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21 and the fi nish line, but when I asked him

that, he got a little quieter and thought a bit.

Um, he said, it’s his best experience as an

individual. He didn’t want to be unfair to the

other stuff he’s done.

Fair enough.

In terms of sheer length and complex-

ity, this year’s election was messy.

Candidates had to declare their intent

to run in early February, but when two of three

teams dropped out, the Elections Committee

reopened the ballot and postponed everything

until after Spring Break. After fi ve more teams

got in it, there was a primary and, fi nally, a

general election, which didn’t wrap up until

April 1.

Simons and McCaff rey were one of the

teams that got in it after the extension. Mc-

Caff rey was going to run with Olivia Hussey,

UGBC’s current EVP and MCAS ’17, but

Hussey dropped out for personal reasons. So

she asked Simons instead.

“It was very clear from the beginning that

we had the same vision on everything,” Mc-

Caff rey said.

Simons is the current UGBC vice presi-

dent for student organizations, which means

he meets with prospective clubs and helps

decide whether they should be referred to the

administration’s approval process. McCaff rey

is a senator in the Student Assembly, where she

has done a lot of work on the free-expression

proposal. And yeah, they said, of course they’ve

thought about leading UGBC before this year.

It was hardly spur-of-the-moment.

“I don’t think there’s anyone who doesn’t

Andres Pastrana Arango, the president of

Colombia from 1998 to 2002, spoke at Boston

College Saturday about the four components

of successful leadership: conviction, courage,

confi dence, and communication.

Th e event was part of the day-long third

annual Latin American Leadership Conference

and was sponsored by the Latin American Busi-

ness Club of BC. Th e Conference also included

talks by Ernesto de Lima, CEO of Organiza-

ciones De Lima, Dr. Daron Acemoglu, MIT

economist and author of Why Nations Fail, Santiago Pena, minister of fi nance of Paraguay,

and Juan Pablo Garcia, Guerilla Demobilizing

Campaign leader.

Arango’s talk closed the event.

He wanted, he said, to show the audience

how Colombia has been dealing with terrorist

groups within Colombia from his side, the side

of the government. He also emphasized how

global problems impact his country.

Today, oil, gas, and other commodities are

cheap, just as they are across the world. But

there are also many problems that exist specifi -

cally in Colombia.

“In 65 years, I never have lived one day in

peace,” he said.

Over the past few years Colombia has

worked to create a strong middle class, de-

creasing the percentage of Colombians living

in extreme poverty.

“We have a real, real challenge in going

back and bringing these numbers up,” he said.

“We need to grow 6 or 7 percent if we want to

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During an admissions panel last

Tuesday, Russell Simons, next

year’s Undergraduate Govern-

ment of Boston College president and MCAS

’17, started crying. He was talking about his fa-

vorite BC tradition, the Marathon, and—well,

he got a little overwhelmed.

“It’s become such a big part of who I am,

which is a big, sweeping statement to make,

but I’ve never had a happier day in my entire

life,” he said Friday morning.

Simons ran the Marathon last year, on a

whim, to raise money for Wellspring, a small

social services center in Hull, Mass. that got a

bib last-minute and was looking for a runner.

Simons jumped at the opportunity to run Bos-

ton and raised $6,500 for the organization. He

didn’t start training until after Winter Break—a

tight schedule, but he got it done.

“I literally felt like I was the only person

running down Boylston, and I didn’t even

recognize myself,” he said. “I was screaming

at the top of my lungs—26 miles in and I was

literally jumping up and down.”

Meredith McCaff rey, next year’s UGBC

executive vice president and MCAS ’17,

laughed and looked at me: “I personally have

no plans to run the Marathon.”

I asked Simons if it’s the best thing he’s

done at BC. A second before he was animated,

jubilant, visibly nostalgic for the rush of Mile

With the completion of his fi rst season

as the head coach of Boston College’s men’s

basketball came the release of Jim Christian’s

2014-15 salary. According to the University’s

Fiscal Year IRS Form 990, Christian, who was

hired in April 2014, received a salary almost

twice that of his compensation at Ohio, the

school he worked at prior to BC.

Christian received a base salary of $930,215,

with a total compensation of $1,140,225 when

including various additional fees, according to

the 2014-15 report. Th at’s about a $100,000

increase from Steve Donahue’s salary in his

fi nal year as head coach at BC. Donahue, how-

ever, still appears on the report. He received

$685,234 in total compensation as a result

of his fi ring on a six-year contract. Donahue

will also likely receive a similar amount in the

next fi scal year.

Director of Athletics Brad Bates and foot-

ball head coach Steve Addazio received similar

salaries to their fi rst year on the books. Bates’

total compensation was $643,739, a $50,000

decrease from 2013-14—however, Bates

received nearly the same salary ($516,715 in

2014-15 vs. $516,701 in 2013-14). Like Bates,

Addazio also had a slightly lower total com-

pensation. His $2,333,628 intake in 2014-15

was $200,000 less than what he earned total

in 2013-14. Yet, also like Bates, his base sal-

ary remained mostly the same ($1,890,130 in

2014-15 vs. $1,810,964 in 2013-14). For the

second year in a row, Addazio was the high-

est-compensated employee at BC.

Th e biggest jump in compensation went

to men’s hockey head coach Jerry York, who

signed a contract extension in December 2013

that kicked in after 2013-14 and will last until

the 2019-20 season. York earned a base salary

of $491,259, yet received $677,311 in “other re-

portable compensation.” Th at, combined with

other fi gures, led to a fi nal total of $1,249,617.

Th at total represents a 100 percent increase

from his 2013-14 compensation of $626,953.

For the fi rst time since he was fi red in 2010,

former men’s basketball coach Al Skinner was

not on the books in 2014-15. He was paid

$585,069 in 2013-14, the fourth consecutive

year he had been paid after leaving BC.

BC released the information this week

detailing its fi scal year, which stretches from

June 1, 2014 to May 31, 2015. Th e section of

the 990 that includes the compensation for

BC’s 20 highest-paid employees, however,

ends in December 2014 at the conclusion of

the calendar year. An employee’s total com-

pensation is calculated by the combination

of what is reported as base compensation,

“other reportable compensation,” “retirement

and deferred compensation,” and nontaxable

benefi ts. Federally tax-exempt organizations

such as BC are required to fi ll out Form 990s

with the IRS every year.

change those numbers.”

He ran for president in 1994 after serving as

a senator but lost the election. He ran again in

1998, however, and won at 42 years old, making

him the youngest president of Colombia.

Th e are several parts to being a good leader,

he said: what he calls the “four C’s.”

“Th e fi rst one is conviction—the leader

has to be convinced on what he wants to do,”

he said.

He pointed to the drug problem. Th ey had

to change the strategy in how to deal with the

drug problem when he came into offi ce. Colom-

bia is the largest producer of cocaine, he said. In

1998, it planted 180,000 acres of coca.

Looking at these fi gures, he said he was

convinced to change the strategic eff orts in

combatting the drug issue. He also knew that he

needed to talk to Europe and to the U.S. about

the drug problem.

He came to the U.S. fi rst to convince Presi-

dent Bill Clinton that the U.S. and Colombia

needed to work together on the issue because

Americans were the largest consumers of

cocaine.

Th e plan gave Colombia bombs, helicopters,

and other equipment to combat the Revolution-

ary Armed Forces of Colombia (RAFC), which

was at the time the largest terrorist group in the

world. Th ey successfully strengthened the army,

he said. Colombian forces numbered 10,000 in

the beginning, and today they have over 110,000

soldiers—the largest army in the region.

Th e U.S. gives Colombia $750 million a

year, which he credits with helping to change

the country.

Next, he aimed to strengthen Colombia’s

justice system. Arango knew that if the govern-

ment wanted to end the drug issue, it needed to

give the peasants and farmers a diff erent way

to make a living.

For guidance, the president looked at other

nations that had dealt with similar issues. Th ey

found that Malaysia also had drug problems

and that they had turned people off of the drug

industry by establishing a palm oil industry.

Th e Colombian government then decided

to begin growing palm oil. When the president

fi rst began there were only 120,000 acres of

it, but when he left offi ce, there were almost

500,000 acres.

Th e palm oil industry has proven to be

a successful alternative to the drug industry,

Arango said. Now, farmers and peasants are

making much more money than they were

before and are less involved in the drug cartel.

A good leader also needs courage, he

said, to defend his ideas and fi ght for what he

believes in.

In between his two elections for president,

Arango knew he needed to make a change in

his message. He saw that many people in Co-

lombia wanted the government to work toward

establishing peace in the country, so he told

the voters that if he were elected president, the

fi rst thing he would do was go into the jungles

where the leaders of the RAFC were stationed

and talk to them.

When he was elected, Arango escaped

from his bodyguards to go into the jungle. He

explained that during his presidency he had 60

bodyguards with him at all times.

His friend, who was the head of his security,

accompanied him on the trip and helped him

get away from his bodyguards.

When they landed, the people who met

them in the jungle kidnapped the pilot and the

co-pilot of the plane. Th e president was driven

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AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR

THE HEIGHTS

The Boston College music department and Islamic civiliza-tion and societies department will hold the BC Middle East Ensemble on April 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Fulton 511. The program will consist of music from across the Eastern Mediterranean, from al-An-dalus, to Egypt, to Lebanon. 1

On April 27, the Winston Center is holding a lunch with Robert J. Morrissey, during which students can meet with leaders in society. The lunch will take place in the Lynch Executive Center in Fulton Hall and will be held at 12 p.m. Students are asked to register as space is limited. 2

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Boston College is holding a Social Media Webinar on April 27 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. The webinar will address the current trends in social media usage, ways to increase engage-ment through social media, the impli-cations of social media on teenag-ers, and teens’ usage patterns.

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NEWSBRIEFS

Denise Morrison, BC ’75,

is the 2016 President’s Medal

for Excellence recipient. The

award was given at the 28th an-

nual Boston College Wall Street

Council Tribute Dinner on April

21. Morrison, who serves as the

president and CEO of Campbell

Soup Company, received the

honor for her successful career

and professional contributions

to society.

Before working for Camp-

bell’s, Morrison worked as the

executive vice president and

general manager of Kraft Foods’

snacks and confections divisions.

Morrison helped manage Plant-

ers nuts, Life Savers candies, and

Altoids mints while at Kraft.

Morrison was also listed

as Forbes’ 80th most powerful

woman in the world in 2011

and the 21st most powerful

woman in business by Fortune Magazine. Between August 2012

and August 2013, Campbell’s

launched 50 new products under

Morrison’s direction.

The Tribute Dinner, at which

Morrison was honored, has

raised over $24 million for the

Gabelli Presidential Scholars

Program at BC throughout its

history. University Board of

Trustees Chair John Fish, Uni-

versity Trustee Mario Gabelli,

and University Trustee Steven

Barry, BC ’85, all attended the

dinner on Thursday evening.

“To survive in this environ-

ment, companies must be agile

to identify trends, make deci-

sions and try new things quickly,”

Morrison said in an article she

wrote for Fortune Magazine. “My

biggest worry is if we can go fast

enough—patience is not one of

my virtues.”

—Source: TheBoston College

Police Department

POLICE BLOTTER 4/20/16 - 4/22/16

Wednesday, April 20

11:57 a.m. - A report was filed

regarding a larceny from Roncalli

Hall.

12:43 p.m. - A report was filed

regarding a traffic crash at an off-

campus location.

10:17 p.m. - A report was filed

regarding a medical transport from

Medeiros Hall.

Thursday, April 21

9:16 a.m. - A report was filed

regarding a trespass warning in

the Middle Lots.

12:24 p.m. - A report was filed regard-

ing a larceny from Maloney Hall.

3:03 p.m. - A report was filed re-

garding a fire alarm in Stayer Hall.

11:16 p.m. - A report was filed

regarding a medical incident in

McElroy Commons.

Patrick Downes, BC ’05, a

survivor of the Boston Marathon

bombing in 2013, completed this

year’s marathon on a prosthetic

blade. He is the first Boston bomb-

ing amputee to complete the

Marathon on foot.

Downes ran to raise money

for the BC Strong scholarship,

which will be awarded to a stu-

dent with a physical disability or

a student who gives back to the

community. The scholarship was

created by the Class of 2005 in

honor of Downes and his wife,

who also lost a leg because of the

bombing.

Downes was featured in a

panel discussion in Robsham

Theater last year and credited the

BC community with providing

support during his recovery.

“As the miles pass, he thinks

of everything he loved about the

sense of community and the spirit

of service at Boston College, and

imagines the first scholarship re-

cipient arriving at the Heights to a

warm welcome,” The Boston Globe

reported, regarding Downes’

training for this year’s marathon.

Downes finished the race in 5

hours, 56 minutes, and 46 seconds,

which was three minutes before

the first bomb detonated in 2013.

He ran alongside his brother, his

sister-in-law, and a BC friend, as

well as a member of the military

and amputee.

“I ran with the city in my

heart,” Downes said in an in-

terview with CBS just after he

finished the race.

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The Earth Day Fair was held on Stokes Lawn on Friday and featured student organizations, like EcoPledge.JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

As smartphones become more

prevalent in the United States,

countries in Africa may finally be

catching up with the use of mobile

technology, according to Tavneet

Suri, a professor at Massachusetts

Institute of Technology’s Sloan

School of Management.

Suri, who was named one of the

world’s 40 best professors under 40,

gave a talk titled “Technology and

Poverty Alleviation” on Thursday

evening in Fulton 511. The event

was sponsored by the Shea Center

for Entrepreneurship and the Tech

Trek Ghana program.

Suri discussed the rising popular-

ity of mobile devices that support

the money-transfer service M-Pesa,

which she studied in 2009. M-Pesa

primarily functions on old, second-

hand Nokia phones, she said.

“You know, the ones where you

have to press a number three times

to type the letter ‘C,’” Suri said.

M-Pesa has become quite popu-

lar in Kenya in the last few years,

she said. Suri herself is a fourth-

generation Kenyan and studies the

impact of technology in developing

countries in Africa.

She stressed the importance of

finance in poor countries when it

comes to credit, saving, and insur-

ance. M-Pesa has created an easier

system by which poorer Kenyans can

manage their money.

Through the Nokia phones,

M-Pesa allows people to transfer e-

money between each other via text

message. The virtual money is backed

up by real money in a bank account

not owned by the user. This is a great

service for people who do not want to

manage a personal bank account be-

cause the bank is too great a distance

from their home, Suri said.

Users withdraw cash by selling

the e-money, or deposit cash and

receive e-money through M-Pesa

agents. The agents are usually

small-business owners or micro-

finance institutions, and they

receive small commissions when

managing transactions.

According to Suri, 96 percent

of households where M-Pesa was

available had an M-Pesa account by

2014 in Kenya.

“I decided to study how this af-

fected people’s’ lives,” she said.

Mobile money has created a safer

and cheaper financial intermediation

process, Suri said. Before M-Pesa was

popular, many people would have

to travel for miles to reach a bank.

To avoid this journey, people would

give their cash to someone in a van

who would drive it to the bank and

deposit it for them. This was a risky

process, however, as drivers could

steal money for themselves or be

robbed at gunpoint. For years, she

said, people did not feel safe with

their finances.

“M-Pesa lowered transaction

costs dramatically,” she said.

M-Pesa has also helped Kenyans

create local businesses and take

other financial risks by allowing

for the creation of comprehensible

insurance plans, Suri said. Users

can make insurance plans that allow

family members or friends to assume

liability for the user. Often, family and

friends will insure each other through

their M-Pesa accounts.

The process of linking insur-

ance plans with trusted family and

friends, Suri said, has created a more

entrepreneurial spirit. People are

now more likely to use their money

to create their own businesses and

help grow GDP, as failure has become

less risky. Suri has noticed a shift of a

population of poor farmers to local

businessmen driven by the economic

incentive of profit.

She was surprised when she

discovered that unfortunate events

lead M-Pesa users to increase

consumption. For example, if a

disease is spreading around a vil-

lage, M-Pesa users will spend their

money to purchase medicine, thus

increasing consumption.

People who do not use M-Pesa

tend to save money for future food

purchases to combat an expected

decline in health. Users, however,

are willing to take the financial risk

and purchase medication, stop-

ping the contraction of the disease

early on.

Looking toward the future, Suri

believes that e-payments will re-

duce corruption between the gov-

ernment and private businesses.

“Mobile money has really

improved financial resilience,”

Suri said.

It takes about 660 gallons of

water to produce one hamburger.

The meat and dairy industries

use about one-third of Earth’s

fresh water. At Boston College’s

second annual Earth Day Fair on

Friday, stands displayed these

facts, among others.

The fair aimed to educate

students about their impact on

the Earth and was sponsored by

the Undergraduate Government

of Environmental Caucus. The

Earth Day Fair hosted different

stations of food organizations,

clubs, vendors, and academics

that students could visit to learn

how to make an impact on the

Earth.

Students could grab a “pass-

port” listing the different tables

and organizations and check

them off as they visited each table,

with the opportunity to hand the

passport in at the end and earn a

free T-shirt or water bottle.

The food stations included

Equal Food Exchange, Every Bite

Counts, Real Food, and BC Din-

ing. Here, students could sample

different food items and learn

about where they came from

and how they were produced.

The BC Dining station had more

vegetarian options that they hope

to incorporate into BC’s regular

meal options.

“I didn’t know red meat was

not that sustainable, so I liked

the initiative of bringing more

vegetarian options to our dining

halls, and they actually tasted

pretty good,” Ravi Dhouni, CSOM

’18, said after trying the Greek-

style pasta salad.

The clubs at the fair included

RHA, EcoPledge, Charity Water,

Catholic Relief Services, the

Geology Club, and BC Bikes, all

displaying how students could

get more involved on campus in

different ways.

At the Charity Water table,

students pledged to reduce their

water footprint by eating less

meat, taking shorter showers,

and turning off the faucet while

brushing their teeth.

“The intention of the Earth

Day event was to make stu-

dents more accountable for their

impact on the environment,

particularly their consump-

tion of water,” Maggie Gorman,

vice-president of Charity Water,

MCAS ’18, said.

Other tables included L.L.

Bean, Save that Stuff, BC Ar-

chitect, the Office of Health

Promotion, BC Energy Depart-

ment, Earth and Environmental

Sciences and Environmental

Studies, Student Research, and

Sea Semester.

“The main purpose of the

Earth Day Fair is to educate stu-

dents about sustainability and

communicate that every human

on the planet has the inherent

responsibility to take care of the

Earth,” said Carolyn Townsend,

MCAS ’17 and director of envi-

ronment and sustainability pro-

gramming in student initiatives

of UGBC. “And the way we’re

doing that at BC is to show that

it’s really easy to be sustainable

and ‘be green’ and that there are

a lot of resources on campus to

do that.”

To educate students, organiz-

ers set up signposts on the Stokes

Lawn that students could read on

their way to class. One of these

posts stated that the average

American produces more than

four pounds of garbage per day.

Over the course of a year, that

is more than 1,600 pounds of

garbage per person.

“We really just want people

to be aware of what’s going on

in the world and how they can

contribute, and that’s something

as simple as composting, eating

less meat, learning about climate

change, about how BC recycles,

and about what energy they can

use,” Anxela Mile, MCAS ’17,

said.

The UGBC student initiative

of environment and sustain-

ability programming worked

closely with the administration

to make the event as successful

as possible. Particularly, they

collaborated with Bob Pion, the

sustainability program director.

“It’s not just student clubs,”

Townsend said. “It’s about BC

as a whole.”

THE HEIGHTS Monday, April 25, 2016 A3

When Beyonce’s “Partition” came out

in 2013, the singer received backlash for the

sexuality in the video. Many critics questioned

why she would release such a provocative

video when she had just become a mom and

had a largely teenaged fan base.

Kevin Allred, a professor at Rutgers

University and a speaker and writer, came to

Boston College Thursday and addressed the

three stereotypes of black women—mammy,

a stereotype based in history in which the

black woman cares for white men, women,

and children; jezebel, a hypersexual, animal-

istic stereotype; and sapphire, an angry black

woman stereotype—in Beyonce’s music and

music videos.

The AHANA Leadership Council hosted

the event in lieu of field day, which had

been cancelled due to inclement weather.

Students who attended the event had the

opportunity to win tickets to a Beyonce

concert this summer.

Allred aims to dismantle what is seen as

“normal” in order to create a more integrated

society. He focuses on a wide array of topics

from gender and sexuality to class and race.

His presentation on Thursday was “Politiciz-

ing Beyonce,” an analysis of the singer’s role in

dismantling the stereotypes of black women.

