10-22-2012

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Annual regatta draws thousands to Charles River Students wary of Romney’s pledge to expand Pell grants

By Megan Kirk Daily Free Press Staff

For Shana McGough, a 12-year Riverside Boat Club rower, the Head of the Charles Regatta might have been what convinced her to move to Boston.

“One year I flew out here just to see it, and it was amazing and awesome and I’d never seen so many rowers in one place at one time,” she said. “I fell in love, and I moved out here seven months later.”

Thousands of spectators flocked to the 48th annual Head of the Charles Regatta that began Saturday afternoon, featuring 9,000 rowers and 1,400 volunteers who participated in 55 total matches, according to the Regatta’s website.

The regatta is the world’s largest two-day rowing competition, according to the HOCR website.

Boston University men’s crew placed fourth in the club eights and fifth in the club fours, while BU women’s crew placed second in the club fours.

The University of Washington landed in first place in the men’s Championship Eights, with USRowing taking first place for in the women’s category.

Donna Goldman said she attended the regatta to watch her son, Julian Goldman, a two-time youth national champion whose team also won in a race in the 2011 regatta.

“It’s a blast to be here,” she said. “It’s certainly an unbelievable sense of pride to see your kid being [in], so far, the winningest crew ever, so we’re here to hopefully celebrate another

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and support programs that will inform the student body of the sanctions’ effect on civilians in Iran and elsewhere.

“There is a lot of education, I think, that needs to happen within the senators and student government themselves before they can make an informed decision, so we asked them not to consider the resolution quite yet,” Cullis said.

Cullis said AWC asked SG to send five representatives from the Senate to its next meeting and report back before they see what the next step will be.

BU Students for Israel brought up an opposing view and asked that representatives from the SG also attend their next meeting Tuesday to learn more about the larger issues.

“The BU Students for Israel stands against the resolution to oppose sanctions on Iran,” said Leora Kaufman, president of BUSI. Passing a resolution that opposes U.S. and EU actions is an important decision, the implications of which should be understood, she said.

While Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney supports expanding Pell grants, some students and experts question whether he would, or even could, make such a decision if elected president.

“There will be compromises all over the place,” said political science professor Christine Rossell. “At this point it’s just an illusion.

It’s all just talk.”

Romney said during the second presidential debate Tuesday night that he wants the federal Pell grant program to continue growing.

The Pell grant is awarded to undergraduate students who have an extreme need of financial aid and do not have to be repaid, according to the U.S. Department of Education website.

The maximum Pell grant award for the 2011–12 academic year was set at $5,550 and depends on factors such as cost of attendance and status as a full- or part-time student.

Rossell said both presidential candidates believe they have more control over policies concerning grants than they actually do, and promises will be checked by balanced powers.

“They’re not the ones who have the power to do that [expand Pell grants],” she said. “They can initiate legislation, they can veto legislation, but they have to get the approval of Congress, and they act as if it’s just them.”

Political science professor David Glick said Pell grants are not a key issue for the upcoming election.

“As an actual policy issue, I don’t think too many people are explicitly voting on Pell grants,” he said. “Generally, older people tend to vote more, and college students tend not to vote as much.”

However, Rossell said due to the lack of jobs available to college graduates, it would not be wrong to dissuade some students from attending college.

“I think American politicians in general are just deluded about the importance of college, and it’s a huge mistake,” she said. “There are lots of entry-level jobs that don’t require a college degree — you just wasted four years and a huge amount of debt.”

About 9.3 million students received the Pell grant nationwide for the 2010–11 academic year, with an average reward of $3,833, according to Department of Education statistics.

Since 2008, the U.S. government has increased Pell grant spending by $6 billion and the number of recipients by 3 million, according to the Department of Education statistics.

Iran, see page 2

Romney, see page 2

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More than 9,000 rowing athletes participated in 55 races in the Head of the Charles Regatta on the Charles River Saturday.

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Olympic gold medal rower Taylor Ritzel, who was working at the U.S. Olympic tent, said the regatta is a special race.

“The Head of the Charles is an event that is highly competitive but also just really fun,” she said. “The Charles is a rower’s Christmas — it’s just the best time of the year and you see a lot

of people and celebrate the incredible sport of rowing, and Boston does a great job.”

Chris Richards, a member of the board of directors for Head of the Charles, said the presence of many elite level Olympian athletes makes the regatta truly special.

Regatta, see page 2

AWC, BUSI hold opposing views on sanctions in Iran

By Taylor Burke Daily Free Press Staff

After Boston University’s Anti-War Coalition requested Student Government take an active stance on the issue of U.S. sanctions in Iran Oct. 15, selected Senate members are getting more informed on the matter to report back to Senate with their findings, SG officials said.

“I believe the Student Government should be representing any of the means and concerns students have,” said Dexter McCoy, SG president. “But when we’re dealing with things like this, we have to look at all sides of BU students and deal with the presentation as well.”

After AWC brought up the issue, students from the BU Branch of American Israeli Public Affairs Committee and BU Students for Israel delivered a presentation with other factors for senators to consider on this topic, McCoy, a College of Communication junior, said.

“I think we should look at all sides, but I do believe that if students want to take political action, Student Government should be behind it all the way,” he said.

AWC has drafted a resolution for SG that

aims to raise awareness about the negative effects they believe the U.S. and European Union sanctions in Iran are having and ultimately educate the public on global issues, said AWC President Tyler Cullis.

“People are generally apathetic toward oncampus events, particularly toward Iran,” said Kareem Chehayeb, AWC secretary. “It’s important that we change the political discourse on campus because we see what has happened in the past like with Iraq and the Palestinians, and we have to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”

Though the official proposal to SG has not yet been made, the resolution calls upon SG to take a stand on the sanctions in Iran, Cullis, a School of Law student, said. It calls for an end to the U.S. led sanctions in Iran, U.S. negotiations with Iran and a hope the U.S. will pressure Israel to agreements with Iran.

“People aren’t aware of how bad these sanctions are because there seems to be a relatively positive connotation on sanctions,” Chehayeb, a College of Arts and Sciences senior, said.

The resolution also calls for SG to initiate

Recovery program keeps beds in YMCA hall sold to Northeastern University

By Mitch Harkey Daily Free Press Staff

In the latest development of Northeastern University’s transformation of the Greater Boston YMCA, Northeastern and the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance have agreed to reserve 67 units of the YMCA’s Hasting Wing, recently sold to the university, for lowincome Bostonians.

The deal, brokered by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, keeps intact the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance Cardinal Medeiros program, according to a press release from the mayor’s office announcing Northeastern purchase of the Hastings Wing on Wednesday.

“Essentially it [Cardinal Medeiros] is a program for people who are on the recovery track who were homeless before coming in,” said Joe Finn, executive director of MHSA. Northeastern granted a 20-year lease to the program, which is located in the Hastings Wing

of the YMCA and in its 20th year of operation, granted to continue transitory housing.

“It [the program] is geared toward those folks who are coming out of some type of treatment who have had a history of homelessness who are really trying to stay free from their addictions,” Finn said. “That’s what is really the heart of this program.”

Menino deserves a lot of credit for coordinating the deal, Finn said.

“I am pleased that the 20-year lease will allow Cardinal Medeiros Program to continue to provide services to the some of our most vulnerable citizens in the Hastings Wing of the building,” Menino said in a press release.

