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KICKING CORONAVIRUS, 3

SAY CHEESE, 6

ELECTION EN MASS(E), 8

TERRIERS VS. EAGLES, 11

Cambridge researchers working to develop a vaccine.

FreePers review local oozing grilled cheeses.

High schooler testifies for young people’s democratic agency.

BU meets arch-rival BC for the second time this season in the 68th Beanpot.

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Student political groups canvass as election approaches Union Court renovations taking place in phases

BY ELLIE YEO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

This weekend, members of the Boston University political organization BU4Bernie will travel to New Hampshire to canvass for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Other BU political organizations, such as BU for Warren, supporting candidate Elizabeth Warren, have taken and will make similar trips to demonstrate support for their respective candidates.

BU for Warren and BU4Bernie will continue to make canvassing trips to New Hampshire in the weekends leading up to the New Hampshire primaries on Feb. 11.

Bea Brown, a member of BU4Bernie and a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said students will travel to New Hampshire on buses provided by Bernie Sanders’ New Hampshire campaign office.

Owen McNamara, a member of BU for Warren and a senior in CAS, said BU for Warren members were similarly provided transportation by Elizabeth Warren’s Massachusetts campaign headquarters.

McNamara said New Hampshire is a critical state in the presidential race, as it is the first state to hold primary elections.

He also said the state often acts as an initial indicator of how a candidate’s support will fare in the months leading up to the presidential election in November.

“Since it’s the first in the nation primary, the way that [New Hampshire] votes dictates how future states will vote,” McNamara said. “So if we can get our candidate, Elizabeth Warren, the most support in New Hampshire, then hopefully that will catapult her onto a much more national stage across the country so that she can win the next primary caucus state that comes up.”

Brown said that while BU4Bernie will canvass in New Hampshire leading up to the primaries, the organization hopes to CONTINUED ON PAGE 3

BY EMMA LINDSEY DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

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Boston University student group BU for Warren canvass in Dover, New Hampshire in December 2019.

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Boston University’s BU4Bernie canvassing in Nashua, New Hampshire in October 2019. The group is one of several student organizations making weekend trips to canvass in the state before the presidential primary on Feb. 11.

A look into life on the streets of Boston

BY ANGELA YANG DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

51-year-old Betsy Lambiase is in the midst of her second winter out on the streets. Though this January’s temperatures have proven milder than most, extreme wind chill still buffets Boston’s homeless.

For Lambiase and her partner, 40-year-old Jesse Rebelo, home base is a busy McDonald’s on a downtown street corner. It’s where they purchase their cups of coffee every morning, and it’s the last indoor place they occupy until the staff casts them out at closing time.

Come 2 a.m., the two must move on to seek other shelter from the cold.

Winters are always especially tough, Lambiase said, because it is harder to

Renovations to update the seating area, kitchen and several food concepts of Union Court on the first floor of the George Sherman Union began in December of 2019.

Renovations will be complete by the fall 2020 semester, according to Colleen McGinty, executive director of construction services.

McGinty said construction services will have the entire renovation completed by Sept. 1, though they hope to be done earlier. She also said the project is taking place in phases to allow for student use of the space as renovations progress.

“At the end of February, [Takin’ It to the] Streets and Panda [Express] will open back up again.

Rhett’s will remain open, but to the right of Rhett’s, there will be a couple of new stations that will open up,” McGinty said. “Then, we will go into the food court where, for instance, Charles River Bread [Company] and Cranberry Farms are, and that will go under construction.”

Paul Riel, associate vice president of BU Auxiliary Services, said Union Court’s new design will be more open and allow for less backup among students in the building.

“The idea is to allow guests to come into the space and to be able to move more seamlessly through the building,” Riel said, “but also make a decisive choice about where they want to eat in a more organized way, as well as a way in which

get warm than it is to cool off.

“Mainly we go to, if it’s not here at McDonald’s, it’ll be stairwells, doorways, alleys, that type of thing,” Lambiase said. “Anywhere where you can get some type of shelter from the wind.”

Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless Associate Director Kelly Turley said rates of street homelessness in Boston are significantly lower than in other major cities, mainly because many shelters willingly expand their capacity to meet demand.

“That may mean there aren’t necessarily beds but there’s places for people to be inside, out of the cold,” Turley said. “Less of an issue of the capacity is more the conditions at times. Do people feel that it’s a safe place or welcoming space for them?”

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Harsh winter conditions complicate the lives of Boston’s homeless population, including Betsy Lambiase, 51, who says shelter from low temperatures and extreme wind chills is hard to come by.

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Local research claims Trump policies discriminatory

BY ALYSSA FIGUEROA DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston research center Fenway Institute released a new policy brief stating the White House “dramatically” expanded discriminatory policies against LGBTQ communities in President Donald Trump’s third year.

The Fenway Institute is an interdisciplinary research and education organization focusing on quality health care access for LGBTQ individuals and those affected by HIV/ AIDS. Its findings state that in 2019, the Trump administration broadened policies harming the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ people in America.

The administration has rolled back provisions that prevent discrimination in health care, employment and housing based on sexual orientation and gender identity, according to CONTINUED ON PAGE 4

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BU student recognized as finalist for fellowship

BY WAYNE YU DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Eliana Pipes, a second-year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Boston University and playwright, attended the award ceremony for The David and Lynn Angell College Comedy Fellowship as a finalist on Friday.

The award, for which Pipes was nominated in July 2019, holds a $20,000 prize. Pipes was one of three finalists, and though she did not win the award, she describes being a finalist as “an honor in itself.”

Aside from this fellowship, Pipes has been recognized for her work by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In October 2019, she was awarded the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women, and received a $35,000 grant.

Pipes wrote in an email that it was after her 2017 internship with the Academy Gold Program that she received her nomination for their fellowship. She wrote the program gave her access to many resources that helped her develop as a writer.

“As part of Academy Gold, we were given exclusive access to Academy Members and screenings, weekly panels and educational workshops,” Pipes wrote. “It was a really incredible experience, and one that I’m deeply grateful for.”

Kate Snodgrass, a playwriting professor and artistic director, said Pipes is an outstanding playwright in the graduate MFA program.

“She won the award for her first screenplay, so she’s a very talented writer in telling stories,” Snodgrass said. “And that’s [what] screenplays are. One way to tell a story.”

Kyle Hogan, a sophomore in the CAS, said having more talent-

ed students like Pipes can help BU build a good reputation for their programs in the field.

“Personally, I don’t really know much about the playwriting and filmmaking, but what [Pipes] has done in her field is really impressive,” Hogan said. “And with more students showing their potentials to the public, we all will benefit from it.”

Gabriel Calistro, a freshman in the College of General Studies, said it is good to see students showing their talent in a bigger stage.

“I think it is a great initiative that [Eliana] is taking right now, to take place in an award like [the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women],” Calistro said. “And it would be cool if more of her works are recognized.”

Jason Lee, a sophomore in the Questrom School of Business, said he is looking forward to see what Pipes will do in the future.

“Well considering what she [Pipes] has been achieved and the grant that she has received.

I am kind of wondering what her next move is,” Lee said. “Will she focus on playwriting, film or any other fields?”

Melinda Lopez, an adjunct assistant professor in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, wrote in an email that Pipes is a creative artist in many ways.

“I will say that [Pipes] is a prolific and cleverly inventive playwright,” Lopez wrote. “She creates plays that combine big ideas with big heart — and a little screwball comedy. She is a delicious creative artist.”

Pipes wrote that while she loves screenwriting, her true experience and passion lies in writing plays.

“I’ve been writing plays since 2013, and I’ve written five full-

This means that despite the cold, some homeless individuals — such as Lambiase and Rebelo — will choose not to rely on shelters.

The couple rises at 6 a.m. each day to clear quietly out of the spaces they camp out in during the night. Then, Lambiase said, they run errands, such as picking up clothes and toiletries from charity vans, or simply spend a morning at the dog park to watch the animals.

“We used to play a lot of cards,” Lambiase said. “But now with the wind and everything, it’s kind of impossible to find cards and you can’t really sit in the hallway and play games.

That’s going to be too awkward.”

The starkest difference they see in passersby throughout the winter months, according to Rebelo, is the shift in attitudes.

“People are crankier in the cold,” Lambiase said. “Nobody’s happy in the cold, they’re all miserable because they’re freezing.”

Rebelo and Lambiase also said they noticed some people will cross the street to avoid walking past the couple. Women will also clutch their purses when they near Rebelo.

“Just because we’re homeless doesn’t mean we’re all strung out and going to rob everything,” Lambiase said. “And [Rebelo] gets really insulted by that a lot.”

Yet Rebelo said they “constantly” find their own belongings stolen: the pair has lost four backpacks within two or three months. When in need of more supplies, Lambiase said both the streets and the dumpster are hid-

den treasure coves.

“Anything you need, you will find it on the streets of Boston,” Lambiase said. “Anything. I found tweezers the other day, and then I needed them.”

From city dumpsters, Lambiase said she has discovered anything from money to jewelry to computers. Much of her wardrobe is comprised of these finds, as the clothes in the trash don’t tend to be dirty — they’re wrapped in plastic bags.

“A lot of things come out of the dumpsters, especially when the college kids go home,” Lambiase said. “They throw everything away. It’s amazing what money does to people.”

Life on the streets is a series of highs and lows, Lambiase said. Oftentimes small successes mean an initial step forward, but an obstacle will soon set them two steps back.

“We give back and forth to each other out here,” Lambiase said. “We’ve got a girl that we know, she just lost everything again, and we’re going to give her a pair of socks and a cup of toiletries. But yeah, you just, you lose it, start back up again.”

While many within the homeless community take care of each other, gestures of empathy will also arrive from strangers. Lambiase said she was in Cambridge during a snowstorm earlier this January when a woman approached her.

“I had two soaking wet jackets, couldn’t walk anymore, stopped at the bus stop and the lady gave me this jacket off her back,” Lambiase said, motioning to a dark coat draped over her chair. “I would never get rid of this coat. I don’t care what happens.”

Barbara Trevisan, spokesperson for

Crime Logs

BY MARY LULLOFF

DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston University Police Department crime logs between Jan. 23-28.

Unwanted person in Warren Towers A caller reported that an unwanted person was sleeping in their dorm room Saturday around 4 a.m.

