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Scott Brown not running for Kerry’s Senate seat Police to continue heightened patrols after arrests made

By Kyle Plantz Daily Free Press Staff

Scott Brown announced Friday he will not enter the special election race for the Republican Party to fill Secretary of State John Kerry’s vacant seat in the Senate, coming as a shock to many who saw this as an alternative route for Brown to return to office.

“Over these past few weeks I have given serious thought about the possibility of running again, as events have created another vacancy requiring another special election,” Brown said in a statement Friday. “Even so, I was not at all certain that a third Senate campaign in less than four years, and the prospect of returning to a Congress even more partisan than the one I left, was really the best way for me to continue in public service at this time.”

Brown first announced he was not running in a text message to the Boston Herald that read, “U are the first to know.” His spokesman confirmed to the Boston Globe later in a text that said, “Not running.”

Brown released a full statement later in the afternoon stating he was not running in the special election and appreciates his time in the Senate.

“I left office last month on the best of terms with colleagues both Republican and Democrat,” he said in the release. “I had worked well with so many of them, regardless of party, to serve the public interest just as we are all supposed to.”

By Chris Lisinski Daily Free Press Staff

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Scott Brown announced Friday he will not run for John Kerry’s Senate seat, leaving the Republican party to look for a strong candidate.

Brown said his time in the Senate was marked by his bipartisan approach to politics.

“All of this was in keeping with the pledge I made at the beginning to do my own thinking and to speak for the independent spirit of our great state,” he said in a statement.

Brown was at first unknown when he announced his candidacy for the Senate

special election in 2009 when a position became vacant with the death of Ted Kennedy. He overcame overwhelming odds when he won the seat in 2010, defeating current Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley.

Brown ran for a full term in 2012, but was defeated by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Brown, see page 2

MBTA installs 50 cameras in hopes of curbing crime

By Zoe Roos Daily Free Press Staff

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has installed 50 new security cameras at the JFK/ UMass red line station in an effort to reduce crime in the surrounding area. Several robberies and a daytime sexual assault were reported in the area, according to the MBTA. The project began in early November after community members asked for increased security in light of the crime reports. Officials from the MBTA announced in December that they would be adding more cameras.

Joseph O’Conner, Superintendent-inchief of the MBTA Transit Police Department said the police force is trying multiple approaches to reduce crime.

“The cameras are just one component of our strategy to reduce crime and the fear of crime at the JFK/UMass station,” he said.

Within the month of January there were

30 reported incidents of crime, ranging from assault to vandalism, according to the crime statistics released by the MBTA Transit Police.

The station lies near UMass Boston, Boston College High School and the Boston Globe headquarters.

Joe Pesaturo, spokesperson for the MBTA said the camera installation was completed ahead of schedule.

“The cameras are now active,” he said in an email. “And they will store 24 hour footage for approximately 30 days.”

The funding for the cameras came from a grant provided by the Massachusetts Department of Homeland Security, Pesaturo said. “$550,000 in funds were provided for the installation,” he said.

While the cameras will provide increased security, some wonder if this additional surveillance violates certain privacy rights.

The Massachusetts branch of the Ameri-

can Civil Liberties Union has long been weary of MBTA police conduct.

“The Constitution protects everyone from unreasonable unwanted police intrusion,” the ACLU said in a statement. “While safety on the T is important, the MBTA policy will not make us more safe — just less free.”

Despite the possible privacy issue, T riders were pleased with the increase in security.

Elizabeth Lee, 38, an Allston resident, said she rides the T almost every day.

“Sometimes when I have to ride the T at late hours it feels a little sketchy- especially at the more open platforms,” she said. “So I have no problem with them putting in more cameras if that is going to make me safer.”

Other stations expected to receive additional cameras are Charles/MGH, Harvard Station, Kendall Square, and Porter Square according to MBTA officials. The cameras are expected in late spring.

Despite recent arrests made in several robbery cases near Boston University — including Tuesday’s robbery and stabbing of a BU Medical Campus research assistant — local police will continue to have an increased presence, said BU Police Department Chief Thomas Robbins.

Robbins said BUPD and Brookline PD will continue to increase their patrols in the area near West Campus and northern Brookline after a string of eight robberies and one stabbing occurred in the area during the 2012-13 academic year.

“We have proactive patrols and we’ll have additional patrols out there for the foreseeable future,” he said. “We know these robberies are occurring so we want to provide some visibility out there and some additional patrols.”

The robberies and stabbing all occurred on or near the Charles River Campus, particularly near West Campus and South Campus toward Brookline.

On Tuesday, two suspects robbed and stabbed a 38-year-old BUMC research assistant near the corner of Browne Street and Pleasant Street in Brookline. The suspects were arrested later in the week.

Wallace Vick, 19, and Shaqone Cazeau, 20, were arrested Thursday and arraigned Friday in Brookline District Court on charges of armed robbery while masked and armed assault with intent to murder, as previously reported by The Daily Free Press.

“Within 48 hours BPD made the arrest, that’s outstanding work in anyone’s book,” said BU spokesman Colin Riley in a previous interview. “Hopefully this will reassure people walking the street with intent to rob that there are consequences for their behavior.”

On Friday, Brookline Police arrested Tyler Mauritson, a 27-year-old suspect from Quincy, in connection to a Jan. 19 armed robbery near BU, said Brookline Police Lt. Philip Harrington in an email. His accomplice, Evan Holmes, 29, also from Quincy, was arrested Jan. 24 for the same crime.

The two allegedly robbed three victims while brandishing gun, one of which was a

Robbery, see page 2

Changing housing market poses new challenges, higher costs for students

By Nora Philbin Daily Free Press Staff

For college students looking to leave campus and rent an apartment, things are getting harder, for over the past year, the overall real estate market in Boston for buying has improved, but rent prices are rising, creating a dilemma for students.

Jeff Kaufman, 27, a programmer at Google, mocked up a map of Boston rent prices throughout the city. Although downtown Boston has the highest prices in the city — costing about $1800 a month per bedroom — areas around Boston University, Boston College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other universities can cost more than $1200 per month.

“I created the map because I wanted to get an idea of what the different apartment prices were in different parts of the city,” Kauffman said “I was looking for an apartment and didn’t know the areas.”

Timothy Warren Jr., CEO of The Warren Group, a company that distributes real es-

tate and financial information in New England, said the real estate market is growing again.

“I would characterize 2012 as the year of robust recovery in the real estate market,” he said in a statement. “It is clear we have turned the corner and are gaining ground rapidly. I contrast the 18 percent gain last year with the decline of 6 percent in 2011.”

Buyers and renters in Boston are seeing a changing market, but it is hard to predict where it may go, Mark Nemes, rental manager for Comm. Ave. Associates, said.

“This year we can see that for September, apartment prices are up about 10 percent from last year, and I do see it continuing for the rest of the year,” Nemes said.

“I don’t know about next year, it’s always anyone’s guess. You don’t know what’ll happen with the economy and things like that. But definitely for this next year we see rents increasing again.”

Real Estate, see page 2

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The price of rentals in Boston continues to grow as a large number of students clamor to find off-campus housing.

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BUPD Chief: BUPD has no jurisdiction over off-campus areas Robbery: From Page 1

BU student.

“The message to the robbers is clear: this is not the place to come to commit those types of offenses,” Robbins said.

Robbins said increased police patrols will create more police visibility to dissuade potential criminals and create a stronger sense of safety, despite the recent arrests.

“We’ll still patrol the entire BU community, but we’ll have the additional attention focused on the West Campus and northern Brookline areas because what we’re seeing in the statistics is that the suspects are targeting that area,” Robbins said.

