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BU fights time-sensitive patent infringement battle Landlords deal with ordinance on housing issues

By Rachel Riley Daily Free Press Staff

The decision by Boston University trustees to sue Apple, Inc. and several other major technology companies for patent infringement over the summer was motivated in part by the patent’s impending expiration date, officials said.

Officials decided to file complaints before the patent, which BU has rights to, expires in November 2014, said BU spokesman Colin Riley.

“We own the patents and we’re making complaints using the legal process to protect our patents from infringement,” Riley said.

“The fact is there’s a timeframe in which you have exclusive benefits to a patent. We’re within that timeframe.”

BU officials filed complaints against tech giants Apple, LG Electronics, Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Company as well as a number of smaller tech companies, alleging that the corporations illegally made use of a patent for insulating films created by electrical and computer engineering professor Theodore Moustakas in 1997.

Complaints were also filed in the spring

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of suburbs, low gas prices and auto ownership. However, the younger generation has led the decline in the average number of miles driven by Americans, according to the report.

Although, economic reasons are a huge factor for people to stay off the roadways, Pecci said the study does not limit the reasoning to just money. “[The study] shows the change that we are aware of, in that Millennials and even baby boomers are not driving as much as they have, not strictly due to economic factors, but due to other societal causes,” she said.

Pecci said technological changes such as the increase of smartphone use, online tools to make public transportation easier to use and a wider understanding of the effects of

As the extended deadline for landlords to register their properties came to a close on Saturday, the Inspectional Services Department of the City of Boston focused its efforts on problem properties and landlords with a history of code violations and noncompliance.

Indira Alvarez, assistant commissioner of the housing division in the ISD, said the registration ordinance requires landlords to pay a registration fee of $25 per unit for the first year of registration and $15 in the following years.

“This ordinance allows the city to be proactive by ensuring rental units in Boston are up to code,” she said. “It will help us trace negligent property owners and allow us to provide a list of available city resources to bring properties up to code. By doing this, we hope to keep Boston’s housing stock safe and sanitary.”

Over Boston University’s move-in weekend, ISD handed out more than 2,000 citations to property owners, ranging from $25 to $2,000 dealing with issues such as overloaded dumpsters, illegal dumping and improper storage of trash and debris. This is a decrease from recent years — officers issued 4,530 tickets during move-in weekend in 2012 and 5,275 tickets in 2010.

The City of Boston revised the Rental Inspection Ordinance on Dec. 19 to enhance current standards for the health and safety of rental housing in Boston, making this the first summer that the ordinance is being enforced as college students move into apartments, according to a press release issued by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s office.

“The Ordinance covers about 140,000, or

Transportation, see page 2

Landlords, see page 4

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BU is suing Hewlett-Packard Company for patent infringement for their use of insulating films, used in HP Pavilion 20xi IPS.

against Amazon and Samsung for the same case of patent infringement, Riley confirmed.

However, he did not outline a specific timeframe for the cases.

“The legal process is underway and ideally it will be resolved in our favor,” he said.

BU officials have licensed and sublicensed the patent to another firm in the past, and have made efforts to make the technology available to others, he said.

Patent, see page 4

Mass. residents driving less since 2004, study suggests

By Kyle Plantz Daily Free Press Staff

Even though Massachusetts has quickly recovered from ‘The Great Recession of 2008,’ residents of the Commonwealth are driving less than they have in years. This statistic is not unique to one area: Driving is steadily decreasing in states around the country, according to a study by the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group on Thursday.

Residents of the Commonwealth have cut their per-person driving miles by 4.03 percent since 2004, which mirrors similar reductions in 45 other states. In 2011, residents of Massachusetts drove an average of 8,318 miler per capita on average, 1,137 miles less than the national average, according to the report, “Moving Off the Road: A State-by-State Analysis of the National Decline in Driving.”

“An eight-year decrease is really significant, especially if you are looking across the board at every state in the Union,” said Kirstie Pecci, staff attorney at MASSPIRG. “The trend has continued since 2004 and, even though there are states that are more quickly recovering, they are not increasing their number of drivers on the roadway.”

Compared to other New England states, Massachusetts has one of the lowest annual vehicle miles traveled per capita in 2011.

Connecticut had 8,713 miles, New Hampshire had 9,650 miles and Vermont had 11,399 miles, the highest in the Northeast, according to the study.

After World War II, the nation’s driving miles increased almost every year, which created a “driving boom.” The total number of miles increased even more due to the growth

Students enjoy professional BMX, trials biking showcase on Marsh Plaza

By Rachel Riley Daily Free Press Staff

Boston University students gathered Tuesday afternoon on Marsh Plaza to watch professional biker Thomas Oehler showcase a variety of tricks as part of an ongoing college tour sponsored by Red Bull.

BU Bikes and Landry’s Bicycles, located near West Campus, collaborated to bring Oehler to BU, where he performed Tuesday around 3 p.m.

“We are going to do a mostly flatland demo,” Oehler, 30, said prior to the performance. “We’ll take some volunteers and get some volunteers involved.”

Oehler’s sponsors picked students from the gathering crowd, asking them to lay down side-by-side. He jumped over the students on his bike, eventually jumping over a total of six students.

“They have to trust in my skills,” he said. “I usually scare them a little bit.

You know, play around. It’s good fun.”

Since arriving in Boston Sept. 1 from his hometown in Austria, Oehler has done dem-

onstrations on the campuses of Northeastern University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

On the rest of his tour, he will visit various cities along the East Coast including Washington, D.C. and Virginia Beach, Va. “I’m doing a college tour for the fifth time,” he said. “Actually, the first stop we ever had was in Boston, so it’s pretty cool to be back here again and see the same spots I already know from the last tours.”

Oehler has been biking since he was 12, specializing in a type of biking called trials biking where the objective is for riders to bike over obstacles.

After Oehler began participating in competitions, he won the Austrian title for trial biking five times, the European trials biking title in 2006 and the World title in 2008.

“In competitions, you have a set course,” he said. “You have to go through this course, and if you touch the ground with your feet it’s a penalty point. Those points

Biker, see page 2

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Oehler described his demonstration on Marsh Plaza as a combination of BMX biking and trial biking elements.

“What I do is more a mix of BMX and trials,” he said. “I take some tricks out of BMX and put them together with some trials moves. Usually trials is not about doing tricks — it’s about riding over stuff.”

Galen Mook, a Landry’s marketing employee, said Oehler was at BU to impress students and to encourage their interest in biking.

“We want to basically promote bicycling in all of its forms,” he said.

“The main reason why people should bike is for fun, not just to get around or for exercise — those are all valid [reasons] — but the number one reason is that bikes are fun, and Thomas kind of represents that aspect.”

BU Bikes Treasurer David Miller said he was impressed by the demo.

“It’s inspiring,” Miller, a College of Engineering sophomore, said. “I want to be able to do stuff like that on my bike.”

Ben Goodman, another BU Bikes member, said he also enjoyed Oehler’s visit to campus.

