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BU achieves highest U.S. News ranking yet at 41st place Rankings jump a step in Pres. Brown’s development plans

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Boston University moved up 10 spots to #41 in US News and Report’s annual National University Ranking.

By Rachel Riley & Trisha Thadani Daily Free Press Staff

Boston University jumped up 10 places to 41st among universities — its highest ranking yet — across the nation in the 2014 version of the U.S. News and World Report’s National University Rankings.

The rankings, released Tuesday, reveal that BU’s ranking improved from 51st place to 41st place between the 2012-13 and 2013-14 academic years.

“BU had improvements in academic

reputation, financial resources, graduation and retention rates, admissions data [and] faculty resources,” said U.S. News and World Report Director of Data Research Robert Morse. “It had small improvements in many of the factors we use in the rankings.”

The National University Rankings are calculated by measuring a number of criteria for colleges, including areas such as alumni giving, admission factors, financial resources and several indicators in faculty

and academics, Morse said.

BU has made a relatively large improvement from last year in comparison to other universities, Morse said. Penn State University and Miami University of Ohio also made large jumps from their positions last year.

“Boston University had a relatively big jump,” he said. “It’s normal, but it was certainly more than a typical jump or increase.”

Princeton University came in at the number one spot, knocking Harvard University from its usual spot down to second place. Yale University followed at third place. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, just across the river from BU in Cambridge, came in at seventh place, tied with Duke University and University of Pennsylvania.

Tufts University in Medford was ranked 28th and Boston College in Newton was ranked 31st. Northeastern University, situated close to BU’s Charles River Campus, was ranked 56th.

BU spokesman Colin Riley said BU’s new rank is partially the result of President Robert Brown’s effective Strategic Plan and BU’s acceptance into the Association of American Universities.

“Its [BU’s] increases in research, in selectivity, in fundraising all go back to the president’s strategic plan that he’s been

cision will be,” Carney told reporters.

Bulger decided not to testify during his nineweek trial, calling the trial a “sham,” because he was not allowed to use the claim that he received immunity for his crimes decades ago by now-deceased federal prosecutor Jeremiah O’Sullivan, as reported by The Daily Free Press on May 2. Prosecutors said they would speak for about an hour during the sentence hearing and the defense said they would take 30 minutes.

Casper said she would hear arguments and testimony from victims’ families and hand down the sentence the following day. She said victims should refrain from angry outbursts and remember they are in a court.

Carney said in a statement on Tuesday that Bulger is preparing himself for the sentence hearing. “[He] is at peace within himself,” he said.

“He has now concluded going to trial. He’s

Boston University’s jump of 10 places from 51st to 41st in the U.S. News and World Report ranking of national universities is a mark that efforts to develop BU over the past six years, officials said.

In 2007, BU President Robert Brown enacted the “Choosing to Be Great” strategic plan — a comprehensive outline of goals set to help BU grow into a more prestigious and commendable university. The jump in U.S. News and World Report rankings comes as a result of those ongoing efforts, he said.

“What you see is recognition, growing recognition, in a number of different ways of the plan we’ve been executing for the last five or six years about increasing the quality of Boston University,” Brown said in a Tuesday interview with The Daily Free Press. “…

You are starting to see what I call the cumulative effect. You’re starting to see the institution gain recognition for who we are today in many different arenas.”

On Tuesday, U.S. News and World Report released its 2014 edition of the National University Rankings with BU placed 41st — the first time it has been within the top 50.

“If you pick up the magazine, there’s page one, there’s the top 50 institutions and then there are the others,” Brown said. “This puts us, for the first time in our history, on page one, and solidly on page one at 41, so it’s a really great recognition for what we’re doing.”

In October, BU joined the Association of American Universities, an invitation-only organization of 62 top research institutions in the U.S. and Canada. The same month, BU graduates were ranked the 17th most employable graduates internationally in a survey of employers in 20 countries published in The New York Times.

BU received 20 percent more applications for the 2013-14 academic year than it did for the 2012-13 academic year.

Despite several milestones reached in the past year, Brown said the rankings increase is likely due to longer-term projects, most of which are part of the strategic plan.

“I don’t know that anything dramatic happened in the last year,” he said. “I think of this as something that it just builds over time.”

Brown said the development efforts have

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Whitey Bulger could face life in prison, prosecutors say

By Kyle Plantz Daily Free Press Staff

After nine weeks of hearing testimonies from more than 70 witnesses during the trial, James “Whitey” Bulger was found guilty of 31 of the 32 counts brought against him.

Now, Bulger could face life plus 30 years or life plus 35 years in prison, prosecutors said at the John Joseph Moakley Courthouse on Tuesday.

“The court’s heard the evidence,” said prosecutor Brian Kelly. “The facts are pretty atrocious. We know what we’re going to recommend [on how much time to serve in prison].”

As The Daily Free Press previously reported, Bulger was convicted on Aug. 12 of 11 of the 19 murders he allegedly committed as a former mob boss of the Winter Hill Gang during the 1970s and 1980s. He was found not guilty on seven murder charges and made no finding in one of them.

Kelly said family members of all 19 victims

want to submit victim impact statements and 14 relatives want to speak at the sentencing hearing.

J.W. Carney, Bulger’s attorney, said he would file a written response in court to the request of the victim’s families.

Judge Denise Casper did not immediately rule on the request, but said everyone who will be allowed to speak will get five to 10 minutes to talk about the victim and the loss they suffered.

“I understand, inevitably, it will be very difficult for the family members to speak to their loss, their sadness, and yes, their anger,” she said.

Carney said Bulger, who was not present in court, waived his right to attend the hearing.

He said he would not comment on whether Bulger plans to make a statement during his sentencing hearing and on what sentences he plans to recommend to the prosecution.

“As of right now, I don’t know what his de-

By Chris Lisinski Daily Free Press Staff

Despite offer from Russia, BU prof. says Syrian weapon disposal unlikely

By Trisha Thadani Daily Free Press Staff

While U.S. President Barack Obama said he has postponed military action in Syria to allow Congress to consider Russia’s proposal of confiscating and destroying Syria’s chemical weapons, Boston University experts say a weapons forfeit is unlikely.

Obama addressed the nation Tuesday night and said while he supports a singular military strike in Syria, he has decided to allow Capitol Hill officials the chance to consider Russian officials’ proposal.

However, BU anthropology professor Augustus Norton said it is doubtful Syrians will actually comply with Russia and forfeit their chemical weapons.

“Syria’s main enemy is Israel, who has a very large — by regional standards — nuclear arsenal,” Norton said. “So, the strategic argument in Syria is that a chemical weapon stockpile … is a deterrent weapon against Israel.

And, therefore, I can easily see generals in the Syrian army very much resisting giving up

these weapons.”

Regardless of Syrian officials’ next move, Obama said U.S. citizens should not ignore the ongoing crisis as the U.S. has a moral obligation to lessen Bashar al-Asaad’s ability to use chemical weapons on civilians.

