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Bill banning alcohol ads in all of Mass. raise questions about economic impact, page 6.

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Absentee ballots bring opportunity, headaches Students focus on issues, future in looming election

By Lauren Dezenski Daily Free Press Staff

The decision to vote absentee or to vote in person is an important question come election season for thousands of Boston University students from cities and states outside of the city.

The U.S. Census Bureau’s report on voting and registration in the 2008 election found that in the last presidential election, of the 39 million people who voted before Election Day, 52 percent reported doing so via absentee ballot. Students are legally allowed to have the option to register to vote in their home state via absentee ballot or in the state in which they go to college.

According to a 2009 study co-authored

by Peshkin, that decision to vote absentee can have a significant impact on elections’ outcome in swing states. During the 2008 election, 330,000 students from 15 swing states attended college in non-swing states, giving those students the potential to swing an election should non-residents decide to vote in state as opposed to absentee in their home state.

Peskin also found students often preferred to vote in their home state by a 2:1 ratio. If the student is from a swing state,

By Steph Solis Daily Free Press Staff

John Kerry also defeated Republican opponent Jeffrey Beatty 82.12 percent to 13.91 percent.

Despite the lower voter turn out in Allston, a number of politically active residents in the primarily college-student area said they would vote Democratic, a pattern also conforming to Allston’s past voting records.

Allston resident and Boston University student Sean Donaghy said he will be voting Democratic on Tuesday.

“I know it’s only really a two-party system and that one of them is going to win, so I’ve gone with what I think is the lesser of two evils with Barack Obama,” said Donaghy, a College of Arts and Sciences junior. “He’s done a decent job over the past four years, and his policy going forward seems to be in line with most of my views.”

Allston resident Samantha Dell’Aquila, a

Eziah Karter-Sabir Blake said President Barack Obama and his opponent, Republican candidate Mitt Romney, focus on economic issues, civil rights and other social issues that factored into his decision to vote.

“I’ve never voted before this election, but once I started to follow both candidates, I realized my life, the person I am and so many of the things I need and my community needs were in jeopardy because of what one candidates wants to do with this country,” Blake, co-chair of the Youth Leadership Committee for the Boston Alliance for Gay Lesbian Bisexual & Transgender Youth, said.

The youth vote could be more important than ever in deciding the future of several key issues, experts said, as Obama and Romney present distinct visions of the future of the country.

Fifty-one percent of young voters — about 23 million 18- to 29-year-olds — cast their ballots in 2008, a 2-percent rise from the 2004 presidential election, according to The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. The turnout was the largest for young voters since 1992.

The increase was in part due to the overwhelming support young voters expressed for Obama, said College of Communication professor John Carroll, a political strategist and expert in political advertising.

“Barack Obama had a kind of personal magnetism that was very attractive to voters, also in the sense that he was going to usher in a new kind of politics,” Carroll said.

This time around, both Romney and Obama have struggled to mobilize the youth vote, Carroll said. Young people tend to feel discontent with Obama’s moderate leadership, partisan ties and economic struggles, while many also take issue with Romney’s inconsistencies in his platform and out-of-touch persona.

Obama can connect with voters on a number of issues, including college loans, jobs and higher education reform, as well as foreign policy, equal pay for women and civil rights within the

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Issues, see page 7

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Students weigh multiple factors when determining whether to vote absentee or in state.

the ratio climbs to an 8:1 preference for absentee voting in their home state over local voting.

College of Arts and Sciences freshman Rosie Bauder will vote absentee in New Jersey, her home state. Bauder said she felt her “vote would matter more back home.”

“I know the candidates better, I know

the issues a bit better, I think I care a lot more about the issues that are being voted over in my state,” Bauder said. “I live here, but I’m a Jerseyan at heart, so it wasn’t too hard to vote absentee.

Brian McKniff, spokesperson for Secretary of the Commonwealth William Francis

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Despite history, Allston voter turnout could increase in 2012

By Rachel Riley Daily Free Press Staff

Although voter turnout in Allston remains typically lower than the rest of Boston’s, the primarily Democratic section of the city might see higher turnout rates on Tuesday, a prediction some politically active Allston residents said is likely to happen.

“While voter participation was less in midterm elections, like 2006 or 2010, voter turnout in Allston was very high in 2004 and even higher in 2008,” said MassVOTE Co-Director Avi Green. “Our expectation is, based on the numbers of registration that have come in so far this year, is that actually 2012 is on track to be higher than 2008.”

The percentage of ballots cast in Allston has historically been lower than the percentage of ballots cast in Boston as a whole, according to Boston Election Commission records.

In the 2008 State Election, 52.98 per-

cent of ballots were cast in Ward 21, which includes eight of Allston’s 10 precincts, in comparison with 62.10 percent Boston-wide.

Of 48,249 Ward 21 residents, 27,299 were registered voters.

“What we see is that in presidential elections, there’s high voter registration in Allston, and high voter turnouts,” Green said.

Ward 21 cast a total of 14,414 votes in the 2008 Presidential election, in comparison to the 3,658 votes cast for District 9 city councilor and 3,889 votes cast for Boston mayor in the 2009 municipal election.

Allston has a high student population, with 29.2 percent of residents between the ages of 20 and 24, the highest percentage of any age group, according to 2010 U.S. Census for the Allston-Brighton area.

Historically, Allston residents have tended to vote Democratic.

In Ward 21, Obama defeated McCain by 62.07 percent. Democratic Senate candidate

Mock the Vote: Online satire may keep young voters more informed of political issues

By Alex Diantgikis Daily Free Press Staff

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Boston University professors say the use of political memes as political commentary can be educational.

With the proliferation of political commentary in the form of satire in memes and comedy shows during the election season, the Boston University community said this could make voters more aware of issues and be used as a learning tool.

“I don’t think this phenomenon is particularly new,” said Taylor Boas, a political science professor. “People have been making fun of presidential elections and many of them paying more attention to parodies than actual issues at least since ‘Saturday Night Live’ started doing this in the 1970s.”

He said young voters’ focus on satire is not a problem because the jokes are based in real policy issues.

“It can contribute to more people knowing the issues,” he said. “You take Jon Stewart and ‘The Daily Show,’ and you know it’s humor, but it also floors a lot of people. There’s a lot of serious information conveyed amidst the humor, so I don’t think it’s all frivolous.”

Boas said students may be primarily in-

terested in the satire of the debates, but that does not mean young people are not active in today’s issues.

