11-19-2012

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AAU, Patriot League, renovations revamp BU’s image Yang, BU cyclist,

By Nicole Leonard Daily Free Press Staff

Boston University’s recent renovations, additions and awards are part of a series of ongoing improvements the administration is making to improve BU’s already established image, officials said.

“We are working toward improving the quality of the university, and these are important benchmarks along that pathway,” said University Provost Jean Morrison.

“We have further to go and we’d like to go faster.”

Projects and achievements, such as the Center for Student Services, renovations the School of Law building, the Campaign for BU, membership in the American Association of Universities and BU Athletics transition from the America East Conference to the Patriot League are improving the quality and reputation of BU, Morrison said.

“Every year, the university tackles a couple of big renovation projects,” Morrison said. “We’re continually working to improve the quality of physical infrastructure. It shows up not only in new building renovations, but also in existing buildings.”

She said it is not a coincidence that recent changes and renovations to BU’s physical campus, academics and athletic programs have happened at the same time.

“A lot of the credit for these changes and the ability to accomplish these important goals goes to President Brown,” she

said. “It’s his seventh year as president.

His leadership is behind all of these really important benchmarks that the university is achieving.”

As far as academic changes, Morrison said, the colleges constantly undergo curriculum reviews and assessments to answer the needs of students today. Additions to the faculty were major factors in the improvements to BU’s image, she said.

“The quality of an institution and its reputation is a reflection of the quality of its faculty,” she said. “We have excellent faculty at BU and are continuing to hire new outstanding faculty.”

Morrison said BU’s new membership to the AAU, an organization that consists of 62 colleges and universities, is an indication as to how others recognize BU as one of the more elite institutions in the academic world.

In June, BU Athletics announced it would leave the America East Conference in favor of the Patriot League, a move that BU Athletics Assistant Vice President and Director Mike Lynch said helped boost BU’s standards.

“The Patriot League is well recognized as being one of the best conferences for combining academics and athletic success,” he said. “We’re known for our athletic success, but we also want student athletes to achieve high marks in the classroom.”

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remembered for passion, kindness

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Changes such as the School of Law renovations are part of Boston University’s efforts to improve its image.

tive and negative, on how people perceive

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Community Spoke bike shop aims to move past burglary

By Kyle Plantz Daily Free Press Staff

Not even a burglary can keep Jamaica Plain bike shop, The Community Spoke!, from moving forward.

The store, which was broken into on Nov. 13, has plans to reopen its doors in 2013, said Alex Brexler, a core volunteer at The Spoke.

“I imagine that we will open for the spring season,” Brexler said. “We always slow down the things we do during the winter months. If not at our current location, then somewhere else and we will continue to do what we do.”

The robbery resulted in many stolen tools and bikes, according to the store’s website.

“The people who open up the shop realized the lights were on and the locks were pried off the doors,” Brexler said. “They went in and saw that some of our bikes and tools and parts were stolen.”

The police were not called when the burglary was discovered, he added.

“The only help that we could receive from the police is retrieving our stolen property back,” Brexler said. “That is not on our high list of concerns. What’s more important is to have good working community where we can police ourselves.”

Since the incident, The Spoke has received an influx of emails and social media posts from people asking where they can donate items so the bike shop can reopen, Brexler said.

In lamenting the burglary, several community members said the bike shop has always been known as a place where people can bring their bikes and use the shops’ tools for free.

Josh Brown, a 36-year-old resident of Cambridge, said The Spoke is an important resource to the community.

“They’re a space where people can come together to celebrate bicycles, trade

Mass. GOP more moderate on abortion

By Nora Philbin Daily Free Press Staff

After the Massachusetts GOP’s decision to adopt a more moderate platform on abortion, some experts said this is a reaction to the defeat of the state’s Republican candidates during November’s election.

In an email Saturday, Tim Buckley, communications director of the Massachusetts Republican Party, confirmed that the Massachusetts GOP adopted former presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s platform, which includes exceptions to abortions in cases of rape or incest. The national platform, which the GOP had backed until Tuesday, has no such exceptions.

“The Massachusetts GOP has long been an open tent, a more moderate body than the national organization,” Buckley said over the phone. “It’s no surprise that the state members decided to reject this

more extreme take on some issues.”

Buckley said members voted nearly unanimously in a voice vote to adopt the measure on Nov. 13.

“The [abortion] issue was first raised at the September meeting of the Republican state committee,” Buckley said. “At that time it was decided to be tabled until after the election when folks have more time to kind of digest everything and look this national platform, over which is hundreds of pages long.”

The Massachusetts Republican Party revisits its platform principles every four years, Buckley said, and will do so in 2014.

Bruce Schulman, chair of the History Department at Boston University, said after the defeat of several Massachusetts Republican candidates during the elec-

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experiences and knowledge of bikes,” Brown said.

Matthew Mayo, a 21-year-old from Brookline, called The Spoke a “great place,” noting its ample resources.

“It’s a really nice place its basically a fully stocked bike shop where you can work on your bike with the help of professional bike mechanics,” Mayo said. “It would cost a lot of money to buy all these very specialized tools on your own. It just sucks that someone would take advantage of these people that are volunteering to help people.”

But Mayo said the burglary did not come as a shock.

“The guys that run The Spoke repeatedly mentioned how tools went missing and were stolen,” he said.

Brexler said The Spoke has suffered a series of thefts prior to the most recent in-

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Boston University student Chung-Wei “Victor” Yang brought people together with his passion and friendliness, said his housemate Joanne Chang, a School of Management sophomore.

“It seemed like the moment you met him, we were friends for years, but I’d just met him, so I was overwhelmed by his enthusiasm,” Chang said. “Later on, I realized it’s just him and it’s how the atmosphere he creates is happiness. You just don’t feel like you’re a stranger toward him and you can tell him anything you want. There’s a special spark he makes between people.”

Yang, 21, died Monday in a traffic accident at the intersection of Harvard and Brighton Avenues while riding his bicycle.

Friends and family gathered in Marsh Plaza Saturday for a private memorial service for Yang, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

Chang said Victor’s parents requested an increase in security and awareness after his accident, from both BU and the city of Boston.

“They don’t want some other peoples’ sons and daughters having incidents,” she said. “They hope that this could be the last.”

An international student from Taiwan, Yang came to BU in January to pursue his passions and study international relations.

He aspired to become a diplomat.

“He has always been very polite, not like a stranger kind of polite, but always very nice to people and he’s always taking care of everyone,” said Yang’s cousin Ellie Bai. “He was really the sweetest person in my family and everyone loves him and everyone misses him.”

Andy Huang, a CAS sophomore who also lived with Yang, said Yang could jump into any conversation and was interested in everyone he met.

“He was always thinking about someone,” he said. “I told him, ‘You care about people you’ve only met once or twice too much.’”

Isabella JiangCheng, a friend of Yang’s from high school in Shanghai, said he was more mature than his peers.

“He valued everyone’s feelings and he cared,” she said in an email. “Even when he

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College of Engineering sophomore Armor Harris fixes sensors on a broken control board for the Boston University Rocket Propulsion Group Sunday afternoon.

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tion, the state’s GOP does not aim to associate with the national platform.

“The Massachusetts Republican Party suffered so much [this election] because it was identified with the national Republican Party, which is perceived by most Massachusetts residents as being too extreme,” Schulman said. “[The Massachusetts GOP’s] analysis is that Scott Brown lost the Senate race not because Massachusetts people didn’t like Scott Brown — in general they did — but because he was associated with the national Republican Party.”

Schulman said other state GOP’s in New England, where Republicans would not want to identify too closely with the conservative wing of the Republican Party, might change their posi-

tion on abortion.