“This is not a world we should accept,” Obama said in his address. “That is why, after careful deliberation, I determined that it is in the national security interests of the United States to respond to the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons through a targeted military strike.”

Obama said a failure to act would make it easier for other terrorist organizations to obtain such weapons in the future. He explained the purpose of the strike would be to discourage Assad from future use of chemical weapons and to prove that the use of such weapons will not be tolerated.

“My answer is simple — I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria,”

Syria, see page 2

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Carl M. Sciortino Jr., Democratic candidate in the 2013 special election for Massachusetts’s 5th congressional district, rallies against a strike on Syria at a peace vigil Monday night on Park Street.

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Obama said. “This would be a targeted strike to achieve a clear objective: deterring the use of chemical weapons and degrading Assad’s capabilities.”

Obama said although he is the commanderin-chief and ultimate authority on such matters, he will allow Congress to continue their debate and to consider whether the U.S. should pursue Russian officials’ proposal.

Norton said Obama’s speech was mundane and thus unlikely to have changed the nation’s collective mind on military intervention. He explained that due to Syria’s weak relationship with the U.S., there are few options on how U.S. officials can deter Syria’s use of chemical weapons.

Zack Robinson, a School of Management sophomore, said Obama’s desire for a limited military strike is a good option as reasonable negotiations with Assad seem unlikely.

“I don’t think even one strike is something that Assad is going to be able to ignore …

It’s definitely going to have an impact on him [Assad],” Robinson said. “Even if it doesn’t have the … exact impact that some people would want, it would definitely say to Assad that chemical weapons are not okay.”

Sarah Blair, a College of Arts and Sciences senior, said Obama made a compelling argument on U.S. officials’ moral obligations to take action in Syria.

“I don’t think he was trying to make the case that military intervention is the best option,” Blair said. “He [Obama] said if a diplomatic solution can be reached … that would be ideal because it would save us from interfering into affairs with another country and also because the main goal of eliminating chemical weapons would be met.”

Eric Kashdan, president of the BU International Affairs Association, said Obama showed a preference for an international confiscation of weapons, which demonstrates a worldwide intolerance of chemical weapons.

“He [Obama] said what he wants and prefers is this international option where the UN [United Nations] would confiscate weapons,” Kashdan, a CAS senior, said. “He talked about letting Congress approve the authorization and reestablishing checks and balances when it comes to military action, and those are goals that definitely resonate with what Obama has always said.”

Margaret Waterman contributed to the reporting of this article.

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frustrated that he wasn’t able to present the full defense that he wanted to and he recognizes that there will be a very emotional sentencing hearing ahead, and he’s preparing himself for it.”

Bulger, 84, was captured by Federal Bureau

Faculty and Students

Students say jump in rankings is a result of increasing competition for admission to BU ranking: From Page 1

working so hard on,” he said. “Its good academic leadership and prudent financial leadership [contributed] as well.”

BU’s progress in U.S. News and World Report’s National University Rankings has been steady and incremental in past years, Riley said. Jumps of this magnitude, however, are relatively rare.

“As more people realize all the great things going on at BU, that gain in reputation is now being seen in the rankings,” he said.

The jump might also be due to improvements and changes in U.S. News and World Reports ranking techniques, Riley said.

“Some of that may be due to the U.S. News working on improving its methodologies or formulating the methodologies to reflect the important criteria for students and parents to look for when applying for a university,” he said.

College of Arts and Sciences senior Adi Foord said there have been noticeable changes across the board at BU that may have contributed to this change in rankings.

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“Programs are getting better, such as SMG and COM, and it is getting harder to get into [those programs], which I think is helping out,” she said. “I think the overall GPA [of accepted students] is increasing, which is also making a difference.”

Foord, a physics major, also said incoming students are increasingly talented.

“The freshmen in my program have seemed more prestigious, most definitely,” she said. “I know the program itself is [also] becoming more prestigious.”

College of Fine Arts sophomore Diego Cornejo said she is pleased with BU’s gradual progress in rankings.

“Academically, BU is getting a lot more rigorous, but that is good because then I will learn more,” she said. “It gives me motivation to work harder.”

College of Engineering freshman Grace O’Donnell said BU’s academic excellence is apparent from increasingly competitive admissions to BU programs.

“College competition has gotten so much higher,” she said. “I think BU deserves it [the jump in rankings].”

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By Alice Bazerghi Daily Free Press Staff

The following reports were taken from the Allston-Brighton District 14 crime logs from Sept. 3 to Sept. 8.

Theft in front of Wonder Bar At about 3:05 a.m. on Friday, a police officer responded to a call at 72 Gardner St. for an assault and battery report. The victim and the witness told police officials they finished working at the Wonder Bar and were leaving when they realized they left their car’s hazard lights on, which killed the battery.

They flagged down a blue Volvo and five black males offered to help.

When the victim noticed her purse was not in the car, but on the ground next to it, she checked her bag and saw that her credit card was gone.

She confronted the group and one male spat on her, hit her and then fled the scene. The victim was able to take a picture of the license plate when the group drove off.

19-year-old arrested Police responded to a call about a party at about 12:50 a.m. at 42 Kirkwood Road on Sunday. Upon arrival, officers heard loud music and entered the building. People on the porch began to run to exit from the backyard. The officer observed a white male take beer from the table and quickly exit the kitchen toward the front of the house. The officer told the male to put the beer down and the male took another sip of the drink. The officer repeated himself and the male attempted to flee. The officer asked him how old he was and the male told him he was 19. The officer asked the male how many times he had been asked to put the beer down and the male said at least three times. He was then placed under arrest.

Police officer assaulted At about 3:49 a.m. on Saturday, two officers responded to a call to investigate a person at 200 Lake St. When they arrived, the officers spoke with the witness who stated that the suspect had pulled the fire alarm at about 2:27 a.m. The school staff had the suspect pulling the fire alarm on tape. When the officers approached the suspect, he ran to his room and locked himself inside.

The facility coordinator opened the suspect’s room and an officer grabbed the suspect’s wrist. The suspect ducked, threw a wooden chair at the coordinator and began to run in an unknown direction. The suspect was summonsed to Brighton District Court for assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon on a police officer.

Kids dispersed at underage party At about 12:15 a.m. on Friday two officers responded to a loud party at 1629 Commonwealth Ave. The officers heard loud music and went into the basement of the apartment. When they approached the door, they could smell a strong odor of marijuana. The officers contacted the lessee of the apartment and saw bottles of alcoholic beverages, cans of beer and about 30 people that appeared underage. The group was dispersed and peace restored.

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New LAW building about halfway done Coakley allows 28 petitions to seek signatures

By Rachel Riley Daily Free Press Staff

As the skeleton of the new tower stands next to the existing School of Law Tower, the construction of five new floors of classrooms within LAW’s new building is approximately halfway complete, officials said.

“The law school’s new [Sumner M.] Redstone Building is very much a student-centric building that is being constructed with the needs of the students coming first and foremost,” said LAW Director of Communications and Marketing Ann ComerWoods.

