11-30-2017

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2017 THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR XLVI. VOLUME XCII. ISSUE XII.

BU announces new initiative for innovation

BY ANDRES PICON

The Howard Thurman center announces its plans to move to the 808 Gallery Space on Commonwealth Avenue.

PHOTO COURTESY KENNETH ELMORE

Howard Thurman Center to relocate, expand

BY SHAUN ROBINSON

The Howard Thurman Center announced last week that it will expand and relocate from the basement of the George Sherman Union to 808 Commonwealth Ave., a move that will bring its staff and programs to a more accessible location on campus.

The relocation is the last phase of a multi-year commitment by Boston University to improve the HTC, according to Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore. In addition to announcing the move, the center has hired four new staff members and increased its budget for programs and activities.

Elmore said the idea to expand the HTC grew from a conversation about the protests at the University of Missouri several years ago, and the presence of hurtful, vitriolic language on college campuses.

“Students said to us that the universities should play a more positive role in helping students to learn more about these things, but also to be able to talk to each other and communicate with each other,” Elmore said.

“Students also said to us … the HTC plays a good role in fostering those ideas.”

Elmore added that the Howard Thurman

Center will bring students together for important discussions and innovation regarding social issues.

“This is the place where people can come to really further those conversations,” Elmore said, “and not just conversations, but also action.”

Pedro Falci, the associate director of the HTC, who co-chaired the committee to plan the center’s expansion, said the new space will allow the HTC to expand its reach across campus.

“We’re going to be very visible so people will know where we are,” Falci said. “We have more institutional support than we’ve ever had, and that gives us the ability not just to increase the quality but [also] the quantity of our programs.”

Falci added that the new HTC will share the 808 building with the College of Fine Arts gallery already present there, and will benefit from its proximity to the nearly-complete Joan and Edgar Booth Theater.

Falci said he anticipates it to be a very artistic and happening block, and a home for culture among students.

A key element of the new HTC building, Falci said, will be a large event space, which

will allow the center to put together programs quickly, since it will no longer need to search across campus for adequate facilities.

“This will be so helpful for us to be responsive to our community,” Falci said, “so we really are able to be a home for conversations on what’s happening in our world, and do so not a month down the road, but tomorrow, the day after, or the day of the event.”

Falci said the expanded HTC will have a conference room, three classrooms for humanities classes and a possible meditation space on the second floor of the building.

While it is too early to know the firm timeline and cost of the project, Falci said, Elmore and the HTC team will be fundraising for the new building. The team will attempt to rally support from alumni and those involved in nonprofits and philanthropy.

“This is an endeavor that we hope will touch people and that they want to be a part of,” Falci said. “We just want this to symbolically and physically be a community-wide thing where people give as little as a dollar, to perhaps millions of dollars, because they believe in the idea.”

BU President Robert Brown, who first

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Boston University will be launching Innovate@BU in January — a new initiative intended to provide students with the means to explore innovation and entrepreneurship, regardless of their field of study.

The push for the program comes after the submission of a report last spring by Siobhan O’Mahony, a professor of strategy and innovation, and her committee. Based on this report and the suggestions of alumni and other BU affiliates, the university made the decision to introduce the initiative. Twenty million dollars in funding will be allocated to the project over the next 10 years, according to an email from President Robert Brown sent to students Wednesday morning.

The initiative, which will be led by O’Mahony and Gerald Fine, the director of the Engineering Product Innovation Center, among others, will be comprised of six central components — including a Student Innovation Center and programs to engage students in curriculum development, start-up creation, business engagement, research, marketing and branding, according to Brown’s email.

“Our goal is to empower our students to be able to convert their ideas into something impactful,” Fine, who will be the initiative’s executive director, said. “The definition of something impactful could be a social enterprise, it might be a business start-up, it might be an art exhibit. We think that’s up for the students to decide.”

Innovate@BU will serve as a gateway to already existing BU programs in a variety of fields — like the College of Engineering’s EPIC, the College of Arts and Sciences’s BU Spark!, the College of Communication’s Media Ventures program and the School of Law’s Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Clinic, according to Brown’s email.

The fact that the initiative will be multidisciplinary means it will bring about a more connected and unified BU community, O’Mahony said.

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Students organize to send children of sick parents to camp

BY MICHAEL GOMEZ

A chapter of Camp Kesem, an organization that sends children whose parents have been diagnosed with cancer to summer camp, recently opened at Boston University.

The co-founders of the BU chapter, Sabrina Reyes and Aparna Rakesh, juniors in the Questrom School of Business, are hoping to send 30 children to summer camp next year free of charge.

The program, which sent over 7,000 kids to camp last summer, has more than 100 chapters in universities across the country.

Camp Kesem is the largest national organization dedicated to kids with family members suffering from cancer.

Reyes, whose own family has been affected by cancer, said Camp Kesem provides children with an opportunity to grow in a community environment.

“From everything that I have been told from counselors and my friends that are now involved as well, and what I experienced going to camp when I was a kid with my dad

sick, it’s a growing experience,” Reyes said.

“Especially for Camp Kesem — being in a camp where other kids are going through the same thing — you are feeling understood.

You’re not feeling alone.”

Reyes said she was motivated to found the chapter on BU’s campus because she wanted to provide kids with the opportunity to attend a camp that addressed their unique circumstances.

“There’s a lot of camps for kids who have cancer,” Reyes said, “but I hadn’t, until Camp Kesem, seen anything that really targeted the kids who are affected by it.”

The primary goal of the camp is to allow kids who are trying to cope with a parent’s cancer diagnosis and treatment to have a fun, memorable summer, Reyes said. Rakesh elaborated on the importance of such a camp in a young child’s social and emotional development.

“It gives them a voice that they wouldn’t have had otherwise,” Rakesh said. “I’m a huge supporter of giving a voice to those who may not have one, and I think that these children, CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

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Camp Kesem is a summer program for children whose parents have cancer.

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SPH symposium addresses commercial sex policy

CAMPUS CRIME LOGS

BY SOPHIA BROWN

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs from Nov. 28.

Possible suicide attempt on BU Bridge BUPD was asked to assist Massachusetts State Police at 2:27 p.m. on Sunday in dealing with a possible suicide attempt on the BU Bridge near 808 Commonwealth Ave. Nothing was found at BU Bridge. A State Police officer said they received a ping from the subject’s phone near Agganis Arena, prompting BUPD officers to search the perimeter of the building. Boston Fire Department and Cambridge Police Department also responded.

The School of Public Health at Boston University hosts a symposium on commercial sex policy Wednesday.

BY RACHEL KELLY

A symposium on national and international commercial sex policy was hosted Wednesday by the Boston University School of Public Health at the Hiebert Lounge of the BU Medical Campus.

The symposium, which ran from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., offered visitors the opportunity to listen to nine speakers who shared stories and statistics derived from both personal experiences with commercial sex and research on the topic.

Emily Rothman, a professor in the School of Public Health, said she hoped listeners would realize commercial sex policy is a very multifaceted and polarized issue, and that there may not actually be one correct approach to it.

“It’s a complicated issue,” Rothman said.

“It’s okay to just take in all of the information, think about the different angles and try to work together as a public health community to arrive at what we think makes the most logical sense.”

Rothman said the speakers were chosen and placed in a specific speaking order to help visitors understand the issue of commercial sex policy through various perspectives, including global, historical and personal points of view.

Saniye Gülser Corat, the director of the Division for Gender Equality at the Office of the Director-General at UNESCO, was among the symposium’s first few presenters. Corat said individuals are influenced to work in commercial sex for a variety of reasons.

“There are many drivers,” Corat said.

“The ones that I want to highlight are poverty, indebtedness, low level of education, low levels of work opportunities, abuse, drug use and … humanitarian emergencies and conflict situations.”

Corat said about 4.8 million of the total

victims of global sex trafficking in 2016 were women or children.

“How people experience trafficking or sex work is highly gendered,” Corat said.

“It’s roughly seven times the population of the city of Boston.”

Audrey Morrissey, the associate director of My Life My Choice, which works to end the commercial sexual exploitation of children, spoke later in the symposium, sharing her personal experiences with substance abuse and working in the commercial sex industry. She said that although she no longer works in the industry, the consequences seem everlasting.

“I still see the effects of my substance abuse on the three of my children,” Morrissey said.

“I see the effects of it every time [my daughter] is in my presence. Those are my realities.”

Morrissey said her first daughter was born addicted to heroin. Morrissey’s mother took the baby when the hospital finally released her after three months of treatment.

“The reality is, being in the life, with or without a pimp, with or without drugs, choice or no choice — that will never go away,” Morrissey said. “It makes me emotional because nobody talks about the effects.”

Several of the people who went to the symposium said they went because they wanted to hear from a variety of speakers about the topic of commercial sex.

Jillian Rausa, a second-year SPH graduate student, said she went to the event because she was curious about commercial sex policy.

Rausa said hearing the stories of a commercial sex worker was especially interesting.