“On one hand, they may only be interested in parodies and satire,” he said. “On the other hand, you look at the Occupy protest of last year and there’s clearly activism going on and people who are engaged with serious issues without a bit of irony or protester satire involved at all.”

Patrice Oppliger, a College of Communication professor, said there has been a shift in how we see politics. Presidential candidates are today depicted as regular people who could be humorous at times.

Oppliger said many candidates have even made appearances on SNL to illustrate this point.

“It’s interesting that many students, between the ages of 18 and 24, a majority of them are getting news from not the nightly news on television, but through ‘The Daily Show,’ ‘Saturday Night Live Weekend Update,’ Letterman and Leno’s monologues,” Oppliger said.

She said a study at the University of

Pennsylvania eight years ago compared people who got their news from “The Daily Show” and those who got it from the nightly news. The study found that people who watch “The Daily Show” are better informed.

“I was sort of concerned that when you use humor and sarcasm and irony, it would confuse people, but apparently it doesn’t,” Oppliger said. “It kind of makes it more colorful.”

She said elections often have negative and hostile campaigns, which might cause tension between people.

“When someone posts something in a humorous context, it sort of takes the edge off and there’s less hostility,” Oppliger said.

Oppliger said these parodies might be a statement to politicians that students are rejecting the campaign tactics.

“It’s also sort of a statement saying to politicians, ‘Listen, we are so tired of these canned responses and theses dumb

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COM senior: Memes show Internet’s popularity among youth Mock: From Page 1

speeches that aren’t telling us what you’re going to be doing in the next term,’” she said.

Shane Riley, a COM senior, said political parodies take comments out of context to the degree that it lacks actual meaning. “‘Binders full of women’ is a good example,” Riley said. “It’s such a minute point, that wasn’t really a point to begin with, that was just like, repeatedly harped on to the point that the original question and answer lost its purpose.”

He said this satirical media might drive people to the polls,

but it also gives people the wrong impression of someone.

“Political memes are more of a reflection of the Internet’s popularity with young people and kind of, how our generation is responding to the election,” said Nathan Greenberg, a COM senior.

Greenberg said people latch onto one thing in the debate and make a meme. He said zingers in the debates are part of the nature of debates.

“So much of the debates are based on that kind of rhetoric, that I don’t think it detracts [from the seriousness],” Greenberg said.

“It’s just part of the whole con-

versation.”

He said any attention to politics is good attention. He said students could not discuss memes unless they are familiar with the actual issue.

Elizabeth Castillo, a School of Management sophomore, said she had not been following the debates, but researched what the satirical pieces were about.

“It helps people know what’s going on,” Castillo said. “It helps make things more accessible, because without all these jokes and satire, honestly I wasn’t that interested in politics and then I started watching the ‘Colbert Report.’”

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student at the Art Institute of Boston, said around half of her friends in Allston are politically active.

“A lot of my friends, they seem to somewhat know about politics but they don’t really seem to care,” said Dell’Aquila, 20. “They haven’t even registered and they’re probably not going to vote.”

Dell’Aquila said she identifies herself as a Democrat or Independent, although she does not like the labels.

“This is my first presidential election,” she said. “I’ve already voted. I voted for Obama.”

Allston resident Gary Gossam, 55, said he favors Mitt Romney for president and Scott Brown for Senate in the upcoming election.

“Brown, he’s from Massachusetts, he knows the area,” Gossam said. “He’s from around here. Same with Romney. He lived in Belmont.

They’re going to take care of Massachusetts.”

Gossam, who is unemployed, said he does not agree with programs that give the federal government more power such as Obamacare.

“I have health insurance, but there’s so many people ahead of me that don’t have health insurance,

and we’re all waiting in the emergency room,” he said. “If they’re going to socialize medicine, they’re going to socialize everything else.”

Singer and songwriter Chick Graning said he does not support Romney’s policies.

“It’s everything that would be brought forward by the Republicans that kind of scares me,” the 46-year-old Allston resident said.

“The foreign policy that he [Romney] has is terrifying. His policy towards women, it should be terrifying.”

Although he labels himself an Independent, Graning said Allston is fairly liberal.

“Allston seems to be a pretty Democratic-leaning area,” he said.

Another supporter of Independent candidates is Allston resident Vivienne Arango, a 22-year-old student at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

“I’m independent, and I’m voting Gary Johnson because I don’t believe in the two-party system,” Arango said.

Donaghy said everyone should vote to contribute to the election process.

“It’s part of the job we have as citizens,” he said. “You don’t vote, you don’t count.”

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Campus & City Column

Singing in the rain I spent Monday evening alone in

my room listening to music, watching movies and thinking how much I preferred the stormy weather outside to the sandstorm that was going on back in the United Arab Emirates, the Middle Eastern country I grew up in.

Even though Hurricane Sandy is doing more damage than just causing sandy areas around the streets, someRHEA times rain and OOMMEN cloudy days can be a total relief that quenches the thirst of people like me who have had to bear extremely warm and dry climate conditions.

Back home it would rain heavily only twice a year, and all the students would get super excited.

Though we never got days off because the weather wasn’t so harsh that there was ever any risk involved, school was 10 times more entertaining with wet clothes and wet hair. Even after years of this pattern, some places back home still weren’t prepared for heavy rain, so they would get flooded, just enough to cover your feet. It was always a good time.

During summer holidays, I would vacation in colder countries, and the worst part of the returning home was facing the glaring sun and the sudden suffocation brought by the heat. Venturing outside in the UAE was a painful punishment, and students preferred sitting in detention in the freezing air-conditioned indoors as opposed to playing basketball outside.

Thankfully, my return trip to the UAE this December will be much more bearable.

It will be winter there, which is comparable to a beautiful fall day in Boston.

However, I fear returning to Boston in January. The cold will be a rude awakening to someone who spent a month in the UAE. But back to Hurricane Sandy.

There are the people who run outside when it’s raining, listen to depressing songs and embrace the melancholy sentiments of the cloudy skies, pretending like they’re in a sad, underrated movie.

Then there are the people who moan and groan about the rain showers and wish the sun would shine because it would lighten their moods. What these people need to think about is how annoying it would be if the sun shined all day.

What if every time they stepped outside, they had to cover their eyes from the glare and after walking for 10 minutes, they got all hot and sweaty and ended up having a headache? Fun in the sun? I don’t think so. Trust me. I know.

I think every one needs a rainy day, especially after a week of midterms, assignments, Halloween activities and everything else that keeps the blood pumping.

It was nice to just let the rain and wind take over the day and have everyone stay inside and relax, well … as long as there was electricity and food.

