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With youthful spirit, forgotten protests make impact Michigan ruling on absentee ballots deters BU students

By Lauren Dezenski Daily Free Press Staff

PHOTO COURTESY OF KELI CARENDER Tea Party activist Linda Dorr protests outside of the Supreme Court during Obamacare hearings.

By Jasper Craven Daily Free Press Staff

This story is one of several in a series related to the youth vote in the 2012 elections.

When freelance reporter John Knefel was arrested while covering the one-year anniversary of the Occupy movement in New York, he met two teenagers from Philadelphia who were detained for protesting.

One of the teenagers said a police officer had harassed him for his demonstration and said his father would be ashamed of him, Knefel said.

“The 17-year-old kept talking and said, ‘but being in here with all of you guys and feeling all this solidarity, I know that he’s wrong and I know that we are doing the right thing, and it’s just really great to be here with you guys,’” Knefel said. “It was a really moving moment.”

Although media coverage has waned on Occupy and the Tea Party movements that emerged from the country’s frustration with the state of the government, the protesting spirit has encompassed youth from both sides of the political spectrum and left an impact on the country.

John Berg, a professor of government at Suffolk University, said the Tea Party rallied for political change through the political system.

PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN KNEFEL John Knefel is arrested covering the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street in New York.

“The tea party is a much more conventionally political movement,” Berg said. “They really want to have an impact on elections. And they had some impact on elections.”

Occupy Wall Street objectives were not conventionally political, Berg said.

“They weren’t about influencing elections,” he said. “They were about influencing public dialogue.”

Berg said Occupy achieved its goal of education and changed the dialogue in D.C. “If you look back, they were very successful in creating much more discussion and awareness of inequality,” he said. “I think that the Occupy movement has a lot to do with why we’re talking about how wealthy Romney is.”

Through various means of activism and with different bases of support, Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party representatives said they are still determined to remedy an overbearing, corrupt political system.

“The tea party is just as upset at corruption and some of the bailouts as we are,” said Linnea Palmer Peyton, a 24-year-old Occupy organizer. “In terms of the things we are upset about, I’d say we have a lot in common.”

Michael Johns, a former speechwriter for

George H. W. Bush and a Tea Party leader, said both movements have some similar grievances with government, but that techniques varied widely between both groups.

“The ideological solutions to these problems varied almost immediately with the Occupy movement, which didn’t develop any solid policy,” Johns said.

Occupy Wall Street, although garnering support from older people, is a youth-based collective, said Linnea Palmer Peyton, a 24-yearold Occupy organizer.

“People would say, ‘Oh, young people, they aren’t involved politically enough. They don’t protest,’” she said. “And people don’t say that anymore.”

Knefel, who covers Occupy Wall Street frequently and is the host of Radio Dispatch, said the youth activism of Occupy challenges contemporary ideas of being politically involved.

“It’s really exciting to see teenagers and colleges students who are political, but not in the way that feeds into a two-party system,” he said.

Although the Occupy movement is known for its infusion of youth, Johns said that Tea

Protest, see page 4

This is the first of a two-part story within a series related to the youth vote in the 2012 elections.

Had it not been for his mother, James Ferritto would not have been able to vote this November.

Before heading off to Boston University in August, Ferritto’s mother took him to their local election office to register to vote in person.

Ferritto, now a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, is originally from Michigan, one of three states requiring first-time voters to either register to vote in person or to vote in person, a stipulation not easily met by voting-age students attending college out of state.

While submitting absentee ballots gives students attending college out of state an opportunity to have their voices heard back home, discrepancies between states’ registration deadlines can lead to confusion and students missing out on their chance to vote.

Of the 39 million people who voted before Election Day in 2008, 52 percent reported doing so via absentee ballot, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s report on voting and registration in the 2008 election. In 1979, the Supreme Court ruled students have the option to register to either vote in their home state by absentee ballot or in the state they attend college.

Like Ferritto, College of Engineering junior Nicole Black is also a Michigan resident, and despite attempting to register to vote this fall through Rock the Vote, is unable to vote in the upcoming elections because she cannot make it home to register to vote nor vote on Nov. 6 in person.

“I don’t think that’s really fair [to have to register to vote in-person to obtain an absentee ballot],” Black said. “There are a lot of friends that I know who go to college out of state and

Absentee, see page 2

BUPD warns students Brown creates great story in ads, lacks moderate edge, panel says of robberies in Allston

By Carol Kozma Daily Free Press Staff

By Chris Lisinski Daily Free Press Staff

The Boston University Police Department alerted students of recent robberies in Brighton as a precaution Wednesday.

BUPD Chief Thomas Robbins said in an email sent to students that three robberies have occurred in the last 30 days near Ringer Park.

The alert was issued primarily as a precaution, said BUPD Captain Robert Molloy.

“None of the victims were BU students, but we know some live up there, and we wanted to get that information out to people and remind people of security precautions,” he said. “That was the purpose of the chief sending out the message.”

Robbins said the robberies occurred off of Allston Street in Brighton, in between Commonwealth Avenue and Brighton Avenue near Ringer Park.

Robbins said two of the robberies were unarmed and in one robbery, a suspect showed a knife.

BUPD, see page 2

Debate about advertisements featuring U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s laundry-folding skills and the political jiujutsu in the Massachusetts Senate race entertained a crowd of viewers on Wednesday, as political experts analyzed short advertisement and debate clips of Brown and his Democratic opponent Elizabeth Warren.

About 65 people attended the discussion, with some members laughing as discussions swayed from an early biographical Brown advertisement to the portrayal of Warren as an insurance-friendly attorney.

“It’s a very difficult and unique set of skills that go into making a really competent candidate, so the first thing is introducing yourself,” said Michael Shea, a Democratic political consultant.

Bruce Mohl, editor of Commonwealth Magazine, moderated the evening, which was organized by the independent think tank Mass Inc. and held at Suffolk University.

Callie Crossley, a radio host at WGBH, asked political analyst Todd Domke and Shea to consult and analyze three sets of advertisements by each candidate.

Senate, see page 7

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Boston Public Radio host Callie Crossley, WBUR commentator Todd Domke and Democratic Political Consultant Michael Shea analyze the U.S. Senate campaign advertising in Massachusetts Wednesday night at the “Behind the Curtain: A Curious Look at Campaigns 2012” talk at Suffolk University Modern Theater.