“I think that in public health, a lot of people don’t think about what happens afterward, and what kind of support systems these folks have,” Rausa said. “That’s a whole different aspect of the issue that we’re forgetting.”

Rausa added that the breadth of

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speakers helped spread awareness from multiple perspectives.

“It’s interesting to hear the different backgrounds of the speakers they’re bringing in,” Rausa said. “Hearing [findings] from different fields is important to get a better understanding of the topic.”

Danielle Balocca, a clinician at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, said she went to the symposium to provide emotional support. She said the stories discussed at the symposium align closely with many she hears in her work.

“I’ve worked with people that have experienced sexual violence in the context of sex work,” Balocca said. “It’s something that I always want to know more about and hear different perspectives about.”

Balocca added that taking a stance on commercial sex policy is complicated, but that the information presented by the speakers was useful.

“I really appreciated the perspective of people who have actually been sex workers or who have been involved in that life,” Balocca said. “I have more information [with which] to think about my own stance on [commercial sex]. The organization I work for doesn’t have any formal stance on it.”

Clifford Lo, a nutrition professor at Harvard University, said he went to the symposium because he was interested in how commercial sex influences global public health.

Lo said he was most interested in the statistics discussed during the symposium suggesting that HIV transmission would be reduced by about 40 percent by decriminalizing sex work in several cities.

“I think the evidence that is presented suggests that decriminalization would reduce public health effects like sexually transmitted diseases,” Lo said. “I would be in favor of that.”

Amanda Kaufman contributed to the reporting in this article.

808 Commonwealth Ave. to house expanded HTC HTC MOVE, FROM PAGE 1 introduced the initiative to expand the HTC, wrote in an email that the university hopes the new location will be more accessible to students.

“I think the role of the HTC is expanding,” Brown wrote, “and we are hoping that it will be more visible and engaging to all our students.”

Brown wrote that “because the building has historical significance, the outside of the building will remain very similar when the renovation is complete.”

Several students expressed excitement about the expansion and relocation of the HTC. Devin Harvin, an HTC Student Ambassador, said he thinks the expansion will be beneficial to the HTC’s mission.

“I think it’s going to be great and it’s going to completely transform the campus and continue to push the idea of common ground that Howard Thurman established at BU,” the College of Arts and Sciences junior said.

Seun Kuye, a senior in the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, said that while she thinks the new West Campus location is less convenient for her to get to, it

will be an improvement over the smaller GSU basement space.

“Being in West Campus might be a little more difficult because the [current location] is more central, but I feel like the size might be a good thing,” Kuye said.

Justin Taylor, a freshman in the College of Engineering, said he thinks the new location will bring greater attention to the HTC. “People who haven’t seen it before or heard about it will notice it, because on the streets they’ll pass by it almost every day,” Taylor said. “I think it’s going to bring a lot more people together.”

Disorderly person outside Hotel Comonwealth A Hotel Commonwealth doorman reported at 9:42 p.m. on Tuesday that a man had been standing outside 500 Commonwealth Ave. yelling at passersby.

The man had moved to Kenmore station while the report was being made. BUPD notified Transit Police.

CITY

CRIME LOGS

BY KAYLIE FELSBERG

The following crime reports were taken from the Boston Police Department crime logs from Nov. 27.

Missing person report on Richardson Street An officer responded to a radio call at 5:10 a.m. on Monday for a missing person at 32 Richardson St. Upon arrival, a staff member from the Communities for People program said the missing person — who takes diabetic medicine but is in good mental and physical condition — left their residence at 2:05 a.m. without permission.

Vandalism reported on Cambridge Street An officer responded to a call for vandalism at 599 Cambridge St. in Allston at 8:40 a.m. on Monday. The caller said their car had been parked outside their residence since Sunday at 11:30 a.m. The next day at 7:30 a.m., the caller saw the car’s driver side window had been broken, with glass surrounding the car, but the doors were still locked and nothing had been removed.

Fire in Brighton An officer responded to a radio call for a fire at 72 Cresthill Road at 9:34 a.m. on Monday. The Boston Fire Department said they believe the fire was caused by a cigarette. A resident told the officer that he thinks his neighbors downstairs smoke cigarettes on the back deck. The BFD said the cost of the damage was approximately $15,000.

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FCC vote could affect Boston businesses, consumers

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The FCC announces its intention to repeal net neutrality in December.

BY ANU SAWHNEY

The upcoming vote by the Federal Communications Commission to possibly repeal net neutrality could affect people and businesses nationally, especially in cities across the country, like Boston.

The vote could reverse the principle which provides for “heavy-handed regulatory framework” and “utility-style regulations” of the internet, Ajit Pai, the chairman of the FCC, said in a statement. Previous attempts to weaken net neutrality regulations have led to a great deal of backlash, forcing current FCC Title II rules that safeguard net neutrality.

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh tweeted in opposition of the repeal vote and in support of Boston businesses, stating it “stunts” economic growth in the city.

Norman Guadagno, the senior vice president of marketing at Carbonite, a Boston-based company that offers tools to protect against data loss, wrote in an email that the rejection of net neutrality would lead to disastrous results for smaller broadband service providers.

“Net neutrality creates a level playing field for businesses by ensuring that too much power doesn’t fall into the hands of too few,” Guadagno wrote. “If it’s eliminated, the

world’s five largest broadband service providers will gain unfettered control over who gets access to the internet and how fast their internet connection speeds will be.”

He wrote that a repeal presents a substantial concern for internet privacy, as it would give ISPs permission to use consumers’ browsing histories, even without those histories being shared with them.

“If these rules are rolled back, it would largely allow the industry to police itself,” Guadagno wrote. “These companies would also have free reign to create ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ lanes for internet traffic, and to block content and applications that compete with their own products, or even block news and opinion sites that promote political views they don’t believe in.”

Consumers and small businesses are most at-risk if net neutrality gets repealed, Guadagno wrote, because they are unable to ensure they have equity when it comes to internet access.

Another potential risk is how the repeal of net neutrality could affect small businesses if they were to have a cyberattack which requires high-speed internet in order to regain their data and go back to running their businesses, Guadagno wrote.

“Imagine the harm that would cause each

one of these small businesses, who would have to wait days longer, maybe weeks, to recover critical information to run their business and serve customers,” Guadagno wrote.

Daniel Lyons, a law professor at Boston College, said he is skeptical of net neutrality, an order he says hasn’t affected internet operations since its inception.

“The ISPs voluntarily adhered to net neutrality principles even in the period before 2015 when net neutrality became law,” Lyons said. “The concern among proponents of net neutrality is that you need the rules in order to prevent people from doing something nefarious in the future.”

Lyons said that while net neutrality has become a topic of contention lately, there shouldn’t be much concern regarding the loss of added regulations.

“Before 2015, we had no net neutrality rules and the net was fairly thoroughly open, in part because we don’t really have congestion on broadband networks right now and so there’s no need for some companies to pay for privatization over others,” Lyons said. “Even for small business, I don’t think there’s going to be any serious impact or are going to continue to pay the bills they’ve always paid for hosting and for transit and things like that.”

Several Boston residents said they agree with Mayor Walsh’s backlash.

Brad Chaffee, 35, of Brighton, said he used to work for a small software company that would be negatively affected by a repeal.

“I like the idea of innovation, and small companies being allowed to use the internet and its open concepts,” Chaffee said. “The whole thing was designed to be open and that’s the model its operated on.”

Matt Sliwkowski, 26, of Allston, said he opposes the potential abolishment, an issue he says is not just specific to Boston.

“I hate it, and I think everything should be equal,” Sliwkowski said. “This opens up a bad can of worms if you ask me, and I don’t think it’s a good idea.”

Christopher Lewis, 44, of Brighton , said smaller tech companies would struggle under the new regulations.

“As someone who works in the tech industry, I know the battle and back-and-forth of net neutrality,” Lewis said. “The internet should be a place that’s safe and equal for all.

The elimination of net neutrality would put all the power into the hands of bigger companies which just isn’t right.”

Jordan Kimmel contributed to the reporting of this article.

BU chapter of Camp Kesem plans to send kids to camp CAMP KESEM, FROM PAGE 1 they go through so much at home and they don’t have people that identify with what they’re going through.”

The children need a safe space and an escape from their sometimes troubling life at home where they get to be a kid again, Rakesh said. Camp Kesem is able to create this space by surrounding the kids with peers who are undergoing similar difficult experiences.

At the camp, children can expect to participate in familiar camp activities, like canoeing, swimming, water balloon fights and rope climbing, Rakesh said. It aims to be a normal camp experience, but the counselors and staff are trained to help the campers in case they experience emotional

hardships while being away from home.

“These kids touch you in ways that you would have never imagined,” Rakesh said, “and you touch them in ways you can’t even see until after camp is over.”

The BU chapter will try to send 30 kids to the camp this upcoming summer, Rakesh said, and is hoping to raise approximately $1,000 for every camper through fundraisers and donations. The camp coordinators plan to make Kesem an annual event to serve Boston-area children every summer.

Several BU students involved in the campus chapter said they were excited to see the impact the chapter would have on the surrounding community.

