The Heights January 21, 2016

Vol. XCVII, No. 1 Thursday, Janurary 21, 2016

HEThe Independent

Student Newspaperof Boston College

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SPORTSAfter a win and a tie against BU, Jerry York sits one win away from 1,000, B8

999 AND COUNTINGMETROGeneral Electric announced that it is moving its global headquarters back to Boston, A4

COMING HOMESCENEJunior singer-songwriter Chris Dalla Riva discusses songwriting, fi nding a band, and fi nding his sound, B3

VIVA DALLA RIVA

Boston College men’s basketball fi nished

13-19 in head coach Jim Christian’s fi rst sea-

son at the helm, a fi ve-win jump from Steve

Donahue’s pitiful last season in Chestnut

Hill. But that wasn’t Christian’s only suc-

cess—the Eagles also brought huge returns

to the Athletic Department’s pocketbooks.

After a down year in 2013-14, the program

returned to profi tability, according to the

University’s Equity in Athletics Data Report.

Th e U.S. Department of Education releases

this information, reporting fi nancial informa-

tion for any institution which receives federal

funding for athletics.

Donahue’s fi nal season, an 8-24 campaign

which saw only one notable win—a road

upset of No. 1 Syracuse University—was

hampered by misuse of his best players, a

lack of year-to-year improvement, and an

inability to adjust to rule changes by the

now-University of Pennsylvania skipper. But

its profi tability problems stemmed from a

challenging non-conference schedule that

featured several out-of-state games, includ-

ing trips to Los Angeles (USC), West Lafay-

ette, Ind. (Purdue), Auburn, Ala. (Auburn),

Brooklyn, N.Y. (VCU), and Manhattan, N.Y.

(UConn and Washington). Th is resulted in a

net loss of $1.68 million.

In 2014-15, Christian only scheduled one

major out-of-state tournament—a three-

game slate against New Mexico, UMass, and

Dayton in San Juan, Puerto Rico—while keep-

ing BC’s remaining non-conference games at

home. BC’s marquee home matchups against

Virginia, North Carolina, and Notre Dame

also occurred on Saturdays, likely helping

ticket sales at home. Because of these (and

other) factors, the program spent $5.68 mil-

lion, a 20.3 percent drop. Th is helped men’s

basketball turn a profi t of $1.12 million, a rise

from 14th to 10th in the ACC. Both Notre

Dame and Virginia Tech reported losses of

$3.15 million and $79,837, respectively. BC,

however, is still well behind the conference’s

frontrunners, such as fi rst-place Louisville,

which turned a $29.05 million profit last

season.

Yet men’s basketball wasn’t the only pro-

gram that showed a notable improvement in

only one year. Despite having the exact same

7-6 record in each season, BC football turned

a higher profi t during the 2014 season than in

2013, increasing from $4.07 million to $5.37

million. Like men’s basketball, this total still

pales in comparison to BC’s contemporaries.

Th e program again fi nished 14th in the ACC,

only $20,000 ahead of last-place Wake For-

est and well behind the conference average

of $16.71 million. Only four schools—BC,

Wake, Duke, and Virginia—reported rev-

enues under $10 million, while fi rst-place

Notre Dame amassed a profi t of a whopping

$54.25 million. Th is is largely due to Notre

Dame’s football independence—the Fighting

Irish earn a majority of their profi ts from an

exclusive TV deal with NBC.

Men’s hockey also received good news, if

only marginally so and for negative reasons.

Head coach Jerry York’s team fi nished 21-

15-3 in 2014-15 with a fi rst-round loss to

Denver in the opening round of the NCAA

Tournament in Providence, R.I. Th is was a

far cry from BC’s 2013-14 campaign, which

featured a Frozen Four run in Philadelphia.

But BC’s shorter season helped the program

fi nancially. Th e team still did not turn a profi t,

yet improved its losses from $1.46 million to

$892,650, a 61.1 percent decrease.

Of the four profi t sports, the only one

See Equity in Athletics, A8

At the end of last semester, the Under-

graduate Government of Boston College

called for a plan of action from the admin-

istration regarding race and institutional

racism to be released Jan. 19. Despite the

push for a response and changes made by

UGBC on the working proposal earlier

this month, the administration chose not

to release a statement or plan this past

Tuesday.

Since the initial release of its working

proposal, UGBC has been working with

Barbara Jones, vice president for student

aff airs, and Dean of Students Th omas Mo-

gan to create a proposal. Th is has included

benchmarking other schools, as well as

adding its own recommendations about

what a proposal would look like in order

to assist in the process. Members of the

administration were contacted, but have

not yet responded at this time.

“We are committed to continuing the

dialogue with students around issues they

have raised,” Jones wrote in an email. “We

look forward to discussing with UGBC

their concerns, correcting some misper-

ceptions, and sharing our mutual commit-

ment to diversity and inclusion.

See UGBC, A3

Despite a decrease in the number

of early action applicants and a rise

in the acceptance rate, landing at 32

percent, Boston College’s early action

admittance class maintained last year’s

academic rigor and matched the class of

2019’s average SAT and ACT scores.

BC Undergraduate Admission re-

ceived 8,600 early action applications,

a decrease from last year’s spike in in-

terest. John Mahoney, Boston College

Director of Undergraduate Admission,

said, however, that the number of appli-

cations is similar to what was received

in past years.

“We have carved out our niche in

terms of the reputation of the institu-

tion and the quality of students that

apply,” Mahoney said.

The admitted class averaged 2128

on the SAT and 33 on the ACT, nearly

matching last year’s early action class’

scores.

BC Undergraduate Admission ad-

mitted 30 percent of the 2020 class

through the restrictive early action

program. Because the office received

about a third of the overall applica-

tions through early action, allotting 70

percent of spots for the regular decision

students creates a fair playing field for

those who apply to the Jan. 1 deadline,

Mahoney said.

“We are great believers in this idea

that the people applying at the Jan. 1

deadline should be treated with the

same fairness and equity as those who

are applying early action,” Mahoney

said. “So as a result, we do apply a

Tickets for this year’s Plexapalooza went on sale

at 8 a.m. on Tuesday morning through the Robsham

box office. Two minutes later, the tickets were sold

out, breaking previous sell-out time records. The

Campus Activities Board announced Dec. 15 that

The Chainsmokers will be the guest performers at

the 2016 Plexapalooza.

Many upset students criticized the amount of

tickets on the event’s Facebook page.

“While we are happy to see that students are ex-

cited about this event, we understand the frustrations

regarding the limited number of tickets,” Christine

Cocce, CAB president and CSOM ’16, wrote in an

email.

Cocce wrote that the maximum capacity of the

venue is 1,800 people due to fire code and safety

laws and that all tickets were sold this morning. She

explained that the standard policy of two tickets per

student ID has always been in place for this event.

Cocce wrote that CAB has already identified students

online who are attempting to resell their tickets at a

higher price. Those tickets will be voided without

refund.

Tickets must be presented at the door, and all

tickets will be scanned upon entering the event,

which will be held Jan. 29 at 8:30 p.m in the Flynn

Recreation Complex.

See Early Action, A3

KELSEY MCGEE / HEIGHTS GRAPHIC

MARISSA VENUTO / HEIGHTS STAFF

By becky reilly

Heights Staff

While students spent their Win-

ter Breaks away from campus, Boston

College Campus Recreation worked

to improve facilities.

In the most significant of sev-

eral changes to the Flynn Recreation

Complex, Campus Recreation redid

its basketball wing with five new

wooden courts. Because two of the

five new courts in the Plex have

been expanded to NCAA regulation

dimensions, the other three had

to be shifted and reduced in size.

The material used to resurface the

courts in the Plex was taken from

Conte Forum.

According to Rebecca Cegledy,

the associate director of facilities and

operations, some unsafe bubbling

in the old courts’ synthetic material

prompted the renovation and the

Conte wood acquisition. As a result,

the remaining three courts were

resurfaced, too. Cegledy now expects

ing, depending on the student’s

medical bills, missed class time,

the time spent in the hospital and

the degree of his or her illness.

Levy hopes to solve the issues

amicably with a civil case. Levy is

confident that Chipotle will co-

operate based on the company’s

efforts thus far to regain its cus-

tomers’ trust. Chipotle’s insur-

ance would cover the students’

damages, Levy said.

“Generally speaking, with an

incident like this, it is our aim to

take care of customers that were

impacted by it,” Chris Arnold,

communications director and offi-

cial spokesman at Chipotle, said.

Under University policy, fly-

ers that are hung around campus

must be approved by the Office

of Student Services. The flyers

that Levy’s firm posted around

campus and on bus stops had not

been run through the University,

said vice president of the office

of student affairs Barbara Jones.

Levy has not reached out to BC

concerning the legal cases.

“These posters would not

be approved under the posting

policy and will be removed,”

Jones said.

BC is not planning on taking

any legal action against Chipotle

after 141 students were infected

in December, Jones said. Other

lawyers around the country,

however, have begun to take le-

gal action following the series of

e. coli and norovirus outbreaks,

Levy said.

The corporation has already

begun efforts to solve the health

problems within its stores around

the country. The restaurant

chain released a statement on

its website on Dec. 21 explaining

how the company is launching an

enhanced food safety program

and is working alongside state

and federal health officials to

solve the health issues.

Chipotle also announced

this week that it will be hosting

a national employee meeting

Feb. 8 to discuss food safety and

implement changes. Stores will

be closed for the afternoon due

to the meetings.

THE HEIGHTS

Artists Liza Lou and Ramiro Gomez, art historian and journalist Lawrence Weschler, and poet Ed-ward Hirsch will host a panel discussion on the role of contemporary visual arts in creating, defining, and critiquing the American democratic vision on Thursday at 6 p.m. in Devlin 101. 1

On Thursday, Jan. 21, Professor Mike Cronin, academic director of Boston College Ireland, will present a lecture titled: “The Enemy in Dublin, 1916: Who Were the British?” to commemorate Ireland’s Easter Rising of 1916. The event will be held in the Connolly House at 5 p.m. 2

Thursday, January 21, 2016 A2

Master Sergeant Cedric King, a veteran who lost both of his legs and suffered multiple severe injuries during his third tour in Afghanistan in 2012, will be speak-ing Thursday in the Shea Room in Conte Forum from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. A light lunch will be provided.

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Police Department

If you had won the powerball, what would you have done?

NEWSBRIEFS

On Jan. 17, Information

Technology Services (ITS), the

Office of News and Public Af-

fairs (NPA), and the Office of

Marketing Communications

(OMC) collaborated with con-

sulting firm r2integrated to

create the new Boston College

website homepage. The website’s

redesign is part of a multi-year

plan to update the most viewed

pages on the website, including

the Admission, Campus Life, and

BC News pages.

The new website looks dif-

ferent and is more functional.

There is a new events calendar,

a new audience page tailored to

students, parents, faculty, and

staff, and dynamic multimedia.

Although BC.EDU is still sup-

ported by Adobe Experience

Manager, it now has customized

pages, rather than the standard-

ized BC web templates.

“This web redesign would

not have been possible without

the extraordinary commitment

of our project team,” University

Spokesman Jack Dunn said, ac-

cording to the BC news release.

“Through their efforts, the Uni-

versity now has a website that

will vastly improve our ability

to tout the outstanding faculty

and students who make BC one

of the nation’s best universities.

This was a truly collaborative

effort that followed the input

of the campus community and

drew on the strengths of BC’s

talented staff.”

POLICE BLOTTER 1/18/16 - 1/20/16

Monday Jan. 18

2:15 p.m. - A report was filed

regarding medical assistance pro-

vided to a BC student who was

transported to a medical facility by

ambulance from Edmond’s Hall.

5:21 p.m. - A report was filed re-

garding a past motor vehicle acci-

dent in the Edmond’s Parking Lot.

Tuesday Jan. 19

11:11 a.m. - A report was filed


vided to a Campus School student

who was transported to a medical

facility from Campion Hall.

9:01 p.m. - A report was filed re-

garding a larceny from a non-resi-

dent in Corcoran Commons.

Wednesday Jan. 20

4:53 a.m. - A report was filed


vided to a BC employee who was

transported to a medical facility

from McElroy Commons.

Boston College’s capital cam-

paign, Light the World, reached

its goal of raising $1.5 billion

last month. According to the

BC news release, the Board of

Trustees, University President

Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., and

campaign co-chairs Charles I.

Clough, Jr. ’64, Kathleen M. Mc-

Gillycuddy BC ’71 and William

J. Geary ’80 launched Light the

World in 2008, just before the

economic recession hit.

This campaign marks one of

the most successful capital cam-

paigns in higher education this

decade and is likely one of the

factors that allowed BC to rise

to 30th in the US News rankings.

The money raised for Light the

World is nearly triple the $441

million that the Ever to Excel

campaign raised from 1997 to

2003. BC has used the money to

support academic excellence and

student-formation programs,

expand financial aid and campus

construction projects, strength-

en BC athletics, and fund several

major resource centers.

“More than anything, Light

the World has solidified our

place globally as a top-tier Je-

suit, Catholic institution with

great clarity about who we are

and what we want to do and be,”

McGillycuddy said.

The co-chairs of the cam-

paign urged that there is much

more that needs to be done.

“While we should be im-

mensely proud, our work is

never done,” said McGillycuddy.

“We are not wealthy in compari-

son to peer institutions, so we

must continue to focus on the

future, including gifts through

the end of this fiscal year. Pro-

viding financial support for the

University is a lifetime commit-

ment.”

By taylor st. germain

Asst. News Editor

On Jan. 8, John King, the di-

rector of public safety at Boston

College, exacted a ban on hov-

erboards on BC’s campus via an

email to the student body.

The decision to ban the hov-

erboards was initiated by King,

Dean of Students Thomas Mogan,

and George Arey, the director

of the Office of Residential Life.

The email said that the Office of

Environmental Health & Safety

recommended this measure after

the Consumer Product Safety

Commission cited that hover-

boards have caused 28 fires in 19

states. The University’s action is

out of concern for student safety,

the email said.

While Massachusetts has

not passed any direct legislation

concerning hoverboard use, in

2011 the City of Boston passed

an ordinance that banned the

use of electrical personal assis-

tive mobility devices on public

property. Other schools in the

area, including Suffolk University,

Brandeis University, and Univer-

sity of Massachusetts Amherst,

have banned hoverboards their

on campuses.

These bans are following a

larger, national trend in which

colleges across the country are

By taylor st germain

Asst. News Editor

In response to last month’s

norovirus outbreak , Boston

College students are beginning

to take legal action against

Chipotle with the help of Boston

criminal lawyer Brett Levy. He

using the Winter Break to release

updated policies banning the use

of the self-balancing scooters. The

same day that King sent out the

email to BC students, students

at Occidental College in Los

Angeles, Calif., received a similar

notification regarding a ban on

hoverboards on their campus.

California passed legislation

early in 2016 that legalized and

regulated the hoverboards. Rid-

ers must be at least 16 years of

age, wear a helmet, and cannot

ride in zones where the speed

limit is greater than 35 miles per

hour. These regulations follow a

viral video of former professional

boxer Mike Tyson falling off of his

child’s hoverboard, released Dec.

29, 2015.

Several airlines, like American

Airlines, Delta, and United, have

banned the electrical boards from

being brought on flights. Metro-

link trains have also prevented

riders from bringing the hover-

boards aboard.

“I was really excited to bring

the hoverboard I got for Christ-

mas to school this semester,”

Cameron Pott, MCAS ’19, said

in a phone interview. “All of my

friends wanted to see it and it

would’ve been a ton of fun in the

dorm. Unfortunately, this is no

longer an option for me, and I’ll

have to leave it at home.”

is currently working with two

students, and plans to file civil

suits against the corporation in

the coming weeks.

The students affected by no-

rovirus in December are looking

for compensation from Chipotle.

Each case differs in the amount

for which the students are fil-

Please send corrections to

[email protected] with ‘correction’ in

the subject line.

CORRECTIONS

JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Two BC students are filing civil cases against Chipotle after the norovirus.

BC Recreation resurfaced five basketball courts in the Flynn Recreation complex over Christmas break.

AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR

that the courts will serve club sports,

Plex programs, and Office of Student

Involvement projects well.

“I think overall it’s going to en-

hance our internal programming,

as well as events,” Cegledy said. “By

having the regulation-style courts,

our club sports teams are now going

to be able to host more events and

more tournaments.”

The new courts are one of several

facility improvements over the break.

Other changes include new lights

over the Plex’s tennis wing and two

TVs in the cardio room at Newton

Campus’s Quonset Hut.

“It’s an old building that was built

in the 1970s, so anything we can do

to enhance it is well worth it to make

it better for our students and our

members,” Cegledy said.

AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR

THE HEIGHTS Thursday, January 21, 2016 A3

By Nick DeMott

For The Heights

Flight School, a program to

connect student-athletes with

the professional world, was

launched last week by the Boston

College Athletics Department.

The new program has the goal of

seeing 90 percent of BC athletes

with definitive post-graduation

plans.

Seeking to make the transi-

tion from BC student-athlete

into BC graduate a seamless

one, Flight School has gathered

the help of alumni and their col-

leagues to serve as mentors.

The mentors, known as ad-

vocates, will help by recruiting

BC athletes into their industries.

The relationships could lead to

internships or job interviews,

according to BCEagles .com.

Flight School already has 70

advocates onboard, according to

Alison Quandt, assistant athlet-

ics director for student athlete

development.

