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Writers’ Room gives Boston authors space to breathe More than 200 BU students to volunteer in nation with ASB

By John Ambrosio Daily Free Press Staff

When writer Anne Gray Fischer was in graduate school with a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. job, she applied for a fellowship to the Writers’ Room — a cornerstone of Boston’s writing community that provides aspiring writers a space to work.

“Even though I had a job, I was barely making ends meet and having the space so close by was a place for me to work on my thesis,” she said.

Each year, the room sponsors four writers from different genres, including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, and gives them free membership to the Writers’ Room to develop their literary projects, Fischer, now an administrator of the Writers’ Room, said.

“We’re always looking for the most deserving writer [for our fellowships],” she said. “We want the writer who’s most in need, but also most serious about their work.”

The Writers’ Room of Boston celebrates 20 years in 2012 as a breeding ground for the written word, and is accepting applications from emerging writers that want a small writing community on the fifth floor of 111 State St. in Boston.

Since forming in 1993, the Writers’ Room has provided a workspace, and more importantly a greater sense of community, for hundreds of Boston-based writers, Fischer said.

“Now more than ever, Boston is home to one of the largest writer’s populations,” Fischer said. “And yet more and more freelance writers and adjunct professors who are working as

By Chris Lisinski Daily Free Press Staff

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Writer’s Room Boston offers promising young authors a creative space to compose writing and confer with fellow writers.

writing or composition teachers are losing office space.”

Ben Winters, a novelist and former member of the Writers’ Room, said the environment there is perfect for composition.

“The benefits are multiple — the main thing is that a lot of people who are full-time writers find it difficult to write at home,” Winters said.

“There’s also just the sort of general advantages of having sort of a sense of community in the sense that you go into the break room and there’s a cup of coffee and another writer in there to share your ideas with.”

The Writers’ Room sponsors readings, writing workshops and salons, as well as a myriad of other activities designed to help writers share their ideas and get much needed feedback, according to the Writers’ Room website.

The Writers’ Room is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and provides a quiet space for writers who otherwise would not be able to afford an office space, Fischer said.

The space has two lounge areas, writing spaces, an outfitted kitchen and a bathroom, according to their website. Membership fees for

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Menino urges Obama, Boehner to ‘tell us the truth’ on taxes

By Tyler Lay Daily Free Press Staff

From his location in Spaulding Rehabilitation Center, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino wrote a letter to President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner on Saturday urging them to avoid the “fiscal cliff” and cuts in funding for health research.

Menino explained his experiences after over a month in medical institutions in his appeal to Obama and Boehner.

“I just spent a month in one of our worldclass healthcare institutions and am writing you from another,” Menino wrote. “So, yes, my perspective on the big budget debate happening in Washington is unique.”

Menino suggested the leaders alter the way in which they address the American people regarding the issues.

“We don’t seek ‘austerity,’” he wrote. “Austerity describes hospital food and institutional

walls. Show us opportunity. Sell us on progress.

Tell us the truth, especially on taxes ... And tell those who can do more, to do more.”

Menino spent a month in Brigham and Women’s Hospital for multiple health complications, including a compression fracture in his back.

After doctors diagnosed him with type 2 diabetes on Nov. 27, he moved to Spaulding to begin his recovery.

He asked that Obama and Boehner behave in a way similar to those who have acted as Menino’s overseers and caretakers since October.

“Brian, my nurse, doesn’t come to my room in the morning to say, ‘Mayor, if you just sit here, unburdened by taxing exercises, free from our rehab rules and regulations, you will get stronger,’” he wrote. “He tells it like it is. You can, too.”

Menino also cited Boston’s supremacy as the top location for health institutions.

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“Boston is home to the number-one medical school in the country and the number-one hospital in the country,” Menino said. “Researchers in Boston earn more NIH support than in any other city. Healthcare companies and institutions employ more people than any other sector.”

The fiscal cliff represents an end to several tax cuts and the implementation of many spending cuts to various government institutions, all of which are the result of the Budget Control Act of 2011.

If the fiscal cliff is not avoided, potential negative effects on the economy include a drastic decrease in GDP, and an increase in unemployment.

“The fiscal cliff is bad for our country,” Menino said in the final paragraph of the letter, “and so is any remedy that guts funding for discovery, for healthcare training and for healing.”

Boston University students registered Saturday morning as non-leadership volunteers for the Community Service Center’s Alternative Spring Break programs in 39 locations, four of which are new volunteer options, ASB members said.

ASB Program Co-Manager Bethany Reynolds said trips were added in Boston, the Bronx, N.Y., Baltimore and Hartford, Conn.

With the 287 students in non-leadership positions within the program as of Monday night, Reynolds said, about 50 spots for non-leadership volunteers remain open as of Monday afternoon.

“Our focus this year was to try and keep things more local in an attempt to show people what’s in their own backyard and hopefully draw more interest in places closer to home,” Reynolds, a College of Arts and Sciences and College of Communication senior, said. “That’s why we added another Bronx trip, why we looked into service in Boston.”

The first ASB trip to fill up was New Orleans, followed by Memphis, Tenn., and San Juan, Puerto Rico, Reynolds later stated in an email. Volunteers will donate an estimated 18,500 hours of service, compared to 17,400 during spring break 2012.

Reynolds said human rights and animals were among the most popular issue areas.

This is the first time registration was organized for the fall. Registration for the 2012 ASB trips, held in January, faced connectivity issues as the site crashed.

“We’re pretty excited about how registration went this year, especially in comparison to last year,” Reynolds said. “It was exciting to do it in the fall to try something new. It was usually in late January, which gives people more time to plan but us less time to plan.”

Unlike January’s registration, volunteers were able to add their names to the wait list at the start of registration Saturday.

“If the trips left weren’t to your interest, then maybe you have a better chance getting a spot on a trip that you would enjoy going on more if you put yourself right on the wait list, although we hope people will be open [to other trips],” said CSC Database and Scholarship Committee Chair Jack Schell, a CAS junior.

Reynolds said that while volunteers have been signing up for the wait list, several stu-

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Coffee & Convo. gets new image for spring

By Abraham Kalaoun Daily Free Press Staff

Months after Dean Elmore’s Coffee & Conversation came to an end, the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground announced a new program to offer Boston University a similar forum for expression.

The program, called “Agora: The Mind Market,” is expected to launch Friday, HTC officials said.

“The Dec. 7 Agora launch event is like a teaser to see how the program goes,” said Christian Cho, assistant director of the HTC. “That gives us enough time to make some changes for the spring if things don’t work. We’re willing to examine every aspect. Nothing is off the table.”

One of the major differences between Agora and Coffee & Conversation is that Dean Elmore will not moderate the talks, he said. Cho said he will serve as the moderator in the beginning, but he is trying to invite others to lead them.

Cho created Agora based on feedback from students who frequently attended pre-

vious Coffee & Conversations.

“In those conversations, I was told people missed the open format [of Coffee & Conversation],” he said. “And I also heard there were cases where people dominated conversations and got away with saying inflammatory things. So I had to think of a way to make it more egalitarian and more respectful.”

Cho said Agora will be a program for students interested in discussing provocative issues.

