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Biolab receives state approval for controversial research ENG freshman

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The BU biolab was approved to research Level 3 and 4 pathogens from the Commonwealth Friday.

By Brian Latimer Daily Free Press Staff

The Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories gained approval from the Massachusetts state government Friday to begin researching biosafety Level 3 and Level 4 pathogens, officials said.

“The Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs [Richard Sullivan, Jr.] issued, under the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act, a certificate for

the NEIDL ,” said Ellen Berlin, BU spokeswoman for the NEIDL. “This action is essentially the state’s approval for BSL [biosafety Level] 3 and BSL 4 research to be conducted in the NEIDL.” Although biolab officials must still seek other documentations and approvals before beginning research on some of the most dangerous infectious diseases, the state’s approval is a significant step, Berlin said.

“This is the first of final state permits,”

Berlin said. “What will happen now is that NEIDL will request permission from the Boston Public Health Commission to transfer some ongoing BSL 3 research from an existing BSL 3 laboratory on the campus to the NEIDL.” Sullivan’s report stated the Supplemental Final Environmental Impact Report, which was filed in January and found the biolab poses a minimal risk to the surrounding community, adequately and properly complies with the MEPA and with its implementing regulations, according to a Friday BU press release.

“We are pleased that the MEPA process has had a positive finding,” said Interim NEIDL Director John Murphy in the release.

“Our research will make important contributions toward improving public health and will have local, national and global impact.”

This approval allows NEIDL to begin applying for state permits to expand research, Berlin said. The first Level 3 pathogens that will be studied will be tuberculosis-related bacteria.

If final approval is granted, the biolab will conduct research on other diseases such as SARS, anthrax, Ebola, pneuomic plague and the 1918 H1N1 influenza. The goal of the research is to find new ways to treat the diseases and develop vaccines.

“For the BSL 4 research, that will not begin until a couple of other regulatory and judicial determinations are made,” Berlin said.

An online map tool released Wednesday reveals the impact that Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick’s 2014 budget proposal will have on transportation and education funding in each district if the legislature passes it in 2013.

“We hope people will see that, through this budget proposal, the city or town will be funded — transportation and education,” said Bonnie McGilpin, deputy press secretary for Patrick. “These maps are an easy way to see how the things on the news that [people] hear about will help them.”

The 400 maps, representing all state senatorial and congressional districts, were created to show what investing in growth and opportunity will mean for every community, according to Patirck’s press release Wednesday.

“This tool will help people see exactly what to expect in their own backyard as part of the investments we’ve proposed,” Patrick

said in the release. “Meaningful investments in education and transportation today will significantly improve our economic future, both in the short term and for generations to come.”

McGilpin said the online map tool project started after Patrick unveiled his budget Jan. 23, and the Massachusetts Department of Education, Finance and Transportation worked with the Information Technology Division to create the tool.

Each map was delivered to the district legislators so they could see the future of their district’s funding. The maps show Patrick’s goal to build a stronger Commonwealth through investment in education and transportation.

“As we continue to discuss the importance of making strategic investments to grow our Commonwealth, this new online tool serves as another resource for residents to understand how investments in education and transportation will directly impact them and their cities and towns,” said Mass. Lt. Gov. Timothy Mur-

By Margaret Waterman & Brian Latimer Daily Free Press Staff

ray in the release.

The budget includes a $550 million investment in education, which aims to reach $1 billion over four years. This investment would provide universal access to early education for children, fully fund grade school education and make college more affordable and accessible.

Funding for Chapter 70 education and public colleges and universities in the 18th Suffolk district, in which Boston University is located, will see an increase of about $4,439,000 in funding from the current fiscal year, according to the House of Representatives District Eighteenth Suffolk Education map.

The Commonwealth’s transportation system will receive a $1 billion annual investment from Patrick’s budget plan to maintain the current transportation system and begin high-impact transportation projects across Massachusetts, according to the release.

Whether College of Engineering freshman Tony Barksdale II was making friends on the basketball court or working toward achieving his pilot’s license, he always smiled, said School of Management freshman Jacob Rettig.

“Whether you knew him [at all] or whether you’ve known him forever, he was a very extroverted human being and he was always warm and friendly,” Rettig said. “Every memory I have with him is always a happy memory.”

Barksdale died early Saturday morning at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton.

Boston Police Department officers are investigating the circumstances of the death.

Rettig said he attended school in New Hampshire with Barksdale from when they began eighth grade to when they graduated high school, and the two came to Boston University together.

“To put it simply, Tony was probably one of the most genuine people I’ve ever known,” Rettig said. “He was there to help someone who was in need … He was just really an exemplary human being.”

Barksdale was always upbeat, and was involved in a variety of activities, ranging from athletics to academics, Rettig said.

“His personality type allowed him to hang out with a multitude of people,” Rettig said.

“He was not your typical introverted engineering student.”

Rettig said Barksdale was interested in acquiring his pilot’s license.

“He was very fascinated with aeronautical engineering,” Rettig said. “He had a huge fascination with planes and how they flew and worked. He wanted to get his pilot’s license.”

BU President Robert Brown said in an email to students that Barksdale’s death is a tragedy.

“The thoughts and prayers of all of us go out to the family and friends who are experiencing this heartbreaking loss,” Brown said in his email. “… When we learn more about the wishes of the family we will communicate about memorial events.”

Barksdale was a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. Sigma Alpha Mu members declined to comments at this time.

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Obit, see page 2

Biolab, see page 2

Patrick’s 2014 budget benefits mapped in online tool

By Kristen Gloss Daily Free Press Staff

remembered for friendly outlook

BU faces cuts to research funding, financial aid as result of sequester

By Brian Latimer Daily Free Press Staff

Officials at Boston University are bracing for impending cuts to research funding and financial aid after U.S. President Barack Obama signed the Budget Control Act of 2011 into law Friday as part of Congress’s failure to agree on a deal avoiding the sequester.

“The faculty has been more cautious with their spending,” said Jennifer Grodsky, vice president for BU Federal Relations in D.C. “They’re spending a lot of time thinking about lab research, their research technicians and about how to support them.”

The Budget Control Act of 2011, more commonly known as the sequester, is a mechanism to encourage bipartisan compromise on sensible spending cuts, said Doug Kriner, a political science professor, in an email. The sequester automatically triggered large, indiscriminate cuts in both domestic discretionary and military spending as no consensus was reached.

“Ultimately, to get a deal to raise the debt ceiling through the 2012 elections, the two sides agreed to a bill containing the sequester,” Kriner said. “The hope was that this outcome would be so anathematic to both parties that they would find common ground on a more sensible plan to hedge off the sequester.”

Republicans demanded significant spending cuts to raise the debt ceiling, while Democrats demanded increased revenues as part of the package, Kriner said.

“Two very highly polarized political parties that were unwilling to budget much led to the gridlock,” Kriner said. “Democrats wanted increased revenues and Republicans wanted revenues to be completely off the table.”

BU receives just over $320 million of federal aid each year for research and student aid, Grodsky said. Of that amount, $300 million — mainly from the National

Sequester, see page 2

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In 2013, 10 percent of the $300 million BU usually receives for research was cut because the National Institutes of Health is anticipating a smaller budget due to an unbalanced federal budget.