In 2013, Director of Athlet-

ics Brad Bates announced his

goal for 70 percent of athletes

graduating in 2014 to have post-

grad plans. Bates’ mark was sur-

passed, and in 2015, the goal was

raised to 80 percent—then met.

To reach a goal of 90 percent

of its graduating student athletes

with jobs come May 2016, BC

Athletics has instituted Flight

School.

Similar to a LinkedIn-type

networking site, Flight School

is a database that can connect

student-athletes with advocates.

Athletes will create profiles that

list things like the sports they

play, their career interests, and

their desired regions to live and

work. Such characteristics will

help to match BC’s athletes with

the right advocates.

Along with the start of the

spring semester, Flight School

will officially launch this week.

Definitive post-grad plans “could

include employment, graduate

school, professional playing

opportunities or even planned

volunteer or activism projects,”

according to BCEagles .com .

Due to a high proportion of

accounting and finance majors,

Quandt said, the early numbers

show that 23 percent of student

athletes already have post-grad

plans.

Quandt pointed out that

much of this career development

and forging of relationships

between student athletes and

alumni or employers had already

been going on over the past two

years within BC Athletics, and

that Flight School only formal-

ized the process.

Whenever athletes were in

search of post-grad plans, the

Athletics Department would

assist by searching through

its rolodex of contacts. This

may have included alumni or

companies who have hired BC

student-athletes in the past.

Students were then able to align

themselves with advocates of

common interest.

Flight School is accessible

only to BC student-athletes. As

a result of the program, though,

BC Athletics expects the net-

work of connections to grow,

so this year’s graduating class

After receiving the UGBC docu-

ment on Jan. 4, a meeting between

the administration and UGBC

was scheduled for this Friday, Jan.

22. Jones said that in addition, the

administration is continuing listen-

ing sessions, which they started

last semester. This will begin again

with a dinner that is scheduled with

graduate students next week. As a

University community, it is impor-

tant to engage in issues in a manner

that is reflective, thoughtful, and

thorough, Jones said.

“For us, it’s incredibly disap-

pointing to not see the administra-

tion adopt any proposal of their

own,” Thomas Napoli, president of

UGBC and MCAS ’16 said.

On Jan. 20, UGBC posted the

proposal it had given the admin-

istration on its Facebook page,

along with a note expressing disap-

pointment. This was the first time

the proposal was released to the

public. Napoli explained that the

group has transitioned to bringing

its information to the public to be

more transparent. The document,

titled Towards a More Inclusive

Community, outlined the group’s

vision for an inclusive environment

on campus, as well as suggestions

for the administration on how to

achieve this inclusion.

“Even though this wasn’t the

announcement we were looking

forward to making, at this point

we really wanted to be able to say

we have this plan and it’s going

forward,” Olivia Hussey, executive

vice president and MCAS ’17 said.

“Even though that hasn’t happened

yet, we really wanted to be transpar-

ent in what has been happening in

the meetings with ourselves and the

administrators for three months

now.”

The document is broken down

into a preamble, an overview of the

action plan, and has categories of

institutional support, academics,

campus climate, and education.

The preamble includes a call for the

University to create a long-term

strategic action plan. Here, the

group outlined its goal, stating that

it hopes “to foster an institutional

transformation and ultimately, an

intellectually-enhanced environ-

ment.”

Napoli explained that the admin-

istrators left the door open to create

an action plan, but never indicated

whether they planned to release one

or not. Members of UGBC had not

received any information indicating

progress to create or adopt the plan

UGBC had proposed.

“They haven’t reached out to

us at all,” Napoli said. “So, for us,

we’re going off of the fact that there

has been no statement, which is a

statement of itself, and taking that

as a signifier of no action.”

Napoli said that despite the

group’s effort to use all of the re-

sources within the structure given

to it by the University, he now feels

that UGBC is in a position where

this structure is not working.

UGBC plans to release a state-

ment soon on what its response will

be. This may include getting more

student support, as well as looking

to alumni and professors, Napoli

said. Hussey expressed the group’s

determination to pursue the issue

of institutional racism and to change

BC’s racial climate.

“It’s important to remember the

‘why,’ because it can be easy in this

world to take things personally or

look at the people you’re working

with and just remember that the real

issue that’s at play right now is for

many students of color, we are get-

ting reports that BC doesn’t feel like

a home to them,” Napoli said.

UGBC, from A1

somewhat tougher standard to the

early action pool.”

In the early action admittance

class, students represent 46 different

states and 28 different countries. The

most students reside in Massachu-

setts, New York, New Jersey, Califor-

nia, and Connecticut. Twenty-eight

percent of admitted students also

come from an AHANA background.

Mahoney also believes that 25

percent of deferred applicants will

gain admission in the regular deci-

sion pool.

BC admission works through a

restrictive early action system, mean-

ing that students who apply early

to BC may not apply with a binding

early decision agreement to any other

university. Mahoney reasons that this

system gives students who are really

interested in BC a greater opportunity

to be admitted. Georgetown and the

University of Notre Dame practice the

same admission system.

The admissions team is now work-

ing to encourage those 700 to 750

students accepted to BC to enroll for

the fall of 2016 by hosting events with

BC alumni throughout the country.

Over Christmas break, 42 events were

held nationwide.

Undergraduate Admissions is

hosting Admitted Eagle Day on Jan.

31, when admitted early action stu-

dents will have the opportunity to visit

campus and hear from administrators,

professors, and students. Current BC

student volunteers will also begin to

make phone calls and send out emails

to admitted students.

“I am not exaggerating when I

tell you that we could probably enroll

Boston College’s entire freshman class

in that early action group,” Mahoney

said.

AMELIE TRIEU/ HEIGHTS EDITOR

Boston College Athletics Department developed Flight School to increase the number of athletes to graduate with jobs.

of student-athletes will actively

advocate for future groups of

Eagles, and so forth, so that the

goal of 90 percent can be success-

fully met every year.

“Walking across the stage

with a diploma in one hand and

a job in the other is what we’re

about,” Quandt said.

Early Action, from A1

DREW HOO/ HEIGHTS EDITOR

After the undergraduate student government President and Executive Vice President submitted a working proposal in November to the Board of Trustees, there has not yet been a public administrative response.


JUAN OLAVARRIA

As I was sitting in my bed the

other night in a half-awake stupor, I

began thinking about the unhealthy

amount of Vines I had seen that day (I

may or may not have a problem), and

how they were taking away precious

minutes I could be spending doing

something else, anything else.

For some reason, my cousin had

forwarded me a page that consisted

almost exclusively of hilarious falls

that involved a popular, yet controver-

sial, product that was making waves

throughout the teenage population.

Everything I had watched was now

being re-played with that eerie flicker

of films of old, Tarantino style. The

next thing I knew, I was asleep.

***

*100,000 feet above the ground, two

survivors, Rich and Morphy, orbit the

Earth in their improvised spaceship

and discuss the remains of what was

once called Boston.*

Morphy: “So, Rich, what are we

doing here again? Please tell me this

isn’t one of your hilarious-to-you-but-

life-threatening-to-me shenanigans.

Because if we are not doing anything

productive, I’m out.”

Rich: “No, no, no. You must have

me confused with someone else. This

is completely for research purposes

and completely safe. Even if some-

thing were to go wrong—what were

we talking about again?”

“Rich! Pay attention! You were

telling me about the beginning of our

new civilization, or rather, about the

end of the previous one. How there

used to be so much beauty in that

world with so much to offer, only for

all to collapse like—how did it happen

again?”

“Well, it all started on Christmas

Day 2015. Yeah, I know how you feel

about that day. Stop crying! Like I was

saying, on that day kids and teens all

over the world, but somehow much

more so in Boston, decided that they

no longer wanted to use their legs to

move around.”

“Why, Rich?! They didn’t deserve

that! We didn’t deserve this! Why are

we here, Rich. Really, why have you

brought back to me all fo therse hor-

rid memories?”

“Let me finish my story, Morphy.

On that day, many forgot what it was

like to walk. We were among the lucky

few who never gave up that suppos-

edly inherent physical ability, but

they—well, you know the rest.”

“Yes, those devil machines! The

Hoverboards! Those kids, so many

lives! When they weren’t crashing into

walls or each other they were bursting

into flames—Oh, the humanity!”

*At this point, their space ship

approaches the surface. Flames rage

in the distance, bursting with pal-

pable volatility, illuminating the early

evening sky. The living dead are now

visible with their thousand-yard stare.

Some still have mobility due to their

charged products. Others, however, are

not so lucky.*

“Okay now, Morphy, go outside

and grab one of those things. I need to

win a bet I made.”

“What? I knew this would happen!

You bring me to this place and now

this? How could you do this?”

“I just need to prove a point. There

are those back home that do not

believe me when I say that I invented

this hoverboard. It’s ingenious, if I do

say so myself. I just never expected for

people to lose their minds over them.

If people just understood that there

is a time and place for everything and

used common sense, we would not be

in this mess.”

“Let’s just go home Grandpa. I

can’t take seeing another one of these

things.”

General Electric recently announced

that it is moving its global headquar-

ters to Boston. GE will be the largest

publicly traded company with its head-

quarters in Massachusetts, becoming a

valuable addition to the growing tech

industry in the city.

Boston was one of many cities bid-

ding on becoming GE’s new home, and,

along with the state, could give GE up

to $150 million in incentives through

grants and tax relief.

The financial incentives were one of

the key factors in persuading the com-

pany to move to Boston, but sources

have said that both New York and

Georgia offered more money than the

city or state governments, according to

The Boston Globe.

Boston also had an edge due to its

large and expanding tech sector, which

includes many startups, as well as being

home to some of the best universities

in the country.

The industrial conglomerate was

formerly based out of Fairfield, Conn.,

and was motivated to relocate because

of the state’s decision to raise corporate

taxes. “General Electric was looking

to relocate corporate HQ to another

state with a more pro-business envi-

ronment,” said CEO Jeffrey Immelt in

a press release.

There were many factors that led

the company to return to the city it was

founded in, but it was Boston’s identity

as an innovative ecosystem, one with a

vibrant startup sector, that tipped the

scales in GE’s decision, said Boston

Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09,

in his State of the City address. Being

home to 55 colleges and universities,

the Greater Boston area is home to

many of the country’s brightest and

most innovative individuals.

“Boston attracts a diverse, techno-

logically-fluent workforce focused on

solving challenges for the world,” Im-

melt said in a press release.

Along with millions in financial

incentives, GE is relocating to an area

where it will be surrounded by students

as potential employees and businesses

that are innovating new technologies

that will directly affect the company.

Hosting such a high-tech indus-

trial powerhouse does more than give

Boston an economic lift—it highlights

Boston’s growth as a hub for innovation

that continues to show growth, as city

statistics show.

“General Electric’s choice to move

to Boston is the result of the city’s

willingness and excitement to work

creatively and collaboratively to bring

positive activity to our local economy

and continue to grow our industries,”

Walsh said in his official statement

concerning the relocation.

“GE is not only a historic innovator,”

Walsh said. “It’s a magnet for talent and

investment that we’ll direct toward our

shared goals: in opportunity, in com-

munity, in education.”

GE has already been very present in

the Boston economy, with over 5,000

of its own employees in the Greater

Boston area working on aviation, oil

and gas, and energy management. They

are also involved in seven Boston-area

companies made through GE Ven-

tures.

Now that its headquarters is in

Boston, the company will likely be

even more active, Immelt said in a

press release, in the startup com-

munity through Ventures and a new

branch called the GE Digital Foundry,

which was created with the purposes of

“co-creation, incubation and product

development with customers, startups

and partners.”

The move should also signal to other

industry leaders that they can look

to Boston as a business-friendly city,

which could mean that other industry

leaders will consider Boston as a poten-

tial home in the future.

In his State of the City Address on

Tuesday night, Walsh was excited about

the prospect of welcoming back the

company to its origins, citing the cul-

tural advantages of the city, rather than

a purely financial one, as a contributing

factor in the decision.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

When Ethan Bernstein, founder of

Freebird, walked through the doors of

Denver International Airport on Presi-

dents’ Day last year, he had no idea that

inspiration for the next big travel tech-

nology company was about to strike.

Unbeknownst to Bernstein that

morning, he would drop out of Harvard

Business School within the next three

months and dive headfi rst into his brain-

child. Freebird, located in Cambridge,

Mass., was conceived on that Presidents’

Day as he saw the consequences of can-

celled fl ights fi rsthand.

During the summer that followed,

the app, one that aims both to simplify

the air travel re-booking process and

empower travelers, emerged seamlessly

from his imagination.

“Our product circumvents that en-

tire re-booking process, puts the power

back in the traveler’s hands, gives them

the information they need when they

need it and the tools to get through

the rebooking process in less than 30

seconds with just three taps of your

phone,” he said.

Freebird does more than display op-

tions quickly and neatly upon the event

of your fl ight being canceled—it also

serves as an insurance policy for your

fl ight. For just $19 one-way or $34 round

trip, Freebird will pay for whatever op-

tion you chose, regardless of the price.

As Bernstein and many of his vaca-

tion companions boarded their two

diff erent airlines both bound for Logan

Airport that Monday around noon,

however, this whole idea was far from

the people’s minds.

But as the fl ight Bernstein was on

soared into the sky en route for Boston,

the other flight was canceled due to

maintenance, its intended passengers

sent to stand in endless lines, wait on

hold with the call centers for hours, and

frantically search for alternative fl ights

on their phones.

Although Bernstein was not one of

those stranded in Denver that day, the

story inspired him. After four years as

a senior manager of corporate develop-

ment at the largest travel company in the

world, Expedia M&A, he had developed

a unique understanding of the travel

technology landscape, and in this ordeal,

he saw a problem to be solved. He saw

an opportunity for a service. Th is service

was Freebird.

Only a few months after that day,

Bernstein was building his company

right down the street from Harvard

Business School. Th is location has posi-

tioned it to grow into a future champion

of its industry.

“Boston is a travel technology hub,”

Bernstein said.

Th is strategic move puts Freebird

among the many Boston-based travel

technology companies, like Trip Ad-

viser, Kayak, Google Travel, Hopper,

and Lola.

All of these companies, by nature of

being in close proximity to each other,

formed a vast network of industry ex-

perts and resources. In this way, the

city is a crucial component of Freebird’s

success, Bernstein said.

“More than any other place in the

world, this is where travel technology

gets built,” Bernstein said.

Even in this “travel technology hub,”

Freebird has distinguished itself from

the rest of its neighbors.

Its focus on empowering the cus-

tomers to make their own decisions

by equipping them with the tools to

manage their own situations is a prime

example of this uniqueness. In addi-

tion, the technology behind the product

is something not found in any other

company.

In early November, the fruits of

Bernstein’s labor were unveiled. With

$3.5 million in total funding from three

separate venture capital fi rms, Freebird

is set to continue its rapid progress.

As its winter promotional fi xed-pric-

ing model comes to a close, Freebird fur-

ther evolves, this time by implementing

a revolutionary dynamic pricing model

that will price Freebird relative to the

fl ight of the customer.

As Freebird doubles its staff and

delves into uncharted data science, it

promises much more to come.

“It is a long road when you have such

an early-stage company, but there is a

roadmap in place to help us grow in a

way that is focused on the long term,”

Bernstein said.

KELSEY MCGEE / HEIGHTS EDITOR

This Tuesday, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, gave his State of the City address where he voiced his support for General Electric’s upcoming move to Boston.

start paying attention, and the street

noticeably lacks the character that

they tend to bring with them. New-

bury Street is mostly composed of big

brands like Chanel, Valentino, Dolce

and Gabbana, and Burberry—places

that I can only dream of shopping

in. Of course, there are a few more

affordable shops thrown into the mix,

but I keep coming past to wander

by the windows of stores that I can’t

fathom actually going into.

Maybe I tend to gravitate towards

Newbury Street, and others like it,

because, for me, it is a dream street.

Despite its lack of unique character, I

need streets like Newbury to exist be-

cause they provide me with a concrete

place of escape.

For a few moments, I can immerse

myself in the unattainable and look

longingly at a pair of Chanel boots

that I have as much of a chance of

owning as I do of becoming an astro-

naut.

Which is to say, absolutely no

chance because I have a horrible fear

of dying in space.

THE HEIGHTS A5Thursday, January 21, 2016

By Leslie Sellers

For The Heights

Downtown in Copley Place, the Sur

la Table teaching kitchen surrounded

me, fluorescent light beaming down.

As I stood across from pastry chef—

and my teacher for the day, Rachel

Miller, all I could think of were the

layers of butter and pastry that swelled

sweetly just before flaking away as my

teeth sank in. Over the course of the

next three hours, I would carefully

make the croissant.

I thought back to the day before.

On Sunday at two in the afternoon,

I sat at a small cafe table beneath the

street over in the South End. White

tile covered the floors while dim light

encircled the room and glinted off the

Perrier bottles on the walls that dotted

the dining space.

I looked down at the menu at Gas-

light, a French brasserie, searching

for coffee and the usual omelet that

colored my Sunday brunches. That

afternoon, however, the pan au choco-

late was speaking to me.

Back in the kitchen, the rhythm of

croissant-making was peaceful and

methodical, almost as a mathematical

performance for the senses.