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Boston police still investigating Mich. official says state has absentee policies to prevent fraud Fred Woodham, spokesman for cation and partnered with the Cargrobberies, BUPD captain says the Michigan Secretary of State, said enie-Knight Initiative on the Future Absentee: From Page 1

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Robbins said he encourages students to be safe and cautious when walking both on and off campus.

“Avoid dark, isolated places, walk in groups whenever possible, be aware of your surroundings at all times and avoid wearing headphones, ear buds or talking on smartphones,” he stated in the email.

Molloy said the Boston Police Department is investigating the three incidents.

BPD officials were unable to provide details of the three alleged Brighton robberies by press time.

Students received warnings in September and October when three armed robberies and one attempted armed robbery occurred on and near BU’s Charles River Campus.

On Sept. 23, two BU students were robbed by two suspects at

2:55 a.m. on Thorndike Street in Brookline. The suspects displayed handguns and stole the students’ personal belongings.

Three suspects robbed three BU students on Sept. 26 at about 5 p.m. in the area of Egmont and St. Paul Streets. The suspects displayed a black handgun.

On Oct. 5, three suspects, one of whom was carrying a handgun, robbed a recent BU graduate at about 5:15 p.m. near St. Paul and Thatcher Streets.

A female BU student was the victim of an attempted armed robbery at 808 Commonwealth Ave. on Oct. 9 at about 8:40 p.m.

Three suspects were arrested between Oct. 11 and Oct. 12. Two juvenile suspects turned themselves in and one adult suspect was arrested. Taquari Milton, 17, of Roxbury pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in Brookline District Court Oct. 15.

would be really interested in voting and being patriotic and wouldn’t be able to do that because we can’t exactly fly back to register.”

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, of the 30 million citizens not registered to vote in 2008, 4.5 million said they did not meet registration deadlines. Of that 4.5 million, 21.3 percent are voters aged between 18 and 24, the highest proportion of all race-, age- or education-based classifications.

This is what Student Vote Project founder Michael Peshkin called another “evil example” of limitations placed upon student voters.

“All these restrictions, they have the effect of discouraging people from voting,” Peshkin said. “Then we all whine about only having 40-percent [voter-] turnout while other industrialized countries do much better. Well, this is part of the reason why. Make it easy, and people will vote.”

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this process is necessary. In many cases, this type of registration would be to prevent voter fraud, when individuals vote in-person on Election Day by impersonating another voter.

“It’s to ensue the person who is registered to vote is that person,” Woodham said. “That they are who they say they are.”

Michigan’s need to prevent against in-person voter fraud is unfounded, Peskin said.

“What you always hear about is that ‘we have to have all these restrictive rules to prevent fraud.’ And it’s just not true,” Peshkin said. “Inperson voter fraud is just a fake issue.”

An analysis of more than 2,000 cases of voter fraud since the 2000 election turned up 10 instances of in-person voter fraud according to a study conducted by News21, an initiative based out of Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communi-

of Journalism. This ultimately constitutes one case of fraud out of every 15 million prospective voters.

Ferritto said many of his friends from home who are also out of state missed their opportunities to vote in person before leaving for college for the semester, meaning they cannot vote in November.

“It’s almost discouraging younger people to vote because a lot of people are away at school,” Ferritto said. “I think they should definitely find an easier way [for students to vote absentee in Michigan].”

Woodham said Michigan’s policy is simply an extension of federal rules requiring identification for registering voters.

“They [students] need to be aware of the registration deadlines here in Michigan and the responsibilities as a voter,” Woodham said.

“One of those is to make sure that they’re registered in time and in the proper way.”

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Campus & City Column

Sweet dreams Last night, I had a dream.

It was a Monday morning, and I had no idea where I was. I was lying in a bed in a dorm room I didn’t recognize.

Disgruntled, I paced a couple of times around the room and then looked outside the window.

The hustle and bustle of Commonwealth Avenue had been replaced by a peaceful area of RHEA trees and buildOOMMEN ings that looked like they had been built in the late 17th century.

Across the room, the unmade bed was surrounded by pictures of a girl I had never met before posing with her friends and family.

The next moment, that same girl came into the room.

“Rise and shine, sleepy head!” she exclaimed, giving me a hug.

I backed away and asked who she was and what I was doing in her and her roommate’s room.

“You are my roommate, a fellow Harvard freshman, and all your dreams are coming true,” she said in a comical manner.

I looked around my side of the room again and realized she was right.

There were pictures of my friends, my family and myself. This was my dorm room. My college.

“Harvard accepted my application?’ I asked my roommate.

“When?”

I got on the laptop that apparently belonged to me. My class schedule was my wallpaper.

Chemistry, an engineering course and German were my classes for today, and I was already late.

“But I’m not a science student!”

I exclaimed. “And I can’t speak German!”

“But you’re in Harvard ... Veritas!” said a voice in my head.

I accepted this truth and got ready. From the neatness of my closet, super-organized desk and busy schedule, in my dream, I was the proactive Harvard freshman that my mother dreamed of me being.

I soon found myself walking out on the street.

As I was putting money into a street musician’s bucket, another girl greeted me and told me I was going to be late for orchestra. I asked her what instrument I played.

“The violin,” she replied.

She asked me to join her for lunch at the dining hall and we began walking toward what looked like a church.

After a lunch of pretense, I had a very important meeting with an advisor for next semester classes. I tried to explain to him my situation about changing career paths but then I started talking about Boston University and suddenly I wished to be there again.

I woke up again and saw my messy closet in front of me and the view of Commonwealth Avenue behind me.

I also got texts from BU Alert and a friend from my French class telling me to meet her at the Warren dining hall.

I was so happy to be back.

Rhea Oommen is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences and a weekly columnist for The Daily Free Press. She can be reached at rheao@bu.edu.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Science scholars weigh in on evolution, Islam Mass. losing

money due to food illnesses

By Nicole Leonard Daily Free Press Staff

The debate between science and religion on the evolutionary theory has been contested among a wide range of religions and scientists for years, but Islamic student initiative Project Nur program manager Shakir Mohammed said people could still study science and believe in the Muslim faith.

“We are hoping people get an idea and are interested in how religion has affected they way they [scientists] understand science,” he said. “[People] can see how religion and science are separate, but how they can study both.”

A panel of scholars weighed in on the agreements and divergences of Muslim tradition and the theory of evolution at Project Nur and the American Islamic Congress’ second session of the series Wednesday night at Boston University’s Photonics Center.

College of Arts and Sciences senior Nicole Bhatia, who studies Islam and the Middle East as an international relations major, said there is a question of whether or not a clash between Islam and evolution exists.

