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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY

YEAR XLVII. VOLUME XCVII. ISSUE VI

Over 1,000 student accounts hit in spam hack

BY SAMANTHA KIZNER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Over 1,000 Boston University students were forced to change their account passwords after BU servers were flooded with spam emails from student accounts in late September, university officials said.

The spam is believed to be a result of a 2018 breach of the educational site Chegg.

Eric Jacobsen, executive director of Information Security at BU, wrote in an email that student accounts that displayed spam activity were temporarily disabled and the students were forced to change their passwords as a means of resecuring their accounts.

“In terms of the breach itself, Boston University cannot know which passwords have been reused with which sites,” Jacobsen wrote.

“We became aware of the scope of this problem on September 20th when our email servers were inundated with unsolicited bulk email, often called ‘spam,’ from approximately 1,100 accounts.”

Jacobsen said his team used the “Have I Been Pwned” database, an online resource that helps determine whether or not an email has been part of any data breaches, to determine whether the student accounts had any security issues.

While they cannot pinpoint exactly which accounts received spam, the Information Security team spoke with other institutions and concluded that the Chegg breach was the main source of the spam, Jacobsen wrote.

BY SONIA RUBECK DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BY ANGELA YANG

Last year, Massachusetts saw a decrease in nearly all violent crime across the state, with one exception — reports of rape rose by nearly 10 percent, according to recent FBI statistics.

While it is possible that this change reflects an increase in rape incidents, several women’s rights advocates say that this rise is likely due to the fact that more survivors are willing to speak to law enforcement about their experiences in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

Gina Scaramella, executive director of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, wrote in an email that she thinks this increase in reports is linked to the rise of the #MeToo movement because BARCC began receiving increased demand for its services after the hashtag began trending online.

“For some survivors, the #MeToo movement has empowered them to speak out about what they’ve experienced. For others, they’ve felt

her account. She said this process entailed seeing IT services to change her password, which Ganesan did after noticing that her Blackboard, Student Link and BU wifi were not functioning.

“I deleted my Chegg account early fall of 2018, and I don’t plan on going back at all,” Ganesan said.

With Ganesan and other students who had to re-secure their accounts, emails were sent out with steps students should take to make sure their email was set up normally to rule out the potential of any malfunctioning. Ganesan said she plans

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh has released his plan to address Boston’s “Methadone Mile” — the epicenter of the city’s growing opioid crisis — which seeks to increase the health and welfare services available to drug users in the area while also bolstering law enforcement in the area.

Director of the Mayor’s Office of Recovery Services Jennifer Tracy said that the plan, officially called Melnea Cass/Mass Ave 2 but is more popularly known as Mass and Cass 2.0, takes a three-pronged approach to the crisis, focusing on public health, public safety and quality of life.

“We will do that by connecting those struggling with substance use disorder with resources and a pathway to recovery,” Tracy said, “by ensuring public safety for all residents, by reducing criminal activity, focusing on quality of life issues for our residents and businesses.”

The “Methadone Mile” is the colloquial name for the area surrounding Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard, which is home to a high concentration of drug users due to the relatively large number of drug recovery and social welfare services in the area, which include Boston Medical Center, the Boston Public Health Commission and various homeless shelters.

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Students were forced to change their Boston University account passwords after educational site Chegg was breached.

On Sept. 19, 2018, Chegg announced a security breach that had occurred on April 29, 2018. It notified its users that an unauthorized party accessed a company database that holds not only data belonging to Chegg users but also users of affiliated companies, such as EasyBib. As a result, 40 million users had to go through a password-reset process.

In an 8-K disclosure report to the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission, Chegg stated that the users’ names, email addresses, shipping addresses, usernames and passwords were accessed by the unauthorized third party. While

Rape reports on the rise DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Walsh debuts “Methadone Mile” plan

pressured to speak out,” Scaramella wrote. “In addition, while the #MeToo movement has greatly influenced our culture so that more people are driven to believe survivors, survivors who speak out still face a great deal of disbelief, blame, shame.”

As a whole, violent crime was down four percent, while murder and non-negligent manslaughter decreased by nearly 21 percent since 2017, according to the FBI statistics.

Reports of robbery dropped by 15 percent, while aggravated assault and property crime decreased by 2.5 and 11 percent, respectively.

Rape remains the only outlier, with reports rising by 9.6 percent.

As the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s numbers are drawn exclusively from crimes that had been reported to police, these statistics do not accurately reflect the total number of rape crimes that occured last year because authorities and researchers only know about the cases in which the victims were willing to speak.

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the investigation into this ordeal is still ongoing, at this time there is no evidence of any user’s social security numbers or financial information was accessed.

Chegg is not officially associated with BU, but it is a service many students turn to for resources such as online textbooks and answers to homework. While the hack occurred last year, the effect on BU students was only recently discovered thanks to the September spam emails.

Sandya Ganesan, a senior in the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, was one of the students who had to re-secure

BU advises caution for scooter users

BY MARION CASSIDY DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

An increasing number of Terriers are choosing to scoot down Commonwealth Avenue and with that comes safety and theft concerns.

Electric scooter rental services like Byrd and Lime arrived in Brookline last semester and have found their way onto campus, but there has also been an increase in personal, non-electric kick scooters among the student population.

Boston University Police Officer Peter Shin said scooter riders should keep safety practices in mind and use the same lanes as bikes, electric scooters and skateboards.

“People that are operating electric and non-electric scooters need to be cognizant of the area they’re in.” Shin said. “[Riders] should probably operate in the same rules as cars do.”

Shin said motorists will be expecting scooter riders to follow the rules of the road.

“If you’re an intersection and you don’t stop at the red light and cars [are] coming through that, it’s definitely gonna be a problem for the person that’s operating that scooter,” Shin said.

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Students have increasingly been using traditional, non-electric scooters to get around.

BU Spokesperson Colin Riley said students need to be careful while riding kick scooters due to the constant amount of traffic along Commonwealth Ave. “People need to exercise good judgment and be very careful operating anything that goes along Comm Ave,” Riley said.

Shin said he has noticed a higher number of scooter thefts this semester.

“As they start to become commonplace they’re probably going to get stolen more,” Shin said.

BU has taken steps to deter bike theft — Parking and Transportation Services encourages, but does not require, bikers to register their bicycle with the university — but does not have the same policy for scooters.

The City of Boston has not met the scooter trend with new policies either, Shin said.

“Boston hasn’t enacted any kind of regulations as far as the governance of scooters in their city,” Shin said. “The city should probably come up with some type of regulation and some type of enforcement, CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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BU prepares for university-wide evaluation

BY KATE GILBERD

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs and BU Emergency Alerts between October 2-8.

Lewd conduct near Mugar A party was seen Tuesday around 8:45 p.m. near Mugar Memorial Library carrying a weapon and displaying lewd conduct. BUPD was notified and arrested the party.

Verbal altercation on Buswell Street

A caller reported a woman verbally assaulting her roommate on Buswell Street after returning from a party on Wednesday around 12:15 a.m.

Man with knife on esplanade RACHEL SHARPLES / DFP FILE

BU submitted a self-study to an independent commission for the accreditation renewal process required every 10 years.

Riley wrote.

In addition to funding concerns for students and administration, accreditation ensures credibility, and many employers do not accept degrees from nonaccredited universities, according to CHEA. BU was first accredited in 1929 and was last comprehensively evaluated in 2009, when it was awarded “substantial compliance” with the commission standards, according to NECHE’s website.

Riley wrote that compared to the 2009 standards, the current evaluation will focus more on academic programs.

Beth Loizeaux, associate provost for Undergraduate Affairs, wrote in an email that unlike many other institutions, Boston University also undergoes a five-year interim evaluation and submits an annual report to NECHE. “We are well-reviewed by our accreditors,” Loizeaux wrote. “[It is] an opportunity for BU as an institution to assess and reflect.”

The NECHE visit is the final part of the re-accreditation process.

The process is assisted by the steering committee, a group of 16 faculty members whose role is to compile the self-study and report to NECHE. Robb Dixon, a professor of oper-

ations and technology management, is a member of the steering committee. Dixon said the members who are a part of the steering committee are an essential part of the accreditation process.

“The steering committee is responsible for responding to all of the questions that NECHE provides to us,” Dixon said.

Dixon said he doesn’t doubt that BU will be reaccredited.

“Reaccreditation is important, but it’s not something where we’re really wondering whether it’s going to happen or not,” Dixon said. “We fully expect to be reaccredited.”

Genesis Camilo, a junior in the College of Communication, said she was not aware of the complex process related to accreditation.

“I’ve heard the phrase, but I didn’t know there was a whole process behind it,” Camilo said. “I just thought universities said it to make themselves sound better.”

Nataly Aguirre, a senior in the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, said she was unsurprised to learn about accreditation.

“I feel like I’m always learning something new about BU,” Aguirre said.

Abigail Ripin, a senior in the

College of Arts and Sciences, said she had heard about accreditation because of scholarship applications.

“I have seen on so many scholarship and fellowship applications, ‘must have a degree from an accredited university, must be nominated by an accredited university,’” Ripin said.

“I think [accreditation] is necessary for a lot of things.”

Shaina Horstmann, a junior in COM, said she did not think accreditation was an important factor to a university.

