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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2017 THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY YEAR XLVI. VOLUME XCIII. ISSUE X.

WALSH WINS SECOND TERM

Pledges to make Boston ‘a city for all of us’ in next four years

BY HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, MIKE REDDY, SHANNON LARSON, ANDRES PICON DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Just under an hour after the Boston polls had closed, it became clear that incumbent Mayor Martin Walsh had won reelection — with about 65 percent of the vote, Walsh slid past challenger City Councilor Tito Jackson into his second term.

City officials reported only 28 percent of registered voters headed to the stations to cast their ballot for the municipal election. Approximately 70,125 individuals moved to reelect Walsh, while only 36,433 residents voted for Jackson.

Once the official announcement had been made, Walsh started off his victory speech by thanking his supporters for the opportunity to make Boston a place where all people can thrive in his upcoming term.

“Today, I am more determined than ever to make Boston a city where everyone’s dream can come true,” Walsh said to the overpacked room at the Fairview Copley Plaza Hotel.

He expressed his dedication to the immigrants who chose Boston as their home, vowing to celebrate their heritage and welcome new residents to all neighborhoods.

“Immigrants seeking a better life choose Boston,” Walsh said. “They risk everything to come to our city, and I will always have their back.”

Equal opportunity will be the administration’s focus over the next four years, Walsh said. Campaigning allowed him to hear the stories of residents who were struggling to afford housing in the city and this motivated him to make significant changes in his second term.

Walsh told his supporters he will not allow economic disparities prevent families from obtaining affordable housing.

Newly re-elected Boston Mayor Martin Walsh gives his victory speech Tuesday night at Fairview Copley Plaza Hotel.

“A city must be for all people,” Walsh said. “Affordable, working family housing needs to be built in our city. So, we’re going to keep building homes for all of us.”

The quality of the Boston Public Schools system was also raised as a concern by locals, Walsh said, and to address those concerns, Walsh said he would make improvements in education a priority — with free pre-kindergarten programs implemented throughout the city.

He also shared his commitment to improving public safety and criminal rein-

tegration by “lifting people up instead of locking people up” and making Boston a “city of second chances.”

Walsh extended his thanks to every resident, including Jackson, explaining that it is the diversity of Boston’s neighborhoods that makes the city great.

“You came from every neighborhood in this city,” Walsh said. “You are union members. You are housing advocates. You are artists. You are members of the LGBT community. You are women, and you are seniors. And, you are Boston.”

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Jackson walked into his election night party at Suya Joint All African Cuisine to applause and chanting from his campaign staff, supporters and press who overfilled the restaurant’s 84-person maximum capacity.

Early in his speech, soon after the official declaration that Walsh had won, Jackson revealed he had already conceded and called Walsh to congratulate him on his victory. Jackson insisted the mayoral race was not about him or Walsh, but about Boston residents and their needs.

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District 8, 9 City Council seats go to incumbents

BY BREANNE KOVATCH, AMANDA KAUFMAN, KAYLIE FELSBERG, ISABEL CONTRERAS DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

After a day of voting in Boston, it became clear that Josh Zakim and Mark Ciommo — two incumbent city councilors — would be keeping their City Council seats for the next two years in District 8 and 9, respectively.

Both incumbents won their races with at least a 20 percent lead over their opponents. Zakim, whose district includes Back Bay, Fenway, Kenmore Square and Beacon Hill, drew in 3,995 total votes and Ciommo, whose district is Allston and Brighton, gathered 4,672 votes overall.

Four at-large City Council positions were filled by incumbents Michelle Wu, Michael Flaherty, Ayanna Pressley and Annissa Essaibi-George, along with the local district council positions, according to information provided by the election department. Districts 3, 4, 5 and 6 saw their incumbents run unopposed, while Districts 1, 2 and 7 switched to new councilor positions.

This year’s City Council will be the most diverse Boston has had, according to a tweet by At-Large City Councilor Ayanna Pressley.

In District 8, Zakim won around 67 percent of the vote in his area, or about 2060 votes more than his competitor, Kristen

Mobilia. This will be his third term as City Councilor, after being re-elected to his second term unopposed.

Ethan Mandelcorn, Zakim’s campaign manager, told The Daily Free Press having a strong group of volunteers supporting Zakim’s campaign and showing what he is capable of through his incumbency, helped secure his win.

“He’s shown that he’s capable of handling this position for the last four years,” Mandelcorn said. “Because of that, because he’s shown what he can do, he’s shown that he’s a good candidate, he can do his job well.”

One supporter said at an election night party Zakim has supported her since she

has moved to Boston from New York and that he supports others as well, which is why she voted for him. “[He makes] sure that really everybody has a home here, especially with everything that’s going on in Washington,” said Gabby Goldstein, 29, of Back Bay. “I think that’s more important than ever and he represents a pretty diverse district in terms of socioeconomic class, and I think he really looks out for everybody.”

In District 9, Ciommo won his seventh term as city councilor with around 61 percent of the vote in his district and 1,750 more votes than his competitor, Brandon Bowser, received.

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2 NEWS

Voter turnout is low, residents see value in local election

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A Boston resident votes at the Allston Branch Library.

BY HALEY LERNER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Voter turnout for municipal elections in Boston Tuesday was much lower than the last mayoral election, with roughly 28 percent of approximately 392,188 registered voters casting their votes.

In 2014, when Boston Mayor Martin Walsh ran for his first term, 41.99 percent of eligible Boston residents voted, according to the City of Boston’s election office.

Richard Parr, research director at MassInc Polling Group, said prior to the election he believed the voter turnout would be low because the election is being held on an off year.

“There’s no statewide races, there’s no presidential races, so there’s nothing else to bring people to the polls,” Parr said. “It’s just the mayor’s race and city council races.

The mayor’s race has been pretty uneventful. So, it’s not likely that that’s going to

really bring out a lot of folks.”

Parr said low voter turnout is common nationally in years that don’t involve a presidential vote.

“It’s not just us, it’s sort of a national phenomenon that presidential years get the most attention, because everyone has to focus on that,” Parr said. “When you have these odd years, having municipal elections, they tend to attract much lower turnout.”

Parr said while local elections often impact residents the most, they also are the elections with the lowest voter turnout.

“It’s kind of a shame because municipal government, local government is what impacts people’s lives most directly but the fewest number of people tend to vote for it,” Parr said.

Spencer Piston, a political science professor at Boston University, wrote in an email mobilization and outreach efforts by candidates can greatly influence residents to show up to vote.

“Mobilization efforts are likely to influence the turnout rate in the Boston election,” Piston wrote. “In general, one of the biggest predictors of whether someone votes is whether they were asked to do so — especially by someone or by some organization they trust.”

Piston wrote those who are interested in local politics are more likely to vote, while those who are not as engaged tend not to.

“Resources also matter,” Piston wrote.

“Those who have a lot of political knowledge — for example, knowledge about who is running and what they stand for, or about where and how to vote — are most likely to turn out to vote in the election.”

Piston wrote not all residents who can vote should vote — just those who want to make the city “a better place.”

Virginia Sapiro, dean emerita of Graduate College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of political science at BU, wrote in an email many residents often overlook local elections.

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“People have less information about lower-level offices and often don’t understand what difference those offices make,” Sapiro wrote.

Several Boston residents at various polling locations throughout the city said they went out to vote because they felt it was their duty as citizens Virginia Haggerty, 29, of Allston, voted at the Jackson Mann School polling station in Allston and said she votes in all elections big or small because she thinks the results will affect her life.

“The presidential elections are obviously important, but all the local ones are also incredibly important,” Haggerty said. “So I think it’s just acknowledging that local politics is more impactful in the day to day basis of my life.”

Caroline Brown, 24, of Dorchester, voted at the Codman Square Library polling station in Dorchester and said representing the population is an important job of residents.

“Even though I’m still fairly new to the city, I think it’s important to represent Boston, which is supposed to be known far and wide as this political powerhouse of a city, by showing up at the polls and taking full advantage of the rights we’re given to participate in the democratic process,” Brown said.

