Vol. XCVII, No. 2 Monday, January 25, 2016
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FEATURESBoston braces for another harsh winter, A4
LET IT SNOWARTS & REVIEWRamiro Gomez brings his socially relevant cardboard paintings to Boston College in his Devlin Admissions Offi ce exhibit, B8
PARA LOS OLVIDADOSSPORTSWomen’s hockey set a new program record with its 26th consecutive win, B4
INCHING TOWARD PERFECTION
Yashar Montoya, a student accepted
to the class of 2019 who chose to defer
his acceptance for one year, has not
been seen since Nov. 7, 2015, according
to members of his family. On Jan. 14,
2016, a Facebook page was made titled,
“Come Home, Yashar,” telling those who
know Montoya of the circumstances.
The page included pictures of Mon-
toya, and informed viewers of his last
appearance near Times Square on Nov.
7. This morning, the page went public
for a few hours, before returning to its
private state.
Montoya, who his family says also
goes by the names Yashar Tesori-Mon-
toya and Yashar Tesoriero-Montoya,
was accepted as a member of the Carroll
School of Management Class of 2019 in
April 2015. His family has said that he
attended the final orientation session
on Aug. 21, 2015, but went on a leave
of absence for the Fall 2015 semester
seven days later. Montoya is in the
Agora Portal student roster—however,
according to Dean of Students Thomas
Mogan and University Spokesman Jack
Dunn, Montoya deferred his acceptance
and was never enrolled in classes. BCPD
said that it takes matters like this seri-
ously and acts upon them immediately,
but could not comment further.
“Yashar Tesori-Montoya is not en-
rolled at Boston College,” University
Spokesman Jack Dunn said in a phone
call. “Records show that he was accepted
from Regis High School, but deferred
his admission and never enrolled.”
“We wish the best for Yashar and
his family during this difficult time,”
Dunn said.
According to BC’s Missing Student
Notification Policy, students residing in
on-campus housing can register a stu-
dent to be contacted through the Agora
Portal if he or she goes missing for more
than 24 hours. In these circumstances,
the student’s Confidential Contact
will remain in confidence, where only
authorized campus officials and law
enforcement officers conducting the
missing person’s investigation have ac-
cess to the information.
Yashar Montoya’s brother, Joshua
Tesoriero, said that Montoya returned
home in September and lived with
his father in New York, N.Y. He got a
part-time job and was trying to work,
but in early November, Montoya left
See Montoya, A3
Most people buy new games for
Christmas. Last year, Carroll School of
Management professor Darren Kisgen
instead decided to sell one.
Kisgen’s board game Dragonwood
hit stores last summer to critical and
commercial success. While Kisgen
remarked that the game has little to do
with his finance teaching and research
at BC, he noted that he drew on his
background as a math major to forge
a gameplay that engages both strategy
and chance.
“I have always loved board games,”
Kisgen said. “I loved board games when
I was a little kid and played games of
a wide range throughout my life. So
it’s something I’m definitely very pas-
sionate about. If there’s something you
really care about, that you really think
is fun, trying to do something with that
is a big help.”
In Dragonwood, players act as
travelers in a magical forest trying to
capture creatures like bears, ogres, and
dragons, represented by illustrated
cards. Each person starts with a cer-
tain hand of numbered cards that he
or she must combine into poker-like
straights or groups of the same colors
or sequences. The person can then roll
a special set of dice to try to match
their total with a number on one of the
visible creature cards. The players can
also draw enhancement or event cards
that randomly advantage or disadvan-
tage them.
“At a simple level you’re doing addi-
tion with the dice, and you’re doing ad-
dition with trying to add up your score
given different points,” Kisgen said.
“It teaches different number patterns.
On a more complex level, you can do
some pretty sophisticated probability
calculations to try to figure out based
on the dice and the numbers what’s
your probability of achieving a certain
creature given their points. And it also
teaches strategy and planning.”
The game was originally designed
with a younger age group in mind.
While the Dragonwood box says that it
is best for players ages eight and older,
and Kisgen quotes the best age for it as
between six and fourteen, it has reached
Jerry Yorkwins Thousand
AMHERST, Mass. — It came a little
later in the year than many expected, but for
Boston College men’s hockey head coach
Jerry York, it was a moment he never saw
coming.
York has reached many coaching mile-
stones in his career. Despite leaving more
than 20 years ago, he is the all-time leading
winner at Bowling Green State University.
Last season, he surpassed John ‘Snooks’
Kelley as the leading winner at BC, his alma
mater. On Dec. 29, 2012, York became the
all-time wins leader in the history of college
hockey. With a 5-2 win over the University of
Alabama-Huntsville, the 925th of his career,
York put the legendary Ron Mason in the
rearview mirror.
In this, his 44th year at the helm of a Divi-
sion I program, York has reached a milestone
once thought unthinkable. Following an 8-0
win by the Eagles (16-4-3, 9-1-3 Hockey East)
over the University of Massachusetts (7-13-4,
2-8-4) at the Mullins Center, York has become
the fi rst head coach in the history of college
hockey to win 1,000 games. He joins nine-
time Stanley Cup winner Scotty Bowman as
the only hockey coaches, amateur or profes-
sional, to reach this milestone.
BC got off to a hot start, scoring fi ve goals
in the fi rst, each one prettier than the last.
Just like in last Friday’s game against BU,
Ian McCoshen sparked the Eagles, this time
with the fi rst goal instead of the fi nal one. Th e
defenseman blasted a rocket from the blue
line for his sixth of the season and third in
the past week, unassisted, high over UMass
goaltender Nic Reynard.
Th e Eagles kept the pressure on a depleted
UMass defense that was missing star defen-
See York, A8
JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR
See Dragonwood, A4
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THE HEIGHTS
As a part of this year’s Duffy Lectures in Global Christi-anity, Professor Agbonkhianmenghe Oro-bator, S.J., from Kenya will lecture on “The miracle of a century: promises and myths of African Christianity in the world church” on Monday at 5 p.m. in Gasson 305. 1
Claudia Escobar, former Guatemalan judge, will speak in McGuinn 521 on Wednesday at 12 p.m. about how repressed ju-dicial independence in Guatemala leads to corruption in society. She will offer suggestions for to how it could be addressed. 2
Monday, January 25, 2016 A2
Lev Golinkin, the author of A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka and BC ‘04, will speak about his memoir and experi-ence travelling to the United States as a Ukranian child refugee. The event will be held in Gasson 100 on Jan. 27 at 7 p.m.
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If you could fight anyone in history, who would it be and why?
NEWSBRIEFS
Over the last three years, Bos-
ton College professor Paul Lewis
has been working with a group of
undergraduate students to recover
poems written by Bostonians in
the years following the American
Revolution.
The research team sifted
through over 4,500 poems in 59
literary magazines, which were
originally published from 1789-
1820. Lewis is republishing the
poems in a book titled, The Citizen Poets of Boston: A Collection of Forgotten Poems, 1789–1820. The
book will be released in April.
The poems range in topic
from the citizens’ first recounts
of Boston to criticisms of local
doctors, ministers, and lawyers.
Most of the works are written by
anonymous authors.
The three-year project was
sparked after Lewis organized
an exhibit for the Boston Public
Library and the Massachusetts
Historical Society in 2012. He
featured Boston literary history,
which gave him the idea for his
research project.
“For one part of the exhibit,
we studied long-forgotten poems
published in early Boston maga-
zines. Many of the ones we read
were unimpressive, but a few were
so interesting that they made us
think there might be treasures
waiting to be found,” Lewis said
in an email.
Lewis specializes in literary
Boston, American humor since
1980, American literature from
1790-1860, and Gothic fiction.
He received his Ph.D from the
University of New Hampshire
and continues to teach English
at BC.
—Source: TheBoston College
Police Department
POLICE BLOTTER 1/20/16 - 1/22/16
Wednesday, Jan. 20
9:37 a.m. - A report was filed re-
garding a larceny from a building
(non-residence).
Thursday, Jan. 21
12:14 a.m. - A report was filed
regarding the civil possession of
marijuana in Edmonds Hall.
3:58 p.m. - A report was filed
regarding a traffic crash in the
commuter lot.
7:52 p.m. - A report was filed
regarding the civil possession of
marijuana in Vanderslice Hall.
Friday, Jan. 22
12:32 a.m. - A report was filed
regarding assistance provided to
another agency.
12:38 a.m. - A report was filed
regarding medical assistance pro-
vided to a BC student who was
trasported to a medical facility.
This semester, Brian Har-
rington, CSOM ’89, joined the
Shea Center for Entrepreneurship
as the entrepreneur-in-residence.
Over the past 25 years, he
has worked for various startups,
including serving as executive
vice president and chief market-
ing officer at Zipcar, head of his
own consulting company, Little
Harbour Group, the leader of
Boathouse, a brand communica-
tions agency, and I’m in!, a leisure
travel website he co-founded. In
his position at the Shea Center,
Harrington will guide and men-
tor students interested in entre-
preneurship and pursuing their
own ventures.
“It’s great to be here and I
look forward to contributing,”
Harrington said. “I’ve seen and
done a lot, and I’d like to use
my experience to emphasize
thoughtful decision-making by
founders during the early stages
of a company’s existence.”
The program, which was of-
ficially launched last November,
aims to help students interested
in startups by fostering collabora-
tions between students, faculty,
and private sector experts.
“We are very excited about
our EIR program, and Brian is
the perfect person to kick this
off for us at the Shea Center,” Jere
Doyle, the executive director of
the Shea Center, said. “He brings
a wealth of entrepreneurial expe-
rience to campus and students
will get immediate and up-close
personal access to him through
office hours, drop-ins and larger
group sessions. The consistent
mentoring that Brian will pro-
vide will be invaluable.”
On Jan. 15, Boston Mayor Mar-
tin J. Walsh and Boston College
President Rev. William P. Leahy,
S.J., announced that Boston College
and the City of Boston will give the
Allston-Brighton neighborhood
a $450,000 grant to improve its
public spaces.
The fund will help pay for the
construction of a Medal of Honor
monument for Private First Class
Ernest W. Prussman, who was killed
during World War II.
The project also includes the in-
stallation of two speed alert display
boards, two solar powered trash
and recyclable compacting stations
around the Chestnut Hill Reservoir,
gateway signage and an interactive
wayfinding kiosk that provides
information about local businesses
and public transit, two bike share
stations, and the improvement of
McKinney Park.
This initiative is part of BC’s
Neighborhood Improvement
Fund—a $2.5 million program
set up in 2014 by the University
and the Boston Redevelopment
Authority to support programs and
services in the nearby community
that are not otherwise covered by
public funding.
“We know the neighborhood
here has all kinds of connections
to Boston College and we in turn
have all kinds of links to our neigh-
borhood and to the surrounding
community,” Leahy said to the
Office of News and Public Affairs.
“Today we are able to show even
stronger partnership with various
entities in our neighborhood and
in our city.”
The Neighborhood Improve-
ment Fund is part of the Ten Year
Institutional Master Plan. The Plan
was drafted in 2009 and aims to
improve both BC’s campus and the
greater community—this includes
scholarships for Allston-Brighton
students.
BC hopes to improve public
safety and focuses specifically on
helping the elderly, the youth, and
the needy. They also seek ways to
beautify the community. The grants
will be given twice per year—one in
the fall and one in the spring.
This was the first grant given
under the Neighborhood Improve-
ment Fund, but BC has helped the
Allston-Brighton community in
the past. After building Alumni
Stadium in 2003, BC established
3,000 micro-grants for the com-
munity. They also have a $25,000
beautification grant every other
year that is given to nonprofits and
community groups.
“Boston College is certainly a
great and wonderful partner with
the city of Boston,” Walsh said in
the press release. “These projects
are certainly going to have an
impact on the quality of life in
Allston-Brighton.”
By Karl Salzmann
For The Heights
“After five minutes with Cedric,
you feel like you can conquer the
world,” Patrick Downes, BC ’10,
said. Army Ranger Master Sgt. Ce-
dric King spoke at Boston College
on Jan. 21 about his two tours of
duty in Afghanistan. The event was
sponsored by the Human Resources
Department on Institutional Di-
versity, the Athletics Department,
the Veterans’ Affinity Group, and
the Undergraduate Government of
Boston College (UGBC).
Susan Sheehy, a friend of King,
organized the event through the
Collegiate Warrior Athlete Initia-
tive, which seeks to bring together
veterans and college athletes. Shee-
hy’s son, John, is currently in the
early stages of helping King write a
book based on his life.
In his speech, King told the
story of how, three years ago, he was
given the assignment to bring back
evidence that enemy soldiers in his
sector were killing Americans. As
he and his fellow soldiers entered
a booby-trapped house, King put
his weight on his right foot, inad-
vertently triggering an improvised
explosive device (IED).
That day was July 25, 2012,
which he now celebrates as his
“Alive Day”—the day that “death
comes knocking on your door and
you say, ‘No.’” When the bomb
detonated, he was immediately
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The grant will bring solar powered trash compacting stations to the Reservoir.JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR
BC worked with the Allston-
Brighton community to implement
these new measures, said Jeanne
Levesque, director of the Institu-
tional Master Plan. Citizens of the
neighborhoods applied for grants
by filling out at an application and
dropping it off at the BC Neighbor-
hood Center on the corner of Lake
and Washington Street.
The BC Task Force—a commu-
nity-based group of people who are
members of community organiza-
tions—then reviewed the applica-
tions, she said. The applicants also
presented their proposed programs
to the public. The general guide-
lines were that the projects must
benefit the community and be on
public property.
The Task Force then made a
list of the programs they believed
should be considered and gave it to
Leahy and BC and to Walsh and the
Boston Redevelopment Authority
to review. Together, they decided
which programs will be funded.
The improvements to Allston and
Brighton, Levesque said, will benefit
both the BC students and the greater
community. They hope to improve
public safety with the speed signs and
community alert board.
“People were very, very excited
and very pleased with the first round
of funding,” Thomas Keady, vice
president of the Institutional Mas-
ter Plan, said. “It all goes to make
Allston-Brighton a better place to
work and go to school.”
rushed to a field hospital and then
flown to Walter Reed National Mili-
tary Medical Center in Maryland.
After coming out of an eight-day
medically-induced coma, doctors
informed him that, not only did
he suffer internal damage and lose
fingers and part of his right arm,
but his injuries were so severe that
they would require the amputation
of both of his legs.
“If you get bad news, we go to
the far extreme of the bad news,”
King said. “How can I live life in the
same way that I did before?”
He found a way to make life even
better, he said. On April 21, 2014,
King finished the Boston Marathon
while running on prosthetic blades.
He became the first double-ampu-
tee to complete the race—only 21
months after the operation.
King told the audience that he
sees the ugly things in life “almost
like a sparring partner”—not there
to hurt you, but to train you. A good
trainer, he explained, doesn’t train
you in those areas for which you
are prepared. Rather, life “trains
you for what you’re not ready for,”
King said.
In his hospital bed, King realized
why he had to continue fighting:
“Hey, man, there’s so much good
to give.”
King said that when he was run-
ning the Boston Marathon, he saw
tents along the side of the course
for runners who could not complete
the race and was strongly tempted
By Sophie Reardon
Assoc. News Editor
to give up.
“As soon as you pull off the road,
there is somebody there who will try
to make you feel better,” King said.
He paused for a moment as
his audience took the statement
in—and then he screamed: “But
that’s not what you came for.”
King said that his family and his
faith allowed him to keep fighting,
despite his life-altering injuries.
He will not let those injuries
define him, he said. King will be
running the Boston Marathon
again this year.
First Lady Michelle Obama
recently narrated a video featur-
ing King’s story. In it, he shares a
message for the people who tried
to kill him.
“[You] meant to hurt me. Instead
of hurting me, you made me better,”
he said.
Before answering questions
from the audience, King told a final
anecdote. He said that while he was
still completing his training, he was
able to shoot the 50-meter target
and the 100-meter target, but he
could not shoot the 150-meter tar-
get. His instructor told him that he
was failing to understand the trajec-
tory and path of the bullet. Looking
at a captivated audience, he showed
the tale’s poignant metaphor both
for his story and for overcoming
one’s own pain in life.
“The target is possible to hit,”
he said, “but we have to know how
to aim.”
Cedric King spoke about serving in Afghanistan and his life-altering injuries.FRANCISCO RUELA / SENIOR STAFF
THE HEIGHTS Monday, January 25, 2016 A3
home, leaving a note that said, “Look
guys, I’m going to be fine, don’t worry
about me.”
At that point, Montoya ended all
communication with his family, shut-
ting down his phone and email address.
His family believes there is no current
way of contacting Montoya.
Tesoriero said that the family tried
to reach out to the New York Police
Department, which told him they could
not do anything because Montoya is 18.
He also reached out to the University,
but was told that it is their policy to
not disclose any information about stu-
dents, per the Family Educational Rights
and Privacy Act (FERPA), according to
Tesoriero. He also said that he spoke
with ResLife.
The family believed Montoya would
return for the holidays—when he did
not, they believed Montoya wanted
space and did not actively pursue him
further.
Montoya’s family assumed he would
return to BC for the Spring 2016 se-
mester, but do not know if he has re-
enrolled, according to Tesoriero.
“I don’t know why he’s doing what
he’s doing,” Tesoriero said in a phone
interview, “but if he kinda wants to do
his own thing, hey, I just wanna make
sure he’s okay.”
By Connor Murphy
Heights Editor
According to data collected by the
Washington, D.C.-based Scholarly Pub-
lishing and Academic Resources Coali-
tion (SPARC), college textbook prices
rose 82 percent between 2003 and 2013,
triple the rate of inflation of the Consumer
Price Index. Two separate Boston College
initiatives are looking to make it easier
and cheaper for students to buy course
materials.
