4-8-2013

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Train from Cape Cod to Boston planned for Summer House-passed tax plan recieves veto threat from Gov.

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Starting Labor Day weekend, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Commuter Rail train on the Middleborough/Lakeville Line will continue to Cape Cod.

By Zoe Roos Daily Free Press Staff

Massachusetts state transportation officials announced Tuesday they would be providing a summer weekend train service connecting Boston and Cape Cod. The train, known as the CapeFLYER, will run from Memorial Day to Labor Day and aims to cut down on traffic to the Cape.

The trip itself will take a little more than two hours, according to Massachusetts Bay Transportation Auhority officials.

Kelly Smith, a spokeswoman for the MBTA said the train has been sought after for years.

“There has been a demand for it, but it also makes sense as traffic problems are well known when it comes to traveling to the Cape,” she said. “But still it will be a limited service.”

Smith said experts expect the fares will help generate much-needed profit.

“The train will also promote an environmentally friendly and economic alternative

for travel to the Cape,” she said.

The Cape Flyer will run Saturdays and Sundays only, with the first train departing at 8 a.m. and return trips leaving from Hyannis until 6:30 p.m. Tickets will cost $35 for a round trip.

CEO of the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, Wendy Northcross, said the tourismdependent businesses in the Cape are looking forward to the train being put to use.

“We’re very excited,” she said. “It has been 25 years since we have had a rail. There is no question tourism will be enhanced.”

The train can hold up to 1,000 passengers and provides space for bikes as well as a dining car, Northcross said.

“It will take as long as by car,” Northcross said. “But you can be enjoying the view and you can have food and drink.”

Northcross said she hopes a successful rail service this summer will lead to further transportation service to the Cape.

“Someday down the road I would like to see daily service from Boston all year round,” she said. Tom Cahir, of the Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority, said the train would be a great option for many travelers.

“There is another option to get people to the cape without their cars,” he said. “We have a track that the state already owns, and the track is here and in good shape. So any time we can get people to Cape Cod, particularly without their cars in the summer months, we are very optimistic it will be successful.”

Rail, see page 2

Protesters to challenge BU biolab in court on Thursday

By Chris Lisinski Daily Free Press Staff

Protesters of the Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories are set to renew the fight against the biolab in court after the lab received state approval in March, according to a Thursday press release from resident group Stop the Bio-Terror Lab. The coalition will challenge BU and the National Institutes of Health in the John Joseph Moakley Courthouse, a federal courthouse for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, on April 11.

“The STOP the Bio-Terror Lab Coalition will face the National Institutes of Health and Boston University in a fight to save the Boston community from the threat of accidental release of lethal, weaponized pathogens,” the release stated. “This fight has been going on for over ten years.”

Since BU received a grant to construct the biolab in 2003, it has been met with criticism. Opponents of the biolab claim it is a health risk to the surrounding community.

In January, the NIH released a final risk assessment finding the biolab to pose a minimal risk to the area. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts then granted approval in March, allowing biolab officials to begin applying for state permits to expand research.

However, the Stop the Bio-Terror release stated that the NIH report did not sufficiently address risks.

“After over six years of assessing the possible risks posed by the proposed biocontainment lab, the NIH has not been able to adequately prove that this lab would not endanger the lives of the communities around it,” the release stated. “The National Research Council, which is a part of the National Academies, has faulted NIH’s as-

sessments in the past as being ‘not sound and credible.’”

BU spokeswoman for the NEIDL Ellen Berlin could not be reached by press time.

“The process was very thorough and provided ample opportunity for community involvement,” Berlin said in a Jan. 15 interview with The Daily Free Press. “An important part of the process was that esteemed scientists believe that the methodology of the review was sound.”

Berlin said in a March 2 interview that there were significant steps made to gather community input.

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

The release stated that NRC officials find the risk analyses to underestimate the

Biolab, see page 2

By Steven Dufour Daily Free Press Staff

Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick threatened to veto a tax plan approved Thursday by the House of Representatives that would generate less money for transportation maintenance than his proposed budget, according to a press release. “[This] proposal is a return to the old way of doing business,” Patrick said in the Thursday press release. “I still believe we are in the midst of the process of finding a solution, not at the end of it. But I want to be clear that I cannot support another effort to kick the can down the road, and I won’t.”

The plan would increase the cigarette tax by $1 a carton and the gas tax by three cents a gallon, the latter being adjusted annually for inflation starting in 2015. It would also implement various business taxes and bring in about $500 million for transportation projects across the state.

The governor’s budget proposal would raise income tax from 5.25 percent to 6.25 percent, decrease sales tax from 6.25 percent to 4.5 percent and dedicate all money brought in by sales tax to a broader array of transportation projects, a projected fund of about $1.9 billion.

The House plan focuses funding on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and requires less money from taxpayers, but raises less money for the MBTA than Patrick’s proposal.

While the House plan helps the MBTA manage its budget, Mass. Sec. of Transportation Richard Davey, said the tax plan does not provide any long-term solutions.

“There is an alarming lack of support for fixing our roads, bridges and trains,” Davey said in a memo to Patrick Wednesday. “At a time when federal funding is shrinking and after years of neglect for infrastructure across the state, this proposal offers another short-term band-aid.”

The MBTA would receive aid in paying its workers as well as managing its budget, which currently operates at a $41 million deficit after loaned funding and an overall debt of $8.3 billion with interest payments.

The tax plan does help manage expenses, but it does not allocate enough money to replace aging trains or to create new projects, said Kelly Smith, deputy press secretary for the MBTA.

Taxes, see page 2

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg explores gender barriers in Brookline

By Megan Riesz Daily Free Press Staff

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Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook Chief Operating Officer, interacts with an attendee at the Coolidge Corner Theater Thursday night after an on-stage interview with Robin Young, WBUR’s “Here and Now.”

More than 200 people swarmed the Coolidge Corner Theatre Thursday night to see one of Time’s 100 most influential people of 2012 and the often-lauded “new face of feminism,” Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, author of the New York Times bestseller Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead.

In an onstage interview with Robin Young, host of WBUR’s Here & Now, Sandberg argued that gender barriers still exist in the modern American workplace and discussed the national debate surrounding Lean In, which advocates the idea that women should be more ambitious and demanding of raises and other benefits that their male counterparts tend to receive.

“It’s 2013. Women get paid 77 cents to the dollar in this country. It’s time to ask for the same money,” Sandberg said. “People think [this is] an industry-specific problem. ‘Oh, it’s the tech industry. Oh, it’s Wall Street.’

This is not industry-specific.”

Sandberg, a Harvard Business School graduate, said that gender stereotypes and sexism should be combated in order to help women succeed professionally. She also suggested women need to be proactive about their own careers, as Lean In implies.

“Women are held back by lots of things — by discrimination, by sexism, by terrible public policy,” she said. “I believe we should reform all of that. But I also believe that the conversation can’t be only about that. In a lot of ways, the conversation about women is only about that.”