Ashley Shaw, 26, of Fenway, voted at the Boston Arts Academy polling station in Fenway and said she heard voter turnout for this election would be low which is why she felt it was important to vote.

“I heard that [voter turnout] today was going to be pretty low, which is really sad because [Boston’s] a really important city and a lot of people have a lot riding on this vote,” Shaw said. “It’s probably a reason I made sure to come out and vote too, to hopefully not be part of the low voter turnout.”

Shaw said it is important to her to vote because of those who fought for equal voting rights in the past.

“Personally for me, all the people who fought for the right to vote over the years, I would feel so guilty if I didn’t live up to the promise that they made available to me,” Shaw said.

NEWS 3

Here are the major issues Walsh needs to work on

BY TILL KAESLIN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

After winning the mayoral election on Tuesday, Martin Walsh will now have to address some of the biggest challenges facing the city’s residents over the course of his four-year term.

Four of the issues that have been most hotly debated throughout the mayoral campaign include affordable housing, wealth disparity across neighborhoods, minority representation in city government and ongoing drug abuse.

Affordable housing Affordable housing has long been an issue on Boston residents’ minds, and now more than ever.

Tom Callahan, executive director of the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance, said that for the first time in his 30-year career, housing is being ranked by the average Boston resident as the number

one concern they have in the city.

Callahan said the primary issue is the ever rising cost of housing, which has been pushing residents out of their neighborhoods at an alarming rate. “[Rising rents and home prices are] impacting more and more people in the City of Boston, whether you’re a renter or a prospective homebuyer, prices are beyond the reach of many, many people that live in the city,” Callahan said.

With the expanding popularity of short-term rental platforms like Airbnb, the housing market in the city has seen increased pressure in recent years, Callahan said.

State funding for affordable housing f lat lining and federal funding essentially non-existent, the City has had to be creative in allocating resources for the housing issue. For Walsh, Callahan suggested securing a reliable funding stream that translates to tangible housing opportunities for residents should be

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number one on the to-do list.

“It’s one thing to collect the revenues, it’s another thing to translate that into actual housing units that people can move into,” Callahan said.

Wealth disparity Tied into the issue of affordable housing, income inequality in Boston continues to be a pervasive issue across neighborhoods.

Priscilla Flint-Banks, the program director at the Black Economic Justice Institute, said wealth disparity has gotten so great between neighborhoods that the city is essentially divided in two.

“People just aren’t making enough money to live in Boston, that’s just the bottom line,” Flint-Banks said.

As wealth disparity grows, residents have been forced to move out of neighborhoods like Beacon Hill, South End, Roxbury at the beginning and now people are being pushed out of Dorchester and Mattapan, FlintBanks said.

Flint-Banks said the first priority Walsh should be to increase access to employment in the city to all residents.

“People need to be able to make good income in order to be able to live here,” Flint-Banks said.

Flint-Banks said there should be a new community advisory group involved in the City’s future decision making to advocate for individual neighborhoods.

“It’s usually the people from the neighborhoods that can tell you, because the people on the ground are the ones that know what’s going on,” Flint-Banks said.

Minority representation Releasing its scathing report card on the Walsh administration last month, the Boston Branch of the NAACP shed light on the issue of lack of minority representation in city government.

Segun Idowu, the lead organizer for the Boston Police Camera Action Team, wrote in an email the NAACP’s report card on the Walsh administration revealed a clear underrepresentation of minorities in the police force and general city workforce.

“While there are people of color in leadership positions — such as on the command staff for BPD and the mayor’s cabinet — a good majority of those employed by the city are non-persons of color,” Idowu wrote.

Idowu wrote proper minority representation in city government departments is an issue larger than race — it includes different ideas, backgrounds and perspectives.

Idowu wrote because people of color make up a majority of the population in Boston, it is essential that Walsh considers this issue in appointing future employees.

“Anyone who leads the city has to make sure that they surround themselves with thoughtful people who reflect the racial, ethnic, and gender makeup of the city, as well as those with a diversity of ideas,” Idowu wrote. “They also have to make sure that these persons are put into positions that have actual power that affect residents, and not merely window-dressing to make whoever leads as mayor look progressive on paper only.”

Drug Abuse With the opioid epidemic officially declared a national public health emergency by the Trump administration as of last month, drug addiction has been recognized both as a national and local issue.

Maryanne Frangules, executive director of the Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery, wrote in an email the current crisis is a marker for a far deeper and long-established issue.

“The Opioid Crisis with so many painful deaths has brought to light that there has been an ongoing epidemic of alcohol and other drugs,” Frangules wrote.

Frangules wrote MOAR approves of the work done by Walsh in addressing the opioid epidemic, including the creation of the Office of Recovery Services.

“We applaud the current prevention initiative,” Frangules wrote. “We would love to see even more recovery support services to help people maintain their recovery, and MOAR would love to help in all these areas.”

Berklee initiative uses music to encourage students to vote

BY MADDIE DOMENICHELLA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Acoustic guitar, pristine vocals and other soothing sounds echoed across City Hall Plaza on Tuesday during Election Day as college students performed outside of the polling station on Congress Street as part of the Get Out the Vote initiative.

The initiative, spearheaded by Berklee College of Music students, aimed to encourage Bostonians, particularly students, to vote in this year’s municipal elections. The school worked with several Boston-area college groups, including Boston University College Democrats, to get the word out about the city’s mayoral and city council races.

“We’re here mostly just to encourage people to go out to vote,” project manager and Berklee senior Will Lenart said. “We can’t take a public stance or position of any kind.”

The non-partisan initiative, which lasted from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., featured Berklee student musicians performing a variety of genres to promote student engagement in politics.

“There’s a long history of musicians being politically active, and we wanted to contribute to that,” Zack Gorra, a Berklee junior and event volunteer said as he handed out a “Vote” button to a passerby.

Gorra, along with classmate and event program manager Lenart, first started the Get Out the Vote initiative as an assignment for a business management class.

But the project quickly took off and changed direction — they decided they

wanted to do something that would be a little bit unusual for music students, as both felt strongly about the importance of voting after last year’s heated presidential elections.

“After last year, with people being so pessimistic about voting, we figured there would be low voter turnout here, and we wanted to do something about it,” Lenart said. “Election Day is supposed to be a good thing and supposed to be kind of celebratory, and we wanted to do something that would make people happy to vote.”

Lenart said they had challenges recruiting performers at first, but when they talked about their mission, word spread and people increasingly signed on.

“Once you get a couple people on board, they start telling people, and my friend here got involved, and he got other performers involved,” he said.

Lenart said that they enlisted the help of student organizations from other colleges including BU College Democrats, which helped promote and volunteer for the event.

Several BU College Democrats members were contacted to comment on the event but were not available.

Many Get out the Vote volunteers said they were concerned about low voter turnout, particularly among college-aged citizens, and said they hoped this event would encourage people to get active in local elections.

Connor Godfrey, a senior at Berklee, said he thinks students around the city should be more concerned with local elections, as their outcomes may affect them

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Boston University Democrats encourage voting by handing out stickers and buttons at the Boston Public Library Tuesday afternoon.

more than national elections.

“There’s a lot of issues being voted on, and the fact that people aren’t coming out to vote on these issues that most directly affect them is troubling,” he said. “It’s important, especially for students, to be just as politically active, and we’re just trying to spread that message here today.”

Several BU students volunteered alongside Berklee students, handing out food and buttons and speaking to voters at the event.

Natalia Deibe, a CAS senior, said she learned about the event from her friend, Lenart, and contributed to the initiative’s effort by helping get permits from City Hall and coordinating volunteers.

“I read something about the voter turnout being something like 23 percent, which is

not very great,” said Deibe, who is studying political science and history. “So, I when I heard about this, I wanted to do something and get involved.”

Other BU students said they decided to volunteer because they believe it is important to get involved in local elections.

Jamie Allendorf, a senior in the College of Communication, said she volunteered because she felt strongly about the importance of municipal elections.

“Traditionally, municipal elections have very low turnout but these are the people that are going to affect our lives the most and more than people like the president,” Allendorf said. “This is where you really have your chance to make your voice heard.”