BUPD contacted the unwanted person and found that they were not intoxicated but had entered the wrong room.

Manhole explosion near Blandford Mall A caller reported a manhole explosion with smoke at the corner of Blandford Mall and Commonwealth Ave. Friday at 8 p.m. The Boston Police Department arrived to block off the street, and the Boston Fire Department confirmed the fire was extinguished.

Hazardous condition at the Photonics Center

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Boston University graduate student Eliana Pipes, who studies playwriting in the Graduate School of Arts and Science, was a finalist for The David and Lynn Angell College Comedy Fellowship awarded Friday.

length plays and countless short plays since,” Pipes wrote. “Playwriting is where the bulk of my writing experience comes from, and it’s informed my voice and

style as a writer. I’m very excited to be moving more into screenwriting this coming year, but my heart is in the theater and always will be.”

How do Boston’s homeless survive in winter weather?

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A caller reported Thursday around 2:45 p.m. that he inhaled hydrogen chloride while working at the Photonics Center. The caller received medical attention, and was removed from the room while officers investigated if the source was still leaking gas.

Stolen package on Bay State Road A caller reported seeing someone rummaging through packages on Bay State Road and then head toward Kenmore Square Tuesday around 3 p.m. BUPD confirmed that one package was missing and left a note for the intended recipient at their door.

CITY

Crime Logs

BY ELYSE GENRICH DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The following reports were taken from the Boston Police Department Headquarters from Jan. 27 to 28.

Disturbance in Brighton

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A homeless man sits in Kenmore Square. Boston’s winter weather takes a physical and mental toll on the city’s homeless.

Pine Street Inn, an organization providing services for the homeless, said Boston’s winter weather can severely affect the health of individuals who cannot escape the streets.

“People can get hypothermia, they can get frostbite,” Trevisan said. “It can be very serious because a lot of them have underlying medical conditions, and the street is never a good place for people to stay.”

Both Lambiase and Rebelo said they are currently ill, but previous experiences with hospitals have put them off of seeking professional medical help.

“They assume we’re just looking for a bed,” Rebelo said, “always looking for drugs.”

After she fell on the commuter rail and hit her tailbone, Lambiase said her back began spasming and her left

leg grew numb. She said she made her way to a hospital and emphasized to the staff she did not want narcotics.

“And they were just so stuck on: we were there to either get a bed or drugs,” Lambiase said. “I was like, ‘I don’t need drugs, just figure out what’s wrong with my back and why it’s doing this.’ They were just horrible.”

People can be “very, very cold” to the homeless, Lambiase said, yet she finds a home in Boston because its residents can also be some of the friendliest.

“You get that one random person that comes by with the biggest, brightest smile that makes you regain hope in humanity,” Lambiase said. “You know, it’s, everything’s good, bad, whatever. Out here, I guess, we just see the rawer side of it than what the normal person sees.”

Officers responded to a call reporting a loud disturbance on Snow Street in Brighton Monday around 11:15 p.m.

Officers have responded to the same address multiple times in the past few months. The suspect was allegedly screaming and banging on walls before running out of his house, according to neighbors. Officers located the suspect in the lobby of the St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, from which they eventually transported him home.

Medical Assist in Allston At 9:17 p.m Monday, officers responded to a call to investigate a person on Armington St. in Allston. The victim, the caller’s girlfriend, was two months pregnant and reported suicidal thoughts and poor mental wellbeing.

Officers transported the victim to St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center.

Assault in Brighton Around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, police responded to a call for an assault in progress on Commonwealth Ave. The victim said an argument began when the suspect did not pay the victim the $6 he owed. The victim said when he attempted to leave the restaurant, the suspect blocked his path and struck the side of his head. The suspect said he never hit the victim. Both parties were separated and left the scene.

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Student political groups ramp up efforts as primary nears PRIMARY, FROM PAGE 1 focus on engaging BU students on campus as well.

“Further down the road, we’re hoping to shift to keep things more localized on campus, find people who are interested in [Sanders] and ask them to help us reach out to their friends who also go to BU,” Brown said. “We want to make sure everyone they know is registered to vote and has all the info that they want or need about [Sanders].”

Brown said she feels that canvassing for Sanders as a college student has allowed her to help clarify many of the assumptions surrounding his campaign.

“For [Sanders], what people think of is these hoards of college students who are voting for him,” Brown said. “When we go up there, it helps to show [voters] that we really care about his campaign and that it’s not just this cult of personality.”

Samantha Delgado, a member of BU for Warren and senior in CAS, said she sees canvassing as more than just policy-oriented, and enjoys being able to make connections with New Hampshire residents over shared values and hopes for the future.

“I think doorknocking is a great way for people to get their candidate’s voice out there,” Delgado said, “but it’s also just a great way for people to make one on one connections and see what is meaning-

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Boston University student organization BU4Bernie canvass in Concord, New Hampshire in December 2019.

ful in life.”

Delgado said she finds canvassing rewarding because she can speak with New Hampshire constituents who may not always engage in political discussions.

“You get to go out there and really speak to people who aren’t always used to being asked ‘Well what do you think, how do you feel about what’s going

on in our country?’” Delgado said. “I think sometimes people don’t realize that they have thoughts about that, so when you ask them you end up engaging in conversation that’s not always about policy issues, but more about values and what’s important to us as citizens.”

A representative from BU for Pete, a campus group

that supports primary candidate Pete Buttigieg, declined to comment. There is no known group supporting Vice President Joe Biden on campus.

Ty Bieber, a freshman in the College of General Studies, said he thinks canvassing as a college student sends a powerful message to potential voters.

“I think it shows that students are passionate about the

candidate that they’re going to vote for,” Bieber said. “Young people being passionate about something inspires other people to get on board with that, and I think it really broadens the group [of voters].”

Sari Cohen, a sophomore in the College of Communication, said she does not feel strongly enough about any candidate at this point in the election to canvass and doesn’t know if canvassing in New Hampshire as a BU student would be beneficial.

“I don’t think there’s a candidate that I feel strongly enough to stand behind and cross state lines for, just because there are so many options still in the democratic field at this point,” Cohen said. “I also don’t think it’s necessarily going to be of great benefit if students from Boston go to New Hampshire… it’s a different state.”

Sophia Woodland, a freshman in the Questrom School of Business, said she agrees that student canvassers hold an important role in campaigning and inspire their peers as well as older generations.

“I think students canvassing is very important and holds just as much or more importance as adults canvassing,” Woodland said. “I think specifically for younger people, it’s more inspiring when you see someone your age or younger doing it and it shows that they care just as much as people that are older.”

Local biotech company developing coronavirus vaccine

BY ANGELA YANG DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

As news of the nCoV2019, a new coronavirus, continues to sweep the globe, a vaccine is in the works across the river in Cambridge. Local biotechnology company Moderna Inc. launched the venture on Jan. 23.

The company is collaborating with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, headquartered in Norway, and will also be working with U.S. government agency the National Institutes of Health.

A Moderna spokesperson wrote in an email that the vaccine would use messenger RNA — a molecule in the cell that transports DNA instructions in the protein-making process — to pre-expose the immune system to a small amount of protein from an antigen, a foreign molecule that causes causes the immune system to react.

“Our approach is to use mRNA medicines to instruct a patient’s own cells to produce proteins that could prevent, treat, or cure disease,” Moderna wrote. “The potential advantages of an mRNA approach to [disease-preventing] vaccines include the ability to stimulate a more potent immune response [and] combining multiple mRNAs into a single vaccine.”

Compared to traditional vaccine development methods, according to Moderna, centering on mRNA can foster quicker discovery of solutions to emerging pandemic threats, as well as increased agility in the manufacturing process.

CEPI will fund Moderna’s study material and pre-

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Cambridge biotechnology company Moderna Inc. has partnered with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and the National Institutes of Health to develop a coronavirus vaccine.

clinical manufacturing costs in preparation for the Phase 1 trial, during which small groups of individuals will receive the vaccine.

The NIH will then conduct this trial again once it is ready to be implemented.

Moderna wrote additional studies will likely be required before the vaccine can be marketed or put to use anywhere in the world.

“Our collaboration with CEPI and NIH should allow us to determine if our vaccine may be effective against [the coronavirus],” Moderna wrote, “and if so we will work to determine how to further develop and manufacture the vaccine for use in the countries where it is needed.”

David Hooper, chief of the Infection Control Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, said because every viral outbreak is unique, experts cannot reasonably predict when a vaccine might become available for public use.

“People are still working on an HIV vaccine, for example,” Hooper said. “It depends on the virus and its properties and the way it causes infections and what sort of immune response is most effective for preventing it.”

This new type of coronavirus is similar to the SARS and MERS coronaviruses, both of which have also been the culprit of viral outbreaks since 2000.

Hooper said respiratory drop-

lets — from coughs and sneezes, for example — are the most likely mode of transfer between people. How transmissible the virus actually is, however, remains unclear.

“We don’t yet fully know whether people can transmit the virus before they have symptoms or whether it’s only after they have symptoms,” Hooper said. “For both SARS and MERS, generally these viruses are not transmitted by infected persons until those persons have symptoms.”

While the outbreak has reached epidemic levels in China, Hooper said, cases within the U.S. are still marginal and the risk of coming into contact with the virus remains low.

“What’s much more concerning, of course, is the regular seasonal flu that we’re in the midst of [at] the peak of the season,” Hooper said.

“So you’re more likely to get influenza than the coronavirus.”

A spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health wrote in an email it is working with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to keep tabs on the virus.

“The risk to Massachusetts residents from this novel coronavirus is currently low,” the DPH wrote. “However, this is the season for respiratory viruses including the flu and many of the same recommended precautions apply to coronaviruses.”

Back Bay resident Moni Garza, 46, said she is glad to know researchers are working on a vaccine.

“What’s going on right now, it’s really scary,” Garza said.

“I mean, of course I heard about just everyone being afraid, and just feeling paralyzed about that.”

Alex Miller, 21, of Lynn said he is concerned about whether countries are doing enough to contain the spread of the illness.

“We shouldn’t be letting people in from countries where the infection is,” Lynn said. “If it gets into one airport, it can spread to more and more.”

Back Bay resident James Burke, 48, said he is satisfied with the additional screening he has noticed at international airports.

