10-9-2012

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Green Line crash near Brigham Circle due to human error Police confirm body

By Chris Lisinski Daily Free Press Staff

The Green Line collision near Brigham Circle that injured three people Monday afternoon was due to human error, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officials said.

MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo said that a Green Line inspector in charge of a switch on the tracks is responsible for the accident.

“The switch that separates the inbound from the outbound tracks was set in the incorrect position,” he said. “It wasn’t the fault of the trains or the operators of the trains, it was the switch on the tracks. A Green Line inspector is responsible for the switch and making sure it’s in the right position.”

Two trolley cars crashed into each other on Huntington Avenue at about 4 p.m., Pesaturo said. The inbound train moved over to the outbound side toward the train heading for Brigham Circle coming from the other direction. The inbound trolley made contact with the second car of the two-car trolley.

The accident caused neck and back injuries to two outbound passengers and a trolley operator, Pesaturo. The victims, who were not identified, were taken to a nearby hospital after the accident.

Pesaturo said the MBTA identified the inspector involved.

“That person is being interviewed, and it’s standard procedure to also go for a drug

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MBTA employees stand near a damaged subway car that was derailed on the E Line Monday night.

and alcohol test,” he said.

Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald said in a phone interview that MBTA Transit Police, regular MBTA operations, Boston Fire and Boston EMS were dispatched to the scene.

The E Line was closed near Brigham Circle and likely will not be functioning until Tuesday, Pesaturo said.

“It’s going to take a while to re-rail the train that was headed to Brigham Circle,”

he said. “They’re going to work on it all night and hopefully get it done for the morning.”

Trolleys are running from the Northeastern University stop inbound while repairs are made on the rest of the E Line.

Huntington Avenue was closed to traffic between Longwood Avenue and Brigham Circle. Eastbound lanes were opened to

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SEC looks to address flaws, improve Student Government elections

By Abraham Kalaoun Daily Free Press Contributor

The Boston University Student Elections Commission plans to improve their campaign cycle by addressing issues from the spring 2012 race, particularly technologies and student involvement, officials said.

“This year, we’re really trying hard to up the ante — not to bash SEC in the past,” said Tess McNamara, SEC co-chair. “Past members definitely put in a lot of effort.

Unfortunately, it didn’t always come out the way they intended due to a lot of last-

minute changes.”

McNamara, a School of Education sophomore, said informing students about the election is crucial. SEC is using social media such as Facebook and Twitter to engage students.

“If students can’t make it to the debates, they can submit questions via social media, and we’ll tweet the answers and put them all over our Facebook page as well,” she said. “We want students to be really active.”

SEC is using resources within the Dean of Students office to spread awareness, Mc-

Students split on race-based admissions

By Marguerite Morgan Daily Free Press Contributor

Boston University students and professors expressed mixed feelings about the upcoming race-based affirmative action case involving the University of Texas, which the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hear on Wednesday.

Although the decision in the case will only affect public universities, a number of people in the BU community said they were unsure about how race should affect the college admissions process.

“I am thinking about the experience of the students being accepted,” said Liah Greenfeld, a sociology professor. “I feel very bad for them. They can never take the credit for being accepted. Beyond all of the considerations of fairness, I think it’s a very cruel position for those students being accepted that way.”

Nine years after the Supreme Court ruled college admissions could use race in accepting diverse student bodies, the Court is reevaluating its decision.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday for the race-based affirmative action case. Since the Supreme Court case only affects public universities, Boston University will not be impacted directly, officials said.

“This case is about public universities and thus has no direct effect on BU,” said School of Law professor Jack Beermann in an email interview. “Private universities are not state actors covered by the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, which is the provision under which the Texas affirmative action policy is being challenged.”

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Namara said. “[Katherine] Cornetta controls the computer monitors around campus, so she helped us put our flyers on the public computer terminals in [College of Arts and Sciences] and in Warren [Towers] to help spread the word about our information sessions,” she said.

SEC received criticism in April for its handling of the spring Student Union elections. The Be Unleashed slate won unopposed with less than 10 percent of students

Authorities recovered a body from the Charles River Monday morning, Massachusetts State Police officials said.

State police sent a marine unit to retrieve the body from the water after the Boston University Police Department reported seeing the body at about 8:15 a.m., said state police spokesman Todd Nolan.

Nolan said preliminary investigations indicate the body is that of an “older white male.”

Suffolk District Attorney spokesman Jake Wark confirmed that the body was not that of any missing college student, dispelling rumors that police could have found the body of missing Boston Architectural College graduate student Jonathan Dailey.

Dailey, 23, of North Carolina, was last seen on Oct. 2 around Gardner Street in Brighton. He is a second year student at Boston Architectural College.

Friends and family of Dailey continue to garner support for the search of the missing student, in part by seeking donations and posting updates on a Facebook event titled “Jonathan Dailey – Missing since October 2nd, 8:30 pm.”

Bruce Dailey, the student’s father, said on the page that he and his wife have posted flyers around the Milton area, including the Blue Hills Reservation.

“Donna [Dailey] and I drove south to the Blue Hills Reservation nature preserve area in and around Milton until early evening,” Bruce Dailey said, “Spoke with the PD and park rangers, putting flyers up on the trail map boards ... Wow, that can be overwhelming.”

The Massachusetts state troopers who are assigned to the Suffolk District Attorney will investigate the incident, Nolan said.

Investigators are continuing to identify

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SG set emergency meeting for Tuesday night to draft election plans with SEC SEC: From Page 1

voting.

SEC is working with AdClub to help inform students of the SEC’s new methods, McNamara said.

“Everyone knows SG, but we’re afraid that when people hear SEC, they don’t actually associate it with elections so people don’t know our role,” she said.

“Therefore we work with AdClub to not only make elections more public but also to make SEC a little more public so that it gives it a little more weight.”

McNamara said SEC is hold-

ing information sessions, debates and meet-and-greets in more public locations than CAS classrooms, where they were held in the spring.

“We have one info session in a classroom this year, but we held the others at the Howard Thurman Center and BU Central, places which carry a lot more credibility and have more foot traffic,” McNamara said. “We’re also thinking of holding the debates outside, in the [George Sherman Union] or near the dining halls so people are forced to walk straight into it and get engaged.”

McNamara said new leadership in SEC will also help the election run smoothly.

“We have a lot of new faces this year, which is really exciting,” she said. “For example, Maryanne [Nicolo] and Katie [Siverts] have teamed up this year as our marketing commissioners. We involved more people in marketing to really publicize everything well.”

SEC also added School of Management freshman Bhakti Varma as Interior Communication Commissioner, McNamara said.

