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Monday, November 14, 2022

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MAGAZINE

OPINIONS

Columnist Cameron Walker discusses Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour and the stressful process of getting tickets.

Taking the bus can be inconvenient, but living on Newton Campus can be great—here’s how to make the most of it.

An Inside Look at BC Dining

STEVE MOONEY / HEIGHTS EDITOR

By Amy Palmer Assoc. News Editor Sofia Laboy Asst. News Editor

This is the first installment of a three-part series about BC Dining. Jamie D’Ambra, MCAS ’25, was finishing her chicken and two sides—a Boston College Dining classic—when her roommate noticed something dark peeping out of the vegetables. Unsure of what it was, D’Ambra said the two pushed the vegetables aside and uncovered a giant black bug. “It was so big,” she said. “It did not look like any bug I’ve seen before, and it was clearly cooked into the food. I was really shocked.” Students from other tables in Lower Live crowded around D’Ambra to get a look, she said. “I was so shocked and kind of overwhelmed with everyone coming around me and saying I had to do different things about it,” D’Ambra said. “I was really disgusted by it.” D’Ambra is one of many students

who claim to have encountered issues with BC Dining meals, ranging from finding bugs in their food to being served raw eggs. Others have even reported experiencing multiple allergic reactions to meals they received at BC. One of these students is Rachel Belanger, MCAS ’23, who said that after one incident, she can no longer bring herself to have chicken caesar salad in the dining halls. “I picked up a piece of chicken and realized there was something hard in it,” Belanger said. “I looked at it, and it was a decent 2-inch-sized bone.” Belanger said she kept her salad and ate around the chicken, but D’Ambra did not keep her dish. Instead, she brought hers back to one of the dining hall managers, she said, who immediately took it into the back. “I was also kind of surprised by [that]—like they didn’t want anyone else to see what was happening,” D’Ambra said.

See Dining, A2

Metro

JESS RIVILIS / HEIGHTS ARCHIVES

BC Upsets NC State for First Ranked Win Since 2014 By Graham Dietz Assoc. Sports Editor

The foundations of a losing season can sometimes pay dividends down the line for a college football team. That’s the case for NC State, which improved from a 4–8 record in 2019 to a 7–2 record heading into its Week 11 matchup with Boston College football in 2022. Two or three years from now, BC (3–7, 2–5 Atlantic Coast) can only hope it will have rebounded as well as NC State (7–3, 3–3) has this season.

BC took a step in the right direction on Saturday. Head coach Jeff Hafley’s Eagles took the Wolfpack down, spoiling senior night in Raleigh. BC shocked No. 17 NC State with a 21–20 victory, pulling off its first win against an AP Top–25 ranked opponent since beating then-No. 9 Southern California in 2014. In MJ Morris’ second career start for NC State, the young signal caller—starting in place of Devin Leary, who’s out for the rest of the season— imploded in the second half, leading

to the Eagles’ go-ahead touchdown from backup quarterback Emmett Morehead to freshman Joseph Griffin Jr. with 14 seconds remaining. “Hugs, tears, dancing, loud, a lot of hugs,” Hafley said of the locker room atmosphere after the game. “A lot of guys are just letting it all out. It’s the No. 16 team in the country going for 17 straight wins at home [with] 30-plus fifth-year [and] sixth-year guys walking out. No one thought we could win.”

See Football, A11

Magazine

Pedaling and Pancakes: Brickner Traverses U.S. by Bike

By Beth Verghese Asst. News Editor

ANEESA WERMERS / HEIGHTS STAFF

Pastor Preaches Inclusive Christianity See A5

Leo Brickner had never biked for more than 20 consecutive minutes before this summer. Now, Brickner can say he biked 3,623.8 miles in 49 days. In June and July, he cycled from Washington state to Maine alongside his high school friend. Brickner, MCAS ’25, and Patrick O’Connell completed the Northern Tier Bike Route during their trip, cycling through Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Brickner, who is from New Jersey, took a cross-country road trip during the COVID-19 pandemic from his home state to Los Angeles, Calif. Seeing the United States in

PHOTO COURTESY OF LEO BRICKNER

such a way was eye-opening, he said, and he wanted to experience the country similarly again but at a slower pace. Brickner pitched the plan to high school friend O’Connell, a current sophomore at Princeton University, who agreed a bike trip would be the perfect opportunity to see the country, O’Connell said.

“[Brickner] said to me, ‘You’re like the one guy who I think will actually go through with this,’ and I was like, ‘Why not!’” O’Connell said. “I was kind of offered the opportunity and did it because the country is there.”

See Brickner, A6