The Heights January 25, 2016

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.

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Wednesday, Jan. 20

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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.

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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


regarding assistance provided to

another agency.


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

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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


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.


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

HEIGHTSThe Independent Student Newspaper of Boston College

THE

“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.”

-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

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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-




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 ... ”

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.”

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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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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.”

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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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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.

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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.

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“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

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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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See 24-Hour News, B7

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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

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