The talk, he said, would be like a condensed

class lecture. The first part of the talk was the

part that would’ve normally been homework

for his students. Instead of readings, he gave

the audience some background information

on the stereotypes of black females.

Allred began by explaining the intersec-

tionality of black women in that they cannot be

reduced to simple and/ors. Black women are

both black and female, not one or the other.

“You cannot just analyze Beyonce’s work

as the work of a woman,” he said. “Beyonce is

a black woman.”

Melissa Harris-Perry, a writer, professor,

television host, and political commentator

with a focus on African-American politics,

wrote a book called Sister Citizen in which she

describes how when you walk into a crooked

room, you tend to bend your head to fit ac-

cordingly. This is done, Allred said, because it

takes a lot of money and time to completely

tear down the room and rebuild it.

This, Allred said, is how black females

face the world—like they’re walking in a

crooked room.

Allred pointed to other examples of black

female artists’ work and how the public re-

acted to it.

Artist Kara Walker created a sculpture, A Subtlety, that was a black woman in the pose

of a sphynx and made out of sugar. Walker

knew that the response to the sculpture would

exhibit the stereotypes that people place on

black women.

What Walker did not tell the viewers,

Allred said, was she was filming all of them

reacting to the sculpture. Many of the

viewers took inappropriate photos with A Subtlety and posted them online. Walker

then took these responses and turned it into

another exhibit.

“What is the interaction with black women

and the general public?” Allred said the sculp-

ture asks its audience.

The Nicki Minaj wax figure at Madame

Toussauds in New York City got a similar

response from the public. Allred showed the

audience several Instagram pictures, all of

which were viewers posing with the singer’s

body in sexually explicit ways.

“Beyonce’s performance in ‘Partition’

might also have to do with the interaction

between people watching what she’s doing,”

he said.

Allred then showed both “Partition” and

“Jealous,” asking the audience for its reactions

to the two music videos.

In the “Partition” video, audience mem-

bers explained, Beyonce seems to have a

lot of control over the unidentified male. In

the opening scene of the music video, she is

seated at the head of a long table, opposite

the person—presumed to be a male—reading

a newspaper.

Beyonce also exhibits her power when she

purposefully drops her napkin on the table.

When she drops it, the beat drops, showing

that she is in control of the music.

The video, Allred said, demonstrates the

difficulty that black females have with the

jezebel stereotype insofar as they want to

express their sexuality without confirming

the stereotype.

Just as the three stereotypes about black

women can divide people, so can a partition.

Allred asked the audience to identify some of

the partitions within the music video.

Many of the partitions that the audience

pointed to were of Beyonce’s clothing in the

video. For example, her glasses and her high

neck collar both are partitions, creating a

sort of wall between Beyonce and the viewer.

As the music video progresses, however, she

takes them off.

Another scene in “Partition” shows

Beyonce dancing on a stage with a light

projecting a leopard print onto her. This light

acts as a partition, Allred and the audience

concluded, and serves as a metaphor for the

animalistic stereotype that people project

onto black women.

“This is a stereotype she’s pointing out to

us rather than just being,” he said.

The audience found that “Jealous” is also

riddled with partitions. The most glaring of

all would be the partition between the two

videos themselves—“Jealous” and “Parti-

tion” could be one long video, as “Jealous”

is a continuation of “Partition,” but are seg-

mented into two different videos.

The person sitting at the table in the

opening scene of “Partition” and the man

who gets out of the car and runs to Beyonce

at the end of “Jealous” remain anonymous.

Beyonce purposefully did this, Allred said,

so that the audience members could assume

this unknown person’s role.

In putting the audience in the video,

Beyonce makes the members of the audi-

ence guilty of objectifying her. She does

this, Allred said, to show the audience that

it continues to see black females as these

stereotypes.

“It’s not like she solved the stereotypes by

doing this artistic performance of ‘Partition,’”

he said. “But she calls out the questions and

then she asks us... to unlearn the stereotype

and break it down ourselves.”

Over 200 students participated in the

first Boston College Dance Marathon

in over 10 years this past Friday night

through Saturday morning in the Plex. The

event, which raised $17,000 for the Boston

Children’s Hospital, involved 12 hours of

dancing along with visits from local pediat-

ric cancer patients and performances from

an array of BC dance groups.

“Our goal was simply to bring Dance

Marathon to the BC community as a great

cause and fundraiser,” Emmy Ye, the ex-

ecutive director of BC Dance Marathon,

the social chair for the Sophomore Class

Council and MCAS ’18, said in an email.

“This is our way of raising funds and aware-

ness for pediatric illness while having fun

at the same time.”

While dance marathons have become

massive fundraisers at many universities

across the country, BC has not had one

since 2005.

The idea for the event started through

the Sophomore Class Council back in

October. This led to connecting with

Children’s Miracle Network (CMN), the

parent organization for the nationwide

Dance Marathon organization. CMN

connected BC Dance Marathon with the

Boston Children’s Hospital as part of its

fundraising model to keep the money

raised close to the community and to have

a local impact.

Starting the process was daunting, Ye

said, because the event was so open-ended,

and there was no real precedent for what

the event should be like.

“We could have made Dance Marathon

into anything we wanted, it was simply hard

to figure out what we wanted,” Ye said.

For this whole school year, the Sopho-

more Class Council worked with the

Office of Student Involvement to contact

local business sponsors, plan every detail

of the event, and spread the word around

campus. The Boston Red Sox, JP Licks,

Whole Foods, and Marriot Hotels were a

few of the many local businesses to donate

to the event, and participants raised funds

through contacting friends and family and

posting donation links on social media.

The event began on Friday at 10 p.m.

with BC dance teams Aerok, Phaymus,

and Conspiracy Theory performing at the

opening ceremonies of the event.

Then DJ Darren Roy, who has played

several other dance marathons in the

Boston area, spun records until 1 a.m.

Throughout the night, the swing dance

team Full Swing and Indian dance team

Masti taught the participants lessons in

their respective styles of dance.

As the sun rose Saturday morning, five

children currently being treated at Boston

Children’s arrived at the Plex with their

families. The children joined the partici-

pants for games of Red Light Green Light

and Simon Says, and were led in some

dances by members of the Pom Squad and

the BC Irish Dance team.

The closing ceremonies included the

children running through a Tunnel of

Hope, a Dance Marathon tradition, and

a testimonial from one of the families

whose daughter was treated at Boston

Children’s. Finally, participants formed

the Circle of Hope, another Dance Mara-

thon tradition, and the children went

around the circle, cutting the hospital

bands each participant wore for the

entire night.

“Seeing the kids in the morning made

the entire process worth it,” Jack Dona-

hue, the financial chair for the Sopho-

more Class Council and MCAS ’18, said.

“When you see those kids’ smiling faces,

you forget about how tired you are or how

much your feet hurt, and remember why

you’re doing it.”

The organizers hoped to leave a legacy

for future dance marathons at BC.

The plan, Donahue said, is to have

the Dance Marathon be the signature

event for the Sophomore Class Council

every year. Donahue described how large

and well-attended other schools’ dance

marathons have become. Although they

did not get the turnout they thought they

would, Donahue hopes the BC Dance

Marathon can become a staple on cam-

pus for years to come.

“We hope that in the future, BCDM

will grow to be a regular part of campus

life, the way other fundraisers are, such

as the Relay for Life,” Donahue said. “I

would love to come back one year and see

the Plex packed with dancers.”

From escaping the Rwandan genocide to

jumping onto the tracks in front of an oncom-

ing train, eight graduate students shared their

stories and passions in the fourth annual Grad

Talks event on Friday afternoon.

Three judges—Scott Britton, associate

university librarian for public services; James

Burns, the dean of the Woods College of

Advancing Studies; Vice Provost for Faculties

Patricia De Leeuw, and Nekesa C. Straker,

director of residential education—chose Bolun

Chen, GMCAS ’17, as the winner of a trophy

and $500 honorarium. Chen has published

six papers in peer-reviewed journals and has

received more than 60 citations.

Erin Doolin, LGSOE ’17, currently serves

as a graduate assistant at the Boston College

Women’s Center and runs the Stand Up BC

program, an educational program intended to

teach students about bystander intervention.

Doolin’s talk was titled “Stand Up BC: A Four

Year Approach.”

Doolin started by referencing her rela-

tionship with her brother. Growing up, the

siblings did everything together: participated

in the same activities, took the same classes,

and attended the same school, Emerson Col-

lege. When Doolin’s brother was called in to

be the single witness on a sexual assault case

at Emerson, she realized that rape culture is

prevalent everywhere, even at her tiny, quirky

college, she said.

“This was happening to our friends, our

classmates, to random people I was passing

on Boylston Street,” Doolin said.

When Doolin came to study at BC, she

became involved with the Women’s Center

under the University’s Title IX coordinator,

Katie O’Dair. Doolin shared her story work-

ing with Stand Up BC, and referenced the

growth of the program, which now has over

50 student volunteers and gives over 70 pre-

sentations a year.

Doolin shared the upcoming goals of Stand

Up BC, including tackling domestic abuse, fo-

cusing on LGBTQ issues, and implementing a

separate program for athletes and seniors.

Chen, the winner of the event, followed

Doolin. Chen discussed the synchronized

patterns of fireflies flashing in a national park

in Tennessee.

Chen explained that neurological pat-

terns are responsible for their “internal clock”

and flashing in unison. He then spoke about

the effects of neurological patterns on other

animals in nature.

Justin Cambria, who is currently pursuing

a joint MBA and MSW, spoke about the prob-

lem of addiction in America. Cambria, who

is now 2,451 days sober, spoke about how the

United States needs to find alternate solutions

to jail time for addicts.

Rather, Cambria said that we need to start

viewing it as a public health crisis rather than

a a moral failing. Society needs to take steps

to offer holistic support, integrative care, and

treatment for addicts, Cambria said.

“Recovery really unlocks the true beauty

in life,” he said.

Marcel Uwineza, a Rwandan Jesuit priest

and theology Ph.D. student who expects to

graduate in 2020, shared his narrative of escap-

ing the Rwandan genocide, which took place

in 1994. Uwineza fled from a church when it

became a place of slaughter, leaving behind

his parents and siblings, who were killed in

the massacre.

Uwineza shared his path to forgiveness

when he travelled back to Rwanda to visit

the burial ground of his family. While paying

his respects, Uwineza came face-to-face with

his family’s murderer, who had been released

from jail. The killer got down on his knees and

begged for forgiveness, Uwineza said.

“‘I forgive you,’” he said. “When I uttered

those words it felt as though the chains were

cut from my legs. I felt free.”

After his confrontation, Uwineza decided

to drop out of medical school and become a

Jesuit priest.

Bobby Wengronowitz, GMCAS ’19, who is

currently an organizer, teacher, and sociology

Ph.D. candidate at BC, then gave a talk titled

“Climate Justice Demands Compassionate

Activism.” He emphasized the fact that people

have known about climate change since before

the Civil War, and yet not enough has been

done to combat global warming.

Wengronowitz also looked at the political

history of climate change and showed how the

issue has become more partisan in the last 10

years. He emphasized the need for activism

surrounding global warming, but stressed that

it needs to be done with compassion.

“We are our own worst enemy in many

ways,” Wengronowitz said. “But we are also

our only hope.”

Erlinda Delacruz, LGSOE ’16, who is

currently working on her master’s in mental

health counseling, spoke next about how

makeup shades perpetuate the idea of colorism

in society. Colorism is discrimination based

on one’s own skin tone, in one’s own ethnic

or racial community.

Delacruz shared her struggle of trying to

find makeup that matches her skin tone as a

Filipino women. She talked about how only the

most expensive brands of makeup have cre-

ated shades dark enough for her skin. Delacruz

believes that this perpetuates white privilege,

and weakens equality efforts.

Danielle Heitmann, GSSW ’16, talked

about the DSM-V, a manual that diagnoses

mental illness. The guide, however, tends to

perpetuate a negative stigma behind mental

illness, Heitmann said.

“Illness is only a piece of the human experi-

ence and never the entirety of one’s identity,”

she said.

Heitmann then attempted to put mental

illness into a Catholic perspective. She believes

that a Catholic voice is needed to combat the

negative stereotyping of those who struggle

with mental illness.

“People are always more than their prob-

lems,” Heitmann said.

Adam McCready, a second-year Ph.D.

student in the higher education program who

hopes to graduate in 2018, closed out the night

with this talk, “What I learned by Jumping

in Front of the Red Line Train.” McCready is

currently studying the behavioral tendencies of

college men, including hazing, alcohol abuse,

and vulnerability.

McCready shared a story that incited his

work on the lack of emotion and vulnerability

of men in society. On his way home from work

one day, McCready witnessed a man fall onto

the tracks in front of an oncoming train. Mc-

Cready jumped onto the rails and rescued the

unconscious man.

“I can distinctly recall the adrenaline run-

ning through my veins,” he said.

It took over a year for McCready to speak

about his experience and every time he at-

tempted to share the story, he broke into tears.

He realized that men are taught to be strong

and not show emotion.

“I want my sons to be able to live in a

society, to go to school and eventually college,

where they can be intimate and vulnerable

with others,” McCready said.

Colored powder filled the air as students

donned in white celebrated the Hindu reli-

gious festival of Holi on Stokes Lawn Saturday

at 1 p.m.

Organized by the South Asian Student

Association (SASA), the Holi festival has been

celebrated at BC for the last 10 years. One

thousand students were expected to attend the

event, co-president of SASA, Suraj Mudichin-

tala, CSOM ’16, said, but the turnout this year

ended up being just over 250 students.

“Most students don’t know too much

about the festival’s meaning, but that isn’t a

problem,” Mudichintala said. “It is really just

about having fun, embracing the culture, and

having a good time.”

Holi is a celebration of spring and a festival

of color, usually taking place in March or April.

It is primarily celebrated in India and Nepal,

but many universities across the U.S. celebrate,

and students of all religious backgrounds are

invited to attend.

The powder, which was made of 500

pounds of flour and 500 pounds of chalk

material, was distributed among the crowd

in buckets. The participants then took the

powder and threw it at each other.

“At least we are providing a good Satur-

day,” Mudichintala said. “It fosters a sense of

community. Everyone is throwing powder at

everyone. It’s just everyone having fun.”

JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Monday, April 25, 2016

Kevin Eidt, BC ’00, only had eyes for

the basketball net looming over his head.

Only a second-semester freshman, Eidt

was already involved in the men’s intra-

mural basketball team and competed

regularly in the Plex. He had his heart in

the game, but little did he know just how

much of an impact his heart would have

on the Boston College community.

While playing a game, Eidt went into

sudden cardiac arrest and collapsed on

the court. His close friend, Mark Ritchie,

BC ’00 and a certifi ed EMT, witnessed

the fall and immediately began to per-

form CPR on Eidt, accompanying para-

medics as they transported Eidt to the

nearest hospital. Despite their attempts

to revive Eidt, he ultimately passed away

because of heart failure. Heartbroken,

Ritchie founded Eagle EMS to care for

BC students, and over the past 16 years,

the student organization has developed

into a respected on-campus authority

while maintaining a casual student air.

After acquiring its own fi rst-response

vehicle in 2012, Eagle EMS began 24/7

coverage of the local community and

changed its name to BC EMS in Nov.

2014.

Boasting 76 current members, BC

EMS remains a completely student-run

organization that holds the same state

certifi cations as professional ambulance

companies. Th e organization is divided

into the departments of education, oper-

ations, and organizational development.

Th e president and vice president oversee

the organization as the members of the

departments plan specifi c tasks.

EMTs work both vehicle shifts ,

responding to emergency calls and

performing on-site medical care, and

standby shifts, attending games, con-

certs, and other major campus events

and monitoring the audience. BC EMS

works closely with University offi cials,

such as the offi ces of the Dean of Stu-

dents, Student Health Services, Student

Involvement, Emergency Management,

and BCPD, as well as with professional

ambulance companies from the local

community. Th ese established relation-

ships are best seen in their involvement

in the Boston Marathon.

“Our involvement in the Marathon

has greatly increased throughout my

time here,” said Kevin Zirko, LSOE ’16

and current president of BC EMS. He

recalls the Marathon bombing in 2013

as a defi nitive moment for BC EMS that

elevated the student organization to a

new professional level.

Until that point, BC EMS had mainly

focused on monitoring campus, running

a medical tent to treat BC students and

distributing foot teams throughout

Main, Newton, and Brighton campuses.

In the aftermath of the bombing, all

available medical resources were re-

quested to treat the wounded at the fi n-

ish line. Th e Boston Athletics Associa-

tion (BAA) stopped the Marathon and

housed runners at St. Ignatius Church.

THE HEIGHTS A4

PHOTO COURTESY OF KEVIN ZIRKO

BC EMS teams were stationed throughout campus and along the marathon route to provide emergency medical care for both students and runners, ensuring the safety of the community.

Like most Boston College students, I

had originally planned to study abroad.

But plans change, and now I fi nd myself

in a cubby in O’Neill, writing papers and

cramming for quizzes, procrastinating by

watching Snapstories of my best friends

vacationing together in Greece. I only

recently found out what FOMO means, but

man, is it real.

First semester of junior year was a

blur. At some point I blinked and woke up

with norovirus during fi nals, watching my

friends pack their rooms into cardboard

boxes to leave me behind. At least that’s

how I felt at the time, and it’s how I’d been

feeling for months.

I felt static—physically, in my decision

to not go abroad, and emotionally, in my

failed attempt to cling to my status as an

underclassman. All of a sudden I could hear

the clock ticking, and I had the unfortunate

realization that my time at BC is ephemeral.

I’d been going through the motions, day

after day. Lift, class, practice, library. Lift,

class, practice, library. I wasn’t particularly

happy, but had no real reason not to be, and

the fact that most everyone I was close to

was leaving on these grandiose adventures

made me all the more anxious and nervous

for what next semester would bring.

Come January, my squad left for Lon-

MADELEINE LOOSBROCK

ity with the host city. Th ese are experiences

that I want to have, but it just wasn’t the

right time for me.

It’s a personal choice, and diff erent for

each individual, but I am confi dent at this

point in the semester in my decision to stay

at BC. I think about the new relationships

I’ve formed. I think about the fear, sadness,

anxiety, and pain that I’ve learned to over-

come on my own.

I think about my roles as a teammate,

captain, student, friend, and sister, and how

I’ve grown in these roles in more ways than I

could have possibly imagined. And perhaps

most importantly, I think about the clarity

I’ve gotten on what I want out of my experi-

ence here at BC.

I think that by junior year, what we need

is a change. We need something new and

exciting to get us over the wall of anxiety

standing between now and graduation. For

some of us this is an experience overseas,

and for some of us it’s not—and that’s okay.

We’re all going to be back on the Heights

come September, revitalized, smiling

through the fear of the future as we soak up

the last two semesters we get to spend at the

greatest place on earth.

KELSEY MCGEE / HEIGHTS EDITOR

don and Paris and Sydney, and I returned

to Stayer with six random roommates and

a direct I hardly knew. At fi rst it was lonely,

especially in the dead of a Boston winter. But

their leaving forced change upon me, and for

that I’m so thankful.

I’ve used this semester as an opportunity

to get to know myself outside the context of

my closest friends. I’ve known these people

since freshman year, some even longer.

I’ve grown up with these people, adjusted

to life away from home with these people.

When I thought about it, there really hadn’t

been a time at BC that I hadn’t had these

friends available to me whenever I needed or

wanted them.

Because of this, I’ve spent signifi cantly

more time alone in the past few months,

more than I probably ever have in my life. At

a place like BC, where you’re surrounded by

your best friends constantly, it’s hard to fi nd,

or even realize you need, a minute alone.

While it’s wonderful to be able to turn to the

people you love in times of sadness, laughter,

anger, or excitement, there’s also something

to be said for learning to process these feel-

ings alone.

To deal with these emotions on an indi-

vidual level develops a deeper understanding

of these emotions and has ultimately helped

me become more in touch with who I am

and what I want in my last year at BC.

I’ve learned the importance of doing

things for me. It’s all too easy to get caught

in the motions of everyday life—the clubs

we’re part of, the sports we play, the classes

we take, the social lives we choose to lead.

Th is fall, I did the things that made me

comfortable. I couldn’t tell why I didn’t feel

like myself because I was doing everything I

normally do, everything that had made me

happy in the past. Everyone goes through

times when he or she feels “off ,” but can’t fi g-

ure out why. We’re growing up, and change

is imminent, even when we can’t see that.