“Anytime someone’s on a bicycle it’s guaranteed to be awesome,” Goodman, a College of Arts and Sciences senior, said. “This [Marsh Plaza] is the perfect venue for something like this.”

Mandy Maisel, a College of General Studies sophomore, enjoyed being a part of the demonstration. She was one of the students who Oehler jumped over while on his bike.

“It was fun,” Maisel said. “I wasn’t scared. I don’t think I would have done it [volunteered] if I thought I was going to get hurt.”

global warming are significant factors in the decrease of cars on the road.

“Across the country, citizens should be supporting projects that modernize the [public transit] system,” she said. “You don’t want to build a new highway and the investments should be in public transportation instead.

You get your money back in economic rewards and even in the number of accidents you avoid.”

On July 24, lawmakers voted to override Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick’s veto on an $800 million transportation bill that will address some of the Commonwealth’s roadway, bridge and Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority problems. The MBTA has an overall debt of over $8.3 billion with interest payments.

Pecci said Patrick’s bill was a good step for transportation and, while Massachusetts generally has a good transportation system, more finances could be directed towards fixing public transportation.

“The way they set up the bill is a good first step to deal with the financial issues that need to be address, but it’s time for us to do more planning,” she said. “It’s time for them [lawmakers] to start working with the MBTA. We need the universities to work with the MBTA to expand it and benefit from it. Instead of just getting a slice of the pie, they need to make the pie thicker by investing in the system.”

Randall Ellis, a professor of economics at Boston University, said despite the debt of the MBTA, Boston still has a decent public transportation system.

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portation system compared to a lot of other states, which makes it easier for people to take it causing them to walk and bicycle more,” he said. “I think you’ll find a meaningful number of people don’t own cars who live in or around Boston.”

If there were more subsidies and improved time availability, Ellis said people would be more willing to pay more to get more frequent subway service, but there has already been a push toward more eco-friendly public transportation.

“There has been a little bit of taste change, especially where young people are internalizing the concerns about climate change and the environment,” he said. “There has been additional investment in bicycle lanes on highways, which should cause more people to think about not driving as much.”

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sparks debate in East Boston

By Steven Dufour Daily Free Press Staff

With the delayed signature of Revere Mayor Dan Rizzo on Aug. 28, an official plan for a casino resort in East Boston is set for referendum in the coming weeks.

The plans to build onto the Suffolk Downs horse racing track on the East Boston-Revere city lines are projected to bring in hundreds of millions of dollars, much of which will be required to be distributed to the neighboring cities, according to the host community agreement between the offices of Rizzo and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino.

“The city of Revere negotiated its own host community agreement, but the makeup of this project is that there are two host communities involved, and that is in the spirit of how Boston works with its neighbors to make sure that everyone benefits from this large-scale economic development opportunity,” said Dot Joyce, spokeswoman for Menino’s office.

The casino would be phased in rather than built all at once, which is against wishes Menino publicly expressed while the plans were being made.

Before the casino can be built, though, it must first pass a public referendum. The exact date is not yet known, but city law mandates there must be at least 60 days between the signing and the vote.

The vote can possibly be expanded to the entire city, but it is by default made just for those in the East Boston community.

Menino signed the deal for Boston on Aug. 27 and it requires the owners of the project to pay East Boston $33.4 million up front to fund community improvement projects. It also requires them to pay an annual fee of more than $32 million dollars once it is operational, according to the Boston agreement.

Revere will separately receive approximately $15 million annually, according to the Revere agreement.

The project would, in total, also create more than 6,000 jobs with preference in East Boston and Revere.

While that level of job creation could be promising, Celeste Myers, co-chair of the No Eastie Casino advocacy group, said the exact job descriptions, which are not yet available, are among the many concerns about the project.

“Addiction will definitely manifest in the community,” she said. “It can increase crime. It will change quality of life overall. Even job profiles are in the dark, and that’s a simple thing.”

In the time before the casino is potentially put to a referendum vote, Myers hopes the topic will get more attention in the media with the release of the agreement and the debates and campaigns from candidates to replace Menino as mayor in November.

“A lot of folks in electoral positions and those vying for Mayor have refrained on commenting about this until the agreement was made,” she said. “I’m looking forward to getting more feedback as to whether they think this is worth the social and monetary price tag placed on this. I’m looking forward to action.

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By Bram Peterson Daily Free Press Staff

Mass. Sen. Will Brownsberger, representative for the Second Suffolk and Middlesex county where Boston University is located, kicked off his campaign on Saturday for the U.S. Representative seat vacated by former Sen. Ed Markey by leading a bike tour to encourage voters to cast their ballot for him.

Brownsberger, a triathlete and avid cyclist, left Arlington early Saturday morning on his self-dubbed “Tour de Fifth” bike ride, a one day, 110-mile tour that stopped at every town in the Commonwealth’s fifth congressional district, which Markey’s formerly represented.

“I don’t know if another campaign has ever done a bike tour, but it was a nice idea for our kickoff,” said Andrew Bettinelli, campaign manager for Brownsberger’s congressional bid. “The way we’ve been phrasing it around the office is ‘it’s very Will.’”

The double loop ride began in Arlington on Saturday morning with a party of 18 riders including Brownsberger. Friends and supporters of Brownsberger joined him on the ride and supported him along the way.

Bettinelli said the ride turnout was greater than Brownsberger or his staff expected. They hoped to have five to 10 riders at most for the first loop of the ride, and after that, they assumed about half would stay around for the second loop, he said.

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Will Brownsberger and three supporters smile after their 110-mile bike ride throughout the 5th District of Massachusetts Saturday evening in Whittemore Park.

“I’m really surprised, but I think it really goes to show the depth of the support that Will has,” he said.

“He’s done a lot of great work for cyclists and other forms of transportation. He’s been a big advocate for public transit and making cities more bike friendly.”

Brownsberger said he is looking to take his experience in the Massachusetts Senate to the national level.

“The timing is determined by the race,” Brownsberger said. “I love being in the [Massachusetts] Senate.

I would’ve been happy to be there for a while longer, but I really want

to be a part of helping this country meet its largest challenges.”

Brownsberger is one of seven Democratic candidates vying for the seat vacated when Markey won the June 25 special election to fill Secretary of State John Kerry’s U.S. Senate seat. In a poll conducted by Spilka in late July, Brownsberger came in fourth out of the five candidates at the time. However, the winner of the poll only had four percentage points over Brownsberger, and 43 percent of the sample was

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Problems posed by alcohol in music, study says

By Paola Salazar Daily Free Press Staff

The consumption and glorification of alcohol by youth could be linked to frequent mention of specific brands in today’s popular music, according to a new study by researchers at Boston University and Johns Hopkins University.

Melanie Kirsh, President of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, said many problems with alcohol are caused by media portrayal of alcohol consumption at college.

“People are still going to drink,” Kirsh, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said.

“But, the glorification of it in music may be a factor [in increasing consumption], because when students are at parties with alcohol, it [the music] might add to the pressure to do it [drink], especially among underage kids.”