“Bhakti’s role is to be the one who is constantly helping with the

logistics of things, like keeping up with dates and deadlines and working with [Student Activities Office] on voting procedures,” she said.

SG set an emergency meeting for Tuesday with SEC to discuss plans for the election after SEC members were unable to attend SG’s Oct. 1 meeting.

SG Public Relations Director Cherice Hunt said SG has heard of SEC’s changes, but intends to discuss them at the meeting.

“We have heard about SEC’s changes in leadership and tactics, we’ve seen the flyers and their

presence on social media,” Hunt, a College of Communication junior, said. “But SG won’t know what direction SEC is headed until Tuesday’s meeting.”

Hunt said she hopes SEC successfully involves the student population in the election.

“Expectations must be met, and we will call SEC out on those concerns because we feel it is very important that the student body is adequately represented,” she said.

“Our ultimate goal is to empower the students. Therefore we expect SEC to promote elections to the best of their abilities.”

Mission Hill resident said Brigham Circle T-stop area ‘poorly designed’ Green Line: From Page 1

traffic at about 6:15 p.m.

Alison Pultinas, a Mission Hill resident, said she became aware of the crash after helicopters began flying in the area.

“I think there was confusion over whether the trolleys are going to Heath Street or whether they were turning around at Brigham Circle,” she said.

Pultinas said the Brigham Circle area is poorly designed

and often leads to problems with trolleys, including the amount of space the lamppost takes up, the conditions of the platforms and the amount of room trains have when they turn.

“The platform is not wide enough to accommodate passengers,” she said. “Both inbound and outbound, and people walk down in the middle of the road to get inbound because they don’t understand.”

Investigators continue efforts to ID body recovered from Charles River River: From Page 1

the male, whose remains were transported to the State Police Marine Unit, according to an email statement from the Suffolk District Attorney’s office.

Sometime after 8 a.m. on Monday, two employees of the Boston

University Sailing Pavilion spotted the body in the water and notified the BUPD, according to the statement.

A medical examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause of death, which was not immediately clear.

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BU student wins award for ‘passion for science,’ intensity In blue Bay State,

By Carol Kozma Daily Free Press Staff

College of Arts and Sciences sophomore Taylor Krebs requested a tutor from Athlete Support Services for her chemistry class freshman year despite her previous academic success.

“It was because she wanted to get the highest mark,” said Phil DeCarlo, director of student athlete support services. “At that point, I knew she was driven.”

One year later, Krebs has won a $10,000 Thermo Scientific Pierce scholarship from the medical company Thermo Fisher.

The scholarship, which Krebs received on on Oct. 2., is awarded to students who “demonstrate academic skills along with how their passion for science transcends the lab,” according to a press release.

Krebs, who majors in biology, specializing in cellular molecular genetics, was one of six undergraduate and graduate student to win the awards — four of $5,000 and two of $10,000.

Krebs helped develop “a new, cheaper and faster method to develop viruses,” Zuzanna Siwy, who managed the Siwy Research Laboratory, wrote in an email.

Siwy wrote Krebs learned all

of the experiments quickly, and analyzed the data.

“She [Krebs] is very bright and very well prepared to work in an interdisciplinary environment, which is not easy to do,” Siwy wrote.

Krebs said she wrote an essay for the scholarship on how she embodied one of Thermo Fisher’s values: intensity. Krebs, a BU women’s soccer forward, said her high academic grades, and participation in a Division 1 soccer team, a 30-hour commitment every week, manifested her intensity.

Krebs volunteered for the Assistance League of Saddleback Valley from seventh grade until she graduated from high school.

The organization showed her long-term commitment to a cause, she said. Krebs said she delivered premade meals, among other services, to people who cannot cook for themselves.

“I am a proactive person, I have never been the one to let things be handed to me,” Krebs, of Orange County, Calif., said.

To juggle academics and sports, Krebs said she cannot procrastinate, reads ahead for her

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College of Arts and Sciences sophomore Taylor Krebs received a $10,000 scholarship from the 2012 Thermo Scientific Pierce Scholarship Program.

Parade and performers entertain Bostonians at Columbus Day celebration

By Brian Latimer Daily Free Press Staff

Amid jugglers, magicians and storytellers, scores of children and Bostonians from throughout the city gathered at Christopher Columbus Park Monday to celebrate Columbus Day. Residents from the area, some coming as far as Jamaica Plains, gathered at the park with their families to enjoy performers, a parade and a speech by state representative Aaron Michlewitz.

“An event like this helps bring the community together,” says Joanne Hayes-Rines, president of Friends of Christopher Columbus Park. “In a city, especially in this area, there are so many people raising families, so we bring them together.”

The celebration began just before 11 a.m. with a bright parade that made its way through the park for children.

“There is certainly a strong North End contingent at this event, but people come from all around,” said Jennifer Thompson, also known as Jenny the Juggler.

“I just saw a Girl Scout Troop I performed for a while back.”

To honor Christopher Columbus, the FOCCP invited Mass.

Rep. Aaron Michlewitz, of Boston, to speak and lay a wreath on the statue in front of a crowd teaming with children of all ages, parents and passers-by.

“This is to celebrate our heritage because Christopher Columbus has such a large impact on the Italian community,” said FOCCP member Liz Greene, while gesturing to an Italian flag draped in front of the statue. “This is a fun day for families with children so we try to make it meaningful.”

FOCCP also sponsors picnics and Independence Day celebrations to make families in the area

feel welcome.

The organization, with the help of a team of volunteers, spends weeks cleaning the park and planning.

“The fact that the community has shown so much support is astonishing,” said magician Peter O’Malley. “There are a lot more volunteers that are willing to roll up their sleeves and work for the community.”

The celebration itself serves as a fundraiser for FOCCP, which accepted donations from participants.

With donations from local businesses and community members, the organization can maintain the park and the blue-lit trellis.

“This is a wonderful, affordable event for the families especially because it’s free,” said Frankie Boyer, a volunteer with the FOCCP. “We have events like

this to support the park in every way, shape and form to keep the area healthy and vibrant.”

Groups of almost 50 children surrounded the performers, which included jugglers, magicians and storytellers.

Laughter and excited screams rang out throughout the park as children banged on drums and held sea life in a touch tank sponsored by the New England Aquarium.

Boston resident Barbara Chandler said that the park is her family’s backyard, and it is a great space to hold activities such as this one.

“I came with four kids and they’re running around having a great time watching the magician — except for this one, she’s had a long day,” she said, gesturing to the 2-year-old who was dozing in a stroller.

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While a number of leading Massachusetts state officials have poured funds into efforts to support President Barack Obama’s re-election, Republican candidate and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney has managed to garner donations from high-profile leaders of multiple Bay State companies.

