12-3-2012

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Driver in Boylston T collision has prior speeding violation BU officials report

40-percent rise in early decision apps

By Zoe Roos Daily Free Press Staff

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority authorities are investigating the actions of a T driver with a previous speeding citation involved in the Boylston Street station trolley collision on Thursday, officials said.

The accident occurred at 11:48 a.m. when one trolley rear-ended another one that was stopped in the station, said MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo.

While no passengers were seriously injured, 30 people reported having mild back or neck pain, he said.

Pesaturo said all technical equipment was checked as a possible cause of the accident.

“There were no issues with the tracks, signals, nor trolley equipment,” he said.

“Investigators are focused on the actions of the trolley operator.” The driver of the trolley was cited in a safety compliance audit in 2009 for speeding, Pesaturo said.

“This July 2009 audit was on Beacon Street in Brookline, C Branch,” he said.

“Cited for a rules violation for being 13 miles per hour over the limit. No accident nor any other incident resulted.”

Trolley speed is monitored by radar, similar to the way radar is detected by the police, Pesaturo said. The Green Line managers perform radar checks on a daily basis.

Pesaturo also said the driver was reprimanded for the violation.

“He was disciplined and given re-instruc-

By Chris Lisinski Daily Free Press Staff

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Police and Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officials stand outside the outbound Boylston T station after two Green Line trolleys collided Thursday.

tion by the training school,” he said. “He has traveled through hundreds of speed checks since then, with no violations. Not another issue until this week.”

Boston Fire Department spokesman Steve MacDonald said on Thursday that Boston EMS evaluated 35 passengers, finding no life-threatening injuries.

“We started helping people off the trolley as fast we could,” he said. “In the end, Bos-

ton EMS transported several.”

Daniel Ochsner, a 49-year-old Brookline resident, said he was surprised by the incident and the driver’s citation.

“I have ridden the T for years,” he said.

“I have never had any trouble with it, but obviously this makes me feel uneasy. I don’t want a driver to injure me or my children.”

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Gov’t Center station to close for 2 years during reconstruction

By Alex Diantgikis Daily Free Press Staff

A $90-million renovation plan to improve accessibility will force the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to close the Government Center station for two years, beginning in either late summer or early fall of 2013.

The stop will remain closed until the second quarter of 2016, according to T project information on the MBTA website.

The construction is designed to bring Government Center into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Boston Center for Independent Living Agreement.

Construction costs are estimated at about $90 million, with 80 percent of the cost expected to come from federal funding, said MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo in an email.

“Like everyone else in Boston, the

MBTA is very excited about this critically important project,” Pesaturo said. “As a major downtown subway station, Government Center needs to be made accessible to people of all abilities.”

The project is designed to bring the station to current code requirements and increase accessibility, according to the MBTA website. It will reconstruct Cambridge Street and City Hall plaza to provide accessible paths to the station and include renovations to the Green Line and Blue Line platforms.

“Once completed, the new station will be a state-of-the-art transit hub that makes public transportation convenient and accessible for thousands of daily customers,” Pesaturo said.

During construction, passengers can connect to the Blue Line at State Street station, just yards away from Government Center, Pesaturo said. A shuttle bus will also loop between Government Center,

State Street and Haymarket stations.

The project will also include a newly designed headhouse structure as the station’s main entrance, new elevators and escalators and a bigger fare collection area, according to the website.

The plan to improve accessibility for MBTA riders began in 1989 and was called the Key Station Plan. The Government Center Station is the last “key station” to be renovated.

With the station closed, many riders will be affected.

Brian Ducary, a 35-year-old Everett resident who works in Boston and takes the T every day, said that the station’s closing will create a “fiasco.”

“For the 11,000 people that come in [to Government Center] in the morning and leave in the evening, imagine what that’s going to be like,” he said. “That’s a huge

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Boston University received 40 percent more applications for early decision in 2012 than it did the previous year, BU officials said.

For early decision, 1,505 people applied to BU for the fall 2013 semester, while 1,069 applied for early admission for the fall 2012 semester, said BU spokesman Colin Riley.

“BU admissions professionals have done an outstanding job recruiting,” Riley said. “[There is a] significant increase in students who are expressing an interest to make a commitment by applying early decision to BU. It reflects well on the university and on the admissions professionals who reach across the world.”

The numbers reflect a 40.9-percent increase in early decision applications from 2011 to 2012.

There was a 21.2-percent increased in early decision applications from 2010 to 2011, reflecting an increase from 883 applicants to 1,069 applicants.

Of the 1,069 early decision applicants in 2011, 505 students were accepted early decision in March 2012 and committed to BU. “They’ve [BU Admissions has] increased their efforts and during that time, of course, BU has become more competitive,” Riley said.

In October, employers in 20 countries ranked BU students the 17th most employable, higher than New York University or Brown University, according to a survey published by The New York Times.

BU joined the American Association of Universities, an invitation-only society of research universities, in November.

Applicants were able to submit their applications later than in past years as the early decision deadline moved from Nov. 1 to Nov. 5 to accommodate applicants affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Riley said BU Admissions has successfully increased awareness of it early decision option.

“The efforts of the Admissions department to make that opportunity known to students who wish to apply early and are willing to accept a binding commitment

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BU community honors former university Pres. John Silber at memorial

By Chris Lisinski Daily Free Press Staff

Boston University Board of Trustees Chair Robert Knox said he was always amazed by former BU president John Silber’s dedication and integrity.

“He was a fearless man with a commanding presence,” Knox, who studied at BU during Silber’s tenure as president, said. “He was unafraid to express the truth as he saw it.”

Hundreds of BU faculty and Silber’s family and friends gathered Thursday in Metcalf Hall to honor his legacy and commitment to BU. Silber died Sept. 27 of kidney failure after a prolonged illness. He was 86.

Silber came to BU to serve as president in 1971 and remained at his post until 1996. He served as chancellor from 1997 to 2003 and acting president for 16 months following the resignation of President Jon Westling in July 2002.

More than a dozen former colleagues,

friends and students of Silber spoke at his memorial. The BU Symphony Orchestra and BU Symphonic Chorus played, while 2012 BU Opera Institute Phyllis Curtin fellow Celeste Fraser sang an opera piece as musical tribute.

Many speakers described Silber as a courageous man who stuck to his beliefs, despite their occasional unpopularity.

“Almost everyone we know at some stage in their lives bends with prevailing winds, but not John Silber,” said Trustee Emerita and Overseer Karen Elliott House.

House said that during Silber’s time as College of Arts and Sciences dean at The University of Texas at Austin, he was unafraid to clash with anti-Vietnam War protestors.

“Silber was the one man on campus who repeatedly faced protestors, not because he supported the war, but because he was against the lack of civility and know-noth-

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Hundreds gathered in remembrance of former Boston University President John Silber in a memorial service held Thursday afternoon at Metcalf Hall.

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Wiesel calls relationship with Silber ‘friendship at first sight’ at memorial

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Celeste Fraser, a 2012 Phyllis Curtin fellow, sang at the remembrance for former Boston University president John Silber Thursday afternoon at Metcalf Hall.

