4-25-2013

The Daily Free Press

Year xliii. Volume lxxxiv. Issue LI

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U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden spoke at the memorial service honoring Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Department officer Sean Collier Wednesday afternoon at Briggs Fields in Cambridge.

By Kyle Plantz Daily Free Press Staff

Thousands of students, faculty members, law enforcement officers and top politicians from across the country came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus to pay their respects to Officer Sean Collier after he was killed in the line of duty.

“Officer Collier didn’t just have a job at MIT,” said MIT President Rafael Reif. “He had a life at MIT.” Collier was shot and killed in his patrol car during his late night patrol on April 18.

Federal officials said he was killed by Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

“In just 15 months, he built a life with us that was rich in friendship and shared adventure,” Reif said. “MIT is a place that celebrates passionate and curiosity, and Sean Collier fit right in.”

John DiFava, MIT Police Department Chief, said he remembers Collier’s love for life. DiFava shared stories about how Collier wanted to be a police officer since he was seven years old.

“He was the same person in uniform that he was when he wasn’t in uniform,” he said.

“Because of his depth of character, he was able to achieve a level of trust with people of all backgrounds that was truly remarkable.”

Folk singer James Taylor performed “The Water is Wide” with the MIT Symphony Orchestra and “Shower the People” with various MIT a cappella ensembles during the memorial service.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Collier was a young man inspired to serve his country.

“Sean was a model for how police officers should serve,” she said. “He knew that a strong, secure community requires more of its police than just to stand guard, it requires them to be full members of the community.”

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said he was thankful for the law enforcement officers around the country that protect the families of America from danger every day.

“My heart goes out to you,” he said. “I hope you find some solace in this moment of extreme grief as you listen to what is being said about your son.”

Biden said he understood the Collier family’s pain, as his first wife and daughter were killed in a car crash in 1972.

“You know it’s going to be okay when you pass a little league field or hear a song that reminds you of Sean ... when you get a smile to your lips before a tear comes to your eye,” he said.

Tori Finney, a freshman at MIT studying biological engineering, said she saw Collier policing a party on April 14.

Memorial, see page 4

Profs. say education, media could combat Islamic stereotypes

By Rachel Riley Daily Free Press Staff

In light of news that the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were from predominantly Islamic Chechnya, students and professors at Boston University said U.S. citizens should not create harmful generalizations about the Muslim community and violence.

“Violence doesn’t necessarily belong to Muslim extremism any more than it belongs to any other form of extreme behavior,” said College of Fine Arts professor André de Quadros, a member of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations. “We, in this country, are victims of violence even to people who are not Muslim.”

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two suspects, has been described as an Islamic extremist by various media outlets in the days

following the attacks. Tamerlan, who was killed after a shootout with police in Watertown, was the older brother of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is now in police custody.

The relationship between extremist Islam and violence is a complex one, and as such, students must be wary of jumping to conclusions, Quadros said.

“The most dangerous thing that can happen is, once again, that Muslim students, that Muslim peace-loving people, are targeted for hate or exclusion,” he said.

Religion professor Kecia Ali said generalizations that equate the Muslim community with violence stem from the urgency of Americans to understand the attack on Boston on April 15.

“People want to make sense,” Ali said.

“When one looks for explanations, simple explanations are often the most compel-

ling.”

She said the media has focused on terrorist events associated with Islam, such as the Tsarnaev brothers’ alleged association with Islam, and other instances of mass violence in America, such as the Colorado theater massacre in July and the Newtown shootings in December.

Ali said since the Marathon bombings, students on campus have had conversations about the way society views violence in America.

“Just as after 9/11, just as in the wake of the Park 51 controversy about building a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center, there are people on campus who are engaged in ongoing dialogue,” she said.

The most powerful tool students have in combatting stereotypes, particularly those

Islam, see page 2

releases clarifying end-of-year report

By Calvin Zhao Daily Free Press Staff

Amid controversy surrounding funding for student-run philanthropic activites, the Boston University Allocations Board released its endof-year report in an attempt to show increased communication with students.

AB officials also recapped the improvements they made to budget distribution in the report released April 18, including several specific clauses outlining which gatherings will and will not receive funding, said AB Chairwoman Anjali Taneja.

“This report was presented not only to the students but also to the administration so we can show how we’ve become a better organization within the past year and what measures we’ve taken,” Taneja, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences senior, said. “It’s to get rid of the disconnect between AB and the student body as well as AB and the administration.”

In March, the AB and the Student Activities Office came under criticism for a new policy in which student groups are required to return funds provided for philanthropic activities before proceeds can be donated to a charity.

At a community-wide Town Hall Meeting on March 5, many students voiced concerns about SAO officials’ decision to implement this change.

Taneja said starting in the fall 2013 semester, SAO officials will allow only profits raised beyond initial funding from AB to be donated toward charity. She said this decision has caused controversy among student groups.

“It will be affecting how we operate in the future, so there are going to be several discussions,” Taneja said. “… One thing that’s being discussed at the moment is for the money not to come back to AB to recirculate within groups, but rather to stay in the student groups’ accounts.”

Overall, Taneja said the board has put significant effort into putting together the report.

Several student group leaders said they are pleased with AB officials’ increased attempts at clarity.

Saurabh Mahajan, Student Government spokesman and director of advocacy, said communication between the AB and SG is key to better decision-making.

“When the leadership bodies on campus,

Allocations Board, see page 2

BUPD Chief, students proud of officers’ efforts during Watertown manhunt

By Rachel Riley Daily Free Press Staff

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The Boston University Police Department worked with other law enforcement agencies after the MIT shooting and assisted in the manhunt for suspects in Watertown in addition to maintaining campus security.

When chaos broke out the night of April 18 and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Department officer was killed, several Boston University PD officers responded quickly to aid other Boston law enforcement agencies, officials said.

BUPD Chief Thomas Robbins said when the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Department officer Sean Collier late at night on April 18, BUPD officers immediately offered support.