Several local and state leaders have donated to the Democratic cause, but a number of the Commonwealth’s businessmen have also funneled money behind Republican campaigns for Romney and U.S. Sen. Scott Brown.

“There are two main reasons people donate to campaigns,” said Lee Drutman, a senior fellow at the Sunlight Foundation in Washington, D.C. “The first is that they really care who gets elected, and the second reason is because they want to have access to the candidates who are elected.”

Drutman said money directly donated to a candidate is used to pay for campaign expenses.

These expenses include advertising, employee compensation and get-out-the-vote efforts.

Although the Obama campaign outraised the Romney campaign by about $2 million in August, pro-Romney money is strong in Super PAC donations.

Super PACs, political action committees, are barred from coordinating with campaign officials and can raise unlimited funds.

An individual can donate a maximum of $2,500 to a campaign, but Super PACs have no limits on donations.

As of Monday, the most prominent pro-Romney Super PAC, Restore Our Future, had raised more than $87 million, while the prominent pro-Obama Super PAC, Priorities USA Action, trailed with about $38 million, according to ProPublica.

Drutman also said Super PACs “can raise unlimited amounts from wealthy donors.”

Federal Election Commission records show a number of

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Students weary of surroundings after third armed robbery in about 2 weeks

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After the third armed robbery in Brookline, students who live nearby say they are trying to be more aware of their surroundings.

By Rachel Riley Daily Free Press Staff

Boston University students said they feel unsafe in going about their day after the third

armed robbery in the Brookline area that occurred on Friday, fewer than two weeks after BU students were robbed on Thorndike Street.

The third robbery occurred at about 5:15 p.m. on Friday at St. Paul Street and Thatcher Street in Brookline.

The BU Alert Service described suspects as three black males between the ages of 13 and 18, one of whom showed a handgun, dressed in grey, white and red sweatshirts.

The BU Police Department and the Brookline Police Department were unable to offer any further details at the time of print.

The victim, a recent college graduate, is unharmed, according to the Brookline PD’s blog.

“Certainly, if they say there was a weapon involved, that’s extremely serious and concerning, and more concerning because it’s in the daylight,” said BU spokesman Colin Riley.

A similar incident occurred on Sept. 25 at about 5:15 p.m. at Egmont Street and St. Paul Street, where three BU students were the

victims of another armed robbery.

The suspects were three black males, one wearing a blue sweatshirt and one wearing a red sweatshirt, and they showed a black handgun.

Just two days before, two BU students had their cell phones and wallets taken at about 2:55 a.m. on Thorndike Street in Brookline.

After the second armed robbery, the Brookline PD added more patrols to the area.

Riley said the BUPD has also responded to both crimes by increasing patrol along Commonwealth Avenue, continuing to search for suspects and keeping students updated on recent incidents.

Riley recommended students stay safe by remaining alert, traveling with others and avoiding distractions like headphones while walking.

“People should be aware of it, and they should make sure they

take appropriate steps to protect themselves,” he said.

BU students who live in the area of the Brookline robberies said they were surprised and nervous about the recent string of armed robberies.

College of Fine Arts sophomore Annabel Steven, who lives on Egmont Street at the corner of St. Paul Street and Thatcher Street, said the victims of the robberies, one of which happened right outside her window, appear to be random.

“It doesn’t sound to me like they’re targeting anyone specific, it’s just whoever happens to be around,” she said.

Steven said the following few days, she made a point not to walk home alone, although that is difficult to do with her schedule.

“It’s hard to always line everything up so you’re not walking home alone,” she said.

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Krebs seeks to learn every day, Corporate donations to Republican, Democrat BU women’s soccer coach says election campaigns include Bain Capital, Staples Profile: From Page 3

classes and gets to know her professors so they can help her by email when she travels with the team.

“It’s a big time-balancing act, but it’s doable,” Krebs said.

Women’s soccer coach Nancy Feldman wrote Krebs a recommendation letter during the application process.

“Not every kid is looking to squeeze every ounce of learning out of every day, and Taylor certainly seems to be one of those kids,” Feldman said in a phone interview from Baltimore, where the team played Thursday.

Krebs said she used to dance, but her father convinced her to try another sport. She agreed to play recreational soccer when her best friend said she would also compete.

“I fell in love with it [soccer], and I have been doing it ever since I was 6, so I can thank my dad for that one,” Krebs said.

Krebs said she applied to the

scholarship thinking it could not hurt and was ecstatic when she received it.

“It also helped me to think, ‘yeah, it is worth all the long hours of studying,’” Krebs said.

When DeCarlo received the scholarship email from Thermo Fisher, he immediately sent it to Krebs, he said.

Decarlo said he was shocked when he found out she received the scholarship. The assistant director said his office regularly nominates students for similar awards, but he either never hears back from them or learns that they did not get it.

Siwy wrote in her email she hoped Krebs would come back to work in her laboratory.

“Taylor is naturally curious about science, about how things work and how to connect various pieces of information from different fields in order to solve problems,” Siwy wrote. “I have no doubt she will be an extremely successful researcher and scientist.”

Columbus Day celebration features jugglers, magicians, among others Celebration: From Page 3

was a volunteer at the celebration, said the park is one for all seasons.

“If you look during the day,

in the parade and throughout the event, there are several hundred children blowing bubbles, playing ball and watching jugglers,” he said, “just enjoying everyone being together.”

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high-profile Massachusetts residents have poured money behind Obama, including Massachusetts State Treasurer Steven Grossman, who donated $1,000 to the Obama Victory Fund.

“There are probably four reasons why I’m such an ardent supporter of the president, and I’m doing everything I can to help him get re-elected,” Grossman said.

Grossman said he likes the president’s sense of “generational responsibility,” his commitment to “leave no one behind,” his values and his trustworthiness.

Grossman said character is the most important thing he looks at in the presidential candidates.

Massachusetts State Auditor Suzanne Bump also donated to support Obama in his re-election.

“I continue to believe in the president’s prescription for economic growth and his respect for the rights of all individuals in our society and other nations and peoples around the globe,” said Bump in an email. “He embodies my aspirations for this country.”

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College of Communication junior Chris Roewe, a resident of Egmont Street, said the cases are very similar and some relation is likely.

The locations, he said, are also very close to one another.

“You can literally see where it happened from the last location,” he said. “It’s so close. It’s a block away.”

Although he said he feels safe where he lives on Egmont because

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people are almost always near him, Roewe said he was surprised at the timing of the incidents.

“I’m surprised that somebody would go out in daylight and do this kind of thing,” he said.