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ingness that pervaded the protest movement,” she said.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger prepared a video

speech for Silber’s memorial.

“Silber was a man of integrity, character and courage,” he said in the video. “He also was my friend.”

Kissinger said he met Silber when the two worked on a 1983 committee analyzing the future of Central America organized by then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Silber managed to produce a report that won unanimous support in the group, despite political divisions.

“I never wrote an article or appeared on TV where I didn’t hear from John with a word of encouragement or word of criticism,” Kissinger said. “Both are important … He did not preach his objectives, he lived them.”

BU President Robert Brown, who offered condolences and support to Silber’s family, said the university appreciates Silber’s work at BU. Brown said Silber was responsible for transforming BU from a regional commuter school to a renowned research university with top-quality faculty.

“He envisioned a campus more coherent, integrated and green

than he found in 1971,” he said.

Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities Elie Wiesel, whom Silber brought to BU in 1976, said in a video statement that he was honored to work with Silber.

“Just as there is a love at first sight, it was a friendship at first sight,” Wiesel said. “I don’t know what he’s doing up there in heaven … I think he’s trying to give advice to God.” Wiesel said Silber was a brilliant man and a dedicated student of Kantian philosophy.

“Whenever he spoke, people listened attentively — he was not provocative, but enlightening,” he said. “All he had was a sense of not only justice, but a promise that a student is entitled to have the best teachers he or she can get.”

Former Executive Vice President Joseph Mercurio, who worked under Silber, said the late president was an incredible

man who was constantly teaching those around him.

“He was a consummate teacher, using every possible occasion as a teachable moment,” he said.

“He did love helping others, and I’m sure his kindness will echo in this room.”

Silber’s daughter, Martha Hathaway, said while Silber was a different man at home than at BU, he maintained his best qualities with both.

“Growing up, as he did at BU, he embodied teachable moments,” she said. “It wasn’t the Silber we shared at BU. It was our father.”

Silber’s legacy of commitment to academia will live on at BU, Brown said.

“John’s most enduring legacy was a commitment to the quality of faculty, academic programs and students,” he said. “With his grit implanted in BU’s DNA, we will continue to work hard.”

T riders express discomfort over crash at station ED 2011: 505 applicants get Crash Update: From Page 1

Kim Hahn, a graduate student in Boston University’s School of Education, said she was uncomfortable with the news about the driver.

“That shouldn’t be happening,” she said. “There should be some

sort of action taken, especially if it is putting the public in danger.”

Natalia Friedman, 63, of Allston, said she is going to continue to ride the T, despite the incident.

“Look,” she said, “I know there are going to be accidents. I don’t feel good about it and I don’t like

it, but I know that these sorts of things happen.”

The MBTA’s subway branch and Safety Department are still continuing investigations into the incident, Pesaturo said.

Kyle Plantz contributed to the reporting of this article.

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[have been successful],” he said.

Riley said the decisions will be released in mid-December.

Nicole Boardman, a senior at The Hill School who applied early decision to BU, said she was concerned that early acceptance would become more competitive with more applicants.

“That [the increase] makes me more nervous,” she said. “I thought maybe I’d get in for sure, but now it makes me really nervous.”

Boardman said BU’s apparent rise in prestige contributes to it

becoming more competitive.

“With the economy, people want to get jobs,” she said.

“They’re probably thinking about how they’re going to get a job after BU.” Boardman said BU’s wellroundedness is one of its most appealing traits.

“It’s not just about academics or sports or art, it has everything,” she said. “The location is great and I love that it’s in the city …

I’m also really into photography, and at BU I like how there are photography courses.”

Frequent T passenger calls plan for Gov’t Center station ‘fiasco’ Gov’t Center: From Page 1

hub for business people. It should be thought out a little bit more.”

Jodi Montagna,18, of Boston, also said the closing will be inconvenient for many people, especially business people.

“It’ll probably hurt the MBTA because it’ll cost them a lot to renovate,” she said, “but at the same time, maybe less people will take the T because of it.”

Val Lima, a local resident, said she does not understand why the renovations will take as long as the MBTA predicts.

“Two years is a long time,” she said. “It’s hard to understand why they don’t close half of it. It seems like you could build something from scratch in two years.”

Lima, 48, who has been a

resident of Boston for nearly 20 years, said she takes the T every day.

“I guess people will have to walk over to Park Street or Haymarket if they’re going to go over to the Orange Line,” she said. “It seems inconvenient ... It’s going to cause serious delays, and if they’re going to bus, it’s going to take a lot longer. For people who have difficulty getting around, it’s not going to be easy to get to the next stop.”

Michael Aniolek, a sophomore in the College of Fine Arts at Boston University, said Government Center was the hub of the city.

“I know that we don’t usually use it a lot as students, but still it’s the main place where everyone gets off,” he said.

Campus & City Column

Major questions

Since I’ve started college, I’ve been asked the same question over and over again. “What are you majoring in?”And every time I reply with “art history,” I am quickly thrown into a pit of questioning that tends to come with an extremely patronizing tone. And without fail, the next question is inevitably, “What are you going to do with that?” I’m certain that this is a common occurrence for any college student studying whatever it is he or she is studying. And I don’t know about everyone else, but KRISSEN I’m extremely tired of con- KAWACHI stantly justifying my collegiate decisions.

As a humanities major, I often find myself the butt of many jokes.

Apparently, what I — and many others — study, isn’t meaningful in many people’s eyes. Which is a sad realization. Honestly, it’s usually those science majors that get on our case. Not to say that I disagree with their academic choices, or anyone else’s. Far from it! I’m impressed — amazed that people have the brains for concepts I could never grasp, and the universe knows I’ve tried.

My mind is not cut out to understand anything about ionic and covalent bonds or chemical reactions. Also, I will never properly solve a problem involving half-life nor will I ever fully comprehend quantum mechanics.

Math gives me a headache. I’m more than happy to have left limits, derivatives and integrals behind me in high school. I absolutely can’t stand them. So, in my mind, it’s incredible that there are people who actually do enjoy these things.

Why can’t other people feel this way about art history? I know art isn’t for everyone, and I don’t expect it to be. I’m positive there are many people in the world who just can’t bring themselves to like art. But that’s how it should be, really. Affection and respect are concepts that are not mutually exclusive. So, people of the world, why can’t you just respect the decisions of others to study what interests them? First of all, what’s the fun in studying something you don’t enjoy? Why study something you dread? (Besides, I already dread some classes that I’m obligated to take as part of my major or minor — why make it harder on myself?)

Secondly, shouldn’t people be happy that not everyone they’ve ever met is majoring in the same fields and vying for the same careers? You would think this would be a comforting fact.

Anyway, just because you major in something in college doesn’t mean your whole future is determined.

All I know is that you should enjoy your time at college, studying what you genuinely find interesting.

So, when you’re studying for hours and hours late into the night (and early morning) and you are cursing at everything, at least it will be at things you do like. I’d rather spend my weekend nights crying over the fact that I have to write an essay about paintings I’ve been staring at for hours or a 300-page book I have to finish reading for my English minor than over anything else. I take pride in my studies. Shouldn’t everyone?