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Elmore: Grief counseling available through Marsh Chapel, Student Health Obit: From Page 1

Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore said the entire BU community is saddened by the loss.

“It’s always tragic when we lose someone that we know and that we consider part of our family or our group, particularly when they’re

young,” he said in an interview. “I hope I can speak for all of us at the university — and certainly for the students at the university — when I say we wish his family real peace.

We want to make sure they know this affects us all.”

Elmore said students are encouraged to seek grief counseling during

this difficult time.

“We always have services available for people, be it religious, counseling or just having someone to talk to,” he said. “… It’s helpful just to check in with someone and make sure you’re going to be all right.”

Counselors are available for students through Marsh Chapel and

eral] Pell Grants,” Grodsky said.

“Another thing students need to know is that aid is typically funded in advance and cannot be affected by any budget cuts from that year.”

Separate from the sequester, both NIH officials and NSF officials already decreased federal funding for research because Congress has not told the organizations how much money they have to work with this year, Grodsky said.

“What NIH chose to do, just as a precaution, was tell people they gave grants so that they have 10 percent less money to work with [this year], but this is unrelated to the sequester,” Grodsky said. “[NSF] said they might just issue fewer new grants.”

Faculty members intend to apply for a greater number of grants in the event funding is cut further, but opportunities for receiving

new grants are dwindling, Grodsky said.

“To further complicate things, the federal government is currently operating under a continuing resolution because they never finished the budget from last year,” Grodsky said. “In general, people are planning to have less money than planned for their research, but they don’t know how much as of yet.”

BU spokesman Colin Riley said administrators are bracing for the cuts. He said he hopes Congress and Obama minimize the impact on education institutions.

“Essentially what you’re going to have is a change in funding,” Riley said. “Individual researchers are being advised to stay in touch with their program officers, and the best thing is we are still optimistic that Congress and the president work to resolve this in the short term.”

Riley: ‘Optimistic’ about future of BU funding Sequester: From Page 1

Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation — goes to federally funded research expenditures in grants.

“A majority of our federal funding comes from NIH for the School of Public Health, [Henry S. Goldman School of Dental Medicine], the biomedical engineering program and the neuroscience program to name a few,” Grodsky said. “You will find that the [School of Education] and the [Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences] also receive funding for research.”

About $15 million dollars of federal funding goes to student aid, Grodsky said. Half of the students at BU with federal aid receive it independent from the university.

“Under the sequestration law they specifically protected [Fed-

Student Health Services, Elmore said. Residence Life officials are also available to offer support for students.

SMG sophomore Ben Kvisler said while he did not know Barksdale for an extended period of time, he always enjoyed their time together.

“People around him would always be having a good time because he had a pleasant personality,” Kvisler said in an email. “After his passing, I would want people to celebrate the life he lived and remember his friendly and warm personality.”

Chris Lisinski contributed to the reporting of this article.

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Mass. Sen.: Tool allows for better transparency Budget: From Page 1

“Actually, the tools do not fully explain the importance of the transportation proposals,” said Mass.

Sen. William Brownsberger. “For example, the important investment in the Green Line, which would have huge benefits for all the communities served by the Green Line, does not show up in the maps.”

Tools such as these maps have

not been made before — at least not in this magnitude — Gilpin said.

Patrick has been traveling the Commonwealth since the release of his plan, hoping to influence people of the importance of investing in education, innovation and infrastructure to encourage job creation and create opportunity, according to the release.

“We’ve gotten great feedback already,” Gilpin said. “[The maps] are

easy to access and use and I think that will continue.”

Brownsberger said the tool allows for more government transparency with the public.

“I’m glad the governor is helping people to assess the local impacts of his transportation and education proposals,” he said. “The impacts, the availability of funding for local projects and education for schools, are significant.”

2,717 page report from NIH earns state approval Biolab: From Page 1

Biolab researchers began working with Level 2 pathogens in April.

The biolab has received significant criticism from the surrounding community. Protesters have raised concerns over the biological threats

posed to the area.

Friday’s approval came after the National Institutes of Health released a 2,717-page report detailing an investigation on potential safety risks the lab may pose to the public. The report took the public’s concern of the biolab into consid-

eration.

“There was an extensive community process and NIH undertook a very significant and thorough risk analysis, and it took a lot of time,” Berlin said. “They were very deliberate about their work.”

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Campus & City Column TheWandering Mind

The Winding Road

My father decided to make the drive from his north New Jersey home to visit me Saturday evening.

We went out for a drink, and he reminisced about my college career from his own perspective — the series of glances he’s had into my different environments these past four years. We spoke some about the plans we make and how the universe never quite FRANK lets them play out MARASCO exactly the way we had in mind.

“Life isn’t necessarily about problem solving, it’s about problem management,” he said, theorizing that we will never truly escape conflict. I wasn’t sure how I felt about this philosophy — succumbing to the idea that our plans for the future just tend to go awry. It seemed a bit pessimistic for my taste. My dad took to the road once again, southbound for my hometown. I was left pondering his words.

I thought of another thing he’d said as we sat over pints that night: “It’s funny to think that you ended up here. It’s great.” He’s right, and the observation goes back to this central idea of our plans never quite working out as we draw them up. I started off an aimless kid, eager to leave the northeast, and began my college years in the beautiful, urban-meetsbeach world that is Tampa. My plan?

Get a degree, perhaps in philosophy.

Move to a flat on the beach. Enjoy a slow-paced life — become one with the tide.

However, that all went awry. I found myself in internal conflict because I developed greater desires. A yearn to travel overtook my original plans. There was no turning back.

I found myself in Prague, blissfully aimless once again. I traveled Europe until my money ran out. Travel is a passion, but not a solution for me, I realized, because I had developed a new problem that needed solving: Ambition. Again, my plans changed radically. I enrolled at BU. So, here I find myself with the best semblance of a plan I can muster, but things may not end up exactly how I envision them. New goals, dreams and desires could spring up and I will need to manage them to be happy — continually altering my life’s course.

I realize that my father’s philosophy — that there is no master solution— is not pessimistic at all. To grow is to change, to evolve. We develop new desires that we must quench. Whether it’s a wish to space out on a beach, a lust for travel, or a desire to impact people, our attempt to solve things and find our nirvana is an ever-evolving process. Life will not be balanced the way we can balance a mathematical equation, but it’s precisely because life cannot be solved that makes it so profound — every day is a new, marvelous adventure. We’ll always be striving for something more, because we are in a perpetual state of change. To me, there is great optimism in that. Perhaps the joy of life is derived from our journey towards an unclear destination. Our never-ending quest for solutions to new problems propels us forward.When plans go awry, the twists and turns of the universe present us with magical surprises.

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

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Swissbäkers expands to Allston location Bloomberg Radio

in Boston expands business coverage

By Kayla Canne Daily Free Press Contributor

Swissbäkers bakery celebrated the opening of its new Allston location Thursday night, bringing out many residents of the community who said they are pleased to have the shop in their neighborhood.

A family-owned company, Swissbäkers opened when Tobey and Nicolas Stohr decided they could not adjust to American bread after moving from Switzerland at a young age. Their mother, Helene Stohr, started baking Swiss breads for her children, who attended a German school at Boston University for children of European descent.