The five-story building will be around 93,000 square feet and will wrap around the current tower, she said. It will provide more classrooms and study space and will include an expansion of Pappas Law Library as well as a small student dining facility.

Comer-Woods said the project — for which ground was broken in January — is scheduled for completion for the fall 2014 semester.

LAW student groups will have more meeting space in the new building, something which Comer-Woods said the current facility lacks.

“In addition to the classroom and educational facilities, the building is also being designed with lounges and student function and informal meet-

By Steven Dufour Daily Free Press Staff

cording the Sept. 4 report from the Federal Reserve. The Fed’s first district is headquartered in Boston but also serves Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. It reported “modest” growth for the whole economy.

Retail and tourism contacts in Boston reported a four-to-five percent increase in businesses year to year. Manufacturing contacts reported overall increases as well, according to the beige book.

The Fed’s findings also showed both commercial and residential real estate in Boston are making steady recoveries as industries.

Staffing services showed even larger growth.

Software and information technology services was the only category with a negative report in the beige book for the Boston area.

Contacts still reported revenue growth, but it was lower than expected for the month.

After reviewing 33 initiative petitions to be included on the November 2014 ballot, Mass. Attorney Gen. Martha Coakley certified 28 petitions that residents could have a chance to vote on to become laws in Massachusetts.

“Ballot initiatives allow citizens across the Commonwealth to directly engage in the process of democracy,” Coakley said in a Sept. 4 press release. “Our decisions do not reflect any opinion on the merits or values of the petitions, but simply that the constitutional requirements were met.”

Sponsors of the petitions have until Dec. 4 to gather approximately 69,000 signatures of registered voters. If achieved, it is sent to state legislature where elected officials have until the first Wednesday in May 2014 to enact it. If they do not enact it, sponsors must gain another 11,485 signatures by July 2014 to put it on the ballot for the November 2014 election.

Some of the approved initiatives cover topics such as hospital reform, minimum wage, taxes and whale fishing, according to a list of the initiative petitions filed with the Attorney General’s office. The three hospital initiatives each deal with staff and administration. The first, the Patient Safety Act, would put stricter limits on the maximum number of patients nurses can take care of one time in certain departments. The other acts would require more financial transparency from hospital administration and place a limit on operating margins.

David Schildmeier, spokesman for the Massachusetts Nurses Association and proponent of the initiatives, said all three reflect “a problem-ridden system” in hospitals, but that the safety act is the most important.

“Nurses can have five to eight assignments at one time,” he said.

“They will say it’s not safe, that they can’t safely take care of them [the patients]. What they will get back from management is ‘deal with it.’ That has to change for the nurse’s sake and the patient’s sake.”

Other petitions approved would allow for more state independence

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Ballot, see page 4

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Fall 2013 marks the halfway point in the Sumner M. Redstone Building construction project.

ing spaces for student organizations to meet and engage in their organizational activities,” she said.

The new Redstone building will have five floors of classroom space, which will complement the sixteen floors of existing classrooms in the original tower.

“It [the Redstone Building] is going to have most of the law school’s classrooms and those will all be equipped with state-of-the-art technology,” Comer-Woods said.

Architect Leland Cott of Cambridge architecture firm Bruner/Cott

Law, see page 4

Federal reports show conflicting data on Mass. economy

By Steven Dufour Daily Free Press Staff

The monthly Current Population Survey from the U.S. Department of Labor released Friday showed unemployment is steadily increasing. Conversely, the Federal Reserve District’s beige book released on Sept. 4 said the Northeast has shown economic growth in almost all sectors.

“The number of new jobs is a lot less than what people were hoping for,” said Johannes Schmieder, assistant professor of economics at Boston University. “A lot of it is just people just getting discouraged. It’s been a very slow recovery [from the recession], and it’s not totally benefitting the job market at this point.”

The CPS survey, which is based on roughly 60,000 household surveys nationally, found the unemployment rate for the Commonwealth to be 7.2 percent, the highest rate since September 2011.

In the past several months, Massachusetts has seen the most dra-

matic rise in the unemployment rate since the beginning of the recession in 2008, according to US Bureau of Labor Statistics released on Friday.

Employment has gone down in recent months, but the active labor force is at its highest point in more than a decade, according to CPS data.

Gary Steinberg, spokesman for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said while the numbers have some flaws, labor statistics have gone through a bigger shift in the past few years beyond the total number of those employed or unemployed.

“As the population ages a lot, more people are going to be unemployed, and that definitely drags down the [unemployment] numbers,” he said. “Younger people are not participating in the workforce as they used to, though. People are working longer into their lifespans, but younger people are still not entering the workforce.”

The economy as a whole is less ambiguous for the northeast, ac-

Boston welcomes startups, entrepreneurship, despite study results

By Alice Bazerghi Daily Free Press Staff

Although many entrepreneurs have said that Boston is great for startups, a study released on Sept. 4 by the Ewig Marion Kauffman Foundation had Boston ranked outside of the top 20 cities for startups.

Cambridge, however, is in the top three with one of the highest densities of high-tech startups.

Dane Stangler, director of research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation and the author of the study, said although the two areas are close in proximity, Cambridge is a better place than Boston to build a startup.

“Boston is average … scoring 1.0 for the country, compared to the Cambridge-Newton-Framingham area which is third largest in the country for high-tech startup density,” he said.

Stangler said startups are important in metropolitan economies be-

cause they force business to evolve and to create new jobs, products and services.

“Startups create lots of jobs, but more importantly, they’re hightech,” he said. “They’re responsible for innovation. They have a ripple effect because they force business to do better.”

Randall Ellis, an economics professor at Boston University, said while most startups do not make it more than a few months or years, the ones that do benefit the economy.

“Startups play a central role in innovation and job growth,” Ellis said. “Although the vast majority fail, those that succeed account for much of the new products, services and employment … even large firms grow heavily by purchasing small, startup firms.” Ellis said the rankings are not surprising, given that Cambridge has the best universities in the

Startups, see page 4

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Despite Cambridge being ranked a significantly better area for startups than Boston, Boundless Learning began and flourished in Boston.

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Brown hopes for BU to reach level of peer institutions New tower will increase LAW profile BU Developments: From Page 1

been concentrated into four main categories. The first category is the expansion and growth in quality of faculty, particularly in the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Management. The second category is related to what Brown described as “student success,” demonstrated by the completion of the Center for Student Services at 100 Bay State Road, which opened in September 2012.

Similarly, the third category of focus has been on the “student experience,” as the incoming freshman class size has decreased by about 500 students since 2007, Brown said.

“[It] means a lot when you think about it relative to integrating the freshman into the university,” he said. “It means a lot relative to how the housing system works and housing choices. It’s a lot fewer people that have to be advised, a lot fewer people to take up time for the faculty and the staff. It’s more time to work with the students that are here.”

The fourth area into which efforts have been directed is expanding BU into a renowned research institution — something that was highlighted by BU’s admittance to the AAU. “We really focus on hiring what I would call world quality faculty in our schools and colleges that are

doing research and scholarship that has prominence in their field, and that results in raising the reputation of the institution,” Brown said.