He also said he was not sure if swing states would change their positions.

Mark Zaccaria, chairman of the Rhode Island Republican Party, said he does not expect any changes to the state’s Republican Party’s position on abortion, which is “100-percent cessation” of abortions.

Zaccaria said statutes against abortion have not worked in the past.

“We tried that for decades — it was an abject failure,” Zaccaria said.

He said education with the goal of influencing people to make better decisions will lead to fewer abortions.

“That is the position of the Rhode Island GOP, and I don’t expect it to change,” Zaccaria said.

No changes on positions are

under consideration in the swing state of Colorado, said Justin Miller, communications director of the Colorado Republican Committee.

“Right now, we are just cleaning up after the election,” Miller said.

Kathryn Brownell, a lecturer in the history department at BU, said the national Republican Party should reach out to women and minorities.

“We may see some really big changes in the Republican Party over the next two to four years,” Brownell said. “They have to realize that the coalition they had built can’t necessarily guarantee wins in the national election.”

Brownell said the Republican Party has relied successfully on a coalition of suburban white male voters and housewives in the Sunbelt since 1968.

Brownell added that President

Barack Obama had the support of Latino voters and women this election and that Republicans will have to reach out to both of those groups. “[Women] are a lot more open in terms of the question of abortion,” Brownell said. “Even those who support right to life are really thinking there may be some exceptions to this, so reaching out to women is really going to be important for the national Republican Party.”

Brownell said Democrats have been at the forefront of dealing with immigration.

“The governor of New Mexico [Susana Martinez], who is a Latino Republican, has really been pushing for the Republican Party to say we need to do something [about Latino voters],” Brownell said.

Brownell said she would not be surprised if the Republican

Parties of swing states began to take more moderate positions. A number of swing voters identify as socially liberal and fiscally conservative, she said.

“The Republican Party still wants to keep that conservative coalition on social issues, but they will really want to play that down and really emphasize economic issues,” Brownell said.

Brownell said the Republican Party could go one of two ways.

Some want moderate reforms, but Tea Party members said presidential candidate Mitt Romney was too moderate, and the Republican Party needs to return to its conservative roots, she said.

“Parties continually change,” Brownell said. “There are new demographics out there, and we will see how the Republican Party adapts.”

Yang enjoyed politics, food, hosting friends, students say Some students impressed by BU’s efforts to improve standards, image to go to a cooking school in Eu- dishes.”

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was low I never heard him complaining behind anyone’s back.”

Bai said he loved BU and loved the city of Boston.

“He really had a good time here,” Bai said. “He found something very special here and whatever it is, it made him very happy and he had an enjoyable life here.”

Huang said Yang found Boston to be a cozy and welcoming city.

Ben Devette, Yang’s cousin, said that Yang had enrolled in a summer program at Northeastern University while in high school and discovered his love for Boston.

In addition to his passion for politics, Yang loved food, cocktails, music and literature, friends said.

“He had told me that after he graduates from college, he wants

rope, [Le] Cordon Bleu,” said Qi Xin, a CAS junior.

Charlie Chung, a CAS sophomore who lived with Yang, said Yang was interested in bartending.

“He wanted to minor in [School of Hospitality Administration] for the wine-tasting course, because he had a good sense in making cocktails,” he said. “He told me he wants to open a small bar after he graduates just for people he knows.”

Henry Chao, a College of Engineering sophomore who lived with Yang, said he loved to host friends and was always a responsible host who took care of his guests.

“One time, after he drank and everything should be messy, the next day we woke up and everything was clean,” Chao said. “He came back and washed all the

Chang said that Yang taught her the importance of loving friends.

“He doesn’t really separate friends in levels or degrees, he just puts them all in one,” she said.

“Even if you’re not really close with him, he puts you as a priority. He teaches me not to separate people into different degrees or levels, you have to treat everyone the same and they will give you back as much as you give them.”

Bai said she was pleased to see how happy Victor was with his life at BU. “He had so many good friends here and he had such a good life here,” she said. “I’m really happy the city of Boston and this school and his friends provided him such a good, but sadly short, time here.”

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a university, Lynch said.

“Athletics is a part of your front porch,” he said. “It plays a powerful role in the image of the university, and can be a powerful tool. This partnership [with the Patriot League] puts BU in a position to improve that image.”

Lee Jennings, a School of Hospitality junior, said that with many attractive schools BU has to continue to improve to compete with them.

“They want to seem more cutting-edge, because we do have competition, especially in Boston and in the northeast region,” she said.

Jennings said the improvements and publicity of BU are helping attract new students to the university.

“Especially prospective students looking at BU and their par-

ents love to see new buildings and newly renovated dorms — making the campus more attractive at face value,” she said.

Peter Jasinski, a College of Communication junior, said while renovations in existing dorms are more necessary than other building projects, changes to the campus were both good and bad.

“In the last few years, BU has managed to continue to build the campus that it has been working on for the last probably 70 years,” he said. “It has more of a community feel than four years ago.”

Sam Straitz, a CAS sophomore, said BU is trying to improve their image, and she is impressed with the progress they have made.

“It’s nice to have a vision for the school, and be working toward that vision in whatever way the administration deems necessary,” Straitz said.

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Campus & City Column

On Thanksgiving

Being away from home for college has a multitude of benefits. You gain a large amount of independence, living in a new city without the crutch of your family to aid you whenever needed. You feel a bit more freedom with distance. You’re making a large majority of your own decisions, and when you stay up at all hours for useful or pointless reasons, the reprimands from family just don’t seem to matter.

You have more of the availability to eat whatever you want — which, let’s be honest, isn’t always the best idea.

Being away, you’re a bit more wild and carefree.

It is college, after all. And, KRISSEN of course, KAWACHI with positives always comes negatives.

When you’re away, you have to get everything for yourself. You have to do your own laundry (which has never been a problem with me since I already do my own at home, but I guess not having the option is sometimes disappointing). You have to be much more mindful of money.

But the biggest downside? Not being home for holidays.

With Thanksgiving approaching, I’ve become increasingly homesick.

It doesn’t help that my roommate went home early, leaving me alone in our room until break begins. I think that’s the hardest part about being away — times of the year like this. Usually, if I were home, I’d be anticipating a large family gathering as I’ve been used to for nearly my whole life. In 2011, both my roommate and I stayed in Boston, but we spent the day with a family friend of mine that luckily happened to live here. So that was a minor comfort.

This year, I’m spending it with a friend and her family that lives just outside of Boston. And while I’m happy to at least not be spending it alone, I know it’ll be different than what I’m used to.

I discovered last year that being away at school also hinders the general holiday spirit, for me at least.

While I’m bogged down with final exams and essays upon essays to write, the usual Christmas spirit I often feel at home failed to reach me here. Maybe the fact that we use Christmas lights in our dorm yearround stripped it of all festivities. Or maybe I just didn’t listen to enough holiday tunes. It’s hard to, since I would usually hear Christmas music over the radio while driving.

Either way, most of my attention is directed to studying and packing.

And by the time I get home, I only have a few days to settle in before it’s Christmas Eve and my aunts, uncles and cousins fill the house. The turn around leaves no time to find that adolescent joy. And by the time I’m home, the tree is already decorated and most of the gifts already wrapped.

I guess that since being at college is a different lifestyle, it’s just something that happens. Either way, I’ll be home with my family during my favorite time of the year. Even if it doesn’t feel like old times.

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

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T app gets 8,000 downloads in first week BU students seek opportunities to give around city

By Katherine Lynn Daily Free Press Staff

The “vicious cycle” of poverty, Dorcena said, should be one of the city’s main priorities, a process he said Menino has failed to solve.