Once word of Helene’s baking skills got out to the European community, the company took off.

“When [the other kids] saw us eating European bread they told their parents, and sooner or later my mom was asked to sell rolls at the school,” said Tobey Stohr, who now co-manages the business with his family. “At that point we did farmers markets and it got to the point where Thomas, my dad, had to quit work and join the team, and since day one it’s been a whole family effort.”

When their location in Reading became too small to keep up with their growing production needs, the company decided to expand and open a bakery in Allston, Stohr said.

“Production-wise we had 400 square feet in Reading,” Stohr said.

“It got to the point where it was too

By Calvin Zhao Daily Free Press Contributor

GRACE WILSON/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF Swissbäkers, a Swiss bakery located at 168 Western. Ave in Allston, held its grand opening Thursday.

small. We were doing 17 farmers markets a week and had no way of doing it.”

Swissbäkers sells a variety of breads, pastries and croissants made fresh on a daily basis, according to the company’s website. The Reading location remains open for business, although all production will move to their new flagship location at 168 Western Ave. in Allston.

Harvard University offered the Allston location to Swissbäkers, and the family decided that this provided a great opportunity, Stohr said.

“This development in the next five to ten years is going to be ridiculous,” Stohr said. “And the feedback [from the community] we’ve had just in the past month has been phenomenal. I think it [the bakery]

will take off.”

A press release from the Public Affairs and Communications department at Harvard University said the store opening is part of plans to bring commercial entities to the Allston area.

“Located in Harvard-owned property, the new bakery and café is part of the University’s ongoing efforts to bring vibrant, community-oriented uses to the University’s Allston properties and contribute to the vitality of Western Avenue,” stated the press release.

Many members from the Allston area came to the grand opening Thursday night, where they were able to take a tour of the bakery and taste free samples.

Bakery, see page 4

Romney speaks to Fox News after months of silence

By Lee Altman Daily Free Press Contributor

Mitt Romney, 2012 Republican presidential nominee, provided insight into the pain of losing the presidency during his first interview since election night.

Romney, who spoke with Chris Wallace on Fox News, explained how receiving the voting results on election night.

“My heart said we were going to win,” Romney said. “It’s hard, it’s emotional. I mean there was such passion in the people who were helping us, I just felt, you know, we’ve really let them down.”

Ann Romney — who spoke to Wallace as well — credited false portrayals of her husband produced

by U.S. President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign as the cause of her husband’s defeat.

“I believe it was the media’s

fault as well,” she said. “He wasn’t being given a fair shake, people were not allowed to see him for who he really was.”

Mitt used the interview to voice his objections with Obama’s handling of the sequester — a series of budget cuts within the federal government that went into effect Friday.

“It kills me not to be there in the White House doing what needs to be done,” he said. “The hardest thing about losing is watching this critical moment, this golden moment, slip away with politics.”

Romney has removed himself from politics since his defeat, but said he would like to work with Republicans in the future.

“Well I recognized that I lost, so I’m not going to be the leader of the Republican Party … but I want to have influence on getting our party to a position where we can be suc-

cessful in solving the problems that our country has,” he said.

Douglas Kriner, an associate professor of political science at Boston University, said Americans are now ambivalent toward Romney, and even some Republicans no longer support him.

“My hunch is that most of the public continues to have lukewarm feelings toward him,” he said. “But many Republicans blame Romney and his alleged gaffes for their failure to regain the White House.”

Kriner said Romney’s decision to do his first interview on Fox — a right-leaning news station — was a good choice.

“Fox is a nice venue choice,” Kriner said. “This is as good a place as any for Romney to put himself back on the public stage.”

Bruce Schulman, chair of the

Romney, see page 4

Bloomberg Radio made its Boston debut Friday, at the frequency WXKS 1200 AM, and will provide 24-hour coverage of business and financial news, adding another station to an already dense radio market.

“We’re excited about expanding Bloomberg Radio into Boston, an important market for those who manage money, move the markets and shape the innovations of tomorrow,” said Al Mayers, head of Bloomberg Radio, in a press release Wednesday. “Bostonians can tap into the insightful conversations with influential analysts, economists and business leaders that Bloomberg Radio is known for.”

Anthony Mancini, program director for Bloomberg Radio, said in an email that Bloomberg Radio is the only station in Boston to broadcast around-the-clock business news and market coverage and feature interviews with influential people.

“When there’s a job report, PIMCO CEO Bill Gross, who runs the world’s biggest bond fund, comes on to break down the numbers and tell us what it means for the economy,” he said. “Some of the other influential guests who come on Bloomberg Radio include billionaire investor Mario Gabelli, International Monetary Fund head Christina Lagarde and St. Louis [Federal Reserve Bank] President James Bullard.”

Mancini said Bloomberg Radio also aired the first interview U.S. President Barack Obama had after he was re-elected.

Mary Menna, market president for Clear Channel Media and Entertainment Boston, said the New York-based radio station suits the Boston community well.

“Boston is one of the top markets for financial services, technology, healthcare and higher education,” Menna said in the release.

“Our agreement with Bloomberg Radio to provide its premiere business content to Boston listeners is a perfect fit for this area.”

Mancini said the diversity and interests of listeners in Boston made the city ideal for Bloomberg.

Bloomberg see page 4

Student group holds prayer service for Pope Benedict XVI

By Heather Martin Daily Free Press Contributor

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College of Engineering alumnus Tom Murphy, class of 2012, prays with a Rosary at the BU Catholic Center chapel in commemoration of Pope Benedict XVI’s abdication Thursday.

College of Arts and Sciences senior Bradley Agostinelli said Boston University’s Knights of Columbus group was formed as a place for generous Catholic students to unite and give back to the community.

“We needed to build a fraternity of Catholic men on our campus based on charity, which is the main staple of what the Knights of Columbus does,” Agostinelli said.

The Knights is a fraternal beneficial men’s group, according to the Knights of Columbus national website. The BU chapter is one of about 14,000 local chapters of the larger national organization and is awaiting final approval from the Student Activities Office.

The group organized a multilingual rosary Thursday at the BU Catholic Center to memorialize the

service and the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, as well as to celebrate the unification of the church, said BU Knights of Columbus’s Grand Knight Denis Nakkeeran. The Vatican asked groups around the world to participate in the event.

“We were saying a rosary, a total of 53 ‘Hail Mary’ [prayers] and six ‘Our Father’ [prayers] to commemorate the service Pope Benedict has provided — to pray for the future of the church and that the new pope will be able to serve effectively through the church and God’s grace,” Nakkeeran, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences junior, said.

Nakkeeran said the group provides students a unique opportunity to be a part of collective prayer.

“Group prayer is very powerful, more than individual prayer,” Nak-

Knights, see page 4

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Bentley University students, Swiss native: Swissbäkers ‘most authentic’ Bloomberg Radio to partner Bakery: From Page 3

Bloomberg: From Page 1

“We’re excited about Boston because it’s one of the leading cities in the U.S. for people who work in financial services, wealth management, technology and healthcare, and there are a number of top-notch universities and colleges in Boston,” he said.

In order to create the radio station, Bloomberg Radio administrators had to apply for a construction permit and file a license application during a specific window to show that they had constructed the station according to their permit.