“You can see that in some metrics in terms of publications and citations, you can see it in research dollars where people get external dollars for support.”

Senior Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations Scott Nichols said it is likely that BU will continue to rise in the rankings.

“While this is possibly the most dramatic jump in recent years, it is an accumulation of improvement in almost every category,” he said in an email. “… Interestingly, since the rankings are primarily based on 2012 data, they does not take into

account some record achievements of BU in 2013. We may see improvements next year as well.”

Brown said over the next five years, he hopes to see BU being ranked equal to or above certain peer institutions including New York University, George Washington University, Northwestern University and the University of Southern California.

“These are large, comprehensive research institutions … and these are the institutions that we compete completely with for students,” he said. “… What you’re seeing by this jump in the ranking is we’re getting closer to being ranked the same as some of those institutions.”

how people live on minimum wage now,” said Burlin Barr, 50, a resident of Amherst. “You can’t even think about having a family.”

Shalimar Crayton, 38, a resident of Dorchester and administrative assistant at Harvard Vanguard and Associates, said she was not as sure about raising the minimum wage.

“I kind of sit in the middle on this,” she said. “I understand the point of minimum wage, but at the same time, those jobs are sometimes

for people with no skills, and they somehow have to make a living with that. I can see it from the employer’s view though. The problem is knowing what the right number is.”

Five initiatives did not meet state requirements to get on the ballot. The denial does not mean the initiative is no longer an option, but the process to get approval becomes more difficult.

Nicholas Brokon, 54, a resident of Nahant and iron worker whose pe-

tition was struck down, said he is still motivated to get it signed into law.

His petition would counter U.S. Supreme Court precedent and say corporations are not people and money is not free speech.

“Once we get the petition forms in our hands, we expect support for this to grow exponentially,” he said.

“If this issue weren’t important for people to rise up and petition the government, we wouldn’t be doing it. This definitely isn’t over.”

Residents share mixed feelings on minimum wage initiative Ballot: From Page 3

from federal law, repeal gas tax indexing, repeal a tax on information technology services and restructure what constitutes sick-time off of work, according to the list of initiative petitions.

Several people offered mixed opinions on an initiative that would raise the minimum wage from $8 to $11.

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Boston “not as attractive for startup firms” as Cambridge, professor says startUps: From Page 3

region.

“Cambridge has the top two universities and hence it is not surprising that it is especially strong,” he said.

“But more importantly, Boston is a mix of high and low income areas, and with its high property taxes, it is not as attractive for startup firms.”

Many people who have created

startups in Boston said the city has been supportive for them to start their company.

Healy Jones, vice president of marketing for the startup Boundless Learning, said Boston has been a good place for her company.

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Architects and Planners is the head architect for the new facility, ComerWoods said. Cott was a student of Jose Louis Sert, who designed the original LAW Tower in the early 1960s.

The Building is named after the building’s lead donor, Sumner Redstone, who is a former LAW faculty member and founder of Viacom entertainment company.

In September 2012, Redstone donated $18 million to BU for construction of the new building.

“This is going to be a tremendous benefit for our students,” she said.

“We have outstanding faculty and outstanding students and now we are finally going to have the physical facilities to compliment that.”

LAW professor Tamar Frankel said she is delighted to have a new workplace to look forward to after years of teaching in the original LAW Tower.

“We have been working in this building [the original Tower] in not very comfortable conditions for a long time,” she said “… This renovation is going to facilitate the productivity of both teaching and learning in this building.”

The building’s design will ease traffic and will save both students and professors time and trouble, Frankel said.

“The ability to connect to large groups of students as well as to small groups will be facilitated,” she said.

Second-year LAW student Drew Tobias said he hopes the new building will have better climate control than the current tower.

“The air and the heating are notoriously bad,” he said. “You learn to deal with it, but it would be nice to have a little more stability.”

The ongoing construction has also caused trouble for LAW students over the past year, Tobias said.

“The construction is a bit of the pain, blocking off the entrance to the GSU,” he said.

Third-year LAW student Ned Nakles said there are several issues with the original LAW Tower.

“It’s definitely lacking in study space as well as in lounging space,” he said. “The library is grossly inadequate and probably one of the smallest libraries in the country, excluding the annex.”

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The two reports together show labor and service markets conflicted with each other, Schmeider said.

Russell Baldwin, 66, a retired mailman who lives in Boston, said the work environment he left has changed. Workers he knows personally feel they are worked harder for the same wages they earned decades ago.

“People just can’t live the same as they used to, not with them needing their jobs as much as they do now,” he said. “More and more people are out of work, so bosses can make their workers do more and more, and they can’t risk their jobs to say no. So I can understand we’re getting more done, but the cost on people is getting higher.”

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Hidden renovations Students weigh in on a campus under construction

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tudents returning to Boston University cannot ignore the ongoing changes to campus. The completed New Balance Field on West Campus and the School of Law and General Classroom Building — both of which are still covered by scaffolding — are just a handful of examples.

However, students may not have recognized other areas of growth on campus, including some lesser-known renovations in both academic and residential spaces.

The luxurious School of Management building had some renovations to accommodate its growing student body. The African Studies Library received new lighting due to a survey about renovations the space required. The new Kilachand Hall — formerly Shelton Hall — received modern touches as it became repurposed from a residence with a dining hall to an all-inclusive home for the Arvind and Chandan Nandlal Kilachand Honors College with offices, classrooms and students living in the upstairs dormitories.

An even better School of Management “SMG is the golden star of this campus,” said Erwin Wang, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore with an SMG minor.

“Compared to CAS and other buildings on this campus, they definitely seem to pay more attention to this building.”

Though SMG is arguably already one of the better-designed buildings on campus, it has received even more attention this summer with the renovation of its Pardee Management Library, the redesign of classrooms on the fourth floor and technology upgrades in its lecture halls.

“The renovations had been in the works for a little while now because we had been feeling upwards pressure on enrollment for quite some time,” said SMG Assistant Dean of Strategic Initiatives and Student Learning Steven Davidson.

With the increasing popularity of the school, about seven or eight years ago officials decided that the building could no longer accommodate all of its students, Da-

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“The Executive MBA program was ranked number one in New England and 19th nationally by The Economist, and Bloomberg ranked the undergraduate program 23rd overall,” he said. “We have been undertaking a lot of innovative efforts to allow our programs to continue to grow and to meet the needs of our students.”

Students agree that the appearance of the building is an important aspect in maintaining — and boosting — the reputation of the college.

“The rankings keep going up and they need to keep the school building presentable,” Wang said.

The building itself is important since SMG students spend so much of their time in classes and taking part in group projects, said Natacha Garcia, an SMG freshman.

“The school building is very important for students who are looking at schools,” she said. “It’s also a very dynamic building since there is a Starbucks, break out rooms, a library and classrooms all in one building.”