Northeastern’s purchase of the building does not change the program very much, said John Tobin, vice president of City and Community Affairs at Northeastern. The only big difference is that MHSA’s new landlord is Northeastern, Tobin said.

Northeastern, see page 2

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Northeastern University recently purchased the Hastings wing of the Greater Boston YMCA on Huntington Avenue and plans to allocate some beds for the Cardinal Medeiros program.

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BU alum: Head of Charles rivals London Regatta YMCA property to house students Regatta: From Page 1

“Not unlike the Boston Marathon — every serious runner wants to run in the Boston marathon — every serious rower wants to row in the Head of the Charles,” he said.

Richards said it has taken work to develop the regatta to its current elite status.

“Over time the star of the Head of the Charles has ascended to a point where we absolutely are the headrace, not just in the United States, but really worldwide,” he said. “Many people think of the head of the Charles being the defining fall regatta.”

Joseph Townsend, a winning rower and an BU Class of1967 alumus, said the Head of the Charles has grown to similar status with the Henley Royal Regatta in London.

Townsend described the regatta as “the father of all the head races.”

“It all started here in 1965 when I was rowing at BU, and now there are hundreds of head races,” he said.

“So it’s busy like Henley, it’s gotten that kind of status [with] hundreds of thousands of people on the bank.”

Townsend and his team, Motley Rowing Club, placed ninth in the senior master eights for men aged an average of 50 and older.

The regatta attracted student rowers as spectators.

Rose Healy, an Amherst College sophomore, said it has been interesting for her to see the regatta as a rower.

“I’m from Boston, so I’ve been to the regatta many times when I was younger, but this is the first time I’ve

been here since I’ve really started getting into rowing,” she said.

Healy said watching the regatta as a rower was also motivating.

“It’s been a really good experience in terms of encouraging me to want to work harder and pursue the sport even more,” she said.

Mackenzie Gennette, a freshman at University of Massachusetts Amherst, said as a walk-on rowing member of her school’s team, she enjoys watching the regatta.

“It’s crazy because it’s such a cool race, and it’s so international,” she said. “People are here from different counties. There’s hundreds and hundreds of teams here. I just met the U.S. Olympic team in the tent, and I held their gold medal. You don’t get to do that everywhere you go.”

CAS junior: Grant makes loan debt more manageable Romney: From Page 1

BU spokesman Colin Riley said in a phone interview that a small number of BU students receive Pell grants, and these grants are a minor aid.

“If students are receiving the Pell grant, that means they’re also getting a much larger institutional grant five or six times as high,” he said. “It’s a very small component of the financial aid package.”

Riley said in an email that 2,769 BU students received Pell grants with an average award of $3,955 for the 2011–12 academic year, while 8,577 students received BU scholarships with an average award of $22,125.

While the Pell grant can be effective at assisting students who attend public institutions, the award is not large enough to make a substantial difference at a private university such as BU, Riley said.

A number of students said they are hesitant to believe Romney’s support.

“That’s a good thing if he’ll really do it [increase Pell grant funding], but a lot of times people say they’ll do things and they don’t,” said College of Arts and Sciences sophomore Vincent Sinatra. “Mitt changes his mind all the time.”

Sinatra said while education was important, it should not be a central focus of the election.

“We have a lot of problems in this country so I don’t think the election should focus on that [grants and education],” he said.

Milen Ghirmazghi, a CAS junior, said she receives a Pell grant and that they are an important part of her financial aid package.

“The Pell grant is hugely important to me because it’s free money,” she said. “It’s the government’s way

of cutting out the middle men, of cutting out the banks who charge us ridiculous interests on our loans. It definitely cuts out a major chunk of money that I would owe the school if I didn’t receive it.”

CAS junior Allison Macika said it is important to support students who want to attend college but cannot afford it.

“There are a lot of people who can’t afford [college], so I think it’s very important that everybody has access to getting an education,” she said.

College of Communication senior Danielle King said she is pleased with Romney’s support.

“As a student who is basically at BU because of federal funding, I appreciate that,” she said. “I kind of think of [Romney] in another light now that he’s advocating for something that directly affects me.”

Northeastern: From Page 1

For the next 20 years, the MHSA beds are protected, Tobin said, meaning that if circumstances arose where the beds had to be moved, Northeastern would be responsible for relocating them within the Fenway area.

The announcement is the latest development since Northeastern bought the Huntington Avenue Northeastern YMCA building, a process that has taken years and faced fierce opposition.

Phoenix Properties will transform the YMCA building into a 720-bed residence for Northeastern undergraduates, according to Northeastern News. The cost to transform the YMCA will cost $75 million, and while dormitory was originally slated to open in September of 2013, construction could take longer.

Northeastern students had mixed reactions to the notion of living in close quarters with Cardinal Medeiros participants.

“If I did live there I would probably feel a little bit more uncomfort-

able if I knew about the program,” said Northeastern freshman Jon Gray.

Rachelle Valdivia, a Northeastern sophomore, said Northeastern should make more students aware of this program.

“This information should be made more public to Northeastern students,” Valdivia said.

Tobin said there is no need for student concern.

“They’re [students and members of the program] on separate floors,” he said. “We have RAs on those floors, NUPD has jurisdiction over that building as well. Those safety measures were put in place a long time ago, and I can tell you that it has never been a problem.”

Still, Gray said, the move might be unfair to Northeastern students.

“I agree with the moral mentality of the program, but not necessarily with the method,” he said. “I agree that it is a good thing for them [Northeastern] to do, but at the same time I am kind of divided because it may infringe on the kids who are paying $50,000 a year to go here.”

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SG representatives to visit meetings for AWC, BUSI Iran: From Page 1

“The group has a single resolution they are trying to push, that focuses on one facet of a very large and complicated world issue,” said Rachel DuShey, a COM junior who is part of BUSI, in an email interview. “It is not at all a black-and-white issue. They went to the BU Senate with the intent to pass a resolution that day and take advantage of students who were not

yet educated about the issues.”

BUSI wants to take a stance on the resolution because if SG takes action on the issue, they will be representing the entire student body, Kaufman, a CAS and COM junior said.

“Students for Israel wants to ensure the safety and continuity of the state of Israel — unfortunately, its safety could be in the hands of a leader, Ahmadinejad, who is committed to its destruction,” Kaufman said.

Chehayeb said if the resolution is passed, AWC wants to spread it to other student governments around Boston.

“Because the BU Student Government has a good history of taking a positive political stance, such as being against the apartheid movement in South Africa, so it’s appropriate for them to do the same thing with Iran’s sanctions as well,” he said.

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Campus & City Column On Movies

I have never met a person who doesn’t enjoy a good movie now and again. I’m a big movie buff, and I’m always interested in seeing a film, new or old. I owe that proclivity to my older brother and my old high school film teacher.

They both broadened my horizons to a wide array of genres, while my natural inclination leans toward romantic comedies — of course. But, while the average person is glad to watch a new film or an old classic, I’ve surprised many people by my sheer ability to obsessed and re-watch m o v i e s countless times. I love watching movies I’ve seen before, KRISSEN that I know KAWACHI nearly by heart, while doing other things — it’s my ambient background track.

There are a handful of movies that I absolutely adore. That I could watch a million times and more.

