Vol. XCVI, No. 31 Monday, September 28, 2015

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FEATURESFormer roommates debate junior year housing, A5

ON OR OFF? ARTS & REVIEWThe Avett Brothers and Of Monsters and Men were among many that rocked City Hall Plaza this weekend, B8

HEAR THE CALLINGSPORTSBC got back in the win column with a hard-fought victory over NIU, B1

BACK ON TRACK

For a decade now, Boston College undergraduates have known Akua Sarr in her multiple, visible roles on campus: as the former freshman dean of the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences (MCAS), former director of the Academic Advising Center, and instructor in the Cornerstone Program and the African and African Diaspora Studies Program.

Sarr now takes on a new role, having been promoted to vice provost of under-graduate academic affairs in August.

One of her favorite parts of her old job, she said, was working one-on-one See Shakespeare, A8

The Association of American Uni-versities recently released a survey detailing the climate on sexual assault at 27 different universities across the country —Boston College was not included.

The survey results found that 16.5 percent of seniors reported experienc-ing sexual touching or penetration as a result of physical force or incapacita-

tion. Senior girls reported experienc-ing this at a rate of 26.1 percent, while members of the LGBTQ population in the senior grade reported at a rate of 29.5 percent. Senior males reported at a rate of 6.3 percent.

At BC, there has never been a com-munity survey regarding the sexual assault climate on campus. The most recent data come from the Clery Act, which mandates that universi-ties release data regarding crimes on campus. Between 2012 and 2013, the

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reported incidents of sexual assault doubled—from five to 10.

At the Women’s Center, director Katie Dalton estimates that per grade, 237 women will be sexually assaulted during their time at BC—a far cry from the 10 reported incidents annually.

According to the AAU survey, the most common reason for not reporting an incident of sexual assault is the fear that it would not be taken seriously enough, or that nothing would be done. There is a stigma that can be attached to reporting incidents, Dalton said.

“A lot of these assaults, based on national data, happen between ac-

quaintances, and when we think about Boston College, I think students are probably reluctant to disrupt any type of social circles that they’re in,” she said.

Ideally, the number of reported in-cidents will go up as students become more aware, and then eventually level off as preventive efforts like Bystander Training take effect, said Catherine Larrabee, MCAS ’16, who is in her second year working at the Women’s Center. Larrabee is also a student representative on the University-wide sexual assault steering committee, which is the group that oversees Title

IX/Sexual Assault education, preven-tion, and response efforts at BC, andreviews policy, practice, and issues related to Title IX on campus.

This past week, the Bystander In-tervention Education program hosted a photo campaign in the quad withprompts that read “I will intervene because…” Over 500 people partici-pated, Larrabee said, and the campaign reached thousands online. One of the sheets read, “I will intervene becauseit’s a social justice issue.”

At BC, the Women’s Center aims

The Boston Pops Orchestra, under the direction of Keith Lockhart, performed Friday at the annual Parents’ Weekend scholarship fundraiser. See page B7.

Readers going through relationship problems, workplace betrayals , at-tempts to recapture youth, and roman-tic flings can now accompany their lives’ ups and downs with drinks inspired by their favorite Shakespeare characters. Othello’s Green Eyed Monster, Kate’s Shrew-driver, and Maki-beth rolls are the latest Shakespeare-inspired literary contributions by a member of Boston College’s faculty.

Earlier this month, associate pro-fessor Caroline Bicks of BC’s English department released Shakespeare, Not Stirred: Cocktails for Your Everyday Drama with Michelle Ephraim of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Published in the United States by Perigee Books—a division of Pen-guin—and in the United Kingdom by Scribe, the book compiles cocktail and hors d’ouvre recipes inspired by Shakespeare characters. Similar to Tequila Mockingbird, the work strives to bring Shakespeare to readers’ daily lives through humorous recipes, puns, and images.

Bicks, a graduate of Harvard Univer-sity who earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University, specializes in gender studies as well as the history of science. She has spent the bulk of her 13 years at BC teaching courses on Shakespeare, as well as classes on gender theory, including masculinity studies and the history of feminist thought. Her diverse skillsets and interests proved to be the catalyst for Shakespeare, Not Stirred.

“I also have a background in impro-visational comedy and have written humorous creative nonfiction pieces over the years,” she said. “I started a blog about six years ago with my good friend Michelle Ephraim … the blog, Everyday Shakespeare, was a place for us to have fun with the characters and plotlines we talked and wrote about all day in our academic lives.”

Bicks’ and Ephraim’s joint blog served as a forum for their creative humor and their professional interests. It eventually led them to think about a larger commercial venture.

“We had features like ‘Ask the Ex-perts,’ where we’d ask Lady Macbeth, Gertrude, and Cleopatra to debate dif-ferent parenting styles, for example,” she said. “It was a lot of fun for us, so we decided to create something in the spirit of the blog that we could market

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with students on their academic plans, and their personal and career goals. As vice provost, however, Sarr anticipates her role will change a bit.

“So far, I’m trying to get to know the job,” she said. “I know all of the people I’m working with, but I’m trying to get to know a little bit more about their pro-grams and their departments and the missions of the different offices that I’m working with. I’ve had a lot of meetings with directors, folks in student affairs, and mission and ministry.”

Sarr’s previous position as freshman dean focused specifically on first-year students and personalized academic counseling.

“This job is going to be a little more broad than that, because I’ll still be working with the academic advising

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By Olivia MorleyFor The Heights

A lecture series honoring the late professor Adele Dalsimer, a founder of Boston College’s Irish Studies program, will be inaugurated with a talk by pro-fessor Margaret Kelleher this Thursday. Kelleher, a profes-sor at the University of Ulster and BC ’92, will commemorate Dalsimer’s memory with a lec-ture on a pivotal incident in Irish history.

The new series, titled the Adele Dalsimer Memorial Lec-ture, is especially significant to faculty and students on campus who specialize in Irish Studies. In 1978, Dalsimer founded the BC Irish Studies program with the help of associate professor Kevin O’Neill.

With Dalsimer at the helm of the program, Irish Studies grew and began to receive interna-tional attention.

“One of the ironies about Adele is this,” said professor Oliver Rafferty, S.J., and the director of the Irish studies separtment. “Despite the fact that she was the founder of Irish Studies at Boston College, she was also a New York Jew.”

Dalsimer’s interest in James Joyce may have contributed to her decision, Rafferty said.

“The main character in Ulysses is a Dublin Jew, so I think this may have been a he said.

Dalsimer’s impact on Irish studies, Rafferty said, has been extensive. “She was quite well known, very much esteemed,” he said. “People still remember her and talk about her.”

Dalsimer was recognized in Ireland as a leading scholar in Irish studies. The University of Ulster and the University Col-lege Dublin each awarded her honorary doctorate degrees and award-winning Irish poets Seamus Heaney and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill wrote poems in her honor.

Everyone within the Irish studies department feels in-volved with the upcoming event . Moll ie Ker vick , B C graduate student in the Irish studies department, will read the poem that Heaney wrote in Dalsimer’s honor, titled, “A Brigid’s Girdle,” at the lecture. Kervick’s own research has cen-tered on Irish Women’s Writers, and she credits many of the op-portunities she has had at BC as a second-year master’s student to Dalsimer’s advocacy for Irish women’s studies.

“[The lecture] is an important event in Irish studies at Boston College as it marks a moment of reflection on a past leader in Irish studies, but looks forward to continuing to showcase new Irish cultural scholarship,” Ker-vick said. Kelleher’s presence at the event is also meaningful to Kervick because it symbol-izes a continuum of knowledge.

THE HEIGHTS

The Phillip Pettit will give a lecture titled “Giving Corpo-rate Bodies their Due, and Only their Due” on Monday, Sept. 28 at 5 p.m. in Devlin Hall 101. He is a profes-sor at Princeton University where he has taught political theory and philosophy since 2002. 1

BC Ignites, a student speaker series hosted by the Undergraduate Government of Boston College, will be held in O’Neill Plaza at 7 p.m. The topic will be the drink-ing culture at BC, and will feature an address by Robyn Priest of the 2

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Edwidge Danticat, widely considered one of the most talented young writers in the United States, will be featured by the Lowell Humanities Series on Tuesday, Sept. 29 in the Murray Function Room in the Yawkey Center at 7 p.m.

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POLICE BLOTTER 09/23/15 - 09/25/15

Wednesday, Sept. 23

8:13 p.m. - A report was filed regarding medical assistance pro-vided to a BC student who was transported to a medical facility from Shea Field.

11:10 p.m. - A report was filed regarding the civil possession of marijuana in the Newton Lots.

Thursday, Sept. 24

5:49 a.m. - A report was filed regard-ing a breaking and entering into 36 College Rd. and the arrest of John Hodge.

9:04 a.m. - A report was filed regard-ing a suspicious motor vehicle in the Lower Lots.

11:41 a.m. - A report was filed re-garding medical assistance provided to a BC employee who was trans-ported to a medical facility by am-bulance from Robsham Theater.

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Police Department

NEWSBRIEFS

Members of “Dancing With Students”—a ballroom dancing group founded by Susan Mar-tinelli Shea, a member of the Boston College board of trustees and BC ’76—performed for Pope Francis during his visit to Phila-delphia on Sunday.

The Dancing With Students program, which offers ballroom dance instruction to students in the fifth through ninth grade, was founded by Shea in 2005. The dancing troupe began in 2009, and has performed at the Charity Ball at the Union League, 76ers basketball games, and dur-ing the World Meeting of the Families.

Those who performed for the pope began dancing last year as seventh graders. In total, 44 students performed: 22 tangoed to “La Cumparista” and 22 oth-ers performed a swing dance to the “American Bandstand” theme song.

The students are from the Gesu School, a Jesuit school in Philadelphia, which has students in grades pre-K through eight. Shea’s initiative was launched here in 2005. The program is now at eleven schools.

The event was hosted by ac-tor Mark Wahlberg, and Aretha Franklin and Andrea Bocelli also performed.

“Knowing how well they dance the tango, and knowing that the tango is Pope Francis’ favorite dance … Boston College and the Jesuits taught me that anything is possible,” Shea said to The Chronicle.

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Each year, the graduating class donates to Boston College in the form of the Senior Class Gift. The class of 2015 broke the University record with 78 percent participation—1,757 students. They surpassed their goal of 73 percent participation and the class of 2014’s 70 percent participation.

“Each class loves to beat the class before them,” said Colleen Claflin, the direct manager of the Senior Class Gift.

When seniors donate their money, they can choose where that money is going to go, wheth-er it be to an organization on campus, to the financial aid office, or to a department in the name of a certain professor.

“We want them to make a meaningful gift,” Claflin said.

Billy Chamberlin, BC ’15, hopes that his donation will allow someone to attend BC who may not have been financially able to otherwise.

“I donated because BC had given me so much over four years that I had no problem giving something back,” Chamberlin said. “There was also a cool T-shirt involved.”

Edwidge Danticat, award-winning writer born in Haiti, will speak Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Murray Function Room in the Yawkey Center as part of the Lowell Humanities Series. Dan-ticat has written several books—including Krik? Krak!, which was nominated for a National Book Award—and has been contribut-ing to the New Yorker since 1999 when she was 30.

She will be taking part in a three-day residency at Boston College. On Wednesday, Dan-ticat will discuss her work with associate professor of romance languages Regine Jean-Charles.

D ant ic at w a s or ig ina l ly meant to be a Lowell Humani-ties Speaker this spring, but could not attend, and English author Zadie Smith took her spot. Danticat, who completed her Master ’s of Fine Arts at Brown University, has taught at New York University and the University of Miami.

In 1995, the year before Krik? Krak! was published, the NewYork Times wrote a profile on Danticat that described the impact of her Haitian roots on her writing and her debut novel, Breathe, Eyes, Memory. The pub-lishing of her debut novel means that she is seen as representing all Haitian-Americans, Garry Pierre-Pierre wrote in the Times,though she has accepted this re-sponsibility with hesitation.

“I think I have been assigned that role, but I don’t really see myself as the voice for the Hai-tian-American experience,” she said to Pierre-Pierre. “There are many. I’m just one.”

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Kelleher was a Ph.D. student of Dalsimer’s before graduating from BC with her doctorate in 1992.

“To have Margaret Kelleher, who has done so much important work in Irish women’s studies, come to lecture at BC in honor of Dr. Dalsimer, is a testament to gen-erations of powerful women that have contributed to Boston College Irish studies,” Kervick said.

Kelleher will deliver a lecture titled, “Focla Degheanach (Dying Words): The Execution of Myles Joyce (Galway, 1882) and Its Con-tinuing Legacy,” and will focus on

the 1882 execution of an Irish-speaking man named Myles Joyce, Rafferty said.

Joyce was convicted of murder and sentenced to death by a Eng-lish-speaking jury, although he was never provided a translator and was represented by lawyers who did not understand his language. Kelleher is going to lecture on why Joyce’s case created a continuing legacy, Rafferty said.

“It seems an extraordinary thing that the court didn’t at-tempt to provide translation,” Rafferty said.

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Adele Dalsimer was the co-founder of BC’s Irish Studies program.

SENIOR CLASS GIFT: REACHING NEW HE16HTS

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According to the fund’s orga-nizers, The goal is always based on participation rather than on

money, and this year, the Uni-versity is aimed to get the class of 2016 to 80 percent participa-

tion.The current iteration of the

senior class gift—with an orga-nized board that plans a specific participation goal—has been in place since 2013.

A board of 50 BC students runs the Senior Class Gift. The students apply their junior year and go through a basic training course in the summer before their senior year so that they can begin the campaign—which consists of tabling in Hillside, talking to classmates and friends, and sending out reminder emails in October.

This year, the theme for the Senior Class Gift is “Reaching New He16hts.” The board usually comes up with a few ideas of its own, and also asks for submis-sions. It then votes to pick out a favorite.

One trustee has pledged to donate money as the senior class reaches certain participation per-centages—$5,000 for reaching 20 percent participation and $10,000 for 40 percent participation. When the class reaches their goal, the trustee will donate $25,000.

“It’s a great way to look back and kind of reflect on your past three—as they near the end, four years—and BC, and think about giving back,” Claflin said.

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“We’re trying to expand. We’re focusing in Boston but we’re hoping to expand across the U.S. We were at CollegeFest for

best new innovation.” —Christian Na , inventor of Pinch, an app that helps people help others and a Boston

University alumnus

Akua Sarr, who was recently promoted to be the vice provost of undergraduate academic affairs, has spent her time so far at the University working closely with students.

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By Yolanda Bustillo

While laying sick in bed one day, Christian Na had his first “pinch” mo-ment.

He realized he was too ill to get out of bed to go buy medicine at the drugstore, so he started calling around

to see if contacts were in the area to help him out.

Na, a Boston University alumnus, recently won the Best of Boston College Tech Fest 2015 for his app Pinch, which he says is creating a new economy that is based on people helping each other.

Like the name implies, people can use the app to ask others for help when they find themselves in a pinch.

Although Na thought of the concept behind the app while he was sick, Pinch is not limited to these sorts of tasks. Someone might put in a request for food from Chipotle, he said, or perhaps a mother might realize she ran out of

diapers for her baby and doesn’t have time to run to the store.

Whatever the task, Na is trying to create a community of helpers within a city that can run short errands for other users.

“You go into the app, look at a map, and the map shows you all the people around you. The next feature –you can touch the account and see the face and photo. You can type the plus button and get whatever you want,” Na said. “We have a social feed for anytime someone helps, it’ll get onto social media. Right now if you go into the social scene you’ll see people doing all sorts of things.”

Although Pinch seems vague at first, the app was purposefully developed in that manner so that it could be tailored to suit each user.

Rather than outline precise requests, Pinch allows users to explain their situ-ations to the public.

“People get help for anything that’s legal and if anyone wants to do it for you: an old textbook, help for a class, if someone needs help finding a cheap flight, an inspirational quote,” Na said. “We opened it to anywhere in the U.S., and soon we will open it up to the world.”