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IMPACT

‘HERSTORY’ — not history — promotes women in design

BY JENNY JASMIN ROLLINS DAILY FREE PRESS CONTRIBUTOR

In a world that frequently forces women to compete, Boston University and the American Institute of Graphic Art are pushing for collaboration and cooperation.

Erin Robertson, winner of Season 15 of “Project Runway,” addressed an audience of young female professionals at BU on Thursday. Her talk was the beginning of a new lecture series called “HERSTORY.” BU graphic design professors and members of the American Institute of Graphic Arts Boston — which bills itself as the oldest and largest professional membership organization for designers — created the new speaker series.

“HERSTORY” is part of AIGA’s Women Lead Initiative, which celebrates the achievements of female designers, bringing awareness to gender-related issues in the design field and creates connections between female designers.

“What better time and place to give female designers a platform?” Kristen Coogan, a BU professor of graphic design and AIGA Boston member, said. She then added, “We’re only going to succeed if we can hold each other up on our shoulders.”

Robertson, who attended Massachusetts College of Art and Design, was chosen to be the pioneer for this lecture series because she has almost exclusively worked in collaborative efforts with other multimedia artists since her $100,000 win with “Project Runway.”

“A lot of my inspiration comes from just being a human being,” Robertson told the audience. “I’m a lot like you. I just graduated from college a year and a half ago and now I’m figuring out the next step.”

She explained that she loves working with other humans to “create things that have never existed before.”

“I’m very open about my emotions, so I connect with people who feel the same way and we work together,” Robertson said. She explained that her friends are crucial to her process and they inspired her final collection She told the audience how she grew up suburban Provo, Utah, where she even sewed her own prom dress instead of buying one from the same stores as everyone else.

“Everyone was the same — conservative and Mormon — and I just wasn’t really into the same things,” Robertson said.

She explained that got her GED before moving to Boston to chase her fashion dreams.

Those ambitions were put on pause for five years as she worked as a dental assistant, but eventually she started learning about sustainability and how to work with textiles.

Then she won a $25,000 Council of Fashion Designers of America/Teen Vogue scholarship. “It’s kind of like the Oscars,” she said. She used the money to create her first collection.

Robertson explained that her first collection was inspired by the Trash Vortex — an area of the Pacific Ocean chock-full of plastic and trash — and used plastic to create intricate “plashion” pieces.

“Before I didn’t even know that plastic came from oil … I did eye-opening projects that led to working towards sustainability,” she said.

After cross-registering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology she said she learned more about using technology to create environmentally-friendly fashion pieces, and after some success, she was encouraged to try “Project Runway.”

Robertson described how lonely it was to be cut off from her friends and constantly

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AIGA Boston presents lecture series “HERSTORY” featuring Erin Robertson Nov. 2 in the College of Communication.

have a camera shoved in her face on the show. She was determined not to crack in front of the camera. The designer explained that her ability to create something out of nothing led her to win the show.

“I like surprises — like taking something that you see as guitar picks and meal worms and turning that into a flower,” she told the audience. Her innovation set her apart from the rest of the competition, she explained.

Now she’s been working to create her own business, which can be a struggle as a female designer. She noted that one of the biggest struggles is pricing yourself.

“It’s difficult as a woman to be like, ‘I’m worth this much money,” she said. “I have to be self aware and realize that I’m a woman that’s in this world full of people that are trying to bring women down.”

Instead of being discouraged by the harshness of the business world on women, she’s been working on collaborative projects.

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One of her most recent projects was a protest print created with female Boston artist Jordan Piantedosi.

When asked what advice she would have for young female designers trying to make their way up the ladder, she laughed and told the audience not to follow stereotypical paths to success.

“I would say, ‘Don’t do it! Find your own way!’” she said.

Ellen Cranley, a senior in COM and an attendee of the event, said she wants to go find her own path to creative success like Robertson did.

“It’s cool to see someone that’s doing something so different from regular design,” Cranley said. “There are people that are doing things differently in other places, but they’re not local. [Robertson] is someone right here in Boston that’s being creative a way that’s different from everyone else.”

PREVIEW: ‘The Flick’ features small cast, intimate local setting

BY MAE TONGE DAILY FREE PRESS CONTRIBUTOR

An old, grungy cinema. Three young, dead-beat employees. Conversations that stir the soul.

Boston University is introducing “The Flick” to campus, which is a Pulitzer Prizewinning play, directed and performed by BU’s Stage Troupe. The show is set in a run-down movie theater located in central Massachusetts, and the plot revolves around its three, also rundown, employees: Sam, Avery and Rose.

As the show progresses, the audience

learns more about their individual lives through their conversations with one another, discussing their dreams, pitfalls and overall wonderings as they tidy up the fallenfrom-grace cinema.

According to members of the cast and crew, there are two things about the show that give it a unique character: it’s highly intimate — with a cast of only four actors — and the dialogue is sentimentally realistic, echoing words familiar to us all.

Abby Kass, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and stage manager for the show, said that working with a small cast was one of the highlights of the experience.

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Boston University Stage Troupe presents “The Flick” at the Agganis Arena student theater Nov. 9-11.

“In a small show, you get to know each other all really well, and it’s really nice to become a family,” she said.

Esiri Madagwa Jr., a junior in the College of Engineering, who plays the part of Avery, also found the “intimate setting” of the play to be highly rewarding, as well as pose an unusual challenge.

“This is the first time I’ve been in a smaller cast,” Madagwa said. “I’ve really had to dive into the character.”

The small cast puts more pressure on the individual actors: more lines to remember and a greater urgency for full-fledged character development.

With only three protagonists for the audience to focus on, each actor has a bigger slice of the spotlight to themselves. To be convincing, they’ve really had to zone in on their own part, resulting in intimate, striking portrayals of their characters.

“There’s been some little flubs, but I’ve really surprised myself with how much I’ve come to know, over the past two months,” Madagwa said about his personal experience in learning his lines for the show.

Both Madagwa and the show’s director, Lucy Gamades, a senior in COM, stressed the importance of how realistic the entire production is in every aspect, describing it as “naturalistic.”

The play is set in the 21st century, and in Stage Troupe’s rendition, all the characters are “college-aged,” Gamades said.

“The dialogue is super modern,” she said.

“There are ‘likes’ and ‘so’s’ and ‘ums’ written into the show,” bringing the characters closer to their audience.

As the story progresses, the characters appear less and less like caricatures, and more like real people, with real stories.

“Just looking at the script, it’s so real,” Madagwa said. “All the characters are so genuine, and you can relate to each one, and see exactly why they’re doing the things they’re doing.”

To bring the play even closer to home, it was written by Annie Baker, who, at 36, is just young enough to be considered part of the millennial generation.

According to The New Yorker, she is a “funny, empathetic genius who re-creates human speech with such amusement and care, that her characters feel startlingly familiar” — and “The Flick” demonstrates that skill.

Gamades said that one of the biggest challenges of putting together the play was finding the perfect props — namely, the crucial theater seats to go on stage.

According to Gamades, Stage Troupe ultimately got a few from two local, independent cinemas: Coolidge Corner Theatre and West Newton Cinema. Both sport old-school vibes complete with intimate grungy atmospheres, and both are geared toward showing independent films that may not be found in mainstream theatres, she said.

The show premieres on Thursday and runs through Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Student Theatre at Agganis Arena.

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FEATURES 5

Michael Campbell makes strides in AR development

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Boston University student Mathilda Raut tests a virtual reality device at BU’s AR/VR “Terrier in Tech” event featuring BU alumnus Michael Campbell.

BY GREG CHAPMAN DAILY FREE PRESS CONTRIBUTOR

For Michael Campbell, a Boston University College of Engineering class of 1994 alumnus, “being able to see your stuff making an impact is very rewarding.”

Speaking at the first “Terrier in Tech” event hosted by BU’s Augmented Reality/ Virtual Reality club last Wednesday, Campbell showed off the capabilities of AR currently, with its applications in training, marketing, sales and manufacture already in

use by major companies.

Campbell is the executive vice president of the ThingWorx Industrial Innovation Platform at Needham-based tech company PTC. Working at the forefront of what is promising to be the next wave of technology, Campbell emphasized that AR’s relevance isn’t limited to tech firms — its impact will be felt by individuals as well as the global corporations.