Krissen is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences and a weekly columnist for The Daily Free Press. She can be reached at kkawachi@bu.edu.

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Students continue fight for AIDS awareness Residents hesitant about new Whole Foods on Beacon

By Reenat Sinay Daily Free Press Staff

For a number of Boston University student groups, World AIDs Day was an occasion to spread awareness about the remaining dangers of the HIV/AIDS, despite living in an area with a low rate of infection.

BU’s World AIDS Week ran from Wednesday through Saturday, during which student groups held vigils, poetry readings, testing opportunities and other activities.

Sara Shilling, program manager of Project Hope, the BU Community Service Center’s chapter of FACE AIDS, said she organized AIDS week to reach out to the community.

“That’s really what World AIDS Day is about, just being aware,” Shilling, a Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences senior, said.

“It’s a day to remember and just be aware of what happened and what’s still going on.”

Throughout the week, Project Hope, the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism and the free hugs group I Embrace You organized a series of activities to raise AIDS awareness.

On Thursday, the CSC and Proj-

By Megan Kirk Daily Free Press Staff

economics, said the overall labor market as well as the job market for young adults, has improved during 2012.

“It therefore seems likely that the market for young college graduates has improved,” he said in an email.

Students are paying other bills, such as credit card bills, before student loan bills because student loans are more flexible than other types of loans and have lower interest rates, Jarvis said.

Jarvis also said the increase of loan debt goes hand-in-hand with the recent increase in the cost of higher education.

Rebecca Ness, a College of Fine Arts sophomore, said student loans will be a significant burden for her after she graduates.

“More money was given to me at other schools, but I came here for academics, rigor and notoriety of it,” Ness said. “I knew what I was getting into, but it’s still frustrating.”

Ness said she is nervous about the

With Brookline grocery store Johnnie’s Food Master closed and a Whole Foods coming soon, some Brookline residents said Johnnie’s was better for the neighborhood than Whole Foods will be.

“I’m unhappy with Johnnie’s selling,” said Brookline resident Ginny Wilcox, who has lived on Beacon Street for more than 35 years. “Nobody held a gun to their head — I like Whole Foods, but Johnnie’s is better for the neighborhood.”

Johnnie’s, a family grocery business based in Chelsea for more than 50 years, sold to the organic food world’s chief retailer Whole Foods in October.

Johnnie’s last day open was Nov. 18, but Whole Foods aims to remodel Johnnie’s stores and open by the end of the 2013 fiscal year, according to a Whole Foods press release.

“We are so pleased that Mr. [John] DeJesus, [second generation president of Johnnie’s] has given us this opportunity at a time when we are looking to expand our presence in greater Boston,” said Laura Derba, president of Whole Foods Market’s North Atlantic region, in the press release.

Wilcox, a volunteer member of Brookline’s food pantry, said Johnnie’s always had a wide selection of foods for the needy and accommodated the food bank.

“They [Johnnie’s employees] were really nice,” she said. “They would give us a bill as opposed to making us pay at the cash register and having everything ready.”

Wilcox said the food pantry is suffering now that Johnnie’s closed.

“That was a really big void for us at the food pantry, to suddenly not have them, for all the extras that the people wanted,” she said.

Charles Kenney, a resident of Brookline who also lives on Beacon Street, said he shopped at Johnnie’s “all the time,” but said it is unlikely he would begin to shop at Whole Foods.

“I think it’s going to be higher priced,” he said.

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Audience members of the World AIDS Day Vigil prepare for a moment of silence in memory of the lives lost to AIDS and HIV at Marsh Chapel Saturday night.

ect Hope showed a screening of MTV’s “Shuga,” a television drama from Kenya focusing on HIV, relationships and sex.

Organizers held a vigil at Marsh Chapel Saturday for AIDS victims and Speak for Yourself hosted a poetry reading Saturday night.

Burns said the AIDS Week table at the GSU Link was successful. Volunteers handed out commemorative

red ribbons, informational pamphlets and free condoms from Wednesday to Friday.

Free HIV/AIDS rapid testing was offered, including pre- and post-test counseling.

“All the slots were filled for testing at the GSU Link,” Shilling said.

“The first day we tested 17 people.

We actually had to make extra slots

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College debt high despite lower credit card, general debt

By Margaret Waterman Daily Free Press Staff

While national debt has decreased overall, student loan debt has grown substantially due to the nature of loans and their respective payment plans, said Boston University professors.

“The main reason is that students’ interest rates are subsidized, so they are lower than any other source of borrowing,” said Randall Ellis, a College of Arts and Sciences economics professor. “Most likely the student loan is the last one [debt] you should repay.”

Students might default on their student loans if the loans to not require students to pay back their debt right away or if the students choose to go to graduate school rather than entering the job market after graduation, Ellis said.

Student loan debt totals $956 billion, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York press release Tuesday, marking a $42 million increase in the third quarter. However, overall consumer indebtedness

shrank $74 billion.

“The increase in mortgage originations, auto loans and credit card balances suggests that consumers are slowly gaining confidence in their financial position,” said Donghoon Lee, senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the release. “As consumers feel more comfortable, they may start to make purchases that were previously delayed.”

Heather Jarvis, a student loan expert who spoke about student debt relief at the School of Law on Nov. 14, said students might have a difficult experience repaying student loan debts because they cannot find jobs after graduation.

“The job market is difficult and education doesn’t guarantee a lucrative starting position to the same extent that it once did,” Jarvis said.

“People who are graduating with good educations and obtaining degrees are struggling and having to work hard and take time before they can find the right employment.”

But Kevin Lang, a professor of

To first female MBTA general manager, T equates to ‘transit royalty’

By Nora Philbin Daily Free Press Staff

Facing a transportation system grappling with debt and customers disgruntled over recent fare hikes, Beverly Scott begins her first full week as the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s new general manager on Monday.

With the MBTA facing up to an $84-million deficit for fiscal year 2013, finances remain a huge issue for the MBTA, but Scott’s past work experience could help shore up finances.

“There is nothing unusual about what the T is experiencing relative to all of the issues on the financial side of the house,” Scott, who begins her job in December, said. “The T can handle that and reinvest that in American infrastructure and everybody will benefit.”

Scott worked for Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority for five years during a very difficult economic downturn, said Cara Hodgson, manager of communications for MARTA.

“During a very difficult financial time for MARTA and all other transit systems throughout the country, Dr. Scott has helped MARTA and the region to successfully right size the transit system, stabilize its finances and reposition itself for a better future,” Hodgson said in an email.

Hodgson said Scott “actively engaged the public” throughout this process, working with customers, employees and stakeholders to get their input on difficult decisions, including internal and external cuts and fare increases.

Scott graduated Magna cum laude from Fisk University in Tennessee and received a Ph.D. in Political Science with a specialization in Public Administration from Howard University, according to her biography on MARTA’s website.

Scott, the first female to fill the general manager position, said she got her start in transportation through a fellowship in Houston,

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Beverly Scott, the first female general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, comes in with experience from Atlanta’s transportation system during hard financial times.

