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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2015 THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR XLIV. VOLUME LXXXIX. ISSUE IX.

State legislators consider physicianassisted suicide

BY LEXI PEERY DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

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Between 2 and 2:50 a.m. on Oct. 18, a female student was allegedly sexually assaulted in her room at 33 Harry Agganis Way.

StuVi sexual assault possibly not isolated incident

BY FELICIA GANS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

As Boston University police officers continue their search for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a student in her dorm room Oct. 18 at approximately 2 a.m., several residents of 33 Harry Agganis Way said the assault wasn’t the only security breach in the residence hall that morning.

Lily, a senior who lives in StuVi II and requested her last name not be used, said she was sleeping in her bed at about 2:40 a.m. on Oct. 18, the day of the alleged assault, when two men barged into her room, asking if she was “Sarah.”

When she told them no, she said they apologized and left.

“In the moment, it didn’t seem threatening. I thought they were walking into the wrong room or they were looking for one of my roommates,” she said, though she added that none of her roommates are named Sarah. “But then when I saw the emergency alert the next day, I was super freaked out.”

Nour, Lily’s roommate who also asked to go by her first name only, said one of the men entered her bedroom first, waking her up and asking the same question.

“They seemed so harmless, and they seemed like they had genuinely just come into the wrong room,” she said. “But the next morning a friend of mine sent me the BU Alert, and I realized it could have been related.”

Nour went to the BU Police Department on Oct. 18, shortly after the BU community received the emergency alert, which stated that a female student was allegedly sexually assaulted in her StuVi II room between 2 and 2:50 a.m. that morning.

The student mentioned in the alert told police the man who assaulted her was a college-aged white male with brown hair and of medium build, about 5-foot-8 to 5-foot-10. The victim also said he was wearing a dark-colored button-down, long-sleeve shirt and a down vest, the alert stated.

Lily and Nour said they’ve heard other students talk about similar incidents

occurring in their suites, though most declined to share their stories with The Daily Free Press.

BUPD Lt. Detective Peter DiDomenica confirmed that officers have spoken to several students who shared details about men entering their suites the same evening as the sexual assault. He said BUPD is not yet sure whether the incidents are related to the assault, but the investigation is still active.

“Based on the nature of the activities, they are suspicious, and they have bearing on the actual assault in that they occurred around the same time in the same building,” he said. “It’s clearly relevant.”

At a town hall panel held Monday night on the top floor of StuVi II, approximately eight students met with BUPD officers, residence hall representatives and leaders from other student support groups on campus, including the Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Center.

Though attendance was lower than expected — several rows of chairs went variety of questions, from campus-wide CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

BU students see anonymous online bullying on campus

BY SYDNEY FOY DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Title IX and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 are meant to protect students from discriminatory environments that can be created on college campuses.

While these structures generally exist institutionally, many students and organizations believe anonymous social media platforms like Yik Yak can be just as hostile.

In one incident, several women were threatened with rape and violence over Yik Yak while attending the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. UMW is now under investigation by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights for choosing not to pursue the offenders.

To combat future harassment and discrimination, though, 72 groups dedicated to gender equality and civil rights went so far as to send a letter to the U.S. Department of Education on Oct. 20 calling for guidance to be provided for schools on how to handle problems of online anonymous bullying.

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On Wednesday, 72 women’s and civil-rights groups sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education urging for more regulation on anonymous social media applications, such as Yik Yak, to prevent student harassment.

“Guarding against misuse is something we take incredibly seriously. We have a number of safeguards in place, and we’re constantly working to enhance our protective measures,” said Yik Yak spokesperson

Olivia Boger in an email. “We work hard to encourage a positive and supportive community environment on Yik Yak, and CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

As part of an ongoing national conversation about the ethics of allowing terminally ill patients to die on their own terms, state legislators considered a bill about physician-assisted suicide at a Tuesday hearing at the Massachusetts State House.

The bill, which resembles similar legislation passed in Oregon and California, would allow physicians to prescribe lethal drugs if a patient meets certain requirements, allowing the patient to supposedly control their own death.

“It will allow people who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness to be involved with this process,” said state Rep. Louis Kafka, the bill’s author. “What I mean by terminal is incurable, irreversible, and within reasonable medical judgment, [an illness that] would result death within six months. If that is the case, it will give them the choice to end their life, if they meet other criteria.”

Advocates argued that people should be able to decide how to end their own lives. Attendees shared personal experiences involving older relatives that died slowly and in pain. Kafka, who has been personally affected by the loss of a constituent in this way, said he hopes to pass the bill in this person’s memory.

“My constituent died before any hearing, and we don’t know what he would’ve done because he wasn’t given a chance,” Kafka said at the hearing. “I promised myself that as long as I was a member of the legislature, that I would continue to work to get a bill allowing physician-assisted suicide to pass.”

Physician-assisted suicide is legal in Oregon under what is known as the Death with Dignity Act, as well as in Washington, Vermont and most recently California. In Montana, it is upheld by court decision.

Eight states other than Massachusetts are currently considering the matter.

George Annas, a professor of health law, bioethics and human rights at Boston University, said, given the constraints it places on who can take advantage of it, the bill stands to help people in pain. After all, he said, physicians would only prescribe the lethal drugs. Patients decide to take them.

“Physicians should have an ethical obligation to provide their patients with the best care they can when the patient is terminally ill,” Annas said. “This care should include the prescription of drugs that have a legitimate medical purpose …

The decision of whether or when to use these drugs should be the patient’s, and not influenced by the physician.”

Annas described the bills already adopted in Oregon and California.

“The California law was just signed by [California Gov. Jerry Brown], and does not take effect until next year,” Annas said.

“It is based on the Oregon model, which has been around for more than a decade.

There do not seem to have been any major abuses in Oregon, although it has only been used by a small number of dying patients.”

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Boston moves forward with cultural plan

BY JULIA METJIAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Following conversations about how to bolster the arts community, Boston is moving forward to create a cultural plan for the City.

Boston Creates, part of Boston Mayor Martin Walsh’s Office of Arts and Culture, is in the process of gathering information in order to better understand how to implement and improve the arts community.

The planning and preparation process for Boston Creates began in March, according to the Boston Creates website. The city is now hosting community conversations and will draft a plan by June 2016.

MASSCreative, a coalition for people who support the arts, has contributed to the planning process that began in March, said the coalition’s Executive Director Matt Wilson.

“City funding of the arts has always been a priority, and space to create, rehearse and perform is also an issue that’s risen to the top,” Wilson said. “… We want to make sure that there is space for the arts and culture community to thrive.”

The first Boston Creates town hall meeting took place in Jamaica Plain on June 2. The city will hold its second town hall Nov. 2 to decide how to dedicate space to the arts.

“They’re going to report back for what’s their fact gathering over the past six months, and come back and tell and kind of report back on what they’ve heard from the public,” Wilson said. “… We’ll be there and we are encouraging the community to come out and hear what they accumulated and I assume there will be time for people to ask questions.”

Wilson said the initiative began with Walsh’s effort to create a cultural planning process for the city.

“Mayor Walsh has always been a strong supporter of arts and culture and throughout the campaign, he talked about a number of things that he would do in Boston, and one of his quotes is that he has pledged to lead an arts renaissance in Boston,” Wilson said.

Walsh appointed Julie Burros as the first Chief of Arts and Culture to align this area with the City’s efforts, The Daily Free Press reported Sep. 26, 2014.

As Boston looks to support arts and culture, problems have arisen in the theater district. On Oct. 7, Boston University severed its 33-year partnership with the Huntington Theatre Company, the FreeP reported.

Emerson College, which currently owns the Colonial Theatre in the Theater

we support school administrators in their efforts to encourage positive behavior and discourage inappropriate activity.”

Gaylynn Burroughs, the director of policy and research at the Feminist Majority Foundation, said schools should take these threats seriously because they are just as real as threats made in person.

“These things have an impact on people’s lives and their ability to enjoy the educational opportunities that are presented to them based on their sex or their gender or their race,” she said. “They should be investigating all reports of harassment or threats. They should initiate campus disciplinary hearings against people they suspect of engaging in these types of harassment, and then if the problem is so severe, they should think about monitoring these applications.”

Melissa Holt, a professor of counseling psychology in Boston University’s School of Education who has studied bullying and behavioral science, said that bullying can lead to distress, loneliness and suicidal ideation for the victims.

CRIME LOGS

BY KENNEDY DAVIS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department from Oct. 22 to 25.

PHOTO BY JACQUI BUSICK/DFP FILE PHOTO

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh’s “Boston Creates” arts and culture program is in the process of creating a cultural plan, headed by Chief of Arts and Culture Julie Burros.

District, is in the process of determining what to do with the space, said Emerson College President Lee Pelton. One of the options is to turn the space into a dining hall for students, Pelton said in reference to an Oct. 7 article by The Boston Globe.

“We have been engaged in a thorough, thoughtful, and deliberate process to explore and examine the Theatre’s potential long-term use,” Pelton said in an Oct. 8 statement. “We are not in a position to make public other options and discussions we are having with individuals and organizations at this time.”

On Wednesday, Emerson faculty passed a resolution for Pelton and the Board of Directors to reconsider the plan.

The Colonial Theatre, which opened in 1924, is the oldest operating theater in Boston.

Several residents said they hope to see further discussions about keeping the arts relevant in the city.

Ryan Bernardo, 22, of Back Bay, said Boston should take initiative to provide the proper venues for talent.

“I’ve noticed in the past year what venues have been closing down, and even though it sucks it’s not a huge surprise to me,” he said. “I’ve always felt like the scene here in Boston, there’s a lot of talent here, there’s no doubt about it, but there’s kind of a disconnect between that and how people feel about properly promoting stuff like

that.”