And although they aren’t all the best examples of cinematic masterpieces, I can’t help but love them.

When I first fell in love with the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, I watched one of the movies every weekend. Always the Extended Edition, otherwise, what kind of fan would I be? And every weekend, my parents dreaded my control of the television. I’m certain I exhausted my parents with my constant quoting and the fact that each movie is over three hours long ... I think my love of movies comes from growing up always watching certain flicks with my dad. My mom is very picky about her movie experiences. She knows what she likes and won’t stand for anything else. My dad, on the other hand, is quite adventurous. We often tease him for renting the most obscure things from Netflix. But thanks to him, I’ve seen some pretty wonderful movies. He’s my buddy for all romance movies. Never my mom — she can’t stand them! But my dad will cry more than I will, and that’s really saying something.

Growing up, I have fond memories of his love for “Sleepless in Seattle.” In my mind, that film and my father are indistinguishable. Every single time we caught it on television, we ended up watching it. And while “Sleepless in Seattle” is one of his favorites, I have my own that I absolutely cannot resist.

My love of “The Holiday” literally has no bounds. It’s one of my favorite movies of all time. To me, it’s perfect: the quintessential romantic comedy. And although it takes place during the winter holidays, I watch it year round. I watch it with my full attention or have it play while I’m typing notes and doing mindless homework. In fact, for many reasons, I’ve watched this particular movie about five times in the past week, doing just that. I think I gravitate toward this particular film because of how relatable it is to me. I am constantly identifying myself with the characters, in a multitude of situations. And each time I watch the plot play out, it speaks to me. That’s what I gravitate towards. Movies that resonate.

Krissen Kawachi is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences and a weekly columnist for The Daily Free Press. She can be reached at kkawachi@bu.edu.

Monday, October 22, 2012

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Bikers not disturbed by helmet campaign Students, profs.

debate effects of debt forgiveness

By Amira Francis Daily Free Press Staff

While the Boston Public Health Commission’s safety campaign claims bicyclists face no excuses for ditching their helmets, a number of riders and experts had varying reactions.

The campaign includes advertisements posted along busy streets in Boston, including along Commonwealth Avenue. One poster features a man wiping his bloody face with a caption, “Still think it’s the helmet that’s unattractive? There are no good excuses.”

The campaign also implemented bike lane markings showing a man’s head wearing a bicycle helmet with the phrases, “No Excuses, Wear a Helmet.”

A number of cyclists and biking experts said the campaign might not be the right way to promote helmet use.

“While I agree with the idea that we need to encourage helmet use, I don’t think a scare campaign is the right way to go because it actually has the effect of scaring people away from cycling,” said Pete Stidman, the executive director of Boston Cyclists Union.

Edward Skipka, a cyclist of six years, said he questioned the campaign’s methods.

“I would support the message that they are trying to send, but I don’t know if I fully support the way they’re going about it,” he said.

But Steven Purcell, a graduate student in Boston University’s School of Public Health and a cyclist, said the campaign might help bikers.

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The Boston Public Health Commission uses posters and bike lane signs to remind bikers there are no excuses not to wear a helmet.

“I think personally I’m okay with the ads,” he said. “Scare tactics work for certain health campaigns. It might make people think twice.”

Regardless of their opinions on the campaign, Boston bicyclists still admitted that city biking could be dangerous.

“I’ve had one friend that was blindsided by a car at about 3 a.m.,” Skipka said. “And he was thrown from one side of the intersection to the other and he landed on his side ... and his helmet cracked in half. His head did not.”

Purcell, a graduate student in BU’s SPH and a cyclist, said bicycle accidents seem pretty common in Boston.

“Urban biking is pretty dangerous,” he said. “Pretty much everyone I know has been hit by a car in some

way. Some were wearing helmets, some were not.”

Many cyclists said there were a variety of different ways the campaign could go about spreading its message.

“They should expand on that and say there are cheaper alternatives to finding a helmet that don’t look stupid,” Skipka said. “Showing the alternatives, that it doesn’t look stupid, doesn’t cost a lot of money and it doesn’t feel like a brick on your head is a good way of going about it other than saying you’re going to get hurt.”

Stidman said the Boston Cyclist’s Union promoted a different type of helmet advertising than scare tactics.

“The first thing we told them [the Boston Public Health Commission]

Helmet, see page 4

BRA approves LAW tower renovations for winter

By Amy Gorel Daily Free Press Staff

The Boston Redevelopment Authority approved the $172-million expansion and addition to the Boston University School of Law building Thursday, officials said.

Construction on the building at 765 Commonwealth Ave. is set to begin in the winter and will be completed by fall of 2015, said BU spokesman Colin Riley.

The project will provide 1,000 new construction jobs, according a BRA press release.

The new construction will create updated learning and study spaces in the outdated facility, according to the release. The expansion will include space for formal and informal student social space, a dining area, study facilities and additional space for the School’s Professional Education pro-

grams. “[They are] changing it so the building will operate more efficiently,” Riley said.

Classrooms will be on the first three floors in the new, expanded building along with the library and resource center, he said.

The upper floors will be primarily offices so the students will not have to go beyond the lower floors except when meeting with faculty.

The proposed plan will add 95,000 square feet on the west side of the building, according to the release.

The interior of the building will also be renovated and updated.

The building needs renovation because of the changing nature of education, Riley said.

Jose Luis Sert designed the 18-story building in 1964, Riley said.

“This building presents unique

Allston residents asked to weigh in on Harvard expansion plans

By Jasper Craven Daily Free Press Staff

and city,” Katie Lapp, executive vice president at Harvard, wrote in an Oct. 17 letter to BRA Director Peter Meade. “In that spirit, together with our Allston neighbors, elected representatives, City and State agencies and civic leaders, Harvard has created a plan for the future that provides shared opportunity.”

Harvard currently has about 151 acres of land zoned for Harvard, with the more than 110 of these acres allocated to the Harvard Business School and Harvard Athletics.

The 10-year plan would add 1 million square feet of additional building space and see renovations to 500,000 square feet of existing Harvard space.

As Harvard University continues its plan to develop an expanded presence across the Charles River, the university formally submitted its institutional master plan of Allston to the Boston Redevelopment Authority on Thursday.

The 10-year plan by Harvard includes construction of three new academic buildings, two new administrative buildings, a new basketball venue, a hotel and conference center and renovation of Harvard Stadium and a graduate and academic building.

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challenges as far as renovation because it is historical in design,” Riley said. “The outside is going to remain the same except for the expansion, but the interior can be renovated.”

Sumner Redstone, a media executive, donated $18 million in September for the LAW building renovations.

Once the project has a threshold of financial support, of which Redstone’s donation was a large portion, LAW will raise additional funds, Riley said. The remainder will be financed or come from the university’s capital fund.

“We’re grateful to be able to do that,” Riley said. “This continues a long line of improvements and enhancements made to the university’s facilities. This is a very important one because the law school certainly needed it.”

While a report by the New America Foundation said the intended changes to President Barack Obama’s administration’s student debt-relief plan might not benefit all borrowers, a number of Boston University students and professors said they still believe the plan will be effective.

Borrowers pay 15 percent of their discretionary income and the remaining balance with accrued interest is forgiven after 25 years of payment.

The Obama administration aims to change this policy to ask for 10 percent of the borrower’s discretionary income and forgive balances after 20 years.