People argue that going abroad instigates

this change, that being far away from a

familiar place forces you out of your comfort

zone and fosters personal growth. For many,

this is undoubtedly true. I do believe, how-

ever, that it’s possible to have that experience

without going abroad. In fact, I’m not sure I

would have grown the same way that I have

over the past four months had I been in

Europe as I’d originally planned.

Th ere are certainly aspects of being

abroad and traveling that can’t be experi-

enced at BC. I think that the real sell for

studying abroad, however, is to broaden your

horizons and see the world through a diff er-

ent lens. While this may be harder to accom-

plish at BC, it’s certainly not impossible.

I do feel left out almost every time I see

pictures on Facebook of my friends abroad.

Although I had the opportunity to spend a

summer session in London, the experience

is inarguably diff erent. A semester allows for

more travel and exploration, more familiar-

With medical resources already spread

thin, it was up to the remaining members

of BC EMS to triage over 400 patients

in the makeshift clinic, bringing new

meaning to the place of healing.

“For an hour or so, we were complete-

ly in charge, which was a huge test for the

organization,” Zirko said. “We were able

to step up, and it defi nitely makes you

realize how important we are and how

[we’re more than just for] BC.”

Because of its performance that day,

BC EMS has been included in the BAA

planning committee each year, with

members from the organization helping

to plan the medical response along the

entire route of the Marathon. In addition

to its usual campus coverage, BC EMS

staff s fi ve to six students at three medical

tents at the end of College Road, in front

of St. Ignatius Church, and by the Chest-

nut Hill Reservoir for the Marathon.

Grace Jarmoc, MCAS ’18, worked

as the command post representative for

BC EMS in the BCPD offi ce, supervising

the crews throughout the day. Before the

Marathon, Jarmoc debriefed the EMTs

working the event on Marathon Monday

protocols, teaching them what illnesses

to expect and running through practice

scenarios. Once Jarmoc received an

emergency call in the BCPD offi ce, she

would dispatch the team closest to the

location of the call to take care of the

patient. Th is responsibility necessitates

discipline and organization, which Jar-

moc said has benefi ted her work ethic

as a student. Being busy has helped her

stay organized, she said.

“One of the more diffi cult things of

being an EMT, especially at BC, is also

being a student,” Jarmoc said in an email.

“I’m always trying to fi nd the right bal-

ance between my life at school and my

passion for BC EMS.”

Hannah Bowlin, MCAS ’17, and Oliv-

ia Spadola, CSON ’17, were in charge of

BC EMS’ fi rst-response vehicle and an-

swered calls from the BCPD offi ce. Th e

most common locations for EMTs to go

to on Marathon Monday are the Lower

bathrooms, the Mods, and along the BC

side of the Marathon route, to treat for

alcohol-related head injuries. Th e EMTs

would immobilize the patient’s head

to prevent further injury to the neck

or spine, look for other wounds, take

vitals, and decide with BCPD if hospital

transport is necessary.

“Th e most diffi cult part of being an

EMT is tailoring my subjective assess-

ments for each patient I encounter,

because no two people or medical issues

are the same,” Spadola said in an email.

“[You have to make sure] you don’t

miss any red fl ags,” Bowlin also said in an

email. “Many patients are fairly routine

and treating them can be normal, but

staying on my toes and making sure we

don’t miss anything important for a more

serious issue can be diffi cult.”

Nicholas Favazza, MCAS ’18, treated

Marathon runners at the BAA tent

in front of St. Ignatius. His team was

responsible for assisting a physician,

a physician’s assistant, and a physical

therapist by performing initial patient

assessments for runners who stopped by

the tent. Th e most common health prob-

lems marathon runners faced with the

warm weather were heat-related, such as

fatigue, heat stroke, dehydration, and hy-

ponatremia. Th e EMTs were tasked with

massaging cramped muscles, providing

ice baths, and supplying beverages high

in electrolytes to replace necessary water

and nutrients.

“Working in medicine, your actions

have an obvious eff ect on patient out-

come, good or ill, and you always want

to do right by your patient and give

them a shot at recovery,” Favazza said

in an email. “Th e pressure to perform

is definitely there, and although it is

stressful, I think it also helps motivate

me to provide the highest quality care

possible.”

Th roughout their time with BC EMS,

the students agree that having an EMT

license has meant more than another

credential to put on a resume. BC EMS

encourages personal and professional

growth, with the students’ exposure to

the love and dedication of professional

EMTs shining light on a side of health

care that is often overlooked.

“Pre-hospital care still has a sig-

nificant effect on patient outcome,”

Favazza said. “Being a member of that

pre-hospital team and seeing that my

actions allowed a patient to make it to

defi nitive care and recovery is one of

the most rewarding things I have ever

experienced in my life.”

Under the pressed uniforms, pounds

of medical equipment, and crackling

radios, the EMTs are still students at

heart. For Zirko, the hardest and most

rewarding aspect of being in EMS is

helping his peers.

He regards being a student EMT as

an advantage for the patient, as he or

she can advocate for both student and

patient rights, and this belief has been

supported by the patients’ gratitude at

receiving treatment.

“I was so surprised by how reward-

ing the job is,” Jarmoc said. “Hearing

someone genuinely say ‘thank you’ after

you cared for them makes the job worth

it 10 times over.”

It is also part of BC EMS’ mission

to advocate for public health, teaching

fi rst-aid classes and providing fi rst-aid

kits for other organizations throughout

Boston and the surrounding area, such

as the Horace Mann School for the Deaf

and various homeless shelters. Th ough

most students initially join BC EMS

for medical exposure, many fall in love

with the administrative and community

aspects of BC EMS, all in the eff ort to

provide care for the whole person.

“Th ere’s so much more to our organi-

zation that I’d love for people to recog-

nize,” Zirko said. “Yes, we may be there

when your friend is drunk, but we aren’t

there to get them in trouble—we’re there

to help them get out of trouble.”

For such a young organization, BC

EMS has come far—from the initial

heartbreak on the basketball court to the

top of Heartbreak Hill. Th e organization

remains just one call away.

“Th e pressure to perform is defi nitely there, and although it is stressful, I think it also helps motivate

me to provide the highest quality care possible.”

—Nicholas Favazza, MCAS ’18

THE HEIGHTS A5Monday, April 25, 2016

JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Boston College Irish Dance formed a

kaleidoscope of patterns on the stage, first

in a perfect phalanx, then seamlessly transi-

tioning to form concentric circles in homage

to the arena of the Hunger Games. After an

eight-minute routine as mesmerizing as the

mockingjay’s haunting song, the dancers

stomped their last step and broke the spell. The

stunned audience rose to its feet in thunderous

applause, and BCID team knew that the odds

were definitely in its favor.

“The crowd was in it for the whole dance,”

said Madeline Jacob, LSOE ’16 and captain of

BCID of the non-stop energy of last week’s

annual ALC Showdown. “There was really

no silent moment for them. It was really cool.

Immediately when we finished they all stood

up, which was crazy. And even the dancers

stood up, which was such a huge compliment

for us.”

Last week, BC’s most talented dance

groups performed at a sold-out Conte Forum

and celebrated the best of the school’s student

dancing. With two titles at stake, BCID took

home the coveted dance title of Showdown

winners while, Presenting Africa to U (PATU)

brought home the cultural dance award. Each

team dedicated its schedule toward intense

preparation for this showcase event, and its

work paid off with highly coveted titles.

BCID is led by co-captains Madeline

Jacob and Betsy Hughes, MCAS ’16. With

26 members—25 girls and one boy—they

practice three nights a week for a total of

10 hours on Brighton Campus. This was its

second year competitively participating at

Showdown after showcasing in the past. In

2014, BCID competed for the title and gave

the now-senior captains a taste at what a title

could feel like.

“We didn’t have a theme that year, two

years ago,” Jacob said of its first competitive

performance. “We didn’t have a lot of experi-

ence with the event. During our freshman

year there was a part of the dance that got the

crowd engaged and people were energized

afterwards. From that moment on they wanted

to win.”

Siobhan Dougherty, MCAS ’17, cut the

music to give its theme, the Hunger Games, a collective, exciting feel. The serious tone of

the theme challenged the dancers to work on

their facial expressions. The assistant chore-

ographers Aine McGovern, MCAS ’17, and

Bridget TeeKing, MCAS ’16, helped head

choreographer Doughtery give this dance its

unique touch.

“[Facial expression] was not easy for most

people on the team,” Hughes said. “We are not

used to theatrically performing. Usually for

Irish dance we smile, but this dance was seri-

ous and we had to look angry at some of the

parts. We made everyone look in the mirror

and make themselves look angry.”

As the dance began each member gave

it his or her all. Intense preparation, excel-

lent music, and passion drove them all into a

crowd-engaging performance.

The win will add more pressure to them

for next year, the captains concluded. They

credit their team’s unique determination for

the win—they could see visible improvement

between the first and third hours of their

practices. The team has only existed for nine

years, and Hughes feels that the win will help

it be taken seriously.

BCID’s main event each year is its Spring

Showcase, during which the group performs

20 dances. Additionally, throughout the year it

dances on campus, at cultural events, at a Red

Sox game, and, especially near St. Patrick’s day,

around Boston.

PATU, BC’s only African dance troupe,

won the cultural dance award. Kadeajah Gos-

lin, the group’s captain and LSOE ’16, helped

bring the small but determined dance group

to its first Showdown award. PATU was cre-

ated in 1996 and focuses on Western African,

Caribbean, and African diaspora styles.

This group of nine dancers comprises the

smallest number, but with five seniors there

was a special emphasis on bringing back the

title this year. Like BCID, PATU has one male

dancer.

PATU performs year-round at BC with a

recruitment and try-out process after the fall

Student Involvement Fair. It also performs

around Boston throughout the year at loca-

tions including Rosie’s Place, a shelter for

battered women, and other colleges like BU,

MIT, and Brandeis.

Come January, PATU began to practice

every day in anticipation of Showdown.

“Everyone is very dedicated, there is a

lot of hard work,” Goslin said. “A lot of pain,

blood sweat and tears, but it is worth it once

the show is here.”

PHOTOS COURTESY OF ZOE ZHAO

I was running a few minutes late

getting to the residence hall of Elio

Oliva, CSOM ’17, to speak with him

about his recent coronation as Mr. BC,

so I sent him a frantic text letting him

know I was a bit behind schedule. His

response set the tone for the rest of our

conversation.

“No worries bro. I’m just chilling here

in my room.”

After an eccentric winning perfor-

mance at the RHA’s annual “Mr. BC”

pageant earlier this month, it was pretty

unsurprising to find that the finance

and English double major was a type-A

people person. In another unsurprising

move, Oliva showed little hesitation

at our request for a photo-op—within

minutes he had donned his crown and

cape from the pageant, and began nobly

making his bed.

“I don’t want my mom to see these

pictures and think that I have an un-

made bed,” he joked, but with a drop of

conceded seriousness.

He proceeded to smooth out his

sheets, rearrange his pillow, and brought

us to a lounge to get down to the serious

stuff. Fortunately for us, the cape and

crown would remain for the rest of the

interview.

A newcomer to the Mr. BC pageant,

and to male beauty pageants more

broadly, Oliva was candid in describing

his lack of knowledge of the program—

and furthermore his lack of odd talents.

In fact, his own nomination took him

by surprise.

“One of my friends texted me saying,

‘Hey, a little birdie told me that you’re

going to be in Mr. BC,’” he recalled of his

first time hearing about his soon-to-be

pageant debut. “I was like, ‘Uh who is

this birdie?’”

Though blindsided by this propo-

sition, Oliva noted his response was

succinct.

“Why the hell not?”

Though Oliva himself is humbly

dismissive of his own talents, others

would beg to differ. Along with those

in the crowd, Oliva won the approval

of the RHA—the student organization

that hosted the event—in his interview

beforehand.

“RHA could not have been happier,”

said Catherine Duffy, MCAS ’17 and

RHA co-vice president of the student

programming committee. “When we

interviewed Elio, we knew that his per-

sonality and impressions were going to

take him to the top—while all the guys

gave it their all, it was Elio’s talent that

got him the crown.”

Certainly, his talent, a knack for

celebrity impressions (many of which,

naturally, managed to slip into the in-

terview) is what earned Oliva the title.

Ranging from Breaking Bad’s Jesse Pink-

man to presidential candidate Donald

Trump, Oliva’s massively popular im-

pressions, however, didn’t come without

practice.

Beginning as nothing more than a

side hobby, Oliva explained that at some

point last year, he captivated the room

as he let a killer Jesse Pink impression

slip at a party.

“I let it slip, and I was like ‘Yo

Bitches!’” Oliva said, slipping briefly

into the Breaking Bad character he was

imitating. “I was like wow, I can actually

kind of do that.”

As it turns out, Oliva most certainly

can “do that.” His scripted stand-up per-

formance of impressions during the tal-

ent portion of the show even carried into

the Q&A portion, where he channeled

the spirit of Matthew McConaughey to

define beauty, among other triumphs.

Adding to the confusion, however,

was the stiff level of competition he

faced as a contestant. A humble parodist

in the midst of singers, dancers, and

even a rollerblading accordion player,

Oliva was keenly aware that any victory

would have to be a hard-fought one.

Admittedly nervous, Oliva felt the

pressure from all sides—even his own

camp. Receiving feedback from his

friends in the audience while backstage,

Oliva claimed that one threat in particu-

lar stood out as a contender for the

Daniel Sundaram, MCAS ’16, has a big

summer ahead of him. Partnering with the

Bike and Build program, Sundaram, along

with about 25 others, will cycle across the

United States while stopping to assist in the

construction of affordable homes.

Ahead of the bikers lies the open road

and the chance to form friendships in the

name of community service. Four thousand

miles separate Sundaram’s starting location

in New Haven, Conn. from his destination

of Half Moon Bay, Calif.

Bike and Build, which has been an ac-

tive organization since 2003, organizes and

supervises cross-country bike trips that

incorporate elements of service. Required

to raise at least $4,500 prior to the begin-

ning of the trip, riders contribute to and

raise money for the program, which in turn

supplies the riders with food, planning, and

service opportunities for the summer while

they ride from coast to coast.

The elements of service provided by

Bike and Build are as they sound—riders

take an expected 12 days off of biking to

work construction on an affordable hous-

ing build site. This element gives the riders

an opportunity to provide service while

they experience great swaths of American

countryside.

“I think this trip is the beginning to

a commitment to service that I hope to

continue for the rest of my life,” Sundaram

said. As well as doing Bike and Build,

Sundaram is currently applying to Officer

Candidate School to be an officer in the

US Coast Guard. Sundaram said that his

commitment to service began as a student

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in high school and has continued at Boston

College.

“I did Habitat for Humanity in high

school, and I figured that this trip is a

logical continuation of that,” Sundaram

said. “Looking back on my experiences

at Boston College, these experiences of

teamwork and service is what made college

[great] for me.”

A former member of men’s club row-

ing at BC and an active athlete, Sundaram

is no stranger to the teamwork lifestyle.

But, the physical aspect of biking more

than 4,000 miles is not something that he

underestimates.

Sundaram has been spotted by many

riding on a trainer outside of Fulton Hall

to raise awareness for his ride. He hasn’t

exactly been a cyclist for a long time. Sun-

daram said that the only form of cycling

he has really done is riding his bike around

the neighborhood as a kid. But, this hasn’t

stopped him.

Sundaram has some very long roads

ahead of him. Though he is concerned, he

knows that he is riding for a cause greater

than simply turning over the pedals.

“Like I’ve said earlier, this trip is a

beginning to that commitment to service,

and I’m really excited to get out on the

road,” he said.

Thinking even longer-term, Sundaram

said that this trip is a culmination of how

he has lived life here at BC.

“I feel like I’ve enjoyed myself and cre-

ated a great spot and have learned how

to succeed here,” he said. “The transition

away from it is going to be really weird,

but this adventure is going to be a great

way to do that and is an affirmation of this

lifestyle.”

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Th e fi rst Boston College Dance Marathon

in over 10 years, sponsored by the Sophomore

Class Council, was held this past Friday and

Saturday. It consisted of 12 hours of danc-

ing and performances by various BC dance

groups such as Full Swing and Phaymus, as

well as other activities including visits by

local pediatric cancer patients. In total, the

event raised $17,000 for the Boston Children’s

Hospital. Roughly 200 students participated

in the marathon, which was held in the Flynn

Recreation Complex.

Since the event was the first dance

marathon in many years, this relatively low

turnout is understandable and should not

discourage the continuation of this event in

future years. Th is year should serve as the

launch for future events, and students should

continue to both promote and attend these

events. Th e money goes toward a good cause,

and the event eff ectively promotes awareness

of pediatric illness.

Dance marathons have found great success

on other college campuses, but many of these

other colleges are larger state schools such

as Pennsylvania State and the University of

Florida. Th ese schools have diff erent cultures

than BC as well as much larger student bod-

ies. Th e same methods used at these schools

will most likely not generate the same levels of

success at BC. Because of this, the event should

be adjusted to bring in a greater number of

students in the future.

One way to do this is by looking at past

events that have achieved great success. Th ese

events normally involve a high-level adminis-

trative group or something that involves a great

portion of the student body, such as Showdown.

Partnering with multiple groups would allow

the Sophomore Class Council to attract more

students. One of the reasons Showdown has

achieved such success in the past is due to the

wide range of groups involved and the con-

nections many students have to at least one of

these groups.

Th is year’s dance marathon involved part-

nership with a number of dance groups, as

well as cooperation with local businesses. In

the future these same eff orts can be expanded

to on-campus administrative and high-profi le

groups. Th ose planning the Dance Marathon

in the future should look to partner with a

powerful group on campus that can provide

other outlets for promotion as well as other

incentives for students to attend. Th is could

include athletics, whose support could help

generate interest in the event.

At Northwestern University, for example,

students have hosted a dance marathon for

the past 42 years. In that time, the university

has raised over $16 million. Th is kind of suc-

cess could be replicated at BC, with time and a

creative look at high-powered resources.

Showdown, which was held on Saturday,

April 13, presents another issue in relation to

the Dance Marathon. Two dance-related charity

events within one week of each other could eas-

ily have caused apathy toward the second event.

Because of the shared features of each event, this

could present another possible partnership for

the Dance Marathon. Partnering with Show-

down, or another powerful event, would allow

for advertising and promotion through multiple

outlets, generating increased interest.

By bringing together these various groups,

the Dance Marathon would most likely be

able to attract more students. Th is possibil-

ity should be seriously considered in order to

increase turnout for the Dance Marathon and

raise more money for the Children’s Hospital

in the future.

During the Boston Marathon, Boston

College EMS students lined Comm. Ave.

manning tents and walking the campus in

order to help students and runners.

After the Marathon bombing in 2013,

security was heavily increased along the

marathon route, and BC EMS was given

an increased role in providing medical

attention along Mile 21.

This includes runners who are dehy-

drated or suffering from cramps as well

as students suffering from alcohol-re-

lated injuries.

During the sometimes-chaotic day,

it attended to these medical issues and

handled the situation well.

It set up medical tents and patrolled

the campus in the BC EMS ambulance.

B C E MS is a cer t i f ie d ambulance

company, meaning that the services it

provides are on par with professional

ambulance drivers.

The students themselves have all re-

ceived extensive training that they are

often unable to use due to the fortunately

low frequency of emergency medical

events on campus.

After undergoing considerable train-

ing in many different medical tech-

niques and procedures, BC EMS stu-

dents often respond to calls that do not

warrant the use of any of these newly

learned skills.

Working the Marathon allows these

students to use the skills they’ve learned

while providing a necessary service for

both students watching the Marathon and

the runners themselves.

It is a good way to ensure that BC EMS

students have the opportunity to put their

learning into action while also helping the

student body.

These BC EMS students are also often

better able to deal with students they

serve because the students relate to them

and find a mutual understanding.

This was evidenced by the lack of seri-

ous issues regarding BC EMS during this

year’s Marathon.

Its work was necessary and performed

well. With the increased post-bombing

security, it is extremely important that

medically trained workers are available

for the Marathon.

BC EMS handled the more high-pres-

sure situation very well, assisting stu-

dents professionally and taking care of

the various medical issues brought about

by the Marathon.

After the Marathon BC EMS and the

important medical services it provided can

easily be forgotten, but students should be

thankful for the work it contributed.

These BC EMS students deserve com-

mendation for taking on the increased

responsibilities well and providing an

important service.

During future Marathons, this level of

success should be replicated, as BC EMS

students continue to serve.