Starting this semester, the BC Book-
store, which is run by Follett Bookstore
Management, is offering a price-match-
ing program. Follett Corporation is a
separate company that offers a range of
educational products to K-12 schools and
colleges and universities.
The program allows students to pres-
ent a price from Amazon, Barnes & No-
ble, Chegg, or a local competitor. It must
be an in-store purchase, and the program
excludes peer-to-peer exchanges.
There are some other caveats: The
book must be in stock with both the
Bookstore and the retailer advertising
the lower price. Advertisements must
be dated at most seven days prior to the
transaction date, although prices can be
matched for up to seven days after a book
is purchased or rented.
“It’s something that we had tested out
chain-wide,” Bob Stewart, director of
BC Bookstores, said, referring to other
bookstores run by Follett. “We found that
it was very successful and well-received by
students, and so then we rolled it out to
the rest of the chain this semester.”
Stewart added that, in addition to
saving money on the book itself, students
who use price-matching are saving money
on shipping fees, too.
“It’s new, so people are still learning, so
I think that as each semester progresses
we’ll educate people about it. … I think
it’s going to grow,” he said.
Kat Murphy, MCAS ’18, is a bio-
chemistry major who looked to Amazon
instead of the Bookstore when buying her
books last week, after seeing their prices
on the Bookstore Web site.
“This past semester my books for
both cell biology and molecular biology
would have cost $170 if bought from the
bookstore,” she said in an email. “Instead
of $340, they came to a grand total of $63,
thanks to Amazon textbook rentals.”
Another BC program, the Affordable
Course Materials Initiative, seeks to help
professors rethink the resources they use.
The program’s philosophy is based in part
on research by the Scholarly Publishing
and Academic Resources Coalition, which
advocates the use of Open Educational
Resources—using portions of multiple
resources for free, rather than one entire
resource, to avoid requiring students to
get expensive books.
The initiative, spearheaded by librar-
ians Margaret Cohen and Jane Morris,
was launched last spring and continues
again this year. Faculty members apply
for a competitive $2,000 grant to help
them revamp the books they are using,
either by putting together a new combi-
nation of resources or creating their own
content. BC Libraries and the Center for
Teaching Excellence offer assistance with
the process.
Revamping course materials involves
putting together an array of sources: For
example, a professor could use excerpts
from multiple books on the library’s
course reserve, self-created material,
and articles in subscription databases.
Copyright law does not allow entire
books to be scanned and posted online,
so the initiative’s support system seeks
to help professors figure out what they
can legally do.
One of the concerns prompting the
Affordable Course Materials Initiative
is financial aid. According to an email
from Director of Financial Aid Mary
McGranahan, aid maxes out at $625 each
semester for textbooks, as mandated by
federal law. McGranahan said that BC’s
financial aid counselors do not receive
many requests for additional assistance,
although she thinks some students do
exceed the allowance.
“We certainly would like to hear
from any students struggling financially,
whether it’s because of book costs or
other issues, and we will do our best to
help,” she added.
Cohen, one of the initiative’s lead-
ers, said that surveys of students in last
spring’s revamped courses showed strong
support for the program. This spring, the
initiative is looking at economics and
biology courses as two target areas, as
those programs tend to require the most
expensive textbooks.
“We don’t want people to not require
the highest quality of resources, but just
to think a bit differently about what’s out
there,” Cohen said.
Missing Student, from A1
By Yolanda Bustillo
Heights Staff
Edward Hirsch, American poet
and critic, opened up a discussion
in Devlin on Thursday by asking the
audience why artwork is necessary. He
then noted that art looks at culture in a
different way. According to the Clough
Center for the Study of Constitutional
Democracy, contemporary visual art
serves to create, define, and critique
the American democratic vision by
transfiguring what is often seen in
ways that suggest new patterns and
interactions.
The Clough Center developed The
Arts and the Culture of Democracy
Lecture Series in order to explore these
relationships. Liza Lou, Ramiro Gomez,
Lawrence Weschler, and Edward Hirsh
discussed the role that their contem-
porary visual art has played in the re-
lationship between democracy and the
arts. Weschler and Hirsch offered com-
mentary and encouraged discussion of
both Lou’s and Gomez’s visual art.
Series Director Kim Garcia opened
up the discussion with her own ex-
periences as an artist interested in
democratic relations. Garcia won the
White Pine Press Poetry Prize, Back-
waters Prize, Lynda Hull Memorial
Prize, an AWP Intro Writing Award, a
Hambridge Fellowship, and an Oregon
Individual Artist Grant. She teaches
creative writing at BC.
Hirsch was the recipient of an
Academy of Arts and Letters Award,
an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award,
a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writ-
ers’ Award, and the Rome Prize from
the American Academy in Rome. In
2008, Hirsch was elected a Chancellor
of the Academy of American Poets.
Hirsch is currently the president of the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation.
Hirsch first emphasized the im-
portance of the arts and its role in
politics.
“Why do we need artwork at all?”
Hirsch asked the audience. “Art brings
out things that the culture needs. It’s
a way of looking at things that are not
utilitarian. This is because art carries a
certain type of information that is not
demonstrated in culture.”
Ramiro Gomez, a Los Angeles-
based artist, utilizes his visual art to
highlight what is invisible to most.
Students could visit his pop-up gal-
lery Los Olvidados (The Forgotten) on
display in Devlin Hall on Jan. 21, 2016.
Through cardboard cut outs, magazine
reappropriations, and digital drawings,
Gomez focuses on domestic labor in
unconventional locations.
“I am an artist practicing an interest-
ing form of art, focusing on domestic
labor inside spaces that aren’t displayed
in the arts,” Gomez said. “It’s a neces-
sary visual statement demonstrating
that time gets lost. I work in ways that
draw attention to labor itself.”
Liza Lou, an American visual art-
ist, is best known for her large-scale
glass bead sculptures. She has received
an Anonymous Was a Woman Artist
Award and a MacArthur Foundation
Fellowship. Her art often takes years
to complete, which makes her con-
template time as an element of the
artwork itself.
“I set out to describe an environ-
ment through objects and wondered if
objects could tell a story. I set out to do
a kitchen project in five months, but it
took me five years,” Lou said. “I think
in a way what I was trying to do was
make a monument to a woman who was
maybe living in the 19th century and
had fathoms inside of her and found
herself making pies. If she was wash-
ing dishes for all eternity, I wanted to
honor her labor.”
Both Gomez and Lou contemplate
how art has helped them evolve not
only as artists, but also as individuals.
Gomez and Lou both discussed how
the art may have been intended for a
specific audience, but the forming of
the art came from an intrinsic desire
of their own.
“In the process of making the work,
I changed fundamentally as a person,”
Lou said. “I wasn’t given to slow, pains-
taking work, but that curiosity kept me
going on the project. Working on one
work of art for five years made me think
about time in a different way.”
Although both artists develop visual
arts, they both lamented the work that
is not shown at all. The artists explained
the sadness that is associated with cre-
ating art, more specifically the passing
of time and the invisibility of it all.
“The thread remains underneath
everything, but it is invisible,” Lou said.
“It is present in each one of our lives,
no matter what we do.”
Gomez also discussed the impor-
tance of the location of his pieces of
guerrilla art. Intending to make audi-
ences think deeply about his visual
art, Gomez focuses on the people and
occupations that are often ignored
entirely.
Gomez explained the importance
of the location of the art, telling the
audience that he puts the images in
public places.
“Art is important to me and it needs
to be brought to the attention of the
public,” Gomez said. “My art is an
example of me taking the same idea
and using the cultural reference—lo-
cations—and always using this work
to think about what it means to do
work which is ephemeral and represent
people who aren’t supposed to exist in
art or art history.”
JAMES CLARK/ HEIGHTS STAFF
The Clough Center hosts artists as part of The Arts and the Culture of Democracy Lecture Series
After last being seen in Times Square in November, a student who deferred his freshman year was reported missing by his family in New York.TESORIERO-MENTOYA FAMILY / FOR THE HEIGHTS
THE HEIGHTS Monday, January 25, 2016 A4
If you hadn’t heard by now from the administration, a number of
national news sources, or your relatives over the holidays, Boston
College experienced its own version of a health epidemic late last
semester. A highly contagious norovirus from an ill employee at the
popular Chipotle in Cleveland Circle infected over 140 students, just
in time for final exams. Gaining massive publicity from its initial
impact upon the men’s basketball team, the news made headlines
across the nation and the world. BC responded with drastic mea-
sures, temporarily putting an end to self-service food stations and
introducing sanitation stations throughout campus. The hysteria
that ensued left many students sick, but countless more students
fearing for their health and sanity during a crucial part of the semes-
ter. The impact of the virus was felt broadly, and those who were
not directly affected by the virus itself undoubtedly felt the indirect
aftermath. Here at The Heights, we attempted to reach out to many
of the victims of the nationally-ac-
claimed norovirus. Many declined,
even more outright ignored our
requests, but we received a couple
of words from victims and individu-
als in the periphery of the crisis who
could muster it. Here is a small
sample of perspectives from the
recent health crisis.
KAYLA FERNANDO / HEIGHTS EDITOR
Th e last day of my trip to Ecuador
was spent in the touristy city of Banos.
I clambered over a railing and stood on
a bare, wooden platform attached to the
side of a bridge. Hundreds of feet below,
a small river snaked its way through
jagged rocks. Only a harness hooked up
to a system of worn-out ropes kept me
from falling to certain death. In honor
of the occasion, I had decided to wear
my Superfan shirt for what was probably
going to be my next Instagram post—and
as a favor for the search and rescue team
that would have to identify my remains
on the ravine fl oor.
For such a small country, Ecuador is
a land of extreme contrasts. It’s a place
where traditional and modern fashion
brush past each other on the street,
where bustling urban centers pale in
comparison to waterfalls that have
carved out natural sanctuaries since time
immemorial, and where the lonely Andes
Mountain Range wraps around the
people in a welcoming embrace.
I spent the last week of Winter Break
in Riobamba, Ecuador, on a medical
mission as part of the Boston College
student chapter of MEDLIFE, traveling
and working in mobile clinics in isolated
communities with little to no access
to health care. We were assured that
we wouldn’t be going to the Galapagos
Islands on this trip—instead, we’d come
face-to-face with the most extreme
cases of physical hardship and economic
poverty. It’s one thing to hear about life
in developing countries and see pictures
of such communities, but another thing
entirely to actually fi nd yourself in the
middle of it all.
Right away I felt a disconnect between
us American college students and the
Ecuadorian mountain folk. We made a
spectacle every time we walked down the
street. While we were used to the way we
looked, we were gawked at by locals used
to cultural homogeneity. We couldn’t
speak Spanish well enough to com-
municate with the locals as much as we
wanted to, with this linguistic inadequacy
amplifi ed by working alongside bi- and
trilingual students from Puerto Rico and
Montreal, respectively. We couldn’t even
use the tap water to brush our teeth for
fear that unfi ltered water could harbor
bacteria and parasites that would wreak
havoc on our delicate digestive systems.
For the fi rst time, I felt self-conscious
about every move I made and its implica-
tions. On the streets, it meant either per-
petuating or debunking the stereotypes
of being an American tourist. In the
mobile clinics, it meant trying to explain
to locals who have never had adequate
health education that the proper way to
apply topical cream was to rub it on your
skin, not eat it. For myself, it meant ac-
cepting the fact that I was defi nitely not
in Kansas anymore.
Yet we strove to break our mind-
forged manacles, going outside of our
comfort zones to fi nd common ground.
As it turned out, a smile helped a local as
much as a prescription for ibuprofen. A
pick-up soccer game brightened up the
children’s day as much as giving them
their own toothbrushes and toothpaste.
Nature’s handiwork at creating cascad-
ing waterfalls and towering mountains
was as awe-inspiring as the artisans’
handiwork at creating colorful crafts and
traditional clothes. In the end, we were
able to be immersed in a diff erent culture
and forget about ourselves for a little
while.
It’s reasonable for you to assume that
we were on a medical mission because
we wanted to check off the boxes next
to “clinical experience” and “awareness
of global health” on our list of things to
do before medical school. Part of me
knows you’re right, but another part of
me wants to tell you there was so much
more to it.
I never thought I’d be able to
form meaningful relationships with
people from all around the world. I
never thought I’d be brave enough to eat
roasted guinea pig or jump off a bridge.
I never thought I’d fi nd myself standing
at the top of a mountain with a view that
stretched as far as the eye can see. I never
thought I’d feel so small. So I guess the
whole point of my medical mission was
not to add to the infl ated ego of the pre-
med student, but to accept the fact that I
know very little of a very big world.
As Boston prepared itself for the fi rst
blizzard of the year, I couldn’t help but
think of the word “nieve,” the Spanish
word for snow. Th e locals I met in Ecua-
dor know the word “nieve,” even though
the only snow they’ve probably seen is on
the tops of the distant Andes. Th e snow-
capped peaks are as far away from them
as my experiences in Ecuador are now far
away from me, but it’s important to re-
member that even though the mountains
are mere outlines in the background,
their omnipresence is a testament to
the fact that they’re not going anywhere
any time soon. I hope my memories of
Ecuador’s rich history, welcoming people,
and vibrant culture stay with me like
the steadfast mountains—maybe in the
background, but always there.
As I waited for the signal to jump, I
thought that though paying $20 to jump
off a bridge was a huge risk in itself, I had
already taken so many risks in Ecuador
and had changed as a result. If I could
make it through all of that, this time
would be no diff erent. So I closed my
eyes, took a deep breath, and jumped for
an eternity.
JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR
CSOM Professor Darren Kisgen promotes his newest board game, Dragonwood, an award-winning fantasy game for players of all ages.
The students of BC MEDLIFE traveled to Riobamba, Ecuador over Winter Break.
families and older players.
“I love the fantasy setting, I just always
have,” Kisgen said. “I think it’s fun, it’s great
for the imagination, it’s great for creativ-
ity.”
Dragonwood was especially successful
over the Christmas season and received fi ve
awards, including the Mensa Select, awarded
by the American Mensa high IQ society, and
the Parents’ Choice Silver Honor, awarded
by the Parents’ Choice Foundation to honor,
“the best material for children.”
Th e combination of awards granted to
Dragonwood seems to indicate both its
popularity and its potential for education
and intellectualization.
“I didn’t want it to be 100 percent strat-
egy because I think that’s just like chess,
where everybody’s very serious and only
the best strategy will win,” Kisgen said. “But
I also didn’t want it to be 100 percent luck.
And I also wanted it to be something that
was accessible to a lot of people. I think the
fun thing is that it’s 20-30 minutes, but you
still get that fantasy feel. You feel like you’re
going in a forest, taking on creatures.”
Kisgen got the idea for Dragonwood over
two years ago and made a publishing deal
with Gamewright in a matter of months.
Th e company illustrated the game pieces
while Kisgen developed the original rules
and pieces.
Much of the design was also made
with his children, a 7- and 9-year-old boy
and girl.
He tried to include characters that would
appeal to both boys and girls.
“We play it all the time,” he said. “My kids
still love it. I mean, we must have played it
over 100 times by now. I still really enjoy it
even though I have played it a lot.”
Kisgen was delighted with the success of
his game and said he already has a few next
steps in mind.
Besides working on cards for an expan-
sion pack to the original game, allowing
players to extend the gameplay time beyond
the usual half an hour, Kisgen is working
with some other game designs and has al-
ready fi nished developing another idea.
“I don’t know what I’ll do, but it’s a fun
thing for me to do” he said. “It’s sort of like
solving puzzles to try to come up with a
game. So I enjoy it, whether it ends up be-
ing successful or published. I’m just playing
with my kids.”
From Rockwood, A1
THE HEIGHTS A5Monday, January 25, 2016
Heights Editor
As we approach the anniversary of
#snowpocalypse2k15, Bostonians can’t
help but wonder (read: worry) what 2016
may have in store. Memories of Juno and a
snow-buried Boston resurfaced this week
with news of winter storm Jonas sweeping
the East Coast.
More than 33 million people were in a
blizzard warning awaiting Jonas. Th e As-
sociated Press reported 12,000 fl ight cancel-
lations, up to 42 inches of snowfall, and at
Dear BC Class of 2016,
“Take the shoes from your feet, because
the place where you are standing is holy
ground.” (Exodus 3:5)
For me, Boston College is holy. I realized
this from the moment Fr. Michael Himes
referenced the passage above during fresh-
man orientation.
BC, however, is not holy because of its
top-30 academic ranking, Division I athletic
program, or beautiful Gothic architecture.
Nor is it holy due to its Jesuit, Catholic
tradition. No, I believe BC is holy for a dif-
ferent reason.
I guess I should fi rst defi ne the word
“holy.”
In this context, I believe holy is an
adverb. After all, it does have the –ly at
the end. To make sense of the word in this
context, perhaps you can substitute “holy”
for its actual adverbial form, “holily.”
So just as an adverb does not describe a
noun, holy does not describe BC. Th erefore
in my fi rst sentence of this letter, the adverb
“holy” refers not to “Boston College,” but to
the the word “is.” In this way, Boston Col-
lege is not holy unless it is an action.
I will return to this idea later. For now,
let me continue to explain what I mean by
the word holy.
BC is not exceptional—it is no diff erent
from anywhere else. If you care to disagree,
take a look across the Charles River. At
Harvard, they are doing many of the same
things we do at BC. In Cambridge, we fi nd a
place where people come together to learn
and develop in the pursuit of truth. In fact,
What happens to an abroad dream
deferred? To be completely honest—
speaking from experience—not much at
fi rst. Th e fi rst couple of weeks of the fall
semester pass at a fairly normal pace,
you navigate your new schedule, pick
up your books, and settle into a new
residence. Some kids with fl ights booked
for somewhere exotic later that month
linger around campus on weekends and
crash on a couch or two, but as time
passes, the numbers dwindle. Th e pack
of abroad-bound kids thins as it turns its
sights temporarily home or to the airport,
but otherwise the early days of junior
year proceed much like those of years and
semesters past.