“Some extremists believe ev-

By Margaret Waterman Daily Free Press Staff

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Dr. Salman Hameed, Dr. Ehab Abouheif and Dr. Omar Sultan Haque review the relationship between Islam and the theory of evolution in the Photonic Center’s Colloquium Room Wednesday evening.

erything in the Koran,” she said.

“That is the world, that’s it. But there are things that we have now that it [the Koran] can’t explain.”

Bhatia said the clash depends on how someone defines Islam or evolution and if it then raises the question of whether people of the Islamic culture will more forward with science.

“During the Islam revival, many people thought they had to cling to religion,” she said. “I feel like we’re biased because of

where we live, but in other parts of the world, they’re stagnant.”

Salman Hameed, associate professor of integrated sciences and humanities at Hampshire College and director of the Center for the Study of Science in Muslim Societies, said to a crowd of about 120 people that over the past couple decades, creationism has spread around the world, including the Muslim world.

Science, see page 4

In final debate, Kennedy’s experience under scrutiny

By Allison DeAngelis Daily Free Press Staff

Fourth Congressional district candidate Joe Kennedy III will still face the challenge of distinguishing himself from his family when voters approach the polls, an obstacle Republican candidate Sean Bielat has continuously pitched to the public.

In the final brief television debate of the election season, Bielat continued his attacks on Democratic opponent Kennedy’s lack of experience and qualifications, a move some viewers said is a ploy to distract voters from important issues.

The debate, which lasted 15 minutes and aired Wednesday morning on Fox 25, was the candidates’ final chance to appeal to voters, but involved little discussion of the issues until the final five minutes.

During the debate, Bielat repeated his claims that Kennedy is only a contender in the race because of his family name and said Kennedy is “hoping that his name is enough and his money’s enough” to win.

“It’s not just about age, but it’s

about what we’ve done with our years,” Bielat said. “I’ve done more that’s relevant to the office that I’m seeking than Joe has.”

Although neither candidate has held public office, Bielat said Kennedy did not have the experience necessary for the seat.

In this election season Bielat said jobs, the economy and national security are important issues to Massachusetts voters.

Kennedy reverted to a tactic he has played throughout this campaign when accused of coasting on his family’s name — flattering his background, but then backing out.

“I’m very proud, clearly, of what my family has done here in Massachusetts and for this country,” he said. “And I think it’s certainly been a big support for me, but from day one, I’ve been very clear with everybody that it is my name on the ballot.”

Bielat said that as a former Marine and businessman, his experience is more pertinent.

During the “mini-debate,” the only public problems the two candidates debated were the possible

Fraternity polls for documentary

By Cosette Pérez Daily Free Press Staff

Instead of deciding for themselves, the members of Phi Iota Alpha at Boston University reached out to the community through social media to find out what topics students would like to see addressed in the fraternity’s next documentary.

“I really hope that with this documentary, we show something that will incline people to do more,” said College of Engineering junior Edgar Puesan, one of the brothers. “We’ve shown a documentary about the lack of clean water, and it really got people to go out there and do more.”

Phi Iota Alpha, BU’s Latino fraternity, shows documentaries to the community as an educational tool to spur people into ac-

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tion, said Michael Isaza, a brother who is an ENG junior.

“The fact that we asked people to pick the movie has a lot to do with the numbers of people that we want to show up and watch the movie,” said Armando Merino, a brother who is a School of Management senior. “We are trying to give people what they want.”

The post on Facebook allowed students to vote for one of five options including social, political, education, environment and sports, he said. According to the votes so far, students prefer a documentary focusing on social issues.

“I think it’s smart because they get more people to come and participate, they feel more involved

Fraternity, see page 4

introduction of casinos in the fourth district and taxes.

Both candidates agreed that casinos were a good idea in communities that supported them, such as Brookline.

“If a casino’s going to go in, it should have the support of the local communities,” Kennedy said.

Bielat mirrored his opponents view on the casino issue.

“I support economic development, and if local voters support a casino, I do too,” he said.

However, the two butted heads over taxation when Kennedy claimed that Bielat supported the Ryan budget.

Massachusetts Democratic Party spokesman Kevin Franck said the focus on character instead of the issues was a ploy to distract voters by a candidate who has little likelihood of winning.

“I think that Sean Bielat brings that up because he’s just trying to distract voters from what’s really important in this race,” he said.

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Failures in food-safety legislation cost Massachusetts about $532,128 between January 2011 and September 2012, according to a report released Wednesday by the independent consumer group MASSPirg.

Nationwide, 37 citizens have died from illnesses directly related to these high-volume food recalls, according to MASSPirg.

There have been also been 464 hospitalizations due to recalled food products and 1,446 incidences of salmonella.

Cantaloupe, mangoes, papaya, raw tuna, ground turkey and peanut butter were carriers of salmonella in recent outbreaks, the report stated.MASSPirg estimates the total economic burden in all 50 states from illnesses caused by food recalls as $277,263,040 over that time frame.Massachusetts reported 48 cases of non-typhoidal salmonella, costing about $11,086 per case.

Deirdre Cummings, MASSPirg legislative director, said raw tuna was responsible for a large chunk of recent Massachusetts foodborne illness.

“That is particularly problematic because most people have a sense that they try to eat healthy, and we are seeing a lot of problems coming in on fish and also produce,” she said.

The report stated Moon Marine USA Corporation’s raw yellowfin tuna was responsible for 36 of the 48 salmonella illnesses in the Bay State.

The corporation, based in Cupertino, Calif., voluntarily recalled 58,828 pounds of frozen raw yellow fin tuna product earlier in the year, labeled as Nakaochi Scrape, according to a Food and Drug Administration press release from April.

Sunland Inc. peanut butter products are responsible for three cases of salmonella in Massachusetts, according to the study.

“It’s unthinkable in this day and age that you have to be concerned about a peanut butter and jelly sandwich,” Cummings said.

Both Sunland’s peanut butter plant and their peanut-processing plant have been shut down while

Food, see page 4

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Occupier: Change comes with edu. Obama requests $4.5B for FDA, gets $700M less Protest: From Page 1

Partiers are “as diverse as America.”

Keli Carender, one of the first Tea Partiers, said the Tea Party is not as homogeneously young as Occupy, but there is a young faction of Tea Partiers she works with.

“Our staff is probably half under 36 and the other half is older,” Carender, 33, said about her co-workers at the Tea Party Patriots organization.

Johns said the Tea Party has approached political activism through the channels of government, making it more successful than the tactics of Occupiers.