New comfortable seating replaced Pardee’s older furniture. Some walls were painted yellow, giving the place a more cheerful and positive glow. The general area was also redesigned to allow for more individual consulting opportunities with librarians.

Amy Patel, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences junior, said she has always studied at Pardee and will continue to do so after the renovations.

“It’s not as boring as it used to be,” Patel said. “It’s just a brighter and happier environment because of the colors and it’s comfier.”

Davidson said with the school’s popularity and population soaring, SMG will continue to grow over the next few years by seeking additional funding and continuing to upgrade its facilities.

floor of Mugar Memorial Library, but with new furniture and brightly lit rooms, students have begun to swarm in to sneak a peek at the newly renovated African Studies Library.

Beth Restrick, head of the African Studies library — which is considered one of the top African studies libraries in the nation — said she was elated to be part of the renovation plans.

Restrick said surveys were sent to faculty members, graduate students and undergraduate students over the past three years to evaluate the most necessary renovations on campus.

“We have been asking for renovations and improvements for a while,” Restrick said. “But oftentimes, the budget is a bit tight and there are more pressing needs from other libraries.”

Restrick said this library was renovated at a low cost, since most of the furniture was recycled from the Pardee Management Library. Even though the materials were reused, library funds were also drawn from to provide more electrical outlets and to repaint the walls.

Derrick Muwina, a School of Theology graduate student, began working at the library prior to the new renovations. He said he and his students have noticed and enjoyed the library’s new look.

“We’re seeing a heavier traffic of students coming to use the space,” Muwina said.

“For me and a number of my colleagues, we felt it’s much better than before.”

Restrick said students have been asking if the place is new, which shows great feedback that the library has transformed. The library will still undergo more construction during the year, including new blinds to block out the morning sun’s glare. She said she hopes to receive more feedback during the next survey in order to further upgrade the library and expand its collection.

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From Shelton Hall to Kilachand Hall Students from the Kilachand Honors College have moved from The Towers to the

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renovated Kilachand Hall, formerly known as Shelton Hall. The dining hall area has been replaced by a spacious study lounge, which boasts a mock fireplace. This is the first phase of renovations for the residence and the second phase will start in the summer of 2014.

Erica Wivagg, a CAS sophomore in KHC, said she enjoys the brightly lit study room, which provides a better studying environment than Towers, where she lived last year.

“They put really great lighting and furniture in there and transformed it into a shabby dining hall into a really nice place to work,” Wivagg said.

One major difference between Towers and Kilachand Hall is that the latter has a communal kitchen open to students. However, since the kitchen is only open from 7 p.m. until midnight, the hours are not ideal for most students’ lifestyles.

“It’s disappointing that I can’t use it in the middle of the day because that’s when I’ll be cooking,” Wivagg said.

Even with the new modern twists to Kilachand Hall, many students said they were not satisfied with the renovations.

Lex Staskus, a College of Engineering sophomore, said she was “really frustrated” since her room size was similar to the one she had at Towers the previous year.

“The triples are large enough to fit four people and still have tons of space, but our double is the size of the room in Towers or smaller, it’s ridiculous,” Staskus said.

Staskus also said meeting people was a challenge at the new residence. Unlike Kilachand Hall, Towers had lounges on each floor, which provided students with more mingling opportunities. While Kilachand Hall does have study lounges on the ground floor and ninth floor, Staskus said they are not ideal places to chat.

However, despite students’ qualms over the new renovations — especially those at Kilachand Hall — there has been a generally positive reaction among students on campus.

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Just over one year ago, Shelton Hall (left) was a strictly residential building with a small dining hall located at the entrance. Now, Kilachand Hall (right) houses several offices, a classroom, a communal kitchen and a new study lounge.

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When one size doesn’t fit all Long gone are the days where students only had to worry about getting their homework done.

Parents expressed concern over what some are calling “fat letters,” or Body Mass Index reports, and BMI testing in schools in light of a proposal on Beacon Hill to eliminate the practice, according to CBS Boston.

The letters, sent by the Mass. Department of Public Health, inform parents of their child’s BMI, a number that measures someone’s body shape based on weight and height. Schools across the state have tested students’ BMI since 2010, but the policy has come under criticism for being intrusive and potentially harmful to children’s self-esteem, CBS reported.

BMI is considered an alternative to directly measuring body fat, according to the Center for Disease Control. However, it is not an accurate way to determine whether someone is healthy or even overweight. It overlooks skinfold thickness, actual diet evaluations, physical activity, family history and other circumstances. It doesn’t even consider muscle mass.

A closer look reveals it is not just narrow, but outdated. The BMI was introduced in the early 19th century by Belgian mathematician Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet. He devised the equation in hopes of defining the “normal man,” from the average arm to the age at which he marries, according to Slate magazine.

Eventually, it was adopted by the medical community as a way to show that “overweight” people died earlier than those with an ideal weight. Doctors started using standard information on height, weight and sex because they were easier to obtain than more direct assessments such as skinfold thickness and body fat evaluations. Today it is still considered a general indicator of whether someone is overweight.

The “fat letters” that parents have received from schools eclipse all the other factors — family history, diet evaluations, physical activity and all. Despite the good intentions behind the policy, the reports may only succeed in casting a spotlight on those who do not have the average or ideal body

type. The letters only tell parents how far their kids fall from the average-BMI mark, as though health can be measured in a single calculation.

The DPH’s details about obese children being bullied only affirm how harmful they can be. If anything, they reveal that the policy implicitly promotes a one-size-fitsall mentality. At least, it angers parents like Tracy Watson, who told CBS Boston that the DPH called her son, Cameron Watson, obese in his “fat letter.” The son referred to the report as an “obese letter” and said the school thinks they will make kids stop eating too much or too little by sending these letters.

And at worst, these letters simply tell children they missed the mark and condition them into believing they are inferior or wrong by not having the ideal BMI. It’s the kind of mentality that can lead children to develop body dysmorphic disorders and even eating disorders down the line.

The schools’ involvement in addressing childhood obesity isn’t the problem, especially considering some families are not informed on the issue. The practice of sending reports to parents based on such a narrow calculation is. BMI is referenced everywhere, when discussing obesity.

Michelle Obama spoke of concerns about her daughters’ BMI in 2010 during her national campaign against childhood obesity.

Everyday people look to calculate their BMI to get a sense of how far they are from the body shape some say they should have. But it is too narrow and often inaccurate for determining whether someone, especially a child, is unhealthy.

Most schools can find alternative ways to address childhood obesity. A health class or nutrition lesson can inform children and their families about healthy eating habits and physical fitness. There, educators can make students aware of the signs of obesity and of the various factors that contribute to weight and body shape. More importantly, they can address individual concerns and make students understand that health is more about a number on a scale or a BMI report. Only then are students likely to reflect on their lifestyles and make constructive changes.

Frank Marasco I took a long, hard look in the mirror after eating a $1 burrito from 7-Eleven for dinner for the fourth night in a row. Are we sure this is the road we want to go down?

Is this what we’ve become? Is it strange that I address myself as “we” when we have these mirror talks?