An occasional reminder fi nds its way
into your mind, maybe in the form of a
link to a blog your friend promises to
write or a contact information update
on your Facebook feed, but you manage
to stay entertained by the excitement of
being back on campus.
Junior year’s fi rst green is the hardest
hue to hold, however, and inevitably the
ABBY PAULSON / HEIGHTS EDITOR
Nick Genovese pthere are institutions of higher learning,
perhaps like Harvard, that are higher-
ranked, even more prodigious than BC at
doing so. Th e school we attend is not the
best, although it is certainly not the worst.
Rather, I believe it is the same.
In this way, I contend that BC is unor-
dinary. Maybe it is extraordinary. It doesn’t
matter. What I do believe is that although
Boston College is not diff erent, it sure does
do things diff erently.
In other words, it is not what BC does,
but how BC does that is diff erent. More
importantly, I believe it is how BC does that
is holy.
I believe BC is diff erent than other
schools. It brings people together dif-
ferently than other schools. It pursues
truth diff erently than other schools. It
delights diff erently in the encounter
and conversation to consider the
most important questions of our hu-
man existence.
I could spend countless hours
trying to pinpoint how BC does things
diff erently, although I have a feeling
that I will continue to
ultimately arrive
at more ques-
tions than
answers.
Maybe
the closest
word
to BC’s
way of
proceed-
ing—what
I mean
by holy—is special. But just as I will
never be able to fully describe to you how
BC does things specially, I will never be
able to exactly explain to you why BC is
holy.
Rather, it is an intuition—one I’m sure
I share with many of you. We don’t know
why BC is holy. It just is. I believe if we
truly knew how BC does things diff er-
ently, more universities would try to do the
same.
I promised you that I would come back
to an idea. As I move forward in the Exodus
passage from the word “holy” to the word
“ground,” I return to this idea: Boston Col-
lege is not holy unless it is an action. So if
holy is an adverb, then ground is a verb. In
this way, ground does not refer to a place
or a location, but to an action or a type of
experience.
In this context, I fi nd the word “ground”
to be the experience in which your parents
“ground” you. Usually being grounded is the
result of getting caught with a plastic water
bottle full of tequila or lying about staying
home to babysit your little sister (both from
personal experience), but hopefully the
punitive quality is not too relevant
here.
Th e importance of the word is
its passive nature. It is not some-
thing you do, but something that is
done to you. In being grounded, we
are placed somewhere by someone
else. Th erefore, we are grounded at
BC—not because we are the actors who
determined to bring ourselves to Chest-
nut Hill, but because instead we
are the recipients of
those people
and circum-
stances that
have placed
us here.
Th e
truth is
that we
ourselves
are not the
ones who
placed us here at Boston College. Honestly,
I don’t know many friends my age who
decided at birth to attend BC and currently
make $60,000 per year. Th erefore, it is God
or a transcendent being, along with friends
and strangers (at least those in the Offi ce of
Admisson) that have somehow shaped our
life circumstances and experiences in order
to be here. It is our parents or caregivers
who are determined to fund the immensely
expensive gift of a Boston College education.
In the end, we are grounded at BC
because we are meant to be here. Th is is no
accident. But why us and not others? Again,
I couldn’t tell you.
What I can tell you is that we are meant
to be at this place that does things diff er-
ently. We are placed, grounded, here on
purpose so that we can proceed diff erently,
more holy.
Th at is why Boston College is the most
holy ground I know. So here’s the deal: I
truly love this place, but that doesn’t mean I
want to be grounded here forever. You prob-
ably (defi nitely) won’t hear me ever saying
or captioning a photo “Never Leaving” or
“Eagles Forever,” but I’ll gladly take one more
semester on the Heights.
I have no idea what the future holds.
Hopefully by this point I’ve convinced you
that you don’t either. I’m immensely excited
for the future, but the future must always
wait.
Right now, we have one more semester
here on holy ground.
KELSEY MCGEE / GRAPHICS EDITOR
early fl owers of summer subside to the
leaves of late September as the mid-se-
mester drudgery intensifi es. Th is is where
the FOMO becomes evident.
Every day, new photo albums emerge
featuring familiar faces against backdrops
of unmistakable landmarks and foreign
cityscapes, or dreamlike beach and
mountain scenes. Filtered images from
your classmates’ weekend travels dot your
Instagram feed, and heavily meditated
captions highlight his or her curious
destinations with quirky, multilingual
wordplay.
As the photo album descriptions
steadily grow to include the names of
countries you’ve only seen written on
maps, the extent of the Comm. Ave.
direct shuttle route seems to shrink
daily. It becomes apparent at this point,
that maybe, regrettably, you’d rather be
somewhere else.
As an individual with nearly a medi-
cally viable case of wanderlust, this time-
line of disgruntlement was particularly
manifest in me. Anchored to Chestnut
Hill by academic obligations that could
not be fulfi lled abroad, I felt ensnared by
the harshness of reality. It often occurred
to me that every second of every day, I
was actively missing out on a life-chang-
ing experience and instead going through
the highly forgettable motions of the
“MWF” and “TTh ” schedule. In my eyes,
pages of my passport, which longed to be
swiped and stamped all around the world,
were blindingly blank.
I kept this widening wound largely
to myself, highly aware of its absurdity.
Coming from someone fortunate enough
to be attending a highly-regarded school
with little other to worry myself over oth-
er than academics and fi nding employ-
ment (with a little norovirus mixed in for
laughs), absurd was an understatement,
in fact, when the issue at hand was that I
wasn’t gallivanting around Europe.
Regardless, these thoughts plagued
me. Th e fl eetingness of time and my
youth weighed heavily on my psyche as I
started to stare down job applications and
resume critiques, all while simultaneously
being inundated with images of Oktober-
fest and the Great Barrier Reef.
As I sulked in this indulgent but
nevertheless unpleasant reality of my
domestic confi nement one day in late No-
vember, in the interest of procrastinating
for fi nals, I decided to make a visit to my
camera roll to revisit the past semester in
search of lighter moments.
As I began the long scroll starting
from my fi rst move-in photos, moving
eventually into football games, Hallow-
een, and onwards, I came to realize some-
thing about the last three months on Th e
Heights and, more importantly, myself.
While I was busy waking up daily
wishing I were somewhere else, instead
of fi nding the beauty in the experiences
I was enjoying at BC, I was preoccupied
with longing for the adventures I wasn’t
experiencing.
In my mind, the time I found myself
surrounded by confused fans at a hurling
match at Fenway Park was less memo-
rable than it would have been feeling out
of place in Dublin. And the time my car
was keyed by a disgruntled Bostonian
who was displeased with my perfectly
reasonable parking job was somehow less
unique of an experience than navigating
through hoards of tourists and selfi e-stick
peddling vendors at some extravagant
European city. To my disgruntled self, the
countless pictures of breakfast sandwich-
es that I had cooked by myself using my
own kitchen could easily be exchanged
for any number of experiences across the
pond.
I realized that though the pages of
the passport that contains my name and
birthday may lack the marks of airports
around the world, this has no bearing
on my past. Th e contents of my camera
roll, though perhaps less Instagram- or
Facebook-worthy, were no less worthy of
a review. Each photo, regardless of how
unimpressive to the uninformed viewer,
came with its own narrative and its own
emotional weight.
I had almost fully convinced myself
that these experiences had not even oc-
curred—that my entire semester could be
summed up as “not abroad.” I am the sum
of these photos and of these experiences,
and to discount them as unimportant to
the point of non-existence would be to
deny myself the fond memories of late
nights, formidable Ikea furniture, and
new faces.
Surely with pieces like this, inevitably
the question arises—if you went back in
time and made the decisions that would
have allowed you to go abroad, would you
go? In short—yes, absolutely I would go
abroad (the aforementioned wanderlust
is incurable). But looking back (and now
looking to the future), I know that I could
never wish a day away. Who in their right
mind would wish away an entire semester
of bacon, egg, and cheeses?
ARTHUR BAILIN / HEIGHTS PHOTO
least 28 deaths related to the storm. Fourteen
states received more than a foot of snow, and
six states reported more than two feet. Jonas
was Juno on a much larger scale, aff ecting
millions of people from Massachusetts to
Mississippi.
While temperatures lingered in the low
20s and students were forced to trudge
through unplowed sidewalks on Saturday
night, Boston came away relatively un-
scathed by Jonas.
Luckily, 2016 has yet to bring snow any-
where close to the amount we saw last year
with winter storm Juno. During the snow-
pocalypse, Th e New England Classic hosted
an epic snowball war, students cleaned out
the shelves of Res, snow tunnels lined the
streets, and BC miraculously had four snow
days. Logan International Airport recorded
108.6 inches of snow—the most Boston has
ever seen.
While it was fun to ‘darty’ in the dorms
and build snow forts on an unplowed Comm.
Ave., the snow posed many problems for
the City of Boston. Frankie Ippolito, owner
of Ippolito Snow Services, told Th e Heightslast winter that we received the amount of
snow we usually get in an entire winter in a
span of just three or four weeks.
Th is sent Boston into a state of emer-
gency. As Th e Heights reported last year,
over 600 snowplows were put into action
after Juno to try to clear the snow. Th e T was
shut down, and Boston proved ill-equipped
to handle the massive amount of snow that
drowned the city.
Considering last year’s nightmare, it’s no
wonder many New Englanders have been on
edge this winter. While temperatures have
been warmer on average, and CBS Boston
reports that this winter will end up having
slightly above-average temperatures in New
England, the worst could still be yet to come.
CBS predicts that the coldest and snowiest
parts of winter will fall between mid-January
and mid-March. Th e forecast calls for less
than half the amount of snow we had last
winter, with more snow and rain mixtures
instead. All the more reason to head south
for Spring Break, right?
However, if we do experience another
snowpocalypse, the University is prepared.
“We are in frequent contact with local
and national weather services, and we re-
ceive routine updates from the Massachu-
setts Emergency Management Agency in
advance of and during storms,” Director of
Public Safety and Chief of Police John King
said in an email. “While last year’s storms
were very challenging, the University was
prepared and the campus community re-
sponded very well to the unusual weather.”
Th ough this is comforting, and the snow
days are fun, let’s hope BC doesn’t pick up a
#snowpocalypse geotag anytime soon. Boston College anticipates the winter season with emergency preparedness plans to ensure the safety of students, faculty, and staff.
Boston College will give a $450,000
grant to the Allston-Brighton neighbor-
hood to improve its public spaces. This
money is part of a $2.5 million program,
the BC Neighborhood Improvement
Fund, that will support services in the
community around BC not covered by
public funding.
University spending going toward
Allston-Brighton beautification is a com-
mendable project.
This specific $450,000 will go toward
constructing a monument for a Medal of
Honor recipient, improving McKinney
Park, building a wayfinding kiosk, and
other local improvement projects.
Investing in the community surrounding
BC shows genuine interest in improvement.
While this money went to beautification,
further installments of the $2.5 million will
be used for causes to be determined.
Hopefully, this money will go to vari-
ous and diverse programs that will help
people who live in Allston-Brighton, many
of whom are disadvantaged and would
benefit from funds allocated toward social
programs and educational initiatives.
It is important to take pride in and
work toward improving the area sur-
rounding our campus, but as more of
this money is released into the commu-
nity, other issues facing Allston-Brighton
should be addressed in order to wholly
improve the community.
THE HEIGHTS Monday, January 25, 2016A6
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“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
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The Heights would like to congratu-
late Boston College men’s hockey head
coach Jerry York on his 1,000th win. As
college hockey’s all-time winningest
coach, York has already been at the top
of his sport for quite some time. To
reach a height of 1,000 wins, however,
truly exemplifies the dedication York
has to the University, his players, and
the sport of hockey.
In an era when teams and programs
often quickly cycle coaches out for poor
performances, very few ever reach this
milestone. NHL head coach Scotty Bow-
man, a nine-time Stanley Cup winner,
is the all-time winningest coach among
all ranks of hockey, with 1,244—no
other coach has more than 800. Mike
Krzyzewski of Duke is the only Divi-
sion-I men’s basketball head coach to
surpass 1,000 wins.
That added perspective makes York’s
achievement even more impressive.
But aside from individual accom-
plishments, York has also turned BC
into a college hockey dynasty. Between
1917-18, the program’s first season, and
1993-94, the year prior to York’s arrival,
the Eagles won only one national cham-
pionship, in 1949.
In his 22 years at the helm, York has
led BC to 11 Frozen Fours and eight na-
tional championship games. The Eagles
have won four national titles: 2001,
2008, 2010, and 2012. No other sport at
BC has been as consistently successful
for this length of time.
Additionally, there are currently 18
players in the NHL who were coached
by York at BC, and many more who
were once in the NHL but are no lon-
ger active.
Most of all, York has shown an unpar-
allelled dedication to this University. A
graduate from the Class of 1967, York
played four seasons in the Maroon and
Gold. He was team MVP and an All-
American as a senior in 1967.
After that, he joined Clarkson Uni-
versity’s coaching staff as an assistant,
becoming the head coach in 1972 when
Len Ceglarski claimed the vacant head
coaching position at BC.
His journey through the coaching
ranks took him to Bowling Green State
University, where he won a national
title in 1984, before returning home to
BC in 1994.
York has spent the past 22 years rep-
resenting the best of the University both
on and off the ice, ensuring excellence
from both himself and his teams.
York and his wife, Bobbie, have
brought nothing but positive things to
BC since the time they were students in
the 1960s up through 2016.
We commend all that he has done
for the University over the years, and
all that he will continue to do for the
duration of his tenure.
It is not surprising to see Boston Col-
lege students “Feeling the Bern,” but I
believe Mr. Behrens’s column supporting
Sanders misses a few points. A full debate
about health care is too complex to cover
here, but it should be noted that Bernie’s
home state of Vermont recently attempted
to institute a single-payer system, only to
see it defeated because of the massive tax
increases that would have been necessary
to pay for it. Bottom line: Americans don’t
want single-payer and the burdens that
come with it. The government-run health
care that we already have—for our veter-
ans—has proven to be a disaster, as many
have died after being put on long waiting
lists. The reality is that Sanders’s claims
rely on the government’s delivering health
care at unrealistically cheaper costs than
our current system, which could only be
achieved through aggressively rationing
care. Ultimately, the health care issue will
have to be solved through the introduction
of market forces, while also assuring that
those who cannot afford care are taken care
of, not by socializing our medicine.
A Response to “Why Bernie Sanders’ Policies Make Sense” LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
A new program by the Boston College
Bookstore, run by Follett Bookstore Man-
agement, is helping students better afford
their textbooks.
Students can now present prices of
identical books sold by Amazon, Barnes &
Noble, and other textbook sellers. As long
as these prices are not from a peer-to-peer
exchange, the Bookstore has the book in
stock, and the price is dated seven days
prior to the transaction, then the Book-
store will match its competitor’s price.
Students have been using Amazon and
other online retailers to save money for
some time now. It is heartening to see the
Bookstore acknowledge the sometimes
exorbitant prices of its textbooks and take
steps to address this.
The program encourages students to
shop at BC by incentivizing them. Now,
when the Bookstore matches an online
price, students will be able to receive
their books immediately and save ship-
ping costs.
While this program has received posi-
tive feedback from students, many are still
not aware of its existence. The program
was promoted through flyers and an email
sent in late December. Beyond this, it
did not receive extensive advertising
recently and could easily go unrecog-
nized by students who would otherwise
be interested.
It would have benefited the Bookstore
to promote this program more aggres-
sively, ensuring that every student worried
about textbook prices would know about
this new way to save money.
This new price matching program,
which Follett is implementing in all of its
stores, will attract more Bookstore cus-
tomers while also helping save students
money. Future programs such as this
should have more widespread promo-
tion in order to spread the benefit to the
maximum amount of students.
ence for food. The moment may pass, the
meal may be eaten, but the feeling lives on
via Instagram.
More importantly, these amateur
photographers share that feeling with the
world, or at least as much of the world as
can be found in their follow count.
Within this whole foodstagram debate,
I see more than just a question of whether
or not social media belongs at the dinner
table. Beneath all those flimsy argu-
ments and accusations, I see fear. Fear of
new traditions and lost values. After all,
whenever articles condemn foodstagrams,
they always frame their arguments in
terms of the social and familial values that
theoretically exist at an Instagram-free
dinner table. I don’t mean to condemn
those values myself. Rather, I see the food-
stagram as a potential ally to the family
dinner table, a virtual way of passing along
the plate to those not present. Absent
from my family’s Thanksgiving dinner
this year, I relied on my cousin’s foodsta-
gram of pumpkin pie to virtually cure my
homesickness. I missed the warm taste of
pumpkin and cinnamon, but I could still
send my love via the comment section. Af-
ter all, food does more than just physically
sustain us—it provides comfort, connec-
tion, and perhaps even love. It can bridge
any cultural gap and forge bonds between
anyone willing to prepare a dish or take
a bite. Instagram facilitates this relation-
ship, allowing the emotional bonds of the
dinner table to preserve in an increasingly
globalized world. Foodies and traditional-
ists alike need not worry, the foodstagram
doesn’t threaten their mealtime rituals—
rather, it celebrates them.
Besides the emotional benefits of the
foodstagram, critics might also consider
the culinary ones. Not just coincidentally,
my cooking improved significantly once
I started caring about the grammability
of my dishes. No more bland pastas or
boiled vegetables for this foodstagram-
mer. I learned to adopt fresh, colorful
vegetables and garnishes and a rainbow of
spices. Luckily for me (and my followers)
these touches added more than visual
appeal. They also added more flavor and
required ample experimentation and taste
consciousness. Ultimately, my passion for
the foodstagram brought me a passion
for healthy, varied, high-quality food. I
may not be Ina Garten, but I can try to
make my plate, and my Instagram, look
like hers.