CFA sophomore Kaela Shaw, who also lives on the corner of St. Paul Street and Thatcher Street, said she is a little disappointed with security from the BUPD, Brookline Police and BU in light of these incidents.

“I understand that we live in a city and that these things hap-

pen, but the fact that it’s happened three times and they have unsuccessfully been able to find these people makes me very nervous,” she said.

Shaw said one of the reasons she moved to Brookline is because she thought it would be safer, but she said she is currently afraid to walk alone down the street to the local CVS in daylight.

“I just hope that they can find these people so that we can make this community a little bit safer,” she said.

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Sargent also donated to Brown’s campaign.

William Swanson of Walthambased Raytheon, Jose Almeida of Covidien, whose U.S. headquarters are in Massachusetts, and Joseph Hooley of State Street Corporation donated to Brown’s campaign, according to the FEC website.

Many leaders of nonprofit groups in Boston donated to Democratic campaigns.

Nancy Brennan, executive director of the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway, has donated funds to both Elizabeth Warren’s campaign and the Victory Fund for Obama 2012. Although people who donate cannot control what their money is used for within the campaign, Grossman said he hopes that some of his money is used for grassroots organizing.

“I always believed that organizing was the vehicle to winning elections,” Grossman said.

Grossman said he hopes his money will go toward grassroots activities such as phone banking, door knocking and sign holding.

“That’s what I hope some of that money I actually gave goes too,” he said.

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Capuano’s campaign, an Eighth District representative running for the Seventh District seat in November.

BU Provost Jean Morrison donated more than $1,500 to Obama’s campaign, according to the FEC website.

Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick, known to be an ardent supporter of Obama, made several donations throughout the past year to Obama’s campaign.

Despite the number of highprofile donations for Democratic campaigns, Republican money flow is also evident in the primarily Democratic Bay State.

Stephen Zide, a member of the BU Board of Trustees and the managing director of Bain Capital, gave $500,000 to Restore Our Future, according to the FEC website.

Joseph Tucci, chairman of the Board of Directors and chief executive officer of the Massachusetts–based EMC Corporation, donated money to Romney’s campaign, according to the FEC website.

Ronald Sargent, chairman and CEO of the Massachusetts-based Staples, also donated to Romney’s campaign, according to the

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by Richard Kahlenberg released Wednesday stated affirmative action plans based on class, not race, might provide more diversity to universities’ student bodies than affirmative action.

David Glick, a political science professor, said it is plausible to still have a reasonable amount of diversity with neutral admissions.

“I think many people support the idea of realistically taking into account the different opportunities people have had,” he said.

However, Greenfeld said students who are not accepted because of affirmative action are also denied a right.

“This policy creates two groups of suffering individuals,” Greenfeld said. “Both are denied their right of being accepted on merit.”

The question of having reasonable racial diversity on campus with race-neutral admissions denies African Americans, in particular, any merit, she said.

“The question itself must be

offensive to minorities,” she said.

“We should believe anyone of a minority group who wants to be a student has enough intelligence to be accepted.”

Race is not a determining factor in BU admissions, said BU spokesman Colin Riley.

“Applicants are looked at holistically,” he said. “We have a very diverse, strong undergraduate class.”

Students said affirmative action is unfair, but has certain benefits in diversifying the student body.

“I see how people can think of it as unfair, giving people an unfair advantage,” said Jade Perkins, a College of Engineering junior. “But at the same time, I understand school’s wanting diversity on campus.”

Zack Robinson, a School of Management freshman, said his high school was a magnet school, so he was accustomed to a ratio of 30 percent Caucasian students and 70 percent minority students.

“There’s no doubt that diversity in a university is important,” he said. “The question is, to what extent should that diversity be

forced or coincidental, and that’s where I don’t know the answer.”

College of Communication sophomore Paloma Parikh said even though she believes racebased affirmative action is unfair, she still wrote about her racial background in her college essay.

“It’s something I talked about in my essay, not really to get me in, but just because it’s a big part of my identity,” she said.

Robinson said it is difficult to decide if diversity is more important than equal admissions.

“Judging the value of a diverse school versus the value of a more equal admissions process is like apples and oranges because they are both important in separate ways,” he said.

Applicants should not be able to get into college based solely on their race, he said.

“A university needs to have standards,” Robinson said. “You need smart, hardworking, willing people. My hope would be that they would find other ways to bring diversity into a school because it shouldn’t hurt non-minority groups.”

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fter the last whispery note of “Taken” by Trees, Victoria Bergman’s airy voice disappeared into the darkness Saturday at Boston Royale, leaving the small, intimate crowd waiting patiently for headliner Jens Lekman.

Swedish singer-songwriter and storyteller extraordinaire Jens Lekman is never one for conventional arrivals.

Instead, a pianist walked onto the stage and gently pressed into the keys the simple first notes of “Every Little Hair Knows Your Name,” which is the first and only instrumental track on Lekman’s new album I Know What Love Isn’t.

The crowd stood in silence for the entire two-minute song. This silence became a deafening roar as Lekman walked out of the shadows and took the stage to launch into the deceptively upbeat and sunny “Become Someone Else’s.”

The quintessences of Lekman’s performances are the stories that precede each song. Though his very wellproduced studio albums have their own clean-cut appeal, it is evident that the full potential of a Jens Lekman song can only be realized alongside the talks that accompany his live performances.

Before launching into the title track of his latest album I Know What Love Isn’t he explained how he loves telling stories so much that he called off a sham marriage with his friend for the purpose of getting an Australian citizenship just so he could be free to talk about it without legal repercussions.

It appears to be the mark of a born storyteller to decide on major life choices based on whether or not it should be kept a secret.

The brilliance of the talks on

Jens lenkman performs to a packed venue at the Royale Saturday night.

this particular night were how they neatly strung together the songs into a cohesive story and acted more like transitions than like random, forced chatter. For example, he introduced “The End of the World is Bigger than Love,” by dedicating it to “anyone who’s ever had their heart broken,” which garnered some slow, knowing nods from the crowd.

After advising listeners (and probably trying to assure himself) that

Jens lenkman croons to the crowd at the Royale Saturday night.

a “broken heart is not the end of the world,” he dedicated the next song, “Some Dandruff on Your Shoulder” to anyone who’s ever had to break someone else’s heart. Nervous laughter ensued.

The songs took a turn for the slow and sorrowful soon afterwards, when Lekman specifically requested that only blue lights be left shining for “I Want a Pair of Cowboy Boots.” Aside from the occasional nod, no one moved.

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Perhaps they also needed cowboy boots.