However, Alex Holt, co-author of the report released Tuesday, “Safety Net or Windfall?” said the IncomeBased Repayment plan disproportionately helps some borrowers when he studied what happens to a borrower during the entire repayment period.

“If this new policy goes into effect, it will disproportionally help high-income borrowe rs, people who are making a lot of money,” Holt, a Federal Education Budget Project program associate, said. “Our question is, ‘Is that the best way to appropriate federal funds?’ Should federal funds be going to the wealthiest earners in the country, or should it be going to borrowers who are struggling the most.”

The report offers recommendations to alter the policy to redistribute the relief to those who need it.

“We’re trying to take what we think is the intent of the law, which is to help struggling borrowers,” Holt said. “We want to keep those policies in place to help those struggling borrowers, but we want to make sure people who can pay back their loans in full, do.”

Holt used the example of an attorney making $200,000 a year. After the attorney is out of school and working for 25 years, he or she might have $100,000 left to pay back. At that point, the debt is forgiven even though he or she could potentially pay it back, Holt said.

“It hurts the taxpayer because they are basically subsidizing wealthy people,” he said.

The Obama administration’s new plan will benefit anyone with a student loan, no matter the size of the

Loans, see page 4

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College of Arts and Sciences junior Lizzie Selmi and School of Management junior Shaman Kothari pet Spike, the namesake dog of Spike’s Junkyard Dogs.

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loan, said School of Management Professor Mark Williams.

Williams said focusing on the size of the loan is missing the point of the financial relief plan.

“College students when they get out, they’re not going to be strapped,” Williams said. “Instead of having a 15-percent requirement of their income going to pay the student loan, 5 percent more is going to be available for other things.”

The distribution is not as disproportionate as the report claims, he said. The high-income borrowers will pay more in taxes because they are making more and, in a sense, they will be paying back for that advantage.

Williams said the plan gives an incentive for more students to continue to graduate school.

“The positive is this is a greater incentive for students to want to go to graduate school,” he said. “If they go to graduate school, they make more money. If they make more money, more debt to get to this higher income producing status will be extinguished.”

Cathie Jo Martin, a political science professor, said this distribution of wealth is not different from what often happens to lower-income classes.

“The use of the tax code to achieve social purposes in America has resulted in many benefits being distributed to the upper-income and middle-income classes,” Martin said.

She said the Obama administration is attempting to give lowerincome students the opportunity to loan access.

“Obama is trying to reform the system of Pell grant so that more lower-income students can have access,” Martin said. “I think he has expanded access.”

College of General Studies sophomore Arlene Garcia said the plan is beneficial as long as everyone gets an equal opportunity to have the same assistance.

“But I don’t think they should penalize people for earning more money,” Garcia said.

Garcia said it would not be fair for the government to ask high-income borrowers to pay their loans in entirety when others get their balances forgiven.

“It being ‘forgiven’ doesn’t really mean that it’s forgiven,” said Alex Keiser, an SMG junior. “Somebody still has to pay the bill, which means then it’s just the taxpayers or someone else and, I kind of disagree with that.”

Keiser said people should be responsible for their own expenses, despite their financial background.

“We should be focusing on decreasing the prices of schools rather than trying to help people pay for them,” said Lejla Huskic, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

“It’s putting a band-aid on the wound before disinfecting. [It] won’t do anything but trap the disease, and it’ll burst eventually.”

People who have the means should continue to pay their loan bill, she said.

“You should pay a larger percentage based on how much money you make,” Huskic said. “This way, regardless of class, you’re able to pay what you can afford.”

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mets, or humor would be really affective and promote biking at the same time,” Stidman said.

Kristopher Carter, the interim director of Boston Bikes, said there are a lot of ways to improve bicycle safety in Boston.

“Some of those [are] engineer-related and providing more bicycle facilities, and some of those are education-related,” he said, “whether that’s doing a helmet campaign or sending out flyers like we do now about how to interact safely with cyclists.”

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safer for riding, I would probably focus on getting more people on bikes, because as drivers become more aware of bike riders, they tend to look for them,” Vautour said.

Stidman said there are infrastructural and educational concerns to focus on as well.

“The primary concern of bikers right now is better infrastructure and, often we hear, driver education,” he said. “Because oftentimes what is causing the accidents is street design, or drivers, or sometimes actually cyclists who don’t understand how to be safe on the road.”

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Divine Fits brings their indie rock act to the Royale on Wednesday night to the delight of Boston Spoon fans.

ledgling indie supergroup Divine Fits brought their catchy alt-rock act to the Royale on Wednesday night in support of their new album, A Thing Called Divine Fits.

The group, made up of Spoon’s Britt Daniel, Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner and the New Bomb Turks’ Sam Brown, seemed to thrive together as a unit, almost as though they had been playing together for years. The effects sounded unique yet clean, the classic “indie rock” sound that exploded onto the scene in the early 2000s. Daniel and Boeckner traded time on the microphone as they ran through their album as well as a few surprise covers, including Tom Petty’s “You Got Lucky”

and an expertly crafted rendition of Frank Ocean’s “Lost.”

The act itself was flawless with technically sound, upbeat yet not poppy and entertaining all the way through despite the band only having one album from which to draw. However, many of the tracks played on Wednesday sounded, well, just like Spoon songs. While the songs hold up quite well on their own, they all resemble the style of Spoon rhythmically and lyrically, so much so that I wonder why Britt Daniel felt the need to start an entire new band.

The crowd didn’t seem to possess my consternation. However, indie fans who I could just tell were going home to vinyl

collections and bass guitar lesson books knew the words to every single song (barring, of course, the Frank Ocean cover ... I was alone on that one). It’s funny though, because when everyone was meandering towards the exit after the show’s conclusion, I heard at least three different people say something along the lines of, “But that’s what’s so great about Spoon!”

A Thing Called Divine Fits is a fun album, and the band puts on a fantastic show, but if they want to step up into the indie big leagues, they’re going to have to find a sound unmarred by their respective past efforts.

Shut Down The Streets

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The New Pornographers front man A.C. Newman released his third solo album Shut Down The Streets.

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ust as every great leader’s reign must come to an end, A.C. Newman’s third solo album sees the king of power-pop surrendering his claim on the throne in favor of a softer, folkier sound. The album, released Oct. 9, suits The New Pornographers front man, who builds on old hallmarks with a new sense of maturity — both lyrically and sonically. Though all of his patented verbal gymnastics are still there, a deeper message of new beginnings along with painful losses pervades Shut Down The Streets.

The album’s development comes in part because of the recent birth of Newman’s son. All of the feelings of a new parent are poured into this album, ranging from unabashed jubilation to an almost crippling nervousness. The subdued and mellow “There’s Money In New Wave” finds Newman giving advice to his young son, while the banjo-laden and driving chorus of “Strings” offers the repeated message “We’ve been waiting for you.”

Following on the heels of this joy and uncertainty is a permeating sense of heartbreak and loss as Newman addresses the recent death of his mother. Newman describes the collective, widespread grief that should have greeted his mother’s passing. “And the roads we drove down all lined / Lined with people, cap in hand and crying,” he coos.