Even without these benefits, I simply
find foodstagram critics blind to more
pressing issues. Rather than blaming
social media, we could also point to exor-
bitant workweeks, academic pressure, and
the draw of quick, easy food as distrac-
tions from family mealtime. In the face of
all these demands, can we really begrudge
someone for taking a photo of their food?
After all, they had to make it to the dinner
table to take the photo, and in current
American culture, that counts for a lot.
The next time you see a pack of
foodstagrammers, please don’t scoff. They
may not be participating in a traditional
mealtime ritual, but it’s a ritual nonethe-
less, and a meaningful one, if you ask me.
In fact, I’d like to challenge you. When
you sit down to eat, don’t rush into the
first bite. Take a pause. Look at your food.
Smell your food. Think about what you’re
eating and why you’re eating it and all the
miraculous things it does for your physical
and emotional health. Be grateful. Maybe
even take a photo or two for Instagram,
then by all means, dig in.
THE HEIGHTSMonday, January 25, 2016 A7
THE NEW STAIRS - An entire year
passed, a year that will live in legend,
when students hoping to cross from
McElroy Commons to McGuinn Hall
had to descend rickety, temporary
stairs. The herds of students were
uncertain, and their future looked
grim. Will there ever be real stairs on
this small hill again? Will we forever
live in this terrible limbo? But finally,
with the dawn of the new semester
comes a new set of completed stairs.
They’re bigger, they’re better, and
they’re steeper. They almost make
you want to act absurdly excited and
devote an entire paragraph to their
existence. So next time you walk up
those freshly constructed stepping
stones of freedom, take a moment
to recognize what you’re standing
on: a monument to victory.
GRILLED CHEESE - A little cheese, a
little bread, a whole lot of tasty.
SAVING MONEY ON TEXTBOOKS -
Whenever you manage to subvert
the textbook racket, you always feel
like a winner. However you pulled it
off, congratulations. The academic
establishment can’t hold you down.
Now go spend those $60 on some
well-earned victory cheese. I recom-
mend muenster.
PAYING EXORBITANT AMOUNTS OF MONEY FOR TEXTBOOKS - There is no
way around it. You absolutely need
17 gigantic tomes for each of your
classes or you wouldn’t be able to
do any of the homework, and then
you would fail, and your life would
be down the toilet. The bill comes
to a total of $7,942.17. You’ve been
beaten down and forced to shell out
cash for a bunch of stinking wordy-
bookers. You’re ready to turn it in,
admit defeat, and go home, but you
still have an entire semester ahead
of you. Oh, joy.
INEXPLICABLE SMELLS - You’re sitting
in class, listening to your professor
emphatically declare the importance
of neo-romantic tooth-cleaning
supplies in relation to existential
cartography, when a strange and un-
expected odor hits your nostrils. An
odd mixture: something chemical to
it, maybe chlorine, an odd dose of
spoiled milk, a pinch of fish entrails,
and, of course, the required cherry-
on-top—fecal matter. You wonder
what this smell could possibly be.
Your nose twitches like a thing that
is very twitchy. You subtly sniff at
your armpits, filled with paranoia.
OH, THE STANK! It just grows
worse and you sink lower in your
seat, positive that everyone thinks
it is coming from you. And there is
no relief for the next 30 minutes of
class, only you and the stench until
the bitter end.
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In recent years, mental unwellness rates
among college students across the country
have dramatically increased. Some in higher
education believe that these issues stem
from an increased number of distractions
and students’ mismanagement of their time,
but it is the increasing pressures of the ‘total
work day,’ inculcated by modern education,
that are at the heart of this epidemic.
According to a 2014 study by the Ameri-
can College Health Association, 86 percent
of college students reported feeling over-
whelmed by “all they have to do.” Further, a
report from the Center for Collegiate Health
published this month shows that the percent-
age of college students seeking counseling
services has risen in the past five years at a
rate far greater than that of matriculation
growth. These numbers also underrepresent
the population of students who face mental
health issues as a whole, since many students
go without treatment during their four years.
This is especially true for minority students,
and the issues and stigmas they face with
mental health at university.
One way the University is working
to address this rising epidemic of mental
unwellness is through the Office of Health
Promotion’s Got Time? campaign. The mate-
rials prepared for the campaign tell students
how to better manage their time by organiz-
ing their work space and planning ahead.
The University is right to begin address-
ing the clear concern. This issue, however,
is not caused by students’ inability to man-
age their time, but rather the competitive
drive for greater achievement in modern
education. College does bring with it new
challenges and more rigorous material than
high school education, but these changes
have always been a part of matriculating.
Additionally, high school students across the
country show great time-management skills.
Young students demonstrate a superb ability
to juggle multiple advanced classes with
sports, work, and other activities—not to say,
necessarily, that this behavior is healthy. This
is true especially of students enrolling at elite
universities which demand multiple high
achievements for admission.
Rather than fault students for their
temporal mismanagement, the Got Time?
campaign should consider how modern edu-
cation reinforces and ingrains a lifestyle that
leads to increasing mental unwellness: the
‘total work day.’ The ‘total work day’ describes
the condition in which one plans meticulous-
ly every part of the day and centers activity
around optimizing ‘real work,’ the socially
productive tasks that one does for a salary or
benefit, in order to maximize achievement.
Because of this, students’ schedules provoke
feelings of constant busyness and competi-
tion. The pressure caused by this need for
higher achievement reflects itself in two ways
among students. First, it demands increased
‘real work’ productivity. This is seen in the
ever-increasing pressure on students to be
higher achievers in classes and professional
experiences. These pressures are considered
beneficial because they encourage results,
but their tendency to lead to over-exten-
sion, competition, and self-deprecation is
problematic.
The second manifestation is the demand
for increased productivity in ‘nonwork’ time.
As students try to juggle their ‘real work’
schedules, they begin to feel guilty about the
neglect they give to personal and social needs
because of the way this neglect adversely
affects ‘real work.’ This begins a vicious cycle
when any deviation from the ‘total work day’
schedule leads to increased anxiety, as it af-
fects students’ opportunities for ‘real work.’
These pressures are greatly impairing
student’s abilities for critical thinking, depth,
and connection. The ‘total work day’ leaves
no room for reflecting on the world outside
of work and connecting work to a greater
understanding. Instead, students are left with
repetitive schedules that leave little room for
detours into new and potentially greater pos-
sibilities. Some in higher education, including
Director of Admissions John Mahoney, right-
fully recognize the detriments of this ceaseless
drive for achievement in education and have
recommended ways to cut short the competi-
tive drive in education and promote passion
and humane connection. It’s always challeng-
ing to address the culture of a problem, but
until greater institutional emphasis in modern
education is placed on depth and critical
thinking rather than optimizing achievements,
students will increasingly experience high rates
of mental health issues as a result of the ‘total
work day.’
Trump’s positions are vague and spoken
without genuine conviction, almost all of
his plans lack clarity, and Trump has laid
out few real policies for the country other
than saying that he will “Make America
Great Again.” From a global perspective,
Trump’s campaign has been a massive
blow to the American image, and it can
only get worse.
Fortunately, there are alternatives in
this election cycle. America must resist the
temptation of populism and unify behind a
rational candidate. It is true that this election
cycle lacks extremely strong candidates, but
some more moderate ones are capable of
leading our nation.
Hillary Clinton is not that candidate.
Clinton’s service has been praiseworthy,
but both her lack of real conviction and
slick personality discredit her. It is hard to
know if Clinton believes what she is saying,
or if she is just saying it because Sanders’
success has forced her farther and farther
left. Beyond that, her integrity and trust-
worthiness are not issues to be overlooked.
Clinton is under investigation by the FBI
and has been involved in other scandals.
American voters should look to quali-
fied, dedicated, and moderate candidates
like Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, and John
Kasich. In response to Trump, these mod-
erate candidates need to push back and
paint a positive vision for America. Christie
finds his strength in foreign policy, as he is
willing to do what it takes to defeat ISIS. Jeb
Bush is a critical thinker whose moderate
tax plan and economic vision would benefit
this country, but his last name would likely
not help in a general election. For John
Kasich, his moderate nature and his solid
executive experience make him an excellent
candidate who should not be disregarded.
Whether it is Bush, Kasich, Christie,
or even Clinton, America would be better
served than with Sanders or Trump. In a
critical time for America, a strong moder-
ate leader must emerge and gain support.
America cannot afford to waste four years
by electing an entertaining or radical presi-
dent. It is time for the moderate opposition
to mount, and for the country to think
about the future.
tial candidate of this decade, and instead of
trying to shake off the socialist label, Sanders
embraces it, calling himself a “democratic
socialist.” Sanders’ success with young vot-
ers makes considerable sense. The rising
burden of student loans provokes a growing
sense of anger toward the establishment,
and Sanders’ free tuition proposal is a rather
appealing option. A sense of entitlement
has also developed within the millennial
generation, with more people feeling that
the government owes them ever-expanding
services, a drastic transformation from past
values, which explains why Sanders is saying
he would not be opposed to taxes nearing 90
percent on the most successful Americans.
Both of these candidates pose signifi-
cant threats to the country. For Sanders,
his problems are widespread. It is easiest
to tell people what they want to hear, but
getting things done is a much more difficult
exercise. Sanders is the most radically left
member of the U.S. Senate, a body that has
been notorious for not getting things done.
As a president, Sanders and his radical
policies would only add to the dysfunction of
Washington by creating more partisanship
and creating a gridlock between the White
House and Congress. On economic issues,
Sanders raises serious concerns as some-
one who believes that all colleges should
be completely free, a laudable goal, but an
impractical one at best. Even if the wealthi-
est one-percent was taxed 100 percent of its
income, it would still not be enough to pay
for free college for every American.
Furthermore, the essence and greatness
of America come from the success of capi-
talism, which allows for the American dream
and the potential success of anyone. High
tax rates will inevitably damage our eco-
nomic structure. Furthermore, Sanders’ lack
of foreign policy experience is evident, and
the country cannot afford another senator
without substantial foreign policy positions.
Donald Trump, perhaps less benevolent
than Sanders, is also an unacceptable choice
for our nation. Trump has run on a danger-
ous populist platform. He preaches racism
and bigotry, yet remains the front-runner. as
he speaks to people’s fears. It is unacceptable
that a presidential candidate would propose
a ban on all Muslims entering the country.
Trump lacks the intellectual character-
istics or experience to be president, and
his insulting rhetoric will not suit the job.
The United States is experiencing a dan-
gerous and dramatic shift within the 2016
presidential elections. Two extreme candi-
dates, one from each party, have emerged at
the front of the pack. Senator Bernie Sanders
and businessman Donald Trump have both
taken the political world by storm with their
unlikely and unexpected success thus far.
The rise of both of these candidates is
nothing short of shocking, but perhaps
should be expected. Both Trump and Sand-
ers, political opposites, have used the same
populist message to garner support and
achieve leads in Iowa, New Hampshire, and
South Carolina. Trump has shocked the Re-
publican establishment with his unexpected
rise, and Sanders has mounted a serious
fight against Secretary Hillary Clinton.
The unfortunate increase in prominence
of both of these extreme candidates is very
worrisome. Has America lost her way this
much? Have we descended into a country
where all that we care about is what we will
gain? The success of Trump and Sanders
says just this.
The populist appeal is nothing new.
Leaders have used the concept for centuries
as a means of acquiring and maintaining
political rule. In most American elections,
populism is not a significant or expected
approach for a candidate seeking to become
president. In this election cycle, populist
appeals have taken root on both sides of the
political spectrum.
Trump’s main points in crafting his
populist message have been immigration
and terrorism. Trump’s trademark plan is to
build a wall and make Mexico pay for it. This
proposal includes deporting some 11 million
illegal immigrants from the United States,
a highly improbable, yet attractive plan to
many. Similarly, Trump has played on the
fear of terrorism across the country and con-
verted it into bigotry. He proposes a ban on
all Muslims entering the United States, an
extremely controversial and ignorant idea.
Sanders, on the opposite side of the spec-
trum, is perhaps the most radical presiden-
They dine in packs, with menus
in one hand and iPhones in the other.
When the food arrives, they purse their
lips in quiet concentration, any hunger
silenced by thoughts of angles and flash,
of filters and cropping. Anticipation
clouds the air. With a shot in mind, they
hold up their phones, maybe edge a fork
or a water glass into the frame, and then
snap a few pictures. These photos later
pop up on Instagram, subtly filtered to
perfection and tagged with #foodie or
#foodporn. This highly choreographed
routine has been dubbed the foodsta-
gram, and unbeknownst to most, it’s
currently under attack.
Scores of articles condemn the foods-
tagram, calling it a symptom of millennial
narcissism and Web addiction. “Put down
your phones,” they scream, armed with
anecdotes of Instagram-obsessed friends
and relatives, much like the ones above.
Yet amid all these quip-filled stories and
accusations, these articles offer little in
terms of research or scientific proof. They
know Instagram doesn’t belong at the
dinner table, but they can’t quite articu-
late why.
But what if they’re wrong? What if Ins-
tagram does more than prolong the period
between your food arriving at the table
and you taking that first glorious bite?
In response to these questions, I’d
like you to picture a heaping plate of
paella, with its vibrant yellows and reds
and gleaming clamshells. A dish like
that deserves more than a quick glance.
It deserves the aesthetic appreciation of
the eater, the physical and—dare I say
it—spiritual response that a well-served
dish evokes. In photographing their meals,
foodstagrammers immortalize that rever-
THE HEIGHTS Monday, January 25, 2016 A8
JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR
JULIA HOPKINS / HEIGHTS EDITOR
BC head coach Jerry York was already the winningest coach in college hockey history, but with a victory over the University of Massachusetts on Friday night in Amherst, he became the first college coach to win 1,000 games.
seman William Lagesson. Alex Tuch
quickly followed McCoshen’s goal with
a snipe off a steal from Steve Santini,
rattling the twine for a top-shelf shot,
his ninth of the season. Chris Calnan
soon added a third goal, a quick wrister
to Reynard’s left that sent the goaltender
mercifully to the bench.
But his replacement, Alex Wakaluk,
didn’t help the Minutemen much.
Colin White made a great move on
the 5-foot-9 netminder for his 13th goal
of the season. The freshman was called
for a penalty not too long after, but it
didn’t matter much. Miles Wood reeled
in a shorthanded goal to make it 5-0.
With that, UMass coach John Micheletto
put Reynard back in, hoping the rest
would help.
(It didn’t.)
Early in the second, Austin Cangelosi
had perhaps the most impressive goal
of the game. During a UMass power
play, the center picked the pocket of a
defender at the point. He skated all the
way down the ice before dishing the puck
to Wood, who waited just long enough
for Cangelosi to join him by Reynard’s
left pad.
Captain Teddy Doherty got on the
scoreboard during a power play, knock-
ing a shot through Reynard’s five-hole. It
was an incredibly patient play for the BC
swingman, who has shown his excellence
as both a defenseman and a forward
throughout his career on the Heights.
Not to be outdone, Ryan Fitzgerald
regained his team lead for goals, with
14, by tipping in a long pass from first
semester freshman Michael Kim to make
it 8-0. The third period was quiet, only
delaying an inevitable seventh shutout by
BC goaltender Thatcher Demko, who is
now four away from the team record for
shutouts in a single season.
With the game in hand, the focus
turned back to #JY1K.
Instead of the battles he has had
over the year with the likes of Boston
University, Notre Dame, North Dakota,
and other longstanding rivals, the win
was just another typical game against
the Minutemen. York’s Eagles have
dominated them throughout his tenure
in Chestnut Hill. Since York took over,
BC is 52-12-4 against the Minutemen
since his first season back in 1994-95,
including a 7-0 win earlier this season
at Kelley Rink.
But the blowouts just seem to come
in milestones for York. This one looked
fairly similar to his first career victory, a
13-0 win over the University of Queens
while still at Clarkson.
Naturally, the coach refused any
applause for this milestone accomplish-
ment.
“It’s not part of my fabric, it’s not part
of my makeup,” York said. “You leave
your ego at the door, you’re a family.”
York, who is now 1,000-595-108 in
his illustrious career, gave many thanks
to his former players and coaches, as
well as to his current staff of Mike Ay-
ers, Greg Brown, and Marty McInnis. He
also thanked his captain, Teddy Doherty,
for helping keep the focus on the team
instead of on his achievements.
That doesn’t mean Doherty let him
forget it. The captain grabbed York the
game puck before skating off the ice. He
gave a speech to the team in the locker
room, with many, including ESPN’s John
Buccigross, a close friend of the head
coach, and York’s wife, Bobbie, looking
on with cheers. His only regret?
“Just wish we could’ve done it earlier,”
Doherty said.
York isn’t one for praise, he never
has been. The humble gentleman behind
the BC bench just wants to get another
win—and down the road, another tro-
phy—for his beloved alma mater. He’s
looking forward to the next 1,000, a
feat that a close friend told him to go
out and get now that the first 1,000 are
over with.
He prefers not to look at the old
games, only forward to the next ones, like
Saturday’s slate against his old assistant,
Mike Cavanaugh, and the University of
Connecticut.
After all, York, ever the sage, had
some wise words for what happens
when you keep taking a peek at what’s
behind you.
“Otherwise I’d crash the car pretty
quickly,” York said.
Now that focus can be taken off his
personal accomplishments—at long last,
for his sake—we can turn our atten-
tion solely back to the Eagles and their
success on the ice. And with UMass
Lowell’s 4-2 loss to Providence today,
York would prefer to be reminded of
only one thing.
BC—for the time being—was back
in first place.