Michelle Megala, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said she thinks the

camp is unique because it caters to kids’ specific circumstances. “[The kids] can use the camp as an outlet to put their worries aside for a moment’s time and enjoy the little things in life,” Megala said. It will be an opportunity for the campers to discover “collective understanding and a group of people that will soon be family to them.”

Brittany Foushee, a junior in CAS, said she thinks the Camp Kesem organization provides kids with a lifelong support system, rather than with a one-time event. Chapters across the country send out holiday cards and maintain regular contact with campers to remind the kids they are not alone.

“Because [the BU chapter is] new, we don’t have that type of a bond with the camp-

ers yet,” Foushee said, “but once we have our first camp we will start to get that going.”

Foushee added that she has heard from counselors that the bond they make with their campers over a single summer is one “they feel like they can have for the rest of their time.”

Angel Gao, a junior in CAS, said she was hopeful that the camp would provide a positive environment in which the kids could have a fun summer.

“They will be in an environment where they can be themselves and just be kids again,” Gao said. “They are surrounded by those that share similar experiences with them and they know that they’re not alone.

It allows them to relieve stress and just have fun.”

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House, Senate differ in sexual misconduct policies

BY CAMILLE FOWLER

Although the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives fall under the same roof — that of the State House — they differ in the methods they use to combat sexual harassment in the political sphere.

Multiple anonymous accounts from women who had experienced sexual harassment or assault in the State House were brought to light in late October. In response, Rep. Robert DeLeo released a statement following the revelation about the culture of harassment inside of the House of Representatives.

“I want to assure all members, employees and visitors of/to the House of Representatives that the House of Representatives has a zero-tolerance policy for harassment of any form and has, and will continue to, thoroughly investigate any reported incident of harassment and take decisive and appropriate action to discipline offenders and protect victims,” DeLeo said in his statement The House Committee on Ethics has full authority to conduct investigations into sexual harassment complaints, according to a rule in the House of Representatives employee handbook. The chairman also has the right to convene the committee at any time.

DeLeo also released a document ordering a full review of all current structures in place to prevent or address sexual harassment in the House.

DeLeo’s office has reiterated any victim of harassment or misconduct will be protected by the House if they come forward about their experiences, according to a statement from the office.

“The Speaker encourages victims of sexual harassment and/or anyone who has knowledge of an act of sexual harassment, including anyone with any information related to the incidents recently reported in the media, to contact either the Office of Human Resources or the Office of Legal Counsel immediately so that an investigation

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can be commenced,” the statement said.

Peter Wilson, the press secretary of Senate President Stanley Rosenberg, said the Senate also has a zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment, and staff members can file a complaint with the Senate if they believe they have witnessed or experienced sexual misconduct or assault in the workplace.

“They can do either a direct report, meaning to a senator or the chief staff in their office, or to the HR department or HR Director,” Wilson said. “Every allegation or complaint will be investigated thoroughly in conjunction with the HR department and Senate counsel if necessary.”

In addition to the investigation of filed complaints by the HR department, the Senate has certain policies put in place to prevent misconduct, Wilson said. These pol-

icies are available as an icon on the Senate workplace computers and are distributed to senators at the beginning of each term.

One of the main anti-harassment resources in the Senate is a mandatory in-person training about workplace conduct for both staffers and elected senators, Wilson said. This training takes place at the beginning of each two-year term and is conducted by trainers from the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

The MCAD trainings begin with teaching the basic definition of sexual harassment, and then progress into more detailed subject areas like writing policies, investigating complaints and planning anti-harassment training, according to a statement from the office of Jeremy Scheiner, the director of training at MCAD.

“Online trainings offer an appeal, such as cost savings and a smaller time-investment, but research has shown they are not nearly as effective as when one participates on site,” the statement said. “At the MCAD, we provide trainings in person because we believe the best trainings involve active participation with the trainer and attendees, and take advantage of interactive components, such as scenario-based role-play and small-group work.”

Several Boston residents said this harassment is unacceptable in the workplace and they hope officials are making strides to prevent this kind of behavior.

Casper Van Coesant, 27, of South End, said he thinks more women should name their harassers publicly in an effort to stop this behavior from affecting the workplace environment.

“Obviously, I don’t think it’s acceptable or appropriate for people in power to do that to any of their colleagues,” Van Coesant said, “especially considering preventing them from doing their work is going to affect everything in the city and what the citizens are able to do towards the policies they need.”

Lauren Little, 29, of Allston, said she thinks women in the State House sharing their experiences will be beneficial for younger generations whose stories will also be heard.

“I’m a new mom, so all of the time I’m thinking about my daughter, and I hope that she will feel comfortable sharing if something were to happen to her, especially in the workplace,” Little said. “I hope she’d be respected and that she would be heard.”

Pam Steel, 69, of Back Bay, said she is grateful people are beginning to pay attention to the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace and beyond.

“You feel like you are a second-class citizen as a woman,” Steel said. “Often, men feel that way too, but they tend to be in the positions of power. I look forward to more women being in politics and I think it will be a really great thing.”

20 million dollars set to go to innovation initiative INNOVATE@BU, FROM PAGE 1 “The way to create a real campus initiative is through shared passions and social connections,” O’Mahony said. “We want to engage with all the student groups across the disciplines and across schools, and creating these networks of action and activity is going to be the way that we make this a true campus initiative.”

The Media Ventures program is available to master’s students interested in developing an idea that could lead to an innovative business plan, according to COM Dean Thomas Fiedler, aligning well with Innovate@BU’s mission to facilitate student innovation and entrepreneurship. “[Innovate@BU] provides the kind of coaching that a student or a collaborative group of students may need to help develop an idea — to develop that idea perhaps into

something they can ultimately take to market — and it provides a space and expertise to help them as they’re going along,” Fiedler said.

Part of this new space will be the new BUild Lab: IDG Capital Student Innovation Center, named for IDG Capital, which is supporting the initiative under the leadership of BU alum Hugo Shong, according to Brown’s email. The center will be located at 730 Commonwealth Ave., the former location of Radio Shack.

“A physical location is important because students need a place to meet other likeminded students,” Fine said. “They need a place they can go where they can talk to mentors, where they can get expert advice, where they can attend workshops, where they feel comfortable working in teams.”

Several students said they were excited about the new initiative because it will mean

that students’ projects, ideas and ambitions will be supported and encouraged.

Kavya Verma, a sophomore in the Questrom School of Business, said she thinks Innovate@BU will facilitate entrepreneurship for students, which is increasingly important in the modern world.

“I think [the initiative] says that BU is keeping up with the times, because I think a lot of people right now are really inspired to start their own businesses,” Verma said, “and entrepreneurship is definitely something that’s been on our generation’s mind.”

Niharika Kaushish, a second-year graduate student in the Metropolitan College, said she appreciated the university’s effort to get involved in students’ innovation goals.

“I’m spending a lot of money getting an education, so if there are facilities for me if I want to go into entrepreneurship — which is my field — I think it’s a very helpful

resource,” Kaushish said. “[BU] is showing that they’re willing to do something for the students, and it gives students the opportunity, if they want, to start their own company. They’re having college back them up, which is great.”

Geneve Lau, a freshman in COM, said she thinks the new initiative is a good way to keep students up to date with modern trends and practices while affording them important opportunities.

“It keeps BU relevant with our constantly changing world, especially as education evolves to include more human-centered design and bursting entrepreneurship,” Lau said. “It also shows how BU values student voice and student ownership, and I’m excited to see how the students will take this forward.”

Hannah Schoenbaum, Isabel Owens, Jen Racoosin and Jordan Kimmel contributed to the reporting of this article.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30

FRIDAY,DECEMBER 1

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3

MONDAY, DECMEBER 4

WTBU Grand Re-Opening

Singers Concert

Breaking Boundaries

The Shakespeare Project

Beyond the Headlines

College of Communication

Marsh Chapel

Metcalf Hall

College of Fine Arts

Pardee School of Global Studies

6 - 8 p.m.

8 - 9:30 p.m.

3 - 6 p.m.

4 p.m.

12:30 - 2 p.m.

Hosted by WTBU Studio

Hosted by School of Music

Hosted by BU Asian Student Union

Hosted by School of Theater

Hosted by Pardee School of Global Studies

CATALYST

FEATURES 5

Doctor claims first human head transplant completion amid skepticism

BY SOPHIE WILL

It seems the new doctor Frankenstein is from Italy, not Transylvania.

Dr. Sergio Canavero, former director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, said he and a colleague, Dr. Xiaoping Ren completed the first human head transplant surgery on Nov. 17. A similar surgery was performed on a monkey last year by the same team.

Canavero gained attention in 2014 for announcing in his TEDxLimassol speech that he would be performing the first human head transplant by 2017. But the transplant completed earlier this month was on corpses, not on living beings — the source of much controversy. A live transplant, however, is set to be performed in December on Valery Spiridonov, a 30-year-old who suffers from WerdnigHoffmann disease.

