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BU profs. skeptical on lasting impact of Gaza ceasefire ‘Fiscal cliff’ might lead to second U.S. recession, experts say

By Rachel Riley Daily Free Press Staff

The ceasefire reached Wednesday between Hamas and Israel might act as a temporary solution to violence, but does not address underlying issues in the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, Boston University professors said.

“The exchange of fire that happened over these recent weeks is only a small superficial manifestation of a much deeper problem,” said Stephen Kinzer, an international relations professor.

Kinzer said the deeper problem stems from the isolation of the Gaza Strip.

“Nobody can go in, nobody can go out [of Gaza],” he said. “There are no exports, there are no imports, so there’s essentially no economy. They’re essentially living in a large open prison.”

Until the problem with Gaza is addressed, similar episodes will occur, and will likely escalate, he said.

Kinzer said while Hamas’s reluctance to negotiate lessens the likelihood of longterm peace, its participation in the settlement is essential, as Hamas represents a large number of people.

Kinzer also said he supports the twostate solution but its success is unlikely.

“It [the two-state solution] was thought to be the logical, peaceful end to this process,” Kinzer said. “I still think it should be, but the prospects for it don’t seem very strong at this moment.”

By Zoe Roos Daily Free Press Staff

tronic Benefit Transfer system, prohibiting the cards from being used for things such as strip clubs, pornography, firearms, ammunition, vacations, body modifications, jewelry and bail.

Before signing, Patrick worked to amend the bill because he said it would not be possible to realistically monitor and block the use of EBT cards for specific items.

“I sign this bill with the understanding and on due notice that this administration will not enforce what cannot be enforced with respect to the use of EBT cards,” Patrick wrote in a statement when he signed the bill on July 27.

When the governor signed the reform, Press Secretary Kim Haberlin released some of the governor’s concerns with the bill in an email.

“No centralized system exists to block the purchase of specific items, as has been

With the “fiscal cliff” looming, the City of Boston awaits the possible negative impacts that tax hikes and spending cuts could cause to the economy of the Commonwealth, experts said.

While a 2013 fiscal budget has yet to be finalized, Professor Graham Wilson, professor and department chair of political science at Boston University, said the possible repercussions of Congress failing to approve a budget could be catastrophic.

“Either it gets fixed in the near future through new legislation, or we will experience a return to recession,” Wilson said.

If the fiscal cliff is not prevented, automatic tax hikes and deep spending cuts will go into effect in the new year as part of the terms for the Budget Control Act of 2012.

Wilson said the chances were slightly higher that Congress would agree on a new budget deal in 2012.

“I’d say 60-40 a deal,” he said. “There is plenty of scope for things to go wrong, but on the other hand, the political costs for any politician seen to be blocking progress would also be very high.”

Sen. John Kerry spoke about how important it is to avoid exceeding the fiscal cliff for Massachusetts’s residents in an emailed statement.

“This stuff is real,” he said in the statement. “It’s not some Washington game.”

Kerry said fiscal cliff repercussions could impact the Commonwealth greatly.

“This is important for Massachusetts because we don’t want middle class taxes going up and we don’t want devastating across the board automatic cuts either,” he said. “The imperative of avoiding recession is real for people.”

Jake Sullivan, an aide in Boston’s office of Intergovernmental Relations, said possible repercussions of the fiscal cliff could include diminished city resources.

“We try to support the many city activities with federal and state resources,” he said. “But given the pending state cuts and this whole issue of automatic cuts if they can’t reach a deal, we are very concerned about future funding.”

Sullivan said federal cuts could have a major impact on small businesses through-

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Fiscal Cliff, see page 2

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College of Arts and Sciences freshman Kimberly Zar and College of Communication sophomore Jack Goldberg put out one flag for every 10 rockets fired in Gaza outside the Hillel House Tuesday.

Betty Anderson, a history professor and member of the BU Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, said the ceasefire is not a lasting solution.

“It [the ceasefire] is just one in a long series of these,” Anderson said. “They stop a particular flare-up that has broken out, but they’re not meant to solve any larger systemic problems.”

Anderson said while there is no reason to believe the ceasefire will immediately fail, the lack of ongoing negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians poses a threat to peace.

Leora Kaufman, BU Students for Israel president and a College of Communication sophomore, said the ceasefire might tem-

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Food stamp fraud forces legislation, government commission

By Nora Philbin Daily Free Press Staff

The Massachusetts Legislature is calling for further reforms to the Electronic Benefit Transfer food stamp system after multiple reports of fraud uncovered a lack of oversight.

Paulette Song, the deputy communications director for the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, said a commission was formed earlier this year to look at possibilities of further reforming the system.

“The Cashless Commission was formed in the fall to look at reforming the EBT system,” Song said. “If it is possible to move to a cashless system, the commission is going to make recommendations on how to do that.”

The Department of Transitional Assistance deposits monthly food stamp benefits into an EBT account, according to their

website. To use the funds, EBT cards are provided to use at store checkouts to pay for food. The receipt will show the amount of money left in the account.

The Attorney General’s office charged 22 people for selling EBT benefits for cash earlier in the year, according to a press release from April.

Daniel Curley, commissioner of the Department of Transition Assistance who also sits on the Cashless System Commission, said the commission was formed to see if reform was possible in two ways.

“One, we are really looking at the possibility of a cashless system within this commission and what that might be,” Curley said in an email. “They also asked us to look at what we call vendor payments that ultimately are payments for rent and utility for people who are having difficulty meeting those requirements.”

Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick signed a bill in July that restricts the use of the Elec-

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Fair use of copyright allowed for education

By Margaret Waterman Daily Free Press Staff

Copyright infringement cases, such as the recent University of California, Los Angeles case in which the university was sued for streaming videos to students, can be excused for educational purposes, Boston University officials said.

School of Law Dean Maureen O’Rourke said fair uses of copyrighted material include news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Whether the use is for profit is significant in determining fair use, she said.

“The first factor is the purpose and character of the use including whether its of a commercial nature or is for non-profit educational purposes,” O’Rourke said. “Generally, the more commercial, the more it weighs against fair use.”

In Association for Information Media and Equipment et al. v. Regents of the University of California, UCLA was sued for streaming previously purchased Shakespeare video content for educational purposes, according to a

UCLA press release.

The Central District of California U.S. District Court deemed the alleged infringement fair use and dismissed the case on Nov. 20, the release stated.

UCLA spokesman Phil Hampton said he was pleased with the decision.

“It basically confirms what we’ve said all along that streaming licensed DVDs related to coursework over a secure network is an appropriate educational use,” he said. “This is a case that’s been looked at not only by our faculty, but also around the country.”

Victor Polk, co-chair of the copyright committee of the Boston Patent Law Association, said an item’s commercial significance influences the decision as to whether it is excused for fair use.

“If the university were playing this for payment in its movie theater, you would come out with a different result,” Polk said.

Polk said courts sometimes put great ef-

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If fiscal cliff not avoided, automatic tax Students plant flags outside hikes will affect businesses, officials say Hillel to represent rockets Fiscal Cliff: From Page 1

out the city.