“I wouldn’t be able to name a list of accredited universities versus nonaccredited universities off the top of my head,” Horstmann said. “I don’t really think [accreditation] is a huge deal.”

Nico Estrada, a sophomore in CAS, said he thinks accreditation is a good method of accountability for an institution like BU. “It makes sense that that’s something [the university] should have to go through,” Estrada said. “It seems [like] something to keep everything on track.”

There will be a forum on accreditation on Oct. 28, from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Rajen Kilachand Center for Life Sciences, room 101. Students are invited to attend and share thoughts or questions.

Student accounts affected by 2018 Chegg breach SPAM, FROM PAGE 1 to keep her information safe with these tips and other steps.

Ryan Nie, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, said he will keep using the online resource despite the incident.

“If Chegg still gives me homework answers and homework help, I think I’ll still use the website,” Nie said. “I believe you don’t need to have an account to view the answers. So personally, it doesn’t really affect me, but I think even for those that are affected, they will still continue to use it if they need homework help.”

Caroline Richardson, a junior in the College of Communication, said she uses Chegg and said this incident will only make her more careful with her online security.

“After I heard about this, I

Crime Logs

BY MARY LULLOFF

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University will have an independent commission visit campus at the end of October to evaluate whether the university can renew its accreditation status. BU submitted its own self-study to the commission in September.

The New England Commission of Higher Education committee will visit BU from Oct. 27 through Oct. 30 to determine whether the university continues to fulfill commission standards, a process that happens once every 10 years, according to university officials.

NECHE’s standards relate to the effectiveness of the university’s purpose, self-evaluation and organizational ability as stated on the company’s website. It also evaluates academic and student diversity, resources and transparency.

Accreditation allows a university to receive federal funding, including grants and loans given to students, according to the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.

Universities are accredited by one of 19 regional commissions across the U.S. BU Spokesperson Colin Riley wrote in an email that accreditation shows that an institution is academically, financially and organizationally viable.

“The most important ramification is that [the evaluation] could affect student eligibility for federal financial aid, as well as their ability to transfer credits to other accredited institutions,” Riley wrote.

Prior to the commission visit, BU was required to submit an extensively researched self-study addressing the NECHE standards. BU’s website states that administrators used “existing administrative and faculty governance infrastructure” to conduct the study, completed over the past year and a half.

Riley wrote the study is designed to be informative not only to the commission, but also to staff, students, and other members of the BU community. “[The study demonstrates] a very forward looking view, and we think that that’s something students and members of the faculty and BU community should be very pleased with,”

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realized my password for Chegg was the exact same as my school passwords, so I had to change everything,” Richardson said. “I was just more careful. I mean, I just haven’t used as much this year, I really don’t need it with the classes I’m taking right now. But definitely, I’m going to be careful in the future.”

Even if students continue to use Chegg, Jacobsen urges them to be careful with the passwords they choose and to be wary of reusing passwords on multiple platforms.

“Every where the individual uses the same password has it protected by the company with the weakest security,” Jacobsen wrote.

“The more places you use it, the more likely it is that it will be compromised, and if it becomes compromised you are giving away

access to your email, your student records, and potentially health and financial information.”

Jacobsen wrote he wants students to recognize the importance of keeping their BU password exclusive to their BU account.

He also said that if students used their BU email to confirm or reset passwords at other organizations, such as banks, those accounts are at risk of being compromised as well.

BU Spokesperson Colin Riley said this incident serves as a reminder to be careful with passwords.

“The important thing about this is the benefit of not using a password from BU with other institutions, because it reduces the security of the password,” Riley said.

Brennan Zhou, a senior in

the College of Communication, said that he doesn’t think hacking comes as a surprise to many students.

“It’s pretty common nowadays for data breaches and hacks to happen,” Zhou said. “And that’s not surprising a company that students use is being hacked, because it’s usually credit card companies and stuff like that, so I think the student demographic hasn’t really been tapped.”

Riley said students should take actions to protect themselves from data breaches.

“Breaches are a common and an unfortunate occurrence,” Riley said. “And there are things that users should be doing as frequently as possible, like not reusing old passwords and not clicking on spam emails, to keep themselves safe.”

BUPD searched for a man with a knife near the Charles River esplanade Thursday at 11 a.m. The man was located and transported by the Boston Police.

Indecent assault outside Whitestones

BUPD was notified of an indecent assault around 5:40 p.m. near the Whitestones on Commonwealth Avenue. BUPD advised against approaching the suspect.

Attempted robbery near South Campus An attempted robbery occurred on the corner of Mountfort Street and Park Drive Friday at 8:40 p.m. BUPD and Brookline Police searched the area for the suspect.

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Crime Logs

BY ANGELA YANG DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston Police Department website from Oct. 3-6.

Police identify homicide victim as Emerson College student Police responded to a report of assault and battery and found Emerson College student Daniel Hollis, 19, unconscious with a head injury on Park Dale Avenue. He was rushed to a hospital, where he later died. Police are currently investigating his death.

Attempted knife assault in Hyde Park On Oct. 3 at 4 p.m., an offduty officer responded to two boys on Hyde Park Avenue who were attempting to stab each other with knives in a McDonald’s parking lot.

The officer restrained the 15-yearold at the scene, while the 16-yearold fled and was apprehended by a few blocks away.

Loaded firearm found during traffic stop Officers arrested two men Saturday on Fessenden Street after stopping a car whose registration had been revoked. The driver attempted to flee, so police detained him and discovered he was using a suspended license and had a loaded gun in the backseat. Both the driver and his passenger were charged with unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.

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First nor’easter of year to pummel Massachusetts until Saturday

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People take shelter from the rain during the 2019 Boston Marathon. The first nor’easter of the season has hit the state.

BY JOEL LAU DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Remember to close your windows and hold your umbrellas tight, because the region’s first nor’easter of the season is set to pummel the Massachusetts coast through Friday.

Expect heavy rains and strong gusts, which may bring power outages and even slight flooding to the Boston area.

The nor’easter began showering Massachusetts on Wednesday, with conditions are expected to steadily

worsen until Thursday, peaking Thursday afternoon into the evening, according to the National Weather Service.

Conditions are expected to subside Friday through Saturday, sparing residents from a stormy Columbus Day holiday.

In a tweet, the Boston Office of Emergency Management told residents to stay cautious and, if possible, limit their time travelling outdoors. The OEM also urged residents to sign up for emergency alerts

at Boston.gov/alert-boston in case of unexpected developments.

The Southeast region of Massachusetts is expected to take the brunt of the storm, with some areas expecting to be soaked by up to eight inches of rain through Saturday, according to NWS Boston.

As for Boston, forecasts predict that the city will receive anywhere from four to six inches of rain, causing the NWS to issue a flood watch for Boston’s Suffolk County as poor drainage and storm surge may lead

to water buildup in urban areas bordering the coast, according to NWS Boston.

Storm surge is expected to reach anywhere from 1.5 to 2.5 feet in some areas along the coast.

The flood watch, which also affects the Boston area cities of Quincy, Norwood and Foxboro, took effect at 8 p.m. Wednesday night and is scheduled to be called off Friday morning, according to NWS Boston.

Additionally, the NWS warned Boston residents to take extra care to protect themselves from “strong to damaging winds” that may cause scattered power outages and downed tree limbs, made worse by the fact that Boston’s trees are still fully leaved.

“The leaves provide additional resistance to the wind blowing through the branches,” NWS Boston wrote in a tweet. “Weaker branches, or even a few trees, may not be able to handle the additional stress. When those start coming down, the risk for hitting a power line and causing an outage is increased.”

The OEM tweeted Wednesday afternoon that the city is also expecting gusts at speeds of up to 40 miles per hour.

The OEM urged Boston residents to take precautions against flooding, especially if their property lies in a flood zone.

NWS Boston also warned boaters to take caution when sailing off

Scooter use increases among BU students

City launches new program for public health and safety PLAN, FROM PAGE 1 However, the area has also seen a rise in violent crime in recent years, including a fatal stabbing in September, causing residents and business owners to raise concerns about a decrease in the relative safety of the neighborhood.

According to Tracy, the biggest change that both residents and workers will notice would be the increase in health care, social welfare, and public safety workers in the area.

“The public should expect to see more boots on the ground in all in all three areas,” Tracy said. “… More public safety officers that are trained in engagement and recovery coaching, more recovery specialists that I just mentioned, doubling the outreach team out in the neighborhood to engage people and more public workers cleaning the street.”

Specific improvements that the city plans to make include placing more homeless residents in shelters, spreading out welfare services over a wider area to “deconcentrate persons in need,” funding beautification efforts in the area and purchasing more opioid overdose reversal kits for the neighborhood, according to the Mass and Cass 2.0 plan.

As for law enforcement, the Boston Police Department will identify crime hotspots and station police officers in these areas, while also increasing the number of officers patrolling on foot and bicycle.

Additionally, Boston will deploy more public works crew members to clean up syringes

and other drug paraphernalia that often litter the Newmarket Square region, creating safety hazards while also creating new syringe drop-off locations and incentive programs to encourage proper disposal, according to the plan.

Robert Goldstein, director of communications for the Boston Public Health Commission, said Boston residents should call 311 immediately if they encounter any hazardous or drug related waste.

The waste will be identified and the appropriate city service will be deployed to clean up.