The findings from this month’s procedure have not been published in a peer reviewed article, causing concern within the scientific community.

“If this procedure was truly accomplished somewhere in the world, these important discussions have been completely ignored,” Alberto Cruz-Martín, a biology professor at Boston University wrote in an email. “The procedure was advertised in the news rather than being published in a peer-review journal. What was the reason for doing this? In my opinion, this raises a lot of red flags.”

Tarik Haydar, an anatomy and neurobiology professor at BU’s School of Medicine, agrees with Cruz-Martín on this issue.

“After carefully reading their papers and arguments, I remain with these emotions, as I feel that their scientific work is minimal and

also highly suspicious in several areas,” he said.

Haydar went on to explain how this surgery might have been done, citing peer reviewed work done on severed mouse or rat heads.

“The only evidence for this is a few experiments published in a couple of papers suggesting that neural recovery is seen in some mice or rats that have had their spinal cords severed and then immediately reattached,” he wrote in an email. “The data and the videos presented in these papers are at once unconvincing and disturbing.”

However, Haydar said he has hope that one day that this surgery might actually be possible, especially for those with spinal cord injuries.

Judith L. Schotland, a professor at BU’s Sargent College, said current medical difficulties with nerve regeneration indicate that entirely reconnecting a central nervous system would not be possible.

“To reconnect the pathways that go from the brain to the organs and spinal cord … just wouldn’t work … we know we already have great difficulties in central nervous system regeneration,” she said.

Schotland said the procedure is logistically impossible with current skills and technology.

“Basic functions like breathing, controlling the heart rate and blood pressure … and all the things [our bodies] really need to be connected to the brain … we do not have the ability to either get regeneration of those neurons or repair the connections between them,” Schotland said.

Both Haydar and Cruz-Martín had ethical issues with the transplant being performed on a corpse.

“Even before we start doing this procedure in humans, there are so many ethical and con-

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Dr. Sergio Canavero hopes to complete the first successful human head transplant on a living person

sent issues that should be discussed,” CruzMartín wrote.

Haydar saw both sides, yet still had issues with the surgery. “... Keeping a person’s head alive after their body has died, assuming that all of the technical details could be solved, may have merit for some,” he wrote. “The main issue here are the moral and ethical constraints. Would it be easier to imagine if we could grow an entire new donor body from a person’s stem cells?”

This ethical dilemma has even caused a stir outside the scientific community.

“There’s certain things morally you shouldn’t do. This is one of them,” Alex Papantonis, a junior in BU’s College of Arts and Sciences wrote in an email. “Just because

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Papantonis elaborated on the ethical and moral issues of successfully performing a head transplant, writing “I don’t like the idea of people playing God like that.”

However, she doesn’t believe it’s all bad, and sees some upsides.

“I think the benefits are obvious. If this works, people essentially no quality of life/terminal illnesses could gain a substantial chance at a normal life. There wouldn’t really be a perfect alternative to this,” Papantonis wrote.

But Papatonis still has reservations.

“I just know that when I signed up to be an organ donor,” Papatonis wrote, “this wasn’t exactly what I had in mind.”

Advocate speaks about experience being gay, religious, HIV positive

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Scott Fried speaks about his relationship with religion and homosexuality at Boston University

BY OLIVIA RITTER

“Be with me,” Scott Fried said, beginning his lecture to Boston University students on Tuesday. After calling upon his audience to hear him, and leading a Hebrew prayer to invite God, the award-winning speaker and HIV and AIDS advocate spoke about his experience being gay, religious and HIV positive.

The event was hosted by BU Hillel, Marsh Chapel and the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism.

Fried was diagnosed with HIV in 1988. Since his diagnosis, Fried said he has watched 133 friends lose their battles with the disease. This led to his need to make a change for future generations, as well as for himself, he said.

For 25 years, Fried has been presenting

his story and wisdom to teenagers and adults alike across the globe. On top of his own experiences, Fried speaks on issues including safe sex, body image and suicide.

“The opposite of living is not dying,” Fried said. “The opposite of living is not living a full life.”

Fried began his presentation by recounting the history of the gay rights movement, starting with the Stonewall riots of 1969, when members of the LGBT community retaliated after police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club in New York City.

Fried went on to inform his audience that homosexuality used to be listed as a mental disorder, alongside pedophilia and bestiality in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders by the American Psychiatric Association.

In these times when homosexuality was considered not only a crime, but also a mental disorder, Fried remembers being afraid to admit who he really was or what he refers to as his secret.

“We walk through the world with our secrets in tow,” he said. “No one will accept the real me — the real me is too fragile.”

Fried refers to this time when homosexuality was viewed as wrong as the “pre-‘Glee’ world,” where teenagers could not be freely open about who they were and sing about it in front of their classmates.

Fried walked his audience through his teenage life, leading to college at George Washington University, where he found a picture of a male porn star on his dorm room door. The photo had the words, “I love you, you f*g” written on it in marker. “I couldn’t stop looking at it,” he said.

After college, Fried worked in theaters in New York City, where a carpenter gave him his number.

“I longed to be seen, but not for what I was showing,” Fried said, remembering how he had a hunger to find “his person” — someone he could be himself with. When he walked to the carpenter’s door, he was stuck asking himself, “Am I enough?”

This phrase, “Am I enough?” echoed throughout Fried’s talk. In this carpenter’s apartment, where Fried had his first sexual encounter with a man, he concluded that he was not enough. He aimed to turn this curse — not that he was HIV positive, but rather the feeling that he was not enough — into a blessing. He reminds himself that in God’s image, he is enough.

He also discussed the importance of being welcoming. “People who say ‘come here,’ they don’t judge and don’t scold …

[they] hold the space for you to be vulnerable and authentic,” he said in an interview with The Daily Free Press.

Sydney Berman, a junior in the Questrom School of Business, first met Fried at a conference in St. Louis, and saw him again in his talk on Tuesday.

“I think he moves you and understands people,” she said. “Everyone should love their own life and value it.”

Danielle Tesler, a junior in the College of Engineering, and one of the event’s organizers, said she was intrigued by Fried’s story and wanted the BU community to hear it.

“He is well-known for being Jewish and gay, and given that I identify as a religious Jew and bisexual, I thought he had a story to which I could really relate,” she said.

Tesler explained that being LGBT and being religious are often thought of as being worlds apart, and the relationship between the two is not often talked about.

“Often times with the way that people have interpreted the Bible, Koran and Torah, society sees being religious and LGBT as two very opposite things,” she said. “When LGBT people think this way, then they close themselves off from this entire network of community, culture and support.”

Fried is the author of three books: “If I Grow Up: Talking With Teens About AIDS, Love and Staying Alive,” published in 1997, “My Invisible Kingdom: Letters From the Secret Lives of Teens,” published in 2004 and “A Private Midnight: A Teenager’s Scrapbook of Secrets,” published in 2009.

“Coming out of any closet, bow your head, let life hurt,” Fried said. “Be beautiful and be fragile.”

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Boston area restaurant Citrus & Salt opens its doors to the public, serving Baja inspired foods.

Chef Jason Santos opens new restaurant, Citrus & Salt

BY SIMONE MIGLIORI

Citrus & Salt, Chef Jason Santos’ newest culinary expedition, opened in Boston’s Back Bay Monday night. Inside, the whitewashed brick walls, strings of patio lights, and rows of desert plants in ceramic pots relocate guests right into the sights, sounds and smells of the Baja Coast.

“It’s Mexican, but it’s not predictable Mexican,” Santos said in an interview.

Citrus & Salt’s menu is an experiment in “playful, reimagined coastal cuisine,” according to the restaurant’s press release.

With a raw bar and a variety of small plates, diners can try anything from panfried blowfish tails with almond jam and gooseberry salsa to crab and cactus chowder to warm agave-glazed biscuits with cinnamon butter and spicy poblano and pepperjack spread.

Santos’ grilled corn is a messy, addictive take on a classic Mexican street food. It’s covered in crushed hot Cheetos, slathered in mayonnaise and sprinkled with shredded cotija cheese.

After the wild success of his restaurant Buttermilk & Bourbon last year, Santos decided to open Citrus & Salt as a “sister” restaurant. He described the fundamentals

of the two restaurants as similar — both utilizing small plate menus and similar branding techniques. Yet, though the restaurants share the same vibe, they have “completely different concepts” when it comes to cuisine, Santos said.

With Buttermilk & Bourbon, Santos celebrated his love of New Orleans comfort food.

Citrus & Salt’s Mexican cuisine, on the other hand, is an endeavor in authenticity, with Santos’ own creative spin on the textures and techniques incorporated into the dishes.

“I don’t want to be like every other generic Mexican restaurant,” Santos said, which is why guests won’t find chips and salsa on the menu. “One of my strengths as a chef is my creativity, so I like to put my little spin on things.”

Santos cultivated his culinary background in the discipline of fine dining. His first Boston restaurant, Abby Lane, serves what he calls “straightforward American.”

But Santos believes the days of going to a restaurant simply to eat a good meal are over.