York, from A1
Prowess of goaltendersThatcher Demko and UConn goalie
Tanner Creel each faced 31 shots and
let in three of them. Both played bet-
ter than the .903 save percentage. BC’s
sleepy defense resulted in an unusual
number of high-quality looks for the
Huskies.
Demko was there to turn almost all of
them away, as he is accustomed to doing.
Creel’s performance was less expected.
The backup to the injured Rob Nichols,
the 5-foot-10, 175-pound sophomore,
came up big in a huge spot.
“We buy equipment for him, he
has a jersey, you gotta expect that he’s
gonna play,” UConn head coach Mike
Cavanaugh said. “And, to his credit,
[Nichols] is our No. 1 goaltender, but
[Creel] works hard every day and pre-
pares himself.”
Creel was prepared at the end of
regulation, when he stoned two of the
highest-octane threats BC could throw
at a goalie.
With the game tied at three, Creel
gloved an Ian McCoshen clap bomb
from the high slot before turning
away Ryan Fitzgerald on a breakaway
a couple of minutes later. He stopped
all of BC’s other offerings in the third
period and overtime, and stole a point
on the way back to Storrs, Conn.
“It’s always been [Nichols] that’s
been the key to how well [UConn] has
played defensively, but this kid’s pretty
good,” BC head coach Jerry York said.
Injury bugBefore the season, BC captain Teddy
Doherty said he was looking forward to
being a full-time defenseman after jos-
tling back and forth between forward
and defense last year.
In recent weeks, he got bumped up
to forward, but had to jump back to
the blue line on Saturday as BC’s de-
fensive corps took another loss. Steve
Santini joined Casey Fitzgerald in the
injury brigade, leaving the game with
a neck injury.
“We’re not sure yet ,” York said
of Santini’s ailment. “He kind of got
a whiplash, his neck kind of went
back a little bit. We’re hoping it’s a
short-[term] situation, but we’re not
positive.”
York brought in Michael Kim mid-
season to help shore up the back end,
thus freeing up Doherty’s move up
front before Fitzgerald and Santini
went down.
If either injury lingers, freshman
Josh Couturier, whom Kim knocked
out of the lineup, may see more time
than the BC brain trust anticipated (or
hoped for).
Return of the transferLast season, former BC forward and
current UConn junior Evan Richardson
scored the only goal in UConn’s 1-0 win
over BC. He hurt his old school again
on Saturday with an assist on Patrick
Kirkland’s goal, but it could have been
so much sweeter.
With the game tied late in the third,
Miles Wood turned it over at the Hus-
kies’ blue line, and Richardson picked
it up and took off.
Wood caught up in the Eagles’ zone,
but Richardson put a vicious toe-drag
move on the freshman and lost him.
With revenge, and the game, on his
stick, Richardson made his final foray
toward Demko and proceeded to lose
his edge and his chance at glory as he
fell to the ice in remarkable fashion.
The game went on, as will Richardson’s
season, but he will never get that op-
portunity back.
LUCIUS XUAN / HEIGHTS STAFF
A night after head coach Jerry York won his 1,000th game, his Eagles looked sluggish and bruised against its rivals from Connecticut.
One thousand
I didn’t really understand
how to react the fi rst time
I met him.
OLs and RAs told stories of
this mythical creature they called
Jerry York, a man who had led
Boston College to athletic great-
ness in a way no other coach
had been able to in the school’s
175-plus-year history. People de-
scribed him using only the most
dignified labels: loyal, faithful,
hardworking, competitive. Never
did someone have a bad word to
say about him. And most hadn’t
even met him, other than the oc-
casional scoreboard appearance at
a basketball or football game.
When I applied to BC, I didn’t
know anything about college
hockey. In New York, when it
comes to collegiate athletics,
you’re only obligated to cheer for
St. John’s on the rare occasion
that the Red Storm wins. Other
than that, you’re on your own. I
took up a fandom with the Florida
Gators—something about their
blue and orange brought me a
warm consistency with my Mets-
Knicks-Islanders fandoms. Need-
less to say, they don’t play hockey
in Gainesville.
So when BC took on Southern
California last season in football,
one that would go down in Yik
Yak lore as the “‘Yeah…but we
beat USC” game, my excitement
for the Superfan Zone’s meet and
greet with Jerry York was muted at
best, apathetic at worst. Neverthe-
less, given the freezing rain and
abnormally cold wind chill for a
September evening, I donned my
BC hockey jersey over a pullover
and stood in line with one of my
best friends to get a picture with
the legend himself, expecting yet
another person involved with
athletics to grunt and feign a
smile before moving to the next
person.
But that’s quite the opposite of
what happened. Coach York im-
mediately asked me what hockey
team I rooted for with a big smile
on his face. We chatted about the
Islanders for three minutes, hold-
ing up the line as he talked about
how close I lived to the Nassau
Coliseum, what was the best game
I had ever seen—he
laughed
w h e n I
men-
tioned a playoff game in which for-
mer Eagle Brooks Orpik beat the
Isles with an overtime goal—and
his connection with Marty McIn-
nis, a BC grad who now serves as
his assistant coach. We then took
the picture, shook hands, and as
I left, he said, “I hope to see you
again in the future, Mike.”
It’s funny how those things
turn out, huh?
I mention that story because
everyone who has been involved
with Boston College over the last
22 years seems to have a similar
tale about Jerry York. But he hates
any individual praise. After all,
that’s why York coaches a team
sport, a fact he constantly makes
clear to the media.
But on Friday night, against
the University of Massachusetts,
York won his 1,000th career game.
And with a milestone like that, it’s
hard not to recognize the most
outstanding career that any coach
has ever had in the history of the
sport. Only NHL great Scotty
Bowman has won more games in
his career as a hockey coach than
York, with 1,244.
What’s hard is boiling down
why he is so successful. A few
former players, coaches, writ-
ers, and friends helped explain
that to me as he approached this
milestone.
In his 44-year career split be-
tween Boston College, Bowling
Green State, and Clarkson, York
has coached some of the best
players ever to take the ice in a col-
legiate setting. He has had three
winners of the college hockey’s
highest honor, the Hobey Baker
Award: George McPhee, Mike
Mottau, and Johnny Gaudreau.
Several of his recent Eagles have
become some of the NHL’s biggest
stars, including Chris Kreider,
Brian Gionta, Cory Schneider, and
Kevin Hayes. One in particular,
former BGSU star Rob Blake, is
now in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Many credit York’s dedication
as the biggest key to his success.
“I never saw him take a day off
in my four years at BC,” former
forward Brooks Dyroff said via
Twitter direct message.
“His approach to
coaching the
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GOOD NEWS FROM THE NCAA At long last, Mark Emmert
and the boys in Indianapolis
proved they have souls ... sort
of. After the horrifi c fi re that
claimed the lives of Emmanuel
Omogbo’s parents, niece, and
nephew, CSU rallied around
the basketball player to off er its
support. A GoFundMe account
set up by the university raised
more than $37,000 for Omogbo
and his family.
RECORD SETTERS Shoutout to
the women’s hockey team for
breaking its own record for
consecutive wins. Now it’s time
to go out and win a trophy.
AN ODE TO TB12 - “Ground con-
trol to Major Tom / Your circuit’s
dead / there’s something wrong /
Can you hear me, Major Tom? /
Can you hear me, Major Tom? /
Can you hear me, Major Tom? /
Can you ... ”
HGH YOU TASTE SO GOOD - Really,
Tom? Against grandpa-turned-
quarterback Peyton Manning?
Maybe it was the little extra mo-
tivation that a $2 million dollar
Super Bowl incentive provides
that pushed the Broncos over
the Patriots. Th at’s a whole lot
of Papa John’s.
GOSTKOWSKI’S GAFFE - An early
missed PAT doomed the Patri-
ots yesterday as they were forced
to go for two late in the game
and could not convert. This
coming after a new rule moving
extra point attempts back to the
15-yard line (from a chip shot to
a slightly longer chip shot), New
England fans were obviously
up in arms. CLEARLY, Roger
Goodell and the NFL are out to
get these guys.
LEBRON SUCKS - What the hell?
Th e Cavs’ decision to fi re Blatt
after a 30-11 start was puzzling,
to say the least. After all, Blatt
coached the Cavs to the Finals
last year in his fi rst season as
head coach. But when you’re the
coach of a team that includes
LeBron James, nothing is guar-
anteed. Sorry, Coach Blatt!
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It must’ve been a fun party for
Boston College men’s hockey Friday
night. Th e Eagles didn’t have a typi-
cal drub-
bing—
an 8-0
win over a weak UMass team. No,
yesterday was a cause for celebra-
tion. Th e victory was the 1,000th in
the career of legendary head coach
Jerry York, extending his lead as the
sport’s all-time college wins leader.
Many players cheered in the locker
room afterward, and York’s friends
and family all made the trek out
to Amherst, Mass., to share in his
special night.
But with every great party comes
a little bit of a hangover.
Th e Eagles (16-4-4, 9-1-4 Hockey
East) followed their excellent perfor-
mance in the Mullins Center with a
letdown back in the friendly confi nes
of Kelley Rink. Mike Cavanaugh, a
former longtime BC assistant, and
the University of Connecticut (8-
14-3, 4-8-3) prevented York from
starting on his next 1,000 wins, forc-
ing a 3-3 tie thanks to a late goal by
Max Letunov. With the tie, BC drops
into a second-place tie in Hockey
East with Notre Dame after UMass
Lowell’s 3-1 win over Providence at
the Tsongas Center.
Th roughout the game, the Eagles
were plagued by their own streaki-
ness. Th e fi rst period commenced
with a cold one. Huskies defense-
man Joona Kunnas got called for
elbowing on Steve Santini early, a
hit that contributed to a rough game
for the BC stalwart from the blue
line. Santini was sent to the locker
room later in the game to be evalu-
ated—York couldn’t confi rm in the
post-game what exactly was hurting,
but implied that it might be an upper
body injury. With Casey Fitzgerald
also sidelined, Santini’s injury forced
Teddy Doherty to move back to
defense.
Moments later, the #icebus
struck first. Jesse Schwartz took
advantage of a juicy rebound by
Th atcher Demko, slapping it past
the goaltender, high on the glove
side, to give UConn a 1-0 lead. When
the Eagles got another power play
opportunity following a Johnny Aus-
tin hooking call, they still couldn’t
deliver.
But then began one of BC’s hot-
ter runs, thanks to its fourth line.
Chris Calnan gobbled in the puck in
the left corner, after it was sent deep
in UConn’s own defensive zone.
Calnan centered it, shooting the
puck across the ice to senior Travis
Jeke. Th e goal was the fi fth of Jeke’s
career and second of the season, as
York lauded his and the entire fourth
line’s performance.
“Th at has to be a huge boost to
[Jeke’s] confi dence,” York said.
Early in the second, the Eagles
kept the pressure on sophomore
goaltender Tanner Creel, who was
fi lling in for sidelined UConn starter
Rob Nichols (ankle). Alex Tuch
blasted a similar snipe to Friday’s,
past Creel’s left side from the cir-
cle—the shot rattled the net and
caused the pipes to ring out.
The goal, Tuch’s 10th of the
season, represents his huge second-
half turnaround. It appeared at the
beginning of the season that the
Minnesota Wild prospect was in the
midst of an elongated sophomore
slump. But since Thanksgiving,
Tuch has amassed 10 points while
becoming the dominating physical
force York expects of the 6-foot-4
forward. In fact, York thinks that
this might be the high point thus
far for Tuch.
“I thought that’s the best game
he’s played,” York said.
But, the Eagles couldn’t keep the
momentum in the middle 10 min-
utes of the second. UConn captain
Patrick Kirtland slotted a rocket that
looked a lot like Tuch’s past Demko
to knot up the game at two. It was
the only one of an onslaught from
the Huskies that attacked Demko
during this time—at one point, de-
fenseman Derek Pratt nearly trickled
the puck slowly into the goal, but the
San Diego, Calif., native sprawled
out to pull the puck back.
In the fi nal fi ve of the second
period, BC caught fi re again. Tuch
and Ryan Fitzgerald both rung
shots off the posts to no avail. Zach
Sanford’s clang off the crossbar,
however, landed perfectly in Colin
White’s lap to give BC the 3-2 lead.
Th e goal came with an extra attacker
after Johnny Austin was sent to the
box for slashing.
When the Eagles couldn’t con-
vert on that power play—despite a
breakaway opportunity for Fitzger-
ald—their momentum ceased. And
on a man advantage of their own
in the third courtesy of an Austin
Cangelosi high-sticking call, the
Huskies made the sluggish Eagles
pay. Letunov, the captain from
Moscow, Russia, saw daylight from
the middle of the crease, slotting
the puck past Demko to knot the
game up at three. Both teams had
breakaway opportunities for the
remainder of the third and overtime,
but none were enough to give either
team a win.
Th e Eagles still come away with
a three-point weekend, their third
in a row, and rose to No. 8 in the
PairWise rankings. York, however,
appeared disappointed that his team
couldn’t build on its momentum
from the UMass game.
He left his press conference with
a solemn reminder that his team
has an even bigger one upcoming:
a Friday night rematch with Jeff
Jackson’s red-hot Fighting Irish at
Compton Family Ice Arena, who
are on a 9-0-3 streak. Last time out,
BC squandered a third-period lead,
allowing Notre Dame to steal two
points at Kelley Rink. Although we
are still weeks away from season’s
end, York gave the impression that
this may be a must-win situation
for BC.
But as the head coach of a team
on the other end of Hockey East’s
spectrum, Cavanaugh was pleased
with the eff ort of his men. Last sea-
son, their fi rst in Hockey East, the
Huskies often had to fi ght with con-
ference opponents to earn points.
Nowadays, Cavanaugh believes his
team can compete with anyone.
He was especially impressed
with Creel. Entering today, the
sophomore had only played nine
games in his career, amassing a 1-3
record with an .878 save percentage
and a 4.03 goals against average. But
he gave Creel a key piece of advice
prior today’s game.
“I told [Creel] before the game
that even Tom Brady was a backup,”
Cavanaugh said.
And while he’s happy for the
great accomplishment of York,
his longtime friend and confi dant,
Cavanaugh was more pleased with
his own team. After all, Cavanaugh
conceded, York needed his help to
get to 1,000, too.
“I’m glad he got it last night,”
Cavanaugh said. “I helped him get
enough.”
LUCIUS XUAN / HEIGHTS STAFF
Travis Jeke (8, bottom) scored his fifth career goal in the first period.
Some of history’s greatest thinkers
stumbled upon their brightest ideas
by complete accident: Newton saw an
apple
fall and
thought,
“Gravity!” Th e fi rst man to trip on acid
accidentally ingested samples of LSD
in his laboratory. Th en, on Saturday
afternoon in South Bend, Ind., Boston
College men’s basketball head coach
Jim Christian discovered the viability
of small lineups with Garland Owens
at the fi ve.
Th ough the Eagles (7-12, 0-6 Atlan-
tic Coast) ultimately dropped the game
76-49 to the Demetrius Jackson-less
University of Notre Dame (14-5, 5-2),
the smaller unit Christian trotted out
for the fi nal eight minutes of the fi rst
half defi brillated BC’s off ensive attack
and cauterized the bleeding on the
other end.
For the second game in a row, senior
center Dennis Cliff ord had to be yanked
after committing two quick fouls. Enter
redshirt freshman Idy Diallo—and exit
redshirt freshman Idy Diallo. Th e back-
up big man picked up a trio of penalties
in just four minutes of play.
BC emerged from the under-eight
media timeout with a lineup featuring
A.J. Turner, Eli Carter, Darryl Hicks,
Jerome Robinson, and Owens. That
means they played no one taller than
6-foot-7 and four players 6-foot-5 or
shorter.
It worked.
Th e Eagles spaced the fl oor, canned
a handful of 3-pointers, switched like
the Golden State Warriors on defense,
fought admirably under the boards, and
outscored the Irish by three to cut the
defi cit to fi ve points entering halftime.
Despite that success, Christian re-
inserted, separately, Cliff ord and Diallo
into the game in the second half, and the
Irish ripped off an 18-4 run to eff ectively
euthanize BC’s chances of winning.
Christian’s squad was impotent
on off ense, especially in the halfcourt,
nothing new since the start of ACC
play. As a team, BC shot 29 percent
from the fi eld. Th at’s an unconscionably
low number.
Aside from a mini-explosion in the
middle of the fi rst half from Carter,
there was virtually no off ensive silver
lining.
In fact, Carter was the only Eagle to
reach double digits, tossing up 16 points
on 5-of-13 shooting. He scored nine of
those 16 via highly contested 3-point-
ers, shots he’ll make only 15, maybe 20
percent of the time.
Notre Dame forward Bonzie Col-
son punked the Eagles down low once
again, his third straight game against
BC in double digits, and Irish guard
Steve Vasturia, who looks as much an
entry-level accountant from Iowa as
a high-major Division 1 college bas-
ketball player, consistently blew past
BC’s guards and drew fouls on interior
defenders.
Th e Eagles’ on-ball defense was so
shaky that Christian, hands in the air
in exasperation, reverted to an assort-
ment of zone schemes, including an
extended 1-3-1 and a 2-3, the latter of
which we haven’t seen too much this
season. Desperate times call for desper-
ate measures.
But no matter what defense Chris-
tian called for, it didn’t help. Notre
Dame took 27 shots from the charity
stripe and drained 25 of them. Th e Irish
only turned the ball over eight times,
and their low assist total of 11 belies
the amount of passes that led directly
to free throws.
Th e Eagles haven’t just lost every
game in the ACC this season: they’ve
been obliterated. Th e fi nal eight min-
utes of the fi rst half proved the lone
bright spot of an otherwise bleak road
trip.