In addition to an increase in personnel, the Mass and Cass 2.0 will also take steps to enhance the appearance of the area, according to a city press release about the initiative.

A welcome kiosk at the Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard will be installed along with welcome banners and added street lighting to make the area more welcoming and cohesive.

The Office of Recovery Services will meet weekly with the city departments to maintain communication and the project itself will be evaluated every six months to measure its progress, according to the plan.

The city will also post data on efforts to target both crimes as well as treatment opportunities, which will be accessible to the public on an online dashboard.

Tracey noted that the mayoral office hopes to have greater transparency and open communication between the public and administrative and tactical teams involved in the bolstered efforts.

the Massachusetts coast, as the nor’easter is expected to bring 15 to 25 foot waves and winds of up to 70 miles per hour in the state’s outer waters.

What is a nor’easter?

Nor’easters are storms that usually occur along the Eastern Seaboard. While they can happen anytime during the year, they are at their most violent and most frequent between the months of September and April, according to the NWS These extra-tropical cyclones form off the coast when warm air from the south and cold air from the north collide, forming a temperature difference that acts as fuel for the storm, according to the NWS. This makes the east coast perfect for nor’easters, as the polar jet stream pushes cold air from Canada southward while warm air travels north along the Gulf stream.

Nor’easters typically bring heavy rain or snow, depending on the season, and tend to travel north toward New England, reaching their peak over the northeastern United States, according to the NWS. One particularly severe nor’easter, called the Northeastern United States Blizzard of 1978, dropped so much snow that many spectators of the 26th annual Beanpot tournament were stranded in the arena for days, surviving on hot dogs and sleeping in the bleachers, according to the Boston Globe.

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Massachusetts Avenue in South Boston, which intersects with Melnea Cass Boulevard at the center of “Methadone Mile.”

“One of the goals of the plan is to be more transparent and to post on a regular basis some of the outcomes that we’ve identified,” Tracey said.

Michelle Sorenson, 48, of Brookline said the initiative is positive for the city.

“I’ve lost a lot of friends from opioid overdoses and stuff,” Sorenson said. “I think it’s a great thing because they’re at least trying to open a system where people can go in and get help and it’s monitored.”

Nicholas Lecompte, 32, of Dorchester, said he doubts how effective this plan will be at actually solving the opioid crisis in the

Newmarket Square area.

“I’m sure it will make a small dent but if there aren’t adequate resources for social work to really target homelessness and drug abuse, it’s just displacing the problem,” Lecompte said.

Mercedes Meach, 25, of Back Bay, said while no plan will fully address the problems facing “Methadone Mile,” Mass and Cass 2.0 is a good start.

“That sounds like a pretty good plan,” Meach said. “I mean, they have to start somewhere. I don’t think there could really be a perfect way to start to approach this problem. But this seems like at least someone is trying to help.”

whether it’s, you have to wear a helmet, or you have to wear reflective clothing, things like those kinds of things.”

BU doesn’t have jurisdiction to regulate how scooters are used on roads and sidewalks, Shin said.

“We could enforce it within university property, but if you’re operating the sidewalk, we wouldn’t have any ability to do anything,” Shin said.

Sophie Woan, a sophomore in the College of Communication, said she wanted more clarity on where kick scooters can be placed inside buildings so they do not become a nuisance.

“I just think [Boston University] should make it clear that if you’re gonna have a non-electric scooter, don’t bring it into places where it can get in people’s way,” Woan said. “I think it should be the same rules as a bike like you can’t bring it inside.

Leave it outside and lock it up.”

Nick Lai, a junior in the College of Engineering, said he believes that non-electric scooter use is positive.

“I like to see people using energy-efficient ways of traveling or transportation,” Lai said.

Lauren Vitacco, a senior in CAS, said non-electric scooters are a convenient as well as an efficient way to move around campus.

“It’s a good way to get around,” Vitacco said. “It’s similar to a skateboard, I wish that I was confident enough to do it down Comm Ave., I would just be too scared of cars hitting me.”

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Massachusetts sees 10 percent increase in rape reports last year STATS, FROM PAGE 1 the most underreported crimes, according to Marta Bobinski, communications and volunteer coordinator at the Center for Hope and Healing, a local nonprofit sexual assault counseling program in Lowell.

Bobinski said since #MeToo gained traction over the last two years, more survivors have been willing to talk. For instance, the CHH received a 200 percent spike in calls to its support hotline during Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings last year.

Many of those conversations detailed experiences from decades ago that the callers had never spoken about, Bobinski said.

“We don’t think that there are actually more rapes happening,” Bobinski said. “People are just feeling more comfortable and open to report now. And I think over the last year, we have seen a really big increase in our referrals for counseling here.”

BARCC and the CHH are not alone in seeing this sudden inf lux of reports. Tori Troop, director of communications and development at Jane Doe Inc. — a non-profit that advocates against sexual and domestic violence — said counseling programs across Massachusetts reported “a significant increase” in calls since the #MeToo movement began.

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Recently released FBI statistics found an increase in rape reports in Massachusetts despite an overall decrease in crime.

Troop said Jane Doe Inc. views issues surrounding sexual violence as not just a legal or criminal justice concern, but a major public health problem as well, rooted in the fact that many perpetrators neglect to receive proper consent.

“Just because you’re in a dating relationship and because you’ve had sex before, doesn’t mean that you don’t have the right to consent each and every time,” Troop said. “And secondly, it was only in the ‘70s that marital rape was even recognized as a crime in some states. That seems

like ancient history, but it’s really not that long ago.”

Scaramella wrote that lawmakers often attempts to limit victims’ freedom when trying to prevent rape and sexual assault.

Instead, they should focus on educating and stopping would-be perpetrators.

“On an individual level, we should focus on how potential offenders can decrease their chances of committing an act of sexual violence rather than focusing on restricting the behavior of potential victims,” Scaramella wrote. “We shouldn’t have to sac-

rifice freedom and sexual empowerment to be safe.”

Tactics for preventing sexualy assault include educating youth about proper consent and healthy relationships, as well as encouraging bystanders to do something if they see a red f lag, Scaramella said.

Based on his experience in the workplace, David Johnson, 60, of Jamaica Plain said he believes sexual aggression is on the decline.

However, he said he understands the struggle women face when deciding whether to report such actions when they happen.

“Most men don’t really view women in their workplaces as sexual objects. They see them more as a working companion and it’s good to see that,” Johnson said.

“I know [coming forward about rape has] always been an issue for women. You know, I mean, it’s embarrassing. I think for a long time it wasn’t really taken seriously.”

MassA r t st udent Sad ie Weedall, 19, of Fenway, said that while she agrees that this increase in reports likely stems from the #MeToo movement, the public may interpret the statistic differently.

“I feel like it makes more sense that people have been speaking out about [their assaults] more,” Weedall said about the FBI data showing increased rape reports.

“I definitely think people will think that it’s the other way— they’ll just think that there’s just [more rapists].”

Hang Truong, 23, of Back Bay, who came to the U.S. from Vietnam, said she appreciates the U.S.’s willingness to openly discuss matters surrounding sexual assault.

“In my home country, people still have a really stiff upper lip so they don’t really share that much.

They still think that it is too embarrassing to share,” Truong said. “I think it’s good that here people are more and more open. I think they empower other women.”

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SCIENCE Geological Society rebuilds their club with new set of student leaders

BY PATRICK RAYBURN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The start of a new semester on Commonwealth Avenue is filled with opportunities for clubs to bolster their numbers and find new members. Stands are set up on Nickerson Field each year at Splash with the promise of “free stuff” and sign up sheets to reach out to a whole host of new members.

At their first meeting this semester, the Boston University Geological Society had a total of five people in attendance, Dena Ciampa, a sophomore in the College of General Studies and the club’s vice president wrote in an email.

The club’s current executive board is seeking to reorient BUGS’ focus and raise awareness among students on campus, Ciampa said.

“We’re sort of in the rebuilding process right now,” Ciampa said.

Lawford Anderson, a professor of earth science in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been the faculty advisor for BUGS since he came to BU in 2011. Anderson said he has noticed the lower turnout in recent years.

“Last year they ran weekly meetings and I attended almost all of them,”Anderson wrote in an email.

“The turnout was often low. Even my dog, Max, recently passed away, would come.”

Samarah Uriarte, a sophomore in the College of Engineering and the current president of BUGS, was a

freshman looking for clubs to join just last year.

“Before I was the president I was avid about geology and I collected rocks,” Uriarte said, “I just really wanted to get involved on campus so I found the club, and last year when I was a freshman I tried my best to make the meetings, and when there were positions available I just made sure to fill them out.”

BUGS has approximately been around since the 1950s, Anderson wrote. Older alumni who were once a part of the group have made up some of the club’s attendees every once in a while, Anderson wrote.

In recent years newer clubs such as BU’s Environmental Student Organization and the BU Emerald Review, both of which are integrated into BU’s Earth and Environmental Department, have drawn attention away from BUGS, Ciampa wrote.

“We are more of a casual club,” Ciampa wrote. “but in general we welcome anyone who has an interest in the Earth system and nature as a whole. You do not need to be a Geology major to join.”

BUGS has always been a more socially-oriented organization, Anderson wrote. In the past they have planned field trips, camping expeditions, movie nights and pizza gatherings. The club meets every other Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the Stone Science Building, where Ciampa said there is a collection of rocks and minerals on the first floor.