“We had officers from BU head over directly to MIT and see if there was something we could do to assist them in whatever their needs were,” Robbins said. “… From there, events unfolded very quickly.”

When BUPD officers received reports of a carjacking on Memorial Drive, patrols already at MIT continued on to become part of the police chase that ensued from Cambridge to Wa-

tertown in search of the two suspects, Robbins said.

Robbins said BUPD officers jumped into action when they realized the severity of the incident and that more help was needed at the scene.

“The great thing about this department is once the word spread — which it always spreads quickly — of the unfortunate officer’s death, the [BUPD] officers self-reported,” he said.

Robbins said because some BUPD officers volunteered to assist in the response to MIT and subsequent manhunt, the department was able to balance maintaining support in the BU community with aiding other law enforcement officers in Watertown.

As officials initiated a citywide stay-inside request, officers responding to situations offcampus gradually reported back to BU, Robbins said.

BUPD, see page 2

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Religion prof. advises caution against stereotypes BUPD encourages students: Report suspicious packages Islam: From Page 1

directed toward members of the Muslim community, is caution in how they make associations and ask questions, Ali said.

“It’s not necessarily about the answers we give to questions — it’s about the questions we choose to ask and the connections we choose to draw,” she said.

Although she said she does not know exactly how Muslim students on campus are directly affected by prejudices against Islam, Ali said many student groups fight against stereotyping by supporting religious tolerance.

“At BU, student organizations such as the Interfaith Council and others have been really integral to starting ongoing dialogues about integration, coexistence, commonalities, difference and the ways in which religious students from a variety of religious traditions have things in common,” she said.

Ahmet Selim, a sixth-year Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student who identifies as Muslim, said it is not uncommon to see unfair reporting of the brothers’ association with Islam, even in the mainstream media.

“We are seeing an immediate

spike in identification of all of American Muslims … as somehow guilty [of the bombing],” Selim said.

Stereotyping can be combated through media and education, he said.

“Muslim organizations … have programs to reach out to the larger public to rectify misunderstandings about Islam and emphasize the point that these radical types are basically the minority,” he said. “But, it is also a civic duty for everyone to stand against hate speech toward American Muslims.”

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“Our community responded,” he said. “We put out the shelter-in-place and alerts out, and they [the BU community] handled themselves very well.”

BUPD Captain Robert Molloy said the department had a staff of around 15 officers during the span from the shooting to the conclusion of the manhunt.

“It’s a huge incident, and it’s been a huge impact on all police agencies in this area and continues to be,” he said.

The chaotic situation required the resources of various Boston agencies, Molloy said.

“We’re fortunate to be working in an area where we have such a great response by local law enforcement with these things,” he said. “We hope to continue the great relationship we have with all the local agencies around here in running the Boston University community.”

Robbins said he is proud of the men and women of his department.

“Our officers responded in a professional manner,” he said. “They comported themselves very well for assistance in a very difficult situation.”

BUPD officials have continued to maintain an informational net-

work with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to ensure students’ safety even after one suspect was killed and one was arrested, Robbins said.

“I would advise the community that the message stays the same,” he said. “If you see something suspicious or out of the ordinary or a suspicious package, the first thing you should do is call the police department.”

College of Arts and Sciences junior Morgan Corner said she noticed BUPD’s presence on campus Thursday and Friday.

“I heard police cars flying by, and I could see them, some of them with ‘Boston University’ [written] on them,” she said. “… I think they handled it very professionally. They did a great job.”

College of General Studies sophomore Marlene Stoute, however, said BUPD could have had a greater presence on campus during the ordeal.

Stoute, who lives on West Campus, was at a friend’s room in Student Village II Thursday night.

“Weird and horrible events were piling up,” she said. “... We saw all of BUPD in action from StuVi [II].

I didn’t feel safe at all. I had to sleep over. I couldn’t walk 300 meters to my dorm.”

New policy cuts travel funding when functions could be local Allocations Board: From Page 1

like Student Government, the Allocations Board, RHAs, college governments, when they come together, when they communicate better, what you get is decisions for the student body that are better made and that are better overall,” Mahajan said.

Edmo Gamelin, a College of Arts and Sciences junior, said he attended many events funded by the AB this year and he is pleased with the decisions the board officials have made.

“If they had a larger budget, they would be able to fund more small events throughout the year as well as events that occur during the last few weeks,” he said. “Overall, I feel that the Allocations Board, when they are able to act independently, is

often quite judicious in their expenditures.”

The end-of-year report also outlined a new travel policy, wherein AB officials decided only to fund trips that would help the general student body rather than just those participating in the trip, according to the report. The revamped policy also included stipulations that the AB would not fund trips that could instead be held on campus.

“We started funding on a perperson basis,” Taneja said. “That means if we allocated a group $200 on a basis of $10 per person for 20 people, and if they ended up taking two people, they could only sign off on $20 rather than $200. That made it a more efficient process, and we were able to recirculate the money a lot more.”

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Pump that spirit The day I first put on my varsity cheerleading uniform was the best day of my life. The too-short skirt made me look more Kardashian than ever, if that’s possible. There was also the red, white and blue top emblazoned with “AHS,” as well as a white ribbon.

The most crucial component, however, was the SYDNEY bloomers. They SHEA can be metallic, sparkly or solid, depending on how much of the judges’ attention you’re seeking.

They matter just as much in cheerleading as do the tacky glitter on your eyelids and the two-pound bow in your acrylic ponytail, thickly laden with hairspray. Bloomers, or “spankies” in vulgar terms, are not consequence-free articles of clothing.

They chafe and don’t cover the right spots, leaving you worried about just how much is revealed to the crowded bleachers in the high school gymnasium mid–straddle jump — and don’t even get me started on the question of wearing underwear underneath.

Having done cheerleading for 10 years when I was younger, even making my way to varsity captain, I learned everything from teamwork to physics to curing a nosebleed with a tampon.

Our team of about 18 girls was always tightly knit in high school, and my favorite memories took place with all of them every autumn Friday, under the lights on the sideline.