For every 100 points a user earns, they receive one dollar that is redeem-able in the Pinch store. With this ad-ditional monetary incentive, app users are not completing tasks exclusively for altruistic motives, but also for re-wards.

Some of these include tickets to parties/clubs, water bottles with fruit infusers, T-shirts, Apple iTunes gift cards, fitbits, Ray Ban sunglasses, and even GoPro cameras.

“Redeemable items change up ev-ery week—we have a special deal with a designer that just got into Neiman Marcus with custom items,” Na said. “If you don’t find what you like this week, you might find something you like next week. You can also Venmo points to friends for them to use.”

After thinking about this idea for some time, Na reached out to his friends and family for their feedback. He mentioned the idea to everyone he could, verifying whether others agreed with his idea.

“Many people liked my ideas and investing. From focus groups, we had people who wanted to join without pay. Now we have about 12 people on the team and major financial backing,” Na said.

“We’re trying to expand. We’re focusing in Boston but we’re hoping to expand across the U.S. We were at CollegeFest for best new innovation. We got a notification from Owler that we just won the Boston competition for the best new app.”

Na came up with this concept after realizing in law school that he could have a huge impact on someone else’s day just by using 15 minutes of his free time to run an errand for them.

He believes that these extra 15 min-utes that everyone has in their day could be revolutionary, providing a workforce that could create change in waves.

“This is the largest untapped labor that is wasted every day. Our grand vi-sion is to tap into that spare time to help people to help other people,” Na said.

“If I had to tell people about Pinch, I would say, ‘Help people in 15 minutes and make 15 bucks!’

“Her new role will allow her to share with the wider Universty community her deep commitment t o u n d e r g r a d u a t e e duc at ion and her wide-ranging experience helping students to make the most of the opportunities here at

BC.” —Rev. Gregory Kalscheur, S.J., dean of the Morrissey

College of Arts & Sciences

center, learning resources for student athletes, the Office of International Programs, the Learning to Learn offi ce, the Connors Family Learning Center,” she said.

The promotion came as a surprise to Sarr.

Th e offi ce opened up when Donald Hafner, the previous vice provost for undergraduate academic aff airs, retired after 43 years at BC.

Hafner was the fi rst person to have the position, and Sarr said he eff ectively brought together all aspects of the Uni-versity.

David Quigley, who assumed the role of Provost and Dean of Faculties in June 2014, appointed Sarr as Hafner’s successor.

“When David Quigley moved over to the Provost’s offi ce, I’d worked with David before, for a long time,” Sarr said. “He [had been] Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. I was really excited when he was appointed Provost, so I kept [a pos-sible promotion] in the back of my head. I was really excited, and I jumped at the opportunity. But it was never expected. I was pleased he considered me a good fi t for the position.”

Quigley worked with Sarr through her position in the Academic Advising Center. He called her “a tireless advocate for students” in an email, and commented that the Provost’s Offi ce will place Sarr in a leadership role. Among her peers,

Sarr is known as an intelligent and tal-ented administrator who has worked in collaboration with a variety of diff erent departments.

Katie O’Dair, the associate vice provost in Student Aff airs, said in an email that Sarr’s deep understanding of the student body will help “make a unique impact on the student experience here.”

Fr. Gregory Kalscheur, S.J., dean of the Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences, said he was excited to see what Sarr had in mind

for her new position as Vice Provost. “Her new role will allow her to share

with the wider University community her deep commitment to undergradu-ate education and her wide-ranging experience helping students to make the most of the opportunities here at BC,” Kalscheur said in an email.

Sarr hopes that she can continue the work her predecessor Hafner started, but also sees room for growth and new developments.

She said she wants to develop some of the plans he envisioned, but also leave her own mark and do something meaningful.

Th ough she is not exactly sure what form these new and meaningful things may take, Sarr is confi dent and optimistic about the future. Sarr regrets, though, that she will have less interaction with students due to her new responsibilities.

“I’ll be working more big picture, with ideas and planning and programming,”

Sarr said. “New initiatives, collaborations.But I won’t have as much of the one-on-one with students.”

Th at is not to say that students, par-ticularly freshmen, will not be seeing Sarraround campus.

“I still have one advising section Imeet with—a group of 14 freshmen—and I serve as their advisor,” she said. “So I’m not completely out of that role. That’snice. I wanted to keep some aspect of that individual work.”

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My first attempts at sarcasm were clumsy and too frequent. As my humor got darker and sharper, the barri-ers of entry into the grown-up world lowered—it was a rite of passage. Sarcasm filed and defined my edges. I was so smug. This was cut short when I first read Vonnegut with my mom. She would laugh at certain points, and there I was back at square one. THERE ARE NO JOKES HERE. WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING? My induction might have been untimely.

I soon realized the stories he wrote so matter-of-fact were meant to bother me and make me uncomfortable, while the real message was in the subtext—an inside joke of which I wasn’t a part. Vonnegut bestowed his readers with responsibility, he left blank spaces

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By Robert McCroryFor The Heights

The intramural volleyball team to beat this year is a pack of juniors self-named Mama Don’t Cry 4 My Swag. Led by captain Tom Whittam, CSOM ’17, and co-captain Brian Reilly, MCAS ’17, this co-ed team has won the last three intramural volleyball championships starting in the fall of their freshman year.

The close-knit team is made up of Danny Schatzman, CSOM ’17; Alex Gulati, CSOM ’17; Gabrielle Hanlon, CSOM ’17; Paige Terwilliger, CSON ’17; Mike Hart, MCAS ’17; Brielle Mariucci, MCAS ’17; Emma Thompson, MCAS ’17; JT Mindlin, a former Heights editor and MCAS ’17; Ali Rae Hunt, MCAS ’17; and Emma Sullivan, LSOE ’17.

The team assembled in the spring two years ago, and a dynasty was formed. Whittam compiled a group of friends, searching for athletes who could form deep bonds and team chemistry.

Although they are all quite familiar with volleyball as they begin their fourth season together, Whittam and Mariucci had the most experience prior to freshman year. They both played in high school and contribute important skills and knowl-edge of the game.

The other players on the team are all athletes, and Whittam believes that this fact has been very important to the squad’s success thus far.

While recruiting athletic individuals is crucial, Whittam believes that individuals’ performances are not as important as each player’s capability to work together as one unit—and he says his team does just that. “Everyone knowing their roles, everyone on the team,” he said.

Strategy and positioning are also particularly key to success, according to Whittam. In each game, the setter is

the person in the middle who receives the most touches, usually setting it up for a spike.

Mariucci is the setter for Mama Don’t Cry 4 My Swag, and she continues to serve as the team’s play-maker—a significant de-cision in the team’s long-term success.

Another strategic move that gives the team an advantage is its match-ups. Often, Whittam will scout out the opposing team during warm-ups and stack up one of his many skilled players against the team’s most skilled players.

Aside from the basics of positioning and strategy, however, Mama Don’t Cry 4 My Swag has found creative, unconven-tional methods to improve its game. Reilly joked about many of the superstitions that the team strictly upholds: Whittam starts preparing for a match the night before by sleeping under an extra blanket. Schatzman’s pre-game meal has to be a Salmon bagel if the team is going to win.

The whole team has a strict no-farm-fish policy throughout the season. Dur-ing the offseason they may eat as they like, but Reily “won’t be having any,” he said. Although eccentric, the members of Mama Don’t Cry 4 My Swag swear by these rituals.

Mama Don’t Cry 4 My Swag hasn’t lost a match in its three seasons, and the team has only dropped two games within matches. The team’s biggest challenges have been its three championship games. In the first championship match, the team lost the first game, but then rallied back to win two straight games and the champion-ship. In its most recent championship, the team faced Arnaldo Santa-Cruz, MCAS ’17, and his team, Mo No. Despite Mo No’s strong hitters and defense, Mama Don’t Cry 4 My Swag won the match in two games. “It could be compared to the 1992 Super Bowl, when the Redskins beat the Bulls,” Reilly said of the victory. The

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team expects nothing less than another championship this year. Whittam says his goals are to “not drop a game, to dominate, and to win with class and style.”

The team has a few members studying abroad this year, so it signed some new talent onto the roster to fill the gaps. The team looks to Hunt and Sullivan to bring

positive energy and talent, and to boost team morale this season. The co-captains seem confident that the new additions will be able to mesh with the team.

Mama Don’t Cry 4 My Swag doesn’t hold practices, but finds ways to bond off the court. Chemistry is a large contributor to the team’s favorable outcomes, accord-

ing to the co-captains—who also believe the team’s unique name contributed to their success.

The team is currently 2-0 in its seasonand ranked number one. They defeated We Always Play Volleyball on Sunday, Sept. 27 in two games—and while down one player.

where we’re usually told what to think. The agency I felt was intoxicating. But laziness took its place as I realized I could make a statement and tell stories without having to fill in the subtext, that I could leave blank spaces where I wanted.

There is a self-congratulatory aspect to irony—it’s flattering. You examine a piece of art—anything from stand up comedy or a sitcom to a painting—and once you realize the creator is trying to say something beyond its literal meaning, you can give yourself a pat on the back. Irony can help neutralize debates and debunk the perception of an ultimate truth (think: Jon Stewart) by offering different opinions and perspectives.

It can be a defense mechanism when assimilating into a culture that seems terrifying (freshman Emily on game day at Boston College). The starting place for irony involves dissociating and separating from something: a political campaign, a historical event, a music genre ... Hell, a person! Here are some lighthearted examples of things you can do ironically:

1.Hang a Sarah Palin poster ironi-cally because you actually think she’s incompetent in foreign and domestic affairs and wouldn’t like her as a vice-president cuz she’s silly and not very smart.

2.Wear an outdated vest that is very ugly to show that you don’t even care about fashion.

3.Write an ironic column on the prevalence of art sensibility on a cam-pus that celebrates visual and perform-ing arts once a year.

Ideally, you do this because you know of a better alternative and/or be-lieve that there is something inherently wrong with what you’re making fun of. But it is very easy to deconstruct an ar-gument and talk about what isn’t rather than figuring out what is. As soon as we make an assertive statement about anything we are serving it on petri dish, subject to ironic treatment.

A lot of postmodern, ironic, and often nihilistic thought stemmed from an overarching feeling that everything had already been done before. But the irony (ha!) is that a satirical or “ironic” culture only dissuades people from

taking the risk of creating something and putting themselves out there. Be-ing ironic mitigates the responsibility of authorship of or ownership over an idea and encourages “lazy cynicism.” When we make fun of something, we aren’t taking the time and energy to inform ourselves and consolidate an opinion, but we are very quickly dis-sociating, then appropriating ideas in a joking fashion.

Probably one of my most ironic feats has been to listen to Wendy Sulca. She’s a folkloric Peruvian singer and YouTube celebrity and the incarna-tion of anti-culture and tackiness. Her shrill voice and cheesy lyrics were so outrageous to me that I began to enjoy listening to her with my friends or pulling up her music videos at family reunions.

We would all soak in a spirit of complacent camaraderie, contemplat-ing Wendy’s ridiculousness. To give you a sense, one of her videos is about Israel and is filmed in what appears to be a Peruvian zoo. As part of my ironic tirade, I decided to watch a vice documentary about her. Her story had

a tragic sort of “rags to riches ” narra-tive that I was surprised to find myself compelled by. So there I was, teary-eyed and confused, learning about this girl’s life. Wendy’s music didn’t seem any more tasteful to me, but it made sense in the context of her upbringing and origin. I could empathize with her. My presumptuous cynicism shifted to endearing sympathy.

David Foster Wallace criticized the irony that saturated culture today and believed that a wave of new artists would begin to “emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels … who dare some-how to back away from ironic watch-ing, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-enten-dre principles … Who eschew self-con-sciousness and hip fatigue.”

These individuals are likely to get some backlash for being weak and naive in combating cynicism, but there is a lot of merit in trying to be genuine and vulnerable in these ironic times.

By Rohit BachaniFor The Heights

Within Boston College’s Post-Gradu-ation Plan Survey for the Class of 2014, in a sample size of 1,821 students, ap-proximately nine out of 10 of the survey respondents indicated that their post-graduation plans involved employment through full-time work, internships, volunteering positions, or fellowships. The top areas of employment by college were marketing for MCAS, finance/bank-ing services for CSOM, healthcare for CSON, and education for LSOE. Of the students volunteering after graduation from BC—3.4 percent of the sample size—with organizations such as the Alliance for Catholic Education, Boston Teacher Residency, Teach for America, Peace Corps, and WorldTeach, close to a third are serving with the Jesuit Vol-unteer Corps.

Guided by its core virtues of spiritual-ity, simple living, community, and social justice, the Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) hopes to engage passionate youth in ser-

vice within underprivileged communi-ties, in turn fostering the growth of lead-ers conditioned to adapt through faith in action. There are approximately 25 ministries, or types of work, represented among current JVC placements. Those who apply to be and are accepted as volunteers are placed in over 250 differ-ent agencies within 37 U.S. cities and six different countries. Among those partner agencies, 25 percent are affiliated with the Jesuits. Available ministries include opportunities in healthcare services, education, work with the developmen-tally and physically challenged, housing and social services, and immigration advocacy and refugee services.

The JVC program is distinguished by the breadth of the opportunities offered to its volunteers—this is accomplished by the provision of two subsidiary pro-grams that together represent the entity as a whole. The JVC program considers the completion of volunteer services in a domestic and international capacity. The other subsidiary program, JVC North-west, is a National Direct AmeriCorps

program that allows willing volunteers to serve in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska in remote, rural, and urban settings.

“The mission of JVC is deep-rooted in four core values,” said Kate Daly, the asso-ciate director of the Volunteer & Service Learning Center at BC. “Members com-mit themselves to proactively pursuing a sense of spirituality, a simple lifestyle, social justice, and community.” In this capacity, core to the JVC experience is an open engagement with spirituality and faith. The purpose of the program is to create communities that help volunteers broaden their perspectives and confront challenges.

BC ranks within the top two univer-sities in domestic JVC placement and within the top three universities in JVC Northwest placement alongside College of the Holy Cross and the University of Notre Dame. The JVC program this year hosted 15 BC graduates volunteering in a domestic capacity, and five graduates volunteering with JVC Northwest. Last year, 20 BC graduates volunteered in a

domestic capacity, while eight individu-als volunteered with JVC Northwest. In essence, the yield for volunteers has remained reasonably consistent over the past few years—this may be attributed to the sense of purpose and civic engage-ment that JVC’s volunteer programs often cultivate and nurture in their volunteers. The application itself serves as a tool of discernment for prospective volunteers to delineate most efficaciously their passions and interests. According to Daly, the application process, which differs for JV and JVC Northwest lo-gistically, considers each applicant in a holistic capacity.

“The deadline for applications is in January, and although lengthy, the ap-plication very much concerns the mat-ter of helping students find ‘the best fit’ with their placement of choice,” she said. “The application process is followed by an interview on campus, in which re-cruiters talk about things on a student’s resume—or something on their applica-tion—that peaks interest.”

The interview process is dictated by

conversations about what inspires the ap-plicant to pursue volunteer work follow-ing graduation, and what motivates theapplicant to become a more compassion-ate and celebratory caregiver. Whether it is harvesting squash and watering plants with the L’Arche Farm in Tacoma, Wash., (a considerably popular destination for JVC Northwest recruits) or working with those afflicted by poverty and hunger, all volunteers are encouraged to emulate the model of mutual relationships and community. Following the interview pro-cess, if selected, volunteers may choose from a list of service placements both domestically and internationally, or for JVC Northwest.

Daly considered volunteering post-graduation to be a function of one’spassions in light of the work done by those at JVC and elsewhere. “Whilestudents are still at BC, the VolunteerFair is a great way for people to explore their interests,” she said. “Whether ornot students choose JVC, we encourage them to explore their passions and to dowhat they love.”

PHOTOS COURTESY OF BRIELLE MARIUCCI

“Mama Don’t Cry 4 My Swag” is comprised of BC juniors who have competed and won together since their freshman year.