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team is something I’ve tried to
emulate in my offi ce professional
career.”
Th at’s almost entirely true. In
Jan. 2013, York had a detached
retina. Th e injury messed with his
depth perception, forcing him to
stay off the bench. He returned
only three weeks later, donning
an eyepatch.
York also has a unique ability
to attract players to the college
game. Many players, understand-
ably so, want to get to the NHL
as quickly as possible. Some see
college as a distraction, prefer-
ring to spend time overseas to
earn a couple of bucks, like next
year’s projected No. 1 overall pick
Auston Matthews, who is playing
for the ZSC Lions in Switzerland’s
National League A. Others choose
the Ontario Hockey League, but
let’s not recall Jeremy Bracco.
But York promotes college
hockey as THE way to get better,
using his charm to help win over
any recruit. Greg Joyce, a former
sports editor for Th e Heights who
covered the Eagles during their
2012 National Championship run,
recalled how ex-captain Tommy
Cross said how easy it was for York
on the recruiting trail. He would
just roll into your living room, give
a few-minutes-long spiel about
his enthusiasm for BC, and you’d
be sold.
Even on the most difficult
areas of the recruiting path, York
came out on top. Former forward
Isaac MacLeod, a British Colum-
bia native, didn’t know much
about American college hockey
before he came to BC. It’s rare
that Canadians choose to venture
so far when the OHL is a viable
and closer option—in fact, the
only current Eagle from our little
brother up north is fi rst-semester
freshman Michael Kim.
But it didn’t take much for
MacLeod to be sucked in by York’s
appeal. He loved the idea of learn-
ing how to grow off the ice as well
as on it, following York’s example.
It’s those lessons that stick with
him more than the wins and
losses. “Th e humility and grace
with which he carries himself,
as well as the high standards he
holds for those lucky enough to
be around him, are what makes
Coach York so special,” he said via
Twitter direct message.
Mostly, York focuses on his
core principle: putting the team
fi rst. Pat Mullane, the Eagles’ cap-
tain during the 2012-13 season,
recalls that as what attracted him
to BC in the fi rst place. Mullane
was part of York’s 900th and 925th
wins, the latter of which put him
past Ron Mason as the all-time
leading winner in college hockey
history. But all York cared about
on that day was getting a non-
conference win against Alabama-
Huntsville during BC’s Winter
Break. “When you see your coach
putting individual accolades aside
for the greater good of the team,”
Mullane said via email, “you can’t
help but do the same.”
Th en again, it’s easy to recruit
when you win everything in sight.
And his 1,000 wins are even more
impressive when you look more
closely at them.
As the head coach of the Ea-
gles, York has a record of .500 or
better against each of the 11 teams
in Hockey East. He has dominated
several in particular: UMass,
Northeastern, UMass Lowell,
Providence, and Merrimack .
York’s combined record against
those fi ve schools while skipper
of the Eagles is an unfathomable
242-82-31, for a winning percent-
age of .725.
Mike Cavanaugh, head coach
at UConn, knows a thing or two
about those wins. York is 2-1
against his Huskies in the short
time they’ve spent thus far in
Hockey East. But for much of his
career, the rising coaching star sat
on York’s bench as an assistant for
18 years. And he still is in awe of
everything his former boss has
accomplished.
“A 20-win season in college
hockey usually gets you to the
NCAA Tournament,” Cavanaugh
said. “He’s averaged 20 wins for
nearly 50 years.”
York also has a wealth of in-
dividual awards to his name. He
holds three Hockey East Coach
of the Year titles (2004, 2011,
and 2014), a CCHA Coach of the
Year Award from Bowling Green
(1982), and the Spencer Penrose
Award for Best Coach in College
Hockey (1977 with Clarkson). His
most distinguished honor comes
from the NHL. In 2010, he won
the prestigious Lester Patrick
Trophy for Outstanding Contri-
bution to the Sport of Ice Hockey.
Fittingly, he earned it alongside
Jack Parker, the Hall of Fame head
coach of BU.
But, as Joyce remembers, when
it comes to wins, York prefers to
stick to one primary mantra: “Th e
big wins are the ones that are for
trophies.”
Not a problem. York has done
that plenty of times, too.
York has led his teams to the
NCAA Tournament 22 times,
getting as far as the Frozen Four
in half of those chances. He has
10 conference titles—nine in
Hockey East—and eight Beanpot
wins. And, of course, fi ve national
championships. Even then, he
usually stays subdued. He rarely
moved when the Eagles essentially
clinched a trip to the NCAA Tour-
nament with Th atcher Demko’s
brilliant shutout on the road last
season against Notre Dame.
Don’t let his calm demeanor
fool you, Cavanaugh says. He is
a fi erce competitor, whose drive
to win is unparalleled, even if he
won’t throw a chair across the
ice like Bobby Knight. He was
particularly excited following the
2001 National Championship win
against North Dakota, his first
as head coach at BC. Th e Eagles
had plenty of disappointment in
the three years prior to that. BC
reached the Frozen Four in each
of those seasons, including two
national championship games.
But they never came out on top.
When BC fi nally broke through in
2001, York displayed an enthusi-
asm that, according to Cavanaugh,
cannot be topped.
“For Jerry to do that at his alma
mater, and his face that night,
the excitement,” Cavanaugh said,
“that’s one of the best memories
I’ve ever had with him.”
You can’t focus solely on hock-
ey forever without going a little
stir crazy. But York knows how
to balance the grind with a little
personal touch.
York is a devout Christian
who often gives the homily at the
weekly athlete masses. He has an
admirable relationship with his
wife, Bobbie, who Joyce says gets
more excited for York’s wins than
he does. He’s an avid reader who
enjoys mystery novels. And of
course, he loves grabbing Dunkin’
Donuts on Commonwealth Ave.,
especially on Mondays after his
good friend, New England Pa-
triots head coach Bill Belichick,
earns him a free iced coff ee.
I could go on fi lling out the 70-
year-old York’s highly impressive
dating profi le.
People truly remember the
personal connections that York
takes the time to foster. One is
Hockey East commissioner Joe
Bertagna, who recalls his first
encounter with York. Bertagna,
a goaltender at Harvard, faced
off against York in the fi nal game
of his playing career. Clarkson
played the Crimson in the ECAC
quarterfi nals—Bertagna came out
on the losing end, 7-4, handing
York his 17th career win. To this
day, the two are still close friends,
considering how long both have
been in the conference, and Ber-
tagna has had a plenty successful
career. But it doesn’t mean he
forgets that day.
“[Following last week’s BU
game,] I have reminded him that
he would be two wins away with-
out me!” Bertagna said via email.
None have appreciated it more
than Mullane. Th e year before he
was due in Chestnut Hill, Mullane
was playing in Omaha, Neb. One
day, York visited Mullane to check
in on his prospect. Th is excited
the young recruit, who was look-
ing to impress his future coach.
Instead, York had a stern mes-
sage for Mullane: lose 15 pounds
or you’re not going to play next
season. So for the rest of that
year, Mullane sent York a log of
everything he had been eating
and how much he was working
out. Sure enough, he was ready
for practice on day one at the
proper weight.
“It will always stick with me
that Coach York fl ew to Omaha
to tell me to lose weight,” Mul-
lane said.
One of Mullane’s favorite
memories of York comes from the
locker room. When not on the ice,
he and Cross spend a lot of their
time at the golf course—Mullane
describes them as not professional
level, but fairly good. York, an avid
golfer himself, found this out.
Desperate to work on his game,
York would often corner them in
the locker room, grab a piece of
PVC pipe, and start taking long
swings. “Pat, how is my hip rota-
tion on this?” York would say to
his two forwards. “Do you think
that is why I’m slicing? Tommy,
what do you think of my grip? I
think I need to bring my hands a
bit here.” It wouldn’t take long for
the entirety of the Conte Forum
weight room to start fi guring out
their best way to help York on his
golf game.
“He wants to be the best at
whatever he does,” Mullane said.
“Golf included.”
When he’s not with his players
at Conte Forum, York can be found
chatting with players from other
sports. Whenever he has a spare
moment during the year, York at-
tends every BC sport imaginable,
from football and basketball to
baseball and women’s soccer. Th e
rest of the student body can see
York at the Plex, swiping cards or
at weekly yoga classes.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise
for a man who is a lifelong Eagle.
York went to Boston College
High School, graduating in 1963
before moving on to the Heights.
He played center under legendary
head coach John ‘Snooks’ Kelley,
notching 64 goals and 70 assists.
York earned national recognition
for his play—he was named to the
All-America team in 1966-67, and
was captain and team MVP as a
senior.
His greatest moment, of course,
came when York was fi rst hired in
1994. His fi rst call was to his brother,
Bill—York rejoiced, asking Bill to go
out and celebrate the moment he fi -
nally got his dream job. Bill of course
said yes, expecting to party at a local
bar and grab a beer. But as soon as
York picked him up, they drove
straight to the ice cream parlor to
get a sundae. Never too crazy, but
just crazy enough for York.
“When Jerry talks about BC,
you can see how much he loves the
University,” Joyce said.
His love for BC has rubbed off
on his players, too. Take a look at
any former Eagles’ Twitter account.
Whether they’re in the NHL, AHL,
USHL, Europe, or elsewhere, they
all say a derivation of the same thing:
proud BC alum. It’s the fi rst thing
Mullane says that York instills in
his players.
“Once an Eagle,” Mullane said,
“always an Eagle.”
Natural-born winner
Keeping everything relative
a love affair with chestnut hill
On Jerry
—mike cavanaugh, UConn head coach
—joe bertagna, commissioner of Hockey East
—brooks dyroff, Former BC forward
—Isaac Macleod, Former BC forward
—pat mullane, Former BC captain
—greg joyce, Former sports editor, the heights
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ROUND UP
VermontBoston College
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Boston College women’s hockey
(26-0-0, 17-0-0 Hockey East) en-
tered Kelley Rink on Saturday af-
ternoon
f o r a
match-
up against the University of Ver-
mont (6-17-2, 4-9-2) with high
stakes. Th e Eagles came in riding
a 25-game winning streak, which
has earned them the top rank
in the nation. Perhaps more im-
portantly, those 25 consecutive
wins were good enough to tie the
longest streak in program history.
Th e second game of the weekend
double-header against the Cata-
mounts provided the Eagles with
the opportunity to establish a new
record. Th e Eagles took advantage
with a convincing 6-1 victory.
Th is 26th straight win moves
the current streak into second place
for the longest winning streak in
NCAA history. The Eagles still
have their work cut out for them if
they want to earn the number one
spot. Th e University of Minnesota
holds the record for longest win
streak, which lasted 62 games from
2012-13. Th e win also marked the
10th straight for the Eagles over the
Catamounts.
Th e Catamounts were simply
outmatched from the opening face
off until the final buzzer, as the
Eagles imposed their will for the
full 60 minutes.
Despite the puck residing al-
most exclusively in the Vermont
half, the Eagles were only able to
find the mesh once in the first
period. The Eagles outshot the
Catamounts 14 to six, but it was
the way in which the Eagles killed
two power plays that best demon-
strated the upper hand they had
established. Despite being down
a skater, the Eagles’ defensive line
pressured the UVM puck-handlers
well beyond the midline. Not only
did they kill the penalties, but they
forced turnovers leading to promis-
ing off ensive chances.
Working with just a single-goal
lead, the Eagles came out in the
second period with the intention
of putting away the Catamounts
for good. Just 3:14 into the second
period, senior Haley Skarupa daz-
zled the UVM defensive line with
precise stick-handling en route to
her 21st goal of the season to make
the score 2-0.
Th is opened the fl oodgates for
BC, as the nation’s second-highest
point-scorer, senior Alex Carpenter
notched two consecutive goals.
Carpenter scored her second goal
of the afternoon with a crafty shot
off the back of Vermont goaltender
Molly Depew landed just over the
goal line. Megan Keller added a
fourth goal through Depew’s legs to
cap off the BC-dominated second
period. With the score at 5-0 enter-
ing the third period, it was appar-
ent that the Eagles were poised to
capture their 26th straight.
Th e third period featured more
of the same puck dominance by
the Eagles, as a beleaguered UVM
squad skated without the same
heart that it had displayed earlier
in the contest. Th e BC front line
was reminiscent of a fi ring squad,
as it fi red 46 shots at Depew. Ver-
mont managed a single goal with
3:21 remaining, taking advantage
of a 5-on-3 power play. Th e single
goal might have provided some
reassurance, but it was simply not
enough.
It was not only a day of mile-
stones for the program, but also
for Carpenter. With her three-point
afternoon, Carpenter became the
eighth player in the NCAA to reach
the 250-point mark for her career.
“She came to the rink today
ready to take control of the game,”
head coach Katie Crowley said of
Carpenter’s performance.
Despite the dominant showing
and the significance of the win,
Crowley believes there is still room
for improvement.
“I would like to see [them]
continue to come to the rink with
a little bit more energy,” she said.
Crowley, however, was still pleased
with her team’s performance. “I
thought it was a good win, a good
weekend overall,” she said.
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As the regular season nears its end
and Boston College women’s hock-
ey prepares to enter tournament
time, it’s
hard not
to think
about how the year will end—es-
pecially after BC’s last run, which
ended with the team collapsing
in the Beanpot, Hockey East, and
NCAA tournaments. Will the
Eagles (25-0-0, 17-0-0 Hockey
East) have their hot winning streak
run ice cold once more, or will they
fi nally hold up some hardware?
Th ese questions are important,
but there’s another important
question, too: what will BC do
next year? With superstars like
Alex Carpenter and Haley Skarupa
graduating in the spring, the Eagles
will surely be lacking in the win
department come next season. Or
will they?
BC answered that question
Friday night as it defeated the
University of Vermont, 6-2. Th e
Eagles saw several plays come from
the sticks of their non-seniors, cul-
minating in the victory against the
Catamounts (6-18-2, 4-10-2).
The first period proved en-
tertaining for attendees in a rare
night game for the women’s team,
as UVM put up an aggressive
front against the Eagles, who were
unusually slow to start. BC went
toe-to-toe with the Catamounts
for the fi rst half of the period, both
teams streaking toward the other’s
goal. UVM looked threatening on
the ice, at one point outshooting
BC 3-1.
“Coming off a game like Har-
vard, it’s kinda tough to get your-
self going after a game like that,”
head coach Katie Crowley said. “I
thought the fi rst period for sure
was a little bit fl at.”
Eventually, the Eagles evened
up the shot count, and Makenna
Newkirk snuck the puck past Mad-
ison Litchfi eld. While the women
began their lead at home, BC men’s
hockey scored at the same time, en
route to an 8-0 win over UMass,
giving head coach Jerry York his
1,000th career victory.
Immediately after the goal, BC
amped up its energy, swarming
the net to earn another one. Th e
shot count diverted in favor of
the Eagles after the goal, with BC
dominating the Catamounts’ side
of the ice for 12 shots while Ver-
mont notched one more for fi ve.
Toni Ann Miano opened up
the second period with a goal,
launching the puck past Litchfi eld
from the blue line. While several
Eagles and Catamounts flocked
to the goal, Miano’s shot found its
way through the traffi c to earn BC
its second goal of the night.
After a shot by another Eagle
that didn’t quite make it in the goal,
Dana Trivigno tipped it in, further
expanding the lead. Th e play went
under review, however, sending the
cheering crowd into silence. Th e
referee’s outstretched arms that
indicated the goal was not valid
garnered boos from many of the
disgruntled fans.
Th e missed opportunity lit a fi re
under BC, making the team want
another goal even more. Alex Car-
penter almost earned her fi rst goal
of the game when she sent the puck
fl ying to the goal, but it clanged off
the right pipe. Later during a power
play, Andie Anastos earned her
10th goal of the season.
Th e Catamounts managed to
put one past the Eagles when a shot
went over Burt’s head and landed
past the goal line. A goalless eff ort
for Vermont would have meant
a three-game shutout streak for
Burt, as well as her 10th shutout
of the season.
For the majority of the game,
Burt faced the shots with ease.
During the fi rst period, she stood
stock-still while a puck hurtled
toward her and caught it without
fl inching or having to crouch down
in case of a rebounded shot.
Twenty-one seconds into the
third period, BC took revenge on
Vermont’s goal. After a pass from
her offensive counterpart Haley
Skarupa, Carpenter launched the
puck into the net, which rico-
cheted off the pipe and and sent
it to its final resting place on the
goal line.
Barely minutes after Carpen-
ter’s goal, Trivigno received her
recompense for the goal that was
taken away. While BC’s forwards
drew Litchfi eld off the line, Trivi-
gno shot laterally toward the left
pipe, giving the goalie no chance
to save the puck.
Th e Catamounts answered back
immediately, as Saana Valkama
sent Burt struggling to stay on her
feet while she tried to keep the
puck out.
To make sure the game wasn’t
close, Carpenter added another
one to the scoreboard, taking the
puck from far out and launching it
at Litchfield, who was just an inch
too far to the right to block it. Puck
met net for the sixth time of the
night, and the Eagles were guaran-
teed a high-scoring victory.
Despite the two goals from Car-
penter toward the end, the game
was dominated by BC’s fresher
faces. Half of the Eagles’ goals came
from a freshman, a sophomore, and
a junior, proving that next year’s
off ense should work just as well.
Burt, too, is only a sophomore,
so it’s likely that the youth on this
team will bring the the Eagles to
similar glory.
After the showing against Ver-
mont, it’s easy to see that BC will
be in good hands.
One jab. One quick punch was
all it took for Amber Campbell to
swiftly strip Stephanie Jones of the
bal l . It
hap-
pened
so fast, Jones’ hand kept repeating
the dribbling motion even after
the ball was gone. Jones looked
down and realized something was
not right. She quickly pivoted and
chased down Campbell, but it was
too late. Campbell easily tossed up
the layup, allowing Wake Forest to
capitalize on yet another Boston
College turnover. In a mistake-
fi lled matchup, the Eagles (13-6,
1-5 Atlantic Coast) handed the
Demon Deacons (11-9, 2-5) a 65-
59 victory.