Bernardo said he looks forward to seeing how the situation unfolds in the future.

“I feel like for any scene to be really awesome you kind of can’t just have the talent, you have to have the balance between the talent and the guys promoting it,” he said. “I am hopeful though because I have been seeing a lot of [people] who have been trying to change the situation.

Katie Connors, 29, of Brighton, said that while she likes the new art that has appeared in the city within the year, she hopes the Colonial will be preserved.

“There was the piece of public art that was on the [Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy] Greenway, [and] on the John Hancock [Tower], that was really cool,” she said. “That theater has been around for a really long time.

I feel like there are definitely new things happening, but we need to preserve the older things as well, because that theater’s been around forever.”

Connors added that it is important to keep the younger generation involved in community art discussions.

“Community meetings are great because you’ll always get people who are passionate about the cause,” she said, “but to get the younger generation they should do more on the Internet and there should be more public forms, whether it’s webcast or whatever it is.”

Groups advocate for regulations on online bullying ANONYMOUS BULLYING, FROM PAGE 1

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“There are a number of factors that contribute to online bullying and harassment,” she wrote in an email. “With increases in technology, youth now have access to additional modalities through which they can bully or harass others. Traditional bullying — that is, bullying that occurs in person — is still more common than online/cyber bullying.”

According to the Pew Research Center’s survey on Online Harassment from October 2014, seven in 10 respondents aged 18-24 had experienced some sort of online harassment. This age group is the more likely than any other age group to have experienced harassment while online, according to the survey.

Several BU students said they have witnessed anonymous cyber bullying inside the BU community.

Courtney Singer-Coseglia, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, said shethinks online anonymous bullying is a big issue at BU on multiple platforms.

“I think that [online anonymous bullying] is a big issue … especially with BU Confessions too along with Yik Yak,” she said. “Every time I go on Yik Yak I feel

like a lot of the posts are super hateful and are just really aggressive towards individuals, which I don’t think should be allowed.

There is a Facebook page called BU Confessions and you can go on there and like basically submit something anonymously … and then they post it.”

Nikita Limaye, a freshman in CAS, said she has witnessed cyber bullying on platforms like the Chemistry Facebook page for students and she thinks the school should get involved.

“I don’t know how they would [get involved], but I think they should,” she said.

“I feel like if there were more regulations then people would not do it as much because they would know they would get in trouble I guess, so just like have people watch out for it more.”

Michael Giordano, a senior in CAS, said the school should get involved, but it is hard for schools to decide what to address.

“I just think it is a fine line between what is bullying and what is just social media online,” he said. “Because I know my high school used to get involved in all the stuff like that and it was just kind of too far, but I don’t think BU really does anything.”

Bicycle stolen from Photonics Center A male student reported on Oct. 22 at 9:20 a.m. that his bicycle was stolen from 8 St. Mary’s St., the Photonics Center. The bicycle had been secured to a bike rack with a cable lock. .

Male party arrested for larceny at CVS On Oct. 22 at 9:30 p.m., BUPD officers observed a male party examining the bicycles on a bike rack in front of CVS at 730 Commonwealth Ave. The officers witnessed the suspect begin to cut a cable lock attached to a bicycle and arrested him. The suspect was charged with larceny of more than $250, possession of burglarious instruments and disorderly conduct.

Unarmed robbery reported at Ashford Street and Sawyer Terrace A male student reported that on Oct. 22 at approximately 11:45 p.m., he was the victim of an unarmed robbery at Ashford Street and Sawyer Terrace. The student stated that a male party blocked him and demanded that he give the suspect his personal items. The items stolen included the victim’s cell phone, wallet and keys and were worth more than $500 in total.

Students summonsed to Brighton District Court for possession of alcohol Friday at 8:12 p.m., BUPD officers observed an underage male student carrying a 12-pack of beer at Babcock Street and Gardner Street. Later, at 8:24 p.m., officers observed another underage male student at the same place carrying a six-pack of beer.

Both students are being summonsed to Brighton District Court for minor possession of alcohol.

Student issued civil citation for possession of marijuana BUPD officers were dispatched to 210 Bay State Road on Saturday at 12:24 a.m., where a male student was found to be in possession of marijuana. The student was issued a civil citation for possession of less than 1 ounce of marijuana.

Intoxicated students transported to Boston Medical Center At 1:34 a.m. on Saturday, BUPD officers responded to 277 Babcock St., Rich Hall, for an intoxicated female student, who was transported to the Boston Medical Center. At 1:47 a.m., officers responded for two more intoxicated female students at the same location, both of whom were also transported to BMC. Two intoxicated parties transported to BMC Officers responded to 275 Babcock St., Sleeper Hall, on Saturday at 2:01 a.m. for an intoxicated male non-affiliate and an intoxicated female student who were found in two separate bathrooms. Both were transported to BMC. Motor scooter stolen from George Sherman Union A male student reported on Sunday at 6 p.m. that his motor scooter was stolen from 775 Commonwealth Ave., the George Sherman Union. The student told police the scooter was worth about $500.

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MIT announces non-divestment, BU groups push for change

BY SADIAH THOMPSON DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

As the Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing considers a decision on fossil fuel divestment, many Boston University students, faculty and officials still see a need for the divestment movement.

Deliberation continues in the wake of local counterpart Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s decision on Oct. 21 to remain invested fossil fuels.

For BU, the debate over fossil fuel divestment began in September 2014, when 245 BU faculty members signed a petition in support of divestment, The Daily Free Press reported.

Faculty members along with students from Divest BU presented the petition to BU President Robert Brown and the Board of Trustees, the FreeP reported.

Brown then turned the issue over to the ACSRI for further review.

BU spokesman Colin Riley gave no word on when the committee would reach a decision, but said the ACSRI would make recommendations to the Board of Trustees regarding fossil fuel

divestment once they are finished with the review process. “[The ACSRI] is still discussing it, and at some point, the members of the Board will make a recommendation,” Riley said.

Nathan Phillips, a professor of earth and environment in BU’s College of Arts and Sciences, said the committee’s review is a crucial starting point for Divest BU’s efforts.

“We want to accelerate action on climate change in many other ways,” Phillips said. “We’re not thinking of [the committee’s decision] as the only thing that’s needed. We believe it’s one important element of a range of things that need to happen on climate change action.”

Phillips added that BU’s decision to divest from fossil fuels would spark a wave of environmental transformation.

“I think [fossil fuel divestment] is important because it makes a very strong symbolic statement to universities and students everywhere that BU is not going to continue to promote the expansion of fossil fuels on the planet,” Phillips said.

In regards to MIT’s decision not to divest from fossil fuels,

Study released that found that fossil fuel divestment may harm university endowments.

Marygrace Kennedy, secretary of Divest BU and a senior in CAS, spoke to the group’s disappointment with the university.

“It’s not a matter of denying climate change, which we know is being fueled at an unnatural rate by the burning of fossil fuels,” Kennedy said. “We know that everybody there, not to generalize, knows that this is a problem and we have hopes that as a university, [MIT] would want to be the forerunners on helping to develop infrastructure for renewable energy, and really want to lead changes for this new era of energy consumption.”

Kennedy said despite the decision, Fossil Free MIT, the student divestment group on that campus, continues to push for change.

“We’re really excited that the ‘MIT divest’ student body is not discouraged and are still going to work really hard to make sure [fossil fuel divestment] happens,” Kennedy said. “We’re standing with them, like we’re standing with Harvard [University], Brandeis [University], and the other Boston schools who have gotten ‘noes’ and are still working for divestment.”

Beside their efforts to help other universities, Divest BU has used the support from students within the BU community to promote its own initiatives, Kennedy said.

In the Spring 2015 semester, there was a school-wide referendum on the BU Student Government ballot that showed 75 percent of students were in support of divestment from fossil fuels, Kennedy said.

Kennedy said the referendum was the group’s biggest accomplishment in allowing them to make connections with other students interested in the issue on campus.

“We’re going to have a series of events working with other student groups for people to come out and learn more about divestment,” Kennedy said. “We’re having weekly meetings and really getting more support from students and active members working to put together some visual events to really rile up that momentum, so that the Board of Trustees, when they meet, see that this is something that would be met with enthusiasm by the student body.”

Several students said fossil

Tracking divestment at BU Feb. 11, 2015

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The ACSRI hosts its first forum to debate the pros and cons of divestment.

MIT announces they're not divesting from fossil fuels, as the ACSRI continues to deliberate.

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Sept. 9, 2014 Feb. 12, 2015 Fossil fuel divestment debate begins at BU as more than 240 faculty members sign a petition to give to President Brown.

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DivestBU hosts panel to educate community on fossil fuel divestment.

Referendum results released finding that 75 percent of students who voted are in support of fossil fuel divestment.

SOURCE: The Daily Free Press, MIT

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Although Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced Oct. 21 that the school will remain invested in fossil fuels, Boston University has yet to make a formal decision on divestment.

500 visitors signed into StuVi II weekend of assault ASSAULT INVESTIGATION, FROM PAGE 1

security to the status of the sexual assault investigation.

While officers at the panel said they could not comment on the progress of the investigation, they said they believe the assault was a random attack and assured students that officers are invested in finding the perpetrator.

“I’ve dedicated just about the whole unit to this, so trust me, it’s very important to us,” Detective Sergeant Peter Torchio, of BUPD’s detective bureau, said at the meeting. “We have a lot of avenues to go down, but we’ll get there.”

The weekend of the alleged sexual assault, which included both BU Parents Weekend and the Head Of The Charles Regatta, more than 500 guests were signed into StuVi II, Torchio said.

“It’s not just you guys. It’s the outside world that became a part of this investigation,” he said. “We also now have to consider beyond a controlled environment.”