“We had web, we had mobile — this is the next technology wave, and it is an entirely new language of communication that makes information clearer, more compelling, more

engaging and less ambiguous,” he said.

His talk focused on technology, specifically explaining why this technology is important for everyone from a high school student to their grandma. “[Campbell is] very inspiring, down to earth and a visionary,” Courtney MacDonald, technical sales specialist at PTC and ENG graduate, said. “He’s able to see the bigger picture instead of going into the weeds where others might.”

Campbell has been with PTC for 22 years, and whether it’s discussing global technology trends or replacing the brake pads on an AR motorbike, he said he is eager to speak about every subject with enthusiasm.

“I can imagine that in five years, augmented reality will simply have exploded … I’m really excited to be part of the group that’s driving that,” he said.

AR isn’t just increasing revenue, it’s helping people — it’s being used in the thermal imaging of veins, improving blood sampling accuracy by 45 percent — and this is just the beginning, he said.

“When you see it in action, it’s like you’re in Harry Potter,” Yunyu Zhang, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences studying computer science, said.

Campbell explained that AR alone is not enough to impact lives meaningfully and is fascinated by the potential the technology holds.

As part of his participation with “Terriers in Tech,” he described one of the newest answers to the ever-expanding question of

AR. AR can currently show how to augment reality, but not what to augment reality with.

The “Internet of Things” — our myriad of electronic devices that are constantly recording information from the physical world such as steps or heart rate — can collaborate with each other as AR steps in and applies meaningful information to the physical world.

Campbell described how he used his BU engineering education to venture into the world of the budding AR technology, and he encouraged the public to embrace the technology. The choice to venture into this field was an easy one, he said.

“I love the idea of being able to do something on the software side, that literally tens of thousands of companies can benefit from … If it makes somebody’s job easier, or if it makes somebody’s job safer, or if it makes their relationship with their customers better — that’s a huge part of the role,” he said.

If Campbell were not into technology, he said he would still use his knack for development in mediums that are more physical than augmented.

“I would spend my time building things, likely, out of wood,” said Campbell. “I enjoy woodworking, I enjoy doing home improvements and home renovations … I spent my career building bits and bytes, and while it drives tremendous value, there’s nothing to hold. That’s really rewarding to me — to build something and have it finished and to say ‘There! I did that!’”

INBUSINESS Artists, booksellers flock to MFA for first ever artisan market

BY DIANA LEANE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Hundreds of art enthusiasts flooded the first MFA Artisan Market and Book Sale on Saturday and Sunday. Vendors displayed a range of goods from socks with unique designs to jewelry, blown glass decorations and more.

The MFA plans to make the market an annual event, according to Ellen Bragalone, director of retail operations at the MFA. The market included 14 vendors and a room full of books that were on sale, which covered topics like art, cooking and other creative activities.

Most of the artisans who participated in the market had worked with the MFA in the past, and Bragalone said the MFA hoped the event would bring recognition to the artists. “[We’re] just kind of celebrating the artists,” Bragalone said. “It’s not just about how many [vendors] can we get in there [and] how much are we going to sell, it’s really [about] presenting some beautifully crafted pieces.”

Kevin Deauseault, who works for Luke Adams Glass Blowing Studio, found that the fair helped expand their customer base.

“It’s a versatile crowd –– a lot of eccentric people and eclectic people –– and that’s a good thing,” Deauseault said. “That’s the kind of people interested in the kinds of products that we have and the things that we do.”

Although the MFA’s gift shop already sold glass pumpkins from the Luke Adams studio, Deauseault said he enjoyed being able to converse with the customers and

tell them about the glass-blowing classes they offer.

“It’s nice to be able to reach people in a different way,” Deauseault said. “[They] wouldn’t know about the classes unless I’m handing them a card telling them about it.

I think that’s a real impact.”

Dayna Ambrosio, a 19-year-old student at Berklee College of Music, attended the market and said she appreciated talking with the people who make the goods she purchases. Ambrosio compared shopping for socks at the market to places of mass production like Marshalls.

“When you’re meeting the people who make and put their effort into [the goods], it’s a level of personal connection,” Ambrosio said. “When I buy a pair of socks here, it’s from the MFA, and I had a cool conversation with the guy who was selling them.”

Deauseault said he liked working next to and talking with other artisans and found himself admiring the sweaters of another vendor, who was stationed across from him.

“It’s cool to see people interacting and just mingling and seeing the kind of camaraderie between the vendors and things like that,” Deauseault said. “[It’s] kind of scratching each others’ backs a little bit and helping each other with sales, and just seeing everybody’s stuff.”

Caroline Whitaker, 18, also a student at Berklee, has gone to many flea markets and said this event reminded her of those.

However, she said the artisan market was more sophisticated and the craftsmanship was of higher quality than a flea market.

“You can go right out here and see

works of art that are hundreds of years old that have been looked at by so many different people, and it’s like, ‘Ah, I just bought something from here,’” Whitaker said. “It’s cool to see.”

Deauseault said he believed that some museumgoers who would not have come to the market otherwise stopped in after passing. He hoped the market had a positive effect on them.

“As busy as it is, even in here, there’s even more people out there, so it’s really cool to see people ... poking in just to check it out,” Deauseault said. “All it takes is that

one person to poke in and check it out, and I’m telling them about glass blowing classes, and maybe that starts something.”

Ambrosio said she enjoyed the market and she would attend another one hosted by the MFA. As someone who likes art and events like flea markets, she said she appreciated the combination.

“It’s cool because you come here to see art, and you can’t really touch it, but you can admire it, and here it’s like you can buy it and take it home,” Ambrosio said. “It’s different because it’s art worked on by people who are selling it to you.”

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Museum of Fine Arts Boston hosts its first ever Artisan Market and Book Sale on Saturday and Sunday.

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Mayor Martin Walsh supporters celebrate his re-election as Boston mayor Tuesday night at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel.

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Despite defeat, Jackson looks to continue service in city WALSH, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Despite losing the election, Jackson said his campaign was victorious in achieving goals of spreading awareness to various issues, including gentrification, community diversity and the funding of schools, within the City of Boston.

“Tonight, we are declaring victory,” Jackson said. “We are declaring victory because the issues that were not brought up for the past three and a half years are now being brought up.”

Jackson had given up his position as city councilor to focus on the mayoral election, but assured the attendees of his election night party he would continue to work in some capacity for the people of Boston.

Earlier in the day, a few local residents who voted at the Boston Public Library polling station in Dorchester expressed varying opinions on the candidate they favored in the mayoral election.

Jeffrey Gordon, 56, of Dorchester, said he was proud to cast his ballot in Walsh’s favor again because of his efforts as mayor to better the city on all fronts.

“Walsh has done a great job of making Boston one of the best cities in the world to live in … clean, beautiful, thriving with new technology and new programs,” Gordon said. “He knows better than anyone how to allocate our taxpayer dollars to make this a city we’re proud to live in.”

Catherine Daniels, 31, of Dorchester, said she voted for Jackson because she

thought he would foster a more inclusive environment in Boston than Walsh. “[ Jackson will] push this city in the right direction toward becoming more empathetic to some of its residents who maybe don’t have as much money or proper healthcare or education,” Daniels said.

“Tito is here for the underdog.”

Former city council candidate Charles Clemons Muhammad, 56, of Dorchester, who voted at the Higginson/Lewis K-8 School station in Roxbury, said he cast his ballot for Jackson because he has a closer relationship to the local community.

“We have the underserved — the working class — who feel voiceless in our community,” Muhammad said. “Tito Jackson speaks for [them]. He’s listening to the

people. He’s got boots on the ground.”

At the Jackson/Mann K-8 School polling station in Allston, Billierae Engelman, 25, of Allston, said she voted for Walsh, and would like to see issues many Bostonians are currently facing, like transportation and gentrification, addressed.

“Tito says a lot of right things, but I think his record on city council has a lot left to be desired,” Engelman said. “I have heard that [city council is] doing a lot of different focus groups and pilot programs to try and address some of these issues. It’s nice that they’re being proactive in that sense.”