In the opening quarter, it was
typical BC basketball. Th e defense
slipped up, allowing its opponents
to grab an early lead. Th e off ense
struggled to hold on to the ball
while fi nding a good look at the
basket. The opponent’s defense
pushed up against the 3-point line,
denying splash sister Kelly Hughes
from making any of her signature
deep three’s.
Th e Demon Deacons success-
fully broke the BC defense and
put up a 10-6 lead halfway through
the fi rst quarter. Luckily for the
Eagles, Wake struggled to maintain
possession of the ball, and easily
coughed it up. Unfortunately, BC
responded with plenty of turnovers
of its own.
With both teams playing a game
of hot potato, it remained 18-13
Wake for the first two minutes
of the second quarter. When BC
fi nally took control, it put up six
unanswered points for the lead.
Wake responded in order to remain
neck-and-neck with the Eagles.
With three seconds left on the
shot clock and seven seconds left in
the quarter, Kailey Edwards dished
the ball off to an open Emilee Daley.
With the shot clock down to one,
Daley released the ball, making a
buzzer-beater 3-pointer to give
BC the 28-26 lead going into the
locker room.
The second half is typically
when the Eagles shine in close
games. Th ey make corrections in
the locker room and come back to
defeat their opponent every time.
“I feel like we’ve played this
game a bunch of times already this
year, we’ve just come out on top,”
coach Erik Johnson said. “Eventu-
ally, that kind of cycle is going to
come back to get you.”
To open up the second half, Al-
exa Coulombe fouled Milan Quinn.
In the pre-foul shot huddle, Deacon
Kandice Ball loudly questioned,
“Are we playing zone or man-to-
man?” With confusion evident on
the Wake side, the Eagles had an
opportunity to break away. Bou-
dreau and Hughes had been held to
three points each in the fi rst half.
Most teams usually target the
two star players, but BC fi nds a
way to spread the defense with its
inside-out game. “We’re used to
Kelly Hughes coming down to save
us with a big deep three,” Johnson
said. “You can’t just wait for the
big three.”
Boudreau and Hughes knew
that, and they constantly pen-
etrated the paint in order to get a
look up close. A few possessions
later, Boudreau laid it up with two
seconds on the shot clock. She
missed, but got her own rebound
and brought it back around. Bou-
dreau tossed it to Fasoula, who
made the layup, giving BC a 34-32
lead. To keep the momentum go-
ing, Katie Quandt spun and nailed
a jumper, causing Conte Forum to
burst into a huge uproar.
But Ariel Stevenson kept Wake
in the game and helped push the
Demon Deacons to a 46-45 lead
going into the fourth quarter.
With three players in foul trouble,
it seemed the Eagles would have
an easy time coming back and
sealing the win.
BC was down 52-51 with less
than three minutes left. Th e Eagles
had every opportunity to come
away with a victory, but instead
decided to hand it to the Demon
Deacons.
With the help of all-star free-
throw shooter Elisa Penna, Wake
won the game from the charity
stripe by going 20-of-23. Penna
went 12-of-12 from the line, with
eight of those coming in the fourth
quarter. Th e Eagles were unhappy
about this. “We made undisci-
plined fouls. We bailed them out
of situations where they were tak-
ing a tough shot,” Johnson said.
With 15.9 seconds left, BC
was down by six. Daley missed
her 3-pointer, but Boudreau was
right at the rim and one-timed the
rebound in. Th e Eagles were down
by four with 4.1 seconds left.
Penna was fouled off the inbound
and drained both free throws in
order to score 22 points and lead
her team to a 65-59 victory on
the road.
Th e Eagles were disappointed
with the play against a beatable
ACC opponent.
“We shot 50 percent from the
field, and they shot 38 percent
and we lost,” Johnson said. “Th at
should not happen. We are an
effi cient basketball team, we’re a
skilled basketball team.”
The team had all the tools
necessary to win, but BC did not
play its best basketball tonight.
“When we had our opportunities,
we weren’t able to come up with
something,” Johnson said. “Our
team has got to get better, there’s
no question.”
Toni Ann Miano (18, left) and Alex Carpenter (5, right) shined in BC’s demolition of the Vermont Catamounts. LIZZY BARRETT / FOR THE HEIGHTS
BY ANNABEL STEELE | ASST. SPORTS EDITOR
Skiing competed in the Colby College Carnival at Sugarloaf Mountain in Franklin County, Maine, this weekend. BC came in 14th place out of 16 total teams compet-ing, earning 151 points on the weekend.
Swim and dive headed up to Hanover, N.H., for the Dartmouth Colle
Invitational this weekend. Th e men’s team captured fi rst place after earni
1,153 points on the day. Th e men’s 200-yard free relay team of Dan Kelly, Con
Chamness, David Hunter, and Colin Derdeyn captured fi rst place. Th e 200-ya
free relay team of Anthony Richardson, Nico Junghahn, R. Emmet Johnson, a
Drew Cuttic captured fourth place. Richardson also came in second place for t
500-meter free event. Freshman Taylor Cortens won the 200-yard IM race, wh
Kelly won the 50-yard free. Diver Cole Malatesta enjoyed success in the 1- a
3-meter diving events. He fi nished in second place in both events, capping
another strong weekend of diving. Th e women were less successful on the d
fi nishing in third place behind host Dartmouth and Northeastern University. Th
200-yard free relay team of Maureen Barron, Gracie Kunkel, Julie Dobson, a
Elizabeth Manning secured third place in their event.
BC hosted the Northeast Fencing Conference Duals in Chestnut Hill this weend. Th e Eagles emerged victorious throughout the afternoon. Both the men athe women defeated competing schools Massachusetts Institute of TechnoloTufts University, Brown University, Vassar College, Smith College, and DartmouCollege in foil, epee, and sabre events. Brandeis University narrowly defeated in those same events. On the men’s side, the Judges outscored the Eagles 15-Brandeis women defeated BC 14-13 on the day.SK
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Underclassmen helped BC shine at Boston University’s Multi-Meet on Th ursday. Th e Eagles were successful in the 400-meter, 500-meter, 800-meter, and 1,000-meter events, showing off strong competition and setting several per-sonal records. Junior Obinna Nwankwo, sophomore Nicholas Nash, and junior Darren James took fi rst, second, and third, respectively, in the 400-meter event. Freshmen Michael Saxon and Oliver Boucher each set personal records on their way to third and fourth places in the 500-meter event. Evan Gray’s 800-meter time of 1:53.83 gave him a personal record as well as second place in the event. Sophomore Gabriel McLarnan and freshman Johnny Kemps captured second and third places in the 1,000-meter event. In addition to their strong showings at the meet, Nwankwo and Gray each qualifi ed for the IC4A championships. On the women’s side, sophomore Madeline Adams came in fourth for the one-mile run, while freshman Johanna Celli captured second for the 400-meter event. BC dominated the 800-meter event, with fi ve runners fi nishing in the top six of the event, including fi rst-place fi nisher Molly McCabe.
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track is going to be carried by a wob-
bling synth. Suddenly, it completely
cracks open with a bouncy guitar riff
and a funky, slapped bass line. But it’s
the horns that really fill out the track.
They ride under the guitar and bass,
and at times the synths add that extra-
special color. If the song were a vibrant
pink without the horns, with them it is
a show-stopping magenta.
The horns are similarly awe-inspir-
ing on “Chi-Ching,” where they provide
the overarching musical melody and,
along with the snare-heavy beat, sound
like something that would find its home
in a Bollywood movie.
Even the songs where the beats get
all the attention are wonderful. “Romeo”
recalls Shiny Toy Guns’ last album and
begins with a man saying “On your
mark, get set, go!” The song fulfills its
prophecy, racing toward a finish line
that holds the most important prize:
“If I win, you can’t stay / But if you win,
you win my heart” states Polachek,
as though it is a matter of fact. While
“Romeo” wants you to run, “Moth to a
Flame,” the semi-titular track, can’t help
but stay put and dance. The beat and
clap-like overtones owe themselves to
’90s house music and would perfect the
soundtrack for any party.
While all of these songs are excellent,
“Crying in Public” is the crown jewel of
the bunch. It has a rhythm that recalls
Michael Jackson’s best ’80s slow jams,
with simmering synths and a sneaky,
sultry guitar. The musical arrangement
itself would be dazzling, but the lyrics
and Polachek’s voice—whose falsetto
and upper range are high points of the
entire record—make this song excep-
tional.
On the second verse she sings, “Like
the peach you split open with two
thumbs / I’m the half without a stone
/ My heart is a hollow with a space for
your own / Or whatever you want to do
with it.” Polachek recites these lines so
nonchalantly that you don’t even real-
ize the emotional toll taken by giving
herself up. That is, until she gets to the
chorus where she laments, “I’m sorry
I’m crying in public in this way / I’m fall-
ing for you.” She reaches for her upper
vocal register, yearning and terrified.
On the last syllable, her voice breaks
into a falsetto that is sublime. This song
makes you want to fall in love at sunset
and feel horrified about it.
There are no bad songs on this
record, just ones that you like more.
The production on “Ottawa to Osaka”
is wonderful. Unfortunately, with a
bridge where a woman recites a Japa-
nese monologue over strings, it’s not
as memorable as the aforementioned
tracks.
Much like Carly Rae Jepsen’s criti-
cally acclaimed Emotion, which also
featured horns heavily, Moth could be
the sleeper pop hit of 2016. Once you
hear it, you’re drawn to it like a moth
to a flame.
One of the most fascinating traits of
the music industry—or any industry re-
sponsible for an art form—is that excel-
lence can come from even the most un-
known places. It is refreshing to fi nd a new
artist that is not only extremely talent-
e d , b u t
unique
in his or
her style
as wel l .
Tinder-
sticks’
latest
album, The Waiting Room, though
undeniably flawed in certain areas,
represents the effort and originality
required to produce an above-average
concept album.
The Waiting Room is an interest-
ing mesh of several genres, featuring
everything from a very mellow style of
alternative rock, to a tempo-heavy, spo-
ken-word-style track. Th e album opens
Moth to a flame is an idiom that has
been used in many situations in the
English language, but not in pop music.
On Chairlift’s third and latest album,
Moth, it is used to describe a lover that
the singer cannot get away from. That’s
exactly what it means for the indie-pop
darling and Beyonce collaborator. In
this case, the idiom does not seem to be
misused, but is rather a perfect fit.
This
i s i n
part due
t o t h e
opener,
“Look
Up ,” i n
which the duo uses insect sounds and
hard-edged drums to create the beat. It
is mesmerizing, but it’s also an indicator
of the direction that the group is going
with this record.
Though its trademark metallic-
sounding drumbeats are not completely
gone, for most of the tracks they are
no longer the centerpieces. Instead,
singer and arranger Caroline Polachek
and producer Patrick Wimberly decide
to round out their hard edges with
guitars and horns that give the album
a soulful touch.
This is probably best seen on the
second track, “Polymorphing,” where,
for the first few seconds, you think the
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likely feel a complex wave of emotions:
a type of sadness, mixed with content-
ment in the beauty of the music. Fans
of Earth, Wind & Fire will appreciate
the musical style, but the tone of the
work is considerably more melancholy
than anything Earth, Wind & Fire has
released. Th e Waiting Room falls into
a strange category of undefinability,
simply because the style is such a mish-
mash of parts pulled together to create
something rather beautiful.
Tindersticks’ 11th studio album is
not for everyone. Th e band comes from
a position of musical obscurity, which,
though unfortunate, makes sense. Th e
style is not something that appeals
to wide audiences or casual listeners,
meaning that Tindersticks is not likely
to ever rise to a wide level of popular-
ity. Despite this, Th e Waiting Room as a
whole is a very enjoyable experience—
one that would serve other musicians
well to model themselves after.
Despite having disjointed musical elements, the musical quality of the album remains high.
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shrouds every scene, Baskets is peppered
with witty throwaway lines and blink-and-
you’ll-miss-it jokes. This weird kind of
comedy paired with well-executed, deadpan
deliveries identify the show as one of the
smartest series out there.
Another notable aspect of the unique
FXX comedy is the way it plays like an indie
song. Moody but mellow, Baskets carries a
creative and cool tone throughout with its
impressive cinematography. Playing with
colors and sets, shadows and lighting, the
creators’ keen attention to detail is evident
in the impeccable quality of each inventive
and beautiful shot.
Baskets does little to elicit the hearty,
cheap laughs expected of a Galifi anakis in
fi lm.In spite of this, it is a shining example
of a risky crafty comedy.
Galifi anakis is like a circus performer in
his own right—one who is willing to juggle
confl icting genres and run with it. Satisfi ed
with the series premiere, viewers just hope
he will not end up dropping the ball.
Unprecidentedly witty, ‘Baskets’ is full of crafted comedy amidst a dark, depressing premise.BASKETSFX Productions
“I am a clown!” shouts comedian Zach
Galifi anakis into the receiver of his shoddy,
motel-room telephone. “I’ve always been a
clown, and I always will be a clown!”
If the 46 year-old had been discussing the
acting roles he’s usually typecast as, the actor’s
overly-assertive statement would have ac-
curately fi t his fi lmography thus far. Over the
course of his Hollywood career, the man has
played
many a
bumbling
fool.
Th is
particu-
lar line,
however, is delivered by Galifi anakis with
gusto, spoken with unquestionable confi -
dence rather than embarrassment or shame.
Th e actor delivers the line not as himself, but
as the down-on-his-luck Chip Baskets—a
clown and college dropout whose passion for
performing in the circus is thwarted on more
than one occasion. Th is time around, Galifi -
anakis really is a clown—and the pilot episode
of unique new FXX series Baskets suggests he
is ready to really put on a show.
The episode begins at the prestigious
Académie de Clown Française in Paris, France.
An arrogant instructor stands before his eager
students to deliver the day’s lesson, which is
taught entirely in French. As the camera pans
over to a discouraged Galifi anakis, viewers
soon discover that his sadness stems from an
unfortunate language barrier. Consequently,
Chip fl unks out of clown college and fl ies
home to Bakersfi eld, Calif. With nothing to
show for his European endeavor but a verbally
abusive girlfriend and a crappy blue motor
scooter, Chip returns to the States, hoping that
his remaining (but ever-dwindling) dignity will
be enough to fuel his pipe dreams.
Written by a trio of some of Hollywood’s
most notable goofballs (stand-up star Louis
CK, Portlandia director Jonathan Krisel, and
the great Galifi anakis himself), Baskets is a
contemporary, 2016 take on comedy. Refresh-
ingly original, it adopts an uncommon style
that strays far from recorded laugh tracks and
overdone physical bits tossed in for a cheap
laugh. Instead, this series sports a puzzling
melange of contradictory genre pairs. In the
span of just one 30-minute pilot, viewers
chuckle and smile during one scene, and feel
sympathetic and sad the next.
For a series whose protagonist is an aspir-
ing clown, this new comedy is deliciously
depressing. Chip is a good guy—he means
well, is passionate about pursuing a clowning
career, and is repeatedly jabbed by the sharp
pang of unrequited love. In spite of this, the 30-
or-40-something Chip oozes an inexplicable
arrogance and exudes an off -putting vibe of
rebellious teenage angst. He’s moody, broody,
and an utter disappointment, if you ask Chip’s
mother (Louie Anderson). A literal sad clown
who just wants to love and be loved, Chip is A.
A. Milne’s’ Eeyore, personifi ed. Unexpectedly
entertaining, Baskets’ quirky combination of
dry humor and bleak plotlines add a charming
air to an odd show.
Much like the show’s main character, the
events that transpire throughout the fi rst
aren’t all that interesting, either. Highlights
include glances at the Baskets family photo
album, a humorous drive-through experi-
ence, and the awkward antics of rodeo
clowns. Despite the layer of boredom that
with “Follow Me,” an instrumental track
that sets the tone for the rest of the work.
From the very beginning, the fl aws in
Tindersticks’ album become apparent. It
takes far too long for Th e Waiting Room
to distinguish each individual track
as unique—the fi rst four songs have a
tendency to blend together, without
any real defi ning features to make them
individually special.
Th ankfully, this issue dissipates with
“Hey Lucinda,” the fi fth track on the
album. Without question, it is the best
track on Th e Waiting Room, masterfully
blending the voices of Tindersticks’ lead
singers in a sorrowful, heartfelt lamenta-
tion of love. Stuart Staples’s smooth tone
is incredibly relaxing, as he sings about
an odd mixture of themes. It is here that
Tindersticks’ songwriting style truly
stands out. Th ough it takes an extra level
of eff ort to process the witticisms of Th e
Waiting Room, it only serves to deepen
the enjoyment of the music.
Th e back half of Th e Waiting Room
only progresses more and more beau-
tifully from there on out. In a way, it
thematically reflects the first half of
the album in its progression of ideas.
“Th is Fear of Emptiness” mirrors “Fol-
low Me” as an instrumental track and
leads into a spoken-word piece, “How
He Entered.” Transitioning from vocals
to instrumentals, to poetry, and back
again is a risky artistic decision, but it
works surprisingly well for Tindersticks.
Most mainstream bands would likely be
unable to successfully craft this strategy,
but the relaxing echoes of Staples’s voice
make it feel remarkably natural.
In fact, smooth progression seems to
be the goal of Th e Waiting Room. Any life
and happiness that exists at the begin-
ning of the work seems to completely
drain from Staples’s tone by the time
that the last song plays. “Planting Holes”
is an example of instrumental music
done well—the piano becomes softer
and slower, leading the audience into a
pit of unexplainable sadness. Make no
mistake, Th e Waiting Room ends beauti-
fully, but it does not end happily.