Lekman, never willing to let the blues get to him, found a way to get the crowd riled up again. “Do you want to do some dancing?” he shouted into the microphone and led the crowd in claps escalating in speed and loudness into the danceable favorites like “Sipping on The Sweet Nectar” and “An Argument with Myself.” It’s songs like this that will ensure that Lekman never gets pigeonholed into the “sad-guy-playingguitar” group.

Also unique was the level of interaction with the audience Lekman brought into the stage. During the first encore, the band played “A Postcard to Nina,” in which Lekman encouraged his friend to not “let anyone stand in your way.”

In the second encore, Lekman was back by himself, carrying only a guitar. He proceeded to strum and hum into the most fitting song of the night “Pocketful of Money.” The hypnotic, minimalist melody put the entire crowd in a trance. Soon enough, everyone was snapping their fingers and singing along to a minute-long chorus of “I’ll come running with a heart on fire.”

In the pause that followed when Lekman sighed into the microphone one final request to be taken somewhere “where the people are pleasant/Where the music never ends,” everyone looked around the small crowd. They instantly knew that they’d come to the right place.

Lekman bid the crowd goodnight with a “little lullaby” and brought us full circle to a lyrical rendition of the first instrumental, “Every Little Hair Knows Your Name.” With haunting verses like “Every cell in this body/Has been replaced since I last saw you/but the memory is in the DNA,” the last song ensured that this show won’t be forgotten soon. It will be internalized, revisited and cherished.

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Vending machines tell all Beginning in 2013, vending machines in Chicago and San Antonio municipal buildings will display the number of calories in popular sugary drinks, according to an article in TIME Monday.

In addition to the front-facing calorie counts, the machines will supply more, lowcalorie drinks along with messages such as “Try a Low-Calorie Beverage,” according to TIME. To put things into perspective, “a 12-ounce can of regular soda typically has about 140 calories and 40 grams of high-fructose corn syrup,” TIME reported.

It’s admirable that the American Beverage Association has agreed to roll out these new machines, especially considering that frequent soda consumption can lead to obesity, diabetes and other health issues.

Some consumers may be deterred from purchasing those beverages from a vending machine if that information is more clearly displayed.

Of course, some consumers might find the new machines insulting. Many consum-

ers, after all, are likely aware of the negative effects of frequent soda consumption. While it’s understandable that no consumer wants to be viewed as a mindless drone, what’s the harm in reminding someone to choose lowcalorie drinks? There is none.

It is also important to remember that not everyone is educated about the adverse effects of soda and other sugary beverages.

Parents don’t always impart that information on their children. Schools and other institutions may not relay that information to them either.

These new machines will provide children and adults with the information they need to make healthier eating decisions.

It will be interesting to see whether or not the front-facing calorie counts will expand to other non-liquid products. Why limit that effort to beverages? Aside from high-calorie drinks, vending machines supply high-calories food items. Consumers should be provided with as much information as possible before making those purchases.

A call for change

The third armed robbery, which occurred on Friday, shows remarkable similarities to the two earlier robberies.

Like Friday’s incident, the previous robberies occurred in the Brookline area and involved two to three black, male suspects.

While the robberies appear to be connected, police have neither caught the culprits nor verified any connection among the three incidents. The first one occurred 16 days ago, yet police have not announced any updates on the investigations.

Although the Boston University Police Department and Brookline Police Department must being doing all they can in their power to find the culprits, their failure to apprehend them is raising questions about students’ safety. A number of BU students live near the sites where the robberies occurred.

It is noteworthy that the BUPD and Brookline police have stepped up patrols in that area, but have their efforts yielded results? It doesn’t appear so. Friday’s robbery occurred after that pledge was made. It

would be worthwhile for the police to set up cameras near the sites of the robberies.

There is also the issue of transparency.

Why haven’t the police provided us with more details on their investigation? The BU Alerts shouldn’t end days or even weeks before with lines about “increasing patrols” and “suspects fleeing.”

We want to know what the police have found since then. Are any of the suspects in custody or are they still searching?

It would also help if police provided some educational measures to ensure that students are taking the necessary precautions. Not all students will take self-defense courses, and suggestions such as not walking with your headphones in can only do so much. They should be instructing us on how to diffuse an armed robbery should one occur or other easy-to-learn measures.

Whether police offer leads or not, it is clear that students will have to be on their guard at least until more details are available about these incidents.

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Politics without chipotle mayo DAVID FONTANA

he Other Guy: He destroyed our economy and took away your jobs.

That Guy (aka The Weenie): Under his reign, the country, nay, the world has become a worse place.

That Stupid Idiot: All he wants to do is to steal your identity, ruin your lives and eat your babies.

(Cue crescendo to uplifting, orchestral music reminiscent of the American frontier) David Fontana: I will do better.

David Fontana: I will not lie to you. Ever.

David Fontana: Loves your children and would never eat them for breakfast.

My name is David Fontana, undergrad at Boston University, and I approve this message.

So there you have it folks, the choice may be yours, but the answer is clear: vote for David Fontana (that’s me!) in the upcoming election for the president of the United States of Amur’ca. If I don’t show up on the ballot, simply write me in! It’s that easy!

Easy, huh? Right.

The election for the next president of the United States of America is less than a month away now, and what do we have to show for it — well, about the same as usual I suppose: two dirty-blooded, double talking politicians, the phrase “lesser of two evils” being thrown around like a prostitute, propaganda up the wazoo, an economy in the gutter, God on everybody’s side and global warming.

But don’t worry my fellow Americans, we can just forget about that global warming thing, and you know what, why don’t we throw out all of those other problems too (forget the recycling bin!) since they don’t really seem to matter in these things anymore anyway! Yay! It’s like God pressed his moon-sized Staples Button and all the angels sang, “That was easy.” Now all we have to do is sit back, relax and watch the circus devour itself in flames as we chow down on our caramel flavored popcorn.

Politicians are often likened to monkeys, criminals and clowns, but I’m starting to think that they are more the ringleaders wearing clown suits, and if you press their big red noses, you’ll end up firing off the entirety of the U.S. supply of nuclear warheads (the super, super sour kind). If these guys (and gals) are monkeys, then this is definitely some “Planet of the Apeshit” going on here, because these monkeys are running the show and our lives. And we’re letting them.

I was studying abroad in Morocco when they held elections for a new parliament after the “Arab Spring” movement took the world by storm. I was appalled by the sheer

surrealism of the entire voting mechanism, the flawed electoral mentality of the everyday people and the puppetry of the King who in my own words is an evil genius.

Just this past Sunday I watched as one of my friends, a very intelligent and strong woman, somewhat broke down after Hugo Chavez won the elections in Venezuela ... again. Six more years, she said, while looking off and imagining where she’d be, where her country would be, where the world would be. She was shaken in a very real and painful way.