“We’re not about playing it safe at the Howard Thurman Center,” he said. “People might associate Agora with C & C, but I want people to be aware of other programs we offer here, who Howard was and what he stood for.”

Evan Kuras, a College of Arts and Sciences junior, said he began attending Coffee & Conversation his freshman year realizing it was an important forum for dis-

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Writers’ Room quarterly fees for membership cost up to $350 Writers: From Page 1

one quarter cost from $300 to $350 — about 2$3 a day.

The Writers’ Room has become part of what many writers, such as Shuchi Saraswat, call a vibrant writing culture in Boston.

“In Boston there are just so many people who are interested in reading and writing,” Saraswat said.

A few of the independent bookstores in Boston, such as the Brookline Booksmith and the Brattle Book Shop, hold special author readings on a regular basis that Saraswat said was an indicator of a writer-friendly city.

“Through independent bookstore culture alone there are four or five amazing bookstores that people actually go to which have these great

author readings that people attend,” she said.

Other writers said Boston boasted a population of readers and see the Writers’ Room as a place where students, professors and professional writers come together as an integral part of that culture.

“I think that being in Boston, there’s always some sort of interest-

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ing conversation going on around you, and the Writer’s Room is kind of like a microcosm of that,” Winters said.

This year’s fellows included Saraswat, a fiction writer who said she has been working in Boston since her graduate studies at Emerson College ended in 2009. Saraswat said the experience has helped her make

significant progress on her novel, citing the room’s serious and academic atmosphere as extremely important to her work.

“With something like a novel, its so grueling, there’s often little reward and you’re kind of in it on your own,” Saraswat said, “and having someone provide you with a space to do that is just kind of incredible.”

Mind Market to use Twitter for students who cannot attend talks, organizer says will also allow students who are abroad or sick to participate, Cho said.

Kuras said not enough people took advantage of Twitter in Coffee & Conversation.

“It allows people to participate if they’re not confident or don’t like being in big groups,” he said.

“I like using it to attach videos and articles relevant to the discussion. It brings legitimacy and authority to the conversation, as people often make up statistics or make unsubstantiated claims.”

Despite its open format, CAS freshman Dean Nguyen said he probably would not participate in Agora activities in person but might engage on Twitter.

“I’d be too scared to go,” Nguyen said. “I feel like it would be weird to share your opinion.

I’m not good with conflicting ideas. I think it would be awkward to be in the middle of two sides of a conversation.”

Cotty said Twitter might make the conversation more disjointed.

“Twitter might make it a little more difficult to bring both conversations that are going on live at the event and online together, but I could be wrong,” she said.

Shannon Chapman, a College of Fine Arts sophomore, said she never attended Coffee & Conversation because she was too busy to go, but she might be interested in Agora.

“It’s a good way to get involved and it’s a different way to get involved,” she said. “This is different in that you meet people by talking about a topic.”

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“A space to talk about complex problems is what college is all about,” he said. “We’re here at college to learn and grow and change the world. Agora will hopefully help fill that gap.”

When Wilaene Gonzalez, a CAS junior, returned from her spring 2011 semester abroad, she was disappointed to find out Coffee & Conversation had ended.

“I did it as a sophomore,” Gonzalez said. “There was coffee and cookies, and it was a great way to meet people and hear different perspectives. I’ll always remember the Halloween one, which was a special event where people discussed what they were afraid of.”

Although she said she is skeptical of how successful Agora will be, Gonzalez said she will probably attend.

“I feel Dean Elmore was such a big part of Coffee & Conversation,” she said. “The fact that you could hang out with him was such a big thing. To interact with someone in a high administrative position on a more personal level was really cool.”

However, CAS junior Kate Cotty, who regularly attended the Coffee & Conversations last year, said Dean Elmore does not need to be part of the conversation for it to be successful.

“He started these types of events, but I think the student body can take it from here now,” she said.

Agora will also use Twitter to expand the conversation, which

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Campus & City Campus Crime Logs Capture the Flag

By Robin Ngai Daily Free Press Staff

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs from Nov. 28 to Dec. 3.

On Wednesday, students at the Florence & Chafetz Hillel House, reported flags and handmade signs stolen. The signs pertained to the recent the bombings in Israel and the Palestinian territories. The flags and signs were stolen from the entrances sometime between 11:15 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Peace pipe On Wednesday at 3 p.m., the Office of Residence Life staff at Warren Towers found a pipe with marijuana residue in a fourth floor dorm. Empty plastic bags were found with the pipe that might have held marijuana residue. The student will not be charged because there was not enough marijuana present to be considered a violation of the law.

Game, set, break-in A vehicle parked across from the Track & Tennis Center, located at 100 Ashford St., was broken into Wednesday around 9 p.m. Nothing was stolen and BUPD officers have not found a suspect yet.

Desperate for a cup o’ joe A non-affiliate damaged and vandalized the front door of Blue State Coffee, located at 957 Commonwealth Ave., sometime late Thursday night and was reported to BUPD Friday at 7 a.m.

Kicked out Friday night BUPD responded to a call from Eastern Standard, located at 528 Comm. Ave., about an unwanted man in the restaurant.

Police escorted the man out of the restaurant at around 11:30 p.m.

Closed curtain act A female student reported $50 stolen from her purse on Saturday at 7 p.m. She had left the Dance Theater changing room door unlocked at the Fitness & Recreation Center with her purse unattended inside.

Blown away A Facilities Management employee reported a leaf blower stolen on Sunday. The leaf blower had fallen off his truck and by the time he circled the block to pick it up, it was gone.

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Hubway stations could stay open year-round BU prof. finds hidden costs in clean resources

By Kyle Plantz Daily Free Press Staff

Although Hubway bike stations closed for the winter on Thursday, a year-round bike share system could have Boston bikers riding through the winter.

But the possible initiative would need to work around the city’s winter plowing and road maintenance operations, officials said.

“Part of making it [Hubway] a year-round system next year, or whenever we would be able to do it, is looking at which stations would have to come up and [seeing if we] can ... find alternative locations for some of those stations so we aren’t gutting the heart of the system,” said Jessica Robertson, transportation coordinator for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council.

Robertson said about one third of all Hubway stations in Boston lie on the street and must be taken up in the winter to accommodate road maintenance.

Toronto, which operates a bikesharing system throughout the winter, will act as a model if a winterized Hubway system is announced, Robertson said.

The four municipalities that run Hubway have already signed contracts with Alta Bicycle Share and could run into trouble if a winterized

By Carol Kozma Daily Free Press Staff

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As seen on the left, Hubway bikes are available until the winter. However, Hubway is looking into expanding their bike rental services year-round.

Hubway cost much more money, Robertson said.

“Because they have an existing contract, it would be hard for them to allocate additional money,” she said.

“However, Toronto has said it actually costs them less money to operate year-round because its expensive to uninstall and reinstall all the stations, and also because if the system is closed you are forgoing a lot of revenue.”

Kristopher Carter, interim direc-

tor of Boston Bikes, said the Hubway stations closed in 2011 on Dec. 1 and reopened in March.

“The way that our contract works, they are closed during the winter to work on the infrastructure of the streets,” he said. “We have to make sure the streets remain clear during winter and we don’t want our stations to interrupt the business of the street cleaners.”