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Researchers examined 720 songs from Billboard’s most popular song lists in 2009, 2010 and 2011. 23 percent of those songs reference alcohol, many of which reference specific brands, according to the study published Aug. 28. Patrón tequila, Hennessy cognac, Grey Goose vodka and Jack Daniel’s whiskey were most frequently referenced.

More than 70 percent of underage students reported they have consumed alcohol, which is responsible for the death of about 4,700 people below the age of 21 per year, according to the study.

“A small number of alcohol brands and beverages appear to make frequent appearances in popular music,” said BU School of Public Health professor Michael Siegel in a press release. “… If these exposures are found to influ-

ence youth drinking behavior, then further public health efforts must be focused on youth exposure to alcohol portrayals in popular music.”

Since researchers found four specific brands significantly popularized in music, there is a possibility that such brands may be using popular music as a promotional channel to today’s youth, said David Jernigan, a coauthor of the study, in an email. “[Since] we found substantial positive portrayals of alcohol use in popular music, future research needs to examine whether exposure to these positive portrayals in popular music is putting underage persons at greater risk of initiating drinking, or of drinking more,” Jernigan said.

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Boston University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will be launching a new certificate program in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies in the fall 2013 semester, officials said.

GRS Associate Dean Jeffery Hughes said this certificate program for graduate students is comparable to an undergraduate minor in women’s issues.

“The purpose [of this program] is to provide a place where graduate students, typically ones doing a dissertation research on some topic that involves women, have some common place to discuss them [women’s issues],” Hughes said.

Hughes said this program is exclusive to graduate students who want to pursue an extra qualification in women’s studies. Students studying subjects such as English, sociology, history and political science could all benefit from this certificate program.

Hughes said graduate students who have taken courses in women’s studies are already informally pursuing this WGS certification.

This program gives their courses of study a formal label, which could be important for them while attempting to enter the job market. “[Pursuing this certification] implies to a future employer, primarily a college or university, that this student is not just qualified to teach straight English courses, but has taken a curriculum and thought about women’s issues more broadly,” Hughes said.

Only students who are already enrolled in a graduate program can apply for this WGS certification program. He also said there has been significant demand for this program, and there are up to 20 students expected to enroll this upcoming fall semester.

Psychology professor Deborah Belle said in an email that the creation of the certification program was inspired by an existing interdisciplinary undergraduate course, WS 101/102, called “Gender & Sexuality: An Interdisciplinary Introduction.”

“For two years now we have

WGS, see page 4

Despite increase in productivity, Mass. workers still make the same

By Steven Dufour Daily Free Press Staff

Massachusetts has more than doubled its productivity in the workplace over the past three decades, but it has come at a price for lower wage earners, according to a Thursday report released by Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, The report, titled The State of Working Massachusetts, showed productivity — measured by output of goods and services divided by hours worked — has increased by 112 percent since 1979, but the median wage has increased by only 18 percent. In the same period, the minimum wage has lost almost 13 percent of its value.

“Back in post-war years when productivity went up, wages went up right along with it, but that changed in the 1980s,” said MassBudget President Noah Berger. “There has been wage growth, but it’s been mostly

among the people at the very high end of the income distribution ...

Those in the middle have seen very little growth.”

On Thursday, hundreds of fast food workers went on strike and marched to the Boston Common as part of a national movement to raise the pay of workers.

Leisure and hospitality jobs that pay $10 per hour and professional and business service jobs that pay $26 per hour, the lowest and highest paying jobs measured, showed the most growth, according to the report.

“People have been talking about the hollowing out of the job distribution,” said Kevin Lang, a professor of economics at Boston University. “...

Non-manual, routine types of tasks that can easily be replaced with technology [have disappeared].”

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Although Massachusetts’s economy has become more productive in recent years, low-income workers continue to struggle.

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The patent, officially named U.S. Patent No. 5,686,738, or “Highly Insulating Monocrystalline Gallium Nitride Thin Films,” was granted to Moustakas in the same year that he developed the technology.

The patent in question is allegedly used as a part of products that include blue LEDs, such as the incredibly popular iPhone 5, iPad and MacBook Air, according to the complaints.

“My sense is that the patent is pretty solid, and it has definitely been used ... and they [companies] have made a lot of money,” said tech analyst Roger Kay. “One could argue that their ability to make that money was enhanced by these patents, and BU deserves a piece of that.”

Kay, who is also president of Endpoint Technologies Associates, said BU officials most likely decided to file the complaints this summer after realizing they could initiate the lawsuit for a relatively low price and yet reap major monetary gains.

“What’s really at stake here is a big pile of dollars,” Kay said.

Kay said he expects the tech companies will attempt to settle outside of court, and that the settlement will ultimately depend on the value the patented device holds relative to the companies’ respective products.

“Even though the university has specifically requested Apple and Samsung stop selling products, the likelihood of that happening is extremely low,” he said. “… There’s no reason to take the company that’s making the money and choke it — much better to take some of the company’s money and allocate it towards the rightful patent holder.”

Underlying BU’s decision to sue the tech companies is the competition between colleges and universities, Kay said.

“Some of the motivation for this suit is the economics of higher education, where every university is scrambling for money in every way it can,” he said. “It’s not unique to BU — what is unique to BU is that it has something it can sue over.”

BU School of Law professor Michael Meurer, who specializes in intellectual property rights, said it is unlikely that Apple and the other tech companies are actually at fault.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if these companies developed this technology on their own,” he said.

Due to the fast-paced nature of today’s technology industry, patents are constantly being used and created, Meurer said.

“High-tech products today involve dozens and dozens of inventions, and there may be dozens and dozens of patent owners,” he said.

“Also, because patents are relatively easy to get, it’s not surprising to see different parties independently inventing the same technology.”

Meurer said if the patent is actually as valuable as it has been portrayed through BU officials’ various complaints, he is pleased with BU’s reaction.

“I’ve seen this being characterized as a very important invention,” he said. “If that’s the case, then I think it’s great that BU is vigorously enforcing its rights.”

more than 85 percent of Boston’s approximately 167,800 rental units, and requires that Boston landlords can be easily identified and held accountable when they fail to provide safe and decent housing for tenants,” the release stated.

Although the deadline for registration was extended from July 1 to Aug. 31, Brian Swett, the chief of Environmental and Energy Services, said in a letter on Thursday to Boston city councilors that officials are stressing that the extension is an exception and landlords are expected to register their properties by July 1 next year.

“Extending the deadline for registration for all landlords would only serve to delay an important enforcement tool for known problem properties and problem landlords as we

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been co-teaching it [WS 101/102] … The experience of learning from faculty members across [the sciences] who focus on shared questions about gender and sexuality has been extraordinary,” Belle said. “We want to provide that sort of experience to our graduate students as well.”

Belle said she expects students in GRS graduate programs such as english, sociology, religion, history and psychology to enroll in this graduate certificate program. She said many recent graduates have expressed that they wish they had the opportunity to experience such a program.