THE HEIGHTS A5Monday, September 28, 2015

“I want to start by offering you a free no-tech life hack, and all it requires of you is this: that you change your posture for two minutes,” were the opening lines of Amy Cuddy’s TED Talk, “Your body language shapes who you are.” Cuddy, who is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, doubles as an American social psychologist known for her research on stereotyping and discrimination, emotions, power, nonverbal behavior, and the effects of social stimuli on hormone levels. Whether you were one of the lucky few in attendance at her actual lecture, or watched the event from the comfort of your computer, you were not the only ones enticed by her proposition. In fact, 28 million people and counting tuned into Cuddy’s lecture via online stream-ing, making her speech the second most watched TED Talk in the organization’s history.

Her upcoming lecture, “Fake it Until You Become It,” centers on just that. To be held in Boston College’s Rob-sham Theater Arts Center on Oct. 6 at 5 p.m., its title is derived from one of Cuddy’s most memorable statements during her TED Talk. She insists that sometimes the only way to beat imposter syndrome, the feeling that you do not belong, is to position your body such that it appears you do belong. Hosted by the Women’s Center of Boston College,

in collaboration with Women in Business, Lean In, CSON Senate, LSOE Senate, the Undergraduate Government of Boston College, Graduate Student Life, Women’s Collab-orative, and Word of Mouth, “Fake it Until You Become It” promises to be an event not to be missed. What is more, the event is entirely free! All that is necessary is that you

Cuddy holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Princ-eton University, an MA in Social Psychology from Princeton University, and a BA in Social Psychology from the Univer-sity of Colorado. Prior to joining Harvard Business School, Cuddy was an assistant professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where she taught leadership in organizations in the MBA program and research methods in the doctoral program; and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University, where she taught undergraduate social psychology. At Harvard Business School, she has taught MBA courses on

education courses.However, it hasn’t always been smooth sailing despite

her many achievements. As a sophomore in college, she sustained a serious head injury in a car accident. Her doc-tors told her she was not likely to fully recover and should

-ate degree. Her IQ fell temporarily by two standard devia-tions, which is about 30 points in IQ test. She eventually completed her undergraduate studies and went on to earn a Ph.D. at Princeton. In an instance in which her body and brain suffered both physical, intellectual, and psychological damage, Cuddy’s resilience encouraged her to persevere despite these obstacles.

Drawn to the causes and consequences of feeling ambivalent emotions, the subsequent nonverbal behav-ior and communication, as well as hormonal responses

nonverbal communication along with Susan Fiske and Peter Glick, both of Lawrence University. The study was most certainly not for nothing, as it has since been cited in various publications more than 9,000 times.

What Cuddy found most intriguing about her research was the effect nonverbal behavior had on one’s hormonal responses in as little as two minutes. Where once most believed that the way you act is derived due to the way you feel, Cuddy set out to discern whether the way you act could subsequently affect the way you feel. This inverse relationship was a novel concept since many believe you

can’t fake it.

people into a lab and asking a subset of people to adopt, for two minutes, either high-power poses or low-power poses. High-power poses mirror behaviors observable in the animal kingdom. These people were asked to make themselves big, stretch out, take up space, and open up. On the other hand, those tasked with embodying low-power poses were asked to close up, wrap themselves up, and make themselves smaller.

a 20-percent increase in testosterone, and low-powered --

ence about a 25 percent decrease in cortisol, the stress

lecture, “It seems that nonverbal do govern how we think and feel about ourselves, so it’s not just others, but it’s also ourselves. Also, our bodies change our minds.”

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OFF-CAMPUS VS. ON-CAMPUS LIVING

Two roommates, both alike in dignity, in fair Chestnut Hill, where we lay our scene…

The transition to upperclassman status; studies abroad; off-campus living; the arduous search for employment; increasing academic rigor; the much-anticipated (legal) introduction to alcohol and the bar scene—in almost every facet, junior year is wrought with change. While all four years of the collegiate experience feature much transition, junior year is particularly inconstant. Not all of it quakes with excitement, though, as two former roommates divulge below: particularly with regard to on- and off-campus housing, pros and cons weigh

heavily into the decision-making process.

By Jessica TurkmanyHeights Staff

A different most-frequently-asked ques-tion at Boston College is attached to every new school year. For freshmen, it’s “Where are you from?” Sophomores get to answer the fun question of “What’s your major?” But when you’re a junior, you get to proudly answer the question “Where are you living?” by publiciz-ing your exact address to everyone without batting an eye.

There’s no doubt that living on campus is convenient—but living off campus gives you more freedom, as well as that nice Snapchat “Slap!” in the face of what it’s going to be like living post-grad in the real world.

Let’s start with the realist’s perspective of it all: living off campus and having access to an almost fully functioning oven does not automatically make you Ina Garten. As des-perately as I want people to take me seriously as Barefoot ConJessa, I ate instant oatmeal last night for dinner. My Pinterest board “ya gotta be fresh” (containing every unprocessed food the Workaholics boys would never eat) is filled with distant dinner dreams of kalesadillas and pollo picata with risotto. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

Grocery shopping during the week is such a process, and getting to Whole Foods or TJ’s during rush hour is an uphill battle, especially when your stomach is growling and Jean your Uber driver takes the longest route possible. I’d rather just settle for a bowl of cereal (with almond milk, of course).

If I were pursuing any form of artistic expression at all, I’d just light a cig and tout this as my “starving artist” phase. But I don’t smoke. So sadly, it’s re-ally just the I-can’t-charge-anything-else-to-Foodler-because-Dad-will-get-suspi-cious-so-I’ll-just-eat-crack-ers-and-peanut-butter-for-dinner phase.

Despite experienc-

ing lower blood sugar levels, there are definite benefits to living off campus. Let’s start with the obvious: you might get to meet the Kirkwood Tickler! I’m just kidding … there’s a deadbolt on your front door for a reason. The funda-mental benefits to living off campus include, but are not limited to: 1) not getting written up for a noise complaint from the girl next door who’s studying on a Saturday night, 2) keeping your Christmas lights up all year long, and 3) buzzing people into your building like a young NYC elite (or a Seinfeld-type character, if you will).

The chances of your things getting stolen from the laundry room decrease significantly, especially if your laundry room is like mine, where there is only one washer and dryer in the middle of an unfinished basement under which more than one dead body is likely to be buried.

No one wants to spend any extra time down there going through your clothes and snatch-ing one of your favorite Free People tops. Leave that top unattended for two minutes in the 66 laundry room, though, and you’ll experience firsthand the on-campus clean clothes thievery.

Let’s be real, the greatest gift of off-campus living is not having to socialize with a large group of people in a 170 square-foot box. Ju-nior year is not the time to be partying in the dorms or the Mods, but to constantly christen the floors of Orkney with your jungle juice. In this way, living off campus does not deter from the delicate balance of your social life at BC,

but makes it better. Pregame on South, party on Foster, and postgame on Kirkwood, and

you’ll see everyone you want to see in one night.

Yes, getting back on the “Newton” bus

every morning to go to class is annoying . But sweating t h e m i l e t o Main Campus in this 80-de-gree heat ev-er y day isn’t any better. You have to weigh the odds, and honestly, I ’d b e t o n t h e Common-w e a l th Av e . bus, and living o f f c a mp u s , every time.

By Madeleine LoosbrockHeights Staff

I’m almost 21 years old, and I still live in a dorm. When I tell people this, I usually get an, “Oh, cool,” with a sympathetic nod or a, “Why?” with a slightly confused facial expression—very similar responses to the ones I receive when I tell people I live in Minnesota.

Living on campus is akin to the worst parts of freshman year returning to ruin your first year as an upperclassman. The pseudo wooden furniture, the prison mattress, the feeling you get waiting for the signature knock of the RA when your music is a little too loud on the weekends—at this point in my Boston College career, I’m pretty over it all.

With many of my friends living in houses and apartments off campus, I’ve gotten to see what I’m missing. Buying your own furniture, hosting your own parties, cooking your own meals—off-campus living undoubtedly offers freedoms that on-campus living simply cannot match.

In particular, I’m attracted to the idea of a kitchen. In my mind, having a kitchen is a sym-bol of independence: It makes it feel like you’re actually living in a city and going to school there. While living off campus with a kitchen definitely has its perks, it separates home life and school life. Living on campus and having the added benefit of a kitchen would group school and life together completely, allowing a student to fully live and learn within the community.

To give some credit, Stayer 617 has a great lil kitchenette. If you squint your eyes, our electric George Foreman grill looks a lot like a stove (and is super convenient for storage!). And at the same time, the RAs can pop in at any moment, creating a fun sense of danger. Live for the thrill, am I right?

If I had to sum up on-campus liv-ing in one word, it’d be “conve-nient.” Ju-nior year i s b u s y . Between class and clubs and practice, I spend vir-tually no t i m e i n my room. W h e n I d o f i n d t i m e t o relax, the last thing I w o u l d

want to do is cook. Not only that, but I don’thave time to go to the grocery store all thatoften, and I would probably end up succumbingto every college stereotype and eating Ramenand frozen meals multiple times a day.

During the week, I save a lot of time. I cansafely delete TransLoc off my phone, neverhaving to worry about catching a packed busto campus in the morning. I can quickly runback to my room if I forget something duringthe day. I could theoretically go to the Plexwhenever I want, although, I’ll be honest, thathasn’t happened all that often.

I feel like the biggest feature of off-campusliving is the ability to host parties. I mean,I could host parties in my common roomWalsh-style, but. On the weekends, I have thefreedom to venture off campus and experiencethe party without actually living there. I comeback to my clean room with no mess to worryabout in the morning, and I only have a shortwalk to Lower.

Perhaps the scariest part of my living situa-tion is that I don’t know who my roommates aregoing to be in the spring. All of the roommates Iknow the best are going abroad spring semester,so I’m looking at six random roommates in afew short months. Kind of terrifying, yeah?

Junior year has been unique in that I’venoticed friend groups start to shuffle. Whetherit is abroad, the on/off campus divide, orrepercus- sions of the “Sophomore Slump,”we’ve seemed to open ourselves tomak- ing new friends and hanging

out with more people. It’sactually pretty cool.

It stressed meout a lot last year

thinking of myfriends leav-

ing in thespring. Butafter a fewwe ek s oncampus and expe-riencing the new at-titudes ofmy class ,I’m confi-dent thatI’ll be justfine. Whilelocation divides our class,i n m a n yways , it ’sbrought us closer.

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The 23rd annual Pops on The Heights entertained parents, stu-dents, and alumni this past Friday with a variety of talent including the Screaming Eagles Marching Band, Boston Pops, and the University Chorale. Pops on The Heights is the University’s largest annual fund-raiser, and this year set a record for funds raised: $7.5 million that will be distributed to 275 Pops Scholar-ship recipients.

With its variety of performers tackling a distinct spectrum of music from Les Miserables to Led Zeppelin, Pops on The Heights’ entertainment value does not disap-point. Especially with the Boston Calling Music Festival taking place the same weekend, featuring its own plethora of talent including Alt-J and The Avett Brothers, it’s important for Pops on The Heights to continue its relevance for the younger and older crowd alike by keeping things fresh.

This being said, it would be nice to see the concert utilize more BC student performers and not rely so heavily on headliners who are not widely known. This was the case this year with guest perform-ers Darlene Love, Lisa Fischer and Judith Hill, and last year, with guest Chris Isaak. While these artists were generally entertaining, the largest cheers came for Liz Mc-Govern, MCAS ’18, following her rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” during Friday’s show.

Similar accolades were in store for Caroline Portu, MCAS ’16, when she performed with the Pops last year. The show benefits from a headliner such as Harry Connick, Jr.—who performed for Pops on the Heights in 2012—yet the show stalled substantially on Friday when the guest performers took the stage. In planning BC’s biggest annual fundraiser, ‘Pops’ organizers should take the opportunity to show

off some of the University’s talent, and work to bring in more notable special guests with higher audience recognition.

This is a relatively minor com-plaint, however, compared to the continued overall success of Pops on the Heights. An event with the glamour to match its important purpose, we look forward to ‘Pops’ setting a new record next year, and for the Parent’s Weekend staple to continue its fundraising success.

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Pope Francis completed his 10-day tour of the United States yesterday, Sept. 27, during which he made stops in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York. Francis struck a tone on big social issues—such as compassion for homosexual members of the Church, climate change, immigration, and the roles of women in the Church—which surprised many conservative Catholics. The Pope’s words have especially reso-nated with people of a younger genera-tion, both Catholic and non-Catholic. Accordingly, his message to the U.S. is of particular value here at Boston College, an institution simultaneously seeking to hold onto its mission, grow more diverse, and improve its standings nationally.

Originally founded to act as an en-gine of opportunity for Irish Catholics who were discriminated from other col-leges, BC has grown to be an elite aca-demic environment, and has adapted in response to the changing demographics of its students in many ways. Espresso Your Faith Week and Agape Latte were instituted by the Church in the 21st Century to bring the conversation on religion at BC to the University at large, and, in many ways, have calibrated the University to better serve the Church of today. Francis’ message, however, pushes Catholic institutions to do even more.

How can BC continue to expand its educational offerings to the under-served and marginalized? This was the earliest mission of the University, and in keeping with that mission today, we’re challenged to develop into a school intent on serving the commu-nity through scholarship and financial aid as well as charitable outreach and service offerings. Francis, himself an

immigrant, spoke of the greatness of the U.S. coming largely from the im-migrant groups that built this country. BC is a similar place.

With the Light the World Campaign finishing early, and hitting its target goal, BC now has a tremendous amount of money that can be put to good use outside of just infrastructure.The Woods College of Advancing Studies is a great program that provides full-time and part-time students who are looking to develop their skills an opportunity to advance their particular careers. As BC continues on its growth outward, it also

must look inward, and developed into a community as diverse as the country Francis encountered on his visit. This means offering educational opportuni-ties to all socioeconomic classes, at all stages of life, with an emphasis on the underserved.

What does a Catholic institution in the 21st century do to advance its mission? BC has already done a lot to develop its “men and women for oth-ers,” but the institution should not grow comfortable with its accomplishments and improved stature in the world. The University’s extraordinary finan-cial blessings come with the call to do extraordinary work in educating and serving the diverse, changing Church of today.

then should we not dive further into it, dissect it and analyze it, in order to find out why it makes us feel this way, so that we may combat it? Instead, a “safe space” allows us the chance to push substance under the rug and pretend it doesn’t exist. If we as students are doing that, then our college education is failing us. Or perhaps it is better stated as: we are failing our col-lege education.

If academic material becomes censored because of the possibility of negative manifestations within us, not only is our education compromised, but our social skills are, too. If we recoil from a slightly uncomfortable discussion in a classroom setting, how are we going to be able to deal with the societal realities of rejec-tion, discrimination, and subjection? It is a university’s job to teach its students bravery, not cowardice. It is a university’s job to instill in its students the ability to speak up when they are uncomfortable, not to leave the room. It is a university’s job to empower their students to condemn what is wrong, what is hurtful and what is discriminatory—not to have them shy away from the challenge. If we are going to allow our university to do its job, the student body must rid itself of any concept of an intellectual safe-haven.

Criticism of the safe space is wide-spread, ranging from academics, newspa-per columnists, and even celebrities, such as comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock, who refuse to bring their stand-up acts to collegiate settings because of, as they perceive it, overly sensitive student bodies. If the real world is condemning intellectual institutions for harboring some bubble-like protective sphere around its student body, shouldn’t someone start to do something to combat this effect? Clearly, the repercussions of the safe space are not isolated to those who choose to partake in it. Not only do intellectual safe spaces pose a threat to those who might be challenged, but moreover this politically correct movement stifles other students’ ideas, as they are afraid of damaging their peers with their perspectives. Does that sound like a healthy environment for

learning to take place? We want to teach our students respect, not censorship.