“I’m not really too worried about it right now,” Burke said. “Because there was a lot of hype around Ebola too.”

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Fenway Institute releases findings on anti-LGBTQ policies TRUMP, FROM 1 the release. It has also expanded religious refusal policies — which permit doctors to refuse service to patients based on religious beliefs.

Sean Cahill, director of health policy research at the Fenway Institute, said in the press release the most dramatic examples have been the deaths of two transgender women last year who had sought asylum in the U.S. They were detained in facilities that are now being sued for alleged abuse of LGBTQ migrants.

“Other moves,” Cahill said, “have made LGBT people and people living with HIV much more vulnerable to discrimination in health care, social services, employment, education, and access to basic government services.”

Two of the Trump administration’s initiatives to improve conditions for LGBTQ communities were impaired by his anti-LGBTQ policies, according to the press release, including an initiative to combat HIV and a global campaign launched in February to end the criminalization of homosexuality.

Corey Prachniak-Rincon, director of the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth, said in an interview these policies have raised concerns regarding their impact on LGBTQ youth.

“Some of the things that we’ve

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The 2019 Boston Pride Festival at City Hall Plaza. Fenway Institute, a Boston research center, found that President Donald Trump’s administration expanded policies that harm LGBTQ individuals in his third year in office.

been really concerned about have been around religious objections and the blocking of data collection on LGBTQ youth,” Prachniak-Rincon said. “Things like discrimination against immigrants, people of color and religious-based discrimination

also play into the concerns that we hear about from the LGBTQ community across the state.”

Prachniak-Rincon said those who harbor opinions on these policies should weigh in through public comment.

“As someone who represents a state agency, I think providing comments on federal rule changes is one small way that people can get involved anytime that the federal government wants to change something,” Prachniak-Rincon said. “So if

people are opposed to those policies, then that’s one way that they can make their voices heard.”

Prachniak-Rincon said those who wish to counter White House policies that disadvantage LGBTQ individuals can work at the local level with organizations to promote LGBTQ health.

“We work in terms of policy at the state level for folks who are interested in joining us in that,” Prachniak-Rincon said. “And I think that there’s a lot that we can do at the state to counteract some of the discriminatory policies and attitudes that are coming out of this administration.”

Caroline Barry, 28, of Beacon Hill said although she was unfamiliar with the Trump administration’s LGBTQ policies, she believes this community is faced with challenges regardless.

“Yeah, discrimination is still a lot of what is going on lately,” Barry said, “and they are a group that is mistreated a lot.”

Ting Suan Lee, 25, of Fenway said he believes what’s most important is that the LGBTQ community feels free in their identities.

“It is about the freedom to be whoever they want to be,” Lee said.

“And LGBTQ is a part of who we are. They are free to be whoever they want.”

GSU construction expected to finish before Fall semester GSU, FROM 1 students can step backwards and find something that is acceptable to their palette.”

The GSU project is a part of a “master plan” of projects created by Auxiliary Services in which buildings are put on a schedule for renovation based on their age and the condition of the equipment inside. McGinty said a variety of specific projects will take place within Union Court.

“The existing kitchen is approximately 60 years old and has never been touched other than some spot renovations over the years,” McGinty said. “So, the intention is to replace the flooring, the walls, the ceiling, some of the infrastructure that the plumbing and mechanicals that tie into.”

The renovation of Starbucks will take place after commencement. McGinty said Starbucks will not only get a revamped exterior, but it will also expand into the space Pinkberry once occupied.

“We have a requirement – kind of a contract – with Starbucks that requires us to do a refresh of that brand every five years, and that five years is up,” McGinty said. “So it is not only in conjunction with the

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A worker enters the construction area in the George Sherman Union. Renovations to expand and redesign the food court and kitchen are set to be finished by the Fall 2020 semester.

renovation work, but it’s a part of our contractual obligation to Starbucks to refresh that.”

In July, a sprinkler fire safety system will be installed in the food hall along with the phasing in of new furniture, lighting and flooring, which will continue throughout the summer, McGinty said.

Riel said he is hopeful there will not be a decrease in the amount of

seating, which has been an issue for students. He said that while he cannot guarantee the number of seats will increase, the appearance and functionality of the seating will.

“There’s going to be the elimination of booths, but there’s added tables and added chairs where we can put shelves along windows,” Riel said. “There’ll be some stand-

up table locations where people sort of stand and eat and go quickly. There will be some harvest tables, which are mostly longer tables with more chairs where you could get bigger groups.”

In terms of color schemes, McGinty said locations such as Starbucks and Rhett’s will keep their current appearance. However, she said the rest of the hall will be redesigned with tones of grey and beige with pops of color.

Overall, McGinty said the renovation is an “answer to technology,” and will bring the GSU food hall into the 21st century.

To further modernize Union Court, the renovation will include the addition of online ordering through Grubhub, Riel said.

“People’s schedules are busy and there is a lot of pushing to get a lot of things done,” Riel said. “The idea is to go ahead and place an order in advance using Grubhub. You can use your dining points or your convenience points to pay for it and then, just like any restaurant you can go to, you will find a mobile ordering station so you can just pick up your order and walk away.”

Neftali Reynoso, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, considers the renovation to be un-

necessary.

“There’s different things and there’s different places that those funds could be allocated to, like scholarships or just the overall well-being of students,” Reynoso said. “We are college students who need more help.”

Soo Whan Park, a junior in CAS, said he’s concerned that the construction will extend too long for him to enjoy the space.

“I’m graduating in one year,” Park said. “So, if the construction is longer than that, I’m probably not going to be able to use the new facility. But other than that, I’m pretty excited to have new features in the GSU. It’s been a while since things got updated there.”

Michelle Goltsman, a senior in the College of Communication, said the extent of the renovations is so large that she thinks they should have waited until the summer to begin.

“I think it’s definitely going to be disruptive as the semester goes on, especially if they don’t finish on time because construction projects often don’t finish when they say they’re going to finish,” Goltsman said. “I feel like this is something they maybe should have done over the summer.”

CAMPUS CALENDAR THURSDAY, JAN. 30

FRIDAY, JAN. 31

SATURDAY, FEB. 1

SUNDAY, FEB. 2

Voter Registration Drive

Little Women, the Musical

Faculty Recital: Toby Oft

Super Bowl LIV Dinner

BUild Lab’s 2nd Birthday Celebration

11 a.m.

George Sherman Union Hosted by the Office of the Dean of Students

7:30 p.m.

Wheelock Family Theatre Hosted by the Wheelock Family Theatre

8 p.m.

Concert Hall Hosted by the College of Fine Arts

4 p.m.

Warren, West and Marciano Dining Halls Hosted by BU Dining Services

1 p.m.

BUild Lab Hosted by Innovate@BU

MONDAY, FEB. 3

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COMMUNITY

Elie Wiesel Center commemorates the liberation of Auschwitz

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The largest Nazi-occuiped concentration camp during World War II, Auschwitz, was liberated 75 years ago this week, marking the end of the Holocaust, which saw six million Jewish victims.

Auschwitz-Birkenau and the victims were honored at the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies’ “Beyond Duty” event on Sunday, which featured heroic international diplomats who helped in ending Jewish oppression.

The exhibition featured 28 portraits of nine ambassadors who were awarded Israel’s “Righteous Among the Nations” recognition, which acknowledges non-Jewish rescuers who saved Jewish lives in the Holocaust.

The event was tied to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, which seeks to better educate the general public and spread cultural awareness of genocidal history.

Nancy Harrowitz, an associate professor and director of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Studies minor in the College of Arts and Sciences, is an advocate for Holocaust survivors and their legacies. She said the event highlights the feats of honored diplomats and their drive to conquer ignorance by recognizing history.

“There are a whole lot of other

diplomats who did similar things,” Harrowitz said. “The exhibit really honors their memory and honors the idea of people who would go beyond what they were supposed to be doing as diplomats, and really try to rescue people out of humanitarian feelings and the desire to do the right thing.

The exhibition and subsequent panel discussion were organized by American Jewish Committee New England, an advocacy group that provides a platform for diplomats to address anti-Semitic sentiment and extremist ideology.

Fernanda Vieira De Sant’Anna, a fourth year PhD candidate in CAS, was one of about 50 attendees at the event. She said she believes the same themes of radicalism and totalitarianism in Nazi Germany are reappearing today.

“We are living in a world right now where conservative politics and fascism [are] spreading [their] wings again,” De Sant’Anna said.

“I think it’s very important for us to keep reminding ourselves that it’s happened and [should] never happen again.”

During the event, Consul General of Italy Federica Sereni and Deputy Consul General of Israel Daniel Agranov emphasized the importance of preserving fundamental human rights and the moral conflicts diplo-

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Boston University Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Human Rights Michael Grodin speaks at the Elie Wiesel’s “Beyond Duty” event Sunday to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day.

mats faced in turbulent times.

Though most Holocaust survivors have passed away, speaker Lea Grossman, 75, was born during the Holocaust and continues to share her Holocaust experience.

Since moving to the United States in the mid-1950s, Grossman said she has been able to live with ease and equality as a Jewish immigrant. She said awareness campaigns help showcase the hardships of her family and other Jews in Europe.

“I feel that there are many, many Holocausts, then and today, of other races that [aren’t] being paid much

attention,” Grossman said. “We have to talk about it and tell the stories over and over and over.”

According to panelists at the exhibition, neighbouring countries were reluctant to help Jewish refugees and most diplomats employed standard procedures, but some diplomats chose to defy their governments’ policy.

Joao Pedro de Vasconcelos Fins do Lago, Boston’s consul general through the Portuguese-American Leadership Council of the U.S., said he hopes not only to serve Portegeuse-Americans but all cultures and nationalities in order to encourage dialogue on diffi-

cult subjects like the Holocaust.

“Remembering the Holocaust is an obligation of everyone really, but maybe in a much more important way for the Western world,” Fins do Lago said at the event. “We are still the ones who bear the first obligation of keeping that memory alive, so we protect the world from another disaster, such as the one we witnessed 75 years ago.”

With banner posters of the diplomats’ history and involvement in Holocaust relief arranged circularly in the Metcalf Balroom, three Bostonbased consuls general, including Fins do Lago, participated in a panel discussion in which they discussed the meaning of humanity and the dangers of remaining silent in the wake of tragedy.