“My whole career I have always done [traditional] courses — entrees and appetizers — stuff like that,” Santos said. “[But] the restaurant scene nowadays is more about sharing, creating a conversation [and]

getting a reaction.”

Buttermilk & Bourbon was Santos’ first undertaking in the realm of trendy smallplate style dining. The popularity of the menu format, the elimination of potential kitchen mistakes and the freshness and quality of the dishes made sticking with the small plates an easy decision for Santos and his team.

Longtime Santos fan Dawn Silvia Oates, 45, of Chestnut Hill, visited Buttermilk & Bourbon when it first opened last year and was blown away by the experience.

“Boston has no other concept like it,” she wrote in a Facebook message. “[It has] authentic f lavors, steeped in ambience … with unique touches and a menu that is as comforting as it is eclectic.”

Santos, a celebrity chef on Food Network’s “Hell’s Kitchen,” said that his goal with the sister restaurants was not fame or recognition.

“I’m the chef that cooks for my guests.

I don’t care about me,” Santos said. “And I want people to leave [Citrus & Salt] and be like, ‘Holy s*** I had a good time!’”

But why a West Coast cuisine for an East Coast native? While on vacation in Cancun and Cozumel in his early twenties, Santos instantly fell in love with Mexican food. As he gained culinary experience, he

traveled to Mexico City and Oaxaca to dive deeper into his mastery of the cuisine.

As a result of his passion for the true flavors of the country, Santos’ goal is to, “stay true to Mexico” with Citrus & Salt.

From the cocktail menu, guests can find drinks with names like “#Unfollow” and “I Didn’t Text You, Tequila Did,” along with an extensive repertoire of tequilas, in true Mexican fashion. Citrus & Salt’s margaritas, made fresh at the bar, are less sugary than what one typically expects from the popular tourist drink.

Behind the bar, a large mural of a Dia de los Muertos skeleton looms in stark black paint against the white-washed brick, a striking contrast to the overall “beachy, feminine” aesthetic of the main dining area, as described by the restaurant’s front-of-thehouse partner Colleen Hagerty.

Nearby, a coiled octopus, painted with lurid black lines and funky pops of color, ushers guests down a dark hallway to the dimly lit “Garden of Santeria” lounge at the back of the restaurant.

“Jason named her Cheryl,” Hagerty said, pointing the creature out with amusement.

As Oates put it, “When he’s having fun, his diners are as well.”

INBUSINESS Melon Madness Weekend raises money for childhood cancer

BY HANNAH EDELMAN

Americans spent a record-breaking $5 billion on Black Friday this year.

It was this frenzy Love Your Melon, philanthropic company, sought to capitalize on in the hopes of advancing its mission to fund pediatric cancer research and provide warm beanies to children battling this disease.

The fundraising sale, “Melon Madness Weekend,” stretched from Friday to Monday and featured free shipping, new product releases and special gifts with each order from small businesses. After the weekend, the company decided to extend the sale until their $1 million goal had been met, which happened Tuesday afternoon.

Megan McDonald, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, was first introduced to Love Your Melon in high school.

She coached cheerleading for younger girls in her hometown of Beverly, Massachusetts, and found out that one of these girls had a sister fighting cancer. She grew close with the girl’s sister, Riley Fessenden, and her family.

McDonald remembered how Love Your Melon brought Fessenden one of its signature beanies and decorated cheerleading hair bows with her while wearing superhero

costumes. Fessenden gave one of these bows to McDonald, and even though Fessenden passed away last year, McDonald keeps the bow to this day.

McDonald’s relationship with Fessenden and her family inspired her to volunteer at Boston Children’s Hospital. It was here that she met Camilla Kemppainen, president and founder of the BU campus crew for Love Your Melon.

Kemppainen, a senior in the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, created the BU chapter in 2014 after learning about the organization’s mission, a mission that she said spoke to her. The chapter hosts events throughout the school year including visiting children with cancer in hospitals and tabling at the student union to raise awareness.

“You can just see the kids’ faces light up.

It’s honestly amazing. There’s no other word to describe it,” Kemppainen said.

The BU Love Your Melon crew participated in the “Melon Madness Weekend” by heavily promoting it on social media. BU’s official crew has 25 members, exceeding the company’s standard of 20 students at other universities, Kemppainen said.

In addition to knit beanies, the company

also sells blankets, shirts, scarves and mugs.

Half of the proceeds from each purchase are donated to organizations dedicated to fighting pediatric cancer like St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Alex’s Lemonade Stand and the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

“A lot of people feel really helpless when it comes to things like childhood cancer, but by buying the beanies and supporting the cause they’re giving money to a community that could really use it,” Vi Tran, a CAS senior and member of the BU’s Love Your Melon campus crew, said.

Tran joined Love Your Melon after speaking to the BU group about Okizu, a childhood cancer research program in California where she had volunteered. She said her interest in pediatric oncology stemmed from the fact that most children contract cancer from genetics rather than lifestyle choices, and the majority of cancer research funding is dedicated to adults.

Supporting this underfunded research justifies the purchase of what may be considered an overpriced beanie, Tran said. Most of the company’s beanies cost upwards of $30, and although cheaper beanies are for sale elsewhere, she said, these hats are making a difference in the community through studies and creation of

fun events for children with cancer.

“That’s the whole point of Love Your Melon, to make the child feel like they are a child,” Kemppainen said. “When you’re sick with something like cancer, it’s hard to see anything other than that.”

Kemppainen and the BU Love Your Melon campus crew are currently planning events for spring semester, although they also plan to host a campaign encouraging people to donate bone marrow before the winter recess.

Katlyn Reid, vice president of the campus crew and a sophomore in the College of General Studies, said the group is particularly excited about an upcoming partnership event with the BU hockey team for their game against the University of Massachusetts on Feb. 9.

In what Reid said will be an emotional experience, a child battling cancer can spend time with the team and drop the ceremonial first puck. When they hosted a similar event last year, even the hockey players cried, Reid said.

“As cliché as it sounds, there’s no better feeling than seeing the smile on those kids’ faces when they’re going through so much and there’s so many things they can be upset about,” Reid said.

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EDITORIAL Lexi Peery, Editor-in-Chief Elise Takahama, Managing Editor

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Till Kaeslin, City Editor

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Education should be a priority in fighting the ongoing opioid crisis The escalating opioid crisis has taken the lives of thousands across New England. In order to combat the epidemic, the City has implemented several initiatives in past years, including sponsoring a number of prevention programs and recovery services for those struggling with addiction. While progress has been made, there is still much work to be done in confronting the issue, which has been going for several decades.

Boston officials launched an opioid awareness campaign Wednesday called “#ResistTheRisk,” in an effort to raise awareness about the risks associated with overuse.

The campaign features four ads — all aimed at preventing young adults from abusing addictive drugs. The ads will be featured on MBTA Red and Orange Line trains, as well as on buses and billboards throughout the city.

However, despite having well-intentioned efforts, the campaign misses the mark in educating the public about the crisis and adds to pre-existing stigma surrounding opioid addicts. One of the ads shows the tombstones of two deceased opioid addicts, and a blank one reading “keep your name off the next headstone.” This almost perpetuates the idea that opioid addiction is a choice, rather than a very real illness. Claiming these ads are more of a preventative measure, aimed at those who are not addicted to these drugs, ignores the significant percentage of Bostonians who are.

In reality, many people are prescribed opioids by their doctors to treat their pain, only later falling into the trap of addiction, through no fault of their own. Opioid addiction is a severe illness, and by suggesting the crisis is in any way a result of poor decisions made by young people only serves to demean and neglect those aff licted. We must address the problem for what it truly

is if we want to see progress.

Ads that resonate effectively with young people are ones that not only have a “scare factor,” but also serve to educate and inform the public — like the Truth Initiative’s anti-tobacco campaign, featuring anecdotes of chronic smokers narrating their lives after diagnosis, often depicted with breathing stomas. These scarring stories deliver strong messages about the

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Such tactics tap into the emotions of viewers and may even result in action, which is the ultimate goal in this kind of campaign. Moreover, phrasing like “be the generation that stops smoking” galvanizes support and fosters a sense of community in putting an end to the habit. This campaign strikes a balance in being informational

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Critics, including many scientists and doctors, have found the ads problematic, as they present misleading information about the nature and consequences of substance abuse. One of the ads depicts an infant attached to feeding tubes as a result of their opioid addicted mother. Not only is this treatment rare for addicted babies, but it is actually not even the appropriate way of assisting pregnant women with an opioid use disorder. Rather, the solution for preg-

nant women in the case of addiction is to not abruptly withdraw from opioid use, which could lead to aggravated problems for the child. Moreover, this ignorance exacerbates the stigma surrounding the opioid crisis, further dissuading people to reach out for help.

An educational component that is well-researched and relevant could add gravitas to the campaign. A motivation to inform the public should be the driving factor in curating these ads. While the intention of educating the public is transparent in the ads, the campaign needs a stronger focus and message. If Boston is serious about these changes, it should adopt a tone that is serious as well. The comic, almost cheesy nature of the #ResistTheRisk ads fails to strike a chord with viewers, allowing them to dismiss it as something that would never happen to them. In order to truly effect change in the opioid crisis, the campaign should present facts and stories that would leave people with a thought-provoking message.