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

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Students’ family homes destroyed by Sandy Mass. sends help to New York for Sandy damages

By Brian Latimer Daily Free Press Staff

A number of New Jersey natives at Boston University avoided much of the storm in their dorms, but found that their families’ homes were devastated after Hurricane Sandy pummeled the East Coast Monday.

Hurricane Sandy slammed Monmouth Beach, N.J., flooding neighborhoods with more than five feet of water. College of Arts and Sciences sophomore Katherine Peluso said her home experienced an exceptionally rough night.

“I was sent a picture of low tide and my house was surrounded by water,” Peluso said. “When high tide hit on Monday night, the high water line was five feet high at my back door.”

When the waters receded, she said she received photos showing how baldy the storm hit her house.

River water brought in massive amount of sediment and caked the first floor, living room furniture and kitchen included, with a black layer of mud.

“It looks literally like someone went into my home and ransacked it,” she said. “My friend lost three cars in the flood and two cars in

By Jasper Craven Daily Free Press Staff

“When we first started this push, we did a survey in Boston and the surrounding areas, and most of them said they see these ads the most on billboards and the MBTA,” Mashburn said.

Walsh said the measure is still being reviewed.

“The bill is in the Ways and Means Committee right now,” he said. “We have two years to get it passed before the bill is dead and we have to re-file it. It’s difficult getting it through the legislative process.”

Walsh said the bill is intended to help address underage drinking.

“These [the ads] are a big marketing tool to young people,” Walsh said. “The advertisements make drinking glamorous. It’s not a glamorous thing. Is it [the ban] going to stop it [underage drinking]? No, but it is a piece of the puzzle that will prevent it.”

Drinking can begin at a young age, according to a 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health study.

“In 2011, rates of current alco-

As Massachusetts recovers from Hurricane Sandy with no serious infrastructure damage or flooding, government officials have freed up state resources to help battered communities in New York.

Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick announced on Wednesday that he authorized the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency to dispatch seven logistical specialists to Albany, New York, offering crucially needed assistance to a state battered by Hurricane Sandy.

“We saw that they [New York] were looking for some logistic help, and because things are winding down here in Mass. relative to the other states impact on the storm, we very quickly offered assistance,” said Peter Judge, a public information officer from MEMA. The requests by New York came through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, which facilitates member states sending personnel and equipment to help disaster relief efforts in other states.

Each year a national coordinating state is chosen to oversee EMAC. This year Massachusetts oversaw the agency, but once Hurricane Sandy predictions were released, Massachusetts yielded the position temporarily to 2011’s leader, Arizona.

“At its base, EMAC works between two states,” said Mathew Parks, the interim director of EMAC, who headed EMAC from Arizona 2011. “It is a contract between two states for one state to assist another.

An impacted state will send out an email broadcast with their needs and situation.”

In its email, which was received

by MEMA at about 3 p.m. on Tuesday, New York requested, among other things, logistics experts, Judge said.

By 7 p.m., seven MEMA staff members had volunteered to travel to Albany and work for two weeks, Judge said.

They were on the road by Tuesday night, Judge said.

“We have got a very good relationship with the state of New York,” Judge said. “And with our proximity to New York, they knew that we were going to be able to get folks there quickly.”

Judge said the main duties of the MEMA members will be to respond

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PHOTO COURTESY BY RYAN HUFF

A number of Boston University students experienced severe damage in their home neighborhoods as a result of Hurricane Sandy, such as College of Communication sophomore Ryan Huff’s hometown of Atlantic Highlands, N.J.

our neighborhood blew up.”

Peluso’s neighborhood sat on a comfortable peninsula surrounded by a river on one side and ocean on the other, she said.

Water flooded the area from all sides, brining sediment, debris and yachts.

“There were a couple of houses on my street in particular that were severely damaged,” Peluso said.

“Boats just flooded from the ma-

rina and littered yards with luxury yachts and hit houses.”

Josh Grieco, a School of Hospitality Administration junior, said that his family moved permanently into their summer home at Normandy Beach, N.J., this summer after they sold their northern New Jersey home.

The home flooded but remained

Hurricane, see page 4

Coalition seeks alcohol ad ban on state property

By Kyle Plantz Daily Free Press Staff

After the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority purged all alcohol advertisements from its system in July, officials and substance-free coalitions seek to permanently seal the agreement in legislation that also calls to extend the ban to all state property.

Following the MBTA’s voluntary removal of alcohol advertisements from public transportation in July, the coalition Supporting an Alcohol Ad Free Environment in Massachusetts stands behind a more expansive measure.

“In the bill, we are looking to end alcohol ads on all state property including the MBTA,” said Cory Mashburn, co-chair of SAFE-MA. “We want to extend it to all state property, but make it an official law for the MBTA.” The bill, sponsored by Rep. Martin Walsh, of Dorchester, was first presented in 2011 and has been on the House floor since February, Walsh said.

He said it would legally ban alcohol advertisements on MBTA transportation, despite the MBTA having removed alcohol ads in

July.

“The reason we are trying to get this bill passed is because a new governor could come in and change it back to the way it was before the ads were banned,” Walsh said. “We don’t want that to happen. We want a permanent solution.”

MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo said in an email the passage of this bill will not affect the MBTA. “The MBTA has already banned alcohol ads for its property,” he said. “Such ads have not been seen on the MBTA since the summer. The MBTA acted voluntarily because the Allston-Brighton Substance Abuse Task Force made a convincing argument against the ads.”

The bill also aims to ban alcohol advertisements on other state property.

“Notwithstanding any other general or special law to the contrary, alcohol advertising on any property owned or operated by the Commonwealth shall be prohibited,” according to the bill.

Mashburn said the largest issue with alcohol advertisements on state property is with billboards.

Council OKs third redistricting map KENNY ON COMMONWEALTH

By Zoe Roos Daily Free Press Staff

ask anyone to contend with me who does not think this plan moves Boston forward.”

Linehan said Districts 3, 4 and 5 would be the ones affected in the new map.

Councilor Charles Yancey, of Dorchester, stood in the negative, objecting to the redistricting plan.

“What is before us today does not do justice to Mattapan,” he said.

“Based on the 2010 census, people of color represent 53 percent of the population, and the existing districts guarantee five predominately white districts. We have the opportunity to design a map of the city of Boston that reflects the true population.”

Councilor Robert Consalvo, of Hyde Park, said the map was a fair compromise.

As the deadline for agreement on a new redistricting map passed on Wednesday, Boston City Council approved its third redistricting map after more than a year of debate, sending off the final plan to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino.