I think there might have been a football game playing next to us we were supposed to cheer on, but I hadn’t paid attention to it.

The best part of being on the sideline was a game we referred to as “cheer sex,” which is essentially making eye contact with someone in the stands and maintaining it throughout the entire cheer. In the meantime, we performed gymnastic feats on the turf, doing back handsprings and throwing each other up in the air, hence my left shoulder’s current deteriorating state.

Our coach referred to us as her “cupcakes,” but I think she had another one for us that began with “c” as well. Can’t seem to remember.

We were, however, definitely a colorful bunch, in a (relatively) wholesome way. I would always get a lot of slack for being more academically oriented than the others, but it didn’t bother me.

Being around so much estrogen and hierarchical angst definitely helped harden me into becoming a more cynical person. As a freshman in 2006, our captain made my best friend and I do pushups in front of her because she claimed we were a minute late for practice, just to impress whatever guy she was talking to. We were in fact a minute early, but being respectful freshmen, we obeyed; our time would come with patience to direct other younger teammates.

As much as I want to seem mature and grown-up, I can’t help but indulge myself in this kind of nostalgia, attempting to remember every detail, but fortunately, I stole my pair of pompoms from my high school if I ever become too wistful.

Sydney L. Shea is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences and can be reached at slshea@bu.edu.

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Student alc. abuse misjudged, study suggests Students choose

Boston for job, internship hunt

By Amira Francis Daily Free Press Staff

Despite older research stating otherwise, a new study suggests alcohol abuse and related deaths may be more prevalent on college campuses than previously thought, something that several Boston University students said could be reversed with increased awareness.

Students for Sensible Drug Policy President KC Mackey said in order to save students from excessive alcohol consumption, BU officials must provide more education on alcohol safety as well as make alcohol-related policies more student-friendly.

“The priority should be keeping students safe, keeping students alive and not necessarily punishing them for binge drinking,” Mackey said. “There’s supposed to be a pre-emptive policy that promotes responsible behavior.”

Mackey said BU’s alcohol policies are ineffective and must change to encourage discussion and awareness about related dangers.

Aware Awake Alive, an organization founded to educate youth about the dangers of alcohol, compiled statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and determined an average of one adolescent dies from alcohol overdose every 44 hours, according to an April 18 news release.

Debra Johnson, executive director of Aware Awake Alive, said the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism estimates there are as many as 600 college students between the age of 18 and 25 who die each year from alcohol poisoning.

“Binge drinking right now is really a major public health problem,” Johnson said. “On college campuses, one in three are binge drinking, so if you take whatever the enrollment at BU is, and you divide it by three, that’s the number of people who, any day, are at risk of dying from alcohol poisoning.”

Aware Awake Alive Communications Director David Wyatt said the issue of alcohol-related deaths does not get the attention it deserves because the CDC does not

By Kayla Canne Daily Free Press Staff

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In time for Alcohol Awareness Month, the nonprofit organization Aware Awake Alive announced new alcohol fatality statistics for college students.

list it as a cause of death, which may highlight flaws in past alcohol-related death statistics.

“The organization [Aware Awake Alive] was started by a couple whose son, Carson, died from alcohol poisoning a couple of years ago,” Wyatt said. “His death certificate doesn’t say alcohol poisoning.”

Additionally, Wyatt said the number of alcohol-related deaths among college students is roughly 25 percent more than that of accidental gun-related deaths in the U.S. “Culturally, people think that alcohol poisoning isn’t that common or is just due to dehydration … but we made that correlation to make a point,” he said. “You know, everyone talks about gun deaths, and this is actually a bigger problem, statistically speaking.”

Marlene Oscar Berman, BU professor of behavioral neuroscience, said in an email that the human brain continues to mature well into one’s mid-20s, and alcohol consumption during that critical period of growth could be detrimental to development.

“Studies suggest that specific brain structures such as the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex may be especially vulnerable to the effects of alcohol and drug use during adolescence,” Berman said.

“So, college drinking can harm a still developing brain.”

Rob Lauto, a CAS freshman,

said many his friends do not take the warnings against underage drinking seriously, because they could never imagine being hurt by it.

“I haven’t personally been close with anyone who has died from alcohol poisoning, but I know it’s a problem,” Lauto said.

“I didn’t know it was as big of a problem as the statistics [show] … Binge drinking is a culture in college.”

Jennifer Gilbert, a third-year School of Public Health graduate student, said a medical amnesty program at BU could help save lives.

“Instituting an amnesty [policy] would make students make healthier decisions if they knew it would not affect their disciplinary records,” she said.

Julia Heim, a CAS freshman, said the idea of others binge drinking worries her because she is unsure at what point she should intervene. She also said, at a school such as BU, the urban environment could contribute to the danger of underage drinking, which she said also included risks associated with lack of judgment.

“It’s scary that people binge drink, especially when living in a city like Boston,” she said. “It’s important to be on your guard here because the city makes it dangerous to get home at night. I don’t know at what point I should step in for their own safety.”

Due to the various types and sheer number of internship opportunities in Boston, students come to the city to get a taste of their desired careers.

“There’s a great number of schools in the Boston area [and] there are many fine employers looking for the best talent,” said James French, assistant dean for career services at the Boston University School of Management. “We have an excellent relationship with the companies in the area, but also across the country and across the world, and employers know the quality of our students and are very much attracted to them.”

French said in the BU Feld Career Center, he helps connect students with business internships in the city.

“In the past 12 months, 230 employers have visited us to meet our students,” he said. “They’ve posted over 1,600 jobs and some of those are internships and others become permanent jobs.”

Cesare Grieci, manager of staffing and employee relations at American Students Assistance, said ASA started seeking younger interns who could provide more insight on how students are dealing with educational loans and debt.

“In the beginning we started hiring the upperclassmen who were toward the end of their college years,” he said. “But we found that we weren’t giving ourselves enough exposure to the people entering into school.”

French said students who get the best internships have both academic and social skills.

“Being very prepared for interviews, knowing how to interact with a potential employer, knowing how to behave and how to be productive all show that you can add value [to the company,]” he said.