In the future, campaigns should list support services and offer solutions to battling opioid addiction. There are a countless number of resources in the Boston area that provide treatment services to guide addicts on the road to recovery. In this way, those who are already addicted can find the information useful for their own purposes, or even prompt them to make a phone call and get help.

These ads should not only present relevant and accurate statistics and facts, but also include solutions and direct places where addicts can find support. Raising awareness is only half the battle. If we want to see real progress in efforts to alleviate those diagnosed with opioid addiction, then providing solutions is integral to a better and brighter future.

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COLUMNS MAX VS. MEDIA:

On profiling white nationalists

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BY MAX BERMAN COLUMNIST

ow do you profile a white nationalist? A loaded question indeed. Before we even get to an answer, many will criticize the foundation of the question. They would argue that profiling a white nationalist is abhorrent in and of itself. Should we give these extremists a platform to express their beliefs? Critics argue that profiling these people will normalize their behavior, encouraging others to enter the darkest depths of society — but they are wrong on all fronts.

The New York Times published an article Sunday profiling Tony Hovater, a 29-year-old white nationalist. The article plainly humanizes him. I cannot argue with that point. The author does not solely focus on his radical ideas, but also on characteristics that make him seem normal. While he positively comments on Hitler, he is also a big fan of Seinfeld.

He isn’t a white supremacist exactly — he’s a white nationalist. The difference is that he believes races should be separate, but that whites aren’t inherently superior. Either way, despite his love for Seinfeld, he is an anti-Semite. As quoted in The New York Times: “I don’t even think those things should be ‘edgy,’” he says, while defending his assertion that Jews run the worlds of finance and the media, and “appear to be working more in line with their own interests than everybody else’s.”

However, this profile is not a judgement of Hovater. The author, Richard Fausset, points out his contradictory nature.

Hovater claims to want a collective society, where people join together to fight their problems, yet that is anathema to his white

nationalist ideology.

The only substantial criticism I have of Fausset is his assessment of Hovater’s intelligence. In a follow-up article titled “I interviewed a White Nationalist and Fascist.

What was I left with?,” he worsens his original piece with the following paragraphs: “There is a hole at the heart of my story about Tony Hovater, the white nationalist and Nazi sympathizer.

Why did this man — intelligent, socially adroit and raised middle class amid the relatively well-integrated environments of United States military bases — gravitate toward the furthest extremes of American political discourse?”

It is right to question why people join extremist groups, but it is impossible to know from an interview. These are fascists, followers in an ideology responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people. To believe they are honest is insane. Hovater is neither intelligent nor socially adroit. As pointed out before, his two seemingly core ideas — white nationalism and collectivism — are mutually exclusive and completely paradoxical.

However, I don’t believe his original piece humanized him. Yet this did not stop thousands of outcries over the original article. Ezra Klein, the editor of Vox, made the most coherent argument against the article. Last Saturday, Klein tweeted: “The problem with this article isn’t that it’s about a Nazi but that it doesn’t add anything to our understanding of modern Nazis. Of course racists shop at supermarkets and play in bands and enjoy Seinfeld and own cats. That evil is also banal is not new.”

He argues we didn’t learn anything from this profile — that we already knew the normal side of white nationalists. But did we ever care to consider the normality we share in order to prevent future extremism? Or should we just be quiet about this horrific part of society? This article didn’t let Hovater control the dialogue. From skimming the article, one can tell that Hovater is a downtrodden white guy who is upset that he wasn’t guaranteed a good life. I don’t see anything in the article that gave him a platform to promote white nationalism.

I just saw a sad man who sought out a hideous ideology that made him feel important — his own sort of “safe space.”

AFTER THE CURTAIN CALL:

New Orleans: A cultural beacon

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BY MADISON FRILOT COLUMNIST

he beauty of New Orleans jazz is that it does not come from a blank slate. Instead, the genre feeds off a deep-seeded AfricanAmerican resilience after the era of slavery.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries when Spanish and French colonialism was a thing of the past, traces of this culture were left behind like settled ashes. But New Orleans has always been a melting pot aflame with culture — a port city providing a meeting place for people all around the world.

The city’s long history lends itself to several cultures. French and Spanish colonization of the land has shaped the city’s unique character, forming a vibrant and colorful community that celebrates diversity in all its forms.

European instruments like the saxophone, trumpet and the piano combined with the rhythm, feel and quality of a bluesy sound derived from traditional African music. The rebirth of this sound rapidly spread.

This is not the type of jazz you might hear at your grandparents’ favorite restaurant. It isn’t passive background music. While modern jazz has a connotation of being boring, and belonging to the upper class — authentic New Orleans jazz is anything but. New Orleans jazz is in your face.

It is loud and it is boisterous.

I am lucky enough to call New Orleans a second home. With half of my family currently residing in and around the vivacious crescent city, I have a great excuse to visit often.

Thanksgiving was the perfect opportunity to eat my way through the city — along the way, filling my ears with music I couldn’t hear anywhere else in the world.

Walking through the French Quarter, dodging tipsy tourists, I was on a mission: I heard brass and I had to find it. Of course, it didn’t take much searching. On practically every other corner, there’s a live performance of sorts. Countless full-sized brass bands post up with a five-gallon bucket performing for every pair of ears within a five-block radius. And boy, is it loud.

With three pitched trumpets, two whining trombones, a full set of drums complete with a cowbell, the deep voice of a blues singer and, of course, a booming tuba, there’s no escaping the Cajun culture. Picture it — people of all ages and ethnicities are dancing in the street, even your grandfather has his cane in the air. You can’t help but move your feet. This music is infectious, chaotic, fully-encompassing and all-engaging. You simply can’t walk away until the set is over.

I would argue that New Orleans is both literally and figuratively the most colorful city in the United States. Of all destination cities in the country, New Orleans is one of the only ones with an African-American majority — 60 percent to be exact. A minority that is consistently marginalized across the country actually creates the majority in this cultural mecca. Amidst the countless tourists from across the globe, black culture takes center stage, claiming the resilient and consistently phenomenal jazz scene.

Historically, much of the South and the rest of the country have tried to stamp out African-American culture. For so long, this country has been led by white male leaders, all catering toward a single homogenous group.

Meanwhile, for over a century, leaders in New Orleans have kept jazz at the forefront of the city’s culture, ensuring that it can continue to mature alongside the historic city.

While some aspects of the genre have evolved over time, most acclaimed brass bands stick to the fundamentals of jazz. This past week, I was lucky enough to see the one and only Rebirth Brass Band, a “hard as hell” Grammy Award-winning group. Founded in 1983, Rebirth stays true to the heart of New Orleans jazz. You won’t find a synthesizer or a pre-recorded sound anywhere in its vicinity.

Would New Orleans really be New Orleans without the jazz? Of course not! The jazz (and let’s not forget about the food) are what makes New Orleans authentic.

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This week, nominations for the 2018 Grammy Awards were released.

We here at the ‘ol Free Press want to know — who would BU students nominate to win a Grammy?

CGS: Weird Al

School of Theology: Lorde

SED: Schoolhouse Rock!

Danielsen: The Lonely Island

Questrom: The Chainsmokers

Hockey: Coldplay

School of Medicine: Dr. Dre

FreeP: Huey Lewis and the News

10 SPORTS

Women’s basketball prevails 78-61 at Bryant University

BY JOSH ROTHSTEIN

The Boston University women’s basketball team played their best game of the season Wednesday night in Smithfield, Rhode Island, beating Bryant University 78-61. After alternating wins and losses to begin the season, the Terriers (4-2) have now won back-to-back games for the first time.

BU got off to a bit of a sluggish start, failing to connect on any of their first six field goal attempts.

Sophomore guard and forward Stephanie Lesko connected on an early three-pointer, and four quick points from freshman forward Hannah Scanlan gave the Bulldogs (0-6) an early 7-3 lead.

The slow start led the Terriers’ head coach Katy Steding to call a timeout.

Steding said she was not concerned about the slow start offensively, but did continue to stress defense during that early timeout.

“The shots will drop,” Steding said. “We just needed to pick up our effort defensively. The main focus for us is defense tonight.”

BU responded after the timeout, outscoring Bryant 13-8 in the remainder of the first quarter, giving the Terriers a slim 16-15 after one quarter. It was a sloppy first 10 minutes for BU though, as they turned the ball over six times.

Sophomore for wa rd Nia Irving came off the bench late in the first quarter and provided the Terriers the spark they were looking for. She scored eight points in the last five minutes of the quarter.

Steding said she was impressed

with Ir ving’s play, especially down low.

“She got herself right by the rim a few times, [Irving] is so agile in there,” Steding said.

“She makes a difficult shot look easy, and she has such a nice soft touch.”

Steding credits Irving for leading the Terriers’ turnaround after a bit of a slow start.

