11-26-2012 by The Daily Free Press

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High customer turnout on Small Business Saturday Allston residents

support fines for noise violations

By Clinton Nguyen Daily Free Press Staff

Competing with hundreds of large corporate retailers throughout Boston, many of the city’s small businesses started the shopping season with incentives to garner support for the local stores that add character to the community. Small Business Saturday, established in 2010 by American Express, accelerated sales for brick-and-mortar shops in the Hub in 2012. Although wedged between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, two major shopping days for box retailers and e-commerce sites, small business owners still reported higher customer turnout for not only Saturday, but the weekend overall. Although there was a general uptick in revenues, some small businesses fared better than others during the weekend. Melanie Blood, an employee at the Jamaica Plain jewelry and crafts shop Fire Opal, said sales have been steady. Fire Opal caters to a niche community that supports handmade goods, Blood said. “The economy is a little rough,” she said. “People can certainly go to IKEA and buy something that’s cheaper and mass-produced. But we’ve built a good relationship with some of our customers, those who are willing to pay a little extra for something a little more special made by all-American artists.”

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Local shop owners, such as those of the Brookline Booksmith, used incentives to increase sales during the post-Thanksgiving shopping weekend.

Blood said demand has not shifted partly because of the shop’s prices. “We can’t promise sales the way big retailers can,” she said. “But we do our best to support our artists.” Other shops saw bigger turnouts throughout the weekend. “We had a great day yesterday, even during Black Friday,” said Chris Pond, manager

of Boomerangs, a nonprofit thrift store in Jamaica Plain. “Customers around the area definitely made more of a conscious effort to come by this weekend,” he said. Pond also said that during the shopping hustle, consumers were aware that they were contributing to a good cause. Purchas-

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Buildings in Innovation District hold promise for startups By Jasper Craven Daily Free Press Staff

More than two years after Boston Mayor Thomas Menino branded the Seaport neighborhood as the “Innovation District,” a real estate investment firm that specializes in housing technology startups purchased four buildings. DivCo West’s recent Boston purchase is one of many purchases throughout the nation for the company, which houses young technology companies. “They’ve [DivCo West) done it in Silicon Valley, they’ve done it in San Francisco, now they’ve done it in Boston,” said Tim Gallen, a spokesman for the DivCo West. “They see that there is a growing concentration of young, entrepreneurial technology companies moving into the Seaport area.” DivCo West has purchased four former

warehouse buildings, or 373,00 square feet of space, previously used by the Boston Wharf Company, according to a press release. The spaces lie on Sleeper and Congress Streets. “DivCo West has a specific reputation for buying properties that have technology clients or are in areas where there are a concentration of technology companies,” Gallen said. “They buy space that can be fixed up for the younger generation, for people that don’t necessarily want the same type of space that their predecessors did.” Gallen said DivCo West would renovate the properties, make them greener and then lease them out to various technology companies. “These are buildings with great bones in a dynamic submarket of Boston that is rapidly growing in its appeal for companies seeking creative workspace environ-

ments,” said DivCoWest CEO Stuart Shiff in the press release. Gallen would not comment on whether any companies had approached DivCo West to rent the spaces. In his state of the city address in January, Menino said that the Boston Innovation District was building jobs in Boston and would continue to do so. “We could have just thrown up some skyscrapers and high-end condos,” said Menino of the Seaport area. “Instead, we insisted on building connections in addition to new space. “So now, more than 100 new companies have brought 3,000 jobs to the waterfront — and more are on the way.” A number of technology startups have made this waterfront area their home, in-

Tech, see page 4

Allston-Brighton residents living in a student-dense area said they have faced excessive noise in their neighborhoods and welcome a new noise ordinance that could curb loud parties and gatherings with strict fines. The ordinance, proposed by Councilor Salvatore LaMattina, of East Boston, would institute fines ranging from $100 to $300 to tenants, partygoers and landlords found responsible for creating excessive and unruly noise that disturbs neighbors. Angela Tang, a resident of Brighton, said there are many college students living in her neighborhood who have parties often. “Usually, they have parties in the summer and fall,” Tang said. “But recently, my neighbor had a noisy party last month.” She said she asked them to be quiet, but they continued to have the party. “I had no choice but to call 911 and tell them about the loud party,” she said. Tang said that as a friendly neighbor, she went to the party first to ask them to be quiet, but they ignored her. “If they had respected the neighbors, they wouldn’t have the late night loud parties that we need to deal with all time,” she said. Tang said distributing fines is the best way to deal with the neighborhood problem, arguing for a first-time fine of $500 and second-time fine of $1,000. “The students are here to study and not to bother the neighbors,” Tang said. Valeriano Diviacchi, 54, of Allston, said her noise problem was her neighbor’s band practice and loud music. “I tried to talk to the tenants and absentee landlord,” she said. Diviacchi said that after no action was taken to solve the noise problem, she went through a series of legal ways to handle the issue. “In the end, the landlord finally paid some money and agreed to put restrictions in the lease barring band practice,” she said. “Limits were put on noise that can be heard outside of the residence.”

Noise, see page 2

AAU, APLU, Science Coalition stress need for federal research funding to universities By Margaret Waterman Daily Free Press Staff

Scheduled cuts to federal research university funding would be damaging to Boston University and might prevent students from job opportunities, students said. Elizabeth Aurand, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences sophomore, said cutting research funding would be detrimental to university students in such areas. “My brother was also a science major. He was very involved with student-based research, and this is really where ideas for things like new medication, new medical innovations, just new technology in general is coming from,” Aurand said. Research university organizations said sequestration, or the national cut in federal funding to research universities scheduled to take place Jan. 2, 2013, would have a devastating impact on American research, according to a BU press release Monday. “[Scientific research] pays a substantial

return on investment in the form of job creation, workforce development and economic growth,” the release stated. The Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities and The Science Coalition launched a website called Science Works for U.S. to provide data on funding cuts by state and the impact they will likely have. The cuts will reduce federal funding to academic research and development at certain Massachusetts universities by an estimated $122,181,000, according to the Science Works website. BU, Brandeis University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, UMass Boston and Worcester Polytechnic Institute will lose federal funding with sequestration. “Federal funding for research represents only 2 percent of the total federal budget, but

Funding, see page 2

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Compared to other New England colleges, Massachusetts colleges are projected to lose the most in federal funding for academic research. The funding cuts are estimated to affect eight universities, including Boston University and five other Boston-area colleges.