“Students pursuing this certificate will learn how folks in different disciplines think about and study questions very closely related to their own intellectual interests,” Belle said. “Becoming aware of ways of thinking outside one’s own discipline can lead to ex-

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undecided.

Samantha Hooper, communications director for the Massachusetts Democratic Party, said while her party feels confident they can win the election, they have not given any candidate a potential advantage with official support.

“We have some excellent candidates and a deep pool of talent in the Democratic party,” said. “It’s going to be a close race. “ Brownsberger said he will continue to campaign and draw more support as the Oct. 15 primary draws closer.

“I am different from the other candidates,” he said. “I’m the candidate who is willing to be a little independent and do the right thing when that’s not what the party leadership wants, or [when] it’s not what the pressure groups want, and I think voters appreciate that.”

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“As summer winds down and we move into fall, our city comes alive as we welcome back thousands of students who attend our local colleges and universities,” Menino said in a Friday press release. “It’s so important for us to use this opportunity to educate students and their parents about their rights as tenants and their responsibility to be good neighbors.”

Even though the new ordinance was highly publicized, Alvarez said landlords’ reactions have varied.

“Many were in agreement with the ordinance because they felt owners would be more accountable in taking care of their properties, but whenever there is a major change in a system reactions are sometimes less positive than others,” she said. “In time, most will abide by the changes made.”

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continue our efforts to better ensure healthy and safe housing for all Boston renters,” Swett said.

He said the focus of the ISD’s housing inspection team for September is to enforce rental codes and ensure that all rental units are maintained properly.

“As you are all well aware, a fire in a rental property in Brighton earlier this year claimed the life of a Boston University student, serving as a clarion reminder as to why it is so important that rental units throughout the City are maintained in safe and healthy condition,” he said.

On April 28, BU senior Binland Lee died in a house fire in Allston due to smoking materials that were not properly disposed.

Menino was in Allston on Friday reiterating the importance of safe and healthy housing as more than 70,000 students moved into

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Carrie Preston, BU associate professor of English, said in an email that this is the first time BU’s Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program is becoming involved in graduate education. She said this graduate certificate will increase the general importance of gender and sexuality studies at BU. “This certificate program also represents one response to the charged debates about the future of programs like WGS,” Preston said. “As gender and sexuality are increasingly being integrated into all the disciplines and departments, women’s studies programs have been embroiled in contentious debates about whether or not they have accomplished their mission.”

Preston said this certificate will expand career opportunities for students in fields involving policy development, nonprofit organizations and public health. Candidates will

be required to take four courses focused on women, gender and sexuality, students and must attend a practical workshop on teaching in the field.

She said two of these required courses can be selected from the student’s chosen program or from any other subject across the university. One required class is the newly offered WGS 801, called “Theories and Methods in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.”

The fourth course must be an interdisciplinary, team-taught course in the Bostonarea Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies.

“WGS hopes to encourage an interdisciplinary exploration that considers the ways gender and sexuality impacts our minds, bodies, identities and imaginations,” Preston said.

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BU students share their summer internship experiences in the debate on paid versus unpaid internships

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nterested in taking on a summer internship to help determine her career interests, Sara Arnold, a College of Communication senior, began her search using the Boston University CareerLink assuming all of her options would be unpaid.

“I thought I didn’t need to be paid because most internships aren’t paid these days, so I made the commitment to The Echo Nest, a music technology company in Somerville, for the whole summer,” Arnold said.

Many students take on these internships to learn new skills, to put something on their resume or to acquire future recommendations without expectations of monetary payment.

However, the debate about paid internships was brought up this summer in a lawsuit against Fox Searchlight Pictures. On June 11, a U.S. district judge reinforced a federal law saying that interns deserve a paycheck when performing the work of a regular employee.

However, this debate rarely appears in the form of a lawsuit because interns have many reasons not to sue, such as receiving a recommendation after the internship is over, said Professor Michael Harper, who specializes in employment discrimination law at BU’s School of Law. “If students sue, there’s a black mark on their records,” Harper said. “Interns are there for their resumes and the experiences, so they’re not going to sue. However, these suits may have been a hint to employers that it’s time to treat their interns better.”

Though students may not prefer unpaid internships, they are legal if the primary benefit of the internship is for the student, according to the U.S. Department of Labor guidelines.

“The big question for students who are concerned is, who is the primary beneficiary,” Harper said. “The bigger problem with unpaid internships is that they take away work from people who need paid jobs for their livelihood.

Employers are getting work for free, which is enabling them to not pay someone else for valuable work.”

However, many BU students said they are focused on the larger benefits of their internships, since these positions are only temporary.

Additional benefits After beginning her unpaid internship at The Echo Nest, Arnold also found a paid internship at Editbar, a small creative editorial company in Boston.

At Editbar, she was part of a small team in a picturesque office on Newbury Street — and a salaried employee. In between practicing new skills using Final Cut editing software, she engaged in fairly typical intern duties, including picking up lunch and taking care of clients for meetings.

“I got a lot more out of the paid internship at Editbar,” she said. “I learned how production goes and how a pitch meeting worked. I learned that I liked small offices. I learned a lot about the type of work I want to do — producing television or commercials and it pointed me in a clear direction about where I should look for work, or at least what sort of office I should be looking for.”

Bobby Patrovic, a College of Arts senior studying international relations and minoring in business, took an unpaid internship at U.N. Global Compact in New York City over the summer because it combined his two academic interests and gave him the chance to see what type of job he might want after he graduates.

“Everyday I was doing really interesting things — and things that integrated my two

Amy Gorel Spotlight Editor academic interests,” he said. “It was a really rewarding experience especially considering that this is something I want to go into.”

Working at U.N. Global Compact, Patrovic was able to get hands-on experience with projects that coordinated company leaders with corporate social responsibility, though he still completed typical intern duties, including creating Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.

“I was always treated as part of the team, they gave me hands on work, and I saw the product of my work,” he said. “It was really rewarding to see my work being used for their larger goals.”

In addition to testing out a future career, students look for the opportunity to add experience to their resumes and to see how different types of organizations or companies work.

What sort of internship could you do that involves your women’s, gender and sexuality studies minor? That’s the question Samantha Levy asked as she sought an internship with Planned Parenthood of Northern New England in Portland, Maine. As a junior in CAS studying psychology, Levy said she was interested in incorporating her minor into her internship experience.

“Having an internship at Planned Parenthood was a natural idea,” she said. “They have a lot of name recognition that could help with my future endeavors. I think this would be a strong thing to experience when people ask me what I would do with a women’s studies minor.”

Levy’s title was Grassroots Organizing Intern, in which she spent her summer doing policy-related work and helping with table events. A big part of her job was to destigmatize Planned Parenthood and to explain to people the breadth of health services it provides for women — with only 2 percent actually being abortion services.

She also worked on getting a patient safety zone approved by interacting with the local government.

“It was helpful for me to get a look at nonprofit work,” Levy said. “I’ve done other things before, but I was never this intimately involved.