“She got us going right away when we needed a little spark and that really set the tone for the rest of the game,” Steding said.

BU used the spark from Irving to continue their hot shooting into the second quarter.

After Bryant took an 18-16 lead early in the quarter, the Terriers responded with a 9-0 run. Irving had four of the nine points to give BU a 25-18 lead midway through the quarter.

The Terriers led by as many as nine in the quarter before the Bulldogs cut it to five late in the second.

Irving connected on a jump shot to beat the buzzer, restoring the Terriers lead to seven at 33-26.

Although the shot was reviewed by the officials, the ball was released before the clock expired, bringing Irving’s first-half output to 16.

The Terriers had a very strong first half shooting the ball, converting on 14 of 27 first half field goal attempts.

The 16 first half points from Irving topped her season high of 14, coming against the University of New Hampshire. Irving was stellar in the first half, shooting a perfect 8-8 from the field and chipping in with five rebounds.

After a scoreless first half for freshman guard Katie Nelson, she opened the third quarter with four points and an assist to give the Terriers a 41-29 lead. Nelson also contributed with six assists overall, proving how versatile of an asset she can be for the Terriers.

Even though Nelson is a freshman, Steding notes her on-court presence is far beyond her years. “[Nelson] is pretty wise on the basketball court,” Steding said.

“She doesn’t get rattled; she has an incredible ability to focus with a lot of distractions coming at her.”

BU extended their lead to 17 by the end of the third quarter, taking a 60-43 lead.

Freshman g uard Tenisha Pressley contributed with two threes over the third quarter, adding to her season high total of 15 points.

The Terriers were able to hold onto their large lead in the fourth quarter toppling Bryant by a final score of 78-61.

The BU bench had a solid night, accounting for 56 of the Terriers 78 points. Along with Irving and Pressley, junior forward Naiyah Thompson and sophomore guard Vanessa Edgehill had 12 and 11 points respectively, giving BU four scorers in double figures, all of them coming off the bench.

Steding preaches to all her players to be ready when their number is called, and that was the certainly the case tonight.

“Everybody tonight was ready when their number was called,” Steding said. “That’s the real beauty of team basketball.”

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Sophomore guard Vanessa Edgehill scores season-high 11 points against Bryant.

“The shots will drop, we just needed to pick up our effort defensively. The main focus for us is defense tonight.”

Men’s basketball overcomes UNH 70-69 in third straight win

BY LIAM O’BRIEN

The Boston University men’s basketball team took care of business Wednesday night in the first of four consecutive road games, knocking off the University of New Hampshire 70-69.

The Terriers (3-3) struggled from the free-throw line throughout the game, but it was a foul shot by freshman guard Javante McCoy with 2.6 seconds remaining that sealed the victory against the Wildcats (1-6).

“I was so proud of our guys,” BU head coach Joe Jones said. “We just kept battling. We didn’t get down.

We missed foul shots, but we stayed positive. We made some plays late to win.”

After beginning the season with a 0-3 record, BU has now emerged victorious from three straight contests heading into a two-game trip to the Sunshine State next week where the team will take on the No. 10 University of Miami and Bethune-Cookman University.

Despite going 8-for-21 from

the free-throw line and losing the rebounding battle 39-31, the Terriers rode 47.5 percent shooting from the field in the victory over the Wildcats.

Sophomore forward Max Mahoney exploded for a careerhigh 15 points after shooting 7-of-11 from the field in addition to grabbing six rebounds.

Senior guard Cedric Hankerson missed nine of his 16 shots and went 0-for-4 from three-point line, but still made seven field goals to lead the Terriers in scoring with 17 points.

UNH enjoyed success from the field, hitting 45.3 percent of their shots while shooting 14-for-17 from the free-throw line.

Senior forward Tanner Leissner led all scorers with 20 points on 7-for-12 shooting in addition to seven rebounds, while freshman guard Josh Hopkins performed well, notching 19 points on 7-for-12 shooting as well.

Senior forward Iba Camara was the final Wildcat to finish in double-digits, posting 12 points to

accompany his 12 rebounds.

While these three starred for UNH, the team received no more than six points from any other performer. But for BU, it was a total team effort.

Ten players registered points on the score sheet, while nine players played at least 10 minutes. Both McCoy and junior guard Kamali Chambers scored seven points, while senior guard Will Goff notched a pair of three-pointers.

The tandem of freshman guard Walter Whyte and sophomore forward Tyler Scanlon also combined for 10 points.

BU was commanding in the first half, jumping out to a 38-26 halftime lead following a threepointer by Scanlon with 23 seconds remaining. The Terriers shot 14-for-28 from the field and 5-for-10 from three-point range while holding the Wildcats to 11-for-26 shooting from the field.

The Terriers were the aggressor in the first 20 minutes as well, preventing the Wildcats from recording a single free throw attempt

while earning seven of their own.

The second half of the matchup was a different story.

BU shot just 1-for-9 from deep and went 3-for-14 from the foul line while UNH shot 48.1 percent from the field and added 14 successful free throws.

“You knew they were going to come out with intensity,” Jones said.

“They started taking control of the game right away. We had a ton of fouls in the paint and they went right inside. At times, we just don’t play with enough intelligence inside.”

After an and-one finish by Hankerson with 11:27 remaining, the Terriers held a 51-43 lead.

However, the gap did not last long.

Leissner picked up a quick four points, and Camara finished a layup to cut the UNH deficit to two.

Following a jump shot from Camara with 2:27 to go, the Wildcats tied the contest up at 67 apiece.

The game remained tied up for two minutes, until Terrier senior forward Nick Havener lifted his second three-point attempt of the

season with less than 30 seconds to go. The shot clanged off the front of the rim, but Havener followed his shot, driving the baseline and finishing a circus reverse layup to give his team a 69-67 advantage. “[Havener] made an unbelievable play,” Jones said. “I have no idea how he made that layup. He shot the three, ran after it, and then looped it around [the hoop]. That was a big shot.”

UNH knotted it up on the ensuing possession on a Leissner layup.

However, Leissner fouled McCoy with 2.6 seconds remaining, giving the Terriers the opportunity to grab the win before the clock wound down to zero.

The first free throw bounced out, staying consistent with the Terriers’ inability to knock down foul shots down the stretch. But McCoy was able to shake off the nerves, hitting the biggest shot of his young career on the second attempt from the line. “[They made] the freshman make a play,” Jones said. “And he made the second foul shot.”

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A young women’s hockey team finds leadership in captain Rebecca Leslie

Senior forward Rebecca Leslie leads a young Terrier hockey team for the 2017-18 season.

BY LILY BETTS

For the Boston University women’s hockey team, the 201718 season started with a unique challenge to its team identity. A turnover of over a third of the Terriers’ roster left room for eight new faces to join the team.

Among last year’s graduating class were both of the team’s co-captains, forward Natalie Flynn and defenseman Alexis Crossley.

This season, the young team is looking for guidance in its new captain, senior forward Rebecca Leslie.

When asked about the selection process, BU head coach Brian Durocher directed the credit toward

the players who elect their captain through a team vote.

“They felt that [Leslie] was a good teammate, someone who cared about the backup goalie as well as the starter, the seventh defenseman as well as the one on power play and the fourth liners as much as her fellow first liners,” Durocher said. “That’s what resonated in the players’ minds, and she has done a great job along with [assistant captains senior forward] Victoria Bach, [senior goaltender] Erin O’Neil and [junior forward] Sammy Davis.”

Durocher, a former co-captain of the 1977-78 BU men’s hockey team, emphasized that captaincy requires someone to take a stand in

the locker room, provide an extra level of leadership and hold their teammates accountable in tough situations — a role that isn’t always easy for a player to assume.

To Leslie, being selected by her teammates for this responsibility is a source of pride.

“It’s definitely an honor,” Leslie said. “Each captain I’ve had at BU has been different and created an environment that allowed us to be successful, and I just try to use a bit of each of them and be the best captain I can be for them.”

Six of the eight players added to the roster are freshmen, coming

from various leagues across the United States and Canada.

While some captains could have qualms about having so many teammates making their first jump to college hockey, Leslie sees a lot of potential in the Terriers’ young team.

“I think [having so many young players] is really exciting,” Leslie said. “They’ve come in and really stepped up in the gym and in the locker room. Each player has come in confident and we’ve played well as a team, I’m pretty happy with that.”

During her own first year at BU, Leslie earned 31 points with 14 goals and 17 assists in 35 games,

earning her a spot on the Hockey East All-Rookie Team.

As a sophomore, she earned a career-high 49 points and careerbest 34 assists over 39 games.

In the final half of her junior year, Leslie hit the 100 career point benchmark in a 5-2 win against Providence College on Jan. 22.

After being unable to collect a point in the first four games of her final year, she has since earned a point in 10 of the Terriers’ last 11 games, eight of which were multi-point nights.

Durocher noted that her resilience after the start of the season is a sign of maturity in her play.