BUPD Sergeant Jeff Burke said during the meeting that the best thing students can do to help officers find perpetrators on campus is to call about incidents as soon as possible.

“Call early,” he said. “When you get that gut feeling … just take a minute to call.”

As the investigation continues, Lily said, she just hopes more people whose rooms were entered will come forward and speak to the police.

And for now, she decided with her roommates to stop leaving their apartment door unlocked, which they had agreed to do in the beginning of the year in case someone forgot their key.

After all, she said, the building has “always been very safe.”

“Nothing like this has ever happened, so we felt very safe to have our doors unlocked. But not anymore,” she said. “It’s locked all the time now.”

fuel divestment is an ideal way to enhance BU’s positive efforts on climate change, but are wary on its practicality.

Christian Schmidt, a freshman in the College of General Studies, said MIT’s decision not to divest from fossil fuels was the wrong choice, and that he would like to see BU choose differently.

“It would be good for BU to divest from fossil fuels [and] we wouldn’t really lose that much from doing it,” Schmidt said.

Sonya Chang, a sophomore in CGS, said although BU has achieved significant efforts in sustainability, divesting from fossil fuel would heighten BU’s positive impact on climate change.

“We’re supposed to be helping the environment,” Chang said. “We’re investing money into programs to help with the environment, but our university is not helping efforts by not divesting.

It’s very contradictory.”

Jared Lorusso, a sophomore in Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, said fossil fuel divestment at BU would be ideal for the environment, but the concept seems to be out of reach.

“Divesting in fossil fuels would be great because it promotes clean energy, but at the same time where would you place the large investment that would be pulled out of that?” Lorosso said. “You have to find a place to fill that gap and fill that gap with something ether as profitable or even more profitable, which is a huge task for BU’s financial staff. I just don’t see it being something that would happen in the near future. I understand the movement, but I don’t see it happening.”

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Inspector General criticizes Red Sox, BRA deal in Fenway Park area

BY ALYSSA MEYERS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Massachusetts Inspector General Glenn Cunha criticized a 2013 deal by Boston Redevelopment Authority that granted the Boston Red Sox ownership of Yawkey Way and Lansdowne Street, in a letter dated Monday.

The deal allows the Red Sox to use Yawkey Way to sell concessions on game days and grants use of air space over Lansdowne Street to build more seating on the Green Monster scoreboard on the left field wall at Fenway Park.

“The review found that the BRA did not exercise the due diligence it owes to the City and the taxpayers,” Cunha wrote to BRA Director Brian Golden. “It failed to ensure that the sale price it negotiated was in the taxpayers’ best interest. Furthermore, its process for reviewing and approving the transactions was flawed, not supported by evidence and lacked transparency.”

The $7.34 million sale was not “revenue-based,” Cunha wrote, and therefore not beneficial to taxpayers.

In the letter, Cunha called on the BRA to implement better policies and procedures for project plans including “industry-standard appraisals” to ensure high revenue for taxpayers and an “open and transparent process.”

Jack Meyers, a spokesman from the Inspector General’s office, commented on the speed of the deal.

“The BRA board was only given information about the terms of the transactions a few hours be-

fore the board vote, and that’s not enough time to make an informed judgment about whether this is good for the citizens of Boston,” Meyers said.

Yawkey Way and Lansdowne Street are public properties owned by the city, Meyers said, and therefore they belong to Massachusetts residents.

“To sell these properties to a private party is to short-change the public for its property,” Meyers said.

Golden said the BRA fully cooperated with the Inspector General’s Office and that the current leadership finds the process that led to the deal “deeply flawed.”

“There are always lessons to be learned from past mistakes, and we are committed to adopting a policy and procedures that better govern the BRA’s use of demonstration project plans going forward,” Golden said in a Monday statement. “We value the Inspector General’s thoughtful recommendations on this issue and look forward to enhancing our protocols.”

The Red Sox acknowledged the report, but clarified that the transactions were “fully supported” by appraisers and were “lawful and entirely appropriate.”

“If anything, the price that the Red Sox paid for street use and air rights and for the limited use of a street is much higher than what other private parties had previously paid for air rights or for street use,” the team said in a Monday statement. “The Red Sox ultimately agreed to the final terms very reluctantly.”

Randall Ellis, a professor of economics in Boston University’s

PHOTO BY SARAH SILBIGER/DFP FILE PHOTO

Massachusetts Inspector General Glenn Cunha has criticized the 2013 deal between the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the Boston Red Sox in a letter to the BRA Monday.

College of Arts and Sciences, said it is beneficial for the Red Sox to own Yawkey Way. “It is desirable to let the Red Sox and Fenway reconfigure this area to best manage the concessions,” Ellis wrote in an email.

“Overall, it would probably a plus for Red Sox fans attending games.”

Despite the fact that he is a Red Sox fan, Ellis said he agrees with the Inspector General.

“The deal was definitely rushed,” Randall said. “It reflects political maneuvering to give the Red Sox a good deal.”

Ellis said even if there is an

impact to commerce at Fenway Park, it is probably “less than a dollar per resident.”

“There are a few businesses on Lansdowne and Yawkey Way or in the area [that] might be worse off,” he said. “I know you can buy nicer food at the restaurant on Yawkey Way than in the stadium, [but] probably not if that road were open to the public.”

Several residents said they were concerned about how Red Sox ownership of Yawkey Way will affect traffic and the daily commute.

Ana Maria Leguizamon, 20, of Back Bay, recently moved from

Colombia and has heard about the infamous crowds from Red Sox games.

“If they close off streets for game days, I think it would affect my neighborhood for sure,” she said. “I’ve heard that when the Red Sox play, people get crazy.”

Keisha Ward, 25, of Brighton, said she is concerned about the effects of closing down Yawkey Way for game days.

“I go to school at Wheelock [University], which is right by Fenway,” she said, “so if they close off areas, that would not be good for my commute.”

Physician-assisted suicide conflicts with medical care, opponents say SUICIDE, FROM PAGE 1

came as a result of someone who lived longer than their original prognosis.

Several physicians including those from the Massachusetts Medical Society expressed their doubts about the bill at the hearing.

“Physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer,” said Henry Dorkin, vice president of the MMS, in his testimony. “Instead of participating in assisted suicide, physicians must aggressively respond to the needs of patients at the end of life in order that these patients continue to receive emotional support, comfort care, adequate pain control and good communication.”

The Massachusetts Family Institute, a pro-family organization that was not present at the hearing, said the health care sector should focus on new treatments instead of physician-assisted suicide.

“Doctor-prescribed suicide is unwanted and unnecessary since every patient has the right to palliative care and to refuse artificially-prolonged life,” a statement on the MFI website read. “Pain alleviation treatment for terminally-ill patients has made tremendous progress, and the health care sector should be looking to continue this trend.”

Several attendees at the hearing had mixed opinions of the bill and how it will impact those who are terminally ill.

Shelley Austin, 39, of Gardner, wrote a poem about her own

PHOTO BY SARAH SILBIGER/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

A bill in support of physician-assisted suicide is being debated in the Massachusetts State House.

personal experience with this legislation. She said although elderly people may be suffering, they still are valuable to family members.

“There were times that I thought, she couldn’t last very long, a stroke, a broken hip, still she carried on,” she said about her 99-year-old grandmother. “It took a long time for Alzheimer’s to take her, but I know she made my life good.”

Betty Morningstar, 63, of Newton, said she supports this bill because it will give people a more dignified death.

“It gives some comfort to people who know that they are otherwise facing a very horrific, or even mildly horrific death,” she said.

Morningstar said policy makers and people in the legislature shouldn’t let their personal views and emotions affect the outcome

of this bill, since this bill has been brought forward three other times, she said. “[Legislators shouldn’t] decide how to approach a matter like this that involves life and death on how [they] think or feel,” she said. “What matters is what the client thinks or feels.”

Alice Bachant, 73, of Mattapoisett, said that she opposes the bill because physician-assisted suicide is not compassionate, and

humans need to care for each other.

“Because what we are doing when we say we are helping someone, we are helping someone kill themselves,” she said.

“We are helping to commit murder, which we are totally against as humans. We are here to care for one another. To help people lead a good life. To die in peace.”

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Globe layoffs signify changes in news media landscape

BY SAMANTHA GROSS AND SONIA RAO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

When Sarah Roberts started working as a metro correspondent for The Boston Globe in July, she overheard her higher-ups discussing recent buyouts and upcoming layoffs. More recently, Roberts and her colleagues have noticed something different.

Desks were cleared of yellowing newspapers, computer monitors were removed and picture frames were pulled from the walls of the copy editing department’s workspace.

In the past month, the Globe laid off nearly two dozen staff members in addition to the 17 who accepted a recent buyout. A majority of the layoffs came from the copy desk, which raises concern over the future of careers in traditional journalism in the landscape of changing media.

Lou Ureneck, a journalism professor in the College of Communication and former deputy managing editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, said the driving force behind the layoffs was business, not journalism.

“The challenge now for news organizations isn’t journalistic,” Ureneck said.

“We know how to write good stories and we know how to cover the cords and we know how to find corruption and skullduggery …

We don’t lack for journalism skills or ideas.

What we lack is the successful marketing that allows us to generate revenue from subscribers to pay for all of this.”

The ideal business model would work to bridge the gap between the business and editorial sides of journalism, creating a landscape allowing a news media company to, as Ureneck said, “monetize its reader loyalty.”

But this lucrative bridge doesn’t yet exist.

Instead, the once detached relationship between the two sides is increasingly agitated, and copy editors such as those at the Globe are getting caught in the crossfire.

“There’s always been what we call a wall between the two, and that wall is crumbling,” said Elizabeth Mehren, a journalism professor in COM. “It’s very scary.”