Now I know how they really work, how happy their fulltime employees are and I have had my eyes opened to the real issues that could happen in small-town Maine. It feels good to see that the work that I’m doing is affecting my hometown.”

What about the money?

Michael Abed, a College of Engineering senior, interned with Akamai Technologies in Kendall Square working on his own project writing software.

“It was well paid, I don’t think I would have taken the internship if it wasn’t,” he said, acknowledging that most of his peers studying engineering typically get paid internships over the summer. “I couldn’t live in Boston for the summer without being paid.”

Patrovic took his internship because he was more interested in the idea of the U.N. collaborating with the private sector to help create a better world than in getting paid.

“I think everyone looks for a paid internship, but with a goal like this, it was easy enough for me to take on an unpaid internship,” he said. “It was something I was interested in and it was an unreal experience. It really helped me going into my senior year to carve out my ideas about what I want in the future.”

Though the internship at Planned Parenthood was unpaid, Levy said it was not a major issue for her either.

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Picking up coffee and filing are notoriously regarded as the typical tasks of unpaid interns. However, many interns are given greater responsibility without the benefits of pay.

“I was in it for the experience and to learn and to have some technical experience in the field that I might be interested in in the future— whether or not I was paid,” she said. “I think only one of the 10 internships I applied to was paid.”

Before Arnold started her paid internship, she said she would have had to find a nighttime job in either a restaurant or a store to make some money.

“I had to stay in the city for the summer and it’s not like there is free housing,” Arnold said.

“It’s not feasible for me to spend my days doing something and to be unable to live off of it.

It can’t be the mindset of the working world to have young people be overworked and underpaid. That’s not fair to us, and I needed to tell myself I am a valuable worker.”

After her experience at Editbar, she feels that she is more productive and confident in her work knowing that she is able to make a living off of it.

“I don’t think I would ever take an unpaid internship again,” she said. “Once you’re in a place where they respect you and enjoy having you around and involve you in the process of their work, I feel that I can’t not get paid.”

Arnold said that when she tells other people — especially her peers in COM— that her internship is paid, they are shocked.

“It’s definitely not the norm,” she said.

“Most of the internship postings on CareerLink in COM are unpaid. It’s a terrible cycle. You can’t make college kids give free contributions to the working world while we’re swimming in student debt.”

After graduation According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers 2013 Student Survey, students who had completed paid internships had a distinct advantage in receiving job offers over their peers who had experienced unpaid internships or who did not intern at all.

The survey showed that 63.1 percent of paid interns received at least one job offer after they completed their undergraduate degree.

Only 37 percent of unpaid interns got an offer, which is only 2.2 percent higher than those who had never done an internship. Paid interns also averaged a starting salary of approximately $16,000 more than those with unpaid internship experience.

Despite these statistics, which represent students from all fields, BU students said they feel that their internships, paid or unpaid, made them more aware of what they are looking for after graduation and more confident in entering the workforce as a valuable employee.

“I’ve interned the past three summers and while I was abroad — throwing yourself into a new environment is invaluable,” Patrovic said. “I do feel more ready for the workforce and confident in finding a job. As much as I’m excited and nervous for senior year, I definitely feel more confident in having consistently done internships and putting myself in different environments.”

Patrovic said that BU places an emphasis on the value of internships and networking.

“It’s not only the experience, but also the connections you make, both social and professional, that are really invaluable,” he said. “That is really where my internship [at UN Global Compact] really exceeded my expectations.”

Levy said through her internship, she was able to network and now has something to bring up in conversations with future employers or connections.

“The name recognition is really going to work in my favor,” Levy said. “People know the name and know what it’s about, especially in the fields that I think I may go into to pursue my interest in women’s studies.”

Though Arnold said she did not initially seek paid internships, since she was more interested in an experience that she could learn from, she has since changed her mind.

“In the end, I changed my mind completely,” she said. “If I’m not getting paid, I don’t have the same motivation. If you’re doing things for the benefit of a company, even if you’re learning in the process, you should get some sort of recognition.”

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Sweet, sweet freedom of speech

Sweet Cakes By Melissa, a small bakery in Gresham, Ore. that reportedly refused to bake a cake for a lesbian couple’s wedding closed its retail location on August 31. The bakery shut their doors and moved to a domestic location because protesters boycotted the store. Protesters also threatened to boycott florists and wedding planners that did business with the bakery.

Now, the couple has filed a discrimination suit and the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries is opening an investigation on the small business. According to Fox News, the couple has also taken to newspaper and television to tell their stories.

According to the Huffington Post Tuesday and Fox News Monday, the owners of the shop are quoted saying they do not have anything against homosexuals. The couple simply does not support gay marriage because of their strict Christian background.

At what point can protesters, fueled by their freedom of speech, stifle others’ freedom of speech — specifically freedom of religion? Can private companies promote their points of view in their business? Kosher Delis can. Bakeries that make penisshaped birthday cakes can. Does a bakery have the power to discriminate?

“We don’t have anything against lesbians or homosexuals,” Melissa Klein said in August, as reported by the Huffington Post

and Fox News. “It has to do with our morals and beliefs. It’s so frustrating because we went through all of this in January, when it all came out.”

Ironic the owner used “came out” to describe the situation.

Fox News also reports the family received death threats, saying “militant homosexuals” swarmed the store and protested for months and called their home.

Are the protesters fighting fire with fire or are they invalidating their cause by making personal attacks on the owners?

While the owners’ choice to refuse the couple is bigoted, the bakery is just a small mom ‘n’ pop shop, not a large corporation with strong political or social influence throughout the country.

Look at Chick-fil-A. The company donated $2 million to gay conversion therapy programs and organizations back in 2010. People opposed to these policies protested until the owners of the organization pledged to remove Chickfil-A from social and political debates.

This bakery is malicious in the sense that excluding a group of people, possible clients, even, is inherently problematic.

But these people are trying to operate within their own beliefs. It is a privately owned family bakery and they have the right to live by their morals.

She won’t be tamed So, Miley Cyrus and the MTV Video Music Awards are still in the news. This time Miley is doing the talking and responding to the endless commentary on her performance with Robin Thicke.

MTV scored an interview with Ms. Cyrus and she opened up and compared herself to Madonna and Britney Spears.

“Every VMA performance, that’s what you’re looking for,” she said to MTV. “You’re wanting to make history.”

And she did!

Cyrus and Thicke made millions scratch their heads after their performance. How can such a young girl get so sexual with a grown man? And what was she wearing?

Hah! Look at her rear end!

But who has said anything about Robin Thicke? Isn’t he married? Doesn’t he have a kid or two?

The end result is that Miley Cyrus’s performance, for all its controversy, was a successful publicity move.

She is no stranger to negative attention, but in Hollywood, isn’t any publicity good publicity? She has gotten flack for pole

dancing a couple of years ago (although she really just danced next to a pole). Her haircut also received immediate criticism for being extreme. She’s been accused of objectifying African-American women by using them as props in her “We Can’t Stop” video. Will Miley never stop stirring the pot?