Yet even amidst monumental life changes, fans of the classic A.C. Newman sound won’t be disappointed. “Encyclopedia Of Classic Takedowns” is a sweet slice of catchy and witty power-pop, complete with backing vocals from fellow Pornographer Neko Case. The snap-your-fingers beat of “Hostages” also recalls the definitive Newman sound, repeating, “You work like a charm / Why’d you think you were broken?”

With Shut Down The Streets, Newman offers a mature, reflective album with a simple pop sensibility. Old and new fans alike with find something to love within Newman’s lush homage to life, death, sorrow and elation.

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October 22, 2012

Opinion

Post-Its, golfballs and balanced priorities

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Letter to the editor: On physician-assisted suicide To the Editor: “I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel.”

This is an excerpt from The Hippocratic Oath — the oath that guides my practice as a physician. On the November ballot, the Massachusetts Question 2 about physician assisted suicide, runs contrary to the foundation of medical practice. Since the fifth century BC when Hippocrates crafted the oath, the notion of Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) has been debated in Western Society and repeatedly rejected as a violation of civilized behavior.

If adopted, MA Question 2 would legalize PAS for terminally ill patients who have fewer than six months to live. The assumptions underlying this question are erroneous.

In 27 years as a primary care physician, I have never told a patient how long he or she has to live. An individual lifespan is scientifically impossible to predict with exactness.

Time and time again, standards in medical literature that project survival for particular diagnoses are wrong. Today in my practice, I have numerous vibrant patients who have long outlived calculated life spans. This is not only for people with cancer, but diseases like multiple sclerosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, kidney failure and heart failure. I never tell my patients how long they have to live. Why? Because the best prediction is based on old literature and past practice. New therapies combined with preventive and behavioral medicine change the true experience of each disease.

What motivates some people to elect PAS? Those who support Question 2 typically cite the patient’s right to self-determination and desire to avoid pain. But, the little we know from pre-death interviews in states such as Oregon, Montana and Washington shows otherwise. Some patients claim that it is their inability to do what they want to do that motivates their desire for death. Not wanting to burden loved ones can also motivate the choice to elect suicide. For my work as a physician, part of the job is helping patients and families to adjust to new circumstances. People who fear losing control of basic bodily functions can grow to realize that their humanity is about so much more than those acts. Despite new limitations, they can still fulfill significant roles in their communities and families. Furthermore, clinical depression is present in at least 25 percent of people with chronic illness. Depressed people think about suicide. Depression, however, is treatable. Question 2 does not mandate that the patient submit to evaluation and therapy for depression. Furthermore alleviating pain and suffering is the objective of all doctors. Some

even specialize in hospice and palliative care.

Again, the Hippocratic oath guides practice: “I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.”

In working with the sick, I am in awe of my patients. Sickness presents the opportunity for partnership for healing and caring among the doctor, the patient, the family and the community. I see people bear their illnesses with extraordinary dignity. I see families pull together and grow in love when faced with hardship. I see amazing generosity and goodness come from surrounding community members who rally kindness for the frail. Illness can be a time of growth and dignity for both the sick person and us.

Question 2 is prejudiced against certain classes of sick people. As written, it demands the patient to consent and to swallow his or her own lethal pills. People with dementia, with confusion or in a coma are disqualified. People with multiple sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s disease who could not swallow are excluded. In states that already have the PAS practice in place, more prescriptions are written and filled than are ever actually consumed. What about those lethal doses of pills sitting in medicine cabinets? Who else might swallow them? Then there is the ugly instance of a patient who took the pills but didn’t die. What then? Does society leave the patient in the agony of moribund paralysis or resuscitate and revive? A great privilege of my work as a doctor is to be present with people at their comings and goings — at births and deaths. Sadly, Question 2 excludes the physician presence with the patient at this end of life.

What is the true motivation for the Question 2 ballot initiative? Question 2 is thinly veiled to look like an act to alleviate suffering and promote self-determination. But to promote “suicide” — the taking of one’s own life, a lonely act for a vulnerable soul, is a sad commentary for a civilized society. Really, Question 2 simply devalues human suffering.

It abhors the natural human life by promoting premature death. Question 2 undermines the work of a physician — to care for patients from birth to natural death. The Massachusetts Medical Society wants Question 2 defeated. As a doctor and 27 years witness to the courage and dignity of people as they live and die, I too urge the defeat of Question 2.

Respectfully submitted, Mary Louise C. Ashur MD Associate Professor, Health Services, School of Public Health at BU School of Medicine Clinical Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School mashur@bidmc.harvard.edu

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ANNE WHITING

he following is true with everyone, which makes this column entirely ununique and relatively uninteresting but pretty relevant, so here goes nothing: I have measured my life in undone to-do lists.

My father must have foreseen that I’d be a big “I need to write that down”-er when, eight years ago, he bought me the endless supply of personalized sticky notes I’m still using today.

My Post-It habit is a bit compulsive. And very cluttering — my windowsill, my books, my whole life are littered in them. But those colored squares of paper are a source of fabricated order and constancy in an otherwise chaotic life. It’s as if, I jot to-do’s, therefore I am.

Only not. Because I jot so much that my response is not to mobilize and do it all, but to sink as far as I can into my thin mattress pad and not do anything. We have no fall break, and I’m a bit overwhelmed and would very much like a personal secretary. #pathetic To change things up, I’ve tried writing memos on my hand — I sport a tattoo of pressing demands that make my life look busy and exciting and my dinner invitation refusals seem legitimate. But it turns out that the immediacy with which you should attend to temporary skin squiggles is only slightly more effective at promoting action. Post-Its get stuck to the wall and forgotten, yes, but hands get washed and whatever was written there forever vanishes into the abyss that is my mind when its thoughts are not written down.

This is bad. If list-making signifies an aspiration to get things done but is coupled with a flawed lack of resolve to make it happen, I don’t know why I bother at all. I want to do too many things, and telling myself to prioritize is no help. There’s that old maxim about living like you’re dying, but I promise you, if I knew I was going to die tomorrow, I would not pay bills or clean the toilet. I’d go out as much as possible and turn in my essays late.

Actually, this is kind of the case. As these are uncertain times — I graduate soon, so life as I know it is ending — “Eat veggies in fridge before they mold” is always ignored in the face of drunken noodles, and “email Advising Office” is completely overridden by a dinner date.

Maybe this is bad prioritizing, (you’d think I’d mobilize for the next stage of existence) or maybe this is the prioritization of my subconscious knowledge that lists are only guidelines (?). I am starting to sense, as I stare at a pile of Anne Whiting–brand sticky notes which with equal urgency demand to-dos like “organize under bed” and “update resume,” that there is some Great Chain of To-Do’s Pope forgot to mention that would be very helpful to my stud-

ies.

There’s an age-old, slightly pertinent demonstration that’s been circulating the web lately: If you take a jar and fill it with golfballs, it will look full. But it won’t be, because if you pour pebbles into the jar, you will find that there is space between the rocks. Once again, it will look full. But if you continue by pouring sand into the jar, you will find that there is space for it, too, between the pebbles.

Now the jar will look completely full. But were you to open two beers and pour them into the jar, they too would seep into the sand, no problem.

The jar is a metaphor. It is your life. The golfballs are the important things. Things like your family, your friends, your passions. If there were nothing else in the jar, it would be full. Pebbles are other things, like job applications and apartments. The sand is everything else. And you can’t put the sand in the jar first because there will be no room for the golf balls.