Roll the dough out to 15 inches. Do

the letter fold. Chill for one hour. Roll

the dough out to 20 inches. Do the

book fold. Chill for one hour. Roll the

dough out to 15 inches. Do the letter

fold. Chill for one hour.

The butter and pastry were layered

and layered tirelessly. The chilled

dough was then cut into the triangles

and two-inch rectangles that would

become the homes of chocolate, al-

mond, and cheese. Twenty minutes in

the oven, and they glinted gold on the

butcher-block countertop.

Sitting on their cooling racks, the

golden pastries were saying more than

the quintessential “Eat Me”—sorry,

Alice in Wonderland.

Through the process of their cre-

ation, I began to look at the memory

from the day before with more fond-

ness and appreciation rather than just

sweet-tooth satisfaction.

Food is art. Food is also the only

form of art you can experience with all

five senses, unless you take to eating

canvas, oil paint, or wood.

Food, in many ways, is the most

accessible form of art because it is

necessary to survive, literally. And

this necessity makes it an art form that

people want to explore themselves

by trying their own hands at cooking

and baking. Food is an art form that

most are not afraid to delve into, un-

like painting, printmaking, creating

large-scale installations, or playing

the guitar.

As this art form has taken hold in

restaurants across America, gourmet

eating has become so pervasive that

over the course of the last few decades,

“foodie” became a desirable way to

identify oneself.

Consumers have become both

more erudite and selective about the

food they consume for themselves

and their families, causing a language

shift—adjectives are more prevalent

than ever because we must differenti-

ate between the superior and substan-

dard. Adjectives commonly used today

LESLIE SELLERS / HEIGHTS STAFF

Sur La Table offers cooking classes in the South End for the Boston Foodie, and the chocolate croissants that each student produced.

ARCHER PARQUETTE

I don’t know if you’ve ever no-

ticed, but there is a storefront on

Newbury Street that never really

stays the same—144 Newbury Street,

to be precise.

When I first came to Boston, it

was a futuristic MakerBot store, filled

with fragile-looking plastic shapes

that seemed to have no purpose other

than hanging in the store’s floor-to-

ceiling windows.

The next time I came back, the

MakerBot store was gone, and the

windows, although dusty, allowed

passersby to peek into the vacant

storefront, which seemed overwhelm-

ingly concrete and grey.

But when I came back this sum-

mer, about to start the semester, the

store had taken on new tenants. I

couldn’t find a name or brand on the

outside, but I could see the colorful

clothes hung haphazardly on huge

rolling racks through the now less

dusty windows.

I peeked in, and discovered that it

was a sample sale for a rather obscure

brand.

This store, and I find this strange

because it should have been a fleeting

sample sale, seemed to stick around

for quite a few months. In fact, I

began to wonder if it was going to be-

come the first permanent sample sale.

I forgot about it and let it blend

into the streets like one of the im-

movable big brands, hoping that 144

Newbury had finally found something

permanent. But, as with most things, I

looked away. When I looked back, the

sample sale was gone.

Maybe it left because of the cold.

Although the frigid air outside

has convinced me that an inability to

cope with the rapid drop in tempera-

ture seems like an increasingly valid

excuse to jump ship, the empty store

has been bothering me over the past

few days.

I don’t really mind the loss of the

sample sale. It’s more the fact that this

particular storefront is unable to hold

down an occupant. I sincerely doubt

that 144 Newbury is cursed, but why

is it so hard for something to stick?

With its generous windows that

would bathe any merchandise in

sunlight (for the limited time that the

sun is actually shining), and a size that

is big enough to prevent people from

feeling cramped, but small enough

to be manageable, retailers should be

clamoring to claim the space.

I poked around online, but instead

of finding theories about a curse, I

found articles pointing to the starkly

realistic explanation of quickly rising

leases on properties in the Back Bay

area.

The Boston Globe revealed that

property taxes in the Newbury Street

area have recently risen 18.4% percent

a number that forces out many of the

smaller independent businesses on the

street.

I thought about the cheerful-yet-

overstocked pet store where I met a

lady with a bulldog-shih tzu puppy

(I’ll let you guess the official name of

that breed) that mysteriously vanished

after my first visit to the city.

And the art gallery-bistro com-

bo—where my mom and I had picked

at wheat berry salads before decid-

ing that cake and hot chocolate were

probably a better call for lunch—had

disappeared as well.

Although, in all honestly, the bistro

may have disappeared for the greater

good.

I felt a horrible guilt for the small

businesses that are still being shoved

away from what could have been their

home for decades and wondered why

I always gravitate towards Newbury

Street when I’m in the city.

The dwindling number of inde-

pendent shops is obvious once you

MADELEINE D’ANGELO

By Heidi Dong

Heights Editor

Tuesday night, on the stage of Sym-

phony Hall, Boston Mayor Martin J.

Walsh, WCAS ’09, delivered his second

State of the City address. Walsh’s speech

emphasized his plans for education, hous-

ing, income inequality, a higher minimum

wage, and public safety.

Walsh opened with a slew of statistics

supporting his assertion that “the City of

Boston is as strong as it has ever been.”

In 2015 more homes were built than in

previous years, Boston’s first high school

dedicated specifically for science and tech-

nology began construction, both violent

and property crimes went down for the

second year in a row, and unemployment

and homicides both fell. Additionally,

safety measures for firefighters were imple-

mented, the city earned the title of the

leading American city for energy efficiency,

and it created America’s first Office of Re-

covery Services to fight substance abuse.

Boston has even ended chronic veterans’

homelessness, Walsh said.

Walsh then excitedly welcomed Gen-

eral Electric to its new global headquarters

in Boston.

“It’s not only another step forward for

Boston on the world stage,” he said. “It’s a

magnet for talent and investment that we’ll

direct toward our shared goals: in opportu-

nity, in community, in education.”

Hundreds of Boston public high school

students attended the event in response to

Walsh’s invitation.

“We don’t need you to be perfect,” he

said in his address to the students. “We

need you to keep learning, and keep believ-

ing in your dreams. The rest is on us.”

Last year, Walsh appointed a new

superintendent, hired 24 new principals,

extended the school day for every student

up to eighth grade, and took community

input to help create a 10-year school-build-

ing plan. For the third year in a row, Walsh

is sending the City Council a budget plan

that increases school funding. He is calling

for fairer and more sustainable funding for

both district schools and charter schools.

Walsh then focused on education fund-

ing, shining a spotlight on pre-kindergar-

ten education.

“The Boston Public School’s pre-kin-

dergarten program is proven to close the

achievement gap,” he said. “The city has

added seats in each of the last two years.

Yet hundreds of children still sit on wait-

ing lists.”

Despite a total increase of $90 million in

school funding since he has entered office,

Walsh expressed urgency and necessity

for more. He calls on neighboring cities,

legislators, and more to help the chil-

dren without access to pre-kindergarten

through the state budget process in the

year to come.

Next, Walsh addressed the challenge

of affordable housing. His administration

plans to strengthen its inclusionary devel-

opment policy to provide more affordable

homes where they are most needed. This

policy will lead to the increase of middle-

class housing around the city. In an effort

to keep residents in their communities,

Walsh introduced a new Office of Hous-

ing Stability.

With an increase in affordable hous-

ing and more stability for communities,

Walsh also aims to increase the quality of

life for Bostonians. Six acres of land will be

converted into parks, Ramsay Park will be

renovated, and Boston Creates, an initia-

tive to support the arts in each neighbor-

hood, will be completed. It will also invest

$1 million in local artists.

With an increase in af fordable

housin“Workers and employers moving

forward together,” Walsh said. “That’s our

economic vision, and it’s a proven success.

What we offered GE was less an incentive

package, than a cultural advantage. Inno-

vation. Education. And a community that

works and grows together.”

His business initiatives will help em-

ployers add jobs and support workers

through a Business Expansion Toolkit, as-

sist entrepreneurs through a Small Business

Center, and also empower women workers

through the offering of 40 more Salary

Negotiation Workshops. Digging deeper

into the roots of income inequality, Walsh

will build a new Apprenticeship Program

that will offer on-the-job training as well

as a two-year degree for low-income work-

ers. A task force of workers and employers

will be formed to more seriously consider

and study the possibility of a $15-per-hour

minimum wage for the city of Boston.

Besides education, inequalities in hous-

ing and income, and initiatives to improve

quality of life, Walsh is also ramping up

public safety in response to the increase

in non-fatal shootings last year.

Walsh also expressed concerns over

the state of gun reform and a hope that

the country will continue moving toward

tighter controls.

“We are proving that when Boston

comes together, when we truly act as one

community, we can change our city, and

change the world,” Walsh said, “We’ve been

doing it for a long time.”

ABBY PAULSON / HEIGHTS EDITOR

include free-range, grass-fed, organi-

cally-raised, hormone-free, locally-

sourced, and in-season. We live in the

age of the hyphenated moniker.

As knowledgeable as our popula-

tion is becoming, however, most only

experience gourmet food created by

a chef. After repeated gastronomic

memories, one becomes well versed in

the difference between bouchees and

bouillabaisse, but lacks understanding

of time, technique, and skill.

When I first bit into the croissant at

Gaslight, I thought of little else besides

the warm chocolate, flaky pastry, and

the calories I didn’t care to ask about.

But after standing for hours and mak-

ing croissants myself, by becoming the

artist, I found a deeper appreciation

for the commonly known pastry be-

cause I understood it on a level beyond

reception. I knew it from inception.

As the foodie movement continues

in cities across America, the American

consumer might find that to enrich

the dining experience beyond know-

ing terminology, they should try their

own hand at the most beloved, and

sometimes abused, art form.

Creating can often exceed receiv-

ing and yield more understanding.

But the finished product doesn’t taste

bad either.

Flight School is Boston Col-

lege Athletics’ new program for

student-athletes. The program

is meant to serve as a means for

student-athletes to prepare for

post-graduate careers, such as at-

tending graduate school, finding a

job, or playing their sport profes-

sionally. By connecting student-

athletes with a network of alumni

and professional mentors, Flight

School attempts to make entry into

the post-grad world as painless as

possible.

Two years ago, Director of Ath-

letics Brad Bates set a goal for 70

percent of student-athletes to have

post-grad plans. After meeting this

goal, he raised it to 80 percent for

the next year. Now, as the success

of the program builds, the initiative

has been formalized into the Flight

School program.

This year, the goal of the pro-

gram is for 90 percent of stu-

dent-athletes to have concrete

plans for life after graduation. The

early success of these attempts,

as evidenced by the meeting of

high goals, is an indication of the

strong promise shown by the Flight

School program.

By creating Flight School and

developing a formal program from

the earlier goals, this initiative is

better prepared to deal with the

task of helping student-athletes

prepare for their futures.

BC athletes commit themselves

year-round to their sport. Sports

programs demand much from

athletes and are also a part of the

school’s attraction for incoming

students.

Student-athletes devote a great

deal of time and effort to practices,

workouts, and games, which de-

tract from other aspects of college

life. It is good to see the Athletic

Department supporting the ath-

letes who work constantly toward

its betterment.

The immediate goal of athletic

success can easily be the greatest

focus when it comes to working

with student-athletes. Athletic

departments could view their ath-

letes as solely resources for athletic

success.

The Athletic Department’s ef-

forts toward promoting a program

that focuses instead on the future

of these students, the lives that

await after sports, is a worthwhile

endeavor. It demonstrates a true

interest in the well-being of the

student-athletes at BC.

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Tickets to this year’s Plexapaloo-

za, featuring The Chainsmokers,

sold out within two minutes of being

available in the Robsham box office.

Students took to social media to ex-

press their dismay over the unprec-

edentedly fast sell-out, complaining

that the Campus Activities Board,

which sponsors the event, did not

handle the ticket-selling process

properly. CAB president, Christine

Cocce, CSOM ’16, responded to this

criticism by stating that the Board

is pleased about the enthusiasm,

but also understands the frustra-

tion of those who were unable to

buy a ticket.

Plexapalooza, as a concert that

takes place in the Flynn Recreation

Complex, is automatically limited in

the amount of people to whom it can

sell tickets. The venue can only hold

1,800 students due to fire and safety

codes—a limitation inherent in the

staging of the concert, as there are

no legitimate alternatives.

If Conte Forum were to be used,

further fire and safety regulations

would force students to sit in the

bleachers, essentially destroying

the dancing aspect of the concert.

With the Plex being the only pos-

sible venue for this concert, there is

little that can be done to increase the

maximum capacity for the concert.

Due to this severe limitation of

venue capacity, it is to be expected

that a popular concert will sell out.

Based on the positive reaction CAB

received upon its Dec. 15 announce-

ment of the Chainsmokers’ per-

formance, there should have been

greater anticipation of the rate at

which tickets would sell and further

action taken.

The biggest issue with this rapid

sell-out is the two-tickets-per-stu-

dent-ID policy that CAB has typi-

cally instituted for the concert. This

policy is problematic in that it allows

BC students to buy tickets for their

non-BC friends. While not an issue

in itself, this becomes frustrating

when large numbers of BC stu-

dents cannot buy tickets due to a

second ticket purchased by those

before them.

As a group meant to promote on-

campus activities for BC students,

CAB’s priority should be ensuring

that the greatest possible number

of interested BC students are able

to attend these events.

One option CAB has to improve

the system for selling these tickets

in the future is to limit the number

of tickets sold per student ID to one

ticket. When an event such as Plexa-

palooza is scheduled, for which great

interest is expressed and ticket sales

promise to be high, CAB should put

this measure into place to prevent

non-BC students from obtaining

tickets while BC students are unable.

Another aspect to this could be giv-

ing preference to juniors and seniors,

further rewarding BC students who

will soon leave campus.

While nothing can be done about

the 1,800-person maximum capacity

of the concert’s venue, this is a step

that can be taken to improve the

current ticket-selling system and

mitigate student frustration for the

next BC concert.

America spends the most in the world on its

health care coverage per capita, yet 33 million

people are still uninsured and, compared to

every other developed nation, we rank dead

last in quality of care.

Not only would Bernie’s health care system

be more effi cient, it would also take the pres-

sure off of businesses and entrepreneurs who

have to bear the brunt of medical costs under

our current system. Paradoxically, by having

government take over health care, it would

free companies from the expense of paying

for their employees’ insurance, allowing them

much more fl exibility in how they manage

their hard-earned profi ts. Additionally, Bernie’s

plan would remove one of the biggest barriers

for new entrepreneurs: extreme independent

health care costs. Th is combination of factors

ensures that Bernie’s health care proposal is

the most fi scally responsible because it would

not only cost less than our current system, but

it would also allow for more freedom in busi-

ness and entrepreneurship.

Th e other $3 trillion in Bernie’s economic

plan is dispersed among many federal spend-

ing proposals, including $1 trillion to rebuild

America’s infrastructure, $750 billion to make

public college tuition-free, and $5.5 billion in

a youth jobs initiative. Government spending

is a staple of Keynesian economics, a school

of economic thought, and its benefi ts toward

aggregate demand and the economy’s health

in general are well-documented. Strategic gov-

ernmental spending can jumpstart a faltering

economy, such as after the Great Depression.

Even though we are supposedly the great-

est country in the world, we have the 25th best

infrastructure, a sign that we desperately need

improvements. Bernie’s plan to improve in-

frastructure will create 13 million new jobs as

well as repair our nation’s roadways, railways,

and airports, rendering them more business-

friendly. Making public college tuition-free

would vastly improve America’s workforce by

allowing more people to attend college who

had previously been unable to due to fi nancial

barriers. It would also make students more

active consumers, since they would no longer

be overwhelmed by student loans.

Th e sum of these fi scal policies will be an

explosion in jobs and an improvement in an

ever-faltering American workforce. Th is will

put more money in consumers’ pockets as they

become employed and gain greater-skilled

jobs, which will in turn spur more consumer

spending and increase aggregate demand,

aiding the economy as a whole. What is more

fi scally conservative than aiding the business

health of this nation?

Now the question is: how the heck is

Bernie going to pay for all of this? Well, for

starters, a tax on Wall Street speculation will

foot the bill for his free public college pro-

posal. A combination of closing corporate tax

loopholes, increasing taxes on the wealthiest

Americans, and eliminating Social Security

exemptions for millionaires will provide the

rest of the $2 trillion in proposed non-health

care spending. Bernie’s Medicare-For-All

plan is paid for by a combination of taxes on

businesses and individuals (it’s important to

note that 91 percent of households would pay

less than $250 per month with no co-pays

or deductibles), closing tax loopholes for the

wealthy, and losing the obsolete tax-breaks

for now-defunct insurance companies. Every

dollar is accounted for, the national defi cit does

not increase, and thus, those worried about the

economy can sleep soundly.

Th e ‘socialist’ policies of Bernie Sanders

make economic sense. His proposals will save

money, increase the freedom of businesses,

encourage entrepreneurship, and improve the

economy as a whole. Bernie will invest in the

American economy, an investment that will

see immediate benefi ts as well as immense

long-term payoff s. If you consider yourself

fi scally conservative, take an honest look at this

so-called fringe candidate, and you just might

fi nd yourself feeling the Bern.

THE HEIGHTSThursday, January 21, 2016 A7

ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES - With the

start of a new semester comes a bevy

of options. Th e entire world is our

oyster here at Boston College. Get

straight A’s? Read Ulysses? Join a

new club? Make a new friend? Prove

to the world that your existence

matters? It all seems possible in this

fi rst week.