“This year, she had a bit of a drought, but was quick to recapture her touch and a little bit of adversity like this is the sort of thing that make you better as a hockey player, better as a person in the long run,” he said. “She’s really developed into a threezone player, being more responsible defensively, being really smart about the game, but not least of all, I think she’s finally believing that she can shoot the puck.”

Leslie’s play also caught the eye of the National Women’s Hockey League’s Metropolitan Riveters, who picked her 19th overall in the 2017 Entry Draft.

The Riveters also picked up Bach earlier in the draft, who Leslie sites as a major benefit to her offensive production.

The NWHL, the U.S. women’s hockey league, was founded in 2015, showing a noteworthy growth in women’s hockey within just the time that Leslie has been at BU. “When I was a younger player, I was normally with all the boys so it’s good to see little girls playing on teams of all ages,” Leslie said.

“Especially now, after college we have more options to play, there are different leagues. It’s really exciting.”

Instant Replay: Giants have not shown Eli Manning same loyalty

BY SOPHIA LIPP COLUMNIST

“Breaking: Eli Manning has been benched.”

I read this tweet, posted by SportsCenter, over and over again on my phone screen — disbelief (and, oddly enough, defensiveness) finally settling in. After 14 years, 210 straight starts, two Super Bowl wins and two Super Bowl MVP awards, Eli Manning was being pulled.

New York Giants coach Ben McAdoo released a statement say-

ing: “Over the last five games, we will take a look at Geno, and we will also give [rookie third-round pick] Davis [Webb] an opportunity,” a move that has the coach under fire for disrespect towards the franchise’s leading quarterback.

Despite a horrendous 2-9 record thus far and the need for some major changes within the organization in the offseason, you don’t pull the team’s leading quarterback — the quarterback that has stuck with his team and fans through thick and thin — with five games left in the season.

Five games. Five. This is startling. This doesn’t make sense!

Here’s the thing: Everyone knows that I am the first one to make an Eli Manning joke. As a New England Patriots fan, I hate the guy. He’s beaten us twice with skills that are far less refined than Tom Brady’s, on a team with a coaching staff that dims in comparison to New England and Bill Belichick. He and his star-studded familial counterpart, Peyton, are

the bane of our existences.

But as a National Football League fan, a sports journalist and a football-junkie who appreciates the game, the league and its players, I am disappointed.

First of all, just practically, it really isn’t the “best thing for the organization,” contrary to what Giants General Manager Jerry Reese says.

What will five games do for Jetsreject Geno Smith or rookie Davis Webb? New York doesn’t need to see Smith flounder for another one of his teams, and throwing Webb in unceremoniously against the Oakland Raiders will do little for the 22-yearold other than crush his spirit when he, inevitably, can’t keep up.

A team like the Giants needs their quarterback to remain in place, especially during a losing, injury-prone season. McAdoo is not only stripping the team of an offensive veteran, but a source of perseverance, consistency and most

importantly, leadership.

However, the most insulting part of this benching fiasco is that McAdoo offered to let Manning start the rest of the season to maintain his streak, only to be pulled post-halftime anyway — which Manning, obviously, rejected.

“My feeling is that if you are going to play the other guys, play them,” he said in a press release. “Starting just to keep the streak going and knowing you won’t finish the game and have a chance to win it is pointless to me, and it tarnishes the streak.”

Tarnish the streak, indeed, as well as tarnishing all that Manning has done for the organization. But Eli’s benching comes as no surprise amidst a season in which the NFL has endured the wrath of President Donald Trump, scornings from CTE researchers and scandals like Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott’s suspension.

Although, maybe the problem with the Giants is not Eli at all.

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Maybe it’s Jerry Reese and his poor drafting skills. Maybe it’s McAdoo, who is certainly not in the fans’ favor after this week. Or maybe the Giants have simply been unlucky this season (and last, and the one before that, and the one before that…), with their injury list mounting up and fanbase losing hope.

Regardless, the way Eli went was disappointing, disrespectful and a downright smack in the face by the franchise. To quote his former New York Giants teammate Osi Umenyiora, “Eli deserves much better than that. Much better.”

No one really thought that Eli would be with the Giants forever (or even after the 2018 season, really, especially when he’s due to receive a $5 million roster bonus in March). But when winning is off the table, there is one thing that coaches, teams, fans and players should value more than anything else: loyalty. While loyal Eli has been to the Giants, the Giants have not been loyal back.

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Women’s basketball Payton Hauck thriving with new role

BY GREG LEVINSKY

Payton Hauck’s junior season presents a tremendous opportunity. With the graduation of starting guards Sarah Hope and Courtney Latham, the 5-foot-9-inch slasher is tapping into her sky-high potential and is reaping the benefits of open minutes.

Hauck started 18 contests over her first two seasons, and this year, the Boston University women’s basketball head coach Katy Steding inserted Hauck as the starting shooting guard from the outset. The York, Pennsylvania native responded with career-best scoring performances in the team’s first two games.

Her grit, tenacity and desire for consistency earned her an increased role for the 2017-18 campaign.

“One of the things that she is capable of is a tremendous scoring output,” Steding said. “She’s so athletic, so explosive, that she’s a difficult matchup for anybody.”

In a nail biting 74-73 season-opening victory at home over Northeastern University, Hauck paced the Terriers (4-2) with a career-high of 15 points in just 17 minutes. She added three steals and two assists while going 6-9 from the f loor.

Hauck eclipsed her career-best performance in BU’s second game at the University of New Hampshire, scoring 16 points, including two triples. She continued to succeed in her next three games with 12, 15 and 7 points respectively. “[Scoring] gives me confidence, but what I like about this season so far is that we have multiple people scoring in double

digits,” Hauck said. “Now we’re just sharing most of the points.”

Just a 34.5 percent shooter over her first two seasons, Hauck said she strove for consistency in her shooting in workouts over the summer and sought to up her average of 3.0 points per game from her first two seasons.

“For the past two years, I’ve been known as a driver, and needed to expand my game,” Hauck said. “As a team we have goals of making 500 or 1,000 shots per week, and I just kind of stuck to that.”

Hauck also credits assistant coach Ben Chase with helping her develop a shot that is tickling the twine at nearly a 60 percent clip.

“He just really works with me on my footwork and just shooting in general,” Hauck said.

Chase said he worked with Hauck individually when the NCAA allowed extra hours for coaches to spend with players in the gym.

“A lot of that is really driven by the individual players and what they want to work on,” Chase said. “This past offseason she wanted to step up her game, so we really focused on improving the speed, intensity and consistency of everything she does.”

Steding said Chase works with the wing players on a daily basis in practices, a group which Hauck is a part of. Associate head coach Cindy Blodgett works with the primary ball handlers and assistant coach Jenny Thigpin is in charge of the post players.

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Hauck’s game, and between her and classmate Naiyah Thompson, the Terriers boast two of the premier wing defenders and overall athletes in the Patriot League.

“I think Naiyah Thompson owns it on defense. Payton’s taken on the role of a really aggressive scoring guard for us and the more she gets comfortable in that role, the more we’re going to lean on her,” Steding said.

“I’m really proud of the progress that class has made.”

Hauck said her game is defensive-minded, and honing in on those skills helps her to score in transition on fast breaks.

“I think that kind of builds intensity and creates offensive plays from the back if we’re playing tough,” she said.

BU often runs a three-quarters court zone defense, where Hauck thrives as one of the secondary trappers.

“I love our zone defense,” Hauck said.

“I think trapping out of it helps us to get good plays and get back on offense, and our transition is great out of it. It brings a lot of energy because we’re all so excited and running like chickens with our heads cut off. It’s fun, in my opinion.”

The aforementioned duo of Latham and Hope made up the majority of the starts with the women’s basketball program over Hauck’s first two seasons, as Hope started in 44 of 60 appearances and Latham started 50 of 56.

Hauck said playing behind Hope and Latham helped her to learn and incrementally take on a larger role instead of being expected to dominate the ball from day one.

“They’re both great leaders and just tough overall, smart players too,” Hauck said.

“I think it was a point where we kind of needed to step up and fill their shoes.”

Hauck showed promise over her first two seasons, highlighted by a 12 point, 9 rebound, 6 assist, 2 block performance against the Terriers’ conference rival College of the Holy Cross on last season’s senior day. She even soared through the air for a tip-in, one of her game-high four offensive rebounds.

“Payton’s so athletic and has such great moves to the basket, you could tell she was going to evolve into a great college player,” Hope, who now serves as the director of women’s basketball operations at Holy Cross, said.

“When I played with her, she was so good at sharing the basketball, but I think now being an upperclassman she’s stepping into a new role of becoming a main scorer for the team.”

BU shocked the conference last season, finishing in fifth place at 13-17 overall and 11-7 in the Patriot League, after being picked last in the preseason poll.

Hauck strives to eclipse that mark in her newfound role and guide the Terriers to host a Patriot League tournament game.

After going just 3-27 over the season and 3-15 in the Patriot League during her freshman season, Hauck said the team morale is now looking up.

“It’s definitely better to learn from a win than from losing all the time,” Hauck said. “Coming out on the f loor we have a lot more energy.”