Solange Hackshaw, Hannah Rogers and Isabel Contreras contributed to the reporting of this article.

Re-elected council members backed by Boston residents COUNCIL, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Ciommo told The Daily Free Press running against Bowser allowed him to be able to reach out to the local community again in a way he is not often able to do while on City Council. “[This election] gave me the ability to reach out and get my message across again and I’m very happy,” Ciommo said. “There are a lot of things going on in our neighborhood, we have a lot of great things, but we also have a lot of challenges. I think we all

got our message out that it is important to be involved we need everybody’s eyes and hears and participation.”

Kelly McGrath, 47, of Brighton, said she supports Ciommo because he is from Brighton and takes care of people within his own district.

“Whenever I would call him up on certain issues, whether it be speeding or construction, he is on top of it and responds himself,” McGrath said after the results were announced. “He doesn’t have anyone else respond and I like that about him.”

After conceding to Ciommo over the phone, Bowser said at an election night party he was encouraged by Ciommo’s willingness to continue dialogue and engage young people in the conversation.

Despite losing the race, Bowser told The Daily Free Press he will continue to engage in conversations about the future of the district and communicate the concerns of residents, which he initiated throughout his campaign.

“I’m going to try to take the connections and the momentum that we’ve had

and try to plug more people in and continue that conversation,” Bowser said. “It’s never been about me, it’s about the neighborhood and the community and the issues.”

Some Boston residents expressed interest in the new at-large city councilors.

“For city council, I like a lot of what Michelle Wu and Essaibi George are doing, and also Ayanna Pressley already,” said Billierae Engelman, 25, of Allston. “I don’t know that much about Althea Garrison, but I like the fact that more women are in politics so that’s awesome.”

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Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, City Councilor Tito Jackson, City Councilor Josh Zakim and City Councilor Mark Ciommo hold election parties around Greater Boston area Tuesday night.

Boston mayoral race: BU students get in on the action

BY AMANDA KAUFMAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The mayoral election has been dominating headlines in recent weeks in the City of Boston, but campaigning for the candidates has been going on for much longer. Several students at Boston University have gotten involved with mayoral candidates Martin Walsh and Tito Jackson’s campaigns and are using their voice to inf luence local politics — even if Boston is only a temporary home.

Between five and eight BU students have been involved in Walsh’s re-election campaign, according to Walsh campaign spokeswoman Gabrielle Farrell.

Representatives from Jackson’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment — but one BU student involved in the campaign said about four BU students worked for Jackson.

Farrell said BU students have participated in the communications aspect of the campaign, which involves talking to residents and sharing their experiences through various digital media, as well as field operations by knocking on constituents’ doors and phone banking.

“It’s really been a huge effort of outdoor canvassing, making sure that the mayor’s track record is well-known and that we really pick a large group of people who are invested in the mayor’s vision to make that happen, and the students have been a huge part of that,” Farrell said.

Dean of Students Kenneth Elmore said he encourages BU students to register to

vote in Massachusetts and get involved in local politics, as Boston is their home now.

“If you’re eligible to vote, I’m that person who says drop your local back home registration.

You live in Boston most of the year,” Elmore said. “This is your city, and what you’ve got to do is participate: elect a mayor, run yourself.”

Elmore said he’s happy to see BU students engaging with local politics.

“Local politics are large enough to matter and small enough to change,” he said. “I wholly recommend, enthusiastically urge students to think about registering local and for those students who have, vote.”

Sam Kubota, a senior in the School of Education, wrote in a Facebook message that she volunteered for Jackson’s mayoral campaign after being inspired by his visit to one of the civics classes she taught through BU’s Generation Citizen program.

Kubota wrote that when Jackson took the time out of his schedule to engage with students — many of whom are not registered voters — and tell them why their beliefs matter, she began to admire his authentic care for his constituents.

She also explained that she supports Jackson as a candidate because she believes “representation really matters.”

“Seeing the kinds of connections Tito is able to make with my students, [the] majority of whom are students of color, emphasized the importance of seeing people who look like you in high-status positions,” Kubota wrote.

Another Jackson campaigner, Asia Gordon, said she became involved with Tito’s campaign as a student in the Educated Electorate writing class, which

requires students to volunteer for a political campaign for four weeks.

Gordon, a sophomore in the College of Communication, wrote that she was inspired by Jackson’s willingness to speak to her small class and educate them on his vision for the City of Boston.

“Some representatives from Walsh’s campaign came and spoke to our class, however, Tito Jackson actually came to our class of like 15 students and spoke on his issues and answered our questions,” Gordon wrote in a Facebook message. “I know multiple students in the class identified with his politics and were excited to participate in the campaign.”

Gordon added that members of her class “seemed much more intrigued and agreed more with Tito’s policies.”

Arber Pellumbi, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences and a press fellow for Walsh’s campaign, said becoming involved in the mayor’s campaign was one of the best decisions he made this semester because it allowed him to see politics in action.

“As a political science major, I’m writing papers on theory, or I’m sitting in class half-paying attention, but by doing this, I’m getting a hands-on experience,” Pellumbi said. “The more that I’m around [Walsh], taking pictures at the events that he’s at, the more I hear him speak, the more I’m sold on his image for the city.”

Pellumbi said, like Elmore, he believes it’s important for college students to engage in local politics as “individuals who are just coming into this world” who “deserve to have a say in how we’re governed.”

Similarly, junior Sam Nelson, a press intern for Walsh, wrote that it’s vital for college students in Boston to use their voice to influence local politics.

“We may only be in this city for four years, but Boston is still our home,” Nelson wrote in an email. “College students should stay aware of the issues going on in the city because the policies that the government enacts end up affecting us, too!”

Nelson explained how her involvement in Walsh’s campaign has been rewarding.

“I’ve had the opportunity to work with professionals in politics and communications and see how they operate and why they’re passionate about what they do,” she wrote. “It’s also been amazing to develop my own skills in the field while at the same time feeling like I’m helping make positive change in Boston.”

Another press fellow for Walsh, Devin Harvin, said he became involved in Walsh’s re-election campaign to engage in politics on a local level with a politician whom he had a lot of respect for.

Harvin, a CAS senior, added that his experience with the campaign allowed him to see what kind of impact he could make on Boston residents.

“In college, you learn a lot about what you want to do and a lot of that centers around what type of impact you want to make,” he said. “I think [participating in a local politics is] just a great outtake for people to understand how difficult it is for things to get done and why we need educated, young and passionate people in office or supporting people in office.”

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Voter turnout won’t improve until we make an effort Voter turnout yesterday was abysmally low, with just 28 percent of residents getting out to the polls.

Sure, it wasn’t the most exciting election — we were looking at just a smattering of city council races and a mayoral race with a strongly favored incumbent. There was no scandal to speak of. Then again, in 2016 we had that, and we still had the lowest presidential election turnout the United States had seen in 20 years.

But when it comes down to it, our low voter turnout doesn’t have anything to do with the year or the candidates or the election itself — it has to do with us. We, as a city and as a society, have made no concerted effort to make change, and that lack of effort has shown.

Our pattern of low voter turnout continues to recur with agonizing predictability.

And yet, the only people actively working to improve Boston’s turnout are a handful of nonprofits and the actual candidates running for office. These efforts are well intentioned, but they are clearly not doing nearly enough. The solution must come in the form of a mass movement, one from the government itself.

In some countries, Election Day is a national holiday — people are given the day off of work for the sole purpose of making sure everyone has the time to cast their vote. In other countries, the government makes sure that every single citizen is bombarded with all the information they might need to know before the election. They make sure their citizens know exactly who’s running, how to register and where to vote. The reason that the United States has such low turnout is simple —

it’s because we aren’t making any real effort to change it.

And this effort doesn’t even have to come from the federal government. With the kind of voter suppression tactics that have become the norm in the GOP these days, we really wouldn’t expect it to. What we can expect, however, is for Massachusetts to step up and become a beacon of democracy, a place with unparalleled

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voter turnouts, a state that other states can look toward.