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RNA rep: Brighton residents complain about noise AMEX gives $25 rebate Noise: From Page 1

Residents and neighborhood associations expressed support over the new noise ordinance. Diane Kline, resident of Brighton and founding member of the Radnor Neighborhood Association, said that as a neighborhood group, they have dealt with many noise complaints. “We are disturbed by the loud parties in our neighborhoods and our association is in favor of the amendments to the ordinance,” Kline said. “Noisemakers and property owners should be held accountable.” Kline said the neighborhood group supports amendments to the ordinance and said noisemakers and property owners should be

held accountable. But despite support, Kline said the association would like to see more answers to how the new law will be enforced. “We want to see a little more clarification, though, on how people will pay for the fines,” she said. “How would students pay? What sort of system would be in place to enforce the ordinance?” At a public safety meeting on Nov. 1, LaMattina said the ordinance responded to complaints from his constituents in the North End. “There’s a new ordinance I filed in response to complaints here in the North End,” LaMattina said in a recording of the meeting. “Not just in the North End, but other neighborhoods throughout

the city of Boston.” LaMattina said this new ordinance would load some more responsibility on the backs of landlords, who should ensure their tenants are not annoying neighbors. “In writing this law, I was hoping to hold the landlords responsible,” LaMattina said. “This ordinance is not really to punish the landlord. It’s to get them to work with us.” Although there is already a noise ordinance in place, LaMattina said this new law will allow the police more enforcement. “It [the new ordinance] gives them [the police] an extra tool to enforce the noise ordinance that we have already,” he said.

ENG junior: Research funding cuts might decrease students’ chances of finding jobs after they graduate Funding: From Page 1

it pays enormous dividends,” said Philip DiStefano, Chancellor of the University of Colorado Boulder, in the release. “The numbers might not look huge, but the potential negative impact of reduced research on the economy would have long-lasting effects.” Aurand said these funding cuts might impact students who are looking to go to medical school and graduate school. “More and more things like being involved in research is vastly important to your résumé, and it’s going to really hurt kids in the fu-

ture,” she said. Troy Wilson, a College of Engineering junior, said research is fundamental to learning, which is the main reason students come to college. “As you get more funding for research, you learn more,” Wilson said. “That’s the point of coming to college.” Wilson said research funding cuts would affect students looking for jobs after graduation. “Other than internships … doing research is a big thing that companies look for, for experience,” he said. Catherine Cattley, a SAR sopho-

more, said cutting research funding should not affect students’ job search because there is private funding available for research. “I know that there are federal research grants for underprivileged and disadvantaged kids,” she said. Cattley said the government should spend as little money as possible on funding university research. “Research is important for schools, but I think that it’s not really any of the government’s business to be putting their money into that,” she said. “I’m totally for privately funded research, hence why I go here and why I’m going to be a researcher.”

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to shoppers partaking in Small Business Saturday Business: From Page 1

es at Boomerangs locations go toward helping HIV/AIDS victims in Massachusetts. He said finding patrons is not difficult to do in Jamaica Plain, but other locations, such as West Roxbury, were more difficult to please, especially with large retailers closer by. American Express offered a $25 rebate to cardholders who registered online for Small Business Saturday to spend at participating businesses. Matheus DePaula-Santos, a manager at Eureka!, a puzzle and board game shop in Coolidge Corner, praised American Express for putting forth such incentives. “It [the campaign] didn’t really put any money out of our pockets, and it gives consumers the liberty and the means to buy,” DePaulaSantos said. “I’d say that’s a winwin, especially on a weekend when

they’re in the mood to shop.” Peter Win, an assistant manager for Brookline Booksmith, said that although American Express provides great incentives for reluctant local shoppers to purchase items, other factors affect business as well. “We have a great history, a great location and we hire people who have worked here for a long time and know how to keep the business going,” he said. Turnout for the Booksmith was high that weekend, and many customers toting American Express cards were fully aware of the Saturday campaign, he said. Win also said he expects a steady increase in customers as the holidays near. “There’s been an increase in awareness of small businesses and what they can give to the community,” Win said, “but this is just the start of the holiday season.”

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Stress solutions

College seems to be filled with never-ending moments of stress. It’s a universal sentiment, I’m sure. But that word is an accurate, encompassing, completely perfect summation of my life. I stress about every little detail about every little thing. My semi-perfectionist mindset takes hold of the reins of multiple aspects of my world. Things have to be orderly or I go mental. So far in my college career, I have found the concept of “relaxation” to be a far-off ideal. No matter what I seem to do here in KRISSEN Boston, my mind is always KAWACHI filled with worries. I can’t seem to find anything to do to really relax me. No amount of music or movies can put my mind at ease. And when I decide to just lie down for a bit, I end up taking an unexpectedly long and slightly unnecessary nap. My roommate’s method to clearing her head is doing yoga at random times in the room. It’s usually always around midnight or later. There I am at my desk, hunched over books and papers, and out of the corner of my eyes I notice her moving about into various poses, and I can’t help but laugh every single time. But at least she has some direction to divert her stress toward. Last year, I started taking ballroom dancing classes at FitRec. I was determined to find a new hobby and stress reliever. It was only a few days a week, but it was enjoyable and something new. This year, I decided to take my love of ballroom to another level. I joined the Ballroom Dance Team. In addition to the classes I take at FitRec, I now spend time on Tuesday and Thursday nights with ballroom lessons for the team. And I also made the decision to compete. So what was once an activity of mere fun has now turned into a commitment. There are multiple aspects of dancing that you must constantly have in mind. There are so many steps to remember and techniques to follow. And you have to always be in connection with your partner, or you’re stumbling over each others feet. Believe me, heels can do a lot of damage. Essentially, all of the joy has been replaced with stress. So I’m back to square one — without an activity to channel my stress. And the most horrible thing about stress? It never rests. Even when you want to sleep and push all thoughts away, it clings to your mind like a pest. Lately, I’ve been having trouble sleeping because of this very reason. I’ve taken to obsessing over a website that plays a constant track of the sound of rain. I even downloaded the app for my phone. So when I’m in my most stressed states, I crank up the volume and engulf myself in the soothing sounds of thunder and falling rain. It’s a small comfort. It doesn’t wash away any of the stress, but it seems to keep it manageable and under control. So, I guess, while I can’t defeat the stress that often consumes me, I can aid my sanity in getting through it. Until I finally find a relieving outlet. Krissen Kawachi is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences and a weekly columnist at The Daily Free Press. She can be reached at kkawachi@bu.edu.