Bloomberg Radio had to show the station’s signals would not interfere with other U.S. and foreign AM stations on the same frequency or adjacent channels, according to the Federal Communications Commission’s website.

Bloomberg Radio will partner with Bentley University to coproduce shows using Bentley’s facilities and present programming incorporating students, according to the release.

“We were excited about this collaboration from the start,” said Gloria Larson, president of Bentley University, in the release. “Bentley is a leading business university and Bloomberg, as the leader in business media, is a great fit. We look forward to working with Bloomberg to provide an informed and innovative view of business to the Boston market.”

Mancini said the station reaches out to all kinds of listeners.

“We attract a broad range of listeners — from Wall Street professionals, doctors, lawyers, to individual investors and anyone who’s interested in learning more about business, investing and what’s going on in the U.S. economy and world markets,” he said.

Because of the reputation of Bloomberg Radio, Mancini said he expects the station to fare well the public.

“Bloomberg is known as a serious business news source,” he said.

“We respect our listeners’ time and give them the most important information and analysis from the smartest minds and, let them make the decisions for themselves.”

Mike Mullaney, music director at Mix 104.1 in Boston, said the Boston radio scene is very competitive.

“In terms of media, it’s [the Boston radio market] a top 10 market, but if you really think about the impact this market has on music sales, we’re one of the top five for sure,” he said. “Because of that, millions and millions of dollars change hands depending on advertising and it’s [the money] changed more in the last year than it has over the last 20 years combined.”

Mullaney said Clear Channel has been trying to figure out what to put on the frequency for a while.

“Bloomberg is obviously one of the greatest financial companies, and from a broadcasting perspective, they do well,” he said. “We’ll see what happens.”

Allston resident Sangeetha Sekar, 27, said she was excited to see a new addition to the Allston area.

“I’ve been waiting since last November for this area to open,” Sekar said. “I love baked goodies and I was waiting for something in the Allston area. It’s a wonderful addition to the community.”

A number of other residents also said they were excited about the bakery. Rich Parr, 33, said it was nice to see the area finally being de-

veloped.

“We don’t have a lot of bakeries or coffee shops in this lower Allston area,” Parr, an Allston resident, said.

“A lot of stuff has been on hold for a long time because of Harvard, and so it’s nice to see things like this happening. We’re starting to get some actual places where you can have a meal or coffee or other things, so it’s nice.”

Lexington residents Frank Fotis, 71, and Mary Ned Fotis, 68, said they are excited to see Swissbäkers expand.

“We came all the way from Lexington for this,” Mary said.

“It’s a great addition to the area, and we’ll definitely be back.” Frank continued. “It’s the quality of the food that keeps us coming back to Swissbäkers.”

Brighton residents Nadia Eltayar, 27, is a Swiss native. She said she discovered Swissbäkers at a farmer’s market and now that they are right in Allston she will be sure to frequent the shop.

“It’s the most authentic you can get for a Swiss bakery,” Eltaya said.

Romney: Campaign was ‘rollercoaster’ ride Romney: From Page 3

history department at BU, said he believes Romney will not run for office in the future.

“As a two-time loser, I think it’s fair to say that Romney’s career in electoral politics is over,” Schulman said in an email. “The real

question is how he hopes to shape his post-candidate career. Although there are some exceptions, [such as President Ronald] Reagan, [or President Geroge H.W.] Bush, it’s rare these days for an ex-president or ex-presidential challenger to simply fade into the woodwork or into a quiet, dignified obscurity.”

Romney said although his presidential bid was unsuccessful, life has changed for his family since his defeat.

“We were on a rollercoaster, exciting and thrilling, ups and downs,” he said. “But the ride ends, and then you get off.”

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keeran said. “It’s the collective effort of everyone. Where two or more are present, Christ is there.”

Agostinelli said groups such as the Knights play a beneficial role on college campuses.

“They [religious groups] are just a warming and loving presence on campus,” Agostinelli said. “We really need it ... on college campuses especially, because a lot of times there’s an absence of love and truth in college settings, specifically in Boston.”

Nakkeeran said Catholic groups are a way for religious people to openly express their faith, and can provide a place to foster spiritual growth.

While the Knights of Columbus pray at each meeting and often have members attend different Catholic Student Association events, the main purpose of the organization is charity work fundraising, Agostinelli said.

The Knights plan to do many service

projects and to raise money for various charitable organizations in the spring 2013 semester.

College can be a challenge to students’ faiths, said Aaron Yuengert, group member and College of Engineering junior.

“This university is obviously very secular and a lot of students encounter not just indifference towards God, but hostility towards anyone who is open about their faith,” he said.

“There are a lot of challenges to living a good Christian life in a place like this.”

Yuengert said the BU Knights of Columbus proves a group is more powerful than an individual.

“When you have something good, you want to share it with those you care about and the same is true of prayer, which is the greatest gift,” Yuengert said, “While individual prayer is necessary and very fruitful, communal prayer is also necessary. It brings us closer, not only to God, but to each other.”

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Just short of coming of age: Park Chan-wook’s Stoker David Karikomi

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f Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy is a Korean parable that recognizes the limits of knowing ourselves, particularly the nature of our inner desires, then Stoker is a retelling of that visceral odyssey — but less startling and stimulating, and in English.

Park’s first English-language film — out in theatres last Friday — tells the bizarre comingof-age story of India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska).

India is introspective but brazen, silent but gifted, with a soulful and expressive body. Yet, in the opening montage, India claims that her individuality is merely an illusion. We are nothing but a collection of irrepressible instincts and tendencies that are perpetuated through family bloodlines.

The film begins on India’s 18th birthday, a celebration muzzled by her father’s death from an unusual car accident. During the wake, India meets her uncle, Charlie Stoker (Matthew Goode), for the first time in her life. He is stoic apart from a crooked grin often frozen on his face, seeming to represent the classic features of a villain. Charlie moves into the family’s Gothic mansion, and India grows suspicious of his presence and unknown past. India is further exasperated by her mother’s (Nicole Kidman) clear indifference toward her husband’s death … and her immediate affection for Charlie.

Something sensuous and faceless changes within India, but her maturation process is far

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India (Mia Wasikowska) surrounded by shoeboxes in a symbolic yet heavy-handed scene.

from hormonal. She reaches her self-professed freedom from adolescence by reconciling her scandalous interest in Charlie with a constant reflection on lessons learned from her father.

Though Wasikowska performs with frightening persistence and persuasion, there is little to take away from India’s story. In fact, the story itself did not offer the precise twists and turns that are so reliable in Park’s earlier work. Many of the flashbacks effectively build the haunting,

Gothic mystique prevalent through the film.

Unfortunately, the scenes that take place in the present are relatively dull and suffer from sluggish pacing.

However, Stoker is often very beautiful.

Park has an uncanny ability to see patterns between the characters and their environment, and this talent is often showcased in graceful and brilliant transitions. Yet, there are also moments of cinematic absurdity. In one particular

long shot, India is encircled by eighteen shoeboxes (one pair for each birthday) on her bed.

It is difficult to discern whether these displays are intended as some cryptic symbolism or just pretentious, artistic discharge.

