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Second body found in Charles ID’d as missing student Attempted armed robbery fourth in slew of incidents By Chris Lisinski Daily Free Press Staff
Authorities identified the body found in the Charles River near Boston University Tuesday morning as that of 23-year-old missing graduate student Jonathan Dailey, officials said. Dailey’s dental records were positively matched with the remains by a forensic odontologist at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, according to an emailed statement from Suffolk County District Attorney spokesman Jake Wark. Dailey, a former Boston Architectural College graduate student from North Carolina, went missing on Oct. 2. Flyers posted by friends and family of the student stated he was last seen wearing a white, buttondown shirt and white shorts. A BU rowing coach first spotted the body floating in the river near the BU Bridge at about 7:25 a.m. Tuesday, according to an emailed statement from Massachusetts State Police spokesman David Procopio. The Massachusetts State Police Marine Unit responded to recover the body, Procopio said. Police have not yet determined the circumstances of Dailey’s death and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has not yet determined the cause of death, Wark said. “We rule out no possibility and we promise Mr. Dailey’s family a thorough,
comprehensive search for the truth as we investigate his death,” Wark said. This is the second body found in the Charles River in two days. Wark said in an earlier phone interview that officials have tentatively identified the body found in the water near BU’s campus Monday as a middle-aged male, believed to be in his mid-60s, but are still awaiting confirmation. Speculation initially suggested the first body could have been that of Dailey. Dailey attended Appalachian State University as an undergraduate and graduated in 2011, according to the ASU website. Dailey had not registered for fall 2012 classes at BAC, according to a BAC press release. “Jonathan was registered at the BAC as a first-year [masters in Architecture] student during the 2011–12 academic year,” the release stated. “Our records do not indicate that he registered for this [2012] fall semester. His registration last year indicated that he moved to Boston from his home in Charlotte, N.C.” Friends and family created a Facebook group to get community involvement and raise awareness about Dailey. Friends and family did not respond to several emails from The Daily Free Press Tuesday. Dailey was missing from the Brigh-
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Officials identified the second body pulled out of the Charles River Tuesday morning as missing Boston Architectural student Jonathan Dailey.
ton area, where he lived with a roommate named Miles, according to the missing flyer. The flyer stated Dailey worked in Cambridge and his roommate last saw him Tuesday night in their apartment.
Businesses around TD Garden hurting from NHL lockout By Robin Ngai Daily Free Press Staff
As the National Hockey League resumes talks regarding the lockout of its players, businesses near Boston’s TD Garden said they have suffered from a lack of preseason festivities that normally bring Bruins fans to the area’s restaurants and bars. Many employees and owners of businesses in the area said they are concerned about the NHL lockout as it negatively affects customer turnover. “It affects this whole entire part of the city,” said Jim Taggart, manager at The Four’s near the TD Garden. “I think it affects every place that people would go to watch a Bruins game.” NHL team owners entered a lockout of the National Hockey League Players’ Association members when a collective bargaining agreement expired on Sep. 15, a dispute that has eliminated all preseason games in
September. NHL owners have called for a lower share of revenue for NHL players, one of many issues still unsolved between owners and players. This is the fourth time in 20 years players have been locked out, and preseason festivities in bars across the nation have halted as a result. “We’ve already missed the preseason and the first games,” said Joe Gonzales, bartender at Sports Grille Boston. “We’re going to find out the 24th if this continues. Fans pay a lot for season tickets — they like to go and see hockey.” David Perri, bartender at The Grand Canal, said he has noticed fewer patrons during the NHL lockout. “We’re pretty much full on those nights — I don’t know how many people that would be, but probably a couple hundred anyway,” he said. “Absolutely, they won’t
come because of the lockout.” Taggart said that The Four’s shows almost all of NHL games on television and can get more than 1,000 patrons on nights when Bruins games are playing at TD Garden. “It’s [the lockout is] a huge problem,” he said. “In the course of a normal day here we probably have 10 or 11 employees. When there’s an event at the Garden, we probably have 50 employees. There’s a whole lot of people who are not working.” Taggart said his employees rely on NHL games to bolster their paychecks. “They are single mothers, they are kids paying for school — its not just people looking for spending money,” he said. “This is how they live, same at every bar and restaurant up and down the area. “ Gonzales also said his restaurant relies on NHL games as a source of business.
Lockout, see page 4
A female Boston University student was reportedly the victim of an attempted armed robbery Tuesday night, according to a Boston University alert. A message sent to students reported that two young black males with a handgun attacked the victim in an attempted robbery at about 8:40 p.m. at 808 Commonwealth Ave. BUPD reported the victim was unharmed and no items were stolen from her. The suspects fled the scene on foot. The suspects were described as wearing hooded sweatshirts. Officers from the Boston Police Department assisted in the report of the robbery. BPD could not provide additional details on what the suspects look like, said BPD spokesman David Estrada. “We did respond to 808 Commonwealth Ave. for report of armed robbery,” Estrada said. “One female victim claims two black males approached her and possibly had a weapon, maybe a gun, but everything is preliminary, so we don’t have descriptions, and at this point, it’s a report of an armed robbery.” This is the fourth armed robbery near BU in two weeks, where suspects involve two or three young black males wearing different colored hooded sweatshirts. College of Arts and Sciences sophomore Sam Hodak said he is surprised by the frequency of robberies. “Usually there’s one in a year, this is four in a semester — it’s ridiculous,” he said. The first incident occurred on Sept. 23, when two BU students were robbed on Thorndike Street in Brookline at 2:55 a.m. Two suspects displayed handguns and stole the students’ personal belongings. Three BU students were robbed by three suspects displaying a black handgun at about 5 p.m. on Sept. 26 in the area of Egmont Street and St. Paul Street. On Oct. 5, a recent BU graduate was robbed by three suspects, one of whom was carrying a handgun, at about 5:15 p.m. near St. Paul Street and Thatcher Street.