The group talks about both geo-

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The Boston University Geological Society’s executive board. The club discusses earth sciences as well as the current issues regarding the environment.

logical and environmental news, and then focus on a topic to discuss for each meeting, Ciampa wrote. They choose their topics, including volcanoes and earth’s water, based on an interest survey members fill out.

The eboard tries to make their discussions interactive by watching videos and ending each meeting with an opportunity for members to bring in rocks from their own collection or share a fun fact about rocks, Ciampa wrote.

The group is planning on having

adventure walks, hiking excursions and integrating volunteer opportunities into their activities in order to make the club more than just a social club, Ciampa wrote.

“We seem to have lost many members to other clubs that are more resume driven,” Ciampa wrote.

At its peak BUGS has had a following of at least 50 people, Anderson wrote. Today, the current e-board is committed to gaining new members to establish a solid base for the club and hopes more people will join

in the coming semesters, Ciamba wrote.

“If the club does not gain more members in the coming semesters, I guess it will just remain a small club with a few people,” Ciamba wrote.

On Thursday, Anderson will host a show and tell in his office for the club, where attendees will be viewing his collection of rocks, minerals and fossils.

“I am sure they will find a new footing,” Anderson wrote, “ and I will always be there for them.”

SCIENCE

Authors discuss their book which examines the history of STIs

BY CAMERON MORSBERGER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

It is speculated that Christopher Columbus’ return from the New World in 1493 brought the first cases of syphilis to Europe, resulting in sickness and death. Penicillin, the recommended cure for the disease, was discovered in 1928 and, although syphilis is yet to be fully eradicated, its reputation has dulled from a vicious, fatal disease to just another stigmatized sexually transmitted infection.

Allan Ropper and Brian Burrell are trying to end this stigmatization in their new book, “How the Brain Lost its Mind: Sex, Hysteria, and the Riddle of Mental Illness.”

The two vitisted Harvard Medical School on Monday to discuss the book, which explores the history of syphilis and its implications on modern society and mental health.

Ropper, a neurologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a neurology professor at Harvard Medical School, said in an interview a week before the event that the ways in which neurosyphilis imitates mental illnesses such as psychosis, depression and bipolar disorder has been mostly forgotten.

“Everybody sort of forgot about it, so I thought it would be very interesting to go back and see what this was about,” Ropper said. “How

we can start thinking today about mental illness? And that’s what the book is about.”

Despite the discovery of penicillin, the primary treatment for syphilis, 100 out of 100,000 babies born in Miami-Dade, Florida in 2017 were born with the disease, Ropper said during their talk. Comparatively, only ten years ago, that number was less than 20.

Burrell, a senior lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, stressed the importance of understanding and engaging in syphilis’ history, to better understand it in the present.

Even though syphilis is easy to treat, Burrell said there is an unwillingness in the general public to address the illness. All of this, Burrell said, contributes to the ever-present shame surrounding STIs. “The stigma comes from this moral judgement about [syphilis] and this idea that people deserve it,” Burrell said in the interview a few days before the event.

Ropper discussed the ways in which “How the Brain Lost its Mind” focuses on reshaping public perception through the study of syphilis, saying that one of the book’s goals is to encourage readers to reexamine how they think about mental illnesses.

“That idea that all mental disorders would be found in structural brain diseases is with us today, because we all talk about the PTSD, alcoholism, addiction, sociopathy, criminality, as if we know that they’re brain diseases,” Ropper said.

Zen Chu, the faculty director for MIT’s Hacking Medicine Initiative, attended Monday’s event and said he has noticed a general trend toward more efficient and convenient means of combating mental illness among his students.

“The stigma is still there, although I think in the younger generations, it’s going away somewhat,” Chu said. “I think there are hacks for happiness and mental health that we still really haven’t figured out yet.”

Burell said he believes in the value of these conversations and that sharing medical and anecdotal stories about syphilis and its relation to mental illness only encourages attendees to acknowledge the rising issue.

“We wanted to use this disease to, first of all, illustrate something about the nature of brain disease and mental illness and how, historically, it’s been thought of to put the present day into some context,” Burrell said, “and that requires writing this whole history.”

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The cover of “How the Brain Lost its Mind” by neurologist Allan Ropper and lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Brian Burrell, which looks at the stigmatization surrounding mental illness.

6 FEATURES

BUSINESS Women entrepreneurs spotlighted at Jamaica Plain market

BY HANNAH EDELMAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston Women’s Market was held Sunday in celebration of female empowerment and in support of small businesses throughout the city on the lawn outside Jamaica Plain’s historic Loring-Greenough House.

Helping small business owners, both new and experienced, is at the core of the Boston Women’s Market, co-founder Cara Loffredo said. Loffredo originally created the market as a response to the political climate in the wake of the 2016 election cycle, hosting her first event in fall 2017.

The market started with only 20 vendors; this weekend, the market featured 58 vendors.

“Women entrepreneurs can often feel really isolated,” Loffredo said.

“So it’s important to create that that transparency and dialogue within your women community to realize that we’re all in that boat. We all have those kinds of fears and challenges and self-doubts about what we’re doing.”

Loffredo said she has always worked in an entrepreneurial environment and now seeks to translate

the experience through mentorship of over 600 vendors in the Boston Women’s Market network with workshops, panels, social media and networking opportunities.

One entrepreneur at the market was Willow Coigny, owner of The Faded Factory, an online store offering a collection of mixed-medium arts, vintage trinkets and freehand cross-stitches — many of which include a colorful assortment of curse words. Coigny drew a nearly constant stream of customers at the market as she stood behind a table of decapitated baby doll heads.

Many visitors came to ogle the ceramic doll heads, from which Coigny had removed the hair in favor of planting succulents in the hollowed-out skulls and each was decorated with a variety of beads, glitter and lace, mounted on an assortment of tins and dishes. One doll head was even nestled inside a birdcage.

“Whenever something would break,” Coigny said, “that’s just when I would start to make it into something else.”

Coigny said she enjoyed vending alongside other female entrepreneurs and especially liked interacting with customers who just happened to

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Vendors at the market showcased a range of items, from jewelry to handmade home decor.

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Attendees browse jewelry on display at the Boston Women’s Market in Jamaica Plain on Sunday, an event that highlights female entrepreneurs.

stumble upon the market.

One customer, 60-year-old Jamaica Plain resident Linda Drury, passed the market while biking home. Drury said she was drawn to Coigny’s creativity and proudly showed off her purchase: a small bunny stuffed animal with a screw stuck through its forearms mounted on a framed, vintage school picture.

“I’m very pleased with how many different vendors there are and the variety of offerings,” Drury said.

Although Drury said she wasn’t aware of the market before passing by, she said she now plans to attend again in the future.

Other attendees were frequent shoppers, actively seeking out specific entrepreneurs whom they knew by name.

Cecilia Villero, who self identifies as Goddess Cecilia, went to the market as an attendee, but said she is often approached by people familiar with her “pampering and pleasure” products sold from Athena’s Home Novelties, as well as her inclusive sex education workshops.

Villero, who earned a certificate in Human Services Management at Boston University’s School of Public Health, said she loves the market and the camaraderie all of the vendors bring. In her 13 years of business, Villero said she has also noticed a growth in the acceptance of independent business owners.

“When I started, I feel like there was still a lot of pressure to work for somebody,” Villero said. “Now there’s a lot more avenues for people to be able to work on their own and do the stuff that they love and get paid for it.”

Unique Top, owner of iLoveFGC, a pop-up boutique selling items at the market from her online store, Fly Girl Couture, began her business with the goal of making “every woman feel like a fly girl.”

“I’m a plus-size girl and I’ve always had trouble finding the same fashionable items as my friends,” Top said. “So I bought a sewing machine, I read the manual and I just started making clothes.”

Now, Top cultivates a collection of clothing, sunglasses, buttons and most recently, laser-cut earrings.

Top also works to support artisans in other countries, such as her brother-in-law who she sends some of her clothes designs to for him to produce in Senegal. Top sells beaded jewelry crafted in Kenya as well.

One of Loffredo’s newest mentees is 26-year-old South End resident Jessie L’Heureux, who created Brownstone & Main, a subscription box supporting women-owned small businesses, in June.

L’Heureux collaborates with female entrepreneurs across the country to curate a collection of self-care and beauty products, which she sells in bimonthly subscription-based boxes.

“There’s such a huge passion in the women-owned business industry, but we don’t see a lot of women-owned companies being promoted,” L’Heureux said. “I’m grateful that we have the opportunity to live in a world where we can have such powerful female entrepreneurs that can really change the landscape of the United States and that starts from the bottom-up and in small businesses.”

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ARTS

Giant spoon at the GSU shines a light on the opioid epidemic

BY NIKOLAY KOLEV DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

A giant spoon lays on the sidewalk — bent, twisted and blackened.

Within it, a pool of brown, tar-like residue is visible. At a length of 10 feet and weighing more than 800 pounds, a giant heroin spoon sculpture titled the “FDA Spoon” will be placed in front of the George Sherman Union from Oct. 10 to 25.

The opioid crisis is an epidemic that continues to take lives, with fatal opioid related overdoses being six times higher in 2017 than in 1999, according to the Center for Disease Control.