There’s a lot of things we could do to work toward achieving that, but a big one would be enacting same-day voter registration policies. Currently, Massachusetts voters have to register to vote at least 20 days before Election Day. Despite that fact, in 2016, Massachusetts still saw the sixth-highest voter turnout rates in the country — but of the five

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The importance of the federal government is undisputable, but on a day-to-day basis, they aren’t the one’s affecting the voters lives. Public schools,

housing, transportation — all the things that make the most tangible differences in people’s lives are not things decided by the president or even by Congress, they’re things decided by mayors and city councilors. That’s why these local elections are so important.

Even college students, who very well might move away before a given candidate’s term is up, have a lot to care about at the local level, because in local politics, a lot of change can be made in just a few years. But the problem is these young people aren’t voting.

The reason for this isn’t because college students are too busy or lazy or apathetic about government, though these things may be true. They’re not voting because a lot of the time, they are splitting their time between two different cities in two different states. They don’t feel entirely at home in either place, and aren’t invested enough or know enough about either area’s government to be politically active. And on top of all that, college students have to figure out the process of getting an absentee ballot and dealing with long registration turnaround times. All in all, there’s a lot more we could be doing to help students vote.

This election has come and gone, but that doesn’t mean it’s time to sit back and wait for the next one. Through enacting same-day registration, prioritizing local politics and engaging in efforts directed specifically at college students, we could start to see some real change. By this time next year, Boston could be making headlines for record high voter turnout rather than record low. Let’s make that happen.

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The New Rambler:

Burke’s Bully Pulpit:

Hello Boston, my old friend Jackson deserved a chance

BY DAN DELLECHIAIE COLUMNIST

“Preserve your memories. They’re all that’s left you.” — Simon and Garfunkel, “Bookends” I was in the middle of reading Michel Houellebecq’s nihilistic classic, “Whatever,” when my editor asked me to care about something: the Boston mayoral election. I almost said no — not because Houellebecq’s worldview was influencing me, but rather because I am not from Boston.

I’m from New Jersey, and I spent a good portion of my childhood in New York. As you can imagine, my family was worried when they heard I was going to be surrounded by Patriots and Red Sox fans. To make matters worse, during my first year at Boston University, I was living just down the block from Fenway Park.

But then I thought about the article proposal. The Daily Free Press staff probably sent these proposals to everyone. The ones who accepted and who are now writing articles probably did so because they are Bostonians or have a vested interest in who gets elected.

No matter how much I refuse to call myself a Bostonian in any form, I have to admit that I do have a vested interest in Boston’s future.

Boston is home to some of my favorite book and record stores. Boston may also become my home if some newspaper or magazine wants to hire me. (Please? Anyone?)

So I decided to put Houellebecq on hold, throw on some Simon and Garfunkel records, and do some research on the candidates.

The two candidates are incumbent Mayor

Martin Walsh and City Councilor Tito Jackson.

The first thing that struck me was that Marty Walsh reminds me of every suburban dad I have ever met. The first picture I saw of him he was even wearing a Calloway jacket.

Walsh’s proposed solution to the economic problem involves bringing in more companies.

He says that companies like Amazon will bring in 50,000 middle-class jobs.” The phrase “middle class” always throws up a red flag for me.

So I did some research on Amazon in particular. Amazon pays its warehouse employees and other similar positions a little under $13 an hour.

Working full time makes your yearly income around $27,040. A middle class income ranges from $35,000 to $100,000 a year. Inviting Amazon would create low-income jobs.

Now that we’ve talked about jobs, what about rent? As of 2014, the average rent in Boston is $2,458 a month or $29,496 a year.

This means that your full-time job at the corporation Walsh wants to bring in is not going to be enough to pay your rent.

I did some research on Jackson’s positions.

Jackson’s policies are one-ups of Walsh’s policies. More funding for public schools, some form of action to deal with the rising housing prices and fixing the wealth and race gaps in Boston are some of Jackson’s policies.

I could talk more about the candidates politics, but that isn’t the point of this article.

The point of this article is not for me to tell you which candidate to vote for. If I had a choice, I’d probably be in France by now.

Jokes aside, if you are reading this, you have a vested interest in how the election turns out.

The point of this article is to remind you of the web of decisions that make up your life.

Every political decision made in America affects everyone. Some of these decisions affect us directly. If you live in Boston, how the election turns out directly affects your future.

I realized while doing research for this article that I actually care a lot about the future of Boston beyond just my favorite bookstores.

I care about Boston because it’s where I have grown the most as a writer, as a student and as a human. Boston made me who I am and I want it to change as many people as it can in the future.

BY PATRICK BURKE COLUMNIST

This election season, I covered a rally in support of District 7 City Councilor Tito Jackson in his bid to become the next mayor of Boston. The event was held at the Massachusetts Association Minority Law Enforcement Officers building in Dorchester.

When I told some of my family that I had to cover Jackson for a class assignment, they all said the same thing: “Michael’s brother?”

While funny the first few times, I was not looking to cover the former member of the Jackson Five, but rather a viable candidate for mayor who was not getting enough publicity.

This is extremely evident by the fact that a lot of Bostonians still think of the singer when they hear the name Tito Jackson, not the person who ran to be their next mayor.

I was not too surprised by the low turnout for this event, given the percentage of the vote that Jackson got in the primary election.

Incumbent Mayor Martin Walsh received 63 percent of the vote, while Jackson received just 29 percent. Part of this was due to the fact that Jackson just had a tougher time spreading his message to people in the city. People simply didn’t — and apparently still don’t — know who he is.

Not only does this not sound right, it is also pretty unconstitutional. While I was at the event, Jackson took a jab at the mayor for standing him up at their last scheduled debate, surely a strategic move by the current mayor. I think Walsh may have done this so Jackson did

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not have a platform to influence Walsh’s voters, people who had no idea who his challenger was. If this theory is correct, then the respect I have for the way the mayor ran his campaign would be all but out the window.

Another example of this comes in the video on the homepage of Mayor Walsh’s website. One of the men interviewed actually says, “I support him — we support him — because everyone is happy with him.” This doesn’t seem to be the best logic. Voters should always try to hear out both sides of different issues.

Blindly following what other people are saying is a terrible way to go through life. Residents of Boston should have given Jackson more of a chance this election season than they did.

For those who did give him a chance, though, I am sure it was refreshing to hear concrete plans to make the city better. Even though I was supposed to be at his campaign event as a member of the press, I saw myself aligning my views with some of what Jackson was saying to the people. He seemed to genuinely care about the well-being of children in Boston schools, especially those in often underfunded low-income areas.

One thing that really stuck out to me was the demographics of who was at this campaign rally. The majority of people in attendance were people of color, and it seemed like gentrification of the city was a hot button topic.

As Jackson mentioned in his speech, Boston has recently become a majority-minority city.

While Walsh may be looked at as a positive figure, I wish we would learn to give the underdog a chance. Walsh says that his policies are progressive, I’m sure we have all heard it. But I think his recent “D” rating from the NAACP tells more than his words do. This obviously does not bode well for the mayor, especially when the city you are in charge of has a majority of people of color.

Tito Jackson would have inspired low-income kids to be their best selves. He was born in Boston and served the city nobly as a councilor. Jackson was a nice, fresh surprise to politics and I hope to see more people like him in the years to come.

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On Tuesday, Bostonians voted to elect the City’s next mayor.

We here at the ‘ol Free Press want to know — who would BU students write in for mayor?

Men’s hockey: Jack Eichel

STEM: Bill Nye the Science Guy

Film and TV majors: Quentin Tarantino

CGS: Harambe

BU On Broadway: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Student Government: Leslie Knope

Locals: Tom Brady

Divest BU: Al Gore

SHA: Mr. Mosby

FreeP: Chris Daly

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Steding, women’s basketball set for 2017-18 season

BY GREG LEVINSKY DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

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Senior Sophie Beaudry and the Terriers will look to improve off of last season’s performance.

Beginning her fourth year at the helm, Boston University women’s basketball head coach Katy Steding endured a 5-25 season her first season as the head, and then a 3-27 mark during the 2015-16 season. These dismal seasons have been part of the growing pains of turning around a program that was left in disarray after former head coach Kelly Greenberg left in late April of 2014 amidst accusations of verbally abusing her players.