Despite her support for gender equality in the workplace, Sandberg has been criticized by many who believe that she “places too much of the onus on women who are already struggling to fulfill impossible demands and too little on government and employers to provide better child care, more flexible jobs and other concrete gains,” according to a Feb.

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“There are people who think that in saying that women need to lean in more and claim their place at the table that you are blaming them,” Young prompted Sandberg. “I actually heard [someone say] on a talk show that it’s the equivalent of blaming a rape victim. That it’s women’s fault that they haven’t achieved

in the world.”

“Wow,” Sandberg said, visibly shocked.

“Look, I knew going into this … you touch on this subject and you are touching on something that is deeply personal.”

Despite her controversial message, Sandberg has garnered a league of female fans and supporters with the help of her nonprofit organization and global online community, Lean In.

“I read [Lean In] and … when she talks about what the women are like, I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s me!’” said Boston University Student Activities Office associate director Abby Myette, who was first in line for Sandberg’s Thursday talk. “Anybody who writes something about how we work is never going to encompass everyone. Everybody has their own work styles. Even the other women in my office don’t necessarily fit the type of per-

son she’s talking about.”

Rodline Louijeune, a compliance analyst at the University of Massachusetts Building Authority and Bryn Mawr College graduate, said Sandberg was a “huge figure” to her and her classmates.

“I think [her book is] really inspirational for women coming up in this day and age,” she said. “It definitely is some encouragement to push harder. And we can do it.”

NRC refers to NEIDL as ‘bio-terror lab’ biolab: From Page 1

stability of protective equipment in the biolab.

“This is evidence that a bio-terror lab in a location as densely populated as Roxbury and the South End could cause major damage to residents and the environment,” the release stated. “The NIH, however, disagrees and issued a final Record of Decision in January 2013, which ended all investigations into the risks of a bio-terror lab in Boston. This is what we are challenging.”

Construction on the lab was completed in 2009, but legal challenges and negative feedback over perceived threats prevented research on dangerous and infectious pathogens from beginning.

If approved, the lab will conduct research on biosafety Level 3 and Level 4 pathogens and diseases including SARS, anthrax, Ebola, pneumonic plague and 1918 H1N1 influenza.

Researchers began working with Level 2 pathogens including tuberculosis in April 2012.

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Anna Clarke, 63, of Marlborough, said she was very excited about the train.

“Taking the grandkids to the Cape and getting stuck in the car with them for several hours is so hard,” she said. “Now the train will give a set time and it will be so much easier.”

Calvin Lofgrin, 42, a resident of Brookline said he moved to Massachusetts four years ago and had been unwilling to battle

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Cape traffic in previous years.

“I have never been before,” he said. “But now, my wife and I might consider going for a weekend if it is going to be so much easier to get there.”

Olivia Lee, 30, a Boston resident said weekend trips to the Cape would now be much easier for her and her friends.

“Thinking about parking and battling traffic was always such a hassle,” she said. “Now this will be much less stressful and more cost efficient.”

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“If the needs of the system are not met, then we unfortunately will have to turn to options like fare hikes and service cuts, which we absolutely don’t want to do, but may be forced to do,” Smith said.

The tax plan, which was created by both chambers of the legislature in the Joint Committee on Ways and Means, received praise from some senators for its pragmatic compromise between providing public services and raising taxes.

“Unlike the gridlock we see on Capitol Hill every day, we can be proud of the legislative cooperation and collaboration on Beacon Hill

[in creating this tax plan,]” said Senate Pres.

Therese Murray in a press release Tuesday.

“Investing in transportation is essential for our state’s economic growth and competitiveness, and our leaders in the House and Senate are embracing this task together, which is good news for every resident, taxpayer, business owner and community in the Commonwealth.”

Mass. Rep. Paul Donato said the plan might have enough support to override the Patrick’s veto.

“There will [be] … amendments by both the Republican leadership and by [other] members of the legislature,” he said. “I would imagine there’ll be a number of them, [but] I would expect that it is going to pass the House.”

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Campus & City Column TheWandering Mind Girl Meets Reality

Isn’t it frustrating when grandpa blames the TV for not turning on, when actually he’s switching the dining room lights on and off? Don’t you put your face in your palm when uncle Bart says there hasn’t been a single good film produced since 1964? What about when great Aunt Carroll says that everyone was, “just nicer” in the 50s — when there FRANK was segregation.

MARASCO That won’t ever be you. You keep up. Right? I bet Aunt Mildred didn’t think she’d end up with 14 cats when she was 20.

Today, I’d like to give an official warning. Consider this a PSA for everyone who’d like to avoid being that old man who writes a check to pay for a gallon of milk at the gas station convenience store.

There has been a great deal of giddiness over the development and impending release of “Girl Meets World.” In fact, it’s reaching dangerous levels. The dignity of my generation is in great danger. That is why I feel a duty to intervene. Please sit down, children of the 1980s and 1990s.

OK. Are we all ready? I don’t believe in mincing words so I’m going to get right to it. It’s for your own good. “Boy Meets World” sucked.

Seriously, it was awful.

That’s hard to hear. I know. I was shocked too when I heard the news that “Boy Meets World” was atrocious. But, I went back and watched the re-runs. Yikes.

Before you run out of the room screaming, let me explain. Of course I enjoyed the program as much as the next seven-year-old in 1997, but I now have one main issue with the show — I’m in my 20s. I used to eat mud when I was seven. I also used to call girls “gross.” OK. Fine. I still eat mud sometimes, but I had a conversation with a girl just the other day and she really wasn’t that icky. I’ve grown.

Cheesy writing, terrible acting and goofy endings to each episode where every character has a monologue that starts off something like this: “Gee golly, guys. I sure learned a lot this week.” Combine all that with the occasional melodramatic ensemble and those girls in the studio audience who hoot whenever a guy and girl hold hands — that was “Boy Meets World.”

That’s exactly the kind of show that you normally would make fun of. Be honest, it is. So, why do you fawn over “Boy Meets World”? Why are you marking off the days on your calendar until Cory and Topanga start bombarding us and their new daughter with suburban values? Because “Boy Meets World” was burned into your brain when you were seven.

That’s why you love Cory Matthews, but not Carly Shay. Humans are all victims of their own nostalgia. It’s not your fault.

But, I don’t want you to be like jaded Aunt Jody, telling everyone that in “your day” there was way better television. It’s not true. There’s a bright, wonderful world of good television out there. I urge you to consider the truth, even though it’s scary to us. Change. Keep up. I don’t want you to be that guy screaming, “get off my lawn,” at the neighborhood kids.

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

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Meditation can boost test scores, study suggests Boston to get nation’s first digital library

By Hilary Ribons Daily Free Press Staff

While exams have been proven to cause anxiety in students at schools such as Boston University, meditation and similar activities may help better direct attention and reduce stress, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

“We found that mind wandering contributes to detriments across the board,” said Jonathan Schooler, one of the authors of the study and professor of psychological and brain sciences at UCSB. “We were interested in finding a technique to try to reduce that disruption.”