Joshua Behrens, The Heights’ resident

Bernie Sanders cheerleader, wrote an as-

tonishing piece yesterday, one about which

all advocates for those American virtues

of liberty and self-government should be

angered. Though I have no desire to get

myself again entangled in something like

the relentless back-and-forth inspired by

my LTEs on race issues earlier this year,

Mr. Behrens’s piece is so extraordinary that

I can’t help but write.

Mr. Behrens admits that “the found-

ing fathers did not plan for us to have a

democracy,” for which I suppose I can be

thankful. Many individuals erroneously but

unapologetically believe that the United

States is a democracy and hold to “Democ-

racy! Unchecked democracy! Democracy

everywhere and always!” These people evi-

dently do not value the virtue of prudent

restraint, but maybe that is to be expected.

Fine—Mr. Behrens agrees with us that the

framers of our Constitution never intended

a democracy. Yet his claim is even more of-

fensive to the American spirit, I think, than

the absurd belief that the United States is an

unrestrained democracy (just so you know,

our country is a constitutional republic with

some democratic elements), so beloved of

others of his progressive-liberal-radical

bent.

Succinctly, he believes that, yes, the

framers did not want democracy—and so

the framers were wrong. The American’s

mental warning-bells should be ring-

ing like crazy here. So the Declaration

of Independence, and the Constitution,

and the Bill of Rights were wrong? The

old argument for democracy grounded it,

however erroneously, on our Constitution.

The new argument, Mr. Behrens’s, grounds

it on chucking the Constitution out the

window and letting wild jackals eat the

poor old thing.

Saying that the rest of Mr. Behrens’s

argument is nonsensical is offensive to non-

sensical arguments. We have to chuck the

Constitution because it has created an “oli-

garchy” ruled by money (begging the ques-

tion of “Why stop at socialism? Why don’t

we go on to full-on Soviet communism, Mr.

Behrens? Would that make you happy?”).

He cites one Princeton study and claims

that it “empirically” establishes something

that cannot be empirically established,

namely that the U.S. is in fact this oligarchy

that he so greatly dreads. He then briefly

sketches a look into this year’s presidential

election, mounting a democratic defense

of his beloved Sanders and warning about

that opaque and apparently omnipotent

“establishment” (could somebody please

give me a good definition?).

Mr. Behrens does not believe in the

founders’ republic. He wants a democracy.

Well, Mr. Behrens, the founders experi-

enced a near-democracy under the Articles

of Confederation. It was a disaster. The Ja-

cobins in France and the Bolsheviks in Rus-

sia slaughtered and destroyed nations in the

sainted name of unrestrained democracy.

(Might I suggest reading Burke?) We need

to preserve and conserve, not destroy, our

(small-r) republican values. We are either

the last, best hope for the earth, Mr. Beh-

rens, or else we go out into the final dark-

ness, screaming hopeless platitudes about

“Equality,” “Democracy,” and “Progress,” and

not with a bang but with a whimper.

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See this blank space? Want to fi ll it?

Draw a weekly comic for

dustry. Things are not always greener on

the other side of the counter. Yet when I

try to think of my most rewarding expe-

rience at BC, I don’t think of tutoring or

making care packages. I think of every

exhausting, messy, soul-crushing night

at White Mountain. Those nights have

done so much more than just fuel my

sugar addiction. They gave me a sense

of purpose and achievement, as well as

an acute, and sometimes painful, sense

of humility.

And now I have one tip for any-

one looking to broaden his or her

worldview or set the world aflame or

become a man or woman for others.

You don’t need to apply for a presti-

gious volunteering position or travel to

an underdeveloped country. Just get a

low-paying, low-dignity job. You will be

exposed to more service than you could

have ever dreamed.

Of course, I don’t mean to knock

community service. Volunteering is kind

and generous and extremely important.

I’m down with the Jesuits. Yet there’s

something that’s difficult to learn un-

less you’ve worked in the food industry

yourself. You learn more than just how

to count change and clean counters and

restock topping containers. You learn

about respect. Respect for servers and

cashiers and dishwashers. And that

respect changes everything. Each dis-

respected hostess and untipped waiter

becomes a personal outrage. I abhor

complicated orders and impatience

and people who complain about their

food. Every tired, grumpy, overwhelmed

server is just someone trying to get

through the night.

I remember walking into an ice

cream parlor shortly after starting at

White Mountain. Somehow I thought

the girl behind the counter would sense

my experiences and we’d share an intan-

gible bond. “One scoop of cookie dough

in a cup, no toppings please,” I request-

ed cheerfully. She gave me a tired nod

and retreated to the freezer to scoop my

ice cream. At first I was disappointed.

I wanted recognition. I wanted a bond.

At the very least, I wanted a smile. But

then I remembered the aching back and

the overwhelming lines and the lack of

“thank you’s” and “please’s.” I remem-

bered the blank stares from familiar

faces, as if the counter created a sort

of disguise for each service employee,

stripping them of their identity and

value. I remembered the exhausting

feeling of disrespect and silently slipped

a dollar into the tip jar in solidarity.

As spring rolls in, campus seems to

buzz with stories of internships and

service trips. These are both noble and

valuable experiences, but in the midst

of all this buzz, I can’t help defending

my small, unglamorous part-time job.

In the grand scheme of things, this job

isn’t small at all. In terms of my own

self-awareness and understanding of

the world, this job has been everything.

In fact I’m starting to think we should

all be embracing the unglamorous. It

certainly doesn’t set the world aflame,

but I like to think each server and scoo-

per and washer contributes to a steady,

slow-burning fire.

We can do more than just serve

customers. We can spread the respect

and the humility that our minimum

wage jobs instill in us, and we can truly

become men and women for others. At

the very least, we can count our tips

with pride and eat our well-deserved ice

cream with a sense of purpose.

THE HEIGHTSMonday, April 25, 2016 A7

CLASSES WITHOUT FINALS - As we ap-

proach the final days of class, when

studying for finals becomes a prior-

ity, it’s important to acknowledge

those good folks who don’t give

final exams. I’ll up a thumb for you

beautiful people any day.

A SELECT FEW PARTICULAR BRANDS OF HOT SAUCE - Some hot sauce tastes

like failure. Some hot sauce tastes

like justice. Other hot sauces taste

like concepts that are referenced

where you would normally expect

a more tangible taste-related word

for some not-fantastically-executed

comedic effect. But generally, when

you get a good hot sauce it can keep

your meal engaging, interesting,

fascinating, and maybe even a little

stupendous.

GETTING LOST - In the spirit of the

great explorers of ages past, you de-

cided to go for a little stroll through

Boston. With no particular guiding

force, you got off the T downtown

and headed in a direction you sup-

posed might be sort of oriented

toward the east. About 20 minutes

later, you’re in some never-before-

seen area of Dorchester and some

vaguely threatening Girl Scouts are

trying to foist unwanted cookies into

your hands. “Stay away from me,”

you cry, running off, flapping your

arms as though you are a majestic

sea fowl. Grabbing your phone you

realize that your battery has dropped

to 5 percent. Confound your foolish

need to listen to hours and hours of

Polish club music on the ride over.

With no map in sight, and far too

much pride to ask for directions,

you continue to wander. Hours later

you realize that you are surrounded

by buildings covered in symbols

that are clearly not English. You’ve

entered Chinatown. Your shoes be-

gin to overflow with blood, leaving

a ghastly trail behind you. A small,

scraggly beard has covered your face.

Stumbling onward, you finally see

something you recognize. You’re al-

most downtown again. It all becomes

clearer. The Pru! The Common! The

State House! You see the T stop and

rush forward. Falling to your knees

you kiss the floor of the subway

station and immediately contract a

virulent cold sore.

SUN-HEADACHES - These are also

known as happiness headaches in

some parts of the world. They occur

when the subject is walking through

a grass-covered area and observes

other subjects enjoying the warm

weather and bright sunlight. This

causes immediate negative effects

in the subject: dizziness, cramps,

blurred vision, an inexplicable sound

of locust buzzing filling the ears.

Too much enjoyment, too much

happiness, too much satisfaction.

An immediate retreat into a subter-

ranean, badly lit place is the only

known cure.

CLOSED COURSES - For one moment

your naive, childish mind thought

you would actually be interested

in what you were learning for next

semester. While planning for regis-

tration, you saw a class that vaguely

stimulated that long-dormant part

of your brain that gains satisfac-

tion from education. But then the

course filled up the day before you

registered, and that was that. Time

to slog through another semester.

The Republican Party has already lost the

presidency, but if the party wants to save itself

for future elections, it has two unfortunate

options. If you have paid any attention to the

political media at any time over the past few

months, the prediction has been clear—the

Republican Party is headed for a brokered

convention that could potentially lead to its

downfall. The first part of this statement is

true, but the latter half does not have to neces-

sarily be so. If no candidate has clinched the

1,237 delegates needed to become the Repub-

lican nominee, the party can pick its poison

and elect Donald Trump or Ted Cruz to the

ticket and can hold the party together. As

counterintuitive as it may seem, picking either

Cruz or Trump in the long run is likely to help

moderate Republicans in the future, by show-

ing those on the far right that their extreme

candidates cannot win a general election.

As tempting as it is, it would be seen as

a validation of both Trump and Cruz to let

the party elites choose another candidate

like Paul Ryan, who received no votes and

no support from the electorate. A choice

like this would only further anger those who

support Trump and Cruz and would indeed

likely cause the split in the Republican Party

that many have been predicting. Perhaps it

would be good for the party to regroup and

rebrand as one with less extreme views than

those of Trump and Cruz, but if the party

hopes to remain relevant in the contem-

porary period, it is best served with either

Trump or Cruz as its nominee for president.

By the time the convention rolls around,

it is almost certain that Trump will be far

closer to clinching the nomination than any

other candidate. This presents the party’s

first option: let Trump be the nominee and

show the voters that the primary process

does work. In this case, the GOP willingly

sacrifices any chance at a general election

victory over Hillary Clinton, but it holds

together the party by telling voters that their

votes actually mattered and the candidate

with the most votes is the one who will get

the nomination. If anything, the Republican

Party could use this opportunity to clean

up a murky primary process and open the

process up to more transparency, reassuring

voters that their voices are being heard.

By doing this, however, the Republican

Party will be also sacrificing more than just

the presidential election. With Trump at the

top of the Republican ticket as the figurehead

of the party, the Republicans will also likely

lose control of the House and Senate due to

Trump’s unfiltered and often controversial

remarks that will likely damage many Repub-

licans’ chances of winning reelection.

This leads us to the second option.

Though no easier to swallow, the Republican

party’s other choice is to let Cruz be the

nominee. It would be well within reason and

within the rules of the convention process

for Cruz to be the nominee if Trump is still

shy of 1,237 delegates. By electing Cruz at

the convention, it is still possible that many

Trump voters will walk out in anger, but

the rules do make clear that Cruz would be

equally legitimate and the fallout of a Cruz

nomination would likely be less severe than

the convention choosing another candidate.

Cruz received many votes, which gives him

credibility as a candidate.

Furthermore, it would teach all those in

the Tea Party and other far-right factions

within the Republican organization what

have long felt the reasonable candidates like

Mitt Romney and John McCain lose is be-

cause they are too liberal that their ultracon-

servative candidate can and will in fact lose.

Cruz would be the most conservative and

clear-cut manifestation of the extreme right’s

desires, and his defeat at the hands of Clinton

would squash the extremist views that have

long hindered moderate Republicans’ efforts.

Beyond this, if Cruz were the nominee,

the Republican Party might still lose some

House and Senate races, but it is unlikely to

lose both houses of Congress as it likely would

with Trump. Though extreme, Cruz tends to

be more tight-lipped than Trump and is less

likely to offend as broad a voting bloc.

Only then will the party be able to

quiet the calls of those on the far right, and

perhaps the party would unite around a more

moderate, more electable Republican can-

didate to emerge as a contender to Clinton

running for her second term, if that’s what it

comes down to.

slowly addressing the climate crisis, and

the reinvigoration of a social structure

that places humanity and the planet over

the pursuit of profits. How could this

reinvestment work at BC?

Firstly, it involves the divestment

of all University funds from fossil fuel

companies or portfolios that contain

these companies. In its place, BC can fol-

low the call of U.S. Secretary of Energy

Ernest Moniz, the 2016 Commencement

speaker, to “double down on our clean

energy innovation investments” and

request that its funds be reinvested in

companies focused on sustainable tech-

nologies or renewable energy.

Secondly, it means that the University

can reinvest in the power of its students.

This involves opening the processes of

University governance to greater trans-

parency and student input. Societies lose

so much potential when they let voices

go unheard, and the University admin-

istration would gain greatly by allowing

students’ energy and ideas to enter its

systems.

Thirdly, BC can incorporate environ-

mental stewardship into its strong pro-

grams of service to those most in need.

Society must recognize that ecological

issues are human issues and vice versa,

and this is best learned through direct

encounters with those most vulnerable,

in this case the planet and people af-

fected by environmental disasters.

The divestment from fossil fuels at

all universities will not leave much of a

mark on the industry. Rather, this deci-

sion is steeped in powerful symbolism

that sends a message to the country’s

political and economic elites that the

next generation of world leaders, as well

as the powerful centers of knowledge

that bring them together, is calling for

the swift divestment from a system

that profits off the exploitation of the

planet and the silence of the world’s most

vulnerable, and demands in its place

purposeful reinvestment in a sustain-

able system that safeguards the world’s

resources over profits and empowers all

individuals to have their voices heard.

publication of Laudato Si last summer.

In recognizing the immeasurable value

of the world’s natural resources and the

market’s inability to justly protect these

common goods for all humanity, Pope

Francis’ encyclical unequivocally calls

for purposeful action to combat the ills

facing the planet today.

Specifically, he writes, “Here too,

it should always be kept in mind that

‘environmental protection cannot be

assured solely on the basis of financial

calculations of costs and benefits. The

environment is one of those goods that

cannot be adequately safeguarded or

promoted by market forces.’ Once more,

we need to reject a magical conception

of the market, which would suggest that

problems can be solved simply by an

increase in the profits of companies or

individuals.” BC is just one of the entities

that continues to make profits from com-

panies that literally fuel the wrecking of

the environment.

This statement calls for radical ac-

tion in that it asks believers to reject

the socioeconomic orthodoxy that

places profits over humanity. In fact, the

changes that BC would have to make to

completely divest from fossil fuels would

not harm its financial dividends because

global energy equities have not out-

performed other investment categories

since 2012, according to a 2014 report by

Cambridge Associates, a financial advis-

ing company to BC. This is even truer

today with the current weakness of oil

markets and the advancement of next-

generation power technologies. Now is

a powerful time for new momentum in

this movement.

The divestment movement is not

simply a campaign to end the use of

fossil fuels. It is a call for reinvest-

ment in the planet that provides all our

resources, the reordering of the political

and financial institutions that are too

Divestment is not the final answer

to the climate crisis. The holdings of all

American university endowments in fos-

sil fuel companies account for less than 1

percent of these companies’ total market

capital. No one actively campaigning

to make this change believes that it will

ruin the fossil fuel industry economi-

cally, and thus automatically lower the

world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

But divestment cannot be considered

in economic terms alone. It is more

importantly a political, social, and moral

movement that speaks to a vision of a

just and sustainable world—and it is

gaining traction among more and more

students across the country. It is a step

in a process that begins with saying that

a fossil-fueled future that wrecks the

planet is not one in which to invest. It is

a bold first move, despite the staggering

challenges humanity collectively faces

and the fact that there is an unsure path

of how exactly to solve it. It is meant

to force a moral analysis of how our

financial and political institutions are

structured, and to introduce a founda-

tional ethics of sustainability and justice

for them.

Luckily for Boston College, the

University already has a strongly worded

ethic based on Catholic social teaching

set down in its mission statement, which

is meant to carry over into all aspects

of how the University is governed. This

includes how the University invests its

endowment. The Ethical Investment

Guidelines read, “In the management of

its investments, Boston College reflects

the ethical, social, and moral principles

inherent in its mission and heritage.

In particular, the University is firmly

committed to the promotion of the

individual, personal freedom, and social

justice.” But how do these guidelines

apply to climate issues? The leader of

the Catholic Church provided a pow-

erful answer to this question with the

Last night, as I huddled over a

container of cookie monster ice cream,

melted dairy dripping down my bruised

forearms, I started to think about ser-

vice. It’s hard not to think about service

at a school whose community service

clubs are as competitive as its academ-

ics. But I don’t mean to talk about that

kind of service. I want to talk about food

service, in all its unforgiving, unglamor-

ous, and minimum-waged glory.

I started working at White Mountain

Creamery two years ago. A friend con-

vinced me to apply despite my complete

lack of food service experience. “Free

ice cream!” she said. “Great tips!” I was

sold. But I was also woefully unpre-

pared. My first night, I unknowingly

underserved all my customers. “Just

one more scoop,” my supervisor goaded

me on, eyeing the growing line behind

the counter. I dug into the container of

coffee ice cream with all my strength,

cursing my weak arms and every cus-

tomer in sight. By the end of the night,

my arms were aching, my wrists were

bruised, and a thick layer of dishwater

and melted ice cream covered me like a

blanket. I felt like I had survived a war.

I’ve learned a lot from this job. I’ve

learned to scoop and frost. I’ve learned

to put up with rude customers and low

tips and broken blenders. I’ve even

learned the art of mental math, though I

still freeze up as soon as I stand behind

the cash register (what’s 20.01-4.76?).

More than anything, I have learned the

value of a dollar and the inestimable

power of everyone who stands behind a

counter and makes your food.

Having served and scooped for mini-

mum wage for two years, I am starting

to see the horrors of the food service in-

THE HEIGHTS Monday, April 25, 2016 A8

think about the idea of being student-body

president,” Simons said. Even people who

aren’t in UGBC must think about it, they said.

But it’s also a natural byproduct of having been

in the organization for a long time, having lots

of friends in it, and feeling like they can do the

best job of running it.

Th e position of the president is generally

considered the top spot, but the two view them-

selves as equals. McCaff rey wanted to be EVP

because it allows her to run the Student Assem-

bly (SA), which she thinks needs some changes,

having spent two years in it. For example, two

months ago she helped pass a resolution to

reduce the size of the SA from 50 members to

35. She said that in her time in UGBC, the SA

has only had 30 to 35 active members.

Wait, some people run and get elected and

don’t show up?

“Yeah, essentially,” she said. Th at says a lot

about what they’re up against.

Simons and McCaff rey are both from

New York, he from Larchmont and

she from Lockport, opposite ends of

the state. Simons studies biology and hopes

to go to medical school. He’s doing a medical

humanities minor, too, which he said helps

give him a perspective on the day-to-day,

human aspect of medicine that the sciences

don’t quite provide. McCaff rey is a political

science major and plans on going to law school

after graduation, though she spent last fall in

Geneva studying international relations.

Simons said that in high school, he

couldn’t have been less interested in student

government.

“I didn’t think that the students had a

voice in anything beyond a nominal pres-

ence,” he said.

But that changed when he got to BC.

He joined the UGBC Leadership Academy

(ULA), a program for about 40 freshmen

that has a competitive admissions process,

and said he fell in love with giving back to the

organization and the ability UGBC gave him

to make change on campus. He’s stuck with

it ever since.

Simons and McCaff rey are exceedingly

sure of themselves. Th ey were almost too cool

when we talked, chilling in Hillside with break-

fast as I tried to wake myself up. Th ey were ar-

ticulate and candid. Mark Miceli, an associate

director in the Offi ce of Student Involvement,

called Simons pragmatic. Hussey called them

both charismatic. I feel that.

“Russell seems super type-A, but he’s really

approachable,” said Kyle McCormick, MCAS

’17, who ran outreach eff orts for the campaign

and is one of Simons’ roommates. “He’s mega-

competent. … He’s one of those people who

gets 600 likes on his profi le picture.”

Speaking of Facebook, they ran a pretty

slick online campaign. One shot on their

site’s home page has the whole team hanging

out on the Million Dollar Stairs, looking like

an album cover for a preppy, up-and-coming

folk band.

McCormick’s job as the outreach coordi-

nator was mostly based on social media, so

maybe he’s to credit for that. Th ey had a pretty

good handle going into it on the networks and

friend groups in the junior and senior classes—

and besides, he said, the seniors for the most

part don’t care—so he and the team tried to

pinpoint freshmen and sophomores who they

thought had large and diverse networks and

could spread the word quickly. McCormick’s

ideal model was having supporters in a lot of

group chats encouraging other students to

vote for Simons and McCaff rey, to change

their profi le pictures, and to come help out at

dorm hours, when candidates campaigned in

residence halls.