Unfortunately, professors cannot fight this fight. In fact, professors are suffer-ing just as much as their students are. When the very people who are entrusted to educate us are afraid of triggering their students with (what seem to many as) benign works from America’s classical canon, like The Great Gatsby (a work that has been under scrutiny for its portrayal of class status, conspicuous consumption, and female objectification), we are risking the academic excellence that BC has cul-tivated for more than a century by forcing our professors to dull down our curricu-lums and conversations. We are prohibit-ing our professors from doing their jobs, we are placing academic discourse in vain, and we are damaging our own futures as well-prepared young adults, all because we are too scared to face the challenge of an idea.

To secure academic discourse, the stu-dent body must first recognize the issue at hand. For those who feel offended in an in-tellectual atmosphere, perhaps it is about time to face your fears rather than hide from them. Anyone who is at all familiar with the field of psychology knows well that in order to conquer distress or anxi-ety, the worst thing one can do is evade it. If we are to learn anything, we must tackle subjects from all sides, hear all arguments, and strive to understand perspectives that are different from one’s own. The only way to do this is to rid ourselves of safe spaces in the intellectual realm.

It is not that we must abandon empa-thy, respect, or even common courtesy. The task is not to harm our peers, but to encourage them. If a fellow student seems insulted by a comment or a text, it is our duty as scholars to engage them in dia-logue, to listen to why they struggle, and to learn from them, so that they too may learn from us—in this way, we are creating intellectual discourse, as it should be.

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PARENTS’ WEEKEND - While it might have put a dent in all of your crazy college weekend plans (thinking of going out Friday night? Puh-lease. You need to go see the Boston Pops for the third year in a row), and an even bigger dent in your ability to finish all of the work that you need to do, getting a chance to see the parents and guardians that worked to give us the opportunity to come study at Boston College is always a good thing. For some, they couldn’t wait for their parents to leave, but hopefully somewhere between Friday and Sunday, you were able to enjoy a good meal out at a restaurant that leaves you a lot healthier and happier than late night, got your room/laundry in order so that you wouldn’t feel like you’re letting anyone down, and got a fair share of guidance and advice on how you’ve been doing so far, a month into a new year of college. While they might on occasion be very embarrassing, the people that came to see you this past weekend will always be the very best.

READING THROUGH OLD JOURNALS - For all the small things that you forgot, the big ones you want to re-remember, and realizing that far past any rational explanation, today will become tomorrow, what you’ll do will become what you’ve done, one day, and that the only thing you got is what’s happening to you, right now.

STARBUCKS IN ON THE FLY - Yes, we know that it might not feel like Starbucks is necessarily a new thing anymore. But it has gotten to that point in the year where our caffeine consumption can-not be limited to one or two cups anymore, and while The Chocolate Bar does us a great service by stay-ing open until almost 7 p.m. during the week, it’s still important to get that late night boost that we so desperately need. That’s where we’ve found Eagle On The Fly has come in so well. 8:30 p.m., and looking for a pick-me-up? Get some rich, bitter goodness in you, and get back over the library to finish what you’ve started.

NO NEW PRINTERS - We were prom-ised new printers at more loca-tions. We still haven’t gotten them. How difficult can this possibly be? How much effort does it take to purchase some printers and get them where they’ll be the most convenient, like Lower? Listen, if you can rip the grass up once or twice a year, you can set up some machines in the dining hall that’ll make everyone’s life much, much easier.

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Boston College wasn’t my home up until about a month ago—before that, I was a Terrier. That’s right. I’ll pause to let the gasps and profanity take their course. I should explain that I was an Eagle long before I was a Terrier, and that my time as an Eagle began on the cool fall day in 2001 when my older brother took his BC High entrance exam. From that moment forward, I knew where I was headed.

I knew BU was a big school, but I never could have guessed just how lackluster the whole experience would be. Personally, I didn’t mind the lack of a central campus and actually found it to be quite beautiful. Living in Warren Towers, I woke up every morning to a view of the Charles, the Citgo sign, the Pru, and Fenway. It was the premier Boston experi-ence, or at least it should have been.

What I found is that next to no one from BU is proud of Boston or the school. Many would be just as happy if the campus were picked up in its entirety and plopped down next to a trendier city. For some reason, the school is rarely regarded as someone’s first choice. In some cases, they came to BU because the individual programs they sought were better in some regard. But more often students seem to have had their hearts set on other schools, and because they were denied the aid or the acceptance needed to attend, BU was the default. This flaw creates a culture of indifference and a lack of loyalty. It’s what makes BC’s hockey chant, “BU was my safety school,” so ef-fective: the truth.

I’m not sure when this transition hap-pened, when the flood of NYU-rejects and hipsters infected the culture there. Maybe it was in the ’90s when BU dis-mantled their football program, or maybe long before that. All I know is that some-thing changed within that school and it seems barely able to remember its legacy of tough commuter students and Beanpot sweeps made possible by teams of local kids who grew up playing ice hockey on the Frog Pond.

The rivalry between BC and BU is akin to that of Boston and New York. BU students should feel pride in the metro-politan nature of their school and the fact that they navigate traffic and crowded city streets. We should feel proud of our beautiful, sprawling campus, a true city on a hill. BU students should not feel badly about the fact that they have to pass 35 pizza parlors and hair salons between their dorm and class buildings and we should not feel badly about the accusations of Chestnut Hill not being Boston. Instead of this balance, instead of Boston and New York, the rivalry has become something more like Boston and Anytown, U.S.A.

I’m not sure how to extricate the cancer of indifference. Perhaps part of the problem is how international the school has become. BC’s value is virtually unparalleled in New England, but BU rules the roost internationally. It draws in many students who seek a degree that’s considered prestigious in their home-lands. Unfortunately, I never had an open or honest dialogue with an international student during my years at BU. They seemed more interested in bombing their supercars up and down Commonwealth Ave. and getting arrested for doing 100 miles an hour down Beacon St.

Within the first day of my BC orienta-tion, I was having a cultural discussion with a student from Syria and another who had lived all over the world. They were engaging and invested in BC, ready to contribute their unique perspective to the larger whole. I was home again. We Eagles come from every dot on the globe. We come from different regions, religions, socioeconomic statuses, gen-ders, sexual orientations, and abilities. We come and we attach ourselves to the united ideal of being “a man or woman forothers” and regardless of how disparate another’s life experiences have been from our own, we are always more than happy to pull up a chair to the table of conversa-tion. There is a shared identity here at BC that is absent at BU. For this reason I am glad to be home, “For here all are one.”

career that (hopefully) comes after four years of studying this material? At this point, who the hell knows.

I’m already so far into my major that it’s too late to switch paths for the—what are we up to now, sixth time?—so I’m in it for the long haul. I’ve determined this major is “good” for me, not because I want to work for the UN necessarily or choose a path in politics, but because I honestly enjoy my classes. They are challenging beyond belief and they re-veal to me information about the world that is necessary to be an informed citizen. So to all the Buzzfeed articles that plague my Facebook feed headlined, “The Worst College Majors,” I say screw you. All the people who know me know that I’m not one to curse or be confron-tational, but seriously, what authority does some stupid, trashy website have on anyone’s life? Like for real, people, if you are honestly enjoying the classes you’re taking—then just go with it. Stop freaking out when your aunt asks, “Wow, so you want to work for the UN?” You’ll figure that part out later.

I don’t wipe the sweat burning into my eyes as the house draws nearer and nearer. My arms move with such violence as each fist swinging back and forth is like a punch at the nagging voice in my head. I pass the house’s mailbox and stop with such gratitude, as if I had just ran a marathon. I gulp the 100-de-gree wet air, like a fish out of water.

Okay, so I didn’t complete the four miles I set out to run. That’s just fine, because at least I did two. I own those two. This run, and finally choosing a major, was hard as hell, but hey—I’m in it now. Even though I pass the same houses and potholes each time, they always look and feel a bit different, as my body and mind have changed along these roads. Each time I lace up my shoes, I know I’ll make it a bit farther each time. The mistake I made before was thinking I could run this journey on autopilot.

personal path to follow his/her passion, but for me, this class simply confused me even more. Under pressure to decide on a major (to my dismay I couldn’t be “undeclared” forever), I applied and was accepted into the International Studies program because “I liked to travel”—a good reason to explain my decision to my mom, right? I thought it was a “good” major for me because it sounded like it was pretty much what you make of it, as IS majors can decide certain tracks, and different paths within those tracks. When in reality, I chose IS because I honestly didn’t know what else to do. Little did I know that the question for

the next year would be, “Now what are you actually planning to do with that?”

Well jeez, I never really thought that far about my whimsical decision. Once I started taking a few IS classes, I was so interested in the actual material that I was learning, that I never thought about what I would actually do with this information. Stupid, right? According to my mom, I’m at college to get a job. I get that, I really do, but I am so caught in between two forms of thinking that I’m driving myself insane. Do I think about what type of career I want in the future, and then figure out what major I should be pursuing, or do I focus on the classes that interest me, and then go with the

As the 5-o’clock sun attacks my pale skin, I feel the sweat drip down my face and into my eyes, blurring my vision. With each strike against the unforgiving pavement, pain shoots up my leg and into my knee as I hear my breath quick-ening. Through my blared hard-core rap music, the voice in my head emerges: “Sorry, sister, but there is no way you’re calling it quits—you haven’t even run two miles!”

Through the haze of the Texas heat, I see the house that I have assigned as the two-mile marker for the past five years—yet it feels like it should really represent many more. How is this so hard for me? I used to run two miles as a warm up, and now I’m struggling to even make it my entire workout.

I strike harder and harder, sending shocks to my defenseless knees more aggressively, as if I think the pain will mask the negativity plaguing my brain. An all-too familiar voice returns. What are you doing with your life, Catherine? What is your four-year plan? Where is the concrete evidence you have to show for the journey of “figuring things out?”

I think about Kira, who’s having the time of her life in New York City work-ing for a major investment banking firm. I think of my best friend from home, Lauren, who has just completed her sophomore year in Washington, D.C., working for prestigious senators and governors. I think of my brother, Tom, who is following his passion, producing movies in Los Angeles. And then I think of myself.

“Passions,” these things that Boston College professors and students talk about on a regular basis, are everything and anything. An individual can like a lot of things—writing, working with people, exercising, reading—but do they fall into the vague category of “pas-sions?” And how do these passions, in turn, translate into a major, and eventu-ally career? Courage to Know, a fresh-man year class, seeks to address these questions and set a BC student on a

In the ever-growing atmosphere of the coddled child, where everyone’s a winner and no one loses, where trying counts more than succeeding, and where it is becoming increasingly acceptable to censor, chastise, and even ridicule those who freely speak their minds in the name of “political correctness,” the birth of an intellectual safe haven is not altogether very surprising.

The phenomenon of the safe space is rapidly introducing itself across college campuses everywhere. The idea of a haven for those who feel that they are subject to microaggressions and uncomfortable scenarios seems perfectly sound. Yet, as soon as these forums are introduced into the social atmosphere of an institution there is always the trouble of its effect trickling down into the intellectual life of the school. The result is a classroom set-ting in which no one is challenged and no one can learn. If everyone feels like they need to tiptoe around subjects, nothing will get said. There should be no need to rekindle the politically correct move-ment—if we as Boston College students vow to be respectful to one another, then our dialogues should be free to include everyone’s comments and ideas.

We come to higher education to be exposed, challenged, and to grow. How can a student achieve this if they are given the opportunity to run away and hide when the going gets tough? If college is supposed to prepare us for the real world, then shouldn’t it be structured similarly to it? Beyond our tall academic towers, there hovers the real world. Within that society there are no spaces to escape what might make us cringe or become unsettled. It is high time, even at our tender, collegiate age, to accept this as fact.

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as a commercial book. Shakespeare, Not Stirred came to me as a title first. I knew we had to write it, and luckily

Michelle was game to do it.”While both authors went into the

project with expertise in the Shake-spearean field, their personal and professional obligations proved chal-

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to couch the Bystander curriculum within the Jesuit ideals espoused by the University of being a person for others at all times, Dalton said.

“Not just Monday through Thursday dur-ing the day, but throughout the weekends, at parties,” Dalton said.

The Women’s Center aims to be a safe space for students seeking support for sexual assault in addition to fostering healing and empowerment for students who have survived abuse. In addition to the SANet hotline and Bystander Intervention, the Women’s Center hosts HEAL, a support group in conjunction with University Counseling Services.

“The Women’s Center is for all students, and we seek to be inclusive by making ourselves a safe place for students to be, especially in the aftermath of a potentially traumatic experience,” said Rachel DiBella, assistant director of the Women’s Center. “I believe that this is deeply connected to mission as an office and as part of a Jesuit institution.”

Larrabee attributes the jump in the inci-dents reported to increased education, in-cluding mandatory Bystander training for all freshmen, and the humanization of the sexual assault network (SANet) that connects those affected by sexual violence to advocates.

Within the first-year housing communi-ties, plastic folders on the back of bathroom doors advertise SANet and share information about the network and those members of the faculty directly involved. This information adds a recognizable element to an otherwise intimidating phone call, Dalton said.

“It sparks conversations among friends that get these things out from the shadows and makes people feel comfortable report-ing,” Larrabee said, alluding to the increased events hosted by the Women’s Center, like Concerned About Rape Education (C.A.R.E.) Week, that strive to educate the student body on what sexual assault means and how to talk to someone about it.

The increased number of reports is en-couraging, because it means that students are responding to the educational initiatives—if BC is any indication of national trends, Dal-ton said, sexual assault is happening here, and all students need to be supported during the healing process.

“In three years, every student will have gone through Bystander,” Dalton said. “So, we hope we’ve reached that tipping point of Bystander helping to encourage students to report, but then at some point we’re going to tip the scales, and because of Bystander, this won’t happen as much and students won’t need to report as much.”

Over the summer of 2014, the University’s sexual assault misconduct policy was revised, from a conduct board to an investigatory model. This shift reflects the best practices in the field, Dalton said. Prior to this change, sexual assault cases were resolved through a board of faculty and staff that would call for evidence and witnesses.

The changed policy, under an investigative model, makes the process less confrontation-al, as involved students are no longer required to appear at hearings at the same time.

“We think this is a fair and equitable process, and unlike the hearing board model we have both an external investigator and an internal one—both [are] highly trained on the complexities of sexual assault cases,” Katie O’Dair, vice president for Student Affairs and Student Affairs Title IX coordinator, said to The Heights last fall.

The most recent Clery data comes out next month, so it is not until then that the University can see the effect that the changed disciplinary model has had on reported incidents.

Dalton graduated from BC in 2003. As a student, she never noticed a campus con-versation on sexual assault. Now, she said, students cannot graduate without having a conversation about it because of the preva-lence of programming.

Larrabee, a senior, has noticed that in her nearly four years here, conversation sur-rounding issues of sexual assault has grown. She acknowledged that it is a difficult thing to measure, especially because she does not know how current freshmen talk about it compared to how she talked about it as a freshman.

“In terms of people’s fourth year rather than their first year, I think people are much more likely to step in, much more likely to recognize situations as wrong and feel like they can do something,” she said. “Hopefully after going through Bystander, they are more likely to see situations as wrong more often than I did as a first-year student.”

BC, like other universities, is at the risk of having sexual assault obscured by the hookup culture or by alcohol. Dalton said that they are conscious of not victim-blam-ing when talking about alcohol, but rather acknowledging that it is a contributing factor to sexual assaults. Similarly, the perception that everyone is hooking up can camouflage when sexual assaults do happen. It can be dif-ficult to ascertain what behaviors are sexual assaults as opposed to consensual hookups, Larrabee said.

“We have a lot of privileges here,” she said. “That can very easily slide into a sense of entitlement, which is a dangerous culture to have around.”

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lenging enough to stretch the project out over three years.

During the writing and editing stages of Shakespeare, Not Stirred, Bicks and Ephraim worked as much as they could each day amid their busy personal and professional schedules. On a given day, Bicks would write late into the evening after spending the day dropping her children off at school before teaching courses at BC and fulfilling her other research obligations.

“One of us would take a pass at something and then the other would work on it, and then we’d brainstorm together to get it just right,” she said. “As academics in the humanities, we usually write by ourselves, so this was a very refreshing and exciting way to write. Of course, Shakespeare collabo-rated all the time, so we also felt very authentic as we did it.”