While BUPD will assist Brookline PD in increasing patrols and make police more visible, primary jurisdiction for crimes off BU’s campus falls to other departments, Robbins said.

“We do have authority, statutory authority to patrol out there, but that’s not our primary jurisdiction and that means the responsibility and primary jurisdiction is of the Brookline Police,” he said.

“We work with them to augment them and help them and share information, but the primary responsibility for investigation is those departments.”

However, Robbins said it is unrealistic to expect police to constantly cover the entirety of

the area.

“I don’t have an officer to put on every corner, that’s not reality,” he said. “ … Nor, quite frankly, do I think the community wants a cop on every corner. We don’t want a police state. We want to make sure our cops are out there providing a sense of visibility and safety, but we don’t want a cop on every corner.”

Robbins said police are examining reasons or factors concerning why the crimes have been concentrated in a small area near BU, including lighting and accessibility of emergency blue phones.

He said it is apparent robbers are targeting pedestrians with

small electronic devices, as they can easily be stolen and sold for $100 to $300.

“What we’re seeing unfortunately is a national trend where these iPhones and iPads, they make a lot of money for the crooks,” he said.

BU and police officials have repeatedly encouraged students to take caution when walking to not display or be distracted by valuable electronic devices.

Robbins said police are looking into methods of working with electronic providers such as Apple and Samsung on a national level to render stolen devices useless, thereby eliminating the secondary market for stolen goods

and dissuading theft.

“That’s a long-term solution, it doesn’t help in the short term, but for the community knowledge, we are looking at everything we can do to reduce and eliminate these kinds of crimes,” he said.

Robbins said despite the string of high-profile crimes, overall crime at BU is on a downward trend.

“The perception of crime doesn’t match up with the actual reality of crime,” he said. “Crime in and around the BU campus is very low. It’s been spiking down tremendously over the past few years.”

Brian Latimer contributed to the reporting of this article.

Realtor: Buying better than renting in Boston GOP voters prefer Brown to run for Gov., survey says Real Estate: From Page 1

The rent hike — about 10 percent last year as well as this year, is due to the number of people renting, Nemes said.

“It definitely is the demand,” he said. “Boston has had a good job market in the last few years, and there are a lot more students [and] international students that are coming to Boston for school.”

Comm. Ave. Associates is located on the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Brighton Avenue. As a result, Nemes said the company sees many more renters because of its proximity to Boston University’s campus.

“Around here you get a lot of transient-type clients like students or people working their first jobs,” he said. “You know students move around three or four times in their four-year college career. When people buy a condo, you buy a condo once, so there are definitely more renters around here.”

The high number of students might also be a factor of the low prices in the Allston area, which

is still the cheapest for students close to the city, Nemes said.

Renting is not the only option.

Marc Russo, a broker at Atlas Properties located on Fairfield Street off of Newbury Street, said buying is a better choice right now.

“The sales prices haven’t gone up that much in the past two years, and the rental prices have,” Russo said. “The interest rates are low, so people then to buy rather than rent.

Russo predicts that rent prices will continue to increase, especially in areas heavily populated by students.

“I don’t know if the rents are going to keep going, I imagine they would go up a bit this year again,” he said. “They went up quite a bit last year, especially toward the end of the rental season. College-campus-area rent is going to go up in general, because there aren’t going to be people buying over there.”

Kathleen Ford, a senior at Emerson College who lives in Allston, said she is frustrated with

the continuing increase in rent prices, but not surprised.

“I guess that’s the price you pay living in a city, rent’s just going to be more expensive here,” Ford said. “And with all the young people in the city looking for affordable rent, I guess it can get pretty competitive.”

Nemes also said it is a sellers market.

“The sales market is definitely hot right now,” Nemes said. “If you’re looking for a two-bedroom condo in Allston right now there is only one on the market. And then when one does come on the market, it just seems like it’s not there very long.”

Condos are of particular interest to people as buying becomes more popular, Warren said in the statement.

“Condominiums have been very popular which is probably a function of those rent prices being so high and interest rates being low,” Warren said. “People do the math and realize they can get a condo in or close to the city for a competitive price.”

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Early polls suggested that Brown would lead Democratic contenders Rep. Stephen Lynch and Rep. Edward Markey in the race. A poll by the MassINC Polling Group suggested that he would defeat Markey in the election by 22 percent, according to the study from Jan. 25.

Another poll by Public Policy Polling had Brown leading Markey by just three points in the election, 48 percent to Markey’s 45 percent. However, 69 percent of the undecided voters polled voted for Warren in the November election and only 17 percent for Brown.

Many voters said they would prefer to have Brown run in the gubernatorial election when that position becomes available in 2014, according to the PPP poll.

“Republican voters, by a 48/38 margin, would actually prefer that Brown run for Governor rather than the Senate. And our polling finds that Brown would start out as a pretty strong favorite for that office,” the PPP press release stated.

Brown’s decision not to run for the Senate seat opens the door for other Republicans.

Former Mass. Gov. William Weld is believed to be the next viable candidate after Brown.

Other rumored candidates include former state senator Richard Tisei, former Mass. Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey, former Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez and FOX News contributor Keith Ablow.

Tim Buckley, spokesman for the Massachusetts Republican Party said strong candidates for the Republican bid have yet to appear.

“We’re just waiting to see what decisions people make and go from there,” Buckley said.

David Palmer, professor emeritus of international relations and political science at Boston University, said Brown should consider a run for governor.

“Republicans have fared better in Massachusetts governor elections, so probably yes [he should run],” Palmer said. “[Brown’s decision] makes more intriguing speculation about the governor race a possibility.”

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Real Fear, Real Talk

“Will ‘Punxsutawney Phil’ see his shadow?” So read the headline on ABC News’ (and everywhere else’s) Homepage Saturday afternoon.

This is a groundhog we’re talking about. Think about that — the headlines of many of our national news outlets were concerned over whether or not a groundhog would “predict” a longer winter or not.

I assume most people don’t actually see a correlation between the behavior of a groundhog and the weather. So why do thousands of FRANK people gather to MARASCO see a confused groundhog pulled out of a stump?

Why aren’t we worrying about things that are actually important — actually real?

“I think we’re gonna have a great set, guys,” I said to the other members of an improv group I perform with just before we took the stage to perform on Saturday night.

“You’re gonna jinx it!” one of my fellow improvisers exclaimed.

“Yeah!” said another. Both were terrified that I had somehow cursed us to fail with my positive words.

How could those words possibly dictate what would happen on the stage? The answer is: They can’t.

They don’t.

North Korea is developing nuclear weapons. I haven’t heard anyone gasp in fear over that.

Fear is such a funny thing. People fear jinxes and hexes. They fear curses and spells. They fear ghosts and monsters — things that aren’t real!

Breaking news: Jinxes aren’t real.

Curses aren’t real. The boogeyman is not real either. Why are we afraid of these things — things that we know don’t exist?

Nuclear weapons are real. Why aren’t we more afraid of those? You know, those things that could destroy the earth. Yet somehow we’ve become so numb to such a paramount issue. How? Why? Yes, nukes have been around for a while now… but they’re still around. They linger.

They haven’t become any less dangerous. And new ones, as we see in the case of North Korea, are being developed. Why doesn’t that terrify people? Why do people spend time and energy worrying about lucky socks and pennies, but not nuclear weapons? Nukes shouldn’t exist to begin with. Now, an oppressive dictatorship which insists on holding that unicorns exist — clearly displaying a disconnection from reality, or perhaps just a desire to mislead its population — will have the ability to blow up the world. Fun stuff.