Boston University and the Elie Wiesel Center have hosted an annual Holocaust Remembrance Day event for 12 years now, Harrowitz said. By visually representing the history of loss and trauma alongside acts of bravery and triumph, she said she hopes audiences can grasp the magnitude of the Holocaust.

“We have a lot of diplomats in Boston,” Harrowitz said. “It’s important for everybody to learn more about these events and understand what our past has been, what our history is and how hopefully we can prevent atrocities from happening in the future.”

BUSINESS

WBUR panel discusses passion, patience, perseverance

BY LILY KEPNER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Today’s publishing industry reeks with desperate competition. In a typical month, literary agent Esmond Harmsworth receives over 400 queries and manuscript samples from aspiring novelists. He’ll pick around 10.

“I have received some [queries] that appear to be written in blood.

I received a long correspondence written by a zombie [character], who wrote over several weeks,” Harmsworth said at the event when recounting a few of the many “silly” queries he has received.

Aspiring writers received advice in making an agent’s short list and navigating a book deal in a panel at WBUR’s CitySpace Tuesday, moderated by four-time author Courtney Maum. Based off of her newest book titled “Before and After the Book Deal,” Maum discussed how to navigate the world of publishing.

Maum invited Harmsworth, along with authors Michelle Hoover and Ben Mezrich to give the audience a diverse taste of perspectives.

Panelists discussed topics ranging from the benefits of an agent, mistakes the panelists have made in their own careers and finding an agent or publishing company. “[This panel] is a fun way to replicate what I’m trying to do with the book,” Maum said in an interview, “and talk about publishing in a way that’s hopefully more open and candid than in the past.”

Maum’s book, published on Jan.

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Author Courtney Maum moderates a panel based on her recent book, “Before and After the Book Deal,” at a panel at WBUR CitySpace Tuesday.

7, confers about emotional milestones and unspoken rules that accompany a book deal, such as money, etiquette, time management and rejection. She said she wrote this “exhaustive” guide as she felt no one else had written about what an author should do after landing a book deal.

“No one’s giving you a timeline of ‘This is when you’re going to start to really doubt yourself, this is when the best of the year lists are going to hit and make you hate yourself, this is when you find out your best friends just sold an option to a movie and you didn’t,’” Maum said. “These emotional and psychosomatic milestones

are not addressed and unfortunately, it can completely derail someone’s career.”

Historical fiction author Hoover said it takes “patience, humility and emotional sensibility” to successfully write a novel, and that people often underestimate its challenges.

“I don’t think they realize how difficult it is to write a book. I mean, some people work for years,” Hoover said. “You might have written the whole book [of] 300, 400 pages, for the first draft, and only keep five pages as you go into the next revision.”

Negative feedback was a com-

mon roadblock all panelists said they had faced. Many recounted personal experiences of rejection that they said stalled their confidence.

“Regardless of the level at which you’re publishing,” Maum said at the event, “everyone goes through the same experience of having something that was deeply, deeply private for a long time, become public in a way that no one has prepared you for.”

Mezrich, author of 20 books and writer for TV show “Billions,” said he burrowed up in a Boston apartment after graduating college and wrote nine novels in nine months. After sending off his abundant work, he

received 190 rejection slips.

When Mezrich finally did get published, he said success didn’t happen instantly, but encouraged the audience to laugh off the criticism.

“My first New York Times review, the first line was, ‘This is a bad book,’” Mezrich said at the event.

“If you get your book published, you should enjoy the bad reviews as much as the good reviews.”

Hoover said she believes it takes 10 years in the industry to feel sufficient. Passion, she said, makes it worth it.

“You really have to be passionate for it, and you really have to be ready to do the work and know that you’re not going to get the accolades and interest for a very long time,” Hoover said in an interview.

Maum said to the audience that although monetary success can seem exciting, true success comes not from clinging to it, but from finding fulfillment in interacting with others.

“People think about success as like making a bestseller list or something like that,” Maum said, “but ultimately, things that you could hold on to and that really matter are these human interactions.”

Selena Lin, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, said that as an aspiring novelist, she attended the event to gain insight into her future field and appreciated the candid discussion.

“They were really honest and didn’t sugarcoat a lot of the stuff,” Lin said. “They’re positive, they’re hopeful, but they’re also not false.”

6 FEATURES

ARTS FreeP vs. Food: Grilled Cheese Edition

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The four cheese grilled cheese sandwich at Cheeseology in Boston University’s Union Court at the George Sherman Union.

BY KAITLYN RIGGIO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Cheeseology Cheeseology is one of the more wellknown restaurants in Union Court at the George Sherman Union. It is arguably known as a solid spot on campus to grab a delicious, cheesy dish.

The menu features “Intro to Grilled Cheese,” a sandwich on white bread with five slices of American cheese, along with a variety of “Advanced Grilled Cheese” options, which rotate weekly. I opted for an “Advanced Grilled Cheese” option this week: the “Four Cheese” grilled cheese. All of the “Advanced Grilled Cheese” options, just under $7, are worth it, especially if you’re using dining points.

The four cheeses on the appropriately-named sandwich are provolone, fontina, mozzarella and cheddar.

But if you’re dining in, you’re in for a real

treat. All four cheeses featured in the sandwich are great, but the fontina really ties everything together. It has a sharp flavor that cuts through everything else and rounds out the sandwich.

It’s something that sets it apart from a grilled cheese you’d whip up in a dorm kitchen with some Kraft singles.

The white bread that the sandwich came on had a nice sear to it, which gave it a solid crunch. However, I’m not sure if it was the best bread for the job. White bread tends to be too thin to hold on to all of the cheese involved in this sandwich, evidenced by the fact that a huge glob of cheese fell out shortly after I started eating. Not a deal breaker, but a thicker type of bread could take this to the next level.

It’s also worth noting that this grilled cheese is heavy. It’s definitely not a light-snack-beforedinner kind of sandwich. But if you’re looking for a big meal to keep you full for a while, this could be the way to go.

Grade: B

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“The FeelBueno” grilled cheese sandwich at Warren Late Nite’s FeelGood.

BY SARAH READDEAN DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

FeelGood BU When the Warren Dining Hall closes and Late Nite Cafe opens every Tuesday, BU students take over the Impinger station, handcrafting custom grilled cheese sandwiches. After piling on handfuls of shredded cheddar and mozzarella, these sandwiches are placed in a panini press for the perfect level of ridges and burnt-ness.

But this week, FeelGood BU’s opening night deli left me disappointed. As a loyal customer who drops everything and runs to the dining hall when the clock strikes 10:30 after a lengthy debate of what ingredients to stuff my sandwich with, I was surprised by their inconsistency. But then again, everyone has their off days. Maybe the presses and the pressers were just a little rusty from winter break (although hopefully not literally).

The reason I don’t usually feel bueno after eat-

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The sourdough grilled cheese sandwich from Starbucks in Boston University’s Union Court at the George Sherman Union.

BY HARPER WAYNE DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Starbucks The Starbucks “Grilled Cheese on Sourdough” is a piping hot mess of oil ser ved on wet sourdough. After going to two Starbucks locations on campus, I finally got my hands on their grilled cheese. I received the bag fresh out of the toaster oven and quickly rushed to a table in the GSU to get the full experience.

The bread, spongey with olive oil, was initially too hot to touch. My fingers pressed into the hot bread and came into contact with jack cheese.

The cheese-to-bread ratio of the grilled cheese was not disappointing, but the overabundance of oil made the bread soggy.

The sandwich is a good between-classes-skipping-lunch snack. But be warned, you will need to stop and wash your hands before, after and during. The excess oil was a tad bit of a turn-off for me, but I know I’ll crave the quick, indulgent snack from time to time in the future.

The first half of the sandwich was hot and fresh out of the oven, but after making a trip to South Campus in Northeast January, the oil and cheese hardened into the bread, so the second half was not nearly as enjoyable.

The size of the grilled cheese was appropriate for the $5.25 price point and pleased my tastebuds.

Overall, due to size, price and cheese-tobread ratio, I would come back around for a Starbucks Grilled Cheese on Sourdough, but it would not be my go-to of the menu.

Grade: C+

ing FeelGood BU’s sandwiches are because I scarf them down too quickly without taking a breath of air between bites. Yet this time, I didn’t feel too bueno out of dissatisfaction with my sandwich.

It wasn’t burnt enough, nearly still raw, although the amount of cheddar was all that I had hoped for.

With an array of cuisines to pick from in the form of grilled cheese — from Mexican to Italian — and dessert choices, like one filled with chocolate, everyone can find something to enjoy with a mound of Fritos chips on the side. This is especially when they make custom sandwiches with whichever toppings suit your fancy.

The $6.50 price is on par with other Late Nite dining options, and with proceeds benefiting CHOICE Humanitarian, a non-profit striving to end extreme poverty, what could be better? I can’t help but donate to charity and enthuse over warm, stuffed grilled cheese each week. The only thing they need to change? Start feeding me in Warren Late Nite every day of the week.

Grade: B+

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“The Allston” grilled cheese sandwich from Roxy’s Grilled Cheese in Allston features goat cheese, fig jam, arugula and caramelized onions.

BY DAVID SIMON DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Roxy’s Roxy’s Grilled Cheese, occasionally located outside of College of Communication in the form of a food truck, has a permanent sit-down location in Allston.

One of the sandwiches that can be found on Roxy’s menu is called The Allston, which is composed of goat cheese, fig jam, arugula and caramelized onions. This blend of flavors comes together to form a solid sandwich, albeit more so in taste than in physical form.

The minimal use of onions adds a slight sharpness to balance out the sweet flavor of the fig jam, creating an effective contrast so that the taste of the sandwich has depth without one layer of flavor overpowering the others. Additionally, the use of goat cheese in lieu of other cheeses reduces the potency of

the cheese, keeping the sandwich from overwhelming the consumer with the combined sharpness of cheese alongside the onions.

The sandwich was cooked to a shimmering golden-brown, resulting in a crunchy texture to balance out the sloppy-tasting jam and cheese fillings.

The one notable shortcoming of “The Allston” is that it’s somewhat messy in form, with the fig jam and the goat cheese both mildly pouring out of the bread as soon as you take a bite, in part due to the warmth of the sandwich. While this is only one fault, it is arguably a determining factor in what makes a good grilled cheese.