“It’s not my speed to be so camp coun-

selor-ish, and I had to send all these emails

to 300 people, but I wound up loving it,” Mc-

Cormick said.

According to Hussey, part of Simons’ and

McCaff rey’s appeal was that they have big roles

in UGBC but also outside it, where McCaf-

frey, for example, was in the Emerging Leader

Program (ELP) as a freshman. McCormick

called ELP a “huge untapped network,” which

is weird considering that it’s just 50 students.

But they know people. Combine that with the

freshmen in ULA, another target group, and

that’s a lot of underclassman networks.

That all sounds perfect, but let’s just

throw this out there: it’s probably

not going to be very easy for them.

Th e extended length of the election means

they have four weeks to do what incoming

administrations usually do in eight or 10. More

importantly, Simons and McCaff rey inherit a

UGBC that is somewhat uncertain and con-

cerned about its current role on campus. Th e

length of the election also means that turnout

was extremely low: just 2,592 students voted,

down from 3,411 last year, and 4,332 two years

ago. Lots of people seem uninterested, and

some, like Anthony Perasso, LSOE ’17, who

ran a satirical campaign, are openly opposed

and calling for some changes to the system.

When I talked to Hussey last week, she said

fi xing student disillusionment is something

UGBC has to be focused on.

“In my three years here nobody has ever

said, ‘UGBC is so awesome, we love all the

work that you do,’” she said. She paused for a

second. “I think that’s also part of the deal that

goes into it, that people who do UGBC aren’t

doing it for the recognition in the fi rst place.”

Simons thinks about students’ disinterest

a lot like Hussey does. Th ey both said the rea-

son turnout was so low was the length of the

election season and the number of candidates:

it’s always a little more high-stakes when two

teams are going at it, rather than six.

Th ey also both acknowledged that there

may be more to it. Simons said fi xing disin-

terest is about communication, making sure

students know that some of the good things

that get done on campus are UGBC initia-

tives. McCaff rey cited healthy food at late

night and the bus to the Chestnut Hill Mall

as projects that students don’t give UGBC

enough credit for.

“I think many would argue that we’re doing

almost too many things on campus,” Simons

said. Next year they hope to make clear connec-

tions between initiatives to give students a bet-

ter sense of goals and themes.

Another issue is the potential that, because

Simons and McCaffrey come from within

UGBC, perception of the organization will

continue to be that it is ineffi cient and insular.

Th eir slick social media might not help them

out much on that front.

“Th roughout their campaign they were

struggling to seem less establishment-ish, just

because they were the favorites and they’re

polished,” McCormick said.

But Perasso tried to run a campaign, with

Rachel Loos, MCAS ’18, that made fun of that

establishment vibe and argued that UGBC

wastes some of its $328,000 budget, and look

what happened: they didn’t make it through

the primary. Simons and McCaff rey got al-

most twice as many votes as the runners-up.

It seems like people aren’t anti-UGBC—lately,

anyway, they’re over UGBC. Th ey won’t vote

against it, but they won’t vote for it, either.

And Simons and McCaff rey see that.

“I don’t think students have much reason

to believe the elected leadership at this point,”

Simons said. “[Being insiders] doesn’t mean

that we’re okay with the way everything’s been

done.”

Adam Rosenbloom, co-chair of the Elec-

tions Committee (EC) and MCAS ’16, said

that it’s generally true that students who are

more involved are the ones who vote—hence

the coveted ELP/ULA bloc. Maybe they feel

more invested in UGBC’s goals. It’s also true

that participation decreases as students get

older—last year, 1,004 sophomores, 840 ju-

niors, and just 419 seniors voted.

It’s unclear why. Students might get more

apathetic over time, Rosenbloom suggested,

feeling like UGBC plays a smaller and smaller

role in their lives as they get closer to gradu-

ation. He said there isn’t much the EC can do

to increase interest. After a certain number

of emails and a certain number of town hall

meetings and debates, people stop showing

up.

The biggest obstacle Simons and

McCaffrey face might be the

administration. Their platform

includes a sexual health initiative, which they

say is a refl ection of BC’s Jesuit values and

should be considered part of cura personalis,

educating and caring for the whole person.

One of the goals of the initiative is to make

sexual health pamphlets readily available in

University Health Services. Hussey said that,

as with a lot of complicated issues, getting the

whole plan approved would be tough. Th at’s

part of the job.

“It is really diffi cult to make change, and

change on any college campus in general

happens slowly,” she said. “You just have to

focus on what can you accomplish in one year

and also what bigger things you can move the

needle on.”

Simons and McCaff rey have to be okay, in

other words, with sowing seeds for the long

term. In the past, like with this year’s admin-

istration led by Hussey and Th omas Napoli,

UGBC president and MCAS ’16, some issues

have gotten off the ground too fast. One of

the biggest focuses for Napoli and Hussey is

a comprehensive free-expression policy that

would create more avenues for unregistered

groups to have a presence on campus—un-

registered groups can’t put up fl yers or reserve

meeting space. It passed through the SA, and

then stalled going through the approval pro-

cess in the Offi ce of the Dean of Students.

“I think [the free-expression policy] was

one of those cases where we probably needed

to have a lot more dialogue before the policy

was put out,” said Vice President for Student

Aff airs Barb Jones, who oversees the offi ce.

Simons and McCaff rey hope to keep that

conversation going, and Jones said she’ll be

having breakfast with them every other week

next year to talk. Th ey both said that BC Look-

ing Forward, a dinner hosted by UGBC and

administrators to discuss student concerns, is

a good fi rst step. But the key is action, Simons

said. As UGBC president and EVP, he and

McCaff rey will make four presentations next

year to a group from the Board of Trustees,

though Simons said they’ve historically led to

few concrete changes.

“It’s hard to say what’s gone on after those

conversations,” he said. Th ey’d like to meet

with University President Rev. William P.

Leahy, S.J., who hasn’t met with UGBC in

the past year. One of their goals is to improve

students’ perception of the administration and

try to be a bridge between the two.

McCormick said that on one hand, Si-

mons wants to be progressive and push the

University on diffi cult issues, while on the

other hand, his roles on campus make him

very well-known to administrators, and he

might hesitate to clash with them. Navigat-

ing that balancing act will be tricky, but they

can do it.

“If someone’s gonna find that middle

ground, it’s gonna be them,” McCormick

said.

Maybe that experience and confi dence are

what it’s all about, kind of like running down

Comm. Ave. at Mile 21—a couple miles to go

before you cross the fi nish line, with a few goals

in mind, a lot of road behind you, and (at least

some) students cheering you on.

McSimons, from A1

into the jungle and delivered to the leaders of

RAFC. Th ey all sat around a table, wearing

masks and holding guns.

Despite the risks, he knew that the most

productive way to address the drug issue was to

start conversations with the drug lords.

Th e third characteristic for a good leader is

confi dence, he said. Pablo Escobar, then the big-

gest leader of the drug cartels in Colombia and

one of the wealthiest men in the world, killed

400 people personally and 1,400 indirectly.

Before Arango was president, he was a

journalist who supported the government

crackdown on the cartel. Since he began work as

a journalist in 1982, he had received numerous

death threats from Escobar.

“Th e only thing people feared at the time

was extradition to the United States,” he said.

Th e Colombian government decided to

begin punishing cartel members who fought

extradition. In response, the cartel began to

target, kill, and kidnap politicians. Arango was

kidnapped in 1988 and put in a small jail. It was

during this time that he met Escobar.

“He said he was going to kill me, and so we

had a long conversation—a six-hour conversa-

tion,” he said.

During the conversation, he tried to instill

confi dence in Escobar. When Escobar went to

leave, he told the guards to give Arango any-

thing he wanted but that if he tried to escape,

they should shoot him.

Escobar told him that on Friday he was go-

ing to kidnap the attorney general of Colombia.

Th ey wanted to release a photo of the president

and the attorney general handcuff ed to show

the cartel’s power.

A week later, the authorities showed up,

but Arango thought that his kidnappers would

kill him before they were taken by the police.

When one of the kidnappers came in, he told

the president that he was his “insurance policy”

and would not shoot him.

In all of the commotion, Arango was able

to escape from the jail. He later learned that

the men fl ed to the Amazon rainforest just

after he left.

“If I had stayed there another three or four

minutes I don’t know if I would have survived,”

he said. Th e last essential characteristic of a

good leader is communication, he said.

Before social media, getting his message

out to the general public was much harder. By

traveling to Venezuela and talking with the lo-

cal people, he said, he was able to learn about

the humanitarian crisis for the fi rst time. After

discovering the need that existed in the country,

he set out to educate others on the crisis.

He attributes the power of communica-

tion to the improvements in Venezuela since

his visit. He also decided to make a digital

presidential library available to the public. Th e

site includes photos of his family, videos, and

other personal documents. He then built a

large library with documents and books about

history and Colombian politicians.

“All of you are here listening to my stories

and that shows a lot about you—the great

leaders that you’re going to be in the future,”

Arango said.

talent portion of the show.

“Th e pants one,” he recalled decisively when ques-

tioned about his biggest threat. “Th at was so impressive

because practicing standup is one thing, but practicing

putting your pants on without hands is unheard of.”

Building off of this success, another make-or-break

moment in the show was professionally handled with

elegance by the future Mr. BC—the swimsuit portion.

“I told myself I was going go to the Plex for the

whole week,” explained Oliva of his preparation, along

with listening to the original Superman theme several

times. “I went for the fi rst two days, and I was like, ‘No

I’m not doing this’.”

Th e solution? Own it.

“I fi gured I might as well own up to what you’ve

got and make a joke of it, instead of go in serious and

have this weird dad-bod,” admitted Oliva with a touch

of pride.

Th ough his fi rst foray into the standup comedy

genre, Oliva has ambitions to take his newfound

talents farther and perform in the future. Adjust-

ing his crown and meditating on the experience

briefl y, Oliva refl ected on the experience of

standup comedy as an exercise in vulner-

ability as well.

“So often, people, myself included,

can be like, ‘Wow, that guy sings poorly,’

or, ‘Wow, his jokes are terrible,’” he

explained. “After doing Mr. BC, I

can step back and realize that you

shouldn’t rush to some review of a

performance without consider-

ing that what they are doing on

stage takes so much courage.

So I want to give a big shout

out to all the other contes-

tants—I tip my hat.”

Th is victory for Olivia

is, in a lot of ways, a vic-

tory for virtue. Th ough

my personal knowledge

of the male beauty pag-

eant landscape is fairly

limited, I can’t imagine

that many characters

as genuine as the new

Mr. BC emerge victo-

rious from competi-

tions of this nature.

In fact, Oliva has

a hard time believ-

ing he is Mr. BC himself.

“Its funny because I’m not that involved on campus,”

Oliva responded when asked about how he felt with

regards to this new title. “I try to be nice to everybody,

so I have a good amount of friends and stuff . But, over-

whelmingly, people don’t really know me.”

For now, however, the title of Mr. BC will have to

fi t—and deservedly so. When asked if the newly coro-

nated Mr. BC had plans for the future, Oliva burped,

excused himself graciously, and answered graciously.

“Mr. BC is going to make the other people at BC feel

like they can be Mr. BC,” he said with an impish smile.

“Yeah, that’s a great quote.”

Mr. BC, from A5Arango, from A1

AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS EDITOR

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana Arango talked to students about leadership.

INSIDE SPORTS TU/TD...................................B2Sports in short............................B2Baseball.................................B3THIS ISSUE

SPORTS B1

MONDAY, APRIL 25, 2016

To the untrained eye, it looks like

a good thing. That is, if you hate Jim

Harbaugh.

I can understand if you do. This

man is brash, cocky, fearless, some-

times mouthy, and, worst of all,

the leader of the Michigan Wolver-

ines—a program that I am obligated

to remind you has won one national

championship since full integration,

(1997) yet whose fans act as if they are

the kings and queens of the college

football world. The way he screams at

officials and pouts up and down the

field is irritating to an unreal level.

And Harbaugh himself hasn’t even

won anything yet!

It’s Harbaugh’s recruiting that gets

under the skin of most people in the

college football world. He accepted a

challenge to climb a tree. He has slept

over the house of a kicker who had

already committed to Penn State. Hell,

he even Netflixed and Chilled with a

4-star recruit! No, not the kind you

might (hope to) do when your Walsh

8-man is empty. The actual one. With

cookies and milk.

Nothing pisses off college football’s

establishment more than Harbaugh’s

insistence to set up satellite camps

across the country to sell the already

well-known Michigan brand. But,

while they cannot control Harbaugh’s

individual actions, the old and cranky

men who run the sport—namely,

those from the Southern schools—

could shut him down.

About two weeks ago, a slight ma-

jority of the FBS conferences—name-

ly, the SEC, ACC, Big 12, Pacific-12,

Mountain West, and Sun Belt—voted

to permanently ban satellite camps,

against the wishes of Harbaugh and

the Big Ten, American Athletic,

Conference-USA, and Mid-American.

(Note that the Pac-12 claims its repre-

sentative voted incorrectly.) The ban

means that all conferences will likely

follow the rules of the ACC and SEC,

in which, even when invited, coaches

could not step outside a 50-mile ra-

dius of campus.

Naturally, Harbaugh was upset.

So were several other coaches, even

ones in the ACC. Wake Forest’s Dave

Clawson said that the camps only help

his program, which, despite playing

in talent-rich North Carolina, isn’t as

nationally known.

“I don’t think we should do any-

thing that makes us less competitive

nationally,” Clawson said last year,

when legislation was first proposed.

Notre Dame athletic director Jack

Swarbrick echoed Clawson’s state-

Pitching for Boston College softball

has been one of its consistent strengths

all season. Coming into its weekend

series against North Carolina State,

sophomore Allyson Frei ranked fourth

in the Atlantic Coast Conference in

strikeouts with 139, and eighth in the

conference in opponent’s batting aver-

age at .230.

Sophomore Jessica Dreswick ranked

sixth in the conference in ERA at 2.22.

Those two have shouldered the bulk of

the innings for the Eagles so far, and

while the BC season has been up and

down, you can always expect Dreswick

and Frei to give a quality outing.

Sometimes, that quality outing ends

up being something special. Through-

out the whole season Dreswick has been

confusing batters and making them look

silly through her repertoire of pitches,

but she herself had been eluded by a

goal that every pitcher hopes to ac-

complish.

That is, until Saturday, when Dres-

wick pitched the first no-hitter in con-

ference play in BC (24-20, 7-8 Atlantic

Coast) history against NC State (21-29,

4-14), the highlight of the Eagles’ week-

end sweep of the Wolfpack.

The Wolfpack did manage to get

five baserunners against Dreswick off

of walks, but she was not flustered

and shut down any opportunity that

NC State managed to muster. She kept

the Wolfpack batters off-balance with

an impressive mix of speed and loca-

tion, and the Eagles played an errorless

defense to back up the best pitching

performance of the season.

The Eagles finished the sweep on

Sunday, beating NC State 5-2 behind

another impressive pitching perfor-

mance from Frei. Eight out of the nine

BC starters recorded hits, and the

Eagles exploded for four runs in the

top of the second after falling behind

early, 2-0.

Freshman Danielle Thomas walked

to force in the first run for BC, and Lo-

ren DiEmmanuele and Allyson Moore

followed across the plate on a throw-

ing error. Thomas then scored on a

groundout from Murphy. This was all

Frei needed, as she kept the Wolfpack

See Satellite Camps, B4

If someone told you before this past

weekend that Boston College baseball

would take two of three games from the

No. 4 team in the

country, anyone

would be thrilled.

Well, that’s just what happened—BC won

its weekend series against the University

of Louisville, No. 4 in the country. Despite

that, though, a disappointing 6-4 loss on

Sunday left a sour taste in the Eagles’

mouths.

The Eagles (21-15, 7-12 Atlantic Coast)

might have fallen to the Cardinals (31-9,

14-7) 6-2 in the final game of their three-

game series, but they still took the series

with two wins on Friday and Saturday.

So while BC head coach Mike Gambino

was disappointed with Sunday’s result,

he took positives away from the series as

a whole.

“Ultimately, looking back on the week-

end, two out of three is great,” Gambino

said following the loss. “But right now, I’m

thinking about the fact that we just lost a

baseball game.”

Junior Mike King had an unusually

poor start against the Cardinals, as he

didn’t make it through five innings. Over

a dozen scouts were in attendance to

watch King duel with opposing starter

Kyle Funkhouser, who is projected to be a

late-first- or early-second-round pick in

the 2016 MLB First-Year Player Draft. On

this occasion, Funkhouser had the upper

hand. King had problems locating his

fastball throughout the start, as he walked

three batters, beaned another, and threw

two wild pitches.

King was yanked immediately after

giving up a home run to shortstop Devin

Hairston for the fifth run of the game, but

the bullpen settled down nicely to keep

the Eagles in it. Lefty Zach Stromberg

threw two innings of relief surrendering

only a run, and freshman John Witkowski

tossed the final 2 2/3 innings to keep the

Cardinals at bay.

In his best outing of the season, Wit-

kowski was excited by the team’s perfor-

mance over the weekend and the promise

that the young arms of the bullpen showed

in the defeat.

“A loss is a loss, but looking at the

weekend as a whole, it was very good for

us,” Witkowski said. “We won the series,

and we’re taking that as a positive going

into this week.”

Though it was going to be very tough

for the Eagles to sweep a team as good as

Louisville anyway, they didn’t do them-

selves any favors with a number of mental

gaffes in the field and on the bases.

With a runner on first base and nobody

out in the top of the fourth inning, Louis-

ville’s Danny Rosenbaum hit a screaming

line drive directly at Gabe Hernandez in

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DRESWICK DEALS Jessica Dre-

swick threw BC softball’s fi rst-

ever ACC no-hitter on Saturday,

but somehow she fi nished the

weekend with a higher ERA

than she started with. How?

She allowed four earned runs in

two relief appearances over the

series’ fi nal two games.

HE KNOWS HOW TO SCORE Bird-

ball’s Nick “Scors” Sciortino has

been on a tear as of late, scoring

seven runs in his last six games.

Over that stretch, the junior

catcher also has nine hits—in-

cluding his first career home

run—and four RBIs.

ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS - Sal-

ary details revealed this week for

BC’s coaches showed Jerry York

nearly doubled his paycheck

in 2014-2015, raking in about

$1.2 million. With 45 years of

coaching experience, 1,012

career wins, and fi ve national

championships, it’s safe to say

he has earned his share.

SENIOR-DAY DOWNER - After

building a 7-3 halftime lead

behind strong play from the

team’s six seniors, BC lacrosse

surrendered six straight goals

to Johns Hopkins before fi nally

losing 12-9 in the regular season

fi nale. Not the best way to send

off the squad’s seniors, but at

least they got some delicious

food at the postgame banquet.

SPRING SPORT DIVERSITY - The

weather’s fi nally becoming per-

fect for spring sports, but there’s

not enough athletic action going

on at the moment—especially if

you’re not a baseball fan. How

about some soccer, or football,

or outdoor streetball to satisfy

our spring sports desires?

NO LOVE FOR SCOTTY - Birdball’s

Scott Braren has come up clutch

for the Eagles on multiple occa-

sions this year, and sports a .476

average in 21 at bats this year.

But therein lies the problem:

Gambino has only given him

21 at bats. Maybe it’s time for

him to escape his pinch-hit-

ting role.

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Coaches from the four Beanpot schools presented Pete Frates with a $5,000 check before last week’s game.

BASEBALL

Ten years ago, Boston College

baseball needed a spark.

Th e team had gone 34-20 in

its fi nal season in the Big East the

year before, but started just 4-11

against ACC opponents. With

a 6-5 win over the University

of Connecticut, BC moved one

game above .500, but a diffi cult

schedule the rest of the way

threatened to give the Eagles

their first losing record since

1998.

Th en, on April 25, 2006, BC

took on Harvard in the Beanpot

Championship. Eagles’ starter

Ted Ratliff allowed two runs in

the fi rst inning, putting the team

in an early hole, but BC struck

back. Th e team put up four runs

in the second and a total of 10

in the game, while Ratliff settled

down for a complete game three-

hitter, striking out nine along the

way. But no one shined like Pete

Frates.

Th e junior soon-to-be captain

of the Eagles went 4-4 on the day,

tallying four RBIs and blasting a

home run out of Fenway Park. It

wasn’t even Frates’ best career

game—that more likely came in a

game the next year, when he went

4-6 with a grand slam, three-run

homer, and eight total RBIs—but

it was no doubt one of his most

memorable.