THE LEFTOVERS - The best televi-

sion show currently airing fi nished

its phenomenal second season in

the beginning of December. If you

haven’t watched this depressing,

perplexing, and extremely reward-

ing show, you need to fi x that im-

mediately. Every minute you spend

watching Severely Overweight Truck-

ers’ Wives and My Son’s in Love with

a Gerbil: An Adorable Atrocity is a

complete waste of television time.

WATCH THE LEFTOVERS before

it dissap

WINTER - Some people say winter is

the worst season of the year. Th ose

people are what we in the business

call wrong. Winter is a perfectly

unique season with the most cap-

tivating weather of the year. We

all get to wear jackets and breathe

little clouds of magical vapor into

the air every time we exhale. Th e

driving winds might numb your

face, and your nose might run like

a disgusting waterfall of snot, but

always remember that winter is what

separates us from the godforsaken

land of California.

A CROWDED PLEX - With the bitter

cold of winter rolling in like a ter-

rifying ball of frost-covered chutney

comes a Plex filled with pansies.

What’s the matter, too cold to run

outside? Scared of a little frostbite?

Who needs toes when you have the

empty satisfaction of having run

through the ice and snow like a

rugged woodsman. All of you bums

taking up the treadmills need to get

outside and brave the cold so you

can open up the Plex to dashingly

handsome, clever, and charmingly

humble newspaper writers who need

to drop a few pounds.

DOING THINGS AGAIN - After nearly

a month of pure relaxation, it’s

time to fi gure out how to take care

of business once again. It’s time

to start writing in your planner,

marking events in your calendar,

sobbing under a cold shower, and

being a professional student. Spring

semester has begun, children, watch

your backs.

HOVERBOARDS - They don’t hover.

Th ey are not hoverboards. Th ey’re

goofy-looking Segways without the

handles. But unlike Segways, these

things catch fi re and explode. Th e

only thing they have ever accom-

plished is knocking down heavy-

weight champion Mike Tyson. BC

was right to ban the idiotic fire

hazards.

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I glanced back at the room I had left

behind. On every wall, I saw myself: frozen

in place, with each image varying slightly

in expression and stature. It wasn’t until I

escaped that I realized I had been living in

a room of mirrors, each wall projecting a

diff erent refl ection. I had been surrounded

by the identities assigned to me—some by

outsiders, others by myself. My attempts to

meet those expectations left me constantly

shifting from one wall to another. Like Earth,

I had spun so quickly for so long that the

revolutions became indiscernible. My truest

self was the girl spinning in the middle of

the room, changing rapidly to refl ect endless

variations and extensions of herself. Th e

movements themselves were natural, for hu-

mankind is meant to change and adopt new

identities. It was in trying to mimic the stasis

of those fi xed refl ections that I interrupted

my personal growth.

When I tell people that this past break

has been my best yet, I don’t know how to

express the idea past the cliches: a comfort-

able and secure home, quality time with

people who will always love me, and the re-

sulting freedom that allows me to see more

from my couch than I could from the top of

a mountain. I can’t recall a time when I’ve

felt more at peace, comfortable in my own

skin, and separate from everyday stresses.

Th at’s when I escaped the room. I found

myself spending entire days relaxing, watch-

ing movies and eating meals with people I

hadn’t seen in months. My many perceived

identities became irrelevant. I realized that

there was more to my life than those false

identities that had guided me during the past

semester at Boston College.

In less than a month, I saw so many

positive changes in myself that I couldn’t

help but notice how limited I’d been before.

Th e reduction of stress and allotment of

free time transformed me into someone my

friends wouldn’t have recognized: timely,

well-balanced, and focused. I realized that

I had been underperforming because I was

being pulled in too many directions at once.

Like so many other well-meaning BC stu-

dents, I had become over-involved, trapped

in that room of mirrors in an eff ort to play

every role. I was Atlas, carrying a world

on my shoulders, and in hindsight, I don’t

understand how I remained standing. Giving

myself the challenges of a superhero didn’t

make me one.

My focus now is on quality over quantity.

I don’t have to be in six clubs (and perform

perfectly in each one). I don’t have to know

everyone on campus. I’m taking the time

and space to examine the walls around me,

so that I can be the self that best fi ts me now.

Inevitably, I will disappoint some people—

an idea that resounds as anathema to many

BC students. Our commitment marks us

as leaders, hardworking and steadfast, ad

nauseam. We don’t like to show our hands,

even if it means saving our lives.

We can’t entirely stop facing refl ections

of ourselves, and we shouldn’t. As time

passes, we transition from one room of mir-

rors to another, searching for an identity that

fi ts—for the time being. When we grow dis-

satisfi ed with the restrictions of that identity,

we move along. Th e mirrors are accepted

for what they are: portions of truth. Th ese

identities are reassuring because they give

us boundaries, remind us that we exist, and

show us our place. Th ey also scare us be-

cause they do not refl ect an entire truth, and

as a result cannot bear our weight, collapsing

under too much pressure. If we accept them

as the alpha and omega of identity, we can

very well fall victim to the same fate.

Th e key is to remain in this state of ex-

ploratory motion without losing our balance.

Earth was meant to revolve. We are meant

to evolve. Th at doesn’t mean that we drop

everything at a moment’s notice. We hold

ourselves to some measure of consistency

and accountability, so that when we decide

to move along, we take ourselves seriously.

Our decisions hold weight, and our lives

are not nihilistic. Th ere is some overarching

order to our lives that we cannot begin to

comprehend. It is felt in the chaotic rhythm

of our lives. In accordance with the universe,

with God, with whatever you call that which

moves us, we spin at speeds we don’t entirely

understand—planets, wanderers of unsure

ends, minds marvelling at themselves. To

stand still is to oppose our very nature.

similarly enforce cultural homophily among

BC students, bringing them together based on

shared interests and backgrounds.

It’s not a problem in itself that these envi-

ronments exist. It’s most often in these groups

that we create the friendships that defi ne our

experiences at BC—and if there is a place BC

is truly exceptional, it’s in the relationships this

community aff ords us.

But I have come to see that these environ-

ments can pull students apart or bring them

together for relatively superfi cial reasons. Take,

for example, junior year housing. Th e people

you live with junior-year are very likely to be

who you’re close with through graduation, and

currently, those living situations we end up in

are heavily dictated by our fi nancial ability to

do things like live off campus or go abroad.

Th is housing divide slices up undergraduates

by family wealth, and reinforces a culture that

“otherizes” those of modest means.

Th e challenge of BC housing is that it

forces us to abandon the diverse experience of

freshman housing, and can often direct us to-

ward more limited, homogenous communities.

And when it comes to student organizations,

the current process for joining them does force

you to make snap judgments on just where

you best fi t. It might be based on high school

history, it might be based on an upperclass-

man you know, but regardless, student groups

consistently struggle (or are altogether lacking

in the resources) to bring together an organiza-

tion fully taking advantage of the diverse pool

of students at BC.

Of course, each student group has its

unique set of challenges in recruiting, but

smart outreach and collaboration between

groups has potential to really broaden an

organization’s perspective. What I can say

from experience is that, if you wait until junior

or senior year to begin identifying where your

organization could do more, odds are those ar-

eas will remain wanting. Most BC institutions

move slowly—if at all. If a piece of the culture

feels too exclusionary to you as a freshman, it

probably is. Someone could probably use your

help. You can do better.

happiness here is dependent on our faith in the

institutions we inherit.

Perhaps this is why when Princeton

Review ranks BC among the top schools for

“Little Race / Class Interaction” for seven

consecutive years, the gut reaction is to

question the validity of such polling samples.

Meanwhile, we’ll happily suff er a poll’s shoddy

data collection practices if its conclusion is

favorable. And while campus climate surveys

conducted internally as recently as 2012 have

similarly highlighted a dissatisfying state of

race relations at BC, each time these prob-

lems resurface the institution seems taken off

guard—as if the problem just arrived at BC,

and couldn’t possibly be built into the way our

University functions.

To “Eradicate Boston College Racism,”

as the campus’s most recent wave of student

activism has urged us to do, demands we

investigate the very architecture of a BC

education. Th is certainly extends to policy and

curriculum decisions made at the top, but it

does not stop there.

And while much of the criticism of this

group has targeted its tactics, I believe it’s

actually its message which really off ends

proponents of the University’s exceptionalism.

BC does good, so it can’t do better. If we’re

interested in seeing a solution, as individuals

we also need to take stronger ownership of the

problem. As students, it’s easy to reduce BC’s

troubles to some caricature of Father Leahy,

making all University decisions from some ma-

hogany-walled room in Maloney—but the re-

ality is that senior administrators are relatively

limited in their infl uence on the day-to-day of

student life. Furthermore, such characteriza-

tions diminish student autonomy in improving

the institutions closest to them.

I do believe, in your four years here, you

can have a profound impact on how the

University functions—but this requires some

strategy. As the national conversation on race

at college campuses turns to safe spaces for

solutions, I’d argue that many of BC’s problems

endure because of “safe spaces” built into stu-

dent life. While some Walsh eight-mans might

indeed be centers for diverse discussion, my

experience is that University housing can lock

students into relatively narrow perspectives on

college life. Meanwhile, student organizations

About 35 minutes into the interview, its

direction shifted. Our conversation on under-

representation in the media moved from the

Oscars to Th e Heights. “It just seems like a

white club, and that shouldn’t be the case,” stu-

dent fi lmmaker Cai Th omas, MCAS ’16, said.

Here I was, editor-in-chief of the largest

student newspaper on campus, and in all hon-

esty, I had never had this conversation about

my organization before. It was a disarming

moment, and I fi nd myself frequently thinking

back to that exchange.

I was fi rst inclined to explain to her that

there was actually little I could do to change

anything, having only a semester left before

leaving the paper’s editorial board, which turns

over once per calendar year. But then, how

ridiculous would it sound for me—as leader

of the group—to not only admit that I never

before thought of my organization’s identity

as a problem, but also that I was powerless in

changing it?

Th e craziest part is, for all intents and pur-

poses, it probably was too late to do much at

all. Th is is a conversation I wish I had sooner,

and while I’m mostly proud of what I achieved

with Th e Heights, this is a point I wish I had the

bravery to act more aggressively on. It’s a fl aw

in the University’s culture that we often use the

good we do as justifi cation for not trying to do

better. And when our organizations fail to suf-

fi ciently build on the school’s diversity, we’re all

on the losing end of the conversation.

Boston College is a place with a lot of

memory, which is to say that most of the

institutions making it up move slowly—if at all.

Its culture is heavily governed by tradition, and

I’d hazard to guess that, for most students, the

historic mystique of the school is actually a big

part of their initial attraction to it.

And central to the endurance of these

traditions is a belief that the bones of this

University are essentially good—that the BC

DNA is exceptional, and on some level, our

In defi ance of the economic stigma sur-

rounding the infamous S-word, Vermont

Senator Bernie Sanders, the one ‘socialist’ in

the presidential race, has the most fi nancially

sound policies of any candidate, even when

compared to so-called ‘fi scally conservative’

candidates. If you haven’t actively sought out

the information, you may not know much

about the specifi cs of Bernie’s policies . A

recent study by news commentator Andrew

Tyndall showed that Bernie received only 5

percent of the television exposure his primary

rival, Hillary Clinton, was given, despite having

topped her in both New Hampshire and Iowa

polls and having the most individual campaign

contributions in the history of American

politics. Consequently, many Americans have

an obscured, rose-tinted understanding of

Bernie’s label or no legitimate idea about the

policies he’s proposing.

Bernie has put out the most extensive

series of policy proposals thus far in the race.

His ambitious agenda accounts for every

dollar. While most candidates spout hot air

about how they will make America great again,

Bernie has, on his website, laid out the exact

steps he will take to rebuild our crumbling

middle class. Th e total price tag of his plan is

$17 trillion over 10 years, which I acknowledge

sounds anything but fi scally conservative. At

the core of fi scal conservatism, however, is

the belief that the government should foster

economic growth, and that is exactly what

Sanders is proposing.

Th e vast majority Senator Sanders has

suggested spending comes from his proposal

for universal health care, to the tune of $14

trillion. Trust me, I can hear your gasps from

here. It’s an obscene amount of money. But

get this: Bernie would be saving the average

American family $5,000 a year and businesses

$9,000 an employee. Our current health care

system is far from fi scally conservative. It’s

bloated with administrative costs and increas-

ingly plagued by exponential price infl ation.

JOHN WILEY

JOSHUA BEHRENS

MG WILSON


The Northeast is not often associated with the

Southern tradition of smoking beef, especially due to

ever-changing weather conditions that aff ect the quality

of the end product. Th e Harvard-based startup Trignis

hopes to reshape the age-old process and bring it into

the 21st century.

Founder Jordan DeGraaf, a senior in the engineering

program at Harvard University, got the idea for a smoker

from a junior-year project in which all the students in the

class were tasked with building a better grill or smoker.

“In the course there is a new topic every year,” she said.

“We had to develop the concept and build the product.

We actually did over 880 hours of testing in the freezing

Boston weather.”

Th e result of all of the testing is that the Trignis

Smart Smoker makes use of better airfl ow, an automated

fan system to minimize hot spots in the grill without

requiring frequent monitoring, and an integrated app

for smartphones.

Th e new design aims to create a constant environment

inside the grill that allows for a consistent result, time

and time again. Ensuring that environment in the harsh

New England winters was one of the biggest challenges

the development team faced.

“Smoking is a long process, up to 10 hours,” DeGraaf

said. “It’s easier in the South than in the North, with

the big hour-by-hour temperature changes that cause

temperature discrepancies in the grill itself.”

To combat those temperature changes, Trignis imple-

mented a fully-automated system that can be operated

from the app itself—the algorithms in place control the

airfl ow and the amount of smoke in the smoker itself,

and self-regulate by sensing the temperature in diff erent

spots of the grill and compensating as necessary.

Th e app does more than simply ensure the ideal

conditions for the meat to cook. It also serves as a step-

by-step tutorial for those new to smoking meat.

“Th e goal is to make better meat and be more acces-

sible to the consumers,” DeGraaf said. ”It works a lot like

autocorrect: if you are a novice it will walk you through

the process, but, if you’re more advanced, there is a lot

of customization and recipes available, too.”

After its fi nal presentation during the spring of 2015,

which featured representatives from Williams-Sonoma,

the development team decided to go forward as a startup.

Th e feedback the team members received from taste

tests was positive enough that they decided to pursue it

full-time as soon as they graduate.

“Th is is a fi rst-class brisket … as good a brisket I’ve

had in months and months,” Dave Schaefer from Blue

Ribbon BBQ said during a tasting session.

Originally, Harvard took care of ensuring the proof

of concept and fi led for the intellectual property patent,

but Trignis has begun working with its own startup

lawyers and is evaluating licensing the remaining IP

from Harvard.

“After we’re done putting all of the pieces in place in

terms of development, we go full force,” DeGraaf said.

One of the biggest challenges encountered during

the transition from product to company has been that

many startups are based around software, while they are

dealing with hardware, which involves manufacturing,

transportation, and storage, on top of all of the other

issues software companies face, such as marketing and

app development.

“We can’t follow the 1,2,3 startup guides … we are

paying good attention to all the details, [we face] higher

stakes,” DeGraaf said.

Trignis is currently applying to tech incubators and

searching for beta testers—they are looking to launch

their product sooner rather than later. Much of the

press the company has been getting has been from more

“techy” publications and word of mouth, according to

DeGraaf.

“We want a fun, techy, cool … product to have in the

backyard,” she said. “Although we fi rst want to target

beginners interested in techy products, while eventually

reaching the die-hard smokers who want the best quality

meat possible.”

ABBY PAULSON / HEIGHTS GRAPHIC

Trignis, a Boston startup, is creating a smoker with cutting-edge technology that can outlast the harsh Boston weather.

that reported worse returns in 2013-14 than

in 2012-13 was women’s basketball. Erik

Johnson’s crew posted a record that was one

win better (13-19) last season, but reported

an 11.5 percent decrease in profi ts—the team

reported a loss of $3.1 million. Yet, when

compared to the rest of the conference, BC

sits at 11th, ahead of Miami, Georgia Tech,

Syracuse, and Notre Dame.

Th e program’s revenue and expenses both

totaled about $69.3 million. Th is is the fi fth

consecutive year that BC has not reported a

profi t from its Athletics Department. Pitts-

burgh is the only other program in the ACC

that did not report a profi t in 2014-15. Florida

State turned the highest profi t in the ACC at

$23.6 million. Th e average profi t of an ACC

school was $5.55 million.

Th is is the fourth year that BC did not

report institutional support for team revenue

for its ticketed sports. Because of this policy,

men’s basketball, women’s basketball, men’s

hockey, and football can reveal their actual

profi t fi gures. Every other varsity sport at BC

is a non-ticketed event and therefore does not

report a revenue or expense without includ-

ing institutional support. Th at means that BC

reports all sports (other than the four listed

above) broke even whether or not they actu-

ally lost money. Th is is a common practice

around the NCAA.

Th e Department of Education asks that

schools report their fi nancial information

from between June 1, 2014 and May 31, 2015

by no later than Oct. 15, 2015. Th e schools do

not have to report any fi nancial information

prior to that point.