The film consciously borrows from the Gothic mythology associated with the Stoker name. In fact, it is initially difficult to determine exactly when and where the film takes place. It is only when we see India at her school about halfway through the film that the story resembles 21st century life. Even the gray and subdued colors used in those scenes continue to evoke the antiquated reality of the Stoker’s secluded mansion — Park may have been better off creating a stronger contrast between these two realities.

Stoker misses out most on the mystical atmosphere it attempts to deliver. India struggles and thrives in a modern fairy tale and her story is dictated by striking symbolism, metaphors, and archetypes. However, when these tropes are presented in a heightened reality, it is often projected in an alienating world, rather than one that is fantastical and unidentifiable. Besides Wasikowska, poor acting frequently produces extraneous characters with few pulses of real emotion. More importantly, and unlike the fabled Oldboy, Park is never able to walk us across that difficult bridge from bewilderment to wonderment.

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isney’s Oz the Great and Powerful, directed by Sam Raimi and out in theatres Friday, tells the Wizard’s story — that of a Kansas-born circus magician (James Franco) who stumbles into the Land of Oz and subsequently must reevaluate his ideas of good and evil. Here’s what Franco and Raimi had to say about the film:

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James Franco Recently, you’ve been doing a lot of serious movies. Why did you decide to attach yourself to this more family fun, adventure film?

Well, I’ve been a fan of the Oz books — L. Frank Baum Oz books — since I was a boy. I read all of them when I was age 11.

They were some of the first books that I read on my own for pleasure, and I’ve worked with the director, Sam Raimi, in three previous films and so this was another chance to work with him. And then, in addition to that, I saw the role as something I could have a lot of fun with and could be fairly creative with.

He was written as a comedic character within this fantastical world, and I found that combination to be fairly unusual and I just thought it would be a juxtaposition of two different things — comedy and fantasy — that would result in something entertaining.

When taking up this project, did you have any initial hesitations about portraying this character that you had read about?

Yeah, well, because I was an Oz fan … I wanted to be sure that they had a sound approach, and I was already very hopeful because Sam was involved … and he’s just one of best directors, and I knew that they would capture the visuals of the movie very well, or at least I had hopes that they would. But I wanted to be sure that they were being loyal to certain things about Oz that people expect, and then also had a fresh take on it, and they

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James Franco as the “flawed” but self-discovering Oz in Oz the Great and Powerful.

did. They had all the elements you need in order for people to recognize the world of Oz … But then I saw that their approach to the world — the emissary into the world was not a male version of Dorothy. Fortunately, they weren’t just going to redo it with an innocent young person walking through Oz — that my character was, instead, a kind of con man that was stumbling through Oz and, and because he’s pretending to be something he’s not, he gets into a lot of awkward situations that could be played for comedy. And I thought that comedic edge would help distinguish this version of Oz from other versions.

What was your first impression or interpretation of Oscar/Oz when reading the script for the first time?

Again, you know, his character starts off as a flawed man. He’s selfish, he’s a bit of a womanizer, he thinks that happiness will come from, financial success and fame. And it blinds him to the love of the people around him. And I saw that one of the reasons to start the character off that way was that it would allow for growth in the character, and that the

movie would not just be a physical journey through a mystical land, but it would also involve an inner journey of the character … that he would go from this flawed person to possibly becoming a better person.

What’s different about working with Sam Raimi now than it was when you were working on Spiderman?

I’ve known Sam for over ten years. He is one of my favorite directors to both work with and he makes some of my favorite films.

When I worked on Spiderman with him, I was a supporting character and Sam Raimi identifies with his lead characters very closely. And so he very much identified with Peter Parker. And because my character was trying to kill Peter Parker, I think Sam blamed me for that, and I, not in a harsh way, but I felt like I got a little less love than Tobey McGuire on those films, just because of what the character was doing. And now that I’m the protagonist in Oz, Sam is identifying with my character. And so I felt a lot more of Sam’s love on this film.

What was it about these actors, who between them have a very diverse acting background, that makes them so perfect for their respective roles?

Well it all comes down to the casting process. I wasn’t looking for, necessarily the very best actor or actress in the world. I was looking for that actor or actress that had the qualities of the character they’re going to portray. And I guess that’s the essence of the casting process. And the old saying is, you want to find the right person for the role.

So I’m looking for — like with Mila Kunis’s character, she plays Theodora … and Theodora is a good and innocent character — so I’m looking for someone who could portray that innocence, and also she makes a turn for the wicked side. The wizard breaks her heart and first she’s heartbroken, but then a deep anger starts to stir within her, and she becomes a raging woman scorned. So I needed somebody who would portray both sides of that character. And there are a lot of great actresses, but, when I saw two movies it told me that she could handle both sides.

One was Forgetting Sarah Marshall and I saw this real positive vibe that she put out as this, I guess, Hawaiian hotel clerk. And I thought, ‘there is an innocent, positive force.’

That is, I believe she could play Theodora.

And then when I saw the brilliant … Black Swan, where she had this real dark and nasty, witchy quality, that told me that she could play the other half of the role.

And the same is true … with Michelle Williams, who plays Glinda the Good Witch.

Primarily I thought the most important thing with this character is a source of pure goodness. And I needed an actress that had a good soul. So suddenly that ruled out about 90 percent of the actresses in Hollywood.

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‘Ambition at a cost’

“Long hours and low pay go hand in hand in the creative class,” wrote The New York Times cheerily Friday. Apparently today’s young generation of aspiring professionals — especially those trying to get a footing in fields that are hard to break into — now puts in way more work hours than what might actually be healthy.

“The recession has been no friend to entrylevel positions, where hundreds of applicants vie for unpaid internships at which they are expected to be on call with iPhone in hand, tweeting for and representing their company at all hours,” the Times said, referring to the fact that competition for even unpaid internships (which mostly entail grabbing coffee and taking an Instagram or two) has soared to the point at which applicants who want the job had better be willing to devote their entire life to it. After all, it’s a dog eat dog capitalist world: If they don’t, someone else certainly will. According to the Times, one new-media manager was overheard saying recently that a company needs to hire a “22-22-22”: A 22-year-old willing to work 22-hour days for $22,000 a year.

This is ridiculous. He wants us to throw away our young lives in the cubicle and on a Blackberry. But at what point can we young, jobless hopefuls say no? If we want to work our way up in an industry, putting in

this sort of effort is absolutely required. And even when we’re not working, we’d better be working — tweeting, checking e-mails, etc.

If we turn the iPhone off, we’re fired. When Burger King’s Twitter account was hacked last Monday, the company’s community manager had her phone off to enjoy family dinner. She was criticized for not being on top of the problem, which isn’t entirely fair, if you think about it. We can’t even eat without our phones on the table.

Our technologically hyper-connected world has created high demands that require us to sacrifice our personal and private and work-free lives in the name of relevance that comes from long, extra hours (and large coffees) and constant communication via social media. And all that for very little pay. Remarked the Times: “The notion of the traditional entry-level job is disappearing,” said the author of “Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy.”

Of course, it’s not like we can cap workweeks the way they do in France, but maybe some solution is warranted. Maybe, despite recession, companies need to hire more people, and cap their hours so as to manage salary budgets while also making sure that employees, especially the young and thus exploitable ones, aren’t overworked.