“I haven’t had a 4-4 day since

high school,” Frates said after

that game.

Since then, life has changed

for Frates and his family, who

learned of his diagnosis of amyo-

trophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

in March 2012. Yet, that hasn’t

meant the Beanpot has became

any less important in their lives.

Pete’s parents, Nancy and John,

both came out to Northborough,

Mass. this past Wednesday to

watch BC beat Northeastern for

the program’s 12th champion-

ship in the 26-year history of the

tournament.

“It’s kind of a melancholy

night for us,” Nancy said before

the game. “We’re excited that BC

is in the championship, we fol-

low the Beanpot every year. Th e

fact that 10 years ago, Pete was

scoreless for the remaining six

innings. Junior Taylor Coroneos

scored an insurance run on a

wild pitch for the fifth run of

the game.

While the story of the day on

Saturday was Dreswick’s no-hit-

ter, Frei also came in clutch in

the second game of the double-

header. Dreswick started the

second game, but the Wolfpack

appeared to figure her out early,

scoring two quick runs. Frei

came in and tossed 6 2/3 innings

of scoreless and hitless relief.

The Wolfpack only had two hits

over the doubleheader, as BC’s

pitching was dominant for all

14 innings.

The offense took a while to

get going during game two on

Saturday, but scored three runs

in the fifth inning, starting with

a home run from Jessie Daulton

to left-center field. Moore and

DiEmmanuele followed with RBI

singles that scored Tatiana Cor-

tez and Chloe Sharabba respec-

tively. The Eagles added a fourth

run in the top of the seventh on a

Cortez home run. Daulton went

6-8 with a home run, a triple,

five RBIs, and four runs scored

throughout the day, and Cortez

went 4-7 with a home run, three

RBIs, and two runs scored.

In game one on Saturday, the

Eagles broke through in the top

of the fifth after four innings

of scoreless softball from both

teams. Daulton ripped a single to

left center that scored DiEmman-

uele, followed by Cortez, who

drew a bases-loaded walk that

forced Thomas home. Sharabba

knocked in Daulton on a line-

drive single to left-center field.

Cortez homered in the top of the

seventh to make it 4-0, more than

enough for Dreswick.

On Thursday, BC faced off

against a tough UMass softball

team, and were unable to come

up with a win. Errors were the

deciding factor, as the Eagles

made a key error in the fifth

inning that allowed the Minute-

women to go ahead for good.

UMass struck first powered

by a two-run home run from

outfielder Tara Klee off starter

Jordan Weed in the bottom of

the first inning. The Eagles were

held scoreless for the first three

innings, but fought back to tie

the game in the fourth. Cortez

hit a leadoff double, and was then

singled in by Jordan Chimento.

DiEmmanuele pinch ran for

Chimento and later scored on a

single by Moore.

The Minutewomen scored

again in the fifth inning to take

the lead back. Jena Cozza led off

with a walk, and was followed by

a single to left field from Taylor

Carbone. BC rightfielder Murphy

misplayed the ball, which allowed

Cozza to score the go-ahead run

from first. UMass scored again in

the bottom of the sixth, and the

Eagles were unable to capitalize

despite out-hitting the Minute-

women nine to seven.

The Eagles’ dominant pitch-

ing performance this past week-

end against a solid NC State team

will hopefully lend even more

momentum to them as they enter

their last games of the season and

the ACC Tournament. It will be

hard to bet against them if Frei

and Dreswick continue pitching

like they have been.

standing there with the iconic

Beanpot over his head—every

kid’s dream. A lot has happened

in 10 years.”

Frates couldn’t make the game

this past Wednesday since his

health makes it diffi cult to travel,

but his impact is still present. All

proceeds from the $10 tickets to

the game went to benefi t the Pete

Frates No. 3 Fund. Before the

championship game, the coaches

of the four schools in the Bean-

pot—BC, Harvard, Northeastern,

and the University of Massachu-

setts—presented Pete’s parents

with a check from the New Eng-

land Baseball Complex for $5,000

toward ALS research.

Although $5,000 is barely a

drop in the $115 million bucket

raised by the Ice Bucket Chal-

lenge in 2014, it isn’t all about the

money. Th e biggest inspiration

for the Frates family’s eff ort has

been the fact that before Pete was

diagnosed, they had no idea what

ALS was.

“As Pete calls it, we’re the cool

disease now,” Nancy said. “We

knew we couldn’t raise money

unless people really understood

[what it was] ... So, the fact that

the Ice Bucket Challenge not only

raised all that money, but people

know what ALS is now. They

know the unacceptable situation

of this disease, that for 75 years

had no progress. Well, we’re here

to tell you that there has been

tremendous progress. Since the

Ice Bucket Challenge, lightning-

speed progress.”

Nancy said that three months

ago, top doctors in the field of

ALS had met in Boston and

announced that they expect a

treatment within four to five

years. Much of their fundraising

right now is focused on getting

in a position to spread a treat-

ment when it is found—and

many involved are optimistic it

will be soon.

“We’re hoping by the 10th

anniversary of Pete’s diagnosis,

they’re doing things to help cure

ALS, and maybe we can stop

having these ALS games,” BC

head coach Mike Gambino said.

“That’s the goal. Doing all this

stuff for ALS is not something

we hope is with our program.

We’re hoping in 10 years people

say, remember when we used to

have to make ALS a cause and

now it’s gone?”

His impact has also been

spreading around college base-

ball. One of the family’s’ latest

projects, Band Together to Strike

Out ALS, has been to encourage

ACC teams to wear wristbands

for a weekend in May that reads

“STRIKE OUT ALS,” with a

small “PF3” in tribute to Pete.

Even though Pete can’t travel

with the team to every game as

he did for the first couple years

after his diagnosis, the play-

ers still recognize Nancy and

John, and they’ll still exchange

tight hugs whenever the family

shows up.

“I mean, that’s family,” Gam-

bino said. “It’s hard to explain

how much that means.”

After the game, senior Logan

Hoggarth, who went 2-3 with

a homer in his final Beanpot,

spoke with confidence about

BC’s future in the Boston.

“I know they’ll keep winning

the Beanpot,” he said. “We’ll

never give it back.”

Frates could hardly have said

better himself how important

winning the Beanpot is for Bird-

ball—after that game for 10 years

ago, sometime after hoisting the

trophy above his head, he wrote

about how thrilled he was to be

“bringing the Beanpot back to

BC, where it belongs.”

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left field.

A hard-hit ball directly at you is one

of the toughest to read off the bat. Her-

nandez learned that the hard way. He

took a few hard steps in before freezing

as the ball sailed over his head and off

the bottom of the wall. The run scored

from first, the Cardinals added another

run in the inning, and Hernandez was

pulled in favor of freshman Dominic

Hardaway in the next inning.

On the bases, BC was picked off first

base twice. The first time, Johnny Ad-

ams had just reached first on a single to

right field, but Funkhouser caught him

leaning. He faked a throw to third base

before wheeling around and gunning

Adams at first to end the BC rally.

Gambino is never one to defend

baserunning mistakes by his players,

but he went to bat for Adams following

the game.

“I think it was a balk,” Gambino said.

“I’ll defend Johnny on that one. The

umpires didn’t think so, but we’ll agree

to disagree.”

The second occasion, however, had

Gambino much less accepting of the

mistake.

Logan Hoggarth led off the bottom

of the seventh inning with a walk, and

the Eagles were looking to string togeth-

er a few hits in a row off of new pitcher

Anthony Kidston. With Hardaway at the

plate, Kidston threw a pitch in the dirt

that catcher Will Smith blocked, but the

ball settled a step or two away from him.

Hoggarth took an aggressive lead off

of first base, and Smith threw a dart to

Rosenbaum at first to nab Hoggarth.

Though Hardaway eventually struck

out, BC loaded the bases later in the in-

ning, only for Louisville to escape the

jam unharmed yet again.

“Logan’s [baserunning error] can’t

happen,” Gambino said.

With the remainder of its schedule

against local non-conference opponents

and lower-tier ACC opponents, the

Eagles have a chance to string together

enough wins to make some noise in the

ACC Tournament—and, perhaps, the

NCAA Tournament. If the series against

Louisville is any indication, the Birds

might be getting hot at just the right

time. Sunday’s result might have been

a single step back, but the series overall

was a few steps forward.

Clutch players shine in big moments. With

runners on first and third in the bottom of the

ninth inning, Nick Sciortino knew that he was

in a big moment.

He capitalized,

blasting a base hit

up the middle for the game-winning run. In

a low-scoring game with few opportunities,

Sciortino didn’t let his moment slip away.

For the second day in a row, Boston Col-

lege baseball (21-14, 7-11 Atlantic Coast)

shocked No. 4 Louisville (30-9, 13-7). This

time, the final score was 2-1 after Sciortino’s

walk-off single.

The first four innings were a scoreless

pitcher’s duel between BC’s Justin Dunn and

Louisville’s Drew Harrington. Dunn, a former

relief pitcher, started to get tired and allowed

Danny Rosenbaum to crush a home run

over the left-field wall in the fifth inning. The

fastball was a bit more elevated than Dunn

probably would have liked, and Rosenbaum

made him pay.

“We’re still stretching him out a little bit,”

head coach Mike Gambino said about Dunn

after the game. “You could see him starting

to tire in that last inning. Fastball started

coming up.”

The next crucial moment of the game

came in the top of the seventh inning. BC’s

offense was struggling mightily and surren-

dering an insurance run would have been

costly. Reliever Brian Rapp allowed Will Smith

to smash a ground ball right at third baseman

Gabe Hernandez to start the inning, who

made two phenomenal diving plays earlier in

the game. But on this one, Hernandez was a bit

off-balance, falling backward and attempting

to snare a scorcher that took a tough hop.

Smith took advantage of this opportunity

to get on base, stealing second base to put a

potential insurance run in scoring position

for the Cardinals. After Rosenbaum flew

out to right field, Louisville head coach Dan

McDonnell elected to send Colby Fitch to

the plate as a pinch hitter. During the at bat,

Smith advanced to third because of a passed

ball. Fitch ended up drawing a walk, but Rapp

struck out Logan Taylor with a tough breaking

ball on the outside corner. Taylor was visibly

frustrated with the call, sending a glare toward

home-plate umpire Olindo Mattia before

sauntering back to the dugout.

With runners on the corners and two outs,

Gambino sent right-handed relief pitcher

John Nicklas to the mound. Nicklas was very

careful with dangerous leadoff hitter Corey

Ray, making sure that he did not give him

anything good to hit. He walked Ray on five

pitches, opting to attack right-handed batter

Drew Ellis instead. After getting behind on the

count 2-0, Nicklas knew that he had to give

Ellis something to hit because the bases were

loaded. Ellis was sitting on the fastball and

drove it to deep left field. A grand slam would

have all but ended the Eagles’ chances, but

the ball did not carry far enough. Left fielder

Dominic Hardaway tracked it down to record

the final out and end the rally.

Through six innings, the Eagles had

managed a measly three hits off Harrington.

Logan Hoggarth began the seventh inning

with a base hit that just got past the shortstop.

Devin Hairston made a Derek Jeter-esque play

earlier on a similar ground ball, but this one

snuck by him as he attempted to make the

backhand play. The next batter, Hernandez,

laid down a sacrifice bunt to put the game-

tying run in scoring position. Gambino sent

pinch hitter Stephen Sauter to the plate, and

his ground ball to the shortstop allowed

Hoggarth to make it to third base. Hoggarth’s

speed and instincts were key on this play, as

many baserunners would have safely stayed

at second base. His efforts were rewarded, as

leadoff hitter Jake Palomaki laced the payoff

pitch into left-center to tie the game at one.

That full-count pitch, which was Harrington’s

101st, ended his outing.

Though Eagles had tied the game, they

were hungry for more. Jake Sparger entered

the game with a fresh arm, so continuing the

two-out rally was going to be difficult. When

Palomaki attempted to steal second base,

Smith threw the ball past the second baseman

and into center field. Palomaki advanced to

third on the play and stood 90 feet away from

giving BC the lead. Sciortino, no stranger to

big moments in this game, drew a walk on

five pitches. Michael Strem, the next batter,

hit a deep fly ball to left-center, but Taylor

was able to track it down. Strem got just a

bit under the ball, barely missing a potential

home run pitch.

In the top of the eighth inning, Louisville

responded to BC’s rally by putting together

a similar one. In fact, a sacrifice bunt and a

ground ball to shortstop which moved the

runner to third base occurred once again.

Gambino decided to start the inning with

left-handed relief pitcher Dan Metzdorf

because he liked the matchup against left-

handed hitter Brendan McKay. He worked a

full-count walk, but the fourth ball was close

to the strike zone, sending the BC crowd

into an angry frenzy. With a right-handed

hitter coming to the plate, Gambino replaced

Metzdorf with right-handed pitcher Bobby

Skogsbergh, who recorded the final six outs of

the game. After the sacrifice bunt and ground

ball out, Smith stepped up to the plate with

a runner on third and two outs. Smith had

been making solid contact all game, as he

had one single and two deep flyouts. This

time, however, he hit a slow ground ball to

shortstop. Johnny Adams charged the ball,

kept his glove down, and fired a throw to first

base that barely beat Smith.

Sparger got the best of the Eagles in the

eighth inning, quickly racking up two strike-

outs and a foul out to the third baseman. In

the ninth inning, Louisville threatened to

score the team’s second run again by putting

another runner in scoring position. Rosen-

baum started it off with a base hit to right

field. Ryan Summers was asked to lay down a

sacrifice bunt, but after failing twice, he struck

out swinging. Taylor followed with a sacrifice

bunt that moved Rosenbaum to second base.

Leadoff hitter Ray stepped up to the plate,

but Skogsbergh blew a fastball right by him

on the 1-2 pitch.

McDonnell sent right-handed reliever

Zack Burdi to the mound for the ninth inning.

Gambino countered by sending Scott Braren

to the plate as a pinch hitter. Gambino’s

strategic decision paid off, as Braren—who

came through in the clutch for BC twice

against defending national champion Virgin-

ia—smashed a ball that diving third baseman

Blake Tiberi couldn’t glove. Another pinch

hitter, Anthony Maselli, was sent to the plate,

but Burdi quieted the crowd a bit by record-

ing a three-pitch strikeout. Palomaki was the

next batter, and he ripped another huge base

hit in between the first and second basemen.

With runners on first and third, Sciortino

attempted a safety squeeze on the first pitch,

but he could not make contact with the ball.

Gambino decided to call off the play and let

Sciortino hit. He certainly delivered. The

base hit up the middle emptied the dugout,

as his teammates met Sciortino at first base

to celebrate.

“He always seems to get the big hit, you

know,” Gambino reflected. “Scorsy is the guy

you want in that big spot. We were looking

at a safety squeeze on that first one, and they

kinda crashed it so hard I said ‘Alright, go get

’em Scorsy.’”

Sciortino remained humble and grateful

after the game, giving credit to his teammates

for the win.

“It feels nice to get that hit, but props

to the pitching staff for keeping us in that

game,” he said.

BC baseball has gone through its fair share

of ups and downs this season. After taking

two games from Virginia, the Eagles were

swept by Notre Dame. Now, BC has taken two

games from one of the nation’s best teams and

has a chance for a sweep on Sunday. It will be

interesting to see if the Eagles can be consis-

tent and finish strong down the stretch in a

very difficult conference to try to earn their

first postseason berth since 2009.

With a runner on first, only one man out,

and black clouds rolling in, Louisville threat-

ened Boston College baseball in the seventh in-

ning. The Eagles

appeared to have

a commanding

five-run lead, and should have prepared to

coast for the remaining three frames. Yet when

you’re up against a lineup like the Cardinals,

whose one through six hitters all bat at least

.324—yeah, you heard me—there’s never an

opportunity to coast.

Unless you’ve got a battery like BC’s.

On a 3-2 count with the runner going,

the man on the mound kicked and delivered

a 92-mile-per-hour high heater that rung

up cleanup hitter—and Louisville’s starting

pitcher—Brendan McKay. Nick Sciortino, the

man behind the plate, leapt up and fired down

to second base. Johnny Adams slapped the tag

down on Devin Mann with a body length to

go before he reached the bag. Strike ’em out,

throw ’em out. Threat over.

Yes, there was a storm on its way to Chest-

nut Hill on Friday evening, and its name was

Jacob Stevens.

Riding high after a Beanpot victory over

Northeastern on Wednesday, BC put up its

best performance of the season thanks to its

freshman stud and some timely hitting. With

102 pitches and a career-high seven innings of

one-run ball—an unearned run, at that—Ste-

vens lifted the Eagles (20-14, 6-11 Atlantic

Coast) over No. 4 Louisville (30-8, 13-6) in a

6-1 final at Shea Field on Friday evening.

Typically, Stevens has stymied his oppo-

nents with an 88-to-90 mph fastball that can

clip both corners with ease. But with a Louisville

attack that ranks third in the nation (first in the

ACC) with 320 runs scored entering the day,

relying on one key pitch can’t cut it. Throughout

the week, Stevens worked with pitching coach

Jim Foster to refine his sharp, biting slurve,

complemented by a changeup that he has begun

to experiment with while at BC.

“Kid can just pitch,” head coach Mike

Gambino said following the game. “It’s fun to

watch, isn’t it?”

It’s not without a little bit of struggle.

Stevens, one of the nation’s leaders in WHIP,

rarely pitches with runners on. The Cardinals,

however, spread nine baserunners across

Stevens’ seven innings. No matter. Stevens

handled pitching from the stretch just as well,

helped by some slick plays from his infield-

ers. In fact, the only run of the game scored

because of a questionable call at first, in which

first-base umpire Olindo Mattia ruled Cronin

was off the bag (even though The Heights’ own

photographer’s shot says otherwise). And

after the game, Stevens was asked what was

working for him.

“Pretty much everything,” Stevens said of

his stuff. “It was a nice warm day, had all my

pitches going, so it was all good.”

The day truly belonged to the BC offense.

The Eagles have struggled of late at the plate.

BC has fallen into a tie for 219th in the coun-

try, with only 165 runs scored entering the

day—almost half of what Louisville has done

this year. Middle infielder and senior captain

Joe Cronin has the highest batting average

on the team in ACC play, a mere .250. And

if you add up the RBI numbers of BC’s top

three hitters—Jake Palomaki, Nick Sciortino,

and Michael Strem—they equal the output of

Louisville’s leadoff man, Corey Ray, alone.

From the get-go, BC was able to tee off

against McKay, Louisville’s ace. The left-hand-

ed sophomore with a 2.15 ERA, 7-1 record,

and impressive 73-to-22 strikeouts-to-walks

ratio simply couldn’t hit his spots. He con-

sistently missed on the outside corner with a

four-seam fastball that typically hits 94, but on

Friday only got to the 89-91 range. His erratic

throws led to 35 pitches in the first inning, in

which he allowed solid hits to Sciortino and

Strem and walked Cronin and Adams to force

in the game’s first run.

Given his inability to claim the outside cor-

ner, McKay was forced to move inside. Initially

it worked, but when he consistently had to stay

inside, the Eagles pounced. With the bases

loaded and one out in the third, Adams poked

a single to the outfield to score two. His team’s

ability to get on by spraying the ball around the

field or forcing McKay to throw a lot of pitches

was his key to the game.

“That was huge for us, just working counts,

stick to our approach, and trying to hit that

fastball,” Adams said.

For Gambino, it was the at bat immediately

after Adams’ that solidified BC’s place in this

game. As Gian Martellini, a catcher by trade,

danced on third, Logan Hoggarth lofted a fly

ball to right field on a 2-2 pitch. Louisville’s

Colin Lyman lined it up and fired home, yet

the tag by Colby Fitch was too late.

“If we don’t score there, not getting that run

would’ve changed things,” Gambino said.

With McKay done after five, the Eagles

turned their attention to getting insurance off

the Cardinals’ bullpen. That came in the sixth,

when BC used a mix of good hitting and small

ball to tack on two more off Sam Bordner. The

first came on a double by Palomaki that scored

Gabe Hernandez from first. The latter run came

after Palomaki stole third and Strem placed a

perfect safety squeeze to get him home.

With starters like Stevens and hitting

from the entire lineup, Gambino’s crew has

the perfect storm to go up against any team

in the ACC, even No. 4 Louisville. What the

Eagles now need to do is prove if they can use

that consistency to propel them to a berth

in the ACC Tournament for the first time

since 2009. If they play like they did on Friday

going forward, there’s reason to believe it’ll

happen.