By working through the political mechanisms, the Tea Party took over the House of Representatives and has accomplished clear, attainable goals, he said.

“The Occupy movement has had minimal, perhaps no serious influence or leverage,” he said. “You can’t point to any member of Congress or elected official or piece of legislation.

The Tea Party can point to many of

those things.”

Peyton said that through education and awareness, citizens will rise up and realize they can create change themselves.

“Why I think Occupy has more lasting power is we show people that they can make change and we can educate them about issues,” Peyton said. “We don’t have to tell people that voting is one way they can make change. They have more power than that.”

Still, these two movements have many parallels and could have become allies under different circumstances, Carender said.

“If people hadn’t been so quick to demonize the party because they were afraid we were going to destroy progressive accomplishments, they would have seen that we agree that cronyism sucks and we don’t want tax-payer dollars going to friends of elected officials,” Carender said. “It doesn’t matter if they are on the right or the left.”

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an internal investigation occurs, said Sunland Vice President Katalin Coburn.

“We are continuing to analyze all of the test results in a very thorough way and we will be issuing a statement once that analysis has been completed together with all of the necessary corrective actions,” Coburn said.

Arkansas-based Cargill Meat Solutions was responsible for four cases of salmonella caused by their ground turkey products and three cases of salmonella based on their ground beef product, according to the MASSPirg report.

In August 2011, Cargill recalled about 36 million pounds of ground turkey products that may have been contaminated with a multi-drug resistant strain of salmonella, according to an August 2011 Food and Drug Administration press release.

In September 2011, the company recalled another 185,000 pounds of the same product, according to a press release.

Hannaford Supermarket’s ground beef and Agromod Produce Inc.’s papaya products are

each responsible for one case of salmonella, the report stated.

Cargill also recalled about 29,300 pounds of turkey in July 2012, according to a Cargill press release.

The Food Safety Modernization Act, signed into law in 2011, requires the FDA to inspect all high-risk domestic food facilities at least once every three years.

FSMA gives the FDA the power to detain food, prohibit certain facilities from distributing food, inspect foreign food facilities and potentially prohibit the entry of foreign food into the U.S., the MASSPirg report stated.

Cummings said more must be done to protect Americans from unsafe food, including proper enforcement of the 2011 law.

“We ought to be investigating in those systems that protect our public health, and unfortunately this is one of those areas that has been not adequately funded,” she said.

In February, President Barack Obama requested a $4.5-billion budget for the FDA, but both proposed budgets from the Senate and the House fell $600 to $700 million below that figure, according to the MASSPirg report.

Josh Frierman, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University, said he has had food poisoning twice from sushi.

“The other day, actually, I was in the GSU and I got one of the sushi things they had, and it was before they really opened and the whole thing was a frozen block,” he said. “I gave it back, I didn’t eat it.”

Chad Cohen, a sophomore in the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, said the report would not change the way he grocery shops.

“I don’t think it would happen to me,” he said. “I don’t know how to explain it, but I just feel like I don’t think what I would want to get would have salmonella. It was surprising that peanut butter had it. That surprised me a lot.”

CAS freshman Rachel Rosen said the study probably might make her a little more cautious.

“It probably wouldn’t change what I eat too much, but it would make me a little bit more wary of particularly foods I think of as foods that might contain salmonella,” she said. “Ground meats — chicken in particular.”

Evolution ‘uncomfortable’ topic in convo., panelist says Science: From Page 3

“This conversation is not about thermodynamics or chemical bonds,” he said. “We’re talking about evolution because it is in an area that is uncomfortable and has tension in these parts of the world.”

Hameed said the clash between evolutionary theory and Islam stems from those who project set opinions, one way or another, about the subject.

“If a person believes in the descent of species, then yes, there is a clash,” he said. “If a person believes that humans were specifically made as is on Earth, then there is a clash.”

Other panelists included research chair in evolutionary developmental biology and principal investigator at the Abouheif Lab at McGill University, Ehab

Abouheif, who is assistant professor of molecular biology and director of the Centre for Studies at Hashemite University, Rana Dajani and postdoctoral fellow of psychology at Harvard University and psychiatry and law at Harvard Medical School, Omar Sultan Haque.

CAS senior Mohammad Zaidi said the question of if he believes in evolution and science as a Muslim has come up many times, although it is a controversial subject.

“I liked how they talked about things I was interested in, especially between the balance between religion and science,” he said. “I liked how Hameed talk about Pakistani physicians and how many of them supported evolution.”

Sami Hamdan, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation

Sciences senior, said he had his own opinions, but wanted to hear what other people who also study science with Muslim religious backgrounds thought.

“Some of our basic ideas are similar, but I [had] never heard them discussed in such a structured way before,” he said. “I really liked that they said religion is a way of living and science is understanding life. People don’t always think about that.”

Bhatia said the panelists represented unique standpoints with different backgrounds well.

“I thought about what Dajani talked about freedom and ways Islamic countries are suppressing science and new-thinking,” she said. “The other guys did a good job on the compatibility of science and religion. Most people accept that or just don’t care.”

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so they will come out [to see it],” said Stephanie Semet, a College of Communication sophomore.

Showing a documentary is only one of the many ways Phi Iota Alpha tries to make a difference in the community, said Phi Iota Alpha President Jonathan Orrala, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences senior. They also work with the United Nations Children’s Fund in the fall for the Trick-or-Treat project and during the spring on the Tap Water project.

“We work on the Tap Water project because we want to bring awareness to the water that is being wasted and what we can do to get involved,” Isaza said.

Phi Iota Alpha focuses on activism and bringing pan-Americanism to the BU community. It only has 10 brothers, but they are

still a strong fraternity, he said.

“We do accept everybody even if they are not Latin American,” Orrala said. “I am from New Jersey, and I lived in a Latino-based community, so I wanted to find people like that here.”

Merino said he never thought of joining a fraternity until he found Phi Iota Alpha, which allowed him to get involved with a Latin American community.

“I feel like this frat is a family and normally I would’ve never thought of being in one cause all of the frats that I saw were like the ones in the movies like ‘National Lampoon,’” he said.

The brothers also participate in a community service project to help Latin American children in Chelsea with homework, Merino said. They are very involved in bringing attention to education, he said.

“I voted for education [for a

documentary] because I feel like that’s the most important topic on the list,” Isaza said.

Past documentary screenings have had large audiences and they hope to bring even more this year, Orrala said.

“It can be difficult because we have to get the copyright from the documentaries to show them, and that can get expensive,” Merino said.