I’ll freely admit that life as a quasigraduate student has not seen me living very high on the hog. I’m working long hours — most of which are for free — both in offices and on miscellaneous projects of sorts. I’m on a clothing rotation consisting of three shirts and one pair of pants. By the way, my world felt like it was collapsing last week when I got a blotch of pasta sauce on that one, precious pair of trousers. Speaking of sauce, here’s another sad tale to illustrate my life of luxury…

Buying groceries the other night, I found a 99-cent bag of bowtie pasta. After snatching it off the shelf, I went to buy the sauce, but realized the jar, costing $3, would increase my pasta-related spending by 300 percent. So, I’ve abandoned sauce. And if I ration out the plain bowties correctly, it’s only about 20 cents a meal.

Judge me if you must.

“Frank likes his eggs,” my roommates joke, as I hard-boil eggs for the 28th day in a row. I play along, too sheepish to admit that I’m not necessarily in it for the genuine love of yolks or whites, but because I can enjoy these AA eggs at 14 cents a pop.

I went to two different events this past weekend solely because they promised free food. That equaled two free dinners.

One of them was popcorn. Ralph’s has free sample giveaways on Fridays. Naturally, lunch at Ralph’s happens on Fridays.

There is a two-layered force of tragic irony at play here. The first deals with the phenomena of diminishing luxury as one progresses through this stage of life.

I’m getting older and more educated, but I’ve gone from a fully furnished, suburban home with food everywhere, to a studentloan–comped dorm with a student-loan– comped meal plan. From there, it was a dirty, non-comped apartment with noncomped food and non-comped electricity.

My current situation? I’m virtually broke from funding college, figuring out how to save up rent, trying to save up for a car and being in debt from those loans that seemed free at the time. On top of all that, I’m also trying to eat and clothe myself.

I’m often working for free to try and “get ahead,” so we’re left with one hungry, tired, smelly kid.

The second tragic, yet ironic layer comes directly from living in Los Angeles.

I’m in the mecca of glamour, surrounded by celebrities, Porsches, posh nightclubs, cafes and boutiques, but I’m the guy holding that $1 burrito from 7-Eleven. I’m the guy bringing a coupon to Supercuts.

But don’t waste your pity on me or start sending canned goods. This is the struggle I signed up for. This is the struggle I’ve come to enjoy. There’s something romantic about it.

There’s excitement and intrigue in everything. There’s an authentic sink-orswim quality that can’t be contrived. I’m a sucker for a good story, and this is real drama … or maybe it’s a comedy.

The problem I often found as a teenager with an Xbox was that a lot of video games eventually prove to be too little of a challenge. They’re a blast for the first few hours until you’ve figured them out, and then the magic is gone. Too easy. Too simple. No threat of failure. No fun.

I’m not close to having figured this place out. The magic remains. The threat of failure is clear and present. The proverbial floor many talk about “falling through” is right below my feet, and I can hear the molded plywood creaking.

There’s something primal and invigorating about it. I won’t be able to sit on the couch in the basement and beat Los Angeles in a single night with a two-liter bottle of Wild Cherry Pepsi and a party-sized bag of Funyuns beside me.

I’ve drifted in and out of an affair with ambition for as long as I can remember, but Los Angeles has brought my hunger levels to an all-time high. Yes, partly because of the malnourishment, but also from that excess of glamour surrounding me.

Every time I step outside, I get a passing whiff of my hopes and dreams, which quickly fades into the odor of my dirty clothes.

I can see the Hollywood sign from my kitchen as I eat Cup Noodles and think, “Maybe someday I’ll be eating a plate of noodles.” I walk over the stars on the Walk of Fame, and think of how much they’ve accomplished, and how little I’ve done.

It’s humbling. It’s a tad overwhelming.

But it’s terribly motivating.

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

Terrier Talk Reflections

Students across campus were asked to recall the most interesting thing that happened during their first week of classes.

Here’s what some of them said.

INTERVIEWS AND PHOTOS

BY SARAH SIEGEL

MACK FREEDMAN

REBECCA ARCAND

SOFIA GEORGHIOU

“My professor yelled at our class because he was angry that the university puts clocks on the wall.”

-SMG senior

“My professor just stared at me and he then asked my name during the lecture. Then he said, ‘Do you have a fiancé?’ I didn’t know what to say and I turned red, then he said, “Actually, nevermind, I don’t want to know …

It’s better if you don’t.”

-COM junior

“I’m from New Jersey, and during my class my teacher told a joke I didn’t think was so funny. He said “Why are New Yorkers so depressed?

Because the light at the end of the tunnel is New Jersey.”

-CAS sophomore

ANIESE AZUL ARIASARAGON

“I’m taking an African Drum class which is three hours long and I’m the only undergrad in the class. I’m also a freshman.”

-CAS freshman

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exactly what the solution is, but something has to be done. Top schools cannot keep padding their records by playing these Powderpuff games.

We’re probably already moving toward this anyways, but the top programs in college football need to break away from the rest of the pack and form their own, separate league.

Make four major conferences and only allow

them to play each other. The winners of each conference can make some four-team playoff. There, it’s perfect. This would fix both the scheduling issue and the never-ending playoff formatting issue.

I do not understand people who are opposed to this. Sure, your lower-level Division I FBS teams would be slighted. But they have no chance of ever winning a National Championship anyway, so who cares?

This isn’t college basketball where everyone has a chance to make some noise in the tournament. The University of Massachusetts is never once in a million years going to beat the University of Alabama. Then why should they ever play each other in a game that counts, and why should they even be in the same league?

How awesome would it be if Saturdays were filled with incredible games, instead of

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only a handful of marquee matchups? Imagine the intensity of an SEC schedule all year long. Imagine if every game really did matter (as the college football marketing team would like to have you believe).

But until the whole format is fixed, this will remain yet another reason why college football will never hold a candle to the NFL in this part of the country.

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this year’s offense.

During the Terriers’ first game of the season — which was also Cassera’s first game — the New Jersey native showed why she was one of the Garden State’s top players last year by recording her first career hat trick against the Bobcats (1-3).

Three days later, when the Terriers took on Delaware, van der Laan knocked in a backhanded goal while falling three minutes into the overtime period pushing BU past the Blue Hens.

“I just feel they’re getting better every opportunity they get to play,” Starr said.

“They’re showing good improvement, and I think that’s all you can ask. They’re starting to understand our press more and they’re in the right places at the right times, and that really helps the team.”

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Junior forward Parker Powell scored a goal when BU faced Hofstra last season. The Terriers host Hofstra Wednesday evening.

Year in and year out, the Terriers have had great goalkeeping that has kept them in close games, and goalkeepers have usually been the deciding factor when the Ter-

riers play an evenly matched team. In the 2012 season, it was senior Jess Maroney who stepped up and played lights out. Maroney’s outstanding play was a big reason why BU finished as one of the top 20 teams in the country last season.