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Student groups commemorate Beverly Scott, new MBTA GM, has more than AIDS week with films, poetry 30 years experience in transit management field AIDS: From Page 3

because there weren’t enough and the tester wanted to fit everyone in. Typically they test 40 to 50 people every World AIDS Week.”

Despite high traffic at the table, Shilling said getting students to attend other activities was a challenge.

“Attendance is always difficult at the AIDS Week events,” she said.

“There are a lot of different of reasons, but some people would rather do something else. It’s not like it’s happy.”

Emma Burns, treasurer of BU’s FACE AIDS chapter, said she wants BU students to be well educated on AIDS, despite not living in an area with a high rate of infection.

“For the most part, people feel that they’re very removed from AIDS and HIV, especially because so much of it is focused on Africa,” the College of Arts and Sciences senior said.

“But there are a lot of people living with AIDS in the U.S., and because of that there still is always a risk factor for you.”

More than 25 million people died from the virus between 1981 and 2007, with an estimated 34 million people currently suffering from it globally, according to the World AIDS Day website.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 1.7 million people are living with HIV in the U.S. today, with one in five unaware of their infection, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website.

Students who attended the AIDS

week film screenings and poetry readings said while the turnout was lower than hoped, they were pleased with the educational resources.

“I wish the turnout tonight was a little bit better, but I feel like for me it was eye-opening,” said CAS sophomore Laura Kakalecz after Saturday’s poetry reading. “Just because it’s not an issue they [BU students] would normally think about doesn’t mean it’s not important.”

CAS freshman Melanie Kirsh said she was impressed with the poetry reading, which was followed by songs, stories and photographs from activists from South Africa.

“I loved the poetry, Speak for Yourself is awesome,” she said. “It’s just incredible. I was about to cry at one point when one young woman [activist from South Africa] shared the story of her brother’s suffering.”

Darwin Janes, a sophomore in CAS, said attending AIDS week activities made him think of the virus in a way he never had.

“It’s interesting that the rate of those who have AIDS is a lot higher than recorded because a lot of people don’t tell people, or they don’t even know,” he said.

Burns said while the stigma of AIDS sometimes prevents those infected from confronting it, communication is the key to prevention.

“It’s important to have open dialogues about it, it’s the first step to making people more comfortable in dealing with it,” she said. “If you’re more comfortable in dealing with it, you’re more comfortable to try and prevent it.”

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where she requested to work in either sanitation or transportation at a time when many African American women were pushed to community relations-type jobs.

Scott said it feels good to be the first female general manager at the MBTA, but is excited for a time when that distinction will not have to be made.

“I can tell you what’s going to make me feel even better is that, and I say this all the time, is that eventually when it’s not the first anymore and it becomes not the exception,” she said. “It’s wonderful that I can be the trailblazer, there always does have to be the first, but the big thing that you want to make sure of is that you’re not the last.”

Scott announced in 2011 that she was stepping down as the general manager of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority and was not looking for new work, but she said the MTBA was too good to pass up.

“I mean it when I say that the T is transit royalty,” Scott said.

“It truly is. I mean, it’s the old-

est subway system in the United States.”

Massachusetts Department of Transportation Board of Directors voted Scott into her new position in September, replacing MBTA General Manager Jonathan Davis.

MassDOT Secretary & Chief Executive Officer Richard Davey said in a September press release after the appointment that he looks forward to working with Scott.

“Her vast expertise in transit management is the right fit at a critical time as we manage our transportation challenges in the Commonwealth,” he said.

Scott said she was excited to get back to New England after serving as general manager of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority in Providence from 1996 to 2001.

“Believe it or not, the favorite place I lived was Rhode Island,” she said. “Because I love the people, I love the architecture and all that.”

Scott has been involved in the transportation industry for more than 30 years, working at the Sacramento Regional Transit District, the Washington Metropolitan Area

Transit Authority, the New Jersey Transit Corporation and the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, according to her biography on MARTA’s website.

She said she loves working in the transportation sector, citing public transportation as the most effective change people can make for the environment.

“I tell people all time, you can change as many light bulbs as you want, but if you want a make a difference with climate change and global warming we need to change our personal behavior, our travel behavior,” she said.

Scott said she hopes to make a connection with Boston-area students to show them what opportunities transportation can offer.

“We have so many students here to make a connection,” she said. “We have so much leadership here, there’s so much innovation, there’s so much creativity and I want to really be able to kind of openly help the minds of young people, K–12 as well as colleges and universities, to the tremendous opportunities that there are in terms of transportation.”

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Whole Foods’ plans in Brookline get mixed comments from locals Johnnie’s: From Page 3

But Paul Laemmle, who has lived on the Brookline-Boston line for almost 13 years, said he was looking forward to the new Whole Foods despite their higher prices.

“I’m rather glad Whole Foods is moving in,” Laemmle said.

Laemmle said he was from the Whole Foods home of Austin, Texas, and was excited to see the chain come to his neighborhood.

“Whole Foods, politically, is not a very good store,” he said. “But foodwise, I think it is.”

Laemmle said a Whole Foods would provide alternatives to other grocery stores around Brookline.

“I like Whole Foods,” he said.

“They’re overpriced, but you do get what you pay for to a certain level so I will shop there some — not a lot— but I’m glad to have another choice in the neighborhood.”

Still, some grocery stores around the area seem unfazed by the transaction and said they are not worried about a new possible competitor.

Renyson Gomes, an employee at Brookline’s Kurkman’s Market, a family-based grocery store, said Whole Foods is not a threat. Gomes noted that Kurkman’s history and community ties, not to mention its lower prices, will continue to bring in customers.

“It’s not really going to affect us because we’ve been here for many years, almost 95 and up,” he said.

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future after hearing that a number of her friends who graduated are having trouble finding employment.

“I am going to go straight to grad school so I can have a better chance of getting a job,” she said. “But still, then I’ll have to pay for grad school.

It’s a vicious circle.”

The speed at which a graduate pays back student loans depends on how successful he or she is after graduation, said Amber Campa, a College of Engineering junior. And while the job market is tough, many ENG graduates have had success finding employment, she said.

“In the College of Engineering, a lot of seniors I know found jobs, even before they graduate as seniors,” Campa said. “They’re pretty set when they graduate.”

Chelsea Cohen, a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student, said students who have trouble find-

ing jobs and paying their student loans might choose to go to graduate school instead.

“That just makes the loan issue more, because grad school also costs money, so it’s piling on more debt,” she said.

Cohen, who previously attended Florida State University, said most of her undergraduate friends found a job within six months of graduation.

“It’ll be interesting to watch how things go the next six months because we just had the re-election,” Cohen said. “I don’t really know if we can tell just yet what the market is going to do.”

Lang said the economy is in an upswing, but worries if that can maintained itself.

“To some extent, that depends on our political leaders behaving responsibly and to some extent it depends on developments in Europe, China and elsewhere that are largely beyond our control,” he said.

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Ferocity and Joyful Abandon

MUSE Staff On Thursday, Muse writer Mel Papalcure had the opportunity to talk to Thomas Fec from Black Moth Super Rainbow, an experimental band from Pittsburgh. Their new album Cobra Juicy features some inventive transient dance beats and crunchy melodies, as heard at the Paradise Rock Club.