This conflict stems from a change in the prominence of classified ads. When the newspaper industry emerged from the 2001 recession without the revenue from the advertisements, cuts were made in order to make up the difference, said Martin Nisenholtz, a BU professor and senior advisor for The New York Times Company.

“It’s been many years of expense cuts and at a certain point in time, you’re not cutting fat anymore — you’re cutting into the bone,” he said.

Roberts, a junior in COM, said that as a young journalist, the layoffs were shocking.

Had she been answering phones in the newsroom 20 years ago, Ureneck said, Roberts would have seen an industry thriving on print advertising. However, print has been slowly pushed aside to make room for a growing web presence, and the business model has been forced to compensate.

“The Globe is coping with reduced revenues and seeking to manage its business in line with the resources it has available,” Ureneck said. “It’s been death by a thousand cuts.”

The Boston Newspaper Guild, the employee union for both the Globe and Boston. com, represents around 600 employees and issued an email response to the editorial layoffs handed down the morning of Oct. 16. The layoffs were unprecedented in that they were executed outside of seniority order, which concerned the BNG Executive Committee.

The committee expressed its apprehen-

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The Boston Globe laid off nearly two dozen employees, including many copy editors, while 17 employees opted for buy-outs earlier this month.

sion with the company’s move, and said the decision would be looked at by both the union and its legal team. “In solidarity,” the leaders addressed their members, lamenting the harsh realities of news media’s changing landscape.

“It’s always hard to see our newsroom lose good people; it’s much more difficult when the decision to leave is not their own,” the email stated.

Brian McGrory, editor of the Globe, sent a memo sharing similar sentiments earlier in the month. The note, published Oct. 15 on Poynter, ended with a resounding goodbye to those whom he regarded as his “colleagues,” “pioneers” and “friends.”

“There were no good choices to be made today — only necessary ones,” the memo said.

Although McGrory deemed the layoffs regretfully imperative, Nisenholtz took a pragmatic stance on the subject, emphasizing the potential outdatedness of positions like copy editors. Drawing on his experiences at the Times, Nisenholtz said that when the company replaced antiquated positions with digital ones, it retained the same world-renowned journalistic capacity.

“What I’m saying is, you’re not cutting deeply into the core of what the newspaper does when you eliminate positions that were frankly holdovers from another generation,” he said.

Arist Frangules, currently a design supervisor at the Globe, has worked not only as a designer and reporter, but as a copy editor as well. In his years editing copy at the Globe, Frangules noted a longstanding routine among older editors, who were used to writing stories for each evening’s edit. He said that the rigid schedule no longer fits the needs of the digital-first model the Globe and other large newspapers are encouraged to strive toward.

“That’s a mindset that’s going to have to change, but it’s not changing easily,” Frangules said. “You get into a habit over a course of years.”

Mehren, who worked as a correspondent at the Los Angeles Times until 2007, said that shifts in the landscape, though challenging, are unavoidable.

“It’s not a matter of whether it should change,” she said. “It has to change.”

At the Globe, these changes manifest-

ed in the form of copy department layoffs.

Though an acute business decision, Ureneck said the reduction might produce a harmful effect on the editorial quality of the paper as a whole.

“Copy editors are an essential part of any news organization,” he said. “They bring judgment, clarity of language, they add value all through the process.”

During Mehren’s time as a young reporter at The Washington Post, the copy editing process involved a lengthy chain of command — each story was read by an editor, a copy editor, a slot person and a headline writer. In agreement with Ureneck, Mehren said that today’s briefer editing processes shortchange the quality of the work.

“I fear that copy editors are on the verge of extinction, which is a great tragedy for newspapers,” she said.

Those in the copy department often play a larger role than simply line editing and trimming down stories. According to Frangules, there have been instances in the past in which copy editors have prevented mishaps from going to press.

“There are plenty of times in the process of copy editing where we not only catch grammatical errors, but serious factual errors and we bring insights from our own areas of knowledge,” Frangules said. “ … That’s the value that might be lost. I’m hoping that in the future, it’s not lost even further.”

Nisenholtz, however, said he views the up-and-coming digital age as a landscape where the role of copy editing is being transferred to those who consume online news.

When a story goes live on a news media company’s website, it is immediately fair game for comment, critique and feedback.

The readers, in this regard, become editors.

“I can only imagine perhaps that in a digital world, you’ve got a more self-correcting set of prophecies” he said. “If you put something out there and it’s not perfect, you’ll hear about it pretty much instantaneously. The crowd, in a sense, does its editing for you.”

Nisenholtz’s mindset of a crowdsourced editing arrangement is applicable to broader news outlets like BuzzFeed, Vox and VICE, he said. These brands serve an audience on a national or even global scale, which secures higher readership levels as well as bigger ad-

vertisers — and as a result, more revenue. “[National media companies are] not local brands,” Nisenholtz said. “They’re not serving local communities. They have a much larger canvas on which to paint. In addition, they can strip out, in a sense, some of the most lucrative bits of the old bundle.

They can do the kinds of things that newspaper used to do, but on a much broader scale in order to pay their bills.”

More localized metro papers such as the Globe, Nisenholtz said, cannot necessarily be entirely saved by an online presence due to the smaller subscriber base and an unstable middle ground between national news and niche content. The Globe covers the World Series, scandals such as the Volkswagen emissions debacle and the launch of Ben & Jerry’s newest flavor. There’s also coverage of low-stakes Red Sox games, the MBTA’s snowy obstacles and the New England family who’s owned a specialty chocolate shop since 1924. Striking a balance between the contrasting focuses has proven difficult.

“It’s a much narrower canvas for these folks in a world where you really don’t have geographical boundaries anymore,” Nisenholtz said.

With the challenge of the evolving field in mind, the BNG’s email advised union members to acknowledge the significance of the layoffs. However, it also called upon members to work with and better the existing conditions of the industry.

“We have little choice but to place our faith in the judgment of those who lead us forward, and to hope that these painful decisions will one day be seen as part of our slow progress toward long-term stability,” the email stated.

Patricia Nealon, a senior assistant night editor at the Globe, said the movement toward a digital-first platform is driven by the readers. Members of the older generations are the ones who opt to read print, and as they fade into history, so does their preferred medium.

“I think the last generation that read newspapers, traditional pen and ink, were the boomers,” Nealon said. “I’m one of them.

And when they’re gone, all I can see is that that would be the time that the transition would change.”

If print goes with the baby boomers like Nealon predicted, Ureneck said the inherent value of the work would not be lost.

“The substrate, whether it’s flattened trees or pixels, is not important,” he said.

“What’s important is what is getting communicated.”

Similar to Ureneck’s notion that the craft of journalism will always trump the medium, McGrory said the work of those at the Globe will always have an impact. Despite the staff cuts, the importance of the stories and the journalists who wrote them will remain the cornerstone of the craft.

“There’s little that a newsroom has that’s more important than its reputation, and these colleagues have helped burnish ours — something that doesn’t happen overnight, but over decades,” McGrory said.

“Which is to say that not only are their contributions deeply valued, their impact is deeply rooted.”

With the legacies of those who were laid off and the push of news media outlets to dive head first into a digital landscape, Ureneck said he believes that the impetus for news consumers to read and for creators to write will still remain.

“I’m very optimistic,” Ureneck said. “I think journalism is bigger than the problems it faces.”

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The Bright Light Social Hour will play at the Great Scott in Allston on Thursday night.

The Bright Light Social Hour brings eclectic music to big city

BY ELAINE ANDERSON DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Jack O’Brien, bassist and vocalist of the indie rock band The Bright Light Social Hour, said that his source of musical inspiration is the same as the source of all life — water.

The group’s newest album “Space Is Still the Place” was released earlier this year, and is the centerpiece of the band’s current North American tour that will be stopping in Allston at the Great Scott Thursday.

The Austin, Texas, drought that served as O’Brien’s inspiration lasted for about four years and caused the lake next to his house to be left completely barren.

“We live on a lake and it became and stayed totally bone-dry, and felt like a desert on the moon, it was all exposed white limestone everywhere,” O’Brien wrote in an email. “I think that landscape informed a lot of the sounds from the last record.”

It was not just the lack of water that stood out to the band members, O’Brien

said, but also its return.

The richness of life outside his window had all but depleted when Texas was hit in late May with flooding, claiming many homes and lives. The flood did, however, invigorate a new inspiration in the band members. “[It] feels suddenly like we live on the Mediterranean,” O’Brien wrote. “I think all the new water has made us feel very rich and creative.”

The Bright Light Social Hour’s kaleidoscopic sound is distinguished by experimental layers of both synthesizer and airy vocals.

It produces a music that resembles the undiscovered and unacknowledged areas of the mind. It searches for a deeper truth and an imaginative way forward.

O’Brien said that he agrees with the frequent descriptions of the group as “psychedelic,” but also believes that term is too vague.

“We’re always trying to make something that you can’t put a name on,” O’Brien said in a phone call. He also described their music as including elements of rock, dance,

soul and house.

The Bright Light Social Hour formed when O’Brien and Curtis Roush, vocalist and guitarist, met at Southwestern University, a small liberal arts school in central Texas. Roush sent a campus-wide email looking to start a band.

“I responded and we hit it off right away,” O’Brien said.

They then made a listing on Craigslist looking for a drummer. Joseph Mirasole responded enthusiastically and eventually introduced O’Brien and Roush to keyboarder Edward Brailif in early 2013.

The new album focuses on what the band calls “Future South.” Touring for almost three years, primarily in the South, and unable to afford hotels, the group lodged with a number of young people who lived and worked in the area. O’Brien said that these encounters opened their eyes to a lot of struggle.