The study, which appeared in the March 2013 issue of Psychological Science and was reported

by The New York Times Wednesday, found subjects who participated in two weeks of “mindfulness training” had improved test scores and memory capacity as well as reduced distracting thoughts.

Schooler said meditation proved helpful in allowing the study’s subjects to focus while in test-taking situations.

“It’s not just meditation, it’s the instruction and meditation practice that seems to enable people to stay more present-focused and thereby avoid their minds drifting away from the material that

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Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara are studying the link between meditation and test scores.

they’re reading,” he said.

Schooler said he hopes the research will encourage meditation, which he feels may be a very valuable technique for focus and improving academic performance.

At the outset of the study, University of California students were given reading comprehension and working memory tests to document their scores and capacity, according to the study. After a program of mindfulness meditation, students who participated in the meditation scored an average

of 16 percent higher on the GRE test.

“Some research has shown that mindfulness training bolsters working memory capacity and attention control, allowing for greater performance in stressful situations [such as tests],” said BU human development professor Kathleen Corriveau in an email. “Other research has shown that mindfulness training reduces anxiety in test takers, but may not influence overall score.”

Meditation, see page 2

Students ‘Take Back the Night’ for second year

By Heather Hamacek Daily Free Press Staff

Chants against sexual violence and bigotry filled the night air as about 50 students marched down Commonwealth Avenue Friday as a part of Boston University’s Take Back the Night.

After first being hosted in March 2012, the Feminist Collective hosted the rally for the second time Friday night. One of the rally’s organizers, FemCo activist and College of Arts and Sciences junior Yayra Sumah, said Take Back the Night is a nationwide event and has become an annual event at BU. “Take Back the Night is about reclaiming that space and not having fear of assaulters in the night anymore,” Sumah said. “On a bigger scale, we are pushing for the end of all forms of sexual violence.”

In its second year, the rally ex-

panded to include people that increased its power, such as crisis councilors from BU’s Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Center, student speakers and, for the first time, a male speaker, Sumah said. They also included groups for people with different gender identities.

Leah Robson, a School of Management sophomore, said it was her first time participating in Take Back the Night.

“It seems like a really empowering message,” said Robson. “I wanted to be a part of it for my friends who have been affected [by sexual violence].”

The night began with poster making and socializing as music played.

After an introduction to the program and a message from Antonio Arrendel, SARP health and prevention educator, three students spoke.

“I decided it [speaking] would be important for my healing process,”

said Simone Leonard, a CAS sophomore, FemCo Activist and the second student to tell her story. “It could be a way I could empower other people as I was last year.”

The final student to speak, CAS junior Danielle Galloway was introduced as a survivor, student and inspirational speaker.

“I think the most important thing is allowing students to feel like they have a place to go and be heard,” she said. “And for victims, it is important they have a place to be heard and to know we stand in numbers behind you.”

Swanson Ninan, a Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism member, said “taking back the night” means feeling safe from harassment and assault on the streets.

He said he was glad to see the inclusion of male-identified students

Night, see page 4

Fin. aid letters unclear, study finds

By Jenna Lavin Daily Free Press Staff

Many students at colleges such as Boston University who apply for financial aid each year face significant challenges in comprehending their situations as described by financial aid award letters, according to a new study.

The study, released Tuesday by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, found that aid award letters are sometimes unclear and do not provide information in simple enough terms.

“The purpose of the study was to understand what students’ parents did or did not understand on each letter and what they thought could be improved,” said Abby Miller, senior research associate at JBL Associates, the agency that conducted the study. “… [Students and parents] just want to know simply in layman’s terms

the bottom line: How much do I owe?”

The preferred award letter was a hybrid of both a NASFAA-designed award notification and of the U.S. Department of Education financial aid “Shopping Sheet,” according to the study.

“The majority of respondents were able to decipher basic information such as the total cost of attendance … but relatively few were able to correctly respond to questions about financial aid terminology, such as direct and indirect costs or subsidized and unsubsidized loans,” the study stated.

Mark Kantrowitz, financial aid expert and FinAid.org publisher, said financial aid letters often contain irrelevant information that can be confusing and that letters could be improved by ordering information in

Aid Award, see page 4

A prototype of the Digital Public Library of America will launch at the Boston Public Library April 18 and 19.

“The DPLA is being created to satisfy a need,” said Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University library system. “This need is widespread and deep. It is the need to make the cultural heritage of this country available to everyone in the country and, in fact, everyone in the world.”

The DPLA will be the first public, national, online library, and has been developed over the past few years at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Darnton said.

“In practice that [need] means digitizing the contents of our research libraries, museums and archives, and then integrating them in a system whereby a user can painlessly have immediate access to all of these documents,” he said.

Boston is home to the country’s first publicly supported free municipal libraries.

“We had a long discussion as to where headquarters should be located,” Darnton said. “The truth is that the talent in computer engineering and library expertise is really very dense in greater Boston.”

Darnton said he was inspired to create the DPLA by his desire to share the intellectual wealth of the Harvard University Library with the public.

“We can’t just open the doors and let everyone in because the place would be flooded with readers,” he said. “But, modern technology makes it possible to genuinely open up our holdings and make them available to everyone.”

Michael Colford, director of library service at the BPL, said in an email that after the initial meeting to set in motion the digital library, DPLA leaders reached the decision to involve public libraries in the development process.

“Amy Ryan, President of the Boston Public Library, was asked to serve on the DPLA steering committee because of the BPL’s extensive work digitizing their collections,” Colford said.

He said the DPLA would use a

BPL, see page 4

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Riley: Officials ‘continually’ working to improve clarity of fin. aid letters aid award: From Page 3

a simple, user-friendly manner.

“They need to have a realistic, bottom-line cost … that reflects the amount of money the family is going to have to pay from savings, income and loans in order to cover the college cost,” he said.

Kantrowitz said transparency in the format of financial aid award letters is not a priority for schools.

“Part of the reason for [the lack of transparency] is that there are no mandatory federal disclosure requirements,” he said. “Only about 10 percent of schools have signed up to use the financial aid shopping sheet.”

Kantrowitz said there are other problems with financial aid award notifications such as the failure to separate loans from grants and the lack of finality of the total aid package.

“The award letter isn’t really final,” said Kantrowitz. “Your final bursar’s bill could be substantially different than the award letter.”

BU spokesman Colin Riley said BU officials intend to make BU financial aid letters as clear as possible.

“Boston University is continually working to improve our communication to students and their parents regarding cost and financial aid available to our students,” he said.

Riley said BU offers online calculators and other materials available to help students and

parents understand their award letters.

“We provide the information, we have these calculators there, but we can’t tell people what to do,” said Riley. “They need to seek external guidance, not university guidance.”

Yesenia Rodriguez, a College of Arts and Sciences junior, said she reached out to BU’s Financial Assistance office for clarification and received mixed responses.

“The first time they were really helpful, the second time they weren’t,” Rodriguez said.

“They put me on hold and they tried to redirect me.”

Jordan Serrano, a School of Management senior, said the layout of the BU Student Link web resource makes information clearer and

has assisted him in understanding his financial aid package.