Boston-based artist and activist Domenic Esposito is using his art to bring attention to the crisis through The Opioid Spoon Project. Esposito has crafted four different, giant heroin spoons sculptures in an effort to take a stand against the pharmaceutical companies and doctors who make and prescribe the drugs in question.

Boston University will be the first university ever to host it on their campus, a decision that Esposito said he strongly supports.

“I think it’s a remarkable opportunity for us and I’m really proud of BU for doing this,” Esposito said.

“It fits squarely within our mission statement because we’re really out there and part of our mission statement is to bring awareness of the opioid epidemic outside of the opioid community.”

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Artist Domenic Esposito’s “FDA Spoon” on the sidewalk in front of the Food and Drug Administration to raise awareness about the opioid epidemic. The sculpture is being installed on Boston University’s campus.

Esposito’s connection to the opioid epidemic runs deep, as his personal struggle with his brother’s addiction served as the catalyst for the creation of The Opioid Spoon Project.

“I always wanted my art to be kind of visceral, some sort of meaning behind it,” Esposito said. “So really, kind of born out of frustration, was this idea to make this large spoon, burnt heroin spoon, mostly as a symbol and a lot of emotion around what’s been going on with my family.”

Esposito’s spoon shaped sculptures have been placed in front of

various pharmaceutical corporations in the past. Spoons have been placed in front of pharmaceutical giant Purdue’s headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut and in front of the Food and Drug Administration headquarters in Washington, D.C., stamped with the FDA’s logo.

“That’s the beauty of art,” Esposito said. “ It just kind of creates a question, a discussion.”

Esposito said he believes this exhibition is a great opportunity to educate students that may not be involved in the conversation around the opioid epidemic.

“We need to start really kind of educating our new leaders on the dangers of opioids,” Esposito said, “and what they can do to fight the opioid crisis and how it got started.”

Gregory Williams, the associate department chair and a professor of contemporary art in the College of Arts and Sciences, helped jumpstart the process of bringing the FDA Spoon on campus as part of his fall course “Contemporary Art, Politics and Activism.”

“I think it’s a really smart piece because it distills a lot of ideas into one single object that functions both

as an object with mass and gravity and weight,” Williams said, “but also an object that can very quickly be turned into an image.”

Ami Okazaki, a freshman in the College of Fine Arts , said she supports the project’s presence at BU. “I think it’s a really cool project and the fact that this school is hosting it instead of going to MFA or something, I think it’s really meaningful,” Okazaki said.

In spite of the increased media attention and the call to action from President Donald Trump’s Administration, Esposito said he is frustrated with a continued lack of action.

“Oh yeah, there’s plenty of awareness.’ It’s like, ‘No there’s not,’” Espesito said. “ There’s still a lot of misinformation, still a lot of stigma attached with it. People think it’s a moral hazard.”

As the 2020 election nears, Esposito emphasized his frustration with the lack of attention the opioid crisis has received from the Democratic candidates on the national stage.

“They’ve not talked about it at all,” Esposito said. “I mean, all you had was a mention early on about it, very early. In the last debates [there] has been no discussion about it at all. Right? So you have half a million deaths, the single largest public health crisis that this country has ever witnessed. The sheer amount of deaths is the highest. And we’re not even debating it.”

COMMUNITY

“Soul Witness” tells the stories of Brookline’s Holocaust survivors

BY MACY WILLIAMS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

A collage of a face flashes on screen. Some of their visages were captured nearly 20 years ago, and yet, the stories they’re about to tell remain equally as relevant and powerful as they did all those years ago.

Boston University’s Howard Thurman Center partnered with BU Hillel and the Elie Weisel Center for Jewish Studies to bring “Soul Witness: the Brookline Holocaust Witness Project” to the Tsai Performance Center. The film compiles 39 interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust from Brookline, depicting their stories that were long kept silent.

Leon Satenstein, an American who witnessed the liberation of Dachau, Germany while serving in the U.S. Army, and Regina Barshak, a Holocaust survivor from France, would both find themselves living in Brookline almost half a century after the war had ended.

Together, they decided that their stories and the stories of their neighbors needed to be documented and shared, and began the project in 1990.

With the help of Lawrence Langer, a Holocaust testimony expert who took on their project and conducted the majority of the interviews with the Brookline witnesses and survi-

vors, more than 80 hours of footage was compiled for the film.

The interview tapes were kept in a storage unit at the Brookline Health Department Building for more than 20 years while Satenstein, Barshak and the rest of the group worked on raising funds to edit and archive the film.

But by the time Satenstein passed away in 2012, the tapes remained in storage, unknown to the public.

R. Harvey Bravman, a Brookline producer who later became the documentary’s director, was contacted

by Dr. Lloyd Gellineau, Brookline’s Chief Diversity Officer, about the lost tapes in 2014, and was asked to uncover the interviews and bring Satenstein and Barshak’s dream to life.

“They wanted it to be a living memorial,” Bravman said during a discussion after the film’s screening.

“My goal was to make that happen.”

Bravman, who also has a writing credit on the film, spent three months watching the interviews and attempting to cut down the more than 80 hours of footage — he managed to get it down to 60 minutes.

Many single interviews ran over seven hours long, Bravman said and had to be conducted over multiple days.

“The hardest part about making this film was I had to tell a cohesive

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R. Harvey Bravman, producer and director of the documentary “Soul Witness,” discusses the film at the Tsai Performance Center on Monday night.

story,” Bravman said. “Sometimes you have to edit a part out because it doesn’t serve the story.”

At the screening, Bravman stressed the importance of simply listening to the stories. He said many survivors didn’t tell their stories for years, even to their family members. When given the platform to speak, Bravman said, they just want to be heard.

“They were in great pain when they gave their testimonies, but I think they felt that they needed to tell their stories,” Bravman said. “It’s innate in us, the need to be heard.”

Pedro Falci, the associate direc-

tor of the Howard Thurman Center, said the event was organized so students could come out and learn about the Holocaust outside of the classroom.

The Boston area contains the fourth largest Jewish community in the United States, with around 248,000 Jewish people according to a 2015 study by Brandeis University.

Bravman stressed during the discussion after the screening that many Jewish Bostonians remain uninformed about the stories of those depicted even while living amongst so many survivors.

Mira Kirshner, who grew up in

Boston and is featured in the film, described the moment she and her niece, while still in Europe, found a U.S. soldier from the city who happened to “speak Jewish” and lived next-door to her family. The stroke of luck was how she was able to get in contact with her family back home.

The film also tells the story of Donia Mir, who hid in a bunker deep in the forest for 19 months, and of Victor Penzer, who created fake personal documents to escape and helped other Jewish people do the same. Rena Chernoff is another resident in the film who recounts the moment she saw her brother for the last time.

A work-in-progress version of the film was first screened in 2017 at the Coolidge Corner Theatre to a soldout auditorium. The director’s cut was completed in October last year according to the film’s website.

The stories from the documentary have also been featured in the Boston Globe, NPR and a segment on NBC Boston.

Aashna Pandya, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, said it was a powerful film to watch, especially because those on screen live less than three miles away from her dorm.

“It’s important to show this particular film at BU because of our

8 OPINION

EDITORIAL New ACT policy increases inequity instead of solving it The people behind the ACT, a standardized college admissions exam, announced on Tuesday that students will be given the opportunity to retake individual sections of the exam. Until now, students have been required to retake the entirety of the exam in order to improve scores, even if their goal is only to raise a single section’s score.

The ACT consists of exams in english, reading, math, science and an optional writing section. All of the tests are graded and converted to a scale from 1 to 36, other than writing, which has its own separate scale.

The scores were previously averaged based only on a single exam sitting, but this new policy allows students to “superscore,” meaning they can submit an average of each section’s highest score regardless of if they were all taken at once.

The entire exam system disadvantages certain people from succeeding by imposing strict time limits and only testing a limited realm of knowledge, rather than the comprehensive aptitude it claims to measure. Adding the option to retake single sections after taking the entire exam first provides an obvious leg up for those that can afford to take individual subject exams repeatedly.

Without this system of superscoring, students retaking the exam still need to show just as much skill in the areas they don’t want to improve as much in, because they must maintain their overall average. In this new program, students can focus their energies on one subject at a time and those with more money for tutoring and exam fees are at an advantage.

Most of standardized test-taking is truly about how quickly one can complete questions or answer a very specific style of questions, so

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students with more resources will pay for tutors to give them test-taking strategies and outline what they need to do to succeed in the exam.

Many public schools attempt ACT prep through grammar review in English classes and geometry review in math classes, but this does not compare to receiving tutoring from people trained to teach the specific content and testing style of the ACT. If public universities require these exam scores for application and enrollment as they often do, it should not even cost money to take them in the first place and if they are to accept individual section retake scores with equal weight, the government should subsidize those

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exams as well.

Otherwise, universities are ignoring outside factors that make “standardized tests” highly unstandardized and inadvertently favoring students with more wealth. In an exam structure that gives many students testing anxiety and pushes their mental stamina to its limits, many students need help and if they don’t have the funds to get it, they won’t.

When allowed to retake individual sections, students can spend weeks studying only for a math exam, take it, and move on to science or english until the next subject exam. But taking all of them individually will be expensive.