Carter said the department under-

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Suffolk U. to build classroom in $62M project

By Katherine Lynn Daily Free Press Staff

Suffolk University laid out plans to construct a 112,000-square-foot classroom complex on Somerset Street, a project slated to cost $62 million that officials said would benefit the community.

“Through institutional planning, the city encourages colleges and universities to look at their assets strategically,” said Melina Schuler, assistant director of media and public relations at Boston Redevelopment Authority.

Schuler said the project is an important additional to the Beacon Hill area.

“The project at 20 Somerset St., which will consolidate Suffolk’s Beacon Hill campus, is a benefit to both the university and its educational facilities and the surrounding neighborhood,” she said.

The building will be eight stories tall and is slated to cost $62 million, according to a Suffolk press release from 2009. The complex will also include faculty offices, an art gallery and art studios, according to the press release.

The BRA board unanimously approved the Somerset Street project in

July of 2009.

“This building will be a shining example of the community process at its best,” said John Nucci, Suffolk’s vice president for external affairs in a statement after the project was approved. “It has been designed in close collaboration with task force members and neighbors who have shared the goal of creating a building that will benefit Suffolk students and the City of Boston for generations.”

Suffolk student Tianna Duany, 21, from Jamaica, said the new building will not have much effect on the university’s campus, but could make it easier for students to get to class.

“It [the campus] is already close enough and centralized,” she said.

“Adding a new building right across the street [from other classroom buildings] won’t affect much.”

Some residents of the Beacon Hill area were unaware of the changes Suffolk is planning.

“I didn’t know about the plan to build a new building,” said Beacon Hill resident Margaret MacDougall, 38.

Rachel Pope, 25, a Beacon Hill resident originally from Connecticut said the Suffolk presence in her neighborhood will yield to an in-

crease in the student population for the Beacon Hill area.

“You definitely find a lot of college students in the area. Sometimes you wake up to kids running through the street naked at 3 a.m.,” Pope said.

“I feel like it’s still close enough that kids will still be living here. I don’t know if we will feel the impacts.”

“The students tend to party on the weekend. It can be very loud,” MacDougall said. “In all honesty, it can be scary on the street.”

But longtime Beacon Hill resident Tom Gately, 71, said he has not had issues with the college residents in the area, even those living in his building.

“I have been here for a long time and there have been no real problems,” Gately said. “It [the move] will probably make the area quieter though.”

Still, Gately said the presence of Suffolk Police were nice to have around.

With Boston known as such a young town, some residents said they realized the college vibe was inevitable.

“It’s already such a college town,” Pope said. “I’m used to the atmosphere.”

Boston University professor Kira Fabrizio found that firms will not invest in renewable energy technology in states with uncertain environmental policies.

All states have considered, and more than half have passed, the Renewable Portfolio Standards, which requires utility companies to buy a percentage of their energy in the form of solar, wind and other renewable energies, Fabrizio, a School of Management professor, said.

“I expected to see less investment in states with more uncertainty, but the effects I found are even more stark,” she said. “There is no significant [RPS] impact in those states.”

The study, which was released Wednesday and will be published in the next volume of “The Journal of Law, Economics & Organization,” finds states with policy uncertainty will not increase their annual level of renewable energy.

“There was no increase in the annual level of new renewable generation coming online in those states,” Fabrizio said. “In states that passed RPS that did not have the prior policy flip-flop, in contrast, there was a marked increase in annual amount of new renewable generation coming online.”

Fabrizio said it is more expensive for firms to use renewable energy than to use traditional coal or natural gas. Therefore, policies are necessary for firms to buy renewable energy and to build renewable energy facilities.

To measure policy uncertainty, or the risk of policy change, Fabrizio said she looked at the history of statelevel policies for electrical utilities. In recent decades, all states considered and about half deregulated the electrical utility industry. In 2001, when the Californian utility company Enron failed, some states that had deregulated flip-flopped and re-regulated.

“So you get this policy flip-flop history in the state, which to me says if I were thinking of investing [in renewable energy generation] in that state, this is a state where there is a risk of policy flip-flop,” Fabrizio said.

Fabrizio said she hopes her research can highlight the importance of committing to renewable energy policies in the long term.

“What I wanted to do with the paper was to think about how this risk of the policy changing in the future influences the incentives to build

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Student start-up myBookCrate sees nationwide market expansion

By Nora Philbin Daily Free Press Staff

Clean hard drive On Sunday, a male student reported his laptop vandalized at Warren. The student left his laptop unattended in the common room on the 17th floor of Shields “C” Tower. When he returned to the common room, he found a liquid detergent ball had been thrown at the computer. He reported the laptop was no longer functioning.

Street Art On Sunday at 11 a.m. BUPD officers observed graffiti on the wall of Student Village II at 33 Harry Agganis Way. They notified the maintenance staff to clear it off the building.

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Boston University student-founded online forum myBookCrate has recently signed partnerships with schools across the country.

One year after Boston University student Erik Bogaard launched myBookCrate, an online forum for students to buy and sell textbooks from their peers, he said the company has experienced nationwide success.

MyBookCrate has signed partnerships with schools on both coasts, including the University of Southern California, the University of California, San Diego and Northeastern University, Bogaard said. MyBookCrate was also named a semi-finalist on Forbes magazine’s list of America’s Most Promising Companies.

“Things have been going really well,” Bogaard, a College of Arts and Sciences student, said. “We’ve expanded to work with schools all across the country.”

Bogaard said he is focusing on publicizing the myBookCrate marketplace so the bookstores and vans that buy back textbooks do not continue to take advantage of students.

“Really what we need now is for students to really build awareness and for the word to start getting around because once we get enough people in the marketplace, there’s going to be no stopping it,” he said.

If each BU student sold one textbook this year on myBookCrate, receiving fair market value, the student body as a whole would save more than $500,000, he said.

“Our goal in the immediate future is to make sure that everybody knows about the marketplace, even using the iPhone app which allows students to scan the barcode,” he said.

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Bike stores note Volunteers for ASB impressed with new registration process even happened, they posted more rentals in dents have been open to other trips. istration a page with screenshots showing ex“It sounds like people have been actly what to expect.” winter months responding Weber, who went to Philadelphia pretty positively to when ASB: From Page 1

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stands that people bike in the winter.

“It’s not ignorance, we know people want to ride bikes,” he said.

“We want to make sure the streets are cleared and are safe for people.”

Both Boston bikers and shop workers said they understood why Hubway shuts down in the winter.

“Most of the people who use Hubway bikes aren’t experienced cyclists,” said Natalie Tukan, a Boston University Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences junior.

“Thus, they might not be cognizant of the proper precautions to take for winter biking and put themselves and others at risk for injury.”

Tukan, a year-round biker, said biking outside during the winter is harder.

“Both due to snow, slush and the cold, it is definitely harder to bike during the winter,” she said. “If you do ride your bike in the winter, you need to be very cautious.”

The Hubway system was launched in July of 2011 after efforts from Boston Mayor Thomas Menino to bring a bike-sharing program to the Boston area, according to the Hubway website. The system started with 600 bicycles and 60 stations throughout Boston.

Robertson said more than 600,000 rides have been calculated since the launch.