Some students said they came to BU specifically for its internship programs and opportunities.

Morgan Perry, a College of Communication junior, said she transferred to BU because there were several internships in the city for her major.

“I was attending school at the University of Pittsburgh and realized

internsHiPs, see page 4

Lack of inventory decreases home sales, increases total cost

By Alice Bazerghi Daily Free Press Staff

After 22 months of increasing sales in the housing market, the sale of single-family homes and condominiums in Massachusetts plunged in March from a lack of inventory, leaving many pre-approved buyers waiting to purchase homes, according to data released by the Massachusetts Association of Realtors Tuesday.

“We’ve got low interest rates, pre-approved buyers with jobs, savings and good credit that are ready to buy, and an increase in the cost of rentals, but the number of homes is still shrinking,” said Kimberly Allard-Moccia, MAR president.

Massachusetts saw a 1.8 percent downtick in the inventory of singlefamily homes from 29.8 percent to 28 percent with 28,159 listings in 2012 and 19,761 listings in 2013, according to a Tuesday press release.

Although many buyers are inter-

ested in single-family homes, Allard-Moccia said there is not enough inventory for the demand.

“We find now that the lack of inventory is what’s causing that pace to discontinue, not that buyers do not have interest,” she said.

Condominium inventory decreased 34 percent since 2012 with only 6,543 listings this year compared to last year’s 9,908 listings, according to the release.

As the amount of single-family home inventory decreased, the number of homes sold also decreased, according to the release. In March, 3,011 single-family homes were sold, a 3.3 percent decrease from the 3,113 homes sold in March 2012.

David Harris, editorial director at The Warren Group, said in the current housing market, it is better to be a seller than a buyer.

“As demand increases and the supply remains tight, prices will inevitably increase,” Harris said.

“And when prices continue to in-

crease, people opt out of the market if they can’t afford a property.”

The median price for singlefamily homes sold in March rose 7.8 percent from $269,000 in 2012 to $290,000 in 2013, according to a Tuesday press release from The Warren Group.

“Right now we are seeing bidding wars start over condos especially, but also homes,” he said. “[There are] a lot of people competing for a very limited number of properties, and we’re hearing stories about home owners selling their properties for a lot more than they would expect.”

For a healthy market recovery, Allard-Moccia said more housing inventory must be made available at every price range.

“While an increase in prices should entice sellers, it has yet to happen,” she said. “We need buyers to move up and down the housing ladder, but right now they’re either stuck on the rungs or it’s too diffi-

cult to grab on to.”

Kalyani Krishnan, 47, resident of Acton, said she was surprised by the lack of inventory in Massachusetts, but she recognizes that communities in the northeast have always attracted home owners.

“I don’t know why there isn’t adequate housing,” she said. “I did hear that people are outbidding each other, [which is] driving up the cost of existing houses, but that has always been the case because there are certain communities that people want to live in because of better school systems.”

Krishnan said she has not had any issues purchasing or selling on the housing market.

“I live in a home that we bought seven years ago, and, where I live in my town, I don’t know anyone that has been looking for a house and has not been able to find one,” she said. “My understanding of housing market is that it has always been a local issue.”

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MIT lab tech.: Memorial gave sense of community MeMoriAl: From Page 1

“There was a lot of MIT police detail there,” she said. “I remember seeing Sean and someone brought some alcohol into an area they weren’t supposed to. He was pretty nice about it and didn’t make it a huge issue.”

Lili Cai, 26, technician at the

neuroscience lab at MIT, said everyone coming together to honor Collier was a beautiful tribute to his memory.

“It really brought people together and reinforced the community that is at MIT,” she said. “If something happens to you, they’re [the MIT community] there for you, they’re your family.”

The attorneys who taught our classes were extremely knowledgeable about their specific areas of law. I made some connections among the faculty, broadened my understanding of law, and gained a better footing in my field.”

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CFA sophomore: internships give important work skills, experience internsHiPs: From Page 3

that there were not as many opportunities for internships in my field there,” she said. “Not to mention that [BU has] one of the best communication schools in the country.”

Perry said she plans to intern for Digita in Boston this summer.

“My internship at Digita was really competitive to get, but my two other internships were less competitive because they are smaller compa-

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Chef Jamie Bissonnette lounges outside his South End restaurant, Coppa.

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ften referred to as “the Oscars of the food world,” the James Beard Awards celebrate professionals in the culinary arts. This year, three Boston-based chefs received nominations for the ‘Best Chef: Northeast’ award. This is the second in a three-part series profiling the chefs.

Chef Jamie Bissonnette has always been a hardcore kid.

A stocky, tattooed man who reeks of hard-

core and punk culture — even in his whites — Bissonnette plopped down on a metal bench, poured us a couple of glasses of water and, with Van Halen’s “Panama” playing in the background, stretched his arms and legs leisurely.

“It’s so f**king nice out,” he said, to no one in particular.

He may have always been a hardcore kid, but that’s no problem for him. Bissonnette said he has always enjoyed making people look twice.

“I always wanted to stand out,” he said. “I liked making people look at me. I didn’t want to be like everybody else. I’ll always consider myself a hardcore kid.”

Bissonnette’s personality isn’t the only thing that’s hardcore: His food is bold, fearless and fun, just like any good Bad Brains song. His South End, small-plate Italian restaurant Coppa specializes in head-to-tail cuisine — in other words, the parts of the pig you didn’t think you could eat.

Coppa is the first restaurant he’s opened with Boston’s famous restaurateur and chef Ken Oringer, who is also responsible for the James Beard-winning restaurant Clio and Bissonnette’s other restaurant, Toro. Dur-

ing his time at Coppa, Bissonnette won the StarChefs Rising Star award in 2009, was crowned champion of the Food Network show Chopped in 2011 and was nominated for a James Beard Award for Best Chef: Northeast both this year and in 2012.