“It’s kind of confusing when … you have to sort through everything that you get because of your loans and financial aid,” he said. “I’ve read through [my financial aid] and I went to a loan dismissal event because I’m graduating, so they were telling me information about my loans.”

CAS freshman Almaz Messgna said without external help, she would not have understood the details of her financial aid package.

“There was a course at my high school so I got lucky,” she said. “If my teacher didn’t sit me down and tell me about financial aid, then I wouldn’t have known.”

Students use music, exercise to relieve anxiety before tests, presentations MediTaTion: From Page 3

Corriveau said exercises other than meditation may also help in improving results.

“Aerobic exercise with a mindful component, like yoga, has been shown to reduce anxiety and direct attention, which might help in testing situations,” she said.

Several BU students said they employ a variety of strategies to deal with exam stress and to boost focus.

Keith Congden, a College of Arts and

Sciences freshman, said he uses music to clear his head before he begins studying for an exam.

“My main form [of anxiety relief] is music, so I’ll just go in my room and listen to an album for an hour,” he said. “When I listen to music, I usually try to stay away from everything else so it’s kind of like meditation to me.”

Congden said while he does feel stressed while studying, he does not let himself wor-

ry during the actual exam period.

“My philosophy has been if I’m taking a test and if it’s going poorly, I’m not going to go crazy about it because it’s going to be over soon,” he said.

College of Communication senior Sandeep Chandrasekhar said he thinks test taking causes intense stress.

“There’s a lot of anxiety going on right before a test because you feel like you want to answer everything right and you want to

do well, but you end up caring a little bit too much,” he said.

He also said he believes meditation is helpful as it relaxes the mind and helps students use the information they have studied in a helpful way.

“Meditation really calms your mind, and it really helps you focus, take a step back, and make sure you remember everything you’ve been studying all along,” Chandrasekhar said.

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and to see the positive energy of all participants.

“It’s a really good sign — I think there’s a lot of misconception that this is just a women’s issue and it’s not,” Ninan, a CAS sophomore, said. “I’m happy there is more awareness of this issue being a man’s issue too.”

Chordially Yours, an all-female-identified a cappella group, performed alongside the speeches. Aural Fixation, another a cappella group, performed after the march.

Sumah said in coming years, she hopes to see greater participation from certain parts of the BU community.

“I’d like to see more participation from

Greek life, from faculty and from especially male-identified people in the community,” she said. “And more support from the bureaucratic structure of BU in general for facilitating women’s rights activism on campus. It was difficult putting this event on and it shouldn’t be that way.”

Sumah said Take Back the Night will continue to happen annually, until safety is no longer an issue.

“Until we can live in a society where our lives are not policed by harassers and assaulters at night, and when we can live in a world where we are in a safe space from behaviors and ideas that excuse or encourage sexual assault,” she said.

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network of service hubs and content hubs to access digitized collections nationwide. BPL is among the seven initial service hubs.

“Service hubs … are regional institutions that oversee statewide, or regional digital repositories, bringing together digitized collections of many different institutions,” he said. “Similarly, content hubs are institutions that have already digitized large collections and are making those collections available to the DPLA, such as the Smithsonian, Harvard and the New York Public Libraries.”

The DPLA portal will provide access to the digitized collections of all of the service hubs and content hubs in a single search, Colford said.

“Moving forward, the DPLA hopes to create apps that will allow access to these collections through individual library websites,” he said.

Jack Ammerman, associate university librarian for digital initiatives and open access at Boston University, said the DPLA would improve library-goers’ abilities to discover and

access a vast amount of digital resources.

“Early efforts by libraries and museums to digitize portions of their collections have enabled users to access resources through the Internet that are otherwise difficult to access,” Ammerman said. “DPLA provides a collaborative platform to make these digital resources more easily discovered and accessed.”

He said the DPLA would yield a great deal of benefits for BU students and faculty.

“DPLA will be most helpful to BU students and faculty who are in interested in using resources that have been in special non-circulating collections in libraries and museums,” Ammerman said.

BU Libraries intend to develop a greater connection with the DPLA and its many resources in the future, Ammerman said.

“At BU, we hope to find ways of making these important collections easily discoverable and accessible by our faculty and students,” he said. “We will also look for ways of making the digital collections from the BU Libraries accessible through the DPLA.” @Dailyfreepress @Dailyfreepress @Dailyfreepress @Dailyfreepress

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ing Tsai has a lot of friends, but he doesn’t know all of them.

In the crowded dining room of his new “Asian-fusion gastropub,” Tsai leans back in his chair at the chef’s table, sifts through piles of paperwork with a crumpled brow, checks his ornate silver watch and asks about The Daily Free Press’s circulation when two 30-somethings in suits comes up and interrupt us. It’s the first interruption of five in our 30-minute interview.

“Fantastic restaurant, man!” they call from behind the hostess’s station.

“Thanks, guys. Come back for dinner! Tonight!” he cries with a smile.

People come to shake his hands, pass him business cards, and pat him on the back as if they’ve been close for years. Each time, Tsai offers some upbeat words before they leave.

When they leave, he tosses the business cards

Food Editor in the pile and gets right back to business.

“People always stop me on the street, come up to me like an ex-lover or an old friend or someone I knew or dated, because they’ve been watching me on TV for 15 years. They feel like they know me.” Tsai recounted. “But don’t be offended if I don’t recognize you on the street. I know a lot of people, but that doesn’t make me a better chef.”

Tsai developed his status as a household name 15 years ago as a young chef opening up an East-Meets-West fine-dining restaurant in Wellesley called Blue Ginger. That same year, he won an Emmy for his former Food Network show, East Meets West with Chef Ming Tsai. In 2002, Blue Ginger won the James Beard Award for Best Chef: Northeast, and he started running his third show, Simply Ming.

Years later, Tsai is still busy. Last year, he celebrated the 10th season of Simply Ming by

receiving a nomination for yet another James Beard, this time in food television. He also published his third cookbook Simply Ming in Your Kitchen last year, which includes QR codes to upload shopping lists and tutorial videos straight to your phone. Finally, to finish up his latest burst of activity, Ming opened Blue Dragon in the emerging Fort Point district of Boston two months ago, which is his second restaurant and first casual-dining interpretation of East-meets-West cuisine.

“It’s cool to be in the city,” Tsai said. “It’s cool to have such a young clientele who are so food knowledgeable and conscious and sustainable.”

The lunch menu favors sandwiches and salads, including western twists on Vietnamese Banh Mi and Asian influences on traditional hamburgers. The dinner menu, on the other hand, features fusion comfort foods and smaller

Award-winning chef Ming Tsai, left, speaks about his new Fort Point restaurant Blue Dragon, center, and the type of East-Meets-West dishes, right, that he serves up.

dim sum/tapa-style dishes for between $5-15.

“Sure we have a Shepard’s pie, but we also have braised pig’s tail and octopus,” Tsai said.

“Plus, that Shepard’s pie is made with Indonesian curried lamb.”

Unlike his first restaurant, Blue Dragon presents itself as affordable and fun. Bar-height tables allow 20-somethings to drink and talk as Tsai mingles with the crowd on Friday nights.