Mel Papalcure: How did you come up with the name for Black Moth Super Rainbow? What does it symbolize?

Thomas Fec: It doesn’t symbolize anything. It’s just something that came up one day. I was at work or something, I dunno.

I wanted something that didn’t mean anything. We really couldn’t place much with it.

MP: What influences have you drawn upon? What music do you listen to?

TF: I’m never really influenced too much by what I do, it’s always more about wanting to make what I thought no one else was making — this hole I wanted to fill. I wanted to hear what I wasn’t hearing.

MP: How would you describe the relationship between music and thought, or your own thoughts in your music?

TF: I don’t think music is something about thought. It’s more primal than that.

I don’t think it’s really about thought, for me at least I like to leave what I do open. I don’t like to explain what I do. I don’t like to define it. It’s better if the people listening come up with their own meaning for it.

Because I think you would be really disappointed if I explained what it meant, to me at least.

MP: Do you see yourself as a critic of American culture or are you something positive that has come out of the culture?

TF: I never thought about the implications and bigger things like that — I’ve always just you know, tried to put up the middle finger with a lot of the stuff I do.

MP: With your own projects, Tobacco [his stage name], where does that name come from?

TF: That was a character that used to freak me out as a kid. It was in this movie, he was called the “Tobacco Man.” It always

stuck with me.

MP: Do you feel like you have to compromise between your own projects and the Black Moth projects?

TF: They’re both mine, there’s no — I just kind of do whatever I want to do. I don’t have a record label or anything. I can do whatever I want on my own timeline I guess.

MP: As an artist, it must be difficult to have to balance between knowing that people are going to respond when it’s something that comes from a personal position.

Do you feel like you’re true to what you want?

TF: I spent about a year thinking about that stuff, and that was a really bad year.

And that was the reason that was a bad year. And with this new one, I just put my hands up in the air. I just truly do not care.

It’s kind of like, if you ever had a job, some crappy high school job or whatever, and you knew you were quitting the next week to go off to college because you could do whatever and it doesn’t matter and who cares? When I started, and now at this point in time, I don’t think about what people think of it.

MP: What have been the biggest difficulties so far?

TF: The biggest difficulty was probably that point in time after Dandelion Gum when people started noticing, and people started noticing they were noticing, and then I acted knowing that. That was probably the hardest part of this whole thing, and getting through that — breaking through and being back to where I am now was really difficult.

MP: Where do you ideally want to head with everything in the future?

TF: It’s hard to say because it’s impossible to want anything more or to imagine that anyone else had been liking the music. I don’t have any plans, but I think I’ll just keep doing it as long as I’m having fun with it, like I have been, and like I did when I was in high school. I’ll keep going, and as soon as I’m not having fun with it I’ll stop again.

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Guitarist J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. filled the Paradise with his mournfully gruff howl Friday night.

Sydney Moyer Music Editor As I walked out of the Paradise Friday night after watching Dinosaur Jr. shred for a good two hours, I felt as though I had hurtled through time, encountered a brief pocket of space where alt punk still existed and people were still loud about it, and then spat out once again into the streets of Allston where biddies trudged through the streets, with only stilettos and Ke$ha lyrics to spur them on.

Okay, I might be being a bit dramatic here, but you get the idea. Dinosaur Jr. is a band that has been around and going strong since the late 1980s when Sonic Youth invited them on tour, leading to the release of their first album, 1987’s You’re Living All Over Me. With a band that has this much clock time and 10 studio albums to prove it, one can expect a solid show, and on that note, Dinosaur Jr. delivered.

More than that, however, they managed to elicit that feeling so often lost in shows today — an ineffable kind of ferocity and joyful abandon that has nearly gone extinct in the age of Bon Iver and Auto-Tune. For

perhaps the third time ever, I left the Paradise with my ears muffled and ringing into the next day, satisfied after seeing a band that was unafraid to get loud and, excuse the trope, rock out.

The audience, largely made up of anachronistic silver-haired hipsters, seemed to pick up on this tenacity, thrashing about and starting a quasi-mosh pit as guitarist J Mascis led them through the band’s discography, drawing from several different albums and covering crowd favorites like “Tarpit,” “Start Choppin’” and “Watch the Corners.” The frenzy came to a head during the encore, a frantic sounding cover of The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven” that morphed into the band’s classic hit “Sludgefeast” halfway through.

The guitar was crisp and ferocious, the energy high and the crowd less coolly comatose than a typical hipster show at the Paradise. Dinosaur Jr. managed to awaken the sleeping angst-y punk in all of us, and for that feat it was worth going a little deaf for a few hours.

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Residents expressed concern over how the closure would affect their daily commutes after the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority announced it would be closing the Government Center station for a two-year renovation project.

On weekdays, more than 11,300 commuters make use of the station, according to the MBTA’s online “Ridership and Service Statistics” document. A major hub for tourists and workers, the station is heavily frequented by commuters and people transferring from the Green and Blue Lines.

During the renovation, trains will pass through but will not stop at Government Center, according to an article in The Boston Globe Saturday.

To lessen the inconvenience, the MBTA has created a special bus route that will stop at Government Center, Haymarket and State Street stations, according to the Globe. However, to accommodate riders, these buses will have to run smoothly and efficiently.

In spite of the inconvenience to riders, renovation of Government Center is necessary. Navigating through the current

station with a suitcase, not to imagine in a wheelchair, is incredibly challenging.

Steep escalators and several flights of stairs put many at risk.

The new design will make the station more accessible to people of all abilities, MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo stated in an email to The Daily Free Press. Specifically, the City Hall plaza and Cambridge Street entrance will be reconstructed to improve accessibility. The Green and Blue Line platforms will also be renovated.

While this news is reassuring, hopefully the needs of the disabled are addressed not only in the final product, but during the entire shuttle bus process.

Some sort of assistance will have to be provided for those in wheelchairs or have difficulty walking as traveling the extra distance to one of the bus stops might prove challenging.

Closing Government Center for two years might come as an inconvenience, but if that is the time it takes to create a more accessible station, then riders will have to endure it. Hopefully, construction moves swiftly and riders are able to make use of the new station as soon as possible.

Baltimore blogger

Frank James MacArthur, a blogger from Baltimore, broadcasted his standoff with police Saturday, according to an article in The Baltimore Sun. MacArthur, who was wanted on a court-issued warrant, refused to come out of his for five hours, guided by the belief that police had “wronged him” and focused too much attention on him.

Saturday was not the first time MacArthur spoke out about his situation. MacArthur had been “posting on social media for days about his ‘fugitive’ status and predicted that police would try to harm him,” according to the Sun. The day of the standoff, MacArthur broadcasted his discussion with a police negotiator on his web video channel. An audience also followed his situation on Twitter.

While it remains unclear whether MacArthur was legitimately wronged, broadcasting his standoff was certainly a unique and interesting way to get the word out.

It sort of follows the old adage “innocent until proven guilty.” People should be able to prove their cases before he or she reaches court? They have a right to speak up about their situation. During his imprisonment, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

took pen to paper, to discuss his situation and the state of the civil rights movement in America. MacArthur also acted within his rights when he took to the radio and social media outlets.