Skeptics of online schooling

Online classes exist for a number of reasons: Nontraditional students (e.g. students who work full-time but need to complete a degree on the side), students who have trouble concentrating and thriving in traditional classroom settings, students who need to save money, students who are far away, etc. They’re a great option to have available to those students who simply cannot thrive in the standard school environment.

Often online schooling is only an option in universities. In recent years, however, virtual secondary schools have been started around the country, allowing a number of students who either don’t do well or don’t like the traditional school environment to learn on their own, on their own time and in their own way.

The first virtual school in Massachusetts — the Massachusetts Virtual Academy — opened in Greenfield fewer than four years ago, but is set to close in June. According to The Daily Hampshire Gazette, the Greenfield School Committee recently voted unanimously to not submit an application to be a “commonwealth virtual school” (that is, a virtual school controlled by the state and structured like a charter school). Since a law passed this January

giving the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education authority over any existing and future virtual schools in the Commonwealth, the Massachusetts Virtual Academy, which teaches 470 students, will have to close.

It’s a shame that the Massachusetts Virtual Academy will be shut down — hopefully its 470 students will find an alternative option or will adjust to a normal school environment. But if the school can’t live up to state regulations — which make sure students are getting as good of an education as their peers in other regulated public schools. The aforementioned law is in place in order to ensure that this new, nontraditional way of schooling is providing students enrolled with the education that they need as established by the state’s education department. The problem with online school is that it might allow students too much freedom, or too much opportunity to cheat or skirt on their homework.

With online schools being largely unregulated and unstructured, it is necessary that there be a standard to which online schools need to adhere in order to make sure their students are keeping up with those benefiting from more structure and the advantage of closer student-teacher contact.

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A madness of love and spite SOFIYA MAHDI

I think the term “apocalyptic” was best to describe what Americans thought their country would be like when spending cuts came into play March 1. I could imagine families stocking up on non-perishable foods, stealing away to an underground bunker and getting settled with their torches.

However, Sequester Friday in the capital was a rather subdued affair. There was no rioting in the streets, no march down the National Mall. Abuse had already been hurled between politicians and the harsh reality was beginning to set in. And the frustration of both sides flatly refusing to engage with the other persists.

The dreaded sequester cuts are beginning to come into effect; a consensus between parties seems to be an outcome reserved for a parallel universe, certainly not our own. Perhaps Washington should take a leaf from the book of the Modern Family cast and get trapped in an elevator.

This past week was one of countdowns.

The clock hit 2 p.m. eastern time as I sat at my internship desk, and all of a sudden the Catholic Church was without a Pope. In an historic manner, the world seemed to be unfurling into organized chaos. Headlines about cyber attacks from the Chinese government on American businesses and institutions danced across my screen. Secretary Of State John Kerry travelled to London and made a royal mess of remaining impartial on the controversial Falkland Islands territorial dispute between the United Kingdom and Argentina. Everywhere I looked, things we took for granted — like a plethora of government programs, a leader of a church, a strong partnership between countries — were all morphing into the unknown. Deciphering between mass media hysteria and a flickering optimism was getting too hectic.

When your immediate surroundings seem so divisive, it is only natural to want to return to a time when unity was celebrated. That’s how we found ourselves at Ford’s Theatre and consequently the Peterson House, the former where President Abraham Lincoln had been shot and the latter being where he eventually died. You can still see the actual clothes Lincoln wore on that fateful night. You can observe his blood stains on a yellowed pillow. I couldn’t take my eyes off these faded marks,

which were decades old but still present to remind generations of the damage caused. In front of me, in an enclosed case, was the actual gun that John Wilkes Booth had used to shoot a bullet through the President’s head. In the actual theater hall, you can walk into the box entrance where Lincoln sat with his wife on what would be the last night of his life. The air is musty, the walls are a deep burgundy with a sign pointing to the door that indicates where Booth entered during the performance: A moment that sent shockwaves through the theater and the American people. Just like today, it only took one major event to change the face of everything you knew.

After Lincoln was shot, those around him knew he was going to die in a matter of hours.

Rather than risk taking him by carriage back to the White House, they carried him down the steps and into a boarding house across the street. As I walked into the room where he spent his last hours, a wave of pity came over me. The author of the Emancipation Proclamation, the leader who had dragged America out of its civil war, spent his last painful night in a small room with a bed that could only hold him if he lay diagonally. The days of his uplifting speeches were gone. He had died in silence with no last words. When his body was placed in a train car to be taken all through the land for his citizens to pay their respects, he had requested his deceased son be placed near him, a tragedy that harrowed the president along with the war.

Lincoln used to request to see his son, who died of typhoid at the age of 12, unburied. It’s strange, but there’s a parallel to a father clinging on to the past where his son was still alive, and disgruntled, sequester-burdened politicians clinging onto anger and resentment of the past instead of trying to reach a consensus for the future. There’s also the parallel of Lincoln’s literally divided America compared to our own.

The difference? One madness is born out of love, the other out of spite.

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.

Letter: Response to “Israel Peace Week” letter

Last week, Kristen Martin accused Israel Peace Week of trying to “distort the human rights violations committed by Israel daily.”

First of all, get your facts straight. The first event this year was hosting “Heartbeat,” a band made of very talented Israeli and Palestinian musicians.Second, while I can’t comment specifically about the story on the contraceptives (first I heard of it, I am curious to read more about it), Israel can hardly be considered a racist and apartheid state, especially BECAUSE of its treatment of Ethiopian Israelis and other African migrants.

The mere fact that African immigrants keep pouring into the country is evidence that the treatment they receive in Israel (which occasionally has its problems because it is a work in progress) is a great deal better than the treatment they could ever hope to receive in any other country in the region. In addition, how could Israel be a racist state when just yesterday, an Ethiopian-born woman, for the first time in Israel’s history, was named Miss Israel? Could you imagine anything remotely close to this happening if Israel was truly an apartheid state?

Thirdly, the issue of Israel constructing a detention center for asylum seekers can hardly be criticized. Israel is an independent country, and it is perfectly legitimate to protect its borders from illegal immigration (just like the United States strives to do at the Mexican border). The fact that Israel is building such a center is the only possible solution. Most of the illegal immigrants are coming from Eritrea and Sudan.

Simply looking at a map of the region will raise one question: If they all pass through Egypt, what is Egypt’s role in the problem? All the immigrants enter Israel through the border with Egypt. Israel does not deport the Eritrean immigrants because they are deemed a ‘temporary humanitarian protection group’ by the U.N. While a similar status is not granted to the Sudanese immigrants, why doesn’t Israel at least simply deport them back to Egypt? Because the Egyptians refuse to commit not to deport them back to their country of origin. Another point to consider is that many of these people are not in fact refugees, but are simply migrant workers who are hoping to improve their wages and quality of life by getting into Israel. And so, Israel is stuck between a rock and hard place with regards to what to do with the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants that threaten its existence as a Jewish and democratic state.

With respect to your claims of racism and apartheid against Arabs, while there are some issues, all I have to say is that I have several Arab-Israeli friends living in Israel, who enjoy the same full rights and benefits of being an Israeli citizen as do Jews living there. They are among the 1.5 million Arabs in Israel (20 percent of its population) who share the same rights as any other citizen of the country.