Bicks admits that compared to her other work—her first book was about midwives in 16th- and 17th-century English medical and literary texts, and a book she is currently writing focuses on the minds of adolescent girls in Shakespeare’s time—Shakespeare, Not Stirred provided more laughs and a far different process as far as perfecting all aspects of the work.

“We spent a lot of time inventing puns like ‘Maki-Beth Rolls’ and ‘Kate’s Shrew-Driver.’ And, of course, we had to have a lot of tasting parties as we developed the drink and hors d’oeuvre recipes,” she said.

To develop the images used through-out the book , Bicks and Ephraim worked with the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Working

exclusively with the library’s collection, they found images to accompany drink and hors d’ouvre recipes that they then used in conjunction with Photoshop to show characters holding drinks and snacks.

Bicks emphasized the Folger’s sup-port throughout the process of com-pleting the book, and noted that the library hosted a party in honor of the book this past weekend in Washington, D.C.

The book’s chapters are divided into different life issues and themes, includ-ing “Shall I Compari to a Summer’s Day?: Romantic Occasions,” as well as “Get Thee to a Winery: Girls’ Night Out.” From here, drinks within each chapter focus on specific Shakespear-ian characters.

“We key the drinks in each chap-ter to specific characters whom we think embody an aspect of that theme. Richard III, for example, is in our ‘Dys-functional Family Gatherings’ chapter. We talk about him as an angry middle child and create a ‘Gimme-let’ for him as a nod to his jealous power grab,” she said.

While the book’s more humorous side is its puns, drink recipes, and artwork, Bicks notes that at its core, Shakespeare, Not Stirred has a definite agenda to bring the playwright and his characters into the forefront of modern readers’ attention.

“At its heart, this is a book about Shakespeare, not a book about drink-ing. It’s part of our larger mission to bring the Bard out of the Ivory Tower and into the stuff of people’s everyday lives,” she said. “We quote a lot from the

plays throughout the book to make hisbeautiful language more accessible.”

Part of this effort, Bicks continued,is inspired by her classroom experi-ences over the years with students that are intimidated by Shakespeare.

“[Shakespeare] wrote, produced and performed for everyone. Part of what makes him so enduring is his ability to get inside the heads and hearts of people who were not at all like him: women, people of other countries,religions, classes, races,” she said. “Andhe knew how to play with the poetics of language and to create lines that would stick with his audiences. He’s endlesslyadaptable for these reasons.”

Bicks and Ephraim wanted to makesure interested readers could still learn significant details about the specifichistorical contexts in which Shake-speare wrote.

That is why, Bicks said, that theyincluded “mini-Bards” in the book,or short bits of information and com-mentary for readers if they have furtherinterests in the plays, historical issues,or themes being discussed.

Although the book was written nearly half a millennium after Shake-speare’s last works by two English pro-fessors collaborating on a Google Doc,Shakespeare, Not Stirred has founda home on the shelves of The GlobeTheatre Bookstore in London, as wellas the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-on-Avon. Being sold in these locations gives Bicks a tremendous amount of pride in her work.

“I love that our little book is sitting there so close to where Shakespearelived and performed.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF SELLY SALLAH

A photo campaign last week invited students to share why they would intervene as bystanders.

Reported sexual assaults at BC rose to 10 in 2013, though more women nationally indicate past assaults.

ARTHUR BAILIN / HEIGHTS STAFF

Each year, the Women’s Center sponsors C.A.R.E. Week to promote education about sexual assault.

A tandem of new faces walks into the press conference. One, a slender frame with a sheepish smile. Th e other, fi re red hair, looking down at his feet. Socks and fl ops: the perfect combination when it’s time to kick back and relax.

They put their arms around one another as Boston College’s defensive stars give their spiels about the Eagles’ fourth consecutive dominating defensive performance.

When the pair’s turn comes, they plop down and hunch over the microphone, with slouched poses making it clear that, despite playing on national television, they’re still teenagers. Since this is the fi rst post game press conference, they address us in the media.

“I’m Jeff Smith, quarterback,” the fi rst one says. “I’m Troy Flutie, quarterback,” says the other.

If a two-quarterback system seems unconventional—not to mention des-tined for failure—well, it is. Each guy has a vastly diff erent mindset on the fi eld. Flutie prefers a more traditional style, with the occasional play action pass or scramble for the fi rst down. Smith plays like Tyler Murphy, constantly choosing to exploit holes and run to move his team

down fi eld. Offensive coordinator Todd Fitch

often switched back and forth between the two, not just by series but by the plays within them. Th is might draw some con-cern that BC is essentially tipping its plays to the opposition. When Flutie comes in, the defense can anticipate either a pass or a handoff to one of BC’s bruising running backs. With Smith, expect play action or a QB keeper. Against ACC defenses, this choice may not work.

But today, in a 17-14 win by BC (3-1, 0-1 ACC) over non-conference powerhouse Northern Illinois University (2-2, 0-0 MAC), the strategy worked … barely.

Oh, and the resurgence of running back Jonathan Hilliman certainly helped, too.

Last week, Florida State’s defensive line punished Hilliman. Head coach Steve Addazio only allowed Hilliman to carry the ball eight times, usually for telegraphed runs up the middle. BC’s star back couldn’t do anything with those op-portunities. He gained 15 yards, but also had several negative plays that brought his net total yardage to just seven.

Today, we saw the Jonathan Hilliman that broke onto the scene last season as a punishing freshman that will knock

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Outside Robsham Th eater, a group of students can always be found walking on a tightrope spanning two trees. I can’t explain why they do it, but they’re always laughing and having a good time. Of course, until someone falls off —goodness knows the pain they’ll feel. Th e rope isn’t that high off the ground, so it doesn’t seem danger-ous. But it’s just elevated enough where, if you trip, you’ll probably end up in the hospital with a twisted ankle. If you have my fl exibility and balance, probably worse.

Th at’s the kind of rope upon which Boston College Athletics cur-rently teeters. A legal rope, that is.

By now, we know that NCAA teams, particularly those with major football and men’s basketball programs, cannot profi t off the likenesses of their players more than they already do. Th ey never see a penny of television money or ticket proceeds, as Ed O’Bannon reminds us every day on the ticker across the bottom of ESPN.

Th is isn’t an argument about whether college athletes should get paid—please, let’s not start that one up. Frankly, without outwardly compensating the athletes, it’s kind of hard to avoid the fact that schools will make money on likenesses on those factors. Unless we have some huge overhaul of the whole system (which could happen pending the outcome of a never-ending series of litigation against the NCAA), colleges will continue to profi t from those two sources.

Even if schools seem progressive on the matter of giving more—like Virginia Tech, which, whether for moral reasons or to appear more appealing to recruits, cuts massive cost-of-attendance checks to its football players—they’re still in that bind. Many athletic departments couldn’t stay afl oat fi nancially with-out the income they get from the gates and media outlets. Unfortu-nately for proponents of student-athlete rights, it will be quite diffi cult to change that—after all, it’s hard to pay athletes if they literally have no place to play.

But a lot of the income schools get is extraneous and within their control. Th at starts with jersey sales.

It’s safe to say that there will always be some steady income from jersey sales. Alums reminisc-ing about the good old days and incoming sports fanatic freshmen alike want to sport the coolest gear at a football, basketball, or hockey game—I purchased a gold BC hockey jersey before I even stepped foot on campus last August.

Once again, players don’t see any money from the sales of jerseys. For some sports, that won’t be a prob-lem. Th at hockey jersey I bought doesn’t have a number on it, and BC—justifi ably so—has the rights to the “Boston College” plastered on the front of it.

Yet that doesn’t stop schools and the NCAA from fi nding ways to exploit players’ likenesses—some-thing that, although legal, goes against everything the NCAA stands for as an amateur organization. Two years ago, ESPN college basketball reporter Jay Bilas made great head-way on this issue by using the search function on ShopNCAAsports.com, the wonderfully benevolent organization’s offi cial website. He searched for some of the top college

With time dwindling in the sec-ond quarter, Boston College had the chance to pin Northern Illinois University against the ropes and deliver a devastating blow.

Head coach Steve Addazio had two timeouts at his disposal and a defense that was essentially play-ing perfectly.

He could have significantly shifted the momentum of the game with crucial points in the closing seconds of the half.

Following a six-yard comple-tion to bring the Eagles across midfield, Addazio had Flutie spike the ball on second down, even though BC still had a timeout remaining.

Then, with the clock stopped on third down, Addazio burned his final timeout to avoid a delay of game penalty. The Eagles squan-dered a golden chance, waving the white flag by handing the ball off to Tyler Rouse to drain the clock all the way to zero. Despite promis-ing field position and ample time to make a play at the end zone, BC came away with nothing to

show for it.BC (3-1, 0-1 ACC) beat NIU

(2-2, 0-0 MAC) on Saturday after-noon, but you wouldn’t have been able to tell based on the mood in the postgame press conference. Addazio and his players said the things they were supposed to—they came out and played hard, they were happy but not satisfied—but there seemed to be no meaning or emotion behind the words.

While some units , like the defense, played very well for the Eagles, most things went signifi-cantly worse. And that starts with Addazio.

The Eagles were nearly done in by their head coach’s defeatist play-calling strategy and inability to manage the clock during crucial junctures of the game.

In addition to the bungled drive at the end of the first half, the Eagles nearly blew the game with mismanagement of the clock in the waning minutes of the fourth quarter.

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BACK IN THE WIN COLUMN - It wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t easy, and it seemed like a majority of the team was hurt by the end of the game. But it was a win, and one that BC football needed.

NO FLY ZONE BC’s defense has lived up to its billing, dominat-ing opposing off enses all season and dismantling them methodi-cally. Th e Eagles have given up the least yards per game in the country, while only surrender-ing 31 points in four games.

HILLI-MAN Allow him to re-introduce himself. After a few rough games, Jonathan Hilli-man returned to the gridiron in grand fashion on Saturday, rushing for 119 yards on 24 carries. He was forced out of the end of the game with a foot injury, so his presence will be sorely missed if Hilliman can’t suit up next week.

PUCK SEASON - How sweet it is. Th is weekend marks the begin-ning of the BC hockey season, as the women’s team takes on the University of Minnesota-Duluth at Kelley Rink.

IT’S AMAZIN’ - Th e Mets are in the playoff s.

PAPELBUM - Th is has nothing to do with BC, but we couldn’t waste an opportunity to chirp our favorite baseball player to hate—Jonathan Papelbon. He’s not only managed to make the fans of his former teams hate him, but after putting likely-MVP Bryce Harper in a choke-hold yesterday, he’s made the fans of his current team hate him, too.

POWER FOUR AND THE ACC - Through four weeks of the college football season, the ACC looks to be the Power Five conference that will be left out of the College Football Playoff . Given the ACC’s frequent out-of-conference losses and lack of a clear No. 1 option for the Playoff , it’s not surprising, but it’s still disappointing.

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This past weekend was a busy one for Boston College as parents flocked to see their children. BC volleyball also stayed active, opening up con-ference play against Syracuse and Georgia Tech on Friday and Sunday, respectively. The girls looked to come out with a spark in the ACC.

The weekend kicked off at Syracuse University on Friday. A strong Orange team awaited

the Eagles when things finally got underway at 7:45 p.m. The night opened up with a nail-biter of a set, which saw the score tied 17 times.

The set went down to the wire, as the teams were tied 23-23. Syracuse struck on a service ace and looked ready to take the game, but Anna Skold and Julia Topor didn’t quit. The two provided clutch kills before a Syracuse error gave the Eagles a victory in the first set.

This would be the highlight of the girls’ evening. Syracuse

recoiled from the close first set loss and came back firing, winning the next three sets and taking the game.

Although the ACC opener did not open how the girls had hoped for, they looked to Sun-day ’s matchup with Georgia Tech for redemption.

Two days and about 1,000 miles later, the Eagles found themselves at Georgia Tech in their second ACC matchup of the season. Like in the Syracuse game, the first set of the day was a close one.

A back-and-forth bout saw great play from both sides, as Mallori Moffat recorded a kill and Kam McLain coordinated with Sol Calvete for a crucial block. The team effort brought forth a 25-23 victory.

Set two saw a continuation of the trend started in set one, as 17 kills and 17 digs propelled the Eagles to another hard-fought 25-23 victory.

Providing a few of those kills was Katty Workman, who broke Kelsey Johnson’s record of 1,449 kills. A set victory and milestone

crossed by the team’s star had the Eagles feeling confident entering set three.

The Eagles, however couldnot close. Set three and fourwere intense battles, with set three requiring extra points. The girls could not stop GT, losing the final three sets 29-27,25-23, and 15-9 respectively.Although a tough defeat left the Eagles flying low, a record-set-ting performance by Workmanand positive signs from the team are redeeming aspects of the weekend.

Junior Emily McCoy ham-mered home a game-winning shot in double-overtime to lift

the Bos-ton College

women’s field hockey team (6-4, 0-2) to a 3-2 victory on the road against No. 15 Liberty (6-3, 0-0) on Sunday afternoon.

McCoy broke the deadlock in the 89th minute when BC freshman Frederique Haverhals crossed the ball to the top of the box following a penalty corner. The two-hour, 2-OT saga finally came to a close after McCoy sent her team-high sixth goal past the Flames’ keeper to the left post.

The match began in Liberty’s favor, with Flames’ leading scorer Natalie Barr driving a shot past BC goalkeeper Leah Settipane in the seventh min-ute to give Liberty an early 1-0 advantage. Settipane would follow up her recent 13-save performance against No. 3 North Carolina with another impressive 5-save showing.

Sophomore Chelcie Men-donca shifted the momentum with her first career goal in the 20th minute, tying the game at one apiece before halftime. After the break, Emily McCoy scored her first of two goals to quiet the Liberty crowd and seize a 2-1 lead.

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The Eagles broke out the late-game heroics for a matchup with No. 13 Liberty. Emily McCoy scored the game-winning goal in the second overtime period.

a ranked opponent appeared well within reach if their de-fense could hold strong for the remaining time.

But an inspired Liber ty squad responded after a time-out with an equalizer in the 51st minute. Once again, Flame for-ward Natalie Barr was involved on the play, setting up Hannah Jones for her second goal of the

season, a strike that would end up sending the game into OT.

Despite managing fewer shots and corners than BC in the first overtime period, Lib-erty held off BC thanks to three saves by the Flames’ keeper.

But as the second overtime dragged on, a worn-down Lib-erty lineup conceded five shots on goal—the last proving to be

the difference in the game.McCoy’s clutch blast was her

second game-winning goal of the season, and increased her point total to a team-best 16.

McCoy and No. 11 BC will look to reenter the top-10 rankings for the second time this year.

The win brings the Eagles to 3-0 on the season in overtime

games, and reinforces the claim that head coach Kelly Doton’steam knows how to close out tight matches.

Sunday’s double-overtimethriller was the first meetingbetween the two programs, and—if the hard-fought battle is any indication of future matchups—it hopefully won’t be their last.

Leah Settipane was the hero of Boston College’s field hockey game against the University of North Carolina Tar Heels—de-spite giving up five goals, she was BC’s best player. Settipane had 13 saves, but BC’s offense was held at bay in a 5-0 loss.

The first 21 minutes of the match saw little action on either side, until a penalty was called on BC in the 22nd minute. The Tar Heels got the ball rolling after the penalty stroke that put UNC

midfielder Nina Notman face-to-face against BC goalie Leah Settipane, forcing the ball into the bottom right corner.

L a t e r, C a s e y D i N a r d o slammed the ball into the wide-open right corner after a cross from Eva van’t Hoog, seconds before the end of the first half in the 35th minute. The Tar Heels failed to score again until the 57th minute, which began a whirlwind offensive attack led by Gab Major. Major smacked the ball from far out, leaving no chance for a save by Settipane.

Major’s fourth goal seconds

later came after a struggle with Settipane, who was lying across the goal line, trying to prevent a shot. Eventually, the ball slipped past Settipane and several BC defenders.