This year, junior Valentina Cerda Eimbcke picked up right where Maroney left off. Through four games, Eimbcke has racked up 24 saves, earning an 80 percent save percentage with a 1.48 goals average per game.

Eimbcke’s success is a result of better health and greater confidence, as she was battling a knee injury all of last season. This year, she is injury-free and had non-stop field hockey training during the summer while playing with the Chilean National Team — and it is all coming out on the field.

“I think the Northwestern game could have been a lot worse had [Eimbcke] not have played so outstanding,” Starr said.

“We put her in situations where she had to come up with great saves, and when we cut the score to 2–1, she put us in the situation to try and come back and win that game because of her great saves.”

Men’s soccer to encounter difficult test in Hofstra’s offensive prowess Men’s Soccer: From Page 8

goal during his first two starts at the collegiate level. In his first game against Boston College (1-2-1), Gilbert made seven saves on nine attempts. He also had the assist on the lone BU goal in the contest. Against UConn, Gilbert played the first 65 minutes of the game, and was four-of-five in save opportunities. However, in the second half, Gilbert came off his line to make a save and touched the ball with his hands just outside of the goal box — an automatic red card at the collegiate level.

He was then replaced by junior goalie Nick Thomson.

Thomson, who was the primary goalkeeper for the Terriers last season, came in and played shutdown goalkeeping, stopping all

three shots he faced. Despite not playing in a game since last season, Thomson provided strong support behind Gilbert.

In front of the goalies has been the strong play of the BU defense. Junior defender Kelvin Madzongwe and sophomore back Jeroen Blugh returned this season for the Terriers and have been impressive. Since coming back from season-ending knee injuries, both players have helped anchor a Terrier back line that has averaged 1.50 goals allowed per game so far this year. The Terriers are second in the Patriot League with only three goals allowed through two games.

“I think you’ll see the best from Kelvin and Jeroen towards the end of the season,” Roberts said. “They’re moving well and they have a lot of experience for us. They’re very

Dykstra: Remember empowering sports moments when faced with tragedy Dykstra: From Page 8

It was the perfect strike.

We here in Boston know too well the healing power of sports. Two cowards tried to attack this city — may Krystle Campbell, Martin Richard, Officer Sean Collier, BU’s own Lingzi Lu and their families find peace wherever they are — and I still like to think they failed. This city came together, at once both like so many before it and like none in history, under the mantra “Boston Strong.”

That culminated in 17,565 fans singing the national anthem in sync with Rene Rancourt at the TD Garden and David Ortiz exclaiming that this is “our f***ing city.”

Those moments, as great as they are, form just a part of my last 12 years looking to sports for solace. I don’t think of Super Bowl XXXVI as the first post-9/11. I remember it as when the Pats finally won a championship, the first captured by a Boston team in my

lifetime. Iraq isn’t immediately what I think of for 2003. It’s Aaron Bleeping Boone. The list goes on, including today, when I’m kicking myself for not keeping Peyton Manning in fantasy football squad rather than debating whether the Russian proposal for Syria is okay or if it’s just delaying WWIII. This is just how I’ve coped for almost half my life now, and I guess that’s hitting me on today of all days. Then again, maybe it’s okay too.

Thanks to this country of ours, we’ve been allowed our distractions during one of the scarier times in our history. And for that I’m forever grateful, especially come puck drop, kickoff or first pitch.

These last 12 years haven’t been nearly as bad as they could have been. For me, I thank our armed forces for that first, my family second and sports third.

Now back to your regularly scheduled Hump Day-related programming.

solid players and it’s good to have them back.

The Terriers will welcome a strong Hofstra (1-1-1) team this Wednesday night. Last season, BU ventured down to Hempstead, N.Y., to take on the on Pride. In that contest, the Terriers fell in a narrow 2-1 game. Junior forward Parker Powell headed in BU’s lone goal.

“We saw [Hofstra] last year, we saw when they get on a roll,” Roberts said. “It’s just up to us to keep them under control and not let them get on a roll like they did last year.”

This season, Hofstra boasts a team that has averaged 1.67 goals per contest. Senior Chris Griebsch returns for his final season with the Pride and has been one of the key offensive threats. He has taken a team-leading 16 shots through three games. He is the leader

in points thus far with six, which includes two goals and two assists. With one second left in double overtime against Colgate University on Sept. 1, Griebsch set up the game-winning goal with a pass that was headed in by freshman Lerthon Theuma.

Despite the solid offense so far, Hofstra’s defense has had a little bit of trouble, allowing 2.00 goals per game through three games, the most by any team in the Colonial Athletic Association. This might give the Terrier offense, which has scored just one goal in two games, a boost Wednesday night.

“Possessing the ball is part of our game,” Roberts said. “I think we did a better job of it in the Connecticut game. I hope it’s something we can build on for the rest of the season.”

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“I just feel they’re getting better every opportunity they get to play,”

-BU coach Sally Starr on the field hockey team’s freshmen.

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Driving The Lane

Schedule Woes

John Morris

College football is back, baby, and that means we are treated to some of the worst games of the sporting year. Sure, you’ve got University of Georgia v. Clemson University and LSU v. TCU last week. But everything else just plain sucked.

Did you catch the riveting affair between Elon University and Georgia Tech that looked like a basketball score where one team forgot to show up? I’m pretty sure the team from my high school could have fared better against the Yellow Jackets.

As I’m writing this, I’m watching the Ohio State University beat down San Diego State University.

Oh, and they’re doing it all without their star quarterback Braxton Miller. Even the backup quarterback for the Buckeyes is in a whole different league than any player on the Aztecs.

The disparity in the talent levels of Division I college football programs is sickening. The gap is worse than at any other level of any other sport. It makes the games wicked hard to watch sometimes.

As the great fake quarterback Paul Crewe once said: “In college, we’d start every season against Appalachian State or some slack Division II team. Kick the living sh*t out of them.” This is the makeup of 90 percent of college football games early in the season (although the words Appalachian State probably give University of Michigan fans a sick feeling). These games are disgusting. Why would I ever want to watch this?

What’s even worse is the fact that they insult us by calling these games part of the regular season.

They are not. They’re just glorified preseason games. The fact that Georgia Tech and Ohio State actually get to put a game in the win column is absurd.

The Miami Heat isn’t able to begin the season 1-0 by playing the scrubs that ball at FitRec every day. The New England Patriots aren’t able to begin the season 1-0 by beating up on my intramural flag football team — although the rest of the AFC East probably isn’t much better (kidding!).

Scheduling is a major problem in college football. I don’t know

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

2013-14 men’s hockey roster released Men’s soccer to

look past rough start to season

By Meredith Perri Daily Free Press Staff

With less than a month until the Boston University men’s hockey team opens its first season under a new head coach in 40 years, the Terriers have announced their 2013-14 roster.

BU coach David Quinn announced Tuesday that the Terriers would return five seniors, two juniors and eight sophomores from last year’s squad while adding nine freshman and one transfer student.

Nine out of BU’s 10 newcomers hail from Connecticut or Massachusetts.