A number of local bike-rental shops are open year-round and said they see an increase in rentals during winter due to Hubway closing.

“We absolutely see more people renting bikes from us, but it [Hubway stations closing] hasn’t had that big of an impact on us,” said Liam Howard, a retail mechanic at Back Bay Bicycles.

Andrew Prescott, owner of Urban AdvenTours, said his company also sees the number of bike rentals increase. Despite seeing an increase in business, Prescott said he understands why Hubway would close its stations.

“It is wise to close in the wintertime for them because of the upkeep of their bikes and the financial burden they would have,” Prescott said.

Howard said there are many reasons why Hubway should close its stations.

“Having bikes sit in storage kills its integrity,” he said. “Also, the roads here are salted, which causes the degradation of bikes.”

Breno Melo, a graduate student in BU’s Metropolitan College, said he has used the Hubway bikes for commuting purposes and for fun, but in the winter, the weather could be dangerous for the average biker.

“Probably less people consider biking in the winter,” he said. “The snow, salt and bad weather is more dangerous for the average rider and it damages the bikes.”

we call them and say, ‘Hey, there are other trips open, would you consider doing this trip?’” she said. “They’ve been pretty positive about taking a look at those trips that weren’t in their original interest area and still have spots open.”

Several students who volunteered for ASB said they were pleased with the updates to the online registration process.

Urs Weber, a CAS junior from Bremen, Germany, said 2011’s registration process was chaotic.

“This year went very smoothly,” he said. “They [ASB] redid their website, so their website looks a lot more professional, it’s a lot easier to navigate this year. They went to great lengths this year to make registration as easy as possible. Long before reg-

with ASB in 2012, said he looks forward to traveling to Atlanta in 2013 to volunteer in ASB’s refugee education program.

“Even though I’m a biochemistry major, I’ve recently become interested in education, so that really appeals to me,” he said. “Also, being from abroad, I see this as an opportunity to see parts of the U.S. that I haven’t seen before … ASB is a whole lot of fun and a great way to see different parts of the country and do some really great service with some really great people.”

CAS senior Brittany Schwartz, who is volunteering in her fourth ASB as a coordinator for the Reading, Pa., trip, said she looks forward to the trip.

“I love that ASB allows volun-

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teers to completely immerse themselves in service for the week and gain meaningful perspectives on a variety of issue areas,” she said in an email.

Alyssa DeRosa, a CAS sophomore, said she signed up for the ASB program in Memphis, Tenn.

“I’ve never been in that part of the country before, and I went to the info fair with one of the ASB coordinators and she seemed really nice,” she said.

“I can’t wait to meet new people and do service with them and hopefully form very strong bonds.”

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these [renewable energy] projects, and so therefore the level of investment we see as a response to the policy,” she said.

David Weil, an SMG professor who analyses public policies, said the study could have a significant impact. Renewable energy is a new policy area, where policymakers do not have much experience of research upon which to base their decisions, he said.

“Really good, scholarly research, that also speaks to real problems, can be incredibly influential in any early point in an area of public policy-

making, and this study is certainly an example of that,” Weil said.

James Baldwin, a lecturer in the earth and environment department of the College of Arts and Sciences, said Fabrizio’s work shows the importance of a new sustainability minor at BU, which combines CAS, SMG and College of Engineering courses. “[This research] is further evidence of the value of that new minor and of that interdisciplinary vision of dealing with these problems,” Baldwin said.

States drive climate action plans and push toward renewable standards with a patchwork array of policy in

the U.S. that brings about regulatory uncertainty, Baldwin said.

“It’s [the study is] just one more piece of evidence that there really needs to be some sort of national level and substantive policy to promote renewable energy,” Baldwin said.

Alysse Margolis, an SMG sophomore, said some states push less, and others push more on renewable energy and the environment.

“I don’t think as a nation we take enough concern in it [renewable energy], but I think if you look at certain states individually, it’s definitely more enhanced,” she said.

There will be a national focus on

energy in the future, said Bryan Patenaude, a first-year Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student.

“We can’t keep using fossil fuels and everything,” Patenaude said.

“There is a real potential for the United States to become a leader in alternative energy.”

Vicenc Rubies Royo, a ENG junior, said the efficiency of a solar cell is much smaller than that from gas.

“At some point, if they do improve it, that’s the only thing [solar power] we are going to use most likely,” Rubies Royo said. “Until that day, I think it’s sort of a dead-end.”

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Erica Navar, a College of Communication freshman, said using her phone makes the process simpler.

“I like the fact that you can confirm things through your phone, and then the payment goes through, makes it easier,” Navar said.

Since launching in 2011, Bogaard said he has spent the last year listening to students’ responses and using them to improve the service.

“Once we have this awareness built, then our focus is going to be, as it always has been, on continuing to improve the service, streamline it for students and making it easier than ever before for students to save money,” he said.

While the company is expanding its reach, Bogaard said they are still focusing on creating an affordable way for students to buy and sell books — the reason he originally created myBookCrate.

“There are 21 million students that were enrolled in higher education as of this semester, and the textbook market is so severely broken,” Bogaard said.

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Drunk Defense Recent study suggests high BAC might protect victims from injury

By Kiera Blessing Features Staff

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t is not unheard of for someone to walk down Commonwealth Avenue late on a weekend night and see a student or local stumble or fall because of intoxication. However, a study published in the December issue of the journal Alcohol from the University of Illinois at Chicago suggests the same intoxication that causes accidents might also lower the mortality rates of victims.

Benefits of Intoxication There is a strong correlation between blood alcohol level and a sort of “protective effect” that lowers mortality rates among trauma patients, according to the study.

“I was actually kind of surprised by the finding of this protective effect,” said lead researcher Lee Friedman over a phone interview. “Now, the more that I’ve looked into it, it actually makes sense.”

Trauma patients often experience a cascade of after-effects following an accident, ranging from severe loss of blood from blood vessels to heart complications to kidney failure, Friedman said. It is the latter two — heart and kidney complications — that usually result in death.

“You generally don’t die from the trauma,” he said. “You die from the cascade of physiological responses to the trauma.”

Friedman said he is working on a new study to figure out how alcohol protects the drinker. His preliminary findings have already offered some interesting possibilities.

Alcohol is known to increase the viscosity of cells, or their resistance to movement, Friedman said. As cells like those in the blood become more viscous, blood becomes more unwilling to move. Thicker blood might allow victims to retain more blood after injury. With a higher blood volume, the heart is able to circulate the blood more efficiently, ensuring it continues to reach vital organs.

Alcohol is also known to increase heart rate and the overall function of the heart itself, Friedman said. This not only helps the heart to circulate lowered volumes of blood to vital organs, it might also aid in the prevention of heart and even kidney complications by supplying enough blood to the kidneys.

All of these possibilities are only speculations at the moment, Friedman said. The real cause for the correlation of elevated BAC and lowered mortality rates is unknown, and Friedman is not certain that alcohol is really the root cause.

New Approach As an injury epidemiologist, Friedman studies how injuries are distributed among the population and investigates possible causes so that they can be prevented. Since substance abuse often leads to injury, he said that he spends a good amount of time studying alcohol, which is what led him to this study.