A penalty corner set the stage for UNC’s fifth and final goal in the 62nd minute, forcing Setti-pane farther out of the cage and allowing Major to shoot from the left corner of the goal without BC’s keeper in the way. This is BC’s largest deficit in a loss this season, with all of its games lost by one or two goals.

An Eagles loss means some-

thing more to Settipane--she needs one more win to tie the record for most wins by a BC field hockey goalkeeper. With 13 saves, Settipane clearly shows her defensive prowess. Several of the goals could have been pre-vented with better coverage by her defenders. Major’s two minute hat trick depicts a quick decline of an already-vulnerable defense.

The Eagles’ offense failed to produce against the Tar Heels, with only seven shots against UNC’s 26. UNC scorers Notman and Major had seven shots each,

outnumbering BC’s total. BC forward Romee Stiekema

provided the best opportu-nity for a goal, with two shots.BC also had fewer attempts to capitalize on certain plays, as the Eagles only had two penaltycorners to the Tar Heels’ eight.

BC’s conference play seems lackluster so far, with two losses in a 5-4 overall season. To facethese tougher opponents, theEagles will have to work on both sides of its game. But LeahSettipane, the hero of the field hockey team, should keep doing what she’s doing.

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BC Athletics exploits its stars, like Andre Williams, by selling their jerseys.

defenses over like dominoes in an old folks’ home.

He gained a net total of 119 yards on the ground (only three yards for a loss) on 24 carries. And, as Addazio put it after the game, it wasn’t by virtue of an improved performance from an offensive line that was without starting center Frank Taylor.

“We ran hard today,” Addazio said. “You all saw it, we ran differ-ently today. I’m going to walk out of here feeling good today that we competed our tail off.”

Hilliman’s own skill reappeared on his touchdown run. He shook off one diving NIU defender before stiff-arming a second on his path to the end zone for the second time this season. Following the scor-ing play, he pumped his fists and pointed to the crowd as if to say, ‘You all better watch out, because I’m back.’

And don’t discredit Hilliman’s opponents either. Northern Illinois is not like other mid-majors. The Huskies have won 11 games in each of the last five seasons, and held defending champion Ohio State to just 20 points a mere week ago.

Hilliman even gave it his all to bail out his first time starting quarterback(s). After connecting

on a nice 30-yard reception to Sherman Alston, Flutie misread the Huskies’ defense—”a dumb de-cision,” he recalled afterward—giv-ing up an interception to Shawun Lurry. The NIU cornerback ran away, looking right for the end zone.

But out of nowhere, Hilli-man showed up behind him. He grabbed Lurry’s foot by a finger just as he was about to cross the goal line, preventing the touch-down for the moment. Although NIU scored moments later, that kind of hustle earned praise from the whole team.

“He played like a warrior today,” Addazio said.

It would be unwise to mention a BC win without the strong play of Don Brown’s defense. Once again, the Eagles crushed the hopes of an opposing offense, holding the Huskies to a miniscule 153 total yards.

The list of great plays seems endless—John Johnson’s intercep-tion and forced fumble; Connor Strachan’s sack, with the help of fellow linebacker Matt Milano; the defensive line’s punishing ability to jettison opposing running backs to an early shower.

And remember, the defense can hardly be faulted for any of the Hus-kies’ scoring today: one touchdown

came on Argereos Turner’s 86-yard kickoff return, and the other was that two-yard run on the drive that began at the BC 4-yard line after Flutie’s interception.

As for BC’s quarterbacks, they played as well as you could’ve ex-pected.

They had some highlight reel plays, like a couple of broken runs that Smith capitalized on for big gains, or the beautiful, 27-yard play action touchdown pass from Flutie to Charlie Callinan.

But then there was the bad. Smith tried to get too cute on a running play and fumbled the ball. And, of course, the aforementioned interception.

This was the training session for Flutie and Smith. Get to know both of them very well—because of BC’s win, this two-quarterback system will most likely be Addazio’s plan going forward.

We’ll see if the predictability of BC’s playbook or the natural dys-function of having two young quar-terbacks will rear its ugly head when the team goes on the road.

At the end of the day, their perfor-mance was serviceable for the Eagles’ offense. It’s not ideal, but at least it gives BC a better chance to win.

And when you have a defense like BC does, serviceable is all you need to be.

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before—see State, Colorado—one would think that the coach-ing staff would have learned its lesson. Judging by Saturday, that is not the case.

With just over four minutes left, the Eagles were leading by three points following a NIU kickoff return for a touchdown. They lined up to begin an offen-sive drive on their own 25-yard line. The Huskies had previously used all of their timeouts, so a drive consisting of a few first downs would have likely ended the game.

On first down, Tyler Rouse rushed up the middle for a short gain. On second down, Rouse rushed up the middle for a short gain. On third down, Rouse rushed up the middle for a short gain. On 4th and 1, an injured Alex Howell shanked a punt to give the Huskies the ball on their own 35-yard line.

NIU got the ball back with more than two minutes on the clock, only having to go about 30 yards for a chance to tie the game. While the Huskies squandered their opportunity just as the Eagles did, this does not excuse the decisions made by Addazio.

Running the ball makes sense in that situation, but Addazio did not vary the play calls enough, giving the Huskies the same look three straight plays. Pocket passer Troy Flutie was in the game, despite the fact that run-first quarterback Jeff Smith pre-sented much more of a threat on the ground.

Given the circumstances, Northern Illinois knew to expect the run, so it loaded the box with eight or nine defenders on each play. Addazio said himself after the game that the best ways to counter an eight- or nine-man front is by running the option—Smith’s specialty—or throwing

the play-action. So if there was no intent to

throw a pass, why was Flutie in the game? And once Flutie did come in, why not mix in a play action to draw the defense off-guard?

Addazio chose to counter the NIU-loaded front by doing neither of his self-professed best choices. He ran the ball up the middle with Rouse—who was declared doubtful to return to the game with a head injury just minutes earlier—three consecu-tive times, admitting defeat by punting with only a yard to go for the first down.

These are not decisions made to win a game—they are deci-sions made to prevent a loss. In the final minutes of the game on Saturday, BC looked like a desperate team trying to avoid a loss, rather than a tenacious team demanding a win.

Addazio has a clear plan to win. He has no intention of devi-

ating from that plan, and neither do his players.

The Plan To Win is plasteredall over the walls of the Yawkey Athletic Center for the entireteam (and media) to see. The Boston College Plan To Win is to play great defense, win theturnover battle, run the football, score in the red zone, and play great special teams.

“Play great defense. Run the football,” Addazio said, slam-ming his clenched fist into thepress conference table with each emphasized syllable. “That’s the way that we are gonna have suc-cess. We need to do what we’redoing at a much higher level.”

This plan is embodied inAddazio—the two are insepa-rable. If the BC Plan To Win fails, Addazio fails.

It nearly failed on Saturday because of one glaring omission to the Plan—to control the clock. It does not appear to be a mis-take that it was left off.

football players and was surprised to find that, if for example you searched for Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel, an Aggies’ jersey with the No. 2 appeared.

Manziel’s name didn’t adorn the top of this A&M jersey, unlike those which the Aggies use on the field, thus making it technically unauthen-tic. It did, however, say “Football,” a glaringly overt reference to his “Johnny Football” nickname.

The same occurred when Bilas searched the name of several other premier players: no name appeared on the jersey, but his number—something that obviously denotes who the player is—did. NCAA president Mark Emmert quickly responded with an apology, before suspending the “hypocritical practice” of selling players’ jerseys.

This issue of jerseys continued in the wake of Ohio State’s decision to restrict the sales of jersey numbers to 1 and 15. The Buckeyes claim that these two numbers were chosen be-cause this is the 2015 football season and the team ended last year as the No. 1 team in the nation. That logic is shaky at best—two of OSU’s most marketable players, Ezekiel Elliott and Braxton Miller, wear those two numbers. Nevertheless, it’s a step in the right direction, one that several other universities have followed.

In light of that decision, assistant sports editor Tom DeVoto and I

took a trip to the McElroy Bookstore and on the website to check out what jerseys BC sells. We found that a select—and deliberate—few are highlighted.

On the website, No. 22 and No. 40. In the store, No. 44 and No. 2, with No. 21 for men’s basketball. Do those sound familiar? In order, that’s Doug Flutie, Luke Kuechly, Andre Williams, Tyler Murphy, and Olivier Hanlan.

That cannot possibly be a coin-cidence.

I brought this up with Director of Athletics Brad Bates in a meeting last week. Bates seemed surprised at the fact that BC would sell those particular numbers—he didn’t play dumb, he knew exactly which play-ers those numbers represented—and followed up with me shortly via email.

“I thought we had phased-out specific jersey sales previously for the very reason of your observation of inconsistency,” Bates wrote. Fair enough. But then he followed it with: “Fans can also purchase cus-tomized jersey numbers but cannot purchase a jersey with a current or future student-athlete name.”

Normally, that would make sense, and it seems like BC is aware of the issue of profiting off its play-ers’ likenesses.

If BC actually had names on the players’ jerseys, that is.

Yes, since BC’s contract with Under Armour began on July 2010,

football hasn’t had names on its jerseys. The only way an Eagle on the gridiron from the last five seasons can be identified is through his number.

By selling the No. 44 in the book-store, BC clearly implies that you can purchase the jersey of Andre Williams, one of the program’s top 10 players of all time. Even though it’s an exact replica of the jersey he wore on the field, Williams won’t see a dime from the sale of his likeness.

BC looks even worse for the website’s sale of Flutie and Kuechly jerseys. By marketing those as the jerseys of choice on the bookstore website, BC targets alumni who saw those two stars play in Alumni Stadium yet can’t physically come to campus to purchase them. Selling those particular numbers without the names is similar to Bilas finding the jerseys on the NCAA website.

Now, a lot of this is the fault of the Bookstore, which operates independently of BC Athletics. But then I took a look at Boston College Athletics’ Official Online Store, and saw that the department is selling throwback jerseys like the ones they plan to wear at Fenway Park against Notre Dame. The website doesn’t mention a player’s name, but says the “uniforms commemor[ate] the 30th anniversary of the 1985 Cotton Bowl victory, and the famous Hail Mary pass.” Only one player comes to mind when you talk about BC players from the 1980s throwing

famous Hail Mary passes: the man who did it, Doug Flutie. What num-ber is the jersey? You guessed it: 22.

The courts may not be coming to BC Athletics to stop selling the jer-seys of players anytime soon, given that the school is far enough away from the national spotlight to raise any concern. That doesn’t mean that the school should get away with it, either.

So there’s really only two solu-tions here. BC could stop selling these jerseys—or any jerseys with numbers, aside from No. 00, re-ally—so that they no longer profit off their players’ likenesses. Or BC should start doling out checks to Flutie, Williams, and Co.

It’s up to Bates to choose the direction he wants to go. As Director of Athletics, there’s a good chance he can pressure the Bookstore (and his own website) to stop selling the jerseys of his players. If Bates chooses the paying athletes’ route—an unlikely one considering BC’s established stance on the cost-of-attendance—he would uproot the fabric of college athletics.

But he has to pick one of them. Because option three—a class action lawsuit that could resemble O’Bannon v. NCAA—is just about the last thing BC needs.

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Gaby Carreiro gathered the ball along her offensive end line and turned to face her defender. The

fresh-mandidn’t

have much help around her from her teammates, so she took matters into her own hands.

Nudging the ball to her right, Carreiro exploded past her op-position with space to operate in a dangerous zone. She pushed the ball ahead, turning to face the net as she entered the 18-yard box. She took one last look at her target, then turned her full attention back to the ammunition at her feet.

Carreiro planted just about 16 yards outside of the net and rocketed a shot off her right foot. Freshman goalkeeper Sydney Wootten stands only at 5-foot-6, and she could have used a few extra inches to stop this shot.

The ball curved just above Wootten’s outstretched right arm but just below the crossbar, fitting perfectly into the back of the net. Carreiro’s beautiful goal was the

first of her career, and it could not have come at a better time for the Eagles. BC (8-3-1, 2-0-1 ACC) took advantage of the freshman’s heroics and topped North Carolina State (4-8-0, 0-3) in a weekend matinee, 1-0.

Having tied a much more chal-lenging Duke University squad at home earlier in the week, the Eagles were expected to come away with points against a much weaker NC State team that has already lost eight matches this season. But the Eagles couldn’t muster any con-tinued offense, finishing the game with only four total shots on goal.

BC received a boost in the victory from goaltender Alexis Bryant, who has only allowed one goal her past three games. Bryant had to make five saves to keep the Wolfpack off the board on Sunday, some of them acrobatic game-sav-ing stops.

Earlier in the game, NC State sent a free kick from its own zone straight into the BC box, where Bryant faced off essentially one-on-one with a Wolfpack attacker. Bryant snuffed the scoring attempt with a sprawling save off her right arm, then ended the Wolfpack’s

chances for a rebound goal by quickly covering up the ball.

With a conference record of 2-0-1, the Eagles are now only one of four teams in the ACC to remainundefeated. BC has only lost to NC State once in their all-timeseries, with the Eagles beating the Wolfpack in 12 out 13 matches. Re-gardless of its track record, though, BC head coach Alison Foley knewthat NC State would be a difficultteam to beat.

“I thought NC State was very organized and tough to break-down,” Foley said in an inter-view with BCEagles.com after the game. “I thought we had the ball the majority of the time, but we struggled to generate dangerousopportunities.”

The Eagles’ next two games are against the top two teams in the ACC: the University of North Carolina and Pittsburgh Universi-ty. With two extremely challengingroad games on deck, it’s essentialthat BC picks up some points when it can. Foley was proud that her team did just that.

“It’s three points on the road in the ACC, and we’ll take it,” she said.

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Tommy Garcia-Morillo raised his hands in exasperation. It ap-peared as though he let out a

big sigh: “Final-ly.” His

teammates crowded around him in a hug. It was the freshman’s first career goal for Boston Col-lege men’s soccer (6-2-0, 2-1-0 ACC).

He was not the only one, however, who made that ac-complishment during the game. All four of BC’s goals against Virginia Tech (4-3-1, 0-2-1 ACC) were a player’s first career goals, bringing a 4-1 victory for the Eagles.

BC’s gameplay was heavily reliant on defense early on.

The Hokies kept BC goal-keeper Cedric Saladin on his toes, forcing four saves in the first half and outshooting the Eagles 15-10 for the game. Yet BC’s defense put up a good

front and did not allow many opportunities for real scoring attempts.

BC finally saw a scoring op-portunity in the 35th minute on a free kick, when Abe Bibas headed a beautiful goal past Virginia Tech keeper Ben Lun-dgaard, who only could graze the ball with his fingertips in an attempt to catch it.

Less than a minute after, the Hokies responded with their own goal.

After stripping the ball from BC, Virginia Tech forward Ri-cardo John streaked up the field and subsequently scored after a fabulous cross by teammate Rory Slevin and pass in the box by Alessandro Mion. Saladin was too far out from the goal to stop the ball, and it went through his legs.

The Eagles struggled in the stalemate for only a few min-utes before forward Henry Balf scored from a few yards outside the penalty box off a rebounded shot by Derek Lyons.

Trevor Davock moved quick-ly out of the way so the ball would roll in, and though he was technically offsides at the time of the goal, it was only to make room for Virginia Tech’s goalie, who dove trying to make the save—the goal allowed the Eagles to go into the half with the lead.

Two minutes into the second half, Lyons, who assisted Balf in the previous goal, scored one of his own.

He first headed the ball to-ward the goal from a corner kick before knocking in his own deflected shot.

The Hokies racked up 10 cor-ner kicks, putting heavy pressure in the Eagles’ box, but continu-ally couldn’t finish.

Each corner was cleared out by the Eagles’ stellar defense. After the third goal, it was clear that Virginia Tech’s energy was sapped.

After a fairly uneventful sec-ond half, BC commanded the audience’s attention with its final

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The Eagles dominated Virginia Tech by a score of 4-1 in Blacksburg, Va.