This cycle is one Dorcena said he was exposed to growing up in the outskirts of Boston in Dorchester.

“The thing I heard the most growing up, which really stuck with me was, ‘by the time you are 18, you’ll be shot dead or in prison,’” Dorcena said.

A number of his peers accepted this state of mind, but by making good choices, Dorcena said he did not allow this outcome.

“I was able to overcome that

While the Boston University Charles River campus might not be hosting Thanksgiving dinners and charities in 2012, students are turning to citywide volunteer efforts with help from the Community Service Center.

“I don’t know of any Thanksgiving fundraisers,” said Doris Sheynfeld, a College of Arts and Science sophomore. “I guess it’s not a good thing that we associate fundraisers with just Thanksgiving, but I think there should be more fundraisers on campus.”

Students signed up to work with the CSC’s Student Food Program and Community Servings on running Pie in the Sky, said Andrew Weaver, program manager for SFR. Pie in the Sky volunteers deliver pies around the city, raising money to provide meals to homebound and critically ill people in the Boston area. “[Pie in the Sky] ended up being one of my favorite runs to do, just because a lot of the other places we go it’s a more indirect thing, we just go pick up food from place and then drop it off at kitchens,” Weaver, a COM junior, said. “We don’t have many opportunities where we get to serve people,” In its 20th year, Pie in the Sky is Community Servings’ largest fundraiser for providing meals to the homebound and critically ill people in the Greater Boston area, said Jessica Welch, the development and communication manager at Community Servings. “[With] Pie in the Sky fundraiser, we raise a half a million dollars,” Welch said.

Local restaurants and bakeries donate the pies, and volunteers then collect, deliver and sell these pies at places throughout the Greater Boston area, Welch said.

Every pie sold at $25 is able to provide a week’s worth of food to clients of Community Servings’.

“Student Food Rescue is going over there on Wednesday and helping them organize and helping them drop off pies to retail locations that might have run out of them,” Weaver said. “We are also delivering thank you pies to the

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Officials say the MBTA mobile ticketing app has garnered 8,000 downloads since its launch Nov. 12.

By Tyler Lay Daily Free Press Staff

A new Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority smartphone ticket app has garnered about 8,000 downloads from commuter rail customers since its launch on Nov. 12, according to the T’s Director of Innovation Joshua Robin.

“Customers, with their smartphones, can buy and use tickets directly from their phone,” Robin said. “The phone will act like the vending machines with tickets — it’s very, very simple ... The ticket ends up on your phone literally within seconds.”

Users of the app are only able to purchase tickets for the North Station commuter rail system, but the authority has a long-term plan to advance this technology and incorporate other transit conponents of the MBTA system.

“Our vision is, over time, we want to get more parts of the system able to able to be paid with the phone,” he said. “It will be a number of years before that happens ... Based on the excitement we’ve already heard from our riders, we definitely want to move toward mobile in other areas from here.”

Robin said the main sources

of motivation for implementing a mobile system of payment were the potential improvement of efficiency and the increase in convenience for riders.

Michelle Maso, a 29-year-old Apple employee from Cambridge, said she does not ride the commuter rail enough use the app, but that she would consider downloading it otherwise.

“I don’t ride [the commuter rail] too often, but if I were going to ride it, it sounds like it would be easier ... than going to a machine and waiting in line,” she

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Dorcena aims to target youth violence, poverty in mayoral campaign against Thomas Menino

By Megan Kirk Daily Free Press Staff

Democratic mayoral candidate Will Dorcena said Boston deserves a mayor who would implement effective policies for residents and focus on the incorporation of marginalized Bostonians.

“We can do better as a city and we can do better as a community to stop violence and try to eradicate poverty,” Dorcena said.

Dorcena said Boston is in dire need of great leadership that “galvanizes, energizes and engages,” the public and inspires community-wide discussion.

He is the first opponent to challenge Mayor Thomas Menino, who could be running for an unprece-

dented sixth term in 2013. Menino has not announced whether or not he will seek reelection.

Although Dorcena lost his 2011 Boston At-Large City Council campaign, he said he learned how to run an effective canvass and is now ready to seriously challenge Menino.

“I’m starting much earlier this time with the grassroots campaign,” Dorcena said. “I’m motivated to run for mayor because, the honest truth is, it’s been a longterm goal of mine.”

Dorcena said that if elected he would focus on strengthening Boston’s public schools and lowering crime and violence rates among youth.

Other concerns may eclipse student loan debt, take precedence, profs. say

By Taylor Burke Daily Free Press Staff

Despite President Barack Obama’s plans to reduce student loan debt, Boston University experts said they are unsure how the federal government will be able to fix the growing student debt crisis.

Economics professor Kevin Lang said while concerns about student costs must be addressed, these concerns are not as immediately dangerous as the real estate and mortgage crises.

“The concerns about the student debt are real, particularly for the individuals,” he said. “For the economy as a whole, student debt doesn’t pose the same kind of threat that real estate debt does.

The government’s not going to go bankrupt if the default rate goes up a few percentage points. The

price of students, since we don’t buy and sell them, is not going to collapse.”

In 2010, Obama helped pass the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, which set into motion a plan to double the amount of funding for Federal Pell Grants, according to the White House website.

Obama campaigned on a debtrelief plan that would ask for a lower percentage of the borrower’s discretionary income.

Lang said if universities wish to lower tuition costs to help address the student debt crisis, they might lose prestige and students may lose certain benefits.

“Universities are very laborintensive, and so to keep prices down you mostly have to either economize on labor or pay labor less,” he said. “To the extent that

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having less labor means having bigger classes, that’s not where elite students want to go. Paying labor less means having fewer research-oriented faculty.”

The national average student loan debt was $26,600 per bor-

rower for Class of 2011 graduates, according to statistics released Oct. 18. by The Institute for College Access & Success. At BU, the average debt for Class of

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said.

Maso also said she perceived potential ecological benefits stemming from widespread use of the app.

“It would definitely be saving paper, so that’s always a good thing,” she said. “And it sounds like it would be easy [to use], but it depends on how well the app is made.”

Weslie Turner, a freelance social media consultant from Newton, said she had heard of the app, but had not yet downloaded it.

“I was waiting to hear more reviews for it before I put it on my

smartphone,” Turner said. “It will definitely be more convenient for commuters. I’ve often wished there was a way for me to load my card before I left the house.”

Julian Paul Costa, a junior in the School of Management and frequent rider of the T, said he saw potential in the expansion of the mobile innovation.

“Instead of having to wait in lines to refill your card, if you could just do it on the fly that would be great,” Costa said.

Robin also said the next phase in the process is incorporating a mobile ticket system for South Station.

because I made good choices on a daily basis,” he said. “I’m inspired by the fact that it’s possible, that there’s hope to teach the next generation of kids that your life does not have to be what others have predetermined it to be.”

Dorcena said there are many private schools that can be used as role models for good education systems in the public school system.

He said charter schools, independent schools and institutions such as the Boston Latin Academy have effective education systems and ideas that should be discussed in town meetings throughout Boston.

“What I’m proposing is, and

what I will execute as mayor, is to pull together the leadership and the parents who are involved with all these schools and bring them together to ensure we make the best practices in these schools,” Dorcena said.

While Dorcena said implementing these practices would require a “spirited conversation with the Boston teacher’s union,” it is one that he is able and willing to have.

Dorcena, the son of Haitian immigrants, said the diversity of Boston is what makes the city strong.

He said he loves how Bostonians “get so many different cultures melded here in one big melting pot.”