“One of the main vehicles that the city uses to help small businesses owners is through the community development block grant, which is a federal grant,” he said.

“Any kind of federal cuts to those monetary vehicles will really have a big fiscal impact on the small business community.” Sullivan said this grant is crucial to small business development.

“Sometimes in a climate where banks aren’t lending, it is these kinds of loans from the city that really help small businesses get the first brick in their building,” he said.

Some of the automatic tax hikes waiting to go into effect if a fiscal cliff is not avoided will affect businesses.

Brittany Bang, a small business owner who established Audrey’s Pet Supply and Services on Newbury Street in 2010, said she

feels the impact of the economy and the fiscal cliff on her business.

“I am scared to death of the unknown,” she said. “It has not been any easy time for anybody but we have really tried to focus on keeping our prices as competitive as we possibly can in this economy.”

Bang said she has seen how the unstable economy has affected her clientele.

“People are trying to save as much as they can and are buying only the necessities and whatever they find at the lowest price and I can’t offer the volume discount,” she said. “I can only hope that people still turn out to support small businesses.”

Sullivan said Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has been working hard to protect the city and small businesses as congress deliberates.

“Mayor Menino and the U.S. conference of mayors have been

asking the president and House and Senate leaders to put revenue on the table and have a deal that doesn’t put us back in a recession,” he said. “The stakes are high on this one.”

Kerry said while he thinks a deal will be challenging to achieve, the high stakes will help force an agreement.

“This is a test of whether the partisan, ideological excess of the last four years is actually over,” he said. “We’ve still got a lot of people struggling to pay the bills and pay tuition, and they shouldn’t have to sweat this one out.”

Still, Kerry said politicians on both sides of the aisle are eager to avoid another economic downturn.

“There’s a bipartisan consensus waiting here if reasonableness takes hold,” he said. “And I’ve talked to a lot of Republicans who want to see that happen.”

CGS freshman: Materials used in classes for edu. should receive more copyright leniency Streaming: From Page 1

fort toward finding fair use in the case of copyright infringement by a nonprofit entity.

If the infringing use is likely to supplant the demand for the original work, it is much less likely to be deemed fair by a court of law than if the original work can be acquired for free, O’Rourke said.

She also said the legal system is often reluctant to excuse infringement with fair use because it is difficult to categorize use as fair or unfair.

A number of BU students said the decision regarding fair use should be dependent upon whether the video content was used purely for educational purposes.

“If it’s not being used for profit,

if it’s being used for a good purpose, then I don’t see anything wrong with it,” said John Pavia, a College of General Studies freshman.

Pavia said if the copyrighted material is only being used in a classroom setting and cannot be seen by someone who might copy the material to use for other purposes, it should not be questioned.

Several students said they have had professors at BU who had scanned previously purchased textbook material onto Blackboard, BU’s online educational interface, for their classes.

“Textbooks are strictly for educational use, and plays [artistic works] can be used for different purposes,” said Rachel Podber, a College of Communication sophomore.

Rebecca Wolfe, also a sophomore in COM, said she agreed with the judge and the infringement was acceptable since it was for educational use.

“There’s no real problem with it and if it’s helping students then I don’t think Shakespeare would mind quite so much,” said Wolfe.

Podber said copyright infringement was acceptable as long as it was being used for educational purposes.

O’Rourke said copyright infringement is a disincentive for creative people to create new material.

“If we were to allow people to make these types of uses, it would adversely affect incentive to create,” O’Rourke said. “Those are the kinds of infringements you wouldn’t want to excuse.”

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porarily end fighting, but lasting peace requires negotiation with a Palestinian group other than Hamas.

“We don’t know what the future holds, but we can only hope that it will bring a temporary peace,” she said. “True peace will only come when we’re not negotiating with a terrorist organization, but with a true governing body in the Gaza Strip.”

Kimberly Zar, a College of Arts and Sciences freshman, said she organized about 15 BU students to place 1,200 flags outside the The Florence and Chafetz Hillel House Tuesday to represent the 12,000 rockets Hamas fired at Israel during the recent conflict.

KateLynn Plotnick, Hillel’s program associate for TaglitBirthright Israel, purchased the flags and helped organize the event.

Kareem Chehayeb, a member of Students for Justice in Palestine and a College of Arts and Sciences senior, said the fighting in Gaza is unbalanced.

“It’s not the conflict of two established militaries fighting over a separate aspiration,” Chehayeb said. “No, this is an issue between a country with a developed military and powerful influence around the world against a people

with a minuscule military group.”

School of Hospitality Administration junior Talya Stern, who lived in Israel before coming to BU, said both parties have committed wrongs and must communicate to reach a solution.

“We [Israel] have killed way more of them [Palestinians] than they have of us,” Stern said. “The only solution is to talk ... That’s the only solution for this to stop.”

CAS senior Jorge Nassau said the ceasefire is a positive development, but not a lasting resolution.

“The Palestinian right for state is being undermined by Hamas’s extreme postures and constant attacks to Israel,” he said. “That’s the basic problem that needs to be addressed,” he said.

Israel and Palestine must recognize one another as states, Nassau said.

“That’s not going to happen until Hamas decides to drop violence and sit at the negotiating table,” he said.

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Lu He also said the ceasefire is not an adequate solution to the conflict.

“Until the day Palestinians can found their own country, the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians will never stop,” she said. “I think there is much more conflict coming.”

Governor’s press secretary: Food stamps lack ‘centralized system’ Food Stamps: From Page 1

conveyed by Massachusetts’ EBT vendor, Xerox,” Haberlin said.

Haberlin also said neither state nor federal governments had signaled they would block individual purchases for EBT recipients.

“This means a system to block individual purchases would have to be built only for Massachusetts and would be very costly for retailers,” she said.

Mark Rysman, a professor of economics at Boston University, said many people would be in favor of a cashless system.

“The EBT is usually done with a visa type card, basically with a magnetic stripe and you just swipe it,” Rysman said. “You don’t really stand out in a public place which is attractive to people and you don’t look different than anyone else in line.”

Curley said moving to a cashless system would not affect any individual’s ability to apply or receive assistance.

The Cashless System Commission is required by Massachusetts law to make its recommendation

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Campus & City City Crime Logs

Baseball with Bottles

By Regine Sarah Capungan Daily Free Press Staff

The following reports were taken from the Allston-Brighton D-14 crime logs from Nov. 21 to Nov. 27.

At about 12:49 a.m. on Sunday, BPD responded to a call about an assault at 161 Brighton Avenue.

The victim said the suspect was an unknown man who struck him on the head with a bottle without provocation, leaving the victim with a cut on his left cheekbone.

A witness said there was a confrontation between the victim and the suspect, and that the victim had his arms raised when he was struck with the bottle. The suspect has been described as a 5-foor-7 Asian man who wore a Red Sox cap and possibly a gray fleece at the time of the incident. He fled toward Cambridge Street after the incident and his friends left shortly after in a Toyota Camry.