For $7, you can’t do much better than this sandwich comprised of surprisingly complementary flavors. If the consumer can handle stockpiling on napkins, this grilled cheese is a worthwhile lunch.

Grade: A-

FEATURES 7

BUSINESS

Meet Annie Leonard: 2020 IDEA Conference speaker at IDEA

BY LILY KEPNER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Every day, millions of people throw barely-used appliances away, carry garbage to the curb and pass overflowing trash cans on the street without thought. But not Annie Leonard.

She stops and asks, “Why?” Annie Leonard, executive director of Greenpeace USA, will be the keynote speaker for the third annual “IDEA Conference 2020: Embrace Your Impact” hosted by Innovate@ BU on Saturday, Feb. 15.

Leonard was chosen because of her success in innovation focused on her unique passion: trash, Rouwenna Altemose, a 2018 Boston University Master’s Program graduate from Questrom School of Business and Strategic Director of the IDEA Conference, said.

“We’re really seeing this desire from students to do work that feels meaningful, and that creates a positive impact on the world,” Altemoste said. “Out of that interest that we’re seeing in students, I think Annie is a perfect keynote speaker.”

Past keynote speakers have included Johnny Earle, CEO and founder of Johnny Cupcakes, and Anjali Kumar, co-founder of The Justice Dept, a women-led law firm for female entrepreneurs. Altemose said Leonard will be the first keynote speaker from the non-profit side of entrepreneurship.

Leonard, having grown up in Seattle, said she fell in love with

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Annie Leonard, the executive director of Greenpeace USA and founder of The Story of Stuff Project, will be the keynote speaker at Innovate@BU’s IDEA Conference on Feb. 15.

forests and committed to protecting them. However, while attending Barnard College in New York City, she said she was fascinated with the huge piles of trash she encountered and was determined to learn more about them. After interning with Greenpeace USA in 1988, Leonard said she volunteered to travel the world, tracking where trash would end up on the organization’s behalf.

“I was young and I had no furniture, no car, no children. No, no nothing. That is the most precious time of your life to follow your dreams,” Leonard said. “Because this waste was starting to go all over the world, Greepeace said, ‘Who wants to go see where this waste is going and what’s happening to it?’ And I said,

‘Me, me.’”

After traveling the world for eight years, Leonard said she felt “traumatized” by the consumer society and determined to find a way to effectively educate people about it in a non-confrontational and approachable way.

“I had seen firsthand the impacts of how this stuff is made, and how it’s disposed,” Leonard said. “I was thinking, ‘How can I make people in the U.S., which is such a consumer-maniac society, [care]?’”

In December of 2007, Leonard developed a 21-minute documentary, “The Story of Stuff,” detailing how waste travels in our economy and how it negatively affects people and places.

The project serves to educate people

about the harmful consequences of waste. Since then, the video has been watched in every country in the world, making it the most-watched environmental film ever, Leonard said.

“Literally a million people wrote to me and said, ‘I want to help,’” Leonard said. “And so I went from feeling like I was this small, marginalized person obsessed with garbage to realizing many, many, many, many people share these values.”

Today, the video has expanded into an organization, “The Story of Stuff Project,” which is a “solutions-focused” and “action-oriented” organization with over 15 films and resources online, according to their website.

Now in her executive role at Greenpeace USA, Leonard manages all Greenpeace campaign areas and makes sure they are “strong and effective,” as well as collaborating with other activists and allies to come together and enact change to better the environment, she said.

“One of the great things about the broader movement today is that environmentalists and labor activists and immigrant rights activists and women’s rights activists,” Leonard said, “[is that] they’re all realizing that we have to work together if we’re going to win.”

Leonard said she loves the energy and perspective of young people and is excited to encourage students not to be afraid to follow their passion

and find “soul-satisfying joy” in their work.

“I hope that the reason we do innovation is not just for personal pleasure, but to change something in the world,” Leonard said. “There’s too many things that need fixing in the world to just do activity for the sake of activity.”

Sarah Greisdorf, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and this year’s co-emcee of the IDEA Conference, said that as a rising entrepreneur with her own fashion start-up, Holdette, she too, is excited to hear Leonard’s talk next month. “[Leonard has] just really lived her career in a way that’s like, do what you get excited about, do what you’re passionate about, don’t do stuff just because it’s just a job,” Greisdorf said.

“I think that for a whole group of student entrepreneurs to hear that message when we’re otherwise being basically bombarded by career fairs… that’s an important message.”

Altemose said she thinks Leonard’s pursuit of passionate, purposeful work to make a difference will appeal to students and encourage them to gain the confidence to pursue their passions in a meaningful way.

“She continues to use her entrepreneurial spirit to drive positive change in the world and in her particular field, which I think will resonate with students,” Altemose said. “I hope that students take away that you can commit throughout your life to advancing things that you really care about.”

ARTS

Review: “How to Build a Heart” tells a story of a journey to belonging

BY KAITLYN RIGGIO DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

What happens when the self-proclaimed “World’s Best Secret Keeper” is forced to let her secrets roam free?

“How to Build a Heart”

by Maria Padian follows protagonist Izzy Crawford’s search for belonging. She desperately tries to keep her less-than-glamorous home life and her Catholic school life separate, but this gets difficult when her small family of her, her mother and her brother are chosen to receive a new home from Habitat for Humanity and all of the pieces she tries to push apart come crashing together.

Padian’s latest book delivers an enjoyable story about how Izzy eventually finds her place in her ever-changing world.

At a surface glance, it may appear that there are a lot of subplots going on: Izzy deals with coping with the passing of her Marine father, living essentially two separate social lives with her upper-class Catholic school friends, working through extended family drama, as well as the typical high school crush drama — all in the same book.

But it’s not totally unrealistic. These are all problems that a typical high schooler could face. Young adulthood can be a tumultuous time, and this book effectively captured the chaos that can sometimes come with being a

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“How to Build a Heart” is the latest release from young adult novelist Maria Padian.

young adult.

These individual problems and subplots all weave and intersect into each other throughout the story. Nothing seems random or out of left field. The only potential problem could be that towards the end of the book, the pacing feels rushed to tie up loose ends. Nevertheless, all of the problems Izzy faces complement one another.

Within these interconnecting problems lies one big problem: Izzy can never real-

ly find a way to fit in. Padian explores the idea of belonging, but in a nuanced way.

Izzy is half-Puerto Rican and half-white, which is an important part of her identity that is explored throughout the story, but it does not ser ve as the sole basis for her journey to find a sense of belonging. Izzy’s biracial status is part of the story, but not the whole story, which keeps the book away from overdone themes and makes Izzy’s overall journey more inter-

esting.

Padian also handled the topic of Izzy’s late father, Charlie Crawford, with grace. When including a dead character as an important element of a story, it can be easy to infodump every detail about this character all at once. But Padian does not do that.

Details about Izzy’s father are introduced throughout the story in moments where Izzy would realistically be reminded of her fa-

ther. It feels like the reader is reminiscing about Izzy’s father with her, which reads better than being force-fed information about a character we’ve never met.

Izzy had a supporting cast surrounding her on her journey to help her in this emotional adventure. The most glaring example of this is Aubrey Schackelton, the younger sister of her eventual love interest, Sam Shackelton.

The reader is introduced to Aubrey when she enters Izzy’s school as a new student and auditions for a capella group. Aubrey starts off as shy and awkward, but throughout the story, we start to see her come into her own as she also develops a friendship with Izzy.

The reader gets a front row seat to watch Aubrey and Izzy’s friendship develop for a while — until Izzy and Sam get together. After that, it feels like the reader only gets mere f lashes of Aubrey throughout the rest of the novel.

Izzy and Aubrey’s friendship could have been explored more. Additionally, Aubrey felt like a much more compelling and developed character than her love-interest brother.

Overall, “How to Build a Heart” was an enjoyable read.

Not the best book I’ve picked up, but it had some heart (no pun intended) to it, and that’s more than some stories can say.

8 OPINION

EDITORIAL 17-year-olds’ right to vote must be standardized across states Milton Academy junior Sa ma ntha Bev i ns’ ca mpa ig n for a voter law cha nge cu l m i nated i n a testimony in front of Massachusetts Congress on Ja n. 22 . With the suppor t of 300 residents a nd some state bureaucrats, Bev ins proposed that 17-yea r -old pre-registered voters be a l lowed to vote in the state’s presidentia l prima r y if they t urn 18 before the November election.

The underly ing rationa le of th is proposa l is reasonable. If this group of voters w il l pa rticipate in the genera l election, they should have a say in the nominees who adva nce to it.

Despite Ma ssachusetts’ fou nd i n g role i n t he A mer ica n democrac y, the state’s law ma kers haven’t act ua lized this self -evident concept, but 24 other states’ legislat ures have.

T h is tech n ica l it y w i l l be d ishea r ten i n g for f i rst - ti me voters, especia l ly those who feel strong ly about civ ic enga gement a nd pol it ica l activ ism. Not g iv i ng them a say in the f ina l nominees pa rtia l ly disenfra nchises them. Discouraged voters of ten end up voting for the lesser of t wo ev i ls or not vote at a l l.

Wi l l i n g ness to come out on Election day is under pin ned by passion a nd hopef u lness. If the state is send ing th is messa ge to enthusiastic f irst-timers like Bev ins during a presidentia l yea r, it is setting itself up for fa i lure in more “low-sta kes” elections.

Bev i ns’ testi mony a lso ra ises the fol low i ng question: why is the vot i n g a ge for presidentia l pr i m a r ies not sta nda rd ized across state l i nes?

Reconci l i n g t hese d iscrepa ncies i n such a n enormous popu lation is most def i n itely a bu reaucratic n ig htma re.

But more impor ta ntly, voti ng r ig hts ought to be equitably distributed.

“A lot of h ig h schoolers a re on Tw it ter, a nd i f not, t he y ’re on Insta gra m,” Bev ins told The Boston Globe. “A nd so it ’s inev itable they ’re seeing what Tr ump is say ing. A nd I th in k that just ever yone has a n opinion th is election c ycle.”

Her reference to soci a l med i a a s teena gers’ new s sou rce fa i ls to

This fixation on candidates –– rather than the solutions of problems they present –– is how we’ve arrived at today’s highly polarized environment.

