 30 years apart: in 1919, 1949, and 1979, respectively. His uncle Joe, BC ’75, played hockey all four years at BC, and his father played from 1975 to 1977. His father also played varsity lacrosse during his time at BC and eventually went on to coach the team from 1990 to 1994, before it became a club sport.
“The best [hockey] player in the
BY CAROLYN FREEMAN
For The Heights
Every year, when spring comes to the Heights, the warmer weather and hordes of prospective students are joined by a 114-year-old tradition: the Fulton Debate.
The Fulton Debate is a showcase event between four members of the Fulton Debating Society, two on the af-firmative side and two on the negative. It follows a policy debate format, but with shortened constructive speeches. The whole event runs about 50 minutes. In recent years, the topic has been re-lated to current events, said Director of Debate John Katsulas.
The debaters can win the gold Fulton Prize or the silver Gargan Medal based on their speaking ability. The winner has his name painted on the wall of Gas-son 305, the Fulton Debate room.
However, there is a disparity between the names on the wall and the official winners. In the early 1980s, when Dale Herbeck coached the team, he decided that if the same person won the Fulton Prize two years in a row, the winner of the Gargan Medal should have his name painted on the wall. Herbeck thought it See Fiddle Kid, C5 See Debate, C6
Fiddle Kid carries family hockey tradition
The prestigious team teaches persuasion, public speaking skills
PHOTO COURTESY OF DANNY GILLIS
Fulton Debating Society remains part of BC history
Danny Gillis, center, poses with Baldwin and a crowd of fans during this year’s Beanpot championship game at TD Garden.
FitnessBC Recreation provides alternative fi tness options in salsa, jiu-jitsu, and aquatics
FOR ALLSOMETHING
BY CAROLINE HOPKINS
Heights Staff
To many Boston College students, the “Plex” is simply a synonym for “overheated, unpleasant-looking building with an insufficient number of treadmills.” On cold, snowy winter days, when the prospect of outdoor activity may as well be impossible, some students lack the motivation to journey to the Plex in order to stay active. Particularly for those with a distaste for cardio machinery, conven-tional medicine balls, and waiting in aggressive lines, the choice to “Plex it” just might not seem worth it. Little do these students know of the unique, unconventional, and actually fun opportunities for fitness and activity that the underrated, underappreciated Plex offers. The very first thing that appears upon visiting BC’s “BC Campus Recreation” website is a headline banner in bold, BC-colored capital let-ters, reading “SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE.” From “Aqua Bootcamp” to salsa dancing to rock climbing and ice skating classes, this mantra doesn’t lie. Truth be told, the Plex actually has a world to offer in terms of catering to all kinds of fitness preferences. For those adventurous, outdoorsy types who find indoor exercise claustrophobic and uninspiring, or for those simply looking to take ad-vantage of beautiful New England, Campus Recreation’s new Outdoor
Adventures Program is here for the taking. The Outdoor Adventures Program offers several day-long trips and clinics while also providing opportunities for various training and certificates such as Wilderness First Aid and Wilderness First Responder. Trips and clinics include snow shoeing in the Bluehill Mountains, cross country skiing in New Ipswich, N.H., rock climbing at Hammond Pond, or even paddleboard yoga in the Plex itself. Extended, more rigor-ous programs are offered as well, such as this year’s Southwest Spring Break rock climbing trip in St. George, Utah. “We travel to some of the most exciting parts of New England for adventures of a lifetime,” said Eli Crispell, the assistant director of the Outdoor Adventure Program (OA). All of the outdoor adventures are open to beginners and people of all experience levels. “Our trips are predominantly staffed by our excellent student instructors,” said Crispell, who explained that “student instructors go through an intensive training program and have a passion for taking others into the wilderness.” Individual programs range in price, requiring small fees usually around $15 to $20 with a BC ID.
“In addition to the trips, the OA program has a top-notch rental
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