Patrons pop shumai and escargot into their mouths near a crowded bar and a small waterfall. And in case the gastropub vibe was lost among the youthful energy, a bar looks out onto the abandoned streets of Fort Point late at night.

“BU students love to have fun. They want a casual atmosphere with cool music, and not a lot of them are multi-millionaries,” Tsai said.

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INTERVIEW: Spring Breakers’ Harmony Korine and Ashley Benson

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ild teenagers, an abundance of alcohol and sun-kissed screenshots dance across controversial director/screenwriter Harmony Korine’s latest film Spring Breakers. Four college girls, Brit, Candy, Faith and Cotty are fed up with their boring college lives and want to do something different. What better chance than Spring Break?

Pretty Little Liars star Ashley Benson and former Disney stars Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez break free from their stereotypical roles, depicting four girls with their minds set on having a spring break they’ll never forget. Their means of getting money quick? Rob a restaurant. But that idea quickly backfires after their subsequent arrest. After being bailed out by a shady drug dealer named Alien, played by James Franco, they embark on a wild trip to the beautiful Gulf of Mexico.

MUSE sat down with Harmony Korine and Ashley Benson to discuss the film:

do you feel from making Kids to Gummo to this? Do you feel that that’s changed with the adolescent age?

Justin Soto: Ashley, you’re known for your role on Pretty Little Liars. Why the huge jump on to a provocative film?

Harmony, can you tell me about deciding to cast this film? I understand actresses like a change, but it seems like this is not something that their fan base is going to be able to see anyway. So I’m assuming this was a deliberate choice to pick a kind of unexpected cast for this. Can you talk about that some, please?

Ashley Benson: I don’t know; I mean, I’ve been on that show for four years now, and I feel like people have just seen me in a certain way for such a long time. And I really wanted to do a film where I was different from anything I’ve ever done. And I read Harmony’s script and it was exactly what I wanted to do. And I liked how edgy it was — I liked how different it was. And I wanted a chance to work with Harmony, to work with James [Franco], and I wanted to do something different.

Harmony, in this film, and in Kids and Gummo, it seems like you portray adolescents as having a kind of invincibility. How

Harmony Korine: I would say that my guess is […] people are people. Adolescents, they always have the same urges, and at its base level, I would assume that it’s the same.

But at the same time, the world has changed; and the way people communicate and socialize has changed.

Now it’s all kind of filtered through something completely different, something that’s more performance-based — it’s like a more performative, a more exposed cultural kind of thing now […] Whereas back in the day, it was more about kids trying to disappear, or people trying to find themselves. It was more of a shadow culture. Now … everything is on display, and filtered through some kind of technology.

HK: Sure. But I disagree that their fans won’t see it. I mean, I think that their fans will also grow up, and eventually see it. So I think that we make a movie, and the movie exists forever, and so eventually people will find it.

People that aren’t old enough to see it now will be old enough to see it in a few years, and hopefully they’ll enjoy it. I wanted to work with these girls, first and foremost, because they were the best for the part. They were the

most interesting for the part.

And then, on top of it, I liked the fact that they were connected culturally to this kind of — almost this kind of pop mythology. And I thought it was an interesting counter to their perception and what they’ve done in the past.

And I thought it was exciting for them. They were all at a place in their life where they wanted to try things that were more graphic, more extreme — a different type of acting.

And so that was obvious, and that’s what they did. And it was great.

I’d just never really done anything like that before and Harm [would] just make scenes up as we went along — which is super fun and rad. At first I was kind of insecure about it just because I really didn’t know what I was doing.

But as we got more and more into filming it just became easier.

Harmony, you talk about wanting your audience to feel your movies in a physical way — why is that important to you?

HK: I liked the storyline, and I liked the characters. It was a world I wanted to explore.

Is it a reflection? […] I think it’s connected to youth culture in some way.

But at the same time, it was never meant to be a kind of documentary or an exposé on something. And it is more like a reinterpretation of those things. It’s something that’s more like a pop poem, or almost like the real world but pushed into something more kind of — I don’t know — hyper-poetic. And […] it works on its own logic. So I would say […] it’s connected to the culture, and maybe there’s a zeitgeist in some way. But it’s also something separate.

HK: It just is, you know? […] I’ve always felt like I wanted to make movies that worked in that way, that worked [as] something that was not just a normal movie-watching experience, something that had another element to it, something that was more like a ride, or a game, or something that demanded some type of participation in some way, or some type of physical response.

I wanted the films to be beautiful, and be entertaining, but I also always thought about movies in a different way — in a way that was more encompassing, I guess, or more of a physical experience as opposed to just being told the story and being told what to think.

Ashley, what was the biggest challenge for you when you were filming Spring Breakers?

AB: I guess just the improv. We were able to improv a lot throughout the movie, and I’d never really had much experience with that. So I think that was really the only challenge […]

Harmony, why’d you think you needed to make Spring Breakers now? And do you think that it stands as a reflection of teenagers in America right now?

Harmony, what do you think when people refer to aspects of your movies as exploitative?

HK: Oh, I mean, whatever people want to say, it’s fine. I don’t really — it’s nothing to me. I never really understood that argument because you assume that in order to film, in order to make a movie, people understand they’re making a film. You’re not blindfolding somebody and drugging them and sticking them in front of a camera.

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Sexual education before emergency contraception

The “morning after pill” is now available to women of all ages without a prescription. As of Friday, Federal Judge Edward Korman overturned the Obama Administration’s proposed ban against women younger than 17 years of age from purchasing emergency contraception without a prescription. His decision sparks controversy as to whether emergency contraception is safe for adolescents, especially when girls as young as 12 menstruate.

Deemed the “abortion pill” by pro-life activists, emergency contraception availability also struggles against a debate on the morality of promoting sexual activity in minors or abortion.

The availability of emergency contraception to women of any age does not necessarily promote unsafe sexual activity.

However, by removing the restrictions of prescriptions, teenagers and adolescents now know that there is an option to prevent an unplanned pregnancy that does not get parents involved. By requiring a prescription, the adolescent could have even missed the 72-hour window for taking emergency contraception. Korman’s decree now expedites the availability of emergency contraception, saves a visit to a physician and also averts the stress of telling parents or physicians.

The decision to go to a pharmacy and ask for emergency contraception should be as informative as possible for the patient. Previously, by including parents or a doctor, it can be assumed the adolescent learned the magnitude of taking emergency contraception and how to avoid having

to take it again in the future. Pharmacists should feel responsible for educating a minor of how it works and explain how to use male or female condoms to avoid pregnancies and STI transmission. Pharmacists are essentially taking on the responsibility of a parent, family physician or social worker.

Kathleen Sebilius, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, backed by U.S. President Barack Obama, had originally decided to require adolescents acquire a prescription for emergency contraception. Now that the policy has been overturned, she worries about the health impacts on young women, according to The Washington Post. There have not been studies on the effects of emergency contraception’s high-hormone concentration on girls 11-years-old and younger. By forcing adolescents to see a physician, the policy effectively involved doctors to monitor patients’ health.