I guess the same goes for the to-do-listed life. If we spend all our time and energy on to-dos like “update LinkedIn account” and “organize closet,” we won’t have time for the big ones like, “James in town” and “Tibby’s birthday party.”

Though I guess LinkedIn is somewhat important.

I need to work on the balance between planning and living in the moment. Lists encourage productivity and performance, which is generally a good thing. But pick and choose what’s most important to accomplish. There will always be dishes to do. Call your grandmother.

Most of my to-do’s get done eventually, after a week or two of procrastination. Maybe the most important thing we learn in college is that the perfection of getting it all done is overrated.

We certainly learn (or try to learn) to discern tasks and make decisions. We’re lucky for that.

Too many Stickies is a luxury. What, after all, does the task-less existence amount to? Having things to do proves we’re alive.

So yeah. I wish this piece was more insightful, but of course I’ve got other things on the agenda. I’m in Baltimore visiting my sister when I also need to be in Mugar studying for a reading quiz or applying to grad school. Oh well. Moral of the story: work on the pebbles but remember the golf balls. And don’t forget that in your jar, you can find room for another beer with friends.

Anne Whiting is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and a Fall 2012 columnist for The Daily Free Press. She can be reached at aew@bu.edu.

Excessive campaigning

With two weeks until the presidential election, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama have shifted their attention to the battleground states — Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin.

Residents of those states are experiencing a barrage of phone calls and knocks on the door from members of Romney and Obama’s campaigns, according to TIME on Sunday.

Of course the candidates’ attention is going to be focused on those states. Unlike red or blue states where residents predominantly vote left or right, the voting patterns in battleground states are less defined. The flexibility of those states provides candidates with the best opportunity to gain electoral votes. The purpose of the political phone calls and door knocks is to sway people to vote a certain away. Sometimes those tactics work, and people are convinced to vote for a candidate after talking to members of his or her campaign. Other times, those tactics

turn voters off.

Someone who receives a phone call every day from Obama or Romney’s campaign might eventually tune them out. Phone calls, door knocks, advertisements and other campaign tactics should not be conducted so frequently that they overwhelm voters and their messages become lost.

It is also important to discuss the nature of the messages that Obama and Romney’s campaigns are putting out. Each party has attacked the other in advertisements and on debate floors.

Perhaps a more effective tactic is one that inspires voters. Part of the reason why so many people were drawn to Obama in 2008 was because his campaign focused on mobilizing people with the idea of change.

Any candidate can mudsling, but is that what people are really drawn to?

A campaign that sticks is one that moves people. Messages of inspiration are going to transcend through the barrage of phone calls, door knocks and advertisements. Negative campaigning will not.

Monday, October 22, 2012

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No. 13 BU takes dramatic double-OT win over No. 10 Huskies

By Steven Dufour Daily Free Press Staff

Junior midfielder Ella Gunson intercepted a pass from a Northeastern University midfielder with just over seven minutes left in double overtime. She single-handedly dribbled through both the middle and attacking zones and fired the ball goalkeeper Lizzie Priest to give the No. 13 Boston University field hockey team a crucial and dramatic win.

Gunson’s third goal of the game helped BU (10–6, 3–1 America East) upset rival No. 10 Northeastern (12–4), in one of its most important games of the season in terms of making it into the NCAA tournament. “[This was] a tremendous victory for a team that just wouldn’t quit,” said BU coach Sally Starr. “I couldn’t be prouder of the way this team played.”

From the beginning BU looked primed to take a victory in the game.

Not even a full three minutes into

the game, freshman forward Sofie Laurito beat nearly the entire Husky defense to score her first career goal.

Not long after that, the officiating came into play. In the 18th minute the referees called a penalty stroke that even left some Northeastern players looking puzzled. From six meters, senior goalkeeper Jess Maroney could not stop Northeastern’s leading goalscorer, senior Crystal Poland and the game was tied at one.

“There were game-changing calls that really could have impacted this game,” Starr said. “I think I would have cried at the end of this game if we had lost because I really felt the officiating was that poor.”

Gunson’s first of three goals came only two minutes later, assisted by senior midfielder Nicole van Oosterom.

It was the last goal of the half.

After the break, the Huskies scored two goals in a span of two minutes that gave BU 25 minutes to come back from what was only re-

cently a one-goal lead.

Despite the fact that they lacked two starters due to injury, the Terriers sent the game into overtime after leveling a 3–2 deficit in the 56th minute, again with a shot from Gunson and again assisted by van Oosterom.

“It’s great to get three goals, but it was more of a team effort,” Gunson said. “Everyone played so well. We played with heart and played really hard.”

The final 120 seconds of play were exclusively penalty corners against BU, much to the confusion and dismay of Terrier coaches and players alike.

Maroney stopped every attempt.

Each corner added to her 12 total saves at the end of the game.

Once in overtime, the already adrenaline-ridden game only intensified. The offenses of both teams shifted to extremely high-pressure, so shots, saves, corners and penalties came rapidly. Something seemed dif-

ferent for the Terriers though, and it was not working in their favor.

“We weren’t building the ball up the way we needed to build the ball up, so we called a timeout [in the 75th minute],” Starr said. “It was a tactic that definitely worked well, and it was also a tactic that helped save our legs a little bit.”

Whatever happened in the huddle worked for BU. The Terriers had three corners, and Maroney did not have to make a single save.

The biggest moment of the first overtime period was not strategydriven though. It was a technicality.

With less than five minutes left, van Oosterom was awarded a penalty stroke when a blatant trip from a Northeastern defender, but she hit the post on her chance.

After 15 more extra minutes, the two teams were still level. That changed eight minutes into the second overtime.

Almost immediately, Gunson

took off, getting around almost every Husky on the field and was tripped as she laid a pass off to van Oosterum.

Her shot went in, but the officials called a corner. Gunson received a green card for dissent.

“I think [the official] should have held advantage,” Starr said. “Clearly, Ella was getting through, but she called for a foul when there really wasn’t need.”

A series of traded corners then ensued. Stress built among the players, among the coaches, and among the spectators so that every call was game-changing, and every shot, potentially game-winning.

Everything changed when Gunson intercepted a possession pass in the midfield, scoring the game-winning goal and keeping the Terriers’ NCAA tournament chances alive.

The Terriers will look to keep the NCAA tournament dream alive on Saturday when they host Fairfield University on Senior Day.

Menard, Poulin each score twice, Terriers take second contest with Cornell Women’s hockey From page 8

handed, the Terriers controlled the puck in the offensive zone and took a shot on goal, easily killing the Big Red’s man advantage.

Durocher said his team’s pace helped them get more opportuni-

ties.

“We put a bit of an uncomfortable pace on Cornell here because even though we didn’t have that much to show for it in the second period, we doubled them and maybe even almost tripled them in shots in the period,” Durocher said.

With 20 seconds remaining

in the period, Menard and Poulin broke out into a two-on-one rush.

Menard carried the puck down the left side and passed it across the net to Poulin, who put it in to give BU a 2–1 lead. Neither player was done putting up points just yet.

The Terriers wasted no time in extending their lead in the third pe-

riod. With 17:07 remaining, they went on the power play. Toward the end of the period, Menard sent a pass across the net to senior forward Jenelle Kohanchuk who put it in for a power play goal and a 3–1 BU lead.