Two of the documentaries mentioned in a brainstorming session were “Waiting for Superman” and “The Human Experience,” Orrala said.

Puesan said he was able to find a community concerned with important issues with Phi Iota Alpha.

“I was able to find the role model and family that I was looking for here,” he said. “I really hope that with this documentary, we show something that will incline people to do more.”

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hotographer Mario Testino’s photographs are bold, fierce and, quite honestly, in your face. Testino’s aptly titled “In Your Face” exhibit has found its way to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.

The exhibit, which opened Sunday, features his already well known photography work. Testino’s no stranger to Vogue, Vanity Fair and the international market. As one of today’s most renowned contemporary fashion and celebrity portrait photographers, his glamorous exhibit at the MFA includes celebrity icons such as Gisele Bundchen, Jennifer Lopez and Emma Watson.

Four rooms in total, the exhibit of largerthan-life photos is truly eye-catching. Standout work from London based work includes an image of Patricia Schmid, from British Vogue 2005, wearing a beautiful bright green dress and shiny red lipstick. A black shield covers her face, nose and eyes, creating an almost futuristic and out-of-this-world, yet beautiful, look. The exhibit makes the disparity between European and American fashion clear, as the European fashion photos are much more abstract.

One image is of Gisele Bundchen from Vanity Fair New York in 2007. She is wearing a shiny silver dress with a purple boa hanging from her arm. As she elegantly steps out of

MUSE staff a white car and the image is shot, she makes sure to showcase every part of her outfit like a true model should. It is a powerful image that carries a strong meaning.

One of the most memorable images of the exhibit is of Kate Moss’s face from 2002, with face paint in white, blue and green surrounding her eyes as she stares into the camera with an alluring look. The photographer perfectly positioned Moss on a plain background. Between Moss and the camera lens lies power and energy, which perfectly translate to the shot. The image stays in your head no matter how hard you try to forget it.

Born in Lima, Peru, in 1954, Testino moved to London in the mid 1970s to pursue a career in photography. He frequently combines the fields of art and photography into one image to create the ultimate photograph.

All of the images scream Vogue and Vanity Fair, but in a good way, as if one is taking a dip inside the magazine’s pages.

“I have an idea, and I convey it through other people’s talents,” Testino said, standing next to his image of a photograph from Asia.

The star of the photograph is Karlie Kloss, an emerging fashion model who has recently commanded much global attention. Set amid a crowd of people in elaborate dress and disorder, Karlie still manages to stand out. She

Photo Courtesy Mario Testino

Kate Moss poses for Mario Testino in London in 2006. “In Your Face,” a new exhibit by the renowned photographer, will run at the MFA through Feb. 3, 2013.

is placed near the right side of the frame with a giggly and naïve look on her face as she holds onto her dress within the middle of the chaotic scene.

Capturing those moments when people

are most fierce, whether in a formal fashion setting or at a private party is Testino’s trademark.

“In Your Face” will run at the MFA through Feb. 3, 2013.

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Big Brother is watching

In an effort to curb student cheating, Indiana University has installed cameras in classrooms in its Kelley School of Business, according to an article in Fox 59 on Tuesday.

A trained employee monitors the feed from a separate room and notifies the professors of any suspicious behavior. It is up to the professors to decide how they want to handle each situation, according to Fox. IU’s enrollment has increased, which has lead to a shortage of proctors and the need for surveillance cameras, an interim dean reported to Fox. But while the cameras cover ground the proctors cannot, are they really the next best option?

Cheating undermines the basic tenets of academia — accuracy and hard work.

Students who cheat fail to master the concepts that are being thrown at them. Their behavior also negatively affects their peers.

When students are rewarded for producing dishonest work, the honest students might start to view their own efforts as futile.

They will ask themselves, “Why am I working harder and earning the same grade?”

That being said, installing cameras in classrooms will not solve student cheating.

Some individuals will cheat whether or not there are cameras in place.

Academic dishonesty also extends beyond the classroom. Students plagiarize papers and collaborate on take-home exams without their professors’ permission.

Rather than invest in cameras that only monitor students’ classroom activities, the university should focus on preventative measures.

For instance, it could look into why students feel the need to cheat. Is there an issue with the curriculum that drives some students to cheat?

It will be interesting to see whether IU installs cameras in other academic buildings.

In addition to the cameras, the university has started hosting eight-hour “academic integrity seminars.” However, it might be more worthwhile for the university to assess why cheating occurs rather than deal with it after the fact.

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I N T E R RO B A N G During the presidential debate Monday night, President Barack Obama delivered the line, “Governor, we have fewer horses and bayonets because the history of our military’s changed.” So, we here at the ol’ Free Press were wondering what items each school would consider outdated.

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COM students would consider the latest iPhone outdated.

CGS students would consider Lisa Frank notebooks outdated.

SMG students would consider beepers outdated.

CFA students would consider well-fitting clothes outdated.

BU Athletics would consider football outdated.

Dean Elmore would consider hair outdated.

The FreeP would consider typewriters outdated.

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Listen up, men ARIELLE EGAN

ll right, boys, buckle up because it’s about to get a bit political up in here. Throughout the week, people have been talking about the presidential debates and asking who I will be voting for. The question always seems silly when posed. I mean, look at me, I’m a female college student. I have ovaries. My vote is cast.

Though I’m sure there are informed female college students who will disagree with my opinion, it seems the majority of my gender feels the same.

Nate Silver, a polling analyst for The New York Times, said that if only women voted, President Barak Obama would be looking at an overwhelming victory, equaling or exceeding his margin over John McCain. If only men voted, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney would win, possibly by a similar margin to the one Ronald Reagan realized over Jimmy Carter.

This election could shape up to showcase one of the largest gender gaps ever seen in a presidential election — but why?

I think the disparity between male and female political alignment may amount to a gap in empathy, or rather men not understanding the urgency of what Romney’s enacted political stances will do to women.

So, let’s shift gears and talk about what they’ll do to men.

Casual dating, the kindy where one of you eventually breaks and asks the, “So … what are we?” question at 3 a.m. after you’re both a few beers in and tangled in bed and have been engaging in regular sex for the past few weeks, will change under a Romney presidency. Here is why: if birth control is less accessible, then fewer women will be on it. Romney’s plan is to limit access to birth control that women can now purchase with their employer-based insurance. You need only walk into any CVS with a pharmacy to note how many college girls are currently utilizing this right.

Romney’s plan doesn’t stop there, he will then likely appoint justices that will overturn Roe v. Wade and limit abortion at the federal level.