But before all the success, Bissonnette was an 11-year-old kid eating scrambled eggs on his porch, watching family friends paint his house. One of the college-aged painters asked him to make him the same dish, scrambled eggs on toast with cheese, and Bissonnette happily obliged. Soon, all the painters were munching on Bissonnette’s “tartine” enthusiastically, and Bissonnette realized that he wanted to cook.

He didn’t directly head to cooking school, however. As a teen, Bissonnette spent his younger years playing in punk rock bands, eating vegan and choosing straight-edge living.

“I was playing in punk rock bands, hardcore bands, and after practice I kept saying things like, ‘let’s make spaghetti!’ or ‘I got some lentils – let’s make curry!’” Bissonnette said. “I was a crappy musician, and eventually I realized I liked the food more than I liked the music. So I dropped out of school at

seventeen and went to college to cook.”

Bissonnette continued to learn what it means to be a chef throughout his tour and his years as a chef in Boston.

“I learned for everybody; from a dishwasher in a diner to a Michelin-level chef,” Bissonnette said. “As a young cook, you need to just pay attention and get everything, ask questions, listen to the answers. People want to learn quickly, go to culinary school for a couple of days and call themselves a chef. But that’s not how it works. It takes time.”

Today, Bissonnette’s years of learning have paid off. Both Toro and Coppa are wildly successful, and he and Oringer are in the process of opening a Toro in New York.

Bissonnette doesn’t pretend he’s a great musician, but he treats every evening in the kitchen as his own performance.

“During the day you get in and you prep, and that’s like the first screech of the guitarfrom Bad Brains,” he said. “And then you’ve got that slow buildup, that thumping of the base drum, that dun-dun-dun-dun … and then suddenly you’re opening for dinner service and it’s like, ‘boom.’ There’s energy, there’s a lot of movement from the kitchen, and then suddenly it’s over.”

REVIEW: Andrew Jackson Jihad at Great Scott

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f Great Scott had couches — or even seats, for that matter — it would have felt as if Sean Bonnette of Andrew Jackson Jihad was playing in your living room Tuesday night.

The casual lineup of mostly solo acoustic acts added to the venue’s homey atmosphere.

Dan Webb and the Spiders opened the night as a duo, playing like those guys who break out guitars at the end of a long night of drinking. They know we don’t know the songs, but no one complains.

Jason Anderson played second and, despite being relatively unknown, he brought an electrifying energy to the room. With a little luck and a lot of echoes written into his songs, he had the entire crowd singing by the end of his 40-minute set.

Ian Graham of Cheap Girls followed, crooning lyrics about how he loves you and also loves smoking. Following Anderson’s stage antics, it was relaxing to have just a

guy and a guitar refusing to make eye contact with the audience. It made me feel as if I was at home watching someone practice. For just a minute there, I forgot there were stage lights and sound booths and instead felt as if I were watching a friend who wanted everyone to get out of his apartment so he could keep playing.

After these acts, it was time for the real show. Bonnette had no set list, and instead had placed a sheet of paper on the merchandise table at the beginning of the night where the audience could write requests.

When the sheet had been exhausted he polled the crowd by show of hands for what to play.

The thing about Bonnette and Andrew Jackson Jihad is that there are no “big hits.”

As a relatively below-the-radar kind of band, if you know one song, you probably know all the songs and that was clear from the second Bonnette walked on stage.

The night opened with “Growing Up” from the 2008 EP Only God Can Judge Me, a song with a simple message about how growing up is the worst. Every person in the crowd knew the words and sang along.

In many ways, we weren’t here to hear Bonnette, and instead were here to jam with him.

The singing didn’t stop until Bonnette played unreleased tracks, and by the end of those most members of the audience at least had the chorus.

Andrew Jackson Jihad plays a mix of folk and a mix of punk. The recorded tracks change depending on the album and seemingly what instruments Bonnette and band mate Ben Gallaty (who was not on tour) have lying around. Lyrics blend relatable self-deprecation with ridiculous antics and an obsession with violence.

While that combination — as well as the name of the band — may sound a little too rough for some, the final product is surpris-

ingly mellow, or at least not as terrifying as songs titled “Truckers and Blood” sound.

The night carried on with songs of both high and low energy. If Bonnette didn’t move straight from one track to another there was light conversation between the crowd and the stage while the next song was carefully selected, and by carefully, I mean whoever yelled a recommendation loudest got his or her song chosen.

The entire night felt a bit like 2 a.m. when the bar is closing and everyone is singing along with the last song, even if they don’t know the words. The crowd was drunk on energy, camaraderie and Pabst Blue Ribbon.

And though Anderson played second in the night, he ended up summarizing it perfectly when he leaned in to the crowd and asked, “Isn’t it a wonderful thing when you get to sing with your friends and complete strangers?”

Yes. Yes it is.

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A new online sales tax?

So remember when you could buy things online from Delaware and not pay a sales tax? Well, that luxury may be coming to an end. The Marketplace Fairness Act, backed

by Amazon.com, won by a landslide when Senate voted 75 – 22 in favor of the bill and shows signs of passing by the end of the week, NBC News reports. The House may not see the bill for some time, but there already seem to be many supporters.

Essentially what will happen is when you buy something online, and your state has sales tax, the seller, even if he or she is in another state, must honor your state’s sales tax when billing you.

Although this seems like a tax hike, it coincides with the sales taxes we already pay in person. States are missing up to $24 billion in tax revenue yearly because there are no set online shopping sales tax regulations, according to The New York Times.

The bill makes a lot of sense from an economic standpoint. Plenty of states will pull in more money and give in-person shops a fighting chance — not that stores are totally failing because of online shopping.

People will surely react negatively to this bill because it seems to be a tax hike.

However, it actually mirrors the sales taxes in their states. Now, when you buy anything in New Jersey, even if it’s all the way in Montana, you would be paying the same tax as if you bought it in person. The location of the buyer now dictates whether or not he or she pays a sales tax, not the location of that cell phone case or mustache mug.

But remember, it is the federal government’s responsibility to oversee state-tostate commerce and trade. The bill does not increase or decrease sales tax in any state.