While at Babson College earning his Masters of Business Administration, Dorcena served as

president of student government.

He has sat on more than 11 boards throughout the city, taught part-time at Madison Park High School and acted as a trustee at Roxbury Community College, he said. He was also involved with running the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

Dorcena said as mayor he would engage with public and accurately represent them.

“I would be front-and-center — live and die by you,” he said.

“Whatever it would be, I would live and die by it, because I know that every step of the way I would have engaged the public and created the opportunity for the families of the 22-plus neighborhoods of the city to have a voice and to put some skin in the game.”

experience, but that costs money too.”

Though college is becoming increasingly more expensive, universities in the U.S. provide far more supports and services to students than those in other countries, said SED professor Charles Glenn. Only about half of the average U.S. university’s faculty perform teaching, while others hold student support and administrative roles.

“It is a fact that there are hundreds and hundreds of staff who work at BU, for example, in student support,” he said. “There is no parallel to that at a university in Belgium or France of Germany.”

In many other countries, higher education is extraordinarily cheaper than in the U.S., Glenn said. Instead, countries such as Spain and England have much larger classes, and meeting with a professor is rare.

While some students in the

tion, citizens in European countries with socialized education pay higher tax rates to provide education for all.

“Working class families with children who are not going to university are still helping to pay for the university education of the middle-class, so you could argue that that’s a different sort of inequity,” Glenn said.

Instead, Glenn said he recommends a system that allows students to pay back debt based on how much money they make in their career, such as Australia’s educational system.

“It postpones the payments until later in your career, and then it ties the rate of repayment to how much money you’re making,” Glenn said. “So if you went into a career where you made a lot of money because of your education, you ought to be paying back several times as much as your education costs.”

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big donors that helped out a lot.”

Weaver said the goal of the group of students volunteering, about 20 in 2012, is to provide food to people who cannot be sure where they will get their next meal.

“Community Servings is so great, and I personally love our partnership with them because we get to have direct contact with people who need food,” Weaver said.

While Pie in the Sky does not directly provide Thanksgiving meals, it provides Community Servings with the funds they need to provide meals throughout the year. “[Pie in the Sky] helps spread the word for Community Servings and the services we provide,” Welch said. “We get connected to a pool of new donors.”

Community Servings will be delivering Thanksgiving meals Thursday night.

Weaver said Pie in the Sky has given the BU volunteers an opportunity to connect with other students who have the same interests as them.

“It was really nice to meet some more people who were doing Student Food Rescue or other CSC programs, because I wouldn’t have normally met them otherwise,” Weaver said.

Rivah Clemons, a COM freshman, said that students could be more involved in collecting canned goods or clothes for donations.

“If there were students who could organize something, it would be a good cause and a good time for charitable things,” she said.

Bike shop open place for community members to fix bicycles, use resources Bikes: From Page 1

cident.

“There have been a few minor shoplifting incidents while we have been open and we leave bikes locked up in the front, which people have cut the locks off the bikes,” he said.

Despite having a high number of thefts, Jamaica Plain has had fewer burglaries in 2012 than 2011, according to a crime report released by the Boston Police Department.

In 2011, Jamaica Plain had 235 burglaries from Jan. 1 to Nov. 12.

In 2012, there have been 206 during the same time period, according to the report.

Brown said he hopes the bike shop will rise above this burglary and something better will come about it.

“It’s rough,” he said. “I feel bad for the shop and the people who work there. Working in a community bike shop is hard work and they must be going through a difficult time right now.”

Brown said he is sending information to all his friends around Boston in case they see any of the stolen materials.

“I wish them the best and have much respect for them in the way they’re handling this,” Brown said. “I hope they’ll come out of this a better shop and more wellknown community resource.”

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2011 graduates was $36,488, TICAS reported.

The standard BU tuition rate for the 2012–13 academic year was $42,400, compared to $40,848 for the 2011–12 academic year, according to the BU budget.

The rising costs of college may be due to an increasing focus on research-oriented universities, an explosion of endowments at a set of elite institutions and the increasing inequality in the U.S. income distribution, Lang said.

Joel Scott, a School of Education professor, said the development of college education has contributed to rising costs.

“The demand for services has increased significantly in the last decade or two from what students expect out of their experience,” he said. “Students don’t just look at schools anymore and think great academics — they think about the social side of it, which I support.

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The Who takes on TD Garden Kirsten Bakstran

MUSE Staff As the overhead lights dimmed and the spotlights started to glow, the packed stadium erupted into applause for rock legend The Who on Friday at TD Garden. Peter Townshend, Rodger Daltrey and the other band members joining them for the tour walked on stage and began to play “The Real Me,” the first song from their album Quadrophenia. The album was released in 1973, but it was hard to believe it has about 40 years old while watching Townshend and Daltrey’s enthusiasm and spirit as they jumped around the massive stage.

Although the band did an amazing job with Quarophenia, it was hard not to imagine what the concert would have been like in the 1970s.

However, the band seemed to embrace its age as the four massive screens behind them took the audience on a trip through history. The

video showed the history of the band through footage of important events throughout their career, such as the wedding of Princess Diana and Prince Charles.

It also had some somber moments as well, such as when they covered the death of former band member Keith Moon. Current drummer Zak Starkey was fantastic on Monday night, but the video seemed to remind the audience that there is no substitute for Keith Moon, who is seen as one of the best drummers in rock and roll history. When Moon’s theme song “Bell Boy” played near the end of the album, a video of the live performance from 1974 with Moon singing played in sync.

The members of the band started out a little slow, but as the audience went insane and the album picked up, so did The Who. Townshend

undid his shirt as he danced around the stage, and Daltrey started doing his classic windmill guitar move. Townshend’s voice is not as great as it was during his prime, but even at 68, he still sang each song beautifully, with incredible soul.

The Who finished the album with “Love, Reign o’er Me” to the tremendous roar of the audience. Daltrey thanked the audience, his band members and Boston before diving into the encore performance.

When Townshend started singing “My Generation” the audience went crazy. Although most people watching were older than 50, this song seemed to bring them back to their prime as everyone sang along with the band and danced with their husbands and wives. Just as it finished, the band went into

“Pinball Wizard” followed by “Baba O’Riley” and finished with “Won’t be Fooled Again.”

After Daltrey thanked his band members again, the other members exited the stage leaving just Townshend and Daltrey on stage to do one final song with the only original members left.

The audience quieted for the first time that night as Townshend and Daltrey begin to play “Tea and Theater” with only an acoustic guitar. Townshend sang with lots of heart as he belted out each note. While the band no longer smashes guitars, and Keith Moon is no longer there to light his drum set on fire, they did something now that they couldn’t before. The Who transported the whole audience back in time through their music to a different era and the beginnings of rock and roll.

Silver Linings Playbook—A New Meaning of “Madly in Love” Katie Doyle

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Bradley Cooper stars as Pat Solitano, a school teacher with a crumbling life, in Silver Linings Playbook.

ith one foot in the realm of comedy and the other in that of drama, Silver Linings Playbook, which comes out Wednesday, strums the chord between funny and serious, often ending up somewhere in a world of the absurd that somehow leaves room for romance.

Starring Bradley Cooper as Pat Solitano, a school teacher whose grip on life crumbles after he walks in on his wife cheating on him with a co-worker, and Jennifer Lawrence as Tiffany, a dark but quirky, brooding but beautiful young widow, the movie follows their lives in a way that mirrors the disturbia in their heads.