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Int’l students enjoy food, family if not traditional Thanksgiving By Nora Philbin & Brian Latimer Daily Free Press Staff

While many Boston University students returned to their homes for the Thanksgiving holiday, a number of international students remained in Boston or explored the U.S. during the break. Fuxin Zhang, a College of Communication sophomore from Linyi, China, said she does not mind having to leave the city. “Normally we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in China, so we just go to school during this time,” Zhang said. “I love this break. It’s so relaxing. I think it’s a great time to get away from school.” Zhang said the holiday break allowed her to see more of the U.S. “I went to New Jersey with Jeff, a friend, and had Thanksgiving dinner with his family,” she said. “Before going back home with him, I went to a concert in Atlantic City.” BU had the 13th highest population of international students among U.S. colleges in the 2011– 12 academic year, according to a Nov. 12 Institute of International Education press release. Some student groups on campus held Thanksgiving activities to introduce international students to the traditionally Ameri-

can holiday. Cru at BU, a Christian group, hosted “A Taste of Thanksgiving,” a dinner for international students comprised of traditional Thanksgiving dishes. Danielle Pelletier, a College of General Studies sophomore and member of Cru, said the dinner was meant to be an introduction to Thanksgiving. “We just wanted to do something nice for the international students and to show them a little bit about our culture, I guess to welcome them into any kind of community if they wanted to join us,” she said. Shann Chan, an SMG sophomore from Singapore, said she stayed in Massachusetts with other international students for the holiday break. “As far as international students go, we get to get together with our friends,” Chan said. “It was a fun, good bonding experience with everyone.” Chan said while she enjoyed the holiday with her friends, she missed spending time with her family. “It makes me think of family and how much I want to be with them too,” Shann said. “It makes

Int’l, see page 4

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While many Americans follow the tradition of gathering with family for Thanksgiving dinner, international students at Boston University spend the break away from home.

State officials call for more severe Students lack interest, info about corporate manslaughter penalties SG’s presence, policies on campus By Zoe Roos Daily Free Press Staff

Following an outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to a Massachusetts pharmacy, many state officials are calling for stricter penalties for corporations found guilty of manslaughter. The meningitis outbreak, which is connected to steroid injections distributed by the New England Compounding Center of Framingham, began in September. As of Nov. 19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had reported 478 cases of fungal meningitis across 19 states, accounting for 34 deaths — an increase of more than 10 fatalities in one month. Following several reported outbreaks, on Oct. 6 the NECC issued a voluntary recall of all of its products, according to a state-

ment released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “This action is being taken out of an abundance of caution due to the potential risk of contamination, and in cooperation with an investigation being conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Pharmacy,” the statement read. Shortly after the recall, Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick spoke at a press conference on Oct. 23 regarding the pharmacy currently under investigation for the meningitis outbreak and the death of hundreds. “Those whose laboratory practices caused this outbreak should never practice pharmacy or manufacture in Massachusetts

Meningitis, see page 4

BUSM prof. researches, promotes drug to prevent opioid overdose By Amy Gorel Daily Free Press Staff

Medical clinicians and researchers are promoting new techniques, especially the lifesaving drug naloxene to fight drug overdoses, according to a Boston University School of Medicine press release published Tuesday. Naloxone is a medication that reverses the effects of opioid overdose, according to the article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Opioid overdoses kill about 16,000 Americans each year and affects all sectors of society, according to the release. In an effort to reduce these numbers, researchers called for

increased availability of the drug naloxone and improved cooperation of federal, state and local authorities to improve awareness about drug overdose. “Community-based overdose prevention programs that include overdose education and naloxene access could help avert unnecessary, preventable death,” said Alexander Walley, a BUSM assistant professor and physician at Boston Medical Center who coauthored the study, in the release. Walley works as the medical director at the Opioid Overdose Prevention Program in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, as well as the medical director of the Narcotic Addic-

Drug, see page 4

By Margaret Waterman Daily Free Press Staff

While student officials attribute the low voter turnout in the Student Government e-board election in part to recent timeline change, Boston University students said they were not motivated to vote because of a general lack of awareness. Cherice Hunt, SG director of communications, said the sudden change in election cycle may have decreased student interest, but the general disinterest of the student body is disheartening. “I think its sad that students feel like … there is a detachment between the student body and the government and the … senate as well as the executive board who are representing their [interests],” she said. About 7 percent of the undergraduate population at BU voted during the most recent SG election

ending Nov. 19, with the winning slate garnering only 1,300 votes. Less than 10 percent of the undergraduate population voted in the spring 2012 semester’s election, which was also unopposed. Students who did not vote in the recent election said the organization does not have a major presence on campus. “They could be [the voice of students on campus], but I’m not sure if they are right now because I don’t really know much about them,” said Miles Avila, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore. Avila said he knew about the elections, but did not vote. “I think I saw it on the Student Link, told myself I was going to get back to it and then never did,” he said. He said he would like to learn more about what goes on at SG

Ballot, see page 4

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Residents of Myles Standish Hall decorate their door in anticipation of the holidays.

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Several international students Coakley calls for corporations tied to spend first Thanksgivings with outbreak to pay up to $250K in fines extended family, college friends Meningitis: From Page 3

Int’l: From Page 3

me feel more at home to be with people who are also in the same situation and know that I am not alone.” Many BU dormitories were closed during Thanksgiving break and students were required to leave or stay at the Hotel Commonwealth in Kenmore Square. BU offered rooms at the hotel at a discounted rate of $40 a night, according to the BU Housing website. Samarth Virk, an SMG sophomore from Gurgaon, India, said he celebrated Thanksgiving for the first time in 2011. He spent Thanksgiving with his extended family in Virginia. Virk said the holiday places an

emphasis on food and time with family. “From my first experience with Thanksgiving and judging by everyone I have been talking to back at school, everybody was talking about how excited they were about the turkey and just eating and eating,” Virk said. “I don’t know if we followed any tradition, but my family and I chilled and made turkey together.” Virk said he was excited to spend time with his family, as he does not get to see them often. “Everyone comes together and all that is very family-oriented,” Virk said. “You don’t get exposed to your family as much while at school so it’s nice to see them.”

CGS sophomore did not vote in SG election due to time shortage SG: From Page 3

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been amended since the original signing, according to Coakley’s statement. “We understand that there is no amount of money that can compensate for the loss of an individual’s life,” Coakley wrote. “However, $1,000 is a woefully inadequate penalty and not a meaningful deterrent.” The House is currently going through its third reading of the possible law and will continue to deliberate. Much of the decision falls to committee chairs Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez, of Jamaica Plain, and Sen. Susan Fargo, of Lincoln.

Physicians reluctant to dispense drug naxolene to patients due to potential side effects, report states Drugs: From Page 3

tion Clinic at the Boston Public Health Commission, according to the BUSM website. Walley authored the study with lead author Leo Beletsky, an assistant professor at Northeastern University School of Law and Bouve College of Health Sciences, and Josiah Rich, a professor at Brown University Medical School. The authors of the article focused on the national problem created by fatal overdoses from opioid drugs. Opioid drugs include heroin and prescription drugs such as oxycodone, according to the release.