It just assures that retailers are collecting taxes on products that could be sold in person. This does, however, bring criticism because the tax allows states to affect commerce in other states.

Let’s face it, though. Nobody wants to pay more taxes if they already do not have to. However, this is not a significant increase. If we can afford a 45-cent tax on a box of Sharpies, or $4 on textbooks in person, we can afford this online sales tax.

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EXITMENT

Women are crazy, men are stupid DAVID FONTANA There’s a theorem that has yet to fail me in life. Or rather, it has yet to fail me since I realized its existence all those semesters ago when I was just a young, impressionable freshman living in the quaint . . . comfortable . . . little slice of heaven that is Warren Towers.

It goes like this: Women are crazy, men are stupid.

Well, my work here is done. Thank you all for reading. It has truly been a pleasure, and the pleasure has been all mine. Donations to the “Help! I’m Graduating Fund” can be sent directly to The Daily Free Press. They’ll be sure to forward them my way. I’ll be expecting lots, too, so don’t be stingy.

All right, so, it’s not a life changing idea. In fact, it’s short and offensive, really.

But it wasn’t created as a way of perpetuating stereotypes. Its basis was established by a group of my friends and I — a mixture of both genders, mind you — and I have yet to find a group of people that completely (completely) disagree with its logic. I must say, I’ve greeted a few offended faces after I’ve proposed the idea — and yes, it’s usually by women. But, I don’t blame them for it. Whether we men like it, women have to put up with a lot more oppression, arrogance, ignorance and a whole slew of other obstacles that society throws at them simply for having the ability to bear children, being able to see more distinction in colors and, frankly, for smelling and looking way better than us, too.

I definitely think something should and must be done about that divide. But that’s not exactly the gap I’m trying to bridge here. Rather, I’m trying to take a look at that unquantifiable quantum leap nature takes between a second X and a single Y. Now, it might be easier and more truthful, to really say, there are two kinds of people in this world: The crazies and the stupids. Both genders have people who are straight up out of their minds and both definitely have idiots — there’s no doubt of that. However, gendering The Situation— no not from the “Jersey Shore,” although that would be comical, too — besides just adding a bit of humor, it is meant to simplify and help emphasize this phenomenon’s nature. You see, the place in life where this theorem peaks, where life’s golden truth really begins to shine, is, inevitably, in love.

“Crazy. Stupid. Love.” — most of you have probably seen it. And if not, well, you’ve most likely heard of it. As for those of you ostriches with your heads stuck in the ground, there’s no cure for what you have yet, so please, just “Keep Calm and Carry On,” as they say. But, there’s a reason the title to the movie is so catchy and to why the movie did so well. And no, it’s not because of Emma’s button nose, or because of Carell’s ridiculous antics or even because what’s-his-face takes off his shirt (although the overlords in Hollywood’s Ring of Evil knows that we love those little theatrics). No, the reason its message hits home, the reason I knew the title long before I saw the movie, is because it simply rings true. We all know that crazy girlfriend who finds some way to stir up trouble even when none exists. And we all know that idiot guy friend who just seems to float along, completely unaware that he’s standing right in the middle of World War III. Love, really does make us do crazy, stupid things.

I’m shaking my fist at you, Cupid.

After doing some research, I found out that, unfortunately, my friends and I weren’t the first geniuses to think up this pithy gem. But was I surprised? Not even in the slightest. The crazy and the stupids have been falling in love ever since those Cro-Magnon days when Wombalina first said, “Ooga booga youga,” and Womble replied, “Whoga?” This was quickly followed with a “bam bam” to Womble’s head — not much has changed, I’d say.

Stand-up comedian George Carlin has actually been throwing around the phrase for years and he adds, “the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”

And therein lies the short fall of this wonderful little theorem. Like so many theorems before it, it states the truth yet makes living not even a little less difficult. Sometimes ignorance really is bliss. Just because it hasn’t failed me, doesn’t mean it has solved any of my problems. Girls, crazy or not, will forever remain a mystery to my ever-stupid and completely unaware “mind.”

So Men, stay strong. And Women, good luck.

David Fontana is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at fontad5@bu.edu.

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going into the bottom of the fifth. Just as they had in the previous inning, the Terriers went 1-2-3 against a dominant MacFawn.

“One play never defines the whole game,” Gleason said. “If we have runs on the board and put the ball in play, we hit the ball, then that doesn’t happen, or it doesn’t make that big of an impact.”

Albany added three more runs in a busy sixth inning before BU came up to the plate down 8-0 in the bottom of the sixth, needing to score in order to keep from being mercy-ruled.

With one out, junior center fielder Jayme Mask singled to right before stealing second. A single by freshman Lauren Hynes put runners on first and second for junior third baseman Megan Volpano, who reached base on a fielder’s choice that forced Mask out at third.

An error moved Volpano and Hynes to second and third, respectively, for junior

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Junior shortstop Brittany Clendenny recorded a double in the first game of a doubleheader against the University at Albany.

take advantage of,” Gleason said. “I don’t think we took advantage of those opportunities today.”

BU had another chance in the second inning on a two-out double by junior designated hitter Chelsea Kehr, but the Terriers once again squandered their opportunity.

MacFawn was on top of her game again, this time striking out 12 BU hitters. The Terriers could not solve the puzzle that was MacFawn, and went down 1-2-3 in the final two innings, failing to score for the second straight game.

“We just have to rebound,” Gleason said. “We just didn’t do what we needed to do offensively, especially in the first game.”

catcher Amy Ekart. With two outs, Ekart flew out to left, ending the game with an 8-0 final score.

Hynes was in the circle for BU in the second game, and despite her strong effort, the Terriers once again struggled offensively against MacFawn, whose dominance in the circle continued in a 3-0 BU loss.

Despite picking up the loss, Hynes allowed only four hits and two earned runs, getting herself out of multiple jams, including a bases-loaded situation that she caused by hitting three batters in the top of the seventh.