A cool, breezy fall night provid-ed the setting for Boston College women’s soccer as it welcomed No.

19 Duke Univer-s i t y t o

Newton for BC’s second ACC matchup of the season. Two over-times could not separate the two teams, resulting in the Eagles’ first tie of the year and giving them a hard-earned point in the confer-ence standings.

The tone for the game was established early as both teams traded possessions with limited success in finding the box. Both teams displayed technically sound passing and movement, but had limited success in securing the final touches that would allow for scor-ing opportunities. The back lines of both squads were unforgiving as they adhered to a bend-don’t-break style of defense, resulting in just one shot on target in the first half.

“I thought it was the best [de-fensive] execution to date,” head coach Alison Foley said. “Duke may have the most dangerous team running forward, and I thought we managed them really well.”

That one shot on goal, however, was all the Blue Devils needed to gain the upper hand in the first half. In the 39th minute, a spirited run from Duke junior Christina Gibbons caused a momentary lapse

in the Eagles’ defense. Gibbons could not find a wide-open Rebecca Quinn at the top of the 18-yard box. Quinn, with plenty of time, converted, as a well-placed shot skipped off goalkeeper Alexis Bryant’s hands and into the bottom corner of the net for just her second goal of the season.

The second half saw slightly more offensive success from both sides—the Eagles managed three shots on goal, while holding Duke to a meager four.

The Eagles had difficulty mount-ing successful offensive possessions all night, which Foley attributed to a robust Duke defensive line.

“They did a good job dropping their back line,” Foley said. “They did a good job staying compact. We like to get in behind teams, so we had to change and play in the space in front of the back line.”

The Eagles got in behind the Duke defense in the 51st minute on a gorgeous assist from redshirt freshman Shea Newman. The ball soared from just inside the midfield line directly to the foot of junior Hayley Dowd, who struck a mag-nificent shot off the bounce from the edge of the 18-yard box past the outstretched hand of Duke keeper EJ Proctor to notch the game even at 1-1.

The stalemate was kept in tact in no small part due to the efforts of BC keeper Alexis Bryant. In the 57th minute, she soared through the air to tip a screaming Duke shot headed for the upper corner

of the net off of the crossbar and out of play.

The score remaine d t ie d through regulation, requiring BC to enter its third overtime game of the season.

Bryant would make her pres-ence felt again in the 95th minute, as she ventured well outside the box and cut out a dangerous Duke pass. She chased the ball down, beating out a Duke attacker, and

deftly cleared the ball to safety.It will be interesting to see how

this hard-fought draw will influ-ence BC as it moves forward on a difficult march through the heart of its ACC schedule. For now, though,

the Eagles will take the point.“When you’re playing teams,

who at the moment are ahead ofyou, and you can get a point off ofthem, I think you’re really satisfied,” Foley said.

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Hayley Dowd netted a late goal against the Duke Blue Devils to force a tie. The No. 19 Blue Devils scored first, but BC locked down on defense after.

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goal of the game in the 82nd minute.

With Davock drawing out the Hokies keeper from the goal, he passed to Garcia-Morillo, resulting in a goal on a wide open net.

With the accompanying cel-ebration, his goal put the game too far out of reach for the Eagles’ third consecutive victory of the season. They have already surpassed last season’s win total of five.

BC ’s young team will be an advantage throughout the season. Fourteen of the team members are freshmen and five are sophomores, a majority of the 26-man team.

The Eagles can expect a lot from these underclassmen, as Bibas, Garcia-Morillo, and Lyons are all freshmen and Balf is a sophomore.

Now that each has notched his first goal, the Eagles can only hope for a better offensive attack and more scoring oppor-tunities.

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Drake and Future’s What a Time To Be Alive feels like a pipe dream for many hip-hop fans, as it unites two of the hip-hop genre’s most prolifi c artists in a consolidated eff ort while both still sit at the pinnacle of their respective careers. It feels like a new Watch the Th rone.

Th e self-ac-claimed “Future Hendrix” o f o u r genera-tion and

supreme master of what he calls “astronaut music,” the mixtape maestro Future has put his mark on the industry with a quick succession of trap album jabs followed by the bombastic uppercut that was his third album, DS2.

Drake has not only recently weathered the barrage of insults hurled his way by Meek Mill splendidly, eff ectively asserting his place as musical royalty regardless of what old-school

fanatics might say. During this time he also released one of the most successful albums of the year: If You’re Reading Th is, It’s Too Late.He represents the quintessential rags to riches story, at least in the terms of musical success.

Th e new collaboration serves as a victory lap for both artists and represents an outlet for their contagious energy. Th e eff ort emerged as the product of a heavily-condensed nine-day studio schedule where the two actually re-corded the tracks in the presence of each other, unlike other partnerships where both artists came together only after heavy editing.

Future brings back his trusted producer/associate Metro Boomin, and, unsurprisingly, the work contains many of his distinct sounds including the evolving trap rhythms he is famous for. His autotuned rap voice is also heavily present and works, no matter what T-Pain says. Drake’s striking content, when combined with a spoken-word-like delivery, generates an entrancing experience.

What a Time to Be Alive features the pair’s distinct qualities and characteristics, jelled together with a refreshing level of chemistry between the two. Both engage in what seems to be soliloquies of anguish and desperation

emanating from the diffi culties of their respec-tive lifestyles, of which they have fewer control than would be expected.

Filled with exposition about their drug use, alcohol consumption, and intimate, although superfi cial, relations with women, it puts “the life” into perspective.

Th e work almost feels like a split eff ort. Drake and Future never engage the same content wavelength until “Plastic Bag,” where they both level about the emptiness they feel when engaging with groupies, whom the art-ists think keep their feelings inside of the same plastic bag they keep their dope in. Th e trap rhythm coupled with the catchy-like-gum-stuck-to-your-shoe hook sees the two at their fi nest. It is the double-edged type of song that both quenches the thirst of fans but leaves the throat dry, clamoring for more where more may not truly exist.

“Jumpman” is the most energetic song of the bunch. It heavily relies on Drake’s fast but emotion packing delivery to catalyze and enthrall all of the senses. It is the type of song that makes you jump to your feet without knowing why, but it is not as if you care, as you are too caught up in the vibe to actually

If there has ever been a time to get into “synthpop” or “inditronica,” it’s now. Released this past Friday, CHVRCHES’ new album, Every Open Eye, brings the Scottish electro-pop band to a whole new level. Without abandoning its sig-nature synthesizer, the band has found

a way to enhance Lauren May-berry’s dulcet vocals

and has elevated the band’s sound to soaring heights.

“Leave a Trace”—a single that was released a few days before the al-bum—sets the tone for an unapologetic, unforgiving, and unforgettable album. With lyrics like “You think I’ll apologize for things I left behind / But you got it wrong / and I’m as sane as I ever was / You talk far too much / For someone so unkind,” the song gives the album an edge. The brilliant synth created by Mayberry, Iain Cook, and Martin Doherty gives the songs a beat and rhythm you’ll want to groove to, but Mayberry’s melodic voice and emo-tional lyrics often call for more than just dance. Mayberry is dropping pearls of reflection through the entire album.

In CHVRCHES’ debut studio album, The Bones of What You Believe, it fo-cused on (and succeeded in) showcasing its talents with intriguing lyrics and a display of synth mastery. It’s clear CHVRCHES has come a long way since working together in a small basement studio in Glasgow, Ireland, both musi-cally and personally.

While the first album was for the public, it’s clear Every Open Eye—though still for the audience’s enjoy-ment—comes from a much more personal place, almost as if the band needed to get the words and music out for its own benefit.

The band’s second studio album is all about emotional release and heal-ing, about reaching a better place, and about letting go of toxic personalities. Much of the inspiration for the tracks on this album comes from Mayberry’s personal relationships and experiences, using the music as an outlet for all the things she regrets saying and the things she couldn’t say. But the album also showcases Martin Doherty’s raspy pipes in a surprise takeover of lead vocals in “Follow You,” contrasting nicely with Mayberry’s lilting harmonies.

The album presents harsh emotions like anger, sorrow, and grudges in a sweet and appealing way that will lure and confuse and please the listener all at the same time. But don’t be fooled, CHVRCHES does not lose its optimism

either—with upbeat gems like “Make Them Gold” and “Clearest Blue” (an-other single released a few days before the album), it’s clear that the album is all about renewal, and having let all the negative emotions go, it can focus on a brighter future.

The band manages to keep the poetic lyricism many other synth bands let fall away when they lend all their focus to the sound and forget about the meaning behind the words. With thought-pro-voking lyrics full of paradoxes, meta-phors and allusions, CHVRCHES at times touches pure lyrical genius. And the perfect balance between the synth and the vocals is not just intriguing, but striking to listen to.

The duality it displays is echoed in the descriptions of the band, as it has been known to give a modern aspect to songs described as reminiscent of ’80s synth pop.

Drawing its influences from acts like Madonna, Depeche Mode, Prince, Eu-rythmics, Throbbing Gristle, and more, it’s no surprise that this band’s sound is so unique when they draw from such an eclectic mix.

The band manages to weave a story of heartbreak, break-ups, breaking down, and getting back up in 11 songs. It’s a cathartic, relatable experience. It’s a breakthrough creatively for the Scot-tish band, and one that will probably result in a commercial one as well.

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stop to think.Th e mixtape ends with two solo eff orts:

“Jersey” and “30 for 30 Freestyle” by Future and Drake, respectively. Th e former feels like a continuation of DS2, while the latter reeks of Drake but Future’s spaced-out infl uence still manages to seep to the surface.

Th e album’s existence is an achievement in and of itself—its rapid production points to the undeniable work ethic of both parties. It

manages to capture with alacrity the essence of both superstars as they continue to transcendthe accepted boundaries of the genre—Drake with his “emotion as art” and Future with his trap infused search for gratifi cation to cover his inner demons. Th e collaboration does notreach the heights of their previous works but it does something neither had done before: it exposes to the industry one undeniablefact—they are winning.

‘What A Time To Be Alive’ exhibits the two hip-hop artists’ expertise in the genre.

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When watching films, we are most convinced of setting, not by a name slapped on screen, but by every subtle reference that crafts a space that lives and breaths like we do. By the stamp of a heel drifting faintly through an empty hallway, by the light of a ciga-rette engulfed in smoke or the jeers of a crowd spilling over the sidewalk, we are handed a piece of a place. While some places would struggle to uniquely represent themselves in a film, Boston finds no such difficulty. From the open-ing credits, viewers are hit with an un-mistakable accent, greeted with iconic landscapes and impressed with that mental toughness only found in New England. Rich in culture and history, it takes little time for viewers to realize where they are—Boston.

Bostonians exude a kind of tough-ness that is almost always highlighted on screen. For the most part, the most interesting people in films set in Boston

are the courageous ones: the ones who do not take no for an answer and make sure you know it, too.

The most obvious representation of this Bostonian resilience found on the streets is from both the cops and the criminals. Determined in their respective pursuits, films like The Departed and The Town showcase struggles with corruption and poverty, while each group responds to their hardships with proportional hardness and determination. That kind of toughness leads to some remarkable char-acters who exude the kind of brash and willful personality that could have only been fostered on the streets of Southie and Charlestown. In pursuit through the narrow streets of Boston (which make for some of the tightest and suspenseful action scenes), the cacophony of cops and crooks ring harmoniously around their shared condition. The town.

“You grew up here! Same rules that I did.”

In contrast to the adeptness of Bosto-nians on the street, many films highlight the lethality of their wit as well. One can-

not speak of Boston without mentioning the universities that call her home. For this reason, intelligence, excellence, and wit have also been set as a staples of the city in film. Good Will Hunting and 21by their very nature distinguish them-selves as smart movies. The geniuses in these films, however are their most clever not in the classroom but outside, interacting with a more organic world. Blurring the lines between book smart and street smart, characters exhibit a more true-to-life person, who in their complexity becomes more believable and relatable. As a result, numerous offhand comments to friends, coupled with the caliber of their intelligence make for some of the most memorable quotes in films. Delivered with an accent or at least in the company of the city, represented by a skyline or park, characters share the air with those ideas.

“Do you like apples?”One may wonder why films focus on

Boston or if it is even noteworthy. Cer-tainly Los Angeles and New York have been covered even more extensively.

While this is true, Boston is so great for film because it retains a good por-tion of its personality from day to day. In metropolises like LA and New York, the world has become, by way of numbers, more homogenized. In a more modest-sized city like Boston, distinct cultural identity shows through more strongly. This makes the ideals demonstrated in Boston films all the more telling, as there is simply less to draw from. This is certainly appealing from a film makers standpoint. The narrow cultural breadth makes setting the scene easier. The way people talk and carry themselves, the occasional “wicked” comment or even neglected “r” make for markers, scream-ing to people that they are not far from the city on the Charles.

This suggests that there is something unique about Boston. Films set in Bos-ton seek to represent something present in the place and bring it to screen. The people we see on screen, however color-ful and interesting, are often just mere representations or slivers of real people who made an impact. In fact, fiction,

comedy or drama, Boston shows that itsideas are poignant ones. In Black Mass,Whitey Bulger’s brutal rampage speaks volumes about his place in time as he maintained his home, at a bloody cost tothose who stood against him. Mystic Rivercapitalizes on the landscapes and the city, representing trials of youth on the streets and following men into their adulthood.The Fighter strikes hard with family andtradition, reeling in the future and forget-ting the past. In some cases, these filmscould have been set in other areas, butthe effect of their message would surely have been lessened.

While other cities cling to remnantsof what they once were, Boston standsstrong, changing but never forgettingitself along the way. In films, from TheHeat to Gone Baby Gone, Boston finds ways to shine forth.

Boston is a great place for a walk. Amovie. A day.

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Conte For um trans for me d into a breathtaking scene Friday night to accommodate a wonderful array of talent. The stage was framed by massive flat screens that featured videos and illustrations specific to each segment of the show. Tables lined with white table cloths were arranged just below the stage for a selection of benefactors and dignitaries. From the ceiling, colored lights illuminated the stage—and even the audience, during certain selections.

The 23rd annual Pops on the Heights concert honored the legacy of Barbara and Jim Cleary, longtime trustees of the University. Pops on the Heights is BC’s largest annual fundraiser. The University welcomed members of the BC community, the Boston Pops, and this year’s special guests Darlene Love, Lisa Fischer, and Judith Hill. A record high of $7.5 million was raised in funds for Pops Scholarships this year, which will be distributed to 275 Pops Scholarship recipients.

The night started off with a set from the Screaming Eagles Marching Band. They played a grand assortment of songs from Les Miserables. After the Screaming Eagles marched off, the BC Chorale stepped center stage, under the direction of John Finney,

performing “Call of Champions” with the Pops.

Accompanied by the Boston Pops, Liz McGovern, MCAS ’18, took the audience’s breath away with her performance of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Her voice was mesmerizing through the slow, enchanting tune, and left everyone spellbound.

The remainder of the opening selections were excerpts taken from the famous chorale-orchestra piece, “Carmina Burana” by Orff. Then changing the pace completely, the Pops Orchestra took on the Led Zeppelin classic, “Stairway to Heaven,” during which Conte Forum was remade into a sea of florescent lights. The audience waved its complementary glow sticks in rhythm to the iconic song. The first half of the concert closed with a funky collection of ’70s sing-along hits that included Jimmy Buffet’s “Margaritaville,” Jim Croce’s “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,” and Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” The crowd danced along to the classics while Conductor Keith Lockhart asked the audience to, “Sing it like you mean it!”

After the intermission came the headlining artists: Darlene Love, Lisa Fischer, and Judith Hill. Love sang a variety of classics including The Crystals’ “Da Doo Ron Ron” and “He’s a Rebel.” Love did backup vocals for the likes of Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, and many others. In 2011, Love was inducted into the Rock and

Roll Hall of Fame for her decades of work. After Love came the extraordinary vocals of Judith Hill, a backup singer for Stevie Wonder, Elton John, and Michael Jackson. Hill sang “Heal the World” at Jackson’s funeral in 2009. Taking her place behind the keyboard, Hill showed off her incredible vocal spectrum. Then came Lisa Fischer who brought the audience to their feet with her hypnotic sound. A backup singer for Rolling Stones, Sting, and Nine Inch Nails, Fischer’s indisputably adept voice was a combination of chilling and soulful. These women introduced one another to the audience with a strong sense of appreciation and admiration. They remarked how much they loved performing with an orchestra that pushed them to the limits of their vocal ability. She had an incredible range that left everyone in awe. The three vocalists put their voices together to close off the set and left the crowd feeling deeply moved.