The goal of Israel Peace Week is to focus on the exciting cultural aspects of Israel, putting aside the political differences for once.

Oren Sudai; osudai@bu.edu

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like they are not driving as hard as they should, or pushing themselves as well as they should. I don’t think it’s every game, but we are not getting what we need out of a couple of guys.”

The Terriers have struggled to get all of their key players performing well at the same time this season. With the first line’s production slowing down right now, the second line has seen a jump in its scoring production — especially junior forward Matt Nieto. With another goal Saturday night, Nieto has scored eight goals in his

last seven games, but only added seven goals in the 26 games before then.

One reason these ups and downs stand out so much is because the team relies heavily on its top two lines for offense. Senior center Ben Rosen and freshmen wings Matt Lane and Sam Kurker have combined for eight goals and 13 points on the season. The last time any player on the third line scored a point was Feb. 1, when Rosen scored in a 5-1 loss to the University of Massachusetts.

The team’s goaltending has also suffered from the same inconsistency as the top two lines. Freshman goalie Sean Ma-

guire allowed one goal and made 49 saves Friday night before giving up four goals Saturday night. The Powell River, British Columbia, native leads the team with two shutouts, but also has six starts in which he has allowed four goals or more.

This type of inconsistency is not something typical of BU teams. The Terriers had three winning streaks of three games or more last season, the last of which came between Feb. 24, 2012 and Mar. 2, 2012.

The last time a BU team did not have at least one three-game winning streak in a season was the 1961-62 season, when the Terriers only won seven games. That was

former BU coach Harry Cleverly’s last season with the team as Jack Kelley began his 10-year coaching tenure the following year.

If there is a time BU needs to heat up, it is right now. With two crucial games against Northeastern University coming up this weekend, BU is fighting for home ice in the Hockey East quarterfinals. With six teams all within four points of each other, BU will have a bigger hill to climb thanks to its loss Saturday night.

“This is a tough league,” Parker said.

“We have not had the mental toughness or the maturity to put three really good games together.”

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hold our composure as well as we could have with a couple penalties,” Durocher said. “We had a chance to get it out of the zone, and we just didn’t. We had a chance to skate with it, and we shoveled it off to someone else.

“One goal [by UConn] would have put the pressure on us.”

Yet Kohanchuk’s goal changed that as the Winnipeg, Manitoba, native picked up her own rebound to give BU a 4–1 lead.

From there, the Huskies attempted to get back into the game by pulling their goaltender while they were on the power play with more than seven minutes left in the contest. UConn could not score against the BU defense, and after the Huskies’

power-play chance was over, and they still had their goal empty, redshirt sophomore defenseman Caroline Campbell scored an empty-net goal, her first goal of the season to account for BU’s final mark of the game.

Nonetheless, Kohanchuk’s strong game served as the launch point for a Terrier win that BU needed to make it onto the next step of the Hockey East Tournament — a rematch with Providence College, a team BU defeated in the championship game last year.

“Jenelle had a couple of really highlevel individual plays,” Durocher said.

“You want big-time players to play big in all games, and certainly in playoff games and real meaningful games. Jenelle did that today.”

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Terrier junior defenseman Shannon Doyle led a defensive corps that allowed the University of Connecticut to register just two shots on goal in the first period of play in a 5-1 BU victory.

Doyle makes game-changing plays in win Loss drops men’s hockey to 5th place in HE Doyle: From Page 8

to the open mesh for an easy goal. But at the last possible second, Doyle reached her stick out and poked the puck away, preventing the goal and preserving BU’s 2-0 lead. “[Sperry] makes the first save for us and I just looked to back her up, and it worked out well today on that side of things,” Doyle said.

About seven minutes into the third period — less than two minutes after BU extended its lead to 3–1 — forward Emily Snodgrass was closing in on Sperry, preparing to take an unobstructed shot from below the circles. But Doyle was hustling from behind and caught up to Snodgrass, getting her stick in the way of the shot and forcing it wide.

With these game-changing plays on the offensive and defensive side of the puck, it isn’t a surprise Doyle ranks fifth on the team

with a plus-20 rating — even considering the number of prolific forwards the Terriers have.

But Doyle’s most impressive statistic, and arguably the best facet of her game this season, is blocked shots. Her 77 blocked shots leads the team, 20 ahead of second-best junior defenseman Kaleigh Fratkin. She also leads Hockey East by a sizeable margin, with 13 more than University of New Hampshire’s Alexis Crossley.

Doyle attributed her success this season to the skill level of the players around her.

“Playing with [sophomore defenseman Shannon] Stoneburgh all year, we know each other pretty well, pass the puck well and people work hard on the team to get rebounds, which helps out with my points,” Doyle said.

“I don’t think it’s more so an individual effort than it’s just playing with such high-elite players.”

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shot from the point cleanly over Maguire just 39 seconds into the second to stretch the Catamounts’ lead back to two.

By the end of the second, BU was outshot 29–19.

The team began the third period on the power play, but it took BU one more penalty from Vermont to score again.

As sophomore wing Evan Rodrigues drove the net, he was tripped in front of the crease. He was still lying on the ice as junior defenseman Garrett Noonan fired the puck over him, into the crossbar and over the goal line to make it 3–2.

At that point, just over 12 minutes remained in a one-goal game. But the Terriers were outshot in the third, as they were in the previous two periods, 13–9, and managed just one shot in four min-

utes on the power play that period.

Maguire was on his way out of the net late in the third when he had to come back to defend against a Vermont rush. Catamount wing Kyle Reynolds beat him just seconds after he got back into the crease.

Vermont added an empty-netter with 8.9 seconds remaining to make the final 5–2.

The loss dropped BU into fifth place in Hockey East, two points behind a threeway tie for second place and three points behind the first-place University of New Hampshire. Meanwhile, Vermont kept itself three points ahead of the University of Maine, hanging onto seventh place.

“We needed more mental toughness and we needed more focus tonight,” Parker said. “We needed to understand that [Vermont] would play harder because their backs were against the wall.”

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In a reversal of Friday’s outcome, Boston University men’s hockey goaltender Sean Maguire could not hold his team in a game where it was significantly outshot, and BU fell 5-2 to the University of Vermont.

BU (16–15–2, 13–10–2 Hockey East) had 28 shots to Vermont’s 42 on the night, and Vermont goalie Brody Hoffman helped make the difference for the Catamounts (11–16–5, 8–12–5 Hockey East), coming up with a number of game-changing saves.

Maguire was not scheduled to start, but when freshman goalie Matt O’Connor had trouble breathing earlier Saturday due to a respiratory ailment, he took the net for the second straight night. BU coach Jack Parker said O’Connor saw a doctor Saturday, and that he could have anything from a collapsed lung to complications from a chest cold.

After making 49 saves Friday, Maguire looked shaky early Saturday, but eventually settled down to stop 37 of the 41 shots he saw.

“I didn’t see anything different in him, and like I say, I thought he battled,” Parker said of Maguire.

BU fell into an early hole in the first period, losing control of the puck at the blue line on the power play and allowing Vermont’s Matt White a shorthanded breakaway. White shot five-hole on

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Senior forward Wade Megan played to a minus-3 rating in the Terriers’ 5-2 loss to the University of Vermont Catamounts at Agganis Arena Saturday night.