Cyrus brought in those giant teddy bears to the performance, then ditched them to grind on an adult. She worked her new “good girl gone bad” persona for this coming-of-age performance. There were childhood elements that brought the performance back to Hannah Montana, but she hit her audience hard with her sexual expression, and it still has people talking about it.

Britney Spears, Madonna and Christina Aguilera snogged on stage at the VMAs, and that certainly raised eyebrows. Cyrus is just following her predecessors As she said in the interview, she has seen this play out so many times. Let’s put it to rest until her next music video or nearly nude performance.

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How I lost my soul Frank Marasco “L.A. is just a shallow, soulless place,” the somewhat prominent speaker said as he wrapped up his talk on “making it” in the entertainment industry, which had devolved mainly into a scathing critique of Los Angeles — the people, the traffic, the alleged emptiness.

Deflating news indeed for someone like myself who’d had it in mind to move there for as long as I could remember. He wasn’t just ragging on a city — he was squatting over and squeezing one out all over my dreams. Cold sweats and night terrors ensued. His words echoed in my sleep, “SHALLOW … SOULLESS … YOU’RE GOING TO DIE IN AN EARTHQUAKE.” The days went by, the pain began to subside, my wounds were healing. “It’s just one man’s opinion,” I thought. But at a party several weeks later, I began talking with a young lady who’d grown up in Los Angeles. “I don’t want to, like, crush your dreams, but L.A. sucks,” she said with the utmost conviction in her voice and a slight glaze in her eyes, “It’s, like, the worst place you could ever want to live. Seriously.” The combination of her words and her breath, a sharp mix of gin and Redbull, pierced my fragile heart as she mercilessly bashed her hometown and my rapidly diminishing will to live.

The nightmares grew worse, the agony persisted. Everywhere I turned I was given the same, grim message, “Frank, I know you. You wouldn’t like L.A.,” said friends.

“You don’t strike me as an L.A. sort of guy,” said other acquaintances, with those common themes springing up in all their admonishments — shallow, soulless, empty, traffic … you’ll die in an earthquake.

But what was I to do? I felt sure of my desire to pursue entertainment. As sure as I’d ever felt about anything. Even more sure than I had felt that I could pay my way through college by selling sperm. And has there ever been a city more synonymous with any line of work than L.A. is with the entertainment industry? Okay, maybe D.C. and politics, maybe Vegas and stripping … but you get the idea. A doctor can move to Boston or Buenos Ares or Botswana. A banker can live in Seattle or Sarajevo or Sri Lanka. But, if you’re someone looking to break into movies or TV, you won’t find much work in Djibouti.

Despite the fear of moving to the most miserable place on earth, according to so

many, an inkling came from somewhere to place all my eggs in the soulless basket of Los Angeles. I purchased my ticket — the cheapest one ever offered in the western hemisphere. I’d be flying at the crack of dawn’s groggier, even less charming brother, the middle of the night. I would have no access to leg room, carry-ons, or in-flight nourishment. But I was promised that the teensy, pack-of-gum-sized airplane would make it to LAX nonetheless. This was the point of no return. This was the red pill, creepily offered to me by Lawrence Fishburne at the Newark airport Ruby Tuesday.

Upon arrival, I was delighted to find that perhaps there is some semblance of a soul here. There are museums, and libraries, and parks, and dive bars. How could this be? But remaining careful not to jump to any conclusions, I continued investigating the issue of whether or not Los Angeles has redeemable qualities.

And through this search, I’ve found an interesting wrinkle in the way so many, whether they be life-long-L.A.ers or East Coast transplants or anything in between, view L.A. Los Angeles is not the “City of Angels.” It’s the city of caveats. “The traffic sucks … but the weather is great! But there are no seasons…but the beaches are wonderful! But they’re overcrowded … but there are a ton of fantastic restaurants! But there’s no good pizza … but there’s amazing Mexican food! But eat too much of it and you’ll get dysentery…”

Maybe, like anything else in life, Los Angeles is what you make it. Sure, there are no seasons, but that’s because there’s perfect weather all year ... Okay. Fine. Except for the three days it rains. Sure, there are a lot of broken dreams, but there are also an awful lot of wild successes. For example, the founding of In-N-Out Burger.

Maybe everyone in L.A. is shallow.

Maybe it is void of culture and lacks a soul.

Or perhaps what’s really shallow is to declare that 13 million people are all just that.

Maybe what’s really empty is the belief that a place with this much diversity and opportunity has nothing good to offer. Or maybe I’m just slowly losing my soul, and this column is a cry for help. That, I will leave for you to decide.

Frank Marasco is a first year graduate student Los Angeles. He can be reached at fcm820@bu.edu.

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Ghosts of Editors Past: On changes for field hockey team

By Annie Maroon Daily Free Press Contributor

Annie Maroon (COM ’13) graduated from BU in may and currently writes for WEEI. She was the Spring 2011 Sports Editor for The daily free Press.

Early in my freshman year at Boston University, I was dispatched to cover a home field hockey game as a new writer for The Daily Free Press. Of course, BU’s “home” field hockey games weren’t played at Nickerson Field, or anywhere on this side of the Charles River, but rather at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Jack Barry Field, worlds away from my Warren Towers-centric universe.

Walking seemed easier than taking the Green Line to the Red Line, so that’s what I did, even though it started pouring as soon as I left my dorm and kept up through most of the game. I had an umbrella, but it didn’t do me much good on the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge with the rain blowing sideways. I sat on the cold metal bleachers (there may have been a press box, but I was, again, a freshman, and had no idea I should have even been looking for one) and scribbled notes as fast as I could while trying to shield my notebook from the rain. After the game — a 7-0 BU win over Sacred Heart — I sat in an MIT Dunkin’ Donuts, drinking hot chocolate until I had recovered enough to make the trek home.

Over Labor Day Weekend, BU’s field

hockey team inaugurated New Balance Field with a pair of wins over Ohio University and the University of Delaware.

They now have a true home field, not a borrowed one, for the first time since the 2000 season. Head coach Sally Starr has noted that the new field should help the program attract recruits, strengthening an already competitive team: The Terriers finished 12-6 last year but were barred from the America East playoffs due to BU’s shift to the Patriot League. New Balance will also make it easier for interested students to check out a game, with the team playing in their West Campus backyard rather than miles away in Cambridge.

On a personal level, I’m glad for the new Free Press writers that they won’t have to make the voyages we did to MIT and later Harvard for home games (although they might have to hear me tell some old-lady “in my day, we walked sixteen miles, uphill both ways in pouring rain to cover field hockey” stories). But the importance of New Balance Field goes beyond that. It’s just one of a number of significant changes in BU Athletics this year, even more than a new year usually brings.

The newly established men’s lacrosse team will play at Nickerson, not at New Balance, but the new field will allow them to have the practice time they need while still giving club and intramural sports their space. I never lived in StuVi2 or any of the

West Campus dorms myself, but several friends who did often watched ultimate Frisbee or intramural soccer games from their windows with the presence of some competition or another a constant. With the addition of New Balance, both the men’s and women’s rugby teams also will be able to practice on campus, which hasn’t been the case in recent years. Those are club teams, not varsity. But the 33 club teams and endless intramural squads at BU make it clear that sports culture here isn’t just about the varsity hockey teams, and New Balance will only continue to expand that world.