Steding has reworked what was a floundering program since coming to Boston. Now Steding looks to lead the Terriers further than last season’s conference tournament quarterfinal loss.

“We’ve established the culture and we are in a new phase of women’s basketball here,” Steding said. “[We] are competitive in every game we play.”

Senior center Sophie Beaudry emerged as the top player at her position in the conference as she was named to both the All-Patriot League First Team and the league’s All-Defensive Team.

Beaudry averaged a team-high 12.9 points, 6.1 rebounds and a leaguehigh 2.1 blocks per game. Steding said her presence will be heavily relied on once again this season.

“She’s a huge part of what we do and that’s not secret,” Steding said.

“The upside is that I feel like we have some really great pieces to put around her, there’s not anybody that I look at

on the roster and say ‘well, this person is hugely better than that person’ we have a lot of great players.”

After starting off last season 1-9, Steding and the Terriers went on to finish the season winning 12 of their last 20 games. The Terriers were picked dead last in the preseason poll in 2016, yet found a way to make a dramatic improvement from the eight wins the team totaled in Steding’s first two seasons.

Returning to the Terrier starting lineup along with Beaudry are the forwards senior captain Corrine Williams and junior Naiyah Thompson.

Williams has the capabilities to handle the ball and stretch the floor, as well as muscle inside. She averaged 8.1 points and 4.6 rebounds per game last season and is the team’s best returning three point shooter after connecting on 33 percent of attempts from beyond the arc.

Thompson emerged as the Terriers best on-ball defender last year. She started in 22 of 29 appearances averaging 6.0 points and 3.5 rebounds per game. With a developing offensive arsenal, Thompson has the potential to become one of the conference’s premier two-way threats by season’s end.

“Corrine can play positions two or five depending on the need and is such strong leader,” Steding said.

“They bring back a tenacity and are so long that depending on where you put them they mess things up [for the other team] because they take up so much space.”

The Terriers have two more prominent forwards on the roster in

senior Kara Sheftic and sophomore Nia Irving.

Sheftic averaged 5.4 points and 3.0 rebounds per game while appearing in all 30 games last season with 11 starts and a 13 point, 3 rebound effort against Boston College.

Also at 6 foot 1 inch tall, Irving is a post threat with sound back to the basket moves and a developing midrange game. After missing the first 10 games due to injury, she bursted onto the scene with a 26 point, 10 rebound, 3 steals at Lehigh University in just her third collegiate game. Irving earned two Patriot League Rookie of the Week nods as well as a spot on the postseason Patriot League AllRookie Team.

“With them two battling it out I can see scenarios where they play together and also spelling each other depending on what our circumstances we face,” Steding said.

Juniors guards Lauren Spearman and Payton Hauck both played in majority of the games last season, and may see their roles increase.

“Both Payton and Lauren provide a steadiness and consistency and leadership by example type perspective,” Steding said. “They do a great job everyday of setting the tone of how hard we’re going to go.”

Steding has her own team, her own, staff and her own plan to pave the way for the Terriers to capture the team’s first Patriot League title.

“They’re all mine,” Steding said jokingly. “Everybody’s truly super invested and the next step is contending.”

Men’s basketball looks to improve after last year

BY LIAM O’BRIEN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The Boston University men’s basketball team has made a habit of reaching expectations since entering the Patriot League. In each of their four seasons in the conference, the Terriers have either matched or finished better than projected in the Patriot League preseason poll.

Now, they only have one team to beat to get to the top of this season’s preseason poll, finishing second to Bucknell University in the rankings while still pulling two of the 20 firstplace votes.

The question is, does BU have the power to remain at the top of the Patriot League this season after finishing tied for second place with Lehigh University last year?

But this year, the team lost their top two scorers in Eric Fanning and Justin Alston, and the Terriers are coming in with a few injuries, which begs the question, who will step up?

“We have been so banged up [recently], it has been hard to piece the team together,” BU head coach Joe Jones said. “We’ve had so many injuries. It has just been constant.”

Despite facing the injury bug heading into the year, the Terriers welcomed an exciting group of freshman to The Roof this summer, featuring 6-foot-6-inch, 210-pound

swingman Walter Whyte.

“Walter was very conscious to try to go to a place where he was going to get a great education,” Jones said.

“He had a strong relationship with the staff. The proximity to his mom [because] his mom getting to see games was important to him.”

Whyte has already compiled an impressive resume before stepping foot onto a collegiate court.

He was the lone mid-major school commit to participate in the Jordan Brand Classic at Barclays Center in Brooklyn this year, playing alongside University of Kentucky freshman Jarred Vanderbilt and Mitchell Robinson, who has decided to forego college basketball to prepare for the 2018 NBA Draft.

“It is too early to tell how he fits in, but he is very coachable,” Jones said. “He plays very hard for a young guy. He wants to be good [and] he is a great teammate. He’s got a lot of positive attributes.”

The Terriers added two New England prep school standouts to their roster this year — guard Javante McCoy and center Sukhmail Mathon.

Mathon is someone who does not have to worry about size being a detractor. The 6-foot-10-inch, 225pound player earned his way onto the Division 1 scene by muscling his way through opposing defenders in his two seasons at the Holderness School

in New Hampshire.

The Pennsylvania native recorded over 1,000 points during his time in New Hampshire, playing his way up to the 34th spot on the New England Recruiting Report’s regional rankings for the Class of 2017.

As the tallest player on the team, Mathon may receive consistent playing time if the Terriers’ rebounding lapses. At the forward/center spot, the team will be relying on two 6-foot-8-inch players to play in their backcourt — senior Nick Havener and sophomore Max Mahoney.

Although his playing time decreased from 21 to 16.7 minutes per game last season, Havener improved his shooting percentage from just below 50 to around 64 percent. His 5.4 boards and 0.5 blocks per game each ranked 13th in the Patriot League, as Havener’s impact on the team grew as the season progressed.

Mahoney made a splash in his freshman year despite playing only averaging 12 minutes per game. He carved out a reputation for himself as a high-energy performer, providing multiple enthusiastic finishes at the rim while shooting just under 60 percent from the field.

On the wing, BU will need senior Cedric Hankerson and sophomore Tyler Scanlon to continue to develop as outside threats. In 31 appearances last season, Hankerson was third on the team in scoring with an aver-

age 9.6 points per game. However, his three-point percentage dipped towards the season’s conclusion, as he shot 33.5 percent from deep, below the team average of 35.4 percent.

Much of the team’s ability to put up numbers on their opponents will depend on Hankerson’s ability to take that next step. The team struggled to score in contests where Hankerson failed to record a threepointer last season, such as in a 67-58 loss to Colgate University in January where he went 0-for-5 from deep.

Scanlon finished second on the squad in three-point shooting in his first year with the team, hitting 40.4 percent of his deep attempts.

Without Fanning ahead of him, Scanlon should expect to spend a

lot of time on the wing. If him and Hankerson are able to step up as legitimate three-point threats, the Terriers could morph into one of the better outside shooting teams in the Patriot League.

Lacking one commanding superstar, the team will have to rely on contributions from a number of players in order to compete for a conference title.

“They play unselfishly,” Jones said. “We have a chance to be a really good team. We play together on both sides of the ball. I like the team attitude, and we have had good practices on a consistent basis. It is a mixed bag of tricks with five seniors and seven freshmen and sophomores but I like where we are going.”

PHOTO BY JUSTIN HAWK/ DFP FILE PHOTO

The Terriers will look to players such as senior Cedric Hankerson to play key roles this season.

SPORTS 11

Between the Lines: A blemish on the NFL’s seal

BY MICHAEL ALCARAZ COLUMNIST

Some may have known that October was Domestic Violence Awareness month, but if you are like me and the majority of your media consumption is sports-related, this may have never come to your attention.

After a month of watching sports, I never heard those words —“Domestic Violence Awareness.” And Sunday after Sunday, I watched every play from every game that I could, just like I’ve done ever since I could remember, not knowing.

But something was different this October though.

Pink. Where was all of the pink?