The highly anticipated plan, which included a last-minute amendment proposed by Councilor Tito Jackson, of Roxbury, passed by a vote of 11 to 2.

Councilor Bill Linehan, of South Boston, opened the debate in full support of the map, the third to be proposed since the issue arose.

“We have all worked diligently on this for the past 16 months,” he said. “It is impossible to please all, but this is a fair and balanced and legally defensible plan. I would SEE FULL STORY ONLINE

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A student walks on Commonwealth Avenue dressed as Kenny from South Park Wednesday.

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Mass. gov’t lends Blackhawk BU student: Garden State high school helicopters to residential NJ converted to shelter in Sandy aftermath Mema: From Page 3

to community requests for resources and assistance by coordinating where resources can be tapped and which other states can offer personnel.

“They [New York communities] are going to need specific things,” he said. ”Maybe they are looking for National Guard assets, sandbags, fire equipment or personnel.”

Parks said usually assistance comes from neighboring states, but both Hurricane Sandy and Irene devastated entire regions, making it difficult for states in close proximity to assist in recovery efforts.

The real destruction, which Massachusetts dodged, enabled them to offer resources, and a nationwide effort is now being conducted to assist states impacted by Sandy, he said.

“In this case we have people that have traveled from as far as Washington state and California to the East Coast states to assist,” Parks said. “So they are coming all the way from across the country.”

Judge said assistance from MEMA would not hamper recovery resources in Massachusetts, citing a MEMA staff of 85 members with many more personnel ready to help if required.

“We are not taking away from the people in the Commonwealth to go help another state,” he said. “We have many people that have these skills here.”

Patrick echoed the same sentiments as Judge, as he acknowledged the destruction of infrastructure in

other states.

“Compared to other states like New York, Massachusetts was spared from the harshest impacts and devastation of Hurricane Sandy,” Patrick said in a MEMA press release issued on Wednesday. “We have been fortunate and we want to assist other states in any way we can. These committed MEMA officials will strengthen New York’s recovery efforts.”

Massachusetts has also lent out two Blackhawk helicopters to the state of New Jersey and a search and rescue team to Connecticut, according to the press release.

Judge said progress is being made in the Commonwealth to restore infrastructure to pre-Sandy conditions.

“Right now we are looking at about 80,000 power outages around the Commonwealth down from a high about 400,000,” Judge said.

Judge also said 31 Rapid Assessment Response Teams went through Massachusetts to gauge infrastructure damage.

“Their reports came back today,” he said. “There really isn’t any significant infrastructure damages.”

Next, MEMA will reach out to the 351 towns in the state to give community reports and then see how much work is left, Judge said.

“We will then have a better idea of what sort of overall damage has occurred,” he said. “Is there sufficient damage to go reach out for the federal government from FEMA? That’s down the pipeline if in fact it turns out to be needed.”

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intact, he said.

“I have known that house my whole life, and it’s been in our family for 100 years,” Grieco said.

“We did a bunch of renovations, brand new floors and appliances.”

Grieco’s father remained in the area to monitor the home despite admonitions to evacuate.

He made it safely through the night and reported the extent of the damage to his family the next morning.

“My dad’s car, which is a Hummer, was pretty much totaled because the water came up so high,” Grieco said. “Our garage, which is separated from the house, was destroyed. The water came up about five feet.”

Prized family heirlooms, such as their 50-year-old jukebox, were lost in the storm surge, he said.

“This is pretty incredible and I’m pretty shocked — it hasn’t hit me yet,” Grieco said. “I think when I see it I’ll be pretty upset.”

Ryan Huff, a College of Communication sophomore, said he will be able to go home to Atlantic Highlands, N.J., this Thanksgiving, but most of his neighbors cannot say the same.

“My house is fine because I live on a hill, but we have a harbor in my town that is completely destroyed,” Huff said. “The town next to me is at sea level and a lot of my friends live there.”

Most people without generators in his area have no power, he said.

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College of Communication sophomore Ryan Huff’s hometown of Atlantic Highlands, N.J. was ravaged by Hurricane Sandy. He is one of many Boston University students whose communities have been affected by the storm.

His high school is now serving as a shelter for people in need of a dry place to sleep if their home washed into the Atlantic. The surge brought enough sediment to completely fill beach clubs and cover highways with sand.

“My dad is on the first aid squad,” Huff said. “He told me this morning that he was doing search and rescues searching for any dead bodies.”

Huff said many of his friends are returning home to New Jersey to help their families out in this difficult time.

“It brought everyone together,”

he said. “Everyone is out helping people they normally wouldn’t talk to.”

Although the bulk of the storm passed by early Tuesday morning, floodwaters are still receding.

Residents throughout the state can look forward to electricity in seven to ten days, Huff said.

Grieco said his father was just rescued from his home, which is now unlivable, on Wednesday.

“Nobody I know got really harmed and my family is safe,” he said, “so I’m pretty thankful for that.”

Large number of undergraduates DFP drink underage, report suggests Alcohol: From Page 3

hol use were 2.5 percent among persons aged 12 or 13, 11.3 percent of persons aged 14 or 15, 25.3 percent of 16- or 17-yearolds, 46.8 percent of those aged 18 to 20 and 69.7 percent of 21- to 25-year-olds,” the survey stated.

College students frequently engage in underage drinking, according to a May 2011 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report.

“Studies consistently indicate that about 80 percent of college students, of which 48 percent are underage, drink alcohol, and about 40 percent of all college students engage in binge drinking,” the report stated Some alcohol retail store employees said the ban is not in the state’s best interest.

“I don’t know why they would do that,” said Jason Katz, vice president of Brookline Liquor

Mart. “Considering how much the ban would affect the budget of the state, they need these ads as a source of revenue.”

Walsh said the ban would not lose the Commonwealth any money.

“The ban would be revenue neutral,” he said. “We wouldn’t lose any money, but we wouldn’t gain any money.”

Katz said the removal of alcohol ads on the T might contribute to fare hikes.

“That [the ban] is why customers pay more for the T,” he said.

“They need this revenue. Not having these ads put limits on the free market.”

But Katz said the bill passing would not affect small retailers.

“I don’t believe it will affect our sales,” Katz said. “The advertising is more of an outlet for big companies, not small stores like us. The individual retailers would not be directly affected.”

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Ban alcohol ads?

A bill that would ban alcohol companies from advertising on state property should not pass for many reasons.

While alcohol can negatively affect one’s health, it is legal for someone who is 21 years or older to possess and consume alcohol.