Robbery, see page 2
Student Government votes to hold ‘confidence’ in Student Elections Commission By Margaret Waterman Daily Free Press Staff
Student Government passed a vote of confidence by a one-vote margin to allow the Student Elections Commission to run the fall elections on Tuesday night at an emergency SG meeting. Twelve senators voted in favor of the SEC running the fall semester’s upcoming elections, and 11 senators opposed. There were no abstentions in the vote. “I was surprised by the vote, to be honest … That it was so close,” said Cherice Hunt, SG’s director of communication. “I thought there might have been a majority either way.” Hunt, a College of Communication junior, said the SEC did well in presenting their case. “I understand where they come from in terms of time constraints,” Hunt said. “Those time constraints, I can imagine, are going to be very difficult. I think they’ve been working really hard so far. Time will tell.” While Hunt said she supports the SEC,
not all SG members said they have the same confidence. “Their performance last year was quite poor,” said Jonathan Donald, one of SG’s judicial commissioners. “There’s no doubt about that.” Donald, a College of Arts and Sciences senior, said the SEC’s campaign was not worse than in previous years. “The fact that we only had one slate run made people believe that it was SEC’s job to turn out enthusiasm for people to run,” he said. Donald, SEC’s contact with SG, ran the SEC as an interim co-chair with Tess McNamara, current co-chair of the SEC, until she felt confident enough to take control, and bring it into a true third-party institution. “Since then, I sit on all the meetings with the SEC, I am cc’ed in almost all the contact info between members, I’m brought in on budget meetings — everything that goes on from flyer purchases to when the
SG, see page 2
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Student Election Commission Co-Chairpersons Tess McNamara and Kerry Ford, sophomores in the School of Education, speak of the upcoming student election and election cycle at the emergency Student Government meeting Tuesday night in the George Sherman Union.
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SEC tasked with holding info sessions on tight schedule, cochair tells SG during meeting SG: From Page 1
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The following timeline outlines the four armed robberies reported near or on Boston University’s Charles River campus over the last two weeks.
Students call 4 incidents of alleged armed robberies on, near BU campus ‘terrifying’ Robbery: From Page 1
In all three crimes, the suspects were described as two or three young black males. Suspects were described as wearing hooded sweatshirts in the Oct. 5 and Sept. 26 incidents. Hodak said he thinks the robberies are connected to one another. “My guess is it’s the same people,” he said. “They’re doing it because they got away with it before.” Mary Danielewski, a College of Fine Arts junior, said she took classes in 808 Commonwealth Ave. over the summer and is anxious about the string of robberies. “It’s pretty terrifying,” she
said. “I’m honestly most worried about my computer being taken because most of the things in your wallet, you can replace, except for cash. Losing my computer and all my art, because I’m a graphic design student, would be devastating.” Danielewski said she is also nervous about living off campus in Allston due to the recent robberies. “It’s pretty scary to walk alone at night. I try not to,” she said. “I definitely am more scared than I used to be.” CAS sophomore Jimmy Briggs said that while the robberies are startling, being located in a city may be a risk factor regarding crime.
“The cops are doing all they can,” he said. “It’s still unsettling that they can’t catch them. If something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen. It doesn’t matter if you have friends with you if they have a gun … though, it’s not that shocking that this sort of thing happens in Boston.” Ashley Andrade, a College of Communication freshman, said she attended the BU Academy before enrolling in BU and never noticed such a string of crimes. “I’ve been on campus for four years,” she said. “It’s never been like this before. It’s happening at 5 p.m. Usually when you get alerts like this, it’s off-campus robberies or at odd hours when you wouldn’t typically be out.”
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The emergency meeting was scheduled after SEC members were unable to attend the original meeting, which took place Oct. 1. “It wasn’t because we just didn’t feel like coming [to the Oct. 1 meeting],” McNamara said. “We actually had other obligations and we were notified really last minute.” In the 2011–12 academic year SG passed an amendment saying elections will be held each fall instead of in the spring. While SG passed a vote of confidence in the SEC, they also motioned to have a judicial review of the past amendment. The Senate proposed that the judicial committee review the amendment that was made last year that changed the election cycle. The motion passed, and the judicial committee agreed to take action. “We’ll look at the way that vote was conducted, if there were any proxies and misuse of proxies,” Donald said. “Second, if that vote was done constitutionally, we can make a recommendation to Senate on how to handle that.” Donald said SG will begin investigating the amendment imminently. “We’re hoping to have it done by the next Senate meeting,” he said. “We’d love to present our findings then.”
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Campus & City Party house By Jasper Craven & Kaneta Zillur Daily Free Press Staff
The following reports were taken from the Allston-Brighton D-14 crime logs from Oct. 4 to Oct. 8. On Sunday at about 11:56 p.m., officers responded to a call for a loud party on Ashford Street in Allston. Officers were notified that a call for the same house was made the night before, and one of the occupants had been uncooperative with officers. On that night, officers advised the tenants of the house that future occurrences would result in police enforcement actions. On arrival, officers heard loud music coming from the house and saw that there were a group of young adults with alcohol inside. Because of multiple calls to the residence in fewer than 24 hours, the officers requested identification from all the people present. Officers found that every person in the house was under the age of 21. Spin cycle On Monday at about 12:30 a.m., officers responded to a call for breaking glass and a possible breaking and entering at the StepU-Laundromat at 549 Washington St. Officers saw a small window broken on the building’s left side. They spoke to a person who said he and his roommate heard glass breaking and saw a black man walking away toward Oak Square, but had not seen the man break the glass. Officers questioned the cleaner from the business next door, who said a man had asked him to call the Laundromat owner because he left his laundry, wallet, money, gold chain and cell phone inside and was locked out. The officers contacted the Laundromat owner, at which point a black male approached them and said he was trying to get in contact with the Laundromat’s owner to retrieve his belongings. The man denied breaking into the Laundromat and said he had gone to the pizza place next door to call the owner. The Laundromat owner said he knew the man as a customer. However, he asked the officers to tell the customer to find another laundry service, to which the customer agreed. Helpful thief At about 9:30 a.m. on Friday, a victim reported that his laptop computer, iPhone and about $8 were taken from his apartment on Euston Road in Brighton sometime after 3 a.m. The victim told the officers he believed he may have been intoxicated at the time and that he met a male who he did not know. The victim said the man offered to help him get to his apartment and he obliged. When they got there, the victim went to his desk to get some cash to give to the man, whom he said was in his apartment at that time. The victim said he passed out soon after. When he woke up the next morning, the man was gone, along with the missing items. The victim notified the police that his phone had a tracking device.