Are we just all in denial? Do we worry about silly, imaginary things because the real things scare us too much to think about? If we’re going to be worrying about something, it shouldn’t be hexes and dragons.

It should be something that is real, present, and threatening — like an earth-destroying bomb. We can’t do anything about real problems if we’re too busy worrying about groundhogs and jinxes. How do we rid the world of these doomsday devices? I don’t know. I don’t think anyone knows right now, but we need to keep talking about it. Nukes are scary to think about because they’re real. But that’s exactly why we have to face them.

Frank Marasco is a senior in the College of Communication. He can be reached at fcm820@bu.edu.

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Special election candidates emerging Grads. working

By Rachel Riley Daily Free Press Staff

The pool of candidates for this summer’s special Senate election is beginning to grow as a number of political personalities from the Commonwealth have announced their intent to either run or abstain from campaigning toward John Kerry’s former position.

U.S. Reps. Edward Markey and Stephen Lynch — both Democrats — are the only two candidates to announce they will be running in the special election so fair.

Lynch announced his candidacy Thursday and kicked off his campaign with a YouTube video that highlighted his beginnings and accomplishments.

Markey welcomed Lynch to the race in a statement released Thursday.

“I welcome Stephen Lynch into the race for U.S. Senate,” Markey said in the statement. “I urge him to join me in committing to the people’s pledge to prevent outside special-interest groups from injecting millions [of dollars] into this campaign.”

Connor Yunits, spokesman for the Lynch campaign, said the Democratic primary will be a challenge for Lynch, but he is confident Lynch will win.

“It’s going to be a heck of a race. Congressman Lynch is definitely the underdog, but he’s the underdog in every race he has ever won and he has never lost an elec-

tion,” Yunits said. “We’ve got a lot of work to do in 90 days and we are out there doing it.”

Markey said he was interested in the position Dec. 27, but formally announced Saturday he would be running for the vacant Senate seat.

Tim Buckley, spokesman for the Massachusetts Republican Party, said Markey has a lot to prove to voters.

“The most interesting thing is that you have Ed Markey declared, and he has very little to show for it,” Buckley said. “After 36 years in Congress, he might have a hard time convincing voters he deserves six years in the Senate.”

On the Republican side, no candidates have announced their intent to run in the election. Former Sen. Scott Brown, the Republican favorite, announced Friday he will not be running.

Former Mass. Gov. William Weld is believed to be the next viable candidate after Brown.

Some other rumored candidates include former Mass. Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey, former Navy SEAL Gabriel Gomez, and FOX News contributor Keith Ablow.

Former Mass. Sen. Richard Tisei, announced Saturday he will not run for the seat.

Ablow said he is waiting for other potential candidates to make a decision before announcing his own.

“I won’t consider it in the depth it deserves until after I know their [other Republican candidates’] in-

less skilled jobs, release suggests

By Rachel Riley Daily Free Press Staff

tries that in turn, created new jobs.

“We all know that today we have an immigration system that is out of date, and badly broken — a system that is holding us back instead of helping us grow our economy and strengthen our middle class,” he said.

Wippl said immigration reform is a complicated issue, but may take focus away from bettering the skills and education of American citizens.

“It bothers me a bit simply because, number one, it means we’re not educating our own population and secondly, we’re stealing skilled people from countries that need skilled people in order to develop,” he said.

However, Wippl said he can see the position of American busi-

Almost half of college graduates are employed in jobs that do not apply knowledge gained from higher education, according to a recent study by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.

Despite the findings, several Boston University students said they are not concerned by the threat of underemployment.

“In general, I would like to think that I am a well-rounded, interesting individual who has a good resume and who can articulate myself well to a potential employer,” said Emily Sullivan, a College of Arts and sciences senior. “You should major in something you really enjoy because this [college] is an opportunity for you to pursue something you really like.”

The report, published Jan. 28 and titled “Why are Recent College Graduates Underemployed?” examined U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data and found that about 48 percent of college graduates are employed in positions that require less than a four-year college degree.

“The report should suggest to college students that they need to be cautious and perhaps reduce their expectations as to what they expect to get from a college education in terms of vocational rewards,” said CCAP Director Richard Vedder, who was one of the study’s authors.

The report, also co-authored by Christopher Denhart and Jonathan Robe, stated 37 percent of college graduates — at least 50,000 people — are employed in positions requiring no more than a high school diploma. For example, a measured 16.5 percent of bartenders and 18 percent of telemarketers had attended college.

Vedder said many students end up with jobs that do not meet their expectations because they do not match up with their majors.

“There is a mismatch between what college students expect to get from college, in terms of jobs, and what they actually are get-

Immigration, see page4

Underemployment, see page4

COURTESY OF STEPHEN LYNCH U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch announced he will run in the special election for John Kerry’s former seat in the Senate.

tentions, which I don’t,” Ablow said. “I haven’t sought them out, and they haven’t sought me out, but maybe it’s time that I do.”

While naming William ‘Mo’ Cowan as interim senator Wednesday, Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick announced the special Senate election would take place June 25 to replace Kerry.

Kerry was confirmed as Secretary of State Tuesday with a vote of 94-3 in favor of his appointment.

Election, see page4

Immigration reform likely, BU prof, students say

By Margaret Waterman Daily Free Press Staff

An ongoing battle in the U.S., the passing of immigration reform now appears likely due to political strategy and benefits it would create for American business, Boston University professors and students said.

“This time it’s going to happen simply because the Republican Party has no choice but to support some kind of immigration reform package,” said international relations professor Joseph Wippl.

“They have no choice because they’re not going to be able to select anyone as president unless they stop or change their profile of being an anti-immigration political party.”

U.S. President Barack Obama delivered a speech on his pro-

posals for immigration reform in Las Vegas Tuesday, outlining his thoughts on the importance of reform to his country and constituents.

“The promise we see in those who come here from every corner of the globe, that’s always been one of our greatest strengths,” Obama said in his speech. “It keeps our workforce young, it keeps our country on the cutting edge. And it helped build the greatest economic engine the world has ever known.”

Obama said immigrants helped start technology giants such as Google and Yahoo!, and that one out of four technology startups in recent years can be attributed to the work of immigrants.

He also said immigrants are responsible for creating new indus-

BU to construct Taco Bell inside Warren Towers City Convenience

By Brian Latimer Daily Free Press Staff

Originally rumored during the fall 2012 semester, Boston University Dining Services confirmed work on a Taco Bell in Warren Towers will begin during summer 2013.

Dining Services Marketing Director Scott Rosario said the Taco Bell will be installed as part of the City Convenience at 700 Commonwealth Ave. “There are a lot of Taco Bells, Subways and Dunkin’ Donuts that partner with convenience stores,” Rosario said. “The design will accommodate a Taco Bell inside of the City Convenience.”

Rosario said BU is still working on a final plan to integrate Taco Bell and City Convenience. Construction will begin when official plans on a timeline are completed

and permits are acquired, likely in summer 2013.

“We want to fit the Taco Bell in the footprint of City Convenience to get the design done,” he said.

“We are trying to make sure we still offer plenty of products and everything else we already offer.”

Rosario later clarified in an email that Dining Services made the decision to install a Taco Bell after receiving strong student support for the restaurant.

“Taco Bell has consistently ranked high on the Dining Services student survey as a brand that students would like to see on campus,” he said. “We have also received feedback about adding a Taco Bell during Student Advisory Group meetings as well as on Facebook and Twitter.”