In that rega rd, her proposa l a nd the problems it il luminates give good rea son to overh au l t hese state - tostate differences. Yet, Bevins’ naivet y about pol itics may streng then opponents’ abi l it y to pushback.

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ack nowledge a lack of med ia l iter ac y a mong youth. These platforms a r e s w a r m i n g w it h i n a cc u r ate i nfor mation, a nd some, i nclud i ng Facebook, were ver y recently impl icated i n pol itica l sca nda ls. W h i le

th is ignora nce may be hers a lone — as the face of the proposa l — her messa g e ca n be i n appropr i atel y ex trapolated to a l l Massachusetts’ teena gers.

Fu r t her more, B ev i ns lets sl ip that she bel ieves th is election is especi a l l y i mpor ta nt becau se it involves President Dona ld Tr u mp.

T h i s f i x at ion on ca nd id ates — rather tha n the solutions or problems they present — is how we’ve a rrived at today ’s h igh ly pola rized env ironment.

T he election yea rs that involve Tr u mp a ren’t t he on ly ones t h at matter; pa r ticipation in pol itics is not releva nt solely in the context of selecti ng presidents. Elected off icia ls who eg g thei r pa r t y leaders for the sa ke of re-election is why th is ad m i n istration looks the way it does. We empower other citizens as ou r representatives because we bel ieve they w i l l spea k to our best interests, not to cl imb the Capitol ladder.

W h i le t hese a g e - rel ated concer ns a re leg iti m ate, t hey a ren’t appl icable to a l l young voters. The a ge d ifference bet ween the Ma rch prima r y a nd the November election is m i n isc u le. Bev i ns may need to work on her media l iterac y, but she spea ks w ith a sense of civ ic responsibilit y that w il l undoubted ly shape the f ut u re of th is cou ntr y, beg i nning w ith th is legislation.

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OPINION 9

American Protest:

COLUMNS Our True Face:

The Breakdown of Trump’s How adjectives can exoticize women of Ridiculous Speech at the color March for Life

BY MEREDITH VARNER COLUMNIST

At this year’s annual March for Life rally in Washington D.C., many anti-abortion supporters came together to protest against a woman’s right to privacy and choice over her own body.

Of course, they have every right to protest as stated in the First Amendment. Even though I do not agree with their opinions, their protest was not hurting anyone and is a part of their freedom of expression and assembly. However, I do have a problem when these protestors hurt women by verbally assaulting them outside of Planned Parenthood offices or spreading misinformation about the realities of abortion.

But there was something more worrisome to me about the protest this year — President Trump’s religiously-motivated rhetoric throughout his speech. He is the first sitting president to ever attend the march, and he went all-out during his speech to pander to his far-right supporters.

He spoke about how “Every child is a precious and sacred gift from God,” and “When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God’s creation.” He even went so far as to quote the Bible.

We cannot be making laws or pushing legislation based on religion. He is talking about overturning Roe v. Wade and making America an anti-abortion nation on the premise of children being God’s creation. This is a clear violation of the separation of church and state.

Of course, many people may oppose abortion for religious reasons, but that does not mean you can force everyone else, including atheists, to

adhere to your belief system.

America was supposed to be a place of religious freedom where anyone could escape from tyranny and practice the religion they believe in.

Why then are we attempting to make anti-abortion laws based on what Christians alone believe?

To me, this speech sounds like Trump and his supporters believe their religion is superior and therefore, the entire country should abide by the laws they create based on their faith. That sounds like the opposite of religious freedom.

Trump also talks about how the protestors are protecting and fighting for women by protesting abortion, but that does not make much sense either. They are fighting to take away a woman’s choice when it comes to her body and future, while also endangering women’s health more broadly.

It is clear that they are actually way more concerned about mass of cells than the life of the woman. Otherwise, they would not be trying to force women to go through with potentially dangerous and life-threatening pregnancies.

They would rather this fetus be born into a terrible life, be put through the overwhelmed foster care system or force a mother who is not ready or healthy enough to give birth. This does not sound like they care for women or even for the child once they are born.

It is scary to have a president who vehemently voices these ideologies — especially when they violate my rights as a woman and the separation of church and state. Instead of trying to save an unborn and undeveloped fetus, these protestors should be fighting for a reformed foster care system or better family planning for women.

They should be investing in the education system to prevent unplanned pregnancies and making contraceptives more widely available for the American public.

They will never totally get rid of abortions because even if they succeed in overturning Roe v. Wade, abortions may just happen informally and more women will lose their lives. All they will achieve is harming more women and forcing others to adhere to their religious values, much like tyrannical leaders have done in the past.

INTERROBANG

BY MARIA JIMENEZ MOYA COLUMNIST

Adjectives are used to describe a person and their qualities. However, some adjectives used to describe women can be objectif ying and exoticizing. As a Latina, I have experienced both. The words “spicy,” “feisty,” “exotic,” “caliente,” “heated,” “cur v y ” a nd “sex y ” are all rather offensive and not taken as a compliment, as men sug gest they should be.

“Spicy ” has a racist connotation.

Latinas are ca lled that because our food is spicy. It also has connotations to being “hot,” therefore, objectif ying Latinas. I am not a chicken sandwich, so I urge you to stop referring to me as a spicy.

“Caliente” is no better; its direct translation is hot. This adjective is never used in the Spanish lang uage to describe a person — it is used to describe inanimate objects. However, English speakers have inappropriately adapted this word to describe the body of a Latina.

The exotif ication of Latinas has been ingrained in our brains. If you recall High School Musical, the popular song “Bop to the Top” includes the words “caliente” followed by Sharpay rolling her Rs. This scene misappropriated the Hispanic accent while also using the word “ca liente” to “spice”

things up.

Being “heated” or “hot-headed” has also been used to describe a Latina’s personality with sexual connotations.

I have heard multiple times that due to my ethnicity and hot-headnesses, I must be good in bed. This worsens our exotification.

The reason why Latinas are known as “hot-headed” is because of the idea of the other — something that is different from Western culture. We are considered loud and impulsive, when we are just culturally different.

“Cur v y ” has also become part of the checklist. There is the phrase “You have a Latina body,” which is meant to suggest that the woman receiving the comment is cur v y. However, this can be damaging towards Latinas who do not fit this stereoty pe.

“Feist y ” ma kes my blood boi l.

Norma lly, it means f ull of ner vous energ y. This has a ver y different meaning when describing a Latina. “Feisty” Latina conjures up the image of a bold and outspoken woman. However, not all Latinas are this way, hence stereot y ping and inva lidating the Latinas that do not conform to this trope.

Finally, the notion of Latinas being sex y uses a similar logic as exoticism; the real excitement comes from being with someone of a different race. There is even a whole categor y designed in PornHub for us. I don’t see a categor y for “white.” I do see black, Latina, Asian and Indian amongst others.

Latinas shou ld be described as hard-working, loyal, smart, kind and beautif ul. In fact, adjectives should not var y when describing women of various ethnicities. Describe us for who we are as individua ls w ithout ma king us feel like we must comply with a checklist to validate our culture.

The 2020 Boston Calling Lineup was released this week — and it sucks. We here at the ole Free Press want to know — who do BU groups wish were preforming?

CFA: Billie Eilish

QST: The Chainsmokers

Pardee: Pitbull

FreeP: Michael Barbaro

Allston: The Weeknd

CGS: OutKast

COM: Lana Del Ray

StuGov: Amine

Freshmen: The Wiggles

10 SPORTS

The 2-3 Zone: Remembering the late, great Kobe Bryant

BY SEAN GOLONKA COLUMNIST

“BR EA KING: Kobe Br ya nt Has Died In A Helicopter Crash” It’s been a few hours since I saw the TMZ tweet announcing the news that rocked the basketball world.

I am still consumed by disbelief and grief. When I first saw the reports on Sunday, I felt absolutely sick. I mean, it’s Kobe. Kobe.

Kobe Bean Bryant. The legend that helped fuel my love for the game of basketball, and he’s gone.

Even as I w rite this now, it doesn’t feel real. He was less than four years post-retirement. He was enjoying a fruitful and beautiful post-NBA life with his wife and four daughters. And he died far too soon and far too suddenly.

So, in commemoration of the legend Kobe Bryant, this week’s column is dedicated to the Mamba himself.

For the “3” and the “2,” I’m taking a look back at some of the best moments of Bryant’s career.

I’ll state now that the “2” probably won’t be too far on the outside of everyone’s knowledge because it’s difficult to find many moments like that in a history like Bryant’s.

The “3” Just a little over 14 years ago, Bryant dropped an absurd 81 points against the Toronto Raptors. The 46 shots he took that game gave Bryant

He was built for the game’s biggest moments. He was different. He was the ultimate competitor.

the second-highest scoring game in NBA history and the highest of the three-point era.

I could list a hundred examples of Bryant’s scoring ability, but this was the most impressive scoring effort of a career in which the Los Angeles Lakers’ legend scored 33,643 points.

In this one game, Bryant put all of his offensive talents on display.

He knocked down seven threes and 18 free throws. He hit countless signature midrange fades and put the entire Lakers team on his back, as he brought them back from being down 18 points in the third.

Kob e B r y a nt w a sn’t j u st a

supreme basketball talent, though.

He was an icon. And in our social media driven world, there aren’t too many higher honors than being in one of the most used GIFs on NBA Twitter.

The “Kobe Doesn’t Flinch” GIF shows Bryant unmoved and unbothered as the Orlando Magic’s Matt Barnes pump fakes an inbounds pass just inches away from Bryant’s face.

Not on ly wa s t h is moment purely awesome on Bryant’s part, the popular GIF is also an example of Bryant’s nerves of steel. He was always built for the game’s biggest moments, which was truly on display with his seven NBA

Finals trips with the league’s most popular franchise.

An even more iconic “Kobe” moment came with Bryant’s final career game though.

To cap off his 20-yea r -long career, Bryant dropped 60 points on 50 shots to take down the Utah Jazz. No one else could have had a moment that big or that grand.

Kobe Bryant was larger than life, and his final game epitomized just that, as every moment of that day was dedicated to the illustrious career of one of the greatest to ever step on the court.

The “2” On Apr i l 12 , 2013 , a not her

unmatched Kobe moment came.

Entering game 80 of a disappointing Lakers season, Bryant was coming off of a stretch of particularly heavy minutes. He had averaged 45.5 minutes per game over the last seven games.