Silver Linings Playbook starts when Pat’s mother, Dolores, played by Jacki Weaver, checks Pat out of the mental health facility he has been in following his wife Nikki’s affair. Director David O. Russell does a fine job of illustrating how Pat is on the precipice between sanity and the lack of it, and when Pat meets Tiffany, it is clear that she is standing on a similar fault line.

This tension is best defined by scenes that had the audience laughing one minute and shocked into silence the next, like when

Pat’s search for his wedding video turns into a family brawl that attracts a police officer or when Pat and Tiffany’s banter at a diner goes bad, ending in bitter magnificence as she sweeps the table clean in a single stroke.

Moments such as these, when the dynamic between characters shifts from humor to horror, best characterize Silver Linings Playbook. Russell’s genius in this aspect sets the film apart from other romcoms, elevating it to a level that keenly reflects its origins as a novel.

Although the story follows Pat’s hellbent mission to win back his wife, it is clear from the start that there is a spark between Tiffany and him. But, Pat’s obsession with Nikki — a mania inherited from his father, played by Robert DeNiro, who is a frenzied fan of the Philadelphia Eagles — dominates their early interactions.

While the trajectory of Pat and Tiffany’s relationship at first seems like it could fall flat, what keeps it interesting is that Pat and Tiffany themselves don’t know how it’ll all turn out.

Due in part to this uncertainty, Pat and Tiffany’s relationship is intriguing from first interaction to last, marked by surprises

but fueled by their cautious but undeniable chemistry. After all, their parallel idiosyncrasies are so in sync that any other outcome is unimaginable.

Since their friendship has mutual benefits — he will be her partner for the dance recital her heart is set on, she will help him win back the wife whom his heart is set on — it is easy for Pat to defend the relationship as platonic, which he does relentlessly to nurse his hopes of getting Nikki back.

Pat and Tiffany’s friendship is sure to grow, as Tiffany continuously prods at the sparks between them, hoping to ignite something more. The question is, then, which one of them is going to get burned?

After all, there are always obstacles on the road to happily ever after. In this case, it is Pat’s hope of getting Nikki back, driven in part by his mantra, “Excelsior!” or “ever upward.” Russell handily sews a thread of doubt throughout the entire movie, suggesting the possibility of Pat’s return to his wife.

For example, when Nikki attends the recital and watches with an admiring eye, we see Pat might have a shot at getting her back. He even approaches her after, whispering something the audience doesn’t

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hear, a subtle illustration of Russell’s tactical touch. Tiffany picks up on this as well, and when she gets the sense she has lost her chance with Pat, she flees.

“When life reaches out at a moment like this, it’s a sin if you don’t reach back,” advises Pat’s father, the most standout supporting character, when Pat stands at a fork in the road between Tiffany and Nikki.

Russell does a remarkable job of exploring unchartered territory, bringing a whole new meaning to the term “madly in love” in a way that makes for a refreshing plotline.

The stellar dialogue carries the movie, following the characters’ ups and downs while crafting a supporting cast that is comedic but endearing. The film invites the audience to engage in the characters’ intricacies and contemplate love in madness, or madness in love.

By the end of the film, it is clear that Pat’s mantra of life has changed. It no longer refers to going back to the way things were, but the possibility of moving on.

“Ever upward,” after all, also means moving forward, away from the past, and into the future — a future where there is a silver living in all sorts of crazy.

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Energy drinks’ safety questioned The Food and Drug Administration is investigating a possible link between the popular “energy shot” 5-Hour Energy and 13 deaths, according to an article in CNN Friday.

A total of 92 patient reports are under investigation, and while only 13 of them resulted in death, 33 involved hospitalization, according to the CNN article.

This is not the first time that the safety of an energy drink has been called into question. In October, the FDA announced that it was investigating a possible link between Monster Energy drinks and five deaths.

While it has yet to be determined what role the energy drinks played in those cases, the beverages should be consumed with caution. Websites and packaging put out by some major energy drink companies suggest possible health risks associated with their products. Labels on 5-Hour Energy bottles warn individuals not to consume more than two bottles a day, spaced several hours apart, and urge those sensitive to caf-

feine to consult a doctor before using the product. The labels also recommend women who are pregnant and children younger than 12 do not use the product, according to the CNN article.

Despite the health risks energy drinks pose, some people find them useful. Some students and working adults rely on the extra boost of energy the products provide to get them through their day, which is reasonable, as long as they are aware of the risks and use the product sparingly.

It will be interesting to see what the results of the FDA investigations turns up.

In light of 5-Hour Energy controversy, Chicago alderman, George Cardenas, has proposed outlawing the sale of sale of energy drinks to anyone younger than 21, according to an article on The Huffington Post Friday. However, rather than outlaw the product to the under-21 crowd, perhaps our efforts should be focused on finding “safer” alternatives and examining energy drink products more thoroughly before they hit the market.

Foiled theater shooting

A 23-year-old Missouri man, Blaec Lammers, was arrested for allegedly plotting to open fire in a Missouri movie theater during a showing of the new “Twilight” film, “Breaking Dawn — Part Two,” according to an article in CBS Friday.

Police told CBS that Lammers’s mother contacted authorities Thursday, saying she was concerned her son purchased weapons such as those used in the Aurora, Colo., theater shooting.

In July, alleged gunman Jason Holmes opened fire in an Aurora, Colo., theater during a screening of the newest Batman film, “Dark Knight Rises.” In the days following the shooting, some people attributed the violence of the act to the violence of the Batman movies. However, this analysis met criticism. Columnists for major news organizations, such as TIME, called the “violent entertainment leads to violence” argument “scientifically unproven” and that the Batman film, although violent, did not cause the shooter to commit his crimes.

It is shocking to hear that another movie

theater shooting was under consideration.

However, it is even more jarring considering the nature of the film it surrounds — “Twilight.”

“Twilight,” a seemingly innocent film, seems to weaken the argument that violent media incites violence among viewers, which led some people to conclude that even what is shown on screen can compell someone to open fire in a movie theater. “Twilight” is not quite as gruesome a film as “Dark Knight Rises.” It seems unrealistic that any of the action in “Twilight” would elicit such a violent reaction.

The foiled “Twilight” shooting is upsetting considering the audience it attracts. One of the film’s largest audiences is children, and there is a good chance that many of them would have been in attendance during the shooting. It is frightening to think that so many young people could have been harmed.

While graphic films can distort some people’s perceptions of reality, it is not worth attributing a movie theater shooter’s actions to the content directly being shown on screen.

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A Twinkie eulogy

ostess Brands are going out of business? What? Latest news is that after a crippling weeklong labor strike, the prolific baked good mogul is shutting down. This means it might be the end for everyone’s favorite nonperishable, cream-filled cupcakes, unless some capitalist Leviathan with a lick of courage comes to the buyout rescue. This also means unemployment for about 18,500 people as well as liquidation of other Hostess Products, such as Dolly Madison raspberry zingers (yum … ?) and — did you know it was owned by Hostess? ­— Wonder Bread.

Contemplate that, seriously: no more Wonder Bread.

Anyway, unemployment and white bread aside, let’s stick to the real issue here: the death of Hostess means the death of the Twinkie. Yes, the Twinkie.

The 82-year-old post–World War II lunchbox staple known also, apparently, as the “cream puff of the proletariat” will be gone from market shelves forevermore.

When Hostess’s bankruptcy was made public on Friday, people flocked stores and left shelves barren in desperate attempts at a last bite of nonperishable goodness.

Boxes of the baked goods are being sold on Craigslist and eBay (approximately $30 for a box of 10 — what would you do for a Twinkie? And why didn’t I hop on this lucrative bandwagon? America is embarrassing).