Rosario said the Taco Bell will

Taco Bell, see page4

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Construction on a Taco Bell inside the City Convenience under Warren Towers is scheduled to begin during summer 2013.

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Special senate election for Kerry’s former seat to be held June 25 Election: From Page 3

“This is something we did three years ago after Sen. [Ted] Kennedy died,” said Brian McNiff, spokesman for Mass. Secretary of State William Galvin. “That was the election that Scott Brown won. It’ll be the same thing — this rather truncated election season, but we’ll have the primary and we’ll have the general election.”

McNiff said no candidates have submitted nomination papers, which require the candidates to gather 10,000 voter signatures within four weeks in order to appear in the primary Apr. 30.

“The first indication is when people take out papers, but really we won’t know until they return the papers,” he said.

David Palmer, emeritus professor of in-

ternational relations and political science at Boston University, said special elections generally favor minority parties, so more Republicans could turn out for the election in June.

“But that does not necessarily mean that the Republicans will win,” Palmer said. “It’s a general perception that, because Massachusetts was so strong for Obama last time and

because Warren beat Brown in the Senate election, that the Democrats are up for the Senate seat again in Massachusetts.”

Palmer said another Democrat victory is a possibility.

“My guess is that whoever the final candidate is — probably Markey, but it could be Lynch — will probably see an outcome that would favor the Democrat,” he said.

BU spokesman: BU students ‘highly CAS senior: Obama deported more illegals sought after’ for jobs after graduation in first term than Presidents Bush, Clinton away with somewhat much more controUnderemployment: From Page 3

ting,” he said. “For example, people majoring in the fine arts, education, social work, subjects like that, are more likely, down the road, to do less well financially than those in most of the sciences or business, engineering, fields of that nature.”

Graduates of private institutions tend to fair better than those of larger public institutions in finding appropriate employment, according to the report.

“The private universities — BU would be on that list — are more selective in the students they take,” Vedder said.

Vedder said employers trust graduates of large, selective institutions because of the selective admissions policies of the universities.

Despite the report’s findings, Vedder said a college degree is still worthwhile for a large percentage of students in college.

BU spokesman Colin Riley said the findings of the study are not necessarily applicable to BU students.

“BU students are highly sought after and do get jobs,” Riley said. “By all indicators, this study wouldn’t really be reflecting BU graduates.”

Riley said he believes a college education is still a valuable investment and the

report should only make students more aware of the decisions they make regarding their educational investments.

“The studies that I see definitely do say that individuals with a college education do have increased lifetime earnings — some more significant than others — and that these are decisions that individuals should make with eyes wide open so that they are aware of the investment,” Riley said.

Lauren Effune, a School of Education junior, said she is concerned about finding employment after college.

“It’s competitive,” she said. “It scares me, but it’s exciting at the same time.”

Effune said she still believes a college degree is important for a well-paying job and she plans to attend graduate school.

Lauren Henry, a College of General Studies sophomore, said she considered her status as a job candidate when choosing public relations as a major and business management as a minor.

“I minored in business to set myself apart from other communication majors because I know that’s a pretty common major nowadays,” Henry said. “I’m not really worried about that [getting a job after college] right now. I’m more worried about getting internships and my classes.”

SAR freshman: Taco Bell not healthy Taco Bell: From Page 3

be managed by the Warren Towers City Convenience and owned by BU. BU owns each of the City Convenience stores on campus.

Despite the announcement, a number of students said they are wary of health concerns raised by the presence of another fast food establishment.

Anika Adeni, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences sophomore, said while adding variety to dining options is important, building a Taco Bell may undermine healthier choices on campus.

“I’m really conscious about the way I eat so I am not going to eat there often, but it’s important to have something a little different every so often,” Adeni said. “I’m not sure about the health part, but I don’t know if college students really care about eating healthy right now anyway.”

Miranda Swinnen, a College of Arts and Sciences freshman, said she is indifferent to Taco Bell coming to campus because she

tends to eat healthier foods.

“I know a lot of people are really excited about it,” Swinnen said. “It would do a great business but, in terms of the food it serves, it is not one of the better options, especially on this campus.”

SAR freshman Spencer Hardy said Taco Bell extends the options for cheap, late-night dining.

“Personally, I pay with cash so anything cheap is good for me,” said Spencer Hardy, a SAR freshman. “It would offer a lot of students somewhere to go because it’s a cheaper alternative, but certainly not a healthier alternative.”

John Bian, a College of Fine Arts junior, said the Taco Bell will be counterproductive to health events like Sargent Choice night in the dining halls.

“I like it because it’s a Taco Bell, but I also kind of hate it because it’s a Taco Bell,” Bian said. “It’s cheap food, and because it’s there and so easily accessible to everyone in Warren Towers, it puts healthy options aside.”

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ness and how increasing numbers of skilled workers are necessary.

“It should give us more incentive to educate our own people,” Wippl said.

David Torres, a College of Arts and Sciences senior, said Obama has deported more immigrants than past presidents have, including George Bush and Bill Clinton.

“Obama isn’t exactly a champion of immigration reform — however, one of the things that he has done is put it on the table,” Torres said.

Torres said Obama is urging Congress to consider the reform bill and attempting to get it passed by appealing to both political parties.

“I do like that he’s getting bipartisan support more,” Torres said. “I think it’s been important and shows that he’s serious about it and it’s good leadership — I think that’s something President Obama has done wonderfully.”

He said Obama might be pushing harder for immigration reform now that he does not have to worry about campaigning again or being reelected.

“He’s doing it now that it’s his second term because there’s not necessarily ramifications,” Torres said. “It’s easier to get

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Amy Singleton, a College of Engineering junior, said immigration is important because certain people need to leave their countries and should be allowed to pursue opportunities provided within the U.S. “Immigration in itself isn’t bad, especially because some people really need it, for political reasons and relocation from different kinds of wars and all that,” she said. “The only downside of immigration is that our population is really big, but I don’t see that much of a downside.”

Shaheena Nathani, a School of Hospitality Administration junior and international student from Indonesia, said she thinks immigration reform is important from an economic standpoint.

“Having more people that are willing to spend more money is just going to be better for the country,” she said.

Nathani said Indonesia is doing well, even in a struggling global economy.

“I’m not even an American citizen, I’m from Indonesia, and Indonesia is a country that is booming right now and that’s [high population is] exactly why,” she said. “They have a lot of people making a lot of money and they’re just living well.”

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Bullet to the head? More like Oscar in the hand!

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aithful reader, as I look at the nominations this year for the Academy Awards, I am outraged. The Hollywood liberals with their “progressive” agenda are at it again and refuse to quit.

From the multifaceted thematic warnings of Zero Dark Thirty, to the satirically ironic slap by Django Unchained or the reflective sobriety of Lincoln, we clearly see the similar pensive reflections on American actions taken out of the rhetoric of freedom.

Thanks a lot Obama.

And then there was that French film called Amour, but I didn’t see it because, like most Americans, I looked at the trailer empirically and came to the conclusion that the levels of French are too high and the

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levels of ass-kicking are too low.

This is why Bullet to the Head is a masterpiece! It breaks this newfound Hollywood liberalism that attempts to illuminate multiple dimensions of complex issues.

Bullet is a classic return to the original kickers of ass for the sake of kicking ass!

It even has that really old actor who played Rocky and kicked that Commie’s ass back in the ‘80s — Ronald Reagan.

I’m kidding, it’s still Sylvester Stallone.

The gist of the story is this: Stallone’s partner is killed by the group of thugs who hired him to do a hit, so he is forced to team-up with officer “Taylor Kwon” (played by rising star Sung Kang) to get his revenge.