Late in the fourth quarter of the game, Bryant crumpled to the ground after he planted his left foot hard when fouled by then-Golden State Warrior Harrison Barnes.

Bryant sank two free throws with tears in his eyes, and it was later revealed that he had done so with a torn left achilles.

Not many human beings could do what Br ya nt did there. He was built for the game’s biggest moments. He was different. He was the ultimate competitor.

On June 17, 2010, the Boston Celtics squared off against Bryant’s Lakers in game seven of the NBA Finals. As a nine-year-old version of me cheered on the Celtics, Bryant and his team dismantled my dreams.

23 p oi nts a nd 15 reb ou nd s later, Bryant was holding a Larry O’Brien Trophy in one hand and a Bill Russell Trophy in the other.

That moment marked Br yant’s fifth and final championship, and second and last Finals MVP. It’s my best and worst memory of Bryant, but now it shows the only thing that matters: Bryant’s status as a legend of life and basketball.

Rest in peace, Kobe.

7th Inning Stretch: What will be Mookie Betts’ legacy?

BY JACOB GURVIS COLUMNIST

The idea of legacy is vague. The kind of vague that struggles to be defined, yet you know it when you see it. Like a pitcher with “good stuff,” legacy is both impossible to quantify and incredibly valuable.

The sports world has been rife with debates about what constitutes being a “legacy” in the past week: from former Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora’s now-tainted legacy as a cheater, to the annual conversations surrounding the National Baseball Hall of Fame results, to discussions about the late Kobe Bryant and his complex legacy.

For better or for worse, sports fans and writers care a whole lot about this intangible, unquantifiable indicator of one’s impact and reputation.

All of which brings me to Mookie Betts. In a hectic — yet quiet — offseason in Boston, everything seems to come back to the Red Sox star.

In the past couple days, rumors have swirled about a possible trade between the Sox and the San Diego Padres, with the Padres offering two young major leaguers, a prospect, as well as outfielder Wil Myers in return for Betts and some money, according to The Athletic. This comes after a winter full of speculation about a potential landing spot for Betts, including reports about the Los Angeles Dodgers making a strong bid.

At 27 years old, the 2018 American League Most Valuable Player is parked at a crossroads, and at the moment, the keys are in someone else’s hands. Betts has been vocal about his desire to test his value on the open market as a free agent, but it remains to be seen what uniform he will be wearing when he enters that stage.

New Sox Chief Baseball Officer

In a hectic — yet quiet — off season in Boston, everything seems to come back to the Red Sox star.

Chaim Bloom has many factors to conAfter six stellar seasons in Boston, sider as he deals with this conundrum: Betts takes his talents to the West financial implications, roster construc- Coast, where he excels ahead of his tion, the Sox farm system and emotions. free agency. Boston fans are outraged, Luckily for me, I can focus on the last and #FireBloom trends on Twitter for one and let Bloom handle the rest. weeks.

So what will Betts’ legacy be in Betts’ legacy is left largely as Boston? a “What if?” Fans regard him as a I understand that to some extent once-in-a-generation five-tool player the question is unfair. As long as Betts is who dominated in all aspects of the under contract, his destiny is in Bloom’s game and served as one of the sport’s hands. If he heads to San Diego tomor- greatest and most popular ambassarow, the right fielder will not be to dors off the field. His departure is blame. Sure, he could have expressed a difficult to swallow. Fans wince at the stronger desire to stay in Boston, signed thought of seeing Betts don Dodger an extension this offseason and put the blue or Yankee pinstripes as he enters whole episode to rest. But as an elite tal- the open market. Though it is possient entering his prime, we can’t blame ble Betts could re-sign with Boston, Betts for wanting to explore his options most fans have reluctantly moved on. and earn the massive contract coming They are left to ponder if the Red Sox his way. could ever find a player of Betts’ caliCaveats aside, let us address the ber again. possible paths Betts’ legacy could take.

Path Two: Betts stays, then Path One: Betts is traded, signs elsewhere either now or at the Trade The trade rumors fizzle out as Deadline Betts suits up for the Sox on Opening

Day. He plays nearly all 162 games, producing an excellent season. He makes his case ahead of free agency, and the season ends with as much uncertainty as it began.

After some negotiations with Bloom, Betts decides to follow the money. He publishes an advertisement in the Boston Globe to thank Sox Nation, and quietly makes his exit from the spotlight. And the fans? They are sad, conflicted and grateful. Some will remain angry at Betts, Bloom, or both, but most will be appreciative for the six years they got to witness the beginning of a Hall of Fame career. Betts is remembered as one of the best, most beloved Sox of all time, but fans come to terms with the fact that Betts will choose a different hat for his plaque in Cooperstown.

Boston is where his story began, but it’s only the prologue.

Path Three: Betts stays, for good This is the path most Red Sox fans

hope for. And for Boston, it’s the best one.

Betts ignores the rumors, and stays with the Sox for the entire 2020 season. He puts up eye-popping numbers, and enters free agency with more suitors than any other player on the market. He meets with several teams and fields offers from both leagues and coasts, but ultimately signs a longterm deal to remain in Boston.

This is where his legacy has the most potential.

After a 15-plus year career in Boston, Betts retires as the best Sox player of the decade. He’s a lock to have his number retired, and his case for the Hall of Fame is strong.

He’s as popular as David Ortiz, as dominant as Pedro Martinez and some argue he belongs on the Red Sox Mount Rushmore. Fans wear his number, 50, for years after he retires, and all look back on the day he was almost traded with nothing but a chuckle. “Imagine trading a generational star in the prime of his career?” they joke, while driving down Betts Boulevard on their way to Fenway.

Back to today Nobody knows which path Betts will take. I don’t, he doesn’t and even Bloom doesn’t. All we know is that in our society — especially in sports — we often focus more on how someone will be remembered when they’re gone than pay attention to them in the moment. Legacy is everything.

It will be years before we know Mookie Betts’ true legacy in Boston.

It could be none of the above, or a combination. As the rumors continue to swirl and the questions continue to outnumber the answers, all that’s left to do is to enjoy the supremely-talented and joyous player while we still can.

SPORTS 11

Eyeing a return to glory, BU and BC gear up for Beanpot semis

BY BRADY GARDNER DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The 68th Beanpot tournament begins on Monday, and while the rivalries are a constant, the storylines are anything but.

As he does every year, NESN broadcaster Tom Caron will describe the action from the ninth floor of the TD Garden, and he knows as well as anyone that this tournament is shaping up unlike any of the previous 67.

“For the first time ever, Northeastern and Harvard have won the last three Beanpots,” Caron said at the annual Beanpot luncheon.

“That’s never happened, that BU and BC went three years without winning one.”

The previous three years have truly represented a power shift in the Beanpot. Harvard and Northeastern have combined for 17 Beanpot titles in total, compared to 30 for BU and 20 for BC. With history on their side but recent memory telling otherwise, the Terriers and Eagles are as hungry as ever to get their hands on the historic trophy, BC senior forward and captain David Cotton said.

“These are the games that we really look forward to,” Cotton said.

Round one, taking place on Monday, will feature Cotton and the Eagles taking on the Terriers, skating with the 8 p.m. start time after Northeastern and Harvard face off in the first tournament semifinal just before.

A former BU captain himself, head coach Albie O’Connell is no stranger to this tournament. He won the Beanpot in each of his four opportunities as a player, starting a stretch that has seen BU take home the trophy in 13 of the last 25 tournaments.

While he enjoys his role behind the bench, the second-year boss admits he’d rather be out on the ice.

“[The Beanpot] was more exciting as a player, to be honest with you,” O’Connell said with a smile as he’s preparing for his second Beanpot at the helm for BU. O’Connell was a freshman when the tournament first moved to the TD Garden after 42 years at the Boston Garden. BU holds a 15-10 record against arch-rival Boston College in the TD Garden, and O’Connell said he believes the rivalry has a tendency to create some magic between the two teams.

“It’s nice that we play BC in the first round, because it always brings out the best in both [of us],” O’Connell said.

The longest-tenured head coach among the four Beanpot contenders, BC’s Jerry York, agrees with O’Connell - the quartet’s newest coach - that there’s something special about BU vs. BC. “When we’re both good, it’s better for college hockey,” York said.

The Terriers have met the Eagles more than any other opponent in the program’s extensive history, with the most recent clash coming less than two weeks ago at Conte Forum. The Eagles took the 4-3 victory in a back-and-forth affair, and BU graduate forward Alex Brink says the Terriers will be seeking revenge on Monday.

“If anything, I think [BC] should be more worried about us playing them a second time,” Brink said, “and maybe having a little more intensity and fire to beat them.”

Brink is the oldest player on the youngest team at the tournament.

But while he and grad goaltender Sam Tucker are the team’s veterans in terms of age, they will both be competing in this tournament for the first time, having only arrived in Boston this past offseason.

Amidst his final semester of college hockey, Tucker, a former Yale goaltender, is embracing the oppor-

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Senior forward and captain Patrick Curry, shown in a Jan. 18 game against Boston College, leads the Terriers in goals and is looking to win the Beanpot in his f inal season.

tunity to chase such a historic trophy Northeastern in the Beanpot semifor his first and only time as a Terrier. finals, forcing BU to miss the cham“I think we’re just trying to enjoy pionship game for the first time in the experience and take it one day at five years. a time,” Tucker said. “With a tourIn order to get back to the tournament like this that has so much nament final, the four-year veteran tradition … we’re really excited.” said his teammates need to control Spearheading the team’s lead- their nerves and stay in the moment. ership group, senior forward and “Obviously in these games there captain Patrick Curry remembers are a lot of distractions,” Curry said. last year’s 2-1 overtime loss against “It gets pretty hectic in there and

sometimes you can let your emotions get the best of you.”

The Terriers, whose largest class is their 13 freshmen, have struggled with consistency this season, but recent results may suggest that they are peaking at just the right time.

BU beat and tied No. 12 University of Massachusetts Lowell last weekend, while BC dropped two contests to Maine at home, both of which were decided in overtime.

Entering a critical stretch, O’Connell likes where his Terriers are both in terms of health and recent form.

“We’ve been getting healthier,” O’Connell said. “It seems like each week we get better and better.”