But oh, right, hockey. I suppose I would be remiss not to mention, in a column focused on change, the fact that BU will have a new men’s hockey coach for the first time in 40 years. Jack Parker’s last year at BU was also my last, but that doesn’t mean I won’t be watching with great interest to see what David Quinn can do with a program that’s fallen short of its traditional standard periodically over the last four years. (The fact that BU won a national championship in 2009, went to the NCAA tournament in 2012 and is still considered by some to be in decline only highlights the expectations Quinn will inherit.)

I covered the men’s hockey team for the last two years for the FreeP, and based on that experience, I’d say the best change Quinn can offer BU this year will be a rela-

tively uneventful season. By that, I don’t mean a .500 season in which BU doesn’t have to make any of those taxing trips to the NCAA regionals. The 2011-12 season saw two players arrested and a university task force assembled to investigate the program. While the issues stayed mostly on the ice in 2012-13, a young but talented BU team nonetheless missed the NCAA tournament after a midseason slump. The ideal debut for Quinn, then, would avoid anything that might be called a “black eye for the program,” whether that’s a set of unacceptable off-ice incidents or a costly loss to a weak Harvard team in the Beanpot consolation game (something that’s happened twice in the last three years).

To me, blaming a coach entirely for his team’s problems or crediting him for the bulk of its success is usually ridiculous. It removes accountability from the people who are the most responsible for how a team fares: the players. But with a coaching change of this magnitude, it’ll be hard not to attribute at least some of BU’s 2013-14 approach to Quinn. Although he was an assistant under Parker until 2009, this stretch of Commonwealth Avenue has changed significantly since he last worked here, both inside and outside Agganis Arena. Now, Quinn’s task is proving he can provide a steady hand in the midst of a shifting BU landscape.

‘Like’ The Daily Free Press Sports Section On Facebook Field hockey blanks Delaware

By Christopher Dela Rosa Daily Free Press Staff

The No. 16 Boston University field hockey team capped off its opening weekend at New Balance Field with an exciting 2–1 overtime victory against the University of Delaware.

“Quite honestly, if we had lost today, I would not have been dissatisfied with this team because I really just felt that for a young team, we did a lot of things really well,” said BU coach Sally Starr.

Unlike their first game of the season against Ohio University, the Terriers (2-0) came out of the gates pressuring Delaware (1-1), trying to get some early scoring opportunities. BU did exactly that within the first minute by earning a corner, but failed to capitalize.

During the eighth minute, BU senior backer Ysi Schieb and Delaware midfielder Michaela Patzner ran the ball deep into BU territory and, unfortunately for the Terriers, Patzner was able to knock the ball into the net before junior goalie Valentina Cerda Eimbcke could make a save attempt.

The Terriers attempted to respond quickly and had a corner in the 12th minute, but the shot by sophomore backer Katie Bernatchez was saved by Delaware goalie Heather Hartman. The rebound and resulting outlet pass by the Blue Hens created a fast break for Delaware that forced Eimbcke to go one-on-one with forward Toni Popinko. Eimbcke was able to make an impressive stop, keeping the Delaware lead at one.

About six minutes later, the Terriers faced a scary moment following another flashy pair of saves by Eimbcke. Bernatchez fell to the turf and held her head in pain. With all of the commotion in front of the goal, she had been hit in the head. After being looked at by trainers on the field, she was helped off of the field by the trainer and would remain on the sidelines for the rest of the game.

“It’s a concussion,” Starr said. “ I would be shocked if we get her back for next weekend. Our backfield is really depleted — it was shallow to start with — and we didn’t

have many reserves to begin with.”

The remaining 20 minutes of the first half were uneventful, as BU and Delaware turned the ball over to one another. Every so often, the Terriers would be able to get the ball into Delaware territory and get a shot off, but in most cases, the chances would not come close to the net.

By the end of the first half, Delaware’s one point lead remained intact, although BU outshot the Blue Hens 9-4.

BU came out of halftime like a different team, making crisp passes and moving the ball well. Unfortunately, the Terriers continued to miss the net and sent shots both wide and high of the goal.

In the 57th minute the Terriers began to play with urgency, and after getting the ball into Delaware territory, Starr called a timeout to make some changes and try to come up with a play that could help the Terriers tie the game.

“We went into a more aggressive state after that timeout,” Starr said. “I think that puts a little bit of a pop in your step when you know that you’re in an attack mode, pushed some people up through the midfield, made a more aggressive press, and it worked.”

The changes worked, as BU was able to get some more shots off than they had earlier in the game. With 4:21 left in regulation, they were finally able to break through as sophomore forward Sofi Laurito nailed a falling backhand shot to tie the game.

BU kept the aggression going into overtime and it was not too long until another freshman came up big for the Terriers.

On Saturday, freshman forward Amanda Cassera recorded a hat trick in her first career game and Monday it was her classmate, midfielder Hester van der Laan scoring her first career goal, which was also the gamewinning goal for the Terriers.

“We knew that this class was going to be a nucleus class for us as we came onto New Balance Field,” Starr said. “We’ve got a lot of talent. The future is bright for BU field hockey.”

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Terrier goalie Valentina Cerda Eimbcke helped BU beat Delaware in a 2-0 contest Monday.

Eimbcke’s talent leads BU to success

By Christopher Dela Rosa Daily Free Press Staff

Over the last few years, Boston University field hockey fans have had the pleasure of witnessing consistent goalkeeping, and with the way the Terriers have started the season, it looks as if that is not going to change anytime soon.

In 2011, the Terriers (2-0) welcomed thenfreshman Valentina Cerda Eimbcke to play goalkeeper, alongside junior walk–on Jess Maroney and senior Julie Collins.

Of the 20 games BU played that season, Eimbcke started in 14 and played in 18 games total, the most of the three goalkeepers on BU coach Sally Starr’s roster. That season, Eimbcke allowed 24 goals, — an average of 1.5 per game — saving 84 shots and finishing the year with a .778 save percentage.

The following season, Starr chose to employ a different rotation for her goalkeepers. In 2012, it was Maroney who earned most of the playing time. Maroney took full advantage of the opportunity, only allowing 14 goals, making 66 saves, earning herself a .825 save percentage and 9-4 record.

Meanwhile, Eimbcke had a shaky 2012 campaign. She started 12 of the 18 games the Terriers played and often gave up early goals that set the team behind. Eimbcke played 250 minutes less than Maroney but nearly allowed the same amount of goals.

“Valentina had a good year last year ...

She’s just really solid back there,” Starr said.

“In practice, she’s working hard and getting better every day, and I think that’s what we as a team want to be doing right now.”

Through two games this season, Eimbcke

looks like a completely different player than she did in the 2012 campaign.

On several occasions, she made great saves against Ohio University and the University of Delaware.