Friendly intruders On Saturday, a breaking and entering incident occurred at 1202 Commonwealth Avenue between 8:30 and 9:00 a.m. The victim said while he was out that morning, an unknown person entered his apartment and stole a pair of Tech surround sound speakers. He further said that the outside pane of a living room window was smashed, although the inside pane was still intact. The victim did say he may know the offender and that he may have given them a key to enter his apartment. Since the incident, the building managers have covered the broken window and changed the lock on the victim’s front door.

Dueling hookahs The police responded to a call about a disturbance at the Nile Hookah Lounge, located at 70 Brighton Ave., at about 11:13 p.m. on Friday.

The manager of the lounge said the suspect was having an argument with a friend when he picked up a glass hookah pipe and threw it in the direction of customers against a wall. The pipe shattered when it hit the wall, showering glass over customers and causing damage to the wall and pieces of artwork that were hanging on it.

When approached by one of the customers, the suspect made a fist and attempted to punch the customer in the head. Another witness, an employee at the lounge, said he observed the suspect pick up a chair and throw it, but it did not hit anyone. The suspect’s girlfriend said the cause of the incident was due to the suspect seeing his ex-girlfriend after an unidentified male friend asked her to pick him up at the lounge.

The suspect fled the lounge after the incident, but returned to retrieve his coat. Back at the lounge, the suspect and the male friend began to fight, knocking down another employee at the lounge. Both men fled toward Chester Street, where the police apprehended the suspect.

When apprehended, he was very emotional and smelled strongly of alcohol. He cried and told the police that he would pay for the damage that he caused.

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More adults use cellphones for texting, Internet More Bostonians flocking to solar Use of cellphones for purposes powered homes of text messaging, photography

By Brian Latimer Daily Free Press Staff

and Internet-surfing has increased among adults since 2010, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center.

The survey found 80 percent of adults use cellphones to send text messages.

The increase is indicative of social changes and a desire to have more control over conversation, Boston University officials said.

“A telephone call is an adventure,” said John Carroll, a mass communication professor. “It is something that develops unexpectedly many times and goes into unanticipated areas many times. If you want to have the maximum amount of control, you tend to either text or email.”

The report, released Sunday, contained data from a survey of more than 2,000 cellphone owners and found 82 percent used cellphones to take pictures, 56 percent use phones to access the Internet and 50 percent sent or received emails on their phones.

“In an era where smart phones are being indoctrinated by more and more people, phones have become instruments for lots of activities and not just phone calls,” said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project. “They’re the Swiss Army

By Robin Ngai Daily Free Press Staff

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MICHELLE JAY/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project conducted a study on cellphone use in American adults.

Knives of digital communication and information dissemination.”

Since 2007, the percentage of adults that email from their cellphones has more than doubled.

Twenty-two percent more adults use phones to send text messages than in 2007.

“The lives of those with cell phones are experiencing an enormous technological change, and more importantly, social change,” Rainie said. “They’re a way [for people] to socially mediate like they never used to because they have a phone.”

Rainie said the functionality of cellphones — smart phones included — is especially attractive to young adults and has become a defining element of their lifestyles.

Jeanette Kusi, a College of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said she answers her parents’ text messages more readily than their phone calls.

“They’re getting better at it because they’ve adapted to this social change more,” Kusi said.

“They grew up without cellphones so they’re just trying to adapt to today’s social ways because if you don’t text me, I’m not going to pick up the phone when you call.”

Michael Mucci, a CAS senior, said parents are buying cellphones primarily to keep in contact with their children and not for Internet browsing. “[My parents are] old fash-

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Loan debt greater challenge to primary care physicians

By Brian Latimer Daily Free Press Staff

Primary care physicians have more difficulty paying back student loans after graduation than specialty care doctors, according to a report from researchers at Boston University and the Association of American Medical Colleges.

“Student debt levels have become so high that a growing number of students will struggle on a primary care salary alone to repay educational loans and still have enough left over to cover other routine household expenses,” the release stated.

The study, released Tuesday, found 86 percent of medical students had loan debt at graduation in 2011. The average debt was $161,290, which is the highest re-

ported amount to date.

“Most medical school graduates have education debt and the average amount of education debt is increasing,” the report stated.

“Among these indebted graduates, 23 percent of those at private medical schools graduated with loans of $250,000 or more.”

Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at BU School of Medicine John Wiecha said medical school loan debt is not attributable to a lack of experience.

“Loan amounts are too high for some students to easily pay back given the salaries of doctors in residency training,” Wiecha said in an email. “There are many jobs available.”

The study examined strategies of paying back student loans in a timely manner based on hypothetical scenarios. Students with

Medical cannabis in Mass. faces questions

By Shannon Nargi Daily Free Press Staff

Despite the passage of medical marijuana during the Nov. 3 election, questions still remain as to how the drug will be regulated and where dispensaries will be established.

The law, which will go into effect on Jan. 1, grants the establishment of 35 dispensaries in Massachusetts in its first year and allows one to five in each of the 14 counties of the state.

Legislators have not yet decided where each dispensary will go or exactly how many there will be.

City Councilor Robert Consalvo, of Hyde Park, said many people who are not in favor of the law will continue to have concerns about the proximity of these buildings to schools and private

residencies.

“The dispensaries will be here, but we want to give the communities a chance to speak out on their concerns,” Consalvo said. “That’s what needs to be discussed, but [the dispensaries] won’t just be put up anywhere. More practical places are being looked at, like near hospitals.”

Public meetings will be held starting Wednesday for community members to voice their opinions on where they believe a dispensary should be located. The main discussion on the placement of dispensaries centers on crafting new zoning ordinances that will dictate where a dispensary can or cannot be placed, Consalvo said.

Consalvo said the placement of dispensaries will vary by town and could be grouped with adult

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about $160,000 in debt were able to pay back their loans within ten years, but those with over $200,000 in debt had to consider an extended repayment plan.

“The study’s economic modeling of a physician’s household income and expenses across a range of medical school borrowing levels in high — and moderate — cost living areas shows that physicians in all specialties, including primary care, can repay the current median level of education debt,” the report stated.

Arun Rai, a first-year School of Medicine student, said it is expected that primary care physicians have the most trouble paying back loan debt because residency programs tend to be shorter and primary care residents are

Debt, see page4

Following a state government push toward green energy, Solarize Mass-Boston doubled residential solar contracts in the city over four months, with 116 solar projects coming to Boston houses soon.

The program was instituted in 17 communities throughout Massachusetts, said Lourdes Lopez, a community outreach manager for Boston Mayor Thomas Menino.

“We completed the program successfully with 116 contracts with a capacity of 522 kilowatts,” she said.

Matt Kakley, communications coordinator at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, said the program’s goal is to give people the option to use renewable energy.

“The idea behind Solarize is to really let people know how solar energy works and the economics behind it,” he said. “People can save money with a program like this and get all these environmental benefits of clean energy.”

Kakley said he saw the impact of the program throughout Massachusetts.