The lives of these young people inspired much of the content in the album. O’Brien said that the album pushes for a new reality

— one that looks forward. “‘Space’ represents a new frontier and an infinite future and I think the message is to keep on pushing for a future that is more egalitarian, more beautiful,” O’Brien said.

“That is as the future should be.”

One of the group’s most popular songs, “Infinite Cities,” epitomizes the uprooted lifestyle the band felt while constantly touring and how they were forced to find a home within their movement.

The album took almost two years to complete. It was the first time that the band recorded, engineered and produced entirely by itself. The album launched The Bright Light Social Hour’s biggest tour thus far, beginning this past spring at the album’s release. O’Brien said that this tour is a fresh start for the band with a whole new sound — a new sound that has been received with great enthusiasm thus far.

“We’re always a bit beaten and tired,” O’Brien said, “but we truck on and we always find a little bit of a community that inspires to keep on.”

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“So You Think BU Can Dance” brings philanthropy to center stage

BY MARIEL CARIKER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Raising money for the Half the Sky Foundation, a nonprofit founded in Beijing that raises funds to help Chinese orphans receive the medical care and services they require to have a healthy childhood, Boston University China Care Fund held “So You Think BU Can Dance,” a competition fundraiser, Saturday night.

BUCCF is one of more than 60 student-run China Care clubs in the United States and Canada. The club donates money to different programs under Half the Sky, and its members also work with adopted children in the Boston area, teaching weekly Mandarin classes to teach them about Chinese culture. BUCCF also holds dumpling playgroups, where members teach Chinese and information about Chinese culture to young children through activities and games.

Jessica Li, a senior in the School of

Education and the president of BUCCF, said the club works hard to raise money for many different sections of Half the Sky. “Right now, we are sponsoring another program which is called the Baby Sister Infant Nurture Program,” she said. “For $900 per year we are able to support one orphan, and we donated over $3,000 last summer to support three orphans. We’re currently supporting them. They’re all in state-run welfare institutes and are being taken care of.”

“So You Think BU Can Dance” was free, but donations were encouraged.

The group held a successful raffle, with prizes from donors such as OTTO Pizza and Raising Cane’s to entice people to donate. BUCCF made sure to display facts about their cause at all angles, with a poster board full of information right by the raffle, as well as more information in the brochures that were handed out to all audience members.

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A student group competes during the “So You Think BU Can Dance” competition Saturday evening.

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BU computer science department enrollment quadruples

REPORTING BY EMILY GORIN

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When asked about the competitive aspect of the fundraiser, Cherie Chan, a junior in the College of Communication and the creative chair of BUCCF, said they were trying to make the show interactive to encourage people to attend.

“The idea was to get all people involved and make them want to come to the fundraiser,” she said. “We want the audience to enjoy the show and in the process simultaneously learn more about our cause and raise awareness.”

The event showed off the talents of seven BU dance groups of all genres, from Irish step dancing to traditional Latin-American dance to freestyle hip-hop.

By presenting various types of talent and performance, BUCCF drew a large crowd to support the cause. The show was set up like a televised dance competition, with student emcees guiding it and a voting process at the end. The mood of the event was lighthearted with a good turnout in the crowd, everyone happy to be there to support their fellow students and dancers as well as Half the Sky. In between performances, BUCCF showed videos of children helped by Half the Sky, celebrating the progress made over the last decade. The videos were

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touching and helped put faces to those supported by the foundation. The videos released impressive facts, sharing that Half the Sky has placed more than 400 children in foster care and has helped fund more than 450 surgeries for children in need.

At the end of the night, dance group Bulletproof Funk took second place and Fusion won the ultimate first place prize, but the real winner of the night was the Half the Sky Foundation. The fundraiser ended with $1,259 in donations and an audience full of people educated on BUCCF’s mission statement and great cause.

The event was well crafted and fun for all involved, benefiting a wonderful organization.

Elisabeth McNeill, a senior in the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and the fundraising co-coordinator of BUCCF, said she loves seeing the direct impact Half the Sky has on the lives of the children.

“I fell in love with the cause because it’s so real and genuine,” she said. “Sometimes we raise funds for specific surgeries, so we’ll see pictures of the children before the surgery and after. In the after pictures they’re smiling, and it’s really awesome to be able to see how our work creates a direct positive impact for the kids.”

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All we should offer the Snow family is our sympathy Many of us dream of watching our children grow up some day. Julianna Snow’s parents don’t have that option.

Julianna is a 5-year-old girl from Oregon who suffers from Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, an incurable neurodegenerative disorder that will inevitably lead to her death.

But Julianna and her parents, Michelle Moon and Steve Snow, have decided that the next time infection strikes, she won’t be going to the hospital. Instead, Julianna has made it clear that she would rather stay home and go to heaven.

Michelle has described heaven to her daughter as a place where she can play and eat, unlike on Earth. She and Steve have explained that neither they nor Julianna’s brother will be in heaven when she gets there. But Julianna’s condition is so poor that even a cold could give her a case of pneumonia that her doctors could not likely treat — and even if they could, she would be placed on a respirator and sedated with little quality of life, CNN reported.

Michelle started a blog about dealing with devastating diseases, where she posted the conversation she had with Julianna about her not wanting to go back to the hospital. According to the conversation, Julianna knows that if she stays home she will die.

But bioethicist Art Caplan told CNN that a child probably doesn’t fully understand death until he or she is about 10 years old, and that perhaps Julianna has decided to stay home based on cues she has picked up from her parents — maybe she didn’t want them to suffer.

Others assert that it’s unethical to say Julianna’s experience is irrelevant. Chris Feudtner, a pediatrician and ethicist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia who used to work with Caplan, used to ask about the wishes of all his pediatric patients. He told CNN, “Palliative care isn’t about giving up.

It’s about choosing how you want to live before you die. This little girl has chosen how she wants to live.’”

If death is Julianna’s only option, than it only seems fair that she die in peace and comfort, just as those who are placed in hospice care. Instead, because she is a child, we are bombarded with arguments about the sanctity of life and the inability of a 5-year-old to make a decision this extreme.

The issue lies in the fact that our culture doesn’t know how to come to grips with death as inevitable. Even in cases of physician-assisted suicide for adults, we tend to attack because these people are supposedly throwing away their lives. But we must ask ourselves: what is life worth if you don’t feel you’re living it?

In Julianna’s case, this isn’t a decision between life and death. This is a decision between life with tubes and florescent lighting, unfamiliar smells and white sheets, and life at home, with princess dresses and her 6-yearold brother and her favorite blankets. Death, sadly, comes either way. If Julianna faces infection again and spends the remainder of her life hooked up to a machine that breathes for her, her parents might still choose to turn them off. The only difference is, now they are making the decision to take her off the ma-

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can’t possibly put ourselves in her parents’ position.

We also cannot say that it’s fair to wait a year to see if cures emerge for this terminal disease. In all aspects of this child’s life, comfort is imperative. And not only have her parents made this decision process comfortable, they have also made her as physically comfortable as possible.

According to CNN, Julianna spends her days in Disney Princess dresses, watching her brother play and laughing along with her family. And we all know that when we are happier, we are healthier. Perhaps the sheer joy that comes from the comfort of home will be enough to make Julianna just a little bit better. And if Julianna is made that much more comfortable and her pain is eased, then she should absolutely spend the time she has left in the care of her family.

What’s so interesting about Julianna’s case is that scenarios like this must happen all of the time. So many patients decide to move to hospice, or to move home or to go to that last high school football game. But this blown up controversy is quite probably only making this family’s process even more difficult.

It isn’t our business to be discussing it, and it isn’t anyone’s business to comment on.

And yet, here we are.

While many of the comments surrounding her parents’ decision are negative, even more of t’hem are surprisingly positive.

Really, the only stance we can ethically take is to support their decision. This situation is so delicate that we can’t have anything but sympathy.

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We can’t speculate that Julianna doesn’t understand death, but we can’t expect her to fully comprehend it, either. But regardless of whether or not she understands what death is, she definitely has an understanding of what is comfortable for her. Most children probably don’t consider what happens to them after death — at least not enough to address the looming ambiguity that would influence this kind of decision. But she has been through the tubes and the needles before, and she’s more than capable of saying she doesn’t want more.

And who is to say that Julianna doesn’t have grounds to make a decision based on immediate relief? Most of us have never experienced anything close to what she has. But we all know what it feels like to be in the comfort of our homes, with our families.

Some may say that teaching Julianna about heaven was a form of coercion, or that it comes from a place of selfishness. But this clearly isn’t the case — regardless of her parents’ explanation of what happens after death, they at least made it apparent that they would no longer be with her, and that she would leave Earth forever. Perhaps the idea of heaven gives her parents something to believe in. After all, they are watching their daughter slowly die.

Realistically, not one of us has a right to make a judgment call about Julianna’s death.

Even if you have a child with a chronic illness, every single person’s illness is so different.

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Does food appropriation exist? A response to music criticism

BY RHEA SARNA COLUMNIST

An interesting question was raised in one of my classes this week: what is the typical American food? I hate to say that I reach for the stereotypical answer of burgers and fries. A bunch of other kids had responses that mostly roamed around the safe neighborhood of pizzas, shakes and apple pies. According to a piece published Monday by Providence Monthly, the “it” American food is the taco — a seemingly Mexican dish.

“If American cuisine is simply the absorption and interpretation of foodways from all over the world, then all ethnic foods that become popular in this country are pretty much American food waiting to happen,” reads the article. “Some may allege cultural appropriation, and food snobs will probably scoff at a lack of ‘authenticity,’ but a delicious idea refuses to be contained by a single nation or culture.”

The piece talks about how American food, despite being a hodgepodge of all the cuisines around the world, never claims false ownership over the foods that the layman comes to associate with America.