“I think the thing that I’m most proud of with Lauren is that she got ahead,” Gleason said. “We’ve been asking her to do that all season and she really got ahead. That put her in a better position. I think [her] composure on the mound has just evolved throughout the season.”

Albany once again got on the board for the first time in the top of the fourth inning, scoring one run against Hynes. The Terriers were unable to respond in the bottom

of the frame, as MacFawn struck out the side. She finished the second game with 12 strikeouts.

A one-out single by junior first baseman Chelsea Kehr in the bottom of the fifth was not enough for the Terriers, as the next two batters could not drive her in. After Albany tacked another run on the board in the top of the sixth, BU once again fell 1-2-3 to MacFawn and the Albany defense.

“They seemed to be in every spot we hit the ball,” Gleason said.

Though it loaded the bases, Albany was unable to plate a runner in the top of the seventh, but the Terriers could not get a single runner on base in the bottom of the inning and lost 3-0.

Gleason said she is confident that BU will not be held back by the disappointing doubleheader, as it takes on Bryant University Thursday afternoon.

“The best part about this is that we get another opportunity tomorrow,” Gleason said. “So we’ll come back ready to go tomorrow.”

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accomplish.

The sting of Quinnipiac’s season is not going to leave its fans anytime soon. It shouldn’t have lost to a team in the conference it dominated all season long.

It is perhaps even harder to appreciate the ever-so-close college sports seasons because the majority only remembers the big winners. Quinnipiac just will not be one of the teams in the NCAA highlights. Those are dominated by football, basketball and baseball. If hockey gets any recognition, it’s only for the champions.

It is a fact of life that college sports,

Etrasco, Mogavero step up to lead BU Lacrosse: From Page 8

game-high sixth goal of the game to give the Terriers a 16-12 lead with just over four minutes remaining.

Sustaining a final three-goal run from the Bulldogs, the Terriers were able to hold off Yale to preserve the victory.

In the second half, Yale outscored the Terriers 9-4, outshooting them 19-10 as well. For BU, however, six different players found the net to put forth a balanced attack that proved to be too much for the Bulldogs down the stretch.

“I thought it was huge that other players went in and scored goals and felt confident in their challenging,” Robertshaw said.

“Danielle Etrasco and Kristen Mogavero both went hard today and led us, allowing other people to feel very confident taking challenges.”

particularly college hockey, do not get the same coverage as professional sports. The highlight reels and annual recaps for professional sports are longer than those for college sports and thus have the opportunity to include more top moments from the teams that did not win it all.

College sports highlights focus on the winners, the championship teams and the MVPs. This coverage leaves the fans of teams that fell just short feeling frustrated.

Fans have every right to be frustrated.

What if Carlos Beltran had swung?

What if Eric Hartzell hadn’t saved his worst game for last?

The “what if” questions will always be

there. They will always surround the ending of any season that doesn’t involve a trophy and parade. They will be fresh in the mind of fans until the team finds success again.

The end of the 2006 season was a dark cloud over my Mets fandom for too long.

It was the closest I ever came to seeing my favorite team win it all. It only started to disappear because I could see the promise of the future.

Quinnipiac has a lot to look forward to.

It has plenty of promising players coming back next year and its fans should embrace the fact that they’re rooting for a college team. These players are committed to one

team and they too felt the sting of just falling short.

So there is a silver lining in all this gloom.

College sports guarantee the return of good players. It should be easier to move past the frustration and look forward to the next season.

College sports fans should realize that the returning players still have the talent to go to the championship, but now they also have the experience to teach the new players how to get there.

It is hard to believe, but teams that don’t win the championship can be just as optimistic as the one that does.

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Helen Silfin

“You are looking at this year’s national champions!”

It is a simple sentence. It is a sentence every sports fan wants to hear about his or her favorite team at least once in his or her lifetime. For fans of the Quinnipiac University Bobcats, the men’s hockey team almost made their dreams a reality.

The Bobcats won 30 games last season — the most in program history — but there is still the empty feeling from that elusive 31st victory. Coming so close to a championship makes it hard for fans to decide whether the season was a success or failure.

The easy opinion is that every season that doesn’t end with a championship is a failure.

However, despite ending the season without a championship, Quinnipiac and its fans should be satisfied, even thrilled, with the past season.

Quinnipiac’s season is very similar to the 2006 New York Mets season. Both were teams that seemed to come out of nowhere to dominate the competition, only to fall just short of the ultimate goal.

As a Mets fan, that 2006 team and season are special to me without the National League title or World Series championship.

Nothing will ever take away the exhilaration brought by the 2006 Mets. Their domination of the NL East made the last portion of the regular season all but irrelevant.

Quinnipiac dominated the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference, seemingly turning the ECAC Tournament into exhibition games.

So why does one game seem to define their season? The 4-0 loss to Yale was a blowout, and the season seemed to collapse on the Bobcats faster than any of Matthew Peca’s slap shots.

Carlos Beltran’s knees shouldn’t have buckled at a curveball from some rookie. That Adam Wainwright pitch was my first memory of the 2006 Mets for too long. It took until 2012 for me to realize fully that the 2006 Mets were amazing, and I should not judge them by what they failed to

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Senior attack Danielle Etrasco netted six goals against Yale, pushing her season total to 54.

By Matthew Fils-Aime Daily Free Press Staff

Looking to regain momentum heading into the final stretch of the season, the Boston University women’s lacrosse team was able to hold off a late-game surge from Yale University in a close 16-15 finish at Reese Stadium in New Haven, Conn. Wednesday.

The Terriers (6-8, 2-4 America East) came out rejuvenated and played with great energy to begin the game. After winning the opening draw, freshman midfielder Louisa Del Rio scored her third goal of the season 40 seconds in, the assist coming from senior attack Danielle Etrasco.

This goal marked the first in

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streak with 2 losses to Albany

By Sam Simmons Daily Free Press Staff

Despite high hopes for a pair of victories that would allow it to move up in the conference standings, the Boston University softball team fell to the University at Albany in both games of a doubleheader at the BU Softball Field Wednesday afternoon, 8-0 in the first game and 3-0 in the second game.