When pregnancy must be seen through to the end, every possible consensual pregnancy-causing encounter becomes less fun and a lot more final. The longer you’re on the dating market, the greater the likelihood is that one day the condom breaks.

Welcome to Russian roulette. It won’t be as sexy as it sounds.

If a woman gets pregnant under the Romney administration, she stays pregnant.

Congratulations you young stud, you. You

are on the hook for child support for the first 18 years of that child’s life. And you were worried about student loans? Pft. That casual dating thing doesn’t sound so good anymore, huh? I’m not even going to go into the decline of the one-night stand, though I’m sure men everywhere aren’t giving its demise enough thought.

So, what if you’re reading this and thinking, “I’m a responsible guy who will only have sex with my wife and will earn the millions of dollars necessary to pay for healthcare for my large brood of children without having to rely on the government?

Do I still have to pay for other women’s birth control?”

You will still pay for it. Reducing access to birth control and abortion has never, ever, ever, ever (you got it T-Swift) ever, resulted in foregoing recreational sex. It has only resulted in a greater number of unplanned pregnancies, which will result in unplanned births of children into circumstances where the parents are often unable to support them.

Yes, adoption is a viable option, but lets just take a second to think about the hundreds of thousands of kids currently languishing in the foster system of this country.

Under Romney’s policies, one way or another, you will pay for feeding them, educating them or sheltering them. When one of them has a fever and their mother has no choice but to take them to the emergency room and has no money to pay the bill, you, moral citizen, will be paying it.

When the mother can’t pay for the delivery of the child, which is far more expensive than birth control, you’ll pay for that too.

As a woman, I care about these policies because I don’t like the idea of anyone making such a personal and difficult decision about my body for me. If we are to equate freedom with America, then surely the freedom of my body should be at an equal level to freedom of speech.

As a man this argument doesn’t apply to you directly, but the consequences of these policies will have a direct impact on how women relate to you. They will have an impact on the women you love and even the ones you may be casually dating. So, when you go to the polls remember, you aren’t casting a vote for yourself, but for your nation.

Arielle Egan 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 aegan@bu.edu.

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Terriers take final home matchup of season over Binghamton Men’s soccer: From page 8

minute. However, nothing came to fruition on the chance as sophomore forward Dominique Badji had his shot blocked after the corner.

In the 19th minute Ciccone again drove the box on the left side, this time getting a shot off, but it was saved on a diving stop by senior Binghamton (6–9–0, 2–4–0 America East) goalie Chris Hayen.

The Terriers were not the only team with chances, as Binghamton tried to jump on the board early as well. In the sixth minute forward Adam Whitehead took a deep shot from well outside the box, and

it hit the crossbar, nearly giving Binghamton a one-goal lead. In the eighth minute, midfielder Tommy Moon attempted to score on a header, but the shot went just wide of sophomore goalie Nick Thomson.

Despite the Bearcats’ early good looks, the Terrier defense seemed to pick up the slack. White contained the threat of Tommy Moon. Junior midfielder Derek McCaffrey, who played a large part on the defense, worked well with White to stop the Bearcat attack. Not only did McCaffrey play an outstanding defense, but he did so while being injured, something not new to BU’s season.

“Derek McCafrey was injured,”

Roberts said. “He was on crutches this morning. He asked for an injection before the game and he played well.”

After some chances for the Terriers to strike first, they finally did in the 27th minute. As usual, Ciccone dribbled the ball into the box from the left side, faking a few defenders in the process. The ball eventually got loose, and redshirt freshman forward Mac McGuire put the ball into the net, giving the Terriers a onegoal lead.

The Bearcats then went on a quick counter attack. In the 29th minute, Thomson made a diving save to stop sophomore defender

Ben Nicholson on a good scoring chance. Then in the 31st minute, Thomson came way out of the net and stopped an opportunity with his head.

In the 51st minute, sophomore midfielder Cameron Souri fed Ciccone, but Hayen made a great stop to not allow another goal to get by him.

Later in the 70th minute, Bustamante took a shot off a rebound but Hayen was up to the challenge again.

Although the Terriers had trouble finding the back of the net for a second goal, the Bearcats were also unable to score, thanks in part to great play from Thomson.

In the 72nd minute, Whitehead

drove the box again and took a great shot, but Thomson came out of the net and made another outstanding save to keep the score at 1–0. In the 73rd minute, Whitehead earned corner for Binghamton, and Robbie Hughes got a shot off that was a soft and high. But Thomson grabbed the ball out of the air and somehow kept his momentum out of the goal, preserving his shutout. Binghamton got one last chance from senior forward Jake Keegan, but again Thomson made a terrific diving save, preserving the BU win. The Terriers will play their final regular season game of the year at the University of New Hampshire on Saturday at 7 p.m.

Field hockey to battle UNH Terriers to face for 1st place in America East Fairfield, Yale in final games Women’s hockey: From page 8

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Junior co-captain Marie-Philip Poulin earned America East CoPlayer of the week for her four points in two games against Cornell.

Black Bear netminder to have a win in her career, has been a key component to the team’s success in years past.

“Brittany Ott is a very good goaltender who always, in my mind, has been the unsung hero of the league,” Durocher said. “She’s a kid who sort of plays in the shadows a little.

“Last year her team took a step forward and she got more recognition, but she doesn’t give up rebounds, she has a fantastic glove hand, so she is always someone who is tough to deal with because goalies are still probably the most important position in this game and she’s a darn good one.”

Ott had not played in a game until the Black Bears’ win over UConn on Sunday because of a bout with mononucleosis.

After facing off against Maine, the Terriers will have a quick turn

around, playing a very different team in Robert Morris (1–1).

“That’s a team that, from what I know, plays really, really tough defensively,” Durocher said. “They play very strong in front of their net.”

The Colonials have played just two games so far this season — contests against Yale University and Princeton University. While Robert Morris successfully defeated Yale, they fell to Princeton 6–3 on Oct. 20.

The game against the Terriers is the first time the Colonials will play a road game this season.

“I think the biggest thing we’ve got to avoid is any type of let down or lack of respect for our opponent,” Durocher said. “Hopefully that will be our focus. These two points are just as important as the ones we got last weekend and this opponent will be just as ready as Cornell or Northeastern or any other people we’ve played this year.”

BU reflects on careers of Bustamante, White on Senior Night Senior Day: From page 8

important part of Chelsea, the community he is from. I couldn’t be happier for Michael as a player and as a person.”

As a freshman, Bustamante burst onto the America East scene and excelled quickly.