Maguire for his fourth goal of the year.

Then Brett Bruneteau flung the puck at the net from the right face-off dot, and it found a way through traffic and past Maguire to make it 2–0.

“They jumped on us right off the bat and we didn’t recover from it,” Parker said. “I thought once they got up, because of our lack of effort and our lack of concentration and focus — then we tried to get going and we tried to play harder — but because we weren’t mentally ready to start, we couldn’t get it going.”

Junior wing Matt Nieto brought BU within one on a play that was strikingly similar to one that netted him a goal Fri-

day. Freshman center Danny O’Regan hit him once again with a pass through traffic on the power play, and Nieto shot high over Hoffman for his sixth straight goal — his 15th of the season.

“He’s not standing out on the periphery hoping somebody finds him for a one-timer,” Parker said of Nieto’s scoring streak. “He’s closing down on the net and he’s driving hard.”

That goal came with fewer than three minutes left in the first period, sending BU to the locker room with a manageable one-goal deficit. But Vermont defenseman Michael Paliotta fired a

Men’s hockey, see page 7

There is an old saying that one is a fluke, two is a coincidence, but three is a streak.

If that is the case, the No. 19 Boston University men’s hockey team has not won enough games in a row to build a winning streak this season.

The Terriers (16–15–2, 13–10–2 Hockey East) failed to win their third game in a row for the fifth time this season Saturday night against the University of Vermont, falling 5–2 at Agganis Arena.

“We didn’t look like the same team at the start of this game as we started last night,” said BU coach Jack Parker. “So I would say that is mental preparation.”

Part of the reason for the team’s failure Saturday night was the poor play of the first line. Senior captain Wade Megan was a minus-3 on the night with four penalty minutes, while sophomore center Cason Hohmann was also a minus-3.

Megan and Hohmann each had great starts to the season, as Megan totaled eight points in his first seven games while Hohmann recorded a team-high nine points in the same span. However, the duo has slowed its production together as of late, only scoring a single point apiece in the past five games.

“I’m concerned with the way that a couple of guys are playing,” Parker said when asked about the first line. “They look

Consistency, see page 7

Women’s hockey defeats UConn in 5-1 Shannon Doyle’s offensive and defensive rout to move on to Hockey East semis contributions key to Terriers’ performance

By Meredith Perri Daily Free Press Staff

For five minutes in the third period, the University of Connecticut put pressure on the No. 4/5 Boston University women’s hockey team in a way the Huskies (3–29–3, 1–19–1 Hockey East) had yet to do during the rest of the contest.

According to BU coach Brian Durocher, the Terriers (24–5–3, 18–2–1 Hockey East) did not hold their composure, as they took penalties and struggled to get the puck out of their zone.

This five-minute frenzy ended, however, when senior forward Jenelle Kohanchuk scored her second goal of the game and gave the Terriers a 4–1 lead that UConn could not overcome.

“That was close to a nail in the coffin,” Durocher said. “That play was a big-time play. It demoralizes people, and it gave us a three-goal cushion at home. I was pretty certain we could carry that one from there.”

With that goal as the defining moment for BU, the No. 1 seed Terriers defeated the No. 8 seed Huskies by a score of 5–1 Saturday afternoon at Walter Brown Arena during the Hockey East quarterfinals.

Despite BU putting up 16 shots on goal to the Huskies’ two in the first period, neither team managed to leave the first frame with a goal. While UConn had very few opportunities, the Terriers found themselves stymied by the skill of UConn netminder

Elaine Chuli.

Just over six minutes into the second period, however, the Terriers finally got a shot by Chuli, when junior co-captain Marie-Philip Poulin scored her 15th goal of the season and the 50th of her career. Poulin, who scored the goal after she picked up a pass from junior defenseman Shannon Doyle in front of the net, is the fastest player in the program’s history to get to the 50-goal mark. She reached the milestone in just 74 games with the Terriers.

Exactly one minute later, sophomore forward Kayla Tutino gave the Terriers a two-goal cushion with a tally of her own.

UConn threatened the BU lead eight minutes later, however, when UConn freshman Margaret Zimmer notched her second goal of the season to cut BU’s lead in half.

With the Terriers leading 2–1, and UConn trying to push itself back into the contest, Kohanchuk notched her first tally of the game. The first-line forward flipped the puck over Chuli 5:39 into the third period to give the Terriers another two-goal advantage.

Even with that two-goal lead, however, Durocher said he could feel a lack of poise within his team.

“I felt like for about five minutes in the middle of the third, we were … I wouldn’t say panic was the word, but we didn’t

Women’s hockey, see page 7

The Bottom Line

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Junior defenseman Shannon Doyle’s impressive play on both ends of the ice in No. 4/5 Boston University women’s hockey’s 5–1 win over the University of Connecticut in the Hockey East quarterfinals Saturday afternoon was not unlike her performance all season long.

After a scoreless opening period against UConn (3–29–3, 1–19–1 Hockey East), Doyle helped put BU (24–5–3, 18–2–1 Hockey East) on the board first. Doyle held the puck at the blue line and went on the attack, skating deep in the zone down the right side. She then sent the puck to the front of the net, where junior forward Marie-Philip Poulin put it past goaltender Elaine Chuli.

“She’s a good passer,” said BU coach Brian Durocher. “So she’s got a good arsenal of things she can do, and she really generates offense for our team.”

But Doyle said she doesn’t like to take risks in the offensive zone.

“I just look for how much control we have of the puck,” Doyle said. “And I don’t like to risk it. If it looks like it’s not full possession or we look tired — we’re looking for a change — I don’t like to go down in the zone too much.”

Doyle’s assist was her 14th of the season, good for the team lead for defensemen and eighth best among Hockey East defensemen.

Although she didn’t score a goal in the

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most recent game against the Huskies, Doyle contributed her sixth goal of the season in BU’s 4-goal comeback over UConn on Feb. 23. She leads all defensemen on the team in that offensive category as well, and ranks second in Hockey East for defensemen. Her 20 points rank her fifth best among Hockey East defensemen.

However, despite her success on offense, Doyle and Durocher say they believe the Baldwin, Ontario, native does not have an offense-predicated mentality.

“She’s a real good defensive defenseman who also helps us out an awful lot on the power play and has certainly produced quite a few points this year,” Durocher said. “She’s fashioned herself as a kid who takes care of business in her own end.”

“I’m more of a defensive defenseman,” Doyle said. “So I like to be back there with [junior goaltender Kerrin] Sperry, and luckily enough I can help her out with some close calls most of the time.”

Doyle made fantastic plays to help Sperry on multiple occasions when the Huskies threatened to score during the quarterfinal matchup.

Perhaps the most impressive play came midway through the second period. Sperry fell to her left while making a save, but let out a rebound. With the puck sitting in front of the net and Sperry out of position, a Husky was sitting at the doorstep ready to tap the puck in

Thursday, March 7 No Events Scheduled Their play was likened to that of Henrik Lundqvist.

Doyle, see page 7

Friday, March 8

M. Hockey @ Northeastern, 7:30 p.m.

Softball @ Under Armour Showcase, 2:30 p.m.

Track @ NCAA Championships, All Day