Wait, haven’t we heard similar story lines like this before in say … every Stallone movie since ever?

Yeah of course, but, as the trailer’s tagline proclaims, “revenge never gets old.”

Anyone else getting a chill down their back, or is that just the icy hot on my osteoarthritis?

Now that Stallone is armed with his AARP card, his acting is golden. In fact, I was so sucked into this film due to Stallone’s dramatic thespianism that I could actually see myself as a 66-year-old man looking for revenge against the guy who killed my partner. His acting as an elderly man made me feel so much like I was an old man that I forgot what happens for the

rest of the film.

This movie gets me. It knows that I don’t want anything too complex or emotionally riveting. It understands my limited attention span and provides lots of cool explosions and funny one-liners. Well, some of the one-liners directed at Korean- American actor Sung Kang are borderline racist.

But don’t fear, they’re quickly forgotten — we have more explosions to captivate me!

I have to hand it to Sly; he keeps reformulating his very specific formula. It’s like a dad trying to jingle his keys in front of his baby’s face to keep him from crying in that corner booth at IHOP. No matter how much you jingle the keys, we’re still in a corner booth at IHOP.

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Pastries, French hot chocolate and the perfect hazelnut latte.

Delectable treats in the cafe’s display case.

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inter is upon us, Commonwealth Avenue has turned into a gigantic wind tunnel, and our lust for coffee and lattes has increased. If you need a quick shot of something warm in between classes, then Starbucks is your place to go. But if you want to escape, perhaps to some place cozy and toasty, take the T to Boylston, and make your way to the Thinking Cup. Right on the outskirts of the Boston Common, the Thinking Cup is a crowded little coffeeshop, almost set back in time. The lack of Wi-Fi and cellphone reception makes you wonder if this is intentional. Low ceilings, dim lights and brick walls give it an old-fashioned, European aura, with Louis Armstrong’s trumpet quietly accompanying the hum of the surrounding conversations. Written on chalkboard walls behind the counter, the menu includes coffee, sandwiches and pastries. The barista will help you pick something yummy if you can’t make up your mind, but for us, he suggested the éclairs and croissants, the most popular items.

If you’re more of a sweet tooth, go with a croissant with the French hot chocolate. In the 18th century, the French aristocracy favored this thick, rich dark chocolate drink, with good reason — it is truly exquisite. (And for an amplified experience, dip pieces of the buttery croissant in the thick hot chocolate.)

The éclair was glazed in chocolate and filled with volumes of vanilla bean custard — a smooth yellow cream that enlivened every bite.

To complement our hazelnut latte — a specialty made with roasted, hand-ground hazelnuts, complete with swirls of latte art in the foam — we went with the colorful French macarons. Macarons, not to be confused with macaroons, are sweet meringue-based pastries filled with ganache — perfect for tiny bites. We went for the salted caramel macaron, and made the right choice; the subtle saltiness of the caramel complemented the softly sweetened hazelnut latte perfectly.

The popular coffee shop is almost always crowded, sometimes making it difficult to find a place to sit, especially with larger parties. Fortunately, many people come and go quickly, so keep an eye out for open seats.

Easily accessible from campus, but far enough away to feel like an escape, the Thinking Cup is a delicious alternative place to relax, to momentarily forget one’s worries and obligations, and to enjoy great coffee and pastries with a friend.

The Thinking Cup is located at 165 Tremont St, and during the winter is open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Tursday through Sunday.

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Adderall — friend or foe?

Mostly the latter

Adderall is an amphetamine-based medication intended to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or A.D.H.D. But the high levels of mental focus that the medicine provides has led growing numbers of young adults — with college students, in particular, the drug is especially popular — to fake A.D.H.D. symptoms in order to obtain prescriptions. They do this for help studying for exams or finishing papers.

They also use it as a diet pill, since it decreases or eliminates the appetite.

But they don’t realize that the drug can be highly addictive, and that side effects can include serious psychological risks.

Saturday, The New York Times published the story of Richard Fee, the athletic and personable college class president and aspiring medical student from North Carolina who committed suicide (in 2009) after his Adderall prescription ran out. Fee had become addicted to the drug, unable to operate without it.

His untimely death highlights what the Times deemed the widespread failings in the system through which five million Americans take medication for A.D.H.D. It has become too easy for individuals “lacking concentration” to obtain a prescription for focus-enhancing drugs when, in actuality, they do not require them. The Times reported that doctors “tend to skip established diagnostic procedures, renew prescriptions reflexively and spend too little time with patients to accurately monitor side effects.” As a result, nearly 14 million monthly prescriptions for the condition were written for Americans ages 20 to 39 in 2011, which, according to the Times, is two and a half times the 5.6 million just four years before.

The numbers should be a signal that the drug has become too easy to obtain.

But it should be noted, also, that if people seeking Adderall have no desire to

visit the doctor and take the all-too-easy exam, they can purchase the pills from their friends. It’s estimated that between eight and 35 percent of college students take stimulant pills to enhance school performance, according to the Times. On college campuses where the demand to focus is ever-rampant, pill-swapping is nonchalant, prevalent, and consequently hard to control.

It’s true that Adderall greatly helps in increasing levels of productivity. And it does what it’s intended to do: it can markedly improve the lives of children and others with the disorder it’s designed to treat.

But for those without real A.D.H.D. — for those who suffer what everyone suffers: difficulty sitting in one place for too long, with one long paper, and one cup of coffee, for example — it is possible, as we see with the case of Fee, for an attachment to the drug to have catastrophic results.

True, Fee is a tragic and hopefully singular case. Most students who experiment with Adderall are unlikely to over-abuse it, and will hopefully shake the habit by the time their demanding studies are over. But the fact that doctors are loosely prescribing a drug that can have dangerous side effects is worrisome. Fee claimed that his doctor “wouldn’t prescribe [him] something that isn’t safe,” according to the Times. Doctors must realize that patients who “lack concentration” do not necessarily need medication — they might just have to turn off their iPhones and log off of BuzzFeed.

It’s important that people become aware of the dangers of taking stimulant drugs so that they can learn to be careful when using them. Hopefully, they will avoid the dangers by steering clear of the drug entirely.

We all have difficulty concentrating; to be naturally high-functioning has always required effort. Making drugs do our work for us is an unhealthy habit.

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Letter to the editor: A plea for safety I have a daughter who is in her second year at BU and is terrified by the recent string of attacks in and around the campus.

Whatever you are doing to prevent these attacks is obviously not working and I implore you to seek assistance in confronting this serious problem.

I feel helpless 3,000 miles away in California and wish I could do something more to help. I have spent 30 years teaching in the inner-city of Los Angeles and know keenly how difficult it is for a student to learn when they don’t feel safe.

I have tried my best to reassure her that she will be ok, to stay to the busy streets,

and keep a watchful eye but I would like to feel that BU, rather than just wringing it’s hands, has a plan, a task force, a something, to bring a stop to this violence. Whoever you have been working with on this problem are clearly not the right people. It’s time to seek and employ a new strategy.

Immediately.

I look forward to hearing from you, Respectfully, Michael Monagan CAS ‘74 mmonagan@lausd.net

C-SPAN and the CIA SOFIYA MAHDI

“That’s going to be $11. But I’m going to need to see some ID.” Out of all the potential situations in which I would imagine needing to be carded, a movie theatre was not one of them. I walked into the hall chuckling as two friends and I settled into plush red seats and waited for the opening sequence of “Zero Dark Thirty” to begin.