“Throughout the whole state, we saw 5.1 megawatts of clean renewable energy generated as a result of the program,” he said.

Estimates claim 5.1 megawatts of energy can power 807 homes a year, according to the MassCEC. As of Nov. 1, Mass. had almost 91 megawatts of installed solar capacity, according to the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources. This represents a 2,400 percent increase in capacity since 2008.

The 2008 Green Communities Law requires that 7 percent of power purchased by electric companies must be clean by 2016.

This mandate is being addressed through programs like Solarize Mass-Boston, among others.

Solarize Mass-Boston is a partnership between the city of Boston, the MassCEC and the DOER. Lopez said many residents were pleased to make the switch to solar in the Solarize Mass-Boston campaign.

“It was really wonderful and a great experience,” she said.

Solar, see page4

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Professor Orly Rachmilovitz of the Boston University School of Law speaks on the legal rights of LGBT students as part of Marsh Chapel’s OUTlook lecture series Tuesday.

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Towns might group dispensaries Solarize project could contribute 1 kilowatt of near adult areas, medical services energy to consumers for 11 cents, officials say Marijuana: From Page 3

entertainment districts or zoned to operate in areas where other medical services are located.

Some groups who protested the passing of the legislation said discussion on the regulation of medical marijuana will be important.

“The legislation has passed already, so the next thing we need to focus on is the regulation of this law,” said Heidi Heilman, president of Massachusetts Prevention Alliance, “The present wording is not definitive enough and there are very little restrictions on where dispensaries can go and who has access to them.”

Heilman said she is concerned that the drug could come into the possession of those not licensed to receive it.

“It [Marijuana] will now be available in local communities, and the regulation of it needs to be monitored heavily so that the wrong people don’t get access to it,” she said.

Other groups in support of the

law said they hope to see the legalization of medical marijuana spread to other states.

“Now that Massachusetts has passed the use of medical marijuana, we hope to see the rest of New England follow suit,” said Jim Daily, member of the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition.

But Daily said he and other supporters recognize the need for regulation.

“The whole idea of medical marijuana being introduced is hard for some people to get used to, and I understand the need for stricter regulations around it in the beginning,” Daily said.

Daily said he understands the need for feedback from citizens in the community.

“New zoning laws make sense and are necessary, and community feedback is necessary too,” Daily said. “To ease communities into the idea and make the opposition feel more secure about it will help the acceptance and moving forward of marijuana legalization.”

Primary care residents have shorter residencies, trouble paying loan debt Debt: From Page 3

paid less than specialty doctors.

“Graduates of many primary care residency programs are not compensated at an appropriate level where they can pay back the interest and the principal back of a student loan in a timely manner,” Rai said.

Rai said specialty physicians, such as neurosurgeons and or-

thopedic surgeons, are paid more during longer residency programs because these programs are highly specialized and have greater liability.

“Primary care doctors should be compensated with a federal grant program to provide money to help these physicians with loan forgiveness,” Rai said. “They are doing a selfless deed.”

Solar: From Page 3

“There was a really good demand for the Solarize project and people were responding well.”

Lopez also said the plan was economically efficient, and that customers could pay as little as 11 cents for a kilowatt of power.

“They [MassCEC and DOER] offer tax rebates for the installations,” she said. “The most popular program for going solar was the power purchase agreement.”

These power purchase agreements allow solar hosts to sell extra electricity for a profit, according to the Environmental Protection Agency website.

Mary-Leah Assad, Menino’s press secretary, said the city’s

participation in the program was important.

“The city of Boston and Mayor Menino’s enthusiastic participation in the program has made a difference and helped promote the benefits of solar in Massachusetts,” she said in an email.

Kakley said the success of the projects would not have been possible without the help of Menino.

“Those projects were obviously with the mayor’s help,” he said.

“He was a great advocate for the program. He and his administration really put a lot of effort. They really adopted the program and showed people how much he was behind it.”

Menino was one of the 116 residents that committed to solar

power, Kakley said.

“For someone like Mayor Menino to take place in the program himself and sign a contract to put a panel on his roof obviously gives credibility to the program and helps to drive up publicly and get more people to participate,” he said.

With education and proper funding, Kakley said an expansion of the Solarize project could happen in the future.

“Right now we’re actually in the process of trying to figure out what works and how we want the program to proceed,” he said. “There’s definitely going to be Solarize next year, we’re just trying to figure what’s it going to look like.”

CAS senior: ‘Old-fashioned’ parents only use phones for calling, not Internet capabilities, texting, email Cellphones: From Page 3

ioned so they only have them [cellphones] for emergencies and to call me, my brother and my sister,” Mucci said. “They don’t see any reason for a phone to have Internet or even text. They just like phones for calling and nothing else.”

College of General Studies freshman Liam Santamaria said his parents have embraced their new iPhones and use them constantly.

“When they first got [cellphones] they only ever used them for calling because it was cheaper for everyone not to get a smart phone,” he said. “Now they are constantly on the Internet, constantly doing work, listening to music and that kind of stuff.”

CAS freshman Antonette Hayakawa said her parents have kept up with cellphone advances for work purposes.

“My dad has owned every iPhone since they came out and he has owned a smart phone even

before the iPhone came out,” she said. “My dad is very technological-based because of his job.”

Rainie said evidence shows cellphones are becoming a more important element in the day-today lives of older adults.

“It’s a classic technology adoption story where the young are leading the way,” Rainie said. “It’s interesting that, over time, more older users have come aboard where over half the population has the same technology, and it’s not only young people.”

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t’s hard to stand out among the many dance groups within Boston University, but the Unofficial Project dance team has become increasingly recognized in different ways.

Beginning in 2005 as a side project for nine dancers who just wanted to have fun, they decided to make their dancing a more serious collaboration. “[We’re] called Unofficial Project because it really started off as an unofficial project,” said Eunice Han, a junior in the School of Management. “They were just dancing for fun and then it escalated from there on and became a hip-hop dance crew and that’s where we are today.”

Students changing style What distinguishes UPro is that they were formerly seen as primarily an Asian styled dance team.

“The students are all from different backgrounds,” said Edwin “Eddy” Lee, BU alumnus. “At first, they just wanted to make an unofficial project, but then it started getting serious. They were a part of the Fusion dance team, who said that their members couldn’t be on both teams. That’s when the founders of UPro made a more decisive commitment to their unofficial project creating more of a team.”

“I guess the reason why it started was because all these people had an interest for dancing to other kinds of music, like Asian hip-hop,” Lee said.

Now, however, UPro has changed their vision. It has become less of an Asian-based hip-hop dance group, and transformed into an American hip-hop group, members said.

UPro still acknowledges their roots as an Asian hip-hop team and incorporates Asian dance styles at least once or twice a year in

Unofficial Project preforms one of their Asian hip-hop numbers for an audience. their sets, but they have become more focused on a hip-hop style that everyone can relate to.