Although this drug has the potential to reduce the number of deaths because of opioid overdose, there are many barriers to its use. There is a critical supply shortage of the generic drug naloxone, which causes the price to increase, according to the release. Doctors are also hesitant to prescribe naloxene because they fear they might be held liable for facilitating dangerous behavior, according to the release. However, the authors of the article said that increased cooperation and improved awareness of the issues and potential solutions could improve the situation. The

federal government could take a role in increasing the supply of the life-saving drug. Since the drug is being administered by needle, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could also work toward easier delivery of the drug through nasal spray or an auto-injector such as the EpiPen. In addition, the authors of the study said clinicians need to be more educated about the potential benefits that the drug could have for their patients. State and local authorities can increase awareness and education of the problem of drug overdose and the potential naloxene has in critical circumstances.

Local biotech company moves headquarters out of Cambridge to Boston waterfront area Tech: From Page 1

cluding Skyhook, a startup focused on location-based services. Vertex, a global biotechnology company that develops medicine, is moving its headquarters from Cambridge to the waterfront. Brightcove, a provider of cloud content services, is also based on Congress Street in the district. As another sign of vibrancy for this developing neighborhood, the Boston Redevelopment Authority

held a groundbreaking ceremony on Nov. 16 during which it announced the building of 100 Pier 4, a $195-million project that will bring an additional 369 residential units in the Innovation District. Current housing developments in the Innovation District total about half a billion dollars, according to a press release from the BRA. “100 Pier 4 is another exciting project breaking ground on our

bustling waterfront,” Menino said in the press release. “We have four major housing developments under construction, the future headquarters of Vertex Pharmaceuticals well underway, and the nation’s first public innovation center scheduled to open this spring. The South Boston Waterfront is quickly emerging as an innovative and exciting day-tonight neighborhood.”

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and what their impact is on campus. “We do vote for them [the executive board of SG],” Avila said. “I would like to know what they do and what is going on.” Avila said that he does not get the SG newsletters and does not know much about what they do. Andrew Tarrh, a CAS sophomore, said he does not know how SG would implement change on campus. “I don’t know what they would do,” Tarrh said. “I’m really out of touch with student government.” Tarrh said he gets the SG newsletters in his email inbox but does not read them. “I send them right to the trash,” he said. “I don’t care enough to take the time to read them. First of all, I don’t know what they do, which is a pretty good indicator that I don’t know how they could or could not help me.” A number of students said SG could do more to publicize what they are doing on campus to improve student involvement and interest. Kabowd Mensah, a College of General Studies sophomore, also said she saw the student election notification on the Student Link but did not vote in the most recent election. “I didn’t have the time, I guess,” she said. “I was trying to get out for break.” Mensah said she sometimes

sees SG activities going on at the George Sherman Union and knew SG was involved with the School of Management Casino Night during the 2011–12 academic year. Mensah said SG could work harder to get the word out about their activities and what they do around campus. “Maybe more advertising, because I really have no idea what goes on,” she said. “Maybe through email. That would grab people’s attention because you check it every day.” She said she might consider getting involved with SG if it were easier. “I have no idea how to go about that right now,” she said. Jake O’Connor, a SMG freshman, said he does not know much about the structure or job of SG. “If there was something that was going on [at BU] that I really wanted to change or be a part of I might start doing it,” O’Connor said. O’Connor said what BetterBU, the winning slate, stands for is important and if the election was publicized more that he would have been more motivated to vote. He said tuition stability, one of BetterBU’s platforms, was very important to him as a student with financial aid. “It’s our responsibility to make sure that students have a place to speak up about what they like or dislike [on campus] … about the BU experience,” Hunt said.

again,” Patrick said. While federal investigations are still ongoing, Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley has chosen to focus on increasing the penalty imposed on corporations that are convicted of manslaughter. Coakley and a number of state officials have filed a bill calling for the increase in maximum compensation from such corporations convicted from $1,000 to $250,000. In a Nov. 14 letter addressed to the Committee on Public Health,

Coakley argued for the increase in monetary penalty, claiming that the current outbreak raises many questions about accountability. “Currently, although individuals convicted of manslaughter may be imprisoned for up to 20 years, corporations convicted of manslaughter cannot be subject to imprisonment,” she wrote. “Therefore, the only penalty faced by corporations is a monetary fine.” The existing law that established the $1,000 compensation cap is about 200 years old. Enacted in 1819, the law it has not

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Boston Ballet revamps The Nutcracker Gina Curreri

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oston Ballet’s holiday classic, The Nutcracker, a 42-year holiday tradition, received its first makeover in 17 years. Artistic director Mikko Nissinen called in designer Robert Perdziola to create entirely new sets and costumes — almost 350 — for the production. And although those are the most sweeping changes, the ballet, which premiered Friday at the Boston Opera House, also has revamped choreography and a few new characters. The production’s overhaul seems fit. Boston Ballet’s Fall Program brought with it a revival of ballet, fewer frills and all. The Rolling Stones blared through the speakers during Christopher Bruce’s Rooster, and choreography melded jazz, popular dance, ballet and more than a little thrusting. Although this year’s The Nutcracker remains a traditional ballet, its revamped costumes and set designs give it a more grown-up, mature feel. Set 20 years in the past from the previous production, set in 1835, the costumes are simpler and more elegant. Subtle colors used throughout the sets and costumes, especially in the opening party scene, allow for a more viewable and unmasked performance. The dancers say goodbye to hooped skirts and slip into more streamlined costumes more fit for a Wang Center stage than the smaller Boston Opera House. It’s a make-under done correctly, all while still being set to Tchaikovsky’s glorious score. But the once main character, Clara, is jolted into dreamland for the second half, the show’s tra-

ditional vibrancy returns. “This reinvented production will remain the holiday classic that audiences know and love, but the experience will be enhanced exponentially,” Nissinen said in a Nov. 16 Boston Ballet press release. Though the opening street scene feels dreary and hardly like Christmas, young Clara, as always, celebrates Christmas Eve with her family at a party and receives a nutcracker doll. She falls asleep and finds herself surrounded by mice — most notably, the Mouse King, in a beautifully constructed costume that looked like it might have weighed 100 pounds, yet allowed dancer Artjom Maksakov to move freely and weightlessly during Saturday’s matinee performance. With Drosselmeyer by her side, Clara sets out on a night of adventure with the Nutcracker Prince, meeting first with the Sugar Plum Fairy and later with the cultural dancing pairs, trios and quartets. But even with the seemingly toned-down sets and costumes, Boston Ballet’s The Nutcracker is as glamorous and magical as ever. The Snow Queen’s costume, full of crystals, glistened throughout the entire theater. At a closer glance, the backdrops are intricate and beyond well-made. There’s even a new character, the Bunny, who’s sure to provoke laughs for the years these sets and costumes have ahead of them. Mikko Nissinen’s The Nutcracker runs at the Boston Opera House through Sunday, Dec. 30.

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Dancers perform at Boston Ballet’s Fall Program. The Boston Ballet is now presenting the holiday classic the Nutcracker until Dec. 30.