By the time that “Like Only Lovers
Can” rounds out the album, listeners will
THE HEIGHTSMonday, January 25, 2016 B7
Los Olvidados, from B8
I am very good at puzzles.
Like, really good. Crosswords,
word searches, jigsaw, Sudoku—I
take an unusual pride in my suc-
cess rate in finishing them. With
that in mind, you can imagine
my frustration with being unable
to solve Bonnaroo’s 10 “Roo
Clues.” For those who are not in
the know, “Roo Clues” are clues
regarding Bonaroo’s yearly lineup
that are posted on the festival’s
social media accounts before the
full lineup is announced. I bought
my ticket during the first round
of pre-sale in November—after
such a great time on “the Farm”
last year, I knew I’d be coming
back in 2016. Knowing that I had
already committed to the festival,
it was a nightmare to not figure
out the clues. The two months
between pre-sale and Jan. 19, the
release of the lineup, felt instead
like two tedious, unbearable
years.
Now, I’m happy with the line-
up that has been released. Dead
& Company, Tame Impala, Death
Cab for Cutie, M83, Halsey,
Band of Horses, Leon Bridges,
Father John Misty, and Two
Door Cinema Club are only a few
examples of billings that had me
jumping around my room and
(lovingly) punching all my friends
out of excitement. Not to men-
tion that The Chainsmokers will
be playing a set—as one of the
many unable to get Plexapalooza
tickets, I’m pretty excited about
that. Unfortunately, it seems like
not everyone agrees with me.
While that is to be expected, it’s
very disappointing seeing com-
ments on the official Bonnaroo
Instagram page claiming that
“2016 is the year Roo dies.”
Bonnaroo has always been
considered the more indie-based
of the major music festivals in the
United States—a fact that isn’t
appealing to a lot of teenagers. Fes-
tivals like Firefly, Governor’s Ball,
and Lollapalooza are quickly com-
ing to the forefront of the summer
festival scene. Even smaller and
shorter events like Maryland’s
Sweetlife are gaining traction since
they’re cheaper, more accessible
than the Farm in Manchester,
Tenn., and book superstar headlin-
ers as well as supporting acts on
the up-and-coming pop culture
scene. Headliners at Bonnaroo are
generally more aged, appealing to
a larger part of the adult popula-
tion. This year’s top billing of
Pearl Jam, Dead & Company, and
LCD Soundsystem is chock full of
timeless music, but not the cur-
rent top hits. As I write that out,
I realize how finely I’m walking
the line between Roo enthusiast
and pretentious, “I only listen to
real music” jerk, but bear with
me—that is neither my thoughts
nor intention.
It’s a question of the overall
experience as well, since Bonnaroo
is nearly impossible to do as a day-
to-day event. Unlike Lollapalooza,
where patrons can spend the
night in downtown Chicago and
commute in every day, Bonnaroo
is practically based in the experi-
ence of camping on the Farm for
four days. While there are some
showers, it’s still a gritty, dusty, and
hot time, spent sleeping in cars,
tents, or under the stars. But with
that, the festival can offer so much
more during the hours wasted at
daytime events. Anyone who says
that going down an inflatable “Big
Ass Waterslide” (yes, it is actually
called that) to cool off from the
Tennessee summer heat before
catching your favorite artist’s first
set doesn’t sound like a great time
is just wrong.
Bonnaroo isn’t the perfect mu-
sic festival. None of them are. But
for me, the four days I spend on
the Farm are the best days of the
year, and I can’t wait to see what
2016 has to offer.
LEIGH CHANNELL
24 Hour Exhibit, from B8
and his substantive and socially
relevant work, but unfortunately,
there was only one actual
cardboard cutout in Devlin,
and the exhibit was limited to
a small area that gets such little
traffic. These two detractions
were extremely disappointing.
Imagine seeing Gomez’s cutouts
of gardeners , nannies , and
housekeepers all around campus.
Sure, BC probably doesn’t have
the best weather for cardboard
paintings to be standing outside
all day, but a cardboard nanny
walking through Stokes South
would have been noticeable
and easy to maintain. That kind
of exhibit would have gotten
an actual conversation going
among the student body. With
the exhibit in Devlin however, it’s
doubtful that many students saw
or noticed Gomez’s exhibit.
Apparently, G omez wa s
supposed to appear unscheduled
at the gallery himself, but with
the Admissions Office staff not
knowing when he would arrive,
few or no attendees were able to
meet with the artist in person.
There was, however, a short
video that played on a loop which
featured Gomez talking about
work and the message that he
hopes viewers walk away with.
“I hope to help develop a
conversation about what it is
people are doing to strive and
work here and how they’re doing
it ,” Gomez said in the video
interview featured in Devlin.
“These paintings work as a good
conversation starter, and I hope
to bring these people more of the
recognition that they deserve.
With issues that are springing
up in states like Arizona and
Alabama and, generally, with
the cr i t ic ism that i s of ten
given to ‘illegal immigrants,’
I seek to speak about things
without pointing any fingers at
anybody.”
Gomez’s work should have,
by i t s publ ic and v i sua l ly
arresting nature, started the
conversation that Gomez wanted
it to on campus, but the exhibit’s
m i n u s c u l e a n d l a c k l u s t e r
promotion and content made
it difficult for many students
to notice or think about what
Gomez was working at.
Characters, from B8
character’s death, especially involv-
ing characters that we hold dear, so
ridiculously compelling? The answer,
interestingly enough, may lie in the
progression of the medium of TV
as a whole.
Rewind all the way back
to the year 1965. The top
action-oriented show in the
United States was Bonanza,
a weekly Western with over
17 million viewers each week.
Batman, which aired on ABC,
followed closely behind with
an estimated weekly audience
of 14.5 million people. Besides
these two programs, the rest
of popular television consisted
of either straight comedy or
sketch shows.
In no case in the ’60s do we see
a program driven by the death of
its characters to the degree that
shows such as The Walking Dead,
Game of Thrones, or Breaking Bad are today. 1975 saw much of the
same. In fact, at that time very
little action or drama could be
found in the limelight—ABC’s The
Bionic Woman being the single
exception. As the years continued
to roll by, so did the same basic
principles of television: create
dramatic situations, tell a story,
allow a bit of tension to exist, but
preserve the life of the vessels who
tell the story in the first place.
The more I began to research
the topic, the more I realized that
there had to be a clearly defined
line where it suddenly became
not only socially acceptable, but
required by the plot that the main
characters of the work perish.
Where exactly is this line? To
be completely honest, it can be
hard to find. Themes in our society
come and go, and nothing is ever
absolutely objective. In my pursuit
of an answer, however, I did hap-
pen upon one interesting case.
In the year 1983, Nicholas
Meyer and Edward Hume created
The Day After, a television movie
that showcased the effects of
nuclear war on society. Meyer and
Hume’s work spent the majority
of its time exploring the lives of
citizens in a rural Kansas suburb,
only to kill many of its main char-
acters in the hours and days after
the warheads drop on the town.
Though tame by today’s standards,
The Day After created a significant
shockwave in households across
the country for its stark, brutal
depiction of nuclear war. As far
as I could discover, this was the
first instance a television program
focused on character death was
broadcasted directly into the
homes and minds of American
audiences.
The effects were neither
immediate nor absolute, but it
seems that the world began to
ever-so-slowly embrace a darker
tone in its everyday program-
ming. Law and Order arose in
1990, followed by The Sopranos
in 1999 and Band of Brothers in
2002. More modern examples
are Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead,
Dexter, Boardwalk Empire, and
many, many more.
What makes us so prone to
witnessing the deaths of our
favorite characters? If The Day After is any answer, perhaps it’s
our subconscious acknowledge-
ment that death is looming
around any corner, and that we
must embrace the time that’s
given to us. Or maybe, if my
favorite TV show is to be be-
lieved, it’s the reminder that the
only thing we all have in com-
mon is that we’re bound to die.
Most likely, it’s a combination of
both. Either way, our newfound
fascination with death, not life,
undeniably exists, and it can be
a depressing reality to come to
terms with.
But at least it makes for
some excellent entertain-
ment—that can’t be denied.
media’s coverage of the war in Iraq.
This exhibit was shown in 2006 at
the Victoria Munroe Fine Art in
Boston. “Armstrong’s works blend
goofiness, grief and sheer painterly
beauty— an unusual and stirring
combination,” Cate McQuaid of
the Boston Globe said in her 2006
review. While goofiness is perhaps
too optimistic, the exhibit is certainly
captivating.
These paintings are a meditation
on war, needless suffering, and
violence. The photographs from the
Abu Ghraib Prison, combined with
quotes which highlight the generally
apathetic attitude of political leaders
of the time, had a particular influence
on these paintings. The images
contain an attempt to express a
meditation on the violent, devastating
consequences of the war that resulted
from the arrogance of the decision to
go to war in the first place.
Collectively, the use of color in
the images is brilliant. The various
shades of red and blue and the
shifting contrast of the pigments
is captivating. There is a clear
connection to the gory events that
influenced the images, but the mix
of the cooler colors works to evoke
a sense of escape. Many of the
paintings contain images of isolated
organs, which serves as a stark
reminder of the terrible atrocities
that came out of the war.
The exhibit is located on the third
floor of O’Neill Library, behind the
newspaper stacks, and will be on
display until May. They offer the
opportunity to sit and reflect on the
past and the world of war that we
live in. But 24 Hour News is also
a meditation on the importance
of our actions and the ways they
influence the future. Next time you
are in O’Neill, take a moment from
the rush and stress of being back on
campus to visit the exhibit and see
how Armstrong’s paintings capture
the essence of a society at war.
Modern television viewers revel in the drama that innately exists in the high-tension programs that we watch today, but television didn’t always used to be as full of blood-and-guts violence. What happened over the years?AMC STUDIOS HBO STUDIOS
The painting and video exhibit, which was hosted in the Devlin Admissions Office last Thursday, attempted to jumpstart a discussion concerning Hispanic influence in the United States, but was not able to really grab the student body’s attention.AMELIE TRIEU / HEIGHTS STAFF
A Fine Arts professor deviates from normal style to make a poignant statement on war and violence around the world.SARAH HODGENS / HEIGHTS STAFF
&MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2015
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SUMMER LIN
Thursday afternoon, there was something
in the Devlin Admissions Offi ce that was both
very familiar and fascinatingly foreign. Right
next to the main desk was a cardboard cutout
of the little girl in a regal dress found in Diego
Velazquez’s 1656 painting, Las Meninas. While
seeing the little girl from Velazquez’s masterpiece
depicted in this medium was strange enough
itself, the rest of the cardboard cutout provided
a novel and intriguing modifi cation to the world-
famous painting. In Velazquez’s Las Meninas,
this little girl is being distracted and quieted by
what appear to be two of her sisters. In Ramiro
Gomez’s cardboard cutout, the little girl’s dress
is being adjusted and puff ed out by two modern-
day Hispanic women dressed in jeans, sweats,
and matching black t-shirts. By seeing just this
cutout alone, it was evident that Ramiro Gomez’s
“pop-up gallery” would prove more poignant,
sophisticated, and striking than a “cardboard
cut-out” gallery could ever sound.
Gomez lives in Los Angeles, Calif. and bases
his work off of gardeners and housekeepers
working in the Beverly Hills area. In Los Angeles,
Gomez will put these cardboard cutouts out in
public, hoping that pedestrians will mistake them
for real people. He’ll throw up a painting of a
gardener next to some hedges on a street corner
or a nanny walking a stroller down a residential
street. Generally, these cutouts appear pretty
deceiving. It’s interesting that, working on a
2D canvas and integrating it into a 3D world,
these cardboard paintings can actually fool the
eye for a few seconds. Especially in the pictures
framed on the walls in Devlin, it was diffi cult to
tell where the cardboard cutout was for a few
seconds. Eventually, of course, you could notice
the painting in the picture, but it would take a
few seconds’ gaze to really pinpoint where the
cutouts were.
While these cardboard cutouts appear to
compose the majority of Gomez’s body of work,
there were also some paintings on display that,
while made on cardboard, are not put out in
public. Gomez’s Mulholland Drive: On The
Road to David’s Studio and No Splash are two
drastically diff erent examples of these types of
works. No Splash is a very minimalist painting
of a pool cleaner fi shing leaves out of a single-
shade pool, while Mulholland Drive is a very
dense, almost surreal painting of a Ford parked
next to an expansive and diverse landscape.
Th ese paintings may intrinsically be less of a
social statement than Gomez’s public cardboard
cutouts, but they still maintain his theme of
Hispanics working in Southern Calif.
The Devlin exhibit should be praised for
highlighting and promoting this unique artist
As we broke through the clouds, the
city of Albuquerque revealed itself, light
pouring in from its precipices. Stretching
from the Sandia Mountains and hugging
the winding turns of the Rio Grande, every
sporadic glance led the eye miles in each
direction. On the horizon, the condensed
city lights gave off a hazy glow of places in
it and beyond it. From this vantage point,
one could see that this city was built out,
not up, like the cities back east.
Th is was my father’s home and it was
diff erent than mine. Adobe and stucco
replaced cape and saltbox houses. Th ere
was more sand than grass. Mountains and
fl at mesas replaced hills and dense forests.
Th is place was painted with a diff erent
color palette, giving each aspect of it its
own personality. Th ough diff erent, it still
was just another place, just the same as
mine, growing and changing.
It had been about two years since our
last visit to the Valley and with each visit,
as with this one, the urban sprawl contin-
ued to make new ground, enveloping the
surrounding areas.
My father, who gets to visit his home
as infrequently as we do, embraces the
changes with both sadness and awe. Driv-
ing, he points out fi elds he once played in
that now house large urban developments,
and small water pools that the neighbor-
hood kids of his day would venture to,
now dried up or fi lled in. One poignant
reminiscence came from a water tower he
used to run by every day. It was a visual
certainty in his life as he would go for his
morning run. Th e water tower was always
there, marking the halfway point in his
run. To the tower and back. A parking lot
was now in its place.
On this trip, we had a couple of days
to explore and go out into the town. We
decided to see a movie. As we approached
the massive IMAX theater, my dad was in
disbelief.
“A movie theater in the Valley? I would
have never thought. And look! A sushi
place! If you told me that this stuff would
have existed here as a kid…It shouldn’t be
here. Sushi in the Valley...”
A lot of this went over my head
because I did not grow up there. I would
never be able to experience the place
before it had changed, but the notion that
certain things come to pass, change with
or without you, was interesting. It was
clear that the current status of the city
was a far cry from the streets, fi elds, and
pools that my dad had grown up with.
Now living in Boston, hours and
hours away from the place he grew up,
my father missed the changes that went
on back home. Th is may seem like a
pretty standard observation, but it makes
an interesting point about the nature of
development and how we experience it.
Th inking in conjunction with my last
column, in which I spoke about art and
how we perceive it around us, I began
to wonder what had changed more, my
place or my father. Using him as more of
an analogous form for everybody, I would
say that he did, moving to a faraway
land and dealing with people composed
of diff erent worldviews and mindsets.
Descending upon the city, he found that
not only had the landscape changed, but
so had he.
I spoke of seeing the beauty in the
world in my last column, and I focused a
lot on fi nding those things in plain view
all around us. In many ways, I neglected
to mention the more important variable.
Ourselves. When our dispositions and
demeanors change, we change how we
see things. For my dad, the place of his
childhood outgrew him. Th e changes on
the landscape marked a change not only
in the place, but in him as well. Without
the water tower to look to, the place felt
foreign. In many ways it was a new man
visiting a new place.
I think Alice, from Alice’s Adventures
In Wonderland, sums it up nicely.
“I knew who I was this morning, but I
have changed a few times since then.”
&MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016
ARTS REVIEWB8
Th ose who know me best know how
big of a fan I am of AMC’s critically-ac-
claimed series, Th e Walking Dead. I’ve been
watching since nearly day one, I’ve read and
re-read the comic series that the show is
based on, and I’ve converted countless fam-
ily members and friends to watching along
with me every week. As the credits rolled
for the season six mid-season fi nale this
past November, I found myself endlessly
See Los Olvidados, B7
Capturing the audacity and terror
of the U.S. war in Iraq, the 24 Hour
News: Paintings exhibit by Professor
Mar y Armstrong is an evocative
collection of paintings sure to leave
their mark on all that pass by it. Mary
Armstrong received her B.F.A. from
Boston University in 1977 and has since
divided her time between Georgetown,
Maine, and Newton, Mass. Armstrong
has been a professor in the fine arts
department at Boston College since
1989. Her work is often displayed at
Victoria Munroe Gallery in New York
and Boston, The Orsman Gallery at
ABBY PAULSON / HEIGHTS EDITOR
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Prof. Mary Armstrong highlights the terrors and misfortunes of war in her O’Neill gallery.
discussing the lackluster ending.
Much to my surprise, I heard a very
common complaint no matter who I talked
to: “No major characters died in this epi-
sode. It was really boring.” Th ough this took
me aback, I wasn’t noticing the existence of
a problem with the episode, but rather the
nature of a cultural problem itself. Why is it
that we, as the audience of any long-running,
drama-oriented television program, are so
interested in fi ctional deaths? What makes a
Smith College in Northampton, Mass.,
The Portland Museum of Art, and The
Maine Center for Contemporary Art.
Her paintings often combine themes
of space, light, time, and the earth.
Aesthetically, they contain vibrant,
gorgeous colors. Relying on shading
and formless figures and shapes, her
paintings expertly evoke a sense of
vast openness. While certainly not
landscapes, the beauty of the earth and
humanity’s connection to it is clearly
presented in her works.
This particular exhibit, however,
takes a slight turn from her usual
themes. Instead, it was influenced by
CHANDLER FORD