I texted my dad to let him know because he’s always been a fan of the delicacy.

“I know,” he said. “Your children will never know they existed.”

Huh. Weird. I can’t decide if that’s sad or not, but it did make me ponder what it would mean if American society really did say goodbye to the ever-abundant “Golden Sponge Cake with Creamy Filling.”

On the one hand, I’m happy that my hypothetical kids will be born into a world where Twinkies and their relatives have been obliterated from the modern American diet. (My dad may be a fan, but my mother’s religiously devoted to nutrition, so if I have any love for the pastry it’s accompanied by many feelings of sin and guilt.) Twinkies, though bountiful, are not food. Wheat flour is the most natural thing on the ingredient list, and a single cake contains five different forms of corn: high-fructose corn syrup, corn starch, modified corn starch, corn flour and more corn syrup. Ew? When my friend updated his status to, “There will be no Twinkies, they are going out of business :((” I felt like commenting “R.I.P. American obesity.” Maybe the death of this atrocity of “edibility” will further Michelle Obama’s endeavor to end the epidemic of American largeness. Or maybe we’ll just eat more McDonald’s.

Side note: there are actually only 150 calories in a Twinkie, which is no worse than eating a couple of Oreos. (Imagine what we would do if Oreos went out of business … ) But that doesn’t change the

ANNE WHITING fact that they’re basically plastic.

Still, nutrition aside, I know an American dessert staple when I see one. Twinkies are so iconic that they’re not spell-checked on Microsoft Word. Thus, their discontinuation is kind of lamentable — I never even got to try a deep-fried Twinkie at the Minnesota State Fair. Sad face. Twinkies are to America what croissants are to the French and fish and chips are to the British. (Exaggeration, maybe — our staple is the burger.)

It looks like stores everywhere have sold out. But if I get my hands on a box, I’ll buy it. It’ll be an artifact. I’ll sell it to the MoMA 40 years from now, building on that “life as art” philosophy à la the Dadaists and Andy Warhol, the Pop Art master of commercial Campbell Soup resale.

Actually, if I had the money, I’d buy all the Twinkies off eBay and stick them on a canvas. It’d be so symbolic, so kitsch.

I thought this would especially work because Twinkies are purportedly unable to mold — “nuclear proof,” my dad calls it — but I checked on Wikipedia and apparently this is an urban myth. (I’ll say so. These claims of nonperishable indestructibility — the Disney classic Wall-E takes place 700 years after the earth was rendered uninhabitable for organic life forms, but in the beginning scene a lone, fresh Twinkie thrives unabated — are null and void in the face of the American food business infrastructure, and it appears the end is nigh.)

Still, a canvas full of Twinkies could be worth millions. But to avoid mold, my next suggestion is to encrust some Twinkies in gold. I’d like a gold-encrusted Twinkie, wouldn’t you? I’d use it as a paperweight.

I can tell you have high hopes in my future as a curator.

But for real. A gold Twinkie would be an awesome stocking-stuffer.

It’s not like we’re stranger to losing food brands — candy bars my parents used to eat no longer exist, etc. If Hostess disappears, we still have Little Debbie (equally delicious…). But just in case, take a moment to ponder the loss of a historic food icon, the epitome of American chemical preservative deliciousness. (I have to admit that HoHos, at least, are really good).

As The Washington Post puts it, “Twinkies have survived the Depression, three major wars, the crumbling of the Berlin Wall, bankruptcy filings by the parent company and all the jokes about their post-apocalyptic staying power.”

Alas, jokes on jokes — looks like this staying power was never guaranteed after all. Courts will review Hostess’s bankruptcy claims today. Support groups for Twinkie connoisseurs are pending.

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

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Men’s hockey falls to Wildcats after allowing 2 first-period goals Men’s hockey: From page 8

said. “Maybe they thought they were playing pretty well after a pretty good effort in Vermont, maybe they were full of themselves. I have no idea. If I knew that, I’d make a lot of money.”

UNH picked up where it left off the last time the teams played — a 4–1 Wildcat win on Oct. 20 – by taking a 1–0 lead at 11:34 in the first.

Senior forward Ryan Santana had a defensive-zone pass tipped right to UNH junior Kevin Goumas, who swiftly got it by O’Connor for his first of two tallies.

The Wildcats soon doubled that lead at 14:10. O’Connor made the initial stop on UNH defenseman Justin Agosta’s shot, but freshman Maxim Gaudreault snuck the rebound through O’Connor’s legs for his first career point.

BU cut the deficit in half when its two most productive freshmen — defenseman Matt Grzelcyk and forward Danny O’Regan — connected at 4:40 in the second. Grzelcyk brought the puck down the right wing, skating through several Wildcats in the process. DeSmith stopped Grzelcyk’s shot from the circle, but O’Regan found the rebound in the

slot to make the score 2–1.

Grzelcyk’s assist was the ninth helper and 10th point of his rookie campaign.

“We don’t have to tell [Matt Grzelcyk] to go make something happen,” Parker said of the Charlestown native.

“He makes something happen a lot,” he added. “We want to make sure he knows he’s a defenseman first, but he’s been generating a lot of offense for us. I have no qualms for him on either end of the rink.”

The Terriers failed to score in the third period despite taking another 17 shots on net. Goumas added an

empty-net goal with 0.1 seconds on the clock to account for the 3–1 final.

Even with the result, Parker noted a few players who he said impressed him, particularly the top two right wings, sophomores Yasin Cissé and Evan Rodrigues. The bench boss went as far as to say Rodrigues has “arguably been our best forward so far this year.”

“The goals will come for those guys,” Parker said. “They both played hard tonight.”

Senior captain Wade Megan and Parker both spoke highly of O’Connor, who played well despite

suffering his second loss in as many weekends after starting his collegiate career with five consecutive wins.

O’Connor’s 32 saves and two goals allowed puts his save percentage at .939 and goals-against average at 1.91, still amongst the league leaders.

Megan said the onus of the loss was on the players in front of the netminder.

“It’s a lot of physical mistakes, mental mistakes,” Megan said, his arms crossed and voice lower than normal. “Just a lot of mistakes all over.”

Terriers’ power play fails to convert, goes 0-for-7 in loss to New Hampshire Power play: From page 8

While that is certainly not bad in itself, it may, like the power-play struggles, be explained by the Terriers’ general lethargy.

BU ranks sixth in Hockey East in power-play conversion percentage, with a 15.9 percent rate. But they are third in overall scoring, with 31 goals — just one goal fewer than UNH on the season and three fewer than league-leading Boston College in the same number

of games — so offense in general is not the problem.

“Sometimes, you have too many guys that think they’re pretty [good],” Parker said. “Nobody is shooting the puck and everybody’s hanging onto it too long. When we’re hanging on a little too long, it’s because we’re not ready to play.”

The Terriers’ inclination to start their breakouts slowly became a larger problem when UNH forwards began to disrupt their pass-

es, pinning the Terriers in front of their own net and running down the clock. More than one BU defenseman stood still near the boards in his own zone for several seconds, waiting for a forward to be open, until a Wildcat swooped in to knock the puck away.

Of BU’s 11 power-play shots, several came from the perimeter and weren’t followed up, even when DeSmith kicked out rebounds. Senior captain Wade Megan, who sees significant time on

the power play, said BU could do a better job establishing itself in front of the net.

“We needed to get guys in front of the net willing to get into the defensemen, willing to screen the goaltender, to get some dirty goals,” Megan said. “I don’t think we have had that so far, but it is something that is easily fixed.”

Although BU is not an imposing team size-wise, its forwards could create more traffic in front of the net than they have created recently.