Because their product is legal, alcohol companies should be allowed to advertise wherever they please.

Also, from a business standpoint, it seems unlikely Massachusetts or any other state would support the ban. Alcohol contributes to state and local revenues. The more alcohol advertisements there are, the more alcohol sales there may be. Why would a state shut itself off to the opportunity to sell more alcoholic beverages and thereby increase its revenue? Setting limits on where alcohol companies can advertise seems like a poor business move.

It is worth noting that some institutions have agreed to such bans. In July, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority voluntarily removed alcohol advertisements from

public transportation.

In addition to banning alcohol advertisements on state property, the proposed bill would make the MBTA’s ban permanent.

Rep. Martin Walsh, the bill’s sponsor, reported to The Daily Free Press that “the reason we are trying to get this bill passed is because a new governor could come in and change it back to the way it was before the ads were banned.”

However, laws are not always “permanent solutions.” Circumstances change. Technology advances. Codes of conduct become outdated. Laws can and should be altered over time. Walsh’s argument that the bill would “permanently solve” the alcohol advertising issue is not convincing.

Most importantly, though, arguing where alcohol companies should or should not be allowed to advertise seems like a waste of time. There are other, more serious issues that the state should be focusing on such as keeping guns out of the hands of children.

To the Editor: I am writing in regards to Dr. Ashur’s letter published in the Oct. 22 issue of The Daily Free Press distributed at Boston University.

In response to her opposition to Question 2, I counter with the story of Angelique Flowers and several points of contention: Angelique Flowers was a young woman from Australia who was diagnosed with the debilitating Crohn’s Disease at only 15 and later with colon cancer at 31. She was frightened of a slow and painful death and wanted to end her life peacefully on her own terms, rather than at the mercy of disease. However, due to Australian laws, she was not able to legally obtain anything. She died choking on feces that she was vomiting up as her brother held a dish below her chin. In her words, “The law wouldn’t let a dog suffer the agony I’m going through before an inevitable death.

It would be put down. Yet under the law, my life is worth less than a dog’s … I have been robbed of both my living and my dying… ” I will admit, prior to reading the story of this young woman, I too found physicianassisted suicide to be silly. In fact, I had little respect for those who take their own lives.

However, under the circumstances that she died, I cannot believe that this would be preferable to allowing someone to end their own suffering.

Dr. Ashur writes in her letter “to promote ‘suicide’ — the taking of one’s own life, a lonely act for a vulnerable soul — is a sad commentary for a civilized society.” I challenge the notion that forcing people to die when nature allows them to is a mark of a civilized society. Allowing those in pain and misery to pass with less pain and suffering is far more dignified than to allow for someone like Angelique Flowers to die choking on fecal matter. It does not undermine the work of a physician, especially when physicians are unable to cure the ailment or to provide proper care for the dying.

She also writes that “clinical depression is

present in at least 25 percent of people with chronic illness. Depressed people think about suicide. Depression, however, is treatable.”

According to the website for the U.S. National Library of Medicine, treatment for depression includes medication and psychotherapy, and for extreme cases, sending a patient to a psychiatric hospital. For people who have less than six months to live and are in constant pain while taking a cocktail of drugs, to recommend putting them on more drugs with awful side-effects or to think that a psychiatrist can cure all is rather ridiculous. And I don’t think sending terminally ill patients to psychiatric hospitals is a realistic solution either, should they be extremely depressed or suicidal.

Her reasons for supporting the defeat of Question 2 seem somewhat selfish as well.

She writes about where her place should be when those suffer and die, about how it might undermine her work and about how she feels it encroaches on her privileges. However, Question 2 is not about solely physicians, but rather about those who have already been failed by modern medicine.

I watched my grandmother suffer and die at the hands of breast cancer, my mother watched her aunt suffer and die of breast cancer as well. In fact, both died alone, separated from their loved ones in hospitals. I saw what my grandmother struggled through, the livelihood she lost, the separation from her siblings and children, and I would not wish that upon others.

Question 2 does not, in any Orwellian manner, force pills down the throats of “vibrant patients” who may outlive lifespans. It merely gives those an option to end pain and suffering in a legal and civilized manner.

Thanks, and above all, I appreciate your input into the American democratic process.

Letter to the Editor: PAS revisited

Adam Stark CAS 2014 astark@bu.edu

Caffeine Cure ARIELLE EGAN

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ately I’ve been feeling heavy, like a fish made of felt sluggishly navigating my way through a waterway of assignments and to-do lists. I’m pretty certain I’ve hit that mid-semester lag where whenever a professor hands me a new assignment, all I want to do is petulantly shake my head and stamp my foot.

I’ve tried to study in my room, but it’s ineffective. I hate studying in Mugar. It’s too quiet and too gray. So I generally stumble into a coffee shop. Sometimes it is Espresso Royale on campus, but usually I venture to Voltage in Kendall Square, Trident Booksellers and Café on Newbury Street or PS Gourmet Coffee in South Boston.

My affair with coffee was likely in the making for sometime, but morphed into a full-blown relationship around my freshman year at Boston University. I love the way steam pulls across the surface of a coffee cup and the way heat seeps through to warm often-icy Boston fingers.

Coffee reminds me of sitting bundled up on my porch back home, one hand cradling a mug and the other buried finger deep in my dog’s soft ruff, watching the leaves fall.

If I must study or write that research paper, I might as well couple it with a good cup of coffee.

So, in an effort to get past the mid-semester doldrums, here are a few coffee shops I’ve found worth breaking that BU bubble for.

Voltage is a beautiful brick-and-mortar café that doubles as an art gallery. It has white walls that are spattered in bright blues and pinks, all colorful modernity with airy high ceilings.

The art exhibits change over about every six weeks, so there is always something new to stoke your creativity. My favorite drink, the “Paper Plane” latte, is made with cardamom, rose water and honey, and tastes like a coffee version of the Indian dessert kheer.

I like to sit near the floor to ceiling windows and watch the foreign Cambridge traffic walk by mumbling into their cell phones or dodging across the streets. The Wi-Fi is free and snacks are served a dollar a scoop from large glass candy jars. The baristas pour leaf designs into latte foam and chat about tattoos and children’s storybook art.

Although it is rare that I wander across the river, Voltage and Kendall Square are

not so hard to get to and ideal for settling into an afternoon of productivity with a hint of wanderlust.

Trident is perfect for those droopy gray days we’ve been experiencing lately. Their coffee isn’t spectacular. I generally order a regular cup of black, but there is something about being surrounded by all those books that makes you feel intellectual. The small television over the bar constantly runs old movies like, “The Never Ending Story.”