On the other hand, BC has impressed all season, thanks in part to a Hockey East-leading 3.77 goals per game and freshman goaltender Spencer Knight’s 2.04 goals-against average, which ranks seventh in the nation. For BU, freshman goaltender Ashton Abel has posted a goalsagainst average mark of 1.58 through four appearances since arriving as a midseason addition, and the offense has put up the country’s fifth-most goals per game since December.

For Tom Caron up in the broadcast booth, it isn’t easy to pick a favorite between these two teams trending in similar directions.

“I think BU’s going to be a tough draw,” Caron said. “BC’s one of the best teams in the nation, so they’ll have their hands full.”

Puck drop for the 281st edition of BU vs. BC is scheduled for 8 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 3, but the start time could be delayed if the prior semifinal goes into overtime.

The game will be televised on NESN and NHL Network, and the Boston Hockey Blog will have coverage throughout the game on its live blog, which can be accessed through hockey.dailyfreepress.com or @BOShockeyblog on Twitter.

Women’s Hockey Alumni take BU lessons to Boston Pride PRIDE, FROM 12 were not something to discredit because that was definitely a central part of my time at BU as well.”

Pa r ke r looks back fond ly on her ti me on Commonwealth Ave. “The experience of being a student athlete at BU was great,” Parker said. “The team, the coaches, the atmosphere, [were] always something that was a really great experience to be a part of.”

Both Fratkin and Parker have also attended BU women’s hockey games since graduating, and said Durocher tends to keep in touch with his former players.

Parker said she is always in contact with her former Terrier teammates.

“Coach Durocher is someone who always stays heavily involved with the alumni,” Pa rker sa id. “A nd that ’s

something that is really special… playing with alumni, it’s great to be able to continue that honor playing with the Boston Pride now.”

Fratkin said Durocher’s impact goes beyond the ice. “[The] impact he had on me as a player was that he treated us like family,” Fratkin said. “I always felt like I was a part of [his] family, that’s how he made it feel.

That’s something specia l, that you don’t get from all coaches.”

When the Terriers won their first Beanpot championship in nearly four decades last year on Feb. 13, Parker was at the championship game.

“It was a really cool experience seeing BU win it after it had been quite some time,” Parker said. “It was really awesome to see them pull through.”

BU won that game against

the Harvard Crimson in sudden-death overtime 3-2. On the power play in overtime, current redshirt senior forward and captain Sammy Davis scored the game-winner, giving the Terriers their first Beanpot win since 1981 when the varsity squad was still a club team.

Frat k i n wa s at t he Beanpot semifinal last year, but was unable to see the championship. She will, however, be commentating the Beanpot this year as she tries to stay involved as much as she can between professional play and coming back to BU. The Pride sits f irst in the leag ue w ith a 20-1-1 record; their only loss to the Minnesota Whitecaps on Jan. 25. Boston is hosting the N WHL All-Star Skills Challenge and Game on Feb. 8 and Feb. 9 respectively at their home rink in Warrior Ice Arena.

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Boston University alum Mary Parker earned 24 goals and 18 assists in 33 games with the Terriers

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“It gets pretty hectic in there and sometimes you can let your emotions get the best of you.”

-Men’s Hockey senior forward and captain Patrick Curry on the Beanpot.

Sports

“One thing I’d like to see more is we need to be more consistent throughout the year.”

- Coach Polley on the progress he wants to see from his men’s lacrosse team this season.

Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020

Women’s Hockey Alumni Reflect on Time at BU and in NWHL

BY CAROLYN MOONEY DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

The option to play hockey professionally after college has h istorica l ly been a n opportunity for men who are lucky to be skilled enough for quite some time now. For women, however, the idea of playing hockey past college — and to be paid for their talent — is fairly new.

The Nationa l Women’s Hockey Leag ue was established in 2015 with the mission of providing a league for the best players in the world to pursue a professiona l ca reer that is f ina ncia l ly viable.

Currently, there are five women playing for the Boston Pride that have either played hockey at Boston University or held a leadership position within the Terriers athletic depa rtment. Ma r y Pa rker class of 2017, Kaleigh Fratkin class of 2014, Jordan Juron class of 2016 and Victoria Hanson class of 2017 are all playing for the Pride this season. Former Director of Hockey Operations for BU’s Women’s Ice Hockey, Karilyn Pilch, is the current general manager of the Pride.

Fratkin said the N WHL

provides an opportunities for the stars of college hockey to continue their playing careers. “ W hat ’s so i nteresti ng about the opportunity now that there is a professional league that girls can stride to post-college is that the quality of hockey is really strong,” Fratkin said. “I’d say that all the girls that are playing at the pro-level were the top player on their teams.”

However, that does not go to say the quality of hockey for the four former BU players was not as strong during their time as a Terrier, as all four women put up exceptionally well numbers when they were on the team.

Fratkin, a defenseman, had nine goals and 57 assists for 66 points in 151 games with BU. She never missed a game in her collegiate career. Awardwise, Fratkin earned New England Division One A llStar, Hockey East First-Team All-Star and played on the Hockey East All-Tournament Team in the 2013-14 season.

Juron, a for ward for the Terriers, put up f ive goals and nine assists for 14 points in 39 games. Awards for Juron include Hockey East A l lAcademic Team and Hockey

East Rookie of the Week.

Parker, former graduate student and for ward at BU, had an impressive 24 goals and 18 assists for 42 points in 33 games. She won numerous awards such as, New England D i v i sion O ne A l l-St a r, Hockey East Second Team All-Star, Hockey East Player of the Month and Hockey East All-Academic Team.

Ha nson, for mer goa ltender, had a 2 .63 goa ls allowed per game, a .917 save percentage a nd a 19-14-4 record w ith the Terriers.

Her award resume includes New England Division One All-Star, Hockey East First Team All-Star, Hockey East G o a ltend i n g C h a m pion , Hockey East Distinguished Scholar and Hockey East AllAcademic Team.

When ref lecting on their time not only as an athlete but also a student, both Fratkin and Parker expressed academics were a focus that was stressed upon by head coach Brian Durocher throughout their time at BU. “He taught us the value of [being] student athletes,” Fratk in sa id. “Academ ics

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Former Terrier Mary Parker, shown in a 2016 game, currently plays for the Boston Pride. She earned 24 goals and 18 assists in 33 games with the Terriers.

Men’s Lacrosse looks to find new offensive form in 2020

BY MATT MEUSEL DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

After an offensive explosion last season, the Boston University men’s lacrosse team must use its 19 freshmen to replace lost production.

It will take a total team effort to put up as much offense as the Terriers did last year. They are losing 183 total points from the deadly 2019 duo of attacks James Burr and Chris Gray. Burr graduated and is currently a member of the Boston Cannons, while Gray transferred to the University of North Carolina.

BU head coach Ryan Polley said he believes in BU’s offense this season, despite its much younger complexion.

“I think we’ll just be more balanced this year,” Polley said. “I think we have potential to be just as productive, but we’ll just be different, where the majority of points were with [Burr and Gray] … we’re hoping that some guys can certainly step up.”

After three consecutive Patriot League Tournament semifinal appearances, the Terriers entering 2020 with a mix of youth and experience.

On Monday, the conference picked the Terriers to finish fourth in the league.

Loyola University Maryland was selected to win the Patriot League followed by Army West Point and Lehigh University in second and third respectively.

Polley said winter break and the beginning of the semester went well for the Terriers.

“I thought it was a really good preseason. We came back seven or eight days early, it was a chance for us to get away from school and vacation,” Polley said. “We just practiced the one day, but we spent a lot of time with each other.

One of the few seniors for BU this season is starting goalie Joe McSorley, who will look to build on a strong 2019 season. His .549 save percentage last season was good for 12th in the NCAA and also leads all returning goalies in the Patriot League.

McSorley is a huge piece to have for Polley, especially because of the lack of experience on the rest of the Terriers’ roster.

Polley said the team often relies on McSorley.

“Any good defense typically has a good goalie … he’s been super consistent in his two years,” Polley said. “He’s played great at times and has stolen a

few games for us.”

Much of the offense for BU is expected to come from two sophomores.

Attack Timmy Ley was dominant as a freshman last year, racking up 34 goals and six assists. His 40 points tied the BU record for most points by a rookie.

Midfielder Jake Cates added 15 goals and eight assists.

One place where BU has experience is on the defensive end. Senior long-stick midfielders Reece Eddy and Chase Levesque are two of the most dominant players in the conference at their respective positions.

Eddy and Levesque return as the top two players in league play at causing turnovers, combining for 65 last season.

The duo will be vital to BU’s success in 2020 as they can do a little bit of everything on the field.

Eddy scooped up 71 ground balls in 2019 while Levesque had 65. Levesque will also be looking to build off his best offensive year in 2019 where he put up seven goals.

BU will kick off their season on Saturday at 1 p.m. against Providence College at Nickerson Field. The Terriers won a thriller last season at Providence

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Senior goalie Joe McSorley, shown in a 2018 game, led the Patriot League in save percentage last season, blocking almost 55 percent of shots taken.

in the season opener, 8-7.

A week later on Feb. 8, BU will take on Ohio State University in Boston. The Buckeyes were ranked 12th in the latest coaches’ poll. The Terriers struggled defensively last season when they faced Ohio State in Columbus in a 17-10 loss.

The Terriers will also face a challenge early in the season with the weather.

Cold weather can slow play at times, but it will be a test for a BU squad that

has a lot of questions to answer.

Despite the uncertainty coming into this season, the culture put in place by Polley for the last eight years as head coach has brought the Terriers to a point where they can advance to the Patriot League finals.

Polley said the team needs to play at their best level all season long to make it to the advanced rounds of the conference tournament.

SUNDAY, FEB. 2

MONDAY, FEB. 3

BOTTOM LINE THURSDAY, JAN. 30

Boston Celtics face the Golden State Warriors at 8 p.m.

FRIDAY, JAN. 31

BU Women’s Hockey faces the University of Vermont at 7 p.m.

SATURDAY, FEB. 1

BU Men’s Lacrosse opens

San Francisco 49ers take

the season against Provi-

on the Kansas City Chiefs in

dence College

Super Bowl LIV

at 1 p.m.

at 6:30 p.m.

BU Men’s Hockey takes on Boston College in the 68th Beanpot at 8 p.m.