Th e Equity in Data Athletics report also

reveals that BC has the lowest salary per

Citizens of this modern world con-

stantly redefine love. They probe not

only what love should mean in today’s

fluid society, but also how people across

the globe talk about the oftentimes elu-

sive and messy feeling. This week, on

Jan. 21, WBUR, Boston’s largest public

radio station, will enter the conversation

head on through a collaboration with the

New York Times. WBUR plans to bring

the Times’ ever-popular ‘Modern Love’

column to life through its much-antici-

pated Modern Love: The Podcast. Modern Love: The Podcast is the

brainchild of WBUR’s Idea Lab (iLab), a

space where members of WBUR explore

and invent new content that resonate

with modern listeners, and take advan-

tage of today’s advanced technologies.

In an interview with Current, WBUR

general manager Charles Kravetz said

that the WBUR iLab is currently working

on multiple projects, with a total of $1.5

million set aside to fund the projects.

Although Kravetz declined to reveal the

cost of Modern Love: The Podcast, he did

highlight the content of the upcoming

podcast through a quick preview on the

WBUR website.

Each episode of the soon-to-be

weekly podcast will center around an

essay that was originally published as

one of the ‘Modern Love’ columns in the

Times. The columns, which have grown

in popularity since their first appear-

ance in 2006, are a weekly staple in the

Sunday Style section of the Times. Each

column runs between 1,500 and 1,700

words, and is chosen from a large pool of

reader submissions before being edited

by Daniel Jones.

Jones revealed in an interview with

Times Insider that he can receive up-

wards of 7,000 submissions a year,

though the paper only publishes 52.

The rules for submission are very strict

and require that the writer maintain a

high level of integrity—names cannot

be changed, characters must appear as

they did in reality, and events cannot be

invented or elaborated. In the past, suc-

cessful columns have resulted in many

full-length books, as well as eventually

abandoned attempts at television shows

and musicals.

Although the column’s theme of

love in the modern world might seem

straightforward, the stories that result

from it are anything but. They range

from heartbreaking to uplifting, covering

everything from foot fetishes, glimpses

from a florist’s perspective, to the sci-

entific possibility of forcing oneself to

fall in love.

For Modern Love : The Podcast ,

standout essays were selected from the

large the pool of published columns to

be featured in each episode. An intro-

duction on the WBUR website reveals

that during the first part of the episode,

the chosen essay will be read aloud by

well-known figures such as January

Jones, Judd Apatow, Jason Alexander,

Joshua Jackson, and America Ferrera.

The stories, however, will not end there.

After each column is brought to life, the

original author will be interviewed by

‘Modern Love’ editor Jones, and Meghna

Chakrabarti, the host of WBUR’s own

Here & Now.Kravetz also revealed to Current his

high hopes for the podcast’s success, as

the project is entirely funded by WBUR,

with the Times providing support

through marketing. If the show does

reach its desired success, it will continue

into the next year.

Given the current fame that cer-

tain podcasts—such as This AmericanLife and the true-crime investigation

Serial—have achieved over the past

couple of years, and the overall rise in

the popularity of podcasts as entertain-

ment, Kravetz’s aspirations may not be

so ludicrous.

Recent data collected by Edison

Research and the PEW Research Center

clearly highlight the growing presence of

podcasts in the world of media entertain-

ment. By 2015, 49 percent of Americans

over the age of 12 were aware of the ex-

istence of podcasts, and 33 percent had

listened to at least one podcast in their

lifetime, both numbers more than double

what they were a decade ago.

In an interview with BetaBoston,

Jones mentioned the high readership the

column attracts, with the most popular

receiving 10 million online views.

By harnessing both the loyalty of the

Times readers and the rapidly growing

community of podcast listeners, Modern Love: The Podcast has the potential for

great success, a success that is already

becoming apparent as Modern Love: The Podcast already holds the 43rd place in

the top charts of the iTunes podcast after

only releasing a tantalizing preview that

lasts a grand total of 99 seconds.

PHOTO COURTESY OF ERNESTO ANDRADE

head coach—male or female sport—in the

ACC. BC has the most female varsity sports

in the conference, yet pays its coaches an

average of $91,616. While this is $38,000 less

than 14th-place Wake Forest, and half of the

average female head coach salary of $182,080,

it is a $4,000 increase from last season. Th e

salary per male head coach at BC is $384,440,

about $30,000 less Notre Dame, the next clos-

est team in the order. Th is is a 16.4 percent

decrease from last season’s total of about

$460,000, and is 419 percent more than the

average female head coach salary. Much of

this number is skewed heavily in favor of BC’s

three male profi t sport head coaches: Steve

Addazio, Jim Christian, and Jerry York.

There are 336 male athletes and 380

female athletes at Boston College, without

duplication across sports. BC lags, however,

in spending an equal amount on male and

female athletes in recruiting. In 2014-15, BC

spent $2,519 per male athlete, 11th-most in

the ACC, and only 23 percent behind the con-

ference average of $3,261—the program has

the fi fth-most athletes in the conference. By

contrast, the department only spent $708 per

female athlete, despite having the most female

athletes in the ACC by a wide margin.

Th is average is $400 less than 14th-place

Virginia ($1,129), and is less than half of the

ACC’s average spending on recruiting female

athletes ($1,693).

Spending on recruiting is a highly variable

total per year. It often depends on how many

needs schools have in a given year. Addition-

ally, BC recruits most heavily in the New

England area, and thus does not have to pay

much in terms of travel when recruiting.

BC Athletics did not immediately respond

to a request for comment.

Equity in Athletics, From A1

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THURSDAY | January 21, 2016

THE HEIGHTS Thursday, January 21, 2016B2

A FULLER PICTURE

CHRIS FULLER

“Phil… wake up. I thi—I think there’s a

tornado storm ahead of us,” I complacently mut-

tered to my sleepy passenger.

It’d probably be quite a spectacle to see a

Californian kid such as myself thinking he’s

about to pass a series of tornadoes for the fi rst

time. My buddy Phil and I were on the second

leg of Winter Road-Trip Extravaganza, pass-

ing through Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho

to meet up with our good friend, Ryan, who

lives in Eugene, Ore. We had woken up before

the crack of dawn to make good time on the

probable 20-hour drive from our friend’s house

in Boulder, Colo., to Eugene, and as the sun

peeked up over the Rocky Mountains, we were

pleasantly surprised to fi nd that not a single

cloud covered the brisk baby-blue sky. For us,

this seemed a pleasant and necessary escape

from the sleet and hard winds that had plagued

the fi rst leg of our journey from Southern Calif.

out to Boulder.

Driving through these harsh conditions on

our fi rst drive out to Boulder hadn’t been all

that bad, though. I had never driven anywhere

east of Las Vegas before, and encountering the

better parts of Nevada, Utah, and Colorado was

an unparalleled delight. Phil and I had mused

that, immediately passing through state borders,

each state’s scenery necessitated the name that

state had. Utah’s rolling, empty, and snow-cov-

ered hills demanded that the state be named

Utah. Colorado’s quick-climbing mountains and

uniquely clean and crisp air suggested that a

passerby could only claim to be in Colorado and

not anywhere else in the world. For being a 14-

hour drive that practically consumed the whole

day, the scenery these states surrounded us with

made the trek feel like a walk in the Common in

the fall, sublime and relaxing.

A fellow Heights editor, Caleb Griego, wrote

a column before Winter Break about enjoying

beautiful scenery and architecture as nature

and man’s art. While I’ve always considered

myself engrossed with and captivated by the

landscapes and buildings that I live and work in,

I reminded myself of Caleb’s column before set-

ting out on my trip, and I encouraged myself to

consciously appreciate the trip’s views as much

as I possibly could. Th is thinking made for an

extremely pleasurable road trip—that is, until I

saw the tornadoes.

Th e four tornadoes met in the blackest

cloud I had ever seen. If death took a natural

form, this is what it would look like. As we

drove closer and closer to the terrible mess, my

heart skipped a few beats, and I started sweating

profusely. I was not prepared for this. I had

never seen a tornado, let alone driven near one.

Or four, for that matter. Th e highway, however,

looked as though it veered out of the way of the

beasts ,and I decided to press on, at least until

things looked like they might get hairy.

Th en it hit me like a ton of bricks. Th ose

ghoulish tornadoes weren’t moving anywhere or

farther apart from each other. Th ey seemed to

be static. Confused, I kept driving and noticed

that my calculations were incorrect—the

highway was going to pass rather close to these

horrendous creatures. “What could they be?” I

asked myself. “What could possibly account for

these hulking, black plumes?” Th en it appeared

over the horizon: the gates of hell. Sitting in a

valley in Wyoming, along the I-80W, was the

largest factory I had ever seen. It was bellowing

out gobs of the dirtiest and most corpulent

smoke that I think could possibly exist.

Th e plumes that rose out of these four

massive smokestacks, the four columns that I

had mistaken for tornadoes, congregated in the

most disgusting heap of air imaginable. Th is

clump of smoke was so heavy that it condensed

into a thick layer extending out a few miles

from the factory. Everything that unfortunately

found itself under the horrendous mass was

untouched by the sun. As I passed the most

terrifying sight I’d ever encountered, I reminded

myself that that factory probably exudes its crap

all day, almost every single day.

I’m no expert on environmental science or

clean energy, nor can I really speak on the ne-

cessity or needlessness of that factory I passed,

but one thing I can say is that factory and the

countless others like it found throughout the

world are dumping an unbelievable amount of

toxic and terrible gas into the air. I can’t imagine

how many gorgeous landscapes and towns are

plagued by industry like this. Now, whenever I

see a painting or picture of a valley with rolling

hills, I can’t help but imagine a big black blob

being smacked onto the canvas.

THIS WEEKEND in artsMUSE(MON. AT TD GARDEN, 7:30PM)English rock band Muse is set to hit the stage at Boston’s

TD Garden this Weekend. Grab tickets to hear the high-

energy performance of their newest album Drones at

Muse’s website.

JENNIFER NETTLES(SAT. AT HOUSE OF BLUES, 8PM)Head to the House of Blues this weekend to hear new

songs from country singer Jennifer Nettles. After break-

ing into the music scene and making headlines as the

lead vocalist for Sugarland, Nettles is currently pursuing

a solo career.

LOS OLVIDADOS(THURS. IN DEVLIN 101, 9AM-5PM)Visit Devlin 101 for this pop-up exhibition featuring the

work of Ramiro Gomez. A panel discussion with the artist

is scheduled for Th ursday, and the art will be on display

for one day only.

NEWS PAINTINGS EXHIBIT(O’NEILL LIBRARY, JAN-MAY)Th e O’Neill Library’s Level Th ree Gallery will feature a

semester-long exhibit titled 24 Hour News. Professor

Mary Armstrong of the Fine Arts Department shares her

meditations on war through a series of paintings.

DIRTY GRANDPA(OPENS FRI.)Zac Efron and Robert De Niro co-star in this crude new

comedy. Filled with crazy parties, wild bar fi ghts, and spring

break madness, the movie hits theaters this weekend.

RIDE ALONG 2(NOW PLAYING)Comedian Kevin Hart teams up with Ice Cube to bring

viewers this action-packed sequel. Entangled in a drug

ring, this unlikely pair attempt to bring justice to a cor-

rupt system.

13 HOURS(NOW PLAYING)John Krasinski and james Badge Dale star in this

chaotic account of a security team that works to de-

fend the United States consulate in Benghazi during

a horrific attack.

5TH WAVE (OPENS FRI.)As a series of alien attacks put the human race on the

brink of extinction, fearless teenager Cassie Sullivan sets

out on a frantic search for her brother. Alliances form and

friendships are tested in this fast-paced sci-fi fi lm starring

Chloe Grace Moretz.

BY: HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN | HEIGHTS EDITOR

COLUMBIA PICTURE PICTURES

Awards never resonate with me.

Awards particularly having to do with

art seem to mean even less. In many

ways they seem just a way for self-pre-

scribed authorities to tell the masses

what is and is not of artistic merit.

During the Grammys, Golden Globes,

or Academy Awards seasons, many

flock to see their favorite celebrities and

artists intermingle and take the stage

to accept acknowledgement of their ar-

tistic endeavors. But in what ways does

this truly validate an art? And, more-

over, should it? Should the arts operate

under the confines of a select few who

can dictate what they feel is of more

merit, to brand works as Best Picture,

Best Album, Best Score, Best…?

This is not to say that the commit-

tees behind these awards do not recog-

nize that the ceremony is a reflection of

their own opinions. But the pageantry,

the grandeur, and the power of celeb-

rity may influence the average person

to shape their opinions around the

opinions of these committees. In this

way, people may neglect to see films, or

listen to music, that do not fit the stan-

dards of those running the industries.

In the end, it is just a couple of people’s

view on a matter pertaining to some-

thing as varied and prolific as art.

In 1996, after winning the Grammy

for Best Hard Rock Performance,Eddie

Vedder of Pearl Jam took the stage with

some controversial views. Looking

at the trophy, he said, “I don’t know

what this means. I don’t think it means

anything.” A nervous laugh shook the

room. Vedder took issue with the award

because the acknowledgement of one

group innately neglects the achieve-

ment and work of others. If everyone

who deserves to be recognized is not,

Eddie’s point stands markedly. These

kinds of things do not seem to be for

the artists, but really are a way to col-

lect celebrity in one place and capitalize

on their influence. Moreover the use of

superlatives is a little off-putting. It is

the best? Sure it is.

Look at actors like Di Caprio, who to

this day (we will see with The Revenant)

has not won an Oscar. Do his perfor-

mances in The Departed (2006), Django

(2012), or Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

not warrant an award? The truth is it

does not matter. His work stands as his

award and testament to his career. He

does not need a trophy to validate the

magnificent work he has done and no

doubt will continue to do. His reputa-

tion as an actor gets us in seats to see

his movies, not the awe we feel as we

tally his trophies.

Look at films and entire produc-

tions. In 1994, Forrest Gump won Best

Picture, pushing out Pulp Fiction and

The Shawshank Redemption. Is this to

say that it was in any way superior to

the other two films, considered mas-

terpieces by many? No. But they only

give out one award, thereby putting all

other contenders to the side. Again,

the legacies of these films, watched and

rewatched over the ages, is a more of a

testament to their influence and success

than any single award ceremony in any

given year.

The fact that terms like Oscar Bait

exist is representative of the endemic

nature of awards. Sooner or later people

or organizations bent on achievement

will neglect the true passions of the

artistic process in favor of a synthetic,

systematic processes used to draw in

votes.

But if these awards do not really

mean anything, why do viewers flock

to them as authorities, by which they

hierarchically rank art? Fear of missing

out defiles the minds of almost every-

one. To cut through brush in search of

the Best, we turn to Rotten Tomatoes,

Top 100s, The Academy, and other

people to tell us what is and is not good.

With so few hours in the day, these

authorities’do the work for us. This kind

of investigation transcends the con-

versational intrigue of “What did you

think of the movie?” and turns it into

“What should I think of the movie?”

With so much media to consume, these

sources help people decide what they

might like and what they might not.

Certainly these things serve a purpose

as a preliminary judgement of media,

but ultimately it falls on the individual

to say what they enjoy.

Apart from musing in conversa-

tion, placing one film, song, or album

over another should not be taken as

seriously as people tend to take it.

Sometimes we have to watch and listen

to things we do not like to solidify the

reasons for why we don’t like them and

why we like other things. That kind of

relativity is essential in developing a

diverse and mature taste. The opinions

of others will never lend the kind of

certainty that is given when experienc-

ing something first-hand.

The kind of spontaneity that it takes

to try something new, something you

might not like, is thrilling to experi-

ence, as you challenge yourself to grow

in taste. It is in minute moments that

we find things that resonate with us,

which are completely separate from the

droning opinions of a committee.

People’s tastes are more complex

than popular opinion. We may never

experience everything there is. For

every film we see, there are thousands

more we have not. For every song

listened to on repeat, we are missing

out on another that we would enjoy

more. But that is okay. Everyone should

find pleasure in these things because

they simply enjoy them. They do, but

someone else won’t. If we actively look

for the Best as prescribed by others, we

may never venture far enough to find

the things we really enjoy.

ABBY PAULSON / HEIGHTS EDITOR

CALEB GRIEGO

THE HEIGHTSThursday, January 21, 2016 B3

HANNAH MCLAUGHLIN

Just like Nutella, Jennifer Law-

rence, and other things that are de-

cidedly overrated, Winter Break just

isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

As soon as that brief thrill from

holiday decorations, home-cooked

meals, and the long-awaited reunion

with the family dog wears off, the

month-long hiatus-from-hell follows

the same sort of blueprint for us all:

college friends are MIA, high school

pals have to spend time with their

parents, and you’re stuck home alone

while your family flies to Disney

without you for a week (I’m hoping

that applies to someone other than

just me).

After a solid and blissful three

days or so of basking in the dim glow

of a stocked family refrigerator (one

that can hold more than just three

pineapple Chobanis, two chocolate

milks, and a freezer-burnt Ben &

Jerry’s), you realize that your small

Massachusetts suburb is the single

most horrible place you could ever be

trapped for a month.

Then again, as soon as you ac-

knowledge that your hometown is

known primarily for its high-security

prison and the most exciting desti-

nation within a four mile radius is a

newly refurbished McDonald’s where

the McFlurry machine is always bro-

ken, you realize that you’ll have to get

crafty in order to preserve your sanity.

Personally, I like to interpret the

term “crafty” pretty loosely. I mean,

the craziest thing I did over break was

take the commuter rail into the city

and explore the mean streets of Bos-

ton alone a few times (wild and risky

and utterly spontaneous, I know).