Yet all the while, good, old (very old) @fidelcastro was tweeting away the big HC (#axisofevilbromance), and our other friend was angrily venting about the lack of chipotle mayo on his breakfast sandwich that morning.

Is that what politics has come down to in our society? Memes that switch the hair between Barack O’Bomba and Mittens Romney? Leaders of countries tweeting at each other? The absence of chipotle mayo on our breakfast sandwiches?

But maybe that’s all just a metaphor, maybe that chipotle mayo is our freedom, the little control we have in the system of breakfast sandwich in which we live. But where has that sweet, but slightly spicy power gone, and who is eating the sandwich now?

I hear people long for a different system of government, better candidates, more action and honesty, less big smiles and polished suits. But then I’m reminded by my Italian roommate about how the multiparty system in Italy is a mess where the small parties control everything as the swing voters to which the larger, majority parties must cater.

“You know, at least when Berlusconi was in power, it was funny. Now, it’s just sad.”

We all like a little comedy in our lives and certainly in something as disgusting and frustrating as politics can often be.

And maybe as Americans we have the luxury of letting this debauchery slid, because we’re relatively comfortable with our lives.

We may not have the best country in the world, the best system of government, or even a job, but we’ve always got babies and politicians who will eat them. Even without their chipotle mayo.

David Fontana is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and a Fall 2012 columnist for The Daily Free Press. He can be reached at fontad5@bu.edu.

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Neff: With NHL in lockout, fans should turn to watching college hockey Neff: From Page 8

than you do.

So, what’s the hockey fan to do now that you won’t let the players light the lamp?

Lucky for us here in Boston, we have an unreal college hockey scene to look forward to.

College hockey players have something to play for — a shot to play in the NHL. They go out and play their hearts

out so that a scout might pick up on them — so that they might one day get a chance to play on a pro team.

It makes college hockey that much more intense, that much more interesting, and, right now, that much more appealing than the NHL. The Beanpot tournament has much more intensity (and boozing) packed into two Monday nights than an entire NHL playoff series (about two weeks).

I’d rather watch Toronto take a stomping from the Terriers any day.

The team looked sharp Sunday, and I think there is a bright season ahead down at Agganis Arena.

The NHL isn’t going to have this stranglehold on Hockey East fans.

NESN, NBC Sports Network and CBS Sports Network released their schedule of Hockey East games, which includes more than 80 telecasts.

So, NHL the puck is in your

zone.

Be smart. Your product is going to suffer in the long run while you have a stick-measuring contest over money.

Common sense, for the good of the game, should be used to reach a reasonable agreement where the men who put their bodies on the line and the owners who sit in their luxury box sipping cocktails get at least an equal share from the spending I did on my jersey, the beers I’m

drinking and the TV commercials I have to sit through.

It’s only fair.

C’mon guys. A full season without hockey because you’re greedy?

Puck that.

Mike Neff is a weekly columnist for the sports section. He can be reached via email at mneff@bu.edu or via Twitter at @mneff2.

Terriers come back, earn draw with Blades Freshmen, sophomores shine Women’s hockey: From Page 8

“A game-tyer [sic] and a gamewinner in your first game and a penalty? Gordie Howe would have been proud of her,” Durocher said of Lefort’s performance.

Lefort said she was nervous coming into the game, but she began to feel more comfortable as the contest progressed. “[My teammates] were there supporting me,” Lefort said. “I just got the nerves out in the first couple of shifts, and then after that it felt like any other game.

“I couldn’t have asked for more for my first game.”

Freshman forward Jordan Juron rounded out the scoring with her first collegiate goal 41 seconds after Lefort’s second goal.

Between Lefort and Juron, freshman accounted for 75 percent of the Terriers’ offense.

“They’re picking up confidence,” Durocher said of the team’s freshmen. “They’re feeling like they’re contributing. They’re getting used to playing at this pace. You’re playing at Boston College, who’s a fantastic team … and you’re putting pucks in.

That’s a good sign and it bodes well for their confidence as much as anything else.”

After an impressive freshman outing on Friday, the Terriers took to the ice for an exhibition game against the Blades on Saturday in an exhibition game that celebrated the return of former Terriers Holly Lorms and Kasey Boucher.

The Blades dominated the Terriers in the first half, scoring all four of their goals in the single frame. Forward Kelli Stack, who used to play for BC, scored two of the Blades’ four goals.

“From a systematics standpoint, we just gave up the middle of the rink all period,” Durocher said. “The [Blades] made a couple of great long passes because of the talent of their defense.”

BU bounced back from the initial shellacking and went on to score four unanswered goals in what would become a 4–4 draw.

Junior Louise Warren scored the first goal at the 2:20 mark when she picked up a rebound from a shot by senior forward Isabel Menard. With just one second left in the second frame, senior forward Jenelle Kohanchuk

scored a power-play goal after receiving a pass right in front of the crease.

The tally was Kohanchuk’s first since suffering a season-ending concussion at the beginning of last season.

Halfway through the third period, junior transfer student Shannon Doyle left her mark with a goal of her own to bring the game within one.

Poulin tied the game with 32 seconds left in regulation to send the game into a five-minute overtime.

Durocher said he was pleased with the result of the game with the Blades, especially because of the comeback his team made to earn it.

Against a team of top former college players, his team did not quit.

“I think we learned a lesson against an elite team like this,” Durocher said. “If we kind of stick to the system and then let our skills take over, we’re going to be in good shape. If we just want to play run and gun all over the place … nobody’s good enough to keep winning that way.”

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the success he started to see at the end of last season, consistently firing pucks on net to create rebounds. One of those rebounds led to a goal for sophomore winger Yasin Cissé.

Up front, the Terriers featured an all-rookie fourth line of Matt Lane, Wesley Myron and Sam Kurker.

None of those three recorded a point, nor did they look afraid to mix it up physically, digging pucks out of the corners and controlling play in the offensive zone. Of course, an exhibition against a Canadian university team is not the greatest gauge of anything, but all three looked comfortable in their BU debut.

Sophomore forwards Cason Hohmann and Evan Rodrigues also got ample playing time in which to prove themselves on Sunday. Hohmann centered the second line — although the lines shifted constantly throughout the game so Parker could try out different combinations and because BU and Toronto racked up a combined 50 penalties. He scored a goal and an assist, while Rodrigues had the Terriers’ second goal.

Privitera, Hohmann and Rodrigues were all 18-year-old freshmen last year in a league where freshmen as old as 21 are not unheard of.

All are relatively small — Privitera is listed at 5-foot-11, Rodrigues at 5-foot-10 and Hohman at 5-foot-8 — and the forwards especially looked physically overmatched at times during the 2011-12 season.