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Boston man charged with bringing smoke Greek Life aims to grenade, other hazardous materials to LAX educate members By Steph Solis Daily Free Press Staff
A Boston man was arraigned Tuesday afternoon in federal court after he allegedly transported dangerous items to Los Angeles International Airport, according to a press release. Yongda Huang Harris, 28, appeared in federal court in Los Angeles after being arrested Friday afternoon, according to a press release by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. He was charged with one count of transporting hazardous materials. Harris, who was seen wearing a bulletproof vest and fire-resistant pants underneath a trench coat, allegedly brought in a smoke grenade, knives, a hatchet, a gas mask, biohazard suits, body bags, billy clubs, a baton, leg irons, handcuffs, duct tape, batteries, oven mitts, cooking tongs, a device repelling dogs
and other weapons, according to the affidavit provided by U.S. Customs. He entered the U.S. on a flight from Japan. Harris was escorted to a detention cell and patted down. Harris, a Boston native who has been living and working in Japan recently, entered LAX on a flight from Kansai, Japan, when his luggage was inspected by U.S. Customs. A member of the LA Police Department’s bomb squad conducted an X-ray examination of the smoke grenade and found that the device fell under the United Nations’ explosives shipping classification and is prohibited on board passenger aircraft, according to the affidavit. The smoke grenade, which was made by Commando Manufacturers, could potentially fill the cabin of a commercial airplane with smoke or cause a fire, the release stated.
Harris, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Chinese descent, resides permanently in Boston, but has lived and worked in Japan recently, according to the release. If convicted, Harris could face up to five years in federal prison. U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents are investigating the incident and working with agents in Tokyo. 7 News reported Tuesday night that Harris graduated from Boston University in January 2011 with a degree in biomedical laboratory and clinical sciences. The Metropolitan College website cites “Yongda Harris” as a student of biomedical laboratory and clinical sciences who testified to the benefits of a bachelor’s degree in the subject. MET administrative officials and BU media relations were not available to confirm that Harris attended BU in time for publication.
Boston high schoolers face competition with jobs
Sophie Williamson, the assistant general manager at Clear Flour Bread, said they hire many In a city surrounded by colcollege students and those who lege students, high schoolers in already graduated from college. Boston struggle to compete with “Since I’ve been here for older, more qualified applicants four years, we have had no high in the part-time job market. school students working,” she “When we are hiring, we tend said. “It’s harder to accommonot to hire high school students,” date them.” said Steve SilWi l l i a m s o n verman, owner said she underof Ecco Pizzestands how difria. “The older “We all want the same hours, but usually ficult it must be kids are more to find a job in a responsible, so college kids are more qualified.” competitive area we would hire such as Boston. college kids be“When I was fore we hire high -Isabel Creamer, Boston Latin in high school, school kids.” School senior there were no With more colleges in the than 30 colleges in Boston, businesses can easily have lost 12,250 jobs since 2000, area, and I found a job very draw from a large pool of readily according to a report released easily,” she said. “It does seem available college students, ignor- by the Federal Reserve Bank of harder in Boston because there is more competition with college ing high school students in the Boston on Oct. 1. Despite losing 3,573 jobs students.” area due to legal issues. High school students at BosJohn Pedican, human resource since 2000, students with some manager at Shaw’s Supermarket, college education saw a smaller ton Latin School said it is hard said there are limitations if a decrease in jobs lost, according to find a job in college-dense Boston. business hires high school stu- to the report. “The fraction of jobs held by Flora Liu, a Boston Latin dents. “There are many laws that re- workers with a bachelor’s degree School senior, said she knows strict high school students from or master’s degree has increased high school students who have having enough hours at a job,” at the fastest rate of all educa- part-time jobs, but the job marhe said. “Due to the administra- tional levels in the past decade,” ket is very competitive. tive aspects of hiring students, the report stated. By Kyle Plantz Daily Free Press Staff
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like the laws, and the number of hours available, it is easier to staff college students.” Some businesses will only hire college students or people who graduated from college with a degree. Students in the Boston area with some high school education
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College students branch out, explore alternative dating options in Boston By Cosette Pérez Daily Free Press Staff
Although Boston’s college students can meet potential dates in their social scenes, many dating services in the city offer students the chance to find romance in more alternative ways. Susan Baxter, founder and CEO of Hire a Boston Wingwoman, said her service makes it easier for clients to meet people in Boston. “I felt as though a lot of people are not able to just go up to someone at a bar,” she said. “A lot of people don’t have confidence, and sometimes they just need their hand held.” Baxter said her service functions as an icebreaker. “We do the hard work by start-
ing the conversation at social events,” she said. “Some women have confessed that when they see a guy with a pretty girl they say, ‘wow, that’s a pretty girl, so that guy knows what he is doing.’ So it is better for the guys.” Baxter said that her service provides people having a hard time getting to know people in public an alternative ice-breaker that can start a conversation smoothly. National dating coach Adam LoDolce, who was originally based in Boston, offers services through his website that allow people to learn dating skills and apply them in practical ways. “I have events like meet-and-
Dating, see page 4
about anti-hazing By Alex Diantgikis Daily Free Press Staff
Greek Life met with Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore to discuss hazing-prevention techniques such as implementing a zero-tolerance policy and updating the judicial process, in light of the alleged hazing incidents in the spring 2012 semester. “You’ve got to acknowledge that we had several students who were disciplined for hazing and also an organization that was suspended for hazing, so that will be an important conversation to have,” Elmore said in an interview with The Daily Free Press before the meeting with Greek Life. Six Boston University students from the now closed, unaffiliated fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi faced criminal hazing charges over the summer as a result of alleged hazing. Sorority Sigma Delta Tau was suspended in May after an incident led to two members being hospitalized. The incident raised suspicion about possible hazing practices. Interfraternity Council President Patrick Moriarty said the Greek Life judicial process at BU is currently being reevaluated, but nothing has been finalized yet. “We want to make sure that we have a more streamline process so that, if this happens in the future, the appropriate actions will be taken,” Moriarty said. Linda Swift, Panhellenic Council president, said that anti-hazing training would have a larger focus this year after the incidents of the 2011–12 academic year. “We will be working more with chapter New Member Educators to ensure that anti-hazing education is incorporated into their New Member programs for the spring,” Swift, a senior in the School of Management, said. “We will also have a new member retreat in the spring semester after formal recruitment that covers topics including anti-hazing.” The meeting on Oct. 3 was a part of National Hazing Prevention Week. All Greek Life execu-
Greek, see page 4
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Students weigh the loopholes in the U.S.’s concept of Habeas Corpus at The Center for Gender, Sexuality & Activism Tuesday night.
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IFC pres. calls extra questioning of Greek Life unfair after 2012 incidents Greek: From Page 3
tive boards met to hear Elmore speak. They pledged to not tolerate hazing within their communities. “Each one of the executive boards from all the different chapters, both fraternities and sororities, kind of reaffirmed our values and made a pledge that hazing is not okay at BU,” Moriarty, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said. “We have a zero-tolerance policy, and
it was reaffirming that and taking a look at our values and saying this is why we don’t do this.” Swift said that each chapter president wrote and presented his or her own anti-hazing pledge that incorporated the organization’s values and ideals. “We held the meeting for the executive boards because as leaders in their organization, it is their responsibility to be sure that they are not fostering an environment that tolerates or allows hazing to occur,” Swift said.