Friedman said he began by looking at a population-based trauma registry in Illinois, considering all patients treated in Level 1 or Level 2 trauma units from 1995 until 2009. He then broke the patients into subgroups and studied patients who were issued toxicological exams upon admission to the trauma center. To control the study, he omitted several groups of patients to account for other forces besides alcohol that may have benefitted patients.

A unique aspect of the study, Friedman said, was the novelty of including each BAC. While previous studies often used arbitrary cutoffs like .08 (the legal limit in Illinois), Friedman said his used no such limitation. Instead of considering all those under .08 sober and all those over .08 intoxicated, Friedman said he considered all levels of intoxication, from a blood alcohol level of 0 to .5. (For reference, blood alcohol levels above .35 can be fatal.)

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Blood-alcohol level may correlate with the likelihood of surviving a traumatic injury, a study indicates.

consistent findings until now, Friedman said.

“Based on the model that I ran it seems like it’s a linear effect,” said Friedman. “The more [alcohol] you have, the more of this ‘protective effect,’ but even at the lowest levels, you see a modest reduction in mortality.”

Debunking Some Myths While it sounds unlikely that alcohol could actually save a person’s life, not all injuries are necessarily aided by high blood alcohol content, Friedman said.

Burns, for instance, were the exception to the rule in Friedman’s study. Of all the trauma patients, burn victims were the only ones whose mortality rates did not decline as blood alcohol content increased. This is actually a clue to the reality behind the results, Friedman said.

Burns affect fluid transmission, Friedman said, both at the cellular level and between organs, which is what makes them so fatal. If, then, the thickness of the blood and fluids is raised by alcohol, it will be excessively difficult for the body to keep up blood circulation and fluid transmission, and alcohol might actually be detrimental instead of an aid.

Penetration victims, on the other hand, Friedman said benefitted the most from alcohol. Victims of stabbing and gunshot wounds, which result in the loss of blood, benefit largely from increased heart function, keeping the blood circulating to vital organs.

Friedman said alcohol is too complex a substance to be involved in a simple cause-effect relationship.

“It works differently on different systems of the body,” he said, “and there is going to be a negative effect from alcohol and a positive effect. My guess is that what we’re seeing is the net effect.”

Application and Reaction Students on campus had mixed reactions to Friedman’s results.

“I’m hesitant because correlation doesn’t always imply

causation,” Carina Traub, a freshman in the School of Education said.

She said she has high hopes for the results of Friedman’s current work, though.

“I’m glad that he’s doing secondary things … maybe we can then break down the stuff that’s in alcohol and use it to help people,” she said.

Other students said they disagreed.

“To see that it has positive health effects doesn’t really surprise me,” College of Engineering sophomore Evan Ramos said. “It’s just part of culture. People have been consuming alcohol in different forms for centuries and it hasn’t really had a negative connotation in historical context.”

Some students expressed unease about the effect the results might have on students.

“Students will think — or just underage people in general — that if they drink, they won’t get in as much trouble, or they’ll drunk drive and stuff,” Brian May, a College of Arts and Sciences freshman, said.

Students said they did not believe this study should affect student behavior.

“I think it’s interesting,” CAS sophomore Christopher Stenson said. “I don’t think it’s a reason to drink more.”

Continuing Research Friedman is working on a new study that uses the same methods to examine about 100 complications that kill the majority of trauma patients. Though only in its early stages, Friedman said he has already seen promising preliminary findings.

He said it might be a few months or even a few years before the public sees the next published results, but he said he is hopeful that he will find stronger correlations between alcohol and increased rate of survival.

“Probably all of the evidence is there,” he said, “we just need to piece it together.”

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Letter to the Editor: Israel revisited To the Editor: It is not an insignificant fact that, despite the space which it took in these pages, two recent letters professing support for Israel failed to mention the most basic feature of the Israel-Palestine conflict: Israel has maintained a four-decade long military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the two pieces of land on which the Palestinians hope to construct a future state. Rather than acknowledge this elementary fact, much less grapple with it, the two letter-writers chose instead to rant about how peaceful and loving Israel and its citizens are.

I will let others decide the ethics of their position, but it should be known that such was committed to paper at a time when Israel stands accused by major human rights bodies of war crimes and crimes against humanity, both for its 2008 assault on Gaza and for the rubble under which it buried Gaza once again two weeks ago.

Such was also committed to paper despite the knowledge that Israel is imposing a total blockade on the import and export of goods into and out of the Strip. In recently released internal Israeli documents, it is evidenced that Israel consciously maintained a position in which it would “count calories” — i.e., restrict the importation of food into Gaza so as to keep the Palestinians on the edge of starvation.

This confirmed the oft-quoted former Israeli staffer, Dov Weisglass, who said following the 2006 elections in Palestine that what was needed was to put Gazans “on a diet.” It is both sentiments and policies like

these that have resulted in catastrophe for Gaza: UNICEF reports that more than 10 percent of children in the Strip suffer from “chronic malnutrition” and that the same percentage are physically stunted.

During Israel’s latest assault on Gaza, UNICEF’s spokesperson likewise noted the persistent psychosocial effects Israel’s terror is causing for these same children, as common symptoms include frequent nightmares and bed-wetting. In sum, Israel’s policies towards Gaza are having both irreversible physical and mental effects on the children of the Strip, and not even the morally stunted can erase that living fact.

It is complained when Palestinians living in Gaza resist this state of affairs. But Israel refuses to permit other modes of protest all the same. Last month, Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine invited Iyad Burnat, a nonviolent Palestinian activist living in the West Bank, to campus to speak on his work and the penalties he has faced from Israel for daring to resist Israel’s continued expropriation of his village. These penalties include bullets, teargas, stun grenades and long terms of imprisonment.

The question is, if Israel refuses to allow opportunities for peaceful settlement of the conflict, a la Burnat, then what right does Israel and its apologists have to complain when Palestinians choose violence to resist a state of affairs that is slowly killing them? The answer is none.

Tyler Cullis BU Law 2013 tcullis@bu.edu

Hard Knock Life for T drivers

A trolley driver for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority was allegedly punched and yelled at by an individual Sunday, according to an article in The Boston Globe.

The suspect allegedly approached the driver, yelled at her, punched her in the arm and called her a racial slur, according to the Globe.

The MBTA has had its share of difficulties during 2012. The T collisions and fare hikes have lowered public opinion of the service. Sure, there have been steps taken toward making the T more user-friendly — an app that allows riders to purchase tickets on their smartphones, for example. However, with a mounting deficit, it is unlikely that public opinion will improve soon.

While it is unclear what the individual’s motives were on Sunday, it is no overstatement that emotions run high on the T. Riders become frustrated when their trains are delayed, and they expressed dissatisfaction upon learning that they have to shell out an extra few cents per ride (for some commuters, a few extra dollars for every trip).

Looking for someone to blame, some riders blame the drivers.

For riders, the drivers are the most vis-

ible extensions of the T. But just because they are accessible, does not mean all of our anger and frustration should be directed at them. Some things are out of their control.

Without the drivers, where would we be? Because of them, we have increased mobility. We can travel in and out of the city without having to worry about finding a parking space or navigating through Boston’s hectic streets. In spite of the delays, in spite of the rising costs, T drivers take us from point A to point B, and for that, we should be thankful.