Mostly, though, I opted to hide under

an expertly-crafted blanket cocoon

and catch up on the movies, shows,

and albums I was way too busy to bite

into during a hectic fall semester. So,

armed with my trusty laptop, a couple

of movie tickets, and way too much

time on my hands, I jumped right in.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is

the kind of show that’s capable of

making viewers chuckle in a sweet,

simple “this-isn’t-the-worst-show-

I’ve-ever-seen-but-it-sure-as-hell-

isn’t-the-best” kind of way. Ellie

Kemper channels her inner Erin from

The Office with her character Kimmy

Schmidt, a stereotypically clueless

Midwesterner whose 15 years in cap-

tivity only adds to her naivete about

the big, bad world around her. One

note I took on this series says “Small-

town girl tries to achieve her dreams

in the big city, all the while getting by

with a little help from her friends.”

You probably cringed while reading

that sentence, but you also now have

the basic plotline of every Kimmy

episode created to date.

Master of None is just awesome,

and I would praise the new gem of

a television series all day if I could.

It’s honest and unapologetic, without

being obnoxious or brash. It’s smart,

original, well-written, and Aziz Ansari

deserves all of the awards—all of

them.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

returned for its 11th season, and I feel

like I need to express my sheer grati-

tude to creator Rob McElhenney for

making such a great series. Maybe I’ll

name my firstborn after him or some-

thing. Netflix is the devil, because

I sat virtually immobile until I had

caught up with the show’s previous

10 seasons. Some notes on this series

include a growing tally of the number

of times Danny DeVito is nude on

screen, “Charlie Kelly is the best worst

person ever,” and “this show is never

allowed to end.”

Joy is a movie starring Jennifer

Lawrence, and it’s also a common hu-

man emotion that I felt none of while

watching said movie. It was clunky,

awkward, and didn’t include any sem-

blance of sexual tension between Law-

rence and Bradley Cooper’s characters,

which threw everyone for a loop.

Mad Max: Fury Road is the greatest

film I never want to see again. It was

completely devoid of any interesting

plot point, apart from a guy attached

to the back of a rig who mercilessly

shreds on a guitar despite bullets and

shrapnel flying every which way. The

CGI was awesome, though (as it prob-

ably should be for a budget of roughly

$150 million).

I justified my lack of productivity

by tossing out a few key words and

phrases like “work” and “necessary”

and “The Heights Arts & Review Sec-

tion” when confronted by my mom

about why I was wasting so much time

over break. I mean, an assistant arts

editor needs to be well-versed in the

entertainment world, she needs to be

good at clicking the “Next Episode”

button on Netflix without missing

a beat, and she needs to rewatch all

seasons of 30 Rock in preparation for

Fey’s film Sisters, dammit. Now, I am.

So, in that sense, I guess it was a

pretty successful break after all.

Students rush across Linden Lane,

either running to their next class or

trying to evade the freezing cold’s grasp

as quickly as they possibly can. Teeth

chatter and students shiver as they pass

the golden Baldwin that sits upon its

pillar perch.

While most people bundle up to the

best of their ability, one student, Chris

Dalla Riva, MCAS ’17, strips down to

his flannel shirt and wades out into the

snow in front of Bapst Library. He’s not

too cool for the cold, but he realizes how

much better the photo will look without

his North Face pullover on. While he

may be a singer-songwriter, guitarist,

pianist, and harmonicist, Dalla Riva’s

artistic vision extends far beyond his

musical talent.

Dalla Riva posted his first EP, I Want You To Know, on his Soundcloud page

last summer. I Want You To Know is

emblematic of Dalla Riva’s sound. It is

small-band rock at its finest. The EP

only has six tracks, but Dalla Riva has

been writing and producing music for

much longer than this would suggest.

He’s been playing guitar, learning the

piano, writing, and singing since he was

in the seventh grade.

“I was never really confident in my

abilities to play covers of songs I loved,”

Dalla said. “I figured if I can write my

own song, there’s no possible way I can

mess that up.” Since then, Dalla Riva

has written over 50 of his own songs,

and he doesn’t plan on slowing down

anytime soon.

“I just want to play and write as long

as I can,” he said. “You know, everyone

would like a record deal. It’s always nice

when you meet people that connect

with your music or lyrics you’ve writ-

ten. I’m focusing on building a fanbase

of people that my music can touch in

some way or another, as cliche as that

sounds.”

Invested isn’t a good enough descrip-

tion for Dalla Riva’s relationship with his

craft and process—“absorbed” works

much better. He enjoys working through

and adding his own touch to themes and

narratives that have existed in music

throughout its entire history.

“You always come back to same

tropes people have been writing about

forever: love, youth, and escape,” Dalla

Riva said. “I won’t stick to these exclu-

sively, but I see that my view on these

themes has shifted drastically even in

the last five years, and I think they prob-

ably do for most everyone.”

One of the first things you notice

when talking with Dalla Riva is that

he exudes confidence. His personality

doesn’t come off as superficial. He just

knows what’s he is talking about, and he

doesn’t have to dance around a subject

to get to his point. A conversation with

Dalla Riva is especially refreshing. He’s

not afraid to admit where he’s gone

wrong in his music career, or to promote

what he thinks are his strong suits as a

musician.

“The last couple years have been

about trying to find the right group

to bring an idea I have to life,” he said.

“Relationships can be fickle, and it’s

difficult to find people who agree with

what you believe in musically and not

only that you agree, but also that you

work well together too.”

While Dalla Riva has gained and lost

band members over the years, his friend

and trumpeter, Peter Julian, CSOM ’16,

has been a steady collaborator whom

Dalla Riva has involved heavily in his

creative process.

“I usually write a song, bring it to

Pete, and then we work an arrange-

ment with just the guitar, vocals, and

trumpet,” Dalla Riva said. “Then we’ll

bring it to a bass player and a drummer

because the hardest part is working at

a trumpet line. Playing live though, you

really only need Pete and I.”

It’s intriguing to talk with Dalla

Riva about his interests outside of

music. He’s a co-producer for BCTV’s

comedy division and often works with

BC’s comedy teams to develop and

broadcast comedy specials. He’s an

avid film fan and reader who can go off

a tangent on any of his favorite stories

(George Lucas’ American Graffiti and

Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man andthe Sea). It’s difficult to encapsulate

Chris Dalla Riva in a nutshell. There

is an endless amount of inspirational

and sophisticated quotes that he whips

out on a whim. He’s both mysterious

and entirely approachable, just like his

music sounds.

Some may think he’s more inclined

toward studying the arts, but Dalla

Riva’s actually a mathematics and eco-

nomics double major. He has a very

unique view of the relationship between

his studies and his musical career.

“People usually think math and mu-

sic are such divergent paths, but to me

it’s a very similar process that you go

through with both,” he said. “They share

a general form. You’re doing something

different when you work in either, but

with both you’re facing a creative prob-

lem and you need to solve it in a novel

way. To me, music, math, and econom-

ics come together in a really nice way,

despite their apparent differences.”

VivaDalla Riva

Chris Fuller | Arts & Review EditorChris Dalla Riva on Writing, Singing, and Living His Music Day by Day


Tuesday night was the last

time—disregarding TV’s syndica-

tion of (500) Days of Summer,

Yes Man, Elf, and now New Girl

itself—that Zooey Deschanel could

be found in a living room near you.

When Deschanel’s Jess walked out

of the loft at the end of Tuesday

night’s episode of New Girl, leav-

ing behind a heap of advice for her

friends in her typical fashion, she

marched into an invisible arc of

secluded jury duty. Deschanel her-

self is on maternity leave and now

New Girl—as always—is forced to

reinvent itself.

It’s weird that New Girl is in its

fi fth season. Th e show is like your

friend who lives back home, yet

somehow still cracks you up. And

there’s nothing wrong with either!

New Girl was born before the era of

the transcendent comedy—Trans-

parent, Master of None, You’re

the Worst—the flesh-and-blood

sitcoms that mix commentary

and comedy in one fell half-hour

swoop. But before those shows

were fi lling up your queue, there

was New Girl, hunting spiders

and playing True American in a

wildly spacious loft. In its second

season, with the chemistry between

Deschanel’s Jess and Jake Johnson’s

Nick Miller, New Girl reinvented

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Th e ideas behind Nina Nes-

bitt’s music video for “Chewing

Gum,” a song from her upcoming

EP, Modern Love, are similar to the

concepts of the song itself—simple,

catchy, and unfortunately, repeti-

tive. “Chewing Gum” uses a single

visual gimmick to carry the three

and a half minutes of audio, and if

the end result is not revolutionary

by any means, it is at least as eye-

catching as intended.

Th e video opens with Nesbitt

getting dressed as the previous

evening’s conquest lies asleep

and forgotten in the bed behind

her. The presumed one-night

stand moves through a quick

background jump to a nightclub

featuring a feathery blonde who

leaps through a similar fl urry of

camera-perspective tricks to fl irt

with another man. Th e dominoes

continue to fall, with each new

participant in the fl eeting shots

of bedrooms and crowded par-

ties dropped—through the magic

of editing—into a new partner’s

arms.

Th e trick is that what is behind

the walls is not just another room,

but another moment, each as

inconsequential and doomed to

end as the next. At times, Nesbitt

herself reappears after the latest

jump cut, backlit in a foggy hallway

and quirking an eyebrow to drive

home her apathy Th is same imper-

manence is seen in the varied cast

of characters tethered together

only “until the fl avor’s gone.”

This concept coincides per-

fectly with the song’s cycling assur-

ance that its vocalist is uninterested

in “forever,” and though the visual

might not convince any wary view-

ers to feel the same, it plants a cyni-

cal seed of thought. When Nesbitt

glides into a car at the end of the

video and embraces the driver

there is a sense of imminent doom

even as the intimacy is still unfold-

ing onscreen. Ultimately, the video

falls alongside its characters into a

pattern it is unwilling or unable to

break, and the resulting monotony

leaves no soft sentiment for the au-

dience after the fi nal blackout.

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bar breaks and gets his pants wet.

It’s one of those typical New Girl

plots—Jess is up to something

quirky, the gang is up to shenani-

gans in the loft. Here, they’re tack-

ling an age-old dilemma. How do

I be friends with my best friend’s

girlfriend/fi ancee? What do you do

when relationships change?

And as Jess seals her fate and

departs with her uncompromising

dedication to the judicial system,

Nick and Cece compromise. Cece

admits that she may never know

Schmidt like Nick—Schmidt’s col-

lege roommate and best friend—

knows Schmidt. Th ough, she adds,

he may never know Schmidt like

she does physically, to which Nick

responds, “You’d be surprised.”

Th ere’s also a funny bit in which

Nick and Winston try to say “at

the same time” in unison, which

doesn’t sound all that funny, but di-

rector Eric Appel lets the moment

run as long as awkwardly possible

to let the joke build and burst.

The show won’t be the same

without Jess. But the show that it’s

been so far this season has been a

shadow of its screwball season two

high and the hardboiled comedy of

season four. So maybe Megan Fox,

who replaces Deschanel on the

call sheet and Jess in the loft for

the foreseeable future, will jump-

start the show and transform it

into something new all over again.

New Girl grew out of the quirkable

Deschanel project long ago into the

still-delightful ensemble comedy it

is now. But anyone who loves the

show has surely wondered how it’d

run without its star. Jess is still the

heart of the show, but it should be

fun to see how far it might go and

what it might fi nd without her at

the center.

Grandpa slings raps, slurs, and clubs with his grandson. He is old. He is mean. He certainly is dirty. And he’s not what you would ex-pect. Th ough a barrage of insults di-rected toward Zac Efron’s character and non-sequitur humor are sure to reign in a few laughs, Dirty Grandpa has little in terms of substantiated or crafted comedy.

Following the death of his wife, Dick Kelly (Robert De Niro) seeks

to spice up his life with a trip to Daytona Beach. With the help of his submissive and soon-to-be-married grandson Jason Kelly (Efron), Dick makes his ambitions of sex and partying a reality, while showing Jason how to loosen the grip of his controlling fi ancee. Police, drugs, gangs, and Grandpa make for a dangerous combination.

Dirty Grandpa’s plot is pre-dictable, with characters ending up exactly where you think they would. In fact, the progression of each character can be accurately

predicted within several minutes. We have seen this type of dynamic before, with reserved and radical characters butting heads. In the end, both sides fi nd a sentimental truth through various trials and antics. Th is is apparent in Neighbors (2014), in which Efron plays a similar role. In that comedy, his position was that of the radical fraternity member, tormenting the couple next door. Th e story was of a struggle between two households, with no clear vic-tor in sight. Conversely, in Dirty Grandpa, Efron is on the receiving

end of most of the ill will, yet the shared fate of him and his grandpa is completely foreseeable.

The movie wastes no time in building up to De Niro’s character’s crazed nature. Shortly after his introduction, the ridiculous situa-tions, lines, and quips come in full force and rarely slow down. Insult humor dominates as Dick con-tinually berates and emasculates his weak-willed grandson. As they traverse the roads and party scenes together, Dick truly leads the way, with Jason looking on awkwardly. Th e unfortunate simplicity of the plot can be forgiven, as the film wastes no time jumping into the action and quickly progressing from scene to scene.

The insult humor is at times very funny, as Efron does not lead the show. Instead, he fi lls the role of a human punching bag. Much of the humor is easy and simple, but demands laughs or chuckles at its delivery or nature. A good portion of the humor falls into pitfalls of shock humor. In place of a joke with buildup and payoff , writers substitute for easy laughs with a penis to the face or fart noises on a stage. Th is kind of humor is easy to pull off and will garner some laughs, but those are cheap and easy laughs.

Making Efron the human

punching bag functions very well. His reaction to De Niro’s per-formance is authenticated by his sincere looks of desperation and shame. For Efron, this fi lm can be seen as an extension of Neighbors, as he continues to shed his pretty-boy persona. In many ways, the movie continues to prove that. His misery is a highlight of the movie.

De Niro makes the movie, as he precisely embodies a dirty grandpa. Most of the funny moments come from the situational comedy that ensues from seeing a grandfather in the situations presented on screen. De Niro pulls off everything with confidence. Shotgunning beers, rapping, lighting cigars, and seam-lessly mingling with spring break-ers make for some entertaining spectacles. De Niro is trying new things and for a man of 72, this is admirable. Clearly he does not need to make fi lms anymore, but he does for the love of it. Just as his character is made to feel younger through his antics, De Niro is given vigor as he continues to churn out fi lms, proving that he still has what it takes to deliver a good, or at least entertaining, performance.

Dirty Grandpa is fun and will have you chuckling throughout. Though it has few well-crafted jokes, the fast-paced nature of the movie will keep you engaged. LIONSGATE FILMS

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Bieber’s mysterious new track was released solely on his offi cial Vevo page. Intentional leak? No one knows. All we know is that Bieber steps out of his conventional wheelhouse on “I’ll Be There” to perform his own rap-fi lled bridge, a job generally reserved for outside hire. “I’ll Be There” lives up to the “Bieber-fever” hype.

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DOROTHY’s new track “Missile” is perfectly timed to revitalize interest. The trademark gritty, bluesy sound of the band radiates throughout the single, along with singer Dorothy Martin’s powerhouse vocals. The song sounds like a Taantino western and garage band, suggesting great album to come.

DOROTHY“Missile”

Breaking away from the angst, The 1975 delivers a bubbly, electro-pop anthem. Featuring the vocals of a children’s choir and pulsing synth beats, “The Sound” is the last thing anyone would’ve expected from the indie band, while lead singer Matty Healy maintains his typical emotional, conversational lyrics.

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Dazed, confused, and gradually reclaiming control of their extremities as the numbing eff ects of a mysteri-ous elixir wear off , the gang from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fi nd themselves in shackles—and diving headfi rst into season 11 of the criti-cally-acclaimed FXX series.

In the corner of a dilapidated basement, an outdated, static-laden

MacDennis 2: Electric Boogaloo?” Th e executive of a game company

contacts the crew about a potential business deal involving “Chardee MacDennis”, the gang’s own original board game of physical, mental, and emotional challenges featured way back in season seven. With utterly insane rules and incredibly dangerous “puzzles”, the gang attempts to show the businessman exactly what the riveting competition entails.

Mac (Rob McElhenney), Charlie

(Charlie Day), Dennis (Glenn Hower-ton), Sweet Dee (Kaitlin Olson), and Frank (Danny DeVito) return weirder, funnier, and more shameless than ever. Th e newest season doesn’t waste a minute in revealing how dissolute and horrible these not-so-clever con artists can be. Willing to risk anything to make a quick buck, their new venture in the game industry and the subsequent physical harm it causes is just another day in the life of the gang.

Episode two opens with a nonsen-sical argument in Charlie and Frank’s apartment. Mentally, Frank becomes stuck in the year 2006, which allows Dennis and Dee to take advantage of their father’s unfortunate condition. Th e twins try to have another go at inheriting Frank’s fortune. Mean-while, Charlie and Mac conspire to toss Frank out of his own apartment in hopes of raking in more rent money.

Sunny tackles major controversies and profi ts off of political incorrect-ness. Th e characters are the worst people one would ever want to meet, their hilarious depravity responsible for a number of horrible situations. Since its series premiere in 2005, the gang has sold a variety of hard drugs, faked their own deaths, performed FX PRODUCTIONS

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several kidnappings, and posed as police offi cers. Th ey’ve committed fraud, ruined innocent lives, and eaten more cans of cat food than can be counted. Each new episode of horrifi cally immoral hijinks brings a tasty delinquent activity du jour, and fans eat it up every time.