Younger women, minors specifically, are not as well educated when it comes to avoiding a pregnancy. Sexual education in school should now become the forefront of this debate. If adolescents are having unprotected sex or even using condoms with oil-based lubricants (which leads to them breaking), those problems can be remedied by sexual education in schools. Teenagers should know that emergency contraception should not be a frequent solution and that the name itself implies “last resort.”

Despite possible health impacts of taking emergency contraception, the alternative — an abortion or a pregnancy— is much more invasive, dangerous and expensive.

How a national Shield Law saves journalism If a source requests to remain anonymous, the reporter has a duty — backed by the Shield Laws — to keep that source’s identity a secret. Jana Winter, a Fox News reporter, now faces jail time for refusing to reveal her source. Winter is responsible for breaking the story about shooter James Holmes’ journal containing premeditated details about the theater massacre that took place in July 2012. The journal was sent to a University of Colorado psychiatrist before the shooting. She cited unnamed law enforcement officials in her story, “EXCLUSIVE: Movie massacre suspect sent chilling notebook to psychiatrist before attack.”

Colorado’s less stringent Shield Law allows Holmes’ defense to claim that the information Winter withholds hinders their client’s right to a fair trial. Without consistent, universal Shield Laws, lawyers can continue to trample not only the rights of journalists, but also the rights of the anonymous sources.

If Winter reveals her sources, she compromises the integrity of her news outlet.

If Winter folds, she successfully destroys any chance for the media to speak to that source again. If one journalist breaks his

or her promise of anonymity, any source in the future could think his or her identity is unprotected and might not reveal vital information to the media. Holmes’ defense lawyers cannot suppress reporters’ rights to provide the people and the judges accurate information.

Winter’s fate could be determined by how emotionally charged the subject of the Aurora shooting is. The defense lawyers can use the constant national coverage as a platform to aid their defense. By doing so, the defense is smothering Winter’s rights and her sources’ rights to freedom of speech.

Shield Laws vary from state to state. If Winter faces jail time in Colorado for not revealing her source(s), then Colorado has among the weakest Shield Laws in the nation. By nationalizing the policy, the integrity of journalists can remain constant while traveling over borders. Journalists should know their rights, but they should not have to memorize how to gather information differently in Indiana or New York. A National Shield Law guarantees the well-being of anonymous sources and ensures the quality of news gathered by journalists.

SNAPSHOTS OF D.C.

Clearing the Capitol SOFIYA MAHDI

The glaring white Capitol building basked under the Washingtonian sunlight as we slowly moved away from the Visitor’s Center entrance. According to a nearby officer, a suspicious package had been detected in the building. Tours and any other visitors would be turned away indefinitely. This was the first time I had really seen a security exercise take place in the area and we waited patiently as the situation was rectified. Once we finished meandering through the hallowed halls of the Capitol, we ventured deeper into the heart of Washington. Eventually, we found ourselves standing on the National Mall.

I had forgotten what the sun looked like when I looked out toward the long expanse of grass and set my sights on what seemed to be hundreds of kites flying through the air. This afternoon was the famous Kite Festival that brought out families from all around the area. The almost cloudless blue sky was dotted with a kaleidoscope of shapes and colours as kites drifted further and further up into the stratosphere. These gravity-defying shapes that floated overhead were not the same kites I had remembered as a child. Here were rockets that had circular jets of red which spun in the air and kites shaped as planes with spinning propellers. I watched as adults lined up for ice cream on the street corner and an overexcited child almost hit two women in the head with his red dragon kite dragging haphazardly behind him. A myriad of puppies ran across the grass, grateful that spring had seemingly arrived at last. Yet again I channeled my touristy side as I took dozens of pictures to preserve this moment in time.

In an article published by TIME, the powers of human memory are called under question. Most of us have become aware the memory is not a pure recollection of events in a lifetime; a reality that can seem alarming to most of us upon reflection.

Reminiscing about the past has become a foundation for who we are — a cranial comfort in which we can burrow ourselves when we want to remember where we came from. Instead, these recollections serve more as a result of who we’ve become, what we consider important and a development of perception.

Earlier last week, I enter a salon to get my haircut and a middle-aged woman in a full pantsuit greets me. Her own hair is perfectly coiffed, and she has a domineering personality as she questions me about

my time in D.C. Before she was a mother and business owner, she worked on Capitol Hill. I watched her grow wistful as she asked me what it was like being an intern this semester, with the rest of my professional life in front of me — the nation’s capital at my disposal. She transformed from business owner to life coach in a split second as she bombarded me with advice and anecdotes while my stylist continued to part my soaked hair and snip the ends.

There was no such thing as switching off in this city and I loved it all the more for it.

My mind meanders back to the present and we continue to make our way through the crowded mall. As we walk by, we notice the beginnings of the cherry blossom season begin to emerge, as one tree stands apart with it’s pastel pink flowers hanging from brown branches. A cheesy photo shoot commenced, before we just stood under the tree chatting while other curious visitors tried to get their perfect shot in spite of us monopolizing the space. The Japanese hold cherry blossoms in high esteem — they serve as a symbol of power and hope. Most importantly, the cherry blossoms indicate transience: They come and go without attachment or permanence, much like human memories, which are edited and morphed as circumstance and time changes them.

As April gathers momentum, and the end of my time in Washington looms ever closer, this transience remains in the back of my mind. Soon, I will be saying goodbye to my comfortable work routine in this city. Soon, I’ll be thousands of miles away from the members of Congress in their tailored suits, crazed interns scrambling to meet deadlines and the tranquillity of the cherry blossoms that beckon toward the Washingtonian tidal basin. Soon, I’ll be on a journey to Sydney, Australia for my summer, which will evolve into an adventure of its own. Until then, all I can do is allow all the city to wash over me as I walk through various neighbourhoods and back to my home away from home in Woodley Park.

As Easter and the commencement of spring elicit a feeling of new beginnings, I enter the homestretch of my visit. I shall treat this moment as my own new beginning as I watch the blossoms sway under the sun.

Sofiya Mahdi is 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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second inning. Just as they did in the earlier game, Hartford had a response, scoring two runs to take a 2-1 lead.

With the momentum shift in favor of Hartford, the hot bats of the Hawks continued to swing as they tacked on another three runs in the bottom of the third.

In the fifth inning, the Terriers’ bats came alive once again, and they were able

to cut down the Hartford lead to one before Meade shut them down. Meade continued to send BU hitters back to the dugout frustrated for the rest of the game en route to the 5-4 win and a split of Saturday’s contests.

Sunday was another tough day for the Terriers as they played in a rubber match against the Hawks. With Tuthill on the mound once again for BU, the Terriers were looking to leave Hartford with a big

win.

Tuthill surrendered two runs in the first inning to the Hawks after a scoreless top half for the Terriers. Hartford kept BU scoreless through four and built a 3-0 lead, but once again, the Terriers got to Hartford pitcher Kudernatschova and tied the game in the top of the fifth.