In 2008, Bustamante was named America East Midfielder of the Year as well as America East Rookie of the Year — he was only the fourth player in the league’s history to win both awards. Bustamante was also named to both the All-America East First Team and Freshman All-American Second Team. Statistically, Bustamante ended the season with nine assists, third in America East and 13 points, second on the team.

The next year, as a sophomore, Bustamante started all 13 games and

led the team in assists, registering 10 on the year. Once again, he was named to the America East All-Conference Team.

As a junior, and for the third year in a row, Bustamante was named to the First Team All-America East squad after tallying two goals and four assists on the season.

However, Bustamante’s senior season was cut short before it began as he missed the entire year due to a preseason injury. After redshirting the season and working hard to rehab the injury, he was back in playing shape for the 2012 campaign.

As the 2012 campaign nears conclusion, Bustamante currently has registered three goals, four assists, and 48 shots. The season started slowly for the fifth-year senior, but at about the halfway point, he began

looking like himself again.

Bustamante said this year has been special for him.

“I’ve been here five years,” said Bustamante. “Each team has had something different. I enjoyed playing with all of them, but these guys are a very knotted group. Everybody works hard for each other whether it’s on or off the field — those guys really like each other. We are like friends and family in there.

“Whether we are losing or winning we are able to look at each other and be honest with each other. I appreciate playing with guys like that.”

Bustamante also spends significant time helping out his home community in Chelsea.

“I grew up in Chelsea, I went to school in Chelsea, and now I’m working there too,” Bustamante said.

“I go back at least three or four times a week. It’s great to go back and give some time to the guys over there.”

While in Chelsea, Bustamante not only spends a lot of time with his family, but also runs an after-school program where he mentors students, making sure they get help with their school work and are staying on track for graduation.

At the conclusion of the game, after doing the customary stretching, White and Bustamante made it a point to hug, thank and share laughs with close family and friends who attended their senior night game. Both seniors will play their final game as Terriers this Saturday when BU wraps up its 2012 season in Durham, N.H., against the University of New Hampshire.

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kind of made everyone else step up to fill that space ... The entire team just matched her level of play and it’s good to see that.”

This weekend’s game is not just the last home game of the season for BU. It is the final game the team will ever play at Jordan Field.

The crimson-tinted home away from home at Harvard University is to be replaced by the New Balance Field on Babcock Street in the 2013 season, which will become the Terriers’ official home field.

Starr said a real home field changes everything about the way the team can play.

“I can’t even begin to say what it means to the program,” Starr said.

“First, it’s a real home field. I just watched the women’s soccer team play on Nickerson and you realize how much more spirit there is on campus for BU’s teams.

“Also, we can spend an extra half hour at practice instead of having to spend half an hour in vans every day.

Add that up and it’s an extra two to three hours every week. We can get better at corner offense, corner defense and just overall play. Plus, it also helps recruit players for the upcoming season. I can just go on and on about what it means to have it.”

After Fairfield, the last game of the season is on Sunday against Yale.

Even though it is the last weekend of play for the Terriers, they are still only focused on the Fairfield game ahead of them.

“This is, as always, a game we need to focus on.” Starr said. “We still need to take it one game at a time, finish the week with good practices, and go out and play two good games.”

Brown continues to push Native American issue on Warren while voters move on Senate: From Page 1

Domke said the candidates did not make good use of their money and could have done more original work with original music.

“The bottom line I would say about the ad wars is that 10s of millions have been spent, but, as in the presidential race, we see little effect,” Domke said.

Shea said Warren had to fight against Brown’s incumbency and tried to link him to the national Republican party, something Brown worked against. “[The] more difficult task for Scott Brown is to convince people he is not Republican,” Shea said.

Shea said Brown’s strength came from a great story and a hard background, which the public likes.

In the final set of advertisements, Warren was portrayed as working in the unpopular areas of insurance and as an attorney.

This did not work to Brown’s advantage, Domke said.

Shea had a similar opinion.

“This stuff might work in East Texas — it doesn’t work in Massachusetts,” Shea said. “We have a very sophisticated elective, very smart compared to the rest of the country.”

Shea said this was a turning point in Brown’s campaign, which will make it harder for him to win.

In the second part of the evening,

Boston Globe columnist Scot Lehigh and Carole Simpson, former ABC news anchor, said the debates hurt Brown.

Lehigh said Warren did not make the debate personal, but Brown kept pressing Warren’s ancestral background to Native Americans even after polls showed people are “sick” of the issue.

Brown is “rolling burning barrels from the back of his truck,” Lehigh said.

“He is trying to say, ‘this woman is so dubious, she is so sketchy, so dodgy that you really shouldn’t vote for her,’” Lehigh said.

Warren focused on the idea that if people did not like her, they should

still vote for her to have a Democratic Senate, he said.

Simpson said that having covered and moderated a presidential debate, she took a different position to that of Lehigh.

“What I learned from people is that, they’re looking at the atmospheres, they’re looking at the physical appearances, they’re looking at the sound of the voice,” Simpson said.

Mohl closed the debate by interviewing Robert Rosenthal, associate professor and chair of the department of communications and journalism at Suffolk, who called the media’s coverage of the race mediocre.

“The media’s job is to make sure

that their [government officials’] feet are held to the fire,” Rosenthal said.

“We probably don’t do that enough in this country.”

Rosenthal said he would like to see news conferences in which working reporters who do reporting can ask follow up questions to “really put candidates through the test.”

Jacquelyn Vadnais, 25, and Jeremy Worthington, 24, of Back Bay, said they do not have a television and enjoyed seeing the ad coverage.

Worthington said both of them worked on Capitol Hill in the past.

“To see what is happening behind the scene [is good],” Worthington said about the strategies candidates used.

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Strong finish: BU tops Binghamton on Senior Night Ciccone, McGuire team up to push BU past Bearcats

Terriers Bustamante, White honored at Senior Night

By Andrew Battifarano Daily Free Press Staff

Through a season filled with injuries, close games and many ups and downs along the way, the Terriers played their final home game of the season at Nickerson Field Tuesday night, defeating Binghamton University.

As the Terriers (6–7–4, 3–1–2 America East) played their final home game of the season, the players celebrated Senior Night for the graduating Terriers. Before the game, BU honored the only two seniors leaving the team, midfielder Michael Bustamante and defender Max White.

“I try to just take it one game at a time,” Bustamante said. “The guys were saying let’s do it for the seniors, but I said let’s just come out and play.”