Although ACT has not revealed how much

the individual tests will cost, we can predict that they combined total of four separate exams will be greater than the price of one entire ACT. And individual subject tutors over a long period of time are undoubtedly more expensive than a few ACT review sessions.

Some universities have acknowledged the inequity in standardized testing and revoked their requirement that all applicants submit a score. But unless they have a system in place in order to not prioritize those that have taken standardized exams, which is unlikely, this only furthers the issue it is attempting to address.

If a student has a good score on an ACT but the rest of their application is comparable to someone that opted out of taking an exam, why wouldn’t the school choose an applicant that will raise their average accepted exam score?

Whether purposely or not, the institution of standardized testing favors economically advantaged students and provides unnecessary testing anxiety and stress for exams that have taken over the college admissions process but are meant to be a small piece of a much, much bigger puzzle.

Standardized testing should not be a business. It was created as a tool to measure college readiness and certain aptitudes, but through inequitable testing conditions and opportunities, has become highly profitable yet ineffective.

Splitting the exam up only furthers the disadvantages students face and that many schools acknowledge through test-optional policies. If the ACT wants to do what it claims to, it cannot allow individual section exams unless that is the only way the exam is offered. Otherwise, the test is measuring money and resources, not aptitude.

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OPINION 9

COLUMNS OUTSIDE, LOOKING IN:

BARAN BREAKDOWN:

People should be eating to Populism takes many different forms in leaders live, not just living to eat

BY NIKHIL KUMAR COLUMNIST

What do Bernie Sanders, Narendra Modi, Jeremy Corbyn, Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump have in common? Each man is labelled a populist politician by supporters and detractors alike. Populism “seeks to defend the interest and maximize the power of ordinary citizens, through reform rather than revolution,” according to Britannica Encyclopedia.

But this generalization shoves them under an umbrella and masks the widely different contexts in which these and other leaders have emerged across the world. For example, what brought Modi, India’s prime minister, to power and his actions in office are different from what brought Bolsonaro to power in Brazil. In India, religious and anti-elite sentiments have resonated strongly in the last decade. This has happened on the back of weak public acceptance of constitutional rights and secularism, strong local governments, recently increased political power of minorities, political corruption and expansion of the welfare state.

On the other hand, Brazil has had stronger regional governments, better civil society institutions and a more educated population.

However, it also increased the political power of minorities over the last decades and considerably expanded its welfare state. These intersecting yet different states of the nations make the notion of ‘populism’ complicated.

The U.S. has recently seen the rise of two strong populist movements against a backdrop of well-defined rights, strong local governments, a relatively small welfare state, increased political power of minorities and a somewhat recent financial crisis. Those movements have been led by Trump and Sanders.

Sanders focuses his rage on the economi-

cally well-off elites through vertical politics, in which the bottom and middle battle the top.

On the other hand, Trump’s support is largely based on immigration policies in addition to other divisive policies that pit cosmopolitan liberals against orthodox conservatives.

Yet there’s a vast difference between the Republican infrastructure that supports Trump and the organization of Sanders’ campaign. Similarly, Modi’s party backing offers him a much deeper reach among the people than Bolsonaro’s nascent political outfit. The effects of these differences in organizational infrastructure can be seen in the way these leaders behave once they are in power.

For example, Modi has used his party to mobilize fear, while Bolsonaro has relied more on social media to further his propaganda.

Similarly, Sanders has never been able to truly tap into the Democratic party infrastructure the way Trump has the Republican party.

Sanders in the U.S. and Corbyn in the United Kingdom, both termed as leftist populists, have talked about reducing the power of ‘big banks’ and making growth inclusive when, in fact, both their political parties have previously acquiesced to the demands of capitalism that produces unequal growth. Despite similar rhetoric, the men deal with widely divergent systems to implement their programs if they win elections. In healthcare, for example, the U.K. already has a state-funded National Health Service while the U.S. does not. Thus, their demand of healthcare for all might end up very differently in the two countries.

On the other hand, while Modi and Bolsonaro, both described as right-wing populists, have considerable support in cosmopolitan urban locales, Trump’s major support base is rural and industrial America. This seems to impact their foreign policy as well; Modi has a much more globalist foreign policy agenda than Trump, who sees foreign policy as a zerosum game. In 1998, the Guardian published approximately 300 articles with terms “populism” or “populist”. In 2016, these terms were used in almost 2,000 articles.

Populism thrives in contexts of social and cultural unrest and we need to understand the myriad of manifestations of populism across the world. This will help chalk a way forward, although differently for different countries, and can provide informed lessons from across the world.

BY ANGELINA BARAN COLUMNIST

Thanks to the busy bees behind consumer culture, food temptation is being sewn into the seams of society.

Edible enticements are everywhere, whether you’re window shopping or watching a TV show. Your Sunday stroll down Newbury? Those pretty yet pricey pastries are sure to poke a hole in your pocketbook.

Trying to watch TV? You’ll find yourself salivating over both sweet and savory close-ups in commercials in no time.

In the current consumer climate, food is almost force-fed to us. And from ever expanding fast-food joints to trendy types of toast, our mouths are constantly watering.

Long gone are the days when eating was solely for survival. In earlier eras, it was easier to control ourselves because there was less temptation, and just less food. Huntergatherers had to venture out and either hunt or pick their food. But even once obtained, that sustenance was not ready-to-eat.

This is an obvious and harsh contrast from how we function today.

Now, we no longer have to wait for a meal.

Services like drive-thrus and diners are often open 24/7 to satisfy any and every craving.

Popular apps like Postmates and Grubhub encourage lethargy, laziness and gluttony.

The masterminds behind these platforms have figured out that food is highly profitable.

In fact, it is one of the most reliable ways to bring in massive amounts of money. Humans do not need cars or clothes to survive. But they do need calories, and certain companies have exploited that fact to an extreme extent.

It is wildly unlikely our society will cut back on consumerism, especially in the food sector, so the question remains: how do we

function in a society seemingly intent on harming our health?

The secret to this frustrating question lies in the practicing of a principle: eat to live, do not live to eat.

I am not saying this will be easy to abide by. In fact, I am saying that it will be hard. We live in a world where the goals of the companies that run it are driven by greed, and the food industry is scarily vulnerable to that same selfishness.

In the lives of the privileged, food is everywhere to be found. Whereas in bygone times, one had to wait a while for only a meager meal, now we can go to McDonald’s at 1 a.m. and munch on a McMuffin. And this disproportionately affects those that can even afford meals like this.

Food is seeping into every nook and cranny of society and this is negatively affecting our health. It is easier than ever to get the stuff in our stomachs. Food has become too accessible, and it is one of the many reasons why obesity has nearly tripled between 1975 and 2016.

Extreme versions of anything are bad, but in terms of eating, overindulgence can lead to unhealthy weight gain and potential health problems such as heart disease and diabetes.

Though I believe that self-control is salient in surviving in today’s consumer climate, I mostly blame the CEO’s and heads of these major companies for making us significantly more susceptible to food temptation through their twisted tactics and astute advertising strategies.

The majority of foods on the menu of McDonald’s, a global fast-food chain, are unhealthy and lack the proper nutrients needed to fuel our bodies.

Admittedly, McDonalds does offer some salads and healthy options, but they are sparse and are not meant to be the star of the show — that role is reserved for their oily fries and fattening McNuggets.

I am not saying we must wholly resist these temptations of our taste buds. But we should realize that food is not supposed to take up our day — it is supposed to get us through it.

While living to eat involves constant thoughts about food, eating to live is only feeding the body when it needs fuel. Healthy diets are about moderation, so you can have your cake, and eat it too.

CARTOON BY RACHEL CALLAHAN

INTERROBANG

Many BU students have been going apple picking lately. We here at the ol’ Free Press want to know: What would BU student groups want to grow on trees?

Questrom: Money

School of Theology: Forbidden Fruit

Freshmen: Friends

COM: Dr. Martens

Frats: White Claw

Bay State Dining Hall: Mussels

Sargent: Apples

sustainability@BU: More trees

FreeP: Take-out

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7th Inning Stretch: Sports Illustrated will never be the same

BY JACOB GURVIS COLUMNIST

As a young sports fan, a Sports Illustrated subscription is a golden ticket to the best writing sports journa l ism has to offer. I sti l l remember com i n g home f rom elementary and middle school to find Sports Illustrated and Sports Illustrated Kids waiting for me on my kitchen table.

Sports Illustrated has been a must-read for sports fans since its inception in 1954 and it has helped inspire millions of kids, like me, to pursue a career in sports and sports journalism. Every reader has his or her favorite writer –– mine is Tom Verducci –– whose work to them is required reading.

This past Thursday, the magazine was thrown its greatest curveball yet: heartbreaking layoffs that cleared nearly half its newsroom.

Sports fans and journalists alike reacted to the news with shock, anger and sadness. An American journalistic icon was being gutted – – the latest example of the evils of media conglomeration.

The resounding consensus among those upset with the layoffs: we all deserve better.

Like a bench player who is constantly on the trade block, Sports Illustrated had been entangled in a period of great uncertainty for years. The magazine was purchased from Time Inc., along with Time and Fortune, by publishing

conglomerate Meredith for $1.8 billion in 2017.