Sophomore Yasin Cissé and freshman Sam Kurker are the biggest Terrier forwards, both at 6-foot-3, and neither sees much power-play time, so that role may fall to players like Megan.

“There are guys that are capable of it — myself included,” Megan said. “I haven’t done a good job of it this year, so it’s definitely something I need to work on. I need to be in front of the net more and be taking care of business in front of the net.”

BU falls to Colonials at home BU defense struggles early in BU distributes Men’s basketball: From page 8

Armwood’s rejections prevented the flashy drives to the hole of guards Maurice Watson Jr. and D.J. Irving from coming to fruition at many points. The Terriers were forced to rely upon shooting ability and aggressive frontcourt play to produce offense.

At the half, BU was down 37–23, and, within two minutes of the start of the half, GW had advanced its lead to 20 points. Jones decided that something needed to change, and he put his team into a full court press. BU’s superior speed to the ball on defense forced several Colonial turnovers, and the Terriers went on a 10–0 run.

The crowd’s enthusiasm at the season’s home opener grew with each turnover and resultant bucket in of the run, but the gym absolutely caught fire when freshman guard John Papale nailed a back-breaking 3-pointer from the corner and the blow of the whistle called out to signify that the young sharp-shooter had also earned a free throw.

At 11:43, Papale converted the 4-point play to cut GW’s lead to single digits for the first time since the

first half. The Wallingford, Conn. native had 12 points on 4-of-6 shooting on the day.

“John in particular is a guy who we have to run offense for,” Jones said. “He’s not a guy who creates off the bounce as much as he does off space, so we have to give him some shots in transition … Once the game got a little bit more up-tempo, there was more space and we were able to run a couple sets for him and then he got off a little bit.”

However, freshman Joe McDonald proved himself to be the superior of all the rookies on the court, as he finished with 21 points and seven rebounds for GW. After Armwood threw down a monster one-handed slam with two minutes remaining in the game, McDonald converted four free-throws, and the Terriers’ hopes of a comeback were dashed.

“We just have to be consistent from the start,” Jones said. “We did not play well early in the game, and a lot of it was just that our defense was really poor. We have to work on our slides, our schemes defensively and know what we’re doing, and just have a better effort.”

defeat to George Washington offense evenly First half: From page 8

“We have to be consistent from the start,” Jones said. “We need to come out and be ready to go. We did not play well early in the game, and a lot of it was defense.”

Against Canisius and George Washington, BU did not start playing well until the second half, but at that point it was too late.

In the matchup with the Golden Griffins, the Terriers cut the lead to three, but lost momentum from there, dropping the game 83-75.

Later that week, against George Washington, the Terriers had ample opportunities to come back in the second half, but their chances were squandered by unnecessary fouls and missed open shots. For most of the second half, the Terriers were consistently down 10 or 11 points and could not chip away at the Colonials’ lead.

On the other hand, both Canisius and George Washington came out of the locker room on fire.

Canisius, proving it is better than its 5–25 record last year, opened its

season against BU and quickly used its size to overpower the Terriers.

Despite significant struggles from the free throw line, the Golden Griffins scored 83 points in their win.

Colonial forward Isaiah Armwood made life difficult for the Terriers in the paint. Armwood, a transfer from Villanova, registered a teamleading 12 rebounds and also had an astonishing eight blocks.

“Armwood just changed the game with his ability to block shots,” Jones said. “A lot of the shots that we would get at the rim, usually against kids that can’t change shots like that, are going to go in.”

Offensively, junior guard DJ Irving was virtually non-existent for the Terriers. He shot 3-of-15 from the field and only 2-of-6 on free throws.

Freshman guard Maurice Watson Jr. hit only 2-of-10 on field goals.

The Terriers are 0–3, and Jones said the Terriers will likely not start winning until the defense is fixed.

“Losing is not easy,” Jones said.

“We have to find a way to get better and it starts with defense.”

Agboola, Alford carry BU past University of Richmond Women’s basketball: From page 8

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Junior forward Rashidat Agboola.

18 from the field and 2-of-6 from beyond the arc.

Junior forward Rashidat Agboola also played well. She achieved her first double-double of the season and the ninth of her career, posting 12 points and 14 rebounds, two of which were key offensive rebounds that led to BU points.

Agboola also played a significant role in providing insurance for the Terriers down the stretch.

She made two free throws late in the second half that solidified the victory. She went 6-for-9 from the stripe on the game.

Defensively, the Terriers’ front court allowed nine layups in the first half, but they tightened up the pressure down low with help from the guards and the sense of urgency from their post players.

“We were giving up a lot la-

yups and a lot of easy looks,” Agboola said. “So in the second half we made adjustments. We made sure we stayed on our feet. We stayed in front of people, and on screens we adjusted for that.”

Senior guard Mo Moran put up 13 points and eight assists on 4-of-10 shooting and 2-of-5 from 3-point range. Moran, who handled the point guard position for the majority of her 39 minutes, consistently got to the rim.

She finished with contact and dished the ball to her teammates open on the wings or in the corner.

Junior forward Whitney Turner also scored double-digits, scoring 12 points on 5-of-9 shooting and knocking down both of her free throws.

Her presence in the middle was crucial, as she was able to establish herself on each block and generate offense.

Early in the contest, the Terriers came out with a stout manto-man defense that resulted in a steal from Alford. Moran then pushed the ball up the court and fed the ball to senior guard Kristen Sims, who pulled up on the fast break and knocked down a jump shot from the right wing.

As a team, the Terriers showed more improvement in this game as they continue to transition into mid-season form. The Terriers only committed 11 turnovers compared to the 23 in their previous game.

Their free throws also improved as they shot 66 percent against the Spiders and got to the line 18 times.

The Terriers will head out for their first road test of the season as they take on Northeastern University uesday night at 7 p.m.

Balance: From page 8

five rebounds. Senior guard Kristen Sims also came up big for the Terriers, hitting two 3-pointers and finishing the night with eight points.

“Rashidat [Agboola] and Whitney [Turner] in the paint were great going one-on-one, and then when [Richmond] did double, they made great passes out of it,” Greenberg said. “Chantell [Alford] and Mo [Moran] hit their shots, Kristen [Sims’] couple of threes in the first half were really big for us because we went on a little run there where we weren’t scoring and her two threes were really big.

“We have a lot of people who can score in different ways and tonight it just happened that everyone got some good looks.”

Junior guard Danielle Callahan, who missed the last two seasons due to NCAA transfer regulations and injuries, shot 50 percent from beyond the arc and finished the game with seven points.

Despite playing in just her third game for the Terriers, Callahan earned praise from Greenberg for her presence and leadership on the team. “[Callahan] is such a steady influence for us,” Greenberg said. “It’s great to have her. Her teammates love her, they love playing with her.

She does a lot of the little things, and again, she hasn’t played in two years.

“So in these three games she’s still getting used to being back out on the court, so she’s just going to progress every game and really be big for us this year.”

The Terriers only made 36.4 percent (12–33) of their field goals in the first half, but followed that up by hitting 50 percent (13–26) of their shots in the second half. They also had a 57.1 (4–7) 3-point field goal percentage. The Terriers finished the game with a 42.4 field goal percentage.

Coach Greenberg said she believes the high field goal percentage in the second half was a result of improved shot selection.

“I think we pretty much shot the same from three, but we shot less

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Monday, November 19, 2012

No. 11 Men’s Hockey shut down by No. 5/6 UNH Power play fails Terriers in loss

DeSmith stops 45 shots as BU falls to Wildcats

By Tim Healey Daily Free Press Staff

The No. 11 Boston University men’s hockey team accomplished what no other team had done in more than 10 periods against No. 5/6 University of New Hampshire — score on goaltender Casey DeSmith — but it was not enough, as the Terriers lost to the Wildcats, 3–1, at Agganis Arena.