Elmore said although the meeting he had with Greek Life was private, broader public conversations can be expected to take place throughout the semester. Moving forward, Moriarty said the Greek Life community intends to reach out to other organizations on campus. Specifically, he said, they have increased their ties to Student Government. “Because we are at such a big school, it’s easy to get caught up in your own community,” he
said. Moriarty said that it was unfair that Greek Life at BU is being questioned after the incidents of last semester. “One of the organizations last year was not a recognized fraternity and, because of that, there was nothing that we could’ve done,” Moriarty said. “I think that it’s really unfair that their actions can shadow our system, when we’re the ones that have put in the work in this campus. It makes me sad to think that an
organization like that really calls into question Greek Life here.“ People are not going to be able to forget the incidents easily, and as a result they will continue to cast a shadow on Greek Life, he said. “I think the fact is, we are moving forward,” Moriarty said. “I think, the stigma if it’s there, I don’t think going to be there for long.” Emily Overholt contributed to the reporting of this article.
Despite report, high schoolers Online dating commonly written off as ‘desperate,’ say they easily find jobs in city ‘weak,’ in spite of potential adventages, student says Jobs: From Page 3
“I would say that it’s definitely competitive to find a parttime job these days,” she said. “It’s especially hard in Boston, a huge school area with both high schools and colleges.” Isabel Creamer, a BLS junior, said many of her friends are struggling to find jobs with the hours they want. “We all want the same hours, but usually college kids are more qualified,” she said. But other high school students said they did not have any difficulty finding a job. BLS senior Jaemin Woo said he found a job easily and works at Between Hours, a café in Allston. “Personally, it wasn’t that hard for me to find a job,” he said. However, Woo said the Allston area is a very competitive place to find employment. “At my work, most of the workers are college students,” he said. Hannah Tran-Trinh, a senior at BLS, said she found her first job because of a connection. “Strangely, it’s never been very hard for me to get a job,” she said. “My first hostess job was at a restaurant in Back Bay where my sister had worked prior to me.”
But Tran-Trinh, who works at Tico in the Back Bay, said she realizes she was lucky to find a job. “I’m the only person I know my age who can easily find a job,” she said. “All of my friends have a lot of trouble finding jobs because no one gets their first job handed to them.” Boston University students said it was fairly easy for them to get a job. School of Management junior Max Hamburger worked at Boston Beer Works and said he did not have a lot of competition from high school students. “The Fenway area doesn’t really have a ton of high school students in general and has a huge influx of college students,” he said. “I was really just competing with other undergrads and postgrads.” College of General Studies sophomore Chad Stakutis, who worked at Sunset Cantina, said it was quite easy for him to get a job. “I never had to worry about high school students taking my job because you have to be a certain age to work at some restaurants,” he said. “Especially in Boston, it is a lot easier for college students to get jobs because a lot of places specifically want older kids in these positions.”
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Dating: From Page 3
greets, and I help people overcome their fears,” he said. “I teach people skills and tools to find the right person.” LoDolce also offers dating boot camps in Boston and oneon-one dating coaches for men and women. “Boston is a great place to meet people because there are so many single people here,” he said. Speed-dating services such as 8minuteDating and SpeedBoston Dating hold dates periodically at certain venues throughout the city, including The Brahmin and Fire & Ice. LoDolce said speed dating is a fantastic way to meet people because partakers step out of their comfort zone in order to participate. “Speed dating is great, and it really helps,” he said. “You have
to learn how to leave a lasting first impression on someone and it is really great practice.” Online dating, he said, is not very useful for some people because they are not learning many social dating skills. Boston University is included on websites such as DateMySchool.com, where students can meet people on campus in order to build a connection without traveling far. Andrew Caplan, a sophomore in the College of Communication, said that he became aware of the service through advertisements around the BU Charles River campus and finds the site useful despite any stigma. “To me it was important to look for someone on campus, because with all the classes and clubs I do during the school year, if I want to pursue a relationship it would be most convenient if there
were people also on campus,” he said. Caplan said it is common for students to assume online dating is “desperate and weak” because not taking the extra step to meet people seems lazy. However, not everyone is lucky enough to go to a party and happen to meet someone they like, he said. “These sites do a fairly good job at playing matchmaker,” he said. Despite that initiation is done alone in front of a computer, he said dating sites motivate people to get out and meet other single people. “It’s not as lazy as people would think,” Caplan said. “Some sites are there to get you to meet people and share interests, and make you go outside and meet them.”
Venues suffering from lockout, restaurant employee says Lockout: From Page 1
“Hockey is a huge sport around here, so business has had a huge shift,” he said. “We all rely on the Garden, and it’s costing us half our revenue right now.” Perri said that businesses in the area are suffering from the lockout, and that if it continues, it would be quite a problem. “It affects everybody’s business down here, especially being
next to the TD Garden where all hockey games go on,” he said. Perri said fans are also unhappy with the lockout, particularly because hockey is so popular in Boston. “Every night you hear it,” he said. “Everybody is disappointed, all the hockey fans are disappointed. Hockey is a big culture around here.” Taggart said bars and restaurants are not the only businesses
that have suffered as a result of the lockout. “It affects this whole entire part of the city,” he said. “Certainly all the concession workers don’t have jobs, and for those people these are full-time jobs, so that’s 40 or 45 days that are taken out of their paycheck. The parking garage attendants, the T-shirt salesmen, the police who work overtime — it affects everybody.”
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Visual Appeal
Local galleries offer Boston-area college students access to arts By Carly Hoff Features Staff
Alipio Hernandez is one of three artists on display in the Panoptican Galery. This pieces are titled Mika, Nikolas and Erin.