“I know that for such a long time, we promoted that we were an Asian hip-hop team, but at this point we’re trying to expand our scope to say that we’re not just Asian, we don’t only do Asian music, we don’t only want to have Asian dancers on our team,” said Christine Cerrada, a senior in the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.

Diversity of background experience UPro is open to anyone, regardless of any professional dance experience, members said.

“I was never formally trained,” Cerrada said. “I would just dance with family members when I was younger. I did a little bit of ballroom, so I had very, very minimal experience.”

Members also contribute a variety of dance skills to the group.

“I was a cheerleader in high school for four years, and then when I got to college, I decided I wanted to try something new,” Han said. “Cheerleading is kind of like dancing and gymnastics, so I decided I wanted to do hip-hop because I thought it was something I can make a change to.”

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UPro member strikes a pose at the end of the show.

Positive side effects After surpassing the nerve-wracking audition process, prospective dancers found a love for dance that they weren’t aware they had, they said.

“Dance is an art of expression,” Lee said.

“Like any other art, like singing or drawing, it’s a way to show yourself, but to use your whole body and to connect to the music spontaneously. You can transfer emotion just by

movement and you don’t have to really say anything.”

Dance provides an outlet for stress and helps members find a release from their stressful days, Han said.

“I use dancing as an outlet,” she said. “After a long day of classes and team meetings, it’s my way of letting go. Not thinking about school for two hours, just going, dancing and practicing is really fun. You have to keep a good mindset so practice doesn’t become just another thing in your schedule.”

Other students said dance allows for inner reflection.

“It is that outlet that I can portray a character that’s a little bit different from myself and kind of show another side of me,” Cerrada said. “I’m kind of awkward and I fumble my words a lot. Once I get on stage, that person is not important. It’s the person I am playing on stage. That’s my favorite part because you can escape from reality and do something else.”

Balancing act As students, it can be difficult to take on more than school, internships and work, so adding an extracurricular can be a challenge, members said.

“You have to balance creating a family bond with your team, as well as being with your friends [outside of the team],” Cerrada said. “Sometimes you can’t always spend time with them because you’re trying to bond with your own teammates, so it gets a little troubling at times.”

The dancers of UPro manage to maintain good academia, dedication to dance and preserve a social life, they said.

“When I did go to class, it was definitely stressful on my social life,” Lee said. “Your

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social life, I feel, if you take [dance] really seriously, it’s mostly within the dance circle.

I know that a lot of my other friendships suffered.”

UPro understands when it comes to academics, that time management is crucial, Han said.

“The main thing is to be organized, [have] time management and prioritize. It definitely becomes tough, but you have to always refer back to that,” Cerrada said.

UPro’s members said that they consider being a part of the team to be a very high priority, although it leaves little time for other extracirriculars.

“I always took dance to be really, really serious, so I would plan my work around my practices, opposed to vice versa,” Lee said.

“Since I mostly focused on dance in school, I didn’t try to focus on any other clubs outside, it wasn’t too hard to budget, but there were definitely some hell weeks that coincide with school and dancing.”

Dance can relieve stress, but it can also cause stress. When that occurs to the UPro dancers, friends and family are used as support.

“They [my parents] like that I’m staying active and that I am a part of a team and I’m doing something with less possibility of getting hurt [like in cheerleading],” Han said. “I was a dare devil.”

Some parents, who were concerned about the dance team affecting studies, were won over by the dedication and performances, students said. “[My parents] actually came out to one of my shows last year for the first time, and they said ‘I’ve never seen you move like that. You really look like you’re having fun up there.’”

Cerrada said. “It changed their minds.”

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Facebook obituary

that call for courtesy, discretion and a concerned human voice — for example, the death of a daughter — an electronic update is not going to cut it. Grief will only be worsened by a lack of personal touch and careful consideration.

On the other hand, a Facebook approach to death is not entirely bad. The site can serve as a sort of virtual memorial service.

It has proved itself an effective venue for mourners to convey their distress over the loss of a loved one. When a faraway friend passes away, for example, it is the least we can do to post a note of sorrow and love on said friend’s still-living wall. It allows one to be present — albeit in a minimal way — during the grieving period.

But personal tragedies should be treated with care. And a Facebook post will never replace a sympathy card. Similarly, news of a family member’s death should, at the very least, arrive over a cell phone.

Art: Religious offense?

A painting previously removed from an art exhibition in New York as a result of the public disapproval it received is now on view at the Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery, according The Boston Globe on Tuesday. The piece, which depicts U.S. President Barack Obama as Jesus Christ, with his head donning a crown of thorns and his arms spread open to evoke salvation, has sparked both outrage and support for its artist, Michael D’Antuono.

The painting is called “The Truth,” and is part of an exhibit titled “Artists on the Stump: The Road to the White House 2012,” according to The Globe. Artists on display were invited to “weigh in on the issues, candidates and country,” according to the exhibit’s website.

No better place to do so than a college campus, like Bunker Hill’s, which by nature is devoted to education and therefore to weighing in on issues like current politics.

Of course, controversial topics like politics and religion will almost always offend some party. “The Truth” offends Christians, who revere Christ for his suffering and sal-

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When Valdosta State University student Jasmine Benjamin was found dead in a study room on her campus recently, her parents learned of the news via a Facebook post. They are criticizing the school for not notifying them earlier and in a more professional manner, according to a Huffington Post article Monday.

Think about receiving news of a child’s death over Facebook — with no voice, no human touch. Granted, the speed of modern communication is nothing new.

Smartphones have made it so people are constantly wired in to their online social network. Thus it’s only half surprising that a Facebook post beat Benjamin’s university in relaying the news to her family.

Still, it doesn’t quite feel acceptable.

Facebook is hardly human. We have extended friend groups, a massive online network, and more friends than we actually know. So on the one hand, with events

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vation, and all the more so if they dislike Obama or American politics.

But is the piece overly offensive? Art, it should be noted, a medium through which an individual expresses a potentially offensive personal opinion, can be notoriously controversial. Modern art especially is often created for the purpose of sparking conversation, and one that involves a variety of viewpoints. D’Antuono’s piece, housed at an open-minded and secular educational facility, should simply provoke thought and discussion.

Granted, Christians have a right to be offended by a secular likening of their God, one that removes Jesus from a holy position to a mythical, metaphorical symbol. Their backlash is similar to the Muslim community’s outcry against a recent documentary that portrayed their prophet in a negative light. But they must also remember that their beliefs are not shared by D’Antuono, and while they may feel disrespected by his work, he has the right to artistically express his views and participate in an intellectual and representative conversation.

ike many other Californians, I expected going home for Thanksgiving break would be a vacation in heaven, away from the cold weather and the busy city vibe of Boston. I eagerly packed my luggage many days in advance, counting down the hours until I was back in L.A. with my family, eating In-n-Out Burger daily and visiting the beach, since it is still summer in California. I expected myself to be so happy to be back home that I would never want to come back to school in Boston.