Freshman goaltender Matt O’Connor allowed a pair of first-period goals for the first time in his career Sunday afternoon, resulting in his second straight loss.

“UNH was the much better team this afternoon,” said BU coach Jack Parker. “We came into this game not ready to play …

“We’ve been moving the puck extremely well in every other game we’ve played this year so far and we just fumble bumbled the puck all over the place today.”

The Terriers’ energy and focus was underwhelming from the start, as they gave up 20 shots in the first period alone. BU (6–4, 5–3 Hockey East) failed to capitalize on its seven power-play chances.

The home team outshot the Wildcats (8– 1–1, 6–1–1 Hockey East) by a 46–35 margin, but DeSmith continued his hot streak to up his save percentage to .961 and lower his goalsagainst mark to 1.19.

Parker could not explain why BU got off to a slow start.

“No idea. Happens all the time,” Parker

Men’s hockey, see page 7

By Annie Maroon Daily Free Press Staff

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Freshman center Danny O’Regan scored the only BU goal in its 3–1 loss to the University of New Hampshire on Sunday.

Through nine games, the University of New Hampshire men’s hockey team had allowed just two power-play goals. Boston University could have changed that on any one of its seven man-advantages on Sunday, but the Terriers faltered against the league’s best penalty kill, walking away with nothing to show for 11 power-play shots.

Neither team took a penalty until UNH’s Kevin Goumas was called for hooking 19:44 into the first period. The Wildcats were then penalized four times in the second period, three of which were for stick infractions.

But the Terriers looked oddly sluggish, breaking out of the defensive zone slowly and often losing the puck to UNH’s aggressive forecheckers. On their last two power plays of the second period, BU did not take a single shot on UNH goalie Casey DeSmith.

“We got the puck on our power play, I bet you 10 times, with complete control … and just turned it over,” said BU coach Jack Parker. “[We] let them come up and bump us off the puck while we were hanging on. That lack of anticipation and willingness to move the puck is going to kill any power play.”

Parker attributed the loss to the team’s lackluster pace, saying they just weren’t ready to go for the 1 p.m. start at Agganis Arena. Uncharacteristically, BU also took just two penalties, both in the third period.

Power play, see page 7

Starters lead BU to win over Spiders Women’s basketball features balanced

By Matthew Fils-Aime Daily Free Press Staff

On the strength of double-digit scoring from four different players, the Boston University women’s basketball team defeated the University of Richmond 70–61.

“It came right down to toughness, and we really out-toughed them,” said BU coach Kelly Greenberg.

With the Terriers (2–1) consistently harassing the ball handler and keeping the Spiders (1–2) on their heels with man-toman and zone defenses, they forced the Spiders into 20 turnovers.

Post players also contributed to the Ter-

riers’ increased toughness, as they were able to win the points-in-the-paint differential, outscoring Richmond 12–8.

Coming off of a strong showing against West Virginia, the Terriers were looking to close out their three-game home stand with a winning record.

From the opening tip, the Terriers looked to be much smaller than Richmond. However, their balanced offense attacked every aspect of the Spider defense and helped the Terriers pick up the win.

Senior guard Chantell Alford was stellar once again, netting 18 points on 8-of-

Women’s basketball, see page 7

offense in 70–61 win over Richmond

By Conor Ryan Daily Free Press Staff

After a loss against West Virginia University in which senior guard Chantell Alford scored more than half of the points for the Boston University women’s basketball team, its offense got back on track during Friday night’s 70–61 win against the University of Richmond.

The Terriers dropped 70 points on the Spiders with four players scoring in double figures.

“We think we have a lot of weapons, both on the offensive end and the defensive end,” said BU coach Kelly Greenberg. “Tonight, it

just worked out.”

For the third straight game, Chantell Alford led the Terriers in scoring with 18 points.

Many of her teammates were not far behind her. Senior guard Mo Moran scored 13 points on the night and also dished out eight assists.

In the frontcourt, junior forward Rashidat Agboola posted her first double-double of the season with 12 points and 14 rebounds.

Fellow junior forward Whitney Turner scored a career-high 12 points to go along with

Balance, see page 7

Men’s basketball struggles with Terriers have trouble with first-half size of Colonials in 72–59 defeat defense in losses to Canisius, GWU

By Tyler Lay Daily Free Press Staff

The most obvious disadvantage endured by the Boston University men’s basketball team when it matched up with George Washington University was a lack of size.

Junior co-captain Dom Morris did not start the game thanks to what BU coach Joe Jones called a “coach’s decision.” With Morris on the bench, BU’s starting forwards were 6-foot5, 6-foot-6 and 6-foot-7, whereas GW’s were 6-foot-8, 6-foot-9 and 6-foot-10. The disparity in height was an obvious factor in the 72–59 BU loss.

Though Morris played off the bench against the Colonials, he managed to lead the Terriers with 14 points, while also grabbing five rebounds.

Morris said pure effort was what led to his

Monday, Nov. 19 No Games Scheduled Bart Scott attempted to lead a media boycott after the Jets’ victory against the Rams on Sunday...

success against the height-advantaged Colonials.

“Just being present — a force in the paint … I just focused on that,” he said. “I tried to go to the boards and attack and rebound every opportunity I had.”

Morris’ counterpart — for a majority of the game — forward Isaiah Armwood redirected shots left and right, finishing the game with eight blocks. Armwood also collected a gamehigh 12 rebounds.

“Their guards were 5-foot-11 and 5-foot-11, and I knew their big men weren’t like actual big men,” Armwood said of BU’s starters. “So I was able to help on help defense a lot because [the guards] were going to get into the lane to finish because they were so little.”

The Bottom Line

Men’s basketball, see page 7

Tuesday, Nov. 20 W. Basketball @ Northeastern, 7 p.m.

M. Basketball @ Rutgers, 7:30 p.m.

By Michael Bagarella Daily Free Press Staff

In its past two games, the Boston University men’s basketball team started slowly, allowing its opponents to build an early lead and control the game.

“We need to come out and play aggressively, but smart,” said BU coach Joe Jones. “The last two games, in the start of the game, we just weren’t aggressive defensively and we get on our heels.

“We need to get up and play guys much harder, and we are not doing that right now.”

On Nov. 11 BU (0–3) visited Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y. The Terriers were outmuscled and out-hustled by the Golden Griffins early on, and faced a nine-point deficit four minutes into the game. BU played from behind the entire game and never took the lead.

Wednesday, Nov. 21

No Games Scheduled ... Rex Ryan had his own reasons for boycotting the media, as he was off giving private lessons to Tim Tebow ...

Thursday, Nov. 22

A few days later, in their home opener against George Washington University (1–1), the Terriers were outplayed in the first half once again.

As a team, BU missed its first three 3-point field goal attempts and shot only 9-of-30 from the field in the first half.

George Washington shot 15-of-26 from the field and had a 57.7 3-point shooting percentage.

The only lead BU had came off a lay-up five seconds into the game. The Colonials then went on a 10–0 run and the Terriers quickly found themselves in another deficit. BU failed to get on a run and found itself down big at the half, 37–23.

Jones said he believes the slow starts are the result of poor defense early in games.

No Games Scheduled ... Seeing how Ryan will not play Tebow at QB, he is giving Tebow diet lessons on how to beef up to play defensive tackle.

First half, see page 7

Friday, Nov. 23 W. Basketball @ Eastern Michigan, 7 p.m.