This article got me thinking of food appropriations around the world, and about how sometimes it’s not all hunky dory when another country decides to call your food its own. For instance, from “hummus” and “falafel” to “baba ganoush” and “labneh,” Israel has been found guilty of slapping its trademark on foods that are anything but Israeli in origin. The list goes on to include several Turkish and Egyptian delicacies as well, heightening Israel’s ignorance and an almost blunt disregard for others’ traditions and cultures.

The people of Israel are mainly Jewish immigrants who have come from all over the world throughout the past 120 years.

This makes one wonder then: how is Israel able to proudly flaunt a colorful and flavorful palate of traditional cuisines? For a state made up of fragments of different worlds and cultures, almost like a small

melting pot, how can Israel promote any food as traditionally Israeli?

A lot has been debated and assumed about the reasons behind Israel’s unfortunate cultural theft.

It is established and widely accepted that Israel’s population is mainly migrant, thus ruling out the possibility of there being a long-standing, traditionally “Israeli” culture native to the entire population.

Imagine living the life of an immigrant.

Having to travel from place to place limits the opportunities to create history or tradition in the community. This not only causes problems of disunity among the peoples, but can also take away the sense of belonging from the generations that will come to live in these settler states.

These migrants don’t have anything to call their own except the land they now live on.

This is when the desire for tradition and the desperate need to create a bond seep in. The question looms, however, is the lack of unique local heritage, or a lack of generations of traditions and culture, a significant enough reason to mislabel someone else’s? If you take another culture with the noble thought of forwarding it as your own, is it okay to remove their label and put yours on it instead?

It is pretty evident that the people of the Middle East are not pleased with Israel’s gimmick. The president of the Association of Lebanese Industrialists slapped a lawsuit on Israel in 2008 for infringement of food copyright laws. According to a Sept. 2014 CNN article, the Lebanese government’s rage against Israelis was due to commercializing Lebanese appetizers known as “mezze” under the label of Israeli foods in Western stores. They feel wronged to such an extent that they have petitioned to classify hummus as uniquely Lebanese in order to prevent being taken advantage of in the future.

Despite empathizing with Israel’s needs for appropriating Middle Eastern food, I fail to understand or sympathize with the method they are using to achieve their goals. The United States serves as the best paradigm of a nation that is made up of an amalgamation of different food cultures, yet it still manages to respect and recognize the origins of these foods and promote them in their true form and spirit. The streets of America are home to almost every cuisine known to man, but you don’t see Lady Liberty calling Italian or Mexican food American. Then why, I ask, is this patenting necessary for Israel?

BY BEN BONADIES COLUMNIST

Everybody’s a critic. The words have never been truer than in today’s digital age. Every product at every online marketplace — be it Amazon, Zappos or Etsy — has a rating system. This feature is simple enough. Shoppers use the space to let others know that the shoes you’re about to buy don’t fare too well in water, or if the custom sweatshirt runs true to size. In these cases, the reviews remain very matter-of-fact. They answer questions such as, “Does this product serve its purpose?” and “Does this product work as advertised?”

They break the product down into “Buy” or “Don’t buy.” But when reviews turn to something more ethereal and subjective, like music, user reviews can no longer be so pragmatic or consistent. iTunes has seemingly been the dominant way in which people consume music for the better part of the millennium, and the service has also become a huge aggregate for consumer music reviews. It is telling of the fickleness of the public that within a single album, the reviews can fluctuate wildly. Take, for example, Grimes’ breakthrough 2012 record “Visions,” on which the consumer reviews ranged from one-star, calling it unlistenable, to fivestar, claiming it’s a work of genius. The average iTunes consumer is probably in the middle of these poles, but will likely be swayed one way or the other by these two extremes.

This is where the power of the music blog circuit comes in to play. The reviews posted on sites such as Stereogum and Consequence of Sound have a real effect on the listening public, but these sites cannot come close to the reach and influence of Pitchfork. The blog has far and away the most pull of any music publication on the net, and has been known to make or break an artist’s career with a single post.

As such, Condé Nast, the media giant that owns publications such as Wired, GQ and

Vogue, acquired the site on Oct. 13 in an attempt to corner the millennial male market that is Pitchfork’s main demographic.

The opinions put forth by these sites are held up as doctrinal, but their reviews are as intrinsically as valuable as any kid’s with a WordPress account. Some critics have taken to YouTube as their soapbox and used the visual nature of the medium to create a new kind of relationship between the reviewer and the people watching. Anthony Fantano’s channel, TheNeedleDrop, is the most popular for this crop of YouTube critics, and his loyal fanbase follows his word as the final say on all things music.

The Internet has invariably changed the way we think about music and subjective art in general. The voices of a few have replaced our ability to think and form opinions for ourselves. The discourse surrounding music criticism online is cloaked in a veil of elitism and pretension so thick that reading or watching a review feels like stepping into a coffee shop too snobby for even gentrified Brooklynites. The diction used in these reviews is elevated so as to trick you into thinking the critics’ opinions are more relevant than your own, when in reality the review is completely worthless.

This is why I love YouTube music critic HereLiesMusic, whose most recent album review dropped on Tuesday. He is the antithesis of every stuck-up reviewer on the web. His brilliant video reviews are all less than 20 seconds long, punchy and funny as hell. They can be as succinct as his review of Toro y Moi’s “What For?” (“It’s boring”) or as elaborate as his “Intervention”-parodying review of Chvrches’ “Every Open Eye.” HereLiesMusic does away with all the pomp and circumstance that comes with music criticism these days, such as numerical scores and word counts as high as some term papers. In fact, most of his reviews are so vague that you can’t tell if he liked the album in question or not, which leaves you to inject your own opinion into his.

The HereLiesMusic Twitter page proudly proclaims, “I do music reviews for those who hate music reviews,” concisely summing up his approach as only someone who has honed brevity to a fine point can do. In a time when all content is getting smaller and shorter, it’s a wonder someone like HereLiesMusic hasn’t come around sooner to save us from the abysmal way music is discussed online.

Interrobang A West Virginia man was arrested twice on Tuesday after singing Justin Bieber songs over the intercom at two schools. We here at the ol’ Free Press were wondering, what songs would BU people sing over a school’s intercom?

SED: Schoolhouse Rock’s “Conjunction Junction”

CFA: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ “Thrift Shop”

Danielsen Hall: Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles”

President Brown: Chamillionaire’s “Ridin’“

BU Athletics: BU Pep Band’s cover of Shakira’s “Waka Waka”

“CeeLo Dean” Elmore: CeeLo Green’s “Forget You”

Questrom: Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money”

FreeP: J.D. Capelouto’s “Pinot Noir”

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Maddie Elia, Victoria Bach swap lines, find twine over weekend B REARDON, FROM PAGE 12

ance in size when he made the decision to change the lines.

“I just felt like we had one line of fantastic skaters that were all smaller players [Russo, Bach and Leslie],” Durocher said. “The other line we had three stronger forwards [Tutino, Elia and Lefort]. Bringing the bigger center to one line might have given us more balance.”

Tutino and Lefort have been a bit “snakebitten” this season, as Durocher put it, and he said he hoped a change such as this could help them, as well as benefit the second line.

Durocher also noted that, although the numbers don’t show it, the new first line played extremely well against No. 8 Northeastern University on Friday night.

While his decision didn’t amount to much in the first game of the weekend set, BU benefitted from the alteration Saturday against the University of Vermont.

Just 1:14 into the game against the Catamounts (1-7, 1-1 Hockey East), Bach put the Terriers on the board with her second goal of the season. Lefort and Tutino were attributed with the assists. Bach now has two goals and five assists on the season.

The second line also produced a goal in the first frame.

With three minutes remaining in the period, Russo scored her fourth of the season with assists from Elia and junior defenseman Sarah Steele.

Elia quickly settled into her role as second line center. She notched an assist on the Terriers’ only goal Friday night, but truly shined in the game against the Catamounts.

With less than a minute left in the second period, Elia netted the puck off a pass from Russo.

Halfway through the third, she sent another one past Vermont goaltender Molly Depew. Elia ended the game with a plus-3 rating, and concluded the weekend with two goals and two assists.

Alexis Crossley, Sarah Steele turn defense into offense Steele and fellow junior defender Alexis Crossley added to BU’s offensive success Saturday.

Crossley, still adjusting to playing as a Terrier after transferring from the University of New Hampshire, has already begun to prove she is a valuable addition to the team.

She earned her first point as a Terrier in Saturday’s win over Vermont. Crossley sent the puck to Elia for her second tally of the game.

“Alexis Crossley was an AllStar at UNH,” Durocher said.

“She’s a top defenseman in the league, let alone the team.”

Steele scored her first goal of the season just 2:13 into the game against Vermont. Another defenseman, senior Alexis Woloschuk, earned an assist on Steele’s goal.

Steele found some chemistry with the newly constructed second line. A pass from Steele to Elia, who then passed to Russo, led to the Terriers’ third first-period-goal against the Catamounts. “[Steele] has offensive capabilities and plenty of experience,” Durocher said. “We expect a little bit of everything from her. She’s part of our penalty kill, and our second power play. We expect her to contribute to all parts of the game.”

Inconsistency plagues Terriers Although the Terriers dominated the second match of the weekend, they did not play well during the Northeastern (6-1-1, 2-0 Hockey East) game.

This inconsistency first arose in a two-game weekend set against Pennsylvania State University on Oct. 9 and 10. Just as they did this past weekend, the Terriers lost the first game, but came back for

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Junior center Maddie Elia has found her stroke on the second line, tallying four points in Hockey East play this past weekend.

the win the next day.

In the first game against Penn State (3-5), BU looked unprepared and ultimately lost, 5-3.