Another goal by each Menard and Poulin carried the Terriers to a

5–1 victory against a team that BU may see later in the season in the NCAA tournament.

“Our kids are just happy to hold serve and come up with a win,” said Durocher. “[BU and Cornell] I think have one goal — get in the NCAA tournament on your body of work.”

Freshman goalie Maguire struggles in 1st start Sperry finally defeats Big Red Maguire: From page 8

confidence of the freshman goaltender. However, Parker said the first two goals were not necessarily due to poor play by Maguire.

“This is a team you cannot turn the puck over [against], and we turned the puck over twice on the first goal at our blue line and then we turned the puck over once when there is no need to turn it over, and they jumped the other way and scored,” Parker said.

“Both of those goals were off of bad turnovers … but we would like to get a save there too.”

Turnovers continued to plague the Terriers into the second period, especially on the fourth goal when UNH forced a turnover behind the BU goal and fed it out to forward Scott Pavelski.

Pavelski, a senior who had only

scored three goals in his career before Saturday, fired a shot from the slot that snuck through Maguire and trickled into the net again.

Maguire got a piece of three of the pucks that got by him, but after a few more close chances in the second period, Parker made the move to O’Connor.

O’Connor came in and shut down the Wildcats, making 15 saves over the next period and a half. O’Connor did not get much action in the second period, but was called upon to make 13 stops in the third period while BU tried to make a comeback.

“I thought O’Connor came in and played pretty well,” Parker said. “He made some big saves.”

While O’Connor outplayed Maguire on Saturday night and had a successful debut in a win over Providence College, it is still early in the season and Parker said

he is not ready to make a decision on a starting goaltender.

Both goaltenders will start a game during the upcoming twogame series against the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Maguire may get a chance to play at home for the first time of his collegiate career against UMass. Parker said the atmosphere at Whittemore Center may have affected Maguire’s performance and played a part in his tough start to his career.

“I think [UNH is] a tough place to play for anybody, whether you are a senior or a freshman,” Parker said. “I think that it probably was a big factor in him being a little jumpy. But you know, we could have played UNH at home and they are a good team and maybe he would have been a little jumpy there too.”

Sperry: From page 8

“I think she was really resilient, which was great,” Durocher said. “I think she fought just a little bit harder at holding her ground. Maybe [Saturday] there was a couple of funny hops, couple of pucks that seemed to have eyes. But I also didn’t think she kind of fought for her space.

“That blue paint’s got to be yours, and if it gets crowded you still have to exert yourself and get out there so that you’re taking away any rebound chances and giving yourself a better opportunity.”

Sperry said her defense helped her out immensely during the contest as it battled in front of her to stop some of Cornell’s shots.

“My defense played amazingly for me today, obviously as you can see from the shot count,” Sperry said.

“You’re blocking shots, we’re getting pucks out and they’re creating angles

so that when I did have to make a save, it was an easier save instead of stretching across the crease.”

According to Sperry, BU’s win on Sunday will intensify the rivalry between two schools that have already been deemed fierce competitors.

“It’s a little bit intense, if you couldn’t tell from the game,” Sperry said. “We get some chirping going on out there. Now we’re going back and forth with wins and loses — it’s going to get even more intense.”

While the Terriers do not have another scheduled bout against Cornell this year, after two consecutive years of playing each other in the NCAA tournament, it seems they may be facing each other in the post season. “[We’re] two top teams in the nation, I mean we’re going to be competitive,” Sperry said. “Not only that, but the Canadians can get kind of tense, so it makes it interesting.”

Defensive turnovers lead to men’s hockey loss at University of New Hampshire Men’s hockey: From page 8

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Senior captain Wade Megan scored in the Boston University men’s hockey team’s loss to the University of New Hampshire.

on the man-advantage, Megan was called for hooking. Five seconds into that power play, the Wildcats’ Eric Knodel beat Maguire from the point to make it 3–1.

BU’s next costly turnover came about seven minutes into the second period, when UNH’s Scott Pavelski picked off a pass in front of Maguire.

“I don’t think we played anywhere near where we have to play from the goal — on the defensive end, from the goal out, the way we cover in our own zone,” Parker said.

“I thought we were just missing on passes coming out of the zone or just missing on passes in the offensive end.”

Soon after that, O’Connor, who started last week against Providence College, took over in net. He held the Wildcats scoreless for the rest of the period, but the Terriers continued to lose races and squander scoring chances.

Late in the second period, a brawl broke out in front of DeSmith. Soph-

omore forward Cason Hohmann was poking at a loose rebound when a Wildcat punched him from behind.

A few BU players and a few UNH players began shoving each other and toppled into the crease with DeSmith.

When the dust cleared, Privitera and freshman defenseman Matt Grzelcyk went to the box for BU and Greg Burke and Brett Kostolansky went off for the Wildcats. Burke got an extra two minutes for cross-checking, but the Terriers could not convert on the power play and the period ended with UNH leading 4–1.

The Terriers had power-play chances in the third to get back in the game. They did not get much traffic in front of DeSmith, though, and could not seem to settle in against a UNH defense that seemed to be in every passing lane.

“We just couldn’t really get in a flow, couldn’t really get anything set up,” Megan said. “That stuff will come, we just need a little more work on it, and it obviously wasn’t good enough tonight.”

With less than five minutes re-

maining and sophomore forward Yasin Cissé in the box, junior defenseman Garrett Noonan went off for a hit after the whistle, despite his protests. BU killed off the ensuing 5-on-3, but a game that had been getting increasingly physical continued to go downhill. Junior forward Sahir Gill and Burke got into an altercation that ended with Gill called for hitting after the whistle and Burke receiving a game misconduct for hitting from behind.

“It was definitely a little frustration in there, but guys were also working really hard, and that’s a good thing,” Megan said. “We can’t get undisciplined, especially at crucial points in the game, and that was a crucial point in time.”

The only real bright spot of the latter half of the game for BU was O’Connor, who stopped several shots from point-blank range and held firm even during the Wildcat 5-on-3. His play, and the Wildcats’ four goalposts and crossbars when they had open nets, kept the final score from becoming even more lopsided.

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BU coach Sally Starr on the officiating of BU’s win over Northeastern Sunday.

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Monday, October 22, 2012

No. 3 women’s hockey splits series with No. 2 Cornell BU bounces back from loss, earns series split

Sperry finally gets ‘W’ against Cornell

By Gregory Davis Daily Free Press Staff

By Meredith Perri Daily Free Press Staff

The No. 3 Boston University women’s hockey team fell to defeat No. 2 Cornell University Saturday night in the teams’ first rematch since Cornell defeated BU in a triple overtime heartbreaker in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

BU came up with a win against Cornell the next day, splitting the weekend series.

The games were the first two of the season for Cornell (1–1), a team that is coming off of a season that ended with a Frozen Four appearance.

Saturday night’s game, the annual women’s hockey game held at Agganis Arena, began with a scoreless first period in which both teams had their fair share of scoring chances.

Sperry and Cornell junior goaltender Lauren Slebodnick made great saves, preventing either team from converting on its opportunities.

The second period was a much different story, as pucks found the net with regularity.

BU (4–1) junior co-captain Marie-Philip Poulin began the scoring with 16:25 remaining in the period when she received a puck from senior forward Jill Cardella, spun around and slid the puck through Slebodnick’s legs to give BU a 1–0 lead.