There is always some cute boy bowed over his MacBook and flipping through the dogeared pages of a paperback to provide a less academic interlude. Here studying is something done as an extension of some indie film storyline. Two people hunkered over notebooks, fingers stained yellow from careless highlighting, meet eyes across the coffee bar and smile.

PS Gourmet Coffee is not about those late night sleep deprived fantasies, but about being present in Boston. This is the type of place you might throw on the obligatory Iwent-to-college-in-Boston Red Sox’s baseball cap we all own. Here there are two sizes, small and “the bucket,”— which clearly shows they have the right priorities.

Latte options range from, the “Ugly Iguana,” to the “Nutty Irishman” and span a lot of candy bar like places in between. They all taste more like dessert than coffee, but are made with flavored coffee rather than added syrup.

PS takes only cash and is definitely a bit of a journey to get to, but undeniably worth it. This is the place to be for a serious cup of coffee with little fluff and definitely no Arcade Fire playing in the background. The servers all have heavy Boston accents and gel tipped nails and being here makes me feel less like a transient visitor and more like a Bostonian.

The lure of coffee is often what pulls me out of bed in the morning, and the desire for a crazy concoction from PS can be a great antidote to procrastination. Sometimes all I need to get the wheels turning is a change in scenery, a slightly delusional coffee shop fantasy and a little caffeine.

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

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I N T E R RO B A N G This week Hurricane Sandy ripped through the East Coast. So we here at the ol’ Free Press were wondering how each school reacted to the storm.

• COM students were probably freaking out that their Wi-Fi would disconnect.

• CGS students were probably upset their recess was interrupted by the storm.

• CFA students were probably mad it was too windy to light their cigarettes.

• SMG students were probably worried their suits would get wet.

• ENG students were probably mad they still had a bunch of homework to do on their day off.

• BU Athletics were probably upset their practices on Nickerson Field were interrupted.

• Dean Elmore was probably mad that we didn’t have school.

• The FreeP was upset that liquor stores closed early.

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Sperry pulled in third during Terriers blowout loss to Eagles Men’s soccer: From page 8

ing at the pace they’re playing. If that means they’re going to clear the zone once in a while, fine, but if it means they’re going to clear the zone and end up with a breakaway because we’re hoping we keep it in, shame on us.”

At 10:43 into the second period, Carpenter scored her second goal of the evening and BC’s third goal of the second period, advancing a strong gap between it and the Terriers. At the end of the second period, BU (7–2–0, 3–1–0 Hockey East) responded. Junior co-captain Marie Philip-Poulin picked up a rebound

and put BU on the board.

However, BU did not build off that goal and BC kept its same pace going into the third. Recording her first career hat-trick, Carpenter scored her final goal of the game 3:03 into the third. Then, in a fight for the puck at BU’s net, BC freshman Meghan Grieves increased the Eagles lead 6–1.

“Certainly they made some bounces. They were driving that net on the fourth goal that went in off the shin pad or pant leg,” Durocher said. “They were at the net, around the net. They earned an awful lot, and we didn’t exactly have the fight that we needed to have.”

In response to two penalties on Poulin and junior forward Louise Warren, Durocher called a timeout.

“I didn’t want any people who were playing for themselves to be taking liberties and being tough guys out there. That’s not the time to be a tough guy. It’s the other 55 minutes of the game,” Durocher said. “If we’re going to get penalties, I want to make sure our sticks are down, and we’re playing hard, but not catching people from behind or retaliation type of penalties.

That’s not what we want. I want them playing for the front of the jersey.”

Minutes after the timeout, junior

goaltender Kerrin Sperry suffered a collision with her own teammate and hit the ice. After a visit from the trainer, Sperry was back up, with applause from the stands, but within seconds, she gave up her seventh and final goal of the game.

In response, Durocher had senior goaltender Alissa Fromkin enter the game in relief.

“I’d have a hard time faulting Sperry for the ones that went in.

She might have liked to control a rebound or two a bit better, but we sort of left her out to dry for the most part,” Durocher said. “We were giving breakaways. That deflection off the shin pad. A couple

backboard goals. Those were ones that make it awful tough for a goalie to bail you out.”

BU will have a chance to rebound from Wednesday’s loss on Saturday, when it travels to Conte Forum again to face the Eagles again.

“We’re going to have to discuss a couple things maybe technically, but we’re going to have to bring our own conviction, our own pride and our own energy to the place and not wonder to see what’s going to happen,” Durocher said. “We’ve got to take it to them when we go back there and put the pressure back on them.”

Terriers fail to utilize home ice against BC Major injuries on defense Home ice: From page 8

Since that 2007–08 season, the Terriers have not won the regular season series against BC at Walter Brown. Instead, BU has found two scenarios: the Terriers either lose the lone home game of the season or they split the two games at Walter Brown. This trend switches off every year as BU goes from playing one game at home to two games at home each season against BC. The Terriers are 3–6 at Walter Brown during that time period and BC has outscored BU 34–21 in those nine games.

Meanwhile, when BU travels down the Green Line to play in Conte Forum, the Terriers are undefeated, going 7–0–1 against the Eagles. This includes BU’s season-opening 4–2 victory over BC on Oct. 5.

“I would say it clearly can be mental in both ways because

we’ve had luck over there and they’ve had luck over here,” Durocher said.

Durocher said the Terriers had finally gotten off of this trend when they defeated BC at home on Jan. 25 of last year. Not only had BU defeated the Eagles 6–0 in that game, but the Terriers had also pushed themselves to the top of Hockey East so far this season.

“We had a game last year in here where we played very well, carried the game and beat them,” Durocher said. “I thought we were in a position again to capitalize tonight and really set ourselves up in Hockey East and separate ourselves from them, but they were there tonight 110 percent and we were 50 percent here.”

The Terriers will not have another opportunity to break this trend until next season when they will likely face the Eagles in two

games at Walter Brown. On Saturday, however, the team has the chance to continue its undefeated streak at Conte Forum when it rounds out the regular season series against BC. While Durocher said a 7–1 loss is a rarity, he still said there are things his team needs to learn before they take on BC at Conte Forum on Saturday.

“My thing is just to basically get a couple lessons learned from this one, but realize 7–1 games are not easy to come by, and they need a little bit of good bounces and a little bit of good fortune,” Durocher said.