Knowing what to expect, and what needed work, the Terriers defeated the Nittany Lions, 3-1, in the second game.

This same turnaround occurred in the Terriers’ most recent weekend set. Northeastern’s offense got the best of the Terriers in a 7-1 defeat. BU exhibited some good moments and tallied

31 shots on goal, but the Huskies simply outplayed it. On Saturday though, the Terriers put the puck on net 39 times en route to the 5-2 win.

“We haven’t found a way to become consistent in all parts of the game,” Durocher said. “We continue to get our share of shots on goal. We can generate offense but it’s not turning into points.

We got to get dirtier, tougher.

Not everything is going to be a pretty play.”

Felix De Bona, Magnus Benediktsson break out vs. Holy Cross

BY JOE CALABRESE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

While the rain caused problems for nearly everyone involved in Wednesday night’s game between the Boston University men’s soccer team and the College of the Holy Cross, both junior forward Felix De Bona and freshman midfielder Magnus Benediktsson seemed unaffected, as they provided nearly all of the Terriers’ offense in the 2-1 victory.

The Crusaders (5-7-4, 2-32 Patriot League) came out fast Wednesday night. They punished the Terrier (11-4-1, 5-1-1 Patriot League) defense in the first 10 minutes, creating chances and keeping the Terriers out of Holy Cross’ half of the field. In the eighth minute, however, BU capitalized on its first major opportunity.

After jumping over and around multiple Crusader defenders, Benediktsson found sophomore midfield-

er David Amirani for a great look in the box. Amirani was promptly tripped. The resulting penalty kick gave the Terriers the early lead and gave De Bona his first of two firsthalf goals.

The Crusaders responded quickly, as the Terrier defense gave away a goal in the 11th minute to knot the contest at one. Holy Cross would continue to win second balls off poor Terrier possessions, and it looked as though the Terrier defense was going to continue the struggles it had against Lehigh University last Saturday.

While the Crusaders seemed to have the upper hand early Wednesday night, BU coach Neil Roberts admits that the first part of any game is hectic.

“No one really controls the beginning,” Roberts said. “ … It’s just people sorting each other out. We try to figure out what they’re going to do, they try to figure out what

we’re going to do. It’s not really play yet.”

It wasn’t until the 29th minute that BU took full control of that energy. On an attempted clearance from the Crusaders, the 5-foot-6 Benediktsson sped up the middle, steamrolled into the Crusader back line and quickly found De Bona, who buried the chance easily.

“He’s doing well,” Roberts said of the Reykjavik, Iceland, native.

“He set up that second goal really well and after that he was doing well. We’ve got to get him defending better, but he’s doing well.”

While Benediktsson wasn’t the only one struggling on defense early for BU, he did show some skill on the back line in the second half.

In the 66th minute, Benediktsson tackled a Crusader player who was clear in the box, effectively shutting down Holy Cross’ best chance to equalize.

In his eighth start in a row,

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Junior striker Felix De Bona got back in the scoring column Wednesday, tallying two goals vs. Holy Cross.

Benediktsson has been filling in on offense for a team that’s been struggling with injuries — most notably

to sophomore midfielder Anthony Viteri — and has made the most of CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

Athletics officials, coaches strive for wealth over student-athletes’ success B SOUZA, FROM PAGE 12

What does this say about the world of collegiate athletics? Are some coaches, athletic directors and school presidents really so concerned about generating revenue that they have no shame in breaking a federal law that carries years behind bars?

Yes. Yes they are.

The overarching quest for the almighty dollar has led to the corruption of not only the people in power, but of the entire industry of college sports in general. The NCAA is no longer concerned with the well-being of its student-athletes, as exemplified by the organization repeatedly dragging its feet before finally giving underprivileged

players meal stipends. Instead, the NCAA is a money-driven machine that solely focuses on how many more green pieces of paper they can line their pockets with while not even cutting the smallest of checks to its top revenue-generating “student-athletes.”

Right alongside the NCAA stand numerous coaches and higher-ups in college athletics.

While not all or even most coaches contribute to this money-first mentality, those that do are tainting amateur sports. Making millions of dollars for their respective universities, many athletic directors and their colleagues remain obstinately

committed to turning the talents and hard work of their students into cold, hard cash.

This has led to, among other things, skyrocketing ticket prices.

It’s roughly $230 for the cheapest seats at the annual Iron Bowl football game between the University of Alabama and Auburn University.

There are also gluttonous television deals for both NCAA football and basketball programs that number in the millions of dollars. And that’s all without mentioning the absurdity of making money off players’ namesakes without proper reimbursement.

This constant drive to-

ward the seemingly never-ending goal that is lying on a mountain of money has led universities to immoral and even illegal means to coerce the nation’s top recruits. By knowingly supplying underage minors with an excess of alcohol and instructing players to, according to Rose, “show me a magnificent time — as a matter of fact, the time of my life,” coaches are advocating to the world that sports and money trump morality and respect. This elitist attitude sometimes, but not always, leads to top tier student-athletes believing they are above the law.

No better example of this exists than former Florida State University

quarterback Jameis Winston, who was publicly shamed for screaming sexist obscenities in a dining hall, stealing crab legs from a local grocery store and, allegedly, sexually assaulting a classmate. And the list of coaches and athletes who have become the top story of many news outlets does not stop with Winston.

The heads of collegiate athletics, along with the number of coaches and university officials who value their money more than their students, need to wake up. If they don’t, who knows what horror the world might uncover next after yet another school breaks the bonds of morality in pursuit of wealth.

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Women’s soccer snags Patriot League regular season title

BY NICK FRAZIER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

After remaining positive despite a tough beginning to the season, the Boston University women’s soccer team remains undefeated in league play with one game left in the regular season.

Most recently, the Terriers (9-5-3, 7-0-1 Patriot League) earned their fourth straight victory with a 2-0 win against the United States Military Academy on Saturday. The win led to the Terriers’ first regular season conference title since 2012.

The conference championship may come as a surprise to some, as BU failed to record a win in its first six games. Ever since their first home game on Sept.

13, however, the Terriers have hit their stride, losing only one game (vs. Harvard University) in 11 chances. BU coach Nancy Feldman said she believes her team’s turnaround can be credited to its constant positivity and winning attitude.

“They didn’t fold the tent,” Feldman said. “I would have been surprised if they had because it was early in the season, and some of these things take some time.

They stayed positive and trusted each other that they would figure it out, and they have. But we also

know that the difference between losing those games in the beginning and winning those games now are really slight. You have to stay focused on the little things and continuing to do those things right because it’s a very fine line.”

Alyssa Parisi, defense earn fourth consecutive shutout The overwhelming cause of the Terriers’ winning streak is the stellar play of senior goalkeeper Alyssa Parisi and the defense.

The Terriers have recorded four straight shutouts, last giving up a goal against Harvard (7-7-1) on Oct. 6. Throughout the whole season, BU has given up only 16 goals in 17 games. However, Feldman still believes her team can perform better overall on the defensive side.

“I absolutely think there’s room for improvement,” Feldman said. “At halftime of the game on Saturday I thought our defending in the forward field was one of the things we needed to improve to put the game away. On that day, I didn’t think we did a good job of transitioning well to defend on the front half of the field with our forwards and our midfielders.

“Overall, certainly we’re more cohesive and organized,”

Feldman added. “We have to keep reminding ourselves that every little moment counts. When it gets down to it, this time of year, one lapse of concentration can mean the difference in a match. We want to be sure that if we’re going to lose, and we’re going to let in a goal, it’s not going to be because we made an error. It’s going to be because someone did something remarkable.”

Freshmen continue to shine Throughout the season, the contributions of the Terriers’ freshman class have been significant.

In their latest match, forward McKenna Doyle and midfielder Julianna Chen, both freshmen, both tallied goals vs. the Army Black Knights (4-11-2, 2-4-2 Patriot League). It was Chen’s first goal of the season and Doyle’s sixth, as she now leads the Terriers in points with 15.

Freshman midfielder Dorrie Varley-Barrett and freshman defender Chelsea Churchill have also chipped in this season with seven points in a combined 29 games. Feldman had nothing but praise for her freshmen, as well as for her senior leaders. “[The freshmen] are getting

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Freshman midfielder Dorrie Varley-Barrett is one of many Terrier rookies to contribute major minutes in 2015.

goals and producing in other areas on game day,” Feldman said.

“They have meant a lot to the team this season, and they have followed the lead of the older players, [who] have allowed them to bring their strengths and have not squashed them.

“This group of seniors have embraced the freshmen and made

them comfortable, and allowed them to be confident enough to contribute,” she added. “The freshmen have taken the lead of the upperclassmen and learned how to go about training every day and how to approach games.

It’s a great mixture of young and matured. I think the young players have matured very quickly.”

No. 15 field hockey defeats Harvard in postseason tune-up

BY EVAN YEE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

In the 31st matchup between the two schools, the No. 15 Boston University field hockey team captured a 3-2 decision at Harvard University on Wednesday night.

BU (12-5, 6-0 Patriot League) followed up its dominant performance against Bucknell University with another convincing win against its rivals from Cambridge.

Even though the score indicated a close game, BU was in control the whole time, shutting Harvard (7-7) out until the last minutes of the game. Senior midfielder Sofi Laurito left her imprint on this one, contributing on all three goals in the victory.

The Terriers came out strong, scoring two goals in the first half while blanking Harvard on the defensive side.

BU’s leading goal-scorer, Laurito notched her first goal of the game 12 minutes into the contest, and later assisted on junior forward Sara Martineau’s goal at the 26:37 mark.

BU coach Sally Starr said she believes in Laurito, calling her one of the best players in the

country.