Less than one minute later, Cornell tied the game as Sperry failed to get her glove on a puck in the crease and freshman forward Anna Zorn put it in the net.

When Cardella gave BU a 2–1 lead by putting a rebound in the net with 13:49 remaining in the period, the Terriers went on a power play two minutes later and the game took a turn for the worse for BU. “We came out and we got some energy going by getting the 1–0 lead and we actually came back after they got a goal that I think was a little bit of bad luck for us,” said BU coach Brian Durocher. “We get back to 2–1 and we look like we’re putting ourselves in pretty good shape and then all of a sudden two goals on one power play shorthanded really changed the entire complexion of the game.”

BU allowed two shorthanded goals on the two-minute power play and fell behind 3–2.

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Senior forward Isabel Menard scored twice in Sunday’s 5–1 Boston University women’s hockey win over Cornell University.

The third period went much like the first.

Both teams got scoring chances, but neither could convert.

When the Terriers went on the power play down by one goal with 8:37 remaining in the game, they were unable to register a shot on goal despite being in the offensive zone for the entirety of the two minutes.

Less than two minutes after Cornell killed the penalty, sophomore forward Monica Leck sealed the game by deflecting a slap shot into the net to give the Big Red a 4–2 lead with only 4:48 remaining.

Cornell went on to win the game 5–2 after getting an empty net goal with 53 seconds remaining in the game.

Durocher said he saw a lot of room for improvement going into the next game.

“I think we can win battles and we can be a little more assertive with the puck,” Durocher said. “The bottom line is you got to be ready. They’re coming at us and we knew they were going to be coming at us.”

Sunday’s game, which was back at BU’s normal home at Walter Brown Arena, went

much differently.

The teams went into the locker room after the first period scoreless.

The second period was off to a rough start for BU when the Big Red got a power play goal with 15:42 remaining in the period.

Sophomore Jillian Saulnier and junior Brianne Jenner both took shots from in close that forced Sperry into a split to make the saves, but senior defenseman Laura Fortino put the rebound into the top left corner of the net.

The Terriers bounced back quickly with a game-tying goal off of a wrist shot from senior forward Isabel Menard less than two minutes after Cornell took the lead.

The game then slowed down as both defenses tightened up, but when Cornell went on the power play with five minutes remaining in the period, BU changed the momentum of the game.

BU proved that its special teams’ ineffectiveness from the night before was not going to continue into this game. While short-

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Seven months after watching the Cornell University women’s hockey team celebrated its trip to the next round of the NCAA tournament, junior goaltender Kerrin Sperry can rejoice in having defeated the Big Red Saturday for the first time since her freshman year at Boston University.

The game, a 5–1 victory, came a day after BU was roughed up by Cornell in the teams’ first meeting since the Big Red defeated the Terriers with just 10.1 seconds left in triple overtime.

“It’s a great feeling,” Sperry said of the win.

“We all go back a little ways. It was nice to beat them in the NCAAs my freshman year. [We] had a tough time with them last year — just couldn’t seem to shake them. And [Saturday] was a really tough game.

“It was great to finally get the win.”

Sperry has been in the net for every game the Terriers have played against Cornell during the netminder’s three seasons with BU. The only exception was when junior Braly Hiller, who is not playing this season because of injury, saw a period’s worth of playing time during a 7–1 rout by Cornell in November of last year.

Coming into this weekend, Sperry was ready to bounce back against a team that appeared to have BU’s number for the past year.

“Cornell’s obviously a talented team.

They’re a big name,” Sperry said before the weekend series. “[When] we lost to them last year in the quarterfinals of the NCAAs … that was something you don’t forget about. However, you move forward. I’m extremely excited to play that caliber of hockey coming up this weekend, and I’m looking forward to giving them an extremely tough goaltender to play against.”

The meeting on Saturday was far from what Sperry — and the rest of the BU squad — had hoped for. The Terriers gave up a 2–1 lead in the second period, ultimately losing 5–2.

On Sunday, however, Sperry and the Terriers’ defense stepped up to the challenge, holding Cornell to just 23 shots — 11 fewer than BU gave up the night before.

Durocher said that the win was partly due to Sperry taking more control between the pipes.

Sperry, see page 7

No. 11 Terriers struggle at No. 15 Maguire allows 4 goals, gets pulled UNH, drop first road game of season during 2nd period of collegiate debut

By Annie Maroon Daily Free Press Staff

Nearly everything that went right in the No. 11 Boston University men’s hockey team’s season opener seemed to go wrong in a 4–1 loss to the No. 15 University of New Hampshire on Saturday.

Freshman goalie Sean Maguire was pulled from the game in the second period after giving up four goals in his first collegiate start. His classmate Matt O’Connor replaced him and kept the Wildcats from scoring again.

The Terriers got what looked like a good omen when senior forward Wade Megan scored just 31 seconds into the game. UNH defenseman Justin Agosta fumbled BU sophomore blueliner Alexx Privitera’s clearing attempt, and sophomore forward Evan Rodrigues took it the other way for BU. He fed Megan in front of the net for the captain’s first goal of the year.

That, however, was the last good news BU

got for a long time. UNH’s John Henrion made the Terriers pay for their increasing number of errant passes when he picked up a turnover near the blue line and sent a shot on net that somehow trickled through Maguire.

“I thought we played pretty well in the first period even though we got down 2–1,” said BU coach Jack Parker. “We came out and got back on our heels right off the back when they scored in the second. And then we got out of sync.”

Eighteen seconds later, the Wildcats took the lead when winger Nick Sorkin poked a rebound through Maguire’s legs. That goal energized the Wildcats and seemed to knock the Terriers back on their heels, and although the Terriers led 12–9 in shots at the end of the first period, UNH looked like the faster team.

The Wildcats wasted no time adding to their lead in the second period. BU couldn’t capitalize on a power play, and with five seconds left

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By Kevin Dillon Daily Free Press Staff

The University of New Hampshire fan section erupted in cheers behind Boston University men’s hockey freshman goaltender Sean Maguire as the puck trickled between Maguire’s legs and into the back of the net.

UNH forward Nick Sorkin celebrated his second goal of the season and his team’s second goal in the last 18 seconds as it took a 2–1 lead late in the first period. While Sorkin skated to his bench to go down a line of high-fives, Maguire glided toward the boards along his goal line with his head hung.

It was not the way Maguire wanted to start his collegiate career. The 19-year-old struggled in his first start for BU on Saturday, allowing four goals in a little more than a period and a half of action before getting

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pulled in favor of fellow freshman goaltender Matt O’Connor. During Maguire’s 32:19 in net, he made 10 saves on 14 total shots.

“I thought he was fighting the puck from the get go,” Parker said. “He looked nervous. He looked a little uptight. He made some nice saves but also I think his confidence level was way down from the get-go.”

Maguire held the Wildcats scoreless through the first eight minutes, but when two BU players turned the puck over at their own defensive blue line, UNH forward John Henrion picked up the puck and snapped it on goal. Maguire got a piece of the puck, but it squeaked through his equipment and rolled into the net, tying the game at one.

When Sorkin poked the puck through Maguire’s pads 18 seconds later, he gave UNH the lead and appeared to shake the

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Maguire, see page 7

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