That being said, whether or not MacArthur’s posts warranted a response from the police remains a gray area. Police officials said to the Sun that MacArthur’s messages were threatening toward officers and required a precautionary presence of the SWAT team.” However, some of the posts seem to lack legitimacy.

Did the police shoot themselves in the foot by responding to posts that did not seem legitimate? Lt. Jason Yerg even told MacArthur he was “spinning this into what it doesn’t need to be,” according to the Sun. If MacArthur was blowing the situation out of proportion, as Yerg suggested, why did they bother giving him a response? Responding to his posts makes the posts seem more credible.

Whether or not MacArthur’s posts were legitimate remains unclear. However, the incident should serve as a reminder that every organization needs to have a social media policy in place. Who knows?

There could be more MacArthurs in the future.

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A campus mixtape ANNE WHITING

resh snow quiets things, especially on a Saturday morning, when, even without it, campus is almost wholly silent.

There’s no traffic. The halls of the College of Arts and Sciences are empty, and the classrooms are locked. Your footsteps echo eerily in the green marble staircase.

The silence is nice. Different. But as I strolled the sidewalk sans headphones (rare occurrence), I started realizing that in silence, campus lacks something. That campus has a music of its own I’ve been feigning to appreciate. And I’m not talking about WTBU, or Bach concerts at Marsh Chapel or the Italian jazz soundtrack at Espresso Royale. These things I like to hear. It’s the rest of the noise I generally tune out with the iPod — the swipe of my card at City Convenience, the wailing hum of the Green Line, etc. These noises are not beautiful. They’re why we make music.

Moreover, they’re far too familiar to merit our attention. Familiarity breeds indifference, if not contempt, no?

But then I was thinking: The word “noise” has a relatively negative connotation, “sound” less so. What if we made music from the unbeautiful? What if it all just depended on how you heard it? What if we renamed campus noise to campus sound?

If we did, we’d realize that there are distinct sounds about this place, sounds that aren’t all half-bad. Sounds like the brush of leaves on the sidewalk in November, or chalk on a chalkboard and my professor’s mellow, earnest voice. Sounds like used paperback books being destroyed, hastily, by dog-ears and ballpoint pens.

There’s the familiar sound of Mugar at night, pre-reading week. Students whisper or laugh, and YouTube videos hum from earphones against the clackity sound of online conversations until the blaring tune of panic and underachievement takes over, accompanying the silence of crunch time that sets in when the clock hits midnight. And then there are the more vivacious sounds of, say, a walk to Allston on a weekend night: cabs drive by, scalpers shout “Tickets!” outside hockey games at Agganis and party buses blare music loudly, offsetting the beeps of the liquor checkout line at Shaw’s.

And of course there are sounds only you hear, like the pulsing solace of silent, long nights in and the rumble of the boiling water in the illegal water heater, or the melody of Flight Facilities streaming from your laptop and the hard clicks of keyboards as Sunday nights turn into early Monday mornings.

When I think back on things — on travel, on holidays, on classes, what have you — I don’t often think of the way they sounded, unless we’re talking about the horn of the Paris Metro or the soundtrack of Club 333 in Lon-

don. This is strange because things can be characterized as much by what they sound like as by what they look like, taste like, etc. But when I think about my year abroad, my mind goes straight to pictures. I think of Covent Garden Christmas lights and Versailles, not of the sound of crowded streets in Madrid at 3 a.m. or the full sound of an empty airport in Rome.

I forget about the other noises — the sounds, that is, that were so vital to every scene. Like the clink of China at Café de Flore, or the echo of my footsteps on the black and white tile floor of my St. Germain apartment lobby. Like the saxophone man’s tunes on the metro, like a British accent ordering coffee, like the Tube woman asking me to “Please Mind the Gap,” like the sound of boots on plush classroom carpet and the sound of printers in the Paris campus basement.

During the week, I wake to the “chink” of coins in parking meters along Bay State. At night, I fall asleep to students singing or shouting, or other students shouting from their windows telling the other students to “Shut up!!!”

I tune it out, the way I tune out my footsteps or my food being chewed or the sound of my apartment door clicking shut. I have to — if I really listened to everything, I’d literally have no peace of mind.

But on some level, I feel it’s important that I tune in at times, just to appreciate these sounds for what they are: the sounds of college. A campus mixtape. Sounds I won’t always hear (except for my alarm clock). Yeah, there will be shouting people in New York, but it won’t be Bay State Road, just like big band music will never sound as good as it does when my Grandpa blares it in his den after everyone’s gone to bed. Some sounds have their rightful setting, and they turn beautiful with this recognition. They start to gain a sort of metaphysical tangibility, if that’s possible. (Sounds fancy until you picture me trying to explain sticking my arms out halfway and grasping at something I can’t actually feel, and that’s the term I came up with.) You can almost feel them. And then reversely, abstract concepts begin to have sounds — laughter with my friends from freshman year is the sound of belonging, silence from a boy you’ve been seeing is the sound of sadness, and it can reverberate for days.

Snow muffles things, which is good because the loudest thing we’ll hear the next couple of weeks will likely be students screaming their hate for finals. But in general, Boston University is alive with the sounds of campus.

Perhaps take out the headphones once in a while and learn to love them.

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

Letter to the Editor: On peace To the Editor: Boston University encourages student expression and involvement in community and world affairs. Our right to expression as students is enshrined in our nation’s founding principles of freedom of the press, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

When one of these rights is violated, it is a crime against the student body of BU. On Tuesday, Nov. 27, pro-Israel students at Boston University voiced their free speech by planting 1,200 flags in the ground outside of Hillel. These flags represented the 12,000 rockets fired by Hamas at Israeli civilians over the last 10 years. Also, signs were displayed that represented and called for hope in this new peace process for Israel and the Palestinian people. The display was intended to stay up for approximately a week. The intent was to promote dialogue in our community. This was done with permis-

sion from not only the Hillel House but also from BU’s Buildings and Grounds Department. By the morning of Nov. 28, the flags were stolen.

Wherever you stand on the Middle East conflict, as Boston University students we must stand united in our outrage and condemnation of this spiteful desecration of a peaceful display.

On a personal note, I want peace. I believe we all do. But I am worried. I am scared. How can the promotion of peace be supplemented with vandalism and theft?

If we can’t even encourage dialogue 5,470 miles away, at Boston University, how can we expect to achieve peace in the Middle East?

Kimberly Zar CAS 2016 kimberlyzar@gmail.com

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dove to the ice.

Over the next few minutes, junior defenseman Garrett Noonan and sophomore defenseman Alexx Privitera took penalties to put BU at a 5-on-3 disadvantage. It took just 40 seconds for the Eagles to convert, as defenseman Michael Matheson ripped a slap shot from the point past O’Connor to make it 3–1.

“When they didn’t score on the first 5-on-3 [earlier in the second], I thought we might be okay, but then they got the next 5-on-3,” Parker said. “We were down 5-on4 and we really took a stupid penalty to make it 5-on-3 again, and that was the backbreaker.”