We should consider how stressful driving the T must be. Drivers have to deal with commotion on board — people refusing to pay, blocking the doors or harrassing other passengers — combined with the traffic on the street. Just as the T frustrates riders, think of how aggravating unruly people or hectic traffic must be for the drivers.

The MBTA’s service could be improved.

Stations could be cleaner. Trains and buses could run more frequently. Some drivers could do without yelling as much. However, when it comes down to it, the T enables us to move us around the city. And the drivers, the underappreciated faces of the T, deserve our respect.

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‘Inpolitically Uncorrect’ DAVID FONTANA

olitically correct! Doesn’t it just make your skin crawl? Why are we so focused on emphasizing what’s “politically” correct? Since when are politicians the people that we want to model our lives after? I guess, actually, since the ancient times, when they had statues made of them, held all the power in the world and got to take their expensive, state-ofthe-art, private rowboats to their summer getaways, such as Pompeii. But it’s not like we still let them get away with that, right?

But what does “politically correct” even mean, anyway? To me, it sounds like a framework in which you can’t say anything that a politician wouldn’t say. So, the truth comes to mind. And that’s the worse part about this euphemizing process on our life — or perhaps I should say euthanizing. When that phrase starts getting thrown around like pies on The Bozo Show, it’s usually because we are in fact hiding from the truth. Hiding behind that creamy, lemon meringue filling. Only, if you really take a lick, it’ll probably taste more like shaving cream, with a couple hairs in it, too. But the hairs are long and purple, and they’re definitely not yours.

Now, it’s not always the phrase itself that holds those precious dollops of truth.

But rather the reality lies in the fact that we choose to edit, audit and retract a society with freedom of speech (I can feel Georgie-Porgie Orwell turning over in his grave. 1984? Try 2012). And this truth comes down to one simple conclusion: aliens must in fact exist! But more precisely, people, all sorts of people, say, think and believe completely derogative and offensive things. Surprise!

Politically correct — it’s just so PC. And aren’t we the generation that’s trying to live by the Mac? Didn’t the Book of Jobs give us the 11th commandment: “Thou Shalt Not PC!” But enough about computers, maybe we should take a closer look at our stereos too. Types that is. Stereotypes are an integral part of life. Some of them are good, vital even. If you see a mob of people foaming at the mouth with pitchforks in hand, you can pretty much assume they’re angry. And my advice: run away. Stereotypes are just assumptions really. While perhaps assumptions may offer the crude joke of making an “Ass out of ‘u’ and me,” assumptions are how we survive. It’s part of our evolutionary process. But it can go oh so wrong.

When we wake up in the morning (feel-

ing like P. Diddy), we sit down to a nice hearty breakfast and before you know it, we’re gulping down a nice cold glass of prejudice (low pulp for me, please). We walk around society and judge strangers on assumptions alone. And often one of the earliest judgments is on how offensive someone else appears. We get upset or angry even when someone belittles people we know and even others from some other recognizable group. But there you have it: “recognizable groups.” It makes it sound like I’m comparing apples and oranges.

Birds and lizards. Humans and other humans. Oh, wait, I am.

We’re divided. It happens au naturale, kind of like puberty. You keeping growing until you’re a lanky giant, your voice starts chirping and hair starts growing out of opening you didn’t even know you had.

Yet, we try to pretend as though nothing has changed (Oh, middle school). We’re just the same cute kids from yester year, right? Similarly, society tries to pretend like we’re all unified, one group, one humanity — and while in a perfect world that would be lovely — in our very imperfect world, that pipe dream is blinding us like the flash of a camera — if the camera is owned by a preteen who won’t stop taking selfies. I prefer to champion these differences. There are so many things that divide us: religion, color, history, clothing, food. Just to name a few of the billions.

But what role does humor play in this conversation? Comedians abound often rely on stereotypes, some self-deprecating, and others not. But our society talks about negative cultures and often comedy gets attacked for perpetuating these stereotypes and prejudices. But when Shakespeare wrote “Othello,” was he purposefully being misogynist and racist? Some have and will argue a resounding and barbaric “Yawp!” But I see it differently: I prefer to think that he rather captured the stereotypes of his day, stripped them of their societal norms and presented them to his peers, in the light, in plain language.

Plain for them, at least.

So, the next time you hear someone say something offensive, think before you judge. Maybe teach before you preach.

Even get to know them over a piece of lemon meringue pie, sans the hair this time.

David Fontana is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and a Fall 2012 columnist for The Daily Free Press. He can be reached at fontad5@bu.edu.

A royal announcement

After months of rumors, it was announced on Monday that the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, is expecting a child.

Americans reacted on social media networks and in the comment sections of major news publications, expressing everything from excitement about the baby to frustration that the royal couple was receiving so much hype all the way across the Atlantic.

Overall, the response was similar to the public opinion on their engagement announcement — some people were enthusiastic and others apathetic.

While congratulations for the Duke and Duchess are in order, how much pregnancy coverage is too much, especially in the U.S. where the pregnancy really has no impact on us socially?

Some Americans might justify their excitement by arguing that the pregnancy brings the monarchy into the 21st century.

The Duke and Duchess certainly bring a sort of new face to the monarchy, which might

make the family somewhat relevant, but relevant to the U.S.? Not really. Kate’s fashion choices might inspire someone to make similar choices in the States. Her tenacity and go-getter attitude could also be considered inspiring. But outside of those attributes, what impact does she have on our country?

While some Americans will choose to follow the pregnancy, it is important not to lose sight of the real issues taking place at home and on a global scale. Americans have more important things to worry about than Middleton’s pregnancy. We are dealing with a looming fiscal cliff, not to mention several international conflicts. It is almost frustrating that people would fixate on something as frivilous as the royal pregnancy.

Looking forward, it will be interesting to see how far the media and Americans are willing to take this. Will the hype rise the level of the royal wedding? Or will people’s enthusiasm wane as they realize there are other more serious issues to be dealt with at home? Really, only time will tell.

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Neff: Give Northern Illinois shot on national stage in BCS Bowl Men’s hockey: From Page 8

State University in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 1.

People are throwing their hands up saying higher-ranked, better teams like Oklahoma were overlooked. But again, that’s thanks to the confusing ranking and seeding systems of the BCS. But, what makes their selection justified?

Since last October, the Northern Illinois Huskies are 21–1, the best record in the country. They

have better records than the two teams competing in the National Championship game. The Huskies have two more wins than Alabama and four more than Notre Dame.

Give them a shot.

That brings me to the fun part.

Bowl game names. How do they come up with names for those things?

There’s the generic state named bowls: New Mexico and Hawaii just use their state name. But why not spice it up a bit? The Idaho

Potato Bowl is an … attempt.

New Mexico, you hold it in Albuquerque how about the ”Querky Bowl”? More ring to it. Hawaii, I’m disappointed you haven’t instituted the “Get Lei’d Bowl.”

Then you have some bizarre corporate sponsorship. The “Chick-Fil-A Bowl” will be interesting this year. There has to be a gay rights advocacy group protesting that already.

The Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl.

If the atmosphere is anything like

the restaurant, sign me up.

The “Little Caesar’s Bowl.”