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acha Gervasi’s film, Hitchcock, released Friday, ingeniously explores the mind behind cinematic masterpieces such as Psycho, Rear Window and Vertigo. The film delves into the complicated relationship between Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville (Helen Mirren), who was an integral partner in his work. Anthony Hopkins plays Hitchcock, and there really couldn’t have been a better choice. He’s got the fluttering, exaggerated frown down so well, it’s as if Hopkins had been planning for this role all his life. The movie isn’t a masterpiece by any means, but it does a good job of creating a tone with ironic edges and humorous wit that feels authentic in its attempt to mirror Hitchcock’s perspective and artistic process. The film focuses specifically on the making of Psycho (1960). Arguably the finest horror film ever made, Psycho ushered in a huge shift in American cinema, with it’s daring plot choices and sympathy for the criminal mind. No one in Hollywood is on board for the idea — when Hitchcock proposes the film based off of Robert Bloch’s book everyone shuts him down. It’s controversial, vulgar and horrific. And God forbid if any nudity or toilets are shown. Paramount refuses to finance him, but he is determined to redeem himself after

making the lesser North By Northwest and must prove to everyone that he’s not an old geezer and is still capable of producing original, experimental cinema. He and a reluctant Reville even mortgage their house to finance it. The film takes a much needed jab at Hollywood, which Hitchcock argues wants to make the same film over and over again. But by no means is Gervasi’s Hitchcock a perfected God. He’s got obesity issues, psychological parasites, alcohol problems, obsessions with his leading ladies and an oedipal complex of his own. His relationship with his wife is most important to him, and the making of Psycho puts a heavy strain on their marriage. Alma feels her efforts have gone under appreciated and wants to undertake some work of her own helping her friend Whitfield Cook, played by Danny Huston, revise his novel. Hitchcock smells adultery. All these plot lines weave together to create one hell of an interesting film, and it’s funny to boot. If anything, the film is an excellent tribute to Psycho and gives due respect to Reville for her unwavering and characteristically under-appreciated support. Scarlet Johansson is captivating as Janet Leigh, and Toni Collette, as Hitch’s assistant Peggy, expresses paragraphs with a smirk. Accurate or not, Hitchcock would like this film. Or at least find it amusing. I really bet he would.

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November 26, 2012

Opinion

On Autocorrection Woes

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Cellphone privacy

The issue of whether and when authorities can search suspects’ cellphones will receive attention from the U.S. Senate on Thursday, according to an article in The New York Times Sunday. A Senate committee will consider changes to the Electronic Communication Privacy Act, a law that regulates government’s surveillance of digital communications. In the past, courts have used the law to survey cellphone data without warrants, according to the Times. Courts have long been divided on the issue of cellphone privacy. A court in Washington said that text messages should be treated like voice messages, “something that can be overheard by anyone in a room and are therefore not protected by state privacy laws,” according to the Times. However, in September a Rhode Island judge threw out cellphone evidence in a murder case because it was obtained without a search warrant. As personal devices, cellphones should require search warrants. They contain massive amounts of data, from one’s location to text messages to Facebook posts and tweets. It seems unreasonable that the police are able to search a device that holds so much information without a warrant. Just as the police would not tap someone’s phone without a warrant, they should not able

to review someone’s cellphone messages without one. The right to privacy, as implied by the Fifth Amendment and other clauses within the Bill of Rights, should extend to the technology we use to store information today. However, certain situations make the cellphone privacy issue less clear. For instance, if someone is driving recklessly and is pulled over, should the police able to search the driver’s phone then and there to determine whether or not he or she was texting and driving? Reckless driving and other offenses give the police probable cause to pull the driver over. In this case, it seems reasonable that the police then be able to search the driver’s phone. Then again, what if that cellphone were contained in the driver’s pocket? Searching a cellphone that the driver had in his or her pocket seems more intrusive than searching a phone that was displayed on the dashboard. If the phone is not clearly displayed, a search without a warrant becomes unreasonable. It will be interesting to see how the Senate addresses the cellphone privacy issue. Requiring a warrant for cellphone surveillance upholds the right to privacy in the 21st century. Despite the nuances that come with different situations, the proposed changes should recognize a cellphone as a personal device that deserves legal protection.

To the Editor: On Israel and Zionism The denigration of a single nation will not lead to peace as long as it involves neglecting facts and blindsiding the truth. This partial and vicious defamation of Israel has led to widespread misconceptions of the Middle East conflict. This letter aims to clarify misconceptions about Zionism, Israel and the conflict between Israel and the ruling Islamist party of the Gaza Strip, Hamas. Zionism was the ideal that founded the State of Israel. Zionism is about the Jewish people being active decision makers in a state of their own, in control of their own destiny. Before there was a Jewish state, the Jewish people were scattered throughout the nations of the world with no national identity. One popular misconception about Zionism is that it involves Jews’ stealing of land from Arabs and ethnic cleansing. On the contrary, from the beginning of World War I, much of the land was owned by absentee landlords. Approximately 80 percent of the Palestinians were debt-ridden peasants and semi-nomads. In forming their initial agriculture living communities, or kibbutzim, Jews bought uncultivated land, paying high fees for small tracts of arid land. Israel is a parliamentary democracy. It institutionalizes constitutional law through the Basic Laws of Israel. These laws give each citizen, whether Jewish (75 percent), Arab (21 percent) or other (4 percent), protection of life, the right to vote, freedom of religion and expression, freedom of occupation and the right to privacy. There are high-level Arab members in the Knesset, Supreme Court, Foreign Service, Israel Defense Forces, Israeli Police and Jewish National Fund.

The Israeli government has always supported a two-state solution in which there is a Palestinian state and Israeli state. Israel faces daily threats to its survival by hostile nations and armed terrorist groups that aim for its destruction. This constant need to go to war to ensure survival has been the common denominator for each war and the center of the Middle East conflict. Until Israel receives the peaceful partners it yearns for, Israel’s enemies will live on the Middle East conflict. In 2006, Hamas was elected in Gaza. Hamas supports the destruction of Israel. It exercises this goal by launching rockets daily on Israeli civilians. Over the past 12 years, 12,000 rockets have been fired at civilians from Gaza. After the killing of Hamas Operative Ahmed Jabari, Hamas accelerated its rocket launching over the past few weeks and put over 1 million Israelis in bomb shelters. In response, Israel began Operation Pillar of Defense, targeting 1,500 Hamas terror sites, which are embedded in the civilian population in Gaza in order to prevent Israel from defending itself without impacts on civilians and infrastructure. The accomplishments of the operation have come at many costs to Gaza at the fault of Hamas’s tactics and goals. But there is no nation that would tolerate missiles falling on its citizens without defending itself. Likewise, there is no nation that has gone to the length Israel has in efforts at minimizing civilian deaths. Holly Bicerano CAS 2015 hollyjb@bu.edu