Meredith turned around just a few months later and placed Sports Illustrated back on the market. In May 2019, Meredith sold Sports Illustrated’s licensing rights to Authentic Brands Groups. Then in June, ABG leased the outlet’s med ia operations to Maven, a Seattle-based tech start-up.

The latest move was viewed as a harbinger of more change to come at Sports Illustrated and Thursday proved those worries legitimate. A reported 35 to 40 percent of the publication’s editorial staff was laid off and while Maven claims that their ow nersh ip w i l l lead to “The New Sports Illustrated: Reimagined, Revitalized — and Restored,” it is clea r what the move actually means: the legendar y magazine will never be the same again.

Prior to the publication-altering announcements last week, members of Sports Illustrated’s staff circulated a statement, pleading for Meredith to rethink its decision.

They wrote, “TheMaven wants to replace top journalists in the industry with a network of Maven freelancers and bloggers, while reducing or eliminating department that have ensured that the stories we publish and produce meet the highest standards … These plans

significantly undermine our journalistic integrity, damage the reputation of this long-standing brand and negatively affect the economic stability of this publication.”

But the Hail Mary effort was too late.

The Thursday Evening Massacre at Sports Illustrated was the latest installment in a larger, troubling trend in the journalism industry. Through May, around 3,000 journalists had lost their jobs in 2019, and according to the Pew Research Center, more than a quarter of American newspapers had layoffs in 2018.

The Sports Illustrated news is rem i n iscent of E SPN ’s t wo rounds of layoffs in 2017, which left approximately 250 journalists unemployed. In a society where technology and social media have opened the door for innovative methods of storytelling, the journalism industry is badly hurting.

W hile the layoffs at Sports Illustrated ref lect the trend, this case is even more upsetting. This wasn’t solely about ad revenue or budget cuts. Th is was about a media conglomerate looking to exploit a famed brand to turn a profit.

Maven’s proposed model would transform Sports Illustrated into a shell of its former, beloved self. Not to mention, the method used to fire

these respected writers was shameful. The new leadership announced two “transition meetings” early on Thursday afternoon, which they promptly cancelled moments before, only to be rescheduled for later in the afternoon.

As many had feared, one meeting was for those being fired, the other for the lucky ones whose jobs were safe. It was a cynical, Draconian way to alert dozens of journalists, many of whom had logged decades of service to Sports Illustrated, that they were no longer valued.

It seems the consensus that

formed on Thursday in the wake of the news was spot on: we all deserve better. The writers, the readers, the industry.

For decades, Sports Illustrated has been home to the best sportswriting in America. It has told engaging stories in insightful and unique ways, captivating the attention of generations of sports fans.

It has influenced countless young writers, like me, to pursue the craft of journalism. But with TheMaven at the helm, it’s hard to imagine young boys and girls racing home to read the latest edition of their favorite magazine.

As Manchester United’s struggles persist, manager’s inadequacies point to bleak future

BY RYAN JHAVERI COLUMNIST

David De Gea: the one player whose performances post Sir Alex Ferguson’s departure have enhanced his reputation and who has been Manchester United’s knight in shining armour when the rest of the cavalry has been dull and disinterested.

The player who won three consecutive United Player of the Year awards and who single-handedly kept them in games, kept scorlines respectable and kept his head held high. A lot of Manchester United players can’t say they have even come close to casting themselves in the same glory as the Spaniard.

But there is only so much one man can do. Seeing him after the Newcastle United defeat with his head down, at a loss for words and

completely dejected is a sharp indictment of the rot that this club finds itself in.

“It is not acceptable, not just this game but the whole season,” De Gea said. “It is the most difficult time since I have been here.

I don’t know what is happening.

We cannot even score one goal in two games.”

W hen asked what was needed to fix things, he candidly responded “Everything.”

And that seems to beg the question. Does manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær have what it takes and if not where do Manchester United go from there?

During Ole’s period as caretaker manager, he won 74 percent of his 19 games with 40 goals scored. Since being appointed as

permanent manager he has won 29 percent of his 21 games with a mere 23 goals scored.

As caretaker, Ole was free of expectation. He just needed to not be Jose Mourinho and that is exactly what he was. As a club legend, he brought back hope, excitement and most importantly, a breath of fresh air.

Retrospectively, however, there is not much else he brought to the table, which casts his permanent appointment in doubt.

His managerial CV has minimal achievements of note, having relegated Cardiff City and being semi-successful at Molde, a job that brought a fraction of expectations compared to the one in Manchester.

Most alarming is his lack of an identity and versatility in their approach. He sets his team up to counter attack using the pace of Marcus Rashford, Daniel James and Anthony Martial and this was extremely effective against Chelsea, who naively set up with acres of space in behind. That was the only game where United were offered that much space.

Against teams that set up with a low block, United seem to be bereft of ideas. The passing is stale, uninspired and sideways for the most part with Rashford running tirelessly down the channels to no avail. $70 million signing Fred, last made a successful through ball in April, showing the lack of incisiveness and punch that Manchester United currently possess.

In such cases, a plan B is needed. However, Ole seems out

of his depth and probably does not have the knowhow to get out of such a situation.

These problems go all the way back to their summer transfer window. Ander Herrera was confirmed to leave Old Trafford before the window even began and this would have given United plenty of time to scout, approach and sign a replacement. Yet, they failed to fill his vacancy, leaving them short of midfielders who can break opposition counters and win the ball in areas high up the pitch when teams are trying to play out of the back.

Romelu Lukaku, who supposedly did not fit the manager’s style of play also left, leaving United without a player who averages 20 goals per season.

Had they replaced these goals

Does manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær have what it takes and if not, where do Manchester United go f rom there?

with another proven goalscorer, maybe we would not be having this conversation.

Instead, Ole has tasked Rashford, Martial and Mason Greenwood to lead the line for United for the season. Rashford, who is now in his fifth season as a Manchester United senior, has only 10 goals as his highest goals

tally in the Premier League.

He himself and Ole do not seem to be sure where his best position is and he does not quite have the instinct that proven goal scorers possess. On his best day, Martial is probably the best player on the pitch and can be very difficult to stop. However, his best days don’t happen very often.

His inconsistency is compounded by the fact that he is in his fourth season at United and has already missed 23 games due to injury. These frailties of those in charge of goals surely leaves a little too much on the shoulders of Greenwood, who only turned old enough to have a pint at an English pub last week.

Hiring Ole seemed to signal a shift in identity, an attempt to harken back to the days of Sir Alex Ferguson, by promoting youth, attacking football and breeding players who bleed for the club. In theory, this seems like the perfect way to go forward. Only thing lacking is a man competent enough to lead that charge.

The last time a United boss got sacked was off the back of a poor result against arch rivals Liverpool FC. With the same fixture coming up after the international break, are we going to see history repeat itself?

Manchester United and Ole have a lot of problems to contend with, and potentially going a mammoth 18 points behind Liverpool after just 10 games might be the final nail in the coffin.

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Women’s soccer continues Patriot League play against Lehigh

BY NICK TELESMANIC DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Sitting in a tie for third place in the Patriot L ea g ue, Boston University women’s soccer will travel to Bethlehem, PA to face L e h i g h Un i v e r s i t y S a t u r d a y afternoon.

BU (5- 6- 2 , 2-1-1 Patr iot Leag ue) is coming off of a 0-0 tie against the Loyola University of Ma r yl a nd (5-5- 2 , 2-0- 2 PL), where the Terriers managed to prevent Loyola from getting clean looks at the net, but the Terriers could not take advantage of the plentiful opportunities they had in front of the Greyhound net.

Coach Nancy Feldman said a f ter t he g a me t h at her tea m might not be a team that scores a lot of goals, but perfecting the rest of the team’s skills will prove more important to collect wins.

“We may not be a team that s cor e s a b o at l o a d of g o a l s ,” Feldman said. “If it comes great, but I look at it like do we create enough chances and do we shut down the other team.”

The Mountain Hawks (3-5-4, 1-2 PL) are an example of such a team that Feldman described.

Opponents have put the clea n sheets on Lehigh in t wo out of t hei r t h ree con ference g a mes this season.

The lone Patriot League win for t he Mou nta i n Hawk s t h is year was a 3-1 win over Bucknell University (4-9, 2-2 PL), a team that BU got shutout by t wo

w e ek s a g o. Ho w e v e r, L eh i g h hasn’t let ma ny ga mes slip out of their control. They have three 0-0 ties against non-conference opponents, and two shutout wins by scores of 2-0 a ga i nst the University of Maryland Baltimore College (1-10-2, 0-4 America East) a nd Sa i nt Joseph’s Un i ver sit y (5-7-1, 2-3-0 Atlantic 10).

Most recently, Lehigh came off of a 0-1 loss against the United States Na va l Academy ( 11-1-1, 3-0-1 PL) where the Mids scored their lone goal in the 80th minute of regulation. Lehigh head coach Eric Lambinus believed that the defense was able to prevent Navy from getting a lot of clean looks th roug hout the ga me. In add ition, Mountain Hawk goalkeeper M i ra nd a Royds col lected f ive saves on the ga me, someth i ng that Lambinus said helped the defen se on a n a f ter no on t h at fell short.

Royds has been putting in a lot of work in the net for Lehigh so far this season. Her 59 saves are good for second place in the Patriot League and her save percentage of .855 leads the Patriot Leag ue. She a lso has f ive tota l shutouts on the season.