Pizza, pizza. Wow, it’s been a long time since I had that gross pizza.

I’d suggest stepping up the affiliation to, say, Dominos? Papa John’s got the shaft this year.

The “Cotton Bowl.” Add, “Candy” and you’ve got a whole new, sugar-high crowd and a big seller in the stands.

And the fact that nobody has combo-ed a “Bud Light Bowl” on New Year’s Eve with a “Hangover

Bowl” on New Year’s Day is a serious oversight in my opinion.

By far, the favorite renaming I’ve heard is the BCS Championship game to “Catholics vs. Cousins.”

Whatever bowl you pack … pick to watch this Bowl season, the cleverly named or the boring, may it be a good game, like the one Northern Illinois had Friday night.

Because good football is what bowl season is all about.

Terriers hold onto early advantage over St. Peter’s, begin earn 2nd straight win Men’s basketball: From Page 8

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Junior forward Travis Robinson scored 15 points in Boston University’s 74–66 win over St. Peter’s University.

on the top of our game. Each game we have gotten a little bit better, and I thought that half was the best basketball from top to bottom so far.”

Coming out of the locker room at halftime, St. Peter’s looked like a completely different team and outplayed the Terriers.

“We are up 30–8 in the first half, 18 at halftime and then they came out and took it to us — we didn’t play well with the lead,” Jones said. “It was the first time we had had a lead like that on the road and I thought they came out, played harder and that really hurt us and screwed us up.”

Aside from the Peacocks making shots, the Terriers turned the ball over quite a few times, allowing St. Peter’s to get back into the game. After a 3-pointer from St. Peter’s guard Desi Washington at

7:43, the Terriers large lead was down to only two.

The BU intensity picked up again late in the second half with clutch 3-point shooting from junior guard Travis Robinson and freshman guard John Papale. BU would coast from there and defeat the Peacocks 74–66.

“We made some big shots late and I thought that was a huge difference in the game,” Jones said.

“Overall I thought we did a great job of playing our game on both ends. That was probably the think I was most pleased with.”

The star of the game was freshman guard Maurice Watson Jr. who, for the second game in a row, controlled the pace of the game and led the Terriers in scoring and assists. Watson put up 21 points while tallying seven assists getting his teammates involved.

“Mo (Watson) had a spectacular game, but we got contributions

from a lot of different players,” said Jones.

Watson Jr. was named America East Rookie of the Week for his performance in the victory.

In his past two games, the 5-foot-10 freshman has totaled 18 points-per game, five assists per game and 2.5 steals per game. It is the first time a BU freshman has earned the award since 2010–11.

Robinson had 15 points for the Terriers, going 5-for-6 from beyond the arc, while Papale also added 11. Washington led the Peacocks in scoring with 32 points.

In their next game, the Terriers will visit Coastal Carolina for the second match of the season against the Chanticleers. Jones said he recognizes that this will not be the same game as a week ago.

“It’s going to be an absolute war,” Jones said.

Women’s hockey outscores Poulin named Hockey East Player of the Week Providence in 6–4 victory Poulin: From Page 8

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play to her advantage, Poulin picked up a rebound and completed her hat trick, putting BU in the lead, 4–3.

After Poulin’s goal, Menard returned to the ice.

A few minutes after forward Molly Illikainen scored to tie the game at four goals apiece with 3:30 left in regulation, Menard put the Terriers back in the lead with a slap shot during a power play.

Durocher said he commended Menard for returning with such strength.

“Isabel’s a kid who last year was the second leading scorer on our team. This year, she’s in the same neighborhood right now,” Durocher said. “It doesn’t matter who she’s playing with on the line, she’s always making things go.”

Scoring three power-play goals,

the Terriers achieved their highest output of the season.

“We know that Providence has a great team, and they showed it,” Poulin said. “They came back every time.”

With less than a minute left in the third, Tutino scored the last goal of the night, giving BU a 6–4 win.

Five Terriers had at least two points in the game, including Kohanchuk, who got her 50th career assist and a goal to go along with it.

Durocher said he tipped his cap to Providence, who remained perseverant throughout the game.

“It’s a sign of a competitive and well-coached team,” Durocher said.

“They never let up, and they made life miserable for us … but we found a way and got it done in the end.”

The Terriers will travel to Minnesota for a weekend series with Minnesota-Duluth on Dec. 8 and Dec. 9.

not the best player in the league or one of, if not the best, player in college hockey,” said BU coach Brian Durocher.

“She plays all three zones.

She’s tremendous on face offs.

She blocks shots to the point where she’s been injured two of her three years from blocking shots. She’s a great playmaker and could probably up her goalscoring total at any time if she decided to become a little selfish, but that’s not in her repertoire.

“She’s a consummate team player who will make the right pass [and] make the right play.”

Poulin’s performance during Saturday’s 6–4 win over the Friars kept her team in the game as she had a hand in BU’s first four goals. Poulin’s ability to not just score but also help her teammates kept BU a step ahead of the Friars,

as Providence consistently fought back, tying the game within minutes of every BU lead.

But Poulin did not just assist on these goals.

She recorded her third career hat trick, scoring two goals in the first period of the game and notching her third almost halfway through the third period, with each goal giving BU an — albeit temporary — lead.

“We always want to win at the end of the day,” Poulin said. “It was a really great team effort.

[Friday] was a shaky win, but today we came back, and I think we showed resilience. We’re really happy with what happened.”

Poulin, who was named the Hockey East Player of the Week for her efforts, also notched an assist during the game, as she helped senior forward Jenelle Kohanchuk tally her ninth goal of

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the season.

Like Poulin, Kohanchuk missed most of the 2011–12 season due to injury. Kohanchuk, who suffered a concussion at the beginning of the 2011–12 season, has also made her return to the team known. Along with Poulin and freshman forward Sarah Lefort, she is tied for the team lead in goals scored.

Durocher said having Poulin and Kohanchuk back on the ice and healthy has improved the team and helped them to succeed.

“It was a long year without those two kids around,” Durocher said of Kohanchuk and Poulin.

“We have other great players, and the team persevered, but when you have two people that are high-end kids who at any time can change the complexion of the game ... they’re game changers, and we’re happy we have them.”

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They’re game-changers, and we’re happy to have them.

-BU coach Brian Durocher on Marie- Philip Poulin and Jenelle Kohanchuk

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Tuesday’s Take Going Bowling

Mike Neff It’s bowl time!

No, not that kind.

Rather, college bowl season is upon us. Though, I guess the two go hand in hand.

One of the best stories out of the bowl matchup assignments has to be Northern Illinois getting into the Orange Bowl.

Let me just put this out there, the way they determine who gets a bowl matchup and what constitutes automatic berths is confusing. It has to do with conference champions, bowls being exclusive to certain conferences, coach rankings and maximums on the number of conference teams that can be sent to BCS games. Like I said, confusing and, frankly, sort of ridiculous, to the point that I don’t even want explain how they got in. Maybe to the point that I don’t even know how they actually got in.

But they’re in.

And why is this story so good?

Coming into the weekend, Northern Illinois was ranked No. 21 and needed to get by a few teams to even have a slight hope of reaching a BCS game. But they may have just had one of the best weekends ever.