This season the NFL wanted to broaden its cancer awareness campaign, no longer focusing

solely on breast cancer and the color pink. Instead, they created a campaign called Crucial Catch, that uses other colors to raise awareness and money to fight multiple types of cancer.

While I admire the choice to broaden the outreach for their cause, the league continues to actively choose to not address some of the most notable stains on NFL’s beloved seal: domestic violence.

It has been over three years since Ray Rice’s third-degree aggravated assault charge and subsequent two-game suspension. It wasn’t until the video displaying what we had already known was leaked that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell handed out longer suspension lengths for domestic violence incidents.

Goodell decided to set domestic violence suspensions at six games. However, since the new policy was put in place in 2014, the league hasn’t even been following their own rules.

Jets receiver Quincy Enunwa was arrested and charged with simple assault. He was suspended for four games. Packers tight end Andrew Quarless was accused of firing a gun in the air while arguing with a woman and was suspended for two games.

Former Giants kicker Josh Brown

was arrested on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge. He was suspended for just one game.

While the NFL high-handedly waves its policy in the public’s eye, it is all in order to fabricate improvement to the league when in reality, there isn’t a “policy” at all.

Which leads me to Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott.

Elliott was suspended six games by the NFL for domestic violence at the start of the 2017 season. But since then most of the conversation surrounding the events has switched to the NFL’s botched investigation and punishment of Elliott.

Elliott played for all of September and October as his suspension was delayed by the courts. Until this week, when a federal court in New York denied the NFL Players Association’s request for a preliminary injunction meaning the six-game suspension is back and the Cowboys’ star running back wouldn’t be on the field Sunday versus the Kansas City Chiefs.

Or so everyone thought until the second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request for an administrative stay, meaning he did play versus the Chiefs and continues to avoid his punishment legally. The presumed final ruling on his case will take place this

week and supposedly will decide the fate of his season.

But the fate of his season isn’t what is important here. This is a case with plenty of evidence against Elliott and one where the NFLPA was barred from access to interview notes and the victim during the appeal process, only furthering the idea that we should all be questioning the trustworthiness of the NFL. Incident after incident, selective enforcement of the NFL’s vague policy has been used. A policy which is so unclear that we don’t know what or how much evidence the NFL needs to see to be able to suspend players for violating the CBA. And while some call for praise for the league for partnering and donating to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault and the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence, along with attempting to educate players about violence against women — I say it has been all for naught.

The millions of dollars in financial contributions pale in comparison to the billions of dollars of revenue each year for the league and millions of dollars that the league has spent fighting in court to preserve their power.

Rather than flaunt its charitable work during moments of crisis in order to grab some good PR, the unparalleled visibility of the NFL provides them the opportunity and platform to be proactive and at the forefront of these social discussions that we as a society need to be having.

Instead, the NFL should double down on their promise to get it together after the Ray Rice incident.

Launch more campaigns like “NO MORE” rather than let them fade into the background.

Spend less money in court and spend more money educating every player and providing them with more helpful resources, not only in regards to domestic violence but for mental health, financial assistance and other programs to benefit the wellbeing of your employees. And most of all the NFL’s punishments need to become more clear, consistent and transparent.

In order to the NFL to right its wrong doings, it needs to become tougher on domestic violence issues. We do not need another Rice situation. So while we spent this past October avoiding at all cost yet another NFL domestic violence case, let’s hope for a future October where the NFL takes steps to right their wrongs.

BU inducts 6 people to Athletic Hall of Fame

BY MATTHEW MARTIN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The list of members in the Boston University Athletic Hall of Fame just got a little longer as BU awarded six Terriers the high honor, adding them officially to the Hall of Fame Saturday afternoon.

For the first time — someone was honored strictly for their coaching success. Former BU cross country coach Bruce Lehane passed away in September after a battle with ALS, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame on Saturday. During his time coaching at BU, he coached 50 All-Americans, two NCAA Division 1 National Champions and two Olympians.

Along with Lehane, former Terriers Bob Danville ‘82, Dick Fecteau ‘51, Matt Gilroy ‘09, Robyn Kenney ‘01 and April Setterlund ‘11 were inducted for their achievements in track and field, athletics administration, hockey, field hockey and softball respectively.

Joining in on the festivities were Terriers that have been inducted previously, including Don MacLeod, a former hockey and baseball player at BU. MacLeod said he recalled getting the call about being inducted into the Hall of Fame for baseball in 1973, remembering that he was “absolutely joyous.”

“It’s great for the families, it’s great for sports, it’s great for education,” MacLeod said. “It’s international, there are people here from all over the world. It’s a celebration.”

The inductees were not the only people being honored at the ceremony. Six other Terriers were given awards for their accomplishments and support of BU Athletics.

Men’s lacrosse sophomore attack

Ryan Hilburn won the Irv Heller Hall of Fame Scholarship, which is awarded to the student-athlete who demonstrates good sportsmanship and citizenship.

Track and field coach Robyne Johnson received the William French Memorial Award for her commendable coaching this past year.

Dave Walko was honored with the Roger “Moose” Washburn Memorial Award for his complete support to BU’s athletic program.

The Murray Kramer Memorial Award was given to Brian Maurer because of his coverage of intercollegiate sports. For their leadership on and off the field, Charlotte Castronovo and Jake De Vries — who both graduated last May — were given the Aldo “Buff” Donelli Memorial Leadership Award.

Brian Kelley, BU’s assistant athletic director, described the selection process to get nominated for the Hall of Fame as an “open nomination procedure.”

“We have an open nomination procedure that we put on our website and get it out there on social media and we allow anybody to essentially nominate someone,” Kelley said.

“We’ve recently opened it up to all coaches and administrators.”

Drew Marrochello, BU’s director of athletics, said that it is very difficult to get into the Hall of Fame and added that due to the recent success of the BU teams it’s going to become more difficult to get the nomination.

After years on the ballot — Bob Danville joined his wife Sharon Colyear-Danville in the Hall of Fame. Danville was an All-American in the 400m hurdles in 1982, and won the 110m hurdles at the 1976 Scottish Championship and placed third in the 400m hurdles at the 1980 U.K. Championship.

Despite waiting so long to get inducted, Danville said during his acceptance speech that he is happy that he is able to share this moment with his family.

Dick Fecteau was inducted because of his time in the athletic administration between 1976-89 and his volunteering to keep the Hall of Fame program going. Fecteau received a standing ovation after getting his Hall of Fame blazer.

The last time BU’s men’s hockey team won the NCAA national championship, Matt Gilroy was the captain. He became the second of three BU players to win the Hobey Baker Award as one of the nation’s best player. After BU he went on to play in the NHL. Gilroy is currently playing in the KHL and has a good chance of mak-

ing the U.S. Olympic Team.

“By the time he was in a junior it was like he was in the staff meetings arguing with me all the time,” said former long-time BU men’s head hockey coach and Hall of Famer Jack Parker.

Robyn Kenney was inducted due to her success in field hockey.

She was a two-time All-American at BU and then went on to play for the U.S. national team. She helped bring the team to fourth place in the 2006 World Cup. April Setterlund was a threetime All-American softball player as a Terrier and holds numerous single-season and all-time offensive records for the Terriers, she can now add being added to the Hall of Fame to her resume.

Current BU softball head coach Ashley Waters said she played against

Setterlund during their playing days.

“We played against each other for two years,” Waters said. “After I graduated [from University of Maine] she came on the scene and completely kicked butt.”

Waters added that she wants her players to look up to players like Setterlund and try to emulate her career.

Kelley said having a Hall of Fame gives a goal for athletes to achieve and stive to accomplish..

“Anybody who is in sports or excellence in any profession the idea of having something to achieve, something to shoot for in a Hall of Fame, I think it’s pretty special,” Kelley said. “Once you’re a Terrier you’re always a Terrier for these Hall of Famers it really gives us a nice way of to honor their careers.”

PHOTO COURTESY BU ATHLETICS

From left to right: Matt Gilroy’s father, Bob Danville, April Setterlund, Robyn Kenney, Dick Fecteau and Bruce Lehane’s son accept their BU Athletic Hall of Fame awards this year.

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