Even with the shining sun and warm temperatures, the Terriers (17-22-1, 5-6 America East) were unable to score a single run against Albany (30-10, 13-1 America East).

“Albany’s a good team,” said BU coach Kathryn Gleason. “I think they’re well-coached, they played great defense.”

The Terriers dropped the first game 8-0 in a six-inning mercyrule loss as Albany pitcher Brittany MacFawn shut down BU’s offense, while senior pitchers Whitney Tuthill and Erin Schuppert failed to hold back Albany’s bats as the Terriers snapped their six-game winning streak.

The game remained even at 0-0 until the top of the fourth inning, when an error on a fielder’s choice put two runners on base for Albany third baseman Lauren Alcorn. With one out, Alcorn doubled to center field, plating both runners and putting Albany up 2-0.

Though Schuppert came in for Tuthill with one out in the top of the fifth, she was unable to keep the Great Danes in check, as they scored three runs on four hits and an error, giving Albany a 5-0 lead

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Tricky Great Dane pitching, offensive woes hinder Terriers

By Andrew Battifarano Daily Free Press Staff

During its six-game winning streak, the Boston University softball team improved in every aspect of the game, most notably on the offensive side.

The Terriers (17-22-1, 5-6 America East) improved their batting average nearly 30 points in a month, raising the team average to .271 going into Wednesday.

Despite steadily improving in the past month, BU struggled at the dish Wednesday afternoon in a doubleheader against the University at Albany at the BU Softball Field.

In the six wins, the Terriers faced the University of MarylandBaltimore County, Boston College and Bryant University. All three teams have had their struggles in the circle, with UMBC’s (9-37, 1-14 America East) ERA sitting at 6.02, BC’s (12-30) at 6.37 and Bryant’s (17-20) at 4.35.

While all three teams have had

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a three-goal run for the Terriers that gave them a 3-0 lead less than three minutes into the game.

“I thought it was a game where we came out pretty fast and made some great offensive sets, that was awesome to see,” said BU coach Liz Robertshaw.

Yale (7-7) then put its first point on the board two minutes later with a score from midfielder Erin Magnuson, her 15th of the year.

Starting with a goal from junior attack Elizabeth Morse, the Terriers came back quickly with four unanswered goals to open up a 7-1 lead about 10 minutes into the first half.

After answering with a free-po-

sition goal, the Bulldogs defense was again tested as the Terriers mounted another three-goal run, which included two consecutive free-position goals from Etrasco.

This extended the Terriers’ lead to 10-2 with 12 minutes remaining in the first half of play.

The two teams traded goals three times to make it a 12-5 game, but then Magnuson found the back of the net once again for Yale to close out the first half with BU on top 12-6.

In the first frame the BU attack was aggressive, outshooting Yale 19-10 as well as going a perfect 5-for-5 on free-position shots.

The second half was a different game entirely, with each team appearing to play the opposite way it did in the previous half.

After neither team scored through the first eight minutes of the second, Etrasco netted two straight goals to push the Terrier lead to 14-6.

Following Etrasco’s two scores, the Bulldogs went on a blistering six-goal run that saw Robertshaw make a switch at goalkeeper, bringing in senior Kim Elsworth to replace long-time starter, junior Christina Sheridan in the cage.

“I thought, at that moment, that we needed a change and to shake up what we had in cage,” Robertshaw said. “I thought she played well, she came up with a couple of saves that were solid and she was a calming force in there that let our defense get back into it.”

With the score sitting at 14-12 with just under 10 minutes to play, freshman midfielder Sofia Robins found the net for the Terriers to stop the bleeding, and gave BU a three-goal cushion heading into the final stretch. After five scoreless minutes, Etrasco scored her

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trouble getting consistency from their respective pitching staffs, the Terriers faced a much tougher test against the top team in the America East in Albany (30-10, 13-1 America East), who has not had any difficulties in the circle.

Senior Brittany MacFawn has led the way for the Great Danes, winning 21 games and compiling an ERA of 2.06 as well as striking out an incredible 228 batters in 192.1 innings of work.

“They have a good pitcher,” said BU coach Kathryn Gleason.

“There’s a reason she’s leading the America East.”

Under the strength of MacFawn, the Terriers were kept offbalance all day, and were shut out in both games of the doubleheader.

MacFawn started the first game for Albany, and faced senior center fielder Jayme Mask to start off the game. Mask, who has been the team’s most consistent hitter all year with a .381 average and .447 on-base percentage, grounded out

to third base start the game. This was an ominous sign of things to come, as the BU offense could not get anything started against MacFawn.

Although the Terriers hit a double in the second off the bat of junior shortstop Brittany Clendenny, they could not bring her in.

While the Terriers appeared to have improved in driving runners in during their winning streak, they faltered in the doubleheader at cashing in when they had the few runners on that they did.

After the threat in the second inning and a walk of Mask in third, MacFawn settled down and retired 10 Terrier batters in a row. She was tough to solve and even make contact against, as she struck out nine batters in her six innings of work.

Mask and freshman designated hitter Lauren Hynes were kept off base all game, which hurt the Terriers, as they have been the tablesetters for the offense this season.

Although the Terriers smacked

two hits in the bottom of the sixth inning, it was too late, as they could not get any of those runners across and fell 8-0 in mercy-rule fashion.

“It was tough,” Gleason said.

“She’s a good pitcher. She hits her spots and mixes it up. We haven’t seen a pitcher like that in a while who’s throwing in the mid-60s.”

In the second game of the doubleheader, the Terriers faced MacFawn again, yielding similar results.

The Terriers started the game with a golden opportunity, as Mask and Hynes were safe on a single and an error, respectively.

Although they reached base with nobody out, the Terriers hit backto-back ground outs to the shortstop and then senior second baseman Emily Roesch popped up to left field, ending the threat.

“Those are the opportunities, especially against a good team such as Albany, that you have to

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W. Lacrosse @ Cornell, 1 p.m.

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