On Friday night, they won a double-overtime game against No. 19 Kent State 44–37. After blowing a 27–13 lead in the fourth quarter, they kept it tied until the end of regulation. A 40-yard field goal in the first overtime kept their hopes alive and a rush by their seriously underrated quarterback Jordan Lynch sealed the deal.

A huge victory, coupled with a few losses from higher-ranked teams, and things looked good.

And then Saturday, while there was still uncertainty about whether or not they would make a bowl game, their head coach Dave Doeren jumped ship and accepted a job at North Carolina State.

“Hey thanks for the vote of confidence, Dave. We’re just on the very cusp of getting a bowl game and that’s when you throw in the towel?”

Granted, it’s a career-oriented move, but couldn’t it have waited?

The team must’ve really enjoyed the announcement Sunday that they’d be playing Florida

Neff, see page 7

Tuesday, Dec. 4

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The BU women’s hockey team swept the Providence College Friars on the weekend by winning 4–3 on the road and 6–4 at home. P.8.

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Women’s hockey sweeps Friars over weekend

By Kira Cole Daily Free Press Staff

The No. 7 Boston University women’s hockey team met Providence College on the ice twice over the weekend. Having beat Providence 7–1 earlier in the season, BU continued its success, winning 4–3 Friday at Schneider Arena and 6–4 Saturday at Walter Brown Arena. “[Providence] had gotten a little frustrated to have had a game sneak away from them [Friday] after having the lead three times,” said BU coach Brian Durocher. “And then have to come on the road, it showed a lot of character and a lot of perseverance from them. They’re a team to be reckoned with now and in the future.”

Providence (8–7–4, 5–4–2 Hockey East) went into the third period with a 2–1 lead on Friday, but senior forward Jenelle Kohanchuk scored on a power play to tie the game at two goals apiece.

After the Friars regained a 3–2 lead, junior defenseman Shannon Doyle and senior forward Isabel Menard answered with goals only 40 seconds apart to bring BU (11–3–1, 6–2–1 Hockey East) up 4–3.

Durocher said Friday’s game was more challenging on the defensive end, as Providence had more powerplay opportunities.

“This weekend we had a good run,” Durocher said. “We made a couple of personnel changes, and one of the power plays is a completely different power play, and for one weekend anyway, it worked.”

Four minutes into the start of Saturday’s game, junior co-captain Marie-Philip Poulin scored a powerplay goal to get BU on the board first, which began a trend of the teams

trading goals. It was her seventh goal of the season and the first of her fourpoint effort for the evening.

Senior Nicole Anderson scored later in the first period to put Providence on the board and even the score at 1–1.

Six minutes later, with just more than a minute remaining in the first period, Poulin scored her second goal of the evening. Freshman forward Sarah Lefort and Kohanchuk got assists on the play.

Responding to Poulin, a minute and a half into the second period, Anderson scored her second goal of the night, tying the game at two goals apiece.

Kohanchuk answered again, scoring a shorthanded goal 13 seconds into a penalty kill to give BU a 3–2 lead.

However, five minutes later Anderson scored her third goal of the game, recording her third career hat trick and tying the game at 3–3 with a power-play goal.

Durocher said BU could have put itself in the position to have a comfortable lead by the second period, but the defense was too soft.

“It was not really a coach’s type of game,” Durocher said. “Their second goal, when they made a beautiful shot, we didn’t seem to have anybody in the same area code, and that’s making it too easy for the other team.”

In the third period, a shot deflected off of Menard’s ankle, and she fell to the ice. Appearing as if she could barely stand up, she left the ice with the trainer.

A few minutes later, junior Rebecca Morse was ejected from the game after getting a penalty for hitting from behind. Using the power

Women’s hockey, see page 7

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Junior forward Marie-Philip Poulin scored five points over the weekend as the Boston University women’s hockey team swept Providence College.

BU takes down St. Peter’s U., Poulin proves importance in starts 2-game winning streak 2 victories over Prov. College

By Michael Bagarella Daily Free Press Staff

After starting the season 0–5, the Boston University men’s basketball team extended its winning streak to two games after defeating St. Peter’s University, 74–66.

The 0–5 start is not yet behind BU coach Joe Jones and the rest of the Terrier team, but the valuable experience it provided is definitely not forgotten.

“You talk about a team that returned only four guys with any experience — no one else has any experience on this level,” Jones said. “No matter who these guys are, unless you’re Kentucky, you are going to struggle. Anybody else that plays the schedule we play with inexperienced guys like us it’s going to be hard.”

The Terriers (2–5) finally got their first win of the season against Coastal Carolina University, blowing out the Chanticleers 70–40. BU looked to build upon that when they traveled to Jersey City, New Jersey, to play St. Pe-

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ter’s (3–4) on Saturday.

BU was clearly the squad ready to play and got out to a quick lead against the Peacocks (3–4).

Thanks to a few early misses by St. Peter’s and strong all-around play from BU, the Terriers found themselves ahead 13–4 only 5:28 into the game.

Midway through the first half the BU open shots that were not sinking a week earlier at George Mason University began falling for the Terriers. On offense, BU began hitting shot after shot, while defensively the Terriers held St. Peter’s scoreless for more than five minutes. At 4:40 in the first half, BU had a substantial 30–7 lead over St. Peter’s.

The half ended with St. Peters crawling back into the game, but BU still held a strong 18-point lead, 37–19.

“Our intensity on both ends was great,” Jones said. “I thought we did a great job with the game plan early in the game. We were

Men’s basketball, see page 7

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M. Hockey @ New Hampshire, 7 p.m.

By Meredith Perri Daily Free Press Staff

About a year ago to the day, the No. 7 Boston University women’s hockey team split a home-andhome series with Providence College. The weekend series featured two fiercely competitive contests, one in which the Terriers could not overcome an early deficit and another where the Terriers’ lateperiod rally gave them a win.

Over this past weekend, the Terriers took the series from Providence, completing a regularseason sweep of the Hockey East rival.

Over the course of that year, players have graduated and teams have gone through frustrating slumps and had surprising comebacks. Yet one of the most notable changes from when the puck dropped in 2011 to this time around is the return of junior cocaptain Marie-Philip Poulin to the Terriers’ lineup.

At this point last season, Poulin was a few months removed from rupturing her spleen and

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working toward making it back into the lineup by the time the second semester began. Now the Beauceville, Quebec, native is back in her role of leading the team both on the ice, as the leading point scorer, and off the ice as the team’s co-captain.

“It feels good,” Poulin said after Saturday’s game against the Friars. “Just to not be injured is always a good feeling. When we have the chance to play here at Walter Brown, it’s such a privilege and just to be here is fun.”

In the 13 games that she has played this season, Poulin has tallied 26 points, the most on the team and the second most in the Hockey East Conference. Nonetheless, this past weekend’s series against the Friars was one of Poulin’s best so far this season, as she tallied a total of five points — three goals and two assists — in two games.

“It’d be hard pressed to say that as an all-around player, she’s

Poulin, see page 7

Saturday, Dec. 8 M. Hockey vs. Maine, 8 p.m.

W. Hockey @ Minnesota-Duluth, 4 p.m.

W. Basketball @ Marist, 7 p.m.