When I arrived at LAX, I wanted to indulge in all of the things that only California can offer, like sun, sand and great Mexican food. But soon I realized that there really aren’t that many things that are so unique to it — other than In-n-Out, of course. The beaches are beautiful, but I can find a white-sand beach elsewhere if I put in the effort to travel. The weather is nice, but it felt over-exposing to wear short shorts in November after I had gotten used to wearing rain jackets almost every day in Boston. Seeing my family was comforting, but after a few days, we were at each other’s throats again. Reuniting with my friends was awkward after our dramatic goodbyes over the summer — we thought we’d never be able to live without each other, but it turns out we’d gotten pretty good at leading separate lives.

My California dream was crushed, and soon I began to miss my new home in Boston.

I especially felt school-sick after my first high school reunion. Looking back on it, I’m still not sure why I even decided to go. I was going to see all of my close friends either way, so the reunion would not have helped to bring us together. Yet everyone showed up, even if they felt they had no reason to. The feeling that I got from seeing all of my old classmates was uncomfortable and I immediately wanted to leave. I didn’t like the fact that I could name everyone in the room with me. And we soon realized that high school drama would never disappear. The fights that happened during our four years there were never resolved and were even hashed out at our reunion.

Many of my friends left after thirty minutes. After the reunion, I was more than excited to get on the plane back to Bos-

ton. I was thankful to transition to such a large university where I can be anonymous most of the time.

A luxury of Boston that California can no longer offer me is the safety of traveling around town and not having to run into people I know. Here, I barely know anyone outside of BU. When I go out with my friends into the city, I don’t run into a dozen people from outside of my school like I would in L.A. Driving on the streets of Ventura Boulevard made me anxious because I would constantly see people I knew from around town, people I did not necessarily want to ever see again. Over the summer, I said goodbye to all of the people, places and things I disliked so much about my hometown and during my trip back, I happened to see every single one of them.

I never realized how comforting it is to live in a city where no one knows a thing about me.

Sometimes it’s very important to leave the place that you love to realize how amazing it really is. But my week in L.A. made me realize why I decided to move to Boston in the first place: it was as far away from home I could get.

After seeing all of my friends who stayed in California, and visiting some of their schools, I’m so thankful that I do not live there anymore. There are many great things about living in California — like sun, lack of seasons and great Mexican food — and although I miss it, I don’t regret my decision to move. Many of my friends who have stayed in L.A. feel as if they are still stuck in high school because they cannot escape the city where they grew up.

Moving, especially for college students, helps people grow and move on from the stupid, immature things they might have done in high school. Moving to Boston has been a fresh start for me and many of my friends who live on the East Coast have also learned how to appreciate such a new experience. So although my trip home was filled with anxiety, I’m glad I went because this trip made me realize how much I really love Boston … despite the rain.

Rachel Chistyakov is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at rachelch@bu.edu.

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Terrier Talk Reflections

The Daily Free Press asked what students thought about Hostess’s recent bankruptcy and the disappearance of Twinkies.

Here’s what some of them said.

INTERVIEWS AND PHOTOS BY SARAH FISHER.

JACOB REILLEY-LUTHER

“I’m kind of neutral about it. Twinkies are really good, but they’re also really, really bad for you.”

- SAR freshman

LAUREEN LUBIN

“It doesn’t affect me, but I can understand how many people might be upset because Twinkies are one of the most famous foods.”

- CAS sophomore

CHELSEA BASSLERU

“State fairs are going to be really sad without Twinkies.”

- COM/CAS senior

CORINA PINTADO

“I’m sad because Twinkies were part of my childhood — my mom used to give me them as snacks.”

- COM freshman

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Marasco: Everyone benefits from Notre Dame BCS appearance Marasco: From Page 8

lege sports. In fact, the Irish is the only team in any college sport that has nationally network-televised games every week.

They’re the biggest draw in the country.

And for many of those years they’ve kind of stunk.

“Tune in this Saturday as Notre Dame gets lambasted by Purdue.

On NBC.” That’s bad television. It’s bad for the sport when its most popular team loses to Navy.

But how exciting was that ND/ USC game on Saturday?

Every year, people talk about “how great” of a rivalry that is because of what happened in the 1820s, but rarely has that rivalry produced anything special in recent seasons.

For the first time in a decade it actually felt like a big-time ri-

valry.

Notre Dame — one win from a championship birth and harboring a Heisman candidate.

That’s a great story. You can’t help but be invested in that if you like college football.

Heck, even if you’re just a short guy with red hair you were probably glued to the TV. Remember when the Pistons and Spurs were winning NBA titles?

The NBA went into hibernation. It was the dark ages of professional basketball.

Then, all of a sudden the Lakers and Celtics were good again and the sport boomed.

Remember when the White Sox played the Astros in the World Series? How about the Rays and Phillies?

Of course you don’t. You didn’t watch.

Can you guess the four highest

rated World Series’ of the 2000s?

Three of them featured the Yankees and the other the Red Sox. Shocker.

When Notre Dame is good, college football is better.

People care more.

Why are the Lakers interesting? Why are the Yankees interesting?

They’re polarizing. A lot of people love them. A lot more people hate them.

Either way, people watch.

They’re invested. They care.

The Notre Dame/USC game on Saturday got a 10.3 rating.

OK, but what does that mean?

A lot!

It was the highest rated game of the season. The game was more watched than every BCS bowl game last season other than the title game.

In fact, it was the highest rated regular season game since 2006.

The Fighting Irish are the Lakers of college football. They’re the Yankees — there are no neutral observers. You’re either rooting for them or rooting against them.

Either way, you have that rooting interest. Isn’t that what makes watching sports fun?

College football was already doing just fine with the SEC driving the bus. Alabama, LSU, Florida, Georgia — all creating huge interest and ratings.

And now, you’ll get to see the best of the best, the winner of the SEC, take on Notre Dame in the championship. Unreal. The sport is about to enter a new stratosphere.

What happens when the best team from the biggest, best, most popular, most successful conference collides with the most popular and most followed team in the country?

Something big. The hype and intrigue leading up to the game will be absurd. The ratings will be monstrous — records will be broken.

You’ll be dying to see this game for a month and half, and it’ll be bliss when it arrives.

Everybody wins!

The NCAA wins. But more importantly, you, the fan, wins.

If you love Notre Dame, if you hate Notre Dame, if you love the SEC, if you hate the SEC, if you have any interest in college football — you’ll care. You’ll be invested. You’ll watch.

Last year, you got a rematch between two teams from the same conference.

This year, everyone gets a trophy. Everyone gets a slice of pizza. Thanks, Notre Dame.

Alford leads Terriers to win BU prepares for Carolina W. basketball: From Page 8

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Senior guard Chantell Alford.

draw fouls or dish short passes to the forwards under the hoop as the Rams tried to adapt.

BU initiated the half with a strong 6–0 run and continued to apply defensive pressure that would yield a 19 percent field goal conversion rate from the Rams over the course of the game. With the early lead, Greenberg was able to send some younger talent on to the court. This strategy differed from her usual seven or eight man rotation, and served to better acclimate the team’s youth to collegiate competition.