The night ended with a chorus of “For Boston” and patriotic selections featuring the wonderfully talented Screaming Eagles piccolo player, Jaimie Chang, MCAS ’16. There was a transcendent feeling of unity among the BC community of students and alumni present. As balloons rained down from the ceiling of Conte Forum, the performers took their final bows and another enchanting Pops on the Heights came to a close.

Down in the valley of the financial district, the Avett Brothers started a 21-song, hour-and-a-half set slowly, with “Bring Your Love To Me,” from its most recent album, The Magpie and the Dandelion. The set picked up quickly though, and reached a zenith toward the end, when “Murder In The City” played as Scott Avett’s face was blown up on both jumbotrons.

As I write this column the morn-ing after the concert, I’m hoping that I took some reasonable notes to jog my memory—when the audience danced, or stood still, or seemed especially morose. My most useful note on my phone, unfortunately, only says, “Looks like Scott Avett does not know how to hold a guitar,” which speaks more to my own inability to hold a guitar than anything the front runner of the band was doing. The only other thing I wrote down is a comment that “Kick Drum Heart” was *fire emoji*.

My lack of constructive commen-tary, I think, speaks to the fact that I

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was entranced by the boys’ beards and distracted by the fact that my favorite songs were all coming to life in front of me.

I listened to the Avett Brothers a lot this summer after work as I ran down the darkening sidewalks of Com-monwealth Ave. hoping I wouldn’t get murdered in this city. Hearing the brothers sing their music live down-town, at the end of the route I ran so many times with their voices echoing in my earbuds, felt like some sort of ac-complishment. Even though they didn’t play my two favorite Avett songs—also their most depressing, “I and Love and You” and “If It’s the Beaches”—I felt like the band was becoming tangible in a way that I hadn’t yet felt, despite the hours and days I’ve spent listening to them since high school.

In an abstract and unrealistic way, the Avett Brothers are a kind of alter-nate reality of my family band dreams. Between my four brothers and me, we play the guitar, banjo, trumpet, violin, and piano, there are between two and three beards, and collectively, we have a whole catalogue of L.L. Bean flannels. But we never really worked together well enough, and the one time Alex and I decided to start the Freeman Family band, we decided to only play Taylor Swift covers.

Ryan Adams’ fever dreams aside, it

was clear that our suburban Maryland home was not set to launch a bustling folk band. None of us can sing, so may-be it’s for the best that we never had our own Avett Brothers-like career.

Every time the Scott Avett sings “Murder In The City” live, he changes a verse. In the official, recorded version, Scott sings “Make sure my sister knows I love her / Make sure her mother knows the same.” This time, cast along the financial buildings and in front of thousands of kids in flannel and birkenstocks, he sang, “Make sure my boys know I love them / Make sure my girls know the same.” It seemed like a shoutout to his brother on stage with him, and to the other members of the band, Joe Kwon on cello, Bob Crawford on bass, Tania Elizabeth on violin, and Paul Defiglia on keyboard. And, I’m sure, he meant it as a message to his friends and family in his real life. It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch for an audience member to apply it to him or herself, though.

As Scott says on an album recorded live at Bojangles’ Coliseum in Char-lotte, N.C., “It’s real difficult to sound sincere on a microphone, but we love y’all too, in a very big way.”

nature—but still engaging. Their sound at times felt like it was cascading—as it does in “Dirty Talks”—and other times rose in tides—as it does in “Little Talks.” Their music sort of engages in pastoral melancholy, orchestral tides with a sprinkling of acoustic guitar.

Gregory Alan Isakov had kicked off the festivities. He has a few of those acoustic songs that everyone seems to have heard and can hum and pretend to strum along to. “Big Black Car” and “The Stable Song” are bound to be featured on any ‘Acoustic’ playlists. The songs had a raw quality live, and that’s really the way they’re meant to be heard.

After Scott Avett had f inished “Murder in the City” to wide, rousing

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One of the most gratifying parts of a music festival (aside from the music) is seeing who likes the same music you do—and also seeing if the folks who lis-ten to Sturgill Simpson and Father John Misty also wear bulky cable sweaters in September and sport thin mustaches. It’s a chance to see what else you might have in common with these people, besides “The Promise.”

But when I (in jeans and a hoodie) saw Sturgill Simpson walk on stage at 4 p.m. on Saturday in jeans, a blue henley, and tennis shoes, I was like, “He’s like me too!” His band formed a half circle around him and they started kicking it. After a few songs from Sturgill’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Musicand his two sort-of mainstream hits “Turtles All the Way Down the Line” and “The Promise,” he mumbled, “We’re gonna play some bluegrass, if that’s all right.”

And he did, and it took a couple of songs for your feet and neck to catch the rhythm as Sturgill whips his wrist around his acoustic guitar and he bends notes from his gut through his throat. And after a couple ol’ bluegrass songs, Sturgill moved back to his own music. It all came together in “Railroad of Sin.” I got it.

As Sturgill closed with a blue-grass cover of the Osborne Brother’s “Listening to the Rain,” I thought, “Man, Sturgill’s really into himself.” He was pacing across the stage and around the half circle in an interlude, and when he turned back to the microphone for the

last verse, we gave him a spur of encour-agement. And I think he smiled. Not in an “I’m so awesome” way or in mock surprise. I think he was just glad we were having as much fun as he was.

Father John Misty is into himself in a different way. The mystical, musical singer came on just minutes after Sturgillacross the courtyard. Father John Misty struts across, around, over, and up the stage shaking his hips and twirling the mic, crooning to someone who seems both far away and immediate. He’s joking, heartbroken, loving all in the same breaths wearing the deepest black v-neck I’ve ever seen in public under a tight blazer.

And the same folks who were groov-ing to Sturgill Simpson half an hour ago were swept into the sensual, lovingly ironic and endearing world of Father John Misty. He has a way of playing into and insulting an audience at the same time. The dude’s got layers, though he doesn’t seem to wear many.

Like everyone else at the festival, I got hit in the head with a beach ball at some point. The same folks who were digging “Listening to the Rain” sang along to Misty’s existential anthem “Bored in the USA.” The same people who filled in for Sturgill’s set stuck around for the Walk the Moon sunset-set and “Shut Up and Dance.” Which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. South-ern country bluegrass rock doesn’t have much in common with the suburban party rockings of Walk the Moon or Scottish synthesizers CHVRCHES. And that’s what, aside from the music and setting, is really cool about Boston Call-ing—that as a fan of music you can wear as many different hats and facial hair as you want.

From Friday, from B8 applause the rest of the band joined him on stage. The Avett Brothers—the festival’s headliners—were a safe choice. No one’s going to be offended by two brothers from North Carolina singing about love, death, and family. The rhythm of the festival for the past few years has been: give the kids someone to listen to in the late afternoon and let the adults come out at night.

Acts like Tove Lo and The 1975 have ruled the late afternoon, and acts like Nas and Beck have delighted and stirred mostly middle-aged guys at night. And while the Avett Brothers aren’t what “the kids” are dancing to, it’s what a lot of them are jamming to. But The Avett Brothers are also a band your dad might like. It’s not necessarily out with the old and in with the new. It’s a meeting of both.

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The ladies of ‘20 Feet from Stardom’ were featured alongside University Chorale and the Screaming Eagles on Friday night at Pops.

Sturgill Simpson laid into an afternoon set with bluegrass and sourthern rock.

Of Monsters and Men took the middle set under a bright moon downtown on Friday night.

Scott and Seth Avett jammed, danced, and sung their way through an hour and a half set on the first night of Boston Calling.

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From parodying pop songs that tell women they don’t need makeup to satirizing double standards toward aging women in Hollywood, Amy Schumer has garnered not only media buzz this year for writing and starring in Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck,but has also taken the pop culture world by storm. From hosting the MTV Movie Awards to interrupting Ellen DeGeneres on her own show, Schumer has earned a repu-tation in the industry for her feminist-laden brand of comedy. Last Sunday night, Inside Amy Schumer won the Emmy for Best Va-riety Sketch Series, Vogue dubbed Schumer the “radical frontrunner for feminist come-dy,” while she was lauded by Th e New Yorker for her “raucous feminism.” Meanwhile, Schumer received a Peabody Award and was named one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Infl uential People.” Schumer has made a name for herself with honest humor about sexual double standards, gender inequal-ity, sexual assault on college campuses, and equal pay. In one skit mocking Hollywood’s double standards against women, “Th e Last F—kable Day,” Schumer stumbles upon Tina Fey, Patricia Arquette, and Julia Louis-Drey-fus as they are celebrating Louis-Dreyfus’ last day of sexual desirability.

While many are quick to commend Schumer for the feminist overtures, Schumer herself is a far cry from this generation’s feminist icon. Th e Guardianhas criticized Schumer’s “shockingly large blind spot when it comes to race” in regards to her racist remarks against Latinos. “I used to date Hispanic guys, but now I prefer consensual!” Schumer said in one of her early stand-up routines. “Nothing works 100 percent of the time, except Mexicans,” she said in another routine. At the MTV Movie Awards, Schumer also quipped that Latina women were “crazy” (much to the chagrin of Jennifer Lopez.) While these comments could be viewed as benign coming out of the mouth of a liberal feminist, Schumer’s fans have been quick to jump to her defense, citing that her jokes were “in character.” Schumer herself has responded to backlash. “Playing with race is a thing we are not sup-posed to do, which is what makes it so fun for comics,” she said. “You can call it a ‘blind spot for racism’ or ‘lazy,’ but you are wrong. It is a joke and it is funny. I know because people laugh at it.”

Schumer has compared herself to Dave Chappelle. But while Chappelle’s humor is largely bred from personal experiences and social commentary on race relations in America, Schumer is a white woman mak-ing jokes that depict Mexicans as rapists and make light of the exploitation of immigrant workers. A joke that, in light of Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s comments connecting Mexican immigrants and rape, comes off as more tactless and ignorant than funny. Schumer’s brand of feminism, often touted as “white feminism,” largely ignores the struggles faced by women of color and other marginalized groups. In fact, Schumer’s feminism, which fails to acknowledge intersections of race, sexuality, and class, isn’t feminism at all but is veiled under the guise of female solidarity. As Mikki Kendall pointed out in a trending #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen hashtag on Twitter, that solidarity usually only includes white women and often makes people of color the punchline of jokes.

While Schumer defends her jokes about race for comedy’s sake, it’s possible for female comedians to touch upon contro-versial topics without coming across as ill-informed. Take for example Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong’s speech at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner back in April this year. Strong riff ed on everything from sexist depictions of women in the media (“I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary’s appearance because that is not journalism”) to police brutal-ity (“Obama’s hair is so white that it can talk back to the police”). Strong’s smart, tongue-in-cheek humor shows that female comedians can play on hot topic issues about gender and race—all without making racist jokes about rape.

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Seth Avett leane d toward his microphone, sweat streaming down his face and through his mustache, and said “Scott Avett, everyone.” Seth’s older brother Scott slid to the center of the stage as the rest of the band headed off in the typical mid-set break/solo performance. The gloriously bearded Scott, sporting a trucker hat and acoustic guitar, struck a few winding chords and sung “If I get murdered in the city / Don’t go revengin’ in my name.”

“Murder in the City,” a song that consisted mostly of Scott’s timbered voice and guitar ringing through the commons, really shouldn’t have engaged that many people. It was an ironically fitting song to sing in the heart of a city. The song—the Avett Brothers’ whole set, really—was about the ways and means of the heart, love and death. The Avett Brothers, the most popular folk-rock group outside of Mumford and Sons, can get away with what sometimes comes off as sappy because of the band’s undeniable, richly textured sincerity.

The Avett Brothers played for a little over an hour and a half, a set brimming with classics like “Head Full of Doubt / Morning Full of Promise” and the more recent “Morning Song.” But some of their songs came alive in Boston Common in ways many probably didn’t expect. “Down with the Shine” got the crowd humming and singing along as

much as any of the others. “The Once and Future Carpenter” was a mid-set highlight, as happy folks bobbed and bounced and pretended their expensive Sam Adams were in a mason jar. Near the end, “Vanity,” from their most recent record Magpie and the Dandelion, gave the band a chance to jam and bounce around the stage. Through the set, Seth swapped between acoustic and electric guitar, and Scott rotated from banjo, piano, and acoustic guitar.

Where the set from the folk-poets was warm and sincere, the preceding set from Of Monsters and Men felt cold and distant. Yet it was still, in its own way, beautiful and engaging.

It was the Icelandic band’s second go-round at Boston Calling, and they kicked off the set with a couple cuts from their most recent record from over the summer—Beneath the Skin.They went for a black and white visual aesthetic as their chaotic new material tore its way through the festival square. Eventually, the band made its way back to the hits from their breakthrough debut album My Head Is an Animal. The crowd surfed and sung along to “Little Talks,” “King and Lionheart,” and “Dirty Paws.” It’s not that the earlier work of Of Monsters and Men is that much better, but the band seemed to enjoy playing it much more. And the audience seemed to feel that, too. The band’s older material is distant—singing about mystical

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With the supermoon looming overhead on a crisp autumn night, hundreds of glow sticks bobbed across the crowd as lead singer and guitarist Joe Newman led his band into a synth-laden, drum-heavy rendition of “Tessellate,” a single off alt-J’s first album. This was the second night of the Boston Calling Music Festival.

Bookending festival season, Boston Calling serves as the last big party of the summer every year at City Hall Plaza. Day two of the festival treated the ever-expansive crowd to one of the lineup’s most anticipated acts—English indie rock band, alt-J, as it played popular songs from its 2014 sophomore album, This Is All Yours. In a departure from Friday night’s main headliners, day two acts infused electronica music with folk rock stylings, transforming the otherwise immobilized crowd into a makeshift dance party.

Saturday featured alt-J’s infectious, electronica imbued high-energy indie rock. The Leeds-formed band began with songs from its newest album, from the torridly slow guitar riffs in “Every Other Freckle” to the downright bluesy “Left Hand Free” before drifting into fan favorites from their first album, An Awesome Wave. Following the humming bass synths of “Fitzpleasure” and the upbeat guitar twangs in “Dissolve Me,” the band finished off its set with a

popular leading single off its first album, launching into a flurry of ethereal,breathy synths in “Breezeblocks.”

G e a r e d t o w a r d a y o u n g e rdemographic this time around, Saturday’sstar-studded lineup included the likes of Father John Misty, CHVRCHES, Chromeo, Walk the Moon, Sturgill Simpson, Grey Season, Skylar Spence, Doomtree, and Stephen Malkmus andThe Jicks. With folk rock singer Father John Misty launching into the title track of his lauded I Love You Honeybear, thefolk rock stylings of the afternoon gaveway to a nighttime light show. Walk theMoon, the pop rock band from Ohio,blew up the radio waves this summer with “Shut Up And Dance.” The crowdat City Hall Plaza did just that as Walk the Moon launched into the poppy guitar riffs and sing-a-long chorus offits most popular single.

Canadian-based electro funk duo, Chromeo, then warmed up the crowdwith rock-inspired dance singles like “Jealous (I Ain’t With It)” and “OverYour Shoulder” off its album, White Woman. Following its set, the Glasgowtrio, CHVRCHES rolled out tracks like “Tether,” “Gun,” and “We Sink” from their 2013 debut album, Bones OfWhat You Believe. Despite some audio difficulties, the synthpop group finished off strong with its leading single, “TheMother We Share.”

Misterwives, Twin Shadow, Hozier,and Alabama Shakes are slated to cap offthis year’s festival on Sunday.

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