The stat sheets might not matter because these two teams have had closely fought matchups in past seasons.

They faced off for the Patriot Leag ue title last season, where the Terriers claimed the Patriot

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Junior Anna Heilferty in a September 2018 game against Lehigh University. Heilferty scored the winning goal in the title decider against Lehigh last year.

L ea g ue crow n in a 1-0 v ictor y.

Despite the loss, the Mountain Hawk defense held the Terriers back very well, until the game-dec id i n g g oa l ca me i n t he 72 nd m i nute f r om A n n a Hei l f er t y.

A ma nda Fay wou ld col lect the shutout. T he s c hed u led re g u lar-season matchup last season against Lehigh was also a 1-0 shutout victory, but that time it was Morgan Messner who kept the sheets clean against the Mountain Hawks. No matter what goalie

plays, it will be a challenge for Lehigh to claim their revenge.

Feld m a n s a id s he b el ie ve s every team in the Patriot League poses a challenge in one way or a not her, a nd she bel ie ves her stron g defensive tea m w i l l be r e a d y to f i g ht a g a i n st a si m ilar-styled opponent. “ I h a ven’t e ven lo oked at Lehigh yet because I was concentrating on today’s game,” Feldman said after the team’s tie against Loyola University. “Every team is

a challenge, there are great teams in the conference, we’ll be ready to play Lehigh next Saturday.”

I n a dd it ion , Feld m a n s a id the team has a lot of young new players that are giving this team an edge over other Patriot League teams that she thin ks is going unnoticed.

“We got a lot of young players playing on this team,” Feldman sa id. “It ’s much more positive than I think ever yone is giving us credit for to tell you the truth.”

Terriers looking to end six game losing streak at Colgate

The Boston University field hockey team celebrates a goal in an off-season game against Boston College last spring.

FIELD HOCKEY, FROM 12 at the five games, BU lost by just one goal, some bright sports can be found and there are instances where the Terriers had the game in hand but gave it away. Sometimes they’ve even outplayed the competition, but at the end of the day the scoreboard is the only thing that matters.

The most heartbreaking loss came in the second game of this stretch, a 4-3 loss to Columbia University in overtime on Sept.

14. BU fell behind 2-1 but chipped away to get right back in the game.

Freshman Ellie McIntyre tied it up at two in the third quarter. Then, with just under seven minutes left

in the fourth quarter junior Maggie New punched in a rebound to give the Terriers a lead.

BU went into prevent defense in hopes of being able to hang onto the lead for the final seven minutes.

They fell short in that effort when Columbia tied it at three with 54 seconds remaining in regulation.

while Columbia had just five. So, four of five shots on goal against BU went into the back of the net. That is an 80 percent mark, something so rare to happen in field hockey. Luck simply wasn’t on the Terriers side.

They dominated in shots and played stout defense but it wasn’t enough.

Starr is looking for everyone to step up their game.

“Everyone on the team regardless of class or playing time needs to find ways to make proactive contributions every day at practice and in games,” Starr said.

Another game that had a lot of historical significance was the loss to the Bucknell University Bison on Sept. 21. It was the first conference loss for the Terriers at home since 2013 which also came to the Bison. The streak of 17 games won in league play at New Balance Field was broken.

It has been a season of flukes thus far for BU. They will look to get back in the win column on Friday MATTHEW WOOLVERTON/ DFP FILE when they battle Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. It will be It was like all the air was taken an opportunity for the Terriers to out of the Terriers’ bubble at that get their first conference win and moment and then just over four most importantly get their first win minutes into the overtime session overall since Sept. 8.

BU gave up its fourth goal of the day “We still very much believe we can to take a devastating 4-3 loss. compete successfully for the Patriot BU had the game wrapped up League Championship,” Starr said. and they dominated the opposition. “Colgate is a big game and opportunity The Terriers had 11 shots on goal to move positively in that direction.”

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“Everyone on the team regardless of class or playing time needs to find ways to make proactive contributions every day at practice and in games,”

- Coach Starr on needing everyone to step up

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“We still very much believe we can compete successfully for the Patriot League Championship”

- Coach Starr on her team’s chances this season

Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019

Women’s hockey looks to build off first win in weekend fixtures

BY CAROLYN MOONEY DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University women’s hockey will look to build off their first win going into this weekend when it faces Merrimack College Friday and the University of New Hampshire Saturday.

The Terriers (1-0-0, 0-0-0 Hockey East) picked up their first victory in their season opener against Union College with a 2-1 win Sunday afternoon thanks to redshirt senior captain Sammy Davis’s two-goal game.

Second Team All-American junior forward Jesse Compher did not suit up for Sunday’s game against the Dutchwomen due to a lingering lower-body injury. Her status is day-to-day.

BU head coach Brian Durocher said there are no updates as to whether Compher will play in this weekend’s games.

“We’re optimistic that things will go in a positive direction,” Durocher said.

Compher appeared in all 37 games last season leading the Terriers in points, tallying 17 goals and 44 assists for 61 points, coming in as the third best in the nation. The first-line center was also a finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award which is given annually to the best Division 1 women’s player.

Merrimack (2-2-0, 0-2-0 Hockey East) is coming off a 2-1 win against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where freshman goaltender Emma Gorski earned her first career win for the Warriors.

While Merrimack’s forwards Mikyla Grant-Mentis and Courtney Maud both scored to help lift the Warriors over the Engineers, the Warrior’ offense recorded a season-high 46 shots on goal and outshot RPI 14-1in the first period.

The team is led offensively by Grant-Mentis and Sam Lessick who have three points apiece. Grant-Mentis leads the Warriors with two goals on the season thus far.

Duroche is putting an emphasis on smart plays defensively for this weekend’s games against both Merrimack and New Hampshire.

“We want to create layers out there,” Durocher said. “We don’t want to be reaching for pucks. You gotta be smart, stick extended, and compete that way.”

Durocher also commented on Merrimack’s star-player Grant-Mentis, stating it is imperative that whoever is on the ice for the Terriers, it is important for them to know when such a talented individual is out there.

So far this season, New Hampshire (1-1-1, 0-0-0 Hockey East) has had no difficulty getting on the scoreboard.

In their recent tie against St. Lawrence University this past weekend, four different skaters scored for the Wildcats.

New Hampshire is currently averaging 4.0 goals per game.

UNH will face The University of Connecticut on Friday before their game against the Terriers Saturday afternoon.

“We’re always going to keep stressing the technical parts of the game to make sure that you’re playing smart and playing on the D-side of the opponent,” Durocher said. “They [Merrimack and New Hampshire] are tough teams to play against defensively.”

One player who Durocher believes can make an impact is senior defenseman Abby Cook. Cook was awarded Hockey East Second Team All-Star last season.

“Abby plays all three parts of the game,” Durocher said. “She’s on the power play, she kills penalties for us and she’s a kid who plays regular shifts including key shifts late in the period and late in the game.”

Durocher is also looking towards his upper-classman to step up; putting the emphasis on Kristina Schuler, Nara Elia, Deziray De Sousa and Natasha Tarnowski to set an example for the younger players.

“We got a whole bunch of sophomores that played a lot last year that are going to be expected to contribute,” Durocher said. “But, if you’re going to put a little more pressure on anybody, it’s the upper-classmen who have been in big games a lot and they know what’s expected.”

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Junior forward Jesse Compher in a game against Boston College on Dec. 1. Compher remains a doubt for BU’s upcoming game against Merrimack College Friday.

Women’s field hockey: what’s challenged them this season

BY MATT MEUSEL DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

It’s not common for a defending conference champion and team that started the season ranked in the national top 25 to go on a sixgame losing streak, but sports are never predictable. Things don’t always go the way they have in the past. Upsets happen at the most unpredictable times.

The last three and a half weeks

have not been kind to the Boston University field hockey team. Since Sept. 13 the Terriers have lost six straight games, two of which were in the Patriot League.

Also during that stretch they lost their first conference home game since 2013 and scored one goal or less four times. Add that all up and BU has a record of 3-7, 0-2 PL.

BU head coach Sally Starr said not getting blown out. They are in she has “never been in a losing these games and if some bounces streak this long.” went their way, they would not be One dynamic to the losing looking at six straight in the loss streak that can give the Terriers category. some hope is the margin of defeat Despite the slump Starr said during this six game losing streak. “team energy and attitude is great In five of the six games BU has lost and working hard at what needs to by just one goal. That is very telling be improved.” because it means the Terriers are The one loss that was by more

than one goal was a 4-0 loss to The University of Connecticut, who is a top five team in the country. BU played good hockey in the first and fourth quarter but the firepower of the Huskies was too much in the middle quarters, scoring twice in each middle frame.

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BOTTOM LINE THURSDAY, OCT. 10

New England Patriots take on New York Giants at Gillette Stadium at 8:20PM

FRIDAY, OCT. 11

Terriers Men Soccer take on American University on Friday in Washington DC

FRIDAY, OCT. 11

Terriers Women Ice Hockey take on Merrimack College at Walter Brown Arena at 7PM

SATURDAY, OCT. 12

New England Revolution take on Atlanta United in Atlanta at 1PM

SATURDAY, OCT. 12

BU Women’s Soccer take on Lehigh University at at Bethlehem at 1PM