“It’s always nice to get some people some minutes,” Greenberg said. “They get more comfortable, especially the freshmen who haven’t gotten any minutes or played a whole lot.”

BU linemen adjust to changes M. hockey: From Page 8

Less than halfway through the season, seniors Ben Rosen and Ryan Santana have already seen three different freshman wings rotate through the fourth line with them. Matt Lane, Mike Moran and Sam Kurker have all been fourth-liners so far, and the two seniors have adjusted to every change — although Kurker is now establishing himself as a member of the third line.

“Whether it’s [Lane] or Mike Moran, they know how to play,” Rosen said on Saturday, when Lane was his left wing. “They know to play defensively off of us, so it works out well.

When we can match up against their [an opponent’s] first line and shut them down, that lets our first line go against one of their worst lines and dominate them.”

Parker has praised his fourth line’s defense throughout the season, and Rosen said he and Santana make sure each of their new wingers understands his role.

“Santana and I are usually together, so we’ll talk to the guy before entering practice during that week and kind of let them know how it is to be on our line and what Coach expects of us, and to just be a responsible,

solid defensive line,” Rosen said. “It doesn’t matter who is on our line, they usually adapt pretty well to it.”

Maguire named Rookie of the Week After a shutout win over St. Lawrence University that brought his save percentage up to .910, freshman goalie Sean Maguire was named Hockey East Rookie of the Week this week.

Maguire made 21 saves against St. Lawrence and has allowed five goals in his last three games after a rough first outing in New Hampshire. Freshman Matt O’Connor had a stronger start to the season and his collegiate career in net, but Maguire has gradually gotten his feet under him and earned, at least, consideration for a start against Boston College next weekend.

“Maguire deserves to be able to play,” Parker said. “We’ve been trying to get them both [Maguire and O’Connor] games at the beginning of the year this year. You can’t judge anybody on one game — and [Maguire] had the bad game against UNH — but he has steadily improved since then.”

Defenseman Matt Grzelcyk also received the weekly honor this year.

One Terrier who has been seeing substantial minutes lately is junior guard Danielle Callahan who, after complying with NCAA transfer rules and battling back from injury, is seeing her first significant playing time in three years.

“I feel good,” Callahan said.

“We have a great supporting cast, and we’re really good at looking for each other. We’re really spreading out the scoring pretty evenly. We like to make that extra pass and work the ball around to keep everyone involved.”

Callahan is averaging 7.7 points per game and is currently third on the team with 12 3-point field goals.

The Terriers will return home to host St. John’s University in Case Gym on Saturday night. Tipoff is scheduled for 1 p.m.

M. basketball: From Page 8

it back against GMU. BU counts on sharpshooting freshman guard John Papale for clutch 3-pointers, but he only made a quarter of his shots, going 2-for-8 from deep, while turning the ball over three times.

The team as a whole shot 15-for53, or 28 percent from the field.

“I thought the George Mason game was our best game,” Jones said. “I think they shot 33 percent from the floor. I think we did a great job defensively. We shared the ball, got open shots, but couldn’t make them.

“It’s been a game of inches …

We were a few possessions away from being 3–2 and that’s the way you got to look at it.”

The Terriers will have their hands full against the Chanticleers (2–2) Wednesday night, Jones said.

“They are a dangerous offensive team, they out-rebound,” Jones said. “They have the nation’s leading scorer [in senior Anthony Raffa] who transferred from Albany.

[Coastal Carolina] is a quality team and quality opponent.”

Raffa is off to a great start this season, averaging 26 points per game.

“We have got to make him take tough shots,” Jones said about his strategy for defending Raffa. “If we leave him open, he’s the kind of guy that’s going to take shots. We have to do a good job contesting him.”

Raffa’s scoring ability is complemented by a great supporting cast.

The team is averaging 77.6 points per game this season.

BU’s struggling offense will face a sizeable challenge in the highscoring Coastal Carolina team.

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Peters’ season comes to anti-climactic end Cross country: From Page 8

once again, finishing ninth with a time of 30:29.8 in the 10-kilometer race. His finish qualified him for the NCAA Championships on Nov. 17, making him the first national qualifier for BU since 2003.

Unfortunately for BU, Peters fell sick on the day of the race, and was unable to complete the course.

Still, Peters had the best cross country season of his collegiate career, and BU coach Bruce Lehane had much to say regarding the positive progress of his superstar.

“He’s developed in terms of

stamina running,” Lehane said.

“From a developmental standpoint, he’s in a good place.”

Lehane said it was difficult to pick out a single highlight from the season, but the overall experience of the 2012 campaign was one to remember.

“You see the athletes pull together … that’s one of the most rewarding and refreshing aspects of participation in the sport. That’s the highlight for me. Friendships made, bonds formed, there’s a lot to like,” Lehane said.

The season was full of honors, as several Terrier harriers took home

the America East Performer of the Week award over the course of the season, including Peters (Sept. 18 and Oct. 9), Paulson (Oct. 2), Adler (Oct. 9) and Gibson (Oct. 19).

While there were plenty of impressive performances from Peters, Gibson, Paulson and Adler, Lehane said most of the runners contributed to the season in a significant way.

“You get out of it what you put into it,” Lehane said. “A lot of the kids put their hearts into it. It was fulfilling for them … I’m very happy with the performance of both groups this year.”

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Terrier defensemen battle for final spot in lineup

By Annie Maroon Daily Free Press Staff

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Freshman goaltender Sean MaGuire won Rookie of the Week honors after allowing five goals in his last three games.

Too much of a good thing Any time a team has a surplus of capable players at a position, someone is bound to note that this is a good problem to have. Boston University coach Jack Parker acknowledges that that is true from a coach’s perspective, but less so for the two defensemen, junior Patrick MacGregor and senior Ryan Ruikka, who are competing to lock down the Terriers’ sixth defensive spot.

“We have a nice problem, but it’s not nice for the two guys who are worrying about whether they are in the lineup or not,” Parker said. “And certainly Pat MacGregor deserves to be in the lineup every night … But so does Ruikka.”

Of BU’s 11 games so far, Ruikka

has started 10 and MacGregor five (both played when freshman Ahti Oksanen and sophomore Alexx Privitera were out).

As an assistant captain, Ruikka would seem to have an edge, but MacGregor brings size — 6-foot-4, 230 pounds — to a defensive corps that sometimes lacks physicality.

“We are trying to figure out a body of work, not just one game,” Parker said. “I would like to get it down to the point where we know, ‘This is the top six,’ and the seventh is going to have to accept that role …

But we have not made that decision yet.”

Rosen and Santana comfortable with revolving wingers

Men’s hockey, see page 7

Cross country team overcomes obstacles in 2012

By Sarah Kirkpatrick Daily Free Press Staff

The Boston University cross country team faced plenty of obstacles in the 2012 season, but neither the men nor women suffered a shortage of success.