“But we gotta take a couple lessons outta here, and whether that’s how we’re going to kill penalties or show them how hard they competed, we’ve got to get a couple points across and make sure we’re the ones that are the aggressors come Saturday.”

derail men’s soccer season Men’s soccer: From page 8

overtime goal from sophomore forward Dominique Badji and headed home to play an equally difficult match against the University of Vermont.

Neither the Catamounts nor the Terriers could score, and the game ended in a 0–0 tie.

BU hit a significant roadblock on Oct. 13 when it visited University of Maryland-Baltimore County and suffered a humiliating 5–1 loss.

Disappointed with its performance in Baltimore, BU practiced hard for the next few days and was ready to take on a Harvard University team that entered the game with only one win on the season. The Terriers appeared to dominate the entire game, but with only a few minutes left in the second overtime, the Crimson got one chance, and made

the most of it, scoring and ending the contest.

Though their chances of making the tournament were slim to none, the Terriers continued to play hard in their final games. They shut out both Binghamton University and Albany University in their final home games before suffering a loss to UNH in overtime to end the season.

“Unfortunately, we just kept losing quality players this year,” Roberts said. “Having said that, I couldn’t be happier with the kids that were left standing and how they competed right up until the end in the New Hampshire game.

“The last few games they knew they weren’t going to make the tournament, they knew they couldn’t play in the conference tournament, but they still went out and fought hard every game, won games and that was enjoyable to watch.”

Student Vote Project aims to organize registration Economy remains priority, students say Ballot: From Page 1

Gavin, said he could not comment on the effect of absentee voting on elections because the Commonwealth does not track that specific information.

College of Engineering Freshman Alex Wong said his decision to vote absentee in California was based on the ballot issues, specifically a proposition designed to balance the state’s budget while preventing cuts to education funding.

“I have a lot of friends there and I grew up there, and I really don’t want to see education go down farther than it is, so I really want Prop 30 to pass,” Wong said.

“So I registered absentee in California.”

Wong held a similar reasoning behind voting absentee to Bauder.

“I would have loved to walk in and just vote in a voting booth, but I’m in Boston so it’s pretty hard to do that,” Wong said. “So it really depends on whether or not they [voters] want convenience, like they can just vote here and send things in the mail, or they want to make a difference for their state and vote in their state as an absentee voter.”

Matt Wolfson, a CAS senior, said although he is a registered voter in his home state of New Jersey, he has yet to apply for an absentee ballot.

“I kind of got caught up with school work and work, and it was always one of the things on the back of my mind,” Wolfson said.

“And just between midterms and everything, I just haven’t gotten

to it. It’s bad.”

However, Wolfson still has time. To receive an absentee ballot in New Jersey, the County Clerk must receive the application seven days prior to the election, according to the NJ Secretary of State website.

Because voting falls under states’ jurisdiction, absentee ballot applications and deadlines differ from state to state. These discrepancies often create confusion for voters, and can be a significant deterrent for voters.

School of Education Junior Caitlin Anderson said while the voter registration process did not deter her from voting, it did affect her decision to vote in Massachusetts over her home state of Connecticut.

“I just chose to vote here because I thought it would be easier,” Anderson said.

Student Vote Project, based out of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., is the brainchild of Peshkin, an engineering professor at Northwestern. The non-partisan organization, founded in 2008, provides information for groups looking to organize voter registration drives, along with a swath of research on student voting trends, including absentee voting.

One of Peshkin’s main findings debunks the notion college students are often disinterested in voting.

“Students have the reputation for being not very good voters,” Peshkin said. “It’s, ‘Oh old people are more diligent voters, they must care more about elections and how the country runs and

those students are just silly thinking about themselves only-myth,’ and it’s really just a myth. Students who do register do vote.”

CAS senior Rebecca Rutenberg recently organized a voter registration drive with her sorority Omega Phi Alpha, signing people up to vote at a table in the George Sherman Union. This type of outreach is the most effective in getting students to register to vote, Peshkin said.

“When you walk up to somebody, there they are getting fries and a hamburger, and you walk up to them and you say, ‘Are you registered to vote? Would you like to do it right now? We’ll even send it in for you,’ virtually everybody does it,” Peshkin said.

College of Communication Senior Chandler Lynn said personto-person voter registration is the reason he became registered to vote in Massachusetts.

“I was handed a few brochures that I just filled out and sent in,” Lynn said. “It was really easy. I wouldn’t have [registered] otherwise.”

Rutenberg said the sorority registered about 45 BU students to vote in Massachusetts, and was impressed with students’ overall sentiment, no matter their decision to vote absentee or registering to vote in Massachusetts.

“There was no one we spoke to that was really anti-the idea of voting, that said ‘my vote won’t make a difference,’” she said.

“Everyone seems motivated to go out and vote on the issues that are important to them, and it’s really refreshing to see that.”

Issues: From Page 1

LGBT community, said Massachusetts Democratic Party spokesman Kevin Franck.

School of Education sophomore Jeremy Bernier recently submitted his absentee ballot to his home state of Maine. He said he voted for Obama because of his stance on women’s rights and marriage equality.

“I could not vote for somebody like Romney,” he said. “So even if on the other issues I agree with him more, I could not vote for somebody who was against gay marriage.”

The Massachusetts Republican Party notes that young voters are most concerned about student loan debt, unemployment and other economic issues, said spokesman Tim Buckley.

“The job issue is really the number one, economic issues being number two,” Buckley said. “We hear a lot about the exploding deficit and what that means for people around the college age. The desire to get out of your parents’ house after graduation is also a very compelling issue.”

The GOP is hopeful, he said, that the Romney campaign “stressing the failures of the Obama administration on jobs, employment and the deficit, combined with the kind of new attempts of the Romney team to reach younger voters,” will motivate people to elect the Republican nominee.

Mara Mellstrom, vice-chair of the Boston University College Republicans, said the economy is more important than ever. College loan debt and unemployment especially resonate with young voters as prepare to graduate and enter the workforce.

Romney had a chance to rally young voters by setting himself apart

from the economy of the past four years, Mellstrom said. However, she said, the Romney campaign does not seem to have made that push.

“I think the Romney camp had a phenomenal opportunity, and I think it definitely could have had major significant impact on his pulling ahead if they had reached out to those young voters,” the College of Arts and Sciences junior said.

Nonetheless, Mellstrom said students should be more critical of the messages candidates project to young voters, as they tend to focus on the personas.

“This hope and change may be a very fruitful and successful campaign method, but when it comes down to it, being fantastical in the political world is never the right idea and never the right approach,” she said.

“Politics isn’t about hope. It’s about priorities, and the economy should always come first.”