ANNE WHITING

hate text-message abbreviations. I’ll use them to be facetious or post-modern or if I’m seriously determined to not waste 0.004 seconds of my overcommitted life on a few superfluous members of the alphabet. But when my love interest Facebook messages me, “How r u?” I cringe, and want to answer, “Ask me again with real words, or we’re through.” (I’m half-kidding.) Maybe it’s an English major pet peeve. Maybe I should limit my social circle to fellow followers of HighSnobiety. com. But bros and sistas of the most intelligent species on the planet: you have keyboards. Use them. Abbrevs are so T9. Some months ago, I got an iPhone — mostly for the maps function, quick Wikipedia access and Instagram action. You’ve all been enjoying these perks for a long time, which means you know about the perk that is autocorrect and about how generally great it is. Generally great. Most of the time it’s only half-helpful, and I find I’m always correcting my autocorrect. Recent examples include “Lol” always turning into “Lok” and “Yayyy” turning into “tatty” and, for some reason, my phone deciding that tonight is spelled “tonifht.” Also, always, always, whenever I try to say “haha” it turns into “HAHAHAHAHAHAHA” and I’m like, “Yo wtf phone, my friend’s comment wasn’t that funny. You’re making me look ridiculous.” These are bad examples (sorry, I don’t have time to scroll through my hundreds of cyber conversations — woe is me), but since you’re all more tech-savvy than I, you know what I mean. There are websites devoted to autocorrect tribulations. True, the function can at least predict spelling. Which I appreciate, even though it’s relitavley wlel kwnon taht splelnig dosen’t matetr, that as long as the beginning and the last letter of a word are placed correctly, you can just shove the rest of the letters in between and your message will be legible. The same probably goes for sentences. And thank goodness, too, or I’d never have been comprehensible to the natives when I was living in France. But the mistakes that arise from a robot thinking it’s smarter than you give new meaning to the language of texting. A. because you have no excuse for using “u” and “r” and B. because correct spelling is expected and C. because an autocorrect can be pretty awful, so you sometimes have to be smarter than a robot (e.g. despite the millennial language crisis, our brains have use, and we have not yet lost the importance of human touch). My sister is a mechanical engineering student at Johns Hopkins University. Math classes for me, meanwhile, should get me foreign language credit. I visited her recently and sat in on her thermodynamics class, in which I tried with no avail whatsoever to follow a genius foreign

professor dance across four different chalkboards in equation heaven. I took a picture. “Are you seriously Instagramming that?” asked my sister. (Instagram is a verb, you know.) She rolled her eyes and went back to her notes. The topic of the day was a concept called entropy. Deciding I would otherwise learn nothing from the constant slew of unfamiliar symbols and numbers ahead of me, I punched the word in my Dictionary.com app so I could follow, in the remotest of remote ways, what was going on. Didn’t get it. I had to Wiki it (also a verb). I think (and I’ve spoken to no quantum mechanic for verification, mind you) that the basic definition boils down to this: entropy is “a logarithmic measure of the rate of transfer of information in a particular message or language.” It measures unpredictability — or, more specifically, measures the loss of information in a transmitted message. Or something. Anyway, it got me thinking about the unpredictability of communication, about the idea that how you are perceived in conversation is as much up to the person you’re speaking with as it is to you. What people hear is dangerously subjective. So when you throw out a remark, you can hardly calculate lost information and resulting responses. This is why Thanksgiving dinners make for a lot of apprehension, because you never know just how much a comment from your Democrat uncle will upset your Republican Grandfather, etc. But can we reduce the nuances of human communication to an equation? To ponder that would go over my word limit. What I can ponder is how this unpredictability increases when you limit communication to text messages, autocorrected or otherwise. It’s hard enough to understand each other in person, what with how you say things being as important as what you say. My sister can’t speak sarcasm or hyperbole in real life, let alone in text form. That’s why when texting, you need to use an exorbitant amount of winks or exclamation points to transmit your enthusiasm through a million invisible airwaves all the way to your friend’s inbox. And even then, you’ll never quite know what the other person will read. It’s a huge convenience, but a terrible loss. I’m preaching basic truths, thermodynamical or otherwise, that you all already know. I’m a columnist, not a conversational or linguistic genius. Kk, thx, ttyl. Anne Whiting is a 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.

Decriminalizing medical marijuana A new law legalizing the sale of medical marijuana in Massachusetts will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2013. The law will allow 35 marijuana dispensaries to be opened in the state. Some communities are expressing concern over where these dispensaries will be located, according to a Boston Globe article Saturday. Many members of multiple communities said they do not want to see the centers established anywhere near their schools or churches. While placing dispensaries near schools could create a legitimate concern, a policy that forbids distribution centers from being placed near churches or other areas where children might be seems unnecessary. Simply opposing the drug does not seem like a strong enough reason to prohibit a center from locating near you. Now that medical marijuana has been legalized, communities should weigh the impact its presence could have on children. Ward 5 Councilor David Gamache told the Globe he would address dispensaries the same way his district has addressed adult entertainment,

limiting it to areas where there are no children, churches or schools and away from downtown and the Northshore Mall. Despite the stigma attached to marijuana, applying adult zoning laws to medical marijuana and equating it to strip clubs and other adult entertainment venues is not the answer. The substance, if used for medical purposes, can have a positive impact. It can relieve pain and reduce muscle stiffness in people who suffer from severe, chronic illnesses. Treating medical marijuana like adult entertainment might cast medical marijuana in a negative light, which curbs the progress supporters were aiming for in the first place. Integrating dispensaries into communities might help remove some of that stigma. Residents will have more of an opportunity to see who uses those centers and how the centers are regulated. Exposing more people to these centers could push forward the idea that marijuana is not all bad, that it’s something people with chronic illnesses use.

Monday, November 26, 2012

Kurker, Rosen score in BU win over Saints BU wins despite going Depth: From Page 8

their efforts to the defensive end of the ice. Rosen and freshman forward Sam Kurker each added an insurance goal for the Terriers. Kurker’s goal, which was the first of his collegiate career, came at the end of the second period to widen the Terriers’ lead to 2–0. Junior forward Sahir Gill, who had a slow start to the season on the top-two lines, made an end-toend rush before sliding the puck to Kurker, who shot it through goaltender Matt Weninger’s fivehole. “It was great. The whole bench erupted when he scored,” Rosen said. “Even Sahir Gill, when he was coming down, he could have had the shot, but he picked his head up and saw that Sam was there and would have had a wide

open shot and he kind of knew in the back of his head it would have been his first.” Parker attributed Kurker’s performance — his best in a BU uniform — to his increased confidence. “He was a nervous wreck his first couple games,” Parker said. “He was trying to figure out what he wants, where the coaches want [him] to go, what [he is] supposed to do. Now he’s more comfortable with his assignments, and there’s not that much for him to worry about now. He can go be Sam Kurker.” It was a key goal for the Terriers, who only put the puck past Weninger twice in 39 shots through two periods. The tally gave BU momentum going into the third period and kept the Saints at a two-goal deficit. Later in the third, it was Rosen

who put the game away with his second goal of the season. Senior assistant captain Ryan Ruikka took a slap shot from the slot that deflected off of Weninger’s shoulder and fell into the crease. Before Weninger could find the puck, Rosen poked out his stick and pushed the puck into the back of the net. Rosen’s goal came while the fourth line was playing against the Saints’ top line, which is a testament to the depth of the Terriers. However, Rosen made sure to poke fun at the top-line forwards before he left the arena Saturday night. “Obviously, if we are getting a goal against their first line then I don’t know what our first line is doing,” Rosen said with a grin. “They should be getting more goals.”