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Six seniors took the field for

the last time at Boston College

on Saturday, as lacrosse finished

o f f i t s

regular

season

against Johns Hopkins in front

of a spirited crowd. This was

just the second time the two

teams have met, with the Eagles

taking the first-ever meeting in

last year’s season opener against

the Blue Jays.

BC came in riding a three-

game winning streak at the

most crucial point in the season.

With big wins previously com-

ing against Dartmouth, Virginia

Tech, and Harvard, the Eagles

appeared to be clicking at the

right time. But BC (10-7, 2-5

Atlantic Coast) faltered after a

strong start, falling 12-9 to the

Blue Jays (10-7).

The Eagles came out firing

in the first half on their way to a

7-3 lead at the break. Sarah Man-

nelly powered BC’s attack, as she

tallied a goal and three assists.

Seniors Kate Rich and Caroline

Margolis each tallied a point as

well for BC in their last game at

the Newton Lacrosse Field. Zoe

Ochoa held down the fort in goal

with five terrific saves in the first

half for BC. Ochoa’s play was

key in helping the Eagles stretch

their lead out to a four-goal

margin, despite the immense

pressure provided by the Blue

Jays’ attack in the first half.

BC carried its momentum

into the second half, as Tess

Chandler scored 3:28 in to make

it 8-3 Eagles. But Johns Hopkins

responded ferociously with three

unanswered goals, two coming

from Shannon Fitzgerald and the

third from Emily Kenul, making

it an 8-6 game with 20 minutes

remaining. The Eagles called a

timeout to gather themselves,

and Mannelly won the draw out

of the timeout, taking the ball

quickly all the way down the field

before Hopkins goalie Caroline

Federico denied her shot. This

short sign of life by the Eagles

was succeeded by two more

goals for the Blue Jays, making

it an 8-8 game with 16 minutes

remaining.

Just a minute later, Johns

Hopkins took its first lead, 9-8.

The veteran Mannelly responded

with an immediate goal to tie

the game once again, igniting

the crowd of Eagles’ faithful.

Fitzgerald silenced the crowd

with yet another goal for the Blue

Jays, sneaking a shot past Ochoa

in the upper right corner to make

it 10-9 with 12 minutes remain-

ing. Hopkins then added two

more goals, each coming from

Miranda Ibello, to stretch its

lead to 12-9 with seven minutes

remaining, forcing head coach

Acacia Walker to replace Ochoa

with Lauren Daly in net.

Looking to chip away at their

deficit, Carly Bell won a ground

ball for the Eagles, and they

controlled the ball deep in Johns

Hopkins’ zone. After throwing

the ball back and forth for close

to two minutes while looking

for a shooting lane to open up,

Mannelly finally fired a shot

on goal with 5:20 remaining in

the game. The ball went wide

and out of bounds, and Johns

Hopkins won back possession of

the ball. This was the Eagles’ last

chance to make it a game down

the stretch.

BC struggled mightily in the

second half, as its high-powered

offense was held to just two

goals. The game was lost in draw

controls, as Hopkins dominated

BC 14-9 on draws, resulting in

the Blue Jays controlling pos-

session for much of the game.

The Eagles were unable to get

anything going down the stretch,

with the ball in their defensive

zone for almost the entire last

15 minutes of the game.

Kenul was the key to Johns

Hopkins’ potent second-half

attack. The Brookeville, Md.,

native tallied three goals and

two assists on six shots. For the

Eagles, Mannelly was the star

as she scored two goals and

added two assists. Junior Kate

Weeks scored her 38th goal of

the season for BC, giving her the

team scoring title for the regular

season.

The Eagles will head down

to Blacksburg, Va., for the ACC

Tournament on Thursday, where

they will take on Syracuse on

Thursday at 5 p.m. on ESPN3.

They’ll look to strengthen their

resume for the NCAA tourna-

ment. But even as the No. 16

team in the nation, the Eagles

may need to do a little more work

in order to guarantee a spot in

the 26-team field.

ALEC GREANEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR

BC is heavily disadvantaged because of the NCAA’s ban. Someone tell that to Steve.

ments through the most basic

and classic reasoning: It’s another

reason that gives backing to the

national narrative that the NCAA

is a bunch of crooks. Preventing

coaches and student-athletes from

freely having an opportunity to go

on the open market and choosing

their school or players may open up

another round of antitrust suits.

If anyone should be leading

the outrage charge, it’s Steve

Addazio and Boston College

football.

(Note: Addazio has been

reached for comment and has not

yet responded by time of publica-

tion.)

Th ere’s a few reasons for this,

and it starts with proximity. As a

member of the ACC, Addazio has

already been burned by his inabil-

ity to stretch outside that 50-mile

mark thanks to the conference’s

self-imposition. Th e ACC does

this because, at its core, it’s a

Southern league with schools

smack dab in the middle of some

exclusive recruiting hotbeds. No,

they’re not from the big three—

Texas, California, and Florida,

save for Miami—but there’s still a

load of blue-chip talent in places

like North and South Carolinas,

Georgia, and even Western Penn-

sylvania.

Th at’s not the case in BC’s

50-mile radius. Th anks to SB

Nation’s Nebraska affi liate Corn

Nation, we can see exactly how

many recruits from 2002-14 fall

into that sweet spot.

Hint: it’s not many.

First, we must adjust for

Satellite Camps, from B1

“blue-chip recruits,” or those who

received a 4- or 5-star from some

arbitrary scaling system. Th ese

are the guys who are supposed

to make or break a program with

their incomparable amounts of

physical strength and athleticism

(A quick reminder that we are

rating 17-year-olds).

In some areas, there’s no prob-

lem in restricting coaches to that

50-mile radius because of how big

the talent pool is. If you examine

the radii around North Carolina’s

four ACC schools—Wake For-

est, Duke, North Carolina, and

North Carolina State—you’ll

fi nd that there were 27 blue-chip

recruits (20 were 4-stars, seven

were 5-stars). Down near Miami,

there were 22 blue chippers (fi ve

5-stars). Around Georgia Tech,

there were a whopping 41 who

qualifi ed (28 were 4s, 13 were

5s). Not all of them went to the

schools in their areas, but the

coaches there had easier access

to them.

Meanwhile, BC is screwed. In

its 50-mile radius, which stretch-

es as far west as Worcester, as far

north as Manchester, N.H., and

as far south as Providence, there

have only been 10 “blue-chip

prospects,” all of them 4-stars.

Of those 10, BC has successfully

recruited fi ve of them: Will Black-

mon, Albert Louis-Jean, Gosder

Cherlius, Jim Unis, and Mark

Spinney. Th e other fi ve were

snatched by Michigan, North

Carolina, Georgia, Vanderbilt,

and Maryland.

On the other hand, BC has

struggled in attacking entire

states in which ACC schools lie,

much less its direct radii. Th e

Eagles have only had four blue-

chip recruits come from the 50-

mile radius of another school in

the ACC. All four of them—John

Elliott, Will Th ompson, Steele

DiVitto and Brian Toal—came

within the reach of Rutgers, a

school that isn’t even in the con-

ference anymore. After that, BC

has stolen two blue chips in Penn-

sylvania and two in Virginia.

Now, let’s take a couple of

things away from that. Th ere

are some unavoidable factors

here that absolve BC of some

blame. Four of those fi ve schools

had to work under those rules

limiting coach travel (at the time,

Maryland was in the ACC). No

matter where you go, people are

going to know Michigan and

Georgia football. Moreover, we

can’t blame Addazio for any of

these shortcomings—none of

those blue chippers within the

wall were from the time when he

recruited at BC.

Yet Addazio’s strategy of a BC

coach building that wall around

Massachusetts and the New

England area isn’t one that was

unique to him. Th e truth is that

it’s hard to fi nd reason to build a

wall when there’s nothing to keep

inside.

Now, when you open it up

to 3-star recruits—which, mind

you, are a big dropoff in the

recruiting world—BC performs

a lot better given the amount of

solid prospects there are in New

England. Additionally, BC has

shown an ability to snag incred-

ibly talented 3-star recruits from

states in which ACC rivals reside.

For example, Andre Williams is

from Maryland, Harold Landry

from North Carolina, and Kamrin

Moore from Virginia. BC’s coach-

ing staff should be commended

for developing these players (and

others) into elite prospects.

But given that New England

high school football isn’t as highly

regarded in the national eye—nor

should it be—it’s hard to say how

these kids will perform going

up against players who spent

their time in the South or West

smashing each other. And relying

solely on a coaching staff without

mixing in the occasional elite and

natural talent can come back to

bite some players.

It’s Harbaugh’s main objec-

tion, however, that should be a

factor in Addazio’s argument.

Harbaugh’s brother, John, the

head coach of the Baltimore

Ravens, weighed in on that issue

to ESPN.com.

“What are we arguing

against?” the elder Harbaugh

said. “An opportunity for young

athletes to take a look at colleges

from other parts of the country,

especially those that aren’t in a

socio-economic situation where

they can travel all over the coun-

try with their parents and look at

schools.”

Th ese camps provide an op-

portunity for coaches from across

the country to access areas they’d

never get a foot in. It’s especially

helpful for ones that don’t have

as large a footprint. Perennial Big

Ten bottomfeeder Northwestern

and the MAC’s Ball State both

struggle to attract high-end

recruits. Yet when Northwestern’s

Pat Fitzgerald and Ball State’s Pete

Lambo spoke at a camp hosted

by Harbaugh in Ann Arbor, they

helped spread their message and

get to recruits that Michigan

might not be interested in.

Th at’s something that would

help BC greatly. Addazio has a

unique recruiting pitch shared

only by Northwestern and, in a

little more of a stretch, Stanford.

At BC, you can get a top-fl ight

education, better than many

other FBS schools, while still be-

ing in a large city and not a farm

village in rural Indiana.

Since so many of the best

recruits don’t live in the area, it’s

expensive for them to make the

trip to Boston. Giving Addazio

the opportunity to go down

South—or, honestly, even to

New Jersey, BC’s hottest and

most exclusive recruiting bed of

late—benefi ts the program and

the players who want to be seen

by as many recruits as possible.

Just ask the hundreds of players,

former and current, who have

tweeted out how ridiculous this

ruling is. It’s just information and

opportunity, that’s all. Th en again,

when has the NCAA ever taken

into account the well-being of its

players? (No, free Wi-Fi doesn’t

count.)

As a Northern school allied

with Southern schools by confer-

ence and forced to play under

their rules, Addazio and BC must

stand up for what’s good for

themselves. It’s the only way BC

will have any chance of making

the jump to becoming a great

program.

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Over the past 20 years, American so-

ciety’s obsession with the dead returning

to life has increased tenfold. Zombies are

at the forefront of pop culture, and there

is no greater evidence of this than the

coexisting television shows The Walking

Dead and Fear The Walking Dead. Unlike

the former, Fear The Walking Dead does

not have the benefit of prior source ma-

terial, meaning that it is blazing new plot

trails for AMC’s zombified empire. And

with the recently announced 43-percent

increase in viewership for the latest sea-

son of the show, it is easy to see why Fear

The Walking Dead has been renewed. Of

course, therein lies the big question: why

and how

d o e s i t

main-

tain such

a l a r g e

viewer

base?

The

answer to this question, unfortunately, is

difficult to uncover. It certainly does not

lie with the writing of the show, because

much like its big brother, The Walking

Dead, Fear struggles to offer a believable

skeleton story that fleshes out its charac-

ters. The spin-off explores the origins of

the living-dead apocalypse that wrecked

the world of The Walking Dead, but with

very little of the gumption normally of-

fered in the creations of Robert Kirkman,

the writer of The Walking Dead’s comics.

Fear The Walking Dead feels skewered

by its own normalcy, an ironic twist for

a television program seeking to depict

the very downfall of normalcy.

A perfect example of this paradox is

the plotline of the first episode of the

show—fleeing the apocalypse by boat.

Especially for a television show set in

Los Angeles, making a run for the coast

is not particularly compelling. Both

Walking Dead shows explore the lives of

characters rather than the world around

them. But still, there is no denying that

setting sail to flee the apocalypse is not

an original or interesting idea.

Perhaps, then, the popularity of the

show lies with its actors and actresses.

This is the more believable scenario—

AMC, for all its flaws, has an undeniable

knack for finding the best and brightest

of unknown talent. Cliff Curtis, playing

Travis Manawa, is arguably the star of

the show in terms of ability. Though

he does not maintain center stage with

much consistency, it is clear that his

acting prowess matches the higher elites

of Hollywood. Kim Dickens as Madison

Clark and Frank Dillane as Nick Clark

make strong backing performances as

well, proving once again that a strong

cast of characters may not save a show,

but they undoubtedly improve it.

Colman Domingo, as Victor Strand,

is the definite sleeper cell of Fear The

Walking Dead’s cast—known for his

work in Lincoln, Lee Daniels’ The Butler,

and Selma, Domingo is unaccustomed

to working on a television program, but

he makes the transition flawlessly. His

talent, combined with the refreshing

inclusion of many new cast members,

makes for a rather enjoyable cast all

around.

Those who are attentive to cinema-

tography will also find reason to keep

tuning in every Sunday. Though it

may not carry the visual mastery of its

predecessor, the color palette of Fear

The Walking Dead is still appealing.

Glowing yellows and oranges make for

a nice backdrop to the impending doom

of humanity. As it goes with visuals, so

it goes with music as well—the score of

Fear delivers in the highest degree.

Much like The Walking Dead, Fear

The Walking Dead has the inner work-

ings of a good show. Though the writ-

ing struggles a good deal, the minds

behind the magic are strong, meaning

that Fear very much has the potential

to become a household AMC classic.

As the situation currently stands, the

truest fans of the show will be the ones

already invested in the worldbuilding

of Kirkman’s original masterpiece, and

truthfully, this is an acceptable reality.

Pulling in 3.5 million viewers a night

is no small feat. Problems fester, how-

ever, if they are not solved. If Fear The

Walking Dead is ever to find success

like a litany of AMC’s programs that

have come before it, it must shore up

its errors in writing and originality, or

else it will go the way of the world it

depicts—straight into the fire.

Jerry Schilling needs to get home. His

girlfriend’s parents are going to be in L.A. in

the next couple hours, and he wants to ask her

father for his permission to marry her. He goes

to tell his buddy, Elvis Presley, that he can’t stay

in Washington, D.C., anymore. He needs to get

home now. Presley, coating his hair with black

hair spray,

is baffled

that his

friend

would

leave him

in his time

of need. In his calm, seductive tone, Presley

tries to explain to Schilling why he needs him

by his side.

“When people see you, they see Jerry,” said

Presley, “When they see me, they never see the

boy from Tennessee. Th ey see an object. Th ey

buried that boy Jerry. Th ey buried him in gold.

You see that boy, Jerry. I need you here.”

As time goes on, Presley continues to re-

cede into the memories of older and younger

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morous portrayal of Nixon, but Nixon only re-

ally serves as a vehicle to explore more of Elvis’

personality. Aside from their meeting, Nixon

is in the fi lm very little. Pettyfer does fi ne with

his part, but the fi lm doesn’t do a great job of

making audiences sympathize or care about

him getting back to his girlfriend. It’s still hard

to tell why Knoxville’s character is in the fi lm,

other than that there were two of Elvis’ friends

in the Oval Offi ce in a few pictures from that

day. Th e fi lm might have purposely left the

focus off of these supporting characters, but

this decision leaves the scenes without Shan-

non feeling immensely lackluster.

To say the least, Elvis & Nixon is a bizarre

fi lm. Running at under an hour and 30 minutes

and produced by Amazon Studios, the fi lm

feels like it should be found on the streaming

service’s web site, not in a movie theater. It

serves an interesting depiction of rock god

Presley, framing this engaging characteriza-

tion in a charming, yet unimportant moment

in history, which leaves Elvis & Nixon feeling

trivial. Elvis & Nixon would work well as an

Amazon short fi lm that one fi nds browsing

Amazon Prime on a Saturday morning, but for

viewers trekking out to a theater for the fi lm,

the movie seems barely worth the eff ort.

Michael Shannon brilliantly brings life to a man often overshadowed by his immense legacy.ELVIS AND NIXONAmazon Studios

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the spy craft that usually makes Th e Ameri-

cans a wee bit of fun. Spy stuff is fun, but the

show doesn’t seem to care for that side of the

equation anymore. Th e Americans is brutal

and stressful—a wallop to the gut and needle

inching its way through your eyeball in the best

way. And sometimes a nice car chase or bit of

spy craft set to Fleetwood Mac or Genesis can

be rewarding for the viewer.

In the beginning of the season, the Jen-

nings were forced to bring a sample of Glan-

ders (a horrible chemical weapon) into their

garage. It was a perfect metaphor to start the

season—Phillip and Elizabeth bringing poison

into the home. And much of the fun—maybe

not fun—tension of the season has been to

see how in even subtler ways the work Philip

and Elizabeth aff ects the home. And one has

been Phillip’s idealism. Can I be a good spy

and a good man? And the answer has been a

resounding no. And Martha is surely “the rat,”

the informant. But she’s also the tragic, unin-

tentional subject of Phillip’s trial-but-mostly-

error with this new way of living.

‘The Americans’ continues to amp up the tension as the KGB operatives’ covers begin to falter.THE AMERICANSAmblin Television

Early in “Th e Rat,” the most recent episode

of Th e Americans, Phillip turns to his gruff ,

scientifi c operative William. Phillip doesn’t

look too good. Matthew Rhys’ rogue, Welsh

good looks have leaned more and more

rogue-ish this season. William, played with a

certain boredom by Dylan Baker, sighs. Th ese

are the quiet moments in Th e Americans,

the moments just before a character mutters

some-

thing

inessen-

tial that

speaks of

truth, the

show’s

webbed and intersecting confl icts.

“It eats you up inside … this job,” William

sympathizes.

The job has become more and more

diffi cult, to say the least. Th ings used to be

simple and easy in the good old days. In Th e

Americans, Phillip and Elizabeth are Soviet

spies living in plain sight among the suburban

whigs and wasps. Th ey’re married to each

other and to the cause. Th eir accents, cars,

and even kids are all American. Th ey carry

out dead drops and kidnappings across D.C.,

and they’ve been at it for a while. Th e show

explores, as many critics have noted over the

past few years, the Cold War of the American

marriage. Now, in the middle of its fourth

season, Th e Americans is still one of the fi nest

shows on television, hiding in plain sight like

Phillip and Elizabeth.

In a nice suburban house, with nice kids

and nice things, Th e Americans asks the ques-

tion… who is this person lying next to me?

Can they, can this refuge, save me from a job

that might (metaphorical made literal in this

case) kill me?

Th e tentpole operating principle of Th e

Americans is marrying micro and macro

tension, emotional and geopolitical stakes. It

explores the emotional consequences of being

a spy and not only being a spy, but being mar-

ried to a spy. One of the main threads the past

season and a half has explored, running along

the uber-thread described above, is whether

you can be a good spy and a good person. Phil-

lip is trying. Elizabeth, played by Keri Russell,

still carries a more Soviet disposition.

“Th e Rat” fi nds Martha, Phillip’s opera-

tive within the FBI counterintelligence offi ce,

compromised or near compromised. Phillip is

also “married” to Martha, fi rst for his cover, but

now Phillip really seems to care for Martha.

And if the FBI fi gures it out, questions her,

then Philip and Elizabeth are blown. Show’s

over. Phillip brings her in, and the FBI plans

to ship her out as soon as possible.

And as Philip is trying to fi gure out what

to do with Martha, and Elizabeth is trying to

fi gure out if she should be worried about Phil-

lip and Martha, back at the FBI offi ce they’re

trying to parse Martha’s possible betrayal.

“I think Martha’s bad,” Stan Beeman,

played with a twitching stillness by Noah

Emmerich, says.

His boss, the gleefully stereotypical G-man

Frank Gaad mutters, “Martha’s worked here

over 10 years…that’s crazy.”

Th e question Beeman and Gaad are strug-

gling to climb is a simple one. How could our

secretary betray us? How can Martha be good

and bad?

While “Th e Rat” is surely a harrowing (in

a good way) hour of television, it doesn’t have

generations. He’s often portrayed as the radi-

cal, hip-thrusting youth that led rock and roll

to new frontiers and signifi cance in the ’50s

and ’60s. But beyond Presley’s many hits and

television appearances lies a man with ideals

and opinions that one might not expect from

the king—the “object”—of rock and roll.