Th roughout its long run on FXX, Sunny has received incredible praise virtually unmatched by today’s top comedy shows. With all but two seasons receiving a 100% on rottento-matoes.com, Sunny is an unapologetic show that takes major comedic risks while expertly retaining the quality and sheer originality that avid view-ers have come to expect and crave from creator Rob McElhenney. Having teamed up with fellow co-stars and executive producers Glenn Howerton and Charlie Day since the show’s conception, McElhenney has churned out nearly 11 seasons of uproarious episodes.

If this absurd season premiere and its subsequent second episode are accurate representations of what insane shenanigans the gang will get caught up in this time around, Sunny faithfuls are sure to be more than satisfi ed, with plenty of things to look forward to from the gang.

and embraced the screwball com-

edy of old—capturing the ‘will they

won’t they’ and ‘they can’t ever be

together but they must’ dynamic

of romantic relationship. Th e third

season proved that the Jess-Nick

union wasn’t as fertile as their

‘hardening caulk’ of a courtship.

Th e third season was entertaining,

but the fourth proved that New

Girl can still be really, really funny

(see “Wedding,” “Micro,” “The

Crawl”). Th at’s a hasty summary

of approximately 90 episodes of

television. With juicy syndication

rights in hand and Deschanel en

route to maternity leave, New Girl

could mail it in, or at least had the

opportunity at hand.

The ultimate answer to that

fateful question will be answered—

in New Girl fashion—in quiet

understatement. No one makes

big moves in the hallway of a loft

in the quiet of the night like New

Girl. Which brings us, fi nally, to

the episode in question. In “Jury

Duty,” Jess is off to jury duty, and

all of a sudden has to juggle her

judicial disposition, the sudden

appearance of John Cho, and now a

feud between her best friends Nick

and (his best friend’s fi ancee) Cece.

Sitcoms can be confusing. Nick is

fed up with Cece because she is hot

mess incarnate. And Cece is fed up

with Nick’s Wet Pants story—how

the bottom of a guy’s glass at the

TV set hums to life. Danny DeVito appears onscreen sporting an impres-sive disguise straight out of Saw, but the man’s short stature and trademark screeching voice blow his cover al-most immediately.

“Hello, gang,” he growls. “Th e keys to your cuffs have been sewn into your forearm. Beside you are some tweezers attached to a car battery. Last team out of the room loses.”

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months will bring. Th ese are the

only two months that matter. Last

year, when the Eagles’ only three

losses were in the Beanpot Final,

the Hockey East Championship,

and the Frozen Four Semifi nal,

serving as a brutal reminder.

To say this year is diff erent

because BC is undefeated and has

succeeded against last season’s lo-

cal rivals would be wrong.

Although the 2015-16 Eagles

boast a 24-0-0 record—includ-

ing a combined 5-0 mark against

Harvard, BU, and Northeastern—it

is not necessarily a sign of im-

provement. At this time last year,

Crowley’s squad was not only un-

defeated, but also 5-0 against those

same three Boston-area schools.

So what makes this year dif-

ferent?

It starts with the maturation of

the team’s off ensive and defen-

sive MVPs: Carpenter and Burt,

respectively. Th e senior forward

is now nearing the end of one of

the most impressive campaigns

of all-time in the sport, and she

is hungry for hardware. Not to

mention, the 2015 Patty Kazmaier

Award winner is playing the best

hockey of her life—even better

than last season—as she has tallied

28 goals and 27 assists in just 24

games this season.

It’s diffi cult to drastically im-

prove when you’re already among

the best in nation, but Burt did

exactly that. Th e sophomore has

allowed just 20 goals in 20 games

between the pipes, making strides

as she sees higher volumes of shots

and tucks another year of experi-

ence under her belt.

On Tuesday, Burt and the Ea-

gles blanked Harvard, 2-0, for their

fi rst win at Bright-Landry Hockey

Center in 10 years. Burt collected

her 50th victory as goalie for BC,

making her the youngest and fast-

est in women’s collegiate hockey

history to reach the milestone. Th e

18-year-old’s ninth shutout of the

season featured two goals from

Meghan Grieves, proving that the

veteran fi rst-line duo of Carpenter

and Haley Skarupa doesn’t need to

score to secure a win.

On paper, there is little diff er-

ence between this year’s success

and the deceiv. But after an agoniz-

ing off season, Crowley has trans-

formed her team into one that is

ready for the big stage, and ready

to crush the perception that BC

can’t win when it matters. Rattling

off 24 consecutive wins to start this

season has shown the 2014-15 Na-

tional Coach of the Year that her

players have bought in. As fans, it’s

time to buy in, too.

Th is year, forget the tragedy

storyline—this team wants re-

demption, and it’s going to get it.

BY ANNABEL STEELE | ASST. SPORTS EDITORROUNDUPThe Boston College ski

teams competed at the Bates Winter Carnival in Sunday R iver, Maine , l a s t we ek-end. B oth the men’s and

women’s teams struggled to dominate in the contest.

Throughout the weekend’s events , BC earned 70 points and finished 15th out of 17 teams. Dannica Ashnault recorded BC’s best time for the women’s slalom, finishing two slaloms with a time of 2:16.13. On the men’s side, Carter Robertson ran two slaloms in 1:55.22.

O veral l , B C could not comp ete with p owerhouse scho ols l ike the top thre e finishers: Vermont, Dartmouth, and New Hampshire.

SKIING W. TRACKWomen’s track traveled

to Kingston, Rhode Island,last weekend for i t s f irstcompetition of the springsemester. The Univers i tyof Rhode Island hosted the

Sorlein Memorial Invitational and came infirst place, and the Eagles finished secondwith 107 points.

Multiple athletes set or tied personalrecords at the competition. Captain CarlyDaniel set a personal record in the 60-meterpreliminaries, and would go on to finish sec-ond overall in the event.

Paige Duca also set a personal record inthe 1,000-meter event. Elizabeth Knoll tiedher personal record in the high jump. The4x800 team qualified for the Eastern CollegeAthletic Conference championships with avictory in its event.

B oth swim and dive teams competed against Marist College last Satur-day. After a day of tough competit ion, the men’s team earned a 160-140 victory, while the women’s

team fell to Marist, 175-120. On the men’s side, Dan Kelly’s 50-yard free-

style time of 20.90 seconds earned him first place in the event, and Cole Malatesta’s 16-meter diving score of 341.55 brought him to a dominating finish over every other diver. The men’s A medley relay team comprised of Josh Williams, McKenzie Cole, David Howard, and Dan Kelly also came in first place with a time of 1:35:35 seconds.

On the women’s side, Jordan Parry finished the 100-yard butterfly in first place. Erika Free-man, Emily Mann, and Katherine Karle took first, second, and third places in the individual medley event. On Tuesday, the men’s team squared up against Tufts University, earning a 204-164 victory against the Jumbos. Tufts won only six events against the Eagles. Standouts for BC included Malatesta, who dominated the three-meter dive, and McKenzie Cole, who took the 100-yard breaststroke.

SWIM/DIVEWomen’s tennis opened up

its season with a loss to the University of Virginia. It was a much closer contest than expected, with the No. 7 Cava-

liers claiming a 4-3 victory over the Eagles. Sophomore

Asiya Dair was a bright spot during the day. Dair and her doubles partner, Jennifer Ren, earned a victory to set a good tone for the rest of the day. Later in the day, Dair scored a major upset as she defeated the eighth-ranked Julie Elbaba in straight sets. Dair was named the ACC co-player of the week (along with University of North Carolina’s sixth-ranked Hayley Carter) for her performance against the Cavaliers.

Meanwhile, men’s tennis traveled to Har-vard University and suffered a 6-1 loss to the Crimson. BC’s only win on the day came from Alexandre Thirouin’s 6-4, 6-1 victory against Harvard’s Kent Mukai.

TENNIS

Wins come easy for Boston Col-

lege women’s hockey. With 24 vic-

tories this season under its belt, BC

(24-0-0, 16-0-0 Hockey East) has

demonstrated its methodical path to

a win: strong defense, a wall of a goalie,

and fast-paced off ense. A fi rst-period

goal to start it off , an obligatory point

from Alex Carpenter (with an assist

by Haley Skarupa), and a few more

shots chipped in to seal the deal. It’s

almost a formula.

That formula was tested when

they faced Harvard University, the last

team the Eagles lost to—way back on

Mar. 21, 2015. In the 2-0 win against

the Crimson (10-7-1, 7-5-1 ECAC),

BC’s goals came from the third line,

with no points earned by Skarupa and

Carpenter. In addition, Harvard’s of-

fense tried to chip away at goalie Katie

Burt, hitting her with far more shots

than she is used to seeing.

Th e Crimson staved off an off en-

sive strike by the Eagles until halfway

through the fi rst period. When third-

line forward Tori Sullivan skated up

the ice and shot at the net, it was

defl ected by Harvard goalie Emerance

Maschmeyer, the player who shut

down BC’s win streak last season.

Meghan Grieves took advantage of

the disoriented goalkeeper and snuck

in her own shot, giving BC the lead.

Later, nearing the end of the sec-

ond period, Grieves and Sullivan part-

nered for another goal that would rival

a Skarupa-Carpenter collaboration.

After a pass from Sullivan, Grieves

streaked toward the net, backhanding

the puck past Maschmeyer to add

some insurance.

Unlike BC’s match against Mer-

rimack College Jan. 17, in which the

Warriors took eight shots, Harvard

managed 29 against Burt. Th e goalie,

who is not used to having so many

shots on her, could have cracked

under the pressure of lack of practice,

but remained constant, giving the

Crimson little leeway to sneak one

in. BC was also cut off off ensively,

notching 38 shots, which is slightly

under the team’s average of 41.6, and

a stark contrast to the 55 it put up

against Merrimack.

While extending their spotless

record against a storied rival is reason

enough to celebrate, the Eagles also

accomplished several other mile-

stones. Burt, in her 55th start with the

team, reached 50 wins, becoming the

youngest and quickest person to do so

at 18 years and 358 days. She has given

up 20 goals in the 20 games she has

appeared in this season, earning her

a .953 save percentage—just behind

Ann-Renee Desbiens of University of

Wisconsin’s .961.

Facing Harvard on the road hasn’t

been easy for the Eagles. Th e victory is

just the second in BC’s history at the

Bright-Landry Hockey Center, with

the last being on Valentine’s Day 2006.

Th at win set a fi re under the Eagles,

who have gone 10-4-1 against the

Crimson since that day, a far cry from

the 1-21-0 record that BC maintained

in the rivalry from its inception in

1996 to Feb. 13, 2006.

Though the number of goals

scored in the game is one of the lowest

for the Eagles this season, the victory

shows a team that has evolved from

last season. BC’s defeats against Har-

vard had scores of 3-2 and 2-1. With

her ninth shutout of the season, Burt

has demonstrated her ability to kill off

any team’s off ense, and the two goals

from the third line prove that every

Eagle has the scoring power to put

the team on the winning side. If it all

comes down to one goal in a meeting

against Harvard again, it could very

well be in BC’s favor.

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Jerome Robinson (1, top, right) had 20 points on a highly effective 9-of-14 from the field. On the other hand, Eli Carter had 12 points but on a poor 4-of-18 shooting performance.

Miami head coach Jim Larranaga

said. “They got some fast-break

opportunities … I thought we

gave them too many opportuni-

ties in the open court.”

As Miami managed to slow

down the game, BC fixed its

other problem—getting to the

line. The Eagles actually man-

aged 14 free throws after taking

none in the first half.

But these were representa-

tive of Miami making every

shot BC took much harder. Eli

Carter suffered the most from

this revamped pressure, going

2-for-13 in the second half, and

while BC still hung around for

much of the first half, the lack of

a go-to option beyond Jerome

Robinson—who finished with a

game-high 20 points on 9-of-14

shooting—proved too much to

handle.

While Robinson turned into

the Eagles’ best form of offense

in the game, BC actually came

out of the gate determined to get

its main big man going. Besides

finding A. J. Turner wide open on

the perimeter to open the scor-

ing, the Eagles pushed four of

their first six possessions inside

to Dennis Clifford, who has been

one of BC’s most reliable scorers

this season—when he hasn’t been

lodged in foul trouble. Establish-

ing Clifford early is also key for

BC to take the pressure off its

top guards, who often resort to

launching a poor shot as plays

break down.

Miami center Tonye Jekiri

kept Clifford in check, however,

causing BC to pick up three quick

turnovers before its own center

could handle the ball.

The one time they did success-

fully feed Clifford, he rimmed-

out an awkward fadeaway on the

side. A second personal foul five

minutes in sent Clifford to the

bench, and brought in Idy Diallo,

who has struggled in most facets

of the game this season.

Then suddenly, for a four-

minute stretch, Diallo didn’t

look like a body solely designed

to take up space on the court.

He began by knocking down an

open jumper at the free-throw

line, but followed up on the next

possession with a make inside

the paint, handling the ball far

better than he has for most of

the season.

He also played far better on

the defensive end, leading BC

head coach Jim Christian to give

him, as well as Turner, a verbal

nod in the post-game press

conference.

Miami, as most teams have

done to Clifford when he has

had success, renewed efforts

inside that prevented Diallo from

becoming a factor in the second

half, but it’s still a promising

sign for the BC program to see

development from its younger

contributors. Even though it’s

not easy to look past 14 misses

in the game for Carter, the guard

also tacked on eight assists, prov-

ing he has the ability to distribute

the ball. He’ll need both the help

and a hotter hand for BC to find

the win column.

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ANNABEL STEELE

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Well, well, well, Jerry. You’ve done it again.

Don’t lie to us, we know you don’t want the

praise. This happened when you were getting set

to win your 925th game, but instead of beating

BU at home like the fans wanted, you decided to

wait until the Alabama-Huntsville game. Over

winter break. In Minneapolis. Well, you win.

Your Eagles will dominate the sorry Minutemen

this Friday to get that 1,000th win on the road.

Few teams handle the power play better than

the Eagles. BC has scored seven points per game

in its last four matches, including Ian McCoshen’s

game-winner against BU last Friday. What’s

more, the Eagles have been even better defend-

ing against the power play, killing penalties at an

85.6 percent rate, good for 11th in the country.

UMass won’t hold off freshman Colin White—the

first known BC student-athlete to show off the

“dab” celebration—and the rest of the Eagles.

There’s no question BC pulls out the vic-

tory against the Minutemen this weekend. The

only unknown is just how much the Eagles will

dominate UMass. Th is is Jerry York’s 1,000th win,

and it should be big. Look for the Eagles to con-

trol the game from the very beginning. Th is will

be a statement game—a milestone for York and

another multi-goal victory to boost confi dence as

the Eagles head into the second half of the season.

Prediction:BC 5, UMass 1



Despite a third-quarter rally,

Boston College women’s bas-

ketball fell to Duke University

at Cameron Indoor Stadium in

Durham, N.C. on Sunday night.

The Blue Devils (13-6, 2-3 At-

lantic Coast) took advantage

of sloppy play and stifled the

Eagles’ comeback efforts to earn

a 71-51 victory.

The Eagles (12-5, 0-4) trailed

Duke 30-18 at halftime, but

refused to quit. Kelley Hughes

and Martina Mosetti provided

a spark with five quick points to

open the second half. Mariella

Fasoula then exploded for eight

consecutive points, bringing the

score to 35-31 with less than

five minutes left in the third

quarter.

The Eagles went 10-for-14

shooting throughout the quarter.

At the start of the fourth quar-

ter, Duke led 47-41. The team

thwarted any opportunity for a

BC comeback with a 10-2 run

to start the final quarter of play.

Duke earned its second victory

against an ACC opponent with a

71-51 victory over the Eagles.

BC sealed its own fate with

sloppy play throughout the

game. The Eagles did not start

strong, scoring just eight points

in the first quarter on 25 percent

shooting from the floor. In con-

trast, the Blue Devils scored 11

points off seven BC turnovers

en route to 17 first-quarter

points. In the second quarter, the

careless play continued as the

Eagles turned the ball over nine

times. Throughout the entire

game, BC allowed Duke to score

30 points off of 25 turnovers.

These 30 points would prove to

be too much for the Eagles to

overcome.

If there was a bright spot in

the game for BC, it was Hughes.

She went 5-for-9 from behind the

arc on her way to 23 points. Her

3-pointer at the start of the third

quarter marked the beginning of

the rally. Another third-quarter

three marked Hughes’ 1,000th

career point at BC. She sank all

five of her free throw attempts

and recorded four rebounds in

35 minutes of play.

Fasoula led the team in re-

bounds, grabbing five to ac-

company her 11 points over 32

minutes of play. She could not

outmuscle Duke’s Azura Ste-

vens, who recorded 14 rebounds

in the game. Mosetti led the

team with five assists.

The third-quarter rally did

not undo the costly turnovers

for BC. Even with explosive

offensive performances from

Hughes and Fasoula, the Eagles’

loss to Duke marks their fifth

this year. BC remains winless in

the ACC.

him far ahead of Parker on the all-time

coaching wins list. Parker sits at third

with 894, while York is at 999 and

actively searching for No. 1,000.