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0-for-6 on power play Men’s hockey: From Page 8

rence’s Greg Carvel. “I thought finally for about a five-minute stretch we started to create some offense ... Every goal at the end of a period always takes a little wind out of your sails, and it took away a little bit of momentum that we thought we had going.” Rosen added an insurance tally at 13:05 in the third. Sophomore defenseman Alexx Privitera’s slap shot from the blue line bounced off Weninger’s chest, allowing Rosen to skate in and poke the rebound by the netminder to finish the job. Junior forward Matt Nieto took a pass at center ice from classmate Garrett Noonan and carried it up the left wing at 19:21.1 in the third. He beat Weninger to account for the 4–0 final. “I have been working hard, so hopefully that goal tonight strings a streak together and I can get going,” Nieto said. Freshman goaltender Sean Maguire — making his first start at Agganis — made 21 saves to post the shutout, the first BU has gotten all season. Parker said freshman Matt O’Connor would get at least one start in net during a home-andhome with No. 1 Boston College

next weekend, but added he would not be surprised if the goalies played a game apiece. “Sean played extremely well tonight,” Parker said. “We know we have two solid goaltenders … Matt set the bar pretty high and now Sean’s caught up to the bar.” Despite the scoreboard, it wasn’t all pretty for the Terriers. They went 0–6 on the power play, running their streak of failed power-play chances to 17. The streak dates back to the second period of the Nov. 16 game against the University of Vermont. Parker said he was not worried about the team’s man-advantage — the chances BU got Saturday even represented an improvement — but Megan noted the need for improvement. “It hasn’t come along for us, and it is a bit frustrating at times, but we have got the skill on this team that that is something that is going to work itself out,” Megan said. “We try not to get too hung up on it because eventually it is going to come together,” Megan continued. “It is going to start clicking for us, and when it does we are going to be that much more dangerous. So we are going to wait for that.”

BU to take on Russian National Team Men’s basketball falls in fifth Women’s hockey: From Page 8

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Senior forward Jenelle Kohanchuk.

“We may put a couple of new faces in just to get them in a game here or there, but whoever’s in there I hope that tomorrow’s a game where pretty much all four lines play … I’ll let the kids sort of decide who’s going to step up and who’s going to play well.” “We’ll play them all equal amounts tomorrow, and get a chance to look at everybody for 60 minutes.” Durocher said that he feels his team has a chance to match up well against the Russian team. “If we play our game, we’ll be a tough opponent to deal with,” he said. Durocher emphasized the significance of the game on a broader scale. “We’re still continuing to try to grow this game, and we in North America have done everything we can to go offer opportunities to international countries, the European countries, and hope that there’s more opportunities for the females there, but at this point it’s been a

little slow in evolving … we’re always trying to push the envelope by inviting them over here.” Durocher said the team’s main focus headed into the game is to continue improving in the areas in which they have been struggling. “Our focus is … to continue to get a little bit better on our special teams,” he said. “Our penalty kill has gotten a little bit better in the last couple of games. Our power play still has some work to be done.” Durocher said he has confidence in his team’s ability to continue to improve. “There’s no shortness of talent out there,” Durocher said. “We have to stop thinking about it, and go out there and react and get pucks to the net, get bodies to the net and be hard to play against on that power play situation.” “You’re not always going to score if you’re moving it around those three or four extra passes, you’ve got to get it to the net,” he said. “You’ve got to get the brummy goals as well as the fancy ones.”

straight contest to start season Men’s basketball: From Page 8

free throw after the Robinson foul to give the Patriots the 48–45 win. It was BU’s third loss of the season on the last possession. “It’s come down to three possessions and we would be 3–2 if we were able to execute,” Jones said. “In three games — the Rutgers game, the Northeastern game and this game — if we could’ve executed, those are three tremendous wins.” Watson and junior guard DJ Irving, who have controlled the BU offense for most of the season, disappeared against the Patriots. Watson struggled, shooting only 1–7 from the field and turning the ball over three times, the most critical of which came on the last possession. Irving went 1–12 from the field with only five points in 33 minutes. However, the guards understood it was a poor shooting performance for them, so they distributed the ball to other Terriers. Robinson had a career-high 17

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points and three steals while Morris had his third career double-double, registering 11 points and 10 rebounds. “We did a great job of sharing the ball,” Jones said. “We got open shots, especially in the first half, but we just didn’t make them. We got good looks, but we just didn’t knock them down. Sometimes that happens.” Even though the Terriers are still winless, Jones said he is proud of the way his team has played and he is confident that it has what it takes to get its first win and grow from there. “To be on the road four of your first five games and to be that close in that many games is certainly a positive,” Jones said. “We have put ourselves in a situation where we can now go out and win games. “I feel very confidently that we’ve learned from mistakes we’ve had in the past and that now we are ready to win. I am much more positive about this group. I think we are right there.”

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Men’s hockey earns non-conference win over St. Lawrence Maguire earns shut out in 4–0 win over Saints

Third, fourth lines push Terriers past SLU

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Wade Megan won some bragging rights Saturday night at Agganis Arena. Facing his hometown team captained by a childhood friend, the senior captain scored the 40th goal of his collegiate career in the No. 10 Boston University men’s hockey team’s 4–0 win over St. Lawrence University. The Canton, N.Y., native tallied the game’s first goal against the Canton-based Saints (6–4–2), while BU held SLU captain Kyle Flanagan — also a Canton native — to a minus-3 rating and one shot on goal in a game that saw the Terriers (7–4, 5–3 Hockey East) outshoot the visitors, 47–21. It was a full-circle sort of moment for Megan, who said he went to all of the Saints’ home games at Appleton Arena as a kid. “It was weird,” Megan said of playing SLU all these years later. “It was a little strange. But it was a lot of fun … The rink is about a minute and a half from my house, so I grew up around [the Saints] and watching them play.” As strong as Megan was Saturday, his former high school teammate, Flanagan, was much less so. Flanagan centers the Saints’ first line and entered the night as the nation’s leading point-getter, but a wellrounded Terrier defensive effort stifled him all night. By all accounts, the Terriers said they did not do anything special to limit Flanagan and his offensive prowess. “We were just aware,” said senior forward Ben Rosen, whose fourth line often matched up against Flanagan’s line. “Every time he was out there, we were talking to each other. ‘Hey’ — before a faceoff —