“She’s definitely healthier,” Starr said. “She had a knee injury that she was nursing all of last year, and she’s been playing with the Chile National Team when she’s home because their seasons are reversed so she gets to play a lot in the summertime, and I think all of that game experience and confidence has really helped her.”

Eimbcke’s knee injury seemed long gone during the opening minutes of the 5–1 victory over the Bobcats (0-2). Ohio had a corner where Eimbcke was able to stop the initial attack and then quickly move to the other side of the goal to thwart the Bobcats’ second attempt.

During Monday afternoon’s game against the Blue Hens (1–1), a turnover by the Terriers led to a breakaway opportunity for Delaware’s Toni Popinko. Eimbcke charged the ball, stacked her pads and saved what could have been a fatal second goal by Delaware.

A few minutes later, Eimbcke was able to sift through several players to find the ball and make an impressive save once again.

Following the game, Starr said she believes the future of BU field hockey is bright. From the looks of it, that future is going to include top-notch goalkeeping — for the next two seasons at least.

Eimbcke has proven she has what it takes to be a starting goalkeeper for a nationally ranked field hockey team.

“She’s fitter, she’s smarter and she has got a heck of a lot of confidence right now, as she should,” Starr said.

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“We’ve got a lot of talent. The future is bright for BU field hockey.”

-BU coach sally starr on the potential of this year’s field hockey team.

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Top Boston University athletes to watch in 2013-14

By Sarah Kirkpatrick and Conor Ryan Daily Free Press Staff

#8 -- RASHIDAT AGBOOLA, WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SENIOR FORWARD For the women’s basketball team that qualified for the Women’s National Invitation Tournament in the 201213 season, now-graduated guard Chantell Alford was the shining star. But 6-foot-1 forward Agboola provided strength in the paint for the Terriers, totaling a team-high 46 blocks and averaging nine rebounds per game — sixth best in school history for a single season. Agboola also averaged 11.7 points per game, and if the fact that she averaged nearly a double-double last season is any indication, she will be irreplaceable to this BU squad that is losing three of its top five scorers. (Photo: Michelle Jay, Daily Free Press Staff)

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#7 -- KELVIN MADZONGWE, MEN’S SOCCER JUNIOR DEFENDER Madzongwe was one of the best players for BU men’s soccer in 2011 — so good that he was named the 2011 America East Defender of the Year. Last season, he was en route to a season with similar success, but he tore his ACL three games in and was done for the season. He is back this year and healthy, though, and the co-captain’s skills and leadership will be pivotal to the team, which was selected to finish second in the Patriot League. (Photo: Audrey Fain, Daily Free Press Staff)

#6 -- MADISON CLEMENS, WOMEN’S SOCCER SENIOR FORWARD Clemens, last season’s America East Offensive Player of the Year, was one of the chief reasons why the BU women’s soccer team won its sixth straight America East regular-season title in 2012, as the Reading, Pa, native scored eight goals in 19 games. Now, after being picked as the favorite to win Patriot League’s Offensive Player of the Year, Clemens is primed to be one of the top scorers on what is expected to be the best squad in the Patriot League. (Photo: Michael Cummo, Daily Free Press Staff)

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#5 -- JAYME MASK, SOFTBALL SENIOR OUTFIELDER Mask emerged as a star last season for the Terriers, leading America East with a .399 average — sixth highest in program history — including a league-best .480 average in conference play. She also showed off some speed on the basepaths, tying the school record for stolen bases with 37. As a result of her stellar 2013 performance, Mask was named America East Player of the Year and was on the All-Region First Team. Her outfield defense and leadership will be major keys to the success of the Terriers in 2014. (Photo: Sarah Fisher, Daily Free Press Staff)

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#4 -- RICH PETERS, CROSS COUNTRY/TRACK SENIOR Peters is one of the most decorated current BU athletes: He has qualified for NCAA Outdoor Championships each of the past two seasons in the 1,500m run and was national runner up in the mile his sophomore indoor season. He holds the school record for the mile (3:57.83) and the 1,500m (3:40.05). Though traditionally a miler, Peters has excelled at longer distances too, qualifying for the NCAA Championships in cross country last season. He is the only runner in the Patriot League who competed at the NCAA Championships last season, and is an easy favorite to be atop the Patriot League in his senior season. (Photo: Kevin Edelson)

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#3 -- MAURICE WATSON JR., MEN’S BASKETBALL SOPHOMORE GUARD

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Watson tore up the hardwood for the Terriers in 2012-13, living up to the hype as one of the most heralded recruits in BU basketball history. Last season, he led America East in assists per game (5.4), tied for first in total assists (162) and tied for second in steals per game (1.7). His extraordinary rookie season earned him CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Freshman All-America honors and spots on the America East All-Conference Third Team and All-Rookie Team. Watson, with his impeccable hustle and playmaking ability, will be the glue that holds together arguably one of the top teams in the conference. (Photo: Michelle Jay, Daily Free Press Staff)

#2 -- DANNY O’REGAN, MEN’S HOCKEY SOPHOMORE FORWARD Drafted in the fifth round (138th overall) of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft by the San Jose Sharks, O’Regan stepped in and immediately made his presence felt on the 2012-13 BU men’s hockey team. The Needham rookie lead the team in scoring with 38 points (16 goals and 22 assists) in 39 games and was named to the 2013 Hockey East Pro Ambitions All-Rookie Team along with fellow BU classmate Matt Grzelcyk. With a year of experience under his belt, O’Regan is expected to once again lead the team in scoring in new head coach David Quinn’s debut season with the Terriers. (Photo: Michael Cummo, Daily Free Press Staff)

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#1 -- SARAH LEFORT, WOMEN’S HOCKEY SOPHOMORE FORWARD

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Lefort emerged as a top scorer for national runner-up BU in her rookie campaign, netting 24 goals and 19 assists, tying Marie-Philip Poulin’s record for goals as a freshman. Her 1.16 points-per-game average was third among all NCAA freshmen, and as a result, Lefort was named to the USCHO All-Rookie Team. She was also a member of the Hockey East All-Rookie Team. As the Terriers seek a return to the Frozen Four, look for Lefort to step up even more in the absence of Jenelle Kohanchuk, who graduated after last season, and Poulin, who will represent Canada at the 2014 Olympics. (Photo: Michelle Jay, Daily Free Press Staff)

The Bottom Line

Wednesday, Sept. 4

No Events Scheduled Bills WR Stevie Johnson said that he’s ready to face off against the Patriots secondary, including Pat Chung.

Thursday, Sept. 5

No Events Scheduled If he thinks that’s intimidating, wait until Rodney Harrison comes out in the second half.

Friday, Sept. 6 W. Soccer @ Penn State, 7 p.m.

M. Soccer @ Connecticut, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 7 Field Hockey @ Northwestern, 1 p.m.

Cross Country @ Nassaney Invitational, All Day

Sunday, Sept. 8 W. Soccer @ Akron, 12:00 p.m.

Field Hockey vs. Miami, 1:00 p.m.