I thought back to a few days earlier, when I had gawked at the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress, after flashing my newly laminated card at the security guard and perusing the shelves. (Filling out the application for that little piece of plastic was a novel (excuse the pun) experience in itself: “I’m from London, I go to school in Boston, but I’m in Washington, D.C. for a semester interning for a think tank.” The woman registering me had shaken her head and laughed as she handed me my card.) Being carded to enter a room filled with some of the most historic documents in history? Acceptable. To see a movie? Debatable.

It dawned on me that no longer was I a mere tourist of the District of Columbia, surveying its library’s immense collection from a glass box above — I was at the gates to the inner sanctum of academia. I thought back to all the movies that featured scenes here, and it seemed only fitting that I was waiting to see a cinematic depiction of the bin Laden operation, another moment in history which had some connection to Washington.

I came out of “Zero Dark Thirty” with new and different perceptions floating around my head. The film brought issues of morality and blurred stories to the forefront of people’s minds. The beginning sequence is a black screen, with a composite of phone calls made on September 11th 2001. Nothing else was needed to remind that audience of the horror of those hours, a tragedy that would forever change the world in which our generation came to consciousness.

I thought nothing more of it, until I received an e-mail saying that the ex-director and chief legal officer of the Central Intelligence Agency and the former director of the National Clandestine Service were coming to the think tank.

Three men who actually lived the hunt for Osama bin Laden were going to physically sit in front of me and discuss what happened. I signed up to be a volunteer for the event staff immediately. I would have done just about any menial task thrown my way if it meant I could be there — the day of the event I found out I had the glamorous task of holding the microphone for people as they asked questions at the end of the panel’s presentation.

The reception area was heaving with people. I found my way to the desk where I was handed my microphone.

“Whatever you do, DO NOT let anyone

take this out of your hands,” I was told.

The back of the room was lined with cameras. Security was tight, and out of the corner of my eye I saw a huge video contraption with “C-SPAN” emblazoned across its side. I nervously surveyed the area, familiarizing myself with where all the wires were so I didn’t fall flat on my face. Some of recent history’s most powerful men in the world took their places at the wooden table. The inquisition had begun.

The audience wanted to know how the CIA found out about the courier who led them to bin Laden, who was waterboarded, what the protocol was on interrogation, etc.

I thought back to the movie. For the thousands, including myself, that had seen the bin Laden operation in cinemas, the whole operation demanded fewer than five hours of our lives. For these men in front of me, this operation constituted years of theirs. The protagonist of the film — of the real story, that is — is not one person but a composite of men and women who were determined to see the mission through until its end.

The question of enhanced interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding or sleep deprivation, is a moralistic nightmare. Is it a necessary evil, or excessive abuse? No one has the omnipotence to say it’s one or the other.

And I imagine the subject will continue to be a debate that is had for years to come as the complexity of global security increases.

And so other questions emerged. I held on to that microphone for dear life — as it was almost wrangled out of my hands on more than one occasion. One man was visibly nervous as he clutched onto the apparatus with a slightly sweaty palm. As I kneeled down slightly for him to speak, his demeanor was an affirmation that time may go by, but collective memory of what all of this meant would never fade.

Microphone safely restored to its place, I went back to my desk. The office was buzzing with the aftermath of the event. That evening, I went on C-SPAN. There it was, those ex-officers discussing “Zero Dark Thirty” and myself, front and center on the screen, navigating my way through the crowd for my fifteen minutes of fame.

I got into the lift to leave for the day, and two other interns broke off from conversation.

“Hey, weren’t you the microphone girl today?”

“Yes, I was.” I replied, and as I left the building, I smiled before continuing on my way.

Sofiya Mahdi is weekly columnist for the Daily Free Press, and a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences studying abroad in Washington, D.C. She can be reached at sofiya218@gmail.com

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Men’s hockey looking for needed jolt from Beanpot tournament Men’s hockey: From Page 8

have tied and lost in overtime to the University of MassachusettsLowell. Most recently, they were stonewalled by University of New Hampshire goalie Casey DeSmith on Friday.

“Northeastern played very, very well against New Hampshire,” said BU coach Jack Parker. “They got 48 shots against New Hampshire in a 3–1 loss, so they’re playing really well right now.”

BU, meanwhile, took a win and a tie from a weekend series with Providence College, then lost a disaster of a game to the University of Massachusetts, 5–1, on Friday.

A Beanpot win could be the kick it needs to get back on track as the season winds down.

“I think winning not only this first game, but getting the chance to play next Monday would be huge for us going forward,” Grzelcyk said. “Huge momentum, especially with the crowd getting

into it.”

Since winning the Beanpot in 2009, BU lost twice in the finals and once in the first round. The last time a team other than BU or BC won the Beanpot was when Harvard took the trophy home in 1993. Northeastern last won in 1988.

Parker has won 21 of his 39 Beanpots as a coach (and also won three as a player). He said the tournament has not lost its appeal for him after all this time, though.

“I was very excited when I

won my first Beanpot as a coach, and I was very excited when I won my last Beanpot as a coach,” Parker said. “I’ll be excited if we win this one. But I’m excited for my players. It’s for them.”

Grzelcyk said the biggest crowd he remembers playing in front of is the one he saw at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge two years ago, when he played for Team USA against Canada in Winnipeg.

O’Regan recalled 11,000 or so vocal fans in green and black at

North Dakota’s Ralph Engelstad Arena in November.

The TD Garden holds 17,565, and while it might not be packed when the game begins at 5 p.m., even those Terriers who didn’t grow up in New England know it will be rocking by the end of the game. “[The] biggest crowd was probably North Dakota this year,” Oksanen said. “But this is going to be the biggest crowd ever.”

Line chemistry leads to another win for BU Women’s hockey: From Page 8

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Sophomore forward Kayla Tutino scored a goal in the Terriers’ victory over Northeastern University Saturday afternoon.

managed to send the disc to the front of the net. Despite two NU defensemen lurking in the area, the puck found Tutino’s stick and she was able to get a shot off that found twine. It was yet another display of the connection that the second line has developed this season.

Tutino said she attributes her line’s success to its communication and confidence.

“We communicate really well and we’re not afraid to tell each other some things we should work on and what we can do better,” Tutino said. “We also have a lot of confidence and sometimes if things don’t go well we just keep going and don’t let that get in our way.”

Less than two minutes later, the Terrier offense struck again.

Handling the puck in the offensive zone, senior forward Isabel Menard saw senior forward

Jenelle Kohanchuk crash to the front of the net. Menard fed Kohanchuk the puck, and the Winnipeg, Manitoba native utilized her quick release to get a shot off that O’Sullivan could not stop.

Menard’s assist on the play brought her two assists away from 100 in her collegiate career.

Down 4–1 late in the second period, forward Kendall Coyne put one past Sperry to cut the Huskies’ deficit to two and give the team some momentum heading into the final frame.

At the 3:09 mark of the third period, freshman forward Dakota Woodworth took a penalty for body checking, giving NU an opportunity to pull within one goal of BU. But the Huskies were not able to cash in.

Moments after the Terriers killed off Woodworth’s penalty, Kohanchuk was called for elbowing, forcing the penalty kill unit to go right back onto the ice.

Once again, the Terriers did not

allow NU to get a power-play goal. In fact, BU was able to get good scoring chances while shorthanded.

This set the tempo for a third period that saw Northeastern go on five man-advantages but come up with no goals and only five shots in the frame.

Ultimately, the impressive penalty kill was able to finish the job and lead the Terriers to a 4–2 win.

Durocher said although the shorthanded squad did a good job, his team has to start taking fewer penalties.