The year began with a pair of team victories on the men’s side at the Bryant University Invitational in Smithfield, R.I., and the University of New Hampshire Invitational in Durham, N.H. At the Bryant Invitational on Sept. 8, a trio of seniors finished inside the top 15. Matt Paulson took home the individual victory, with a time of 25:25.1 in the eight-kilometer race. Robert Gibson finished second with a time of 25:44.2 and Michael Caputo placed 12th, cross-

ing the finish line at 26:27.7.

The women finished eighth as a team, led by freshman Shelby Stableford who finished 19th (18:57.1) in her collegiate debut.

The UNH Invitational on Sept.

14 featured the season debut for perennial BU distance star junior Rich Peters. His first-place finish, which came in a time of 25:07.81, lifted the men to their second consecutive victory.

On the women’s side, junior Monica Adler also competed in her first race of the season, leading the women to finish fourth as a team.

Adler finished in fourth place with a time of 17:15.4.

At their first major meet of the season, the Paul Short Invitational in Bethlehem, Pa., on Sept. 28,

the BU men placed 15th out of 37 teams. In the absence of Peters, who developed a knee injury earlier that week, Paulson again led the Terriers, placing 32nd overall (24:43).

The women finished 26th out of 40 teams, with Adler’s 40th-place finish (21:14) leading the way.

On Oct. 7, with several key runners battling sicknesses, the Terriers competed at the New England Championships in Westfield. Adler took home the first individual victory of her career with a time of 17:00.79 in the five-kilometer race.

Her win led the women to a seventh-place finish out of 37 teams.

Peters returned from his injury with a tentative, yet strong showing. He came in second and led the

men to a fourth-place finish.

The Terriers traveled to the Central Connecticut State Mini Meet in New Britain, Conn., on Oct. 19 for their final regular season meet.

Gibson finished third (15:38.35) to lead the men to a fourth-place team finish. Senior Nikki Long (12th, 10:38.38) and junior Danielle Bowen (14th, 10:40.11) led the women, who finished sixth as a team.

The postseason was highlighted by several strong performances at the NCAA Northeast Regional in New London, Conn., on Nov. 9.

The men finished ninth as a team, the best finish of all America East teams. Peters led the BU men

Cross country, see page 7

Women’s basketball defeats URI Terriers seeking first victory

By Matt Fils-Aime Daily Free Press Staff

Coming off of a single-digit loss to the University of Michigan, the Boston University women’s basketball team went on the road again Tuesday night to take on the University of Rhode Island. Due in large part to a stout man-to-man defense, the Terriers (4–3) rolled to a 54–29 victory at the Ryan Center in Kingston, R.I. The Terriers’ strong defensive showing was critical to their success as they forced the Rams to commit 14 turnovers. The Terriers scored 19 points off of the URI turnovers.

Senior guard Chantell Alford led all scorers once again with 17 points on 7-of-13 shooting.

She drained two treys on three attempts during the night.

Holding down the paint was junior forward Rashidat Agboola, whose 14 rebounds and eight points contributed to the stellar Ram blowout The game began with a series of missed shots from each team before URI opened the scoring with a jumper from forward Samantha Tabakman. BU then went

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Frank Marasco My senior year of high school I took a class on money management, titled “Personal Finance.”

The class was meant to wet our pallet to the world of finance and the big, bad economic monster that we constantly heard reporters and our parents talking about.

By no means did this class make me an economic expert — or even economically literate — but I learned a few interesting and valuable things over the course of the year.

Things I still think about.

Among the concepts I found interesting is the idea that a “rising tide lifts all boats.”

Basically, if the economy upticks everybody wins. It doesn’t mean everyone will suddenly have a ton of money, but everybody — generally speaking — will be better off than before.

If you’re rich, you’ll be richer.

If you’re struggling, you’ll struggle less.

Other than tee-ball, where the last place team gets trophies and pizza after each game, “everybody wins” is such a rare phenomenon in life.

But on Saturday night, when the University of Notre Dame won its way into the Bowl Championship Series title game, everybody won. It feels strange, doesn’t it? Seeing Notre Dame at the top of a list, with a decimal next to it?

It feels so strange because it’s never happened before.

The BCS went into place in 1998 and the Irish haven’t held the top spot in the polls since 1993. They’ve never even won a BCS bowl game.

Notre Dame’s resurgence raises all boats on the college football sea. There’s more revenue floating around. Television ratings spike. That’s great for the NCAA and all Division I football programs.

And it also raises your boat — the boat captained and crewed by the fans.

All major sports, not just collegiate ones, are better when traditional powers — teams with rich history and mass followings — do well.

Since 1991, Notre Dame has had a national network television contract. That’s a big deal in col-

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on a 14-point tear that gave them a lead they would not relinquish for the rest of the matchup.

“From the get-go, I thought we established a pretty good presence offensively, attacking the basket,” said BU coach Kelly Greenberg.

“We got a lot of good shots early on. We didn’t hit a lot of them, but we were definitely getting what we wanted.”

In the first half, the Terriers struggled to find the bottom of the net, shooting just 33 percent from the floor. They did, however, manage to bury 6-of-11 3-pointers for a clip of 54 percent from deep.

The Terriers were also strangers to the free throw line, taking just two free throws in the first half and missing both of them.

Heading into the locker room at half time, the Terriers were up big with a 22–9 advantage.

In the second half, the Terriers showed improvement in nearly all areas, shooting 43 percent from the floor to go along with an improved 57 percent from the charity stripe. Guards were able to penetrate the defense and subsequently

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By Christopher Dela Rosa Daily Free Press Staff

The Boston University men’s basketball team looks to overcome a disappointing winless start to the season as it hosts Coastal Carolina University at Case Gym Wednesday at 7 p.m.

On Saturday night, the Terriers (0–5) travelled to Fairfax, Va., to take on George Mason University.

For the third time this season, the Terriers suffered a last-second defeat.

The first such loss came against Northeastern University on Nov. 9.

As the clock wound down, guard Demetrius Pollard drained an open 3-pointer to defeat BU. The Terriers’ second close defeat came Nov. 20 against Rutgers University when a flagrant foul ruined the Terriers’ chances of an upset.

Against the Patriots (4–2), the Terriers’ defense collapsed as it did against Northeastern. They gave GMU guard Bryon Allen an open lane to the hoop, which he attacked with ease. While making the layup to put his team up by two, Allen was fouled. He hit the ensuing free throw.

The loss was BU’s fifth in a row

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to start the season. It is the first time BU has started a season 0-5 since the 2005-06 campaign.

On Wednesday evening, the Terriers look to regroup in front of Terrier Nation in their second home game this season. BU will host the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers for the first time since 1992. The matchup will be the Terriers’ first game against a member of the Big South Conference in 12 years.

“We’re happy to be coming back home, especially since we only had one chance to play [at Case] in our first five games,” said BU coach Joe Jones.

Although BU has started off with five consecutive losses, the team has not played poorly. Its last two games were two of its most well-rounded games of the season.

Against Rutgers (5–1), junior guard D.J. Irving scored a careerhigh 24 points despite having early shooting trouble.

In the most recent game, junior forward Dom Morris recorded his third career double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds.

BU’s inability to make shots held

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