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hile Boston’s historical roots attract students to the area, a number of them overlook the vibrant art culture that thrives within it. Art galleries expose students to the local art culture right in Boston University’s backyard, and students can find a gallery that is suited to their artistic palettes. Arts in Kenmore Square The Panopticon Gallery located in Kenmore Square is the oldest fine arts gallery in New England. The gallery is 41 years old and has been located all around Massachusetts, from Newbury Street, to Bay State Road, to Waltham, before finding its home in Hotel Commonwealth about 10 years ago when the hotel first opened. Owner Jason Landry, who purchased the gallery in 2010, said he has worked hard to produce interesting and thought-provoking exhibits that showcase the works of his artists for the hundreds of people who walk through the gallery on a daily basis. The layout of the gallery, which appears to be a set of hallways with artwork on the walls, sets Panopticon apart from other art ventures. “It is a pathway, and more than just a gallery on Newbury Street or the South End, where they are just going to shop,” Landry said. However, the unique design of the gallery is not the only thing bringing in browsers. “There is not a gallery in New England that gets more foot traffic than this gallery — because of the hotel, because of the two restaurants and all the area art schools,” Landry said. The Panopticon Gallery is just a starting point for all types of students looking to learn more about the art and photography culture in Boston. “With more and more galleries catering to art photography, it has become a hotbed for the fine art world,” Landry said. “It is not New York, but it is a great place to be when you have four to five art schools right around here teaching the medium and the craft that you love. It is accessible. The artists are accessible, the artworks is accessible. Lectures by well known artists come into the Boston area, are accessible.” The artwork currently displayed at the Panopticon Gallery is indicative of the different experience levels of the artists Landry typically likes to display. Harold Feinstein, an 81-year-old “living legend,” as Landry puts it, has black and white retrospective photos showcased in the exhibit, while emerging artist Alipio Hernandez’s photos are more
colorful and a demonstration of modern art. The juxtaposition of these colorful images against the black-and-white photos of Feinstein’s works reveals a changing of times. Hernandez’s art tends to elicit feelings of excitement and drama while Feinstein’s photographs evoke nostalgia and passion. “I have the main gallery right now, [which] is showing Harold Feinstein,” Landry said. “Harold is now 81 years old and is a living legend in world of photography. In the back room we have Stephen Sheffield who is more of a mid-career artists, a well-known Boston-area artist. And down in the corner, I labeled that area my emerging artists section. What I did there is showcase artists straight out of school.” Landry said that he has a passion for exposing people to art and photography is magnetic. When you walk into the gallery, it is clear Landry had dedicated himself to the field. “Helping artists — part of my job as a gallery owner or dealer is to help the artists build their reputation not only locally, but also beyond the borders of Boston,” Landry said. “Every artists’ dream is to be as big as they can be. Boston-centric is boring.” From Sept. 14 to Oct. 30, the Panopticon Gallery is hosting a photography exhibition. This exhibit, featuring photographers of different backgrounds and levels of experience, demonstrates how simple it is for students to become involved with local culture, without leaving their own neighborhood. Students get involved Landry said a variety of people often visit the Panopticon Gallery. “I have a good mix of academic students as well as fine arts students that come in. Because we are on the campus of BU, obviously we get a lot of BU traffic, but I have people coming from MIT and Harvard,” he said. “And we have people coming from the area art schools. It’s a nice, even mix.” Some local students said they have a new appreciation for the arts after visiting the gallery. “Even though I didn’t stay there long, I think it was actually great,” said Sabrina Toletti, a sophomore in the College of Communication. “I was surprised because I was not expecting it to be that nice. I liked it a lot.” The Museum of Fine Arts is also a popular destination for students. “I went to the MFA when the Chihuly exhibit was up. It was blown glass and it was really beautiful,”
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said Emily Bolinger, a junior in the School of Hospitality Administration. The variety of exhibits appeal to a range of student interests in different types of art. “The last museum I went to was the MFA for a certain exhibit. I would like to go back because it has been so long, but I have no concrete plans,” said Sarah Donovan, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Galleries at Boston University Besides Panopticon Gallery, the 808 Gallery, Sherman Gallery and the PRC (Photo Resource Center), for instance, may compell students can go to immerse themselves in the art and photography present on BU’s campus. These galleries not only give students the opportunity to see the application of what they have been learning in the classroom, but also provide students with the chance to show their work to a larger audience. “In the Sherman we do four exhibits a year, and there are usually programs like a project space, with one or two artists are invited to one or two person shows,” said Lynne Cooney, the College of Fine Arts exhibitions director. “They can pretty much develop their own content for the show with my facilitation. At the 808 Gallery, we do two curated shows plus a student show at the beginning of the year and our thesis shows at the end of the year.” One resource that has been especially helpful in getting student work available to the public is the PRC. Erin Wederbrook Yuskaitis, program and exhibition manager at the PRC, said all programs there are free and open to BU students. These include lectures, a program called Nights at the PRC, student group and class visits and internships. The PRC also hosts an annual student exhibit, which features 20 different photography programs in New England, including work from both BU’s COM and CFA schools. In this show, there are more than 100 pieces created by students available for viewing at the Commonwealth Avenue gallery. “We don’t cater to BU, but we are more accessible to BU and the community,” Yuskaitis said. The arts impact on the BU community has not gone unnoticed, several BU students said. Part of the gallery’s success, they said, may be due to the arts culture in Boston. “In Boston — something that I have noticed — people are very big into the arts,” said Bobby Heghmann, a sophomore in COM. “I have seen a lot of stuff about photography just walking around — it’s everywhere.”
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Opinion
The Daily Free Press
The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University 42nd year F Volume 84 F Issue 22
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Big Bird stars in Obama ad
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s plan to end the federal subsidy to PBS was the fodder for President Barack Obama’s newest campaign ad, which rolled out on Tuesday, according to The Boston Globe. The ad’s narrator delivers the line “Mitt Romney knows it’s not Wall Street you have to worry about, it’s Sesame Street” while cutting to images of Big Bird, the loveable, yellow bird on the PBS show “Sesame Street.” The Globe and other major news organizations have already identified the ad as satire. However, satire was probably too strong of a word to be applied here. Typically, satire involves wit. This ad is anything but witty. Rather, the ad capitalizes on a line that Romney uttered in the first presidential debate a week ago: “I love Big Bird … but I’m not going to keep on spending money on things [we need] to borrow money from China to pay for it.” However ridiculous the ad, is it really
all that surprising that is was produced? It shouldn’t be. Political candidates capitalize on the details of their opponents’ campaigns. That is the reality of 21st century campaigns. Is it right? No. But it happens. If the situation was reversed and Obama had uttered the Big Bird line, we could probably expect Romney to produce an ad mocking the president. Looking forward, it will be interesting to see how Obama’s campaign responds to Sesame Workshop’s request to pull the ad, if at all. The studio released a statement on its website Tuesday requesting that the ad be taken down because it does not “endorse candidates or participate in political campaigns,” according to The Globe. Regardless of whether or not the ad violates the studio’s policy, its message is weak and reinforces just how bitter the presidential campaign has become.