Again, an exhibition is not a great indicator, but Hohmann, who will always be one of the smallest players on the ice, was able to muscle around some Toronto players and held his own in both zones on Sunday. Parker said he expects him, as well as Rodrigues and Privitera, to come into their own this season thanks to what they learned last year.

“They would have been better off [last year] had they played a year of junior maybe before they got to college, so last year was a bit of a struggle for them,” Parker said. “But now they’re better off as sophomores this year after having played a year of college hockey instead of playing juniors. I’m sure they’ll make a big jump.”

BU holds on, defeats Stony Brook 3–2 Women’s soccer: From Page 8

we bring back our first group of forwards. It keeps everyone fresh and hungry.”

The strategy continued to be effective, changing the pace up and setting a faster game tempo for the Terriers.

After 30 minutes of a stalemate between the Seawolves and Terriers, Clemens slipped past the Stony Brook back line for a breakaway goal and give the Terriers a 1–0 lead.

“It was kind of like a counter — Jamie found the ball, and then I just went,” Clemens said of her goal “Then the ball got through and I just ran as fast as I could. I wasn’t really thinking — I just did what I normally do and tried to finish it as best as I could and did.”

Having scored seven goals this season, as well as four in the last three games, Clemens’s big play has been a huge boost for the Terriers.

Clemens said she credits her success to the team’s play.

“I think it’s our team,” Clemens

said. “We’re all just getting [position in] the box. That’s something our coach stressed. I’m just working my butt off to get in the box and get on the other end of it. I’ve just luckily been getting there. They’re setting me up, which is awesome.”

The action did not end there for the Terriers. In the 36th minute, senior back Jessica Morrow delivered a perfectly directed free kick to junior midfielder Emma Clark for the header goal.

With a 2–0 lead, the Terriers sat in the driver’s seat and let Stony Brook take advantage of them. Fourteen seconds after BU scored its second goal, the wolves came right back with a goal from ten yards out by senior Taryn Schoenbeck.

Feldman said she made it a point of emphasis to turn up the energy and be mentally tougher.

“We never really got over that, just quite not being sharp enough.

I told the kids at halftime, ‘The dial was at an eight, and it needs to be a ten,’” Feldman said. “That’s not physical. That is mental. That is focus and commitment and just men-

tal toughness. It’s not the fight. The fight was fine. But it’s doing the little things well.”

The second half was similar to the first half. Ball possession was about even between the teams, and neither team could do any serious damage.

After a diving save by junior goalkeeper Andrea Green in the 72nd minute, sophomore forward Taylor Krebs landed a beautiful shot from outside the penalty box to give the Terriers a 3–1 lead.

In the 84th minute, Stony Brook freshman defenseman Stella Norman gave the Seawolves a late goal on a corner kick to bring the game within one goal with less than 10 minutes remaining.

The Terriers hung on for the 3–2 win, but Feldman said performances such as this will not help the team’s chances of getting an at-large bid in the NCAA Tournament.

“I wasn’t satisfied from start to finish with the way we played,” Feldman said. “I’d like to see us be better by playing at the level we’re capable throughout the 90 minutes.”

5 power-play goals push BU past Toronto Men’s hockey: From Page 8

back here. He really looks more confident.”

Parker added that Cissé’s misconduct charge will likely not result in a suspension.

Defensively, freshmen goaltenders Matt O’Connor and Sean Maguire combined for the shutout.

O’Connor stopped all five shots he saved in the first 30:15 of play while Maguire saved another 12 in his 29:45 on the ice.

Junior Anthony Moccia was scheduled to play one of the periods before getting hurt during practice Friday.

Given the limited action the

freshmen netminders saw, Parker was unable to draw much of a conclusion on their abilities.

“Both goalies handled the puck pretty well and that was important,” Parker said.

BU opens its regular season at Agganis Arena on Saturday at 7 p.m. against Providence College.

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Junior forward Madison Clemens kept up her hot streak, scoring her fourth goal in the past three games on Sunday.

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BU coach Brian Durocher on freshman forward Sarah Lefort’s debut.

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Tuesday’s Take Drop the pucking puck

Mike Neff

Isn’t it ridiculous that right now, the NHL has decided to shelf its product in favor of arguing over revenue sharing with its employees?

It’s more ridiculous than the replacement refs.

There’s no professional hockey being played right now because multi-millionaire owners and multi-millionaire hockey players are disagreeing over decimal points and percentages.

I hate math, and I’m sure its not the strong suit of many NHL players, but when I heard that the league was trying to reduce the players’ share of revenue from 57 percent to 43 percent, it didn’t take a calculator to figure out why the players were upset.

Well, I won’t argue the numbers, but isn’t the principle just outrageous?

Who among the owners said, “I know — we’ll tell them they can’t play. We’ll take hockey off TV and that will really show them!”

As I said, not a math guy, but isn’t that ultimately going to hurt your bottom line, Mr. Hockey Owner? Are the little bits of money your quibbling over worth sacrificing your public presence? Hockey, in the eyes of many fans, is already the fourth sport. Why risk that position, when you’re doing well with many major northeastern cities (read: major sources of revenue) winning the Cup? Now NHL players are flocking overseas and bringing excitement to different leagues. The players still end up with a paycheck, albeit not as much as they’d make in the NHL. Many players just want to stay active and keep playing the game. The owners just want to make sure they’ve got control of the money.

And while you owners worry about the hundreds of thousands of dollars you might lose in a “bad deal,” regular people whose work is based upon the NHL have to suffer.

Bartenders at Hurricane O’Reillys aren’t going to see as much cash this year now that the Bruins aren’t playing. How about the beer vendors? The ticket agencies? The guys playing drums after the game?

They all take a hit, too, you know.

And they need that money more

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Men’s hockey tops Toronto 5–0 in exhibition Power play leads Terriers to win in preseason game

Underclassmen contribute early, often in win

By Tim Healey Daily Free Press Staff

By Annie Maroon Daily Free Press Staff

It may have only been one game, and it may have only been an exhibition, but so far, Boston University men’s hockey coach Jack Parker has a lot to like when it comes to his 2012-13 squad.

The No. 13 Terriers easily handled the University of Toronto in an exhibition game at Agganis Arena Sunday, downing the Varsity Blues 5–0 and outshooting the visitors by a 50–17 margin.

“We’re still trying to evaluate who’s playing where, but in general I thought everybody played well,” Parker said. “When it was obvious we could control the puck, nobody got selfish and nobody got trying to do too much or trying to show off.

We played like a team from the start to the end.”

BU got the scoring started early when junior forward Matt Nieto found the back of the net on the power play just 6:10 into the first period.