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Senior forward Ben Rosen scored his second goal of the season in BU’s 4–0 victory over St. Lawrence Saturday at Agganis Arena. ‘Hey, this guy is out there. This is their first line. Have a look, be defensive, be responsible.’” Megan got the Terriers on the board early with a goal at 11:15 in the first. The first-line winger took the puck up the left side, faked a slap shot to deke around a Saint defenseman and beat SLU goalie Matt Weninger near side. The puck ricocheted out of the goal after hitting the back crossbar, but a replay confirmed the goal was good. “I’m not sure where it went,” Megan said. “I just shot it up high and I didn’t think

it went in to be honest with you. But the ref was right on the goal line and … he seemed like he saw it go in.” Freshman forward Sam Kurker extended the BU lead to 2–0 at 18:54, right at the end of a period that featured BU outshooting the Saints 22–7. Junior forward Sahir Gill took the puck up the length of the ice on the left side before passing to Kurker, who put it through Weninger’s five-hole for his first collegiate goal. “That was a big one,” said St. Law-

The St. Lawrence University men’s hockey team has relied on star players, namely forwards Kyle Flanagan and Greg Carey, to create most of its offense during the 2012–13 season. When the Saints marched into Agganis Arena Saturday night, it was only fitting that it was No. 10 Boston University’s depth forwards that propelled the Terriers to a 4–0 victory. BU’s (7–4–0, 5–3–0 Hockey East) third and fourth lines matched up against Flanagan and Carey frequently because of the way St. Lawrence (6–4–2) sent out its four lines. SLU coach Greg Carvel played his top three lines in order and mixed in his fourth line every other time through the cycle, creating some tough matchups for BU. “Our third and fourth lines were out there against their top two lines a lot, and they played extremely well defensively,” said BU coach Jack Parker. Flanagan and Carey were limited to a combined four shots on goal and a minus-4 rating in the contest, in part thanks to the efforts of the bottom two lines. Senior forward Ben Rosen said the team’s communication and awareness was key to holding the dynamic duo without a point. “Coach [Parker] looks to our line always as a big defensive line with [senior forward Ryan] Santana and I,” Rosen said. “We know as a fourth line that we have to be responsible and play defensive and we have to shut down their line. “We were doing it and doing it, and I think Coach kept responding to that so it worked out well for us.” But the bottom two lines did not limit

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Terriers to play exhibition game Men’s basketball suffers loss to against Russian National Team George Mason on buzzer beater By Sarah Kirkpatrick Daily Free Press Staff

Coming off back-to-back victories against Providence College and Harvard University, the No. 7 Boston University women’s hockey team will face the Russian National Team in an exhibition game at Walter Brown Arena Monday night. BU (9–3–1, 4–2–1 Hockey East) beat Providence (8–5–4, 5–2–2 Hockey East) by a score of 7–1 on Friday night, and held off No. 5 Harvard (6–1–0) on Sunday, with a 2–1 victory. Senior forward Jenelle Kohanchuk was the star of the weekend, netting a total of six points on three goals and three assists. “I just hope she continues her good play,” said BU coach Brian Durocher. “In an awful lot of sports it revolves around your confidence, and when you’re confident, you’ll always find a way to get into the net. “Hopefully she’ll continue to just play well and create offense, but also play fantastic defense. Her skating allows her to defend extremely well, whether she’s playing on wing or playing center. Hopefully it’s a line of consistency that keeps going for her.” The Russian National Team most re-

cently faced No. 9 Northeastern University (8–3–2, 4–3–1 Hockey East) on Saturday night. Northeastern emerged victorious with a final score of 6–4. Forward Lyudmila Belyakova scored two goals for Team Russia. Last season, the Terriers played two games against Cornell University over Thanksgiving break. BU lost both games, allowing a combined 10 goals on the weekend and scoring only two. Durocher said having no games over Thanksgiving break this season will give the Terriers an advantageous rest and the exhibition will allow the team to ease back into playing hockey. “It’s a great way for us to get back into the rhythm of skating in general, but certainly get back into playing some games,” Durocher said. Durocher said that the exhibition game will also allow more equal playing time for all of the team members. “Sometimes you play a lot of three-line hockey and spot your fourth line, but in a game like this we’ll have a chance to play all four lines and give those people some more reps.

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The Bottom Line

Monday, Nov. 26

W. Hockey vs. Russian National Team, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 27 W. Basketball @ Rhode Island, 7 p.m.

By Michael Bagarella Daily Free Press Staff

The Boston University men’s basketball team’s Thanksgiving break ended when it fell to George Mason University 48–45 on a buzzer beater Saturday night in Fairfax, Va. The Terriers (0–5) entered the game looking for their first win of the season against a George Mason team (4–2) that is currently tied with Northeastern University for first place in the Colonial Athletic Association. Prior to the game, BU coach Joe Jones stressed playing strong team defense. He told his team that if it held the strong George Mason team to 60 points, the Terriers would have a chance to pull out their first win of the season. The Terriers played tremendous defense, holding the Patriots to their lowest point total of the season. “We hadn’t been defending very well, but we really did a great job [against George Mason],” Jones said. “To hold that team under 40 percent on their floor was huge for us — a major step in the right direction. “We played really hard and then it came down to the last few possessions and we didn’t do a great job putting the game away.” Throughout the game, BU stayed with the

Wednesday, Nov. 28 M. Basketball vs. Coastal Carolina, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 29

Patriots. They never allowed George Mason to take a significant lead. The game saw 12 lead changes, six for each team, and was tied 21– 21 at the half. Each team came out firing to start the second half, but neither team allowed the other to get a lead greater than four. Junior forward Dom Morris gave the Terriers their largest lead of the night with a layup with 3:32 remaining in the second half that put BU ahead, 45–39. However, thanks to baskets from George Mason forward Marko Gujanicic and guard Bryon Allen, and a pair of missed 3-pointers from BU, the Patriots were able to come back. With the game tied at 45 apiece, the Terriers took the ball down the court looking for the lead and a potential game-winning shot. After losing the ball, freshman guard Maurice Watson Jr. stepped out of bounds, giving the ball to George Mason and giving them an opportunity to win the game. Allen held the ball for the last shot, and with only a few seconds left he drove to the hoop, absorbed contact from BU junior forward Travis Robinson, and sunk a layup with 0.2 seconds left in regulation. Allen added a

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Friday, Nov. 30 W. Hockey @ Providence, 7 p.m. M. Hockey vs. Boston College, 7:30 p.m.