Profanity law questioned Months after the town of Middleborough instituted a $20 fine for swearing in public at the recommendation of local merchants in June, Attorney General Martha Coakley suggested the town “change” or “repeal” the bylaw, according to The Boston Globe Tuesday. While profanity in public is inappropriate, should people be prohibited from swearing? No. The rule is a clear violation of the First Amendment, and regardless residents are going to swear whether or not a bylaw is imposed. A similar situation occurs in households where parents tell their children, “No cursing under this roof.” Children tend to consider the “no swearing” rule a suggestion, not a rule. Now, there may be a case for profane language that is used to incite violence or threaten someone. However, the majority of the time, profane language is not being used to induce either. Instead, Middleborough should focus its
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efforts on real crimes that are being committed. A resident dropping the F-bomb on the street is not as serious as robbery that is being committed farther down the street. This also brings up the question of how the police even enforced the “no swearing” policy, if at all. Were they really fining people the $20, or were they letting them off with a warning? It seems unrealistic to think the police stiffly enforced this bylaw since swearing is not all that serious. In an interview with Channel 7 News in June police said, “public profanity will be treated like public drinking or littering — a nuisance they’ll ticket — but not something that they’re targeting.” But swearing should not be considered a nuisance that’s on par with public drinking. It will be interesting to see whether or not the town amends the bylaw or erases it completely. While “no swearing” is a considerate statement to make, it is not something that can or should be enforced by law.
On Friendships
have heard many times that the people you meet in college will be your friends for life. When I was 17, just beginning to apply to colleges, this statement seemed ridiculous. I had my friends for life right at my high school. I would hang out with them every day at school, and then I would see them on the weekends. I could not fathom ever ending this pattern. To my disappointment, many of my closest friends ended up picking schools very far from me, even some as far away as Israel. The reality for a number of college students is that their close friends will not end up at the same college as them, let alone in the same city. College is all about branching out and experiencing new things, and inevitably this includes making a new group of friends. It starts to become difficult when your two social groups — the friends you have back at home and the friends you’ve made at college — conflict with one other. When you’re talking to a group of new people and a friend from home suddenly calls, do you answer? Do you keep socializing and working on the relationships you have at college? What happens when your high school friends are having a difficult time in college? Do you let them cling to you and hold you back from making friends? Do you completely stay out of contact with your old friends with the hope that you will make even better friends at college? Relationships are hard to develop and even harder to keep. Your friends from high school have stuck with you — from tests, to AP classes, to homecoming, to after prom and graduation. No one should simply dismiss the people he or she spent time with in high school. Although you might meet cooler people in college, they won’t know you as well as your old friends know you. For those times when you get sad or homesick, calling on your high school friends will definitely make you feel better. And when your high school friends call or text you asking for some comforting words, it’s best to do whatever you can to make
them feel better. Although there may be many miles between you and your closest friends, that’s no reason to push them away or ignore the years of friendship you shared with them. But long distance friendships do have their limits. It’s very important to meet new people while in college, and it’s important to know that your old friends are trying to do the same. Calling them too frequently will not only keep you from making new friends, it will make you seem annoying. Being clingy isn’t good for any friendship, really, but especially long distance ones. The most important lesson I have learned about friendships in college is that if you don’t open up about yourself, no one will truly know who you are. There are things that many of us tend to hide from people that we meet in order to make ourselves seem like better, cooler people, but these things can’t be hidden from the people we live with. When I feel homesick or upset, instead of relying on one of my friends back in California, I make sure to find someone on my floor to talk to. Not only does this foster relationships on the floor, but it also helps me communicate my feelings and eventually find a realistic solution. When I call my friends at home, the conversation usually ends with them saying, “Just come back home! Come visit next weekend!” Visiting Los Angeles for a weekend is not a realistic solution to the problems I am facing in Boston. Sometimes, relying on my friends back home is not the best problem solving mechanism. The best solution available for myself and for other freshmen is clear: find your solid group of friends right here in Boston. This will not only help you root yourself in Boston University, but it will also provide you with a support group for the next four years. Rachel Chistyakov is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences and a Fall 2012 columnist for The Daily Free Press. She can be reached at rachelch@bu.edu.
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Terrier Talk Reflections
The Daily Free Press asked students for their opinions of the absentee ballot-filing process.
Here’s what some of them said. INTERVIEWS AND PHOTOS BY MAYA DEVEREAUX
ADITI SHASTRY
“I think the process is slightly confusing, but if you want to vote and you feel like it will make a difference, you’ll make the effort.”—CAS sophomore
LAUREEN LUBIN
“It’s not that confusing. You just need to be more aware of the process since it takes longer than you would think.” —CAS sophomore
JOSEPH KENNEDY
“A lot of students are interested in voting, but combined with all of the things they have on their plates ... applying for a ballot gets lost in the shuffle.” —COM junior
CHIARA PUCCI
“I had requested an absentee ballot ... but it had been misplaced at my local board of electors.” —CFA freshman
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MARASCO: Preseason games do not indicate truths about teams Marasco: From page 8
nents in a game that doesn’t count? You don’t. In preseason, teams tweak lineups. They experiment with strategies and plays. The best players don’t get as much playing time. And sometimes, as we saw on Sunday, exhibition opponents are not comparable to regular season foes. BU outshot Toronto 50–17. Sure, that leaps off the page, but the ability to put up 50 shots on Toronto is meaningless in a contest against UMass or BC. There isn’t necessarily a correlation between dump-trucking inferior
opponents and beating real competition. It’s been so long since you saw BU hockey, so it’s only natural that the game seems bigger than it is and for that reason you’ll read too much into it. You’ve had those burning questions in your mind — about all the roster turnover — all offseason. So you try to force yourself to decide the answers right away. The truth is — those questions won’t be answered for a few months. None of the questions you had about the Terriers heading into the 2012–13 campaign was given anything close to a conclusive answer during Sunday’s game.
You wondered about the two freshmen goalies. Each played a period and a half. Neither allowed a goal. But neither was tested. Matt O’Connor had one fantastic glove save, but we only saw him field five shots. Sean Maguire had 12 saves, but wasn’t exactly standing on his head to make them. You learned that O’Connor buys his equipment at Wal-Mart, but that’s about it. There was a slew of other freshmen you were curious about, but don’t use Sunday as a definitive measuring stick. Sure, a bunch of them looked good. Danny O’Regan looked quick.