The game remained tied at three until the bottom of the seventh, when some lategame heroics by Hartford sophomore Kate

Wacyk, who hit a walk-off two-run home run to put the Hawks up 5-3, sending the Terriers packing.

“We’re obviously disappointed,” Gleason said. “We felt we were matched up well with Hartford, but we left several people on base and that’s disappointing. We gave ourselves a chance, their pitcher did a good job, and we just weren’t patient and didn’t let the ball come to us.”

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a 22-16 advantage in draw controls, while the Catamounts edged out BU in ground balls by a margin of 24-14. Both teams finished the game with 37 shots.

Junior goalkeeper Christina Sheridan recovered from a shaky start to finish the game with nine saves.

“A lot of credit has to go to Sheridan,” Robertshaw said. “She had a little bit of a rocky first half, I think she was a little jumpy, but then she came back and made some huge plays and big saves.”

Etrasco was once again the spark plug for the Terrier offense, as she led the team with seven goals. Weiner also had a huge day, finishing with six points, including a career-high four assists.

The last time BU scored 20 goals in a game was April 29, 2006, when the Terriers defeated the University of New Hampshire,

20-5.

While many players contributed to the score sheet, Robertshaw said she thinks it was Etrasco’s impact on both the action and her teammates that helped jumpstart the Terrier attack.

“We really got started off with Danielle,” Robertshaw said. “I told her that she needs to lead this team and she knows it, but by her being on and encouraging everybody else to keep shooting, it shows everyone that we need to get as many goals as possible. “[Etrasco] had five [goals] in the first half and I challenged her to get 10, and the entire team heard it. And I also said to them that they better be going for 10 too, and I think they did a really good job of responding to that. We need to keep that collective style of attack going as we get into Binghamton [University] and as we finish up the final six games of the season.”

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hits in a 3-1 victory. Although the Terriers scored the eight runs and recorded 13 hits against UConn (11-10), they left a significant number of runners on base, totaling 11 by the game’s end.

Thursday saw a different Terrier team, as they only scored three runs, but made the most of the opportunities they had. In the loss against UConn, sophomore center fielder Mandy Fernandez missed out on a golden chance in the bottom of the sixth when she struck out swinging with the bases loaded and her team only down by one run.

However, against the Eagles, the struggling Fernandez stepped to the plate with freshman first basemen Lauren Hynes on, and hit a two-run homer, giving the Terriers the lead.

“It was a huge lift to us,” Gleason said.

“Mandy has been struggling at the plate a little bit and for her to attack the first pitch was just a big lift for us.”

The home run was enough for the Terriers, and the team came out with a 3-1 over BC. After BU split its first two games at home on the year, it ventured to Connecticut to take on America East foe, the University of Hartford. The offensive did not skip a beat as the Terriers pounded out eleven hits in a 4-1 win over the Hawks (12-21, 4-5 America East).

In the win in the opening game of the series, BU had four of its players record

multiple hits. Fernandez, Hynes, junior third baseman Megan Volpano and junior center fielder Jayme Mask all recorded two hits in the win.

“Jayme continues to be our spark plug and Megan has settled in at our three spot,” Gleason said. “We continue to tweak our lineup and try and get everyone settled in spots. We have so many options despite our limited roster, which is exciting for me.”

Despite losing the second game of the series, the Terriers did have some offensive success, piling up seven hits and plating four runners in the one-run loss to the Hawks. Junior shortstop Brittany Clendenny hit a three-run homer, which was the highlight of the game for BU. In the rubber match, BU fell again to Hartford, but did have a bit of success on the offensive side. The team only recorded six hits, but made the most of its opportunities, scoring three times and leaving only three runners on base. In a three-run fifth inning, Hynes ripped a bases-clearing triple, bringing home two runs for the Terriers.

Since that series against Providence (12-18-1), the Terriers have vastly improved their offense, and have raised their team batting average 12 points to .254.

“The thing I like is that we have different people contributing at different times,” Gleason said. “We’ve seen our batting averages rise, we felt good about that going into this weekend. Now we just have to work on getting our girls across the plate.”

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Senior Michael Caputo placed seventh in the 5,000m run with a time of 15:41.30.

For the women, sophomore Amber Muhammed finished sixth in the 400m dash (1:00.80) and 11th in the 200m dash (27.35 seconds). Freshman Catherine Sampson placed 12th in the 200m dash with a time of 27.44 seconds.

Senior Susan Ottey placed fifth in the hammer throw with a mark of 40.75m. Junior Sarah Dillard was right behind her, placing sixth (40.75m). Dillard also placed sixth in the discus (36.31m). Freshman Demi McEntee placed ninth in the javelin, with a personal-best mark of 32.72m.

“I really was happy to see their performances,” Johnson said of the throwers. “It

was a cold day, so ... they might not have thrown as far as they wanted to, but everybody’s making really good progress and we’re looking forward to seeing it.

“Hopefully we get a really nice weekend around here at some point ... I think they’re coming along and I’m really happy with the progress.”

Johnson praised the recent competitive mentality of her team, and said she hopes the trend continues as the season progresses.

“These guys are all really starting to round into shape,” Johnson said. “That’s what we’re looking to do, to really stay competitive. It is a little difficult without the conference championship ... but we still have that mentality of trying to get better and work hard every day.”

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Following a tough 11-8 loss to the University of Connecticut Wednesday afternoon, the Boston University softball team took the field once again Thursday afternoon to start off a busy weekend during which it defeated Boston College and lost two of three against Hartford University.

The first game of the weekend was against BU’s (11-19-1, 2-4 America East) neighbor to the west, BC (9-21).

BU took the momentum from its great defense in the top of the first and used it to get up on BC early on. With two runners on base and no outs, senior Emily Roesch singled to left field to get Boston University on the board first.

However, the rest of the inning did not continue in this fashion, as the remaining BU hitters spoiled multiple scoring chances, only coming out of the inning with one run.

With senior pitcher Whitney Tuthill throwing a shutout, BU exploded in the fourth inning to provide a bit of a cushion for its starter. A two-run home run by sophomore center fielder Mandy Fernandez gave the Terriers a commanding 3-0 lead in the fourth inning.

Despite surrendering one run in the seventh inning to Boston College’s C.J. Chirichigno, BU held onto the lead and beat its rival.

“It was exciting,” said BU coach Kathryn Gleason. “We emphasized that it was another game and no game is more impor-

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Terrier sophomore center fielder Mandy Fernandez hit a two-run home run to put the Terriers ahead of Boston College 3-0 in the fourth inning of a winning effort.

tant, but it was something special. It was a battle.”

After the win at home and a day off on Friday, BU traveled down to West Hartford, Conn., to take on the University of Hartford (12-21, 4-5 America East) in a three-game series.

In the first of two games Saturday afternoon, Tuthill returned to the mound for the Terriers.

The matchup against Hartford was a pitchers’ duel as batters could not find an answer to Tuthill or the Hawks’ Zuzana Kudernatschova for the first several innings.