“We did kill the penalties,” Durocher said. “But again, we have to do a better job of staying out of the box. That gives people too many chances, too much life and any one of those sneaks in and we have problems.”

BU will face Northeastern again on Tuesday in the Beanpot Semifinal. The puck is set to drop at 8 p.m.

Terriers’ low level of competetiveness leads to poor effort in road loss Men’s basketball: From Page 8

30 of their 66 points in the paint.

For the first time in 14 years, Hartford swept the season series against BU, a sidenote that did not concern Jones too much, considering that he put more emphasis on his squad’s level of competitiveness.

“You never want to lose to somebody twice in a season,” Jones said. “The streak is not as important as what we need to do on a daily basis to be better. Right now, our biggest issue is around the fact that we need to compete a lot harder and get the job done.”

The Hawks stormed out to an early 10–5 advantage, buoyed by

a Nwakamma layup and 3-pointer, but the Terriers quickly stormed back and seized a 15–14 edge with 8:51 remaining in the first half after a 3-point play from sophomore guard Zach Chionuma.

That was BU’s last lead of the game, as Hartford countered with a 7–0 run of its own and never looked back from there. Coach John Gallagher’s squad rode its scorching hot start from the field (59.1 percent shooting) to a 36–26 halftime lead.

Hartford’s largest cushion of the session was 12 points, but freshman forward Nathan Dieudonne cut the lead back down to 10 with a dunk three seconds before the halftime buzzer ex-

pired.

Still, the Terriers’ performance right out of the gate in that first half was not up to par with their coach’s expectations.

“We talked all week about going out and competing,” Jones said. “We need to go back to working hard. It’s more about the team competing harder and working harder.”

Freshman guard John Papale drained a triple to reduce Hartford’s advantage to seven at the 3:55 mark of the second half.

BU was able to close the gap to six points four times in that final frame.

After a Watson Jr. bucket made it a 62–56 game with 48 seconds

left, Nwakamma and guard Corban Wroe buried the Terriers with four free throws to clinch the victory.

As the final whistle sounded, both benches immediately emptied when Robinson and Hartford’s Yolonzo Moore II got into one another. The emotions between the two teams finally erupted.

“I can’t tell you exactly what happened at the end of the game,” Jones said. “I don’t know what things were said. One thing led to another. I don’t think there were any punches thrown. I hope not.”

For Jones, the message is clear for BU heading into its next tilt on Tuesday against the University of Maine.

“It’s very obvious that we’re not competing hard,” Jones said.

“It’s evident. That’s what we have to emphasize now. We have to go into the game and we have to compete. We have to play with more energy defensively. We need to be able to win a game where we don’t shoot 50 percent. We gotta be able to win a game where we shoot 38 percent and be able to grind it out.

“With the [University of] New Hampshire game on the road and the [University of] Vermont game at home, we’ve had great character wins for us,” he added. “We’re just having a hard time sustaining that energy night-in and night-out.

We just have to be able to get it done.”

Defensemen providing scoring help Alford’s late-game heroics lead to in-conference Sider: From Page 8

goal against Northeastern (14–10–2, 8–7–1 Hockey East).

Warren carried the puck into the offensive zone and fell to her knees while sliding towards the boards behind the net. Not only was she able to send the puck to the front of the net, but she also sent it right onto Tutino’s stick. Tutino took advantage and put the puck in the net for a goal.

“I didn’t know if the puck would go through but luckily … she found a way to get a stick on it and put it through anyways, and get it onto my stick,” Tutino said. “We communicate really well.”

Durocher also credited the defensemen, particularly defensive partners junior Shannon Doyle and sophomore Shannon Stoneburgh, in the well-rounded scoring from his

forwards.

“They keep it simple, they get pucks to the net,” Durocher said.

“That’s when rebounds and deflections and tips go in, and all of a sudden your numbers start to go north.”

Kohanchuk and Tutino said the well roundedness of the scoring between these two lines is a testament to the depth of the team.

“We have four solid lines,” Kohanchuk said. “The fact that everyone can put the puck in the net just shows that we have a lot of skill and a lot of depth within our team.”

“Everybody has confidence, and everybody believes they can put the puck in the net,” Tutino added. “It’s nice that it comes from more than one player, that it comes from six, and it shows that our team has a lot of depth.

“Obviously it’s a positive thing for our team.”

victory in nail biting matchup against Harford W. basketball: From Page 8

guard Chantell Alford, the Hawks held a 40–36 lead more than 18 minutes into the half.

Alford brought the deficit down to two with a jumper. Then, fter a turnover by Hartford, the defending America East Player of the Year hit a tough layup while drawing a foul. Alford hit the shot from the line to give BU a 41–40 lead with 1:07 remaining.

“It felt great,” Alford said when asked how it felt to hit the and-one shot that gave BU the lead for good. “My emotions were just out there on the floor.

We needed it.”

BU’s defense continued to step up in the final minutes of the game, creating another Hartford turnover that forced the Hawks to foul Alford with four seconds remaining.

“Our defense was like, ‘OK, we’ve got to win this game,’ and ‘let’s not let them score,’” Greenberg said. “We got the defensive stops we needed.”

Alford hit her first free throw to give the Terriers a 42–40 lead and missed her second, but an offensive rebound from junior forward Whitney Turner helped the Terriers seal the victory.

Alford, who scored the final eight points for the Terriers, led the team in scoring with 12 points. Agboola finished the game with 10 rebounds.

BU ended the game with a 32.0 field goal percentage (16of-50), while Hartford hit 34.1 percent (15-of-44) of its shots.

Both teams only hit one 3-pointer, and Hartford edged out BU in rebounding, 35–31.

BU will look to continue its great conference play Wednesday night with a home game against Stony Brook University. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.

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But this is going to be the biggest crowd ever.

-Freshman defenseman Ahti Oksanen on the Beanpot tournament.

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BU victorious in tight game at Case Gymnasium

By Conor Ryan Daily Free Press Staff

Despite trailing by two points with just 1:36 left in the game, the Boston University women’s basketball team stepped up in crunch time and defeated the University of Hartford, 42–40, in front of a packed crowd at Case Gym Saturday afternoon.

The win is the second in a row for BU (18–4, 8–1 America East), and also marks the Terriers’ second-straight season sweep of the Hawks (14–8, 5–4 America East).

“It was a typical BU-Hartford game,” said BU coach Kelly Greenberg. “We just kept plugging away and didn’t allow ourselves to be down when we weren’t getting some shots and we were missing some shots that we were getting.”

The teams went back and forth to start the game, trading baskets for the first seven minutes.

However, thanks to the combined efforts of forwards Ruthanne Doherty and Taylor Clark, the Hartford Hawks went on an 8–0 run to break the 10–10 stalemate.

BU fought back, as senior guard Mo Moran hit the Terriers’ only 3-pointer of the afternoon and junior guard Danielle Callahan hit two free throws, bringing the deficit back down to one in the final minutes of the half. But the Hawks answered with some free throws of their own and entered halftime with a 22–19 lead.

Both teams struggled to hit shots in the first half, as the Terriers only made 21.4 percent (6of-28) of their field goal attempts, and the Hawks only connected on 29.6 percent (8-of-27) of their shots. Hartford also did not make a single 3-pointer in the half, despite seven attempts.

The Terriers came out hot to start the second half, going on an 8–0 run to take a 27–22 lead 4:20 into the frame.

“We kind of got things going in the open floor,” Greenberg said.

“I think there was a lot of strategy going on out there … I think at the half, our team said ‘All right already, we can’t make a shot, let’s figure this out.’”