Then Arnold struck again, collecting the puck after defenseman Patrick Wey took a shot that hit the end boards and flipping it over O’Connor from the side of the net.

“Until they got the power play goals I really liked the way we were playing,” Parker said. “I

guess it was 15:48 [Matheson’s goal] and 16:38 [Arnold’s], those two goals ended the game. Up until that point I thought, ‘This is fine.’ But then we disintegrated.”

Less than five minutes into the third period, the Eagles continued to pile it on as freshman winger Brendan Silk scored his first goal of the year. Silk carried the puck from the boards into the slot unimpeded and fired a wrist shot past O’Connor to make it 5–1.

Rodrigues closed the gap to 5–2 when BC defenseman Patch Alber was called for a hold with about seven minutes remaining in the third. Rodrigues fired a wrister over Milner for his third goal of the season.

Parker said he was not happy with the amount of penalties taken and the penalty kill, and those aspects led to the loss.

“When you’re taking penalties and you’re doing a lousy job killing penalties, you’re not going to win the game,” Parker said.

seman Garrett Noonan’s tripping penalty, is almost certainly among them.

Those penalties gave BC a 5-on-3 chance. It took the Eagles only 40 seconds before defenseman Mike Matheson found the back of the net for his second career goal and a 3–1 BC lead.

Parker said Saturday’s unnecessary penalties were something of a carryover from the end of Friday’s game, which saw emotions flare during much of the 60 minutes.

BU committed four penalties in the final two minutes of Friday’s game, and three of those came from Privitera — a double minor, hitting from behind and unsportsmanlike conduct, followed by a 10-minute misconduct he got while standing in the box.

“I had a bunch of guys that took some stupid penalties,” Parker said. “We’re going to have to deal with that … This is the first time in a while” Parker did acknowledge, however, that they were not all “stu-

pid” Saturday. Some of the misdemeanors just never happened, he said.

The bench boss would not comment on a second-period diving call on senior defenseman Sean Escobedo — BU’s fourth and Escobedo’s second in November— but he had plenty to say about another game-changer.

Officials charged sophomore forward Yasin Cissé with interference at the 20:00 mark in the first, paving the way for a successful BC power play to open the second. Junior Bill Arnold, the 2011– 12 season’s Beanpot hero and villain, scored with one second left on the penalty for a 2–1 BC lead.

The Eagles never relinquished that lead.

“He didn’t do anything,” Parker said of Cissé’s actions. “[BC’s] guy was two-to-three feet inside the circle before the puck was dropped. That’s our fault. When they’re going to cheat, we should cheat with them. We didn’t. The linesman dropped the puck — he never should’ve dropped the puck. Then they took a dive and we got a penalty.”

“But it paled in comparison to some of the stupid things we did.

We didn’t lose this game because the referees had a bad night. We lost this game because we had a bad night. And BC had a good night,” Parker added.

“Good” might be an understatement. After going a combined 1-for-13 on the man-advantage in two games against BU in November, an uncommon run for an Eagle team with a leaguebest 26.8 success rate entering the weekend, BC exploded for four power-play tallies in the regularseason rubber match.

As far as Parker was concerned, BC did not do anything different. It was just the ebb and flow of the sport, a regression to the mean.

“The difference was the puck was zipping around tonight,” Parker said, “and we were not anywhere near as alert or as intense as we have to be killing penalties against a team like that. “’Don’t beat yourself,’” Parker said, echoing what he tells his team. “We did.”

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Junior co-captain Danielle Callahan scored 14 points in the Terriers’ 66–49 win over St. John’s.

Storm were not any closer to making a comeback, they initiated a full-court press with more than 13 minutes remaining. While the Terriers’ inside game was not affected much by the pressure — they actually took a 22-point lead, their largest of the night, with a layup from Agboola soon after the change — their 3-point game was essentially shut down.

“We were eight-for-12 from three in the first half, which was just wonderful,” Greenberg said.

“They came out with more pressure in the second half. I’m sure their coach was saying, ‘Don’t let them shoot the three anymore,’ which was fine … we were still strong on the ball.”

To counter the aggressive play from SJU, BU slowed down its plays. It took up about the entire shot clock on every possession and scored mostly in the paint.

The defense also maintained consistent stops.

With about six minutes left, the score sat at 57–40.

The only disruption of the flow of play at that point in the

half was when Agboola left the game due to an ankle injury but returned shortly after.

Then, for the first time in the game, freshman guard Katie Poppe stepped on the court.

She scored less than a minute later.

Poppe has played less than 30 total minutes on the season, but by game’s end, she had four points and a rebound.

“We’re really excited about Katie,” Greenberg said. “She’s pretty fearless … she has been getting in a little bit each game, and [those minutes are] really well-deserved.”

Despite going over the foul limit in the second half, BU coasted to a win with a 17-point lead.

At the end of the game, BU had more rebounds, more assists and a higher conversion rate than SJU. “We really talk a lot about — since our Northeastern loss [on Nov. 20th] — about always making sure that we’re the more excited team to play that night,” Greenberg said. “I really thought we were from the get go. I’m just really, really proud of every single one of our players.”

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for us, not giving [St. John’s] any second-chance opportunities.”

This is the second straight impressive showing from the Terriers’ defense, as they held the University of Rhode Island Rams to just 29 points on 18.9 percent shooting last Tuesday.

For Greenberg, the Terriers’ success on the defensive side of the ball can all be traced back to simple preparation.

“We talk a lot about our team defense and we do some silly little drills quite often just to remind us of the little things and just that … we constantly have to have each other’s back and no one can be left in a one-on-one situation,” Greenberg said.

“We’re pretty scout-specific,

so in today’s game … we were not gonna double their post players, which really played to our advantage big time,” Greenberg added.

Greenberg said that no amount of preparation and coaching can have the same impact as toughness and performing in the moment.

“Our players are tough. There are situations that are happening out there that none of us can prepare our players for, and they really just play in the moment with each other and that really went a long way as well,” Greenberg said.

The Terriers look to continue to shut down opposing defenses when they host the University of Massachusetts on Wednesday at Case Gym.

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No. 9 Terriers fall to No. 1 BC 5–2 to split weekend series Eagles pull away in 2nd period to top BU

Penalties hurt Terriers in loss to BC on road

By Annie Maroon Daily Free Press Staff

By Tim Healey Daily Free Press Staff

CHESTNUT HILL—The No. 9 Boston University men’s hockey team could not complete a weekend sweep of No. 1 Boston College, falling 5–2 to the Eagles at Conte Forum Saturday after winning 4–2 at Agganis Arena Friday.

BC (11–2–0, 10–2–0 Hockey East) outshot the Terriers (8–5–0, 6–4–0 Hockey East) 36–23 in a dominant win, the recordtying 924th of BC coach Jerry York’s career.

The Terriers’ penalty kill, which was the third best in Hockey East entering Saturday’s game, struggled mightily against the Eagles’ league-best power play. They allowed BC four power-play goals and 15 shots on eight opportunities. BU’s own power play went 2-for-6.

“We started it last night by taking a few stupid penalties at the end of the game, and we took some more tonight,” said BU coach Jack Parker. “That, in my mind, was the difference in the game.”