It was not until the fifth inning that the Terriers were able to get to Kudernatschova, as a single by freshman designated hitter Lauren Hynes, a double by Fernandez and RBI single by junior center fielder

Jayme Mask got BU on the board 1-0. During the bottom half of the same inning, the Hawks were able to tie it up at one apiece on an RBI bunt by sophomore Margaret Betz.

After the fifth inning, though, it was all Terriers. In the top of the sixth, BU continued to get good cuts at the plate, piling up several singles to score two runs and take a 3-1 lead. This time around, Hartford did not have a response and remained scoreless for the rest of the game, while BU added on another run to seal win 4-1.

In the second game, with Tuthill back on the mound for BU and junior Kaitlyn Meade for Hartford, things took a turn in the opposite direction for the Terriers.

Similar to their two previous games, the Terriers took a 1-0 lead in the top of the

Though it struggled to put up runs early in the season, the Boston University softball team has gotten a much-needed offensive boost in recent games.

Earlier in the year, the Terriers (11-191, 2-4 America East) struggled as a team to hit, and only batted a collective .242 going into a March 28 doubleheader against Providence College. However, the squad has been turning it around as of late.

After getting shut out in a mercy-rule defeat at the hands of Binghamton University March 31, the Terriers appear to have made a breakthrough, and have been getting more consistent efforts from their hitters at the dish.

In a loss to the University of Connecticut Wednesday, the Terriers had little trouble producing on offense, as they banged out eight runs on 13 hits. Despite losing 11-8, BU coach Kathryn Gleason noted after the game that it was a good sign for the offense, and would lead to success against Boston College.

“I told them after the game, it’s tough to have 13 hits and eight runs and lose the game,” Gleason said following the loss.

“But ... I think that that’s a great boost for us going into BC tomorrow.”

Her words seemed prophetic, as the team seemingly used its performance Wednesday to propel it to victory against Green-Line rival BC (9-21).

Thursday, the Terriers produced eight

sofTball, see page 7

iMProving offense, see page 7

Offensive drive propels lacrosse past UVM Runners show off skills at Florida relays

By Conor Ryan Daily Free Press Staff

Behind the strength of a season-high 20 goals and nine players recording at least one point, the Boston University women’s lacrosse team defeated the University of Vermont by a score of 20-17 Saturday afternoon in Burlington, Vt. The victory was the team’s first road win of the season, as well as the Terriers’ (4-6, 1-2 America East) first America East victory.

BU coach Liz Robertshaw said the contest put her team’s mental toughness on display, as the Terriers were down by as much as eight goals at one point in the game.

“It was an interesting game to coach. I can’t say that I’ve been down 10-2 before and come back to win,” Robertshaw said.

“I thought it showed a lot of fight from this team. They really rallied together and made some adjustments in order to get some goals and make great defensive stops.”

The Terriers got on the board quickly, as sophomore attack Lindsay Weiner scored to give BU a 1-0 lead just 43 seconds into the game. The Catamounts (6-8, 1-3 America East) responded, scoring three straight goals to grab a 3-1 lead.

Junior attack Elizabeth Morse scored with 20 minutes remaining in the first half to cut the deficit down to one, but Vermont answered with a seven-goal run over seven minutes to take a commanding 10-2 lead

with 12 minutes remaining in the half.

During the Catamounts’ run, Robertshaw called a timeout to settle down her players and get them refocused on the job at hand.

“I told them that they need to make a change right now,” Robertshaw said. “We needed to slow down Vermont’s fast break and really stick to our game plan … we moved [freshman midfielder] Jill Horka to the draw, and she did a fantastic job winning the draw controls and getting it to [junior midfielder] Sydney Godett and [senior attack] Danielle Etrasco.

“They just had to do the simple things of taking it to cage and taking shots, and they did that, and I think they realized that when they do those things, they are quite successful.”

The timeout came at the right time, as the Terriers went on an 8-1 run to cut the deficit back down to one, 11-10, as the first half came to a close.

The second half began as a back-andforth affair, as both teams traded goals over the first 11 minutes of the frame, until a 4-0 run by the Terriers allowed them to take a 16-13 lead with 11 minutes remaining.

While both teams continued to exchange goals over the last minutes of play, the Catamounts could not respond to the Terriers’ run and ultimately fell, 20-17.

The Terriers finished the game holding

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The Bottom Line

Monday, March 25

No Events Scheduled Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey was traded from the Mets to the Blue Jays in the offseason.

Tuesday, March 26 Softball @ Harvard, 4 p.m.

By Sarah Kirkpatrick Daily Free Press Staff

At two weekend meets, members of the Boston University track and field team had a competitive showing, with several athletes placing high and earning conferencebest marks.

At the prestigious Florida Relays in Gainesville, Fla., freshman Reuben Horace placed eighth in the hammer throw with a mark of 54.89 meters.

Director of track and field Robyne Johnson said she was pleased with the performance of her star freshman.

“He did well,” Johnson said. “He was ranked very, very high coming out of high school nationally, so he’s kind of accustomed to being in a big group. Of course being a freshman does change some things, but he’s been performing well. We expect big things from him down the line.”

Senior Tewado Latty competed in the 400m dash, posting a conference-best time of 47.16 seconds, which was good enough for 14th place.

Senior R.J. Page ran the 200m dash in a time of 21.07 seconds, which is also the best time in the event in America East this season.

Freshman David Lagerberg, Latty, Page and graduate student Zachary Ray combined to compete in the 4x400, placing ninth with a time of 3:10.16.

Sophomore Gemma Acheampong, se-

Wednesday, March 27

No Events Scheduled Dickey is known for his unconventional pitching style, and ex-Mets are known to have great success with new teams.

Thursday, March 28 Softball @ UMass, 5 p.m.

nior Shelby Walton, senior Nikko Brady and junior Carolyn Maynard teamed up three times to compete in the 4x100m (47.27 seconds), 4x200m (1:38.47) and 4x400m (3:53.65) relays. Their time in the 4x100m relay is a season best for the quartet, and also the second-best time in the conference this season.

“They’re working pretty well together,” Johnson said of the group. “They seem to be getting it done. We’re happy with their performance.”

Several athletes also fared well on a chilly day at the George Davis Invitational in Lowell Saturday. Senior Sam Wuest competed in the high jump, earning the only Terrier victory of the weekend with a jump of 1.98m.

“That was good for him because he’s come off of injury, so I’m glad to see him getting back into it,” Johnson said. “A win always helps anybody’s [confidence] ... I’m very happy to see him back out there.”

Senior Adam Weaver placed fifth in the pole vault, with a mark of 4.10m.

On the track, sophomore John McKeon placed fourth in the 1,500m run, clocking 4:10.92. Freshman Paul Gennaro placed 11th (4:15.36) in the same event.

Senior Sam Arsenault placed third in the 110m hurdles with a personal-best time of 15.86 seconds. He also took third in the long jump, with a mark of 6.72m.

Track and field, see page 7

Friday, March 29

No Events Scheduled Of course, Dickey, being unconventional, decided to break this trend and have a 8.44 ERA with his new team.