But I look quick when I play basketball against my dad. Will they look the same against North Dakota? It’s hard to say. You wondered if Yasin Cissé could realistically help to replace the scoring void left by Alex Chiasson. Yes, he scored, but what a muddled mess that goal was — vintage Cissé. He also whiffed on one golden scoring chance and shanked another. We saw him crush a few Torontans against the boards, causing them to ooze maple syrup, but we already knew he’d leave a few bodies in his wake. Inconclusive. Then there were the lingering
Young attackers prepared for home game with UVM Men’s soccer: From page 8
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Senior defender Max White has been thrust into a larger role on the Terriers’ defense following the injuries to junior defender Kelvin Madzongwe and freshman defender Jeroen Blugh.
ica East with three goals. Junior midfielder Anthony Ciccone leads the team and is second in the conference with six assists. Sophomore forward Dominique Badji has been steadily improving lately, getting a gamewinning golden goal against Stony Brook, the best team in the conference, for his second goal of the season. Badji leads the conference in shots with 43, while Bustamante is in second with 38. The team leads the conference in shots with 181. All of these shots have gone a long way towards taking a load off of a defense that has put injuries to junior defender Kelvin Madzongwe and freshman defender Jeroen Blugh in the past. “It’s always easier when you score goals,” Roberts said. “Defense starts from distribution in the back and being able to posses the ball in the back, and then doing the same in the front. Defense is a full team thing. “The guys have fit in to their new positions. It took a while but they’re adjusting well.”
Terriers Peters, Adler each named America East Performers of Week Cross country: From page 8
lege. “That was great fun. It’s always extra exciting to see a win,” Lehane said of Adler’s performance. “It lifts the team’s spirits. We all share in her success.” Lehane said he was impressed by Adler’s race. Not only was it the first individual victory of her collegiate career, but it also earned her America East Performer of the Week honors. “This is all kind of new territory for her, she’s kind of broken into a new level of running,” Lehane said. “She’s had success on the track previously ... but cross country’s a different animal. For her, this is kind of uncharted territory. “She went out a little conservatively ... the last time I saw her she was running in about seventh place. So I was kind of surprised as I went back to the finishing field to see her come out in the lead.” Freshman Shelby Stableford continued her outstanding rookie
season with a 24th-place finish and a time of 17:59.77. Sunday’s performance her first sub-18 minute race of the season. Junior Danielle Bowen (30th, 18:06.58), senior Nikki Long (58th, 18:29.95) and sophomore Ashli Tagoai (123rd, 19:11.15) rounded out the scoring for BU, which finished seventh out of 37 teams with a score of 236 points. Boston College took home the team victory with a total of 45 points. On the men’s side, Peters placed second in his return from a knee injury with a time of 24:21.04 in the eight-kilometer race. Peters was also named America East Performer of the Week. It was the second time this season he received the honor. “He was a little tentative,” Lehane said about Peters. “But I think that’s because he’s kind of been out of action for a little while. It’s understandable.” Senior Robert Gibson placed 23rd with a time of 24:59.59, followed by freshmen Alec Ol-
son (33rd, 25:10.77) and Kevin Thomas (44th, 25:20.45). Senior Elliot Lehane (54th, 25:25.46) was the final contributor to the score for the Terriers. The men placed fourth out of 37 teams with a score of 156 points. Dartmouth College took home the men’s team victory with a total of 83 points. The men are showing strong promise for the remaining weeks of the season. They finished with an average time of 25:03.47 on Sunday, the best average of the season so far. However, Lehane believes his team will have to push even harder in the coming weeks to achieve its ultimate goal of reaching Nationals. “We have an outside chance of qualifying for Nationals, but in order to do that, we have to have everyone at the top of their game,” Lehane said. “We haven’t met that point yet ... it’s going to be a stretch and a reach, but that’s what we’re supposed to be doing.”
A primary difference between the Terriers and Catamounts is youth. Bustamante and senior defender Max White are the only seniors on BU’s roster. With the injuries to Madzongwe and Blugh, White has been thrust into a more prominent role on the back line. After starting six games and appearing in 13 games all of last season, White has already appeared in 10 of the Terriers’ 12 games this year and has started six of them. This has allowed young players such as McGuire, Powell and Badji to not only gain valuable experience, but also improve their capabilities heading into next season. The stakes grow higher with each game, as the Terriers are looking to go on a run that could possibly take them to the NCAA tournament. “We’re not out of it. Our RPI is 54. We go on a good stretch, get into the low 30s, and if we can do that who knows what can happen,” Roberts said. “We’re not just getting ready for next season. We’re going out there to win the next game. That’s all.”
discipline issues of last season — too many penalties and an alarming lack of composure at times. We saw a bunch of undisciplined penalties, including that same old lack of composure — fights resulting in game misconducts. To me, there was some good mixed with some concerns — all disguised within inferior competition. Take it for what it was — an exhibition, not a reliable sign of things to come. This season’s Terrier squad will have a very different look. I know you’re dying for answers. You’ll just have to wait patiently for a bit longer.
Team health key to field hockey success Field hockey: From page 8
in the midfield during her absence. Aside from Laurito’s injury, the team has been able to remain on the field. This consistency will help them continue to play as a unit and to be resilient when the going gets tough. “For the first week in October, we’re a very healthy team,” Starr said. “The schedule has allowed for a few days off, which has helped the team stay healthy. Colds, flus and sickness in general have not been holding people out of games.” Playoff Push Because of the sanctions that prevent BU teams from participating in the America East postseason tournament this season, the field hockey team cannot make the NCAA tournament by winning the conference. However, the Terriers can still earn a spot in the tournament by winning an at-large bid. “We’re in control of our own destiny. It’s where we want to be,” Starr said. Three of the team’s last six games are against ranked opponents: No. 20 University of New Hampshire, No. 25 University of Maine and No. 10 Northeastern University.
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BU cross country coach Bruce Lehane on junior Monica Adler’s performance.