It wouldn’t happen on Saturday

night. Th e No. 10 Terriers (11-7-4,

5-4-3 Hockey East) prevented the

longtime Eagles coach from celebrat-

ing at Agganis Arena, on the ice that

bears Parker’s name. Yet the No. 4

Eagles (15-4-3, 8-1-3) still earned a

huge point in the conference stand-

ings, clinching a 1-1 tie thanks to Ryan

Fitzgerald’s goal with 2:05 remaining

in the third period.

But they were fortunate to get even

that. Th roughout the game, BU goal-

tender Sean Maguire stoned the Eagles,

saving 38 shots, often sprawling out to

do so. Terriers head coach David Quinn

felt that this was, without question,

Maguire’s best game of the season.

“From our end of it, we’ve gotten

elite goaltending,” Quinn said. “It cer-

tainly bodes well moving forward.”

Th e Eagles and Terriers showed

their hatred right from the game’s

outset. On a rush to the net, for-

ward Jordan Greenway collided with

Th atcher Demko. Inspired by their

goalie, the Eagles played tough in

the opening 20 minutes—almost too

tough. Demko was often forced to

stop BU with a man down—back-to-

back penalties by Matthew Gaudreau

and Ian McCoshen made sure of

that—but he made several great saves,

including one using his right pad to

stuff Ahti Oksanen on a redirection

from Greenway.

On the other end, BC had trouble

taking advantage of its early power

plays. After Greenway was called

for roughing with eight to go, the

Eagles played too hesitantly with the

advantage. BC’s defensemen spent too

much time waiting for the forwards

to get in position in front of the net

for a defl ection, instead of chucking

the puck up at the net and hoping for

some craziness. Even when they did

get a good look, as Adam Gilmour of-

ten did, Maguire was there to stop it.

Th e Terriers broke through after

clumsy play caused several break-

aways on both sides. Jakob Forsbacka

Karlsson started the attack by splitting

Teddy Doherty and Scott Savage to

put up a shot on Demko. After clank-

ing the puck off the boards, the Terri-

ers sent it out to Danny O’Regan, who

found team captain Matt Grzelcyk for

the easy goal. York placed the blame

on overall sloppiness rather than his

stalwart goalie, who fi nished with an

impressive 30 saves.

“It was a very shinny game for a

few minutes, but they were the ones

who got the red light on,” York said.

Maguire continued to stuff the

Eagles until late in the third. Zach

Sanford led a rush down to the BU

end of the ice, allowing Gaudreau to

show his creativity. He took the feed

from McCoshen before passing it to

a wide-open Fitzgerald in between

the circles. Fitzgerald blasted it above

Maguire’s shoulders to force the game

into overtime, which would turn out

to be an uneventful fi ve minutes.

Despite not getting his 1,000th

win, York was pleased with the fi ght-

ing eff ort from his team, which has

now earned four out of a possible

six points against two conference

foes (the other being Providence

College).

“It’s a tie, but it’s a late tie,” York

said. “I think it’s good for our team

that we can stay patient and hang

in a game.”

On the Terriers’ end, there

weren’t as many good vibes. Th ey

came away with only one point,

but came a combined four minutes

away from getting three. Still, there

was one positive to come away with:

preventing York from getting No.

1,000. Captain Matt Grzelyck was

asked about if that’s something the

Terriers should be happy about after

the game. Th ough he mentioned he

had all the respect in the world for

what York has done at BC, he still

eked out a small smile.

“We defi nitely didn’t want to give

that to them, especially at Agganis,”

Grzelyck said.

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But in the fi rst period, it didn’t look

like the Eagles were going to inch York

closer to magical No. 1,000. As an en-

tire unit, BC looked slow and sloppy in

the game’s fi rst 20 minutes. Th e team’s

forwards had a lot of trouble keeping

the puck in the off ensive zone, playing

a round of ping pong with the Terriers

near the BC logo at center ice. Th e

Eagles got an opportunity early in the

period to take a lead after Matt Lane

was called for a slash, but Colin White

whiffed on an easy cross-ice pass.

White would miss on a breakaway later

in the period.

Th e Terriers held the momentum

for much of the fi rst, taking advantage

of penalties by BC, one of which led

to a goal. Steve Santini’s boarding

call—a hit that could have easily been

avoided—allowed BU star freshman

Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson to notch his

sixth goal of the season.

As the second period hit, the Eagles

nearly reclaimed the energy for good.

Santini was called for another penalty

only 39 seconds into the frame, but

Austin Cangelosi goaded the zebras

into awarding him a penalty shot.

Th e junior treated the puck like a hot

potato, deking left-right-left-right-

left-right enough times to make BU

goalie Sean Maguire contract vertigo.

His equalizer was the first penalty

goal made by the Eagles since current

New York Rangers’ star Chris Kreider

notched one against the University of

Notre Dame on Nov. 18, 2011.

Th ey wouldn’t hold onto it for long.

Ahti Oksanen answered 17 seconds

later, leading a bull rush at BC goalie

Th atcher Demko, who had returned

from an upper body injury. Oksanen’s

sliding shot past Demko’s left pad put

BU back on top, 2-1.

But the rest of the period was all

BC. Zach Sanford rocketed a shot

off the boards and collected his own

rebound with a beautiful backhander

past a screened Maguire’s left shoulder

to knot the game up at two. Th en the

Terriers turned in their own dose of

sloppy play, earning several penalties

in a row, including one that gave BC a

5-on-3 for a brief period.

Terrier head coach David Quinn

noticed his team’s clumsy play, making

a point of it after the game.

White avenged himself by tak-

ing advantage of BU captain Matt

Grzelyck’s tripping penalty, swallowing

a gorgeous pass from Casey Fitzgerald

to put BC in front late in the second.

(McCoshen tallied the secondary assist

on White’s goal.)

In the third period, we saw a good

ol’ fashioned dogfi ght courtesy of the

most hated rivals in college hockey.

Th e Terriers kept a lot of pressure on

Demko by consistently breaking away

from the pack on 2-on-1s. But Mc-

Coshen was always there. He expertly

used his body and stick to poke away

would-be goals from oncoming BU

players.

“He was a man playing tonight,”

York said of his star defenseman,

giving him a telling look and a pat on

the back.

It almost wasn’t enough. With

under five minutes to go, the Ter-

riers capitalized on Michael Kim’s

goaltender interference penalty. BU’s

Charlie McAvoy and Bobo Carpen-

ter—brother of BC women’s hockey

captain Alex Carpenter—sent two hard

shots in on Demko. One defl ected off

his pads, ricocheting over his head

before Matt Lane tipped it in to tie the

game 3-all.

Despite whatever diffi culties you

may have had on your TV at home,

the show then fl ipped from the Battle

of Comm. Ave. to the Ian McCoshen

Hockey Hour.

With Miles Wood camped in

front of the net, waiting for the screen,

McCoshen converted on a penalty of

Carpenter’s. He fi red a laser from the

point that rattled both the water bottle

atop Maguire’s net and the entirety of

Kelley Rink, giving BC a 4-3 lead with

a mere two minutes remaining.

He wasn’t done just yet. Quinn

pulled the goaltender with 1:30 to go to

give the Terriers the 6-on-5 advantage.

Th e Eagles desperately tried to clear the

puck and battled constantly to keep

pressure away from their goaltender.

With 13 seconds to go, McCoshen

corralled the puck in the corner, at-

tempting to pass it off to Cangelosi

for the easy empty-netter. But instead,

McCoshen fi red it the length of the ice

and at the back of the twine, sending

the BC faithful into a frenzy, the vic-

tory now insured. McCoshen could

only laugh as he refl ected on the goal

afterward.

“It was like a Rory McIlroy chip

shot,” McCoshen said, referring to the

world-renowned golfer.

It’s just a microcosm of the success

McCoshen has had all season. The

junior has made excellent progress over

his three years at BC, and now has a

career 41 points in 92 games. As most

BC players do in postgame pressers,

McCoshen focused on the importance

of the team and getting the win over

individual accomplishments.

He has good reason to do so, too.

Th e Eagles have desperately needed “big

wins” to boost their PairWise Ranking—

this victory allowed them to leapfrog the

Terriers into the No. 9 spot.

But his coach, who was defl ecting

praise and excitement for his own

individual accomplishment, wouldn’t

let McCoshen get off so easy.

“Everyone knew exactly when No.

3 was on the ice,” York said.

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Austin Cangelosi (26, top left) converted BC’s first successful penalty shot since Chris Kreider got one on Nov. 18, 2011 against Notre Dame.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2016

INSIDESPORTSTHIS ISSUE

BOSTON — Jack Parker wasn’t on

the bench Saturday night, but he sure

would be proud of his Terriers.

The former head coach of Boston

University constantly reminded his

players of one goal during his 40-year

tenure: beat Boston College. Throughout

his career, he did just that. The Terriers

outplayed the Eagles for much of Parker’s

time at BU, winning two national titles

in 1978 and 1995 while then-BC head

coach Len Ceglarski couldn’t muster one.

With Parker’s help, the Terriers took a

commanding lead in the rivalry between

the two schools.

That is, until Jerry York rolled into

town. Since then, he leads in three main

categories.

Entering Saturday, the Eagles are

42-39-7 against their adversaries from

down Commonwealth Ave. since York

has taken the reins. York has also brought

four championships to BC, compared

to only three by Parker. But on a more

personal level, York’s success has pushed

RILEY OVEREND

Reading through last season’s Boston

College women’s hockey archives is like

sitting front row at an ancient Greek

tragedy.

It opened in the winter of 2014, begin-

ning with intense rising action as head

coach Katie Crowley’s squad breezed

through the first half of the year to climb

to the No. 1 ranking. Emily Pfalzer, one of

the country’s top defensemen, anchored

the blue line as the Eagles racked up

shutouts and held opponents to a mere 19

shots per game.

Unwittingly, BC had already com-

mitted its fatal error. The team was too

good—by limiting opponents’ shots on

goal, the Eagles also limited save oppor-

tunities for freshman goalkeeper Katie

Burt (it’s not a tragedy without a little bit

of hubris). While the then-17-year-old led

the nation in goals against average with

1.11, she fell far behind the curve in terms

of experience.

Then you had your tragic heroine in

Alex Carpenter, the superstar U.S. Olym-

pian with an Ovechkin-esque resume

crowded with individual accolades but

devoid of postseason wins and champion-

ships. In the Beanpot Final last February,

she watched from the penalty box as

Harvard stole the title during her five-

minute absence to hand BC its first loss of

the year. For now, they’ll chalk it up as a

learning experience.

The dramatic irony is painful.

A month after the Beanpot meltdown

that ended their 28-game unbeaten streak,

the Eagles would fall victim to the pres-

sure once again, this time in the Hockey

East Championship against rival Boston

University. The Terriers overwhelmed

Burt with shots and scored four goals in a

rout of the No. 1 seed to win their second

straight conference crown over Carpenter

& Co.

Finally, in March, BC sought revenge

on the Crimson in the final act of the

season: the Frozen Four. Harvard goalie

Emerance Maschmeyer slowed the high-

octane Eagle offense just enough to eke

out a 2-1 win and send Crowley’s crew

home without any trophies as recognition

for its historic season. Losses like these

provide no great catharsis for BC fans.

Through January, the undefeated 2015-

16 BC women’s hockey team has drawn

an eerie number of parallels to last year’s

group, which won the most—but not most

important—games in school history. That’s

why it’s easy to get excited about the No.

1-ranked Eagles, but just as easy to remain

skeptical. Indeed, history repeats itself,

but there is another storyline brewing in

Crowley’s clubhouse.

It starts with Carpenter, the fallen her-

oine, stepping off the plane from Minne-

apolis after the team’s season-ending loss

to the Crimson in the Frozen Four, already

eyeing revenge like Leonardo DiCaprio as

he painstakingly claws himself out of his

own grave in The Revenant. Yes, the losses

still sting. But now, after nearly a year

of waiting, she stands again on the main

stage at Kelley Rink, skates sharpened,

ready for the challenges that the next two

See Women’s Hockey, B6

Oh, the difference halftime can make

in a game.

The 15-minute break can be the per-

fect time for a coach to have his guys hit

the reset button. Take a few moments for

a breather, address the issue, and then

get back on the court to fix it.

That’s exactly what Boston College

men’s basketball (7-11, 0-5 Atlantic

Coast) did in its 67-53 loss to No. 15

Miami (14-3, 3-2) on Wednesday night.

The problem for the Eagles was that the

Hurricanes did the same thing. And they

did it better.

Down by just one point at the half,

the Eagles had two glaring flaws on the

statsheet: they had drawn just four fouls

and hadn’t taken a single free throw in

the half, and they had turned the ball

over 12 times compared to Miami’s

six.

But besides those shortcomings, BC

played one of its better halves of the year.

A generally undersized team fought and

won the rebounding battle 18-16 in the

first half, and then the guys didn’t waste

time in moving the ball up the court.

This allowed BC to penetrate before Mi-

ami could set up its half-court defense,

a roadblock that the Eagles have had

trouble surpassing in recent games.

BC’s youth and inexperience showed

here, as the team often tried to do too

much, in one stretch turning the ball

over five times in three minutes. Yet

after a dozen turnovers in the first half,

the Eagles played smarter in the second,

turning the ball over just three times.

That adjustment a lone wasn’t

enough. While BC had found a way to

make tough-looking transition shots fall

in the first half, it began to miss—even

air-ball—in the second. After knocking

down 52 percent of their shots from

the field in the first 20 minutes, the

Eagles collapsed to 25.8 percent in the

second, hitting just 1-of-10 from 3-point

range.

That was Miami’s adjustment.

The Hurricanes, who themselves had

shot a poor 40 percent in the first half,

had played weak defense as BC got out

in transition. So they addressed that at

the half.

“In the first half, they outran us,”

The stout Miami center, Jekiri (23), snatched 17 rebounds in Miami’s 67-53 win.SAVANNA KIEFER / HEIGHTS EDITOR

See BC vs. Miami, B6

As the divide between the Power Five

and Group of Five Conferences grows

ever larger, football programs are scram-

bling to schedule teams that will make

them appear as competitive as possible

in the eyes of the College Football Play-

off committee. On Tuesday morning,

Boston College took that first step.

BC Athletics confirmed that Director

of Athletics Brad Bates has scheduled

two games for the Eagles against the

Big Ten Conference’s Purdue University.

The Eagles will travel to West Lafayette,

Ind. to take on the Boilermakers at Ross-

Ade Stadium on Sept. 22, 2018. Purdue

will then visit Chestnut Hill on Sept.

26, 2020. The department has not yet

responded to a request for comment.

This will be the first meeting be-

tween the two programs, who both

have all-time records of .500 against the

opposing conferences. BC is 37-37-1

against teams that play in the Big Ten.

Its most recent matchup was the 2014

Pinstripe Bowl, a 31-30 loss to Pennsyl-

vania State University on a missed extra

point in overtime.

The last time the Eagles had a Big Ten

team on their regular season schedule

was in 2012 when they fell 22-13 to

Northwestern University in Evanston,

Ill. Purdue is 14-14-2 all-time against

teams from the ACC. Its most recent

matchup came this season in a 51-24

drubbing at home by Virginia Tech.

Under head coach Darrell Hazell,

the Boilermakers are a mere 6-30. They

have finished with the worst record in

the Big Ten in each of his three seasons

at the helm.

The announcement provides more

clarity to the Eagles’ future schedule well

into the future. BC now has three games

on the schedule in 2018 and 2020. The

Eagles will play the University of Mas-

sachusetts, an FBS independent, and

College of the Holy Cross, an FCS team,

in 2018. They will play Holy Cross and

Ohio University, a Mid-American Con-

ference school, in 2020. Bates will likely

need to schedule one more game against

a non-conference opponent in each of

those seasons unless the ACC moves to

a nine-game conference schedule in the

near future.

Purdue will be the first non-confer-

ence Power Five program scheduled

by Bates during his three-year tenure

as Director of Athletics—BC’s games

against the University of Notre Dame

and The Ohio State University were

organized under previous Director of

Athletics Gene DiFilippo.

In the last few seasons, the Eagles

have been plagued by broken contracts,

most notably with the New Mexico State

University, forcing Bates to add Howard

University, a weak FCS program, to

the 2015 schedule. Bates, however, has

moved in a more positive direction in fu-

ture scheduling as of late, securing spots

against the University of Connecticut for

2016, 2017, 2022, and 2023.

CLIMBIN

G THE LADDER

Like most defensemen, Ian Mc-

Coshen earned his reputation for hard

hits and a take-no-prisoners attitude on

the ice. When he wasn’t in the penalty box

last season, he was engaging in fights. But

after Boston College men’s hockey lost

its two best blue liners—Noah Hanifin

and Mike Matheson—to the NHL last

season, head coach Jerry York needed

McCoshen, the highly-touted Florida

Panthers’ prospect, to step up as both a

leader and a player.

On Friday night against Boston Uni-

versity, McCoshen showed why, with each

game, he is making a case as the best all-

around player on an incredibly talented

2015-16 BC squad.

Thanks to McCoshen’s three points—

two goals and an assist—the No. 4 Eagles

(15-4-2, 8-1-2 Hockey East) took down

No. 10 BU (11-7-3, 5-4-2) in the 268th

meeting of this historic rivalry, lovingly

referred to as the Battle of Comm. Ave.

With the victory, York increases his career

win total to 999.


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