BC wing Johnny Gaudreau was called for high-sticking midway through the first period, but BC’s aggressive penalty kill harassed the Terriers and pinned them in their own zone for much of the ensuing power play. Shortly afterward, it appeared the Eagles’ hard work had paid off when Gaudreau flipped a puck into an empty net as BU freshman goalie Matt O’Connor could not get over in time.

However, the officials ruled that the reason O’Connor could not get in position was that BC winger Steven Whitney had interfered with him, and the goal was called back.

It took just a few minutes after that for BC to get on the board for real. The Eagles

BC took the lead back early in the second with another power-play goal. This one belonged to center Bill Arnold, who had his initial shot blocked by BU senior defenseman Ryan Ruikka, but took the puck as it bounced off Ruikka and put it behind O’Connor.

With just over five minutes remaining in the second, sophomore forward Evan Rodrigues had a chance to tie the score with a breakaway on Milner. But he waited too long, carrying the puck almost to the goal line before flipping it over the net as Milner

CHESTNUT HILL—Going into a weekend home-and-home series with No. 1 Boston College, the No. 9 Boston University men’s hockey team led the league in a surprising category: fewest penalty minutes per game, averaging 10.5.

A team traditionally known for spending time in the penalty box, the Terriers (8–5, 6–4 Hockey East) returned to their ways in a weekend split with the Eagles (11–2, 10–2 Hockey East). BU took 12 penalties — 11 of them minors — for 32 minutes in a 4–2 win Friday at Agganis Arena and followed that up with eight more two-minute minors in Saturday’s 5–2 loss at Conte Forum.

But what hurt the Terriers the most, according to BU coach Jack Parker, was the team’s inability to kill them off. The Eagles struck four times on the man-advantage Saturday night to blow the game open by the end of the second period.

“Rule number one is don’t beat yourself in any game we play,” Parker said. “And we failed badly at rule number one [Saturday]. This is a bad combination — we took a lot of penalties, and I thought a lot of them were stupid penalties, and we did a lousy job killing penalties … That was the difference in the game.”

Among the so-called “stupid” infractions were penalties that came in the heat of the moment, when the Terriers let their emotions get the best of them against their archrival.

Sophomore defenseman Alexx Privitera’s holding call in the second period, which came 18 seconds after junior defen-

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Penalties, see page 7

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Sophomore center Cason Hohmann scored the Terriers’ first power-play goal in their last 20 attempts in BU’s 5–2 loss to Boston College Saturday. continued to forecheck ferociously, disrupting the BU breakout at every turn. Eventually, defenseman Teddy Doherty tapped a rebound into the net on the power play to make it 1–0.

But BU was quick to answer when Gaudreau took another penalty, this one for hooking senior captain Wade Megan. On the power play, Megan carried the puck into the zone and took a shot that bounced to junior wing Sahir Gill. Gill found sophomore center Cason Hohmann open on the other side of the net and hit him with a pass, which Hohmann lifted over BC goalie Parker Milner.

BU stuns No. 15/17 St. John’s Defense, rebounding key in women’s with 66–49 win at Case Gym basketball big upset over Red Storm

By Steven Dufour Daily Free Press Staff

The No. 15/17 St. John’s University Red Storm saw shades of scarlet Saturday when they visited Case Gymnasium. The Boston University women’s basketball team upset them, 66–49, for its first win over a ranked opponent since Jan. 18, 2010.

The victory came thanks to a strong BU (5–3) effort from both ends of the court.

BU maintained offensive pressure and performed unprecedentedly well defensively.

It was no accident, as the preparation required a substantial effort.

“I don’t think that there was anything about them that we did not know,” said BU coach Kelly Greenberg. “Our players were really, really physically and mentally ready and focused.”

The game did not start in BU’s favor, but the home team quickly turned it around. After losing tipoff and going down 5–3 early on, the Terriers ended the Red Storm’s (4–2) largest lead of the night with a 3-pointer from senior guard Chantell Alford.

Two subsequent free throws from senior guard Mo Moran extended BU’s lead to three, a lead it never lost. After 10 minutes of play, the score was 17–7. Five minutes later, it was 29–13. At the half, the Terriers were up, 34–18.

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At that point, the Terriers held the Red Storm’s highest scorer, guard Shenneika Smith, to five total points.

They held the entire opposing team to 26.7 percent conversion of all field goals and 20 percent from beyond the arc, compared to the Terriers’ 42.9 percent and 66.7 percent, respectively.

The Terriers also outrebounded their opponents, 22–17.

Five different players scored, including Alford, who already reached double digits with 14 points at the half.

“I really think that’s one our strengths, being able to share the ball,” said senior captain Danielle Callahan. “The great thing about playing on this team is that no one really cares who gets the shot … whoever is making just keeps shooting.”

After the break, both teams changed strategies and made adjustments, but the difference in the score did not move much.

Both sides got a layup apiece almost immediately, one from BU junior forward Rashidat Agboola and one from Red Storm forward Amber Thompson. However, a 3-pointer from Alford followed by a field goal from Moran stopped any momentum for the away team.

As the clock wound down and the Red

Women’s basketball, see page 7

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By Conor Ryan Daily Free Press Staff

Many factors led to the Boston University women’s basketball team pulling off a stunning 66–49 victory over 15/17 St. John’s University at Case Gymnasium on Saturday.

Many would point to the Terriers’ (5–3) superb 3-point shooting in the first half as the main catalyst to the team’s victory.

However, BU coach Kelly Greenberg said the team’s tenacious defense and rebounding were the main components to arguably the biggest upset victory in the program’s history.

“Our team defense was just fantastic,” Greenberg said. “Everyone was just in the paint and really alert at all times and really rebounded the heck out of the basketball. … I think the game really came down to that.”

Entering the game on Saturday, the St. John’s Red Storm (4–2) boasted an impressive offense that averaged 68.4 points per game and outscored their opponents by a total margin of 62 points.

Despite their impressive offensive numbers, the Red Storm were unable to get much going against the Terriers’ defense, as they only managed 44 points on 30.6 percent shooting. St. John’s especially struggled with shooting beyond the arc, as

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it only hit 1-of-10 3-point attempts.

“We were ready, we were moving and we weren’t right up on them because we had to respect their quickness knowing that they could also shoot,” Greenberg said. “We just kept a really good balance with our one-onone defense on the ball and things went our way.

The Terriers, in particular, did an excellent job shutting down the reigning Big East Player of the Week, St. John’s senior guard Shenneika Smith.

Smith, who averaged 20.8 points per game and 11.5 rebounds per game before Saturday’s game, only managed nine points on four-of-12 shooting from the field. “[Smith] is a real legitimate scorer. I just think whoever was matched up with her just shut her down,” Greenberg said. “For someone who was averaging what she was … we just did a terrific job going one-onone with her.”

Both the Terriers and Red Storm finished the game with 43 rebounds. For the Terriers, who lost the battle on the boards in three out of their last four games, 43 rebounds against a tough opponent in St. John’s was an integral part of the team’s victory.

“I just can’t say enough about rebounding,” Greenberg said. “That was the game

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