After a series of passes between Nieto and freshman defenseman Matt Grzelcyk, the former ripped a shot that snuck between Toronto goalie Brett Willows and the left post.

Grzelcyk, the Boston Bruins’ 2012 third-round draft choice, assisted on the Terriers’ second goal as well.

At 18:56 he sent a pass to freshman defenseman Ahti Oksanen, who promptly sent a shot on net.

Sophomore forward Evan Rodrigues tipped it in for BU’s second tally.

The game only got uglier for Toronto from there. The second pe-

With three of its top five scorers from 2011-12 now gone, the Boston University men’s hockey team needs its young players to grow up fast this year and fill these roles. In the Terriers’ exhibition against the University of Toronto on Sunday, three of the Terriers’ five goals came from freshmen and sophomores, and their three youngest defensemen combined for seven points.

“This is kind of a split team,” said BU coach Jack Parker. “We’ve got a lot of juniors and a lot of freshmen, not too many sophomores and not too many seniors. But we’ve got to get them all in the lineup because they’re all pretty good. I thought every one of them played well, and a couple of them really stood out.”

The young defensemen in particular made an impact — freshmen Matt Grzelcyk and Ahti Oksanen each recorded two assists, and sophomore Alexx Privitera had three. Oksanen, a native of Finland who came to BU to fill the spot vacated in June by Adam Clendening, showed off a powerful slap shot and moved the puck well on the power play.

“We lost two good point men on the power play last year, but we got two freshmen in and these two guys are going to pick up the slack,” Parker said of Grzelcyk and Oksanen.

Grzelcyk, whom Parker said he has liked since his high school days at Belmont Hill School, looked capable of quarterbacking the Terrier power play. Privitera continued with

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Sophomore Evan Rodrigues celebrates one of the Terriers’ five power-play goals in BU’s 5–0 win over the University of Toronto. riod — during which play started to get chippy and the teams took a combined 13 penalties — featured another pair of Terrier goals.

After sophomore defenseman Alexx Privitera’s one-timer got stopped, the rebound bounced off the boards right to redshirt sophomore forward Yasin Cissé, who promptly poked it by Willows.

Eleven seconds later forward Mike Moran, listed as the extra forward on the line chart, upped BU’s lead to 4–0 when he tapped in the rebound off of junior defenseman Garrett Noonan’s initial shot.

Sophomore forward Cason Hohmann made it 5–0 at 9:34 in the third on a slap shot from the slot.

Parker started to mix and match the team’s lines as the game progressed, but because of the multitude of penalties — the teams served 50 in all — he was not able to experiment as much as he would have liked.

“The way we started the game

was the best lines. Those guys really played well,” Parker said. “I wanted to see different centers with different wings, and we got a little of that accomplished, but not [a lot]. There was too much four-on-four, five-onfour, four-on-three. There was too much of that going on.”

Shortly after the final goal, the teams got into a 10-man scrum behind Toronto’s net. The result was a combined 20 penalties, which led to six Terriers in the box at one point, as well as Cissé and Toronto’s Tyler Turcotte getting booted from the game.

The punches brought an end to an otherwise impressive night for Cissé, who was the team’s first-line right wing for the first time since last season’s Dec. 31 date with the University of Notre Dame.

“Cissé played well,” Parker said.

“I thought he played smart, and he played like he’s played since he got

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Women’s soccer continues Terriers overcome No. 5 winning streak, tops UMBC Boston College, tie Blades

By Isaac Teich Daily Free Press Contributor

The Boston University women’s soccer team continued its surge for a possible at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament Sunday, beating conference opponent Stony Brook University 3–2 at Nickerson Field.

Coming off a tough 1–0 win over UMBC on Thursday, the Terriers (9– 5–1, 5–0–0 America East) were looking to rebound from their sup-par performance with their match against the Seawolves (7–5–2, 1–3–0 America East).Stony Brook controlled the tempo of the game early, making BU’s backline have to defend early and often.

BU coach Nancy Feldman was quick to point out the Terriers’ inconsistent play.

“I thought we were missing a little bit of mental focus. I thought off the ball we were not so good. That’s offensively and defensively,” Feldman said. “I think we were just taking

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shortcuts. I just felt like we had an attitude of just doing enough to get by.”

Stony Brook’s penetration into the BU defense led to early corner kicks for the Seawolves and put the Terriers on their heels early and often.

It was not until the 22nd minute, when BU junior forward Madison Clemens struck a cross into the box, that BU was finally able to make some noise offensively.

The offense started to click around the 25th minute, when Feldman continued to use her strategy of mass substitutions to change up the pace.

“We kind of have a pattern going,” Feldman said. “I like the pattern we have with the starting group of forwards, and there’s a group of forwards that come in. They give us a bump, and then they stay in for the beginning second half and then

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Thursday, Oct. 11 W. Soccer @ Hartford M. Tennis @ ITA Regional, All Day (New Haven, Conn.)

By Meredith Perri Daily Free Press Staff

In a weekend that featured two extremely different games, the No. 3/6 Boston University women’s hockey team defeated No. 5 Boston College and went on to tie the Boston Blades of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League.

On Friday, when the Terriers (1–0) traveled down the Green Line to face the Eagles (0–1) in the season opener, freshman forward Sarah Lefort stole the show in an effort that earned her the title of Hockey East Rookie of the Week as BU defeated BC 4–2.

“I thought it was three real good periods of hockey from our team,” said BU coach Brian Durocher. “The first period I felt we came out and kind of asserted ourselves, and of course when BC went up 2–1, we could have lost our composure, but everybody stayed on board.”

Friday, Oct. 12 Field Hockey vs. Maine, 6:30 p.m.

W. Hockey vs. Rensselaer, 7 p.m.

M. Tennis @ ITA Regional, All Day

Sophomore defender Shannon Stoneburgh put the Terriers on the board first when she took a shot from the left circle that trickled through BC netminder Corrine Boyles’ five-hole.

BU maintained that early lead until the second period when BC scored two goals in a three-minute span of time to take a 2–1 lead.

The Eagles’ second goal came halfway through a BC power play that came as a result of a checking call on Lefort.

Lefort made up for the penalty, however, when she scored the game-tying goal on a pass from junior co-captain Marie-Philip Poulin.

Then, just over six minutes into the third period, Lefort scored the game-winning goal on a pass from senior co-captain Jill Cardella in front of the net.

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Saturday, Oct. 13

W. Hockey vs. Union, 3 p.m.

M. Hockey vs. Providence, 7 p.m.

M. Soccer @ UMBC, 3 p.m.

Cross Country @ Pre-Nationals, All Day