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The Empty Net
Avoiding the gun-jump
Frank Marasco It had been about half a year since you got to see Boston University hockey. You wanted it. You craved it. The nights were long and cold. So, finally when you saw those Terriers take the ice against Toronto on Sunday, you were understandably giddy. The atmosphere was electric, and the joy of seasons past was re-kindled. You got to see that slew of new players you’d been so curious about. Better yet, the Terriers blew out a bunch of grizzly Canadians. Never mind that half of BU’s team is Canadian — USA! Thrilling! So thrilling, in fact, that you nearly forgot what it was — an exhibition. Preseason games can be fun for fans and useful for coaches and players to tune up, but they are not a reliable barometer for what’s to come in regular season play. The Buffalo Sabres, Winnipeg Jets, Dallas Stars and Edmonton Oilers all finished at the top of their divisions in last year’s NHL Preseason. My apologies for mentioning the NHL — too soon — but this data jumps off the page. R.I.P. 2012–13 NHL season. Why is that the case? Why did the St. Louis Rams go undefeated in last year’s NFL preseason, but 2–14 during the regular season? Why has the National League won the MLB All-Star game three years running and outscored the American League 16–2, but gotten trounced in interleague play those same seasons? It’s because exhibition and preseason have a shockingly small correlation to the regular season, to games that matter. Sure, players are the same, coaches are the same, but preseason games are just entirely different animals. You’re a coach in 2012 — every single thing your team does will be on film for all your opponents. Why would you reveal anything about how you plan to play in games that do matter to your future oppo-
Marasco, see page 7
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BU to host evenly matched Vermont Wednesday By Gregory Davis Daily Free Press Staff
After an emotional win against Stony Brook University in overtime, the Boston University men’s soccer team is preparing for another crucial America East matchup against the University of Vermont on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Nickerson Field. Wednesday’s game will be evenly matched, as the Terriers (4–5–3, 1–0–1 America East) are almost identical to the Catamounts (5–4–3, 2–0–0 America East) statistically. Because BU is only a halfgame behind the conferenceleading Catamounts, the winner of this game will have the best record in the America East. Vermont plays well on both sides of the ball. Its 1.33 goals per game average and 1.25 goals allowed per game average are identical to BU’s. The Catamounts offense is led by senior defender Joe Losier and senior forward D.J. Edler. The seniors are tied for the team lead and fourth in the conference with five goals on the season. Losier is sixth in the conference in points (12), fifth in points per game (1.09) and fourth in goals per game (0.45). He plays a very offensive game considering he is a defender and he was on the America East all-conference second team in 2011. “[Losier’s] goals are off of free kicks and throw-ins. It’s definitely something of concern,” said BU coach Neil Roberts. “We have to make sure we don’t give away a lot of free kicks and throw-ins and, that when we do, we defend it well.” Edler is seventh in the confer-
ence in points (11), seventh in points per game (0.92) and fifth in goals per game (0.42). The Catamounts also have a surplus of solid upperclassmen defenders in senior defender Sean Sweeney, senior defender Seth Rebeor, junior defender Scott Kisling, junior defender Salvatore Borea and Losier all getting a fair share of starts and playing time. “Stony Brook had seven seniors in their starting lineup, so Vermont is definitely a similar matchup in terms of how old their guys are,” Roberts said. Junior goalkeeper Conor Leland completes Vermont’s stable defense. He has started nine games this season. Leland ranks near the top of the conference in every goalkeeping category. He is fourth in goals against average (1.17), third in save percentage (.804), fourth in saves (45), third in saves per game (five) and fourth in shutouts (two). The depth and stability throughout the lineup has led the Catamounts to a stretch of eight games in which they have suffered only one loss. In its most recent game, Vermont defeated Hartford University — a team that BU tied — by a score of 3–2. However, none of Vermont’s past eight games have come against a ranked opponent, and before its game against Hartford, the team lost decisively to Dartmouth College (5–5–0) by a score of 3–1. For the Terriers, senior midfielder Michael Bustamante, redshirt freshman forward Mac McGuire and sophomore forward Parker Powell are tied for the team lead and eighth in the Amer-
Men’s soccer, see page 7
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Senior midfielder Michael Bustamante is tied for the team lead with three goals entering BU’s matchup with Vermont.
Resilient BU field hockey Terriers fight through illness, making comebacks trend shine at NE championships By Chris Dela Rosa Daily Free Press Staff
The one word that describes the No. 12 Boston University field hockey team in the last month is resilience. The trend, as of late, has been to fall behind early and then achieve a dramatic victory with last-minute surges. The game that best captured BU’s (8–4, 2–0 America East) ability to play from behind was its Sept. 18 victory against the University of Massachusetts. The Terriers fell behind 1–0, and then 2–1 later in the game, but they tied the game and sent it to overtime. In double overtime freshman Rachel Coll knocked in the game-winning goal in the first minute. Even though it came in a losing effort, Boston showed a capability to play from behind against No. 5 University of Connecticut. The Terriers earned multiple corners after cutting
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the Huskies 3–1 lead to one, but they ultimately did not execute on their opportunities at the end of the game. “Experience and senior leadership and competitive will has a lot to do with [the team’s ability to battle back],” said BU coach Sally Starr. “The girls have set high goals for the season. They know they can compete for 70 minutes and score goals.”
Staying on the Field BU has had a strong season and has shown resilience not only because of the team’s talent, but also because of its ability to stay healthy. The Terriers lost their talented freshman midfielder Sofi Laurito to an injury earlier in the season in a game against Providence College. Laurito returned in late September when Boston played against the University of Connecticut, giving the Terriers an athletic spark they needed
Field hockey, see page 7
Friday, Oct. 12 Field Hockey vs. Maine, 6:30 p.m. W. Hockey vs. Renssalaer, 7 p.m. M. Tennis @ ITA Regional, All Day
By Sarah Kirkpatrick Daily Free Press Staff
Despite battling sickness and a difficult course, the Boston University cross country team put up an impressive showing at the New England Championships in Westfield on Sunday, highlighted by a pair of standout performances from star juniors Monica Adler and Rich Peters. Many members of the team were recovering from a cold, including senior Matt Paulson, one of the biggest difference makers on the men’s side. Paulson was too sick to compete. BU coach Bruce Lehane said the illnesses may have had an impact on his team’s performance. “Running distance is hard when you have respiratory trouble,” Lehane said. “It’s kind of a limiting factor to begin with, and when that equipment is impaired,
Saturday, Oct. 13
W. Hockey vs. Union, 3 p.m. M. Soccer @ UMBC, 3 p.m. M. Hockey vs. Providence, 7 p.m. Cross Country @ Pre-Nationals, All Day
it’s a difficult situation.” Additionally, the course conditions were challenging, Lehane said was worrisome. “It was a difficult course in the sense that there were several spots that had very hard-to-manage terrain, a series of roots and a lot of loose boulders all over the place,” Lehane said. “I was really worried someone might get hurt out there … but all in all we got out reasonably healthy which on that type of course is always a concern. “[They] struggled through it the best they could. Sometimes you just have to go forward with it.” Adler took home the individual victory in the women’s five-kilometer race. Her time of 17:00.79 was nearly six seconds faster than second-place finisher senior Bridget Dahlberg of Boston Col-
Cross country, see page 7
Sunday, Oct. 14 W. Soccer @ Binghamton, 1 p.m. Field Hockey @ Hofstra, 1 p.m. M. Tennis @ ITA Regional, All Day