Dillon Lawrence, a walk-on out of Toronto, Ontario, is the only newcomer who does not come from the New England area. Lawrence, a forward who recorded 57 points (26 goals, 31 assists) in 44 games with the Toronto Nationals of the Greater Toronto Hockey League, earned the 2013 Wayne Gretzky Award, which is given to a player who excels both academically and on the ice.

As expected, Robbie Baillargeon, Brendan Collier, Kevin Duane, Tommy Kelley and Nick Roberto join Lawrence as incoming forwards.

The Terriers will also have four new defensemen with J.D. Carrabino, Dalton MacAfee, T.J. Ryan and Doyle Somerby joining the team.

Due to NCAA regulations, Carrabino, a transfer out of Clarkson University, will sit out the 2013-14 season. Carrabino, who was a redshirt freshman in 2012-13, had one

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A talented freshman class will look to replace former BU forward Matt Nieto, who led the Terriers with 18 goals last season.

assist in three games with Clarkson.

Of the 10 newcomers, three were selected in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. Somerby went the earliest of the three as he was selected in the fifth round, 125th overall, by the New York Islanders. The Ottawa Senators chose Baillargeon in the fifth round, 136th overall, while the Carolina Hurricanes picked Collier in the seventh round, 189th overall.

As The Daily Free Press reported earlier in 2013, Matt Nieto, Sahir Gill and Alexx Privitera will not return to BU. Nieto, who would have been a senior this season, decided to forego his final year at BU to sign an entry-level contract with the San

Jose Sharks in April. The Sharks drafted Nieto in the second round, 47th overall, in the 2011 draft.

Gill, who also would have been a senior, announced on Aug. 8 that he would not return to the Terriers.

Privitera’s announcement came in June when he, along with his brother, announced that he was no longer affiliated with the team.

Privitera missed the final 13 games of last season after he was suspended in February. His brother, Jarrid, was set to join the team in either the fall of 2013 or the fall of 2014.

BU will open its season on Oct. 5 when it plays an exhibition game against St. Francis Xavier at Agganis Arena.

Through the first two games of the season, the Boston University men’s soccer team has not had the easiest road. In its home opener, the Terriers faced a tough Boston College team that defeated BU 2-1 on Aug. 30. Friday, the road got even tougher for BU when it went down to Storrs, Conn., to take on No.1 University of Connecticut. While the season has been challenging thus far, the Terriers will return home for a four-game homestand starting Wednesday when they take on Hofstra University.

“We’re just trying to get better,” said BU coach Neil Roberts.

“I think we have gotten better all season long. I think our training it part of that.”

Despite BU (0-2) falling in its first two contests, there are some positives for the team as it goes forward. Against the top-ranked team in the nation in UConn (2-0) the Terriers hung in the game and played valiantly. Despite allowing eight shots on goal and 19 overall, the Terriers only allowed one goal to hit the back of the net. Part of the reason for this has been the strength of their goalkeeping.

Redshirt freshman goalie Matt Gilbert has been tremendous in

men’s soccer, see page 7

Injuries deplete Terrier field Ghosts of Editors Past: On hockey team early in season the healing power of sports

By Christopher Dela Rosa Daily Free Press Staff

One of the biggest problems facing the No. 19 Boston University field hockey team as it enters the third week of its 2013 season is health. Injuries are a part of any sport, and no team is safe from unfortunate accidents that may cause a player to be out for quite some time.

On Sept. 2, when the Terriers (3-1) took on the University of Delaware at New Balance Field, a cluster of players all crowded near the BU goal at the end of the first period as Delaware (31) was trying to extend their 1-0 lead. Unfortunate in the matter was sophomore backer Katie Bernatchez, who received a mild concussion when she was hit in the head right in the middle of the crowd.

Bernatchez left the game immediately and was tended to by trainers. Her concussion kept her out of last weekend’s games against Northwestern University and Miami University (Ohio).

Losing the sophomore comes at a horrible time for BU coach Sally Starr, who does not have many reserves out of the backfield and who has had to be creative with the team’s defensive game-

plans going forward. “[Saturday] was a really fast paced game and it was hot,” Starr said about Bernatchez’s absence during the Terriers’ 4-1 loss to the Wildcats (4-1). “Not having Katie limited our ability to substitute and Northwestern was substituting freely,” Fantastic Freshmen

The aforementioned creativity that Starr employed during BU’s weekend games in Evanston, Ill., involved the use of two freshmen backers. When Bernatchez was still healthy, Starr split time between freshmen Ellie Landsman and Bea Baumberger Altirriba at the right back position.

Following Bernatchez’s injury, Starr filled the empty slot with Landsman, leaving Baumberger at right back. The two played the entirety of both games this weekend, earning some valuable experience.

The freshmen backers are not the only ones performing well on this year’s Terrier squad, as freshman forward Amanda Cassera and midfielder Hester van der Laan have played crucial roles in

FielD hockey, see page 7

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Friday, Sept. 13 W. Soccer vs. Connecticut, 7 p.m.

Field Hockey vs. Boston College, 7 p.m.

By Sam Dykstra Daily Free Press Contributor

Sam Dykstra (CoM ’12) was Fall 2010 Sports editor for The Daily Free Press. He currently writes for MiLB.com.

It’s Wednesday, and despite what the talking camel on the television says, you know what day it really is.

Yes, this is a Sept. 11 column because it needs to be one.

See, this particular 9/11 represents a new milestone for myself and for others born in 1990. Most of us have been on this Earth for 23 years, and with today’s 12-year mark, the shadow of 9/11 has officially been cast for more than half of our lives.

Some of you freshmen were born in 1995 — God bless you for that, by the way — so I don’t know if you remember where you were in your first-grade classroom the moment you found out that two planes had flown into the World Trade Center, another into the Pentagon and another still into a Pennsylvania field. Mrs. Thurston’s class, third column, second seat for me. I remember running around at lunchtime recess under any airplane overhead because we were scared, but we tried to make it a game —

Saturday, Sept. 14 M. Soccer vs. Mommouth, 7 p.m.

an immature but innocent response.

Then, I remember what came in the days I followed. I was 11, and everything could be understood through sports. Rome and Sparta were the Red Sox and the Yankees. George Bush was George Steinbrenner, at least in our family.

So, after 9/11, everything in sports stopped, and that’s how I knew the world had stopped, too. There was no baseball in the nights that followed nor was there football that Sunday. So many dead, so many questions, so much confusion. But that’s what I focused on.

And it was sports that brought us back. Baseball eventually came back, as did football, even if we were scared of what could happen next.

Then came the pitch.

If you have the chance today — and if you don’t, make the time to have the chance — watch George Bush’s first pitch from Game 3 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium. Sure, I’m jumping ahead a bit, but that moment still sticks out in my mind. It sticks out because it was right over the plate, it caused us all to cry and it allowed us to close the chapter on the previous months as best we could.

Dykstra, see page 7

Sunday, Sept. 15 W. Soccer vs. Providence, 1 p.m.

Field Hockey vs. Providence, 3 p.m.