BU Democrats spokeswoman Margarita Diaz said students’ interests run the gamut, from jobs to gay marriage. Diaz said she noticed the differences between Obama and Romney on issues such as the budget, education reform, equal pay and gay marriage.

“There are two candidates who have very different views about what direction to take the country,” Diaz, a College of Arts and Sciences senior, said. “It’s a topic of conversation.”

If students do not vote, Diaz said, they miss the opportunity to choose the future of those key issues.

“They’re missing out on a chance to really use their voices,” she said.

“They’re missing out on a chance to really have a say in issues that affect their daily lives.”

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BU allows 7 goals to Eagles, loses big at Walter Brown Women’s hockey suffers loss to Boston College 7–1

Terriers continue to struggle against Eagles at home

By Kira Cole Daily Free Press Staff

Having beaten No. 8 Boston College at BC 4–2 earlier in the season, the No. 3 Boston University women’s hockey team failed to repeat its success, losing at Walter Brown Arena 7–1 Wednesday night.

“It was a fantastic game by Boston College,” said BU coach Brian Durocher. “Maybe the best one I’ve seen in a long time. Their readiness, attention to detail and [competitiveness] was at a different level than ours.”

The Eagles (3–3–0, 2–2–0 Hockey East) found their way onto the board 4:47 into the first period when ju7 nior Taylor Wasylk BC slipped the puck into BU 1 the net.

Early in the start of the second period, BC sophomore forward Alex Carpenter continued the Eagles’ scoring when she tallied a shorthanded goal. Then, 4:23 later, Carpenter’s classmate Emily Field took advantage of BU’s penalty kill when she scored a power-play goal.

“Obviously [our] special teams weren’t good tonight. [BC] made two good plays on sort of back-door type of goals,” Durocher said. “One was a true back door play. The other one was a little bit of a rebound back door play.

“I saw two people relax on the shorthanded goal, and we can’t do that. We’ve got to sense imminent danger. We’ve got to be play-

Women’s hockey, see page 7

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Junior co-captain Marie-Philip Poulin scored the Boston University women’s hockey team’s lone goal in its 7–1 loss to Boston College.

Coming into Wednesday night’s game against the No. 8 Boston College women’s hockey team, No. 3 BU women’s hockey coach Brian Durocher knew of at least one challenge that his team would absolutely face. This obstacle, however, was not a player or a facet of BC’s play.

Durocher knew that when playing in Walter Brown Arena, somehow the Eagles have a tendency to succeed.

“I know they’ll be ready to play,” Durocher said of the Eagles on Tuesday.

“For whatever reason, they’ve had luck over here and we’ve had luck over at their place. They’re coming to a building where they’ve had success, and we’re going to have to bring our A-game.”

As Durocher learned Wednesday night, however, the Eagles continued to bring their best effort to Walter Brown while the Terriers would falter in BU’s highest scoring loss of the season — a 7–1 route by BC. This loss followed a trend that the Terriers and Eagles have been in since the 2007–08 season.

“I told the two coaches, maybe we should change the names of the rinks based on the success,” Durocher said. “We’re winning games over there and they’re winning games here.”

Home ice, see page 7

Injuries to Madzongwe, Blugh hurt defense, men’s soccer fails to make playoffs

By Michael Bagarella Daily Free Press Staff

The Boston University men’s soccer team wrapped up its 2012 season Saturday with a difficult 1–0 loss in overtime to the University of New Hampshire.

“You know, it was a struggle from the very beginning,” said BU coach Neil Roberts. “Obviously I’m not happy with our record, but I am very happy with the way the kids competed and dealt with the adversity.”

Six of the Terriers’ first seven games were against ranked teams including then-No. 1 University of North Carolina and then-No. 3 University of Connecticut. In the difficult stretch, BU defeated rival then-No. 11 Boston College on Aug. 27 1–0 on a goal from junior midfielder Derek McCaffery.

Though they suffered four losses in the stretch, Roberts said he was happy with the Terriers’ determination.

“BC was the only team we had our whole team for and we showed we can compete with those teams,” Roberts said. “We can compete with Connecticut, we can compete with North Carolina, but then we just keep losing bodies and that makes it difficult. Any kid, any athlete with merit wants to compete against the best.”

The injuries were frequent and devastating for BU, especially on defense.

The first blow was a significant one as reigning America East Defender of the Year junior Kelvin Madzongwe went down early against Wake Forest University on Aug. 31.

Madzongwe was later diagnosed with a torn ACL and forced to sit for the remainder of the

season.

Freshman defender Jeroen Blugh, in his first home game as a collegiate athlete, went down with a torn ACL. Blugh’s lost the rest of his freshman campaign. Both defenseman underwent surgery during the season and will be ready for next year.

“It’s a very difficult rehab, but they are both mentally ready for it and they should be 100 percent in August,” Roberts said.

After struggling early in the year, the Terrier offense found a rhythm on Sept. 18 against The College of the Holy Cross. Against the Crusaders, BU put up four goals including two goals from redshirt freshman forward Mac McGuire and another for senior forward Michael Bustamante. The two goals were the first of McGuire’s collegiate career while Bustamante’s goal was his first in over a year as he sat out all of the 2011 season due to injury.

With the Terriers moving to the Patriot League next year, BU opened its final season of America East conference play on Sept. 29 at home against the University of Hartford.

Though the game ended in a 1–1 tie, BU outshot the Hawks 35–11. Bustamante netted the lone goal in the game while also recording a career-high 11 shots.

After taking care of Adelphi University, BU visited Stony Brook University for a difficult match against the defending America East Champions. Coming into the game, Stony Brook was the top team in America East and was playing strong soccer. BU was not intimidated. The Terriers defeated Stony Brook on an

Men’s soccer, see page 7

The Bottom Line

Thursday, Nov. 1

No Games Scheduled DeMar DeRozan signed a 4-year contract with the Raptors that guarantees him at least $38 million...

Friday, Nov. 2 M. Hockey @ North Dakota, 8:30 p.m.

W. Tennis @ Big Green Invitational, All Day

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The Boston University men’s soccer team suffered a huge blow when reigning America East defender of the Year Kelvin Madzongwe tore his ACL on Aug. 31.

Saturday, Nov. 3 Swimming @ Fordham, 1 p.m.

W. Hockey @ Boston College, 2 p.m.

M. Hockey @ North Dakota, 8 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 4 W. Tennis @ Big Green Invitational, All Day

Monday, Nov. 5 No Games Scheduled This makes him the highest-paid basketball player to ever want to play in Canada.