1 BU Early on in the contest, it appeared Binghamton 0 the game might not be the way BU generally likes to play in the first half of games.

During this year’s campaign, BU has generally started the first half attempting to control the ball while tiring out the opponent so they are set to make a move to score in the second half. However, in the first half, the ball stayed near midfield, with both teams going back in forth controlling the ball, and neither one getting significant possession.

“Overall we really didn’t control the game like we did against Harvard and Albany games,” said BU coach Neil Roberts. “At pieces we did. It was difficult for us. That’s credit to Binghamton to keep us under control like that.”

Despite the limited ball control that BU had in the early stages of the first half, it still got some good chances. Junior midfielder Anthony Ciccone drove the box with a couple of fancy dribbling moves to get around defenders and earn a corner kick for BU in the seventh

Men’s soccer, see page 7

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Redshirt freshman forward Mac McGuire scored the match’s only goal as the Boston University men’s soccer team topped Binghamton University 1–0.

As the final whistle blew at Nickerson field Wednesday night, the Boston University men’s soccer team concluded its 2012 home schedule with 1–0 win over Binghamton University on Senior Night at Nickerson Field.

The game was the last home game for the two seniors on the team, forward Michael Bustamante and defender Max White.

“It was important that we got a win for the two seniors,” said BU coach Neil Roberts after the game.

Prior to the game, the team recognized Bustamante and White, presenting each with a framed BU soccer jersey with their respective numbers. Additionally, both seniors played all 90 minutes.

“Max never starts at the beginning of the year, but by the end he is always starting,” Roberts said. “Max has always found a way to get on the field since his freshman year.”

As a sophomore in 2010, White made the America East All-Rookie Team while appearing in 11 games and registering five shot attempts on the year. Additionally, he was an integral part of a BU squad that allowed a season average of 0.86 goals per game and ranked 34th nationally.

The following year, he appeared in 13 games, starting six of them. White had a strong defensive year, most notably in an Oct. 4 game against then–No. 22 Providence University in which he helped BU shutout the Friars at Nickerson Field.

Bustamante, a fifth-year senior, also ends his BU career with an impressive resume both on the field as a player and off the field as a student.

“Michael has matured and become a first class adult,” Roberts said. “I’m so proud of Michael for the way he has developed every year since he has been here. He’s really become an

Senior Night, see page 7

Field hockey prepared for penultimate Terriers head back to conference match of regular season against Stags play before facing Robert Morris

By Steven Dufour Daily Free Press Staff

Saturday is a day of lasts for No. 15 Boston University field hockey.

The team hosts Fairfield University Saturday in the fifth of five conference matches, but there is a larger scope to the game than just another 70 minutes of play.

Saturday’s matchup against the Stags (10–8, 1–3 America East) is the last game of conference play. The Terriers are currently second in America East rankings. With a win against Fairfield, they would maximize their chances for their fifth conference championship in fewer than 10 years. All that needs to happen is a loss for No. 19 University of New Hampshire (9–7, 4–0 America East) this weekend against No. 25 University of Maine (10–8, 2–2 America East).

Fairfield’s biggest threat is its endurance. In the second half, it has more corners, more shots and more goals than the cumulative total of its opponents over the duration of the season.

“Fairfield is a much-improved team,” said BU coach Sally Starr. “They’re a team that always plays hard. They’re a team that has many

good individual players on it. They’re having one of the best seasons that they have had in a long time, and I know they’re excited about making the conference tournament for the first time.”

The Terriers (10–6, 3–1 America East) salute their seven seniors for their years of dedication to the team during the upcoming game with senior day. This is the seniors’ last home game in a BU jersey, so the players and coaches will honor their efforts.

However, one of the most influential players on the team will be unable to participate. Senior defender Jacinda McLeod, despite missing the upset on Sunday against No. 10 Northeastern University, is still tied with junior midfielder Ella Gunson as the top goal scorer on the team.

However, due to a potentially career-ending injury to several ligaments in her leg, she must stand on the sideline for the remaining two games of the season. “[McLeod’s injury] is a big loss to us,” Starr said. “I think she’s handling it well and it

Field hockey, see page 7

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Thursday, Oct. 25

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Friday, Oct. 26 W. Hockey vs. Maine, 7 p.m.

M. Hockey vs. UMass-Amherst, 7:30

By Meredith Perri Daily Free Press Staff

Following an emotionally charged weekend of play against No. 2 Cornell University, the No. 3 Boston University women’s hockey team will stay at Walter Brown Arena for a two-game weekend.

BU coach Brian Durocher said the high level of competition from last weekend will help the Terriers (5–1, 2–0 Hockey East) as they play conference opponent University of Maine, as well as Robert Morris University of College Hockey America.

“I think any time you play somebody of a high level — and Cornell is certainly that type of opponent — it forces you to play the game at a quick pace, a high level,” Durocher said. “You have to think that much quicker and obviously be able to execute under the pressure.”

Although they only took one of the two games against Cornell, the Terriers were still lauded for their efforts. BU as a team was named the Hockey East Team of the Week, while junior co-captain Marie-Philip Poulin and her classmate, netminder Kerrin Sperry,

Saturday, Oct. 27

Field Hockey vs. Fairfield, 1 p.m.

W. Hockey vs. Robert Morris, 2 p.m.

M. Hockey @ UMass-Amherst, 7 p.m.

M. Soccer @ UNH, 7 p.m.

were named the conference’s Co-Player of the Week and Defensive Player of the Week, respectively.

“They each [help us] in different a fashion,” Durocher said. “[Sperry] each game does her best to give us a chance to win as a kid who rarely gives up a soft goal. She gets beat like every other goalie from time to time, but kids have to earn it.

“Marie-Philip is the consummate leader who makes people better around her and is always one of the hardest working kids there.”

The Black Bears (1–3, 1–1 Hockey East) will come into the game on Friday fresh off their first win of the season. After falling to Quinnipiac University in its first series of the season, Maine split a two-game tilt with the University of Connecticut this past weekend.

“I think they had a veteran team last year,” Durocher said. “They’ve certainly had a little bit of a changing of the guards that way, but they still have a very good team.”

Senior goaltender Brittany Ott, the only

Sunday, Oct. 28 W. Rowing @ Princeton Chase, 8 a.m.

Field Hockey @ Yale, 2 p.m.

M. Crew @ Princeton Chase, All Day

Women’s hockey, see page 7

Monday, Oct. 29

No Games Scheduled Without hair, Love was forced to reveal that he had also been playing for the Phoenix Suns under the pseudonym Marcin Gortat.