Despite the run by the Terriers, the Hawks, after hitting two free throws, responded with an 11–6 run of their own, ending with Hartford’s only 3-pointer of the game to give the Hawks a 35–33 lead with just under eight minutes remaining.

Neither team scored for the next four minutes, until a free throw from BU junior forward Rashidat Agboola made it a onepoint game with a little over four minutes to go.

However, Hartford answered with two scores and a free throw, and despite a score by BU senior

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Terriers looking forward to Beanpot

By Annie Maroon Daily Free Press Staff

Ahti Oksanen may only have learned the word “Beanpot” recently, but the freshman defenseman from Finland understands the significance of the Boston University men’s hockey team’s matchup with Northeastern University Monday night.

“They have told me quite a lot about it,” Oksanen said of his teammates. “I’m starting to feel as excited as the other guys.”

No. 9/11 BU (13–10–1, 10–7–1 Hockey East) will face Northeastern (7–13–3, 4–11–3) at 5 p.m.

Monday at TD Garden. Senior defenseman Ryan Ruikka is the only Terrier who has won a Beanpot, as BU has uncharacteristically fallen short of the trophy for the last three years. Boston College won in each of those three years.

One Terrier who could easily fill Oksanen in on Beanpot history is his classmate, Needhamborn center Danny O’Regan.

O’Regan’s father, Tom, was the tournament MVP for BU in 1982, and O’Regan said he has been going to Beanpot games since he was about eight years old.

“I actually watched the game, the finals where he was the MVP,” O’Regan said of his father. “I think he had three goals or something. He just tells me it’s unbelievable. There’s nothing like it, at the Garden, in front of kind of a packed house.”

Meanwhile, freshman defenseman Matt Grzelcyk, who grew up just across the Zakim Bridge from the Garden in Charlestown,

Men’s basketball loses matchup against Hartford

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Freshman defenseman Ahti Oksanen is looking forward to his first Beanpot.

said he has never been to a Beanpot game. He has seen them on TV, though, and said he expects a spirited crowd, especially with BU facing Northeastern.

“A lot of fans get to go, and there’s a lot of chants back and forth between fans, and it’s probably really cool to be a part of,” Grzelcyk said.

BU-Northeastern matchups rarely lack spirit, even though the Terriers are in the middle of a tight battle for a top-four spot in Hockey East and the Huskies are tied for last place. The Terriers slipped to fourth place in the conference Saturday when Merrimack College topped the University of New Hampshire to move one point ahead of them.

“Especially with what hap-

pened last game [against Northeastern], it was a pretty close game, and got out of hand the first two periods, but I thought we ended on a strong note,” Grzelcyk said.

Northeastern handed BU a 6–5 loss on Jan. 18. Husky captain Vinny Saponari, a transfer from BU, scored the game-winning goal, as he did in last year’s regular-season finale after BU eliminated Northeastern from playoff contention the night before.

“We weren’t physical enough,” O’Regan said of BU’s Jan. 18 loss. “They out-hit us, so we’ll just try to be better defensively.”

The day after that victory, the Huskies were thrashed 9–3 by Boston College. Since then, they

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On the bus home from Chase Family Arena Saturday night, Boston University men’s basketball coach Joe Jones explained his team’s 66–58 loss to the University of Hartford.

“They played better and harder,” Jones said of Hartford’s (12­­ –10, 5–4 America East) effort.

“They just played better, executed better, played harder, did a better job, outplayed us.”

The Terriers (11–11, 5–4 America East), who had entered the matchup on a three-game winning streak and looked to be gaining more momentum with every victory, were simply outworked and out-competed by the Hawks.

There is no other suitable way to describe the defeat that dropped BU back to the .500 plateau, according to the bench boss.

Junior guard D.J. Irving led the Terriers with 14 points on 4-of-13 shooting and snagged a careerhigh eight rebounds.

Freshman guard Maurice Watson Jr. (10 points) and junior forward Travis Robinson (11 points) were the only other Terriers to score in double figures.

Forward Mark Nwakamma recorded a double-double with 22 points and 12 boards to pace the Hawks, who shot a blistering 51.1 percent from the field and scored

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Terriers win seven straight games BU showing great offensive success

By Gregory Davis Daily Free Press Staff

The No. 3/4 Boston University women’s hockey team extended its winning streak to seven games with a 4–2 victory over Northeastern University at Walter Brown Arena Saturday afternoon. The win also marks the 14th consecutive game the Terriers (18–3–3, 13–2–1 Hockey East) played without suffering a loss.

The contest got off to a quick start, as sophomore forward Kayla Tutino and junior forward Louise Warren broke out into a 2-on-1 fast break. Tutino carried the puck into the offensive zone and passed it across the net to Warren. Warren pulled off a nice deke and shot the puck past goaltender Kelsey O’Sullivan to get BU on the board first.

Warren’s goal made her the sixth 10-goal scorer on the team this season. It is the first time in program history that a BU team has six 10-goal scorers in the same season.

“The bottom line is you’ve got real good hockey players here,” said BU coach Brian Durocher.

“You’ve got some people that are

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unselfish and you’ve got people that go to the net. I think that a little bit of a juggle in the lines has really put the two top lines together in grand fashion.”

At 7:23 of the first period, forward Paige Savage took a penalty for body checking, putting BU on the power play. About a minute later, junior defenseman Shannon Doyle took a slap shot from the point that deflected off freshman forward Sarah Lefort and squeezed through O’Sullivan’s pads for a power-play goal, giving the Terriers a 2–0 lead.

But the Huskies (14–10–2, 8–7–1 Hockey East) responded quickly. Forward Kelly Wallace was able to get a puck past junior goaltender Kerrin Sperry to cut their deficit to one just 19 seconds later.

The second frame took on a much different pace, with neither team creating many scoring chances. It took a wild play at 13:26 of the period for a puck to find its way into the net.

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For the first time in program history, six players on the Boston University women’s hockey team have scored more than 10 goals in the same season.

The line of freshman Sarah Lefort (15 goals), junior co-captain MariePhilip Poulin (12) and senior Jenelle Kohanchuk (13), combined with the line of junior Louise Warren (10), senior Isabel Menard (10) and sophomore Kayla Tutino (12), has established an offense that is the second best in Hockey East in conference games with a 4.19 goals per game average in such contests. “[They] have a great chemistry,” said BU (18–3–3, 13–2–1 Hockey East) coach Brian Durocher. “That’s not slighting the other two lines, but it’s just those six kids playing at a real high level.”

In the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons, five players reached the 10-goal mark. However, this is the first year since the women’s hockey program was established at BU in 2005 that six players accomplished such a feat.

“It definitely says a lot that we have a full roster and a lot of players that are very skilled,” Kohanchuk said.

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Warren is the most recent Terrier to cross over into double-digit goals, as her 10th goal of the season came just 45 seconds into the game against Northeastern University on Saturday afternoon.

BU went on to win the game by a score of 4–2, aided by goals from Lefort, Tutino and Kohanchuk. Menard also added three assists on the day, giving her 22 on the season and putting her just two assists shy of 100 on her career.

Kohanchuk and Tutino said that communication among their respective lines was the key to their success.

“We work really well together,” Kohanchuk said about her linemates Lefort and Poulin. “We have a lot of chemistry both on and off the ice. We communicate very well with one another, so if we have something that we want to work on, we just tell one another … we use our skills and we use our strengths to get the puck in the back of the net.”

The line of Warren, Menard and Tutino has produced especially well in the past few weeks, with the three combining for 13 goals since the new year began. Their chemistry was never more apparent than during the sequence that led to Tutino’s

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