“She’s dangerous,” Starr said of the Patriot League Preseason Offensive Player of the Year. “I really think she’s one of the best players in the country and with the horrific conditions, she really came up big with her two goals and a beautiful assist.”

Another goal did not arise until ten minutes were left in the contest, as both defenses stymied the opposition.

Even though the BU defense had shut out Harvard most of the game, Starr said her team was not as crisp on the defensive side in the second half.

“I thought our defense played pretty well,” Starr said. “We gave more chances in the second half because we were up, we let up and we had a lot of unforced turnovers.

“I think Harvard taught us how to manage at the end,” Starr added. “The struggles in the end will help us close teams out in the postseason.”

Late in the second half, Laurito would score her second goal of the game and 11th on the season, giving the Terriers a 3-0 cushion.

Junior goalkeeper Cammy

Jensen followed up her Patriot League Goalkeeper of the Week nod with another strong performance against the Crimson. Jensen tallied three saves and shut Harvard out until the final three minutes of the game.

With the game seemingly put away, Harvard senior Elizabeth Jacobson scored at the 67:01 mark, followed by forward Marissa Balleza’s score at the buzzer.

However, the Crimson’s sudden scoring burst wouldn’t matter as BU gathered its 12th win on the season. While this game marks BU’s second win in a row, Harvard saw its fourth loss in a row as its struggling play continues.

Next up for BU is No. 5 Wake Forest University on Sunday, as it looks to head into the Patriot League Tournament on a high note.

But Starr said she is wary of looking past a solid Wake Forest (12-4) team.

“We’re really focused on Wake Forest,” Starr said. “We’ve played tough against the other ACC teams this season, the difference here is it’s not a back-toback, so we’ll be well rested.

“It’s another measurement for us,” Starr added. “We’ve

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Senior midfielder Sofi Laurito racked up five points vs. Harvard, notching two of the three Terrier goals.

learned lessons in the [No. 2 University of Connecticut], [No. 1] Syracuse [University], [No. 12 Boston College] games, and these are the games that’ll make us

better. If we’re fortunate enough to win the Patriot League Tournament, this Wake Forest game will help us in the national tournament.”

Despite injuries, BU finds offense through unlikely sources CALABRESE, FROM PAGE 10

his chances. He leads the Terriers with six assists.

De Bona, on the other hand, has bounced back in his last two games, showing why he’s been such a valuable part of the Terrier attack for the second season in a row. De Bona started off 2015 hot. After

that, though, he went stagnant, scoring only one goal in 11 games.

With a score against Lehigh (9-5-1, 3-3 Patriot League), and the two in the first half of this one, he’s shown resurgence. De Bona almost converted the hat trick when, in the 77th minute, he used some finesse footwork to dribble around four

Crusader defenders and took a terrific shot from about 16 yards out, but goalkeeper Kevin Wright made an even better save.

While the Terriers have been without the likes of Amirani, Viteri and freshman defender Ben Valek for a few weeks, younger guys like Benediktsson and freshman mid-

fielder T.J. Butzke have filled in the gaps admirably.

“We’ve got injuries and guys are coming back off injury,” Roberts said. “Amirani and Ben didn’t play a lot of minutes. Since Anthony has been out, T.J. and Magnus have played a lot of minutes. I’m just trying to get him some rest. It’s

a cumulative thing and it’s going to catch up with them eventually if we don’t get them some breaks.”

With injured Terriers returning to action and players like Benediktsson and De Bona finding their stride on offense, this team is capable of making a deep run into the Patriot League Tournament.

Quotable “They didn’t fold the tent. ... They stayed positive and trusted each other that they would figure it out, and they have.” - BU women’s soccer coach Nancy Feldman on her team’s early season struggles. p. 11

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De Bona Dominant Junior forward shines against Holy Cross in Turnpike Trophy match. p. 10

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Men’s soccer earns gritty win against Holy Cross, inches closer to Patriot League title

Going For Two The NCAA’s money problem

BY JONATHAN SIGAL DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BY DAVID SOUZA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The University of Louisville men’s basketball team has recently come under scrutiny as the NCAA conducts a full-scale investigation over allegations that prostitutes were used to help woo potential recruits. Head coach Rick Pitino is being rightfully dragged through the mud as the sports world questions if the 15-year mainstay was aware of the alleged crime. This black mark on a once-great program, while heinous and one of the first of its kind, is just another incident on a laundry list of public scandals that have rocked numerous universities’ athletic programs throughout the United States.

This scandal is one of the only ones, however, that revolves around recruits. This was not a group of student-athletes selling their game-used paraphernalia in exchange for tattoos, like what happened at Ohio State University. Nor was it a plethora of former players blowing the whistle on a program that focused on bypassing academics, like at the University of North Carolina.

No, this was allegedly a group of 18-yearold prospective students having prostitutes bought for them by members of the athletic community. That’s right, paid university officials, like former Louisville director of basketball operations Andre McGee, are charged with shelling out upwards of $10,000 of the college’s money to pay for lap dances and sex for high school students.

McGee, who has since resigned from his most recent post at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, could face prostitution charges and possible jail time if it is found that he did solicit numerous escorts from 2010 to 2014.

These atrocious charges bring about the question of ethics in collegiate athletics.

Former University of Michigan standout and current NBA analyst Jalen Rose has since come out and made claims that imply the Louisville incident is not an isolated one, nor is it specific to the university.

“What you see at a bachelor or bachelorette party is what happens on a recruiting visit,” Rose said on his personal podcast. “…

And as a 17-year-old kid, first off, if I’m not getting laid, I’m not coming. I’m not signing.

I’m not coming.”

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Amid a consistent downpour and driving winds, the Boston University men’s soccer team defended its home turf, 2-1, Wednesday evening against the College of the Holy Cross.

In the third installment of the Turnpike Trophy, a contest that cumulatively will reward the efforts of BU (11-4-1, 5-1-1 Patriot League) and Holy Cross (5-7-4, 2-3-2 Patriot League) athletic teams, the Terriers continued their dominance.

After a midseason dip in form, junior forward Felix De Bona stole the show. He emphatically buried an eighth minute penalty kick that was drawn by sophomore midfielder David Amirani, only to later secure a game-winner in the 29th minute.

De Bona received the ball about 30 yards from goal, cut in on his left and bent a curler into the far side netting past Holy Cross goalkeeper Kevin Wright. Through two emphatic strikes, De Bona shook off the cobwebs at a time of year when the Terriers need him the most.

“Felix had a great game,” said BU coach Neil Roberts. “The second goal was a beautiful goal. The penalty kick he helped create, so I’m happy for him. He needed that.”

While booming with confidence, the Crusaders caused trouble on BU’s threeman back line time and time again in the first half. This was most evident in the 11th minute when midfielder Matt Villano took advantage of some miscommunication on defense.

Normally astute and mistake-free, junior right back David Asbjornsson sent a wayward clearance directly into Villano’s path. A mere dozen yards from goal, Villano slotted an uncontested strike under junior goalkeeper Matt Gilbert.

As dangerous as Holy Cross’ attacking fluidity and droves were, the return of several defensive stalwarts quelled the threats to some degree. Freshman center back Ben Valek returned to the fold, and senior defender Jeroen Blugh returned to his customary position at the heart of defense.

While vastly apart in terms of experience, Valek and Blugh formed a partnership that bent but did not break. Holy Cross generated 18 total shots, but few were of a troubling nature.

“Ben hasn’t played in a while, but he’s going to be a good player,” Roberts said. “I told him yesterday that it’s a process and to be pa-

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Sophomore midfielder David Amirani drew the penalty kick opportunity which led to BU’s first goal in the eighth minute of Wednesday’s match.

tient. He’s going to be a really good player. You see how sometimes he’s a little bit too aggressive, but when you need to win a ball, you want him there.”

With a narrow 2-1 lead in hand, the Terriers spent much of the second half seeing out the match. Several more chances fell De Bona’s way, but Wright’s strong presence stymied BU’s efforts to extend the lead.

Nonetheless, a stalemate developed in midfield and neither team could find the net once more, securing all three points for the Terriers.

As things now stand, the Terriers’ Patriot League Tournament fate is entirely in their hands. Roberts’ side travels to the United States Military Academy on Saturday, and

then heads to the United States Naval Academy on Nov. 6.

If BU can win both contests, it will host the Patriot League Tournament at Nickerson Field as the top seed when mid-November rolls around.

“Three points are very important right now and because of last week everything is close,” Roberts said. “We know Navy [(7-7-1, 3-3 Patriot League)] lost tonight and everything is just so tight at the top, so you want to try to get one of the byes. If you can get the first seed, that’s even better.

“It’s going to go down to the wire,” Roberts added. “Every team is fighting for points to get into the tournament or placement in the tournament.”

No. 14 women’s hockey changes lines, thrives

BY SHELBY REARDON DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

For the first six games of the season, the No. 14 Boston University women’s ice hockey team’s first line consisted of junior

center Maddie Elia and senior forwards Kayla Tutino and Sarah Lefort.

But BU (4-4, 3-1 Hockey East) coach Brian Durocher switched out Elia for sophomore forward Victoria Bach this past

weekend. Bach had previously centered the second line with senior wing Rebecca Russo and sophomore wing Rebecca Leslie.

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Field hockey @ Wake Forest, 1 p.m.

When asked what has led to the suc-

Men’s hockey vs. Denver, 4 p.m.

Much to the surprise of their fans, the Boston Bruins won another home game.

Men’s hockey @ Merrimack, 7 p.m.

Men’s soccer @ Army, 4 p.m.

cess, defenseman Zdeno Chara said, Women’s hockey @ New Hampshire,

Women’s soccer @ Navy, 5 p.m.

2 p.m.

“Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica.”