Elvis & Nixon, the latest film from di-

rector Liza Johnson and Amazon Studios,

explores the mindset of the famed rock star

in the midst of the changing political and

cultural landscapes in 1970, and is based on

true events. Watching newsreels and fi lms

from his home, Graceland, in Memphis, Tenn.,

Presley (Michael Shannon) decides that he has

a part to play in maintaining what he consid-

ers traditional American principles. He fl ies

to Washington, D.C., with the intention of

meeting President Nixon (Kevin Spacey) and

asking the president to make him a federal

agent-at-large for the Bureau of Narcotics and

Dangerous Drugs.

Elvis & Nixon’s goldmine is found in its cli-

max, where Nixon and Presley come together

in the Oval Office. According to a People

Magazine interview with the actual Jerry Schil-

ling—a producer for the fi lm—much of what

happened at the meetings was exaggerated.

Regardless, seeing these two iconic fi gures

brought together with a comedic tone is amus-

ing to say the least. Seeing Nixon curmudgeon

about the offi ce, while Elvis performs karate

routines with his friends, is a beautiful sight,

despite knowing the actual meeting was a

little less saucy.

While the famous meeting is the goldmine

of the fi lm, Elvis & Nixon’s exploration of the

aging, surprisingly conservative rock star,

as well as Shannon’s performance, make up

the fi lm’s heart and soul. Shannon, at fi rst

glance, might not be the fi rst person a viewer

would expect to see playing Elvis, but the

actor’s soothing, almost melodious whisper

is enrapturing and very much in the surmised

persona of Presley. Seeing the “object” of Elvis

dismantled—the well-read man under glamor-

ous outfi ts and golden sunglasses is actually

vulnerable—reminds viewers that even the

most composed celebrities have their own

daily gripes to trudge through.

Th e rest of the cast and, honestly, the rest

of the fi lm lack substance and feel useless next

to Elvis’ character and Shannon’s performance.

Spacey presents a predictably accurate, hu-

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Frideric Handel’s spirited song “Let Their

Celestial Concerts All Unite.” Majoring in

music and biochemistry, Seo is also the

director of the Madrigal Singers at BC.

Having started his singing, composing,

and conducting career when he was 16,

Seo put his skills to the test in front of a

large crowd of classical music lovers from

the BC community.

Titled “Sunrise Mass,” Gjeilo’s four-

part blend of mesmerizing instrumentals

and vocals was the final piece performed,

spanning a period of nearly 30 minutes.

The students’ voices, lifted in harmonious

exaltation, provided the audience with a

rousing and inventive rendition of a typical

Christian Mass. Latin lyrics, synchronized

voices, and the various string instruments

combined to create an evocative musical

experience for all in attendance.

The piece began with “The Spheres,” a

calming opening to an emotion-evoking

piece marked by a melange of beautiful

harmonies. The soft voices blended

perfectly into the beginning of the

euphoric “Sunrise.” Sharply contrasting

its lighthearted tone was “The City,” a

powerful and compelling piece made

possible by the male singers’ booming

vocals. The triumphant tone of this

portion transitioned nicely into the final

part of the piece titled “Identity & The

Ground.” A rather long song, the varied

nature of the four parts broke “Sunrise

Mass” into manageable pieces for the

audience to enjoy.

Though the University Chorale’s

Annual Spring Concert marks the final

formal performance for the Chorale

members graduating this year, the group

will take the stage to perform at BC’s

annual Arts Fest on Thursday afternoon

at 4:30 on O’Neill Plaza. As usual, it will

also be featured at the Commencement

Mass and Graduation Ceremony.

The University Chorale’s choice of

music pieces was wonderfully suited for

the warm spring season—jaunty and

enthusiastic as well as serene and mellow,

the tone of the performance kept audience

members engrossed in the Chorale’s

classical performance. The inclusion of

Gjeilo-composed songs as well as the

celestial and religious themes incorporated

into the program contributed to the

rejuvenating nature of spring—a season

marked by rebirth, rejoicing, and the

overpowering prevalence of nature.

of the Rings is a violent series capturing

a fantastical war, he felt that the films

went unnecessarily out of their way in a

few instances to heighten violent scenes,

like when Frodo and Golem struggle

over the ring in Mount Doom in Return

of the King. This idea, while the first

analogy Kreeft made between The Lord

of the Rings and American society, was

not the last or most striking.

Looking at the colorful cast of char-

acters in The Lord of the Rings, Kreeft

chose the one character he felt best

encapsulated American society: Sauron,

the antagonist of the series.

Sauron, Kreeft feels, is the perfect

candidate to represent America in the

story because of his obsession with con-

quest, his focus on crude and efficient

manufacturing, and above all, because of

his, as Kreeft puts it, “external materi-

alization of his power in the one, true

ring.”

The ring, in Kreeft’s view, isn’t just

one manifestation of America’s strength,

but has many facets. The ring could

represent our military, our technological

feats, or even apathy. There is one social

construct, however, that Kreeft decided,

above the others, is the ring’s truest

form for America: artificial immortality

by genetic engineering. Kreeft feels that

this is the most accurate representation

of the ring for American society because

it mirrors Sauron’s purpose for creat-

ing the ring: conquering death. Kreeft

believes that, if American society is to

persist and grow, it must cast this meta-

phorical ring into the fire.

This all may seem a bit confusing,

and that’s both because there’s a very

substantive argument to grapple with

and because Kreeft presented it in a

very roundabout manner, leaving a few

of his points under-developed. Kreeft

didn’t really explain who would destroy

his metaphorical ring, or how you could

convince people to stunt technological

growth.

Instead, he left that to the lecture’s

attendees to decide, and focused on

examples of how societies within the

book handle technology. He pointed out

that the blissful Hobbits ignore techno-

logical growth, the Elves have refined

their productions through art, and that

the dwarves are plagued by their greed.

These examples gave the attendees a

picture of how Kreeft imagines America

could look if it focused less on techno-

logical superiority, but at the same time,

they did nothing to explain how Kreeft

envisions us reining in technology’s

might.

After Kreeft’s lecture, a Q&A with

the professor commenced that lasted

nearly as long as the lecture. While

one might think this Q&A would allow

students an opportunity to ask Kreeft to

clarify and expand on some of the points

he made in his lecture, it more devolved

into students asking Kreeft for his inter-

pretations of certain scenes or themes

found in the novels and in the films,

like whether or not Lord of the Rings is

racist. These types of questions were

interesting, and it was engaging seeing

how interested Kreeft is in the series.

But the Q&A didn’t do much to clear

up some of the points in Kreeft’s lecture

that were muddled.

It’s difficult to assess how I really feel

about Kreeft’s lecture and thoughts. His

comparisons and metaphors he drew

out of that beloved, fantastical world are

interesting to consider and have kept

me working through them days after the

lecture. Seeing such a large Lord of the

Rings fan base congregate in Higgins was

lovely, as I haven’t been in a room with

as many avid followers of the series since

the movies came out.

Leaving Kreeft’s lecture, though,

I felt like I had more questions about

“What Lord of the Rings Tells Us about

America” than I had walking in. Maybe

that was the point. Literary works and

societal issues of an epic nature deserve

an epic analysis, and maybe Kreeft’s

lecture is just scratching the surface of

both.

then cheer for their favorite household

animal. As the room warmed up, the

crew announced their first game: an

improv musical.

Calling this performance a game

somewhat trivializes it, and this is a

true tragedy because CCE’s level of

ingenuity this time around cannot be

overstated. There is something to be

said for the abilities of an improv actor

who can write cohesive songs—ones

that are rhyming, no less—without any

pre-existing plan.

In fact, the CCE improv musical was

impressive even without the merit of

the songs. Telling the story of an idyllic,

plastic-flamingo-loving community, the

musical explored the relations between

each of the town’s citizens. Nothing is

off-limits for CCE—incest, clowns, and

calling your children ugly were all topics

that were broached over the course of

the night. The unnamed musical even

had a redemptive arc and a moral, too:

“family is more important than f—k.”

Yes, seriously.

As the show progressed, CCE moved

on to more short-form games. Classics

such as “growing-shrinking machine”

and “pan left” were brought out and

executed with precision and poise.

In particular, the growing-shrinking

machine is of great interest—the

game begins with only two actors, but

progresses upwards at an alarming rate.

More and more actors enter the scene,

and each time someone enters, the

scene must change to something new.

Finally, once the limit has been reached,

actors leave the stage, and the scenes

begin to progress backwards to their

original states until only two performers

are left. This improv game is typically a

fan favorite, and with good reason: not

only is it hilarious chaos, it showcases

the ability of the actors extremely well.

Toward the end of the evening, CCE

launched into long-form improv. This

consists of a long-running series of

routines, each of which is connected

to another. In this instance, CCE’s

long-form improv told the story of a

man with rectal cancer, plagued by an

overbearing daughter, a fame-seeking

surgeon, and an eerily obsessive ex-wife.

This, perhaps, is when improv becomes

most interesting—when it becomes

humorous, improvised storytelling. It

is enjoyable for all involved to follow

the stories and lives of freshly created

characters, and when the scenarios are

injected with the perfect dose of humor,

there is all the more reason to love the

experience.

Strangely enough, the best part

of the night was not the comedy, but

rather the reason for the show itself:

the departing seniors. Seeing them

cycle out of the Committee was a

genuinely sad sight. It is clear that the

CCE underclassmen feel much the

same way, as some tears could be seen

in the eyes of both performers and

audience members at the close of the

show. Goodbyes are never easy, and

the members of the Committee for

Creative Enactments are more than

just actors—they are a family.

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throughout history, the exhibit calls to

mind the kind of expansive and varied

history found in the community. It is

apparent that the experiences had by

people of the past and of today are as varied

and unique as the individuals the images

represent. The visual representation

follows an abridged timeline of Asian-

American history in the United States,

from migration to the modern age. The

progression follows not only the trials,

but also the triumphs of the community

throughout history. Though the products

of racial issues can be seen in many of the

pieces, a sense of resilience remains just

as pervasive.

One image depicts the internment of

Japanese-Americans during World War

II. The action was seen as a preventative

wartime measure to ensure the safety of

Americans. What is often forgotten is

that 62 percent of those interned were

American citizens. The blatant disregard

and invalidation of civil liberties of these

Americans can been seen in the photo as

a crowd of Japanese-Americans stands

behind a barbed-wire fence. This divisive

and unconstitutional internment led

up to the Civil Liberties Act of 1988,

through which reparations were made

to the interned and their heirs. Despite

this, the event will forever mark a dark

moment for Asian-Americans, due to the

loss of material goods, reputation, and in

some cases, life.

On the theme of inclusion, one photo

depicts Filipino-American stewards

accompanying President Harry S. Truman

to the Potsdam Conference in Potsdam,

Germany following the defeat of the

Nazis, as well as a photo of an all Japanese

American battalion around the same

time period. These images reflect the

positions of Asian-Americans at crucial

points in world history, as these people

were strong, active participants in history,

rather than ineffective, standing idly by.

Another image shows the masses of

Chinese workers as they constructed

the Transcontinental Railroad in the

19th century, experiencing different

hardships of an earlier time. These new

immigrant workers represented around

90 percent of the workforce as they laid

down ties, ballasts, and steel. In building

the network that spanned and connected

the country, the low-paying, high-risk

environment cost many of the workers

their lives. Cutting through mountains

and driving spikes proved to be arduous

work that claimed the lives of many of

the Chinese workers along the Central

Pacific section of the railway stretching

from Utah to California. They also remain

active makers of history, despite the

brutal, sometimes fatal costs.

During the 1992 Los Angeles riots,

Korean-American establishments were

the targets of looting and vandalism

following the acquittal of four officers

involved in the beating of Rodney King,

leading many to feel abandoned and

unprotected by law enforcement. Many

Korean-Americans thought to leave the

area as a result of such express violence

toward them. An image showcased in

the gallery is striking, as it depicts men

armed to defend themselves in solidarity.

Showing a storefront enveloped in flames

acutely shows the severity and impact of

the situation.

In the current age, the exhibit chooses

to address the topical issue of diversity

in regards to the Oscars, criticizing the

2016 host Rock for his jokes utilizing

Asian stereotypes. This is represented

through a shot of Chris Rock cracking

a joke perceived by many as racist while

gesturing to several Asian boys on stage.

In this way the exhibit shows how such

conversations regarding inclusion and

respect remain as pertinent today as they

have been in the preceding decades.

The Asian-American History exhibit

follows the trials and journeys of many

Asian peoples in America. In many

cases, the forces at work were great

and seemingly unsurmountable. But

as the exhibit suggests through its

provocative images, people, no matter

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It’s a strange thing as a Lord of the

Rings fan to confront the idea that the

film adaptations’ best and worst quali-

ties are their visuals and special effects.

I would say that the epic battle scenes

in Peter Jackson’s trilogy were the most

sublime spectacles I had ever seen

when the films were originally released.

Though today some shots and the films’

CGI don’t look as crisp and clean as

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they might have back in the early 2000s,

the Lord of the Rings films arguably hold

their own against the last couple years’

blockbusters and even Peter Jackson’s

subsequent Hobbit trilogy.

This notion, presented at the opening

of Boston College philosophy professor

Peter Kreeft’s lecture “What Lord of the

Rings Tells Us about America” in Higgins

310 Thursday night, left the room silent,

probably giving Kreeft his desired effect.

While Kreeft let this idea ruminate in

our heads for a bit, he went on to explain

that he felt the Lord of the Rings’ visuals

expressed what he views as an abhorrent

quality in our nation: our obsession with

technology, grandiosity, and violence.

Though Kreeft acknowledged that Lord

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KRISTIN SALESKI / HEIGHTS STAFF

Improvising a complete song in

under 10 seconds, and then proceeding

to get said song stuck in the heads of

one hundred audience members, is a

rather impressive feat. The ability to do

it well, six times in one night, is mind-

boggling. The ability to design an entire

musical around them entirely on the fly

is essentially impossible.

And yet, the Committee for Creative

Enactments managed to pull it off.

An incredible rendition of improv

was unveiled last Saturday night in

Stokes Auditorium, and CCE has

yet again proved that it is top-tier in

the world of Boston College comedy

troupes. The “Senior Leaving Playbook,”

a final show to celebrate the departing

Class of 2016, illustrated exactly why so

many people enjoy the work of CCE.

To introduce themselves to the

audience, the actors had onlookers

shout out their favorite curse words and

In the 20th century, America represented

a place in which people of all kinds could

fl ourish. On the East Coast, we hear often

about the migration of the English and

Irish, Spanish and Italian, or Germans and

Slavs. At least in this area, the history of

such migrations is taught, discussed, and

analyzed readily. On the other side of the

country, across the Pacifi c, other Americans

made a similar trek to that of their Atlantic

counterparts.

Rooted in a rich and infl uential history

in the Americas, Asian-Americans have

left their mark through cultural, industrial,

and social contributions to the nation. Th e

Asian-American History exhibit on display

in O’Neill’s fi rst-fl oor lounge highlights just

some of these contributions, while calling

to mind the signifi cance of celebrating the

vast diversity within the Asian-American

community.

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Sometimes, after hours of painstaking practice

and when performed just right, music has a funny

way of perfectly imitating the inconceivable majesty

of nature. Th e shrill whistle of a fl ute is evocative of

wild prairie winds at one moment and calming bird

calls the next. A fl urry of brassy horns fused with a

sudden crash of Zildjian cymbals have the power

to audibly illustrate the ferocity of a storm at sea.

Most astounding, however, is the human voice’s

shocking ability to accurately encapsulate the bold,

evanescent spirit of the Northern lights.

In an astounding feat of musical talent and vocal

fi nesse, the University Chorale of Boston College

entranced its audience with the eerie beauty of

aurora borealis. Performing Norwegian-born Ola

Gjeilo’s “Northern Lights,” the chamber singers

of the chorale treated their sizeable audience to

an enjoyably transcendental musical experience,

an otherworldly ode to the natural, luminescent

phenomenon.

Airy and light, the vocals of this particular song

served as the perfect lead into the intense and

impassioned sound of the next number, which was

a Latvian folksong composed by Eriks Esenvalds.

Yet another nod to the unbridled beauty of the

Northern lights, the song tells of the simultaneous

waves of overwhelming awe and horror which

must have tormented the souls of those who fi rst

discovered the natural light show.

Th e Chorale singers deftly conveyed Esenvald’s

message of confl icting sentiments, their voices

ebbing and fl owing in pitch and volume as the tone

shifted from blissful serenity to palpable panic. Th e

students played with the power of vocal crescendos

and fl uctuation, their eff orts ultimately culminating

in a rather realistic impression of the elegantly

dancing lightwaves—that is, if the aurora’s graceful

dance across the night sky could be translated from

the visible to the audible realm, a moving image

encapsulated in sound.

While the Northern lights’ pieces were a

defi ning portion of the performance, the show

featured other captivating numbers from the

Chorale singers. The group’s signature songs,

Camille Saint-Saens’ euphoric “Tollite Hostias” and

Lodovico Viadana’s jaunty “Exsultate Justi,” were

well-received by the audience members, who sat

attentive and intrigued by the students’ showcase

of musical prowess throughout the entirety of the

show.

Immediately following “Exsultate Justi,”

Chorale’s director introduced Kyung won “Josh”

Seo, MCAS ’17, the show’s featured guest

conductor. With great poise and the precision of a

seasoned conductor, Seo led the Chorale in George

When you are on the road, so many

things pass you by. Th e mindlessness of

driving needs to be uplifted by things like

the radio, lest the driver go insane. On

long road trips out to New Mexico, or up

to northern Maine, I was always amazed

by my parents’ ability to know virtually

every song that made its way onto the

radio. From station to station, they not

only knew the songs being played, artist,

album, and year, but were able to sing,

say, or poetically recount all the words.

As a kid, I didn’t think I was capable of

housing so much knowledge, but as I grew

I began to add, song by song, lyrics I knew

by heart to my mind. Th e words meant

something, but the more I think about it,

the more I wonder if lyrics are important

at all.

Some say they are the fi rst thing they

notice, fi nding each word instantly and let-

ting it wash over them. Others say that lyr-

ics come second to the sound and move-

ment of the song, adding embellishment

to an instrumental showcase. Much of

the time, I agree with the latter sentiment,

because oftentimes instruments or non-

human sounds capture feelings and emo-

tions that words never could. Words have

a distinct meaning. Th ough over time they

may change, they remain, at least in one

moment in time, stagnant. Notes, on the

other hand, require more context. Chords,

harmonies, progressions, and keys all play

important roles in shaping a song. A single

note needs the context found within the

rest of the piece, which can give that note

a whole new feel or meaning from song to

song. Th at sensation of goosebumps one

gets when hearing a favorite song is often,

for me, brought about through the fi rst

couple notes or chords rather than the

fi rst verse.

But we are drawn to lyrics still. Words.

Something compels us to sing along or

at least, in our minds, follow the train of

thought in the song. I fi nd that this has to

due with our innate need to fi nd some-

thing tangible and comprehensible to latch

onto. We can understand the meaning of

the words in this moment and extrapo-

late meaning based on defi nitions and

cognitive inference. But I also fi nd another

reason, one that speaks to the core of

humanity and people.

When we are fi rst born, we cannot see

anything more than shadows. We can,

however, hear. And the fi rst tangible thing

we may latch onto, our introduction in the

world is often a sound. A voice. Th e voice

of a doctor or our mother or father is the

fi rst sensory experience we get.

When we gravitate to voices, I believe

it is because it is one of the fi rst things we

do and one of our fi rst experiences. And

the sounds are human. Th ere is no guitar

or keyboard to function as a medium

between the two. It simply is one person’s

voice and another’s ability to hear it.

Lyrics, words, and poetry speak to

that connection between people that we

have been building since we were born.

Th e voice of another person is enticing to

listen to. It is not so much what they are

saying, so much as the fact that they are

saying something. In this way, lyrics inter-

ject a concrete, unadulterated human ele-

ment into music that resonates with our

primal inclinations to associate ourselves

with the sounds of another person.

I fi nd myself drawn to lyrics more and

more now, not because they are saying

anything in particular, but because they

are saying something. Th e meaning be-

hind lyrics is a discussion for another time,

but I think their place in songs is solidifi ed

and needed in today’s age. As we become

more dissociated from other people

through various means, having songs that

continue to maintain a human element is

even more important.

When I drive now, during the sum-

mers I fi nd myself with the music. Th e ra-

dio blaring, I fi nd songs everywhere that I

know the lyrics to. Quietly to myself, I may

sing along, knowing that, in all likelihood,

someone somewhere is doing the same.

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The eclectic setlist at Chorale’s Spring Concert kept audience enchanted.

SING IT TO THE LIGHTS